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  • 1
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    Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] : The Univ. of Chicago Press
    Language: English
    Uniform Title: Fragments d'un journal 〈engl.〉
    Keywords: Eliade, Mircea ; 1907- ; Diaries ; Religion historians ; United States ; Diaries
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  • 2
    Language: Undetermined
    DDC: 305.896073
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    Keywords: Black persons Social conditions ; History ; United States ; Anthologie ; Du Bois, William E. B. 1868-1963 ; Rede
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  • 3
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    Chicago [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press
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    Language: English
    Keywords: Eliade, Mircea ; Religion historians Biography ; United States ; Autobiografie ; Eliade, Mircea 1907-1986
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  • 4
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    Detroit, Mich. [u.a.] : Macmillan Reference USA
    ISBN: 9780028660202 , 002866020X
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Macmillan social science library
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Encyclopedia of race and racism
    DDC: 305.800973
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    Keywords: Racism Encyclopedias ; United States ; Minorities Encyclopedias ; Social conditions ; United States ; Race relations Encyclopedias ; Racism Encyclopedias ; United States Encyclopedias ; Race relations ; United States Encyclopedias ; Ethnic relations
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 5
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    Westport, Conn. [u.a.] : Greenwood
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    ISBN: 9780313333002 , 0313333009
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Greenwood milestones in African American history
    DDC: 305.80097303
    Keywords: Riots Encyclopedias ; History ; United States ; Ethnic conflict Encyclopedias ; History ; United States ; United States Encyclopedias ; Race relations
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 6
    Language: English
    Uniform Title: Tagebuch einer Reise nach dem nördlichen America in den Jahren 1832, 1833 und 1834 〈engl.〉
    DDC: 917.8042
    Keywords: Wied, Maximilian 1782-1867 Diaries ; Germans Diaries ; United States ; Naturalists Diaries ; Germany ; Natural history United States ; Frontier and pioneer life United States ; Indians of North America History ; 19th century ; Indians of North America Languages ; History ; 19th century ; United States Description and travel ; Missouri River Valley Description and travel ; West (U.S.) Description and travel ; Reisebericht 1832-1834 ; Indianer ; Nordamerika
    Note: "In cooperation with the Durham Center for Western Studies, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.". - Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 7
    Language: English
    DDC: 305.42/0973
    Keywords: Feminism ; United States ; History ; 18th century ; Sources ; Feminism ; United States ; History ; 19th century ; Sources ; Quelle ; USA ; Feminismus ; Geschichte
    Note: Erschienen: 1 - 3 , Ab Vol. 2 mit dem Gesamttitel: A Madison House book , Ab Vol. 2 im Verl. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md. [u.a.], erschienen
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9780765680600
    Language: English
    DDC: 306.1
    Keywords: Counterculture History ; United States ; Popular culture History ; United States ; United States Social life and customs
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  • 9
    Language: English
    DDC: 306.3620973
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    Keywords: Slavery History ; United States ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte
    Note: Suppl. zu: Without consent or contract / Robert William Fogel. - Umfasst: Vol. 1. Markets and production: technical papers. Vol. 2: Conditions of slave life and the transition to freedom: technical papers
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  • 10
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    Santa Barbara, Calif. [u.a.] : ABC-CLIO
    ISBN: 1576078124
    Language: English
    DDC: 973.03
    Keywords: Conspiracies Encyclopedias ; History ; United States ; United States Encyclopedias ; History ; Wörterbuch ; USA ; Verschwörungstheorie
    Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke , "Also available on the World Wide Web as an e-book--T.p. verso." , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 11
    ISBN: 0762304677
    Language: English
    Pages: 24 cm
    Series Statement: Industrial development and the social fabric 14
    DDC: 323.1/43
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    Keywords: 00.12.1996 ; Einwanderung ; Soziale Integration ; Arbeitsmigranten ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Sozialstaat ; Migrationspolitik ; Deutschland ; USA ; Germany ; Emigration and immigration ; Government policy ; United States ; Emigration and immigration ; Government policy ; Immigrants ; Government policy ; Germany ; Immigrants ; Government policy ; United States ; Social integration ; Germany ; Social integration ; United States ; Social work with immigrants ; Germany ; Social work with immigrants ; United States ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Deutschland ; USA ; Einwanderung ; Sozialpolitik ; Einwanderer ; Soziale Integration
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  • 12
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    Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press
    Language: English
    Pages: 24 cm
    DDC: 335/.12/09730904
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    Keywords: Collective settlements ; United States ; History ; 20th century ; Utopias ; History ; 20th century
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  • 13
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    New York : New York University Press
    ISBN: 1479863106 , 1479811114 , 9781479863105 , 9781479811113
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Smith, Candis Watts Black mosaic
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: African Americans Race identity ; African Americans Relations with Africans ; African Americans Relations with Caribbean Americans ; African Americans Relations with Hispanic Americans ; Blacks Politics and government ; Immigrants Political activity ; Pan-Africanism Political aspects ; Cultural pluralism ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; General ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Political Freedom & Security ; Civil Rights ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Civil Rights ; African Americans ; Race identity ; African Americans ; Relations with Africans ; African Americans ; Relations with Caribbean Americans ; African Americans ; Relations with Hispanic Americans ; Blacks ; Politics and government ; Cultural pluralism ; Immigrants ; Political activity ; Population ; Race relations ; Schwarze ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Politisches Handeln ; United States Race relations ; United States Population ; United States ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Historically, Black Americans have easily found common ground on political, social, and economic goals. Yet, there are signs of increasing variety of opinion among Blacks in the United States, due in large part to the influx of Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean, and African immigrants to the United States. In fact, the very definition of 'African American' as well as who can self-identity as Black is becoming more ambiguous. Should we expect African Americans' shared sense of group identity and high sense of group consciousness to endure as ethnic diversity among the population increases? In Black Mosaic, Candis Watts Smith addresses the effects of this dynamic demographic change on Black identity and Black politics. Smith explores the numerous ways in which the expanding and rapidly changing demographics of Black communities in the United States call into question the very foundations of political identity that has united African Americans for generations. African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors have evolved due to their historical experiences with American politics and American racism. Will Black newcomers recognize the inconsistencies between the American creed and American reality in the same way as those who have been in the U.S. for several generations? If so, how might this recognition influence Black immigrants' political attitudes and behaviors? Will race be a site of coalition between Black immigrants and African Americans? In addition to face-to-face interviews with African Americans and Black immigrants, Smith employs nationally representative survey data to examine these shifts in the attitudes of Black Americans. Filling a significant gap in the political science literature to date, Black Mosaic is a groundbreaking study about the state of race, identity, and politics in an ever-changing America"--
    Abstract: Black on Black history -- Diasporic consciousness: theorizing Black pan-ethnic identity and intraracial politics -- From group membership to group identification -- Broadening Black identity: evidence in national data -- Politicizing identities: linking identity to politics -- Perspectives on intraracial coalition and conflict -- Conclusion: my president is Black?
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 14
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    Washington, D.C : American Psychological Association
    ISBN: 9781433817632 , 1433817632
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (256 p.) , cm
    Edition: 1st ed (Online-Ausg.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The lives of LGBT older adults
    DDC: 306.7608460973
    Keywords: Older sexual minorities Social conditions ; United States ; Older sexual minorities Services for ; United States ; Older sexual minorities Family relationships ; United States ; Older sexual minorities Social conditions ; Older sexual minorities Services for ; Older sexual minorities Family relationships ; Sexual Behavior ; Aged
    Abstract: "Researchers and practitioners have become increasingly aware that LGBT persons have unique and varying needs. However, there is a dearth of empirical research on the specific needs and concerns of LGBT older adults and their families because sexual orientation as a research variable is basically absent in all major gerontological research studies. As a result, it is apparent that the available research on the specific needs and concerns of this "invisible" minority group must be made visible and accessible to all professionals who work with the older adult population. Thus, this book represents a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge research on LGBT older adults and their families. The primary purpose of the book is to inform researchers, practitioners, and policymakers of key research findings and describe practical implications for policy and practice related to LGBT aging individuals and families. Another key aspect of this book is its focus on the strengths and resiliency of the LGBT older adult population and the innovative ways in which individuals have overcome heterosexism and homophobia throughout their lives. The focus on strengths and resiliency is an important advancement in the field given that much of the previous literature on LGBT older adults neglected to address such topics"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved)
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Electronic reproduction; Washington, D.C; American Psychological Association; 2014; Available via World Wide Web; Access limited by licensing agreement; s2014 dcunns
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  • 15
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    Durham : Duke University Press
    ISBN: 9781478091981 , 9780822376064
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 316 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Experimental futures
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010
    DDC: 363.738740973
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    Keywords: Climatic changes Social aspects ; United States ; Climatic changes Political aspects ; United States ; Climatic changes Press coverage ; United States ; Hochschulschrift ; USA ; Gesellschaft ; Klimaänderung ; Presse ; Umweltbewusstsein ; Umweltethik ; Berichterstattung
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    URL: Volltext  (kostenfrei)
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  • 16
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    New York : Springer Publishing Company
    ISBN: 9780826110206 , 0826110207
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (303 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Harris, Yvette R African American Child : Development and Challenges
    DDC: 305.2308996
    Keywords: African American children Social conditions ; African American children Health and hygiene ; African American children Education ; Child development United States ; Developmental psychology ; African American children Health and hygiene ; African American children Education ; Child development ; African American children Social conditions ; African American children Health and hygiene ; Child development United States ; African American children Education ; African American children Social conditions ; Developmental psychology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; Child development ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Praise for the First Edition:. ""This book argues convincingly that children's cultural differences need to be recognized for any accurate understanding of their development. Pointing out the need for additional and more effectively designed research, Harris and Graham provide a valuable foundation for further investigations. This nonpolemic book should be in all libraries, filling an unfortunate gap. Highly recommended."". --Choice. This is an evenhanded examination of the challenges affecting the lives of African American children that emphasizes their strengths and resiliency rather than de
    Note: African American Adolescents and Racial Identity Development. - Description based on print version record
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  • 17
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    Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press
    ISBN: 9780817387679 , 0817387676
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxix, 112 pages) , illustrations (black and white), photographs, maps, portraits.
    Parallel Title: Print version After war times
    DDC: 305.896073075993
    Keywords: Fortune, Timothy Thomas 1856-1928 Childhood and youth ; Fortune family ; Fortune, Timothy Thomas Childhood and youth ; Fortune family ; Fortune, Timothy Thomas Childhood and youth ; Fortune, Timothy Thomas ; African Americans Biography ; Florida ; Jackson County ; African Americans Social conditions ; 19th century ; Florida ; Jackson County ; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Florida ; Jackson County ; African Americans Social conditions 19th century ; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) ; African Americans Biography ; African Americans Biography ; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) ; African Americans Social conditions 19th century ; African Americans -- Florida -- Jackson County -- Biography ; African Americans -- Florida -- Jackson County -- Social conditions -- 19th century ; Fortune, Timothy Thomas, 1856-1928 -- Childhood and youth ; Jackson County (Fla.) -- Race relations ; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Florida -- Jackson County ; Fortune family ; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) ; African Americans ; African Americans ; Social conditions ; Race relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Social Scientists & Psychologists ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Biographies ; History ; Jackson County (Fla.) Race relations ; Jackson County (Fla.) Race relations ; Jackson County (Fla.) Race relations ; United States ; Florida ; Jackson County ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Biografie ; Biografie
    Abstract: T. Thomas Fortune was a leading African American publisher, editor, and journalist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who was born a slave in antebellum Florida lived through emancipation, and rose to become a literary lion of his generation. In T. Thomas Fortune''s "After War Times," Daniel R. Weinfeld brings together a series of twenty-three autobiographical articles Fortune wrote about his formative childhood during Reconstruction and subsequent move to Washington, DC. By 1890 Fortune had founded a predecessor organization to the National Association for the Advancement o
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-108) and index. - Print version record
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  • 18
    ISBN: 0814760619 , 0814760015 , 9780814760611 , 9780814760017
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Franklin, Sekou M After the rebellion
    DDC: 305.2/3509730904
    Keywords: African Americans Social conditions 20th century ; Civil rights movement History 20th century ; Youth, Black History 20th century ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Political Freedom & Security ; Civil Rights ; HISTORY ; United States ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Civil Rights ; African Americans ; Social conditions ; Civil rights movements ; Youth, Black ; Noirs américains ; Conditions sociales ; 20e siècle ; Mouvements des droits civiques ; États-Unis ; 20e siècle ; Jeunesse noire américaine ; 20e siècle ; History ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "What happened to black youth in the post-civil rights generation? What kind of causes did they rally around and were they even rallying in the first place? After the Rebellion takes a close look at a variety of key civil rights groups across the country over the last 40 years to provide a broad view of black youth and social movement activism. Based on both research from a diverse collection of archives and interviews with youth activists, advocates, and grassroots organizers, this book examines popular mobilization among the generation of activists - principally black students, youth, and young adults - who came of age after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Franklin argues that the political environment in the post-Civil Rights era, along with constraints on social activism, made it particularly difficult for young black activists to start and sustain popular mobilization campaigns. Building on case studies from around the country--including New York, the Carolinas, California, Louisiana, and Baltimore--After the Rebellion explores the inner workings and end results of activist groups such as the Southern Negro Youth Congress, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Student Organization for Black Unity, the Free South Africa Campaign, the New Haven Youth Movement, the Black Student Leadership Network, the Juvenile Justice Reform Movement, and the AFL-CIO's Union Summer campaign. Franklin demonstrates how youth-based movements and intergenerational campaigns have attempted to circumvent modern constraints, providing insight into how the very inner workings of these organizations have and have not been effective in creating change and involving youth. A powerful work of both historical and political analysis, After the Rebellion provides a vivid explanation of what happened to the militant impulse of young people since the demobilization of the civil rights and black power movements - a discussion with great implications for the study of generational politics, racial and black politics, and social movements"--
    Abstract: pt. I. Movement activism and the post-civil rights generation -- The world beyond the campus -- From civil rights to anti-apartheid -- The New Haven Youth Movement -- pt. II. The origins of the Black Student Leadership Network -- Organizing for change -- The collapse of the Black Student Leadership Network -- pt. III. Reclaiming our youth: policing and protesting juvenile injustice -- We are labor too.
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    Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield
    ISBN: 144222424X , 1306981646 , 9781442224247 , 9781306981644
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (261 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Garfield, Gail, 1954- Tightrope
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: Racism History ; Families History ; Group identity History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Families ; Group identity ; Race relations ; Racism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; History ; United States Race relations ; History ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Tightrope: A Racial Journey to the Age of Obama explores race and politics in the United States, addressing racial inequalities and injustices that have led to a point in history where, seemingly improbably, Americans have elected (and re-elected) a black man as president. We, as a nation, have taken precarious steps to arrive at the age of Obama, while remaining steeped in contradictions. Our steps on this racial tightrope are a work in progress--a history in the making--that will largely influence who we are and who we hope to become as Americans. Gail Garfield retraces our steps along this wavering racial tightrope, weaving in her own experiences, including her childhood in the Jim Crow south, with the nation's broader racial history to trace the remarkable shift in America's racial landscape. The divergent steps we have taken, teetering between regressive and progressive racial politics, between stifling continuity and meaningful change, have led us to where we now tread as a nation, in this new Age of Obama. The halting, swaying missteps created by racial fears, hatred, and anger reveal the important imprints of separation and difference, and the bold, assured steps open up possibilities for inclusion, acceptance, and belonging. Tightrope challenges readers to reflect on their own steps on the racial tightrope and to ask basic questions about racial identity and progress in the United States"--Provided by publisher
    Abstract: Who am I? race and family relations -- Who were we? race relations in the jim crow south -- Who were we becoming? the civil rights era -- Are we a part of each other? integration and inclusion -- Are we different, yet the same? a multicultural world -- Who is included and who belongs? sharing ambiguous.
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    Tysons Corner, Virginia : Management Concepts Press
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Inc., Federal Management Partners Human Capital Management: What Really Works in Government
    DDC: 305.409171/24109034
    Keywords: Human capital Management ; Manpower planning ; Manpower planning ; Human capital ; Management ; United States Officials and employees ; Selection and appointment ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Chapter 6. Telework: Rethinking the Process of Work: U.S. Patent and Trademark OfficeChapter 7. Building a Knowledge Management Infrastructure: Social Security Administration; Chapter 8. Career Paths That Work: MyCareer@VA: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Chapter 9. An HR System That Helped Make an Agency: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; Chapter 10. Contribution-Based Compensation: Air Force Research Laboratory; Chapter 11. Transforming HR Service Delivery: National Archives and Records Administration.
    Abstract: Chapter 12. HR Technology's Gold Standard: National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationChapter 13. HR Customer and Strategic Services: National Institutes of Health; Chapter 14. What It All Means; About the Authors; Index.
