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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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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Winning: The Answers: Confronting 74 of the Toughest

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Welch, Jack / Welch, Suzy, PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers, In "Winning," their international bestseller, Jack and Suzy Welch created a rare document, both a philosophical treatise on fundamental business practices and a gritty how-to manual, all ong>ofong> it delivered with Jack's trademark candor and can-do optimism. It seemed as if "no other management book," in the words ong>ofong> legendary investor Warren E. Buffett, would "ever be needed." Instead, "Winning" uncovered an insatiable thirst to talk about work. Since the book's publication, the Welches have received literally thousands ong>ofong> questions from college students and seasoned prong>ofong>essionals alike, on subjects ranging from leadership and global competition to tough bosses and ong>buildingong> teamwork. Indeed, questions about virtually every business and career challenge have poured in--some familiar, others surprising, many urgent and probing, and all ong>ofong> them powerfully real. "Winning: The Answers" takes on the most relevant ong>ofong> these questions, and in doing so, its candid, hard-hitting responses expand and extend the conversation Jack and Suzy Welch began with "Winning." It is a dialogue that is sure to be both compelling and immensely useful to anyone and everyone engaged in the vital work ong>ofong> helping an organization grow and thrive.

Revolutions and the Revolutionary Tradition: In the West

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Parker, David, PUBLISHER: Routledge, Presents eight European case studies including the English revolution ong>ofong> , the French Revolution and the recent revolutions within the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe () and examines them not only in their specific political, economic and ong>socialong> contexts but also as part ong>ofong> the wider European revolutionary tradition. A chapter on the American Revolution is also included as a revolution which grew out ong>ofong> a European expansionist and a European political culture. David Parker brings together leading writers on European history, who make a major contribution to the controversial debate on the role ong>ofong> revolution in the development ong>ofong> European history. This is a truly comparative book which includes discussion on each ong>ofong> the following key themes: *the causes ong>ofong> revolution, including the importance ong>ofong> political, ong>socialong> and economic factors *the effects ong>ofong> political and philisophical ideas or ideology on the revolution *the form and process ong>ofong> a revolution, including the importance ong>ofong> violence and popular support *the outcome ong>ofong> revolution, both short-term and long-term *the way revolution is viewed in history particularly since the collapse ong>ofong> Communism in Europe As well as providing new historical perspectives on the concept ong>ofong> revolution, this book also provides a comparative survey ong>ofong> all the major revolutions in the West over the past 400 years.

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The Call to Social Work: Life Stories

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: LeCroy, Craig Winston, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), The Call to ong>Socialong> Work is a great supplement to courses such as introduction to ong>socialong> work and ong>socialong> welfare, and ong>socialong> work practice. It can also be used in practicum/field courses to give students a better understanding ong>ofong> what various types ong>ofong> ong>socialong> workers do in daily practice.a The text provides stories ong>ofong> real ong>socialong> workers with many different backgrounds, and is designed toahelp students to better understand the prong>ofong>ession. Changes to the second edition include:Introductions to each chapter written by the authorEnd ong>ofong> chapter features that will help students apply what they have learned from each storyThe addition ong>ofong> some newer, contemporary storiesPhotos ong>ofong> the contributorsMore descriptive chapter titlesReorganization ong>ofong> stories to fall under major fields ong>ofong> practicea Acquista Ora

The Demography of Inequality in Brazil

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wood, Charles H. / Carvalho, Jose Alberto Magno / Knight, Alan, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This book examines how transformations in Brazil's ong>socialong>, economic and political organization affect the demographic behaviour ong>ofong> people who live in different parts ong>ofong> the country and who occupy different positions in the ong>socialong> system. The authors review the history ong>ofong> unequal development and document the concentration ong>ofong> income and land ownership. Using data from the and censuses, they show how the Brazilian style ong>ofong> economic growth unequally affected different population subgroups. Mortality estimates for white and non-white people measure the consequences ong>ofong> racial inequality on the life chances ong>ofong> children. Other chapters investigate rural out-migration, the impact ong>ofong> Amazon colonization schemes on rural poverty, and the implications ong>ofong> differential rates ong>ofong> population growth among rich and poor households for future patterns ong>ofong> inequality and underemployment. The overall perspective places the concept ong>ofong> inequality at the centre ong>ofong> the study ong>ofong> demographic and structural change.

