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  • MPI Ethno. Forsch.  (323)
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    International handbook on gender and demographic processes (2018)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789402412901
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 359 Seiten)
    Series Statement: International handbooks of population volume 8
    Series Statement: International handbooks of population
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.6
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Sociology ; Demography ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Social Sciences ; Demography ; Gender Studies ; Sociology, general
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-1290-1
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  • 2
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    Child Maltreatment Fatalities in the United States : Four Decades of Policy, Program, and Professional Responses (2017)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789401775830
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 169 p. 11 illus, online resource)
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    Series Statement: Social Sciences
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Douglas, Emily M., 1973 - Child maltreatment fatalities in the United States
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Maternal and child health services ; Criminology ; Social work ; Child psychology ; School psychology ; Social Sciences ; USA ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Kindesvernachlässigung ; Tötung ; Prävention ; USA ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Kindesvernachlässigung ; Tötung ; Prävention
    Abstract: This book focuses on the prevention of child abuse and neglect deaths in the U.S. In 2013 1,520 children died from maltreatment. This book defines child maltreatment fatalities (CMFs) and discusses the prevalence of deaths in the U.S. over the last several decades. It addresses the known risk factors for maltreatment deaths including child, parent, the parent-child relationship, and household risk factors. The main focus of the book addresses the responses and interventions that have been put in place in order to prevent CMFs: the child welfare profession, child death review teams, safe haven laws, criminal justice responses, public education, and new, federal efforts in the U.S. to reduce CMFs in the U.S. The book finishes by making recommendations for researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers about how to prevent fatal maltreatment among children in the U.S
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction and Justification for the Book -- Chapter 2: What is Fatal Child Maltreatment -- Chapter 3. Risk Factors for Fatal Child Maltreatment -- Chapter 4. The Intersection of the Child Welfare Profession and Maltreatment Fatalities -- Chapter 5. Child Death Review Teams -- Chapter 6. State Safe Haven Laws -- Chapter 7. Criminal Justice and Legal Reforms in Response to Fatal Maltreatment -- Chapter 8. Prevention of Fatal Child Maltreatment: What Are We Doing That Is Working? -- Chapter 9. Conclusions and Recommendations Moving Forward in the Arena of Fatal Child Maltreatment
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-7583-0
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    Children’s Understandings of Well-being : Towards a Child Standpoint (2017)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789402408294
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 280 p. 16 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research 14
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    Series Statement: Social Sciences
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Child development ; Social work ; Well-being ; Children ; Psychology ; Social Sciences ; Kind ; Wohlbefinden
    Abstract: The book presented here describes an outstanding attempt, not only to include children’s views but to partner with children to develop the concept of well-being and to study the phenomenon as the children understand it. The authors do this by placing the concept of children’s well-being within the existing discourses on the topic and by developing their unique theoretical approach to the concept. Then, and based on what children told them, the authors identify different domains and dimensions of children’s well-being and touch upon its multifaceted nature. The book concludes with drawing research and policy implications from an integrated summary of the study’s findings and lists indicator concepts that present an alternative framework and conceptualisation of well-being from a child standpoint
    Abstract: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter 1. Tracing Conceptualizations of Well-Being: Locating the Child in Well-Being Discourse -- Chapter 2. Researching Children’s Understandings of Well-Being -- Part II -- Chapter 3. Overviewing a Child Standpoint on Well-Being -- Chapter 4. Agency, Autonomy and Asymmetry in Child-Adult Relations -- Chapter 5. Safety and Ontological Insecurity: Contesting the Meaning of Child Protection -- Chapter 6. Self, Identity and Well-Being -- Part III -- Chapter 7. Activities as Autonomy and Competence: The Meaning and Experience of Leisure for Well-Being -- Chapter 8. Money, Markets and Moral Identity: Exploring Children’s Understandings and Experiences of Economic Well-Being -- Chapter 9. Children’s Health and Well-Being -- Part IV.-Chapter 10. Findings and Conclusions on Well-Being from the Unique Vantage Point of Children -- Appendix
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-0829-4
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    Handbook of Neuroethics (2015)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400747074
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXII, 1850 p. 31 illus., 20 illus. in color. eReference, online ressource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Clausen, Jens, 1969 - Handbook of neuroethics
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences ; Philosophy ; Public health laws ; Ethics ; Neurology ; Life sciences ; Medical laws and legislation. ; Ethik ; Hirnforschung ; Neurowissenschaften
    Abstract: Neuroethics - as a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary endeavor - examines the implications of the neurosciences on human beings in general and on their self-understanding and their social interactions in particular. The range of approaches adopted in neuroethics includes but is not limited to historical, anthropological, ethical, philosophical, theological, sociological and legal approaches. Based on the study of neuroscientific developments and innovations, examined from different angles, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the international neuroethical debate, and offers unprecedented insights into the impact of neuroscientific research, diagnosis, and therapy. This Handbook deals with a plethora of topics divided into in three parts: the first part contains discussions of theories of neuroethics, identity, free will, as well as other philosophical considerations. The second part is dedicated to issues involved in current and future clinical applications of neurosciences, such as brain stimulation, brain imaging, prosthetics, addiction, and psychiatric ethics. The final part deals with neuroethics and society and includes chapters on neurolaw, neurotheology, neuromarketing, and enhancement
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4707-4
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    Public Policy Making in the Western Balkans : Case Studies of Selected Economic and Social Policy Reforms (2015)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789401793469
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 244 p. 25 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Development Economics ; Social policy ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: Developing and ‘transition’ economies face myriad challenges in their attempts to achieve and maintain political stability and foster the economic growth essential for national security, the social well-being of current citizens, and sustainable environments for future generations. Governments in the Western Balkans have striven to achieve all of the above, and this volume assesses the nature of their experiences as well as the level of their success in doing so. Featuring detailed case studies of public policy reforms in the region as well as comparative analysis on a range of indicators, the book analyzes the role of key players in setting the political agenda as well as implementing policy reforms. It also distils the lessons that can be learned from the Western Balkan experience, recommending strategies for enhancing the policy making process. In addition, it examines the developmental role played by the full spectrum of policy actors, including the private sector, NGOs, special interest groupings, international financial institutions, donor nations and the EU. Each case study has been prepared by academics with deep knowledge and experience of the western Balkans, and addresses a core set of questions: identifying the policy issue and its broader context, defining the roles of specific individuals in formulating policy and reform, and assessing the influence of networks and coalitions in the policy making process. With so little detailed literature on public policy making in a group of nations strategically positioned between Europe, Russia and the near East, the detailed insights provided by this volume will be widely welcomed. Our book provides case studies of specific public policy reform episodes in selected Western Balkan post-conflict and transition countries. The focus of these case studies extends beyond the technical aspects and entails substantive examination of the policy actors, constituencies, and politics that ultimately shape the policy that emerges from the policy making process. This analysis draws lessons for strengthening the quality of policies, the transparency, consistency, and governance of the policy making process, and ultimately for contributing to economic and social development of the region
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9346-9
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    Handbook of Argumentation Theory (2014)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789048194735
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 988 p. 79 illus., 18 illus. in color. eReference, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Eemeren, Frans H. van, 1946 - Handbook of argumentation theory
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy ; Logic ; Law ; Social sciences ; Linguistics. ; Argumentationstheorie
    Abstract: The Handbook Argumentation Theory provides an up to date survey of the various theoretical contributions to the development of argumentation theory for all scholars interested in argumentation, informal logic and rhetoric. It describes the historical roots of modern argumentation theory that are still an important theoretical background to contemporary approaches. Because of the complexity, diversity and rate of developments in argumentation theory, there is a real need for an overview of the state of the art, the main approaches that can be distinguished and the distinctive features of these approaches. The Handbook covers classical and modern backgrounds to the study of argumentation, the New Rhetoric developed by Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca, the Toulmin model, formal approaches, informal logic, communication and rhetoric, pragmatic approaches, linguistic approaches and pragma-dialectics. The Handbook is co-authored by Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, Erik C.W. Krabbe, A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Bart Verheij and Jean Wagemans, who are a coherent and prominent writing team whose expertise covers the whole field. The authors are assisted by an international Editorial Board consisting of outstanding argumentation scholars whose fields of interest are represented in the volume
    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9473-5
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    Understanding Society and Natural Resources : Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences (2014)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789401789592
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXV, 261 p. 38 illus., 2 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Keywords: Ecology ; Environmental geology. ; Geoecology. ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Human Geography ; Physical geography.
    Abstract: In this edited volume leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration opportunities and challenges. This book explores the growing concern of how best to achieve effective integration of the social science disciplines as a means for furthering natural resource social science and environmental problem solving. The chapters provide an overview of the history, vision, advances, examples, and methods that could lead to integration. The quest for integration among the social sciences is not new. Some argue that the social sciences have lagged in their advancements and contributions to society due to their inability to address integration related issues. Integration merits debate for a number of reasons. First, natural resource issues are complex and are affected by multiple proximate driving social factors. Single disciplinary studies focused at one level are unlikely to provide explanations that represent this complexity and are limited in their ability to inform policy recommendations. Complex problems are best explored across disciplines that examine social-ecological phenomenon from different scales. Second, multi-disciplinary initiatives such as those with physical and biological scientists are necessary to understand the scope of the social sciences. Too frequently there is a belief that one social scientist on a multi-disciplinary team provides adequate social science representation. Third, more complete models of human behavior will be achieved through a synthesis of diverse social science perspectives
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8959-2
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    Gender, lifespan and quality of life : an international perspective (2014)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400778290
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (278 pages) , illustrations.
    Series Statement: Social Indicators Research Series 53
    Series Statement: Social Indicators Research Ser. v.53
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306
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    MS 2900
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Quality of life ; Humanities ; Quality of life -- Research ; Developmental psychology ; Social sciences ; Quality of life ; Humanities ; Quality of life ; Research ; Developmental psychology ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This publication will fill a significant gap in the literature on quality of life and subjective wellbeing by addressing the gender dimensions of people's lived experience and emphasizing how gender relationships differentially impact on women's and girls' as well as men's and boys' subjective wellbeing across the lifespan. Sex-disaggregation of data on objective conditions of quality of life is now routinely undertaken in many countries of the world. However, despite the burgeoning of objective data on sex differences in life conditions across the world, very little gender analysis is carried out to explain fully such difference and there is still a serious dearth of data on gender differences in subjective experiences of quality of life and wellbeing. This publication will assist researchers, teachers, service providers and policy makers in filling some of the gaps in currently available literature on the nexus between age and gender in producing differential experiences of subjective wellbeing. The book brings together research which compares female's and male's subjective experiences of wellbeing at various life stages from a variety of countries and regions, particularly focusing on women's subjective wellbeing.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter-1 -- Gender, Lifespan, Cultural Context and QOL -- References -- Chapter-2 -- Personal Well-being and Interpersonal Communication of 12-16 Year-Old Girls and Their Own Mothers: Gender and Intergenerational Issues -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Method Procedure and Sample -- 2.2.1 Description of the Variables -- 2.3 Results -- 2.3.1 Activities -- 2.3.2 Conversations -- 2.3.3 Satisfaction -- 2.3.4 Values Aspired to for the Girls' Future -- 2.3.5 Explained Model of Girls' and Mothers' Satisfaction with Life as a Whole -- 2.4 Discussion -- References -- Chapter-3 -- Gender Dimensions of Life Quality for Adults in Australia -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Subjective Wellbeing Homeostasis -- 3.3 Homeostatic Buffers -- 3.4 External Buffers -- 3.5 Internal Buffers -- 3.6 Gender Differences -- 3.7 Method -- 3.8 Results -- 3.8.1 Gender × Survey -- 3.8.2 Personal Wellbeing Domains -- 3.8.3 Domain Stability Across Surveys × Gender -- 3.8.4 Demographic Influences on Gender Differences in SWB -- 3.8.5 Age -- 3.8.6 Living Alone -- 3.8.7 Relationship Status -- 3.8.8 Work Status -- 3.9 Discussion -- 3.9.1 Overall Pattern of Gender Differences -- 3.9.2 Age -- 3.9.3 Living Alone -- 3.9.4 Work Status -- 3.10 Summary -- References -- Chapter-4 -- Chasing the 'Good Life': GenderDifferences in Work Aspirationsof American Men and Women -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Conceptual Framework -- 4.3 Data and Methods -- 4.4 Results -- 4.4.1 Gender Differences in Aspirations and Attainments -- 4.4.1.1 Material Goods -- 4.4.1.2 Good Health -- 4.4.1.3 Family Life -- 4.4.1.4 Work -- 4.4.1.5 Work Aspirations over the Life Course -- 4.5 Summary and Discussion -- References -- Chapter-5 -- Gender Dimensions of Quality of Life in Algeria -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Gender Equalities: The Current Situation.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 12, 2014)
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    Handbook of Child Maltreatment (2014)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400772076 , 9789400772083
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVI, 588 p. 17 illus., 11 illus. in color, online resource)
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Quality of Life / Research ; Developmental psychology ; Social Sciences ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kindesmisshandlung
    Note: Child Maltreatment, Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy ; 2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7208-3
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    Modelling Norms (2014)
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    ISBN: 9789400770522
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 213 p. 33 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Elsenbroich, Corinna Modelling norms
    DDC: 306
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    MR 7300
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Computer simulation ; Social sciences Data processing ; Criminology ; Social sciences Methodology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Computer simulation ; Social sciences Data processing ; Criminology ; Social sciences Methodology ; Modellierung ; Methode ; Online-Ressource ; Soziale Norm ; Kriminalitätstheorie ; Modellierung
    Abstract: The book focusses on questions of individual and collective action, the emergence and dynamics of social norms and the feedback between individual behaviour and social phenomena. It discusses traditional modelling approaches to social norms and shows the usefulness of agent-based modelling for the study of these micro-macro interactions. Existing agent-based models of social norms are discussed and it is shown that so far too much priority has been given to parsimonious models and questions of the emergence of norms, with many aspects of social norms, such as norm-change, not being modelled. Juvenile delinquency, group radicalisation and moral decision making are used as case studies for agent-based models of collective action extending existing models by providing an embedding into social networks, social influence via argumentation and a causal action theory of moral decision making. The major contribution of the book is to highlight the multifaceted nature of the dynamics of social norms, consisting not only of emergence, and the importance of embedding of agent-based models into existing theory.
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionTheorising Norms -- Theorising Crime -- Agent-based Modelling -- The Environment and Social Norms -- Punishment and Social Norms -- Imitation and Social Norms -- Socially Situated Social Norms -- Internalisation and Social Norms -- Modelling Norms -- Delinquent Networks -- Social Construction of Knowledge -- Morality -- We-Intentionality -- Conclusion -- Index.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7052-2
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    Handbook of social psychology (2014)
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    ISBN: 9789401794176
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 649 S.
    Edition: 2. ed.
    Series Statement: Handbooks of sociology and social research
    DDC: 301
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    CV 1000
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Psychology, clinical
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    The Demography of Health and Healthcare : Third Edition (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789048189038
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 300 p. 92 illus, digital)
    Edition: 3rd ed. 2013
    Series Statement: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis 13
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Pol, Louis G. The demography of health and healthcare
    Keywords: Demographie ; Gesundheitswesen ; USA ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Population ; Demography ; Social Sciences
    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8903-8
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    Handbook of Neurosociology (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400744738
    ISSN: 1389-6903
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 406 p. 32 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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    Parallel Title: Druck-Ausg. Franks, David D., 1931 - Handbook of neurosociology
    RVK:
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    CZ 1300
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Neurology ; Psychology, clinical ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Neurology ; Psychology, clinical ; Neurosciences ; Social aspects ; Neurowissenschaften ; Soziologie ; Neurobiologie ; Neurologie ; Soziologie
    Abstract: Until recently, a handbook on neurosociology would have been viewed with skepticism by sociologists, who have long been protective of their disciplinary domain against perceived encroachment by biology. But a number of developments in the last decade or so have made sociologists more receptive to biological factors in sociology and social psychology. Much of this has been encouraged by the coeditors of this volume, David Franks and Jonathan Turner. This new interest has been increased by the explosion of research in neuroscience on brain functioning and brain-environment interaction (via new MRI technologies), with implications for social and psychological functioning. This handbook emphasizes the integration of perspectives within sociology as well as between fields in social neuroscience. For example, Franks represents a social constructionist position following from G.H. Meads voluntaristic theory of the act while Turner is more social structural and positivistic. Furthermore, this handbook not only contains contributions from sociologists, but leading figures from the psychological perspective of social neuroscience.
    Description / Table of Contents: Handbook of Neurosociology; Preface; References; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Summaries and Comments; David Franks: A Short History; Brain Activity Measures and Limitations; Jonathan H. Turner: Coming on Board as an Editor; What Does Neurosociology Have to Offer?; References; Part I: Large Issues; Chapter 2: Neural Social Science; Reason Is Neural; Back to the Future; How Brain Circuits Become Meaningful; Reason and Social Science; Reason Itself: Enlightenment Fallacies; The Enlightenment Fallacies; The First Fallacy: Reason Is Conscious
    Description / Table of Contents: The Second Fallacy: One Can Reason Directly About the WorldThe Third Fallacy: Thought Is Disembodied; The Fourth Fallacy: Words Are Defined Directly in Terms of Features of the External World; The Fifth Fallacy: Reason Is Unemotional; The Sixth Fallacy: Reason Is Literal and Logical; The Seventh Fallacy: Categories Are Defined by Necessary and Sufficient Conditions; The Eighth Fallacy: Reason Exists Primarily to Serve Self-interest; The Ninth Fallacy: Conceptual Systems Are Monolithic; The Tenth Fallacy: Words Have Fixed Meanings, and Concepts Have Fixed Logics
    Description / Table of Contents: The Eleventh Fallacy: The Truth Will Set You Free If Enough People Know the Truth About Social Issues, They Will Change Their Attitudes, to Society's Bene fi t; Some Brain Basics; Color; Perception and Action; That's Why There Are Basic-Level Concepts; That's Why Verb Roots Are the Same for First- and Third-Person Experiences; Imagining and Doing Use the Same Brain Circuitry; Neural Computation and Simulation; The Centrality of Metaphor in Social Life; Neural Metaphor; The Narayanan-Johnson-Grady Neural Theory of Metaphor; How Are Neural Circuits Learned?
    Description / Table of Contents: The Feldman Functional Circuitry HypothesisPrimary Metaphors; Narayanan on Spike-Time-Dependent Plasticity; Neuromodulators and "Rewards"; Integrating Multiple Neural Systems; Embodiment Evidence in Social Psychology; Real Social and Political Life; The Conservative Advantage; What Can Progressives and Democrats Do?; Systems Thinking; The Point; CODA; Solving a Social Science Puzzle; References; Chapter 3: Why We Need Neurosociology as Well as Social Neuroscience: Or-Why Role-Taking and Theory of Mind Are Different Concepts; History of the Terms Neurosociology and Social Neuroscience
    Description / Table of Contents: Distinguishing Between the Two Fields Using Role-Taking and ToMSome Ways Role-Taking and Power Can be Explored Experimentally; What Social Neuroscience Can Offer Sociological Research on Role-Taking and Power; Empirically Testing the Role-Taking and Power Hypothesis; Conclusions; References; Chapter 4: Social Cognition and the Problem of Other Minds; Where in the World Are Minds?; The Psychology of Individual Minds; Social Psychology and Social Cognition; What Do Minds Learn to Mind?; Brains and Minds Grow Together; Socialized Brains Remain Social Minds; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: Genetic, Hormonal, and Neural Underpinnings of Human Aggressive Behavior
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    The Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400762749
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 269 p. 14 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 20
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Farm economics ; Social sciences ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Farm economics ; Social sciences
    Abstract: This edited volume presents ethical and economic analyses of agrifood competition. By systematically examining fairness and openness in agricultural markets, it seeks to answer the question of whether there is adequate competition in the agrifood industry and whether the system is fair to all participants. It outlines ethical and economic principles important for understanding agrifood competition, presents arguments for and against consolidation, globalization and the integration of agrifood industries, and looks at the implications of globalization on the nature of competition in specific agricultural contexts
    Abstract: This edited volume presents ethical and economic analyses of agrifood competition. By systematically examining fairness and openness in agricultural markets, it seeks to answer the question of whether there is adequate competition in the agrifood industry and whether the system is fair to all participants. It outlines ethical and economic principles important for understanding agrifood competition, presents arguments for and against consolidation, globalization and the integration of agrifood industries, and looks at the implications of globalization on the nature of competition in specific agricultural contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: The Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Introduction to the Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition: Connotations, Complications and Commentary; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Meaning of Adequacy; 1.3 The Meaning of Fairness; 1.4 Analyses of Agrifood Competition; 1.5 The Lesson; References; Part I Conceptualizing Agrifood Competition; Chapter 2: Conceptualizing Fairness in the Context of Competition: Philosophical Sources; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Fair Treatment and Fair Play; 2.3 Fairness and the Social Contract
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4 Fairness and Efficient Competition2.5 Fairness and Outcomes; 2.6 Fairness and Rules; 2.7 Assessing Fair Competition; 2.8 Fair Agrifood Competition; References; Chapter 3: Are Ethics and Efficiency Locked in Antithesis?; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 What Is Ethics?; 3.3 What Is Efficiency?; 3.4 The Relation Between Ethics and Efficiency; 3.4.1 Ethical Duties as a Constraint on Production; 3.4.2 Ethical Consumption and Ethical Production; 3.4.3 Institutionalizing Ethical Considerations in the Sector; 3.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: The Fallacy of "Competition" in Agriculture
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.1 Introduction4.2 The True Central Question of Competition: What Is It?; 4.2.1 The Nature of Competition; 4.2.2 `Free and Fair' Competition; 4.2.2.1 Free Competition; 4.2.2.2 Fair Competition; 4.3 The Problem of Perfect Competition; 4.4 Competition in Agriculture; 4.4.1 The Demise of Competition in Agriculture?; 4.4.2 The Shortcoming of Government Intervention; 4.4.3 Competition in Agriculture Today; 4.4.4 So Whence Concerns About Competition in Agriculture Today?; 4.4.5 What Does This Tell Us About Competition in Agriculture?; 4.4.6 Ethics and the Fallacy of Competition; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: Efficiency, Power and Freedom5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Overview; 5.3 Aggregate Economic Efficiency; 5.3.1 The Free Market; 5.4 Morals of Monopoly and Competition; 5.5 Antitrust and Competition Policy; 5.5.1 Collusion in Fixing the Rules of the Marketplace; 5.5.2 Knightian Welfare Economics; 5.5.3 Economic Freedom for Farmers and Ranchers; 5.5.4 Serfdom; 5.5.5 Economic Freedom for Consumers; 5.5.6 Innovation and Democracy; 5.6 Concluding Remarks: Back to the Agrifood System; References; Chapter 6: Networks, Power and Dependency in the Agrifood Industry; 6.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.2 Previous Research on Agrifood Industry Structure6.3 Networks, Dependency and Power; 6.4 Differential Dependencies in Stylized Agrifood Networks; 6.4.1 Broilers; 6.4.2 Beef; 6.4.3 Corn and Soybeans; 6.5 Ethics of Dependency; 6.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 7: Reaping and Sowing for a Sustainable Future: The Import of Roman Catholic Social Teaching for Agrifood Competition; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Roman Catholic Social Teaching; 7.3 Agrifood Competition in Roman Catholic Social Teaching; 7.3.1 Rerum Novarum (1891); 7.3.2 Quadragesimo Anno (1931); 7.3.3 Excursus: César Chávez
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.3.4 Mater et Magistra (1961)
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6274-9
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    Methods for Multilevel Analysis and Visualisation of Geographical Networks (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400766778
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 223 p. 105 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences 11
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.: Methods for Multilevel Analysis and Visualisation of Geographical Networks
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Computer vision ; Cartography ; Social sciences Methodology ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Anthropogeografie ; Daten ; Netzwerk
    Abstract: This leading-edge study focuses on the latest techniques in analysing and representing the complex, multi-layered data now available to geographers studying urban zones and their populations. The volume tracks the successful results of the SPANGEO Project, which was set up in 2005 to standardize, and share, the syncretic, multinational mapping techniques already developed by geographers and computer scientists. SPANGEO sought new and responsive ways of visualising urban geographical and social data that reflected the fine-grained detail of the inputs. It allowed for visual representation of the large and complex networks and flows which are such an integral feature of the dynamism of urban geography. SPANGEO developed through the ‘visual analytics loop’ in which geographers collaborated with computer scientists by feeding data into the design of visualisations that in turn spawned the urge to incorporate more varied data into the visualisation. This volume covers all the relevant aspects, from conceptual principles to the tools of network analysis and the actual results flowing from their deployment. Detailed case studies set out in this volume include spatial multi-level analyses of flows in airports and sea ports, as well as the fascinating scientific networks in European cities. The volume shows how the primary concern of geography-the interaction of society with physical space-has been revivified by the complexities of new cartographical and statistical methodologies, which allow for highly detailed mapping and far more powerful computer analysis of spatial relationships
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    The Web of Violence : Exploring Connections Among Different Forms of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400755963
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 108 p. 3 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Hamby, Sherry L. The web of violence
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Quality of Life ; Social sciences Methodology ; Quality of Life Research ; Psychology, clinical ; Developmental psychology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Quality of Life ; Social sciences Methodology ; Quality of Life Research ; Psychology, clinical ; Developmental psychology ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Risikofaktor ; Korrelation
    Abstract: There is an increasing appreciation of the interconnections among all forms of violence. These interconnections have critical implications for conducting research that can produce valid conclusions about the causes and consequences of abuse, maltreatment, and trauma. The accumulated data on co-occurrence also provide strong evidence that prevention and intervention should be organized around the full context of individuals’ experiences, not narrowly defined subtypes of violence. Managing the flood of new research and practice innovations is a challenge, however. New means of communication and integration are needed to meet this challenge, and the Web of Violence is intended to contribute to this process by serving as a concise overview of the conceptual and empirical work that form a basis for understanding the interconnections across forms of violence throughout the lifespan. It also offers ideas and directions for prevention, intervention, and public policy.A number of initiatives are emerging to integrate the findings on co-occurrence into research and action. The American Psychological Association established a new journal, Psychology of Violence, which is a forum for research on all types of violence. Sherry Hamby is the founding editor and John Grych is associate editor and co-editor of a special issue on the co-occurrence of violence in 2012. Dr. Hamby also is a co-investigator of the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV), which has drawn attention to polyvictimization. Polyvictimization is a focus of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Defending Childhood Initiative and has recently been featured in calls for grant proposals by the Office of Victims of Crime and National Institutes for Justice.
    Description / Table of Contents: 〈p〉Chapter 1: The Case for Studying Co-Occurrence -- Chapter 2:  Tracing the Threads of the Web: The Epidemiology of Interconnections among Forms of Violence & Victimization -- Chapter 3:  The Causes of Interconnection -- Chapter 4:  A Developmental Perspective on Interconnection -- Chapter 5:  Implications for Research: Toward a more comprehensive understanding of interpersonal violence -- Chapter 6 Implications for Prevention & Intervention: A More Person-Centered Approach -- Chapter 7   Conclusion: Toppling the Silos.〈/p〉.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5596-3
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    Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400754768 , 1283910845 , 9781283910842
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 249 p. 13 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Architecture ; Regional economics ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Architecture ; Regional economics ; Human Geography
    Abstract: There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this shortfall was becoming more evident among urban policymakers, planners, and researchers in different parts of the world, a group of discontent researchers began searching for new approaches to addressing the increasing vulnerabilities of urban systems in the wake of growing socio-economic and ecological problems. This book is the joint effort of those who have long felt that contemporary planning systems and policies are inadequate in preparing cities for the future in an increasingly neoliberalising world. It argues that resilience thinking can form the basis of an alternative approach to planning. Drawing upon case studies from five cities in Europe, namely Lisbon, Porto, Istanbul, Stockholm, and Rotterdam, the book makes an exploration of the resilience perspective, raising a number of theoretical debates, and suggesting a new methodological approach based on empirical evidence. This book provides insights for intellectuals exploring alternative perspectives and principles of a new planning approach
    Abstract: There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this shortfall was becoming more evident among urban policymakers, planners, and researchers in different parts of the world, a group of discontent researchers began searching for new approaches to addressing the increasing vulnerabilities of urban systems in the wake of growing socio-economic and ecological problems. This book is the joint effort of those who have long felt that contemporary planning systems and policies are inadequate in preparing cities for the future in an increasingly neoliberalising world. It argues that “resilience thinking” can form the basis of an alternative approach to planning. Drawing upon case studies from five cities in Europe, namely Lisbon, Porto, Istanbul, Stockholm, and Rotterdam, the book makes an exploration of the resilience perspective, raising a number of theoretical debates, and suggesting a new methodological approach based on empirical evidence. This book provides insights for intellectuals exploring alternative perspectives and principles of a new planning approach.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning: Ayda Eraydin and Tuna Taşan-Kok -- Chapter 2: “Resilience Thinking” for Planning: Ayda Eraydin -- Chapter 3: Conceptual Overview of Resilience: History and Context: Tuna Taşan-Kok, Dominic Stead and Peiwen Lu -- Chapter 4: Urban Resilience and Spatial Dynamics: Sara Santos Cruz,  João Pedro Costa, Silvia Ávila de Sousa and Paulo Pinho -- Chaper 5: Analysing the Socio-spatial Vulnerability to Drivers of Globalisation in Lisbon, Oporto, Istanbul, Stockholm and Rotterdam: Tuna Taşan-Kok and Dominic Stead -- Chapter 6: Systems, Cultures, Styles: Spatial Planning in Portugal, Turkey, Sweden and the Netherlands: Sofia Morgado and Luís Dias -- Chapter 7: Managing Urban Change in Five European Urban Agglomerations: Key Policy Documents and Institutional Frameworks: Peter Schmitt -- Chapter 8: Evaluating Resilience in Planning: Paulo Pinho, Vítor Oliveira and Ana Martins -- Chapter 9: Assessing Urban Resilience in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon: the Case of Alcântara: Luís Dias, Sofia Morgado and João Pedro Costa -- Chapter 10: Evaluating Urban Policies from a Resilient Perspective: The Case of Oporto: Vítor Oliveira, Ana Martins and Sara Santos Cruz -- Chapter 11: The Evaluation of Different Processes of Spatial Development from a Resilience Perspective in Istanbul: Ayda Eraydin, Ali Türel and Deniz Altay Kaya -- Chapter 12: Urban Resilience and Polycentricity - the Case of the Stockholm Urban Agglomeration: Peter Schmitt, Lisbeth Greve Harbo, Asli Tepecik Diş and Anu Henriksson -- Chapter 13: Urban Resilience, Climate Change and Land-Use Planning in Rotterdam: Dominic  Stead and Tuna Taşan-Kok -- Chapter 14: The Evaluation of Findings and Future of Resilience Thinking in Planning: Ayda Eraydin and Tuna Taşan-Kok -- Index..
