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    Debating Organization : Point-Counterpoint in Organization Studies (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780631216926
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (424 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Debating Organization : Point-Counterpoint in Organization Studies
    DDC: 302.35
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    Abstract: This volume introduces readers to the central debates of organization studies through a series of 'point' and 'counterpoint' debates by major figures in the field. Introduces readers to the central tensions and debates of organization studies. Celebrates the productive heterogeneity of the field by placing competing perspectives side by side. Includes contributions from major figures in the field. Structured in an innovative 'point' and 'counterpoint' format
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures; Notes on the Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 The Discourse of Organization Studies: Dissensus, Politics, and Paradigms; 2 Organization Studies: Discipline or Field?; 3 Ontology; 4 Epistemology; 5 Methodology; 6 Organization - Environment; 7 Power and Institutions; 8 Globalization; 9 Structure; 10 Culture; 11 Gender and Identity; 12 Trust; 13 Question Time: Notes on Altercation; Index;
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    Passages : The Ethnographic Field School and First Fieldwork (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781931303163
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (182 p.)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Passages : The Ethnographic Field School and First Fieldwork
    DDC: 305.8
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    Abstract: NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods.peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropologydedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methodsmost editions available for course adoption
    Description / Table of Contents: Passages; Contents; Foreword; PART 1; Introduction: What Is a Cultural Anthropology Field School and What Is It Good For?; Documenting Local Culture: An Introductory Field School; Apprentice Ethnographers and the Anthropology of Tourism in Costa Rica; Fulfilling Community Needs through Research and Service: The Northwestern University Ethnographic Field School Experience; Rehabilitation, Resistance, and Return: Service Learning and the Quest for Civil Society in Bosnia; Learning to Put Ethnography to Good Use: The Gambia, West Africa, Field Study Program; PART 2
    Description / Table of Contents: Learning through Doing: The Importance of Fieldwork in the Education of the UndergraduateRole Negotiations among Students and Native Sponsors in an Ethnographic Field School; Lessons from the Navajo: The Impact of a ''Good'' Field Experience on a Career.; Mentorship and the Field School Experience; Ethnographic Field Schools, Community Service Learning, and the Homestay Experience; Ethical Issues and Other Things to Think About; Conclusion: How to Pick a Field School That's Right for You; Web Resources; Biosketches of the Authors;
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    The Earth Transformed : An Introduction to Human Impacts on the Environment (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780631194651
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (286 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Earth Transformed : An Introduction to Human Impacts on the Environment
    DDC: 304.2/8
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    Abstract: The Earth Transformed answers the need for a concise, non-technical introduction to the ways in which the natural environment has been and is being affected by human activities. It is simply and engagingly written, and illustrated with maps, diagrams, figures and photographs. Among the subjects described and considered by the authors are desertification, deforestation, wetland management, biodiversity, climatic change, air pollution, the impact of cities on climate and hydrology, erosion, salinization, waste disposal, sea level rise, marine pollution, coral reef degradation and aquaculture
    Description / Table of Contents: The EARTH TRANSFORMED; CONTENTS; PART I: Introduction to the Developing Environmental Impact; PART II: The Biosphere; PART III: The Atmosphere; PART IV: The Waters; PART V: The Land Surface; PAR.T VI: Oceans, Seas and Coasts; PART VII: Conclusion; GLOSSARY; REFERENCES; INDEX;
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    On Leadership (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781405132466
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (144 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version On Leadership
    DDC: 303.34
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    Abstract: In this series of lectures, previously unpublished in English, and here translated from a French reconstruction and interpretation by noted scholar Thierry Weil, leading organizational scholar James March uses great works of literature to explore the problems of leadership. Uses great works of literature to explore the problems of leadership, for example War and Peace, Othello, and Don Quixote. Presents moral dilemmas related to leadership, for example the balance between private life and public duties, and between the expression and the control of sexuality. Encourages readers to explore idea
    Description / Table of Contents: FOREWORD; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2 DUTY, REVENGE, AND INNOCENCE: OTHELLO; CHAPTER 3 HERESY AND GENIUS: SAINT JOAN; CHAPTER 4 AMBIGUITY, IRRELEVANCE, POWER, AND THE SOCIAL ORDER: WAR AND PEACE; CHAPTER 5 GENDER, SEX, AND LEADERSHIP; CHAPTER 6 IMAGINATION, COMMITMENT, AND JOY: DON QUIXOTE; CHAPTER 7 PLUMBING AND POETRY; APPENDIX 1 INTELLIGENCE VERSUS REASON: AN OVERVIEW OF JAMES MARCH'S WORK Thierry Weil; APPENDIX 2 MUNDANE ORGANIZATIONS AND HEROIC LEADERS 1 James G. March; INDEX;
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    Practicing Anthropology in Corporate America : Consulting On Organizational Culture (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780913167649
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (90 p.)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Practicing Anthropology in Corporate America : Consulting On Organizational Culture
    DDC: 302.3/5
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    Abstract: NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods.peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropologydedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methodsmost editions available for course adoption
    Description / Table of Contents: Practicing Anthropology in Corporate America: Consulting on Organizational Culture; Contents; Introduction; Introducing the Concept; Organizational Culture: The Anthropological Apporach; Organizational Culture: The Management Approach; Using Organizational Culture in Consulting: Empirical Examples; The Bridges Process: Enhancing Organizational Cultures to Support Diversity; Practical Implications of Organizational Culture Where Americans and Japanese Work Together; Change, Loss, and Organizational Culture: Anthropological Consultant as Facilitator of Grief-Work; About the Contributors;
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    The Unity of Theory and Practice in Anthropology : Rebuilding A Fractured Synthesis (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780913167939
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (188 p.)
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    Parallel Title: Print version The Unity of Theory and Practice in Anthropology : Rebuilding A Fractured Synthesis
    DDC: 301
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    Abstract: NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods.peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropologydedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methodsmost editions available for course adoption
    Description / Table of Contents: The Unity of Theory and Practice in Anthropology: Rebuilding a Fractured Synthesis; Contents; Preface; SECTION I: The Relationship of Theory and Practice; SECTION II: Contribution of Practice to Theory and Vice Versa: Case Studies; SECTION III: Proclamations for Action; SECTION IV: Concluding Remarks; About the Contributors;
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    Anthropology and Management Consulting : Forging a New Alliance (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780913167373
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (58 p.)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Anthropology and Management Consulting : Forging a New Alliance
    DDC: 658.46
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    Abstract: NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods.peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropologydedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methodsmost editions available for course adoption
    Description / Table of Contents: Anthropology and Management Consulting: Forging a New Alliance; Contents; Introduction; The Background; The Field of Management Consulting; The Consulting Process; The Contributions of Anthropology; Management Consulting Knowledge and Skills; Becoming a Management Consultant; A Note to Managers; Benefits from the Exchange; Notes; References Cited; About the Authors;
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    Negotiating Ethnicity : The Impact of Anthropological Theory and Practice (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780913167328
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (58 p.)
    Series Statement: NAPA Bulletin v.8
    Parallel Title: Print version Negotiating Ethnicity : The Impact of Anthropological Theory and Practice
    DDC: 305.8
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    Abstract: NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropologydedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methodsmost editions available for course adoption
    Description / Table of Contents: Negotiating Ethnicity: The Impact of Anthropological Theory and Practice; Contents; Introduction; Environmental Impact Review and the Construction of Contemporary Chumash Ethnicity; Ethnicity in the Museum; Measuring Ethnicity and Its Political Consequences in a Southern Appalachian High School; Cultural Relevance in the Delivery of Human Services; About the Authors;
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    Careers in Anthropology : Profiles of Practitioner Anthropologists (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780913167984
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (120 p.)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Careers in Anthropology : Profiles of Practitioner Anthropologists
    DDC: 301
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    Abstract: NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods.peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropologydedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methodsmost editions available for course adoption
    Description / Table of Contents: Careers in Anthropology Profiles of Practitioner Anthropologists; Contents; Introduction; SECTION I: Practitioners in the Private Sector; SECTION II: Policy, Human Rights, and Advocacy Practitioners; SECTION III: Government, Human Services, and Museum Practitioners; SECTION IV: International Development Practitioners; SECTION V: Academically Centered Practitioners;
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    Conversation Analysis : An Introduction (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781405159005
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (295 p.)
    Edition: 5th ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Conversation Analysis : An Introduction
    DDC: 302.3
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    Abstract: Combining the main findings, methods and analytic techniques of this central approach to language and social interaction, along with real-life examples and step-by-step explanations, Conversation Analysis is the ideal student guide to the field. Introduces the main findings, methods and analytic techniques of conversation analysis (CA) - a growing interdisciplinary field exploring language and social interactionProvides an engaging historical overview of the field, along with detailed coverage of the key findings in each area of CA and a guide to current researchExamines the way talk is compos
    Description / Table of Contents: Conversation Analysis; Contents; Acknowledgements; Transcription Conventions; 1 Talk; 2 Methods; 3 Turn-Taking; 4 Action and Understanding; 5 Preference; 6 Sequence; 7 Repair; 8 Turn Construction; 9 Stories; 10 Openings and Closings; 11 Topic; 12 Context; 13 Conclusion; References; Index;
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    Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young : Immaturity in Human Development (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781405149525
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (288 p.)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young : Immaturity in Human Development
    DDC: 155.4
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    Abstract: Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young examines the nature of childhood through an evolutionary lens and argues that childhood is an essential stage of development with its own unique purposes, separate from those of adulthood; a time of growth and discovery that should not be rushed. Written by a renowned developmental psychologist Examines the role that our period of immaturity plays on the social, emotional, and educational needs of today’s children Challenges common perceptions of children as simply “adults in training”
    Abstract: Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young examines the nature of childhood through an evolutionary lens and argues that childhood is an essential stage of development with its own unique purposes, separate from those of adulthood; a time of growth and discovery that should not be rushed. Written by a renowned developmental psychologist Examines the role that our period of immaturity plays on the social, emotional, and educational needs of today's children Challenges common perceptions of children as simply "adults in training
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1: The Benefi ts of Youth; 2: The Youngest Species; 3: The Slow Rate of Growing Up; 4: Adapting to the Niche of Childhood; 5: The Advantages of Thinking You're Better than You Are; 6: Play: The Royal Road through Childhood; 7: The Most Educable of Animals; 8: The Changing Face of Childhood; Epilogue: Homo Juvenalis; Notes; References; Index;
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    Insider Anthropology (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780913167724
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (82 p.)
    Series Statement: NAPA Bulletin v.16
    Parallel Title: Print version Insider Anthropology
    DDC: 301
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    Abstract: NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods.peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropologydedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methodsmost editions available for course adoption
    Description / Table of Contents: Insider Anthropology; Contents; Introduction: Insider or Native Anthropology?; The Unfamiliar in the Familiar; Inside the Decision-Making Process: Ethnography and Environmental Risk Management; The Limits of Detachment: A Non-Ethnography of the Military; Studying Up and the Issue of Cultural Relativism; Anthropology and the Oppressed: A Reflection on ''Native'' Anthropology; Lessons Learned in International Development: How Can We Apply Them at Home?; About the Contributors;
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    Practicing Anthropology in a Postmodern World : Lessons And Insights From Federal Contract Research (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780913167816
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (98 p.)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Practicing Anthropology in a Postmodern World : Lessons And Insights From Federal Contract Research
    DDC: 301
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    Abstract: NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods.peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropologydedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methodsmost editions available for course adoption
    Description / Table of Contents: Practicing Anthropology in a Postmodern World: Lessons and Insights from Federal Contract Research; Contents; Introduction; Nine Contemporary Anthropological Work Roles; ''That's Not My Role, Really'': Hazards in Entering the Field and Developing a Role in Contract Research; What Can Anthropologists Offer Ethnographic Program Evaluation?; ''If a Dog Has Teeth, It Bites'': The Impact of Multiple Stakeholder Perspectives in Contract Research; Political Correctness: Issues for Native and Nonnative Evaluators; Commentary: Three Key Issues for Elaboration
    Description / Table of Contents: Commentary: The Postmodern Link between Academia and PracticeAbout the Contributors;
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    Improving Intergroup Relations : Building on the Legacy of Thomas F. Pettigrew (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781405169714
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (337 p.)
    Series Statement: Social Issues and Interventions
    Parallel Title: Print version Improving Intergroup Relations : Building on the Legacy of Thomas F. Pettigrew
    DDC: 302.3
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    Abstract: Improving Intergroup Relations focuses on emerging research directions for improving intergroup relations, a field which has been largely influenced and inspired by the life contributions of Thomas F. Pettigrew. The bookContains 18 original articles written in an accessible style by experts in psychology and related disciplines Suggests practical strategies for improving intergroup relations Looks at intergroup relations from the early influence of Dr. Pettigrew and how his seminal work has fostered many new developments in the field Explores the implications of intergroup research for the pro
    Description / Table of Contents: Notes on the Contributors; Series Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Editors' Introduction Ulrich Wagner, Linda R. Tropp, Gillian Finchilescu, and Colin Tredoux; 2 Thomas F. Pettigrew Building on the Scholar-Activist Tradition in Social Psychology Frances Cherry; Part I Exploring the Causes of Prejudice and Discrimination; 3 From Lewin and Allport to Pettigrew Modern Practical Theories Susan T. Fiske; 4 Rediscovering the Emotional Aspects of Prejudice and Intergroup Behavior Eliot R. Smith; 5 The Role of Threat in Intergroup Relations Walter G. Stephan, C. Lausanne Renfro, and Mark D. Davis
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II Functions of Intergroup Contact in Improving Intergroup Relations6 From When to Why Understanding How Contact Reduces Bias John F. Dovidio, Samuel L. Gaertner, Tamar Saguy, and Samer Halabi; 7 The Role of Trust in Intergroup Contact Its Significance and Implications for Improving Relations between Groups Linda R. Tropp; 8 The Impact of Direct and Extended Cross-Group Friendships on Improving Intergroup Relations Christiana Vonofakou, Miles Hewstone, Alberto Voci, Stefania Paolini, Rhiannon N. Turner, Nicole T. Tausch
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III Intergroup Relations and Reflections on One's Own Group Membership9 Ingroup and Outgroup Contact A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Cross-Ethnic Friendships, Dates, Roommate Relationships and Participation in Segregated Organizations Colette van Laar, Shana Levi; 10 Extended Contact and Including Others in the Self Building on the Allport/ Pettigrew Legacy Stephen C. Wright, Arthur Aron, and Salena M. Brody; 11 Deprovincialization Social Identity Complexity and Outgroup Acceptance Marilynn B. Brewer; Part IV Focusing on Social Context in Improving Intergroup Relations
    Description / Table of Contents: 12 Intergroup Contact, Social Context and Racial Ecology in South Africa Gillian Finchilescu and Colin Tredoux13 Social and Political Context Effects on Intergroup Contact and Intergroup Attitudes Ulrich Wagner, Oliver Christ, Hinna Wolf, Rolf van Dick, Jost Stellmacher, Elmar Schlüter, and Andreas Zick; 14 Positive Intergroup Relations From Reduced Outgroup Rejection to Outgroup Support Kai J. Jonas and Amélie Mummendey; Part V Intergroup Relations as a Commitment to Social Change; 15 Feeling Relative Deprivation The Rocky Road from Comparisons to Actions Heather Smith and Iain Walker
    Description / Table of Contents: 16 Bridging Individual and Social Change in International Conflict Contextual Social Psychology in Action Herbert C. Kelman17 School Desegregation Research Outcomes, Historical Trends, and Issues Affecting its Usefulness in Policy and Practice Janet Ward Schofield; Part VI Final Reflections; 18 Reflections on Core Themes in Intergroup Research Thomas F. Pettigrew; Author Index; Subject Index;
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    Applied Anthropologist and Public Servant : The Life and Work of Philleo Nash (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780913167281
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (58 p.)
