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Design and Launch an Online Social Networking Business in a

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sharp, Julien, PUBLISHER: Entrepreneur Press, WWW.(Your ong>Socialong> Network).COM Are you a virtual ong>socialong> butterfly? Captivated by the buzz ong>ofong> new media? Interested in setting the online ong>socialong> scene for others? And making a prong>ofong>it doing so? Tap into the millions ong>ofong> MySpace users and Facebook friends to create your own specialized ong>socialong> site In just seven days, identify your network niche; develop an inviting, interactive website; drive traffic and membership; build prong>ofong>itable online advertising relationships; and more Design an attractive, interactive ong>socialong> networking website using inexpensive, turnkey solutions that require no programming knowledge Define your community and set the tone ong>Ofong>fer interactive features including prong>ofong>ile pages, member search options, media add-ons, and more Generate traffic and membership using search engine optimization, viral and ong>socialong> marketing, and other techniques Cash in on your site with proven, revenue-generating solutions Use included resources to stay on the cutting-edge Sign on for ong>socialong> networking success

Contemporary Issues in Educational Policy and School

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hoy, Wayne K. / Miskel, Cecil, PUBLISHER: Information Age Publishing, This book is the fifth in a series on research and theory dedicated to advancing our understanding ong>ofong> schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis. Scholars, both young and established, are invited to publish original ong>analysesong>, but we especially encourage young scholars to contribute to this series. The current volume is similar to its predecessors in that it provides a mix ong>ofong> beginning and established scholars and a broad range ong>ofong> theoretical perspectives; in all 14 authors contributed to 9 separate but related ong>analysesong>, which were selected for publication this year. These chapters underscore the significance ong>ofong> educational policy in contemporary public education and in particular the impact ong>ofong> accountability policy on school outcomes. Public schools are increasingly being held accountable for students achieving at higher levels in both basic skills and higher-level learning outcomes. ong>Ofong> course, all policy is enacted by teachers in classroom and sometimes changed or distorted in the process. The challenge is to improve student outcomes without permitting accountability testing to extinguish innovation and creativity in schools. This book series on Theory and Research in Educational Administration is about understanding schools. We welcome articles and ong>analysesong> that explain school organizations and administration. We are interested in the "why" questions about schools. To that end, case ong>analysesong>, surveys, large data base ong>analysesong>, experimental studies, and theoretical ong>analysesong> are all welcome. We provide the space for authors to do comprehensive ong>analysesong> where that is appropriate and useful. We believe that the Theory and Research in Educational Administration Series has the potential to make an important contribution to our field, but we will be successful only if our colleagues continue to join us in this mission.

Islam and Ecology: A Bestowed Trust

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Foltz, Richard C. / Denny, Frederick Mathewson / Baharuddin, Azizan, PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press, Islam is the religion ong>ofong> over one billion people and is practiced in virtually every country on earth. The articulation ong>ofong> an Islamic environmental ethic in contemporary terms is all the more urgent because Western-style conservation efforts do not fit all cultural and philosophical traditions. This volume outlines the Islamic view ong>ofong> the cosmic order and reviews the ways an Islamic world view can be interpreted, reassessed, and applied to such environmental problems as pollution and water scarcity. Sections on ong>socialong> justice and on issues ong>ofong> sustainability and development look at the history and roots ong>ofong> the current environmental crisis; at the broader context ong>ofong> women's rights ong>ofong> equal access to both natural and ong>socialong> resources; and at the interconnectedness ong>ofong> environmental protection and the alleviation ong>ofong> human poverty.

Managing Web Usage in the Workplace: A Social, Ethical and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Anandarajan, Murugan / Simmers, Claire A., PUBLISHER: IRM Press, The nature ong>ofong> the Internet is dramatically revolutionizing the manner in which organizations and individuals alike acquire and distribute information. Unfortunately the problem ong>ofong> Web abuse has developed in kind. This interesting new book includes chapters that embrace a wide array ong>ofong> Internet abuse issues such as, the impact ong>ofong> Web abuse on individuals, groups, organizations, and societies, and the problem ong>ofong> Web abuse within other cultures and countries. Geared toward business prong>ofong>essionals, academicians and students from a variety ong>ofong> disciplines, Managing Web Usage in the Workplace: A ong>Socialong>, Ethical and Legal Perspective focuses on the phenomenon ong>ofong> Internet abuse and its consequences.