    Note: Includes index , Introduction: Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning , "Resilience Thinking" for Planning , Conceptual Overview of Resilience: History and Context , Urban Resilience and Spatial Dynamics , Analysing the Socio-Spatial Vulnerability to Drivers of Globalisation in Lisbon, Oporto, Istanbul, Stockholm and Rotterdam , Systems, Cultures and Styles: Spatial Planning in Portugal, Turkey, Sweden and the Netherlands , Managing Urban Change in Five European Urban Agglomerations: Key Policy Documents and Institutional Frameworks , Evaluating Resilience in Planning , Assessing Urban Resilience in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon: The Case of Alcântara , Evaluating Urban Policies from a Resilience Perspective: The Case of Oporto , The Evaluation of Different Processes of Spatial Development from a Resilience Perspective in Istanbul , Urban Resilience and Polycentricity: The Case of the Stockholm Urban Agglomeration , Urban Resilience, Climate Change and Land-Use Planning in Rotterdam , The Evaluation of Findings and Future of Resilience Thinking in Planning
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    Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics : Capacities and Capabilities (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400755642 , 1283909006 , 9781283909006
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 109 p, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Epistemology ; Economics ; Ethics ; Economic history ; Social sciences ; Genetic epistemology ; Economics ; Ethics ; Economics Methodology ; Social sciences Methodology ; Wirtschaftswissenschaften ; Praktische Vernunft ; Theoretische Vernunft ; Wirtschaftsphilosophie
    Abstract: Table of contents -- Summary -- Preface -- Chapter I: Introduction -- Chapter II: Nancy Cartwright, Capacities and Nomological Machines: The Role of Theoretical Reason in Science -- Chapter III: Sen’s Capability Approach: The Role of Practical Reason in Social Science -- Chapter IV: The Contributions of Aristotle’s Thought to the Capability Approach -- Chapter V: Socio-Economic Machines and Practical Models of Development: The Role of the Human Development Index -- Chapter VI: Conclusion: Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics
    Abstract: The aim of the book is to argue for the restoration of theoretical and practical reason to economics. It presents Nancy Cartwright and Amartya Sen’s ideas as cases of this restoration and sees Aristotle as an influence on their thought. It looks at how we can use these ideas to develop a valuable understanding of practical reason for solving concrete problems in science and society. Cartwright’s capacities are real causes of events. Sen’s capabilities are the human person’s freedoms or possibilities. They relate these concepts to Aristotelian concepts. This suggests that these concepts can be combined. Sen’s capabilities are Cartwright’s capacities in the human realm; capabilities are real causes of events in economic life. Institutions allow us to deliberate on and guide our decisions about capabilities, through the use of practical reason. Institutions thus embody practical reason and infuse certain predictability into economic action. The book presents a case study: the UNDP’s HDI
    Description / Table of Contents: Theoreticaland PracticalReason in Economics; Preface; Contents; Summary; 1 Introduction; References; 2 Nancy Cartwright, Capacities and Nomological Machines: The Role of Theoretical Reason in Science; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Cartwright-Aristotle Connection; 2.2.1 The Connection; 2.2.2 The Ontology of Capacities; 2.2.3 The Epistemology of Capacities; 2.3 Cartwright's Skepticism About Capacities in the Social Realm; 2.3.1 Cartwright's Skepticism; 2.3.2 Julian Reiss's Interpretation and Proposal; 2.4 Socio-Economic Machines; 2.5 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 3 Sen's Capability Approach: The Role of Practical Reason in Social Science3.1 Introducing the Capability Approach; 3.2 Some Problems in Sen's CA; 3.2.1 Identification of Valuable Capabilities: The Debate Over Lists of Capabilities; 3.2.2 Heterogeneity and Incommensurability; References; 4 The Contributions of Aristotle's Thought to the Capability Approach; 4.1 Aristotle on Lists; 4.1.1 The Supposedly Aristotelian List; 4.1.2 The True Aristotelian List; 4.1.3 Back to Sen; 4.2 "Practical Comparability" as a Way of Overcoming Incommensurability14; 4.2.1 The Aristotelian Conception
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.1.1 Commensuration4.2.1.2 Comparison by Intensity or Degree of Quality; 4.2.1.3 Comparison by Priority; 4.2.2 Back to Sen; 4.3 Some Conclusions Regarding the Aristotelian Contribution to the CA; 4.4 Capabilities and Capacities; 4.5 Conclusion; References; 5 Chapter Socio: -Economic Machines and Practical Models of Development: The Role of the HDI; 5.1 Socio-Economic Machines; 5.2 The HDI4; 5.3 Some Problems with Index Numbers and the HDI; 5.4 Theoretical and Practical Reason in the HDI
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.5 Conclusion: The Role of the HDI for the Construction of a Normative Socio-Economic Machine of Human DevelopmentReferences; 6 Conclusion: Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics; Reference
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5564-2
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    Social Morphogenesis (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400761285
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 231 p. 17 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Social morphogenesis
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Konferenzschrift ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: The rate of social change has speeded up in the last three decades, but how do we explain this? This volume ventures what the generative mechanism is that produces such rapid change and discusses how this differs from late Modernity. Contributors examine if an intensification of morphogenesis (positive feedback that results in a change in social form) and a corresponding reduction in morphostasis (negative feedback that restores or reproduces the form of the social order) best captures the process involved. This volume resists proclaiming a new social formation as so many books written by empiricists have done by extrapolating from empirical data. Until we can convincingly demonstrate that a new generative mechanism is at work, it is premature to argue what accounts for the global changes that are taking place and where they will lead. More concisely we seek to answer the question whether or not current social change can be regarded as social morphogenesis. Only then, in the next volumes will the same team of authors be able to remove the question mark
    Description / Table of Contents: Social Morphogenesis; Contents; 1 Social Morphogenesis and the Prospects of Morphogenic Society; 1.1…Part 1. Social Morphogenesis and Societal Transformation?; The Rapidity of Social Change and Empiricism's Shortcomings; Social Morphogenesis: From Toolkit to Theory; Three Levels of Social Morphogenesis; Transformations of the Third-Order; References; Part I Social Morphogenesis and Societal Transformation?; 2 Morphogenesis and Social Change; 2.1…The Morphogenetic Approach; 2.2…Social Change Understood Morphogenetically; 2.3…The Morphogenetic Approach Versus the Current Conflationisms
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4…Where Are We Now?References; 3 The Morphogenetic Approach and the Idea of a Morphogenetic Society: The Role of Regularities; 3.1…The Topic: Morphogenesis from Meta-Theory to Forms of Social Order; 3.2…Morphogenesis and Regularity: Making Friends with Old Enemies?; 3.3…Duration, Pace, Trajectory, Turning Points, Transitions, and Cycles: New Bricks for the Morphogenetic Fabric; 3.4…Conclusion; References; 4 Emergence and Morphogenesis: Causal Reduction and Downward Causation?; 4.1…Emergence; Causal Reduction and Downward Causation; 4.2…Causal Reduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 Network Analysis and Morphogenesis: A Neo-Structural Exploration and Illustration
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Social Morphogenesis and the Prospects of Morphogenic Society; Margaret S. Archer -- PART I. SOCIAL CHANGE AS MORPHOGENESIS.- Chapter 2. Morphogenesis and Social Change; Douglas V. Porpora -- Chapter 3. The Morphogenetic Approach and the Idea  of Morphogenetic Society. The Role of Regularities; Andrea M. Maccarini -- Chapter 4. Emergence and Morphognesis: Causal Reduction and Downward Causation; Tony Lawson -- Chapter 5 Morphogenesis, Continuity and Change in the International Political System; Colin Wight -- PART II. SOCIAL FORMATIONS AND THEIR RE-FORMATION -- Chapter 6. Self-Organization: What is it, What isn't it and What's it Got to Do with Morphogenesis; Kate Forbes-Pitt -- Chapter 7. Self-Organization as the Mechanism of Development and Evolution in Social Systems; Wolfgang Hofkirchner -- Chapter 8. Morphogenetic Society: Self-Government and Self-Organization as Misleading Metaphors; Maragaret S. Archer.- PART III. SOCIAL NETWORKS: LINKAGES OR BONDS -- Chapter 9. Network Analysis and Morphogenesis: A Neo-Structural Exploration and Illustration; Emmanuel Lazega -- Chapter 10. Authority's Hidden Networks: Obligations, Roles and the Morphogenesis of Authority; Ismael Al-Amoudi -- Chapter 11. Morphogenesis and Social Networks: Relational Steering not Mechanical Feedback; Pierpaolo Donati.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6128-5
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    Economic and Political Change in Asia and Europe : Social Movement Analyses (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400746534
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 306 p. 9 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Economic and political change in Asia and Europe
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Population ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Population ; Demography ; East Asia ; Economic policy ; East Asia ; Economic conditions ; East Asia ; Social policy ; East Asia ; Social conditions ; Europe ; Economic policy ; Europe ; Economic conditions ; Europe ; Social policy ; Europe ; Social conditions
    Abstract: Since the 1973 publication of Alain Peyrefittes prophetic When China Awakens, developments in East Asia have outstripped even the wildest predictions. China has undergone the fastest industrialization and urbanization process in history, yet tensions there are rising as some realize how far they have been left behind. This volume explores the applicability of European economic and social models to our analysis of East Asias and, in particular, Chinas situation. Though millions of Chinese and other Asian people have been lifted out of poverty, inequality is rising nonetheless, and contemporary Europe and Asia are both witnessing collective action against rampant economic neoliberalism in the former and the exclusion of minorities in the latter. It is difficult to overstate the relevance of this assessment, which seeks answers to some central questions: Can events in Europe serve as a model for those in East Asia? Are there similarities or differences between the two regions? To what extent do political, economic or social systems stimulate or inhibit collective action? How culturally equivalent are the collective actions of marginalized/ disadvantaged people in the two locations, or are events in Europe symptomatic of specific cultural attributes? Comparing and contrasting the research tools and dominant paradigms in the social and economic sciences in East Asia and Europe, as this volume does, throws out some revealing results.
    Description / Table of Contents: Economic and Political Change in Asia and Europe; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Appendices; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Collective Action and Relatively Powerless People in Europe and Asia; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Social and Economic Backdrops; 1.3 Recession and Social Movements; 1.4 Common Traits: Asia and Europe; 1.5 Chapter Descriptions; 1.6 Conclusion; References; Part I: Economic, Political and Social Globalization in Asia and Europe; Chapter 2: Economic Change and Social Dynamics: Converging and Diverging Trends Across Different Economies; 2.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2 Growth, Structural Change, and Macro Socioeconomic Performance by Broad World Region2.3 Economic Growth, Development, and Poverty; 2.3.1 Broad Trends in Terms of Poverty and Inequality; 2.3.2 Impact of the Recent and Current Economic Shocks; 2.4 Convergence and Equality in the EU; 2.4.1 Between-Country Economic Convergence; 2.4.2 Convergence Across Socioeconomic Groups in the EU; 2.5 The Case of Asia; 2.5.1 Convergence Across Asian Countries; 2.5.2 Convergence Across Socioeconomic Groups in Asia; 2.6 Conclusions; 2.7 Appendices
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix 2.1 List of Countries Included in the Major World Regions (See Table  2.1)Appendix 2.2 Indicators Developed (or Being Developed) by the Commission so as to Measure Social Cohesion (Sample); References; Chapter 3: European Integration, Social Cohesion, and Political Contentiousness; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The European Structure of Grievances: The Renaissance of "Old" Issues; 3.3 Social Cohesion in Europe: Spatial and Social Cleavages; 3.3.1 Social Cohesion: The Core and the Peripheries; 3.3.2 Social Cohesion and Class
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.4 Discussion and Conclusions: Social Cohesion and the Political Sociology of EuropeReferences; Chapter 4: Images and Frameworks of Collective Action in China; 4.1 Assumptions from a Western Concept; 4.2 Reconstruction of a Chinese Traditional Heritage; 4.2.1 Interpersonal Relations, Intention, Ritual, and Mankind; 4.2.2 Traces of Collectivity in Chinese History; 4.3 The Affirmative Societal Role of Collective Action; 4.3.1 Statehood, Citizens, and Welfare; 4.3.2 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Collective Action; 4.4 Collective Action with Chinese Characteristics; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: European Governance and Democracy5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Immigration and Citizenship: Building the Fortress; 5.3 Organizing the Unemployed Within the Member States; 5.4 European Marches and Alter-Globalization Movements; 5.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Agricultural Markets and Food Riots: The European Union and Asia Compared; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Main Drivers Affecting the Food System; 6.3 Prices Crisis or Food Crisis?; 6.4 Food Riots and Policy Responses; 6.5 Food Aid Policies; 6.6 Concluding Remarks; References; Part II: Social Movements in a Transnational Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7: Marginalization and Transnationalizing Movements: How Does One Relate to the Other?
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    Intelligent Data Mining in Law Enforcement Analytics : New Neural Networks Applied to Real Problems (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400749146
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 516 p. 185 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Artificial intelligence ; Social sciences Methodology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Artificial intelligence ; Social sciences Methodology
    Abstract: This book provides a thorough summary of the means currently available to the investigators of Artificial Intelligence for making criminal behavior (both individual and collective) foreseeable, and for assisting their investigative capacities. The volume provides chapters on the introduction of artificial intelligence and machine learning suitable for an upper level undergraduate with exposure to mathematics and some programming skill or a graduate course. It also brings the latest research in Artificial Intelligence to life with its chapters on fascinating applications in the area of law enforcement, though much is also being accomplished in the fields of medicine and bioengineering. Individuals with a background in Artificial Intelligence will find the opening chapters to be an excellent refresher but the greatest excitement will likely be the law enforcement examples, for little has been done in that area. The editors have chosen to shine a bright light on law enforcement analytics utilizing artificial neural network technology to encourage other researchers to become involved in this very important and timely field of study.
    Description / Table of Contents: Dedication -- Preface.- Chapter 1. Introduction to Artificial Networks and Law Enforcement Analytics; William J. Tastle -- Chapter 2. Law Enforcement and Artificial Intelligence; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 3. The General Philosophy of Artificial Adaptive Systems; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 4. A Brief Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms and the Genetic Doping Algorithm; M. Buscema, M. Capriotti -- Chapter 5. Artificial Adaptive Systems in Data Visualization: Pro-Active data; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 6. The Metropolitan Police Service Central Drug Trafficking Database: Evidence of Need; Geoffrey Monaghan and Stefano Terzi -- Chapter 7. Supervised Artificial neural Networks: Back Propagation Neural Networks; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 8. Pre-Processing Tools for Non-Linear Data Sets; Massimo Buscema, Alessandra Mancini and Marco Breda -- Chapter 9. Metaclassifiers; Massimo Buscema, Stefano Terzi -- Chapter 10. Auto Identification of a Drug Seller Utilizing a Specialized Supervised Neural Network; Massimo Buscema and Marco Intraligi -- Chapter 11. Visualization and Clustering of Self-Organizing Maps; Giulia Massini -- Chapter 12. Self-Organizing Maps: Identifying Non-Linear Relationships in Massive Drug Enforcement Databases; Guila Massini -- Chapter 13. Theory of Constraint Satisfaction Neural Networks; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 14. Application of the Constraint Satisfaction Network; Marco Intraligi and Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 15. Auto-Contractive Maps, h Function and the Maximally regular Graph: A new methodology for data mining; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 16. Analysis of a Complex Dataset Using the Combined MST and Auto Contractive Map; Giovanni Pieri -- Chapter 17. Auto Contractive Mapsand Minimal Spanning tree: Organization of Complex datasets on criminal behavior to aid in the deduction of network connectivity; Giula Massini and Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 18. Data Mining Using Non-linear Auto Associative Artificial Neural Networks: The Arrestee Dataset; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 19. Artificial Adaptive System for Parallel Querying of Multiple Databases; Massimo Buscema.-.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4914-6
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    The Melanin Millennium : Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400746084 , 1283633876 , 9781283633871
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 348 p. 32 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Philosophy (General) ; Applied psychology ; Law Psychological aspects ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Philosophy (General) ; Applied psychology ; Law Psychological aspects ; Hautfarbe ; Bleichen ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Rassendiskriminierung
    Abstract: In the aftermath of the 60s "Black is Beautiful movement and publication of The Color Complex almost thirty years later the issue of skin color has mushroomed onto the world stage of social science. Such visibility has inspired publication of the Melanin Millennium for insuring that the discourse on skin color meet the highest standards of accuracy and objective investigation. This volume addresses the issue of skin color in a worldwide context. A virtual visit to countries that have witnessed a huge rise in the use of skin whitening products and facial feature surgeries aiming for a more Caucasian-like appearance will be taken into account. The book also addresses the question of whether using the laws has helped to redress injustices of skin color discrimination, or only further promoted recognition of its divisiveness among people of color and Whites. The Melanin Millennium has to do with now and the future. In the 20th century science including eugenics was given to and dominated by discussions of race category. Heretofore there remain social scientists and other relative to the issue of skin color loyal to race discourse. However in their interpretation and analysis of social phenomena the world has moved on. Thus while race dominated the 20th century the 21st century will emerge as a global community dominated by skin color and making it the melanin millennium.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Melanin Millennium; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: The Bleaching Syndrome: Western Civilization vis-à-vis Inferiorized People of Color; References; Chapter 2: The Historical and Cultural Influences of Skin Bleaching in Tanzania; Historical and Cultural Influences: Institutions That Placed Tanzanians in a Color-Conscious Society; Enslaved by the Arabs; Controlled by the British, Colonized by the Germans; The Cycle Continues: Postcolonization; Westernization and Neocolonialism
    Description / Table of Contents: How Color-Conscious Societies Fuel Potent Skin-Color Ideals That Result in Efforts to Assimilate into Dominant GroupsIntrapsychic Conflict and Motivation to Assimilate; The Psychological Consequences of Living in Color-Conscious Societies; Inferiority and Low Self-Esteem; Identity Development; Where to Go from Here; Research Implications; Policy and Practice Implications; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Pathophysiology and Psychopathology of Skin Bleaching and Implications of Skin Colour in Africa; Introduction; Skin Colour: Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Physiology
    Description / Table of Contents: Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)What Are the Causes of Somatoform Disorders?; The Light Skin Fad; Pathophysiology of Skin Bleaching; Mechanisms of Skin Bleaching; Trigger Factors: Psychosocial Disturbances; Exposure to Bleaching Agents; Alteration of the Skin Biochemical and Anatomical Composition; In Contemporary Africa; References; Chapter 4: An Introduction to Japanese Society's Attitudes Toward Race and Skin Color; Introduction; Historical Japanese Treatments of Foreigners, Based Upon Skin Color; Roots of the Coloring of the World: Fukuzawa Yukichi's Theories of "Civilization"
    Description / Table of Contents: The Otaru Onsens Case and Japan's Judicial Valuation of Skin ColorContemporary Japanese Media Expressions of Valuation of Skin Color; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Mapping Color and Caste Discrimination in Indian Society; Foregrounding Racism in India; Revisiting the Mythical "Aryan Supremacy"; What Scriptures Say; Aryans, Varna, and Jāti; Revisiting the Aryan Supremacy; Questioning the Aryan Supremacy Myth: Non-Brahmanical Contestations; Notion of Beauty and Contemporary Forms of Preserving White Superiority; Notions of Femininity and Beauty in India; Whitening Cream Culture; Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter 6: Indigeneity on Guahan: Skin Color as a Measure of Decolonization; Introduction; Traditional Concepts of Skin Color; The Impact of Colonization and Western Values; Indigeneity and Decolonization; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: A Tale of Two Cultures; References; Chapter 8: Where Are You From?; Introduction: The "Where Are You From?" Question; How to Answer the "Where Are You From?" Question; The Founding Migration; The Founding Origin; Melanin: An Insuperable Sign of Otherness?; Promise and Delusion of a Project?; Assimilation and Integration
    Description / Table of Contents: Ethnic Statistics in France: Wishes and Fears
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4608-4
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    Governability of Fisheries and Aquaculture : Theory and Applications (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400761070
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 382 p. 29 illus., 4 illus. in color, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Wildlife management ; Marine Sciences ; Humanities ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Wildlife management ; Marine Sciences ; Humanities ; Fischerei ; Governance
    Abstract: Following in the footsteps of the book Fish for Life - Interactive Governance for Fisheries (Kooiman et al., 2005), and the interdisciplinary approach it presents, this volume illustrates the contribution of interactive governance theory to understanding core fisheries and aquaculture challenges. These challenges are invariably linked to broader concerns such as ecosystem health, social justice, sustainable livelihoods and food security. The central concept in this perspective is governability - the varied capacity to govern fisheries and aquaculture systems sustainably. Many of these systems are characterized by problems that are inherently 'wicked' and therefore difficult to address. The authors of this edited volume argue that responses to such problems must consider context; specifically the character of the fisheries and aquaculture systems themselves, their institutional conditions, and the internal and external interactions that affect them. Drawing on a diverse set of international experiences, the volume offers a new lens and systematic approach to analysing the nature of governance problems and opportunities in fisheries and aquaculture, exploring pressing challenges and identifying potential solutions. ”It now seems clear that the crisis in the world’s fisheries [is] a much larger and more complex problem than many had imagined. Yet, examining it through the lens of governability may offer the best hope for alleviating it--as well as alleviating similar crises in other social systems.” James R. McGoodwin (Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado)
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6107-0
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    Crime, HIV and Health: Intersections of Criminal Justice and Public Health Concerns (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789048189212
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXVI, 299 p. 18 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Crime, HIV and health
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Criminology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Criminology ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Public health ; Kriminologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen ; Kriminalität ; HIV ; USA ; Strafjustiz ; HIV ; Gesundheitsgefährdung
    Abstract: Carefully selected to reflect the latest research at the interface between public health and criminal justice in the US, these contributions each focus on an aspect of the relationship. How, for example, might a person's criminal activity adversely affect their health or their risk of exposure to HIV infection? The issues addressed in this volume are at the heart of policy in both public health and criminal justice. The authors track a four-fold connection between the two fields, exploring the mental and physical health of incarcerated populations; the health consequences of crime, substance abuse, violence and risky sexual behaviors; the extent to which high crime rates are linked to poor health outcomes in the same neighborhood; and the results of public health interventions among traditional criminal justice populations. As well as exploring these urgent issues, this anthology features a wealth of remarkable interdisciplinary contributions that see public health researchers focusing on crime, while criminologists attend to public health issues. The papers provide empirical data tracking, for example, the repercussions on public health of a fear of crime among residents of high-crime neighborhoods, and the correlations between HIV status and outcomes, and an individual's history of criminal activity. Providing social scientists and policy makers with vital pointers on how the criminal justice and public health sectors might work together on the problems common to both, this collection breaks new ground by combining the varying perspectives of a number of key disciplines
    Abstract: Carefully selected to reflect the latest research at the interface between public health and criminal justice in the US, these contributions each focus on an aspect of the relationship. How, for example, might a persons criminal activity adversely affect their health or their risk of exposure to HIV infection? The issues addressed in this volume are at the heart of policy in both public health and criminal justice. The authors track a four-fold connection between the two fields, exploring the mental and physical health of incarcerated populations; the health consequences of crime, substance abuse, violence and risky sexual behaviors; the extent to which high crime rates are linked to poor health outcomes in the same neighborhood; and the results of public health interventions among traditional criminal justice populations.As well as exploring these urgent issues, this anthology features a wealth of remarkable interdisciplinary contributions that see public health researchers focusing on crime, while criminologists attend to public health issues. The papers provide empirical data tracking, for example, the repercussions on public health of a fear of crime among residents of high-crime neighborhoods, and the correlations between HIV status and outcomes, and an individuals history of criminal activity. Providing social scientists and policy makers with vital pointers on how the criminal justice and public health sectors might work together on the problems common to both, this collection breaks new ground by combining the varying perspectives of a number of key disciplines.
    Description / Table of Contents: Crime, HIV and Health: Intersections of Criminal Justice and Public Health Concerns; Introduction; References; Contents; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Crime and Public Health in the United States; 1.1 Substance Use and Violence; 1.2 Vulnerable Populations, Negative Health Outcomes, and Incarceration; 1.3 Exploring Common Ground: Criminal Justice and Public Health; 1.3.1 Incarceration; 1.3.2 Health Risk Behaviors Among High-Risk Youth; 1.3.3 Crime, Health, and Space; 1.3.4 Public Health Interventions and Criminal Justice Populations; References; Part I: The Health of Incarcerated Populations
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 2: A Longitudinal Study of the Prevalence, Development, and Persistence of HIV/STI Risk Behaviors in Delinquent Youth: Implications for Health Care in the Community2.1 Methods; 2.1.1 Sampling Procedures; 2.1.2 Procedures to Obtain Assent and Consent; 2.1.3 Participants; 2.1.4 Procedures for Data Collection; 2.1.5 Measures; 2.1.6 Missing Data; 2.1.6.1 Missing Cases; 2.1.6.2 Missing Data from Interviews Conducted by Telephone; 2.1.7 Independent Variables; 2.1.8 Statistical Analysis; 2.2 Results; 2.2.1 Prevalence of HIV/STI Risk Behaviors
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2.1.1 Comparing the Baseline and Follow-up InterviewsMales; Females; 2.2.1.2 Prevalence at Follow-up; Males; Females; 2.2.1.3 Gender Differences; 2.2.1.4 Age Differences (Data Not Shown); 2.2.2 Development of HIV/STI Risk Behaviors; 2.2.2.1 Gender Differences; 2.2.2.2 Racial/Ethnic Differences; 2.2.3 Persistence of HIV/STI Risk Behaviors; 2.2.3.1 Gender Differences; 2.2.3.2 Racial/Ethnic Differences; 2.3 Discussion; 2.4 Limitations; 2.5 Conclusions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3: Risky Sexual Behavior and Negative Health Consequences Among Incarcerated Female Adolescents: Implications for Public Health Policy and Practice3.1 Pathways into Delinquency for Female Adolescents; 3.2 Health Service Needs and Service Gaps among Incarcerated Female Adolescents; 3.3 STD Screening and Treatment in Juvenile Detention Settings in California; 3.3.1 Profiles of Project Participants and Qualitative Findings; 3.3.2 Qualitative Findings: Condom Use; 3.3.3 Qualitative Findings: Family Life; 3.3.4 Overlap of Family Conflict, Substance Use and Risky Sexual Behaviors
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.4 DiscussionReferences; Chapter 4: Disparities in Mental Health Diagnosis and Treatment Among African Americans: Implications for the Correctional Systems; 4.1 Disparities in Mental Health Diagnoses and Treatment; 4.1.1 Anxiety; 4.1.2 Depression; 4.1.3 Bipolar Disorder; 4.1.4 Schizophrenia; 4.1.5 Treatment Disparities; 4.2 Implications for Correctional Settings; References; Part II: Health Consequences of Crime and Risk Behaviors; Chapter 5: Methamphetamine Use, Personality Traits, and High-Risk Behaviors; 5.1 Research Methods; 5.1.1 Sample Recruitment; 5.1.2 Measures; 5.2 Study Results
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.2.1 Sample
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8921-2
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    C. Henry Kempe: A 50 Year Legacy to the Field of Child Abuse and Neglect (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400740846 , 1282056964 , 9781282056961
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 269 p. 6 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Child Maltreatment, Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy 1
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Pediatrics ; Quality of Life ; Social work ; Quality of Life Research ; Developmental psychology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Pediatrics ; Quality of Life ; Social work ; Quality of Life Research ; Developmental psychology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bibliografie ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Kempe, Charles Henry 1922-1984 ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Kempe, Charles Henry 1922-1984
    Abstract: The book series, 'Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy.' will consist of a state of the art handbook (to be revised every five years) and two to three volumes per year. The first volume in this series is a legacy to C. Henry Kempe. This is a timely publication because 2012 marks 50 years after the appearance of the foundational article by C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues, 'The Battered-Child Syndrome.' This volume capitalizes on this 50 year anniversary to stand back and assess the field from the perspective that Dr. Kempes early contributions and ideas are still being played out in practice and policy today. The volume will be released at the next ISPCAN meeting, also in 2012.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4084-6
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    Spatial Microsimulation: A Reference Guide for Users (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400746237
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 277 p. 51 illus., 10 illus. in color, digital)
    Series Statement: Understanding Population Trends and Processes 6
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Spatial microsimulation
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Geography ; Economics Statistics ; Quality of Life Research ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Geography ; Economics Statistics ; Quality of Life Research ; Demography ; Spatial analysis (Statistics) ; Space ; Computer simulation ; Statistical matching ; Demography ; Demographie ; Räumliche Statistik ; Mikrosimulation
    Abstract: This book is a practical guide on how to design, create and validate a spatial microsimulation model. These models are becoming more popular as academics and policy makers recognise the value of place in research and policy making. Recent spatial microsimulation models have been used to analyse health and social disadvantage for small areas; and to look at the effect of policy change for small areas. This provides a powerful analysis tool for researchers and policy makers. This book covers preparing the data for spatial microsimulation; a number of methods for both static and dynamic spatial microsimulation models; validation of the models to ensure the outputs are reasonable; and the future of spatial microsimulation. The book will be an essential handbook for any researcher or policy maker looking to design and create a spatial microsimulation model. This book will also be useful to those policy makers who are commissioning a spatial microsimulation model, or looking to commission work using a spatial microsimulation model, as it provides information on the different methods in a non-technical way.
    Description / Table of Contents: Spatial Microsimulation: A Reference Guide for Users; Foreword; Contents; Part I: Background; Chapter 1: Introduction to Spatial Microsimulation: History, Methods and Applications; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 History of Spatial Microsimulation; 1.3 Applications of Spatial Microsimulation Models; 1.4 Validation of Spatial Microsimulation Models; 1.5 The Future; 1.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: Building a Static Spatial Microsimulation Model: Data Preparation; 2.1 Data Sources and Requirements; 2.2 Sample Scope; 2.3 Unit of Analysis; 2.3.1 Non-private Dwellings
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.2 Non-classifiable Households2.4 Population Imputation; 2.4.1 Imputation of Child Records; 2.4.2 Imputation of a Non-private Dwelling Population; 2.5 Matching Variable Definitions in the Sample Survey and the Census; 2.6 Uprating and Deflating; 2.7 Balancing Data; 2.8 Conclusion; References; Part II: Static Spatial Microsimulation Models; Chapter 3: An Evaluation of Two Synthetic Small-Area Microdata Simulation Methodologies: Synthetic Reconstruction and Combinatorial Optimisation; 3.1 Background; 3.2 Synthetic Reconstruction and Combinatorial Optimisation Methodologies
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2.1 Synthetic Reconstruction3.2.2 Combinatorial Optimisation; 3.3 Innovations in Synthetic Reconstruction; 3.3.1 Modified Monte Carlo Sampling; 3.3.2 Statistical Justification of Reconstruction Order; 3.3.3 Modelled 100% Counts of 10% Data; 3.3.4 Improved Data Linkage; 3.3.5 Data Reconciliation; 3.4 Innovations in Combinatorial Optimisation; 3.4.1 Validated Random Number Generation; 3.4.2 Sequential Table Fitting; 3.4.3 Stratified Household Selection; 3.4.4 RSSZ*: A New Selection Criterion; 3.4.5 Stopping Rules; 3.5 Understanding Between-Area Variation; 3.5.1 Spatial Concentration
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5.2 Multicollinearity3.6 A Framework for Validating Small-Area Microdata; 3.6.1 Identification of Appropriate Measures of Fit; 3.6.2 Innovations in Types of Fit Measured; 3.7 The Impact on Combinatorial Optimisation of Selected Improvements; 3.7.1 Substitution of TAE with RSSZ *; 3.7.2 Stratified Household Selection; 3.8 Synthetic Reconstruction vs. Combinatorial Optimisation; 3.8.1 ED-Level Mean Fit; 3.8.2 ED-Level Fit of the Mean; 3.8.3 Ward-Level Fit; 3.8.4 Fit of Unconstrained Counts; 3.9 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 4: Estimating Small-Area Income Deprivation : An Iterative Proportional Fitting Approach4.1 Background; 4.2 Small-Area Income Estimation Methods; 4.3 The Iterative Proportion Fitting Approach; 4.3.1 Definition of Income; 4.3.2 Choice of Constraint Variables; 4.3.3 Small-Area IPF Algorithm Implementation; 4.4 Results; 4.5 Validation; 4.6 Conclusions and Future Directions; References; Chapter 5: SimObesity: Combinatorial Optimisation (Deterministic) Model; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Why Use Spatial Microsimulation Modelling to Model Disease Data?; 5.2.1 Why Use a Deterministic Model?