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    Abstract: NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. Peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of AnthropologyDedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methodsMost editions available for course adoption
    Description / Table of Contents: Applied Anthropologist and Public Servant: The Life and Work of Philleo Nash; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Anthropologist in the White House; Philleo Nash: The Education of an Applied Anthropologist; Philleo Nash: Anthropologist as Administrator; Philleo Nash and American Indian People; Celebrating Philleo's Life; Philleo Nash's Contributions to Anthropology and Beyond at American University; Philleo Nash: Model Applied Anthropologist and Public Servant; Philleo Nash and Georgetown Day School; References Cited; About the Authors; Appendix 1: Archival Materials; Appendix 2;
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    Electronic Technologies and Instruction : Tools, Users and Power (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780913167571
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (98 p.)
    Series Statement: NAPA Bulletin v.12
    Parallel Title: Print version Electronic Technologies and Instruction : Tools, Users and Power
    DDC: 301/.0285
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods.peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropologydedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methodsmost editions available for course adoption
    Description / Table of Contents: Electronic Technologies and Instruction: Tools, Users, and Power; Contents; Introduction; Knowledge Building and Knowledge Access: Teaching with Electronic Tools; Articles; Interactive Courseware in Anthropology Classrooms; Hypertext Indexing Applied to Computer-Mediated Conferencing and Teaching: An Aid to Group Memory; Distance Education in Anthropology: Telecourses as a Teaching Strategy; The Interpenetration of Technology and Institution: An Assessment of an Educational Computer Conferencing System; When Freedom of Choice Fails: Ideology and Action in a Secondary School Hypermedia Project
    Description / Table of Contents: CommentariesRomancing the User: Hi-Tech Teaching in Anthropology and Industry; Technology for Failure: Skeptical Perspectives on Alternate and Hi-tech Teaching Methodologies; About the Contributors;
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    Tourism and Applied Anthropologists (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781931303224
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (282 p.)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Tourism and Applied Anthropologists
    DDC: 306.4
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    Abstract: NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods.peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropologydedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methodsmost editions available for course adoption
    Description / Table of Contents: Tourism and Applied Anthropologists; Contents; Introduction: Tourism, Tourists, and Anthropologists at Work; PART 1 ANTHROPOLOGY AND TOURISM AT THE NEXUS OF THEORY AND PRACTICE; Can the Anthropology of Tourism Make Us Better Travelers?; Generating Theory, Tourism, and ''World Heritage'' in Indonesia: Ethical Quandaries for Anthropologists in an Era of Tourist Mania; Archaeological Tourism: Looking for Answers Along Mexico's Maya Riviera; Enhancing Community-Based Tourism Development and Conservation in the Western Caribbean
    Description / Table of Contents: Between Pure and Applied Research: Experimental Ethnography in a Transcultural Tourist Art WorldPART 2 ANTHROPOLOGISTS, NATURE, AND CULTURE: CASE STUDIES; Anthropological Angst and the Tourist Encounter; An Anthro-Planning Approach to Local Heritage Tourism: Case Studies from Appalachia; Applied Anthropology and Heritage Tourism Planning: Working for the Western Erie Canal Heritage Corridor Planning Commission; Hosts and Hosts: The Anthropology of Community-Based Ecotourism in the Peruvian Amazon; Keeping the People in the Parks: A Case Study from Guatemala; PART 3 ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN TOURISM
    Description / Table of Contents: More than Nature: Anthropologists as Interpreters of Culture for Nature-Based ToursThe Traveling Seminar: An Experiment in Cross-Cultural Tourism and Education in Taiwan; Anthropologists in the Tourism Workplace; Biosketches of the Authors;
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    Gender Myths and Feminist Fables : The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781405169370
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (184 p.)
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    Series Statement: Development and Change Special Issues
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    Series Statement: Development and change book series
    Parallel Title: Print version Gender Myths and Feminist Fables : The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Feminism ; Political aspects ; Feminist theory ; Sex role ; Sociological aspects ; Women in development ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development.Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into 'gender myths' and 'feminist fables': women are more likely to care for the environment; are better at working together; are less corrupt; have a seemingly infinite capacity to surviveExplores how bowdlerized and impoverished representations of gender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded in development policy and practiceTraces t
    Description / Table of Contents: Gender myths and feminist fables : the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development / Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison and Ann WhiteheadA bigger piece of a very small pie : intrahousehold resource allocation and poverty reduction in Africa / Bridget O'Laughlin -- The construction of the myth of survival / Mercedes González de la Rocha -- Earth mother myths and other ecofeminist fables : how a strategic notion rose and fell / Melissa Leach -- Political cleaners : women as the new anti-corruption force? / Anne Marie Goetz -- Resolving risk? marriage and creative conjugality / Cecile Jackson -- Feminism, gender, and women's peace activism / Judy El-Bushra -- Myths to live by? female solidarity and female autonomy reconsidered / Andrea Cornwall.
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    The Changing Realities of Work and Family (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781405163460
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (316 p.)
    Series Statement: Blackwell / Claremont Applied Social Psychology Series
    Series Statement: Blackwell/Claremont Applied Social Psychology Ser
    Series Statement: Claremont applied social psychology series
    Parallel Title: Print version The Changing Realities of Work and Family
    DDC: 306.3/6
    Keywords: Work and family ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Changing Realities of Work and Family is an interdisciplinary volume that examines the multiple realities of work and family from academic, commercial, and political perspectives. The bookBrings together works by an extraordinary list of contributors, including Jane Swift, former governor of Massachusetts; practitioners from industry; the leading attorney in discrimination against mothers and pregnant women; and outstanding academics from psychology, business, economics, and human relationsExamines work and family in the political arena, gay and lesbian workers, work and family as it relates t
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Tables; List of Figures; Introduction Amy Marcus-Newhall; Part I: Employment and Children: How Do Families and Employers Accommodate the Demands?; Introduction Sherylle J. Tan; 1 The Myths and Realities of Maternal Employment Sherylle J. Tan; 2 The Upside of Maternal and Dual-Earner Employment: A Focus on Positive Family Adaptations, Home Environments, and Child Development in the Fullerton Longitudinal Study Adele Eskeles Gottfried and Al; 3 Work-Family Policies and the Avoidance of Bias Against Caregiving Robert Drago, Carol Colbeck, Carol Hollenshead, and Beth Sullivan
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: Culture, Age, and Sexual Orientation: How Does Society Deal with Diversity?Introduction Amy Marcus-Newhall; 4 Community: The Critical Missing Link in Work-Family Research Rosalind Chait Barnett and Karen C. Gareis; 5 Mothers' Work-Life Experiences: The Role of Cultural Factors Amy Marcus-Newhall, Bettina J. Casad, Judith LeMaster, Jennifer Peraza, and Nicole Silverman; 6 Age, Work, and Family: Balancing Unique Challenges for the Twenty-First Century Jeanette N. Cleveland; 7 Bringing All Families to Work Today: Equality for Gay and Lesbian Workers and Families M. V. Lee Badgett
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III: Work, Stress, and Health Linkages: How Does Working and Caring for Families Affect Health?Introduction Diane F. Halpern; 8 California Paid Family Leave: Is It Working for Caregivers? Diane F. Halpern, Sherylle J. Tan, and Melissa Carsten; 9 Taking the Temperature of Family Life: Preliminary Results from an Observational Study Darby E. Saxbe and Rena L. Repetti; 10 Work, Family, and Health: Work-Family Balance as a Protective Factor Against Stresses of Daily Life Joseph G. Grzywacz, Adam B. Butler, and David M. Almeida
    Description / Table of Contents: Part IV: Politics, Business, and the Legal System: What is the Effect of Work-Family Integration?Introduction Diane F. Halpern; 11 Politics, Motherhood, and Madame President Jane Swift; 12 Business Impact of Flexibility: An Imperative for Working Families Donna Klein; 13 Setting the Stage: Do Women Want it All? V. Sue Molina; 14 What Psychologists Need to Know About Family Responsibilities Discrimination Joan C. Williams; 15 Issues and Trends in Work-Family Integration Bettina J. Casad; Index;
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    The Power of Identity : The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture Volume II (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781405196871
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (584 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Power of Identity
    DDC: 303.4833
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy. Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio-political landscape of our worldApplies Castells' hypotheses to contemporary issues such as Al Qaeda and global terrorist networks, American unilateralism and the crisis of political legitimacy throughout
    Description / Table of Contents: The Power of Identity; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Charts; Preface to the 2010 Edition of The Power of Identity; Preface and Acknowledgments 2003; Acknowledgments 1996; Our World, our Lives; 1 Communal Heavens: Identity and Meaning in the Network Society; 2 The Other Face of the Earth: Social Movements against the New Global Order; 3 The Greening of the Self: The Environmental Movement; 4 The End of Patriarchalism: Social Movements, Family, and Sexuality in the Information Age; 5 Globalization, Identification, and the State: A Powerless State or a Network State?
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Informational Politics and the Crisis of DemocracyConclusion: Social Change in the Network Society; Methodological Appendix; Summary of Contents of Volumes I and III; References; Index;
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    Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World : Pedigree of Nations (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631236139
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (264 p.)
    Series Statement: The Language Library v.5
    Parallel Title: Print version Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World : Pedigree of Nations
    DDC: 306.446
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    Abstract: Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World is the winner of the BAAL Book Prize 2005. Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World: Pedigree of Nations explores the consequences of English as a global language and multilingualism as a social phenomenon. Written accessibly, it explores the extent of diversity in 'inner circle' English speaking countries (the UK, the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand) and examines language in the home, school, and the wider community.Considers the perspectives of English as a global language as well as multilingualism as a social phenomeno
    Description / Table of Contents: Multilingualism in the English-speaking World; Contents; Preface; Part I The extent of diversity; 1 The myth of monolingualism; 2 Roots of diversity; 3 Language and the provision of services; Part II Language at home and in school; 4 Language in the family; 5 Language and education: a history; 6 Language and education in the modern world; 7 Minority languages and majority speakers; Part III Language in the wider community; 8 Language and the economy; 9 Language and the media; 10 Language and the arts; 11 Language, diplomacy and defence; 12 Is life really too short to learn German?; References
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    Social Psychological Foundations of Health and Illness (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631225157
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (605 p.)
    Series Statement: The Blackwell Series in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
    Parallel Title: Print version Social Psychological Foundations of Health and Illness
    DDC: 302
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    Abstract: Social Psychological Foundations of Health and Illness is a summary of current research in social-health psychology. The chapters, written by distinguished leaders in the field, provide brief surveys of classic developments in each area of study followed by extended discussion of the authors' research programs. Includes state-of-the-art descriptions of new findings and theories concerning social aspects of physical health and illness. Discusses virtually all of the major topics studied in the contemporary field of social-health psychology. Contains chapters written by leading figures in the fi
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Healthy Life-style Across the Life-span: The Heck with the Surgeon General!; Chapter 2: Exploring the Links between Risk Perceptions and Preventive Health Behavior; Chapter 3: Communicating about Health: Message Framing, Persuasion and Health Behavior; Chapter 4: The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model: A General Social Psychological Approach to Understanding and Promoting Health Behavior; Chapter 5: A Social Reaction Model of Adolescent Health Risk
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Affect, Thought and Self-protective Health Behavior: The Case of Worry and Cancer ScreeningChapter 7: Social-cognitive Factors in Health Behavior Change; Chapter 8: Common Sense Models of Illness: Implications for Symptom Perception and Health-related Behaviors; Chapter 9: Contributions of Social Comparison to Physical Illness and Well-being; Chapter 10: Interpersonal Emotional Processes in Adjustment to Chronic Illness; Chapter 11: The Social, Linguistic, and Health Consequences of Emotional Disclosure; Chapter 12: Affiliation, Social Support, and Biobehavioral Responses to Stress
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 13: Toward a Social Psychophysiology of Cardiovascular Reactivity: Interpersonal Concepts and Methods in the Study of Stress and Coronary DiseaseChapter 14: Gender-related Traits and Health; Chapter 15: Self-regulatory Processes and Responses to Health Threats: Effects of Optimism on Well-being; Chapter 16: The Influence of Psychological Factors on Restorative Function in Health and Illness; Chapter 17: Coping and Adjustment to Rheumatoid Arthritis; Chapter 18: Daily Processes in Health and Illness
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 19: Scenes from a Marriage: Examining Support, Coping, and Gender within the Context of Chronic IllnessIndex of Names and Subjects;
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    Clinical Sociolinguistics (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405112499
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (358 p.)