Your Defiant Child: 8 Steps to Better Behavior

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Barkley, Russell A. / Benton, Christine M., PUBLISHER: Guilford Publications, Every child has "ornery" moments, but more than 1 in 20 American children exhibit ong>behaviorong>al problems that are out ong>ofong> control. For readers struggling with an unyielding or combative child, Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps to Better ong>Behaviorong> ong>ofong>fers the understanding and guidance they need. Drawing on Dr. Russell A. Barkley's many years ong>ofong> work with parents and children, the book clearly explains what causes defiance, when it becomes a problem, and how it can be resolved. The book's comprehensive eight-step program stresses consistency and cooperation, promoting changes through a system ong>ofong> praise, rewards, and mild punishment. Readers learn tools and strategies for establishing clear patterns ong>ofong> discipline, communicating with children on a level they can understand, and reducing family stress overall. Filled with helpful charts, questionnaires, and checklists, Your Defiant Child helps parents get their child's ong>behaviorong> back on track and restore harmony in the home Acquista Ora

Scientific Growth: Essays on the Social Organization and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ben-David, Joseph, PUBLISHER: University ong>ofong> California Press, A pioneer and major thinker in the sociology ong>ofong> science, Joseph Ben-David wrote with refreshing directness on questions central to the history and sociology ong>ofong> science. As they are combined here, Ben-David's essays reveal the richness and synthetic power ong>ofong> his intellect in a way his separate publications never did. Two themes form the heart ong>ofong> Ben-David's ground-breaking work: the emergence, existence, and growth ong>ofong> science as a distinctive activity within society, governed by a specific "scientific ethos"; and the ong>socialong> construction both ong>ofong> new objects ong>ofong> scientific study and ong>ofong> new scientific disciplines. Ben-David argues that only where the scientist's ong>socialong> role is institutionalized (i.e., recognized as legitimate by society at large), can science as a sustained and continuous activity exist and thrive. By the same token, new scientific objects and disciplines emerge where ong>socialong> circumstances encourage and sustain new ("hybridized") ong>socialong> roles. Ben-David's is a distinctly historical sociology ong>ofong> science, providing a theoretical framework capable ong>ofong> integrating both the historical and the synchronic approaches; it is also complementary to the perspective ong>ofong> the sociology ong>ofong> scientific knowledge.

Primal Scenes of Communication: Communication, Consumerism,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Angus, Ian, PUBLISHER: State University ong>ofong> New York Press, Primal Scenes ong>ofong> Communication argues that the materiality ong>ofong> communication media constitute ong>socialong> relations and that ong>socialong> relations should be understood as "technology-identity complexes". This theory is employed to characterize consumer society, and the ong>socialong> movements that criticize consumer society, as a unique epoch ong>ofong> communication.

Primary Sources, Historical Collections: Diary of a Tour in

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mary Georgina Emma Dawson Damer, Hon, PUBLISHER: Primary Sources, Historical Collections, This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books ong>ofong> the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions ong>ofong> academic literature and research on the subject produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a discussion drawn from many areas ong>ofong> study and research on the subject. From ong>analysesong> ong>ofong> the varied geography that encompasses the Asian continent to significant time periods spanning centuries, the book was made in an effort to preserve the work ong>ofong> previous generations.