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.3 SimObesity Methodology
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Background: Chapter 1: Introduction to spatial microsimulation - History, Methods and Applications: Robert Tanton and Kimberley Edwards -- Chapter 2: Building a static spatial microsimulation model: data preparation: Rebecca Cassells, Riyana Miranti and Ann Harding -- Part 2: Static spatial microsimulation models -- Chapter 3: An Evaluation of Two Synthetic Small-Area Microdata simulation methodologies: Synthetic Reconstruction and Combinatorial Optimisation methodologies: Paul Williamson -- Chapter 4: Estimating Small Area Income Deprivation: An Iterative Proportional Fitting Approach: Ben Anderson -- Chapter 5: SimObesity: Combinatorial Optimisation (deterministic) model: Kimberley Edwards and Graham Clarke -- Chapter 6: Spatial Microsimulation using a generalised regression model: Robert Tanton, Ann Harding and Justine McNamara -- Chapter 7: Creating a Spatial Microsimulation model of the Irish Local Economy: Niall Farrell, Karyn Morrissey and Cathal O’Donoghue -- Chapter 8: Linking static spatial microsimulation modelling to meso-scale models: The Relationship between Access to GP services & Long Term Illness: Karyn Morrissey, Graham Clarke and Cathal O’Donoghue -- Chapter 9: Projections using a static Spatial Microsimulation model: Yogi Vidyattama and Robert Tanton -- Chapter 10: Limits of static Spatial Microsimulation models: Robert Tanton and Kimberley Edwards -- Part 3: Dynamic spatial microsimulation models -- Chapter 11: Moses: A dynamic spatial microsimulation model for demographic planning: Belinda Wu and Mark Birkin -- Chapter 12: Design principles for micro models: Einar Holm and Kalle Mäkilä -- Chapter 13: SimEducation: a dynamic spatial microsimulation model for understanding educational inequalities: Dimitris Kavroudakis, Dimitris Ballas and Mark Birkin -- Chapter 14: Challenges for spatial dynamic microsimulation modelling: Mark Birkin -- Part 4: Validation of spatial microsimulation models and conclusion -- Chapter 15: Validation of spatial microsimulation models: Kimberley Edwards and Robert Tanton -- Chapter 16: Conclusions and the future of spatial microsimulation modelling: Graham Clarke and Ann Harding..
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    Sustainable livelihood approach : a critique of theory and practice (2013)
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    ISBN: 9781299702011 , 9789400762688
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 190 S. 36) , Ill.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Sustainable development ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Sustainable development ; Human Geography
    Abstract: We all view the ubiquitous term ‘sustainability’ as a worthwhile goal. But how can we apply the principles of sustainability in the real world, at the sharp end of communities in developing nations where income insecurity is the troubled norm? This volume provides some practical answers, explaining the precepts of the ‘sustainable livelihood approach’ (SLA) through the case study of a microfinance scheme in Africa. The case study, centered around the work of the Catholic Church’s Diocesan Development Services organization, involved an SLA implemented over two years designed in part to help enhance its existing microfinance operation through closer links between local communities and international donors. The book’s central conclusion is that we must move beyond the concept of sustainable livelihood itself, with its in-built polarities between developed and developing nations, and embrace a more global notion of ‘sustainable lifestyle’; a more nuanced and inclusive approach that encompasses not just how we make a sustainable living, but how we can live sustainable lives
    Description / Table of Contents: Sustainable Livelihood Approach; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Sustainability and Sustainable Livelihoods; 1.1 The Future of Sustainability; 1.2 The Multiverse of Sustainability; 1.3 Practicing Sustainability; 1.4 Structure of the Book; 2 The Theory Behind the Sustainable Livelihood Approach; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The SLA Framework; 2.3 Definitions of SLA; 2.4 Origins of SLA; 2.5 Capital in SLA; 2.6 Vulnerability and Institutional Context; 2.7 Representation Within SLA; 2.8 The Attractions and Popularity of SLA; 2.9 Critiques of SLA
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.10 SLA for Evidence-Based Intervention2.11 Conclusion; 3 Context of the Sustainable Livelihood Approach; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Governing an African Giant; 3.3 Economic Development in Nigeria; 3.4 A Kingdom Discovered; 3.5 Igala Livelihoods; An Overview; 3.6 The Diocesan Development Services in Igalaland; 3.7 New Pastures; 3.8 Choice of Villages for the SLA; 3.9 Conclusions; 4 The Sustainable Livelihood Approach in Practice; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Sample Households; 4.3 Human Capital: The Households; 4.3.1 Household M1 (Headed by the Village Chief)
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3.2 Household M2 (Headed by a Senior Igbo)4.3.3 Household M3(Igbo Community Leader); 4.3.4 Household M4 (farmer and business man); 4.3.5 Household E1 (Farmer and Vigilante); 4.3.6 Household E2(Madaki of Edeke); 4.3.7 Household E3 (Farmer and Fisherman); 4.3.8 Household E4 (Madaki in Edeke); 4.4 Natural Capital: Land and Farming; 4.5 Natural Capital: Trees; 4.6 Social Capital: Networks; 4.7 Physical Capital: Assets for Income Generation; 4.8 Financial Capital: Household Budgets; 4.9 Vulnerability and Institutional Contexts; 4.10 Did SLA Succeed?; 4.11 Conclusions; 5 Livelihood into Lifestyle
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.1 Introduction5.2 How SLA?; 5.3 Where SLA?; 5.4 Transferability of SLA; 5.5 Livelihood into Lifestyle; 5.6 Conclusions; References; Index
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    Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400742765
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 636 p. 29 illus, digital)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2013
    Series Statement: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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    Parallel Title: Print version Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Psychiatry ; Psychology, clinical ; Consciousness ; Social Sciences ; Social psychiatry ; Mental illness ; Social aspects ; Psychische Störung ; Psychische Gesundheit ; Medizinsoziologie
    Abstract: This second edition of the Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health features theory-driven reviews of recent research with a comprehensive approach to the investigation of the ways in which society shapes the mental health of its members and the lives of those who have been diagnosed as having a mental illnessThe award-winning Handbook is distinctive in its focus on how the organization and functioning of society influences the occurrence of mental disorder and its consequences. A core issue that runs throughout the text concerns the differential distribution of mental illness across various social strata, defined by status characteristics such as gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and age. The contributions to this volume shed light on the social, cultural, and economic factors that explain why some social groups have an elevated risk of disorder. They also address the social repercussions of mental disorder for individuals, including stigmatization within the larger society, and for their families and social networks.The second edition of this seminal volume includes substantial updates to previous chapters, as well as seven new chapters on: -The Individuals Experience of Mental Illness.--The Medicalization of Mental Illness.---Age, Aging, and Mental Health.- -Religion and Mental Health.- -Neighborhoods and Mental Health.- -Mental Health and the Lawand Public Beliefs about Mental Illness.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4276-5
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    Demographic Change and Housing Wealth : Home-owners, Pensions and Asset-based Welfare in Europe (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400743847 , 1283612283 , 9781283612289
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 161 p. 21 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Doling, John, 1946 - Demographic change and housing wealth
    DDC: 363.583094
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    Keywords: Grundeigentum ; Altersvorsorge ; Sparen ; Privater Haushalt ; Vergleich ; Ostasien ; Europa ; Social sciences ; Geography ; Population ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Geography ; Population ; Demography ; Home ownership ; Economic aspects ; European Union countries ; Home ownership ; Social aspects ; European Union countries ; Population aging ; Economic aspects ; European Union countries ; Population aging ; Social aspects ; European Union countries ; Pensions ; European Union countries ; Public welfare ; European Union countries ; Europäische Union ; Grundeigentum ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Soziale Situation ; Hauseigentümer
    Abstract: Across the EU, populations are shrinking and ageing. An increasing burden is being placed on a smaller working population to generate the taxes required for pensions and care costs. Welfare states are weakening in many countries and across Europe, households are being increasingly expected to plan for their retirement and future care needs within this risky environment. At the same time, the proportion of people buying their own home in most countries has risen, so that some two-thirds of European households now own their homes.  Housing equity now considerably exceeds total European GDP. This book discusses questions like: to what extent might home ownership provide a potential cure for some of the consequences of ageing populations by realizing housing equity in order to meet the consumption needs of older people? What does this mean for patterns of inheritance and longer-term inequalities across Europe? And to what extent are governments banking on their citizens utilising their housing wealth now and in the future?
    Description / Table of Contents: Demographic Change and Housing Wealth; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Issues and Approaches; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Demographic and Housing Developments: Policy Challenges; 1.2.1 Demographic Change; 1.2.2 An Increasing Number of Homeowners; 1.2.3 Housing Asset-Based Welfare; 1.2.3.1 Asset-Based Welfare; 1.2.3.2 Housing as Pension; 1.3 Saving Through Housing: A Theoretical Framework; 1.3.1 The Life Cycle Model; 1.3.2 The Welfare System; 1.3.3 The Family; 1.3.4 Other Mechanisms; 1.3.5 The Mixed Economy of Saving; 1.3.5.1 Financial Institutions; 1.3.6 The Role of Housing
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.3.6.1 Housing and the Life Cycle Model1.3.6.2 Income Derived from Homeownership; 1.3.7 Cross-Country Variations; 1.4 Methodologies for Researching the Three Questions; 1.4.1 Selection of Cases; 1.4.1.1 Economic and Financial Crisis; 1.5 Content and Structure of the Book; Chapter 2: Homeownership Rates; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Homeownership Across Countries and Time; 2.3 Homeownership Rates and Welfare: A Trade-Off?; 2.3.1 Homeownership and Social Spending; 2.3.2 Homeownership and Welfare Regimes; 2.4 The Drivers of the Homeownership Decision; 2.4.1 Housing Finance
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4.1.1 Funding of Mortgage Loans2.4.1.2 The Innovation in Loan Products; 2.4.2 The Relative Attractions of Home Owning and Renting; 2.4.2.1 Tax Policy and Other Subsidies for Homeownership; 2.4.2.2 Declining Support for Social Housing; 2.4.2.3 Increase of Homeownership; 2.4.2.4 Changes in Rental Housing Sectors; 2.4.2.5 Household Decision Making; 2.4.3 Household Characteristics; 2.4.3.1 Income; 2.4.3.2 Age; 2.4.4 Combining the Factors; 2.5 Conclusions; Chapter 3: Housing Wealth in the Household Portfolio; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Household Wealth; 3.2.1 How Much Wealth Do Households Have?
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2.2 How Much Wealth Is Held in Housing?3.2.3 What Influences the Size and Composition of Wealth?; 3.2.3.1 Quantitative Studies; 3.2.3.2 Qualitative studies; 3.2.3.3 Portfolio Analysis; 3.2.3.4 Regression Analysis; 3.3 Housing Debt; 3.3.1 What Influences the Size of Household Debt?; 3.3.1.1 Quantitative Studies; 3.3.1.2 Qualitative Studies; Why Do People Have a Mortgage?; Priority Placed on Paying Off Mortgage Compared to Other Priorities; 3.3.1.3 Explaining the Level of New Mortgage Debt; 3.4 Conclusions; Chapter 4: Housing Asset Strategies for Old Age; 4.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2 Perceptions of the Adequacy of Pensions4.2.1 Variations in Pension Systems; 4.2.2 Concerns About Pension Adequacy; 4.3 Using Housing Equity in Old Age: Strategies in Principle; 4.4 Using Housing Equity in Old Age: Strategies in Practice; 4.4.1 Using Non-housing Assets; 4.4.2 Using Housing Equity; 4.4.3 Dissaving Housing Assets by Moving; 4.4.4 Dissaving Housing Assets but Not Moving; 4.4.4.1 Reverse Mortgages; 4.4.4.2 Interest-Only Loans; 4.4.4.3 Reverse Mortgage Strategies; 4.4.5 Not Dissaving; 4.4.5.1 Housing Equity as a Precaution; 4.4.5.2 Housing Equity as a Bequest
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4.6 Changing Attitudes
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    Transactional Perspectives on Occupation (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400744295 , 1283532646 , 9781283532648
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 266 p. 1 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Occupational Therapy ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Occupational Therapy ; Transactional Analysis ; Occupational Therapy methods ; Occupations ; Philosophy ; Beschäftigungstherapie
    Abstract: An occupation is, most simply put, any activity we participate in that engages (occupies) our attention, interests, and/or expectations, at any point throughout the life course. This book offers an emerging and innovative perspective on occupation, based in the work of American philosopher John Dewey and other pragmatists, that challenges accepted ideas. Each chapter presents a lively and multifaceted dialogue on transactional perspectives on occupation. Scholars from Europe, North America, and Australasia have written a diverse set of arguments and case studies about occupation, covering theoretical, methodological and applied issues relevant to the topic. In addition, contributors make connections with significant authors from various disciplines that make clearer the roles of occupation and occupational science across many cultures and contexts. The transactional perspectives articulated in this book both implicitly and explicitly suggest that occupations are forms of activity that create and re-create a multitude of our relationships with the world. Often taken for granted by some academic disciplines, occupation is a core element of human life. This book is a provocative and critical analysis of the focal concept for occupational therapy and science.
    Description / Table of Contents: Transactional Perspectives on Occupation; Contents; Chapter 1: Transactional Perspectives on Occupation: An Introduction and Rationale; 1.1 Introduction and Invitation; 1.2 Development of Transactional Perspectives on Occupation; 1.3 A Pluralistic Approach; 1.4 Structure and Content of the Book; 1.5 Our Hopes; References; Part I: Theoretical Extensions; Chapter 2: Dewey's Concepts of Embodiment, Growth, and Occupation: Extended Bases for a Transactional Perspective; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Embodiment; 2.2.1 Live Creatures; 2.2.2 Embodying the Social; 2.3 Growth; 2.4 Occupation
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4.1 Dewey on Occupation2.4.2 Occupation, Embodiment, and Growth; 2.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Being Occupied in the Everyday; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Habitual; 3.3 The Relational; 3.3.1 Continuity of Time: Past-Present-Future; 3.3.2 Continuity of Relating: Being-with-Others; 3.4 The Precarious; 3.5 Occupational Practice as Listening; 3.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Resituating the Meaning of Occupation: A Transactional Perspective; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Meaning Explored; 4.2.1 Social Science Perspectives on Meaning; 4.2.2 Occupational Perspectives on Meaning
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.3 Philosophical Perspectives on Meaning: Heidegger and Dewey4.3 Perspectives on Meaning Uncovered by Research; 4.4 Implications for Occupational Therapy and Science; 4.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Conceptual Insights for Expanding Thinking Regarding the Situated Nature of Occupation; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Governmentality Studies: Shaping Occupational Possibilities; 5.2.1 Discourses; 5.2.2 Differential Shaping of Occupational Possibilities; 5.3 Bourdieu's Theory of Practice: Voicing the Unspoken; 5.3.1 Makane: A Case in Point; 5.4 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Exploring the Transactional Quality of Everyday Occupations Through Narrative-in-Action: Meaning-Making Among Women Living with Chronic Conditions6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Everyday Occupations as Transactions Within Local Cultures; 6.3 "Narrative-in-Action": Meaning Making Endeavors; 6.4 Everyday Transactions, Meaning Making in Everyday Occupations; 6.5 Everyday Transactions in Local Cultures; 6.6 Everyday Occupational Transactions Enacted and Embedded in Local Culture; References; Part II: Case Studies; Chapter 7: Navigating Cultural Spaces: A Transactional Perspective on Immigration
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.1 Introduction7.2 Current Perspectives on Immigration and Settlement; 7.3 A Transactional Perspective on Immigration and Settlement; 7.3.1 Navigating Cultural Spaces: A Case Study; 7.4 Implications for Science and Society; 7.4.1 Occupational Science Research; 7.4.2 Societal Practice; 7.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: The Situated Nature of Disability; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Conceptualizing Disability: An Overview of Recent Controversies; 8.2.1 The International Classi fi cation of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
    Description / Table of Contents: 8.3 Research Projects: Support for the Transactional Perspective on Disability
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4429-5
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    Regional Mortality Differences in Germany (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400744325
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 300 p. 76 illus) , digital
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    Series Statement: Demographic Research Monographs, A series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
    Parallel Title: Print version Regional Mortality Differences in Germany
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Demography ; Human Geography ; Deutschland ; Sterbeziffer ; Regionale Disparität
    Abstract: Regional mortality differences are one dimension of health inequalities, but its trends and determinants in Germany are widely unknown. This book examines and illustrates patterns of regional mortality in Germany-with focus on small-area differentials-and their changes over time. It identifies explanatory factors at individual and regional level. Mortality differences between eastern and western Germany exist, but small-area mortality differentials are often greater. Though the main spatial mortality patterns remain, this study provides evidence that some distinct changes in the small-area mortality patterns in Germany-especially among women-occurred within a short period of time. Mortality inequalities at younger ages and in behavior-related causes as well as differences in socioeconomic conditions contribute strongly to regional mortality differences in Germany. The book shows that the complex interplay between individual- and regional-level mortality risk factors requires a multidimensional approach to reduce regional mortality inequalities.
    Description / Table of Contents: 〈p〉Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Literature Review and Research Questions -- 3: Mortality Differentials across Germany's Federal States -- 4: Mortality Differentials across Germany's Districts -- 5: Determinants of Old-age Mortality and its Regional Variation.-6:  Conclusion -- A: Mortality Differentials across Germany's Federal States -- B: Mortality Differentials across Germany's Districts -- C: Determinants of Old-age Mortality -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography.〈/p〉.
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    Religion and Place : Landscape, Politics and Piety (2013)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Religion and place
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Religion (General) ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Religion ; Ort ; Politik
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4685-5
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    Democratic Culture and Moral Character : A Study in Culture and Personality (2013)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Humanities ; Anthropology ; Consciousness ; Social Sciences ; Politische Psychologie ; Kritische Theorie
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    The Quality of Life in Asia : A Comparison of Quality of Life in Asia (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789048190720 , 1283633604 , 9781283633604
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 247 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Quality of Life in Asia 1
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Inoguchi, Takashi, 1944 - The quality of life in Asia
    DDC: 306.095090511
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    Keywords: Lebensqualität ; Zufriedenheit ; Lebensstil ; Vergleich ; Asien ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Regional economics ; Social policy ; Quality of Life Research ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Regional economics ; Social policy ; Quality of Life Research ; Quality of life ; United States ; History ; 21st century ; Asien ; Lebensqualität ; Asien ; Lebensqualität
    Abstract: This book studies and compares quality of life in 29 countries/societies in Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Korea(South), Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. We utilize the AsiaBarometer Surveys conducted annually from 2003 through 2008. We focus on the notion of subjective quality of life and conceptualize it as two levels, global and domain. After we explain about the AsiaBarometer Survey Project, we explore current country profile, demographics, lifestyles, value priorities, specific life domain assessment and overall quality of life. We then estimate the independent effects of demographics, lifestyles, value priorities, life domain assessment on the overall quality of life within each society. As well as comparing the results between nations, we look for key generalized characteristics of life quality for the entire and sub-regions of Asia.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Quality of Life in Asia; Synoptic Outline; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Asia: Enormous Diversity; 1.2 Asia: Why Is Quality of Life in Asia Important to Examine?; 1.3 The Notion of Quality of Life and Research Design; 1.4 Organization; References; Chapter 2: The AsiaBarometer Survey Project; 2.1 Its Aim and Trust; 2.1.1 Introduction; 2.1.2 Rationale and Promises of the AsiaBarometer; 2.1.2.1 Knowledge Begets Prosperity; 2.1.2.2 Knowledge Engenders Stability; 2.1.2.3 Contribution to Scholarship; 2.1.3 Principles of Questionnaire Formulation
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1.3.1 Minimum Unobtrusiveness2.1.3.2 Minimum Oddness; 2.1.3.3 Most Similar and Most Dissimilar Systems Comparisons; 2.1.4 Four Distinctive Clusters of Questions; 2.1.4.1 Daily Lives of Ordinary People; 2.1.4.2 Perceptions and Assessments of Their Lives; 2.1.4.3 From Relationships of Their Lives to Larger Social Entities; 2.1.4.4 Norms, Beliefs, Value Preferences, and Actions; 2.1.5 Harvesting the AsiaBarometer Survey; 2.1.6 Gauging Developmental, Democratic, and Regionalizing Potentials; 2.2 Methodology; 2.2.1 Countries/Societies; 2.2.2 Sampling Methods of the AsiaBarometer Survey
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter 3: Overall Quality of Life in Asia; 3.1 Levels of Happiness; 3.2 Levels of Enjoyment; 3.3 Levels of Achievement; Reference; Chapter 4: Satisfaction Levels with Specific Life Domains; 4.1 Materialist Life Sphere; 4.1.1 Housing; 4.1.2 Standard of Living; 4.1.3 Household Income; 4.1.4 Health; 4.1.5 Education; 4.1.6 Job; 4.2 Post-materialist Life Sphere; 4.2.1 Friendships; 4.2.2 Marriage; 4.2.3 Neighbors; 4.2.4 Family Life; 4.2.5 Leisure; 4.2.6 Spiritual Life; 4.3 Public Sphere of Life; 4.3.1 Public Safety; 4.3.2 The Condition of the Environment; 4.3.3 Social Welfare System
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3.4 The Democratic System4.4 Patterns of Life Domain Satisfactions by Society; 4.5 Distinguishing Life Sphere of Domain Satisfactions in Each Country and Society; 4.5.1 East Asia; 4.5.1.1 China; 4.5.1.2 Hong Kong; 4.5.1.3 Japan; 4.5.1.4 South Korea; 4.5.1.5 Taiwan; 4.5.2 Southeast Asia; 4.5.2.1 Brunei; 4.5.2.2 Cambodia; 4.5.2.3 Indonesia; 4.5.2.4 Laos; 4.5.2.5 Malaysia; 4.5.2.6 Myanmar; 4.5.2.7 The Philippines; 4.5.2.8 Singapore; 4.5.2.9 Thailand; 4.5.2.10 Vietnam; 4.5.3 South Asia; 4.5.3.1 Bangladesh; 4.5.3.2 Bhutan; 4.5.3.3 India; 4.5.3.4 The Maldives; 4.5.3.5 Nepal; 4.5.3.6 Pakistan
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.5.3.7 Sri Lanka4.5.4 Central Asia; 4.5.4.1 Afghanistan; 4.5.4.2 Kazakhstan; 4.5.4.3 Kyrgyzstan; 4.5.4.4 Mongolia; 4.5.4.5 Tajikistan; 4.5.4.6 Uzbekistan; 4.5.5 Types of Countries (Societies) Based on Factor Analyses; References; Chapter 5: Lifestyles; 5.1 Modern Life; 5.2 Digital Life; 5.3 Religious Life; 5.4 Global Life; 5.5 Political Life; 5.6 Family Life; 5.7 Self-Assessments of Relative Standard of Living; References; Chapter 6: Value Priorities; Chapter 7: Determinants of Overall Quality of Life; 7.1 Dependent Variables; 7.1.1 Happiness; 7.1.2 Enjoyment; 7.1.3 Achievement
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.2 Independent Variables
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    Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Community Corrections and Addiction Treatment (2012)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781461404125 , 1283444275 , 9781283444279
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 318 p. 16 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Springer Series on Evidence-Based Crime Policy
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Taxman, Faye S. Implementing evidence-based practices in community corrections and addiction treatment
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Criminology ; Social work ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Criminology ; Social work ; Community-based corrections ; United States ; Drug abusers ; Rehabilitation ; United States ; Criminals ; Rehabilitation ; United States ; Evidence-based social work ; United States ; USA ; Offener Strafvollzug ; Drogentherapie ; USA ; Offener Strafvollzug ; Drogentherapie
    Abstract: Community corrections programs are emerging as an effective alternative to incarceration for drug-involved offenders, to reduce recidivism and improve public health and public safety. Since evidence-based practice is gaining recognition as a success factor in both community systems and substance abuse treatment, a merger of the two seems logical and desirable. But integrating evidence-based addiction treatment into community corrections is no small feat-costs, personnel decisions, and effective, appropriate interventions are all critical considerations. Featuring the first model of implementat
    Description / Table of Contents: Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Community Corrections and Addiction Treatment; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Promise of Science in Public Policy; 1.2 Why Community Corrections and Addiction Treatment?; 1.3 Building Knowledge in Community Corrections; 1.4 The Focus on Technology Transfer; 1.5 Community Corrections Presents Unique Challenges for Addiction Treatment Interventions; 1.6 Multistage Conceptual Model for Identifying and Selecting EBPs; 1.7 Evidence-Based Interagency Implementation Model (EB-IIM); 1.8 Conclusions and Outline of the Book; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 2: Identifying the Evidence Base for "What Works" in Community Corrections and Addiction Treatment2.1 Introduction and Overview; 2.2 Basic Definitions and Concepts; 2.2.1 Hierarchy of Levels of Evidence; 2.3 Efficacy vs. Effectiveness; 2.4 Frameworks for Determining the Evidence Base; 2.4.1 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Model; 2.4.2 Applying the FDA Model to Behavioral Interventions; 2.4.3 Synthesizing Across Research Designs; 2.4.4 Consensus Processes; 2.4.5 Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses; Box 2.1 Options for Reporting Systematic Review Findings
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.5 Evidence-Based Repositories2.5.1 Cochrane Collaboration/Cochrane Reviews; 2.5.2 Campbell Collaboration-Crime and Justice Group; 2.5.3 National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices; Box 2.2 Example of an NREPP Review (Excerpted from http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov/ViewIntervention.aspx?id=118); Forever Free; 2.5.4 Blueprints for Violence Prevention; 2.5.5 Washington State Institute for Public Policy; 2.6 NIDA Principles of Effective Drug Treatment; 2.7 Defining "What Works" in Community Corrections; 2.8 Standards of Evidence in Community Corrections and Addiction Treatment
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.9 ConclusionsReferences; Chapter 3: Theories of Organizational Change and Technology Transfer; 3.1 The Implementation Quandary; 3.2 Understanding Organizational Approaches: Three Different Models; 3.2.1 Diffusion Models; 3.2.2 The Conceptual Model; Box 3.1 Exploring the Use of Risk Tools in Correctional Agencies; 3.3 Expanding the Concept of Implementation; 3.4 Moving Past Initial Implementation: The Concept of Sustainability; 3.5 Building Interagency Collaborative Supports: The Availability, Responsiveness, and Continuity (ARC) Model
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.6 Attention to Performance: Quality Improvement Processes, Performance Contracts, and Benchmarking3.6.1 Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA); 3.6.2 Network for Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx): Quality Improvement Processes; 3.6.3 COMPSTAT and Feedback Loops; 3.7 Total Organizational Change Processes; 3.8 Conclusion; Appendix; List of Organizational Change Models; References; Chapter 4: Organizational Change - Technology Transfer Processes: A Review of the Literature; 4.1 Systematic Reviews of Change Strategies; 4.2 Outer Setting: The Environmental Context for Change
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3 Inner Setting: Within a Specific Organization
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    Handbook of European Homicide Research : Patterns, Explanations, and Country Studies (2012)
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    ISBN: 9781461404668 , 9781283353069
    Language: English
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    DDC: 364.1'52'094
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Criminology ; Consciousness
    Abstract: Annotation, This comprehensive work provides a sourcebook of information about the substantive, methodological, and policy-oriented aspects of homicide research in Europe. Part one of this work covers the most recent substantive and methodological information about European homicide research. The second part will contains detailed case studies on homicide research in 15-20 individual European nations. This work will be both conceptual and practical. conceptual and practical. Conceptual aspects will focus on theoretical frameworks and patterns and trends of violence in Europe. Practical aspects will examine the results of empirical research, topics relating to different data sources and the variation of legal definitions of violence throughout Europe, and policy issues relating to variation in homicide prevention and punishment of homicide offenders throughout Europe. This handbook will not only provide an up-to-date reference that brings together known information, but will also offer previously unpublished comprehensive literature reviews and original research findings. The editors distinctive approach is to provide readers with an English-language central source of information about the voluminous literature on European homicide research that is currently spread widely in dozens of different European and American journals
    Abstract: This comprehensive work provides a sourcebook of information about the substantive, methodological, and policy-oriented aspects of homicide research in Europe. Part one of this work covers the most recent substantive and methodological information about European homicide research. The second part will contain detailed case studies on homicide research in 15-20 individual European nations. This work will be both conceptual and practical. Conceptual aspects will focus on theoretical frameworks and patterns and trends of violence in Europe. Practical aspects will examine the results of empirical
    Description / Table of Contents: Handbook of EuropeanHomicide Research; Contents; Contributors; Part I; 1: Introduction; Data, Patterns, Explanations, Policies, and Country Studies; References; 2: Homicide Data in Europe: Definitions, Sources, and Statistics; Introduction; "International" Sources of Homicide Data and Previous Comparative Research; Homicide Definitions; The English Term "Homicide"; Legal Elements in the Definition of Homicide; Special Forms of Homicide; Sources of Homicide Data; Homicide Statistics; Attempted Homicides; Missing Persons; Cause of Death; Statistical Counting Rules; Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix: Information Sources on Homicide Definitions and StatisticsQuestionnaires: Design; Response; References; 3: Long-Term Historical Trends of Homicide in Europe; Sources; Methodological Limitations of These Sources; Long-Term European Homicide Trends; Remaining Questions; References; 4: Contemporary Differences in Rates and Trends of Homicide Among European Nations; Introduction; International Homicide Statistics; Sources Used; Trends in Homicide: 1990-2008; The Comparative Context: What Kind of Comparisons?; European Homicide in Global Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Homicide Rates and Trends Within EuropeHomicide Rates: Most Recent (2006-2008); Homicide Trends, 1990-2008; National Trends; Regional Trends: Country Clusters; Selected Other Criminal Justice Facts About Homicide; Focus on Age and Gender; Conclusion; Appendix; References; 5: Regional Variation in Europe Between Homicide and Other Forms of External Death and Criminal Offences; Introduction; Data and Methods; WHO Statistics; Police Statistics; Regional Variations in Homicide, Other External Causes of Mortality and Criminal Offences; Trends; Correlations; Ratios; Discussion; Traffic Accidents
    Description / Table of Contents: Work AccidentsSuicide; Main Correlates of Suicide; Alcohol and Suicide; Situational Suicide Prevention; Anomie and Suicide; Overview of the Influence of the Main Correlates of Suicide; Homicide and Other Criminal Offences; Western Europe; Central and Eastern Europe; Alcohol and Homicide; Towards a Comprehensive Explanation of European Trends and Variations in Homicide, Other Causes of External Mortality and Criminal Offences; Conclusion; References; 6: Theory and Explanation in Contemporary European Homicide Research; A Historical Prelude: Verkko's Laws
    Description / Table of Contents: Social Structural Explanations of HomicideStrain and Economic Deprivation; Social Disorganization; Social Institutions and Social Capital as Sources of Control; Civilizing Process as Self-Control; Alternatives to Social Structural Perspectives; Evolutionary Theory; Learning Theory and Cultural Perspectives; Feminist Theory; Routine Activities Theory; Patterns of Research Activity; Discussion; References; 7: A Review of the Cross-National Empirical Literature on Social Structure and Homicide; The Cross-National Empirical Homicide Studies; Findings from the Cross-National Literature
    Description / Table of Contents: Economic Development and Industrialization
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0466-8
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    Evidence-Based Counterterrorism Policy (2012)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781461409533
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Springer Series on Evidence-Based Crime Policy 3
    DDC: 363.325/17
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Criminology
    Abstract: "Since the 9/11 terror attacks, the development and implementation of counterterrorism strategies has been a top priority in national security policies in many countries. Yet as the number and scope of these programs grow--with spending to matc--few studies have determined whether they are productive, ineffectual, or even detrimental to security. For too many counterterrorism programs, serious steps toward evaluation have yet to be made. Evidence-Based Counterterrorism Policy emphasizes the use of science, evaluation, and knowledge building to inspire improvements in our what we know about counterterrorism interventions. Focusing on three key areas--identifying and accessing relevant data, using innovative methodologies for generating new interventions, and examining various perspectives to evaluation counterterrorism--the book combines a framework for using scientific findings to inform security policy with a best-practices approach to implementing programs. Strategies such as risk terrain modeling and validity testing for security screening instruments are shown as fostering improvements in threat assessment and in anticipating and responding to future events. The editors also argue for a broader research infrastructure to encourage ongoing development. Among the topics covered: Assessment and comparison of terrorism data sources; Information sharing and Fusion Centers; Various longitudinal models for assessing counterterrorism policies and terrorism trends; Evidence-based evaluations and validity testing of airport security measures; Public opinion and criminological research application to counterinsurgency and counterterrorism; Police practices for understanding and managing terror risk; Counterterrorism finance and trade regulations; Legal challenges and evaluation of counterterrorism policy. Evidence-Based Counterterrorism Policy is an invaluable resource for researchers in criminology and political science, and for policymakers involved with counterterrorism programs."--Publisher's website
    Abstract: In the past eight years, there has been a massive increase in government spending on counterterrorism intervention development and implementation. Given this increase, there are two evidence-based policy questions that are important to address: Is there evidence that any of these programs are effective - in other words, can they be shown to be linked to reducing terrorism, terrorist recruiting, or to improving the response and management of terrorist events? Do these interventions have secondary or collateral effects that may be costly, harmful, illegal, beneficial, or otherwise? As Lum and Ke
    Description / Table of Contents: Evidence-Based Counterterrorism Policy; Contents; Contributors; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1: Evidence-Based Counterterrorism Policy; Innovation in Research; References; Part II: Data Sources for Evaluating Terrorism and Counterterrorism; Chapter 2: Assessing and Comparing Data Sources for Terrorism Research; Introduction; Developing Standards for Terrorism Data; Why Do We Need Them?; Practical Reasons; Theoretical Reasons; Developing Standards for Terrorism Data; The Case for a "Criterial Framework"; Proposed Criteria; Conceptual Clarity; Context and Immediacy of Observation
    Description / Table of Contents: Citation TransparencyCoding and Consistency; Certainty of Record; Conflict of Interest; Convenience/Accessibility/Functions; Application of the Framework; Assessment of Existing Terrorism Databases; General Comparisons; How Well Do the Five Events Databases Clarify the Concept of Terrorism That Informs Their Selection of Terrorist Acts or Incidents?; What Is the Context of the Data? How Was It Collected? Where Does It Come from? How Immediate Were the Sources?; Do the Authors Cite Their Sources?; How Consistent Is the Coding?; What About Handling of Uncertainty?