    Series Statement: Language in Society
    Parallel Title: Print version Clinical Sociolinguistics
    DDC: 306.44
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Clinical Sociolinguistics examines how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical situation. fills gap in the literature for speech-language pathologists by addressing how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical situation collects newly commissioned articles written by top scholars in the field includes chapters that outline findings from sociolinguistic research over the last 40 years and point to the relevance of such findings for practicing speech-language pathologi
    Description / Table of Contents: Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1 Language, Communities, Networks and Practices; 2 Regional and Social Variation; 3 Language and Gender; 4 Bilingualism and Multilingualism; 5 Code-Switching and Diglossia; 6 Language and Power; 7 Language and Culture; 8 African American English; 9 Language Change; 10 Language Planning; 11 Dialect Perception and Attitudes to Variation; 12 Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation; 13 Bi- and Multilingual Language Acquisition; 14 Assessing Language in Children Who Speak a Nonmainstream Dialect of English
    Description / Table of Contents: 15 Childhood Bilingualism: Distinguishing Difference from Disorder16 Speech Perception, Hearing Impairment and Linguistic Variation; 17 Aphasia in Multilingual Populations; 18 Designing Assessments for Multilingual Children; 19 Literacy as a Sociolinguistic Process for Clinical Purposes; 20 The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages; 21 Managing Linguistic Diversity in the Clinic: Interpreters in Speech-Language Pathology; References; Name Index; Subject Index;
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    Asian American Studies After Critical Mass (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405115964
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (226 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Asian American Studies After Critical Mass
    DDC: 305.895073
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    Abstract: Asian American Studies After Critical Massis a dynamic collection that showcases the most exciting scholarship in the field from a critical and cultural studies perspective. Comprised of ten original essays written by a group of scholars at the vanguard of the discipline, this collection takes on a range of topics and concerns, including Asian American film and popular culture; Asian Americans at the dawn of the twenty-first century; globalization and transnational citizenship; and queer Asian America. Addressing some of the most exciting issues and ideas in Asian American studies, this book s
    Description / Table of Contents: Asian American Studies After Critical Mass; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Asian American Studies in Its Second Phase; 1 What is the Political? American Culture and the Example of Viet Nam; 2 Ethnography, the Cinematic Apparatus, and Asian American Film Studies; 3 Culinary Fictions: Immigrant Foodways and Race in Indian American Literature; 4 Foregrounding Native Nationalisms: A Critique of Antinationalist Sentiment in Asian American Studies; 5 A Gay World Make-Over? An Asian American Queer Critique
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Asian American Studies Through (Somewhat) Asian Eyes: Integrating ''Mixed Race'' into the Asian American Discourse7 Asian American Studies and the ''Pacific Question''; 8 Planet Youth: Asian American Youth Cultures, Citizenship, and Globalization; 9 The Problematics of History and Location of Filipino American Studies within Asian American Studies; 10 Rethinking Asian American Agency: Understanding the Complexity of Race and Citizenship in America; Index;
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    Getting Into Local Power : The Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405126977
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (289 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Studies in Urban and Social Change
    Parallel Title: Print version Getting Into Local Power : The Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities
    DDC: 305.800941
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    Abstract: This book presents a comparison of the patterns of ethnic minority politics in British and French city politics.A comparison of the participation of ethnic minorities in British and French citiesIncludes direct comparisons of particular cities Birmingham, Lille and RoubaixShows how ethnic and cultural diversity translates into political conflict in different political systemsConsiders styles of political mobilisation of ethnic minorities in the context of urban political systems, as well as the strategies used by party leaders and to manage ethnic diversity in political competitionAnalyses how
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Maps; Foreword by Patrick Weil; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Historical Institutionalism and the Comparison of Local Cases; 2 The British Policy Framework: Liberal Citizenship Regime, Depoliticization and the Race Relationism of British Cities; 3 The French Policy Framework: Planned Migration, Xenophobic Politics and Durable Political Exclusion; 4 Birmingham, 1980s-2001: Inner-city Labour Politics and Pluri-ethnic Government; 5 Lille, 1980s-2001: Machine Politics and Exclusion of Minorities in the French Municipal System
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Roubaix, 1980s-2001: Inclusion Through Neighbourhood Groups and an Open Municipal GameConclusion; Appendix: Interviews and Sources; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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    England and the Italian Renaissance (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631233640
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (216 p.)
    Edition: 4th ed
    Series Statement: Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe v.6
    Parallel Title: Print version England and the Italian Renaissance
    DDC: 303.4824204509
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    Abstract: This fourth edition of Sir John Hale's classic history of England and the Italian Renaissance includes a detailed introduction by Edward Chaney surveying scholarly developments since the book was first published. Fourth edition of Sir John Hale's classic history of England and the Italian Renaissance, first published in 1954. The book's focus on fundamental issues and basis in little-read primary sources ensures that it endures as an important contribution to historical scholarship. Clear, chronological narrative, beautifully written. Provides essential understanding of the period, illuminatin
    Description / Table of Contents: England and the Italian Renaissance; Contents; Introduction; Preface to the Second Edition; 1 The Beginnings of Interest: mid-Sixteenth to mid-Seventeenth Centuries; 2 From Description to Speculation: mid-Seventeenth to Late Eighteenth Centuries; 3 Taste for Italian Paintings: (I) Sixteenth to Late Eighteenth Centuries; 4 The Medici and William Roscoe: Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries; 5 Taste for Italian Paintings: (II) Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries; 6 Prejudice and the Term Renaissance: Early to mid-Nineteenth Century
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Taste for Italian Paintings: (III) Early Nineteenth Century to Ruskin8 John Addington Symonds; Notes; Bibliographical Update; Index;
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    Philosophers on Race : Critical Essays (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631222279
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (332 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Philosophers on Race : Critical Essays
    DDC: 305.8001
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    Abstract: Philosophers on Race adds a new dimension to current research on race theory by examining the historical roots of the concept in the works of major Western philosophers
    Description / Table of Contents: PHILOSOPHERS ON RACE; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Distinction Without a Difference? Race and Genos in Plato; 2 Ethnos in the Politics: Aristotle and Race; 3 Medieval Muslim Philosophers on Race; 4 Patriarchy and Slavery in Hobbes's Political Philosophy; 5 "An Inconsistency not to be Excused": On Locke and Racism; 6 Locke and the Dispossession of the American Indian; 7 Between Primates and Primitives: Natural Man as the Missing Link in Rousseau's Second Discourse; 8 Kant as an Unfamiliar Source of Racism; 9 "The Great Play and Fight of Forces": Nietzsche on Race
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Liberalism's Limits: Carlyle and Mill on "The Negro Question"11 Heidegger and the Jewish Question: Metaphysical Racism in Silence and Word; 12 Sartre on American Racism; 13 Sartrean Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism; 14 Beauvoir and the Problem of Racism; 15 Dewey's Philosophical Approach to Racial Prejudice; Index;
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    The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405105958
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (378 p.)
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions to sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists
    DDC: 301.01
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    Abstract: The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists is a survey of contemporary social theory that focuses on the thinkers themselves. In original essays especially commissioned for this volume, leading experts and practitioners examine the life and work of 13 major theorists such as Elias, Baudrillard, Giddens, and Butler. Includes 13 original essays by leading scholars on major contemporary social theorists. Covers key figures such as Elias, Goffman, Foucault, Habermas, Giddens, Bourdieu, and Butler. Essays include biographical sketches, the social and intellectual context, and th
    Description / Table of Contents: The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction: Metatheorizing Contemporary Social Theorists; 1 Robert K. Merton; 2 Erving Goffman; 3 Richard M. Emerson; 4 James Coleman; 5 Harold Garfinkel; 6 Daniel Bell; 7 Norbert Elias; 8 Michel Foucault; 9 Jürgen Habermas; 10 Anthony Giddens; 11 Pierre Bourdieu; 12 Jean Baudrillard; 13 Judith Butler; Index;
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    Developmental Problems of Childhood and Adolescence : Prevention, Treatment and Training (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405115926
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (338 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Developmental Problems of Childhood and Adolescence : Prevention, Treatment and Training
    DDC: 305.231
    Keywords: Adolescent Development ; Child Development ; Child ; Adolescent ; Developmental Disabilities ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book provides a practical guide to, and critical review of, community and individual professional interventions that could ease the lives of children with developmental disorders and mental health problems.A critical review of, and practical guide to, the interventions that could ease the lives of children with developmental disorders and mental health problems. Structured around the stages and developmental tasks in a child's life span, from conception to teenage years. Discusses inherited disorders, intrauterine problems, neonatal and perinatal problems, early childhood attachment and p
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: Developmental Problems Before, During and After Birth; PART II: Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Toddlerhood; PART III: Developmental Disorders of the Pre-school Years; PART IV: The Transition to School; PART V: Late Childhood and Early Adolescence; PART VI: How and Where to Find Help; Epilogue; Appendix I: The Statement of Special Need; Appendix II: Needs of Developmentally Disabled Children and their Families; Appendix III: Assessment; Appendix IV: Resource Material; Appendix V: Typical Development Summaries; References; Author Index
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    On the Nature of Prejudice : fifty years after Allport (2008)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (484 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version On the Nature of Prejudice
    DDC: 303.385
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    Abstract: On the Nature of Prejudice commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Gordon Allport's classic work on prejudice and discrimination by examining the current state of knowledge in the field. A distinguished collection of international scholars considers Allport's impact on the field, reviews recent developments, and identifies promising directions for future investigation. Organized around Allport's central themes, this book provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive view of where the field has been, where it is now, and where it is going
    Description / Table of Contents: Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction: Reflecting on The Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years after Allport; 2 What is the Problem?Prejudice as an Attitude-in-Context; 3 Social Cognition and the Normality of Prejudgment; 4 Ingroup Affiliations and Prejudice; 5 Categorization, Recategorization, and Intergroup Bias; 6 Rejection or Inclusion of Outgroups?; 7 Rejection of Women? Beyond Prejudice as Antipathy; 8 Group Differences and Stereotype Accuracy; 9 The Psychological Impact of Prejudice; 10 Mechanisms for Coping with Victimization: Self-Protection Plus Self-Enhancement
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 Cognitive Process: Reality Constraints and Integrity Concerns in Social Perception12 Linguistic Factors: Antilocutions, Ethnonyms, Ethnophaulisms, and Other Varieties of Hate Speech; 13 Stereotypes in Our Culture; 14 Instrumental Relations Among Groups: Group Competition, Conflict, and Prejudice; 15 Choice of Scapegoats; 16 Allport's Intergroup Contact Hypothesis: Its History and Influence; 17 Intergroup Contact: When Does it Work, and Why?; 18 Conformity and Prejudice; 19 The Development of Prejudice in Childhood and Adolescence
    Description / Table of Contents: 20 Breaking the Prejudice Habit: Allport's "Inner Conflict" Revisited21 Inner Conflict in the Political Psychology of Racism; 22 Aggression, Hatred, and Other Emotions; 23 Allport's "Living Inkblots": The Role of Defensive Projection in Stereotyping and Prejudice; 24 Personality and Prejudice; 25 Religion and Prejudice; 26 Intergroup Relations Program Evaluation; Author Index; Subject Index;
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    Geographies and Moralities : International Perspectives on Development, Justice and Place (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405116367
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (337 p.)
    Series Statement: RGS-IBG Book Series v.11
    Parallel Title: Print version Geographies and Moralities : International Perspectives on Development, Justice and Place
    DDC: 305.5
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    Abstract: This topical book addresses contemporary concern with the interconnections between geography and morality. Covers both the geographical context of morality, and moralities in geographical methods and practices. Contains up-to-date case studies based on original research. Deals with controversial issues, such as problems of globalization, European integration, human rights in Nigeria, territorial conflict in Israel, and land reform in post-apartheid South Africa. The editors are well-published leading international authorities. The contributors are drawn from Australia, Eastern Europe, Israel
    Description / Table of Contents: Geographies and Moralities: International Perspectives on Development, Justice and Place; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Geographies of Morality and Moralities of Geography; Part I Moral Geographies of Uneven Development; 2 Globalization, Production and the (Im)morality of Uneven Development; 3 Regional Inequality, Convergence and Enlargement in the European Union; 4 Moral Problems of Eastern Wilderness: European Core and Periphery; 5 Where the Grass is Greener in Poland: Regional and Intra-urban Inequalities
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II Moral Geographies of Distribution: Justice, Welfare and Rights6 Social Exclusion, Health and Health Care: The Case of the National Health Service in England; 7 The Problem with Welfare; 8 Struggles over Human Rights in Nigeria: Questions of Scale in Moral Geography; 9 Valuing Land and Distributing Territory; 10 When Two Rights Collide: Some Lessons from Jerusalem; 11 Land Reform Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Elusive Quest for Social Justice?; Part III Moral Geographies in Place; 12 Waiting in Line, or the Moral and Material Geographies of Queue-Jumping
    Description / Table of Contents: 13 Moral Geographies of Sexual Citizenship14 But Tight Jeans Are Better!': Moral Improvisation and Ethical Judgement in Local Planning Decision-Making; Part IV Geography and Ethics: Method and Practice; 15 The Quality of Ethics: Moral Causation, Method and Metatheory in the Interdisciplinary Science of Geography; 16 On the Pavement: Reflections on Fieldwork with Urban Poor Black Women Street Traders in Durban, South Africa; Part V Moral Context and Professional Practice in Geography; 17 Disciplinary Change and Career Paths; 18 From Location Theory to Moral Philosophy: Views from the Fringe
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    Redundant Masculinities : Employment Change and White Working Class Youth (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405105859
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (306 p.)
    Series Statement: Antipode Book Series v.37
    Parallel Title: Print version Redundant Masculinities : Employment Change and White Working Class Youth
    DDC: 305.2420941
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    Abstract: Redundant Masculinities?investigates the links between the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of young working class men.Allows the voices of poorly-educated young men to be heard.Looks at how the labour market is changing.Emphasises the social construction of gender and racial identities.Dispels popular myths about the crisis in masculinity.
    Abstract: Redundant Masculinities? investigates the links between the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of young working class men.Allows the voices of poorly-educated young men to be heard.Looks at how the labour market is changing.Emphasises the social construction of gender and racial identities.Dispels popular myths about the crisis in masculinity
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of Plates; List of Tables; Preface; 1 Introduction: Young, White, Male and Working Class; 2 The Rise of Poor Work: Employment Restructuring and Changing Class and Gender Identities; 3 The Contemporary Crisis of Masculinity: It's Hard to Be(come) a Man; 4 Living on the Edge: Marginal Lives in Cambridge and Sheffield; 5 Leaving School: Pathways to Employment and Further Education; 6 Actively Seeking Employment: Committed Workers and Reluctant Learners; 7 Uncertain Transitions: Accidental and Incidental Workers, the Excluded, and Escape Attempts
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 Performing Identity: Protest and Domestic Masculinities9 Conclusions: What Is to Be Done About Boys?; Postscript; Appendix 1: Research Methodology; Appendix 2: The Participants; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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    Theories of Infant Development (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631233374
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (396 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Theories of Infant Development
    DDC: 155.422
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    Abstract: This volume provides an authoritative survey of all the major theories of infant development. An authoritative survey of major theoretical issues in infant development. Written by leading scholars in the field of infancy. Each chapter either presents a distinct theoretical approach to infant development or reviews contrasting theories in a specific subfield. Pays particular attention to current theoretical controversies. Contributors include Eugene Goldfield, Andy Meltzoff, Marinus van Ijzendoorn, Mark Johnson and Annette Karmiloff-Smith, among others.