    Abstract: Many federal agencies have made huge strides to develop, fully utilize, and enhance the effectiveness of their most valuable resource: their workforce. This book captures those successes and relates the stories behind them. Innovative recruitment and retention strategies, dynamic employee onboarding programs, leading-edge HR technology-these are some of the stories that offer valuable lessons for anyone dealing with human resources issues in government, business, or any other organizational environment. The authors highlight not only the successful outcomes of various agency programs, but also
    Abstract: Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Developing New Leaders: Department of Transportation, Office of the Inspector General; Chapter 2. A Model for Workforce Planning: U.S. Agency for International Development; Chapter 3. Meeting a Major Staffing Challenge: Customs and Border Protection; Chapter 4. Strategically Integrating New Employees: National Science Foundation Center for Veterinary Medicine; Chapter 5. Innovative Recruitment and Retention: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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    Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
    ISBN: 1611477107 , 9781611477108
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Series Statement: The Fairleigh Dickinson University press series in communication studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Race and hegemonic struggle in the United States
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: Gramsci, Antonio Political and social views ; Gramsci, Antonio ; Hegemony Social aspects ; African Americans Politics and government ; Popular culture ; Politics and culture ; Communication Political aspects ; Protest movements ; Government, Resistance to ; Government, Resistance to ; Political and social views ; Politics and culture ; Popular culture ; Protest movements ; Race relations ; Race relations ; Political aspects ; Communication ; Political aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; African Americans ; Politics and government ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; United States Race relations ; United States Race relations ; Political aspects ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States : Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest is a collection of essays that draws on concepts developed by Antonio Gramsci to examine the imagining of race in popular culture productions, political discourses, and resistance rhetoric"--Provided by publisher
    Abstract: Foreword: A moment of Blackness, and zombies / Eric King Watts -- Introduction: Gramsci, race, and communication studies / Mary E. Triece and Michael G. Lacy -- Part I. Race and popular culture -- Hegemony and disruption in film, television, and documentary / Mary E. Triece -- Racial shadows, threat, neoliberalism, and trauma : reading The book of Eli / Michael G. Lacy -- Bizarre foods : white privilege and the neocolonial palate / Casey Ryan Kelly -- Remembering radical Black dissent : traumatic counter-memories in contemporary documentaries about the Black power movement / Kristen Hoerl -- Part II. Race and politics -- Change vs. the "dead weight" of tradition in politics / Mary E. Triece -- The mother tongue as "back talk" : resisting racism in Congressional hearings / Mary E. Triece -- At the margins of the American political imagination : Black feminist politics and the racial politics of the new Democrats / Brittany Lewis -- The birthers : hegemony and the politics of postracial positionality / Evan Beaumont Center -- Part III. Race and resistance -- "Pessimism of the intelligence" and "optimism of the will" / Mary E. Triece -- Embodying unauthorized immigrants : counterhegemonic protest and the rhetorical power of the "material diatribe" / David W. Seitz -- Racing/sexing the rhetorical situation : Angela Davis's embodied contextual reconstruction / Linda Diane Horwitz and Catherine H. Palczewski -- The Black public intellectual of the Joshua generation : answering the Gramscian call / Anna M. Young -- About the contributors.
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    New York, NY : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 1316004333 , 1107338859 , 9781316004333 , 9781107338852
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Roth, Sarah N. (Sarah Nelson), 1972- Gender and race in antebellum popular culture
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: African American men Public opinion 19th century ; History ; Women, White Attitudes 19th century ; History ; African American men in literature ; Slavery in literature ; Race in literature ; Masculinity in literature ; Popular culture History 19th century ; African Americans in popular culture History 19th century ; African American men in literature ; African Americans in popular culture ; Intellectual life ; Masculinity in literature ; Popular culture ; Race in literature ; Race relations ; Slavery in literature ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; HISTORY ; United States ; 19th Century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; History ; United States Race relations 19th century ; History ; United States Intellectual life 19th century ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The Old Child and the Young One" : The Infantilization of Male Slaves in 1820s Juvenile Literature -- "More Terrible Than the Uncaged Hyena" : The Savage Slave in 1830s Fiction -- "How a Slave Was Made a Man" : Manly Self-Defense in 1840s Slave Narratives -- "Patient Sufferer, Gentle Martyr" : The Self-Sacrificial Uncle Tom -- Impotent Rebels, Heroes, and Martyrs : Anti-Uncle Tom Novels of the 1850s -- "An Intrepid, Dauntless Heroine" : The Displacement of Black Men in 1850s Octoroon Novels -- "We Have Struck for Our Freedom" : The Black Revolutionary in 1850s Radical Abolitionist Fiction -- "Victory!" : The Soldier-Martyr in Civil War Fiction -- Epilogue.
    Abstract: "In the decades leading to the Civil War, popular conceptions of African American men shifted dramatically. The savage slave featured in 1830s' novels and stories gave way by the 1850s to the less-threatening humble Black martyr. This radical reshaping of Black masculinity in American culture occurred at the same time that the reading and writing of popular narratives were emerging as largely feminine enterprises. In a society where women wielded little official power, white female authors exalted white femininity, using narrative forms such as autobiographies, novels, short stories, visual images, and plays, by stressing differences that made white women appear superior to male slaves. This book argues that white women, as creators and consumers of popular culture media, played a pivotal role in the demasculinization of Black men during the antebellum period, and consequently had a vital impact on the political landscape of antebellum and Civil War-era America through their powerful influence on popular culture"--
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    New York, NY : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 1316074382 , 1107706459 , 9781316074381 , 9781107706453
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Woods, Michael E Emotional and sectional conflict in the antebellum United States
    DDC: 303.6097309/034
    Keywords: Sectionalism (United States) History 19th century ; Emotions Social aspects 19th century ; History ; Emotions Political aspects 19th century ; History ; Social conflict History 19th century ; Slavery Political aspects 19th century ; History ; Slavery Social aspects 19th century ; History ; Slavery ; Political aspects ; Slavery ; Social aspects ; Social conditions ; Social conflict ; War ; Causes ; HISTORY ; United States ; 19th Century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Politics and government ; Sectionalism (United States) ; Emotions ; Political aspects ; Emotions ; Social aspects ; History ; United States Social conditions To 1865 ; United States Politics and government 1815-1861 ; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 ; Causes ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The sectional conflict over slavery in the United States was not only a clash between labor systems and political ideologies but also a viscerally felt part of the lives of antebellum Americans. This book contributes to the growing field of emotions history by exploring how specific emotions shaped Americans' perceptions of, and responses to, the sectional conflict in order to explain why it culminated in disunion and war. Emotions from indignation to jealousy were inextricably embedded in antebellum understandings of morality, citizenship, and political affiliation. Their arousal in the context of political debates encouraged Northerners and Southerners alike to identify with antagonistic sectional communities and to view the conflicts between them as worth fighting over. Michael E. Woods synthesizes two schools of thought on Civil War causation: the fundamentalist, which foregrounds deep-rooted economic, cultural, and political conflict, and the revisionist, which stresses contingency, individual agency, and collective passion"--
    Abstract: Introduction: Finding the heart of the sectional conflict -- Prologue: Slavery, sectionalism, and the affective theory of the Union -- Part I. Emotion and the Growth of Sectional Political Identities -- Free labor, slave labor, and the political economy of happiness -- Managed hearts and unmanageable slaves -- Jealousy and the sectionalization of emotional styles -- Part II. Emotion and the Mobilization of Sectional Coalitions -- Indignation and the fitful growth of mass antislavery sentiment, 1820-1856 -- Indignation and the Northern mobilization for war, 1856-1861 -- Political jealousy and Southern radicalism from nullification to secession -- Mourning and the mobilization of reluctant secessionists, 1860-1861 -- Epilogue: Reconstructing the affective theory of the Union.
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    Marion, Michigan : Parkhurst Brothers Publishers
    ISBN: 1624910416 , 9781624910418
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , illustrations
    Edition: First edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ellis, Elizabeth, 1943- Every day a holiday
    DDC: 398.092
    Keywords: Ellis, Elizabeth ; Ellis, Elizabeth ; Storytellers Biography ; Storytelling ; Narration (Rhetoric) ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; Narration (Rhetoric) ; Storytellers ; Storytelling ; Biographies ; United States
    Abstract: Old Christmas: Thirteen Days of Christmas; Valentine's Day: Meddling At Wal-Mart; Easter: I Can See All of Me; Mother's Day: Mama Wasn't A Traveler; Memorial Day: Friendship Cemetery-Columbus, Mississippi; Father's Day: Three Things I Know About My Father; Labor Day: Grandmother's Church Window; Rosh Hashana: Just Tell It!; Halloween: Ghost Story Aftermath; Thanksgiving: And So Jack Goes To Seek His Fortune; Christmas: Christmas In the Clouds; Every Day a Holiday: Some Thoughts; Reading Group Extras.
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    ISBN: 1609174054 , 9781609174057
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.894/54104715
    Keywords: Finns History 20th century ; Finnish Americans History 20th century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies ; Emigration and immigration ; Finnish Americans ; Finns ; History ; Canada Emigration and immigration 20th century ; History ; Soviet Union History 1925-1953 ; Karelia (Russia) Emigration and immigration 20th century ; History ; United States Emigration and immigration 20th century ; History ; Canada ; Russia (Federation) ; Karelia ; Soviet Union ; United States
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    ISBN: 022616392X , 9780226163925
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.0973
    Keywords: Human capital ; Labor supply History ; Labor supply ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology ; Human capital ; History ; United States
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    ISBN: 1136750622 , 9781136750625
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (385 pages)
    Edition: Digital edition
    DDC: 304.873
    Keywords: Immigrants ; Emigration and immigration ; Immigrants ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration ; United States Emigration and immigration ; United States
    Abstract: Beyond the Rhetoric of Assimilation and Cultural Pluralism: Addressing the Tension of Separatism and Conflict in an Immigration-Driven Multiracial SocietyFace the Nation: Race, Immigration, and the Rise of Nativism in Late Twentieth Century America; Women and Children First: New Directions in Anti-Immigrant Politics; Immigration and Public Opinion; Participation and Accommodation; The Making of a Multicultural Metropolis; Cultural Morning, Immigration, and Engagement: Vignettes from the Mexican Experience; Acknowledgments.
    Abstract: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Introduction; Volume Introduction; Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration; Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Assimilation but Were Afraid to Ask; Is Assimilation Dead?; Second-Generation Decline: Scenarios for the Economic and Ethnic Futures of the Post-1965 American Immigrants; The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants; Time to Rethink Immigration?
    Abstract: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 1317733274 , 9781317733270
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (137 pages)
    Series Statement: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Garcia, Bernardo C Development of a Latino Gay Identity
    DDC: 305.38/868073
    Keywords: Hispanic American gays Psychology ; Hispanic American gays Ethnic identity ; Gays Identity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Gays ; Identity ; Hispanic American gays ; Psychology ; United States
    Abstract: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Review of the Literature; Self-Identity Development; Gay Identity Development; Problems with Gay Identity Development Models; Ethnic Identity Development; Ethnic Identity and Internalized Oppression; EthnicIdentity-Developmental Stages; The Latino Family; Language and Religion; Summary-EthnicIdentity Development Models; Identity Development of Latino Gay Men; Summary; Chapter 3: Research Methods; Chapter 4: Results; Part 1: Latino Gay Men Identity Development Themes.
    Abstract: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Abstract: Part 2: Relational Space Map NarrativesChapter 5: Discussion; LatinoFamily-Significance of the Mother; Dealing with Differences; Comparison to Ethnic Identity Development Theories; Comparison to Gay Identity Development Theories; Conclusion-Multicultural-Concentric Identities; Future Research Implications; Appendix A: Research Recruitment Letter; Appendix B: Informed Consent; References; Index.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 1316018881 , 1316028798 , 1316032167 , 9781316028797 , 9781316032169 , 9781316018880
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 280 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies on the American South
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Death and the American South
    DDC: 306.9
    Keywords: Death Social aspects ; Mourning customs ; Bereavement ; Bereavement ; Death ; Social aspects ; Manners and customs ; Mourning customs ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; History ; Southern States History ; Southern States Social life and customs ; Southern States ; United States
    Abstract: "This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South's defining experiences with death. Employing a wide range of perspectives, while concentrating on discrete episodes in the region's past, the authors explore topics from the seventeenth century to the present, from the death traps that emerged during colonization to the bloody backlash against emancipation and civil rights to recent canny efforts to commemorate - and capitalize on - the region's deadly past. Some authors capture their subjects in the most intimate of moments: killing and dying, grieving and remembering, and believing and despairing. Others uncover the intentional efforts of Southerners to publicly commemorate their losses through death rituals and memorialization campaigns. Together, these poignantly told Southern stories reveal profound truths about the past of a region marked by death and unable, perhaps unwilling, to escape the ghosts of its history. Craig Thompson Friend is Professor of History and Director of Public History at North Carolina State University. Lorri Glover is the John Francis Bannon Endowed Chair in the department of history at St. Louis University"--
    Abstract: Death and the American South : an introduction / Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover -- Mutilated bodies, living specters : scalpings and beheadings in the early South / Craig Thompson Friend -- The usable death : evangelicals, Anglicans, and the politics of dying in the late colonial low country / Peter N. Moore -- When 'history becomes fable instead of fact' : the deaths and resurrections of Virginia's leading revolutionaries / Lorri Glover -- American mourning : catastrophe, public grief, and the making of civic identity in the early national South / Jewel L. Spangler -- To claim one's own : death and the body in the daily politics of antebellum slavery / Jamie Warren -- Nativists and strangers : yellow fever and immigrant mortality in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina / Jeff Strickland -- 'Cumberer of the earth' : suffering and suicide among the faithful in the Civil War South / Diane Miller Sommerville -- The 'translation' of Lundy Harris : interpreting death out of the confusion of sexuality, violence, and religion in the New South / Donald G. Mathews -- 'He's only away' : condolence literature and the emergence of a modern South / Kristine M. McCusker -- 'A monument to Judge Lynch' : racial violence, symbolic death, and black resistance in Jim Crow Mississippi / Jason Morgan Ward -- Reframing the Indian dead : removal-era Cherokee graves and the changing landscape of Southern memory / Andrew Denson.
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    ISBN: 1317886313 , 9781317886310
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (505 pages)
    Series Statement: Themes In British Social History
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als O'Day, Rosemary Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies
    DDC: 305.40941
    Keywords: Women Social conditions ; Marriage History ; Marriage History ; Women Social conditions ; Social conditions ; Women ; Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; British colonies ; Marriage ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; History ; Great Britain Colonies 16th-18th century ; Marriage ; History ; Great Britain Colonies 16th-18th century ; Social conditions ; America ; Great Britain ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 12 Widows and widowhoodPART 3 Culture and religion: women's preparation for and participation in contemporary culture; Introduction; 13 Women's formal and informal education; 14 Women and religion; 15 Contemporary culture: print and non-print, public and private; 16 Women's cultural lives: participation; Bibliography; Glossary; Subject index; Index of proper names.
    Abstract: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Dedication; Abbreviations; 1 General introduction; PART 1 Marrying: an active proposition; Introduction; 2 How and where were marriages solemnised?; 3 What was marriage? What was its purpose?; 4 Finding a partner among the landed aristocracy; 5 Making marriages among women of the professional and the middling sorts; PART 2 Experience of marriage; Introduction; 6 Attitudes to marriage; 7 Patriarchy; 8 Partnership and separation; 9 Mistress of the household: what wives did all day; 10 Mothers; 11 Wives and property.
    Abstract: Women in early modern Britain and colonial America were not the weak husband- and father-dominated characters of popular myth. Quite the reverse, strong women were the norm. They exercised considerable influence as important agents in the social, economic, religious and cultural life of their societies. This book shows how women on both sides of the Atlantic, while accepting a patriarchal system with all its advantages and disadvantages, contrived to carve out for themselves meaningful lives. Unusually it concentrates not only on the making and meaning of marriage, but als
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    New Brunswick, NJ [u.a.] : Rutgers Univ. Press
    ISBN: 9780813562629 , 0813562627 , 9780813562612 , 0813562619
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 258 S. , Ill.
