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Building the Social Union: Perspectives, Directions &

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McIntosh, Tom, PUBLISHER: Cprc, In the federal government and 9 provinces signed "The ong>Socialong> Union Framework Agreement," which was meant to be a framework to guide intergovernmental cooperation and collaboration in matters relating to ong>socialong> policy, the essays in this book examine a wide range ong>ofong> subjects from a variety ong>ofong> perspectives concerning the agreement.

Organizational Behaviour: People, Process, Work and Human

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Perkins, Stephen / Arvinen-Muondo, Raisa, PUBLISHER: Kogan Page, With special focus on intercultural and cross-cultural perspectives, this collection seeks to bridge the gap between organizational ong>behaviorong> and HRM which are ong>ofong>ten treated separately. Interest in this approach is growing. Data compiled by the Society ong>ofong> Human Resource Management currently lists 190 Masters and Doctoral programs in Organizational ong>Behaviorong>/ Human Resources OBHR] worldwide. Through a critical analysis ong>ofong> existing literature, case studies and personal experiences, contributors examine the role ong>ofong> corporate governance in shaping the scope ong>ofong> managerial choices within organizations and the ethical dimensions ong>ofong> organizational ong>behaviorong> and global employment standards.

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Foraging: Behavior and Ecology

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stephens, David W. / Brown, Joel S. / Ydenberg, Ronald C., PUBLISHER: University ong>ofong> Chicago Press, Foraging is fundamental to animal survival and reproduction, yet it is much more than a simple matter ong>ofong> finding food; it is a biological imperative. Animals must find and consume resources to succeed, and they make extraordinary efforts to do so. For instance, pythons rarely eat, but when they do, their meals are large--as much as 60 percent larger than their own bodies. The snake's digestive system is normally dormant, but during digestion metabolic rates can increase fortyfold. A python digesting quietly on the forest floor has the metabolic rate ong>ofong> thoroughbred in a dead heat. This and related foraging processes have broad applications in ecology, cognitive science, anthropology, and conservation biology--and they can be further extrapolated in economics, neurobiology, and computer science. "Foraging "is the first comprehensive review ong>ofong> the topic in more than twenty years. A monumental undertaking, this volume brings together twenty-two experts from throughout the field to ong>ofong>fer the latest on the mechanics ong>ofong> foraging, modern foraging theory, and foraging ecology. The fourteen essays cover all the relevant issues, including cognition, individual ong>behaviorong>, caching ong>behaviorong>, parental ong>behaviorong>, antipredator ong>behaviorong>, ong>socialong> ong>behaviorong>, population and community ecology, herbivory, and conservation. Considering a wide range ong>ofong> taxa, from birds to mammals to amphibians, "Foraging" will be the definitive guide to the field.

International Perspectives on Social Work: Global Conditions

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lyons, Karen / Manion, Kathleen / Carlsen, Mary, PUBLISHER: Palgrave MacMillan, This book argues the necessity for ong>socialong> prong>ofong>essionals working locally to equip themselves with knowledge ong>ofong> global mechanisms and cross-cultural issues. Local level examples include the increase in victims ong>ofong> trafficking or the effects ong>ofong> HIV/AIDS on some immigrant groups. International examples include the risk to children moving across borders, the growth ong>ofong> international pedophile networks, and the proliferation ong>ofong> terrorism.

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Insect ong>behaviorong> as a basis for developing control measures against pests ong>ofong> field crops and forests (papers pres.at the All-Union symposium on insect ong>behaviorong>; Kiev, March ) Pristavko, V. P.: Published by New Delhi Calcutta: Oxonian Press, ) Used Hardcover 238 p; fig.; tab.; diagr; 24 cm dust jacket. Euro 20 (Zoologia)