    Abstract: This volume provides an authoritative survey of all the major theories of infant development. An authoritative survey of major theoretical issues in infant development. Written by leading scholars in the field of infancy. Each chapter either presents a distinct theoretical approach to infant development or reviews contrasting theories in a specific subfield. Pays particular attention to current theoretical controversies. Contributors include Eugene Goldfield, Andy Meltzoff, Marinus van Ijzendoorn, Mark Johnson and Annette Karmiloff-Smith, among others
    Description / Table of Contents: Theories of Infant Development; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I Development of Perception and Action; 1 A Dynamical Systems Perspective on Infant Action and its Development; 2 A Developmental Perspective on Visual Proprioception; 3 From Direct Perception to the Primacy of Action: A Closer Look at James Gibson's Ecological Approach to Psychology; 4 The Development of Perception in a Multimodal Environment; 5 Neuroscience Perspectives on Infant Development; Part II Cognitive Development; 6 The Case for Developmental Cognitive Science: Theories of People and Things
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Theories of Development of the Object Concept8 Remembering Infancy: Accessing Our Earliest Experiences; Part III Social Development and Communication; 9 Maternal Sensitivity and Infant Temperament in the Formation of Attachment; 10 Emerging Co-Awareness; 11 Processes of Development in Early Communication; 12 Joint Visual Attention in Infancy; Afterword: Tribute to George Butterworth; Author Index; Subject Index;
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    Free Markets and Food Riots : The Politics of Global Adjustment (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631182450
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (398 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Free Markets and Food Riots : The Politics of Global Adjustment
    DDC: 303.4
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    Abstract: This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic "reform" and "adjustment". Explores this general proposition in a cross-national study of the austerity protests, or the 'IMF Riots' that have affected so many debtor nations since the mid-1970sArgues that modern austerity protests, like the classical "bread riots" in eight
    Description / Table of Contents: Free Markets & Food Riots: The Politics of Global Adjustment; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Part I Introduction; 1 Global Adjustment; 2 Food Riots Past and Present; Part II Case Studies; 3 Fighting for Survival: Women's Responses to Austerity Programs; 4 Latin America: Popular Protest and the State; 5 Economic Adjustment and Democratization in Africa; 6 The Middle East and North Africa; 7 The Asian Debt Crisis: Structural Adjustment and Popular Protest in India; 8 Explaining Sri Lanka's Exceptionalism: Popular Responses to Welfarism and the "Open Economy"
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 The Politics of Economic Reform in Central and Eastern EuropePart III Conclusion; 10 Debt Crisis and Democratic Transition; Bibliography; Index;
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    Gendered Talk at Work : Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405117586
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (266 p.)
    Series Statement: Language and Social Change
    Parallel Title: Print version Gendered Talk at Work : Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse
    DDC: 306.44
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    Abstract: Gendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication. written accessibly by one of the field's foremost researchers explores the ways in which gender contributes to the interpretation of meaning in workplace interaction uses original and insightfully analyzed data to focus on the ways in which both women and men draw on gendered discourse resources to enact a range of workplace roles illustrates how a qualitative analysis of workplace discourse can throw light on the many ways in which workpla
    Description / Table of Contents: Figures; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER ONE; The Role of Gender in Workplace Talk; CHAPTER TWO; Gender and Leadership Talk at Work; CHAPTER THREE; Relational Practice - Not Just Women 's Work; CHAPTER FOUR; Humour in the Workplace - Not Just Men 's Play; CHAPTER FIVE; Contest, Challenge and Complaint - Gendered Discourse?; CHAPTER SIX; Women and Men Telling Stories at Work; CHAPTER SEVEN; Giving Women the Last Word; Appendix: Transcription Conventions; References; Index;
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    Women and Leadership : Transforming Visions and Diverse Voices (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405155823
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (406 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Women and Leadership : Transforming Visions and Diverse Voices
    DDC: 305.4201
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    Abstract: Over the past thirty years the number of women assuming leadership roles has grown dramatically. This original and important book identifies the challenges faced by women in positions of leadership, and discusses the intersection between theories of leadership and feminism.Examines models of feminist leadership, feminist influences on leadership styles and agendas, and the diversity of theoretical and ethnic perspectives of feminist leaders Addresses how diverse women lead, how feminist principles contribute to leadership, the influence of ethnic groups and the barriers that women face as lead
    Description / Table of Contents: Notes on Contributors; Foreword Alice Eagly; Overview: Women and Leadership: Transforming Visions and Diverse Voices Jean Lau Chin; Part I Models of Leadership and Women: Reconciling the Discourses on Women, Feminism, and Leadership; Chapter 1 Conducted Monotones to Coacted Harmonies: A Feminist (Re)conceptualization of Leadership Addressing Race, Class, and Gender Karen L. Suyemoto and Mary B. Ballou 1; Chapter 2 Diverse Feminist Communication Styles: Challenges to Women and Leadership Ann S. Yabusaki 1
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3 Women as Academic Leaders: Living the Experience from Two Perspectives A. Toy Caldwell-Colbert and Judith E. N. AlbinoChapter 4 Toward Culturally Competent, Gender-Equitable Leadership: Assessing Outcomes of Women's Leadership in Diverse Contexts Ester R. Shapiro and Jennifer M. Leigh 1; Chapter 5 Gender and Leadership in the Corporate World: A Multiperspective Model Karen Korabik and Roya Ayman; Part II Collaboration and Leadership
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6 Leadership through Policy Development: Collaboration, Equity, Empowerment, and Multiculturalism Norine G. Johnson, Florence L. Denmark, Dorothy W. Cantor, Diane F. Halpern, and Gwendolyn PurChapter 7 Collaborative Leadership and Social Advocacy Among Women's Organizations Joy K. Rice and Asuncion Miteria Austria; Chapter 8 Women, Collaboration, and Social Change: An Ethics-Based Model of Leadership Marlene G. Fine; Chapter 9 Strategic Planning: Gender, Collaborative Leadership, and Organizational Change Margaret E. Madden
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III From Margin to Center: The Voices of Diverse Feminist LeadersChapter 10 Increasing Diverse Women Leadership in Corporate America: Climbing Concrete Walls and Shattering Glass Ceilings! Penny Sanchez, Phillip Hucles, Janis Sanchez-Hucles, and Sanjay C. Mehta; Chapter 11 Developing Transformational Leaders: Theory to Practice Natalie Porter and Jessica Henderson Daniel; Chapter 12 Feminist Leadership Among Latinas Melba Vasquez and Lillian Comas-Díaz; Chapter 13 Voices of Black Feminist Leaders: Making Spaces for Ourselves Ruth L. Hall, BraVada Garrett-Akinsanya, and Michael Hucles
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 14 Asian American Women Leaders: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Leadership Debra M. Kawahara, Edna M. Esnil, and Jeanette HsuChapter 15 Feminist Leadership Among American Indian Women Clara Sue Kidwell, Diane J. Willis, Deborah Jones-Saumty, and Dolores S. Bigfoot; Chapter 16 Leadership and Collaboration among Women with Disabilities Martha E. Banks and Linda R. Mona 1; Chapter 17 Lesbian Women and Leadership: Which Comes First? Nancy L. Baker and Beverly Greene; Conclusion: Transforming Leadership with Diverse Feminist Voices Jean Lau Chin; Index;
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    Domicile and Diaspora : Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405100540
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (304 p.)
    Series Statement: RGS-IBG Book Series v.82
    Parallel Title: Print version Domicile and Diaspora : Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home
    DDC: 305.48/891411
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    Abstract: Domicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947. The first book to study the Anglo-Indian community past and present, in India, Britain and Australia. The first book by a geographer to focus on a community of mixed descent. Investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947. Draws on interviews and focus groups with over 150 Anglo-Indians, as well as archival research. Makes a distinctive contribution to debates a
    Description / Table of Contents: Domicile and Diaspora; Contents; Figures; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Eight; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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    Statutory Adjudication : A Practical Guide (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405110853
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (288 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Statutory Adjudication : A Practical Guide
    DDC: 306.44081
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    Abstract: Existing books on construction adjudication have either been written as an introduction to the subject when the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act was first introduced in 1996, or they are aimed at professionals representing parties or at adjudicators themselves. In contrast, this book has been written for the parties to adjudication, particularly those new to the process. It takes a straightforward, practical approach to the subject, dealing with the process step-by-step. The first part takes a party who is referring a dispute through the stages of the adjudication process, inc
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Abbreviations; PART 1 An Introduction to Adjudication; PART 2 So You Want To Go To Adjudication?; PART 3 So You Are Being Taken To Adjudication; PART 4 Matters of Common Interest; PART 5 Statutory Payment Requirements; Index;
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    Diversity and Community : An Interdisciplinary Reader (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631219460
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (366 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Diversity and Community : An Interdisciplinary Reader
    DDC: 307
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    Abstract: Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of essays exploring the notion of community in its many theoretical, practical, and cultural manifestations. A collection of specially commissioned essays exploring the notion of community in its many theoretical, practical, and cultural manifestations. Discusses the idea of community in its full, cultural context. Deals with issues confronting many diverse groups, including African American, Franco-Canadian, computer-mediated, and gay and lesbian communities. Includes contributions by both eminent schlars and new voices, amo
    Description / Table of Contents: Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Diversity and Community; Part I: Community and Its Contestations; 1 Communities and Community: Critique and Retrieval; 2 Community at the Margin; 3 Impure Communities; 4 Identities: The Dynamical Dimensions of Diversity; 5 From Village to Global Contexts: Ideas, Types, and the Making of Communities; 6 Obligations Across Generations: A Consideration in the Understanding of Community Formation; Part II: Community, Constitutive Identities, and Resisting Subjects
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Citizenship or Transgression?: Dilemmas of the US Movement for Lesbian/Gay Rights8 Diversity, Inequality, and Community: African Americans and People of Color in the United States; 9 Renewing American Indian Nations: Cosmic Communities and Spiritual Autonomy; 10 Nations and Nationalism: The Case of Canada/Quebec; 11 Love, Care, and Women's Dignity: The Family as a Privileged Community; 12 Community and Society, Melancholy and Sociopathy; Part III: Community, Culture, and Education; 13 The Role of Art in Sustaining Communities; 14 Images of Community in American Popular Culture
    Description / Table of Contents: 15 Virtual Communities: Chinatowns Made in America16 Villages, Local and Global: Observations on Computer- Mediated and Geographically Situated Communities; 17 The University as a Universe of Communities; Index;
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    Learning for Life in the 21st Century : Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631223306
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (314 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Learning for Life in the 21st Century : Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education
    DDC: 306.43
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    Abstract: United by the belief that the most significant factor in shaping the minds of young people is the cultural setting in which learning takes place, the twenty eminent contributors to this volume present new thinking on education across the boundaries of school, home, work and community. Gordon Wellsis Professor of Education at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Guy Claxtonis Visiting Professor of Learning Science at the University of Bristol.
    Abstract: United by the belief that the most significant factor in shaping the minds of young people is the cultural setting in which learning takes place, the twenty eminent contributors to this volume present new thinking on education across the boundaries of school, home, work and community
    Description / Table of Contents: Learning for Life in the 21st Century; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education; Part I Issues and Developments in Sociocultural Theory; 2 Education for the Learning Age: A Sociocultural Approach to Learning to Learn; 3 Becoming the Village: Education Across Lives; 4 The Gift of Confidence: A Vygotskian View of Emotions; 5 From Activity to Directivity: The Question of Involvement in Education; 6 Sociocultural Perspectives on Assessment; 7 Teaching, Learning, and Development: A Post- Vygotskian Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II Pre-School and School-Age Learning and Development8 Emerging Learning Narratives: A Perspective from Early Childhood Education; 9 Semiotic Mediation and Mental Development in Pluralistic Societies: Some Implications for Tomorrow's Schooling; 10 Learning to Argue and Reason Through Discourse in Educational Settings; 11 Developing Dialogues; 12 Supporting Students' Learning of Significant Mathematical Ideas; 13 A Developmental Teaching Approach to Schooling; 14 Standards for Pedagogy: Research, Theory and Practice; Part III Post-Compulsory, Adult and Professional Learning
    Description / Table of Contents: 15 Inquiry as an Orientation for Learning, Teaching and Teacher Education16 Can a School Community Learn to Master Its Own Future? An Activity- Theoretical Study of Expansive Learning Among Middle School Teachers; 17 Cultural Historical Activity Theory and the Expansion of Opportunities for Learning After School; 18 Building a Community of Educators versus Effecting Conceptual Change in Individual Students: Multicultural Education for Pre-service Teachers; 19 Organizing Excursions Into Specialist Discourse Communities: A Sociocultural Account of University Teaching; 20 Afterword; Bibliography
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    The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405175630
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (624 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions to sociology v.25
    Parallel Title: Print version The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families
    DDC: 306.85
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    Abstract: Tackling issues relevant to family life today, thisauthoritative Companion shows why studying social change in families is fundamental for understanding the transformations in individual and social life, across the globe. Contains original essays by expert contributors on a wide range of topics relating to the sociology of families. Includes coverage of social inequality, parenting practices, children's work, the changing patterns of citizenship, and multi-cultural families. Gives special attention to European and North American examples. Discusses previously neglected groups, including immigr
    Description / Table of Contents: The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; PART I FAMILIES IN A GLOBALWORLD; 1 Globalization and Western Bias in Family Sociology; 2 Changing European Families: Trends and Issues; 3 Recent Demographic Trends in the US and Implications for Well-Being; 4 Children, Families, States, and Changing Citizenship; 5 Families and Local Communities; PART II LIFE-COURSE PERSPECTIVES ON THE FAMILY; 6 Generations, the Life Course, and Family Change; 7 Children's Families; 8 Aging and the Life Course; 9 Parenting Practices
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Time, Through the Life Course, in the FamilyPART III INEQUALITY AND DIVERSITY; 11 Inequality and the Family; 12 Families of the Poor; 13 Social Capital and the Family; 14 Family, the State, and Health Care: Changing Roles in the New Century; 15 Immigrant Families in the US; 16 Immigrant Families in the UK; PART IV CHANGING FAMILY FORMS AND RELATIONSHIPS; 17 Religion, Romantic Love, and the Family; 18 Trends in the Formation and Dissolution of Couples; 19 Children, Families, and Divorce; 20 The Lesbian and Gay Family; 21 Couples and Their Networks; 22 Men in Families and Households
    Description / Table of Contents: PART V CHANGING SOCIAL CONTEXTS23 Sex and Family: Changes and Challenges; 24 Feminism and the Family; 25 Work and Families; 26 Public Policy and Families; 27 Assisted Reproduction, Genetic Technologies, and Family Life; 28 Families in a Runaway World; Bibliography; Index;
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    Thoughts and Utterances : The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication (2008)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (430 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Thoughts and Utterances : The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication
    DDC: 306.44
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    Abstract: Thoughts and Utterancesis the first sustained investigation of two distinctions which are fundamental to all theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly communicated and what is implicitly communicated. Features the first sustained investigation of both the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly and implicitly communicated in speech.