    Series Statement: New directions in international studies
    DDC: 302.234309409045
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    Keywords: Expatriate motion picture producers and directors History ; 20th century ; Europe ; Motion picture actors and actresses History ; 20th century ; United States ; Motion picture industry Political aspects ; History ; 20th century ; Europe ; Motion picture industry Political aspects ; History ; 20th century ; California ; Los Angeles ; Blacklisting of entertainers History ; 20th century ; United States ; Blacklisting of authors History ; 20th century ; United States ; Cold War Influence ; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism ; Blacklisting of authors / United States / History / 20th century ; Blacklisting of entertainers / United States / History / 20th century ; Cold War / Influence ; Expatriate motion picture producers and directors / Europe / History / 20th century ; Motion picture actors and actresses / United States / History / 20th century ; Motion picture industry / Political aspects / California / Los Angeles / History / 20th century ; Motion picture industry / Political aspects / Europe / History / 20th century ; PERFORMING ARTS / Film et Video / History et Criticism / bisacsh ; Bibliografie ; Bibliografie ; Amerikaner ; Europa ; Filmwirtschaft ; Schwarze Liste ; Geschichte 1947-1964
    Abstract: Documents the untold story of the American directors, screenwriters, and actors who emigrated to Europe as a result of the Hollywood blacklist. During the 1950s and early 1960s, these Hollywood exiles directed, wrote, or starred in almost 100 European productions, their contributions ranging from crime film masterpieces like Du rififi chez les hommes (dir. Jules Dassin, 1955) to international blockbusters such as The Bridge on the River Kwai (scr. Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, 1957) to acclaimed art films like The Servant (dir. Joseph Losey, 1963). At once a lively portrait of a lesser-known American "lost generation" and an examination of an important transitional moment in European cinema,the book presents a compelling argument for the significance of the blacklisted exiles to our understanding of postwar American and European cinema and Cold War cultural relations. The experiences of the blacklisted in Europe not only suggest the need to rethink our understanding of the Hollywood blacklist as a purely domestic phenomenon, but, by shedding new light on European cinema's changing relationship with Hollywood, illuminates the postwar shift from national to "transnational" cinema
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    ISBN: 9780415890045
    Language: English
    Pages: 172 S. , graph. Darst. , 24 cm
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series Statement: Routledge studies in sociolinguistics 8
    Series Statement: Routledge studies in sociolinguistics
    DDC: 306.4408909073
    RVK:
    Keywords: Hip-hop Influence ; United States ; Hip-hop Social aspects ; United States ; Language and culture United States ; Group identity United States ; Sociolinguistics United States ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy ; EDUCATION / Language Experience Approach ; Hip-hop Influence ; Hip-hop ; Language and culture ; Group identity ; Sociolinguistics ; USA ; Hip-Hop ; Englisch ; Soziolinguistik
    Abstract: "This book examines language and identity among White American middle and upper-middle class youth who affiliate with Hip-Hop culture. Hip-Hop youth engage in practices that range from thec onsumption of rap music and fashion to practices like MC-ing (writing and performing raps or "rhymes"), DJ-ing (mixing records to produce a beat for the MC), graffiti tagging, and break-dancing. Cutler explores the way in which these young people stylize their speech using linguistic resources drawn from African American English and Hip-Hop slang terms. She also looks at the way they construct their identities in discussions with their friends, and how they talk about and use language to construct themselves as authentic within Hip-Hop. Cutler considers the possibility that young people experimenting with AAVE-styled speech may improve the status of AAVE in the broader society. She also addresses the need for educators to be aware of the linguistic patterns found in AAVE and Hip-Hop language, and ways to build on Hip-Hop skills like rhyming and rapping in order to motivate students and promote literacy"--
    Note: Formerly CIP. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-164) and index
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 367 pages) , illustrations (black and white)
    Series Statement: International policy exchange series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Activation or workfare? governance and the neo-liberal convergence
    DDC: 306.0947
    Keywords: Neoliberalism ; Welfare state ; Neoliberalism ; Welfare state ; Welfare state ; Neoliberalism ; Social policy ; United States Social policy ; European Union countries Social policy ; United States ; European Union countries
    Abstract: This text shows that reforms in Europe and the US in the early 2000's, reflect a strengthening of the role of the Market in the governance of activation, and an individualization of service delivery. More recent events point, however, to a shift of focus towards cuts in benefits and services
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Published in collaboration with the Center for International Policy Exchanges, University of Maryland
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    ISBN: 0292768311 , 9780292768314
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 288 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: First edition
    Series Statement: Louann Atkins temple women & culture series Book thirty-five
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Casey, Edward S., 1939- Up against the wall
    DDC: 305.868/72073
    Keywords: Mexicans ; Mexican Americans ; Grenze ; Grenzgebiet ; Ecology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; Mexican Americans ; Mexicans ; Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions ; United States Social conditions 21st century ; Mexican-American Border Region Environmental conditions ; United States ; USA ; Mexiko ; North America ; Mexican-American Border Region
    Abstract: "As increasing global economic disparities, violence, and climate change provoke a rising tide of forced migration, many countries and local communities are responding by building walls--literal and metaphorical--between citizens and newcomers. Up Against the Wall: Re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border examines the temptation to construct such walls through a penetrating analysis of the U.S. wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as investigating the walling out of Mexicans in local communities. Calling into question the building of a wall against a friendly neighboring nation, Up Against the Wall offers an analysis of the differences between borders and boundaries. This analysis opens the way to envisioning alternatives to the stark and policed divisions that are imposed by walls of all kinds. Tracing the consequences of imperialism and colonization as citizens grapple with new migrant neighbors, the book paints compelling examples from key locales affected by the wall--Nogales, Arizona vs. Nogales, Sonora; Tijuana/San Diego; and the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. An extended case study of Santa Barbara describes the creation of an internal colony in the aftermath of the U.S. conquest of Mexican land, a history that is relevant to many U.S. cities and towns. Ranging from human rights issues in the wake of massive global migration to the role of national restorative shame in the United States for the treatment of Mexicans since 1848, the authors delve into the broad repercussions of the unjust and often tragic consequences of excluding others through walled structures along with the withholding of citizenship and full societal inclusion. Through the lens of a detailed examination of forced migration from Mexico to the United States, this transdisciplinary text, drawing on philosophy, psychology, and political theory, opens up multiple insights into how nations and communities can coexist with more justice and more compassion"--publisher
    Abstract: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Re-viewing la frontera : borders versus boundaries -- La frontera as border and boundary -- Ambos Nogales : a tale of two cities -- Tijuana : the wall and the estuary -- Wall and river in the Lower Rio Grande Valley -- Postlude 1. Walled up and walled out -- Looking both ways at the border -- Prelude to Part 2. Friendship Park : first encounter -- The creation of an internal colony : Santa Barbara, a city divided against itself -- Juan Crow: the American ethnoracial caste system and the criminalization of Mexican migrants -- The souls of anglos -- Border-wall art as limit acts -- Creating communities of hospitality : growing connective tissue between immigrants and citizens -- Postlude 2. Gaining access to the heart of our home -- Epilogue: From standing in the shadows of walls to imagining them otherwise -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472119295 , 047211929X
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 290 S. , 23 cm
    Series Statement: CAWP series in gender and American politics
    DDC: 306.8743
    RVK:
    Keywords: Women Political activity ; United States ; Motherhood Political aspects ; United States ; Feminism History ; United States ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies ; Feminism ; Motherhood Political aspects ; Women Political activity ; United States ; History ; USA ; Frau ; Politik ; Politische Beteiligung ; Mutterschaft ; Geschichte 1920-2012
    Abstract: Motherhood and Politics -- The Hand that Rocks the Cradle: 1920-1976 -- Soccer Moms, Hocky Moms, and Waitress Mons: 1980-2008 -- Distinctions: Political Perspectives of Mothers and Nonmothers -- The "Transformative" Effect of Motherhood -- Talking about Motherhood: Common Shifts in Political Thinking -- Reasons for Change: How Motherhood Alters Political Attitudes -- Consequences
    Abstract: " From civically and politically engaged women linking their identity as "mothers" to their fight for prohibition, public sanitation, and protective labor laws to the general call to arms of "mama grizzlies" issued by Sarah Palin in 2010, American political activists and candidates have used motherhood to rally women's interest, support, and participation throughout American history. Politicized motherhood persists, and motherhood continues to inspire women's participation and direct their concerns. In The Political Consequences of Motherhood, Jill S. Greenlee investigates the complex relationship between motherhood and women's political attitudes. Combining a historical overview of the ways motherhood has been used for political purposes with recent political opinion surveys and individual-level analysis, she explains how and when motherhood shapes women's thoughts and preferences. Greenlee argues that two mechanisms account for the durability of motherhood politics. First, women experience attitudinal shifts when they become mothers. Second, "mother" is a broad-based identity, widely shared and ideologically unconstrained, that lends itself to appeals across the political spectrum to build support for candidates and policy issues"--
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    ISBN: 1139922858 , 1107279240 , 9781139922852 , 9781107279247
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Banks, Antoine J., 1979- Anger and racial politics
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: Race Political aspects ; Racism Political aspects ; Anger Political aspects ; Whites Attitudes ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Race ; Political aspects ; Race relations ; Political aspects ; Racism ; Political aspects ; Whites ; Attitudes ; Einstellung ; Gefühl ; Rassendiskriminierung ; Rassismus ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; United States Race relations ; Political aspects ; United States ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Politicians, scholars, and pundits often disagree about whether race has been injected into a political campaign or policy debate. Some have suspected that race sometimes enters into politics even when political elites avoid using racial cues or racially coded language. Anger and Racial Politics provides a theoretical framework for understanding the emotional conditions under which this effect might happen. Antoine J. Banks asserts that making whites angry - no matter the basis for their anger - will make ideas about race more salient to them. He argues that anger, and not fear or other negative emotions, provides the foundation upon which contemporary white racial attitudes are structured. Drawing on a multi-method approach - lab and Internet survey experiments and nationally representative surveys - he demonstrates that anger plays an important role in enhancing the impact of race on whites' preferences for putting an end to affirmative action, repealing health care reform, hanging the confederate flag high, and voting for Tea Party-backed candidates"--
    Abstract: Introduction -- 1. A theory of anger and contemporary white racial attitudes -- 2. The emotional foundation of white racial attitudes -- 3. The emotional content in racialized campaign ads primes white racial attitudes -- 4. The public's anger: racial polarization and opinions toward health care reform -- 5. The Tea Party's angry rhetoric and the 2010 midterm elections -- Conclusion.
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    New York : New York University Press
    ISBN: 9781479861293 , 1479861294 , 9781479843015 , 1479843016 , 9781479846320 , 1479846325 , 9781479834785
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvii, 233 pages) , illustrations.
    Series Statement: North American religions
    Parallel Title: Print version Border Medicine : A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo
    DDC: 973.0468722
    Keywords: University of South Alabama ; Mexican Americans Medicine ; Mexican Americans Religion ; Traditional medicine Mexican-American Border Region ; Healing Mexican-American Border Region ; Mexican Americans Medicine ; Mexican Americans Religion ; Traditional medicine ; Healing ; Medicine, Traditional ; history ; Spiritual Therapies ; North America ; Mexican-American Border Region ; United States ; ethnology ; Mexican Americans ; History, 19th Century ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Medicine, Traditional history ; Spiritual Therapies ; HISTORY ; United States ; State & Local ; General ; MEDICAL ; History ; Healing ; Mexican Americans ; Medicine ; Mexican Americans ; Religion ; Traditional medicine ; Heiler ; Medizintourismus ; Transnationalisierung ; Ethnomedizin ; Grenzgebiet ; United States ethnology ; North America ; Mexican-American Border Region ; Mexiko ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Mexican American folk and religious healing, often referred to as curanderismo, has been a vital part of life in the Mexico-U.S. border region for centuries. A hybrid tradition made up primarily of indigenous and Iberian Catholic pharmacopeias, rituals, and notions of the self, curanderismo treats the sick person with a variety of healing modalities including herbal remedies, intercessory prayer, body massage, and energy manipulation. Curanderos, 'healers, ' embrace a holistic understanding of the patient, including body, soul, and community. Border Medicine examines the ongoing evolution of Mexican American religious healing from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. Illuminating the ways in which curanderismo has had an impact not only on the health and culture of the borderlands but also far beyond, the book tracks its expansion from Mexican American communities to Anglo and multiethnic contexts. While many healers treat Mexican and Mexican American clientele, a significant number of curanderos have worked with patients from other ethnic groups as well, especially those involved in North American metaphysical religions like spiritualism, mesmerism, New Thought, New Age, and energy-based alternative medicines. Hendrickson explores this point of contact as an experience of transcultural exchange. Drawing on historical archives, colonial-era medical texts and accounts, early ethnographies of the region, newspaper articles, memoirs, and contemporary healing guidebooks as well as interviews with contemporary healers, Border Medicine demonstrates the notable and ongoing influence of Mexican Americans on cultural and religious practices in the United States, especially in the American West"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Contact and Combination; 1. Hybrid Healing in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region; 2. American Metaphysical Religion and the West; Part II. Saints and Spirits; 3. Curanderismo in the United States; 4. Channels of Healing; Part III. New Directions in Curanderismo; 5. Mexican American Healing and the American Spiritual Marketplace; 6. Reclaiming the Past and Redefining the Present; 7. Curanderismo as Transcultural Religious Healing Tradition: Problems and Possibilities; Conclusion; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
    Description / Table of Contents: AB; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Y; About the Author
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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    Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press
    ISBN: 9781469615561 , 1469615568 , 9781469614199 , 1469614197
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (321 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Prince, K. Stephen Stories of the South
    DDC: 305.800975
    Keywords: Group identity Southern States ; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) ; National characteristics, American ; Group identity ; HISTORY ; United States ; Civil War Period (1850-1877) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; HISTORY ; United States ; 19th Century ; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) ; Group identity ; Literature ; National characteristics, American ; Race relations ; Regions & Countries - Americas ; History & Archaeology ; United States - General ; HISTORY ; United States ; 19th Century ; History ; Southern States Race relations ; Southern States History ; 1865-1951 ; Southern States In literature ; Southern States In literature ; Southern States History 1865-1951 ; Southern States Race relations ; United States ; Southern States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the North assumed significant power to redefine the South, imagining a region rebuilt and modeled on northern society. The white South actively resisted these efforts, battling the legal strictures of Reconstruction on the ground. Meanwhile, white southern storytellers worked to recast the South's image, romanticizing the Lost Cause and heralding the birth of a New South. Prince argues that this cultural production was as important as political competition and economic striving in turning the South and the nation away from the egalitarian promises of Reconstruction and toward Jim Crow"--Provided by publisher
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    Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
    ISBN: 9780674416406 , 0674416406
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 220 pages)
    Series Statement: The W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kilson, Martin Transformation of the African American intelligentsia, 1880-2012
    DDC: 305.896073
    Keywords: African Americans Intellectual life ; 19th century ; African Americans Intellectual life ; 20th century ; African Americans Race identity ; Elite (Social sciences) United States ; United States ; African American intellectuals ; African American leadership ; African Americans Intellectual life 20th century ; African Americans Race identity ; Elite (Social sciences) ; African Americans Intellectual life 19th century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Civil Rights ; African American intellectuals ; African American leadership ; African Americans ; Intellectual life ; African Americans ; Race identity ; Elite (Social sciences) ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Drawing on his professional research into political leadership and intellectual development in African American society, as well as his personal roots in the social-gospel teachings of black churches and at Lincoln University (PA), the political scientist Martin Kilson explores how a modern African American intelligentsia developed in the face of institutionalized racism
    Abstract: The rise and fall of color elitism among African Americans, 1880s-1940s -- Black intelligentsia leadership patterns, 1880s-1970s -- Ideological dynamics and the black intelligentsia, 1903-1960s -- Epilogue: black elite patterns in the twenty-first century.
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    Urbana : University of Illinois Press
    ISBN: 1306407079 , 9781306407076 , 9780252096181 , 0252096185
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Latinos in Chicago and Midwest
    Parallel Title: Print version Illegal
    DDC: 305.868720787311
    Keywords: N., José Ángel ; N., José Ángel ; Navejas, José Ángel ; Illegal aliens Biography ; Illinois ; Chicago ; Mexicans Biography ; Illinois ; Chicago ; Illegal aliens Biography ; Mexicans Biography ; Mexicans Biography ; Illegal aliens Biography ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Personal Memoirs ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Cultural Heritage ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Literary ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Social Scientists & Psychologists ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; Illegal aliens ; Mexicans ; Biographies ; Biographies ; United States Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; United States Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; United States Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; Illinois ; Chicago ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Biografie
    Abstract: "A day after N. first crossed the U.S. border from Mexico, he was caught and then released onto the streets of Tijuana. Undeterred, N. crawled back through a tunnel to San Diego, where he entered the United States forever. Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant is his timely and compelling memoir of building a new life in America. Authorial anonymity is required to protect this life. Arriving in the 1990s with a 9th grade education, N. traveled to Chicago where he found access to ESL classes and GED classes. He eventually attended college and graduate school and became a professional translator. Despite having a well-paying job, N. was isolated by a lack of official legal documentation. Travel concerns made big promotions out of reach. Vacation time was spent hiding at home, pretending that he was on a long-planned trip. The simple act of purchasing his girlfriend a beer at a Cubs baseball game caused embarrassment and shame when N. couldn't produce a valid ID. A frustrating contradiction, N. lived in a luxury high-rise condo but couldn't fully live the American dream. He did, however, find solace in the one gift America gave him--his education. Ultimately, N.'s is the story of the triumph of education over adversity. In Illegal he debunks the stereotype that undocumented immigrants are freeloaders without access to education or opportunity for advancement. With bravery and honesty, N. details the constraints, deceptions, and humiliations that characterize alien life "amid the shadows." "--
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    Gainesville : University Press of Florida
    ISBN: 9780813048543 , 0813048540
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (336 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Michael, George, 1961- Extremism in America
    DDC: 303.484
    Keywords: Right and left (Political science) United States ; Ideology United States ; Social movements United States ; Radicalism United States ; Right and left (Political science) ; Ideology ; Social movements ; Radicalism ; Radicalism ; Right and left (Political science) ; Social movements ; Ideology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Ideology ; Radicalism ; Right and left (Political science) ; Social movements ; HISTORY / United States / General ; United States ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Gathers essays by area specialists to provide an assessment of contemporary American extremism, exploring the views of each group in context and examining the tension between civil liberties and possible threats to society
    Description / Table of Contents: The Tea Party and the far right: fellow travelers? / George Michael"Hell yes, we're fighting!" revolutionary anarchism's call for destruction and creation / Jose Pedro Zúquete -- The new Black Panther Party, black nationalism, and the tangled legacy of COINTELPRO / J. Mulloy -- The Chicano separatist movement / Donald W. Trivett -- Islamic extremism in the United States / James M. Lutz and Brenda J. Lutz -- Terrorism by Jewish extremists in the United States / James M. Lutz and Brenda J. Lutz -- The Christian identity movement / George Michael -- Antiabortion extremism and violence in the United States / Aaron Winter -- The radical environmental and animal liberation movements / Donald R. Liddick -- Misidentified and misunderstood: extremists and extremist groups incarcerated in U.S. correctional facilities / Jeffrey Ian Ross -- Terrorism and extremism in the United States: a historical overview / Christopher Hewitt -- Conclusion: the outlook for extremism in the twenty-first century / George Michael.