Liberalism After Communism

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Szacki, Jerzy / Kisiel, Chester A. / Szacki, J., PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, This work is the first comprehensive presentation ong>ofong> liberal thought in Central Europe, especially in Poland, before and after . The book contains a critical analysis ong>ofong> the proto-liberal anti-communist democratic opposition, in particular its ideas ong>ofong> the autonomy ong>ofong> the individual and civil society, and a description ong>ofong> economic liberalism as an alternative liberal orientation. The author's main theme, however, is the dilemma ong>ofong> liberalism in a post-communist society in which it is faced with historically unprecedented challenges. In countries which have no liberal tradition or the ong>socialong> or economic conditions which encouraged the emergence ong>ofong> liberalism in the past, the classic tenets ong>ofong> liberalism are undergoing essential modifications. Liberalism inescapably is becoming "constructivist" and serves primarily as the justification for a remarkable kind ong>ofong> ong>socialong> engineering whose objective is the rapid ong>buildingong> ong>ofong> capitalism. This book is both an important contribution to our knowledge ong>ofong> the post-communist world and a voice in thh discussion on the nature and future ong>ofong> liberalism.

The Discretionary Economy: A Normative Theory of Political

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tool, Marc R., PUBLISHER: Westview Press, The Discretionary Economy argues that we do in fact control our own political and economic destinies. As a community, we have discretion over policies that determine whether an economic process adequately provides for the necessities ong>ofong> life. We also determine who participates in normative public judgments and whether decisions distinguish between what is and what ought to be. Tool argues that we must continuously organize the institutional structures through which economic and political functions in the ong>socialong> process are carried on. We must exercise discretion by creating and modifying institutions that coordinate our ong>behaviorong>. To exercise discretion effectively requires that we employ distinctively American economic, political, and philosophical theory. In this volume, the pivotal twentieth-century contributors to this encompassing theory ong>ofong> political economy are Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, Clarence Ayres, and R. Fagg Foster. This volume presents, in detail, their analytical and philosophical perspective on ong>socialong> change. A major purpose ong>ofong> this volume is to compare and contrast the American tradition with the traditions ong>ofong> capitalism, Marxism, and fascism, demonstrating that the former can resolve compelling economic and political problems and the latter two cannot. This book explains how to identify and analyze ong>socialong>, economic, and political problems confronted in all communities, and how to go about framing and implementing structural adjustments in the political economy. It will be ong>ofong> interest to students in non-traditional courses in political economy including institutional economics, contemporary ong>socialong> problems, economics and ong>socialong> policy, methodology, andcontemporary economic thought.

Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Steele, Claude M., PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton & Company, Claude M. Steele, who has been called one ong>ofong> the few great ong>socialong> psychologists, ong>ofong>fers a vivid first-person account ong>ofong> the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. He sheds new light on American ong>socialong> phenomena from racial and gender gaps in test scores to the belief in the superior athletic prowess ong>ofong> black men, and lays out a plan for mitigating these stereotype threats and reshaping American identities.

Fatigue Life Analyses of Welded Structures: Flaws

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lassen, Tom / Recho, Naman, PUBLISHER: Iste Publishing Company, Practical problems in structural design and service inspection are addressed in this handbook to dealing with fatigue design ong>ofong> welded structures. Details ong>ofong> how to use calculation tools on an Excel spreadsheet are included for application in realistic industrial cases.

Islam, Politics, and Social Movements

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Burke, Edmund, III / Lapidus, Ira M. / Abrahamian, Ervand, PUBLISHER: University ong>ofong> California Press, Taken together the essays in this work not only provide new research essential to the study ong>ofong> Islamic societies and Muslim peoples, but also set a new standard for the concrete study ong>ofong> local situations and illuminate the forces shaping the history ong>ofong> modern Muslim societies. This collection is unique in its sophisticated interpretation ong>ofong> the ong>socialong> protest and political resistance movements in Muslim countries during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors take two principal approaches to the study ong>ofong> their subject. Utilizing "new cultural history," they explore how particular movements have deployed the cultural and religious resources ong>ofong> Islam to mobilize and legitimize insurgent political action. Others rely on "new ong>socialong> history" to study the economic, political, and ong>socialong> contexts in which movements ong>ofong> anti-colonial resistance and revolution have developed. This work brings together contributions from specialists on Islamic North Africa, Egypt, the Arab fertile crescent, Iran and India.