    Abstract: Thoughts and Utterances is the first sustained investigation of two distinctions which are fundamental to all theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly communicated and what is implicitly communicated. Features the first sustained investigation of both the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly and implicitly communicated in speech
    Description / Table of Contents: Thoughts and Utterances: The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Pragmatics and Linguistic Underdeterminacy; 2 The Explicit/Implicit Distinction; 3 The Pragmatics of 'And'-Conjunction; 4 The Pragmatics of Negation; 5 The Pragmatics of On-line Concept Construction; Appendix 1: Relevance Theory Glossary; Appendix 2: Gricean Conversational Principles; References; Index;
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    Lost Geographies of Power (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631207283
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (234 p.)
    Series Statement: RGS-IBG Book Series v.2
    Parallel Title: Print version Lost Geographies of Power
    DDC: 303.3
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    Abstract: This original study explores the difference that space and spatiality make to the understanding of power. Explores the difference that space and spatiality makes to an understanding of power. Moves forward the incorporation of ideas of space into social theory. Presents a new understanding of the exercise, uses and manifestations of cultural, economic and political power in the second half of the twentieth century. Illustrated with cases and examples.
    Abstract: This original study explores the difference that space and spatiality make to the understanding of power.Explores the difference that space and spatiality makes to an understanding of power. Moves forward the incorporation of ideas of space into social theory. Presents a new understanding of the exercise, uses and manifestations of cultural, economic and political power in the second half of the twentieth century. Illustrated with cases and examples
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction: Lost Geographies; Part I Spatial Vocabularies of Power; Chapter 2 Power in Things: Weber's Footnotes from the Centre; Chapter 3 Power through Mobilization: From Mann's Networked Productions to Castells's Networked Fictions; Chapter 4 Power as an Immanent Affair: Foucault and Deleuze's Topological Detail; Part II Lost Geographies; Chapter 5 Power in its Various Guises (and Disguises); Chapter 6 Proximity and Reach: Were there Powers at a Distance before Latour?
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7 Placing Power, or the Mischief Done by Thinking that Domination is EverywhereChapter 8 Conclusion: Misplaced Power; Bibliography; Index;
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    The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405105941
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (450 p.)
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions to sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists
    DDC: 301.0922
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    Abstract: The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists provides a comprehensive review of classical social theory. Containing original essays especially commissioned for this volume, leading experts and practitioners examine the life and work of 12 major theorists. Includes 12 original essays by leading scholars on major classical social theoristsCovers the key figures who shaped social theory, such as Marx, Weber and Durkheim, as well as additional classical theorists such as Harriet Martineau and W. E. B. Du BoisEssays include biographical sketches, the social and intellectual context
    Description / Table of Contents: The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction: Narratives, Geistesgeschichtes, and the History of Social Theory; 1 Auguste Comte; 2 Harriet Martineau; 3 Herbert Spencer; 4 Karl Marx; 5 Max Weber; 6 Émile Durkheim; 7 Georg Simmel; 8 Charlotte Perkins Gilman; 9 George Herbert Mead; 10 W. E. B. Du Bois; 11 Alfred Schutz; 12 Talcott Parsons; Index;
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    The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631232674
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (352 p.)
    Series Statement: Wiley Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology
    Series Statement: Wiley Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology Ser
    Parallel Title: Print version The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Archaeology ; Mediterranean Region ; Mediterranean Region ; Antiquities ; Prehistoric peoples ; Mediterranean Region ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of Mediterranean prehistory and an essential reference to the most recent research and fieldwork. Only book available to offer general coverage of Mediterranean prehistory Written by 14 of the leading archaeologists in the field Spans the Neolithic through the Iron Age, and draws from all the major regions of the Mediterranean's coast and islands Presents the central debates in Mediterranean prehistory---trade and interaction, rural economies, ritual, social structure, gender, monumentality, insularity, archaeometallurgy and the
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Prehistory in the Mediterranean: The Connecting and Corrupting Sea; 2 Substances in Motion: Neolithic Mediterranean "Trade"; 3 Agriculture, Pastoralism, and Mediterranean Landscapes in Prehistory; 4 Changing Social Relations in the Mediterranean Copper and Bronze Ages; 5 The Material Expression of Cult, Ritual, and Feasting; 6 The Gendered Sea: Iconography, Gender, and Mediterranean Prehistory; 7 The Genesis of Monuments among the Mediterranean Islands; 8 Lithic Technologies and Use
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 Archaeometallurgy in the Mediterranean: The Social Context of Mining, Technology, and Trade10 Settlement in the Prehistoric Mediterranean; 11 Maritime Commerce and Geographies of Mobility in the Late Bronze Age of the Eastern Mediterranean: Problematizations; 12 Museum Archaeology and the Mediterranean Cultural Heritage; Index;
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    Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology : Group Processes (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631208655
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (712 p.)
    Series Statement: Blackwell handbook of social psychology
    Parallel Title: Print version Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology : Group Processes
    DDC: 302
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    Abstract: This handbook provides an authoritative, up-to-date overview of the social psychology of group processes. The topics covered include group decisions, juries, group remembering, roles, status, leadership, social identity and group membership, socialization, group performance, negotiation and bargaining, emotion and mood, computer-mediated communication, organizations and mental health. Provides an authoritative, up-to-date overview of the social psychology of group processes. Written by leading researchers from around the world to provide a classic and current overview of research as well as pr
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; 1 Shared Cognition in Small Groups; 2 Collective Choice, Judgment, and Problem Solving; 3 Social Categorization, Depersonalization, and Group Behavior; 4 Group Socialization and Newcomer Innovation; 5 Group Performance in Collaborative and Social Dilemma Tasks: Progress and Prospects; 6 Poker Face, Smiley Face, and Rant 'n' Rave: Myths and Realities about Emotion in Negotiation; 7 Mood and Emotion in Groups; 8 The Psychology of Crowd Dynamics; 9 Conformity and Independence in Groups: Majorities and Minorities
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Dynamic Social Impact and the Consolidation, Clustering, Correlation, and Continuing Diversity of Culture11 Attitudes, Norms, and Social Groups; 12 System Constraints on Leadership Perceptions, Behavior, and Influence: An Example of Connectionist Level Processes; 13 Group Processes and the Construction of Social Representations; 14 Social Comparison Motives in Ongoing Groups; 15 Social Status and Group Structure; 16 Leadership Effectiveness: An Integrative Review; 17 Social Categorization, Social Identification, and Rejection of Deviant Group Members
    Description / Table of Contents: 18 Collective Identity: Group Membership and Self-Conception19 It Takes Two to Tango: Relating Group Identity to Individual Identity within the Framework of Group Development; 20 Cultural Dimensions of Negotiation; 21 Overcoming Dependent Data: A Guide to the Analysis of Group Data; 22 Observation and Analysis of Group Interaction over Time: Some Methodological and Strategic Choices; 23 Communication Technologies, the Internet, and Group Research; 24 Procedural Mechanisms and Jury Behavior; 25 Group Processes in Organizational Contexts; 26 Therapeutic Groups; Author Index; Subject Index;
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    A Companion to Postcolonial Studies (2008)
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (634 p.)
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions in cultural studies v.2
    Parallel Title: Print version A Companion to Postcolonial Studies
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Colonization ; Philosophy ; Postcolonialism ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947. Ranges widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial studyPresents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West AsiaProvides clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions affected by European coloniz
    Description / Table of Contents: A Companion to Postcolonial Studies; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword: Upon Reading the Companion to Postcolonial Studies; Acknowledgments; Mission Impossible: Introducing Postcolonial Studies in the US Academy; Part I: Historical and Theoretical Issues; 1 Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism; 2 Postcolonial Feminism/ Postcolonialism and Feminism; 3 Heterogeneity and Hybridity: Colonial Legacy, Postcolonial Heresy; 4 Postcolonialism and Postmodernism; 5 Postcolonial Studies in the House of US Multiculturalism; 6 Global Capital and Transnationalism
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: The Local and the Global7 A Vindication of Double Consciousness; 8 Human Understanding and (Latin) American Interests - The Politics and Sensibilities of Geohistorical Locations; 9 US Imperialism: Global Dominance without Colonies; 10 Indigenousness and Indigeneity; 11 Creolization, Orality and Nation Language in the Caribbean; 12 "Middle-class" Consciousness and Patriotic Literature in South Asia; 13 Africa: Varied Colonial Legacies; 14 The "Middle East"? Or …/ Arabic Literature and the Postcolonial Predicament; 15 King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the "Handover" from the USA
    Description / Table of Contents: 16 Japan and East Asia17 Intellectuals, Theosophy, and Failed Narratives of the Nation in Late Colonial Java; 18 Settler Colonies; 19 Ireland After History; 20 Global Disjunctures, Diasporic Differences, and the New World (Dis-)Order; 21 Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender; Part III: The Inventiveness of Theory; 22 Humanism in Question: Fanon and Said; 23 Spivak and Bhabha; 24 A Small History of Subaltern Studies; 25 Feminist Theory in Perspective; 26 Global Gay Formations and Local Homosexualities; Part IV: Cultural Studies and the Accommodation of Postcolonialism
    Description / Table of Contents: 27 Rethinking English: Postcolonial English Studies28 Postcolonial Legality; 29 Race, Gender, Class, Postcolonialism: Toward a New Humanistic Paradigm?; Postscript: Popular Perceptions of Postcolonial Studies after 9/11; Index;
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    The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631231547
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (629 p.)
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions to sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities
    DDC: 305
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities is a first-rate collection of social science scholarship on inequalities, emphasizing race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, age, and nationality. Highlights themes that represent the scope and range of theoretical orientations, contemporary emphases, and emerging topics in the field of social inequalities. Gives special attention to debates in the field, developing trends and directions, and interdisciplinary influences in the study of social inequalities. Includes an editorial introduction and suggestions for further reading
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Historical Perspectives on Inequality; 2. Social Exclusion: New Inequality Paradigm for the Era of Globalization?; 3. Unequal Nations: Race, Citizen, and the Politics of Recognition; 4. Intimate Citizenship in an Unjust World; 5. Domination, Resistance, and Subjectivity; 6. Conceptualizing a Critical Race Theory in Sociology; 7. Environmental Racism: Inequality in a Toxic World; 8. Labor-market Inequality: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class
    Description / Table of Contents: 9. What Counts? Definition, Measurement, and Legitimacy in Studies of Homelessness10. Children and Inequality; 11. Parenting and Inequality; 12. Migrant Networks: a Summary and Critique of Relational Approaches to International Migration; 13. Race, Education, and Inequality; 14. Beyond Dependency: Welfare States and the Configuration of Social Inequality; 15. Inequalities, Crime, and Citizenship; 16. Disability and Social Inequalities; 17. The Culture of Medicine and Racial, Ethnic, and Class Disparities in Healthcare; 18. The Nervous Gaze: Backpacking in Africa
    Description / Table of Contents: 19. Origins and Contours of the Population Debate: Inequality, Population Politics, and NGOs20. Selling Images of Inequality: Hollywood Cinema and the Reproduction of Racial and Gender Stereotypes; 21. In the Shadow of Cultural Imperialism: Television and National Identities in the Era of Globalization; 22. Minding the Cyber-gap: the Internet and Social Inequality; 23. New Global Technologies of Power: Cybernetic Capitalism and Social Inequality; Index;
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    Women and Media : A Critical Introduction (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405116060
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (306 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Women and Media : A Critical Introduction
    DDC: 302.23082
    Keywords: Mass media and women ; Women in mass media ; Women in the mass media industry ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Women and Media is a thoughtful cross-cultural examination of the ways in which women have worked inside and outside mainstream media organizations since the 1970s.Rooted in a series of interviews with women media workers and activists collected specifically for this book, the text provides an original insight into women's experiences.Explains the ways that women have organized their internal and external campaigns to improve media content (or working conditions) for women, and established womenowned media to gain a public voice.Identifies key issues and developments in feminist media critique
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; About the authors; 1 Introduction; 2 Women in/as entertainment; 3 Images of women in news and magazines; 4 Women as audience; 5 Women and production: gender and the political economy of media industries; 6 Toward a Model of Women's Media Action; 7 First path: politics to media; 8 Second path: media profession to politics; 9 Third path: advocate change agent; 10 Fourth path: women's media enterprises; 11 Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix: research participants; Name index; Subject index;
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    A Companion to African-American Studies (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631235163
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (704 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions in cultural studies v.11
    Parallel Title: Print version A Companion to African-American Studies
    DDC: 305.896/073
    Keywords: African Americans ; Study and teaching ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A Companion to African-American Studies is an exciting and comprehensive re-appraisal of the history and future of African American studies. Contains original essays by expert contributors in the field of African-American Studies Creates a groundbreaking re-appraisal of the history and future of the field Includes a series of reflections from those who established African American Studies as a bona fide academic discipline Captures the dynamic interaction of African American Studies with other fields of inquiry
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgments; Note on the Text; Introduction: On Working Through a Most Difficult Terrain; 1 On My First Acquaintance with Black Studies: A Yale Story; 2 Sustaining Africology: On the Creation and Development of a Discipline; 3 Dreams, Nightmares, and Realities: Afro-American Studies at Brown University, 1969-1986; 4 Black Studies in the Whirlwind: A Retrospective View; 5 From the Birth to a Mature Afro-American Studies at Harvard, 1969-2002; 6 Black Studies and Ethnic Studies: The Crucible of Knowledge and Social Action
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 A Debate on Activism in Black Studies8 Singing the Challenges: The Arts and Humanities as Collaborative Sites in African-American Studies; 9 On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Reimprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being,; 10 The New Auction Block: Blackness and the Marketplace; 11 Black Studies, Black Professors, and the Struggles of Perception; 12 Autobiography of an Ex-White Man; 13 Homage to Mistress Wheatley; 14 Toni Cade Bambara's Those Bones Are Not My Child as a Model for Black Studies; 15 Jazz Consciousness
    Description / Table of Contents: 16 Afro-American Studies and the Rise of African-American Philosophy17 Sociology and the African Diaspora Experience; 18 Suicide in Black and White: Theories and Statistics; 19 Some Reflections on Challenges Posed to Social Scientific Method by the Study of Race; 20 African-American Queer Studies; 21 Black Studies, Race, and Critical Race Theory: A Narrative Deconstruction of Law; 22 Unthinkable History? The Haitian Revolution, Historiography, and Modernity on the Periphery; 23 Historical Consciousness in the Relation of African-American Studies to Modernity
    Description / Table of Contents: 24 An Emerging Mosaic: Rewriting Postwar African-American History25 Reflections on African-American Political Thought: The Many Rivers of Freedom; 26 Politics of Knowledge: Black Policy Professionals in the Managerial Age; 27 From the Nile to the Niger: The Evolution of African Spiritual Concepts; 28 Three Rival Narratives of Black Religion; 29 Babel in the North: Black Migration, Moral Community, and the Ethics of Racial Authenticity; 30 Locating Afro-American Judaism: A Critique of White Normativity; 31 Playing with the Dark: Africana and Latino Literary Imaginations
    Description / Table of Contents: 32 Africana Studies: The International Context and Boundaries33 Africana Thought and African-Diasporic Studies; References; Index;
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    Permission to Steal : Revealing the Roots of Corporate Scandal--An Address to My Fellow Citizens (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405145398
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (116 p.)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Small, Michael W. Lisa H. Newton, Permission to Steal: Revealing the Roots of Corporate Scandal (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006), ISBN 978-1405145398, 112 pages 2008
    Series Statement: Blackwell Public Philosophy Series
    Series Statement: Blackwell Public Philosophy Ser
    Series Statement: Blackwell public philosophy
    Parallel Title: Print version Permission to Steal : Revealing the Roots of Corporate Scandal--An Address to My Fellow Citizens
    DDC: 306.0973
    Keywords: White collar crimes -- United States ; Corporations -- Corrupt practices -- United States ; Corporations -- Moral and ethical aspects ; Corporate culture -- Moral and ethical aspects ; Business ethics -- United States ; Business ethics ; United States ; Corporate culture ; Moral and ethical aspects ; Corporations ; Corrupt practices ; United States ; Corporations ; Moral and ethical aspects ; White collar crimes ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Citing recent examples including Enron, Arthur Andersen, and WorldCom, Permission to Steal explores what went wrong and advocates a universal reassessment of what is considered “good” in corporate America. A fascinating exploration of the recent corporate scandals which have rocked the global business community. Written with sharp and compelling style, suitable for students, professionals, and general readers. Companion website offers discussion points for the book as well as an up-to-date chronology of ongoing corporate scandals.