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    Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press
    ISBN: 9781469615493 , 1469615495
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Edition: 1 [edition]
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dwyer-McNulty, Sally Common threads
    DDC: 391.008828273
    Keywords: Catholic Church United States ; Catholic Church ; Catholic Church ; Catholics Religious identity ; United States ; Catholics Clothing ; United States ; Clothing and dress Religious aspects ; Catholic Church ; Catholics Religious identity ; Catholics Clothing ; Clothing and dress Religious aspects ; Catholic Church ; RELIGION ; Christianity ; Catholic ; Catholics ; Religious identity ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Common Threads: A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism
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    Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press
    ISBN: 9780299298432 , 0299298434
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Herrmann, Anne Coming out Swiss
    DDC: 305.8935073
    Keywords: Herrmann, Anne Herrmann, Anne ; Herrmann, Anne ; Herrmann, Anne ; Swiss American women Biography ; Swiss Americans Biography ; Swiss United States ; Swiss American women Biography ; Swiss Americans Biography ; Swiss ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Manners and customs ; Swiss ; Swiss American women ; Swiss Americans ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Social Scientists & Psychologists ; Biographies ; History ; Switzerland Social life and customs ; Switzerland History ; Switzerland ; United States ; Switzerland History ; Switzerland Social life and customs ; Switzerland ; United States ; Electronic books Biography ; History ; Biografie
    Abstract: Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Open Secrets -- Swissness: Keynotes -- Chocolate -- Gold -- Swisness: Keywords -- Heimweh, or Homesickness -- Fernweh, or "Farsickness" -- The Mountains -- The Alp(s) -- Davos, or "How the English Invented the Alps" -- The City: Public Histories -- "Athenson the Limmat:" "A True History That Never Happened" -- Dada in Zürich, Continued -- The City: Personal Histories -- Freiestrasse 103, Zürich -- Basel -- Swiss Colonies in America
    Abstract: Nueva Helvetia, California (1839): "An Area as Vast asthe Little Canton of Basle"New Glarus, Wisconsin (1845): "Switzerland's Tiniest, Most Distant Canton" -- Americanizing Swiss Stories -- Swiss Family Robinson (1812); or, "The Most Famous Robinsonade" -- Heidi (1880): "Switzerland's Most Famous Girl" -- Epilogue: "I'm Swiss" -- Bibliography
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    Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press
    ISBN: 9780817387518 , 081738751X
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (225 pages)
    Series Statement: Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rand, Erin J Reclaiming Queer
    DDC: 306.7601
    Keywords: Gay rights United States ; Gays Political activity ; United States ; Rhetoric Political aspects ; Rhetoric Social aspects ; Queer theory United States ; Gay rights ; Gays Political activity ; Rhetoric Political aspects ; Rhetoric Social aspects ; Queer theory ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Gay rights ; Gays ; Political activity ; Queer theory ; Rhetoric ; Political aspects ; Rhetoric ; Social aspects ; Gender & Ethnic Studies ; Social Sciences ; Gay & Lesbian Studies ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Reclaiming Queer is an examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a defining historical moment for both queer activism and queer theory in the United States. LGBT communities, confronted with the alarming violence and homophobia of the AIDS crisis, often responded with angry, militant forms of activism designed not merely to promote acceptance or tolerance, but to forge identity and strength from victimization and assert loudly and forcefully their rig
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    New York : New York University Press
    ISBN: 9781479804078 , 147980407X , 9781479856558 , 147985655X
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 297 pages)
    Series Statement: Children and youth in America
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Children and youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
    DDC: 305.230973
    Keywords: Children History ; United States ; Youth History ; United States ; Progressivism (United States politics) ; Youth History ; Children History ; HISTORY ; General ; HISTORY ; United States ; General ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Child Development ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Children ; Progressivism (United States politics) ; Youth ; Kinderen ; History ; Geschiedenis (vorm) ; United States ; Verenigde Staten ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "In the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers responded to the social and economic chaos with a "search for order," as famously described by historian Robert Wiebe. Most reformers agreed that one of the nation's top priorities should be its children and youth, who, they believed, suffered more from the disorder plaguing the rapidly growing nation than any other group. Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era explores both nineteenth century conditions that led Progressives to their search for order and some of the solutions applied to children and youth in the context of that search. Edited by renowned scholar of children's history James Marten, the collection of eleven essays offers case studies relevant to educational reform, child labor laws, underage marriage, and recreation for children, among others. Including important primary documents produced by children themselves, the essays in this volume foreground the role that youth played in exerting agency over their own lives and in contesting the policies that sought to protect and control them"--
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    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press
    ISBN: 9781469614038 , 1469614030 , 9781469614045 , 1469614049
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (233 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Ain't got no home
    DDC: 304.80973
    Keywords: Migration, Internal History ; 20th century ; United States ; Migration, Internal Political aspects ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; American literature History and criticism ; 20th century ; Literature and society History ; 20th century ; United States ; Populism History ; 20th century ; United States ; Right and left (Political science) History ; 20th century ; United States ; Migration, Internal, in literature ; Migration, Internal, in literature ; American literature History and criticism 20th century ; Literature and society History 20th century ; Populism History 20th century ; Right and left (Political science) History 20th century ; Migration, Internal History 20th century ; Migration, Internal Political aspects 20th century ; History ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General ; HISTORY ; United States ; 20th Century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration ; American literature ; Literature and society ; Migration, Internal ; Migration, Internal, in literature ; Migration, Internal ; Political aspects ; Populism ; Right and left (Political science) ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Most scholarship on the mass migrations of African Americans and southern whites during and after the Great Depression treats those migrations as separate phenomena, strictly divided along racial lines. In this engaging interdisciplinary work, Erin Royston Battat argues instead that we should understand these Depression-era migrations as interconnected responses to the capitalist collapse and political upheavals of the early twentieth century. During the 1930s and 1940s, Battat shows, writers and artists of both races created migration stories specifically to bolster the black-white Left alliance. Defying rigid critical categories, Battat considers a wide variety of media, including literary classics by John Steinbeck and Ann Petry, "lost" novels by Sanora Babb and William Attaway, hobo novellas, images of migrant women by Dorothea Lange and Elizabeth Catlett, popular songs, and histories and ethnographies of migrant shipyard workers. This vibrant rereading and recovering of the period's literary and visual culture expands our understanding of the migration narrative by uniting the political and aesthetic goals of the black and white literary Left and illuminating the striking interrelationship between American populism and civil rights. "--
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    Albany : State University of New York Press
    ISBN: 9781438452777 , 1438452772
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Series Statement: SUNY series, philosophy and race
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Retrieving the human
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Gilroy, Paul ; Gilroy, Paul ; Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer ; Blacks Social conditions ; Race relations ; Racism ; Blacks Social conditions ; Rassismus ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Blacks ; Social conditions ; Racism ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Race relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; Great Britain Race relations ; United States Race relations ; United States Race relations ; Great Britain Race relations ; Great Britain ; United States ; Großbritannien ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Introduction -- Part I. Theories in Motion: Roots and Routes -- 1. Traditions, Genealogies, and Influences: Gilroy's Intellectual Roots and Routes -- The Anxiety of Influence -- A New Master Narrative: Death Is a Master ... -- Is There a "Beyond Race"? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2. Paul Gilroy and the Pitfalls of British Identity -- Introduction -- Rereading Cultural Studies -- History Debates -- Postcolonial Melancholia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3. "Enough of This Scandal": Reading Gilroy through Fanon, or Who Comes after "Race"? -- Notes -- Part II. Retrieving the Human: Two Scholars in Dialogue -- 4. Multiculture and the Negative Dialectics of Conviviality -- Notes -- 5. For a Dialogue with Paul Gilroy -- Notes -- Part III. Debating the Human in Everyday Spaces -- 6. Sedentary and Mobile Poetics: Paul Gilroy and the Aesthetics of Postcolonial Theory -- Notes -- 7. Dynamic Nominalism in Alain Locke and Paul Gilroy -- Race, Creeds, and Absolutism -- Dynamic Nominalism contra Race Hierarchy -- The Cultural Politics of Liberating Ordinariness -- Beyond US Race Talk, Beyond Culture -- Notes -- 8. Black Humanitarianism -- Introduction -- Wither Human Rights? -- Abolitionism as a Human Rights Campaign -- Humanity and Utopia on the Lower Frequencies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9. A Dialogue on the Human: An Interview with Paul Gilroy -- Notes -- Afterword. "The Right to Address the Future": Utopian Thinking and Paul Gilroy -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781473951860
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: SAGE research methods. Cases
    DDC: 305.48697072
    Keywords: Muslim women Case studies ; Social conditions ; Research ; United States ; Women immigrants Case studies ; Social conditions ; Research ; United States ; Interviewing Case studies ; Qualitative research Case studies ; Muslim women Case studies Social conditions ; Research ; Women immigrants Case studies Social conditions ; Research ; Interviewing Case studies ; Qualitative research Case studies
    Abstract: In 2012, Maissa Khatib embarked on a PhD study to examine what happens to Arab Muslim women when they arrive in the United States. Little is known about these women in the growing and diverse Arab Muslim population, and there is limited information available regarding their experiences of living in the United States. Previous studies had relied largely on quantitative methods to examine the health risks and prevalence of illnesses within the Arab/Muslim American population; only a few qualitative studies shed light on the health needs of this population. This case study provides an account of one practical aspect of a 2-year-long PhD project, taking the reader to the heart of some specific situational and methodological problems that arose in the course of the research
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    London : SAGE Publications
    ISBN: 9781473951150
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: SAGE research methods. Cases
    DDC: 394.13072
    Keywords: Wine and wine making Case studies ; Research ; United States ; African Americans Case studies ; Research ; Focus groups Case studies ; Wine and wine making Case studies Research ; African Americans Case studies Research ; Focus groups Case studies
    Abstract: While target market segmentation is one of the most fundamental and celebrated concepts in marketing, targeting at-risk ethnic minorities with products considered harmful is simultaneously viewed as unethical, bordering on criminal. At the same time, it appears that minority wine consumers may feel ignored by wine marketers, distributors, and producers, despite the fact that ethnic minorities (African Americans, along with Asians and Hispanics) are the fastest-growing market segment in the United States. This study characterises this phenomenon as a case of the market segment 'peering through the looking glass' (a reference to Alice in the classic tale 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', and her desire to be on the other side of a mirror or looking glass)
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    London : SAGE Publications
    ISBN: 9781473946705
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: SAGE research methods. Cases
    DDC: 306.768072
    Keywords: Transsexuals Case studies ; Research ; United States ; Transsexuals Case studies ; Research ; Mexico ; Entertainers Case studies ; Research ; United States ; Entertainers Case studies ; Research ; Mexico ; Transsexuals Case studies Research ; Transsexuals Case studies Research ; Entertainers Case studies Research ; Entertainers Case studies Research
    Abstract: In 2008, Stacee Reicherzer began the process of preparing for a study that was carried out over the next 3 years to examine resiliency among Mexican and Mexican-American transsexual entertainers. This report presents the findings of this study
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    ISBN: 9781473950603
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: SAGE research methods. Cases
    DDC: 305.23082
    Keywords: Girls Case studies ; Research ; United States ; Social sciences Case studies ; Research ; Methodology ; Girls Case studies Research ; Social sciences Case studies Research ; Methodology
    Abstract: This case study shares the research process of one upper level undergraduate research methods course for Communication Studies and Public Relations students at a mid-sized public college in the Northeastern United States. As a way to demonstrate both quantitative and qualitative research, students worked on survey design for three different populations of an annual weekend community-based event for elementary-school-aged girls. Students conducted primary and secondary research and coded and analyzed the final data collected from college women mentors, girl participants, and their parents/guardians
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    ISBN: 9780199380329 , 0199380325
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xv, 371 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in contemporary Jewry, an annual 0740-8625 27
    Series Statement: Studies in contemporary Jewry, an annual 27
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Social scientific study of Jewry
    DDC: 305.8924
    Keywords: Jews Social conditions ; Research ; Jews Social conditions ; History ; Jews Social conditions ; History ; United States ; Jews Social conditions ; Research ; Jews Social conditions ; History ; Jews Social conditions ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Ethnic relations ; Jews ; Social conditions ; Jews ; Social conditions ; Research ; History ; United States Ethnic relations ; United States ; United States Ethnic relations ; United States ; Electronic books History ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Continuing its distinguished tradition of focusing on central political, sociological, and cultural issues of Jewish life in the last century, this latest volume in the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series focuses on how Jewry has been studied in the social science disciplines. Its symposium consists of essays that discuss sources, approaches, and debates in the complementary fields of demography, sociology, economics, and geography. The social sciences are central for the understanding of contemporary Jewish life and have engendered much controversy over the past few decades. To a larg
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    ISBN: 9781473951716
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource , illustrations (black and white, and colour).
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: SAGE research methods. Cases
    DDC: 305.2352072
    Keywords: Teenage girls Case studies ; Attitudes ; Research ; United States ; Community arts projects Case studies ; Research ; United States ; Action research in education Case studies ; United States ; Teenage girls Case studies Attitudes ; Research ; Community arts projects Case studies Research ; Action research in education Case studies
    Abstract: This case documents a participatory arts-based research project that took place over the 2012-2013 school year at a US Midwestern, urban middle school. In this account, we, the adult research partners, describe the participatory research process from our partnership formation to project evaluation. The primary methodology employed was Videovoice, a participatory data generation tool through which collaborators create videos to address social problems. The project explored three research questions: (1) What social problems do middle-school girls identify as important, challenging, and in need of change? (2) What actions do the girls describe as necessary to improving these social problems? (3) What are the perceived impacts of participatory, collaborative research with the girls?
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    ISBN: 1934594121 , 9781934594124
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 241 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    DDC: 305.800721
    Keywords: Indigenous peoples Research ; Methodology ; Indigenous peoples Research ; Moral and ethical aspects ; Indigenous peoples Research ; Methodology ; Australia ; Indigenous peoples Methodology ; Canada, Northern ; Indians of North America Methodology ; Montana ; Social sciences Methodology ; Psychology Methodology ; Storytelling ; Oceanic Ancestry Group psychology ; Researcher-Subject Relations psychology ; Indians, North American psychology ; Research Design ; Behavioral Sciences ; Narration ; Indigenous peoples Research ; Methodology ; Indigenous peoples Research ; Moral and ethical aspects ; Indigenous peoples Research ; Methodology ; Indigenous peoples Methodology ; Indians of North America Methodology ; Social sciences Methodology ; Psychology Methodology ; Storytelling ; Australia ; Canada ; United States ; Indigenes Volk ; Verhaltenswissenschaften ; Psychologie ; Ethnologie ; Moral ; Forschungsmethode ; Achtung ; Lokales Wissen ; Erzählen
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Productivity Press
    ISBN: 1306866146 , 9781306866149 , 9781482282528 , 1482282526
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 331.8
    Keywords: Offshore outsourcing Case studies ; Manufacturing industries Case studies Management ; Economic development Case studies ; Labor Case studies ; Economic development ; Labor ; Manufacturing industries ; Management ; Offshore outsourcing ; United States ; Electronic books ; Case studies
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    Paris : OECD, Economics Dep.
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (40 S.) , graph. Darst.
    Series Statement: OECD Economics Department working papers 1147
    Keywords: 2007 - 2014 ; Rohstoffpolitik ; Energiereserven ; Bergbauerzeugnis ; Umweltbelastung ; Rohstoffsteuer ; USA ; Energy ; Taxation ; Economics ; United States ; Amtsdruckschrift ; Arbeitspapier ; Graue Literatur
    Abstract: Since around 2007, the country has been enjoying an “energy renaissance” thanks to its abundant stocks of shale oil and gas. The resurgence in oil and gas production is beginning to create discernible economic impacts and has changed the landscape for natural gas prices in the United States, boosting competitiveness. In order to reap the benefits fully, significant investment is needed. Federal and state governments capture some of the resource rents, but there are potential opportunities to increase taxation and use the revenues to support future well-being. Taxing natural resource rents with profit taxes can be less distortionary than other forms of taxation, though only one state uses this form of tax. Production of shale resources, like other forms of resource extraction, poses a number of challenges for the environment. Respecting demands on water resources requires adequate water rights are in place while state and federal regulators need to monitor the environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing closely and strengthen regulations as needed. Natural gas is a potential “bridge fuel” towards a lower carbon economy, helping to reduce emissions by leading to a substitution away from coal. Flanking measures are desirable to counter natural gas hindering renewables and low prices stymieing innovation. This Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of United States (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/United States).
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    Paris : OECD
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (20 S.) , graph. Darst.
    Series Statement: OECD regional development working papers 2014/08
    Keywords: Kommunale Verkehrspolitik ; Stadtverkehr ; Kommunale Infrastruktur ; Öffentlicher Nahverkehr ; Ballungsraum ; Kommunalverwaltung ; Chicago (Ill.) ; Governance ; Urban, Rural and Regional Development ; United States ; Arbeitspapier ; Graue Literatur
    Abstract: This study aims to assess the degree of institutional fragmentation of transport and land use planning in Chicago and to assess the main challenges related to this institutional fragmentation. It provides an overview of local governments in metropolitan Chicago and mechanisms for metropolitan coordination, including organisations at the metropolitan scale, dealing with planning, land use and transport. Five main challenges related to institutional fragmentation in transport and land use planning are identified: a lack of (1) interconnectivity, (2) coherence across transit modes, (3) regional freight planning, (4) accountability and (5) implementation power of regional planning and transport objectives. These challenges are analysed. The concluding section suggests some avenues for reform that could be explored in order to overcome the challenges of metropolitan fragmentation in transport and land use in Chicago.
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (28 S.) , graph. Darst.
    Series Statement: OECD Economics Department working papers 1158
    Keywords: Finanzkrise ; Lebensqualität ; Zeitverwendung ; Arbeitsangebot ; Lohnniveau ; Lohnstruktur ; Öffentliche Sozialleistungen ; Arbeitszufriedenheit ; Bildung ; USA ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Economics ; United States ; Amtsdruckschrift ; Arbeitspapier ; Graue Literatur
    Abstract: This paper uses data from the American Life Panel to understand the determinants of well-being in the United States during the Great Recession. It investigates how various dimensions of subjective wellbeing reflected in the OECD Better Life Framework impact subjective well-being. The results show that income is an important determinant of subjective well-being. The unemployed and the disabled are significantly less satisfied with their lives than the working population, while the retired and the homemakers are more satisfied. The paper expands the existing evidence by showing that homeowners, registered voters and those with access to health insurance have higher levels of subjective well-being. Time spent walking or exercising is positively correlated with happiness, while working more than 50 hours per week or spending time on health-related activities is negatively correlated with subjective well-being, and higher levels of anxiety. This Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of United States (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-united-states.htm)
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    Paris : OECD, Economics Dep.
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (19 S.)
    Series Statement: OECD Economics Department working papers 1150
    Keywords: Stress ; Gesundheit ; Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; USA ; Employment ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Economics ; United States ; Amtsdruckschrift ; Arbeitspapier ; Graue Literatur
    Abstract: Despite relative affluence, workplace stress is a prominent feature of the US labour market. To the extent that job stress causes poor health outcomes – either directly through increased blood pressure, fatigue, muscle pain, etc. or indirectly through increased rates of cigarette smoking – policy to lessen job stress may be appropriate. Focusing predominantly on the United States, this report reviews the literature on a variety of economic concerns related to job stress and health. Areas in which economists may provide valuable insights regarding job stress include empirical selection concerns in identifying the effect of stress on health; measurement error with respect to stress; the existence and magnitude of compensating differentials for stress; and the unique “job lock” effect in the United States created by a system of employer-provided health insurance. This report concludes with a brief discussion of US policies related to job stress. This Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of the United States (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/United States ).