Research on Social Work and Disasters

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Streeter, Calvin / Murty, Susan A., PUBLISHER: Routledge, Over the past decade, several major natural disasters have had devastating impacts throughout the United States and the world. Since larger populations now live and work on land vulnerable to various hazards, natural disasters can be expected to affect more people each year. As a result, the ong>socialong> work prong>ofong>ession soon will be stretched to its limits as it attempts to respond to growing human needs in the wake ong>ofong> hurricanes, tornadoes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and human-made technological disasters. Research on ong>Socialong> Work and Disasters provides the essential strategies ong>socialong> work researchers, other ong>socialong> scientists in the area ong>ofong> disaster research, and emergency management personnel need to prepare for and recover from all forms ong>ofong> disaster.Focusing on hazard, risk, and disaster research, this book presents conceptual approaches and empirical findings in this emerging and important area ong>ofong> ong>socialong> work. It includes research on natural and technological disasters as they impact both rural and urban environments. Research on ong>Socialong> Work and Disasters ong>ofong>fers conceptual and methodological guidelines for ong>socialong> work researchers and provides insight into the range ong>ofong> opportunities and issues relevant for disaster research. Specific topics you will learn about include: research design, methodology, and measurement community awareness and activism traumatic stress and stress debriefing funding and ethical issues vulnerable populations hazard education action researchResearch on ong>Socialong> Work and Disasters not only addresses effective strategies for responding in the aftermath ong>ofong> particular disasters, but also suggests significant ways in which the ong>socialong> work prong>ofong>ession can become involved in prevention, mitigation, and preparedness activities. The book features examples ong>ofong> recent research on disasters chosen to illustrate a variety ong>ofong> types ong>ofong> disasters, theoretical approaches, methodologies, and levels ong>ofong> analysis. The implications drawn from this book are consistent in suggesting the responsibility ong>ofong> society to care for vulnerable populations and to share the burdens caused by catastrophic events.

Silver in London: The Parker and Wakelin Partnership,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Clifford, Helen, PUBLISHER: Bard Center, The firm ong>ofong> Parker and Wakelin was the foremost silversmith in London for much ong>ofong> the eighteenth century, supplying royalty, aristocracy, and gentry with both domestic and ceremonial plate. This fascinating book draws on the firm's records for this period to provide a remarkable account ong>ofong> patrons and their purchases and to investigate the ong>socialong> and economic structures on which the firm depended, revealing new information about the complex web ong>ofong> out-workers with specialist skills and raising questions ong>ofong> authorship. Beautifully illustrated, the book is both a ong>socialong> history ong>ofong> consumption in Georgian London and an investigation into the world ong>ofong> working men and women at that time. Acquista Ora

The Three-Edged Sword

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Potts, Maureen A., PUBLISHER: University Press ong>ofong> America, This book is a study ong>ofong> the complex, interconnected physical, psychological, ong>socialong>, and economic stresses that serious or chronic illness inflicts on patients in 20th-century America. The author explores these themes through the retelling ong>ofong> her own experience ong>ofong> a sixteenth-month search in (interspersed with some scholarly commentary) for a diagnosis ong>ofong> lupus and ong>ofong> the gradual evolution ong>ofong> coping strategies since. The author addresses the physical suffering and psychological ramifications ong>ofong> illness, the ong>socialong> stigma and economic disasters that ong>ofong>ten accompany such an experience, and the dehumanizing responses ong>ofong> the medical world.

Building a Shared Vision

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lewis, C. Patrick / Lewis, PUBLISHER: Productivity Press, Presents a step-by-step method for developing your organizational vision. Teaches how to build and maintain a shared vision directed from the top down, but encompassing the views ong>ofong> all stakeholders. Like "Corporate Diagnosis," this book describes in detail one ong>ofong> the necessary first steps from "Implementing a Lean Management System": visioning. Makes an excellent executive/ong>motivationalong> gift.

Staying Alive: Regulation and Behavior

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Glass, Susan, PUBLISHER: Perfection Learning, The goal ong>ofong> all organisms is to stay alive and reproduce. Learn how regulation and ong>behaviorong> help them accomplish this tremendous feat.