    Abstract: Citing recent examples including Enron, Arthur Andersen, and WorldCom, Permission to Steal explores what went wrong and advocates a universal reassessment of what is considered "good" in corporate America. A fascinating exploration of the recent corporate scandals which have rocked the global business community. Written with sharp and compelling style, suitable for students, professionals, and general readers. Companion website offers discussion points for the book as well as an up-to-date chronology of ongoing corporate scandals
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Introduction: The Stories; Choosing a Path in the Woods; 1 The World, the Flesh, and the Devil; 2 The Lethal Marriage of Ideology and Opportunity; 3 Humility and Hope; Bibliography; Index;
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    The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631234289
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (450 p.)
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions to religion
    Parallel Title: Print version The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader
    DDC: 306.3
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Economics ; Sociological aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This Reader brings together the exciting and innovative work that has appeared in the last 10 years in the growing field of cultural economy. Brings together exciting and innovative work from the last ten years in the emerging field of cultural economy. Contains a substantial introduction by the editors on the main strands and history of the cultural economy approach. Shows how the pursuit of prosperity always involves multiple and hybrid orderings that cannot be reduced to either the terms culture or economy. Shows that thinking about cultural economy is both a substantive task and a valuable
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Production; 1 A Mixed Economy of Fashion Design; 2 Net-Working for a Living:Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace; 3 Instrumentalizing the Truth of Practice; 4 The Economy of Qualities; Part II Finance and Money; 5 Inside the Economy of Appearances; 6 Physics and Finance:S-Terms and Modern Finance as a Topic for Science Studies; 7 Traders 'Engagement with Markets:A Postsocial Relationship; Part III Regulation; 8 Varieties of Protectors; 9 The Agony of Mammon; 10 Governing by Numbers:Why Calculative Practices Matter
    Description / Table of Contents: Part IV Commodity Chains11 African/Asian/Uptown/Downtown; 12 Retailers,Knowledges and Changing Commodity Networks: The Case of the Cut Flower Trade; 13 Culinary Networks and Cultural Connections: A Conventions Perspective; Part V Consumption; 14 Making Love in Supermarkets; 15 Window Shopping at Home:Classifieds,Catalogues and New Consumer Skills; 16 What 's in a Price?An Ethnography of Tribal Art at Auction; 17 It 's Showtime:On the Workplace Geographies of Display in a Restaurant in Southeast England; Part VI Economy of Passions; 18 Feeling Management:From Private to Commercial Uses
    Description / Table of Contents: 19 Negotiating the Bar:Sex,Money and the Uneasy Politics of Third Space20 A Joint 's a Joint; 21 Marking Time with Nike:The Illusion of the Durable; Index;
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    Readings in Economic Sociology (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631228615
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (384 p.)
    Series Statement: Blackwell Readers in Sociology v.4
    Series Statement: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Sociology Ser v.4
    Parallel Title: Print version Readings in Economic Sociology
    DDC: 306.3
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Economics ; Sociological aspects ; Sociology ; Electronic books
    Abstract: These articles, over thirty in total, reflect the best and latest thought in the exciting field of economic sociology. Beginning with the foundation of Smith, Marx, Engels and Polanyi, the volume gathers some of the best writings by economic sociologists that consider national and world economies as both products and influences of society. Contains over twenty articles by classical and contemporary economic social theorists. Covers important topics on economic action, states, and markets. Includes insightful editorial introductions and further reading suggestions
    Description / Table of Contents: Readings in Economic Sociology; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part I Foundational Statements; Introduction; 1 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations; 2 Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy; 3 Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology; 4 The Great Transformation; Part II Economic Action; Introduction; 5 Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness; 6 Making Markets: Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street; 7 Auctions: The Social Construction of Value
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 The Structural Sources of Adventurism: The Case of the California Gold Rush9 The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions; Part III Capitalist States and Globalizing Markets; Introduction; 10 Weber's Last Theory of Capitalism; 11 Markets as Politics: A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions; 12 Rethinking Capitalism; 13 Developing Difference: Social Organization and the Rise of the Auto Industries of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina; 14 Learning from Collaboration: Knowledge and Networks in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries
    Description / Table of Contents: Part IV Economic Culture and the Culture of the EconomyIntroduction; 15 The Forms of Capital; 16 Money, Meaning, and Morality; 17 The Social Meaning of Money; 18 Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization; 19 Greening the Economy from the Bottom up? Lessons in Consumption from the Energy Case; Index;
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    A Companion to Cultural Geography (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405175654
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (546 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography Ser
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions to geography
    Parallel Title: Print version A Companion to Cultural Geography
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: Human geography ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A Companion to Cultural Geography brings together original contributions from 35 distinguished international scholars to provide a critical overview of this dynamic and influential field of study. Provides accessible overviews of key themes, debates and controversies from a variety of historical and theoretical vantage pointsCharts significant changes in cultural geography in the twentieth century as well as the principal approaches that currently animate work in the fieldA valuable resource not just for geographers but also those working in allied fields who wish to get a clear understanding
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures and Tables; 1 Introduction; 2 Cultural Traditions; 3 Cultural Turns; 4 A Critique of the Cultural Turn; 5 Historical Materialism and Marxism; 6 Feminisms; 7 Poststructuralism; 8 Psychoanalytic Approaches; 9 Performance and Performativity: A Geography of Unknown Lands; 10 Cultures of Science; 11 Nature and Culture: On the Career of a False Problem; 12 Cultural Ecology; 13 Environmental History; 14 Ethics and the Human Environment; 15 Nationalism; 16 Critical 'Race' Approaches to Cultural Geography; 17 Social Class; 18 Sexuality; 19 The Body
    Description / Table of Contents: 20 Consumption21 Public Memory; 22 Economic Landscapes; 23 Political Landscapes; 24 Religious Landscapes; 25 Landscapes of Home; 26 Landscapes of Childhood and Youth; 27 Landscape in Film; 28 Landscape and Art; 29 Imperial Geographies; 30 Postcolonial Geographies; 31 Diaspora; 32 Transnationalism; Index;
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    A Companion to Contemporary Britain : 1939-2000 (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631220404
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (602 p.)
    Series Statement: Blackwell Companions to British History Ser
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions to British history
    Parallel Title: Print version A Companion to Contemporary Britain : 1939-2000
    DDC: 306.09410904
    Keywords: Great Britain ; Civilization ; 20th century ; Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Great Britain ; History ; Elizabeth II, 1952- ; Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Great Britain ; History ; George VI, 1936-1952 ; Handbooks, manuals, etc ; World War, 1939-1945 ; Great Britain ; Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A Companion to Contemporary Britain covers the key themes and debates of 20th-century history from the outbreak of the Second World War to the end of the century. Assesses the impact of the Second World War Looks at Britain's role in the wider world, including the legacy of Empire, Britain's 'special relationship' with the United States, and integration with continental Europe Explores cultural issues, such as class consciousness, immigration and race relations, changing gender roles, and the impact of the mass media Covers domestic politics and the economy Introduces the varied perspectives d
    Description / Table of Contents: Figures; Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1. The Impact of the Second World War; 2. The Impact of the Cold War; 3. Population and the Family; 4. Cities, Suburbs, Countryside; 5. Class; 6. Immigration and Racism; 7. Sport and Recreation; 8. Youth Culture; 9. Sexuality; 10. Economic 'Decline' in Post-War Britain; 11. The Transformation of the Economy; 12. The Geography of Economic Change; 13. Living Standards and Consumption; 14. Gender: Change and Continuity; 15. Welfare, Poverty and Social Inequalities; 16. Education; 17. Health; 18. Rewriting the Unwritten Constitution
    Description / Table of Contents: 19. The Secret State20. Rethinking the 'Rise and Fall' of Two-Party Politics; 21. The Rise and Disintegration of the Working Classes; 22. The Growth of Social Movements; 23. Civil Society; 24. The Politics of Devolution; 25. The Politics of Northern Ireland; 26. Britain in the World Economy; 27. The End of Empire; 28. The Anglo-American 'Special Relationship'; 29. Britain and Europe; 30. British Defence Policy; Select Bibliography; Index; Adverts;
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    A Companion to Television (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405100946
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (646 p.)
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions in cultural studies v.10
    Parallel Title: Print version A Companion to Television
    DDC: 302.2345
    Keywords: Television broadcasting ; Television ; Television broadcasting ; Television ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television's current incarnation, and predict its likely futureCovers technology and aesthetics, television's relationship to the state, televisual commerce; texts, representation, genre, internationalism, and audience reception and effectsEssays are by an international group of first-rate scholars For information, news, and content from Blackwell's reference publishing program please visi
    Description / Table of Contents: Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE The Development of Television Studies; CHAPTER TWO Critical Perspectives on Television from the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism; CHAPTER THREE Television and History; CHAPTER FOUR Our TV Heritage: Television, the Archive, and the Reasons for Preservation; CHAPTER FIVE Television as a Moving Aesthetic: In Search of the Ultimate Aesthetic - The Self; CHAPTER SIX Locating the Televisual in Golden Age Television; CHAPTER SEVEN Television Production: Who Makes American TV?
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER EIGHT Who Rules TV? States, Markets, and the Public InterestCHAPTER NINE Public Broadcasting and Democratic Culture: Consumers, Citizens, and Communards; CHAPTER TEN Culture, Services, Knowledge: Television between Policy Regimes; CHAPTER ELEVEN Television Advertising as Textual and Economic Systems; CHAPTER TWELVE Watching Television: A Political Economic Approach; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Keeping "Abreast" of MTV and Viacom: The Growing Power of a Media Conglomerate; CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Trade in Television News; CHAPTER FIFTEEN Configurations of the New Television Landscape
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Study of Soap OperaCHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Shifting Terrain of American Talk Shows; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Television and Sports; CHAPTER NINETEEN "Where the Past Comes Alive": Television, History, and Collective Memory; CHAPTER TWENTY "How Will You Make it on Your Own?": Television and Feminism Since 1970; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Television and Race; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Television, Public Spheres, and Civic Cultures; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Television and Public Opinion; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Reality TV: Performance, Authenticity, and Television Audiences
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE A Special Audience? Children and TelevisionCHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Local Community Channels: Alternatives to Corporate Media Dominance; CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Latin American Commercial Television: "Primitive Capitalism"; CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Television in China: History, Political Economy, and Ideology; CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Japanese Television: Early Development and Research; CHAPTER THIRTY Change and Transformation in South African Television; CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Television in the Arab East; Index;
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    A Companion to Psychological Anthropology : Modernity and Psychocultural Change (2008)
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (552 p.)
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions to anthropology v.4
    Parallel Title: Print version A Companion to Psychological Anthropology : Modernity and Psychocultural Change
    DDC: 155.82
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This Companionprovides the first definitive overview of psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations across cultures. Brings together original essays by leading scholars in the field Offers an in-depth exploration of the concepts and topics that have emerged through contemporary ethnographic work and the processes of global change Key issues range from studies of consciousness and time, emotion, cognition, dreaming, and memory, to the lingering effects of racism and ethnocentrism, violence, identity and subjectivity
    Abstract: This Companion provides the first definitive overview of psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations across cultures.Brings together original essays by leading scholars in the field Offers an in-depth exploration of the concepts and topics that have emerged through contemporary ethnographic work and the processes of global change Key issues range from studies of consciousness and time, emotion, cognition, dreaming, and memory, to the lingering effects of racism and ethnocentrism, violence, identity and subjectivity
    Description / Table of Contents: Synopsis of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Sensing, Feeling, and Knowing; CHAPTER 1 Time and Consciousness; CHAPTER 2 An Anthropology of Emotion; CHAPTER 3 "Effort After Meaning" in Everyday Life; CHAPTER 4 Culture and Learning; CHAPTER 5 Dreaming in a Global World; CHAPTER 6 Memory and Modernity; PART II Language and Communication; CHAPTER 7 Narrative Transformations; CHAPTER 8 Practical Logic and Autism; CHAPTER 9 Disability: Global Languages and Local Lives; PART III Ambivalence, Alienation, and Belonging; CHAPTER 10 Identity
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER 11 Self and Other in an "Amodern" WorldCHAPTER 12 Immigrant Identities and Emotion; CHAPTER 13 Emotive Institutions; CHAPTER 14 Urban Fear of Crime and Violence in Gated Communities; CHAPTER 15 Race: Local Biology and Culture in Mind; CHAPTER 16 Unbound Subjectivities and New Biomedical Technologies; CHAPTER 17 Globalization, Childhood, and Psychological Anthropology; CHAPTER 18 Drugs and Modernization; CHAPTER 19 Ritual Practice and Its Discontents; CHAPTER 20 Spirit Possession; CHAPTER 21 Witchcraft and Sorcery; PART IV Aggression, Dominance, and Violence
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER 22 Genocide and ModernityCHAPTER 23 Corporate Violence; CHAPTER 24 Political Violence; CHAPTER 25 The Politics of Remorse; Afterword; Index;
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    Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology : Interpersonal Processes (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631212287
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (634 p.)