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    Paris : OECD, Economics Dep.
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (34 S.) , graph. Darst.
    Series Statement: OECD Economics Department working papers 1155
    Keywords: Zins ; Börsenkurs ; Wechselkurssystem ; Kapitalimport ; USA ; Finance and Investment ; Economics ; United States ; Amtsdruckschrift ; Arbeitspapier ; Graue Literatur
    Abstract: Following Chairman Ben Bernanke’s comments before Congress that the FOMC may ‘take a step down in the pace of asset purchases if economic improvement appears to be sustained’, US 10-year interest rates picked up sharply and gross capital flows to emerging market economies (EMEs) reversed. These events raised concerns that further increases in US interest rates could trigger sharp changes of capital flows that would be followed by financial crises in EMEs. To assess this possibility, this paper studies the association between US long term interest rates and cycles of capital flows to EMEs. It finds that, indeed, cycles in capital flows to EMEs are linked to global conditions, including global risk aversion and long term interest rates in the United States. In particular, higher US long term interest rates are associated with lower levels of gross capital flows to EMEs, and to a higher probability of observing sharp reversals in those flows. Episodes of net capital inflows, on the other hand, are mostly associated with domestic macroeconomic conditions. In particular, economies with relatively low levels of gross outflows, with a high ratio of short-term debt to international reserves or with weak domestic fundamentals are more vulnerable to the risk of a classic sudden stop à la Calvo. This Working Paper relates to the OECD Economic Survey of the United States 2014 (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-unitedstates. htm)
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (37 S.) , graph. Darst., Kt.
    Series Statement: OECD social, employment and migration working papers 155
    Keywords: Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Wirtschaftskrise ; Arbeitsmigranten ; Eurozone ; Europa ; USA ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; United States ; Amtsdruckschrift ; Arbeitspapier ; Graue Literatur
    Abstract: The question of whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market is an important criterion for an optimal currency area. It is of particular interest currently in the context of high and rising levels of labour market disparities, in particular within the Eurozone where there is no exchange-rate mechanism available to play this role. We shed some new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour market shocks. We find that recent migration flows have reacted quite significantly to the EU enlargements in 2004 and 2007 and to changes in labour market conditions, particularly in Europe. Indeed, in contrast to the pre-crisis situation and the findings of previous empirical studies, there is tentative evidence that the migration response to the crisis has been considerable in Europe, in contrast to the United States where the crisis and subsequent sluggish recovery were not accompanied by greater interregional labour mobility in reaction to labour market shocks. Our estimates suggest that, if all measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes – i.e. an upper-bound estimate – up to about a quarter of the asymmetric labour market shock would be absorbed by migration within a year. However, in the Eurozone the reaction mainly stems from migration of third-country nationals. Even within the group of Eurozone nationals, a significant part of the free mobility stems from immigrants from third countries who have taken on the nationality of their Eurozone host country.
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    Paris : OECD, Economics Dep.
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (46 S.) , graph. Darst.
    Series Statement: OECD Economics Department working papers 1146
    Keywords: Lohnniveau ; Lohnstruktur ; Bildung ; Zeitverwendung ; Arbeitsangebot ; Soziale Sicherheit ; Arbeitszufriedenheit ; Lebensqualität ; USA ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Economics ; United States ; Amtsdruckschrift ; Arbeitspapier ; Graue Literatur
    Abstract: Life is quite good in the United States compared to other OECD countries, thanks to strong economic growth and technological progress having lifted average income to high levels. Nonetheless, there is evidence that the benefits from growth have not been sufficiently broad based. Self-reported happiness increases with income, an issue particularly resonant in a country with among the highest levels of income inequality in the OECD and a pattern of inequality that appears to be moving toward even more concentration at the very top at the expense of the middle class and the poor. Working hours that remain among the longest in the OECD are also creating challenges for work-life balances, child education, personal care and leisure. These pressures are contributing to higher job strain and work-related stress with unhealthy consequences, including for mental health, and a detrimental impact on employability and medical costs. While these trends cannot be easily reversed, a number of policy options are being usefully rolled out and other initiatives are being considered: federal-level policies improving access to health care and early-childhood education, state-level initiatives favouring workplace flexibility, firm-level investments in job quality and greater attention to the health consequences of job-stress. If successfully adopted, they would go a long way toward improving the well-being of American working families. This Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of United States (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/United States).
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  • 63
    ISBN: 3826053605 , 9783826053603
    Language: German
    Pages: 583 S. , graph. Darst. , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Saarbrücker Beiträge zur vergleichenden Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft 66
    Series Statement: Saarbrücker Beiträge zur vergleichenden Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
    Dissertation note: Zugl.: Saarbrücken, Univ., Diss., 2012
    DDC: 791.4575
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    Keywords: Internationaler Vergleich ; Fernsehen ; Rundfunkprogramm ; Hörfunksendung ; Fernsehsendung ; Kultur ; Kulturkontakt ; Anpassung ; Fallstudie ; Frankreich Deutschland ; Italien ; Internationaler Vergleich/Ländervergleich ; Fernsehen ; Rundfunkprogramme ; Hörfunksendung/Fernsehsendung ; Kriminalfilm ; Kultur ; Kulturkontakt ; Anpassung ; Fallstudie ; France Germany ; Italy ; International/country comparison ; Television ; Broadcast programmes ; Radio/television transmissions ; crime films ; Culture ; Cultural contact ; Adaptation ; Case studies ; Interkulturelle Beziehungen Kulturelle Vielfalt ; Kulturaustausch ; Unterschied/Differenz ; Soziokultureller Wandel ; Kulturelle Identität ; Kultureinfluss ; Kulturzugang ; Interkulturelle Kommunikation ; Film ; Rezeption ; Perzeption ; Stereotype ; Medienpolitik ; Medienwirtschaft/Informationswirtschaft ; Rundfunksender/Fernsehsender ; Exportorientierung ; Vereinigte Staaten ; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika ; Intercultural relations Cultural diversity ; Cultural exchange ; Differences ; Socio-cultural change ; Cultural identity ; Cultural influences ; Access to culture ; Intercultural communication ; Films ; reception ; Perceptions ; Stereotypes ; Media policy ; Media industry/information sector ; Radio/television transmitters ; Export orientation ; United States ; United States of America ; Frankreich ; Deutschland ; Italien ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; R.I.S. - Delitti imperfetti ; Format ; Adaption ; R.I.S. Police scientifique ; R.I.S. - Die Sprache der Toten
    Note: Literaturverz. S. 557-583
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  • 64
    ISBN: 9780415040860 , 9781138009226
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 261 Seiten , 23 cm
    Edition: First issued in paperback
    DDC: 306.26
    Keywords: Geschichte 1930-1950 ; Geschichte der Soziologie ; Faschismus ; Sociology ; United States ; History ; 20th century ; Sociology ; Europe ; History ; 20th century ; Fascism ; History ; Sociologists ; United States ; History ; 20th century ; Sociologists ; Europe ; History ; 20th century ; Soziologie ; Faschismus ; Nationalsozialismus ; Geschichte
    Note: Literaturangaben und Index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520957619
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (218 pages)) , illustrations.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: California studies in food and culture 48
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Turner, Katherine Leonard How the other half ate
    DDC: 394.12
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    Keywords: Food habits History ; 19th century ; United States ; Food habits History ; 20th century ; United States ; Working class Social conditions ; United States ; Working class Social life and customs ; United States ; Working class Economic conditions ; United States ; Electronic books ; USA ; Arbeiterklasse ; Ernährungslage ; Ess- und Trinksitte ; Geschichte
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    Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
    ISBN: 9780674369696 , 9780674729056
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (208 pages)) , illustrations, graphs, maps, tables
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    DDC: 394.12
    Keywords: Milk Social aspects ; United States ; Milk Social aspects ; India ; Dairy products History ; United States ; Dairy products History ; India ; Food preferences United States ; Electronic books
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  • 67
    ISBN: 144222407X , 9781442224070
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (207 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Yancey, George So Many Christians, So Few Lions : Is There Christianophobia in the United States?
    DDC: 305.6/773
    Keywords: Christianity ; Christianity Public opinion ; Hostility (Psychology) ; Religious discrimination ; Religious tolerance ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Christianity ; Christianity ; Public opinion ; Hostility (Psychology) ; Religious discrimination ; Religious tolerance ; United States
    Abstract: A history of anti-Christian hostility in the United States -- Who are those with Christian animosity? -- How anti-Christian hostility shapes perceptions of Christians -- Dehumanizing and hating Christians -- What do those with anti-Christian animosity want? -- Christianophobia in the United States.
    Abstract: This is a provocative look at anti-Christian sentiments in America. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative research, the authors do not attempt to show the prevalence of anti-Christian attitudes but rather to document it, dig into where it exists, explore who holds these attitudes, and examine how this bias plays itself out in everyday life
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index
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    Piscataway : Rutgers University Press
    ISBN: 081356283X , 1461954606 , 9781461954606 , 9780813562834
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 200 p)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Thompson, Jennifer A Jewish on Their Own Terms
    DDC: 305.8924073
    Keywords: Jews Identity ; Marriage Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Jews Cultural assimilation ; Judaism 21st century ; Intermarriage ; Interfaith marriage ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology of Religion ; Interfaith marriage ; Intermarriage ; Jews ; Cultural assimilation ; Jews ; Identity ; Judaism ; Marriage ; Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Electronic books ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Defining Judaism by debating intermarriage -- American contradictions: conversations about self and community -- What you are and what's in your heart -- Translating Jewish experience -- Sovereign selves in a fractured community -- Moving forward, inconclusively: the crisis of Jewish identity
    Abstract: This book provides a complex, insightful portrait of intermarried couples and the new forms of American Judaism that they are constructing. It tells the stories of intermarried couples, the rabbis and other Jewish educators who work with them, and the conflicting public conversations about intermarriage among American Jews. Ethnography is used to describe the compelling concerns of all of these parties and places their anxieties firmly within the context of American religious culture and morality. 〈
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    ISBN: 9781306564830 , 9781315612386
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (160 Seiten)
    Series Statement: The cultural politics of media and popular culture
    DDC: 306.0973
    Keywords: American literature History and criticism ; Imperialism in literature ; War in literature ; Gothic fiction (Literary genre) ; Popular culture ; LITERARY CRITICISM American ; General ; American literature ; Diplomatic relations ; Gothic fiction (Literary genre) ; Imperialism in literature ; Popular culture ; War in literature ; United States Foreign relations ; 21st century ; United States
    Abstract: Drawing on a rich array of texts from a long history of the gothic, this book contends that the doom faced by the world in popular culture is related to the current global instability, renegotiation of worldwide power and the American bid for hegemony. Revealing the ways in which images of destruction and social upheaval both query the violence with which the US has asserted itself locally and globally, and feed the longing for stable imperial structures, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of popular culture, cultural and media studies, literary and visual studies and socio
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    San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
    ISBN: 9781609949280 , 1609949285 , 9781609949297 , 1609949293
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Edition: Third edition
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: BK currents book
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als De Graaf, John Affluenza
    DDC: 306.30973
    Keywords: Quality of life United States ; Wealth United States ; Consumption (Economics) United States ; Consumption (Economics) ; Wealth ; Quality of life ; Consumption (Economics) United States ; Quality of life United States ; United States Economic conditions ; United States Social conditions ; Wealth United States ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Consumer Behavior ; Civilization ; Consumption (Economics) ; Economic history ; Quality of life ; Social conditions ; Wealth ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; United States Social conditions ; United States Economic conditions ; United States Civilization ; 1970- ; United States ; United States / Social conditions ; United States / Economic conditions ; United States / Civilization / 1970- ; United States Social conditions ; United States Economic conditions ; United States Civilization 1970- ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDaffluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be. Now in its third edition, this book can safely be called prophetic in showing how problems ranging from loneliness, endless working hours, and family conflict to rising debt, environmental pollution, and rampant commercialism are all symptoms of this global plague. The new edition traces the role overconsumption played in the Great Recession, discusses new ways to measure social health and success (such as the Gross Domestic Happiness index), and offers policy recommendations to make our society more simplicity-friendly. The underlying message isn't to stop buying--it's to remember, always, that the best things in life aren't things
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    San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
    ISBN: 1306688736 , 9781306688734 , 9781626560338 , 1626560331 , 9781626560345 , 162656034X
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xii, 160 pages)
    Edition: First Edition
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: A BK Currents book
    Parallel Title: Print version How the poor can save capitalism
    DDC: 305.5/50973
    Keywords: Middle class Social conditions ; United States ; Poor Employment ; United States ; Economic development United States ; United States ; Economic development ; Middle class Social conditions ; Poor Employment ; Middle class Social conditions ; Poor Employment ; Economic development ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Development ; Economic Development ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Poverty & Homelessness ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Social Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Economic development ; Middle class ; Poor ; Employment ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The American economy is stalled because business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize their companies and the economy: the poor. The massive economic energy and potential of the poor and the struggling middle class has been left on the sidelines. John Hope Bryant's stirring book shows how this came to be and lays out some simple ideas for making the economy work again--for everyone. The poor are not stupid or lazy, but they know when the system is stacked against them. Business loans, home loans, and financial investments have vanished from their communities. The path up to the middle class has disappeared, while the path down from the middle class is in danger of becoming a superhighway. The future of our nation fully depends on overturning powerful myths about how the economy works. Fully 70 percent of the American economy is driven by consumer spending, but more and more consumers have less and less to spend and feel like the deck is stacked against them. When business leaders begin to value the poor and understand that helping them succeed will help the economy thrive, we'll be well on our way to restoring the American Dream of equal economic opportunity"--
    Abstract: " The American economy is stalled because business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize their companies and the economy: the poor. The massive economic energy and potential of the poor and the struggling middle class has been left on the sidelines. John Hope Bryant's stirring book shows how this came to be and lays out some simple ideas for making the economy work again--for everyone. The poor are not stupid or lazy, but they know when the system is stacked against them. Business loans, home loans, and financial investments have vanished from their communities. The path up to the middle class has disappeared, while the path down from the middle class is in danger of becoming a superhighway. The future of our nation fully depends on overturning powerful myths about how the economy works. Fully 70 percent of the American economy is driven by consumer spending, but more and more consumers have less and less to spend and feel like the deck is stacked against them. When business leaders begin to value the poor and understand that helping them succeed will help the economy thrive, we'll be well on our way to restoring the American Dream of equal economic opportunity"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: Welcome to Separate But Unequal AmericaChapter 2: Why the Wealthy Won't Stay Wealthy if We Keep the Poor Out -- Chapter 3. What the Poor Can Do to Save the Rich -- Chapter 4. How Free Enterprise Integrated the South -- We've Seen this Movie Before -- Chapter 5. What the Economic System Will Look Like when It's Mended -- Chapter 6. What the Poor Can Do to Help Themselves -- and Others -- Chapter 7. Making the Global Case for Silver Rights -- Chapter 8. Where We Go From Here.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-145) and index. - Print version record
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    Santa Monica, CA : RAND
    ISBN: 9780833086808 , 0833086804 , 9780833086815 , 0833086790 , 0833086812 , 0833083937 , 9780833083937 , 9780833086792
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Print version Kelly, Terrence K U.S. Army in Asia, 2030-2040
    Keywords: United States Planning ; United States ; Military policy ; Forecasting ; Military policy ; Planning ; Strategic aspects of individual places ; Military & Naval Science ; Law, Politics & Government ; Armies ; Asia ; United States ; United States ; HISTORY ; Military ; Other ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Military Science ; Armed Forces ; Planning ; Asia Strategic aspects ; United States Military policy ; Planning ; United States Military policy ; Forecasting ; Asia ; United States ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: For the next 20 or more years, the U.S. relationship with China will be the fulcrum on which the East Asian security order balances. As a result, U.S. policy will need to prevent the emergence of an overtly hostile U.S.-China relationship while hedging against the possibility that one could nonetheless emerge. Such a strategy must balance between protecting U.S. interests in East Asia, where clashes with China's preferences are most likely, and cooperating with Beijing globally where the two sides have common objectives. Crafting and sustaining such a strategy will be a major challenge. It must have clear and realistic goals flowing from larger U.S. interests and strategy in the region, take into account the need for U.S.-China cooperation on a host of global security and economic matters, be flexible and responsive to Chinese moves, seek to channel Chinese conduct in favorable directions, and reflect the new realities of Asia resulting from China's increased military and economic power. The U.S. Army will have an important role to play in supporting U.S. strategy in the Asia-Pacific, primarily by providing training and support to allies and partners; helping to defend key facilities from enemy ground, air, and missile attack; providing key enabling support to the joint force; projecting expeditionary combat forces into the theater; contributing to new conventional deterrent options; and helping to encourage China's participation in cooperative military-to-military engagements