    Description / Table of Contents: Do the Authors Disclose Funding and Potential Conflict of Interest?How Convenient and Accessible Are the Different Databases?; Conclusion and Challenges for the Future; Appendix; Definitions of Terrorism; References; Chapter 3: Generating Terrorism Event Databases: Results from the Global Terrorism Database, 1970 to 2008; The Extent of Terrorism; The Global and Regional Distribution of Terrorism; The Most Active Terrorist Organizations; Terrorist Fatalities; Terrorist Targets; Terrorist Tactics; Terrorist Weapons; Discussion and Conclusions; Appendix; Countries Listed Within Each Region
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter 4: Evidence-Based Intelligence Practices: Examining the Role of Fusion Centers as a Critical Source of Information; The Current State of Information Sharing for Counterterrorism in the United States; The Role of Fusion Centers; Information Sharing; What Is Good Intelligence?; The Need for Assessment; A Survey of Fusion Centers; Protection of Civil Rights; Fusion Centers' Current State of Information Sharing; Fusion Center Data Analysis; Potential for Fusion Center and Academic Partnerships; Discussion and Conclusion; Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III: Methodological Innovations for Counterterrorism PolicyChapter 5: Innovative Methods for Terrorism and Counterterrorism Data; Introduction; Measuring Terrorism; Point Process; Marked Point Process; Impact Score; Further Considerations; Measuring Counterterrorism; Example: Detachment-88; Assessing Effectiveness; Intervention Analysis; Change Point Analysis; Testing Change in Attack Rate; Testing Change in Impact Distribution; Testing Change in Compound Score; Discussion/Conclusion; An Afterthought; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Introducing Group-Based Trajectory Analysis and Series Hazard Modeling: Two Innovative Methods to Systematically Examine Terrorism Over Time
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0953-3
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    Youth Gangs in International Perspective : Results from the Eurogang Program of Research (2012)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781461416593 , 9781283445955
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
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    DDC: 364.1'066
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    PH 8420
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social policy ; Criminology ; Jugendbande ; Jugendkriminalität
    Abstract: Cheryl L. Maxson
    Abstract: As a steady source of juvenile delinquents and an incubator for future adult offenders, the youth gang has long been a focus of attention, from their origins and prevalence to intervention and prevention strategies. But while delinquent youth form gangs worldwide, youth gang research has generally focused on the U.S. Youth Gangs in International Perspective provides a needed corrective by offering significant studies from across Europe, as well as Trinidad-Tobago and Israel. The book spans the diversity of the field in the cultural and scholarly traditions represented and methods used, analyzi
    Description / Table of Contents: Youth Gangs in International Perspective; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: The Eurogang Program of Research and Multimethod Comparative Gang Research: Introduction; 1.1 Some Background Information on the Eurogang Program of Research 1; 1.2 The Eurogang Definition of Gang Membership; 1.2.1 Development of the Definition: Definers and Descriptors; 1.2.2 Individual-Level Characteristics; 1.2.3 Group-Level Characteristics; 1.2.4 Eurogang Instruments; 1.3 Overview of the Book; 1.3.1 Definitional Issues in Comparative Context; 1.3.2 Group Processes in the Comparative Context
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.3.3 Gang Depictions in Non-American Contexts1.3.4 Future Directions for the Eurogang Program; Notes; References; Part1: Definitional Issues in the Comparative Context; Chapter 2: Putting the "Gang" in "Eurogang": Characteristics of Delinquent Youth Groups by Different Definitional Approaches; 2.1 Introduction; 2.1.1 Different Definitional Approaches; 2.2 Methods; 2.2.1 Sample Selection; 2.2.2 Methods; 2.2.3 Sample Characteristics; 2.2.4 Measures; 2.3 Results; 2.3.1 Non-gang Members Versus Gang Members; 2.3.2 Similarities and Differences by Gang Member Definition
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.3 Behavior and Attitudes by Definition2.3.4 Multivariate Logistic Regression Models; 2.4 Discussion; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Counting Gangs: Conceptual and Validity Problems with the Eurogang Definition; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Data and Methods; 3.2.1 ESRC funded ethnographic study, Youth Gangs in an English City (YOGEC) between 2005-2008; 3.3 Results; 3.3.1 Were All Gangs "Street-Based"?; 3.3.2 Involvement in Illegal Activity Is Part of Its Group Identity; 3.3.3 What Is "Group" Identity and How Do We Determine It?
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3.4 The Youth Survey Instrument: Items That Operationalise the "Illegal Activity" Aspect of the EG Definition3.3.5 EG Definition Gangs in Surveys: Unexpected Findings in Relation to Offending; 3.4 Alternatives and Discussions; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Gang Member: Who Says? Definitional and Structural Issues; 4.1 Introduction; 4.1.1 Defining the Gang: The UK Experience; 4.1.2 The Extent and Nature of Gang Involvement in the UK; 4.2 Research in North City; 4.2.1 Overview; 4.2.2 Methodology; 4.3 The Challenges of Defining the Gang Within North City: The Practitioner's Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4 What's in a Name?-The Young People's Perspective4.5 Gang Structures in North City; 4.6 Group Territories and Rivalries Within North City; 4.7 Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Five Decades of Defining Gangs in The Netherlands: The Eurogang Paradox in Practice; 5.1 Introduction; 5.1.1 Half a Century of Gang Definitions; 5.1.2 Systematic Overview; 5.1.3 Depictions Becoming Definitions; 5.1.4 Confusing Consensus; Notes; References; Chapter 6: Gang Organization, Offending, and Victimization: A Cross-National Analysis; 6.1 Gangs, Groups, and Organization
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.2 Gang Organization, Delinquency, and Victimization
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1659-3
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    The Many Faces of Youth Crime : Contrasting Theoretical Perspectives on Juvenile Delinquency across Countries and Cultures (2012)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781441994554
    Language: English
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Criminology ; Developmental psychology ; Jugendkriminalität
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. Theory and design -- pt. 2. Extent and nature of problem behaviour of young people -- pt. 3. Testing competing explanations of problem behaviour -- pt. 4. Theoretical and policy implications.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9455-4
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    The Sociology of Medical Regulation : An Introduction (2012)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400748965
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 184 p, digital)
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Delivery of Health Care legislation & jurisprudence ; Ethics, Medical ; Sociology, Medical
    Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession. It offers up-to-date information on the current legislative framework and institutional arrangements surrounding the regulation in the United Kingdom. Well organized and written in an accessible way, it offers an insight into key sociological theories surrounding medical regulation. It gives a historically situated analysis of the contemporary relationship between medicine, the state and the public, and an overview of relevant social scientific research. Case studies highl
    Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession. It offers up-to-date information on the current legislative framework and institutional arrangements surrounding the regulation in the United Kingdom. Well organized and written in an accessible way, it offers an insight into key sociological theories surrounding medical regulation. It gives a historically situated analysis of the contemporary relationship between medicine, the state and the public, and an overview of relevant social scientific research. Case studies highlight the practical or applied circumstances in which issues can occur. Readers will gain insight into possible future directions for medical governance.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Sociology of Medical Regulation; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Medical Governance in the Risky Age of the Surveillance Society; Introduction; From Modernity to High Modernity; The Rise of the Risk Society; The Risk Society as the Surveillance Society; The Dispersal of Discipline; Resisting the Surveillance Assemblage; Medical Regulation in the Age of Risk; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 2: Biomedicine, Medicalisation and Risk; Introduction; The Enlightenment Promise; A Realist Endeavour; The Greco-Roman Humoral Tradition; The Birth of Biomedicine
    Description / Table of Contents: From the Laboratory to the Clinic and the Medical GazeThe Biomedical Model and the Postmodern Turn; Medicalisation; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 3: Doctors, Patients, Managers and the State; Introduction; From Bedside Medicine to Hospital Medicine; The 1858 Medical Act and the Golden Age of Medical Power; Challenging Medicine; The Shipman Case; The Donaldson Report; The 2008 Health and Social Care Act and Beyond; Medical Regulation and the Nature of Medical Expertise; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 4: Sociological Deconstructions I: Critiquing Medical Autonomy and AltruismIntroduction; Functionalism: Professionalism as Altruism; Critiquing Professional Power: The Neo-Weberian Viewpoint; Freidson and Social Closure; Larson and Medical Knowledge; The Dominance of the Social Closure Model; The Feminist Critique; The Neo-Marxist Critique; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 5: Sociological Deconstructions II: Governmentality and Restratification; Introduction; Governmentality and the Revival of Liberalism; The Natural Order of Liberal Governance
    Description / Table of Contents: The Enterprise Self and Neo-liberal GovernmentalityExpert Enclosures and Technologies of Performance and Agency; Critical Reflections on the Governmentality Perspective; The Proletarianisation and Deprofessionalisation Theses; The Restratification Thesis; Medicine and Managerial Corporate Rationalisers Revisited; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 6: Restratification and Revalidation: United Kingdom and International Perspectives; Introduction; Medical Professionalism Revisited: Maintaining Competence to Practise; Revalidation in the United Kingdom: A Developmental Process
    Description / Table of Contents: Restratification, Revalidation and the Health Select CommitteeAustralia; Canada; Finland; Netherlands; United States; Critical Reflections on the Restratification Thesis; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 7: Restratification and the Hearing of Fitness to Practice Cases; Introduction; The Medical Register and the Changing Medical Profession; Handling Complaints; From Triage to Investigation and Adjudication; Trends in Complaints by Source and Practitioner Characteristics; Trends in Fitness to Practice Hearing Activity
    Description / Table of Contents: Fitness to Practice Activity and the Transformation of Medical Autonomy
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4896-5
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    Work and Mental Health in Social Context (2012)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781461406259
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Social Disparities in Health and Health Care
    DDC: 158.7
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Medicine ; Social policy
    Abstract: Anyone who has ever had a job has probably experienced work-related stress at some point or another. For many workers, however, job-related stress is experienced every day and reaches more extreme levels. Four in ten American workers say that their jobs are "very" or "extremely" stressful. Job stress is recognized as an epidemic in the workplace, and its economic and health care costs are staggering: by some estimates over 1 billion per year in lost productivity, absenteeism and worker turnover, and at least that much in treating its health effects, ranging from anxiety an
    Description / Table of Contents: Work and Mental Health in Social Context; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Job Stress and Where It Comes from; Introduction; The Evolution of Job Stress Research; A Note on the Meaning of Job Stress; The Sociology of Job Stress; Job Conditions; Organizations; The Labor Market; Macroeconomic Change; Institutional Environments; New Forms of Work; Women in the Labor Force; Social Inequality; The Full Model; Data Considerations; Organization of the Book; References; Chapter 2: Job Structures, Job Stress, and Mental Health; Job Structures and Stress; Job Structures as Stressors
    Description / Table of Contents: Theoretical Models of the Stressor-Stress Relationship (P-E Fit)Theoretical Models of the Stressor-Stress Relationship (Demand-Control); Other Dimensions of Work Authority; Other Dimensions of Work Participation in Decision-Making; Other Dimensions of Work-Job Insecurity; Other Dimensions of Work Social Support; Theoretical Models of the Stressor-Stress Relationship (Job Demands-Resources); Stress-Related Health Outcomes; Physical Health; Mental Health; General Indicators of Distress; Related Outcome Constructs; The Limits of Demand-Control Theory
    Description / Table of Contents: Beyond the Limits of an Individual-Based Explanation of Job StressReferences; Chapter 3: Organizational Determinants of Job Stressors; Overview; Conceptualizing Organizational Structures and Practices; Organizations as "Rational" Systems; Organizations as Structures of "Control"; Organizations in the Post-Fordist Era: Flexible Work Systems; Informal Work Structures; Summary; References; Chapter 4: Occupational Determinants of Job Stress: Socioeconomic Status and Segmented Labor Markets; Overview; Socioeconomic Status, Occupations, and Stress; Segmented Labor Markets
    Description / Table of Contents: Segmented Labor Markets and Stressful JobsSegmentation by Population Groups: "Split Labor Markets"; Post-Fordist Labor Markets; Summary; References; Chapter 5: Macroeconomic Change, Unemployment, and Job Stress; Overview; Economic Contractions and the Labor Market; Health Effects of Economic Contraction; Economic Change and Population Health; Individual Experiences with Unemployment; The Macroeconomic Context or Work and Stress: Linking the Macro to the Micro; Summary; References; Chapter 6: Institutional Factors; Introduction; Organizational Environments
    Description / Table of Contents: Resource and Institutional EnvironmentsNew Forms of Organization and Work; The Flexible Work System and Its Consequences; Functional Flexibility; Numerical Flexibility; The Labor Market as Environment; Women and Job Stress in the Context of Institutional Change; Summary; References; Chapter 7: Work and Mental Health in Social Context; Work and Job Stress; Contributions to the Sociological Study of Labor Markets; The Sociological Model of Job Stress; Contributions to the Explanation of Social Determinants of Health; Contributions to the Sociological Study of the Stress-Process Model
    Description / Table of Contents: Contributions to the Study of Job Stress
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0625-9
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    Police Organization and Training : Innovations in Research and Practice (2012)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781461407454 , 9781283353373
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
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    DDC: 363.2068
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social policy ; Criminology
    Abstract: Criminal enterprises are growing in sophistication. Terrorism is an ongoing security threat. The general public is more knowledgeable about legal matters. These developments, among others, necessitate new methods in police work - and in training new recruits and in-service officers. Given these challenges, improvements in training are a vital means of both staying ahead of lawbreakers and delivering the most effective services to the community. "Police Organization and Training" surveys innovations in law enforcement training in its evolution from military-style models toward continu
    Description / Table of Contents: Police Organizationand Training; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; Police Organization and Training; Organization of the Book; The Future of Police Training: Doing More with Less and Doing It Better; References; Chapter 2: Beyond Reproach: The Need for Effective and Responsive Training; Introduction; Placing Training and Civil Litigation in Context; The Landscape of Liability; The Issue of Supervision; Judicial Decisions and Commentary (Setting a Framework); Exploring the Training Function; Operating Principles for Our Learning Organization
    Description / Table of Contents: Linking Principles and Functions to LearningProblem-Based Learning; Teaching Style; Training Facilities; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Changing Paradigms in Police Training: Transitioning from a Traditional to an Andragogical Model*; Introduction; Changes in Training Methodologies: Traditional vs. Andragogical; Andragogy: An Alternative Methodology; Andragogical Assumption 1: The Need to Know; Andragogical Assumption 2: The Learner's Self-concept; Andragogical Assumption 3: The Role of the Learner's Experience; Andragogical Assumption 4: Readiness to Learn
    Description / Table of Contents: Andragogical Assumption 5: Orientation to LearningAndragogical Assumption 6: The Adult Learner's Motivation; Andragogy: A Process Model; Institutional and Instructional Philosophy; Affective Orientation: Climate, Tone, and Environment; Self-concept and Self-directedness; Integration and Facilitation of Curriculum; Use and Integration of Experiential Learning; Stress and Discipline; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Innovative Law Enforcement Training: Blended Theory, Technology, and Research; Introduction; The Survival Scores Research Project; Existing Research in this Area; Research Design
    Description / Table of Contents: FindingsOutcomes and Implications; The Survival Scores Research Project: Phase II; The Research Objectives for Phase II of the SSRP; Research Design; Results; Findings; Outcomes and Implications; Corresponding Lessons (Derivatives of Research); Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: From Theory to Practice: Simulation Technology as a Training Tool in Law Enforcement; Introduction; A Brief History of Simulation; Training Gaps; Research; Emergency Vehicle Response Intersection Clearing; Firearms Course-of-Fire; Redesign of Police Driving; Driving Simulators in Patrol Driving and Emergency Response
    Description / Table of Contents: Driving Simulators in Closing the Distance and Night DrivingDriving Simulators in Emergency Vehicle Response Intersection Clearing; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Redesigning Specialized Advanced Criminal Investigation Training in Germany; Introduction; German Police Context; Background; Procedural Approach; Results; The Advanced Training Concept; Basic Module: Crime Scene Investigation - Securing Evidence; Aim; Target Group; Number of Places Available; Personal Requirements; Contents; Method; Conclusion; Duration; Extension Module: Crime Scene Investigation - Securing Evidence; Aim
    Description / Table of Contents: Target Group
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0745-4
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    Citizens in Europe : civic activism and the community democratic experiment (2012)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781461419426 , 9781283445979
    Language: English
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    DDC: 323
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Europe Economic policy ; Social policy
    Abstract: Giovanni Moro
    Abstract: In the Community-building process, citizens are the most invoked and feared, but at the same time the least known subject. This lack of knowledge nourishes the citizens' detachment from the European Union and itself emerged in well known cases such as the French and Dutch referenda on the Constitutional Treaty or the public concern towards the EU policy on immigration. This gap is true especially for active citizenship organizations operating in the European policy making, not only in Brussels, but also and above all at national and local levels, and this book is aimed at filling this knowledg
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-178) , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1942-6
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    Putting Fear of Crime on the Map : Investigating Perceptions of Crime Using Geographic Information Systems (2012)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781441956477
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Springer Series on Evidence-Based Crime Policy
    DDC: 364.1
    RVK:
    RB 10104
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    PH 8240
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Criminology ; Human Geography ; Philosophy (General) ; Kriminalitätsfurcht ; Geoinformationssystem
    Abstract: Since first emerging as an issue of concern in the late 1960s, fear of crime has become one of the most researched topics in contemporary criminology and receives considerable attention in a range of other disciplines including social ecology, social psychology and geography. Researchers looking the subject have consistently uncovered alarming characteristics, primarily relating to the behavioural responses that people adopt in relation to their fear of crime. This book reports on research conducted over the past eight years, in which efforts have been made to pioneer the combination of techni
    Description / Table of Contents: Dedication; A Real Estate Agent Leaves; A Cobbler Who Wouldn't Eat Outside; A Night on the Town Goes Wrong; A Husband Threatens to Take the Law into His Own Hands; Series Foreword; Notes; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction; The Emergence of Fear of Crime As an Area of Research; The Paradoxical Nature of the Fear of Crime; Current Trends in Fear of Crime Research; References; 2 Why Is Fear of Crime a Serious Social Problem?; Individual Reactions; Hypothesized Links Between the Fear of Crime, Disorder and Crime; Disorder and Decline Hypothesis
    Description / Table of Contents: Economic Impact of Behavioural Responses to Fear of CrimeChapter Review: Potential Problems Not to Be Ignored and a Need for Spatially Explicit Research; References; 3 What Causes Fear of Crime?; Criminal Opportunity and Risk of Victimization Theories; Demographic Theories Explaining Fear of Crime; Victimization Hypothesis; Indirect Victimization Hypothesis; The Media and Fear of Crime; Interpersonal Communication and Fear of Crime; Vulnerabilities Hypothesis; Review: An Abundance of Contested Demographic Studies; Social Theories Explaining Fear of Crime; Risk Society Hypothesis
    Description / Table of Contents: Social Disorganization HypothesisSubcultural Diversity Hypothesis; Social Integration/Neighbourhood Cohesion Hypotheses; Community Concern Hypothesis; Social Change Hypothesis; Review: Social Studies Emphasize the Inherent Complexity of 'Fear' of 'Crime'; Environmental Theories Explaining Fear of Crime; The Disorder/Incivilities Hypothesis; Threatening and Safe Environments Theories; Signal Crimes Perspective; Review: Intuitive Environmental Studies into Cues Triggering Fear of Crime; Chapter Review: An Opening for Pertinent Environmental Studies; References; 4 Managing Fear of Crime
    Description / Table of Contents: Policing Fear of CrimeCase Study: The New York Police Department's (NYPD) Policing Model; Environmental Design and Fear of Crime; Chapter Review: Police, Community and Government Cooperation; References; 5 Investigating Fear of Crime; Defining Fear of Crime; Fear Is an Emotion, Not Cognition; Fear in Relation to Other Emotional Reactions and Stimuli that Trigger Fear; Crime Involves a Violation of Criminal Law; Types of Fear of Crime: Personal and Altruistic Points of View; Review: Key Issues to Consider When Defining Fear of Crime; Measuring Fear of Crime
    Description / Table of Contents: Problems with Cognitive Approaches to Measuring Fear of CrimeGlobal Measures; Value- or Concern-Based Measures; Improvements Through Affective Approaches to Measuring Fear of Crime; Emotion-Based Measures; Behavioural Approaches to Measuring Fear of Crime; Protection-Based Measures; Avoidance-Based Measures; Review: A Preference for Avoidance-Based Measures in Fear-of-Crime Studies; Analysing Fear-of-Crime Data; Advantages of Spatial Analyses of Fear of Crime; Spatial Cognition and Cognitive Mapping; The Beginning of Fear Mapping; Activity Diaries and Daily Routines
    Description / Table of Contents: Geographic Information Systems and Fear of Crime
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5647-7
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    Responding to a Resurgent Russia : Russian Policy and Responses from the European Union and the United States (2012)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 1283444216 , 9781441966674 , 9781283444217
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: 1
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    DDC: 327.47009051
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Europe Economic policy ; Russland ; USA ; Europäische Union ; Außenpolitik ; Internationale Politik
    Abstract: In this volume, a set of issue and country experts tackle the questions surrounding the challenges of a resurgent Russia for the world order as well as for relations between the European Union and the United States. Following a brief introduction laying out the circumstances of Russia's rise, the book proceeds in three sections. In the first, Russian scholars tackle the topic of how a newly resurgent Russia sees the world. The second section examines Russia's role in the contemporary global political economy in terms of trade and financial flows and nuclear energy. The third section looks at A
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: The Fall of the Soviet Union and the Resurgence of Russia; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Resurrection of Russia; 1.3 Explaining Russia's Rise in the 2000s; 1.4 Characterizing Russia's New Foreign Policy; 1.5 The Outline of this Book; References; Chapter 2: How Russia Sees the World; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Why a Resurgent Russia?; 2.3 Understanding Russia's Foreign Policy Vision; 2.3.1 Geography; 2.3.2 Socio-Political System; 2.3.3 Natural Resources; 2.3.4 Nuclear Weapons; 2.4 Differing Understandings of National Security
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.5 Regional Priorities2.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: US-Russia Relations in the Post-Western World; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The US Perception of Russia; 3.2.1 America's Attempted Partnership with Russia; 3.2.2 Partnership Unraveled; 3.3 Russia's Vision and Strategy; 3.3.1 State-Building; 3.3.2 A State-Controlled Democracy; 3.3.3 The Threat of NATO Expansion and the US Missile Defense System; 3.3.4 Global Energy Clout; 3.4 Conclusion: Prospects for US-Russia Relations; References; Chapter 4: Russia's Integration into the Global Economy: The Route to Geopolitical Harmony
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.1 Introduction: Scope and Judgments4.2 Background: Russia's Recent Economic History; 4.3 The Positive International Impact of Russia's Domestic Demand-Driven Growth; 4.4 Russia's Global Economic Integration in Post-2008 Crisis Conditions; 4.5 Looking Ahead: Responses from the Russian Leadership; References; Chapter 5: Nuclear Power Contracts and International Cooperation: Analyzing Innovation and Social Distribution in Russian Foreign Policy; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Innovation and Regulatory Governance in the Russian Nuclear Sector
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.3 Transforming the Nuclear Core: Production Intensity and Sustainability in the Russian Nuclear Industry5.4 Analytical Design: International Cooperation and Nuclear Contracts in Russian Foreign Policy; 5.5 Conclusion; 5.6 Appendix; References; Chapter 6: Reformatting the EU-Russia Pseudo-Partnership: What a Difference a Crisis Makes; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Dialogue of the Disoriented; 6.3 Devaluation of Energy Interdependence; 6.4 What Russian Market?; 6.5 How Much Does Security Matter?; 6.6 The Caucasian Epicenter of Conflict; 6.7 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7: Meeting the Russian Challenge in the Obama Era7.1 The Challenge; 7.2 The Stakes; 7.3 Designing US Policy Toward Russia; 7.3.1 The Issue of Strategic Design; 7.3.2 The Role of a Strategic Dialogue; 7.4 Obama's Russia Policy; 7.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Russian Foreign Policy: Challenging the Western Liberal International Order?; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Russia and International Institutions; 8.3 Russia and Europe; 8.4 Russia and the United States; 8.5 Alternatives to the West: BRICS, China, and Beyond; 8.6 Prospects; References;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6667-4
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    On the Periphery of the Periphery : Household Archaeology at Hacienda San Juan Bautista Tabi, Yucatán, Mexico (2012)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781461414964 , 9781283444309
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology 3
    DDC: 972/.65
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Anthropology ; Archaeology
    Abstract: This volume examines the social and economic changes that characterized Yucatán, Mexico, circa the late 18th through early 19th centuries, as the region became increasingly articulated within global networks of exchange. This work, utilizing archaeological, ethnohistorical, documentary, and oral history evidence, traces the economic and social effects that the rise and ultimate supremacy of capitalist organized production in the form of the hacienda system had on native Maya social organization in the northern Yucatán peninsula. Archaeological investigations conducted on the grounds of the former Hacienda San Juan Bautista Tabi reveal how the local, expressed in material culture remains and the landscape of the hacienda, articulated with larger global processes to create change in the lives of those individuals incorporated within the hacienda system. Fundamental shifts in the organization and relations of production led to new forms of domestic organization and new expressions of social status, wealth, and power within the physical and social landscape of the hacienda. Using a total history approach, this volume explores how changes in the lives of the workers at the hacienda reflect historically particular local negotiations with the social, political, and economic realities of an evolving global system of capitalist based production, circulation, and consumption
    Abstract: This book examines from an archaeological perspective the social and economic changes that took place in Yucatan, Mexico beginning in the 18th century, as the region became increasingly articulated within global networks of exchange. Of particular interest is the formation and ultimate supremacy of the hacienda system in Yucatan and the effect that new forms of capitalist organized production had on native Maya social organization. Household archaeology and spatial analysis conducted on the grounds of the former Hacienda San Juan Bautista Tabi provides the data for analyzing the results of thi
    Description / Table of Contents: On the Periphery of the Periphery; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: On the Periphery of the Periphery; Introduction; Historical Archaeology in Mexico and Yucatán; Household Archaeology at Hacienda Tabi; The Work at Hand; References; Chapter 2: A Theoretical Context for Documenting Social Change in Yucatán: Changing Modes of Production and the Entry of the Yucatec Maya into the World System; Introduction; The Unifying Value of World-Systems Theory; The World System: Definitions and Components; The Concept of Production and Modes of Production
    Description / Table of Contents: The Coexistence of Modes of ProductionModes of Production: Kin-Ordered, Tributary, and Capitalist Production; The "Local" in a Capitalist World-System; Plantations as Capitalist Industrial Institutions; References; Chapter 3: A Theoretical Context for Documenting Social Change in Yucatán, Part 2: Culture Change, Social Stratification, and Power Relationships; The Character of Social Stratification; Occupation and Status; Power Relationships; Domination and Resistance; Public Versus Hidden Transcripts; Public Versus Hidden Transcripts on the Hacienda; The Nature of the System in Yucatán
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter 4: Methodological Approaches to the Social and Economic Dynamics of Life on a Hacienda; The Confluence of Archaeology and History: Annales Methodology and Archaeology; Framework of the Study; Problem History: Uniting Geological, Social, and Individual Time; Household Archaeology; Ethnoarchaeology of the Maya Household; Household Behavior and Material Culture; The Built Environment; Household Artifact Assemblages; Archaeological Markers of Stratification: Household Wealth; Markers of Stratification; Working Assumptions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: A Historical Outline of Hacienda San Juan Bautista TabiReferences; Chapter 6: Archaeological Investigations at Hacienda Tabi; Primeras Impresiones (First Impressions); The Hacienda Tabi Project; The Physical Layout of the Hacienda; Comparison of Dwelling Type Labor Costs at Hacienda Tabi; The Hacienda Settlement Pattern; Archaeological Investigations at Hacienda Tabi; Block-wide Behavioral Patterns; Excavating Households on the Hacienda; Excavations at House 3; Excavations at House 4; Discussion of Diagnostic Artifact Classes; The Implications of Archaeology at Hacienda Tabi
    Description / Table of Contents: Household Wealth at Hacienda TabiQuantity; Quality; Variety; The Meaning of Household Wealth on the Hacienda; References; Chapter 7: The Long Duration: The Geohistory of the Yucatán Peninsula; Introduction; Geohistory; Landforms; Water Resources; Climate and Weather Patterns; Environmental Trends; Drought in the Maya Lowlands; Vegetation and Soil Types; Vegetation; Soil Types; Maya Agrotechnologies; References; Chapter 8: The Long Duration: The Cultural History of Yucatán; The Classic Background of Northern Lowland Culture; The Rise of Chichen Itza; The Confederacy of Mayapan
    Description / Table of Contents: The Postclassic Tradition of Northern Yucatán
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1496-4
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    Youth Criminal Justice Policy in Canada : A Critical Introduction (2012)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    Language: English
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    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Criminology
    DDC: 364.360971
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Criminology ; Human Geography ; Kanada ; Jugendkriminalität ; Jugendstrafrecht
    Abstract: In the past ten years, much has changed in terms of youth justice policies in Canada as well as in the way Canadian society has evolved. Canada has a new Act governing youth crime, and there are indications that the Act will be revised again to make it "tougher" on youth in conflict with the law, a development reflecting what many scholars are calling the "punitive turn" in youth justice policies in Canada and elsewhere. At the same time, Canadian child poverty rates (which are strongly correlated with criminality) have remained high, despite a commitment, made by governmen
    Description / Table of Contents: Youth Criminal JusticePolicy in Canada; Introduction; References; Contents; 1 The Criminalization and Control of Youth in Canada: A History; Abstract; Defining Youth; Controlling Young People in Canada: The Pre-legal Era; The Era of the Juvenile Delinquent; The Young Offenders Act; The Youth Criminal Justice Act; Box 1.1. Youth Crime Law is History: New Legislation will be Tougher on Violent Young Offenders; References; 2 Young People in Contemporary Canada; Abstract; Capitalism, Late Modernity and Youth; The Economic Status of Youth and Their Families; ; Education; Health; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 3 The Nature of Youth CrimeAbstract; The Advantages and Dangers of Statistics; Counting Crime; Official Data; Victimization Surveys; Self-Report Studies; Data from Observations; Other Problems with Data on Youth Crime; Box 3.1. In this Robbery, Race was not Relevant; The Magnitude and Nature of Youth Crime; Box 3.2: Public Sector Cuts: Rise in Youth Crime Feared as Key Teams are Reduced; Gender; Race/Ethnicity and Youth Crime; Box 3.3: Excerpted from Report of the Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System (1995), Chap. 6; Class and Youth Crime; Gangs
    Description / Table of Contents: Victims of Youth CrimeReferences; 4 From Youth Justice to Social Justice; Abstract; If It Doesn't Work, Do It Again; The Potential of Extrajudicial Measures; Youth Justice Committees; Sentencing Circles and Reintegrative Shaming; From Youth Justice to Social Justice; Tailoring Policies to Reflect Realities; Better Support for Families and Children; Rethinking Criminal Justice Spending; Reducing Poverty and Inequality; References;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0273-3
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    On Location : Heritage Cities and Sites (2012)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781461411086 , 9781283444255
    Language: English
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    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law
    DDC: 930.1
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Humanities ; Archaeology ; Human Geography
    Abstract: Annotation, This text focuses on the social life of historic cities and large-scale sites, examining the dynamic ways that cities change as they are made and then remade by the people who inhabit and visit them, and concentrating on change, pluralism and fragmentation
    Abstract: On Location: Heritage Cities and Sites merges the material and the social perspectives of preservation and historical interpretation in urban landscapes. The essays in this volume focus on the social life of historic cities and large-scale sites. They examine the ways that cities are dynamically changing as they are made and then remade by the people who inhabit or simply visit them, and concentrate on change, pluralism, and fragmentation. The strength of On Location: Heritage Cities and Sites is its comparative approach to both theory and grounded research. It includes an introductory essay t
    Description / Table of Contents: On Location; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: The Social and Urban Scale of Heritage; The Heritage of Cities; Heritage Organizations and Preservation Instruments; Notes; References; Heritage Documents Cited; The Heritage of Social Class and Class Conflict on Chicago's South Side; Haymarket; Pullman: A Businessman's Dreams and the Working-Class Realities; A Jungle "Back of the Yards"; Making Class Visible; Notes; References; The Politics and Heritage of Race and Space in San Francisco's Chinatown; Rebuilding Chinatown as an "Oriental City"; Urban Renewal and the Kong Chow Temple
    Description / Table of Contents: Chinatown as a Historic DistrictConclusion; Note; References; Urban Heritage, Representation and Planning: Comparative Approaches in Habana Vieja and Trinidad, Cuba; On Defining Cubanidad; Cuba as Landscape; Architectural Heritage as Commodity; Cuba's World Heritage Sites; Habana Vieja: Old Havana and Its Fortifications; Heritage Management in Habana; Heritage Management in Trinidad and Valle del los Ingenios; Representations of Cubanidad; Conclusions; Note; References; The Space of Heroism in the Historic Center of Cuzco; Background: The Great Rebellion
    Description / Table of Contents: The First Attempt to Monumentalize Tupac AmaruInterlude; The Resuscitation of Tupac Amaru Under Velasco; Intervening in the Plaza de Armas; The First National Design Competition, 1970; The Outcome of Ley 18280; The Next Attempt; The Irony of Accomplishment; Back to the Plaza de Armas: A Monument at Last; The Discourse of Preservation; Conclusion; Notes; References; The City of the Present in the City of the Past: Solstice Celebrations at Tiwanaku, Bolivia; A Solstice Celebration; Sacred and Secular; Religion and Politics, Indigeneity and Nationalism
    Description / Table of Contents: Ritualized Reporting to a National AudienceNotes; References; Is Nothing Sacred? A Modernist Encounter with the Holy Sepulchre; Notes; References; Rebuilding Mostar: International and Local Visions of a Contested City and Its Heritage; Wartime Destruction of the City; Wartime Division of the City; Interpretations of the War in Bosnia-Hercegovina; Reconstruction of the Old Bridge; Rebuilding and Reunion of the City; World Heritage Designation; Conclusion; References; Of Forgotten People and Forgotten Places: Nation-Building and the Dismantling of Ankara's Non-Muslim Landscapes
    Description / Table of Contents: An Unraveling EmpireAnother Ankara; Overlays and Erasures; Constructing a Selective National Heritage; Conclusion; Notes; References; The Contemplation of Ruins: Heritage Cosmopolitanism and the Parsing of Cairo's Islamic Fabric; Mourning in Cairo; Preserving the Real Cairo: Between Fustat and Al-Qahira; Heritage Cosmopolitanism; Cairo's New Lung; The Ruins of Fustat; Contemplating the Future of an Islamic Urban Past; Notes; References; Heritage and Sustainability in Shunde (China); Land and Water; Shunde's Urbanization; Landscape and Sustainability; Heritage and Sustainability; Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: Notes