    Series Statement: Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology Ser
    Series Statement: Blackwell handbook of social psychology
    Parallel Title: Print version Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology : Interpersonal Processes
    DDC: 302
    Keywords: Interpersonal relations ; Social psychology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This authoritative handbook provides a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research as well as an assessment of future trends in the field of interpersonal processes. Ensures thorough and up-to-date coverage of all aspects of interpersonal processes Includes contributions by academics and other experts from around the world to ensure a truly international perspective Provides a comprehensive overview of classic and current research and likely future trends Fully referenced chapters and annotated bibliographies allow easy access to further study Now available in full text online via x
    Description / Table of Contents: Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Preface; Part I Cognition/Attribution; 1 Attributions in Close Relationships: From Balkanization to Integration; 2 Cognition and the Development of Close Relationships; 3 Cognitive Representations of Attachment: The Content and Function of Working Models; 4 The Structure and Function of Ideal Standards in Close Relationships; 5 Seeking a Sense of Conviction: Motivated Cognition in Close Relationships; Part II Social Motivation
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Integrating Social Psychological Research on Aggression within an Evolutionary-based Framework7 Helping and Altruism; 8 The Death and Rebirth of the Social Psychology of Negotiation; 9 Motivational Aspects of Empathic Accuracy; Part III Affect/Emotion; 10 Understanding People's Perceptions of Relationships Is Crucial to Understanding their Emotional Lives; 11 Emotional Intelligence: Conceptualization and Measurement; 12 Emotional Experience in Close Relationships; 13 The Status of Theory and Research on Love and Commitment; Part IV Social Influence and Comparison
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 Interdependence in Close Relationships15 Social Comparison and Close Relationships; Part V Self and Identity; 16 An Evolutionary-Psychological Approach to Self-esteem: Multiple Domains and Multiple Functions; 17 Is Loving the Self Necessary for Loving Another? An Examination of Identity and Intimacy; 18 The Self We Know and the Self We Show: Self-esteem, Self-presentation, and the Maintenance of Interpersonal Relationships; 19 Self-expansion Model of Motivation and Cognition in Close Relationships and Beyond; Part VI Methods
    Description / Table of Contents: 20 A Statistical Framework for Modeling Homogeneity and Interdependence in GroupsPart VII Applications; 21 Attachment Style and Affect Regulation: Implications for Coping with Stress and Mental Health; 22 Marital Therapy and Social Psychology: Will We Choose Explicit Partnership or Cryptomnesia?; Subject Index; Author Index;
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    Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology : Intraindividual Processes (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631210337
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (672 p.)
    Series Statement: Blackwell handbook of social psychology
    Series Statement: Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology Ser
    Parallel Title: Print version Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology : Intraindividual Processes
    DDC: 302
    Keywords: Social interaction ; Social psychology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This volume on intraindividual processes is one of a set of four handbooks in the social psychology field and covers social cognition, attitudes, and attribution theory. Includes contributions by academics and other experts from around the world to ensure a truly international perspective. Provides a comprehensive overview of classic and current research and likely future trends. Fully referenced chapters and bibliographies allow easy access to further study.Now available in full text online via xreferplus, the award-winning reference library on the web from xrefer. For more information, visit
    Description / Table of Contents: Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intraindividual Processes; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Part I Perspectives and Methods; 1 Evolutionary Analyses in Social Psychology; 2 The Cultural Grounding of Social Psychological Theory; 3 A Lifespan Developmental Perspective; 4 Cognitive Indices of Social Information Processing; 5 The Psychophysiological Perspective on the Social Mind; Part II Cognition; 6 Mental Representations; 7 The Social Unconscious; 8 Language and Social Cognition; 9 Conversational Processes in Reasoning and Explanation
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 The Heuristics and Biases Approach to Judgment Under Uncertainty11 How the Mind Moves: Knowledge Accessibility and the Fine-tuning of the Cognitive System; 12 Standards, Expectancies, and Social Comparison; 13 Individual Differences in Information Processing; Part III Social Motivation; 14 Self-Regulation; 15 Goal Setting and Goal Striving; 16 On the Motives Underlying Social Cognition; 17 The Nature of Emotion; 18 The Consequences of Mood on the Processing of Social Information; 19 Attitudes, Persuasion, and Behavior; 20 The Construction of Attitudes; 21 Values and Ideologies
    Description / Table of Contents: 22 Self-Esteem23 Self-Concept and Identity; 24 Identity Through Time: Constructing Personal Pasts and Futures; Part IV Applications; 25 Psychology and Law; 26 Consumer Behavior; 27 Dealing with Adversity: Self-Regulation, Coping, Adaptation, and Health; 28 The Psychological Determinants of Political Judgment; Index;
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    Territory : A Short Introduction (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405118316
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (178 p.)
    Series Statement: Short Introductions to Geography
    Series Statement: Short Introductions to Geography Ser
    Parallel Title: Print version Territory : A Short Introduction
    DDC: 304.2/3
    Keywords: Human geography ; Human territoriality ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine.A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territor
    Description / Table of Contents: Territory a short introduction; Contents; Illustrations; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Entering the Territory of Territory; 2 Disciplining and Undisciplining Territory; 3 Human Territoriality and its Boundaries; 4 Parsing Palisraelestine; 5 Further Explorations; Bibliography; Index;
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    A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631223528
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (648 p.)
    Series Statement: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology Ser
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions to anthropology v.1
    Parallel Title: Print version A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology
    DDC: 306.44
    Keywords: Anthropological linguistics ; Anthropology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology provides a series of in-depth explorations of key concepts and approaches by some of the scholars whose work constitutes the theoretical and methodological foundations of the contemporary study of language as culture. Provides a definitive overview of the field of linguistic anthropology, comprised of original contributions by leading scholars in the fieldSummarizes past and contemporary research across the field and is intended to spur students and scholars to pursue new paths in the coming decadesIncludes a comprehensive bibliography of over 2000 entrie
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Synopsis of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1 Speech Community; 2 Registers of Language; 3 Language Contact and Contact Languages; 4 Codeswitching; 5 Diversity, Hierarchy, and Modernity in Pacific Island Communities; 6 The Value of Linguistic Diversity: Viewing Other Worlds through North American Indian Languages; 7 Variation in Sign Languages; 8 Conversation as a Cultural Activity; 9 Gesture; 10 Participation; 11 Literacy Practices across Learning Contexts; 12 Narrative Lessons; 13 Poetry
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 Vocal Anthropology: From the Music of Language to the Language of Song15 Language Socialization; 16 Language and Identity; 17 Misunderstanding; 18 Language and Madness; 19 Language and Religion; 20 Agency in Language; 21 Language and Social Inequality; 22 Language Ideologies; General Bibliography; Index;
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    A Companion to Feminist Geography (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405101868
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (637 p.)
    Series Statement: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography Ser
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions to geography v.6
    Parallel Title: Print version A Companion to Feminist Geography
    DDC: 304.2082
    Keywords: Feminist geography ; Women ; Employment ; Women ; Social conditions ; Women and city planning ; Women and the environment ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A Companion to Feminist Geographycaptures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field. Shows how feminist geography has changed the landscape of geographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s. Explores the diverse literatures that comprise feminist geography today. Showcases cutting-edge research by feminist geographers. Charts emerging areas of scholarship, such as the body and the nation. Contributions from 50 leading international scholars in the field. Each chapter can be read for its own distinctive contribution.
    Abstract: A Companion to Feminist Geography captures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field. Shows how feminist geography has changed the landscape of geographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s. Explores the diverse literatures that comprise feminist geography today. Showcases cutting-edge research by feminist geographers. Charts emerging areas of scholarship, such as the body and the nation. Contributions from 50 leading international scholars in the field. Each chapter can be read for its own distinctive contribution
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Situating Gender; 3 Anti-racist Feminism in Geography: An Agenda for Social Action; 4 A Bodily Notion of Research: Power, Difference, and Specificity in Feminist Methodology; 5 Transnational Mobilities and Challenges; 6 Feminist Analyses of Work: Rethinking the Boundaries, Gendering, and Spatiality of Work; 7 Shea Butter, Globalization, and Women of Burkina Faso; 8 Working on the Global Assembly Line; 9 From Migrant to Immigrant: Domestic Workers Settle in Vancouver, Canada
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Borders, Embodiment, and Mobility: Feminist Migration Studies in Geography11 The Changing Roles of Female Labor in Economic Expansion and Decline: The Case of the Istanbul Clothing Industry; 12 Female Labor in Sex Trafficking: A Darker Side of Globalization; 13 Changing the Gender of Entrepreneurship; 14 Gender and Empowerment: Creating "Thus Far and No Further" Supportive Structures. A Case from India; 15 Feminist Geographies of the "City": Multiple Voices, Multiple Meanings; 16 Spaces of Change: Gender, Information Technology, and New Geographies of Mobility and Fixity in the Early
    Description / Table of Contents: 17 Gender and the City: The Different Formations of Belonging18 Urban Space in Plural: Elastic, Tamed, Suppressed; 19 Daycare Services Provision for Working Women in Japan; 20 Organizing from the Margins: Grappling with "Empowerment" in India and South Africa; 21 Moving beyond "Gender and GIS" to a Feminist Perspective on Information Technologies: The Impact; 22 Women Outdoors: Destabilizing the Public/Private Dichotomy; 23 Situating Bodies; 24 Bodies, State Discipline, and the Performance of Gender in a South African Women's Prison
    Description / Table of Contents: 25 HIV/AIDS Interventions and the Politics of the African Woman's Body26 British Pakistani Muslim Women: Marking the Body, Marking the Nation; 27 Transversal Circuits: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad; 28 Listening to the Landscapes of Mama Tingo: From the "Woman Question" in Sustainable Development to Feminist Political; 29 Gender Relations beyond Farm Fences: Reframing the Spatial Context of Local Forest Livelihoods; 30 The New Species of Capitalism: An Ecofeminist Comment on Animal Biotechnology; 31 Siren Songs: Gendered Discourses of Concern for Sea Creatures
    Description / Table of Contents: 32 Geographic Information and Women's Empowerment: A Breast Cancer Example33 Performing a "Global Sense of Place": Women's Actions for Environmental Justice; 34 Feminist Political Geographies; 35 Gender, Race, and Nationalism: American Identity and Economic Imperialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; 36 Virility and Violation in the US "War on Terrorism"; 37 Feminist Geopolitics and September 11; 38 Love for Sale: Marketing Gay Male P/Leisure Space in Contemporary Cape Town, South Africa
    Description / Table of Contents: 39 Women's Struggles for Sustainable Peace in Post-conflict Peru: A Feminist Analysis of Violence and Change
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    Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology : Intergroup Processes (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631210627
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (578 p.)
    Series Statement: Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology Ser
    Series Statement: Blackwell handbook of social psychology
    Parallel Title: Print version Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology : Intergroup Processes
    DDC: 302.3
    Keywords: Intergroup relations ; Social interaction ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This volume will provide an authoritative, state of the art overview of the field of intergroup processes. The volume is divided into nine major sections on cognition, motivation, emotion, communication and social influence, changing intergroup relations, social comparison, self-identity, methods and applications.Provides an authoritative, state of the art overview of the field of intergroup processes. Divided into nine major sections on cognition, motivation, emotion, communication and social influence, changing intergroup relations, social comparison, self-identity, methods and applications
    Description / Table of Contents: Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intergroup Processes; Contents; Series Editors ' Preface; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I Sociocognitive Processes; 1 The Root of all Evil in Intergroup Relations?Unearthing the Categorization Process; 2 Stereotypes:Content,Structures,Processes,and Context; 3 Category Dynamics and the Modi .cation of Outgroup Stereotypes; 4 Developmental and Socialization In .uences on Intergroup Bias; Part II Motivation; 5 Social Orientations in the Minimal Group Paradigm; 6 Aversive Discrimination
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 The Social Identity Perspective in Intergroup Relations:Theories, Themes,and Controversies8 Affect as a Cause of Intergroup Bias; Part III Prejudice; 9 Implicit and Explicit Attitudes:Examination of the Relationship between Measures of Intergroup Bias; 10 Classic and Contemporary Analyses of Racial Prejudice; 11 Sexism:Attitudes,Beliefs,and Behaviors; 12 Psychological Consequences of Devalued Identities; Part IV Language and In .uence; 13 How Language Contributes to Persistence of Stereotypes as well as other,more general,Intergroup Issues; 14 Social In .uence in an Intergroup Context
    Description / Table of Contents: Part V Social Comparison15 The Social Psychology of Minority -Majority Relations; 16 The Impact of Relative Group Status:Affective,Perceptual and Behavioral Consequences; 17 Social Justice; Part VI Cultural In .uence; 18 Culture and its Implications for Intergroup Behavior; 19 Acculturation; Part VII Changing Intergroup Relations; 20 Strategic Collective Action:Social Psychology and Social Change; 21 Trust and Intergroup Negotiation; 22 Toward Reduction of Prejudice:Intergroup Contact and Social Categorization; Part VIII Applications
    Description / Table of Contents: 23 When and How School Desegregation Improves Intergroup Relations24 Addressing and Redressing Discrimination:Af .rmative Action in Social Psychological Perspective; 25 Intergroup Relations and National and International Relations; Index;
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    Demography and Nutrition : Evidence from Historical and Contemporary Populations (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780632059836
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (384 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Demography and Nutrition : Evidence from Historical and Contemporary Populations
    DDC: 363.809
    Keywords: Demographic anthropology ; Diet ; History ; Food supply ; History ; Nutritional anthropology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This exciting and important book covers the impact on demography of the nutrition of populations, offering the view that the change from the hunter-gatherer to an agricultural life-style had a major impact on human demography, which still has repercussions today. Demography and Nutrition takes an interdisciplinary approach, involving time-series analyses, mathematical modelling, aggregative analysis and family reconstitution as well as analysis of data series from Third World countries in the 20th Century. Contents include details and analysis of mortality oscillations, food supplies, famines
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Mortality Oscillations in 404 English Parishes - a Metapopulation Study; Chapter 3 The Staple Food Supply: Fluctuating Wheat Prices and Malnutrition; Chapter 4 Famine; Chapter 5 Long-term Demographic Effects of even a Small Famine; Chapter 6 Fertility; Chapter 7 Nutrition and Pregnancy; Chapter 8 Infancy; Chapter 9 Infant Mortality; Chapter 10 Exogenous Cycles: A Case Study; Chapter 11 The Amelioration of Infant Mortality in Rural England; Chapter 12 Iodine Deficiency and Endogenous Mortality; Chapter 13 Seasonality; Chapter 14 Sex Ratios
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 15 Childhood Mortality and Infectious DiseasesChapter 16 Population Dynamics, Disease and Malnutrition in the Nineteenth Century in England; Chapter 17 Ageing; Chapter 18 Conclusions; Appendix; References; Index;
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    The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631226697
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (776 p.)