    Abstract: For the next 20 or more years, the U.S. relationship with China will be the fulcrum on which the East Asian security order balances. As a result, U.S. policy will need to prevent the emergence of an overtly hostile U.S.-China relationship while hedging against the possibility that one could nonetheless emerge. Such a strategy must balance between protecting U.S. interests in East Asia, where clashes with China's preferences are most likely, and cooperating with Beijing globally where the two sides have common objectives. Crafting and sustaining such a strategy will be a major challenge. It must have clear and realistic goals flowing from larger U.S. interests and strategy in the region, take into account the need for U.S.-China cooperation on a host of global security and economic matters, be flexible and responsive to Chinese moves, seek to channel Chinese conduct in favorable directions, and reflect the new realities of Asia resulting from China's increased military and economic power. The U.S. Army will have an important role to play in supporting U.S. strategy in the Asia-Pacific, primarily by providing training and support to allies and partners; helping to defend key facilities from enemy ground, air, and missile attack; providing key enabling support to the joint force; projecting expeditionary combat forces into the theater; contributing to new conventional deterrent options; and helping to encourage China's participation in cooperative military-to-military engagements
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    ISBN: 9780833078988 , 0833078984 , 9780833078995 , 083307900X , 0833078992 , 0833078976 , 9780833078971 , 9780833079008
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Print version Shih, Regina A Medical fitness and resilience
    Keywords: United States ; United States Airmen ; Health and hygiene ; United States ; United States Civilian employees ; Health and hygiene ; United States Civilian employees ; Health and hygiene ; Medicine, Military ; Resilience (Personality trait) Case studies ; Families of military personnel ; Medicine, Military ; Resilience (Personality trait) ; Families of military personnel Medical care ; Families of military personnel Health and hygiene ; Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena ; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms ; Behavior ; Behavioral Symptoms ; Delivery of Health Care ; Disciplines and Occupations ; Health Occupations ; Health ; Human Activities ; Medicine ; Military Medicine ; Military Personnel ; Named Groups ; Occupational Groups ; Persons ; Physical Fitness ; Population Characteristics ; Psychiatry and Psychology ; Psychological Phenomena and Processes ; Psychophysiology ; Resilience, Psychological ; Stress, Psychological ; MEDICAL ; Preventive Medicine ; Medicine, Military ; Resilience (Personality trait) ; Health & Biological Sciences ; Medicine ; Military & Naval Medicine ; Psychology ; Social Sciences ; United States ; HEALTH & FITNESS ; Diseases ; General ; MEDICAL ; Clinical Medicine ; MEDICAL ; Diseases ; MEDICAL ; Evidence-Based Medicine ; MEDICAL ; Internal Medicine ; United States ; Case studies ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The context of this report -- Introduction -- Preventive screenings -- Facilitators and barriers to accessing appropriate quality health care -- The presence and management of chronic conditions -- The presence and management of injuries -- Interventions to promote medical fitness -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This report is one of a series designed to support Air Force leaders in promoting resilience among its Airmen, civilian employees, and Air Force family members. It examines the relationship between medical fitness and resilience, using key constructs found in the scientific literature, which address preventive care, the presence and management of injuries and chronic conditions, and facilitators and barriers to access of appropriate health care. Supporting or increasing the levels of the key measures of medical fitness identified in this report may facilitate resilience and can protect Airmen, civilian employees, and Air Force families from the negative effects of stress. The report also reviews interventions designed to promote those constructs, focusing generally on preventive care as one of the most promising ways to reduce the prevalence and burden associated with medical conditions and injuries
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    ISBN: 9780833082114 , 0833084704 , 0833082116 , 9780833084705
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 167 pages)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation research report series RR-382-OSD
    Parallel Title: Print version Connable, Ben Modeling, simulation, and operations analysis in Afghanistan and Iraq
    Keywords: Soldiers Protection ; Simulation methods ; Evaluation ; Logistics Simulation methods ; Evaluation ; Military planning Simulation methods ; Evaluation ; Decision making Simulation methods ; Evaluation ; Operations research ; Counterinsurgency Simulation methods ; Evaluation ; Irregular warfare Simulation methods ; Evaluation ; Soldiers ; Logistics ; Military planning ; Decision making ; Operations research ; Counterinsurgency ; Irregular warfare ; COMPUTERS ; Data Modeling & Design ; Operations research ; Military Science - General ; Military & Naval Science ; Law, Politics & Government ; United States ; Electronic book
    Abstract: RAND conducted a lessons learned examination of operations analysis, modeling, and simulation in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. This report identifies ways in which analysts have attempted to support commanders' decisions in counterinsurgency and irregular warfare, describes many of the models and tools they employed, provides insight into the challenges they faced, and suggests ways in which the application of modeling, simulation, and analysis might be improved for current and future operations. RAND identified four broad categories of decisions: force protection, logistics, campaign assessment, and force structuring. Modeling, simulation, and analysis were most effective in supporting force protection and logistics decisions, and least effective in supporting campaign assessment and force structuring
    Abstract: RAND conducted a lessons learned examination of operations analysis, modeling, and simulation in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. This report identifies ways in which analysts have attempted to support commanders' decisions in counterinsurgency and irregular warfare, describes many of the models and tools they employed, provides insight into the challenges they faced, and suggests ways in which the application of modeling, simulation, and analysis might be improved for current and future operations. RAND identified four broad categories of decisions: force protection, logistics, campaign assessment, and force structuring. Modeling, simulation, and analysis were most effective in supporting force protection and logistics decisions, and least effective in supporting campaign assessment and force structuring
    Note: "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation , "National Defense Research Institute , Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-167)
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    ISBN: 9780833084248 , 0833085220 , 0833084240 , 9780833085221
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 47 pages)
    Series Statement: RAND Corporation research report series RR-374-OSD
    Parallel Title: Print version Burkhauser, Susan Elements of success
    Keywords: Military discharge ; Education, Secondary Evaluation ; Military discharge ; Education, Secondary ; Military Administration ; Military & Naval Science ; Law, Politics & Government ; HISTORY ; Military ; Other ; Armed Forces ; Personnel management ; United States ; Education, Secondary ; Evaluation ; Military discharge ; Recruiting and enlistment ; United States Armed Forces ; Recruiting, enlistment, etc ; United States Armed Forces ; Personnel management ; United States ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The U.S military services have traditionally used a tiering system, including education credentials such as high school diplomas, in combination with Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) scores to help gauge the likelihood of a recruit persevering through his or her first term of service. But what about less traditional credentials, such as diplomas earned through homeschooling and distance learning? The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) asked RAND to examine whether its current education-credential tiering policy is still useful in predicting first-term attrition. The authors examined attrition rates at 12, 24, and 36 months of service for all enlistees from 2000 through 2011. Using statistical regression techniques, they compared attrition rates for those with distance learning or homeschool credentials to those of high school diploma holders, after controlling for other observable population differences. Overall, the analyses support current tiering policy classifying homeschool diplomas as Tier 1 if a recruit's AFQT score is 50 or higher (i.e., they are treated the same as high school diploma holders) or Tier 2 if a recruit's AFQT score is lower than 50. The results also support classifying distance learning credentials as Tier 2 regardless of AFQT score
    Abstract: The U.S military services have traditionally used a tiering system, including education credentials such as high school diplomas, in combination with Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) scores to help gauge the likelihood of a recruit persevering through his or her first term of service. But what about less traditional credentials, such as diplomas earned through homeschooling and distance learning? The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) asked RAND to examine whether its current education-credential tiering policy is still useful in predicting first-term attrition. The authors examined attrition rates at 12, 24, and 36 months of service for all enlistees from 2000 through 2011. Using statistical regression techniques, they compared attrition rates for those with distance learning or homeschool credentials to those of high school diploma holders, after controlling for other observable population differences. Overall, the analyses support current tiering policy classifying homeschool diplomas as Tier 1 if a recruit's AFQT score is 50 or higher (i.e., they are treated the same as high school diploma holders) or Tier 2 if a recruit's AFQT score is lower than 50. The results also support classifying distance learning credentials as Tier 2 regardless of AFQT score
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  • 76
    ISBN: 9780833059383 , 0833084852 , 0833059386 , 9780833084859
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 61 pages)
    Series Statement: RAND toolkit v. 2
    Series Statement: RAND Corporation research report series RR487z2
    Parallel Title: Print version Acosta, Joie D RAND online measure repository for evaluating psychological health and traumatic brain injury programs
    Keywords: Medical care Evaluation ; Mental health services Evaluation ; Brain Wounds and injuries ; Treatment ; Evaluation ; Health services administration ; Psychodiagnostics ; Medical care ; Mental health services ; Brain ; Health services administration ; Psychodiagnostics ; Program Evaluation methods ; Mental Health Services ; Quality Improvement ; Brain Injuries therapy ; United States ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Psychopathology ; Depression ; Health services administration ; Medical care ; Evaluation ; Mental health services ; Evaluation ; Psychodiagnostics ; United States ; Electronic book
    Abstract: Since 2001, U.S. military forces have been engaged in extended conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. While most military personnel cope well across the deployment cycle, the operational tempo may raise the risk of mental health problems, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depression, and consequences from traumatic brain injury (TBI). To support servicemembers and their families as they cope with these challenges, the U.S. Department of Defense has implemented numerous programs addressing biological, social, spiritual, and holistic influences on psychological health along the resilience, prevention, and treatment continuum that focus on a variety of clinical and nonclinical concerns. As these efforts have proliferated, evaluating their effectiveness has become increasingly important. To support the design and implementation of program evaluation, RAND developed the RAND Online Measure Repository (ROMR) which indexes and describes measures related to psychological health and TBI. The ROMR is a publicly accessible, online, searchable database containing 171 measures related to psychological health and TBI. This report describes the rationale for developing the ROMR, the content included in the ROMR, and its potential in both civilian and military populations. The ROMR includes information about measure domains, psychometrics, number of items, and costs, which can inform the selection of measures for program evaluations. Included measures address domains of primary importance to psychological health (PTSD, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and resiliency) and TBI (cognition, executive functioning, and memory). Also identified are measures relevant to military units, such as unit cohesion and force readiness and preservation
    Abstract: Since 2001, U.S. military forces have been engaged in extended conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. While most military personnel cope well across the deployment cycle, the operational tempo may raise the risk of mental health problems, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depression, and consequences from traumatic brain injury (TBI). To support servicemembers and their families as they cope with these challenges, the U.S. Department of Defense has implemented numerous programs addressing biological, social, spiritual, and holistic influences on psychological health along the resilience, prevention, and treatment continuum that focus on a variety of clinical and nonclinical concerns. As these efforts have proliferated, evaluating their effectiveness has become increasingly important. To support the design and implementation of program evaluation, RAND developed the RAND Online Measure Repository (ROMR) which indexes and describes measures related to psychological health and TBI. The ROMR is a publicly accessible, online, searchable database containing 171 measures related to psychological health and TBI. This report describes the rationale for developing the ROMR, the content included in the ROMR, and its potential in both civilian and military populations. The ROMR includes information about measure domains, psychometrics, number of items, and costs, which can inform the selection of measures for program evaluations. Included measures address domains of primary importance to psychological health (PTSD, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and resiliency) and TBI (cognition, executive functioning, and memory). Also identified are measures relevant to military units, such as unit cohesion and force readiness and preservation
    Note: "Glossary": pages 55-56 , "RR-487/2-OSD."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper , "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury , "RAND Corporation research report series."--Web page (PDF) , "Approved for public release; distribution unlimited , "National Defense Research Institute , Includes bibliographical references (page 61)
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  • 77
    ISBN: 9780833089441 , 0833089447
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 324.7/80973
    Keywords: National Institute on Money in State Politics (U.S.) ; National Institute on Money in State Politics (U.S.) ; Elections States ; Campaign funds States ; Elections ; Campaign funds ; United States ; Campaign funds ; U.S. states ; Elections ; U.S. states ; Electronic books
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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  • 78
    ISBN: 9780833085184 , 0833085182
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Research report
    Keywords: Materials management Evaluation ; Materials management ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Infrastructure ; Armed Forces ; Medical care ; United States ; Armed Forces ; Medical supplies ; United States Armed Forces ; Medical care ; United States Armed Forces ; Medical supplies ; United States ; United States ; Electronic books
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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  • 79
    ISBN: 9780833082411 , 0833086073 , 0833082418 , 9780833086075
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 72 pages)
    Edition: Final report
    Series Statement: Rand corporation research report series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mattke, Soeren. Final Report Evaluation of Tools and Metrics to Support Employer Selection of Health Plans
    Keywords: Health planning ; Employer-sponsored health insurance ; Health planning ; Employer-sponsored health insurance ; MEDICAL ; Preventive Medicine ; Employer-sponsored health insurance ; Health planning ; United States ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Insurance ; Risk Assessment & Management ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) places strong emphasis on quality of care as a means to improve outcomes for Americans and promote the financial sustainability of our health care system. Included in the ACA are new disclosure requirements that require health plans to provide a summary of benefits and coverage that accurately describes the benefits under the plan or coverage. These requirements are intended to support employers' procurement of high-value health coverage for their employees. This report attempts to help employers understand the structural differences between health plans and the performance dimensions along which plans can differ, as well as to educate employers about available tools that can be used to evaluate plan options. The report also discusses the extent to which these and other tools or resources are used by employers to inform choices between health plans
    Abstract: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) places strong emphasis on quality of care as a means to improve outcomes for Americans and promote the financial sustainability of our health care system. Included in the ACA are new disclosure requirements that require health plans to provide a summary of benefits and coverage that accurately describes the benefits under the plan or coverage. These requirements are intended to support employers' procurement of high-value health coverage for their employees. This report attempts to help employers understand the structural differences between health plans and the performance dimensions along which plans can differ, as well as to educate employers about available tools that can be used to evaluate plan options. The report also discusses the extent to which these and other tools or resources are used by employers to inform choices between health plans
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  • 80
    ISBN: 9780833085801 , 0833085808 , 9780833084552 , 0833085816 , 0833084550 , 9780833085818
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 44 pages)
    Series Statement: RAND Corporation research report series
    Parallel Title: Print version Groves, David G Strengthening coastal planning
    Keywords: Coastal zone management ; Shore protection Planning ; Planning Technique ; Coastal engineering Planning ; Coastal zone management ; Shore protection ; Planning ; Coastal engineering ; Coastal zone management ; Planning ; Technique ; Shore protection ; Planning ; Sociology & Social History ; Social Sciences ; Communities - Urban Groups ; United States ; Louisiana ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Real Estate ; General ; NATURE ; Natural Disasters ; Electronic book
    Abstract: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figures; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One: Introduction; Forces at Work on the Louisiana Coast; A Modified River Runs Through It; Business as Usual Will Not Halt the Land Loss; The Risk of Coastal Flooding Is Rising; Economic and Social Implications of a Coast at Risk; Challenges in Creating a Master Plan; Diverse Range and Large Number of Possible Solutions; The Future Is Uncertain; A Diverse Region Seeking Different and Sometimes Conflicting Outcomes; Need for Coordination Across Jurisdictions.
    Abstract: Determining How To Allocate Funds Across Project TypesStriking a Balance Between Near-Term and Long-Term Outcomes; Balancing Among Different Planning Objectives; Ensuring Robustness for the Uncertain Future; Louisiana's 2012 Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast; Next Steps for Louisiana; Chapter Four: Reducing Coastal Risk Through Integrated Planning; Growing Vulnerability of Coastal Regions; Costs of Coastal Flooding; Strengthening Coastal Resilience Requires a Comprehensive Planning Process; Coastal Risks Are Increasing, but in Uncertain Ways.
    Abstract: Evolution of the Master Planning ProcessChapter Two: Analytical Support for the Development of Louisiana's 50-Year Comprehensive Plan; New Analytical Capabilities Informed the Planning Framework; Accounting for Deep Uncertainty Using Scenarios; Systems Models, CLARA, and Innovative Flood Risk Modeling; The Planning Tool and Innovative Decisionmaking; Supporting CPRA Decisionmaking with Analysis; Chapter Three: Using the Planning Tool to Support the Development of a Comprehensive Plan for Louisiana; Planning Tool Analysis Supported Deliberations; Comparing Projects on an Even Playing Field.
    Abstract: This report highlights RAND's contributions to the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority's Master Plan. Its purpose is to help policymakers in other coastal regions understand the value of a solid technical foundation to support decisionmaking on strategies to reduce flood risk, rebuild or restore coastal environments, and increase the resilience of developed coastal regions
    Abstract: There Are Many Different Types of Strategies to Consider to Reduce Risks and Restore Coastal LandscapesSolutions Will Be Implemented by Local, Regional, State, and Federal Agencies; Principles for Integrated Coastal Planning; Public Participation Is Essential Throughout the Planning Process; Technical Analysis Is Meant to Inform Deliberations and Value Judgments by Decisionmakers; A Sustainable Long-Term Strategy Must Be Robust and Adaptive; Building on Louisiana's Planning Experience; Appendix: A Brief Description of Robust Decision Making; References.