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1108-6
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    The Sciences’ Media Connection –Public Communication and its Repercussions (2012)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400720848
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 379 S. , graph. Darst.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. [S.l.] eblib Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 28
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. The sciences' media connection
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Science History ; Social Sciences ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wissenschaftspublizistik
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    Latinos and the Economy : Integration and Impact in Schools, Labor Markets, and Beyond (2011)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 1283085348 , 9781441966827 , 9781283085342
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Immigrants and Minorities, Politics and Policy
    DDC: 305.868073
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Labor economics ; Population ; Political science
    Abstract: " At 15.4 percent of the population, Latinos are the largest minority group in the United States. They are a growing presence in all sectors of the economy, play an increasingly important role in government and politics, and are influential across a wide range of cultural domains. Despite the growing attention paid to Latinos in recent years, this population is characterized by relatively low socio-economic status, and Latinos frequently rank behind the majority white population and other minority groups when it comes to education, finances, and employment. This book contributes to the understanding of these issues by addressing a comprehensive range of topics on Latino economic incorporation, outcomes, and impact over an individual's lifetime. The volume starts with the foundational issue of education, and then moves to immigrant integration and adjustment, Latino and immigrant earnings, the economic impact of Latinos, and inter-generational incorporation and long-term integration issues. The contributions provide wide-ranging perspectives on the key factors that determine whether Latinos will be able to achieve their economic potential. The substantial individual, national, and international implications of these studies make this book of interest to scholars and policy-makers alike, particularly those concerned with the issues of education, immigration, employment, and earnings. The rapid and continuing growth of the Hispanic population ensures that the debate over social policy in the next few decades will increasingly focus on how best to alleviate the economic and social problems facing this population and perhaps encourage rapid assimilation. The studies in the volume edited by David Leal and Stephen Trejo provide an excellent foundation for this discussion. The conceptual issues and findings in these papers are sure to be valuable to both policy makers and researchers. George Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Latinos and the Economy provides a truly authoritative but accessible compilation of first-rate scholarship on Hispanic incorporation, educational and political gains, and ongoing economic and cultural impacts. It is ""must reading"" for anyone concerned about the future, especially as America moves inexorably towards becoming a majority-minority society by mid-century. Daniel T. Lichter, Ferris Family Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University This is the volume to read for anyone interested in current American immigration issues or the role of Hispanics in the U.S. economy."" Daniel S. Hamermesh, Killam Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin ""The future of America is closely intertwined with the successful integration--economically, politically, and socially--of the Latino population. Latinos now comprise one of every seven workers and almost one of every five students in the United States. The research reported in this volume describes the challenges faced by Latinos in schools, the labor market, and in communities and explains their prospects for upward mobility. These studies suggest that a significant investment in expanding educational opportunities may be the single most important policy lever to incorporate Latinos into the American mainstream."" Charles Hirschman, Professor of Public Affairs and Boeing International Professor of Sociology, University of Washington "
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; Latinos and the Economic Future; The Chapters; Latino Population Growth: Facts, Trends, and History; Notes; References; Part I K12 Education; 2 The Hispanic Diaspora and the Public Schools: Educating Hispanics; 3 System of Elections, Latino Representation, and School Policy in Central California Schools; Part II Higher Education; 4 Does Reducing College Costs Improve Educational Outcomes for Undocumented Immigrants? EvidenceINTbreak; from State Laws Permitting Undocumented ImmigrantsINTbreak; to Pay In-State Tuition at State C
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Is There a Link Between Hispanics and First-Generation College Students? The Importance of ExposureINTbreak to a College-Going Tradition; Part III Legalization and Naturalization; 6 The Effects of Legalization on Migrant Remittances; 7 Naturalization and Its Determinants Among Immigrants from Latin America: The Role of Dual Citizenship Rights; Part IV Earnings; 8 The LEP Earnings Penalty Among Hispanic Men in the US: 1980 to 2005; 9 The Minimum Wage and Latino Workers; 10 Latino Veterans and Income: Are There Gains from Military Service; Part V Economic Impacts of Latinos
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 Do Recent Latino Immigrants Compete for JobsINTbreak with Native Hispanics and Earlier Latino Immigrants?; 12 Immigrants, Hispanics, and the Evolution of Housing Prices in the US; Part VI InterGenerational Incorporation and Economic Outcomes; 13 The Effects of English Proficiency Among Childhood Immigrants: Are Hispanics Different?; 14 Who Remains Mexican? Selective Ethnic AttritionINTbreak; and the Intergenerational Progress of Mexican Americans; About the Editors; About the Contributors;
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    The Plurality of Power : An Archaeology of Industrial Capitalism (2011)
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    ISBN: 128308547X , 9781441983060 , 9781283085472
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
    DDC: 303.33
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Environmental Medicine ; Archaeology
    Abstract: Sarah E. Cowie
    Abstract: How do people experience power within capitalist societies? Research presented here explicitly addresses the notion of pluralistic power, which encompasses both productive and oppressive forms of power and acknowledges that nuanced and multifaceted power relations can exist in combination with binary dynamics such as domination and resistance. This volume addresses growing interests in linking past and present power relationships engendered by capitalism and in conducting historical archaeology as anthropology. The Plurality of Power: Industrial Capitalism and the Nineteenth-Century Company Town of Fayette, Michigan, explores the subtle distribution of power within American industrial capitalism through a case study of a company town. Issues surrounding power and agency are explored in regard to three heuristic categories of power. In the first category, the company imposed a system of structural, class-based power that is most visible in hierarchical differences in pay and housing, as well as consumer behavior. A second category addresses disciplinary activities surrounding health and the human body, as observed in the built environment, medical artifacts, disposal patterns of industrial waste, incidence of intestinal parasites, and unequal access to healthcare. The third ensemble of power relations is heterarcical and entwined with non-economic capital (social, symbolic, and cultural). Individuals and groups drew upon different forms of capital to bolster social status and express identity both within and apart from the corporate hierarchy. The goal in combining these diverse ideas is to explore the plurality of power relationships in past industrial contexts and to assert their relevance in the anthropology of capitalism.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Plurality of Power in Industrial Capitalism: A Case Study of Fayette, MichiganWorking Communities and the Victorian-American Company Town -- Critically Reading Power, Landscapes, Documents, and Artifacts in Industrialized Society -- Paternalism, Resistance, and Hegemony.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8306-0
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    Crime in the Art and Antiquities World : Illegal Trafficking in Cultural Property (2011)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781441979469
    Language: English
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    Edition: 1
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    DDC: 364.16
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Law ; Arts ; Anthropology ; Criminology
    Abstract: The theft, trafficking, and falsification of cultural property and cultural heritage objects are crimes of a particularly complex nature, which often have international ramifications and significant economic consequences. Organized criminal groups of various types and origins are involved in these illegal acts. The book Crime in the Art and Antiquities World has contributions both from researchers specializing in the illegal trafficking of art, and representatives of international institutions involved with prevention and detection of cultural property-related crimes, such as Interpol and UNESCO. This innovative volume also includes an Appendix of the existing legal texts, i.e. international treaties, conventions, and resolutions, which have not previously been available in a single volume. This work is a unique and useful reference for scholars and private and public bodies alike.
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. Illicit trafficking in cultural heritage : the criminological perspective -- pt. 2. Case studies -- pt. 3. Prevention and control.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7946-9
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    Russian Organized Corruption Networks and their International Trajectories (2011)
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    ISBN: 9781441909909
    Language: English
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Criminology ; Political science ; Russland ; Organisiertes Verbrechen ; Korruption
    Abstract: "Countries undergoing major social and legal transitions typically experience a light, but relatively insignificant, increase in crime. However, in the past decade, many transitional countries in Eastern Europe, and Russia in particular, have experienced a surge in criminal activities that came about through the collaboration of diverse players such as criminals, state officials, businesspersons, and law enforcement into organized networks aimed to obtain financial and economic gains. In this process, two interdependent tendencies have become apparent: the ""economization"" of organized crime and the increased organization of economic crime itself. Both trends have led to a fundamentally new phenomenon in Russia, the Organized Corruption Network (OCN), which is a symbiosis that is a direct result of corruption, organized crime and economic crime within the Yeltsin and the Putin times. Russian Organized Corruption Networks and their International Trajectories aims to investigate the new phenomenon of OCN. This book addresses the fundamental changes that have taken place in Russia in the last five to seven years, including the increasing crime in the economy and the shift of power from organized crime/ mafia-like organizations to the Organized Corruption Networks. More specifically, the book will describe: The shift in power balance from criminal groups to groups within or partly within the state apparatus, That the main source of revenues that fuel corruption are often no longer mainly run by criminal groups but by legal businesses instead, How full state resources are used for the benefit of OCNs. The findings in this book will enable a better assessment of the scale and danger of economic crime and corruption in Russia, and the corresponding response of law enforcement agencies while also providing necessary guidelines to classify the nature, structure, scale, and method of operation of the Organized Corruption Networks."
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Modalities of Organized Crime Phenomena; Chapter 3: Roots of Russian Organized Crime; Chapter 4: Corruption in Russia: Past, Present, and Future; Chapter 5: Organized Crime, Businesses, and Local Bureaucracy; Chapter 6: Ways to Fight OCNs: Law-Enforcement Services; Chapter 7: Organized Corruption Networks; Chapter 8: The International Reach: Comparative Dimensions of Russian Organized Corrupted Networks; b978-0-387-78701_4;
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    In Situ and Laboratory Experiments on Electoral Law Reform : French Presidential Elections (2011)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Public Choice 25
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Economics ; Social sciences Methodology ; Political science
    Abstract: In the modern era, representation is the hallmark of democracy, and electoral rules structure how representation works and how effectively governments perform. Moreover, of the key structural variables in constitutional design, it is the choice of electoral system that is usually the most open to change. There are three distinctive approaches to electoral system research. One, associated largely with economics, involves the study of electoral system effects through the deductive method, using mathematical tools to derive theorems about the properties of voting methods and behaviors. A second, associated largely with political science, has a primarily empirical focus, and looks in depth at how electoral rules impact on political outcomes, through large cross-sectional or case studies. A third, and more recent tradition, inspired largely by work in experimental economics, involves experimentation, either in the form of controlled laboratory experiments or in the form of in situ field studies. This volume employs the third approach to report on experiments that look at alternatives to the present two round (majority runoff) system used for the election of French presidents. This system is of considerable importance not just because of its use in France but also because of its wide adoption in presidential elections in new democracies, such as Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine. The editors have assembled the top experimental economists and political scientists specializing in French politics to provide in-depth analysis of the double ballot electoral system, and, more broadly, of the effect of electoral rules on the number of candidates, voter strategies, and ideological choice. Ultimately, the editors and contributors argue that experimental methods have great potential to inform our understanding of institutional mechanisms in the context of voting behavior.
    Description / Table of Contents: In Situ and Laboratory Experiments on Electoral Law Reform; Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; 1 Editors' Introduction: The Role of Controlled Experiments in Evaluating Proposed Institutional Reforms; 2 Election by Majority Judgment: Experimental Evidence; 3 French Presidential Election: A Field Experiment on the Single Transferable Vote; 4 Framed-field Experiment on Approval Voting and Evaluation Voting. Some Teachings to Reform the French Presidential Electoral System; 5 Lessons from In Situ Experiments during French Elections
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Measuring Duvergerian Effects of the French Majority Runoff System with Laboratory Experiments: Duverger's Laws Under the Microscope7 French Double Ballot Effects: American Experiments; Glossary of Key Electoral System Terms; About the Editors; About the Authors; References; Author Index; Subject Index;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7539-3
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    Hegemony and Sovereign Equality : The Interest Contiguity Theory in International Relations (2011)
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    ISBN: 9781441983336
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    DDC: 320.1
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Philosophy, modern ; Political science Philosophy ; Political science
    Abstract: The 'interest contiguity theory,' which is the book's centerpiece, holds that rather than a smooth, one-way cruise through history, humankind's journey from the inception to the present has brought him/her face to face with broadly three types of interests. The first is the individual interest, which, strange as it may sound, tends to be internally contradictory. The second is society's (or 'national') interest which, due to the clash of wills, is even more difficult than personal interest to harmonize. The third is the interest espoused to justify the establishment and maintenance of supranational institutions. Though conflicting, some interests are, due to their relative closeness (or contiguity), more easily reconcilable than others. In tracing the links between and among the three broad types of interests, the book begins with a brief philosophical discussion and then proceeds to examine the implications of human knowledge for individual liberty. Against the backdrop of the epistemological and ontological questions raised in the first chapter, the book examines the contending perspectives on the theory of the state, and in particular, the circumstances under which it is justified to place the interest of society over that of the individual. The focus of the fourth chapter is on the insertion of the supranational governance constant in the sovereignty equation, and on the conflict between idealist and realist, and between both and the Kantian explanations for the new order. The adequacy or otherwise of the conflicting explanations of the change from anarchy to a 'new world order' is the subject taken up in the succeeding chapters. Besides suggesting a new analytical tool for the study of politics and international relations, the contiguity theory offers statespersons new lenses with which to capture the seismic, perplexing and sometimes disconcerting changes unfolding before their eyes.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Notes; Contents; Part I Internationalism: Philosophy and Theory; 1 The Individual, the State, and International Relations: Toward an Interest Contiguity Theory of Parallel and Competing Sovereignties; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Conflict and Harmony in the Quest for Freedom: A Tale of Three Sovereigns; 1.3 Individual Freedom: Scope and Limit; 1.3.1 Awareness of Reality and Reason; 1.3.2 Socially Constructed Reality; 1.3.3 Received Wisdom and Individual Initiative; 1.4 Individual Freedom and the Common Weal: Emergence of the Sovereign State
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.4.1 Subordinating the Small to the Larger Freedom1.4.2 Proper Interest and Role of the Sovereign State; 1.4.3 Mature Democracies; 1.4.4 Democratic--Authoritarian Crossbreeds; 1.4.5 Authentic and Nominal Theocracies; 1.4.6 Authoritarian State---Real, Unreconstructed; 1.4.7 Failed States---with Friends in Foreign Places; 1.5 Externalizing the Internal Effects of Social Action: The Ascendancy of International Arrangements and Institutions; 1.6 Conclusion; Notes; 2 The Individual as the Origin and Purpose of Sovereignty; 2.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2 Knowledge of the Essence of the Good: Its Origin and the Method by Which It Is Acquired2.3 Comprehending Reality: Epistemological Challenges; 2.3.1 Empiricist Search for Truth and Virtuous Conduct; 2.4 Reason as an Arbiter of Conflicting Truths; 2.5 The Individual as the Foundation of Liberty; 2.6 The Individual Under Three Philosophical Traditions: A Summation; Box 2.1 Logic, Freedom, and Morality in an Ambiguous Environment; Notes; 3 The States Claim to Obedience; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Legitimacy of Power and Benefits of Obedience; 3.3 Emergence of the Westphalian State
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.4 Justice and the Rule of Law in State Formation and Maintenance3.5 On the Proper Role of the State; 3.5.1 The Diseconomy of Free Enterprise; 3.5.2 Taming Capitalism: From Palliatives to Panaceas; 3.6 The State and the People: A Comparison of Social Contract Formulae; 3.6.1 The Freedom to Choose: Democracy's Bragging Right; 3.7 Conclusion; Notes; 4 External Effects and the Supranational Sovereign; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Idealism as the Bedrock of Internationalism; 4.3 The Realist Rebuttal to Idealism; 4.3.1 NeoRealist Fine-Tuning of Cold-Blooded Realism
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4 Globalization and the Withering Away of the State: Kantian Rationalisms Vindication or MisinterpretationBox 4.1 Probable Ethno-Centric Interpretations of Media Coverage of Western and Non-Western Societies Norms and Practices; 4.4.1 Globalization and ''International Society''; 4.5 Internationalism: From Old Realities to New Choices; 4.6 Future Directions in Internationalism; Notes; Part II International Relations: History and Contemporary Challenges; 5 From the League of Foes to the United Nations: A Brief History of Internationalism; 5.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.2 Internationalism before the Establishment of the League of Nations
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    Comparative Archaeologies : A Sociological View of the Science of the Past (2011)
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    ISBN: 9781441982254
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    DDC: 930.1
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Sociology
    Abstract: "Archaeology, as with all of the social sciences, has always been characterized by competing theoretical propositions based on diverse bodies of locally acquired data. In order to fulfill local, regional expectations, different goals have been assigned to the practitioners of Archaeology in different regions. These goals might be entrenched in local politics, or social expectations behind cultural heritage research. This comprehensive book explores regional archaeologies from a sociological perspective to identify and explain regional differences in archaeological practice, as well as their existing similarities. This work covers not only the currently-dominant Anglo-American archaeological paradigm, but also Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa, all of which have developed their own unique archaeological traditions. The contributions in this work cover these ""alternative archaeologies,"" in the context of their own geographical, political, and socio-economic settings, as well as the context of the currently accepted mainstream approaches."
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. Archaeology in Europe -- pt. 2. Archaeology in South America and the Caribbean region -- pt. 3. Archaeology in Asia and the Pacific region -- pt. 4. Archaeology in Africa.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8225-4
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    Women, Borders, and Violence : Current Issues in Asylum, Forced Migration, and Trafficking (2011)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Criminology ; Political science ; Human Geography ; Developmental psychology ; Frau ; Illegaler Grenzverkehr ; Asyl ; Zwangsprostitution
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0271-9
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    A Natural Experiment on Electoral Law Reform : Evaluating the Long Run Consequences of 1990s Electoral Reform in Italy and Japan (2011)
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    ISBN: 1283085356 , 9781441972286 , 9781283085359
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    Series Statement: Studies in Public Choice 24
    DDC: 342/.07
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Economics ; Social sciences Methodology
    Abstract: In the early 1990s, major electoral reforms took place in both Italy and Japan, each replaced a form of 'proportional representation', (in which voters cast a ballot for a party list) with a'mixed member' system (in which voters cast ballots for individual candidates and party lists). The reforms were enacted by political elites in the context of divisions within the dominant party, changing patterns of party support, and party splits, in efforts to retain power while responding to charges of corruption, clientelism, and lack of accountability. The experiences of both countries provide a laboratory in which to investigate the effects and implications of the reforms, and, more broadly to analyze voter behavior in the context of institutional change. The introduction provides an overview of post-WWII politics and electoral reform in Italy and Japan. In each of the next four chapters, specialists in Italian and Japanese electoral politics are teamed up to review data both before and after the reforms. Within this comparative framework, the authors explore such topics as changes in party competition, candidate selection mechanisms, and intra-party politics. The concluding chapter considers the longer-term consequences - both anticipated and unanticipated - of the reforms, despite superficially similar conditions, the effects in the two countries were dramatically different: in Japan, the new system has taken hold, with minor modifications, while in Italy, there was a reversion to a proportional representation system. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, to understand why similar reforms had such different effects in the two countries we must examine how electoral systems are embedded in broader institutional and social arrangements, and at the complex interplay of political geography, political history, and the rational calculations of political actors.
    Description / Table of Contents: A Natural Experiment on Electoral Law Reform; Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Long-Run Consequences of Electoral Rules Change: Comparing Italy and Japan; Origins of Electoral Reform in Italy and Japan; Italy (1947-1993); Japan (1947-1994); Continuing the Process of Reform?; Changes in the Electoral Rules in Italy and Japan; Electoral Reform in Italy, 1993; Electoral Reform in Italy, 2005; Electoral Reform in Japan, 1994; Expected Impact and Actual Consequences of Electoral System Change in Italy and Japan; Overview of the Chapters
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 2: Party Competition Under New Electoral Rules in Italy and Japan, 1994-2009Introduction; Outlining Electoral System Changes in Italy and Japan; Comparing the 1993 and 2005 Electoral Reforms in Italy; Electoral System Choice; Preelectoral Coalitions Under the 1993 and 2005 Electoral Laws; Differences in Rules for Electing the Chamber and the Senate; The 1994 Electoral Reform in Japan; Party Competition Under the New Electoral Rules in Italy and Japan; Formation of Pre-electoral Coalitions in Italy; Strategic Adjustments by Japanese Parties and Formation of Post-electoral Coalitions
    Description / Table of Contents: Electoral Outcomes and Government Formation in Italy and Japan, 1994-2009Five Italian Elections (1994-2008): Bipolarism, Party System Fragmentation, and Alternating Governments; Five Japanese Elections (1996-2009): Steps Toward Bipartisanship; Concluding Remarks: Similarities and Differences; Chapter 3: The Changing Bases of Party Support in Italy and Japan: Similarities and Differences; Introduction; Change in Party Dominance; The DC Party in Italy: From Dominance to Dissolution; The LDP Party in Japan: From Dominance to Historical Defeat
    Description / Table of Contents: Change in Sociodemographic Support Base of the PartiesItaly: Change in Structural Bases of Electoral Support for the Parties; Japan: Change in the Structural Bases of Electoral Support for Parties; Change in Geographic Support Base of the Parties; Political Regions in Italy; Urban Versus Rural Areas in Japan; Change in the Ideological Structure of Party Competition; The Policy Space in Italy; The Policy Space in Japan; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Nominating Candidates Under New Rules in Italy and Japan: You Cannot Bargain with Resources You Do Not Have; Introduction; SMD Nominations in Italy
    Description / Table of Contents: SMD Nominations in JapanMobile Italian Candidates, Immobile Japanese Candidates; Was the Devil in the Details or in the Context?; Details That Might Contain a Devil; Electoral Systems, Political Context, and History; Chapter 5: Electoral Reform and Factional Politics in Italy and Japan; Introduction; From Factions to Parties: Electoral Reform and the Birth of Post-DC Parties in Italy; Post-DC Parties and Electoral Competition; Post-DC Parties in Government; Post-DC Parties Today; Japanese Electoral Reform and the Fate of LDP Factions; Leadership Selection: Choosing the LDP President
    Description / Table of Contents: Cabinet Appointments
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    The Archaeology of Market Capitalism : A Western Australian Perspective (2011)
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    Series Statement: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
    DDC: 930.1
    Keywords: Social sciences ; History ; Anthropology ; Archaeology
    Abstract: The area claimed by the British Empire as Western Australia was primarily colonized through two major thrusts: the development of the Swan River Colony to the southwest in 1829, and the 1863 movement of Australian born settlers to colonize the northwest region. The Western Australian story is overwhelmingly the story of the spread of market capitalism, a narrative which is at the foundation of modern western world economy and culture. Due to the timing of settlement in Western Australia there was a lack of older infrastructure patterns based on industrial capitalism to evoke geographical inertia to modify and deform the newer system in many ways making the systemic patterns which grew out of market capitalist forces clearer and easier to delineate than in older settlement areas. However, the struggle between the forces of market capitalism, settlers and indigenous Australians over space, labor, physical and economic resources and power relationships are both unique to place and time and universal in allowing an understanding of how such complicated regional, interregional and global forces shape a settler society. Through an examination of historical records, town layout and architecture, landscape analysis, excavation data, and material culture analysis, the author created a nuanced understanding of the social, economic, and cultural developments that took place during this dynamic period in Australian history. In examining this complex settlement history, the author employed several different research methodologies in parallel, to create a comprehensive understanding of the area. Her research techniques will be invaluable to researchers struggling to understand similarly complex sociocultural evolutions throughout the globe.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8318-3
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    Investigating Archaeological Cultures : Material Culture, Variability, and Transmission (2011)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Humanities ; Archaeology
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    Abstract: Defining 'culture' is an important step in undertaking archaeological research. Any thorough study of a particular culture first has to determine what that culture contains-- what particular time period, geographic region, and group of people make up that culture. The study of archaeology has many accepted definitions of particular cultures, but recently these accepted definitions have come into question. As archaeologists struggle to define cultures, they also seek to define the components of culture. This volume brings together 21 international case studies to explore the meaning of 'culture' for regions around the globe and periods from the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age and beyond. Taking lessons and overarching themes from these studies, the contributors draw important conclusions about cultural transmission, technology development, and cultural development.The result is a comprehensive model for approaching the study of culture, broken down into regions (Russia, Continental Europe, North America, Britain, and Africa), materials (Lithics, Ceramics, Metals) and time periods. This work will be valuable to all archaeologists and cultural anthropologists, particularly those studying material culture.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6970-5
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    Archaeologies of Internment (2011)
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    Series Statement: One World Archaeology
    DDC: 930.1
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Humanities ; Archaeology
    Abstract: The large-scale internment of civilians and soldiers is one of the defining characteristics of social and military conflict in the modern world. These internment camps, often hastily constructed and just as hastily destroyed after a conflict, create a significant but brief mark on the archaeological record. Due to both their temporary nature and often sensitive political circumstances, internment camps present a unique archaeological challenge. This innovative work explores the specific methods and theoretical approaches involved in the archaeology of internment camps, and presents a rare exploration of previously unexplored and under-explored archaeological sites. The contributions to this work cover international cases including Cold War prisons of eastern Berlin, concentration camps at Auschwitz, Japanese American internment camps in World War II, as well as Northern Ireland, Lapland, The Isle of Man, Argentina, Spain, and Fort Hood, Texas. The diverse set of case studies are thematically linked, resulting in a coherent set of methodologies and approaches. The archaeology of internment is an emergent interest area that builds on well-defined, established, fields of study. In many cases archaeologists are beginning to explore the material remains using the full scope of archaeological methodology, as well as the historical and oral-historical sources that are the privilege of historical archaeologists. These interdisciplinary studies have the unique ability to connect traumatic memories and historical outrages to fragments of material remains. These processes have powerful political, social and affective implications, particularly in societies where amnesia is institutional or where only certain historical narratives are permitted. This archaeology of internment camps puts the people back into the picture, and in so doing, might even become an archaeology of liberation.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; About the Editors; 1 An Introduction to Archaeologies of Internment; The Experience of Internment; What is Internment?; What is the Current State of the Archaeology of Internment?; Disciplinary Contexts; What Can We Hope to Learn?; In This Book; Future Directions for the Archaeology of Internment; References; 2 Exceptional Space: Concentration Camps and Labor Compounds in Late Nineteenth-Century South Africa; Introduction; The First Camps: The 1886 Closed Labor Compounds; The Precedent of Concentration Camps and Labor Camps in Southern Africa
    Description / Table of Contents: The Diamond Fields of South AfricaThe Birth of the Closed Compound on the Diamond Fields Circa 1886; From Barrack to Compound to Concentration Camp; Discussion; Conclusion; References; 3 A Tale of Two Treatments: The Materiality of Internment on the Isle of Man in World Wars I and II; Introduction; Disciplinary Context; The First World War; Douglas Camp; Knockaloe Camp; A Comparison of Douglas and Knockaloe; The Second World War; Conclusions; References; 4 The Archaeology of Internment in Francoist Spain ( 1936--1952 ); Introduction: The Rationale of Spanish Internment Camps
    Description / Table of Contents: From Camps to Prisons: The Institutional Typology of Franco's Internment CentersThe Material Culture of Totalitarianism; A Closer Look at the Camps: Ambiguous Domination/Ambiguous Resistance; Conclusion; References; 5 The Things of Auschwitz; Introduction; Ordinary Men; Deprivation and Abundance; The Primacy of Spoons; Informal Economy; The Ramp; The Kanadakommando; The Sonderkommando; Conclusion; References; 6 Gordon Hirabayashi, the Tucsonians, and the U.S. Constitution: Negotiating Reconciliation in a Landscape of Exile; Introduction: The Construction of the Catalina Highway
    Description / Table of Contents: The Permanent PrisonWhat the Prisoners Accomplished; A Million Visitors a Year; Wartime Hysteria and Racial Prejudice; Justice Delayed and the Site Rediscovered; The Other Resisters; The Road to Reconciliation; Conclusion; References; 7 Control or Repression: Contrasting a Prisoner of War Camp and a Work Camp from World War Two; Introduction; Imprisonment and Prisoners of War; Second World War PoW Camps in Britain; Prisoner of War Camp Design; Deaconsbank/Camp 660; Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit (NOFU); Structural Differences between Deaconsbank and Macoul; Fear, Control, and Repression
    Description / Table of Contents: ConclusionReferences; 8 Engraving and Embroidering Emotions Upon the Material Culture of Internment; Introduction; Recyclia and Internment Material Culture; Historical Background; Communal Living; Homesickness and Identity; Confinement by Barbed Wire; Pride, Defiance, and the V-Sign; Fighting Depression and Consuming Time; Sports and Theatre; Liberation and Repatriation; Conclusion; References; 9 Archaeological Investigations of Second World War Prisoner of War Camps at Fort Hood, Texas; Introduction; Archival Research; Physical Description of Camp Hood According to Archival Sources
    Description / Table of Contents: North Camp Hood Internment Camp
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    Transition to Adulthood : Action, Projects, and Counseling (2011)
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    DDC: 155.5
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Psychotherapy ; Social work ; Applied psychology
    Abstract: The transition to adulthood involves, for most individuals, moving from school to work, establishment of long-term relationships, possibly parenting, and a number of other psychosocial transformations. Now more than ever, there is a concern within popular and research literature about children growing up too soon or too late or failing to realize changes associated with being adult. With this in mind, the book intends to answer a series of timely questions in regard to transition to adulthood and propose a wholly new approach to counseling that enables youth to engage fully in their lives and achieve their best. Active Transition to Adulthood: A New Approach for Counseling will discuss the authors' work on the transition to adulthood (including early and late adolescence) from an entirely innovative perspective - action theory. Over a period of 10-15 years the authors have collected substantial data on adolescents and youth in transition, and will present an approach to counseling based on these data and cases. The action theory perspective in which the authors have grounded their work addresses the intentional, goal-directed behavior of persons and groups that is expressed through particular actions, longer-term projects, and life-encompassing careers. In this book, both transition to adulthood and counseling will be covered in the language of goal-directed action. In this way both transition and counseling reflect and capture the action, projects, and careers in which families, youth, and clients are engaged and use to construct on-going identity and other narratives.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Contents; 1 Transition to Adulthood: Introduction; 2 Transition to Adulthood as Goal-Directed Action; 3 Action and the Practice of Counseling for Transitions; 4 Studying Transition Processes; 5 Relationships; 6 Emotion and the Transition to Adulthood; 7 Identity; 8 Family; 9 Work; 10 Culture; 11 Romantic Relationships; 12 Transition in the Context of Disability; 13 Suicide in the Context of the Transition to Adulthood; 14 Working with Narrative and Interpretation; 15 Using the Self-Confrontation Procedure in Counseling; References; Index;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6238-6
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    An Introduction to Archaeological Chemistry (2011)
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    ISBN: 9781441963765
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    DDC: 930.1028
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Archaeology ; Surfaces (Physics) ; Archäometrie ; Chemische Analyse