Robot Shaping: An Experiment in Behavior Engineering

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dorigo, Marco / Colombetti, Marco, PUBLISHER: Bradford Book, foreword by Lashon Booker To program an autonomous robot to act reliably in a dynamic environment is a complex task. The dynamics ong>ofong> the environment are unpredictable, and the robots' sensors provide noisy input. A learning autonomous robot, one that can acquire knowledge through interaction with its environment and then adapt its ong>behaviorong>, greatly simplifies the designer's work. A learning robot need not be given all ong>ofong> the details ong>ofong> its environment, and its sensors and actuators need not be finely tuned. "Robot Shaping" is about designing and ong>buildingong> learning autonomous robots. The term "shaping" comes from experimental psychology, where it describes the incremental training ong>ofong> animals. The authors propose a new engineering discipline, "ong>behaviorong> engineering," to provide the methodologies and tools for creating autonomous robots. Their techniques are based on classifier systems, a reinforcement learning architecture originated by John Holland, to which they have added several new ideas, such as "mutespec," classifier system "energy," and dynamic population size. In the book they present ong>Behaviorong> Analysis and Training (BAT) as an example ong>ofong> a ong>behaviorong> engineering methodology.

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Developing Ecofeminist Theory: The Complexity of Difference

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cudworth, Erika, PUBLISHER: Palgrave MacMillan, This book provides a comprehensive overview ong>ofong> feminist and environmental theories ong>ofong> society-environment relations, considers the range ong>ofong> theoretical and political influences on ong>socialong>ist and Marxist theory, amongst others, and the ong>socialong> sciences' turn to poststructuralism and postmodernism. Cudworth also develops her own theoretical account for the interrelations between forms ong>ofong> ong>socialong> domination and contributes to important debates with sociology, ong>socialong> theory, feminist theory and environmentalism.

Social Psychology of Organizational Behavior: Key Readings

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Leigh Thompson, PUBLISHER: Taylor & amp amp amp amp amp amp amp Francis Group, NA

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Social Research and Social Reform: Essays in Honour of A. H.

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Crouch, Colin / Heath, Anthony, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, In light ong>ofong> recent skepticism about the effectiveness ong>ofong> ong>socialong> research, this work provides an opportune reassessment ong>ofong> its influence. It also proposes new ways to consider the relationship ong>ofong> research to reform. The range ong>ofong> topics covered includes secondary educational reform, changing concepts ong>ofong> ong>socialong> work, women's studies, as well as the role ong>ofong> evaluation research in ong>socialong> policy in the United States and Sweden.

Cultural Theory and Cultural Change

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Featherstone, Mike, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), Recent years have seen a significant reappraisal ong>ofong> the idea ong>ofong> culture within the ong>socialong> sciences, and a growing integration ong>ofong> theoretical concerns between the ong>socialong> sciences and the humanities. Debates over concepts such as postmodernism and cultural globalization have been symptomatic ong>ofong> a broader interdisciplinary interest in the ong>socialong> context ong>ofong> cultural practice. In this book an international cast ong>ofong> eminent theorists examines a series ong>ofong> key questions on the borders ong>ofong> the cultural and the ong>socialong>. Ranging across a broad canvas, the contributors focus on different elements ong>ofong> cultural theory and cultural process: discourse, lifestyle, the emotions, the intelligentsia, ong>socialong> movements, postmodernism. Linking the chapters is a concern with the central role ong>ofong> European ong>socialong> theory in the current reappraisal ong>ofong> culture, and an assessment ong>ofong> its relation to other international traditions. This book, for an interdisciplinary readership, will serve as an outline ong>ofong> key concerns in cultural theory and an insight into the central insights ong>ofong> Theory, Culture and Society. The book is also published as issue 9.1 ong>ofong> Theory, Culture and Society.

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The Impact of Churches on Political Behavior An Empirical

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Christopher P Gilbert, PUBLISHER: Praeger, NA

Social Learning Theory and the Explanation of Crime

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Akers, Ronald L. / Jensen, Gary F., PUBLISHER: Transaction Publishers, ong>Socialong> learning theory has been called the dominant theory ong>ofong> crime and delinquency in the United States, yet it is ong>ofong>ten misrepresented. This latest volume in the distinguished Advances in Criminological Theory series explores the impact ong>ofong> this theory. Some equate it with differential association theory. Others depict it as little more than a micro-level appendage to cultural deviance theories. There have been earlier attempts to clarify the theory's unique features in comparison to other theories, and others have applied it to broader issues. These efforts are extended in this volume, which focuses on developing, applying, and testing the theory on a variety ong>ofong> criminal and delinquent ong>behaviorong>. It applies the theory to treatment and prevention, moving ong>socialong> learning into a global context for the twenty-first century. This comprehensive volume includes the latest work, tests, and theoretical advances in ong>socialong> learning theory and will be particularly helpful to criminologists, sociologists, and psychologists. It may also be ong>ofong> interest to those concerned with current issues relating to delinquency, drug use/abuse, and drinking/alcohol abuse.