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  • 81
    ISBN: 9780833082589 , 0833082582 , 9780833082572 , 0833082574
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF file (xx, 101 pages)))
    Series Statement: RAND Corporation research report series
    Parallel Title: Print version Krull, Heather Health and Economic Outcomes in the Alumni of the Wounded Warrior Project : 2010-2012
    Keywords: Wounded Warrior Project ; Disabled veterans ; Veterans Mental health ; Veterans Health and hygiene ; Veterans Employment ; Disabled veterans Health and hygiene ; Disabled veterans Mental health ; Disabled veterans Economic conditions ; Disabled veterans ; Veterans ; Veterans ; Veterans ; Disabled veterans ; Disabled veterans ; Disabled veterans ; Veterans Health ; Military Personnel ; Disabled Persons rehabilitation ; Organizations, Nonprofit ; Rehabilitation economics ; Treatment Outcome ; HEALTH & FITNESS ; Diseases ; General ; MEDICAL ; Clinical Medicine ; MEDICAL ; Diseases ; MEDICAL ; Evidence-Based Medicine ; MEDICAL ; Internal Medicine ; LAW ; Labor & Employment ; Disabled veterans ; Veterans ; Employment ; Veterans ; Health and hygiene ; Veterans ; Mental health ; United States ; United States ; Electronic books ; Statistics
    Abstract: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One: Introduction and Background; Chapter Two: Survey Methodology; Chapter Three: Analysis and Results; Methodology; Ensure That Wounded Warriors Are Well-Adjusted in Mind and Spirit; Strategic Objective 1a: Increase the Percentage of Alumni Visiting Health Care Professionals to Get Help with Such Issues as Stress, Emotional, Alcohol, Drug, or Family Problems. Strategic Objective 1b: Increase the Percentage of Alumni Who Talk with Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom Veterans as a Resource or Tool to Help Cope with Feelings of Stress or Emotional or Mental Health ConcernsStrategic Objective 1d: Decrease the Percentage of Alumni Whose Emotional Problems Interfere with Work or Regular Activities; Strategic Objective 1e: Decrease the Percentage of Alumni Whose Military Experiences Were So Frightening, Horrible, or Upsetting That They Have Not Been Able to Escape from Memories or Effects of Them. Strategic Objective 1g: Increase the Percentage of Alumni Who Can Adapt When Change Occurs or Bounce Back After Illness, Injury, or HardshipDepression Risk Questionnaire; Summary; Ensure That Wounded Warriors Are Well-Adjusted in Body; Strategic Objective 2b: Decrease the Percentage of Alumni Whose Physical Health Problems Interfere with Work or Regular Activities; Strategic Objective 2e: Decrease the Percentage of Alumni Who Are Overweight or Obese; Summary; Ensure That Wounded Warriors Are Economically Empowered. Strategic Objective 3a: Increase the Percentage of Alumni Who Complete Associate's Degrees, Bachelor's Degrees, or HigherStrategic Objective 3b: Increase the Percentage of Alumni Who Complete Business, Technical, or Vocational School (Certificate or Diploma); Strategic Objective 3c: Increase the Percentage of Alumni Who Are Employed Full Time or Part Time or Self-Employed; Strategic Objective 3e: Increase the Percentage of Alumni Who Own Homes; Strategic Objective 3f: Reduce Alumni's Total Amount of Outstanding Debt, Excluding Mortgage, That Is Greater Than 20,000; Summary. Chapter Four: Comparisons with Related StudiesWounded Warrior Project Alumnus Characteristics; Strategic Objective 1a: Increase the Percentage of Alumni Visiting Health Care Professionals to Get Help with Such Issues as Stress, Emotional, Alcohol, Drug, or Family Problems; Strategic Objective 1e: Decrease the Percentage of Alumni Whose Military Experiences Were So Frightening, Horrible, or Upsetting That They Are Not Able to Escape from Memories or Effects of Them; Patient Health Questionnaire: Major Depressive Disorder. Strategic Objective 2b: Decrease the Percentage of Alumni Whose Physical Problems Interfere with Work or Regular Activities
    Abstract: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One: Introduction and Background; Chapter Two: Survey Methodology; Chapter Three: Analysis and Results; Methodology; Ensure That Wounded Warriors Are Well-Adjusted in Mind and Spirit; Strategic Objective 1a: Increase the Percentage of Alumni Visiting Health Care Professionals to Get Help with Such Issues as Stress, Emotional, Alcohol, Drug, or Family Problems. Strategic Objective 1b: Increase the Percentage of Alumni Who Talk with Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom Veterans as a Resource or Tool to Help Cope with Feelings of Stress or Emotional or Mental Health ConcernsStrategic Objective 1d: Decrease the Percentage of Alumni Whose Emotional Problems Interfere with Work or Regular Activities; Strategic Objective 1e: Decrease the Percentage of Alumni Whose Military Experiences Were So Frightening, Horrible, or Upsetting That They Have Not Been Able to Escape from Memories or Effects of Them. Strategic Objective 1g: Increase the Percentage of Alumni Who Can Adapt When Change Occurs or Bounce Back After Illness, Injury, or HardshipDepression Risk Questionnaire; Summary; Ensure That Wounded Warriors Are Well-Adjusted in Body; Strategic Objective 2b: Decrease the Percentage of Alumni Whose Physical Health Problems Interfere with Work or Regular Activities; Strategic Objective 2e: Decrease the Percentage of Alumni Who Are Overweight or Obese; Summary; Ensure That Wounded Warriors Are Economically Empowered. Strategic Objective 3a: Increase the Percentage of Alumni Who Complete Associate's Degrees, Bachelor's Degrees, or HigherStrategic Objective 3b: Increase the Percentage of Alumni Who Complete Business, Technical, or Vocational School (Certificate or Diploma); Strategic Objective 3c: Increase the Percentage of Alumni Who Are Employed Full Time or Part Time or Self-Employed; Strategic Objective 3e: Increase the Percentage of Alumni Who Own Homes; Strategic Objective 3f: Reduce Alumni's Total Amount of Outstanding Debt, Excluding Mortgage, That Is Greater Than 20,000; Summary. Chapter Four: Comparisons with Related StudiesWounded Warrior Project Alumnus Characteristics; Strategic Objective 1a: Increase the Percentage of Alumni Visiting Health Care Professionals to Get Help with Such Issues as Stress, Emotional, Alcohol, Drug, or Family Problems; Strategic Objective 1e: Decrease the Percentage of Alumni Whose Military Experiences Were So Frightening, Horrible, or Upsetting That They Are Not Able to Escape from Memories or Effects of Them; Patient Health Questionnaire: Major Depressive Disorder. Strategic Objective 2b: Decrease the Percentage of Alumni Whose Physical Problems Interfere with Work or Regular Activities
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  • 82
    ISBN: 9780833084033 , 0833086022 , 0833084038 , 9780833086020
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (23 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Silberglitt, R.S. (Richard S.) Soldier-portable battery supply
    Keywords: United States Procurement ; United States ; Business logistics ; Lithium cells ; Battery industry ; Business logistics ; Lithium cells ; Battery industry ; Battery industry ; Business logistics ; United States ; Lithium cells ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Military Science ; Armed Forces ; Procurement ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Batteries are a ubiquitous presence in equipment carried by soldiers and critical to the performance of electronic devices such as radios, computers, night-vision goggles, and laser range finders. These batteries are supplied by a variety of firms, and mostly assembled from cells that are acquired through a supply chain that is driven by commercial applications to mobile phones, laptop computers, tablets, and other electronic devices, and is predominately based in Asia. RAND found that government researchers and program managers and representatives of military battery suppliers have concerns associated with this foreign-dependent supply chain. The report discusses alternative policy options to address these concerns, without evaluating the benefits versus costs of these policy options
    Note: "RAND Corporation , "RR-500-OSD"--Page 4 of cover , "This study was ... conducted within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute"--Back cover , Caption title , Includes bibliographical references (pages 20-22)
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  • 83
    ISBN: 9780833078599 , 0833085190 , 0833078593 , 9780833085191
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 168 pages)
    Series Statement: RAND Corporation research report series RR-132-AF
    Parallel Title: Print version Meadows, Sarah O. (Sarah Opal), 1978- Association between base-area social and economic characteristics and airmen's outcomes
    Keywords: Quality of life Statistics ; Social indicators ; Airmen Social conditions 21st century ; Neighborhoods Social aspects ; Quality of life ; Social indicators ; Airmen ; Neighborhoods ; Law, Politics & Government ; Military Administration ; HEALTH & FITNESS ; Work-Related Health ; United States ; Statistics ; Neighborhoods ; Social aspects ; Quality of life ; Social indicators ; Military & Naval Science ; Electronic books
    Abstract: To help Air Force Services tailor support for Airmen and their families through analyses of the relevance of neighborhood, or area, characteristics of major Air Force installations located within the United States, researchers applied established social indicators and neighborhood methodology to identify which areas may have greater need for Air Force resources. This document reports the results of that analysis. It examines whether and how base-area characteristics are associated with individual-level Airman outcomes across several different domains. The objective is to help the Air Force identify communities where Airmen and their families may have greater levels of need so that it can adapt programs or resources to counteract stressors related to the base areas and the lack of nonmilitary resources in the area. Using census and personnel data, the authors created a set of area profiles that make up the RAND Base Area Social and Economic Index, or RAND BASE-I, measuring aspects of household composition, employment, income and poverty, housing, social, and transportation of area residents (both military and civilian). These factors are outside of Air Force control; however, Air Force Services may be able to help offset potential negative impacts of community characteristics on Airmen and their families. Using existing Air Force survey data, the authors then assessed whether these base-area characteristics were associated with Airmen's outcomes related to health and well-being, military and neighborhood cohesion, ratings of neighborhood resources, use of on-base resources, satisfaction, and career intentions. The analysis also tested whether Airmen who live off base and commute to work may be more exposed to social and economic conditions in the larger base area than Airmen who primarily live and work on base
    Abstract: To help Air Force Services tailor support for Airmen and their families through analyses of the relevance of neighborhood, or area, characteristics of major Air Force installations located within the United States, researchers applied established social indicators and neighborhood methodology to identify which areas may have greater need for Air Force resources. This document reports the results of that analysis. It examines whether and how base-area characteristics are associated with individual-level Airman outcomes across several different domains. The objective is to help the Air Force identify communities where Airmen and their families may have greater levels of need so that it can adapt programs or resources to counteract stressors related to the base areas and the lack of nonmilitary resources in the area. Using census and personnel data, the authors created a set of area profiles that make up the RAND Base Area Social and Economic Index, or RAND BASE-I, measuring aspects of household composition, employment, income and poverty, housing, social, and transportation of area residents (both military and civilian). These factors are outside of Air Force control; however, Air Force Services may be able to help offset potential negative impacts of community characteristics on Airmen and their families. Using existing Air Force survey data, the authors then assessed whether these base-area characteristics were associated with Airmen's outcomes related to health and well-being, military and neighborhood cohesion, ratings of neighborhood resources, use of on-base resources, satisfaction, and career intentions. The analysis also tested whether Airmen who live off base and commute to work may be more exposed to social and economic conditions in the larger base area than Airmen who primarily live and work on base
    Note: "RR-132-AF"--Back cover , "RAND Project Air Force , Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-168)
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  • 84
    ISBN: 9780833083906 , 0833086472 , 0833083902 , 9780833086471
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 66 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Rostker, Bernard Recruiting older youths
    Keywords: United States Recruiting, enlistment, etc ; United States ; Military Administration ; Military & Naval Science ; Law, Politics & Government ; United States ; Recruiting and enlistment ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Human Resources & Personnel Management ; Electronic book
    Abstract: More than half of all U.S. Army recruits are choosing to join later in life instead of immediately after high school graduation. Older recruits tend to reenlist and receive promotions at greater rates than their younger peers. Among those surveyed, recruits who enlisted later were more concerned about the domestic job market and less concerned about external factors, such as opposition from family and friends. Since the advent of the all-volunteer force, little attention has been paid to high school graduates who do not enlist immediately after graduation, primarily those who seek employment in the private sector of the economy. However, over time, this group has made up a significant and increasing portion of total enlistments. However, since 2005, the majority of the Army's recruits has not joined directly out of high school but has instead made the decision to join at a later time. Why these recruits initially chose not to join when they had the opportunity after graduating from high school and why they changed their minds several years later and enlisted are the subjects of this report. Given the importance of older recruits to the Army, the authors examine what is known about these recruits, their performance during military service, and why they came to join the Army after first choosing another postsecondary path. The results of a survey of 5,000 Army recruits designed to answer this question are presented. Finally, the implications of the survey results are discussed, along with suggestions of ways to gain additional insights by tracking this survey cohort through their Army careers
    Abstract: More than half of all U.S. Army recruits are choosing to join later in life instead of immediately after high school graduation. Older recruits tend to reenlist and receive promotions at greater rates than their younger peers. Among those surveyed, recruits who enlisted later were more concerned about the domestic job market and less concerned about external factors, such as opposition from family and friends. Since the advent of the all-volunteer force, little attention has been paid to high school graduates who do not enlist immediately after graduation, primarily those who seek employment in the private sector of the economy. However, over time, this group has made up a significant and increasing portion of total enlistments. However, since 2005, the majority of the Army's recruits has not joined directly out of high school but has instead made the decision to join at a later time. Why these recruits initially chose not to join when they had the opportunity after graduating from high school and why they changed their minds several years later and enlisted are the subjects of this report. Given the importance of older recruits to the Army, the authors examine what is known about these recruits, their performance during military service, and why they came to join the Army after first choosing another postsecondary path. The results of a survey of 5,000 Army recruits designed to answer this question are presented. Finally, the implications of the survey results are discussed, along with suggestions of ways to gain additional insights by tracking this survey cohort through their Army careers
    Note: "National Defense Research Institute , "RR-247-OSD"--Page 4 of cover , "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense , Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-66)
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  • 85
    ISBN: 9780833079923 , 0833086766 , 0833079921 , 9780833086761
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 82 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Tanielian, Terri L Deployment Life Study
    Keywords: Families of military personnel Longitudinal studies ; Families of military personnel Research ; Families of military personnel ; Families of military personnel ; Law, Politics & Government ; Military Administration ; United States ; Longitudinal studies ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Military Science ; Families of military personnel ; Military & Naval Science ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In the past decade, U.S. military families have experienced extreme stress, as U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines have experienced extended and repeated deployments. As a result, U.S. policymakers and Department of Defense leadership have placed an emphasis on family readiness for deployment and other military-related stressors. However, family readiness is not a well-understood construct. The Deployment Life Study was designed to provide a deeper understanding of family readiness and to address the sources of readiness among military families. It is a longitudinal study of military families over the course of a full deployment cycle--predeployment, during deployment, and postdeployment. Over the course of three years, the study will follow 2,724 families from each service and component, interviewing service members, their spouses, and one child between the ages of 11 and 17 in each family (if applicable) every four months. Baseline data are weighted to be representative of married service members who were eligible to deploy sometime between June 1, 2012, and December 31, 2012. This report describes the Deployment Life Study theoretical model; the content of the baseline assessment; the design and procedures associated with data collection, sampling and recruiting procedures; and the baseline sample of military families
    Abstract: In the past decade, U.S. military families have experienced extreme stress, as U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines have experienced extended and repeated deployments. As a result, U.S. policymakers and Department of Defense leadership have placed an emphasis on family readiness for deployment and other military-related stressors. However, family readiness is not a well-understood construct. The Deployment Life Study was designed to provide a deeper understanding of family readiness and to address the sources of readiness among military families. It is a longitudinal study of military families over the course of a full deployment cycle--predeployment, during deployment, and postdeployment. Over the course of three years, the study will follow 2,724 families from each service and component, interviewing service members, their spouses, and one child between the ages of 11 and 17 in each family (if applicable) every four months. Baseline data are weighted to be representative of married service members who were eligible to deploy sometime between June 1, 2012, and December 31, 2012. This report describes the Deployment Life Study theoretical model; the content of the baseline assessment; the design and procedures associated with data collection, sampling and recruiting procedures; and the baseline sample of military families
    Note: "RAND Arroyo Center and National Defense Research Institute , "RR-209-A/OSD"--Page 4 of cover , Includes bibliographical references
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    ISBN: 9780833082152 , 083308674X , 0833082159 , 9780833086747
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 127 pages)
    Series Statement: Research report
    Parallel Title: Print version Robbert, Albert A., 1944- Suitability of missions for the Air Force Reserve components
    Keywords: United States Operational readiness ; United States Mobilization ; United States Reserves ; Organization ; United States ; United States ; United States ; Armed Forces ; Operational readiness ; Military & Naval Science ; Law, Politics & Government ; Air Forces ; United States ; HISTORY ; Military ; Aviation ; Armed Forces ; Mobilization ; Electronic book
    Note: "RAND Project Air Force , "Prepared for the United States Air Force , "RR-429-AF"--Page 4 of cover , Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-127)
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  • 87
    ISBN: 9780833085887 , 0833086340 , 0833085883 , 9780833086341
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (31 pages)
    Series Statement: RAND Corporation research report series RR-449-RC
    Parallel Title: Print vversion Davis, Lynn E. (Lynn Etheridge), 1943- Armed and dangerous?