    Abstract: Archaeological chemistry is a subject of great importance to the study and methodology of archaeology. This comprehensive text covers the subject with a full range of case studies, materials, and research methods. With twenty years of experience teaching the subject, the authors offer straightforward coverage of archaeological chemistry, a subject that can be intimidating for many archaeologists who do not already have a background in the hard sciences. With clear explanations and informative illustrations, the authors have created a highly approachable text, which will help readers overcome that intimidation. Topics covered included: Materials (rock, pottery, bone, charcoal, soils, metals, and others), Instruments (microscopes, NAA, spectrometers, mass spectrometers, GC/MS, XRF XRD, Case Studies (Provinience, Sediments, Diet Reconstruction, Past Human Movement, Organic Residues). The detailed coverage and clear language will make this useful as an introduction to the study of archaeological chemistry, as well as a useful resource for years after that introduction.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""An Introduction to Archaeological Chemistry""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Chapter 1: Archaeological Chemistry""; ""1.1 Archaeological Chemistry""; ""1.2 Terms and Concepts""; ""1.2.1 Matter""; ""1.2.2 Organic Matter""; ""1.2.2.1 Ancient DNA""; ""1.2.3 The Electromagnetic Spectrum""; ""1.2.4 Measurement""; ""1.2.5 Accuracy, Precision, and Sensitivity""; ""1.2.6 Samples, Aliquots, and Specimens""; ""1.2.7 Data, Lab Records, and Archives""; ""1.3 A Brief History of Archaeological Chemistry""; ""1.4 Laboratories""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""1.4.1 A Tour of the Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry""""1.5 Summary""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 2: What Archaeologists Want To Know""; ""2.1 Archaeological Cultures""; ""2.2 Time and Space""; ""2.3 Environment""; ""2.4 Technology""; ""2.5 Economy""; ""2.5.1 Food""; ""2.5.2 Shelter""; ""2.5.3 Raw Material and Production""; ""2.5.4 Exchange""; ""2.6 Organization""; ""2.6.1 Social Organization""; ""2.6.2 Political Organization""; ""2.6.3 Settlement Pattern""; ""2.7 Ideology""; ""2.8 Summary""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 3: Archaeological Materials""; ""3.1 Introduction""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""3.2 Archaeological Materials""""3.3 Rock""; ""3.4 Pottery""; ""3.5 Bone""; ""3.6 Sediment and Soil""; ""3.7 Metals""; ""3.8 Other Materials""; ""3.8.1 Glass""; ""3.8.2 Pigments and Dyes""; ""3.8.3 Concretes, Mortars, and Plasters""; ""3.8.4 Shell""; ""3.9 Summary""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 4: Methods of Analysis""; ""4.1 Magnification""; ""4.1.1 Optical Microscopes""; ""4.1.2 Scanning Electron Microscope""; ""4.2 Elemental Analysis""; ""4.2.1 Spectroscopy""; ""4.2.2 Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometer""; ""4.2.3 X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""4.2.4 CN Analyzer""""4.2.5 Neutron Activation Analysis""; ""4.3 Isotopic Analyses""; ""4.3.1 Oxygen Isotopes""; ""4.3.2 Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes""; ""4.3.3 Strontium Isotopes""; ""4.3.4 Mass Spectrometers""; ""4.4 Organic Analysis""; ""4.4.1 Methods of Organic Analysis""; ""4.4.2 Gas/Liquid Chromatography�Mass Spectrometry""; ""4.5 Mineral and Inorganic Compounds""; ""4.5.1 Petrography""; ""4.5.2 X-Ray Diffraction""; ""4.5.3 IR Spectroscopy""; ""4.6 Summary""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 5: Identification and Authentication""; ""5.1 What Archaeological Chemistry Can Do""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""5.2 Identification and Authentication""""5.3 Identification""; ""5.3.1 Starch Grains and Early Agriculture""; ""Key References""; ""5.3.2 Pacific Plant Identification""; ""Key References""; ""5.3.3 Keatley Creek House Floors""; ""Key References""; ""5.3.4 Chaco Coco""; ""Key References""; ""5.4 Authentication""; ""5.4.1 The Getty Museum Kouros""; ""Key Reference""; ""5.4.2 Vinland Map""; ""Key Reference""; ""5.4.3 Maya Crystal Skulls""; ""Key Reference""; ""5.4.4 The Shroud of Turin""; ""Key References""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 6: Technology, Function, and Human Activity""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""6.1 Technology""
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6376-5
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    A Consumer's Guide to Archaeological Science : Analytical Techniques (2011)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781441957047
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: 1st
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    Series Statement: Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique
    DDC: 930.1028
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Archaeology ; Surfaces (Physics) ; Archäologie ; Datierung ; Methode ; Zuordnung
    Abstract: Many archaeologists, as primarily social scientists, do not have a background in the natural sciences. This can pose a problem because they need to obtain chemical and physical analyses on samples to perform their research. This manual is an essential source of information for those students without a background in science, but also a comprehensive overview that those with some understanding of archaeological science will find useful. The manual provides readers with the knowledge to use archaeological science methods to the best advantage. It describes and explains the analytical techniques i
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. Basic science -- pt. 2. Applications -- pt. 3. Materials -- pt. 4. Instrumentation.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5704-7
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    X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (XRF) in Geoarchaeology (2011)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781441968869
    Language: English
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    DDC: 930.1
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Archaeology
    Abstract: Since the 1960s, x-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF), both wavelength and energy-dispersive have served as the workhorse for non-destructive and destructive analyses of archaeological materials. Recently eclipsed by other instrumentation such as LA-ICP-MS, XRF remains the mainstay of non-destructive chemical analyses in archaeology, particularly for volcanic rocks, and most particularly for obsidian. In a world where heritage and repatriation issues drive archaeological method and theory, XRF remains an important tool for understanding the human past, and will remain so for decades to come
    Description / Table of Contents: ""X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (XRF) in Geoarchaeology""; ""Preface and Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Chapter 1: X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry in Twenty-First Century Archaeology""; ""What Is in this Volume?""; ""References""; ""Chapter 2: An Introduction to X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Analysis in Archaeology""; ""History of XRF in Archaeology""; ""Why Non-Destructive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry?""; ""What is Good About XRF?""; ""What Non-Destructive EDXRF Will Not Do""; ""Commercial X-Ray Spectrometry""; ""Early Berkeley XRF Studies""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""The Portable EDXRF Revolution""""The Physics and Instrumental Technology of XRF""; ""Theory and Derivation of XRF""; ""The Spectrum and Spectral Lines - The Electron Configuration of the Elements""; ""Elemental Interference During XRF Analysis""; ""Issues of Practical Matrix Effects""; ""Evaluating Spectra: Compton, Bremsstrahlung and Other Spectral Issues""; ""Backscatter""; ""Rayleigh Scatter""; ""Escape Peaks""; ""The Compton Scatter""; ""The Bremsstrahlung Region""; ""The Influence of ``BackgroundÂ?Â?""; ""XRF Hardware and Software""; ""Acquisition Condition Selection""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Elements of Interest""""Source Selection - Isotopes""; ""Source Selection - X-ray Tubes""; ""X-ray Tube Filters""; ""Voltage Settings (kV)""; ""X-Ray Tube Target Excitation""; ""Current (mA)""; ""Tube Collimators""; ""Atmosphere""; ""Count Time""; ""X-Ray Detection""; ""The Si(Li) Detector""; ""Pulse Processing""; ""Instrument Standards and Empirical Calibration""; ""The EDXRF Quantitative Method Trajectory""; ""Qualitative Analysis""; ""Wavelength vs. EDXRF""; ""Non-Destructive WXRF Analyses""; ""Analytical Instrument Settings and Providing Data""; ""References""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Chapter 3: Factors Affecting the Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) Analysis of Archaeological Obsidian""""Introduction to the Springer Reprint""; ""Introduction""; ""Methods""; ""Size Experiment""; ""Surface Variability Experiment""; ""Analytical Conditions""; ""Results""; ""Size Experiment""; ""Surface Experiment""; ""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Chapter 4: Non-destructive EDXRF Analyses of Archaeological Basalts""; ""Introduction""; ""The Hilo Method""; ""Calibration""; ""Factors Influencing Measured Geochemistry""; ""Chemical Weathering of Archaeological Basalt""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Chemical Weathering of Geological Basalt""""Surface Contamination by Phosphates: Examples from the Northwest Hawaiian Islands""; ""Surface Morphology and Textural Variation""; ""Debitage and Changes in Surface Morphology""; ""Textural Variation and Vesicular Basalt""; ""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Chapter 5: Non-destructive Applications of Wavelength XRF in Obsidian Studies""; ""Introduction""; ""Geological Sources of Obsidian in the Mediterranean Area""; ""XRF Powder Methodology""; ""Non-destructive XRF Methodology on Entire Fragments""; ""Results of the Chemical Analyses on Powders""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Comparison with the Analyses on the Entire Fragments""
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6886-9
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    Permission to Shoot? : Police Use of Deadly Force in Democracies (2011)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781441909756
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
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    DDC: 363.2320956
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Criminology ; Political science ; Demokratie ; Polizei ; Todesschuss ; Indien ; USA
    Abstract: Extrajudicial executions have blighted parts of the world for generations, but criminological coverage has been superficial and selective, in that it has concentrated on South America giving the impression that this is a problem specific to that part of the world and associated with military rule, dictatorial regimes and colonial heritage. Permission to Shoot?: Police Use of Deadly Force in Democracies brings a new dimension to the problem of police abuse of deadly force by concentrating on India and the United States, both large democracies and vibrant superpowers. In the book, the research is based on primary sources - interviews with police officers of varying ranks: those who are involved in the killings, those who facilitate such operations, and those who are mute spectators. The book deals with universal, fundamental themes such as: what makes ordinary, decent human beings do horrible things? What motivational techniques and justifications are used to override social norms governing moral conduct, centring on the sector of society mandated to use deadly force against civilians? Why in a democratic country the abuse of police powers appears to be overtly and tacitly encouraged? Permission to Shoot? seeks to provide broad guidelines and recommendations for reforms in policing policy and practice in developing countries. The research peels back the lies and deceit that surround this issue, but more than that it shows how those lies and deceit act to support the practice itself.
    Description / Table of Contents: Permission to Shoot?; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Police and the Use of Deadly Force; Chapter 2: A Tale of Three Cities; Chapter 3: Policing and Organised Crime in Mumbai; Chapter 4: Defining Encounters; Chapter 5: Are Encounters Effective? Police Role and Police Image; Chapter 6: A Culture of Complicity? Social Attitudes Towards Encounters; Chapter 7: Justifying Encounters: The Theory of Denial; Chapter 8: Explaining Encounters: What Can We Do About Them?; Chapter 9: Appendix: Methodology; Bibliography; Index;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0975-6
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    An Archaeology of Australia Since 1788 (2011)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781441974853
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
    DDC: 994
    Keywords: Social sciences ; History ; Anthropology ; Archaeology
    Abstract: The practical volume was brought together as an overview of Australian post-contact history using the evidence of material objects (artefacts, buildings, and landscapes) and the evidence they produced. It is a synthesis of the results of thirty years of work by historical archaeologists in Australia, with particular reference to information that provides insight into the day-to-day life of Australians in settings such as pastoral stations, farms, whalers camps, gold fields, emigrant ships, convict stations, or urban neighbourhoods. The different conditions experienced by various groups of people will also be considered, including rich and poor, convicts and their administrators, Aboriginal people, women, children, and migrants. Themes have been chosen that reflect prominent issues in Australian history, the range and nature of the archaeological studies that have been carried out, and the book s focus on daily lives and living conditions. Chapters have been structured to facilitate the broadest possible geographic and temporal coverage, while also reflecting the nature of the archaeology that has been done. Social themes such as gender, status, ethnicity and identity will inform every chapter - demostrating that these integral part of life cannot be separated from archaeologies of industry, urbanisation, and culture contact. Engagement with a range of contemporary discussions within Australian society and the international discipline of historical archaeology is essential to enlivening the text and giving it meaning, as well as providing the opportunity for critical assessment. The material used is inherently part of the global processes of colonisation and the creation of settler societies, the industrial revolution, the development of mass consumer culture, and the emergence of national identities. Drawing out these themes as appropriate and integrating them with the analysis of archaeological materials is what makes archaeology relevant in modern society.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; 2 Convict Origins; 3 Aboriginal Dispossession and Survival; 4 Shipwrecks and Maritime Trade; 5 Sealing, Whaling and Maritime Industries; 6 Pastoralism and Agriculture; 7 Gold Rushes and Precious Metals; 8 Manufacturing and Processing; 9 Migration and Ethnicity; 10 An Urbanised Nation; 11 Australians at Home; 12 Death; 13 The Twentieth Century and Beyond; Index;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7485-3
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    The Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes (2011)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781441982100
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: When the Land Meets the Sea, An ACUA and SHA Series 2
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
    DDC: 930.1028
    Keywords: Archaeology ; Humanities ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences
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    Archaeological Practice in Great Britain : A Heritage Handbook (2011)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9780387094533
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 227 p. 24 illus., 17 illus. in color, digital)
    Series Statement: World Archaeological Congress Cultural Heritage Manual Series
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Humanities ; Archaeology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Humanities ; Archaeology
    Abstract: Paul Belford
    Abstract: This manual provides a unique user guide to practicing archaeology and working in the cultural heritage sector within the diverse settings of Great Britain, comprising of: England, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.As part of their training, archaeologists often seek work in parts of Britain, either for experience before travelling elsewhere, or directly as part of their career progression. While this does involve reading published material on excavation techniques, archaeological theory, and specific heritage management practices, or research using the Internet, the ideal preparation to working in Britain for the first time requires practitioners to know a little about a lot. Currently, there is no single resource which provides that primary resource for budding archaeologists.Archaeological Practice in Great Britain will provide just such a resource: presented in an accessible style, with a comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography and lists of useful websites. Professionals with particular areas of expertise will contribute short sections on particular subjects, incorporated into the main text prepared by the authors. Throughout, the specific contexts and differences between the various component nations and regions of Great Britain will be made clear.
    Description / Table of Contents: Contexts
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09453-3
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    Murder and Politics in Mexico : Political Killings in the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica and its Consequences (2011)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781441980687
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 243 p. 4 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies of Organized Crime 10
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Schatz, Sara, 1963 - Murder and Politics in Mexico
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Criminology ; Political science ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Criminology ; Political science ; Mexiko Politische Partei ; Partido de la Revolución Democratica (México) ; Politisch motivierte Gewaltanwendung ; Mord ; Politische Verfolgung ; Straflosigkeit ; Politisches System ; Rechtsordnung ; Kriminalität ; Strafverfolgung ; Unterdrückung/Repressalien ; Korruption ; Guerrero ; Mexiko ; Partido de la Revolución Democrática ; Politischer Mord ; Geschichte 1988-2010
    Abstract: Murder and Politics in Mexico studies the causes of political killings in Mexico s liberalization-democratization within the larger context of political repression. Mexico s democratization process has entailed a little known but highly significant cost of human lives in pre- and post-election violence. The majority of these crimes remain in a state of impunity: in other words, no person had been charged with the crime and/or no investigation of it had occurred. Over 70% of the political murders of Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) members in the 1990s remain unsolved. This has several consequences for Mexican politics: when the level of violence is extreme and when political killings that are systematic and invasive are involved, this could indicate a real fracture in the democratic system. This book analyzes several dimensions regarding impunity and political crime, more specifically, the political killings of members of the PRD in the post-1988 period in Mexico. The main argument proposed in this book is that impunity for political killings is a structured system requiring one central precondition, namely the failure of the legal system to function as a system of restraint for killings. This structured system of impunity for political killing in general consists of political and institutional elements (law enforcement agencies, lawyers, public prosecutors, politicians). Dr Schatz s research finds that political assassinations are indeed rational, targeted actions but they do not occur within an institutional vacuum. Political assassinations are calculated strategies of action aimed at eliminating political rivals. They are caused by multiple interacting factors that involve the political, legal and criminal justice systems. As a form of interpersonal violence, political assassination involves direct or implied authorization from political leaders, the availability of assassins for hire and the willingness of some political leaders to utilize them against political opponents, and violent interactions between political parties combined with judicial system ineffectiveness. A corrupt legal system facilitates the use of political assassination and explains the persistence of impunity for political murder over time. To reduce political violence in the transition to electoral democracy, specific institutional conditions, namely a structured system of impunity for murder must be overcome.
    Description / Table of Contents: Murder and Politics in Mexico; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; Political Killings as a Specific Form of Political Repression; The Political Killing of PRD Members in Mexico; Chapter 2: Mexico's Liberalization-Democratization in Context; The Problem; Overview of the Mexican Political and Legal System; Origins; 1988-2010: A Brief Overview of the Emergence and Electoral Vicissitudes of the PRD; The 1977 Electoral Reforms; The Emergence of the FDN-PRD (1987-1988); After the 1988 Presidential Election
    Description / Table of Contents: Impunity: A Consistent Theme Across SexeniosImpunity, Crime, and Drug-Related Assassinations; Chapter 3: Theoretical Dimensions of a Structured System of Impunity for Political Killings; Democratization and Political Repression in Global Perspective; How Much Violence?; Regime Change Toward Regimes with Deficits in Accountability; The Mexican Case in Perspective; A Structured System of Impunity for Political Killings; Democratization and Political Repression; Democratization, Political Protest, and Political Repression; Accountable Legal Institutions and Democratization; Cause or Effect?
    Description / Table of Contents: Accountability and the Rule of LawImpunity; Impunity as a Structured System; Political Assassination as a Calculated Strategy Embedded in Interparty Relations; Political Party Strategies: PAN, PRD, PRI; Social Origins and Political Activism; Puebla; Social Origins; Political Activism and PRD Victims in Puebla; Political Assassination in Mexico: A Calculated Strategy; Chapter 4: Authorizing Political Killing in Mexico: The Importance of a Destructive Social Milieu; Introduction; The Mexican Dynamic of Political-Electoral Homicide; After 1988: A Difficult Time for the PRD; Methods
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: The Activation of Historical Conditions for Destructive BehaviorThe Role of Leadership Authorization; Selective Political Assassinations; Engagement in Everyday Social Activities; Rationalization for Political Assassination; Authorization for Destruction Through Independent Social Mechanisms; Part II: Political Assassination: Victims and Perpetrators in Cross-sectional Analysis; Political Assassinations as Deliberate Targeting; Cover-up/Authorization for Assassination; Who Kills? Who Gains from These Murders?
    Description / Table of Contents: Killings by Known PRI Members and Hired Guns Generally Linked to a PRI Leader(s)PRI Members; Hired Guns; Killing Federal, State, and Local PRD Politicians; The Political Murder of Perredistas by "Unknowns"18; The Killings by Police; Are There Alternative Explanations for These Murders?; Accidents or Revenge Homicides?; Police Inefficiency?; Conclusion; End Notes; Chapter 5: Disarming the Legal System: Impunity for the Political Murder of Dissidents in Mexico; Introduction; Political Killings in the Mexican Context; The Problem of Political Assassination; Crime Without Punishment
    Description / Table of Contents: The CNDH Case Reports: A Detailed Analysis
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8068-7
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    The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Contexts : Postcolonial Historical Archaeologies (2011)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781461401926
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
    DDC: 330.122091724
    Keywords: Social sciences ; History ; Archaeology ; Political science
    Abstract: Lindsay Weiss
    Abstract: "The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Contexts: Postcolonial Historical Archaeologies" explores the complex interplay of colonial and capital formations throughout the modern world. The authors present a critical approach to this topic, trying to shift discourses in the theoretical framework of historical archaeology of capitalism and colonialism through the use of postcolonial theory. This work does not suggest a new theoretical framework as such, but rather suggests the importance of revising key theoretical terms employed within historical archaeology, arguing for new engagem
    Description / Table of Contents: The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Contexts; Preface; Contents; About the Contributors; Contributors; Chapter 1: The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Contexts, an Introduction: Provincializing Historical Archaeology; Introduction; Historical Archaeology's Haunts: Capitalism and Colonialism; Postcolonial Theory and Its Implications; Theoretical Implications; Volume Overview; Thoughts on the Future: Provincializing Historical Archaeology; References; Chapter 2: Precolonial Encounters at Tamál-Húye : An Event-Oriented Archaeology in Sixteenth-Century Northern California; Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: The Encounters at Tamál-HúyeCulture Contact and Colonialism; Event-Oriented Archaeology; An Event-Oriented Archaeology; Archaeology of the Encounters at Tamál-Húye; Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: Subduing Tendencies? Colonialism, Capitalism, and Comparative Atlantic Archaeologies; Introduction: Scales of Analysis; Uniform Interpretations and Subduing Tendencies; The Colonial Past in the Capitalist Present; Commemoration, Excavation, Reconsideration?; Concluding Thoughts; References; Chapter 4: Ethnicity and Periphery: The Archaeology of Identity in Russian America
    Description / Table of Contents: Russian Conquest and ColonialismEthnicity in Russian America; Ethnicity and Material Culture; Material Expression in the Archaeological Record; Alaska Native Village Sites; Russian Settlements; Archaeological Interpretation; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Building Farmsteads in the Desert: Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Rural Landscapes in Late Ottoman Period Transjordan; The Archaeology of Ottoman Transjordan; Ottoman Archaeology as Global Historical Archaeology; The Ottoman Empire and the Tanzimat; The Ottoman Land Code and Bedu Registrations; Case Study: Qasr Hisban
    Description / Table of Contents: Parallel Landscapes of Resistance: Caves and GuesthousesConclusions; References; Chapter 6: Uneven Topographies: Archaeology of Plantations and Caribbean Slave Economies; Introduction; Metropolitan Archives and Colonies; Colonies as the Archives of Empires; A Focus on Consumption; A Focus on Production; A Focus on Circulation; Discussion; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: A Life on Broken China: Figuring Senses of Capitalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Bogotá; Modernity, Coloniality, and Capitalism; Ascending to the Olympus; Tracking Back the Merchant's Mark; Capitalist Dualities; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 8: Exchange Values: Commodities, Colonialism, and Identity on Nineteenth Century ZanzibarIntroduction; Contextualizing Capitalism: Plantations on Nineteenth Century Zanzibar; Taking Notice of Ceramics; Wealth and Reciprocity on Zanzibar; Trading Identity; Global Capitalist Relations; Conclusions: The Complexities of Capitalism; References; Chapter 9: "In [Them] We Will Find Very Desirable Tributaries for Our Commerce": Cash Crops, Commodities, and Subjectivities in Siin (Senegal) During the Colonial Era; Formations of Colonial Capitalism: From Totalities to Assemblages
    Description / Table of Contents: Mise-en-Valeur: Logics and Aesthetics of Colonial Capitalism in French West Africa
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0192-6
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    Handbook of Water and Wastewater Systems Protection (2011)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781461401896 , 9781283351935
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Protecting Critical Infrastructure 2
    DDC: 363.6/1
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Hydraulic engineering ; Industrial management ; Political science
    Abstract: Avi Ostfeld
    Abstract: Following the events of 9/11, the Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency created the Water Protection Task Force (WPTF), which identified water and wastewater systems as a major area of vulnerability to deliberate attack. The WPTF suggested that there are steps that can be taken to reduce these vulnerabilities and to make it as difficult as possible for potential saboteurs to succeed. The WPTF recommended that be scrutinized with renewed vigor to secure water and wastewater systems against these possible threats. It also recommended that water and wastewater systems have a res
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgement; Contents; Contributors; 1 Securing Water and Wastewater Systems: An Overview; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 History of Water Supply Vulnerability; 1.3 Threats from Earthquakes; 1.3.1 The Loma Prieta Earthquake; 1.3.2 The Northridge Earthquake; 1.3.3 Kobe City Earthquake; 1.3.4 Technological and Institutional Adaptation; 1.3.4.1 Technological Adaptations; 1.3.4.2 Institutional Adaptations; 1.4 Vulnerable Characteristics of US Water Supply Systems; 1.5 The Threat of Terrorism to Urban Water Systems; 1.5.1 Bioterrorism and Chemical Contamination; 1.6 Countermeasures Against Terrorism
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.6.1 Physical Countermeasures1.6.2 Sensor Networks; 1.7 Cyber Security; 1.7.1 Laws and Regulations Governing the Internet; 1.7.2 Internet Recovery; 1.7.3 Examples of Internet Interruption; 1.7.3.1 Case Study -- The Slammer Worm; 1.7.3.2 Case Study -- A Root Server Attack; 1.7.3.3 Case Study -- The Baltimore Train Tunnel Fire; 1.7.3.4 Case Study -- The September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center; 1.7.3.5 Case Study -- Hurricane Katrina; 1.7.4 Cyber Attacks in the Public Sector; 1.7.4.1 The ''Stuxnet'' Virus; 1.8 Material to Be Included in This Book
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.8.1 Current State of Water Supply and Wastewater Systems Security: An Overview1.8.2 Characteristics of Water and Wastewater Systems in the United States; 1.8.3 Chemical and Microbiological Threats for Water System Contamination; 1.8.4 Monitoring for Natural and Manmade Threats in Water and Wastewater Systems; 1.8.5 Modeling Contaminant Propagation and Contaminant Threats; 1.8.6 Case Study Applications; 1.8.7 Distribution System Modeling, SCADA Systems, Security and Surveillance Systems; 1.8.8 Institutional and Management Issues in Responding to Natural and Manmade Threats
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.8.9 Developing Techniques and Approaches for Natural and Manmade Threat Response1.9 Summary and Conclusions; References; 2 Water/Wastewater Infrastructure Security: Threats and Vulnerabilities; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Why Secure Water Infrastructure?; 2.3 Threats to Water Systems; 2.3.1 Evolving Threat Environment; 2.3.1.1 September 11 Terrorist Attacks; 2.3.1.2 Hurricane Katrina; 2.3.2 Threat Assessments; 2.3.3 Natural Disasters; 2.3.3.1 Human-Caused Incidents; 2.3.3.2 External Threats; 2.3.3.3 Internal Threats; 2.3.3.4 Cyber Threats; 2.3.4 Design Basis Threat
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.5 Continuity Threats to Workforce and Infrastructure2.3.5.1 The Dual Threat: Aging Infrastructure and Aging Workforce; 2.3.5.2 Aging Infrastructure; 2.3.5.3 Interdependent Infrastructure Failures; 2.3.5.4 Workforce Illness; 2.4 Water System Vulnerabilities; 2.4.1 Above-Ground Structures; 2.4.2 Below-Ground Structures; 2.4.3 SCADA and Cyber Systems; 2.4.4 Vulnerability Assessments; References; 3 EPA Drinking Water Security Research Program; 3.1 Background; 3.2 Research Drivers; 3.3 Objectives and Desired Outcomes; 3.4 Water Security Research; 3.4.1 Protection and Prevention
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.4.1.1 Blast Vulnerability Assessment Tool
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    New Perspectives in Global Public Archaeology (2011)
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    ISBN: 9781461403418
    Language: English
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    DDC: 930.1
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Humanities ; Anthropology ; Archaeology
    Abstract: Akira Matsuda
    Abstract: Since its very beginning, archaeology has in many senses always related to a much wider constituency than just archaeologists. This relationship between archaeology and the public has often been overlooked and constantly changes. Public archaeology, as a field of research and practice, has been developing since the 1970s in English-speaking countries, particularly in the United States, Britain, and Australia, and is today beginning to spread to other parts of the world. Global expansion of public archaeology comes with the recognition of the need for a careful understanding of local contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: New Perspectives in GlobalPublic Archaeology; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: New Perspectives in Global Public Archaeology; What is Public Archaeology?; Multiple Approaches to Public Archaeology; Why Examine Public Archaeology from a Global Perspective?; How to Cope with Different/Fragmented Pasts?; Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: Is a Shared Past Possible? The Ethics and Practice of Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century; Ethics as Universal Principles; Coming to the Table; The Context Away from the Table; Conclusion: Taking a Stand; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3: Engaged Archaeology: Whose Community? Which Public?Defining the Community in Community-Based Archaeology; Finding a Public for Public Archaeology; Respecting the Heritage of Archaeology; The A Horizon; References; Chapter 4: "Public Archaeology" in China: A Preliminary Investigation; Introduction; A Historic Review and Significant Incidents Before 1949; New China, New Archaeology; Current Trends; Concluding Remarks; References 1; Chapter 5: Public Archaeology in Canada; Introduction; Foundations for the Development of Archaeology in Canada
    Description / Table of Contents: Development of Avocational Archaeology in CanadaThe Development of Public Archaeology in Canada; Development of a Theoretical Base for Public Archaeology in Canada; Recent Directions in Canadian Public Archaeology; The Impact of Parks Canada on Public Archaeology; The Impact of the CAA on Public Archaeology; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: From Object-Centered to People-Focused: Exploring a Gap Between Archaeologists and the Public in Contemporary Japan; Introduction; The Development of Japanese AHM; Two Phases in the Relationship Between Archaeology and the Japanese Public
    Description / Table of Contents: The Implications of AHM-Dominated ArchaeologyCulture Property-Centered Archaeology and the Belief that "We Are the Same"; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: Public Archaeology in Korea: A Duet of Popularity and Nationalism; Introduction; Engagement with the Public; The Popularization of Archaeology and Its Use in Education Programs; Opening Up the Discipline and Promoting Participation; The Characteristics of Public Archaeology in Korea; A Strong Nationalistic Trend; A Museum Audience of Children; Public Lectures and Housewives; The Notion That "Ours is the Best"
    Description / Table of Contents: Archaeology, Not "History of Gray Past"Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Public Archaeology in Thailand; Introduction; Definition of Terms; The Authority and Organization of Archaeology in Thailand; The Practice of Public Archaeology in Thailand; Public Archaeology as Archaeological Heritage Tourism; Public Archaeology as Community-Based Archaeology; The Case Study of Ban Rai Rockshelter in Highland Pang Mapha; Archaeological Research and Public Archaeology Projects in Highland Pang Mapha; Ban Rai Village; Ban Rai Rockshelter from a Scientific Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Public Archaeology at Ban Rai Village and Rockshelter
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    The Beginnings of Scholarly Economic Journalism : The Austrian Economist and The German Economist (2011)
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    ISBN: 9781461400790 , 9781283351829
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    Series Statement: The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences
    DDC: 073.1'09041
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology
    Abstract: Jürgen Georg Backhaus
    Abstract: The twin journals, Der Osterreichische Volkswirt (The Austrian Economist) and Der Deutsche Volkswirt (The German Economist) were created by Gustav Stolper, godfather of Joseph Schumpeter, first in Vienna and then after the First World War, in Berlin. Schumpeter was to become a frequent contributor of the Berlin-based journal, which combined a successful blend of economic analysis and political and business insider knowledge which Stolper gained with his famous and sought after parties at his Wannsee villa. The two publications offer a kaleidoscope of many different ideas and concepts, some of
    Description / Table of Contents: The Beginnings of ScholarlyEconomic Journalism; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: "A Staggering World": Karl Polanyi's Contribution to Der Österreichische Volkswirt*; 1.1 Polanyi and the Volkswirt; 1.2 Polanyi's Articles: An Overview; 1.3 Social Struggles in England; 1.4 A Democratic-Corporatist Transformation; 1.5 World Politics Transformed; References; Chapter 2: Polanyi on Markets, Democracy and the Crisis of Liberalism; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Market, State and Liberal Ideology; 2.3 The Double Movement and the "Great Transformation"
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4 The Crisis of Liberalism in Polanyi's Early German Writings2.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: What Would the Emperors Have Done Differently in 1914 if One of Their Advisors Had Carefully Followed the Österreichische Volkswirt ?*; References; Chapter 4: Demography in Germany at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century in the Light of Der Deutsche Volkswirt*; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Scientific Status of Demography in Germany at the Turn to the Twentieth Century; 4.3 Attempts to Introduce Consistent Statistical Data in Scientific Research; 4.4 Political Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.5 "Der Deutsche Volkswirt" and Demography4.6 The Nazi Time; References; Chapter 5: Issues of Economic Policy in Germany in the Interbellum; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Monetary Theory; 5.2.1 The Nature and Value of Money: Menger and Knapp; 5.2.2 Federn on Knapp and Mises; 5.3 Business Cycle Theory; 5.4 The Constitution of the State: State Reform and Finance Reform; 5.5 Some Aspects of the Economic Constitution; 5.6 The Attitude of DVW Towards National Socialism and Neo-Liberalism; 5.6.1 Attitude of the DVW to National Socialism Before and After 1933; 5.6.2 The Roots of Neo-Liberalism
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.7 ConclusionReferences; Chapter 6: On "The Europeanization of Persia" by N. Basseches; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Agriculture; 6.3 Trade, Industry, and Capital; 6.4 Summary and Conclusions; References; Chapter 7: The Austrian and German "Economist" in the Interwar Period: International Aspects; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Versailles; 7.3 The Reparations; 7.3.1 Reactions; 7.3.2 Plans; 7.4 Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: From Stabilization to Depression: Comments in the Österreichische Volkswirt on Economic Policy in Austria Between 1923 and 1929*; 8.1 Der Österreichische Volkswirt (1908-1998)
    Description / Table of Contents: 8.2 The Economic Problem of "Deutschösterreich" Between the World Wars8.3 The Stabilization of the Post-War Economy; 8.4 The Reconstruction of the Capital Market; 8.5 Structural Imbalances and Lebensfähigkeit (Viability) of the Austrian Economy; 8.6 Banks; 8.7 Portents of Crisis: The Collapse of the Bodencreditanstalt; 8.8 The OVw's General Views on Economic Policy; 8.9 The OVw's Support for the Constitution and for Parliamentary Democracy; References; Chapter 9: Gustav Stolper: Mentor of a Young German Democrat
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 10: How to Fight Unemployment? A Review of the Strategy Discussion in "Der Deutsche Volkswirt", 1930-1932
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    Trekking the Shore : Changing Coastlines and the Antiquity of Coastal Settlement (2011)
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    Series Statement: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
    DDC: 304.2/3
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Anthropology ; Archaeology
    Abstract: Human settlement has often centered around coastal areas and waterways. Until recently, however, archaeologists believed that marine economies did not develop until the end of the Pleistocene, when the archaeological record begins to have evidence of marine life as part of the human diet. This has long been interpreted as a postglacial adaptation, due to the rise in sea level and subsequent decrease in terrestrial resources. Coastal resources, particularly mollusks, were viewed as fallback resources, which people resorted to only when terrestrial resources were scarce, included only as part of a more complex diet. Recent research has significantly altered this understanding, known as the Broad Spectrum Revolution (BSR) model. The contributions to this volume revise the BSR model, with evidence that coastal resources were an important part of human economies and subsistence much earlier than previously thought, and even the main focus of diets for some Pleistocene and early Holocene hunter-gatherer societies. With evidence from North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, this volume comprehensively lends a new understanding to coastal settlement from the Middle Paleolithic to the Middle Holocene.