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions to sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements
    DDC: 303.484
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements is a compilation of original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognized scholars on an array of topics in the field of social movement studies. Contains original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognized scholarsCovers a wide array of topics in the field of social movement studiesFeatures a valuable introduction by the editors which maps the field, and helps situate the study of social movements within other disciplinesIncludes coverage of historical, political, and cultural contexts; leadership; organizational dynamics; soci
    Description / Table of Contents: The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Part I Introduction; 1 Mapping the Terrain; Part II Facilitative Contexts and Conditions; 2 Protest in Time and Space: The Evolution of Waves of Contention; 3 The Strange Career of Strain and Breakdown Theories of Collective Action; 4 Political Context and Opportunity; 5 The Cultural Contexts of Collective Action: Constraints, Opportunities, and the Symbolic Life of Social Movements; 6 Resources and Social Movement Mobilization; Part III Field of Action and Dynamics
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Beyond the Iron Law: Rethinking the Place of Organizations in Social Movement Research8 Leadership in Social Movements; 9 Movement Allies, Adversaries, and Third Parties; 10 Policing Social Protest; 11 Bystanders, Public Opinion, and the Media; 12 ''Get up, Stand up'': Tactical Repertoires of Social Movements; 13 Diffusion Processes within and across Movements; 14 Transnational Processes and Movements; Part IV Microstructural and Social-Psychological Dimensions; 15 Networks and Participation
    Description / Table of Contents: 16 The Demand and Supply of Participation: Social-Psychological Correlates of Participation in Social Movements17 Framing Processes, Ideology, and Discursive Fields; 18 Emotional Dimensions of Social Movements; 19 Collective Identity, Solidarity, and Commitment; Part V Consequences and Outcomes; 20 The Legislative, Organizational, and Beneficiary Consequences of State-Oriented Challengers; 21 Personal and Biographical Consequences; 22 The Cultural Consequences of Social Movements; 23 The Consequences of Social Movements for Each Other; Part VI Major Social Movements
    Description / Table of Contents: 24 The Labor Movement in Motion25 Feminism and the Women's Movement: A Global Perspective; 26 Environmental Movements; 27 Antiwar and Peace Movements; 28 Ethnic and Nationalist Social Movements; 29 Religious Movements; Index;
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    Slavery and Emancipation (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631217343
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (434 p.)
    Series Statement: Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History v.7
    Series Statement: Wiley Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History Ser v.7
    Parallel Title: Print version Slavery and Emancipation
    DDC: 306.3620973
    Keywords: Plantation life ; Southern States ; History ; Sources ; Plantation life ; Southern States ; History ; Slavery ; United States ; History ; Sources ; Slavery ; United States ; History ; Slaves ; Emancipation ; United States ; History ; Sources ; Slaves ; Emancipation ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Slavery and Emancipation is a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South combining recent historical research with period documents. The most comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in America. Combines recent historical research with period documents to bring both immediacy and perspective to the origins, principles, realities, and aftermath of African-American slavery. Includes the colonial foundations of slavery, the master-slave relationship, the cultural world of the plan
    Description / Table of Contents: Slavery and Emancipation; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 COLONIAL ORIGINS: RACE AND SLAVERY; 2 FROM AFRICAN TO AFRICAN AMERICAN: SLAVE ADAPTATION TO THE NEW WORLD; 3 THE FORMATION OF THE MASTER CLASS; 4 SLAVERY AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION; 5 THE GROWTH OF THE COTTON KINGDOM; 6 THE WORLD OF THE PLANTERS; 7 LIFE WITHIN THE BIG HOUSE; 8 MASTERS AND SLAVES: PATERNALISM AND EXPLOITATI0N; 9 LIFE IN THE SLAVE QUARTERS; 10 SLAVE RESISTANCE AND SLAVE REBELLION; 11 THE ABOLITIONIST IMPULSE; 12 THE POLITICS OF SLAVERY; 13 SECESSION AND CIVIL WAR
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 EMANCIPATION AND THE DESTRUCTION OF SLAVERYIndex;
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    A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781405161909
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (530 p.)
    Series Statement: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology Ser
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions to anthropology v.2
    Parallel Title: Print version A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics
    DDC: 306.2
    Keywords: Political anthropology ; Political customs and rites ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This Companionoffers an unprecedented overview of anthropology’s unique contribution to the study of politics. Explores the key concepts and issues of our time - from AIDS, globalization, displacement, and militarization, to identity politics and beyond Each chapter reflects on concepts and issues that have shaped the anthropology of politics and concludes with thoughts on and challenges for the way ahead Anthropology’s distinctive genre, ethnography, lies at the heart of this volume
    Abstract: This Companion offers an unprecedented overview of anthropology's unique contribution to the study of politics. Explores the key concepts and issues of our time - from AIDS, globalization, displacement, and militarization, to identity politics and beyond Each chapter reflects on concepts and issues that have shaped the anthropology of politics and concludes with thoughts on and challenges for the way ahead Anthropology's distinctive genre, ethnography, lies at the heart of this volume
    Description / Table of Contents: A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics; Contents; Synopsis of Contents; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Affective States; 2 After Socialism; 3 AIDS; 4 Citizenship; 5 Cosmopolitanism; 6 Development; 7 Displacement; 8 Feminism; 9 Gender,Race,and Class; 10 Genetic Citizenship; 11 The Global City; 12 Globalization; 13 Governing States; 14 Hegemony; 15 Human Rights; 16 Identity; 17 Imagining Nations; 18 Infrapolitics; 19 ''Mafias ''; 20 Militarization; 21 Neoliberalism; 22 Popular Justice; 23 Postcolonialism; 24 Power Topographies; 25 Race Technologies; 26 Sovereignty
    Description / Table of Contents: 27 Transnational Civil Society28 Transnationality; Index;
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    Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities : An Anthropological Reader (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631232995
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (322 p.)
    Series Statement: Wiley-Blackwell Readers in Anthropology
    Series Statement: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology Ser
    Parallel Title: Print version Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities : An Anthropological Reader
    DDC: 306.766
    Keywords: Gay and lesbian studies ; Gay men ; Homosexuality ; Lesbianism ; Lesbians ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book demonstrates the centrality of sex, gender, and sexuality to theories of human behaviors and practices.Moves beyond other "lesbian and gay studies" readers by presenting a broader view of the significance of studying same-sex cultures and sexualities across cultures. Offers readings from all four subfields of anthropology: cultural, biological, linguistic, and archaeological (along with historical and applied anthropology). Includes discussion of biotechnology and bioethics, health and illness, language, ethnicity, identity, politics, post-colonialism, kinship, development, and polic
    Description / Table of Contents: Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Sexualizing Anthropology's Fields; Part I Anthropology's Sexual Fields; 1 Anthropology Rediscovers Sexuality: A Theoretical Comment; 2 Biological Determinism and Homosexuality; 3 Feminisms, Queer Theories, and the Archaeological Study of Past Sexualities; 4 No; 5 Resources for Lesbian Ethnographic Research in the Lavender Archives; Part II Problems and Propositions; 6 Erotic Anthropology: "Ritualized Homosexuality" in Melanesia and Beyond
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Gender, Genetics, and Generation: Reformulating Biology in Lesbian Kinship8 Transsexualism: Reflections on the Persistence of Gender and the Mutability of Sex; 9 Problems Encountered in Writing the History of Sexuality: Sources, Theory and Interpretation; Part III Ethics, Erotics, and Exercises; 10 Choosing the Sexual Orientation of Children; 11 Yoshiya Nobuko: Out and Outspoken in Practice and Prose; 12 Outing as Performance/Outing as Resistance: A Queer Reading of Austrian (Homo)Sexualities; 13 Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 Freeing South Africa: The "Modernization" of Male-Male Sexuality in Soweto15 Gay Organizations, NGOs, and the Globalization of Sexual Identity: The Case of Bolivia; Index;
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    The Hidden Life of Girls : Games of Stance, Status, and Exclusion (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780631234241
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (344 p.)
    Series Statement: Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
    Series Statement: Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Ser
    Parallel Title: Print version The Hidden Life of Girls : Games of Stance, Status, and Exclusion
    DDC: 302.3/4083
    Keywords: Girls ; Psychology ; Case studies ; Girls ; Social networks ; Case studies ; Interpersonal relations in children ; Case studies ; Social interaction in children ; Case studies ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Winner of the Best Book of 2008 from The International Gender and Language Association In this ground-breaking ethnography of girls on a playground, Goodwin offers a window into their complex social worlds. Combats stereotypes that have dominated theories on female moral development by challenging the notion that girls are inherently supportive of each other Examines the stances that girls on a playground in a multicultural school setting assume and shows how they position themselves in their peer groups Documents the language practices and degradation rituals used to sanction friends and
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Multimodality, Conflict, and Rationality in Girls' Games; 3 Social Dimensions of a Popular Girls' Clique; 4 Social Organization, Opposition, and Directives in the Game of Jump Rope; 5 Language Practices for Indexing Social Status: Stories, Descriptions, Brags, and Comparisons; 6 Stance and Structure in Assessment and Gossip Activity; 7 Constructing Social Difference and Exclusion in Girls' Groups; 8 Conclusion; Appendix A Transcription Symbols; Appendix B Jump Rope Rhymes; Notes; References; Author Index; Subject Index;
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    The Power of Gold : The History of an Obsession (2006)
    Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
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    ISBN: 9780470091005
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (306 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Power of Gold : The History of an Obsession
    DDC: 398.365
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Incorporating myth, history and contemporary investigation, Bernstein tells the story of how human beings have become intoxicated, obsessed, enriched, impoverished, humbled and proud for the sake of gold. From the past to the future, Bernstein's portrayal of gold is intimately linked to the character of humankind
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; PROLOGUE: The Supreme Possession; 1. Get Gold at all Hazards; 2. Midas's Wish and the Creatures of Pure Chance; 3. Darius's Bathtub and the Cackling of the Geese; 4. The Symbol and the Faith; 5. Gold, Salt and the Blessed Town; 6. The Legacy of Eoba, Babba and Udd; 7. The Great Chain Reaction; 8. The Disintegrating Age and the Kings' Ransoms; 9. The Sacred Thirst; 10. The Fatal Poison and Private Money; 11. The Asian Necropolis and Hien Tsung's Inadvertent Innovation; 12. The Great Recoinage and the Last of the Magicians; 13. The True Doctrine and the Great Evil
    Description / Table of Contents: 14. The New Mistress and the Cursed Discovery15. Strength and Failure; 16. Breaking the Golden Fetters; 17. Tearing Loose the Golden Anchor; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y;
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    Pond Life : Creating the 'ripple effect ' in everything you say and do (2006)
    Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
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    ISBN: 9781841127200
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (177 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Pond Life : Creating the 'ripple effect ' in everything you say and do
    DDC: 302.2
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Pond Life is a straightforward, no-nonsense guide to improving the way you communicate and interact with other people. Inside you will find a totally original approach to solving many of the most frequently made communication gaffs and blunders. Pond Life will help you boost your confidence and show you how to present yourself in a way you never thought possible. Why Pond Life? Because every time you communicate, you start a ripple effect. Too often we sell ourselves short because we worry about being caught 'on the hop', let opportunities slip through our fingers or just plain send out the w
    Description / Table of Contents: About the Author; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Creating the Ripple Effect; Why Pond Life?; 1 Ponds, Streams and Muddy Water; 2 How Are You Unique?; 3 Why Being Yourself is Key; 4 The 'What Ifs '; 5 Prepare Well - Feel Good!; 6 Deciding What You Are Going To Say; 7 How Are You Going To Say It?; 8 Going For It; 9 Making an Impact; 10 Losing the Distractions; 11 The Obstacles; 12 Continual Improvement; 13 The Joy of Powerful Communication; The Pond Life D.I.Y. Map; The Future; In Search of New Ponds; Index;
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    Work-Life Integration : Case Studies of Organisational Change (2005)
    Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
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    ISBN: 9780470853436
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (190 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Work-Life Integration : Case Studies of Organisational Change
    DDC: 306.3/6
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Developments in IT and communication technology, coupled with the global 24 hour market, have led to boundaries between work and personal life becoming ever more blurred, while work/life policies and practice struggle to keep up. This book aims to challenge traditional thinking on work life balance, and to explore different ways of promoting change at many levels. It provides a historical overview of the topic, critiques contemporary approaches and offers creative ideas for integrating work and personal life in local, national and global contexts.
    Abstract: Developments in IT and communication technology, coupled with the global 24 hour market, have led to boundaries between work and personal life becoming ever more blurred, while work/life policies and practice struggle to keep up. This book aims to challenge traditional thinking on work life balance, and to explore different ways of promoting change at many levels. It provides a historical overview of the topic, critiques contemporary approaches and offers creative ideas for integrating work and personal life in local, national and global contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: Work-Life Integration Case Studies of Organisational Change; Contents; About the Authors; Foreword by Professor Ronald J. Burke; Foreword by The Rt. Hon. Patricia Hewitt, MP; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Case Studies and Organisational Learning; Chapter 2 The Xerox Corporation; Chapter 3 Energyco; Chapter 4 Proffirm-The Professional Practice Firm; Chapter 5 Printco; Chapter 6 Recruitco; Chapter 7 Adminco; Chapter 8 Charityco; Chapter 9 A Long-term View; Appendix A Work-Life Integration Change Process; Appendix B Work-Personal Life Harmonisation: Visions and Pragmatic Strategies for Change
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