Coping with Crisis: Austerity, Adjustment, and Human

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Samong>ofong>f, Joel, PUBLISHER: UNESCO, Drawing on a series ong>ofong> transnational and transdisciplinary UNESCO/ILO studies, this publication considers the impact ong>ofong> public education expenditure cuts on resource development, particularly in the developing world. It examines the crucial issue ong>ofong> structural adjustment and identifies the ong>socialong> sectors most sheltered from public spending reductions.

Development Microeconomics

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bardhan, Pranab K. / Udry, Christopher, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, Development Microeconomics is the first in a series ong>ofong> books which looks at the entire spectrum ong>ofong> development economics issues and combines the strengths ong>ofong> conventional developmental thought with the insights ong>ofong> contemporary mainstream economics. The main new conceptual tool used is the application ong>ofong> the theory ong>ofong> imperfect information and the effects this has on the ong>behaviorong> ong>ofong> economic agents. This book is designed specifically for graduate students.

A Narrative History of Experimental Social Psychology: The

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Patnoe, Shelley, PUBLISHER: Springer, "A Narrative History ong>ofong> Experimental ong>Socialong> Psychology" presents lengthy and intensive interviews with the contemporary scientists that founded and shaped the field ong>ofong> ong>socialong> psychology. The story ong>ofong> ong>socialong> psychology is told through the autobiographical narratives ong>ofong> leading figures, such as Dorwin Cartwright, Harold Kelley, Kurt Back, Robert Krauss, Stanley Schachter, and Leon Festinger. The author traces the beginning ong>ofong> the field from the close-knit group ong>ofong> students around Kurt Lewin to the major research groups responsible for the scientific origins ong>ofong> the discipline. The interviews ong>ofong>fer unique insights into the beginnings ong>ofong> the fields and prospects for future trends.

Age or Need?: Public Policies for Older People

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Neugarten, Bernice L. / Neugarten, Bernice Levin, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), Should benefits for older people be based on age or need? Do programmes that serve only older people people deflect resources that should go to other people? Some ong>ofong> the contributors to this volume argue that ong>socialong> service programmes should be based on need, rather than defined groups ong>ofong> people. Apart from anything else, age-based programmes confirm negative stereotypes ong>ofong> older people, and lump them into an undifferentiated group. But would the reform ong>ofong> ong>socialong> services along these lines jeopardize the recent progress made in the condition ong>ofong> older people? New thoughts and new information are provided in support ong>ofong> both arguments. 'Here is a ringside seat at a critical juncture in the ong>socialong> reconstruction ong>ofong> old age' -- Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol 14, No 1, Nov

History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Boia, Lucian / Boia, L., PUBLISHER: Central European University Press, Boia closely examines the process ong>ofong> historical culture and conscience in nineteenth and twentieth century Romania, particularly concentrating on the impact ong>ofong> the national ideology on history. Based upon his findings, the author identifies several key mythical configurations and ong>analysesong> the manner in which Romanians have reconstituted their own highly ideologized history over the last two centuries.

Undertones of Insurrection: Music, Politics, and the Social

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Weiner, Marc A., PUBLISHER: University ong>ofong> Nebraska Press, Ranging from to Doctor Faustus (), Weiner's study sets the stage by examining debates that conflated such issues as national identity, racism, populism, the role ong>ofong> the sexes, and xenophobia with musical texts. In the literary ong>analysesong> that follow, Weiner discusses both obvious connections between music and sociopolitical issues-Hesse's equation ong>ofong> jazz and insurrection in Steppenwolf-and covert ones-the suppression ong>ofong> music in Death in Venice and the use ong>ofong> politically charged musical subtexts in Werfel's Verdi and Schnitzler's Rhapsody.

Technics & Civilization

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mumford, Lewis, PUBLISHER: Mariner Books, This is a history ong>ofong> the machine and a critical study ong>ofong> its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect ong>ofong> life to explain the machine and to trace its ong>socialong> results. "An extraordinarily wide-ranging, sensitive, and provocative book about a subject upon which philosophers have so far shed but little light" (Journal ong>ofong> Philosophy). Index; illustrations.

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