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. North America and Eurasia -- pt. 2. South America, Africa, and Oceania.
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    Handbook of Sociology of Aging (2011)
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    Series Statement: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
    Parallel Title: Print version Handbook of Sociology of Aging
    DDC: 305.26
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Quality of Life ; Social policy ; Aging Research ; Quality of Life Research
    Abstract: The Handbook of Sociology of Aging is the most comprehensive, engaging, and up-to-date treatment of developments within the field over the past 30 years. The volume represents an indispensable source of the freshest and highest standard scholarship for scholars, policy makers, and aging professionals alike. The Handbook of Sociology of Aging contains 45 far-reaching chapters, authored by nearly 80 of the most renowned experts, on the most pressing topics related to aging today. With its recurring attention to the social forces that shape human aging, and the social consequences and policy implications of it, the contents will be of interest to everyone who cares about what aging means for individuals, families, and societies. The chapters of the Handbook of Sociology of Aging illustrate the field's extraordinary breadth and depth, which has never before been represented in a single volume. Its contributions address topics that range from foundational matters, such as classic and contemporary theories and methods, to topics of longstanding and emergent interest, such as social diversity and inequalities, social relationships, social institutions, economies and governments, social vulnerabilities, public health, and care arrangements. The volume closes with a set of personal essays by senior scholars who share their experiences and hopes for the field, and an essay by the editors that provides a roadmap for the decade ahead. The Handbook of Sociology of Aging showcases the very best that sociology has to offer the study of human aging.
    Description / Table of Contents: Handbook of Sociology of Aging; Scholarly Foreword; Policy Foreword; Preface; Contents; About The Editors and Contributors; Part I Historical Trends in the Sociology of Aging; Chapter 1: Trends in the Sociology of Aging: Thirty Year Observations; Historical Trends in Theories, Methods, and Topics; Broad Trends in Theories; Broad Trends in Methods; Trends in Topics and Associated Terms; The Institutionalization of the Sociology of Aging; The Life Course as Both Friend and Foe to the Sociology of Aging; The Social Organization of the Field; Concluding Comment; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II Theories and Methods in the Sociology of AgingChapter 2: Theoretical Perspectives on the Sociology of Aging; Early Developments in the Sociology of Aging; Developments from the 1980s; Establishment of the Political Economy Perspective; Development and Formalization of the Life Course Perspective; Interpretive Sociology and Social Construction of Aging and the Life Course; Current Theoretical Development in the Sociology of Aging; Stress Theory, Aging, and the Life Course; Cumulative Inequality; The Standardized Life Course; Risk Society; Chance Events and the Life Course
    Description / Table of Contents: Structure and Agency in the Life CourseThe Family and the Life Course; Beyond Theory? Critical Gerontology and the Critical Feminist Perspective; Globalization, Aging, and the Life Course; Where Does Theory Need to Go?; References; Chapter 3: Aging Individuals, Families, and Societies: Micro-Meso-Macro Linkages in the Life Course; Dynamic and Structured Aspects of the Life Course; Great Events; Cultural Zeitgeist; Institutional Change; A Dynamic Biographical-Institutional-Societal Model of the Life Course; Multi-Level Life Course Approaches; Macro-Level Effects; Meso-Level Effects
    Description / Table of Contents: Empirical Test of a Biographical-Institutional-Societal Model of the Life CourseChange in Family Structures (Meso-Level); Weakening Norms of Filial Responsibility (Macro-Level); The Generational-Sequential Design; Data Set; Methodological Considerations; Results; Conclusion: The Life Course as a Sensitizing Concept in Multi-Level Studies; Multi-National Studies; Institutional Change; Cross-Generational Correspondence; References; Chapter 4: Widening the View: Capturing "Unobserved" Heterogeneity in Studies of Age and the Life Course
    Description / Table of Contents: Unobserved Heterogeneity Due to Standard Statistical PracticeUnobserved Heterogeneity Due to Study Design; Unobserved Heterogeneity Due to Single Methodologies; Conclusion; References; Part III Social Diversity and Inequalities of Aging; Chapter 5: Gender and Aging; Introducing the Gendered Dimension; Emergence of Gender Relations Through a "Gender Lens"; Disadvantages and Advantages Facing Older Men and Women; Redressing Imbalances: Changing Partnership Status and Older Men; Partnership Status; Challenges for Men in Later Life; The Aging (Gendered) Body; Challenges for the Future
    Description / Table of Contents: Gender Imbalances
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    Reform Processes and Policy Change : Veto Players and Decision-Making in Modern Democracies (2011)
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    ISBN: 9781441958099 , 1282927698 , 9781282927698
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 284 p, digital)
    Edition: 1
    Series Statement: Studies in Public Choice 16
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Reform processes and policy change
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science Philosophy ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Political science Philosophy ; Political science ; Demokratie ; Politischer Prozess ; Politische Entscheidung ; Politische Reform ; Veto ; Demokratie ; Politischer Prozess ; Politische Entscheidung ; Politische Reform ; Veto
    Abstract: George Tsebelis` veto players approach has become a prominent theory to analyze various research questions in political science. Studies that apply veto player theory deal with the impact of institutions and partisan preferences of legislative activity and policy outcomes. It is used to measure the degree of policy change and, thus, reform capacity in national and international political systems. This volume contains the analysis of leading scholars in the field on these topics and more recent developments regarding theoretical and empirical progress in the area of political reform-making. The contributions come from research areas of political science where veto player theory plays a significant role, including, positive political theory, legislative behavior and legislative decision-making in national and supra-national political systems, policy making and government formation. The contributors to this book add to the current scholarly and public debate on the role of veto players, making it of interest to scholars in political science and policy studies as well as policymakers worldwide.
    Description / Table of Contents: Reform Processes and Policy Change; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Part I Introduction; 1 Veto Player Theory and Policy Change: An Introduction; Arguments Made in Veto Players; Arguments Made in This Book; References; Part II Identification of Veto Players; 2 Empirical Applications of Veto Player Analysisand Institutional Effectiveness; Introduction; Veto Players: Definitional Issues; Empirical Application of the Veto Player Approach; Legislatures in Parliamentary Democracies; Political Economy Outputs in Developed Countries; Application in Developing Countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Veto Players and InstitutionsThe Role of Veto Players in Institutional Effectiveness; Conclusion; References; 3 The Veto Player Approach in Macro-Comparative Politics: Concepts and Measurement; Conceptualizing and Measuring Veto Players in Macro-comparative Analysis; Competing Concepts of Veto Player and Veto Point Analysis; Measurement and Aggregation of Veto Points in Macro-comparative Analysis; Measurement and Aggregation of Veto Players in Macro-Comparative Analysis; Towards a More Refined Veto Player Analysis; Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 Measuring Policy Positions of Veto Players in Parliamentary DemocraciesStep 1: Identifying Legislative Keywords; Step 2: Smart Tagging Political Texts Using Legislative Keywords; Step 3: Estimate Portfolio Positions; References; Part III Interpretation of Veto Players; 5 Mutual Veto? How Coalitions Work; Delegation in Coalition Governments; How Delegation Works in Coalition Governments; Contract Design; Screening; Reporting and Monitoring; Institutional Checks; How Coalitions Choose Control Mechanisms; Internal Logic of the Coalition's Governance Architecture; Environmental Factors
    Description / Table of Contents: Patterns of Coalition GovernanceEnvironmental Factors; Familiarity; Bargaining Complexity in Parliament; Parliamentary Polarization; Policy Preference Divergence; Time; Institutions; Data and Methods; Results; Conclusion: Mutual Veto?; References; 6 Veto Players, Agenda Control and Cabinet Stabilityin 17 European Parliaments, 1945-1999; Introduction; Cabinet Stability in Cross-national Comparison: Data and Description of the Dependent Variable; Explaining Cabinet Stability: The Story So Far; Veto Players, Agenda Control and Cabinet Duration; Testing the Hypotheses; Discussion of Results
    Description / Table of Contents: ConclusionReferences; 7 The Sources of Bipartisan Politics in Parliamentary Democracies; Introduction; Bipartisan Legislative Activity and Success in Parliamentary Democracies; A Model of Bipartisan Politics; Research Design and Measures; Analysis; Conclusion; References; 8 Why Don't Veto Players Use Their Power?; Veto Players and Voting in the Council: The Empirical Puzzle; Veto Power, Voting Preferences and Consensus: Why Bother?; The DEU Data: Actors' Interests in Contested Commission Proposals; Voting Preferences, Selection Bias and Strategies for Consensus
    Description / Table of Contents: Logrolling Across Proposals Within a Period and Within a Domain
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    The Calculus of Consent and Constitutional Design (2011)
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    ISBN: 9780387981710
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 120p, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Public Choice 20
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Dougherty, Keith L., 1965 - The calculus of consent and constitutional design
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science Philosophy ; Social sciences Methodology ; Political science ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Political science Philosophy ; Social sciences Methodology ; Political science ; Buchanan, James M. 1919-2013 The calculus of consent ; Demokratie ; Verfassungsorgan ; Entscheidungsfindung ; Distributionskosten ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: "Buchanan and Tullock's seminal work, The Calculus of Consent, linked economic methodology to substantive questions in political science. Among the major contributions of the book is a connection between constitutional decision making and contractarianism, a philosophical tradition that proponents believe can give institutions legitimacy. In other words, a major contribution of their book is a clear connection between empirical decision making and normative principles. This book formalizes and extends this foundational work as it attempts to show how economic and philosophical arguments about the ""best"" voting rules can be used to improve constitutional design. It informs debates about constitutional political economy in comparative politics, democratic theory, and public choice. Political scientists often ask questions about what causes a nation to seek a new constitution, how constitutions are made, and what factors allow for corruption in constitutional decision making. The Calculus of Consent and Constitutional Design bridges the gap between normative questions about which institutions are most efficient and fair and empirical questions about how constitutions are formed. This provides a benchmark to help create better constitutions and informs empirical research about what institutions are most likely to succeed. The book begins by showing how contractarian ideals can be used to justify choices about decision-making. It then carefully defines several concepts employed by Buchanan and Tullock and shows why the relationships between these concepts may not be as closely linked as Buchanan and Tullock first thought. This provides a backdrop for analyzing the three phases of constitutional decision-making: 1) the constitutional phase, where rules for constitutional decision making must be justified, 2) the legislative phase, where the optimal k-majority rule1 is analyzed, and 3) the electoral phase, where the optimal voting rule for large electorates and open alternatives are determined. These phases differ by context and sources of legitimacy. Computational models and analytic techniques are introduced in each of these chapters. Finally, the book concludes with statements about the significance of the research for the creation of constitutions more broadly."
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    An Anthropology of Absence : Materializations of Transcendence and Loss (2010)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Humanities ; Anthropology
    Abstract: In studying material culture, anthropologists and archaeologists use meaningful physical objects from a culture to help understand the less tangible aspects of that culture, such as societal structure, rituals, and values. What happens when these objects are destroyed, by war, natural disaster, or other historical events? Through detailed explanations of eleven international case studies, the contributions reveal that the absence of objects can be just as telling as their presence, while the objects created to memorialize a loss also have important cultural implications. Covering everything fr
    Description / Table of Contents: An Anthropology of Absence; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Chapter 1; Introduction: An Anthropology of Absence; The Corporeality of Absence; Philosophies of Absence; Presence and Absence in Everyday Life; Perspectives on the Agency of Absence; Towards an Anthropology of Absence; References; Chapter 2; People Without Things; Introduction; The Carnality of Absence; Naked Society; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3; Missing Bodies Near-at-Hand: The Dissonant Memory and Dormant Graves of the Spanish Civil War; Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: "Bring Them Back Alive": The Absent Dead as A Site of Active Political Tension"The Disappeared" Versus "the Not Known of":Conceptualizing the Spanish Republican Dead; Scattered in the Mountains but Buried Near-at-Hand: Dissonance in the Location of the Dead; Bodies as Seeds: Organic Metaphors for the Dormancy and Instability of Human Remains; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4; A Sense of Absence: The Staging of Heroic Deaths and Ongoing Lives among American Organ Donor Families; Introduction; Staging Absence: Organizational Sense-Making; Transforming Absence: Constructing a Hero
    Description / Table of Contents: Commemorating the Dead: Objects of AcknowledgementLiving in Others: Durable Body Parts; Performing and Pursuing the Presence of the Dead and the Legitimacy of the Bereaved; References; Chapter 5; Derivative Presence: Loss and Lives in Limbo in the West Bank; Introduction: Voids; Framing Absence; Presenting the Loss of Palestine; Lives in Limbo; Ambiguous Absence; References; Chapter 6; Materializations of Disaster: Recovering Lost Plots in a Tsunami-Affected Village in South India; Introduction; Recovery and the Realm of the Ordinary; A Monument to Mourning; The Materiality of Loss
    Description / Table of Contents: Interrupted TrajectoriesConclusion: On New Plots; References; Chapter 7; A Saturated Void: Anticipating and Preparing Presence in Contemporary Danish Cemetery Culture; Introduction; Absence and Commemoration; Design Idioms in Danish Cemeteries; Absences at Danish Cemeteries; Temporary Voids: Death As Completion; Incomplete Information: Death As Continuation; Contained Absence: The Textual and the Material; Textual Gaps; Material Gaps; Conclusion: Generative Lacunae; References; Chapter 8; Bringing Home the Dead: Photographs, Family Imaginaries and Moral Remains; References; Chapter 9
    Description / Table of Contents: Absent Powers: Magic and Loss in Post-socialist MongoliaIntroduction; Unknown Spirit Powers in Contemporary Mongolia; Socialism and the Labor of the Negative; Manufacturing Absence in a Written Buddhist Charm; Effects of Absence: Indeterminacy and Avoidance; Conclusion; References; Chapter 10; Seeking Providence Through Things: The Word of God Versus Black Cumin; Introduction; The Physicality of Protection; The Ambiguous Immateriality of the Word of God; Reformulating Absence; Conclusion; References; Chapter 11; Presencing the Im-Material; Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: The Absent Present, Propinquity and Things
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    The Paleoanthropology and Archaeology of Big-Game Hunting : Protein, Fat, or Politics? (2010)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9781441967336
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    Series Statement: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
    DDC: 303.4
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Nutrition ; Evolution (Biology) ; Archaeology ; Paläanthropologie ; Archäologie ; Hominidae ; Großwildjagd ; Funktion
    Abstract: Since its inception, paleoanthropology has been closely wedded to the idea that big-game hunting by our hominin ancestors arose, first and foremost, as a means for acquiring energy and vital nutrients. This assumption has rarely been questioned, and seems intuitively obvious - meat is a nutrient-rich food with the ideal array of amino acids, and big animals provide meat in large, convenient packages. Through new research, the author of this volume provides a strong argument that the primary goals of big-game hunting were actually social and political - increasing hunter's prestige and standing - and that the nutritional component was just an added bonus. Through a comprehensive, interdisciplinary research approach, the author examines the historical and current perceptions of protein as an important nutrient source, the biological impact of a high-protein diet and the evidence of this in the archaeological record, and provides a compelling reexamination of this long-held conclusion. This volume will be of interest to researchers in Archaeology, Evolutionary Biology, and Paleoanthropology, particularly those studying diet and nutrition.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Paleoanthropologyand Archaeologyof Big-Game Hunting; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: How Do We Reconstruct Hunting Patterns in the Past?; Chapter 3: Big-Game Hunting in Human Evolution: The Traditional View; Chapter 4: The Other Side of Protein; Chapter 5: Were Big-Game Hunters Targeting Fat?; Chapter 6: Protein and Pregnancy; Chapter 7: Other Problems with High-Protein Intakes; Chapter 8: Protein and Taste; Chapter 9: Protein and Breast Milk; Chapter 10: Fat in Infancy.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6733-6
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    Pre-Columbian Foodways : Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Culture, and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica (2010)
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    Keywords: Archaeology ; Regional planning ; Social sciences
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0471-3
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    Collective Action Theory and Empirical Evidence (2010)
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    ISBN: 9781441914767
    Language: English
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    DDC: 322.4
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Mathematics ; Political science ; Sociology ; Kollektives Handeln ; Politische Mobilisierung ; Theorie
    Abstract: The volume is divided into six chapters. The introduction covers the theory of collective action in its many manifestations as well as the process of drawing out theoretical implications. The second chapter goes to the core of the mobilization issues, especially with regard to the role of leadership, which is inextricably linked to mobilization. The third chapter applies the concept of adaptation to the development of more productive tactics that promote mobilization in support of a public good and minimize the possibility of repression. In chapter four, five spatial hypotheses based on ration
    Description / Table of Contents: Collective Action Theory and Empirical Evidence; 1 Testing Collective Action Theory; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Three Sources for Tests; 1.3 Varieties of Empirical Evidence; 1.4 A Retreat to the Mundane; 1.5 The Plan of the Book; Bibliography; 2 Leadership and Mobilization; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Role of Leadership in Mobilization; 2.3 Events as Catalysts in Mobilization; 2.4 Does the Form of Government Matter?; 2.5 Resources; 2.6 Clandestine Mobilization; 2.7 Mass Mobilization; 2.8 When Leaders Have Incomplete Knowledge; 2.9 Coordination Power; 2.10 When Leaders are Replenished
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.11 Competing Leaders2.12 Recruiting Violent Dissidents; 2.13 Civil War; 2.14 Pecuniary Incentives; 2.15 After the Massacre; 2.16 Leadership and Mobilization; Bibliography; 3 Tactical Adaptation and Symbolic Protest; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Definitions and the Challenge of Analysis; 3.3 Adaptation and Symbolic Protest in Autocratic States; 3.4 Symbolic Protest in Repressive Systems; 3.5 Adaptation, Innovation, and Diffusion in Democratic States; 3.5.1 The Challenge of Publicity and Media Attention; 3.5.2 Clothing or its Absence; 3.5.3 Music; 3.5.4 Bricks, Mortar, and Cement
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5.5 Symbolic Action3.5.6 Fake Signs; 3.5.7 Two-sided Adaptation and Coevolution; 3.6 Adaptation and Symbolic Protest: A Research Agenda; Bibliography; 4 Dimensions of Space and Time in Protest and Repression; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Space in Theory and Evidence; 4.2.1 Dissident Entrepreneurs Select and Use Space Based on Their Tactics; 4.2.2 Dissident Entrepreneurs Seek to Shift Protesters into a Space that Reduces the Probability of Coercion and Maximizes Mobilization; 4.2.3 Protester Site Selection; 4.2.4 Tacit Coordination and Site Selection
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.5 Dissidents Adapt Not Only Tactically But Also Spatially When Faced with Large Coercion Forces4.2.6 The State's Dilemma Grows Larger as Dissident Mobilization Diffuses and Concentration Increases; 4.2.7 Space in Protest and Repression; 4.3 Time; 4.3.1 Dictatorships and Rapid Collapse; 4.3.2 The Special Case of Riots; 4.3.3 Duration of Protest Under Heavy Repression; 4.3.4 The Duration and Timing of Protest Events; 4.3.5 Stability Over Time; 4.3.6 Specification Problems and the Duration of Protest and Repression; Bibliography; 5 Terror; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Why Do Terror Groups Form?
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.3 Necessary Supports of a Terror Group5.3.1 Financing Terror; 5.3.2 Recruitment; 5.3.3 Safe Areas, Safe Houses, and Protective Support; 5.3.4 Leadership; 5.4 Methods of Combating a Terror Group; 5.4.1 Arrests, Killings, and Forces Against Terror; 5.4.2 "Critical Mass" in the Context of Terror; 5.4.3 Political Arms, Negotiations, Cease-Fires, and Splintering; 5.4.4 Loss of Popular Support; 5.4.5 Extinct and Zombie Terror Organizations; 5.4.6 The Possibility of Eliminating an International Terror Organization; Bibliography; 6 Evidence for Collective Action Theory; 6.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.2 Evaluation
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1476-7
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    Pathways to power : new perspectives on the emergence of social inequality (2010)
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    Series Statement: Fundamental Issues in Archaeology 0
    DDC: 930.1
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Archaeology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ethnoarchäologie ; Soziale Anerkennung ; Antike
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6300-0
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    New Perspectives on Old Stones : Analytical Approaches to Paleolithic Technologies (2010)
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    DDC: 930.12
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Archaeology
    Abstract: As the study of Paleolithic Technologies particularly moves towards a more analytical, hypothesis-based approach, it is necessary to determine a consistent framework for this analysis. The contributions to this timely and comprehensive volume do just that. This volume incorporates a broad chronological and geographical range of Paleolithic material from the Lower to Upper Paleolithic. The focus of this volume is to provide an analysis of paleolithic technologies from an experimental, empirical perspective. As new techniques, particularly quantitative methods, for analyzing Paleolithic Technologies gain popularity, this work provides case studies particularly showcasing these new techniques, as well as comprehesively covering more established methods for analysis. Employing diverse case studies, this volume covers an analysis from chaine operatoire, multivariate, attribute analysis, morphometrics, model-based approaches, replication, and experimentation, this volume provides insight from international contributors on the forefront of recent methodological advances.
    Description / Table of Contents: Analytical approaches to Palaeolithic technologies : an introduction / Stephen J. Lycett and Parth R. ChauhanA geometric morphometric assessment of plan shape in bone and stone Acheulean bifaces from the middle Pleistocene site of Castel di Guido, Latium, Italy / August G. Costa -- Regional diversity within the core technology of the Howiesons Poort techno-complex / Chris Clarkson -- Questioning the link between stone tool standardization and behavioral modernity / Gilliane F. Monnier and Kieran P. McNulty -- The quantitative analysis of mobility : ecological techniques and archaeological extensions / Matt Grove -- Metrical variability between South Asian handaxe assemblages : preliminary observations / Parth R. Chauhan -- Quantifying variation in landscape-scale behaviors : the Oldowan from Koobi Fora / David R. Braun [and others] -- The mathematics of chaînes opératoires / P. Jeffrey Brantingham -- Cultural transmission, genetic models, and lithic variability : integrative analytical approaches / Stephen J. Lycett -- Comparing stone tool resharpening trajectories with the aid of elliptical Fourier analysis / Radu Ioviță -- An assessment of the impact of resharpening on Paleoindian projectile point blade shape using geometric morphometric techniques / Briggs Buchanan and Mark Collard -- Stone-tool demography : reduction distributions in North American Paleoindian tools / Michael J. Shott -- The future of lithic analysis in Palaeolithic archaeology : a view from the Old World / John A.J. Gowlett -- The future of Palaeolithic studies : a view from the New World / Michael J. O'Brien.
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    Adult Attachment in Clinical Social Work : Practice, Research, and Policy (2010)
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    Series Statement: Essential Clinical Social Work Series
    DDC: 361.3
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Psychotherapy ; Social work ; Applied psychology
    Abstract: The applicability of attachment theory and research to social work and social policy relating to infants and children is well-established. Yet, its usefulness for enhancing the understanding of adults and their needs, both individually and as a group, has been less featured in the attachment literature. Adult Attachment in Clinical Social Work Practice is a wide-ranging look at attachment theory and research, its application to adults, and its natural fit with the social work profession. This edited volume covers the applicability of adult attachment theory to the clinical social work profession's various domains that include human behavior, practice, policy, research, and social work education. It addresses the broad spectrum of clinical social work, including practice in a variety of public and private settings and with a number of diverse populations, including racial-ethnic groups, gays and lesbians, trauma survivors, and child welfare parents. The book highlights the underemphasized contribution of the social work profession to the development of attachment theory and research.
    Description / Table of Contents: Adult Attachment in ClinicalSocial Work; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Editors; Chapter 1: Introduction; Background of This Book; Attachment Concepts, Classifications, and Terminology; Organization of This Book; Conclusion; References; Part I Theory Development RegardingAdult Attachment; Chapter 2: The Origins of an Attachment Approach to Social Work Practice with Adults; Chapter 3: Contemporary Theory and Research on Adult Attachment: Where is the Field Today?; Chapter 4: Clinical Social Work and Regulation Theory: Implications of Neurobiological Modelsof Attachment
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II Applications to Adult Clinical PracticeChapter 5: Separation, Loss, and Grief in Adults: An Attachment Perspective; Chapter 6: Listening Closely: The Significance of the Therapist's Voice Intensity, Rhythm, and Tone; Chapter 7: Using a Mentalization-Based Framework to Assist Hard-to-Reach Clients in Individual Treatment; Chapter 8: Attachment and Caregiving for Elders Within African-American Families; Chapter 9: Attachment in the Family Context: Insights from Development and Clinical Work; Chapter 10: Applications of Attachment Theory to Group Interventions: A Secure Base in Adulthood
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III Attachment Applications to Policy,Research, and EducationChapter 11: Policy Implications of Attachment Processes in Adulthood: Caregiving and Family Preservation; Chapter 12: Attachment Research: Contributions of Social Workers; Chapter 13: Implications of Attachment Theory for Social Work Education
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    Historical Archeology of Tourism in Yellowstone National Park (2010)
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    Series Statement: When the Land Meets the Sea, An ACUA and SHA Series 1
    DDC: 978.7/52
    Keywords: Humanities ; Archaeology ; Social sciences
    Abstract: This volume contains three studies that trace the history of tourism in Yellowstone National Park through material remains discovered in both terrestrial and underwater archeological sites. A research approach with an archeological foundation opens new avenues of inquiry not available by using historical documents alone. Incorporating archeological materials into our interpretations of historical tourism in Yellowstone can help counter research biases that hamper use of a sometimes-fragmentary archival record. Archeology gives voice to people otherwise missing from written history, and therefore give us the broadest view of the past. These chapters draw together the fascinating historical archeology of Yellowstone National Park into a single volume linked by a common research framework, the archeology of tourism. While oftentimes treated as separate and unrelated resources, historical archeological sites on land, underwater, and in the liminal zone in between, connect in Yellowstone through a shared history and a universal purpose. Situating these sites within the context of a larger tourist infrastructure allows us to broaden our interpretation and enriches the stories the sites have to tell.
    Description / Table of Contents: A model of tourism as context for historical sites : an example of historical archeology at Yellowstone National Park / William J. HuntMaritime archeology of tourims in Yellowstone National Park / Matthew A. Russell, Larry E. Murphy, and James E. Bradford -- The Marshall/Firehole Hotel : archeology in a thermal river environment / Annalies Corbin [and others].
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1084-4
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    Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany : A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases (2010)
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    Keywords: Archaeology ; Botany ; Zoology ; Social sciences
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    Handbook of European Societies : Social Transformations in the 21st Century (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780387881997
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXV, 672p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Handbook of European societies
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Europe Economic policy ; Sociology ; Quality of Life Research ; Social Sciences ; Quality of Life ; Europe Economic policy ; Sociology ; Quality of Life Research ; Social sciences ; Europäische Union ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Wandel ; Europäische Integration ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Gesellschaft ; Entwicklung ; Europa ; Gesellschaft ; Entwicklung
    Abstract: "European integration is one of the most ambitious and socially far-reaching developments in world politics and in world economics. Against growing opposition and despite increasing social heterogeneity, the European Union continues to expand and to acquire new competences. But to what extent is the self-proclaimed ""ever closer union among the peoples of Europe"" a social reality? In which ways is the political European project anchored in social developments? How does social change impinge upon political integration? Societal trends in multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and socially diverse Europe have never been studied systematically. Handbook of European Societies: Social Transformations in the 21st Century sets to rectify this neglect of societal developments in Europe, providing a groundwork for the sociology of European integration. The book portrays social life and social relations in the enlarged Europe, and gives a perspective on the European Union as an evolving social entity. Handbook of European Societies is a pioneering source book analyzing the current social patterns on the continent. It covers a representative selection of major topics of social concern and sociological relevance, such as Collective Action, Consumption, Identity, Power Structure, Sexuality, Stratification and Well-being. Each contribution probes key developments in a strictly comparative manner. The Handbook thus offers a detailed look into the intricacies of the national societies of Europe and into the prospect of an emerging European society. The Editors have enlisted leading researchers to synthesize existing knowledge and to make use of many different data sources in a straight-forward style. The contributions stay away from jargon, simple labeling and sweeping assertions. Instead, they provide solid and accessible information on a wide variety of social trends and processes within and across European societies."