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The Cinema of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition and Modernity

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cooper, Darius / Rothman, William / Andrew, Dudley, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The most comprehensive treatment ong>ofong> Satyajit Ray's work, The Cinema ong>ofong> Satyajit Ray makes accessible the oeuvre ong>ofong> one ong>ofong> the most prolific and creative filmmakers ong>ofong> the twentieth century. Providing ong>analysesong> ong>ofong> selected films, including those that comprise The Apu Trilogy, Chess Players, and Jalsaghar, among others, Darius Cooper outlines Western influences on Ray's work, such as the plight ong>ofong> women functioning within a patriarchal society, Ray's political vision ong>ofong> the "doubly colonized," and his attack and critique ong>ofong> the Bengali/Indian middle class ong>ofong> today.

Peasants and Imperial Rule: Agriculture and Agrarian Society

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Charlesworth, Neil, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This book is a detailed historical study ong>ofong> agriculture and agrarian society in a major province ong>ofong> British India, the Bombay presidency. Its objective is to examine the impact ong>ofong> British rule on the Indian peasantry, and the changes it brought. Among the specific issues discussed by the author are the development ong>ofong> the British land revenue system, the pattern ong>ofong> expansion in commercial agriculture and the consequences in terms ong>ofong> ownership and organisation ong>ofong> land and agrarian ong>socialong> structure. Dr Charlesworth goes on to look at the role ong>ofong> government policy, the nature ong>ofong> peasant protest movements and the effects ong>ofong> the interwar depression. He concludes that significant long-term economic and ong>socialong> change did occur but that the highly 'differential' pattern to commercialisation prevented any structural transformation in the peasant economy and society.

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A Sociology of Health

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wainwright, David, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), A Sociology ong>ofong> Health ong>ofong>fers an authoritative and up-to-date introduction to the key issues, perspectives, and debates within the field ong>ofong> medical sociology. The book aids readers' understanding ong>ofong> how sociological approaches are crucial to understanding the impact that health and illness have on the ong>behaviorong>, attitudes, beliefs, and practices, ong>ofong> an increasingly health-aware population.

Papers on the Archaeology of Black Mesa, Arizona, Volume II

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Plog, Stephen / Powell, Shirley, PUBLISHER: Southern Illinois University Press, These essays deal with methodological and theoretical issues addressed by the Black Mesa Archaeological Project, . Introductory and concluding chapters by Stephen Plog and Shirley Powell dis-cuss the history ong>ofong> archaeological re-search on Black Mesa. The rest ong>ofong> the book centers on four general topics. Papers by Alan T. Synenki and by Powell and Anthony L. Klesert consider the measurement ong>ofong> relationships be-tween surface and subsurface deposits. Essays by Kathy Bagley Baumgartner, Shereen Lerner, and Powell discuss func-tional interpretations ong>ofong> material re-mains. ong>Analysesong> ong>ofong> the environment ong>ofong> the study area and the procurement ong>ofong> food are presented by Richard I. Ford, Michele Seme, and David Eckles. Trade relationships between groups on north-ern Black Mesa and groups in surround-ing regions are explored by Margerie Green and Katharine W. Fernstrom.

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Money Matters: Income, Wealth and Financial Welfare

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Walker, Robert / Parker, Gillian / Walker, Robert, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), Underlying the current political and academic debate on the welfare state are two basic issues: What are the needs ong>ofong> individuals and ong>socialong> groups, and what resources do they have to meet those needs? In Money Matters a distinguished team ong>ofong> contributors address these questions with an analysis ong>ofong> the ong>socialong> distribution ong>ofong> financial welfare and its consequences for individuals' standards ong>ofong> living. The result is a fascinating and detailed account ong>ofong> the distribution ong>ofong> wealth and poverty in Britain today.

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