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Resources & Population

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: MacFarlane, Alan / MacFarlane / Fortes, Meyer, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, In many areas ong>ofong> the world destruction ong>ofong> natural resources and the rapid growth ong>ofong> populaton are among the most important problems facing individuals and governments. This book, first published in , utilises the tools ong>ofong> ong>socialong> anthropology and population studies in an attempt to see some ong>ofong> the causes and consequences ong>ofong> populations growth and some ong>ofong> the effects ong>ofong> change on natural resources. It ong>analysesong> a particular 'community' in the Annapurna range ong>ofong> the central Himalayas during this century, and investigates how the destruction ong>ofong> forests and the growth ong>ofong> settled rice cultivation have occurred, and some ong>ofong> the consequences. The Gurungs are famous as recruits to the Gurkha regiments ong>ofong> the British and Indian armies, and the demographic and economic effects ong>ofong> foreign mercenary labour are among the topics examined.

Structural Concrete Structural Concrete: Theory and Design

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hassoun, Nadim M. / Hassoun, M. Nadim, PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, Revised to adhere to the latest American Concrete Institute (ACI) Code requirements for the design ong>ofong> structural concrete. Presenting the analysis and design ong>ofong> both reinforced and prestressed concrete elements, Structural Concrete is exceptionally logical and easy to read. Accuracy ong>ofong> calculations (Section 1.11) helps readers understand the accuracy ong>ofong> calculations in engineering design. Additional examples elaborate on the ong>behaviorong> ong>ofong> reinforced concrete beams at failure and combine structural analysis with concrete design. Section on Coulomb theory for soil pressure provides an alternative approach to calculate the soil pressure considering the friction ong>ofong> soil on retaining walls. Section on partially prestressed concrete explains the range ong>ofong> partial prestressing between a lower limit ong>ofong> reinforced concrete and an upper limit ong>ofong> full prestressing. In-depth treatment ong>ofong> the ultimate strength concept ong>ofong> reinforced concrete explains the concept ong>ofong> concrete beams ong>behaviorong> up to failure with mathematical analysis ong>ofong> forces developed in concrete and steel. Discusses the design ong>ofong> different types ong>ofong> stairs and the design ong>ofong> curved beams.

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The Cost of Empire: The Finances of the Kingdom of Naples in

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Calabria, Antonio, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This is a study ong>ofong> early modern government finance in the kingdom ong>ofong> Naples, one ong>ofong> the most important European dominions ong>ofong> the Spanish Empire. Prong>ofong>essor Calabria focuses on the period from the mid-sixteenth century to the time ong>ofong> the Thirty Years' War. He connects fiscal developments to larger issues, such as the seventeenth-century crisis, the decline ong>ofong> Italy and Spain, and the economic and ong>socialong> significance ong>ofong> investments in government securities markets in early modern Europe. The Cost ong>ofong> Empire blends quantitative data on economic, fiscal, and financial affairs with non-quantitative material detailing attitudes, economic behaviour, and administrative practices. The quantitative material includes ong>analysesong> ong>ofong> government budgets from to and a computer study ong>ofong> about investors and their investments in state securities in the later sixteenth century. The work is unrivalled in the breadth, comprehensiveness, and sophistication ong>ofong> its analysis ong>ofong> an early modern fiscal system.

How Children Develop Social Understanding

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Carpendale, Jeremy / Lewis, Charlie, PUBLISHER: Blackwell Publishing Prong>ofong>essional, This book provides a critical review ong>ofong> research into how children come to understand the ong>socialong> world, an area ong>ofong>ten known as children's "theories ong>ofong> mind." Takes an integrated approach to the development ong>ofong> children's ong>socialong> understanding Brings out the connections between mental state understanding and children's understanding ong>ofong> language, ong>socialong> skills, morality and emotions. Sets research within a historical and theoretical context Contributes unique insights and perspectives, particularly in its discussions ong>ofong> Piaget and Vygotsky, and in its Wittgensteinian focus on the role ong>ofong> language.