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgement; Contents; Country Codes; Editors; Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; 2 Association and Community; 3 Bureaucracy and the State; 4 Cities; 5 Cleavages and Political Transformations; 6 Collective Action; 7 Crime and Justice; 8 Culture; 9 Education; 10 Elites and Power Structure; 11 Identity; 12 Leisure and Consumption in Europe; 13 Life Course; 14 Population; 15 Religion and Churches; 16 Sexuality and Family Formation; 17 Stratification and Social Mobility; 18 Transnationality; 19 Welfare State; 20 Well-Being and Inequality.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-88199-7
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    American Immigration Policy : Confronting the Nation's Challenges (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780387959405
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 236 p, digital)
    Edition: 1
    Series Statement: Public Administration, Governance and Globalization 1
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Economic policy ; Population ; Regional economics ; Social policy ; Political science ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Economic policy ; Population ; Regional economics ; Social policy ; Political science
    Abstract: The mission of this book is to counter the apocalyptic vision of the American 'invasion' with a more balanced account of the consequences of immigration. The book will examine how the United States has dealt with immigration through enactment of various public policies over time. It will approach the issue from a political, economic and cultural perspective with an emphasis on the qualitative, positive contributions of immigrants. The goal of the book is to provide some individual depth to the larger discussion of immigration that typically is carried out at the 'macro' level. It argues that i
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Contents; 1 Introduction; A Nation of Immigrants; History of American Settlement and Migration; Americas New Immigrants; Theories of Migration; Pull and Push Theories of Migration; Neoclassical Economic Theory of Migration; Segmented Labor Market Theory; Overview of US Immigration and Immigration Policies; From Open Immigration to Initial Restrictions (1790--1920); Era of Clear Restrictions (1921--1964); Era of Easing Restrictions (1965--1985); Era of Renewed Restrictions (1986--Present); Contemporary Controversies in Immigration Policy; Economic Angst; Cultural and Political Angst
    Description / Table of Contents: Plan of Book2 Theoretical Perspectives: Economics, Culture, Politics; Introduction; Economic Perspectives on Immigration; Neoclassical Perspectives on Immigration; Dual Labor Market, World Systems, Social Group and Family Theories; Cultural Perspectives on Immigration; Political Perspectives on Immigration; Historical Views on Immigration; Contemporary Views on Immigration; Toward a Policy of Optimal Immigration; Conclusions; 3 The Political Economy of Immigration Policies and Politics; Introduction; The Microeconomics of Migration; The Macroeconomics of Immigration
    Description / Table of Contents: Optimal Immigration PolicyThe Politics of Immigration Policy; 4 Immigrant Contributions to American Economic Development; Introduction; Literature on Economic Impact of Immigrants; Description and Analysis of Data; American Community Survey Data; Description of Immigrants in 2007; Immigrant Earnings; Immigrant Education; Immigrant Gender; Immigrant Age; Immigrant Wealth; Conclusions; Case 4.1 Andrew Grove (Budapest, Hungary); Andrew Grove's Early Life; Escape from Hungary and Early Life in the United States; Andrew Grove's Business Career; Andrew Grove's Management Philosophy
    Description / Table of Contents: Legacy of Andrew GroveCase 4.2 An Wang (Shanghai, China); An Wang's Early Life; Education and Inventions; Wang Labs; Legacy of An Wang; Case 4.3 George Soros (Budapest, Hungary); George Soros's Early Life; Soros the Financier; Soros the Philosopher and Political Activist; Legacy of George Soros; 5 Immigrant Contributions to American Culture; Introduction; Literature on Cultural Impact of Immigrants; Description and Analysis of Data; Work Effort; Self-Employment (Entrepreneurship); Dependency; Marriage; Naturalization; Ability to Speak English; Military Participation; Conclusions
    Description / Table of Contents: Case 5.1 Irving Berlin (Temun, Russia)Irving Berlin's Early Life; Berlin the Songwriter and Composer; Berlin the American Patriot; Berlin's Personal Life; Legacy of Irving Berlin; Case 5.2 Hakeem Olajuwon (Lagos, Nigeria); Hakeem Olajuwon's Early Life; Olajuwon's College and Pro Career; Olajuwon's Personal Life; Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon; 6 Immigrant Contributions to American Politicsand Immigration Policy; Introduction; Historical Review of Immigration Policy; Immigration Policies in Colonial Times; Massachusetts; Virginia and Other Colonies; Nativism in the Colonial Period
    Description / Table of Contents: Immigration Policies in the Post-colonial Era
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    A War on Terror? : The European Stance on a New Threat, Changing Laws and Human Rights Implications (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780387892917 , 9780387892900
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 554p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. A war on terror?
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Criminal Law ; Criminology ; Social Sciences ; Criminal Law ; Criminology ; Social sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Internationaler Terrorismus ; Bekämpfung ; Menschenrecht
    Abstract: Analyzes trends and developments in law enforcement and legal systems in Europe, including material from non-English-speaking countries. Offering an overview with a focus on criminal law, police procedure, immigration law, and human rights, this book provides insight into what the war on terror means to EU member and non-member countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Wade_FM.pdf; Anchor 1; Wade_Introduction.pdf; Wade_Ch01.pdf; Chapter 1; Wade_Ch02.pdf; Chapter 2; Wade_Ch03.pdf; Chapter 3; Wade_Ch04.pdf; Chapter 4; Wade_Ch05.pdf; Chapter 5; Wade_Ch06.pdf; Chapter 6; Wade_Ch07.pdf; Chapter 7; Wade_Ch08.pdf; Chapter 8; Wade_Ch09.pdf; Chapter 9; Wade_Ch10.pdf; Chapter 10; Wade_Ch11.pdf; Chapter 11; Wade_Ch12.pdf; Chapter 12; Wade_Ch13.pdf; Chapter 13; Wade_Ch14.pdf; Chapter 14; Wade_Ch15.pdf; Chapter 15; Wade_Ch16.pdf; Chapter 16; Wade_Ch17.pdf; Chapter 17; Wade_Ch18.pdf; Chapter 18; Wade_Index.pdf
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-89291-7
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    Globalization and Families : Accelerated Systemic Social Change (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780387882857
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    DDC: 306.85
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    Keywords: Sociology ; Demography ; Applied psychology ; Social sciences
    Abstract: As our world becomes increasingly interconnected through economic integration, technology, communication, and political transformation, the sphere of the family is a fundamental arena where globalizing processes become realized. For most individuals, family in whatever configuration, still remains the primary arrangement that meets certain social, emotional, and economic needs. It is within families that decisions about work, care, movement, and identity are negotiated, contested, and resolved. Globalization has profound implications for how families assess the choices and challenges that accompany this process. Families are integrated into the global economy through formal and informal work, through production and consumption, and through their relationship with nation-states. Moreover, ever growing communication and information technologies allow families and individuals to have access to others in an unprecedented manner. These relationships are accompanied by new conceptualizations of appropriate lifestyles, identities, and ideologies even among those who may never be able to access them. Despite a general acknowledgement of the complexities and social significance inherent in globalization, most analyses remain top-down, focused on the global economy, corporate strategies, and political streams. This limited perspective on globalization has had profound implications for understanding social life. The impact of globalization on gender ideologies, work-family relationships, conceptualizations of children, youth, and the elderly have been virtually absent in mainstream approaches, creating false impressions that dichotomize globalization as a separate process from the social order. Moreover, most approaches to globalization and social phenomena emphasize the Western experience. These inaccurate assumptions have profound implications for families, and for the globalization process itself. In order to create and implement programs and policies that can harness globalization for the good of mankind, and that could reverse some of the deleterious effects that have affected the world's most vulnerable populations, we need to make the interplay between globalization and families a primary focus.
    Description / Table of Contents: Globalization as a dynamic force in contemporary societiesApproaches to understanding families -- Gendered analyses of globalization -- Global migration and the formation of transnational families -- Work-family intersections in a globalizing context -- Global conceptualizations of children and childhood -- Critical issues around global aging -- Nation-states, transnational spaces, and family linkages -- Debates around globalization, poverty, and inequality -- Social change, new paradigms, and implications for families.
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    Inside Criminal Networks (2009)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9780387095264
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 204p. 32 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies of Organized Crime 8
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    DDC: 364.106
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Criminology ; Social Sciences, general ; Social sciences ; Criminology
    Abstract: This book is the first extensive study of criminal networksThe case study designs and analytical paths are straightforward and can serve as a source for future research endeavours using a variety of data sources Author: Carlo Morselli (Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology, Université de Montréal)
    Abstract: "What do an illegal drug importer, a stolen car exporter, a Hells Angels member, an accountant, and an airplane hijacker have in common? Like most people, they all operate in social networks and at times, they come together in criminal networks which, though tightly structured and controlled, undergo constant change. Inside Criminal Networks takes a social network perspective to a variety of illegal enterprises, focusing on these organizations' ""flexible order"" and the collective coping and adjustment strategies of offenders when key members or opportunities are lost. Rich with communication data, electronic surveillance material, and other law-enforcement investigative sources, case studies pursue a number of analytical paths into the partnerships, pecking orders, and situations in flux (e.g., street gang presence within drug distribution), and identify central challenges to research (e.g., are these failed networks if members are arrested?). Flexibility is revealed as a driving force as the book examines: Operational structures and dynamics. Roles of key and peripheral players. The tentative balance between efficiency and security. Criminal network positions and individual traits. Uses of legitimate actors in illegal settings. Adaptation when networks are disrupted. Compellingly written and meticulously presented, Inside Criminal Networks offers rare up-close insights to readers in the criminology and organized crime research fields, and to social network theorists and analysts."
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; to 1 The Criminal Network Perspective; to 2 Case Study Sources and Designs; to 3 Partnership Configurations in Illegal Drug-Importation; to 4 The Efficiency--Security Trade-Off; to 5 Legitimate Strengths in Criminal Networks; to 6 Law-Enforcement Disruption of a Drug-Importation Network; to 7 Brokerage Qualifications in Ringing Scripts; to 8 Hells Angels in Springtime; to 9 Street Gang Presence in Drug-Distribution Operations; to 10 Summary and Extensions; to 1 Appendix; to 1 References; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09526-4
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    The Long View of Crime: A Synthesis of Longitudinal Research (2008)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9780387711652
    Language: English
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. The long view of crime: a synthesis of longitudinal research
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Criminology ; Social sciences Methodology ; Consciousness ; Social Sciences, general ; Social sciences ; Criminology ; Social sciences Methodology ; Consciousness ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kriminalität ; Längsschnittuntersuchung
    Abstract: This volume examines longitudinal research in relation to crime and delinquency, and brings together prominent scholars in criminology to discuss theory, methodology, and impact of longitudinal studies in criminology. It answers a key question in Criminology: What have we learned from recent longitudinal studies of crime and delinquency? The volume includes a synthesis of longitudinal studies in criminology over the last 25 years and an appendix.
    Abstract: Criminology is concerned with many questions which are inherently longitudinal. For example, what is the life-course of criminal behavior? Is there one general offending pattern or multiple offending patterns over time? Which early risk factors, if any, are strongly predictive of criminal behavior? Can early intervention prevent the development of a criminal career? Longitudinal research allows examination of within-person relationships over time, and allows the examination of developmental sequences and timing. This volume examines longitudinal research in relation to crime and delinquency. The main body of Longitudinal Studies on Crime and Delinquency is seven reviews, which were commissioned to answer two simultaneous questions: What have we learned from recent longitudinal research on crime and delinquency that (a) we did not know before, and (b) that capitalizes on the longitudinal nature of the data? Topics for review were chosen with an eye to three considerations: (a) a critical mass of studies addresses the question, (b) an emphasis on longitudinal methods, (c) policy relevance of the question. Three additional chapters include an introduction and overview, an essay reflecting on the findings highlighted in the volume from the broad perspective of the evolutionary ecological theory of crime, and a Future Directions chapter. The volume also includes an appendix which relates each of the reviews to the body of longitudinal studies reviewed in the volume. This not only shows which studies have informed which topics, but also highlights analytic opportunities that have not yet been explored and where this information could be applied in future research.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Synthesizing Recent Longitudinal Findings; Taking Stock of Developmental Trajectories of Criminal Activity; What we have Learned about Early Childhood and the Development of Delinquency; Longitudinal Perspectives on Adolescent Street Gangs; A Review of Research on the Impact on Crime of Transitions to Adult Roles; What have we Learned from Longitudinal Studies of Work and Crime?; The Effect of Arrest and Justice System Sanctions on Subsequent Behavior: Findings from Longitudinal and Other Studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Advancing Knowledge About Causes in Longitudinal Studies: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental MethodsBack Matter
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-71165-2
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    Preventing Crime : What Works for Children, Offenders, Victims and Places (2007)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9780387691695
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 243 p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Preventing crime
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Criminology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Criminology ; Kriminalität ; Prävention ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: This book examines evidence-based crime prevention through the use of the rigorous methodology of systematic reviews. It brings together the leading scientific evidence on what works best for a wide range of interventions organized around four important domains in criminology: at-risk children, offenders, victims, and places. It is an indispensable guide to the leading scientific evidence on what works best to prevent crime.
    Abstract: Crime prevention should be rational and should be based on the best possible evidence. Decision-makers should weigh heavily any available evidence on what works best. How can a program that has produced no discernable evidence of effectiveness, as shown through numerous evaluations, be considered for implementation? Unfortunately, this happens all the time. Evidence-based crime prevention attempts to overcome this and other obstacles by ensuring that the best available evidence is considered in any decision to implement a program designed to prevent crime. This book is about evidence-based crime prevention. A project of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group, Preventing Crime brings together the leading scientific evidence on what works best for a wide range of interventions organized around four important domains in criminology: at-risk children, offenders, victims, and places. It is the first book to assess the effectiveness of criminological interventions using the most rigorous review methodology of the systematic review. It is an indispensable guide to the leading scientific evidence on what works best to prevent crime.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Originally published: 2006
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-69169-5
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    Ages, Generations and the Social Contract : The Demographic Challenges Facing the Welfare State (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402059735
    Language: English
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    DDC: 361.65
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    Keywords: Alternde Bevölkerung ; Sozialstaat ; Generationengerechtigkeit ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Social sciences ; Population ; Social policy ; Aging Research ; Demography ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lebenserwartung ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Wohlstandsgesellschaft ; Altern ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Familienbeziehung
    Abstract: In this important and timely book, researchers from different countries compare their experiences and offer contrasting views on the future of social protection. They consider the theoretical aspects of the intergenerational debate, relations between generations within the family, the living standards of elderly people, and the question of social time. For the first time in history, three and sometimes four generations are living at the same time; this book examines the new interactions between family change, labour force participation and population ageing.
    Abstract: Our societies are ageing. The Family is changing. Labour force behaviour is evolving. How is the organisation of family and collective solidarity adapting in this context of longer life spans, low fertility, and work that is simultaneously scarce and abundant? The welfare states are currently facing three main challenges: ensure satisfactory living conditions for the elderly without increasing the cost burden on the active population, reduce social inequality, and maintain equity between successive generations. In this book, researchers from different countries compare their experiences and offer contrasting views on the future of social protection. They consider the theoretical aspects of the intergenerational debate, relations between generations within the family, the living standards of elderly people, and the question of social time.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Demographic Change, Welfare, and Intergenerational Transfers: A Global Overview; Demographic Context of the Social Contract in Developed Countries: Unity and Diversity; Economics of the Intergenerational Debate: Normative, Accounting and Political Viewpoints; Reorganizing the Activity Cycle: The Stakes in a New Social Contract; Social Contract and Age at Retirement: Some Elements of a Franco-American Comparison; Longevity and Work; Changes to the Legal Relationship Between Grandparents and Grandchildren in Quebec: A Disconcerting Evolution
    Description / Table of Contents: Demographic Change and the Social Contract of Informal Support Within the FamilyChange and Reciprocity in Intergenerational Relationships: The Discourse Of Spanish Working Mothers; Intergenerational Exchanges in Older Populations; Family Solidarities at the Beginning of Retirement in France; Pensions and Income Redistribution in a Comparative Perspective: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study; Social Spending: Recent Changes and Conditions for its Long-Term Viability; Pensions, Privilege and Poverty: Another "Take" on Intergenerational Equity
    Description / Table of Contents: Toward a 24-Hour Economy: Implications for the Temporal Structure and Functioning of Family LifeWorking Schedules: In Search of a Balance Between Family Time and Economic Wellbeing; Determinants of Paths of Transition to Total-Work Retirement: A Preliminary Empirical Analysis; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5973-5
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    Multilateralism, Regionalism and Bilateralism in Trade and Investment : 2006 World Report on Regional Integration (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402059513
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    Series Statement: United Nations University Series on Regionalism 1
    DDC: 337.1
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    Keywords: Internationale Handelspolitik ; Regionale Wirtschaftsintegration ; Wirtschaftsintegration ; Welt ; Development Economics ; Human Geography ; International economics ; Political science ; Social sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Handel ; Regionalismus ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Integration ; Finanzinvestition
    Abstract: In 2001, the United Nations University launched UNU-CRIS, a research and training programme on comparative regional integration to study the role of regional integration in global governance. This is a timely product of the research undertaken at UNU-CRIS. The report represents a unique collaboration between all regional UN Economic Commissions. It focuses on one of the central issues in the debate on global governance.
    Abstract: Global governance is a concern of not only global organisations but also of all individual states and of regional co-operation agreements among sovereign states. In 2001, the United Nations University has launched UNU-CRIS, a research and training programme on comparative regional integration to study the role of regional integration in global governance. The present first volume of the World Report on Regional Integration is a timely product of the research undertaken at UNU-CRIS. This new series of World Reports will certainly contribute to the discussion on the interaction between regional and global governance. And by bringing together insights from different parts of the UN system, in particular the five UN regional economic commissions and UNCTAD, this report will also contribute to a better understanding of the role of regions in the UN. (Hans van Ginkel, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Rector of UNU) The World Report on Regional Integration brings together a well-balanced mix of economic analysis, facts and political perspectives on the topic of regional integration. The most valuable and unique contribution of this volume is the enhanced clarity it brings to the complex picture of trade and investment integration, the entanglement of which points to the need for more effective regional governance as a building block of multilateral governance in this area. As the world's most dynamic trading region, Asia and the Pacific is a key player in this process, and the UNESCAP secretariat, in its service to the region, will continue to accord high priority to this policy objective. (Kim Hak-Su, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of UNESCAP)
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Developing Countries' Participation in Regional Integration: Trends, Prospects and Policy Implications; Preferential Trading Arrangements for Developing Countries; Making Multi-Level Rules Work: Trade and Investment Rules in Regional and Bilateral Agreements; Reconciling Regionalism and Multilateralism: Towards Multilevel Trade Governance; Asia-Pacific Regionalism Quo Vadis? Charting the Territory for New Integration Routes; Regional Integration in the Western Hemisphere: An Overview; Regional Economic Integration in Africa
    Description / Table of Contents: Developments in Regional Integration in Western Asia and Arab RegionTrade and Integration in (South) East Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia; Regional Integration in the European Union: Enlargement Without Constitution; Back Matter
    Note: "United Nations university comparative regional integration studies , "Garnet , Includes bibliographical references , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 1281066672 , 9781402062209 , 9781281066671
    Language: English
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    DDC: 320.513
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science ; Economic policy ; Social policy ; Political science Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Neoliberalismus ; Global Governance
    Abstract: This book explores the relationship between neo-liberalism, state power and global governance, exploring national differences in the exercise of state power in a variety of industrialized and developing economies. Among the strengths of this volume are its detailed global scope, its range of case studies in diverse policy areas, its analysis and critique of neo-liberalism, in theory and practice, and its impact upon state power and global governance.
    Abstract: The volume explores the relationship between neo-liberalism, state power and global governance. It seeks to show how neo-liberalism has failed to deliver a framework for state power and global governance capable of delivering stability and enduring prosperity. It also contends that the role of politics in general, and the state and global governance in particular, should be defined more broadly than the simple neo-liberal construction of institutions for the market. Part One explores the pattern of national differences in the exercise of state power in a variety of industrialized and developing economies, despite the pressure to converge towards the dominant neo-liberal paradigm. Part Two analyses a variety of trans-national policy prescriptions for neo-liberalism and state power. Part Three explores whether the governance of labour markets is a special case in the global economy. Part Four sets out the need for institutional reform of the neo-liberal order in trade and finance. The volume concludes that there is the prospect of a more plural approach to state power and global governance, and one that recognizes the importance of the public domain of citizenship for delivering the global public goods of security, prosperity and environmental sustainability in the twenty-first century. The distinctive features of this book are: Its range of case studies of the impact of neo-liberalism upon state power in both industrialized (i.e. Germany, Canada, England) and emergent market economies (i.e. Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Nicaragua), Its range of case studies in different policy areas (i.e. education, labour markets, competitiveness policy, competition policy, financial markets' governance, monetary policy), Its range of case studies of different institutions of global governance (i.e. OECD, WTO), and Its analysis and critique of neo-liberalism, in theory and practice, and its impact upon state power and global governance.
    Description / Table of Contents: Lee-FM.pdf; Lee-Ch01.pdf; Lee-Ch02.pdf; Lee-Ch03.pdf; Lee-Ch04.pdf; Lee-Ch05.pdf; Lee-Ch06.pdf; Lee-Ch07.pdf; Lee-Ch08.pdf; Lee-Ch09.pdf; Lee-Ch10.pdf; Lee-Ch11.pdf; Lee-Ch12.pdf; Lee-Ch13.pdf; Lee-Ch14.pdf; Lee-Ch15.pdf; Lee-Ch16.pdf; Lee-Index.pdf
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    Identities at Work (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer | [Berlin : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402049897
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    Series Statement: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 5
    DDC: 306.3/4
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    Keywords: Education ; Humanities ; Personnel management ; Social sciences ; Industriesoziologie ; Identität ; Selbst ; Arbeitsplatz ; Psychologie
    Abstract: This book examines continuity and change of identity formation processes at work under conditions of modern working processes and labor market flexibility. By bringing together perspectives from sociology, psychology, organizational management, and vocational education and training, it connects the debates of skills formation, human resources development, and careers with individual's work commitment and professional orientations.
    Abstract: This edited volume on Identities at Work brings together international theory and empirical research that deals with continuity and change of identity formation processes at work under conditions of modern working processes and labour market flexibility. By bringing together perspectives from sociology, psychology, organisational management and vocational education and training the contributions in this volume connect the debates of skills formation, human resources development and careers with individual s work commitment and professional orientations in various ways. With this focus the volume presents a new research perspective based on an interdisciplinary and international approach. We argue that in times of globalisation and rapidly changing work realities such an approach is needed to better understand and analyse what is required to equip and prepare the workforce to meet international labour market demands. In this sense the publication shall serve as a useful resource to researchers and policy makers working in the fields of skills formation, human resources development and organisational management.
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Series Scope; Introduction by the Series Editors; CONTENTS; List of Figures and Tables; Contributors; Introduction and Overview; Part One: Vocational Identity in Theory and Empirical Research; 1 Decomposing and Recomposing Occupational Identities-A Survey of Theoretical Concepts; 2 Tensions in the Vocational Identity of Danish Bankers; 3 The Role of Developing a Vocational Identity for Women- The Example of Young Single German Mothers; 4 The 'Double' Vocational Identity of the Working Population in the Greek Tourist Industry; 5 Vocational Education and Training-A European Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Part Two: Work and Personal Identity6 Career Changes and Identity Continuities-A Contradiction?; 7 Exercising Self Through Working Life: Learning, Work and Identity; 8 The Much Vaunted 'Flexible Employee'-What Does it Take?; Part Three: Work and Commitment; 9 The Dynamics Between Organisational Commitment and Professional Identity Formation at Work; 10 Apprentices' Experiences of Occupational and Organisational Commitment: An Empirical Investigation in a German Automobile Company; 11 The Individualisation of Identification with Work in a European Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: 12 Work Identity in the Japanese Context: Stereotype and RealityPart Four: Modern Work and the Creation of New Professional Identities; 13 The Construction of a New Professional Self: A Critical Reading of the Curricula for Nurses and Computer Engineers in Norway; 14 US Efforts to Create a New Professional Identity for the Bioscience Industry; Concluding Chapter; Index
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    Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics and Estimation for Social Scientists (2007)
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    ISBN: 9780387712659
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVIII, 357 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Lynch, Scott Michael, 1971 - Introduction to applied Bayesian statistics and estimation for social scientists
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    Keywords: Social sciences Methodology ; Social sciences ; Social Sciences ; Statistics ; Demography ; Social sciences ; Statistics ; Social sciences Methodology ; Demography ; Bayes-Entscheidungstheorie ; Bayes-Entscheidungstheorie ; Bayes-Entscheidungstheorie
    Abstract: Probability Theory and Classical Statistics -- Basics of Bayesian Statistics -- Modern Model Estimation Part 1: Gibbs Sampling -- Modern Model Estimation Part 2: Metroplis-Hastings Sampling -- Evaluating Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms and Model Fit -- The Linear Regression Model -- Generalized Linear Models -- to Hierarchical Models -- to Multivariate Regression Models -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics and Estimation for Social Scientists covers the complete process of Bayesian statistical analysis in great detail from the development of a model through the process of making statistical inference. The key feature of this book is that it covers models that are most commonly used in social science research, including the linear regression model, generalized linear models, hierarchical models, and multivariate regression models, and it thoroughly develops each real-data example in painstaking detail. The first part of the book provides a detailed introduction to mathematical statistics and the Bayesian approach to statistics, as well as a thorough explanation of the rationale for using simulation methods to construct summaries of posterior distributions. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods-including the Gibbs sampler and the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm-are then introduced as general methods for simulating samples from distributions. Extensive discussion of programming MCMC algorithms, monitoring their performance, and improving them is provided before turning to the larger examples involving real social science models and data. Scott M. Lynch is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research at Princeton University. His substantive research interests are in changes in racial and socioeconomic inequalities in health and mortality across age and time. His methodological interests are in the use of Bayesian stastistics in sociology and demography generally and in multistate life table methodology specifically
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; CONTENTS; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Outline; 1.2 A note on programming; 1.3 Symbols used throughout the book; 2 Probability Theory and Classical Statistics; 2.1 Rules of probability; 2.2 Probability distributions in general; 2.3 Some important distributions in social science; 2.4 Classical statistics in social science; 2.5 Maximum likelihood estimation; 2.6 Conclusions; 2.7 Exercises; 3 Basics of Bayesian Statistics; 3.1 Bayes' Theorem for point probabilities; 3.2 Bayes' Theorem applied to probability distributions
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3 Bayes' Theorem with distributions: A voting example3.4 A normal prior-normal likelihood example with σ 2 known; 3.5 Some useful prior distributions; 3.6 Criticism against Bayesian statistics; 3.7 Conclusions; 3.8 Exercises; 4 Modern Model Estimation Part 1: Gibbs Sampling; 4.1 What Bayesians want and why; 4.2 The logic of sampling from posterior densities; 4.3 Two basic sampling methods; 4.4 Introduction to MCMC sampling; 4.5 Conclusions; 4.6 Exercises; 5 Modern Model Estimation Part 2: Metroplis-HastingsSampling; 5.1 A generic MH algorithm
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.2 Example: MH sampling when conditional densities are difficult to derive5.3 Example: MH sampling for a conditional density with an unknown form; 5.4 Extending the bivariate normal example: The full multiparameter model; 5.5 Conclusions; 5.6 Exercises; 6 Evaluating Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms andModel Fit; 6.1 Why evaluate MCMC algorithm performance?; 6.2 Some common problems and solutions; 6.3 Recognizing poor performance; 6.4 Evaluating model fit; 6.5 Formal comparison and combining models; 6.6 Conclusions; 6.7 Exercises; 7 The Linear Regression Model
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.1 Development of the linear regression model7.2 Sampling from the posterior distribution for the modelparameters; 7.3 Example: Are people in the South "nicer" than others?; 7.4 Incorporating missing data; 7.5 Conclusions; 7.6 Exercises; 8 Generalized Linear Models; 8.1 The dichotomous probit model; 8.2 The ordinal probit model; 8.3 Conclusions; 8.4 Exercises; 9 Introduction to Hierarchical Models; 9.1 Hierarchical models in general; 9.2 Hierarchical linear regression models; 9.3 A note on fixed versus random effects models and otherterminology; 9.4 Conclusions; 9.5 Exercises
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Introduction to Multivariate Regression Models10.1 Multivariate linear regression; 10.2 Multivariate probit models; 10.3 A multivariate probit model for generating distributions of multistate life tables; 10.4 Conclusions; 10.5 Exercises; 11 Conclusion; A Background Mathematics; A.1 Summary of calculus; A.2 Summary of matrix algebra; A.3 Exercises; B The Central Limit Theorem, Confidence Intervals, andHypothesis Tests; B.1 A simulation study; B.2 Classical inference; References; Index
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    Cultural Heritage and Human Rights (2007)
    New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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    ISBN: 9780387713137
    Language: English
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Cultural Heritage and Human Rights
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Humanities ; Archaeology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Humanities ; Archaeology ; Archaeology ; Cultural Heritage ; Humanities ; Regional and Cultural Studies ; Regional planning ; Social Sciences, general ; Indigenes Volk ; Ethnische Identität ; Kulturerbe ; Menschenrecht ; Tourismus ; Handel ; Globalisierung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Indigenes Volk ; Ethnische Identität ; Kulturerbe ; Menschenrecht ; Tourismus ; Handel ; Globalisierung ; Kulturerbe ; Menschenrecht ; Kulturerbe ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: Is there a universal right to the free expression and preservation of cultural heritage, and if so, where is that right articulated and how can it be protected? No corner of today's world has escaped the effects of globalization - for better or worse. This volume addresses a deeply political aspect of heritage preservation and management as it relates to human rights.
    Abstract: In today’s world, there seems to be no corner of the world that has not been affected by globalization – for good and for bad. While the world becomes more hegemonized socially and culturally, local communities are fighting to preserve their way of life as part of their heritage. Travel and cultural institutions use this "uniqueness" to promote travel and tourism, and while this brings in revenue and exposure, cultural heritage sites that were preserved by virtue of their isolation are now being severely damaged and even destroyed. At the same time, there is a growing awareness that while this unique heritage is used to define a community, society or nation, it also can be a basis for conflict. The volume addresses a deeply political aspect of heritage preservation and management as it relates to human rights. Social and community advocates assert that heritage is necessary for the articulation and preservation of cultural identity. The display of heritage monuments and performance can be a strategy for asserting minority identity in the face of majority pressure – as well as a tool for resistance and the expression of difference. Conversely, the erasure of cultural expressions—such as buildings, monuments, language, religion, and social practices—is a powerful tool in warfare and political regulation. In the assault on human lives and political autonomy, the cultural history and values of a community are also attacked, destroying not only individuals but the very fabric of society. Is there a universal right to the free expression and preservation of cultural heritage, and if so, where is that right articulated and can it be protected? How is the notion of "heritage" used variously to unite and divide communities? Who defines cultural heritage and who should control stewardship and the benefits of cultural heritage?
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Cultural Heritage and Human Rights; Closing Pandora's Box: Human Rights Conundrums in Cultural Heritage Protection; The Indo-Islamic Garden: Conflict, Conservation, and Conciliation in Gujarat, India; Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Human Rights in Indonesia: The Challenges of an Emerging Democratic Society; Transnational Diaspora and Rights of Heritage; Performing Slave Descent: Cultural Heritage and the Right to Land in Brazil; Historical Disruptions in Ecuador: Reproducing an Indian Past in Latin America
    Description / Table of Contents: Plains Indians and Resistance to "Public" Heritage Commemoration of Their PastsEmpty Gestures? Heritage and the Politics of Recognition; Archeology as Activism; Genes and Burkas: Predicaments of Human Rights and Cultural Property; Back Matter
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-71313-7
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