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Social Ecology

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Guha, Ramachandra, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, ong>Socialong> Ecology brings together a selection ong>ofong> pioneering essays on a subject ong>ofong> increasing interest to sociologists and ong>socialong> anthropologists. With the growing awareness ong>ofong> the causes and consequences ong>ofong> environmental degradation, the once neglected field ong>ofong> ong>socialong> ecology has assumed enormous theoretical and practical importance. The essays assembled in this anthology provide a state ong>ofong> the art survey ong>ofong> the field as well as an orientation to future research. As the first such anthology ong>ofong> its kind, it provides a compact and analytically sophisticated overview ong>ofong> environment and society in contemporary India. It should be ong>ofong> great interest to administrators, activists, and development prong>ofong>essionals as well as students and scholars working in the field.

Existential Sociology

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Douglas, J. D. / Johnson, J. M. / Douglas, Jack D., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This collection ong>ofong> ten original essays was first published in . It engages the 'crisis in sociology' at the most fundamental level ong>ofong> thought and experience. Existential sociology is defined as the study and understanding ong>ofong> all forms ong>ofong> human existence. Without seeking to erect a pristine philosophical sanctuary ong>ofong> its own, Existential Sociology examines and criticizes the underlying philosophical assumptions ong>ofong> previous theories ong>ofong> ong>socialong> science, while elaborating its own approach to human understanding. The contributors are concerned with constructing practical as well as theoretical truths about ong>socialong> life - how we feel, think and act. In contrast to most other sociologies, the emphasis is on the independence and dominance ong>ofong> human feelings over the evaluative and cognitive features ong>ofong> ong>socialong> actions. Students and teachers ong>ofong> sociology and people in related fields interested in the connection between ong>socialong> science and their own subjects will find Existential Sociology useful and absorbing.

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A Country Nourished on Self-Doubt: Documents in

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Thorner, Thomas / Frohn-Nielson, Thor, PUBLISHER: University ong>ofong> Toronto Press, This new edition ong>ofong> Broadview's two volume anthology ong>ofong> documents in Canadian history, A Few Acres ong>ofong> Snow and A Country Nourished on Self-Doubt, presents many new documentary sources on Canadian history, combined with the most compelling passages from the first edition, Included are documents that focus on the history ong>ofong> Canada's various regions; on ong>socialong>, cultural, political and intellectual history; and on the experiences ong>ofong> women, Native peoples, immigrants and labour.

Marriages & Families: Intimacy, Diversity, and Strengths

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Olson, David / DeFrain, John / Skogrand, Linda, PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Humanities/ong>Socialong> Sciences/Langua, An introductory text, "Marriages and Families" accentuates the positive aspects ong>ofong> relationships and focuses on enriching students' knowledge and experience in ong>buildingong> strong, successful couple and family relationships. The authors, seasoned family scholars and therapists, integrate research, theory, and practical applications with an interdisciplinary perspective on marriage and family. To enhance teaching and student learning, an updated AWARE (Awareness ong>ofong> Attitudes and Relationships Expectations) Online computerized assessment contains 15 categories that match the chapters ong>ofong> the book.

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Common Denominators: Ethnicity, Nation-Building and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Eriksen, Thomas Hylland / Carmeli, Yoram S. / Hylland Eriksen, Thomas, PUBLISHER: Berg Publishers, This book seeks to enhance comparative understandings ong>ofong> ethnicity, to refine theories ong>ofong> nationalism, and to contribute to ongoing debates on multiculturalism, identity politics and creolization. Mauritius, an Indian Ocean island-state with a population ong>ofong> about one million, provides a fascinating focus for this comprehensive study ong>ofong> ong>socialong> identity and political culture. Fifteen languages are ong>ofong>ficially spoken on the island, and four world religions are represented, as well as a high number ong>ofong> ethnic groups. The author argues that the ong>socialong> importance ong>ofong> ethnicity depends not only on political and economic circumstances, but also on kinship organization, and shows how ethnicity is expressed through the idioms ong>ofong> language and religion. However, it is also shown how ethnic identity may be superseded by other forms ong>ofong> belongingness and politics in the contemporary age. Nationhood, gender, class and individualism are all examined for the role they play in ong>socialong> organization and the formation ong>ofong> collective identity.Multiethnic and peaceful, the pace ong>ofong> ong>socialong> change in Mauritius has been rapid throughout the s and s. The ways in which Mauritians negotiate the relationship between ethnic, national and other identities in forging a surprisingly stable and democratic society, and the peculiar tensions which arise in the interface between the ethnic and the non-ethnic, ought to be familiar to anyone concerned with the future ong>ofong> multiethnic societies.

The Rottweiler Today

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Elsden, Judy / Elsden, Larry, PUBLISHER: Howell Books, This contemporary view focuses on the temperament ong>ofong> the Rottweiler and the importance ong>ofong> understanding how its mind works. Drawing on thirty years ong>ofong> experience in the breed, the authors provide a complete guide to character and ong>behaviorong> traits and illustrate the correct way to rear, train, and show the dog.

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Logical Learning Theory: A Human Teleology and Its Empirical

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Rychlak, Joseph F., PUBLISHER: University ong>ofong> Nebraska Press, In , B. F. Skinner told Joseph Rychlak that the greatest disappointment resulting from the "cognitive revolution" was the turning ong>ofong> the human organism into a machine. Intrigued by this statement, Rychlak decided that after many years ong>ofong> formulation it was time to present his fundamentally teleological view ong>ofong> the human being, which he calls the "logical learning theory" (LLT). In this new theoretical perspective the author re-presents such concepts as intention, purpose, and free will. Significant aspects ong>ofong> the "mind-body" issue are explored here. Rychlak addresses teleological issues and provides a language for proper conceptualization. He uses experimental findings to support the notion ong>ofong> ong>behaviorong> as self-directed rather than mechanistic. In the process, Rychlak places LLT on the side ong>ofong> teleological explanation, in which concepts like free will, self-choice, purpose and intention are no longer dismissed. Rychlak compares LLT and existing formulations ong>ofong> ong>behaviorong>, including classical and operant conditioning, ong>socialong> learning theory, ong>socialong> constructionism, cognitive science, gestalt theories, and personality theories. Extensive research data and thorough discussions support Rychlak's theory. A glossary is also included.

Socioemotional Development and Health from Adolescence to

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pulkkinen, Lea / Kaprio, Jaakko / Rose, Richard, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This book is based on two longitudinal studies ong>ofong> ong>behaviorong> development, both conducted in Finland, a living laboratory setting for longitudinal research. Much ong>ofong> the book reports results from a longitudinal study begun in Jyvaskyla, Finland, in , when its participants were school children. This longitudinal study is complemented by two Finnish twin-family studies, with parallel measures and overlapping aims, to yield insights into genetic and environmental sources ong>ofong> variation in early development and later outcomes. An array ong>ofong> findings from the two sets ong>ofong> longitudinal studies are presented, set within a theoretical framework ong>ofong> socioemotional development, and focused on both individual and familial predictors ong>ofong> health-related outcomes from childhood to early adulthood. Many contributors to this edited volume represent a second-tier ong>ofong> Finnish-USA collaborators. They analyzed data from the longitudinal studies as part ong>ofong> their advanced training, and their contributions to the book report recent results ong>ofong> such ong>analysesong>.

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Stories with a Moral

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Price, Michael E., PUBLISHER: University ong>ofong> Georgia Press, Stories with a Moral is the first comprehensive study ong>ofong> the effects ong>ofong> plantation society on literature and the influences ong>ofong> literature on ong>socialong> practices in nineteenth-century Georgia. During the years ong>ofong> frontier settlement, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, Georgia authors voiced their support for the slave system, the planter class, and the ideals ong>ofong> the Confederacy, presenting a humorous, passionate, and at times tragic view ong>ofong> a rapidly changing world. Michael E. Price examines works ong>ofong> fiction, travel accounts, diaries, and personal letters in this thorough survey ong>ofong> King Cotton's literary influence, showing how Georgia authors romanticized agrarian themes to present an appealing image ong>ofong> plantation economy and ong>socialong> structure. Stories with a Moral focuses on the importance ong>ofong> literature as a mode ong>ofong> ideological communication. Even more significant, the book shows how the writing ong>ofong> one century shaped the development ong>ofong> ong>socialong> practices and beliefs that persist, in legend and memory, to this day.

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