    Keywords: Technology Risk assessment ; National security ; Military art and science Technological innovations ; Arms control ; Drone aircraft Risk assessment ; Technology ; National security ; Military art and science ; Arms control ; Drone aircraft ; Technology ; Risk assessment ; United States ; Military art and science ; Technological innovations ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; International Relations ; Arms Control ; Arms control ; National security ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Armed drones are making the headlines, especially in their role in targeted killings. In this report, RAND researchers stepped back and asked whether these weapons are transformative. The answer is no, though they offer significant capabilities to their users, especially in counterterrorism operations as has been the case for the United States. Will they proliferate? Yes, but upon a closer look at the types of systems, only a few rich countries will be in a position to develop the higher technology and longer range systems. U.S. adversaries and others will likely find weapons such as aircraft and air defenses more cost and militarily effective. Their proliferation will not create the kinds of global dangers that call for new arms control efforts, but the risks to regional stability cannot be dismissed entirely, as is the case of any conventional weapon. How the United States will use these weapons today and into the future will be important in shaping a broader set of international norms that discourage their misuse by others
    Note: "RAND Corporation , Caption title , Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-30)
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  • 88
    ISBN: 9780833087782 , 0833087789 , 9780833087799 , 0833087800 , 0833087797 , 0833087770 , 9780833087775 , 9780833087805
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gompert, David C Blinders, blunders, and wars : what America and China can learn
    Keywords: Strategy Case studies ; Military history Case studies ; War Case studies Decision making ; Strategy ; Military history ; War ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Military Science ; Military history ; Military policy ; Decision making ; Strategy ; War ; Decision making ; Military Science - General ; Military & Naval Science ; Law, Politics & Government ; United States ; HISTORY ; Military ; Strategy ; China ; HISTORY ; Military ; Other ; Case studies ; China Military policy ; Decision making ; United States Military policy ; Decision making ; China ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The history of wars caused by misjudgments, from Napoleon's invasion of Russia to America's invasion of Iraq, reveals that leaders relied on cognitive models, or simplified representations of their worlds, that were seriously at odds with objective reality. Blinders, Blunders, and Wars analyzes eight historical examples of strategic blunders regarding war and peace and four examples of decisions that turned out well, and then applies those lessons to the current Sino-American case. Leaders' egos, intuitions, unwarranted self-confidence, and aversion to information that contradicted their views prevented them from correcting their models. Yet advisors and bureaucracies can be inadequate safeguards and can, out of fawning or fear, reinforce leaders' flawed thinking. War between China and the United States is more likely to occur by blunder than from rational premeditation. Yet flawed Chinese and American cognitive models of one another are creating strategic distrust, which could increase the danger of misjudgment by either or both, the likelihood of crises, and the possibility of war. Although these American and Chinese leaders have unprecedented access to information, there is no guarantee they will use it well when faced with choices concerning war and peace. They can learn from Blinders, Blunders, and Wars. As a general remedy, the authors recommend the establishment of a government body providing independent analysis and advice on war-and-peace decisions by critiquing information use, assumptions, assessments, reasoning, options, and plans. For the Sino-U.S. case, they offer a set of measures to bring the models each has of the other into line with objective reality
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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  • 89
    ISBN: 9780833089915 , 0833089919 , 9780833087492 , 0833087495
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 133 pages)
    DDC: 355.5/40973
    Keywords: United States Officers ; Training of ; United States ; Asymmetric warfare ; Military education Evaluation ; Leadership ; Asymmetric warfare ; Military education ; Leadership ; Law, Politics & Government ; Military Science - General ; United States ; Armed Forces ; Officers ; Training of ; Asymmetric warfare ; Leadership ; Military education ; Evaluation ; United States ; Military & Naval Science ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The Asymmetric Warfare Group offers the Asymmetric Warfare Adaptive Leader Program (AWALP)--a 10-day course designed to enhance adaptive performance in leaders and promote innovative solutions in training in support of unified land operations. This report describes results of a systematic evaluation of AWALP, offers recommendations to improve the course, and provides recommendations for ongoing evaluation of AWALP and other courses or events that address adaptive performance and acquisition of other intangible skills. The study used a pretest-posttest design and collected data from 104 students who participated in AWALP. Results show substantial improvement in training outcomes, including students' self-efficacy for being adaptive and leading adaptive teams and knowledge of course concepts. Graduates also reported that they were applying course concepts on the job after returning to their units. In addition, students had exceptionally favorable reactions to AWALP and remained extremely positive about the course three months after graduation. Results indicate few needs for improvement in the course; the most important area to address is challenges in applying concepts on the job because of the command climate and entrenched leadership. Recommendations for ongoing evaluation focus on obtaining additional measures of adaptive performance, particularly to establish the impact of AWALP on subsequent job performance. The current success of AWALP suggests that its approach to training might be usefully expanded in the Army, and the authors discuss strategies to achieve broader dissemination. Finally, the authors describe how the methods used in this study might be applied to evaluating related training in other contexts
    Abstract: The Asymmetric Warfare Group offers the Asymmetric Warfare Adaptive Leader Program (AWALP)--a 10-day course designed to enhance adaptive performance in leaders and promote innovative solutions in training in support of unified land operations. This report describes results of a systematic evaluation of AWALP, offers recommendations to improve the course, and provides recommendations for ongoing evaluation of AWALP and other courses or events that address adaptive performance and acquisition of other intangible skills. The study used a pretest-posttest design and collected data from 104 students who participated in AWALP. Results show substantial improvement in training outcomes, including students' self-efficacy for being adaptive and leading adaptive teams and knowledge of course concepts. Graduates also reported that they were applying course concepts on the job after returning to their units. In addition, students had exceptionally favorable reactions to AWALP and remained extremely positive about the course three months after graduation. Results indicate few needs for improvement in the course; the most important area to address is challenges in applying concepts on the job because of the command climate and entrenched leadership. Recommendations for ongoing evaluation focus on obtaining additional measures of adaptive performance, particularly to establish the impact of AWALP on subsequent job performance. The current success of AWALP suggests that its approach to training might be usefully expanded in the Army, and the authors discuss strategies to achieve broader dissemination. Finally, the authors describe how the methods used in this study might be applied to evaluating related training in other contexts
    Note: "RR-504-A."--Back cover , Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-133)
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  • 90
    ISBN: 9780833085641 , 0833090003 , 0833085646 , 9780833090003
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 97 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Osburg, Jan Assessing locally focused stability operations
    Keywords: Counterinsurgency ; Counterinsurgency ; United States ; Military & Naval Science ; Law, Politics & Government ; Armed Forces ; Stability operations ; Military Science - General ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Security (National & International) ; Counterinsurgency ; United States Armed Forces ; Stability operations ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This report describes how the Army and other services can better measure and assess the progress and outcomes of locally focused stability operations (LFSO), which are defined as the missions, tasks, and activities that build security, governance, and development by, with, and through the directly affected community, in order to increase stability at the local level. A number of issues related to assessing LFSO are identified, along with foundational challenges that include an inherently complex operational environment, limited doctrinal guidance, competing visions of stability, untested assumptions, and redundant or excessive reporting requirements. The report offers solutions to these and other challenges, and provides concrete recommendations and implementation-related guidance for designing and conducting assessments of LFSO. The report concludes with an assessment plan for a notional African LFSO scenario that illustrates the practical application of those insights
    Abstract: This report describes how the Army and other services can better measure and assess the progress and outcomes of locally focused stability operations (LFSO), which are defined as the missions, tasks, and activities that build security, governance, and development by, with, and through the directly affected community, in order to increase stability at the local level. A number of issues related to assessing LFSO are identified, along with foundational challenges that include an inherently complex operational environment, limited doctrinal guidance, competing visions of stability, untested assumptions, and redundant or excessive reporting requirements. The report offers solutions to these and other challenges, and provides concrete recommendations and implementation-related guidance for designing and conducting assessments of LFSO. The report concludes with an assessment plan for a notional African LFSO scenario that illustrates the practical application of those insights
    Note: "RAND Arroyo Center , "This research was sponsored by the Army's Asymmetric Warfare Group and was conducted within RAND Arroyo Center's Force Development and Technology Program"--Preface , Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-97)
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  • 91
    ISBN: 9780833087683 , 0833089420 , 0833087681 , 9780833089427
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (30 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Tanielian, Terri L Ready to serve
    Keywords: Community mental health services ; Soldiers Mental health services ; Veterans Mental health services ; Mental health personnel ; Cultural competence ; Families of military personnel Services for ; Community mental health services ; Soldiers ; Veterans ; Mental health personnel ; Cultural competence ; Families of military personnel ; Veterans psychology ; Military Family psychology ; Quality of Health Care statistics & numerical data ; Culturally Competent Care statistics & numerical data ; Community Mental Health Services statistics & numerical data ; United States ; Community mental health services ; Cultural competence ; Families of military personnel ; Services for ; Mental health personnel ; Veterans ; Mental health services ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Psychopathology ; Depression ; United States ; Electronic books ; Statistics
    Abstract: Ensuring that military veterans and their families have access to high-quality mental health care is a national priority. Over the past several years, the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have increased the number of mental health professionals working within their facilities and have rolled out training and quality improvement initiatives designed to promote the use of evidence-based treatments. Despite these important efforts, research continues to demonstrate that many veterans prefer to seek services outside the Department of Defense and/or the Department of Veterans Affairs. Thus, providers working in the civilian sector are an increasingly important part of the overall workforce addressing veterans' mental health needs. To better understand a key aspect of our nation's ability to provide veterans and their families with access to high-quality mental health care, RAND conducted a survey of civilian mental health providers to gather information about their competency with military and veteran culture and their training and experience treating posttraumatic stress disorder and depression. This report provides the results of that survey. The findings and recommendations from this study should be relevant to individuals, organizations, and policy officials concerned about the capacity of the civilian health care sector to deliver culturally competent, high-quality services to veterans and their families
    Note: "This research was sponsored by the United Health Foundation in collaboration with the Military Officers Association of America and conducted within RAND Health"--Page 30 , Includes bibliographical references (pages 25-28)
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  • 92
    ISBN: 9780833082305 , 0833082078 , 0833082302 , 9780833082077
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 51 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Moore, Nancy Y., 1947- Small business and strategic sourcing
    Keywords: United States Procurement ; United States ; Small business ; Strategic planning ; Government contractors ; Government purchasing ; Defense contracts ; Small business ; Strategic planning ; Government contractors ; Government purchasing ; Defense contracts ; Small business ; Strategic planning ; United States ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Outsourcing ; Armed Forces ; Procurement ; Defense contracts ; United States ; Government contractors ; Government purchasing ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The Department of Defense (DoD) may face challenges as it attempts to maintain its goal of spending about 23 percent of its prime-contract dollars for goods and services with small businesses and at the same time apply strategic-sourcing practices to reduce total costs and improve performance in ways that will not conflict with small-business goals while making DoD purchasing more effective and efficient. Strategic sourcing practices, for example, recommend consolidation of the supply base to reduce total costs, which can lead to fewer, larger, longer-term contracts with fewer and, often, larger suppliers
    Abstract: The Department of Defense (DoD) may face challenges as it attempts to maintain its goal of spending about 23 percent of its prime-contract dollars for goods and services with small businesses and at the same time apply strategic-sourcing practices to reduce total costs and improve performance in ways that will not conflict with small-business goals while making DoD purchasing more effective and efficient. Strategic sourcing practices, for example, recommend consolidation of the supply base to reduce total costs, which can lead to fewer, larger, longer-term contracts with fewer and, often, larger suppliers
    Note: "RAND National Defense Research Institute , "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense , "This research was conducted within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute"--Preface , Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-51)
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  • 93
    ISBN: 9780833086648 , 0833086987 , 0833086642 , 9780833086983
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (20 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy brief / Rand Corporation
    Parallel Title: Print version Dworsky, Michael Impact on workers' compensation insurance markets of allowing the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act to expire
    Keywords: United States ; United States ; Workers' compensation ; Terrorism insurance Government policy ; Workers' compensation ; Terrorism insurance ; United States ; LAW ; Labor & Employment ; Workers' compensation ; Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (United States) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Congress enacted the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in 2002, in response to terrorism insurance becoming unavailable or, when offered, extremely costly in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The law provides a government reinsurance backstop in the case of a terrorist attack by providing mechanisms for avoiding an immediate drawdown of capital for insured losses or possibly covering the most extreme losses. Extended first in 2005 and again in 2007, TRIA is set to expire at the end of 2014, and Congress is again reconsidering the appropriate government role in terrorism insurance markets. This policy brief examines how markets for workers' compensation (WC) insurance would be affected if TRIA were to expire. They explain that TRIA expiration would affect WC insurance markets differently from other insurance markets because WC statutes rigidly define the terms of coverage, such that in a post-TRIA world insurance companies would limit their terrorism risk exposure by declining coverage to employers facing high terrorism risk. Because WC coverage is mandatory for nearly all U.S. employers, employers that cannot purchase coverage would be forced to obtain coverage in markets of last resort. Migration of terrorism risk to these markets of last resort would increase the likelihood that WC losses from a catastrophic terror attack would largely be financed by businesses and taxpayers throughout the state in which the attack occurs, adding to the challenge of rebuilding in that state. TRIA, in contrast, spreads such risk across the country
    Note: "RAND Center for Catastrophic Risk Management and Compensation"--Page 4 of cover , "RR-643-CCRMC"--Page 4 of cover , Includes bibliographical references
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  • 94
    ISBN: 9780833088598 , 0833089315 , 0833088599 , 9780833089311
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 43 pages)
    Series Statement: RR-870-OSD
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sexual assault and sexual harassment in the U.S. military. Top-line estimates for active-duty service members from the 2014 Rand Military Workplace Study
    DDC: 355.0082097
    Keywords: Women soldiers Crimes against ; Social surveys ; Soldiers Crimes against ; Sexual harassment in the military ; Women soldiers ; Social surveys ; Soldiers ; Sexual harassment in the military ; Sexual harassment in the military ; Social surveys ; Military Administration ; Military & Naval Science ; Law, Politics & Government ; United States ; United States Armed Forces ; Women ; Crimes against ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In early 2014, the Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office asked the RAND National Defense Research Institute to conduct an independent assessment of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination in the military -- an assessment last conducted in 2012 by the department itself with the Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Active Duty Personnel. Separately, the Coast Guard requested that we expand the 2014 study to include an assessment of its active and reserve force. This report provides initial top-line active-duty Coast Guard estimates from the resulting RAND Military Workplace Study, which invited close to 560,000 service members to participate in a survey fielded in August and September of 2014
    Abstract: In early 2014, the Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office asked the RAND National Defense Research Institute to conduct an independent assessment of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination in the military -- an assessment last conducted in 2012 by the department itself with the Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Active Duty Personnel. Separately, the Coast Guard requested that we expand the 2014 study to include an assessment of its active and reserve force. This report provides initial top-line active-duty Coast Guard estimates from the resulting RAND Military Workplace Study, which invited close to 560,000 service members to participate in a survey fielded in August and September of 2014
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-38) , Prepared for the DoD Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office
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  • 95
    ISBN: 9780833088611 , 0833089234 , 0833088610 , 9780833089236
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 27 pages)
    Series Statement: RR-944-USCG
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sexual assault and sexual harassment in the U.S. military. Top-line estimates for active-duty Coast Guard members from the 2014 Rand Military Workplace Study
    DDC: 355.0082
    Keywords: Soldiers Crimes against ; Social surveys ; Sexual harassment in the military ; Women soldiers Crimes against ; Soldiers ; Social surveys ; Sexual harassment in the military ; Women soldiers ; Sexual harassment in the military ; Social surveys ; Military & Naval Science ; Law, Politics & Government ; Naval Science - General ; United States ; United States Armed Forces ; Women ; Crimes against ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "In early 2014, the Department of Defense (DoD) Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) asked the RAND National Defense Research Institute (NDRI) to conduct an independent assessment of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination in the military -- an assessment last conducted in 2012 by the department itself with the Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Active Duty Personnel (WGRA). Separately, the Coast Guard requested that we expand the 2014 study to include an assessment of its active and reserve force. This report provides initial top-line active-duty Coast Guard estimates from the resulting RAND Military Workplace Study, which invited close to 560,000 service members to participate in a survey fielded in August and September of 2014"--Website
    Abstract: "In early 2014, the Department of Defense (DoD) Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) asked the RAND National Defense Research Institute (NDRI) to conduct an independent assessment of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination in the military -- an assessment last conducted in 2012 by the department itself with the Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Active Duty Personnel (WGRA). Separately, the Coast Guard requested that we expand the 2014 study to include an assessment of its active and reserve force. This report provides initial top-line active-duty Coast Guard estimates from the resulting RAND Military Workplace Study, which invited close to 560,000 service members to participate in a survey fielded in August and September of 2014"--Website
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 23, 25-26) , Prepared for the DoD Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office
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  • 96
    ISBN: 9780833084507 , 0833090070 , 083308450X , 9780833090072
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 46 pages)
    Series Statement: RAND Project Air Force series on resiliency
    Parallel Title: Print version Robson, Sean Behavioral fitness and resilience
    Keywords: United States Airmen ; Health and hygiene ; United States ; Substance abuse ; Resilience (Personality trait) ; Medicine, Military ; Substance abuse ; Resilience (Personality trait) ; Medicine, Military ; Military Psychiatry ; Behavioral Medicine ; Stress, Psychological prevention & control ; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms ; Substance abuse ; Medicine ; Health & Biological Sciences ; Military & Naval Medicine ; HISTORY ; Military ; Aviation ; Medicine, Military ; Resilience (Personality trait) ; United States ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This report is one of a series designed to support Air Force leaders in promoting resilience among its Airmen, civilian employees, and Air Force family members. It examines the relationship between behavioral fitness and resilience, using key constructs found in the scientific literature that relate to sleep, alcohol use, and tobacco use. Supporting or increasing the levels of the key measures of behavioral fitness identified in this report may facilitate resilience and can protect Airmen, civilian employees, and Air Force families from the negative effects of conduct, routines, and habits that are detrimental to fitness. The report also reviews behavioral fitness construct measures and resilience outcomes as well as interventions designed to promote behavioral fitness
    Abstract: This report is one of a series designed to support Air Force leaders in promoting resilience among its Airmen, civilian employees, and Air Force family members. It examines the relationship between behavioral fitness and resilience, using key constructs found in the scientific literature that relate to sleep, alcohol use, and tobacco use. Supporting or increasing the levels of the key measures of behavioral fitness identified in this report may facilitate resilience and can protect Airmen, civilian employees, and Air Force families from the negative effects of conduct, routines, and habits that are detrimental to fitness. The report also reviews behavioral fitness construct measures and resilience outcomes as well as interventions designed to promote behavioral fitness
    Note: "RAND Project Air Force , "Prepared for the United States Air Force; approved for public release; distribution unlimited , "RR-103-AF"--Page 4 of cover , Includes bibliographical references (pages 35-46)
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  • 97
    ISBN: 9780833091444 , 0833091441
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Research report
    DDC: 658.382
    Keywords: Employee health promotion ; Health behavior ; Occupational health services ; Industrial hygiene ; Employee health promotion ; Health behavior ; Occupational health services ; Industrial hygiene ; Employee health promotion ; Health behavior ; Industrial hygiene ; Occupational health services ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This report leverages existing data on wellness programs to explore patterns of wellness program availability, employers' use of incentives, and program participation and utilization among employees. Researchers used two sets of data for this project: The first included data from the 2012 RAND Employer Survey, which used a nationally representative sample of U.S. employers that had detailed information on wellness program offerings, program uptake, incentive use, and employer characteristics. These data were used to answer questions on program availability, configuration, uptake, and incentive use. The second dataset included health care claims and wellness program information for a large employer. These data were analyzed to predict program participation and changes in utilization and health. The findings underscore the increasing prevalence of worksite wellness programs. About four-fifths of all U.S. employers with more than 1,000 employees are estimated to offer such programs. For those larger employers, program offerings cover a range of screening activities, interventions to encourage healthy lifestyles, and support for employees with manifest chronic conditions. Smaller employers, especially those with fewer than 100 employees, appear more reserved in their implementation of wellness programs. The use of financial incentives appears to increase employee participation in wellness programs, but only modestly. Employee participation in lifestyle management aspects of workplace wellness programs does not reduce healthcare utilization or cost regardless of whether we focus on higher-risk employees or those who are more engaged in the program
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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  • 98
    ISBN: 9780833080455 , 0833090054 , 0833080458 , 9780833090058
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 66 pages)
    Series Statement: Research report RR-257-A
    Parallel Title: Print version Resnick, Adam C How deployments affect the capacity and utilization of army treatment facilities
    Keywords: United States Medical care ; United States ; United States ; Deployment (Strategy) ; Health facilities Utilization ; Families of military personnel Medical care ; Deployment (Strategy) ; Health facilities ; Families of military personnel ; Health Manpower utilization ; Health Services utilization ; Health Facilities utilization ; Military Family ; Health Workforce statistics & numerical data ; Law, Politics & Government ; Military Administration ; United States ; Health facilities ; Utilization ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Human Resources & Personnel Management ; Military & Naval Science ; Armed Forces ; Medical care ; Deployment (Strategy) ; United States ; United States ; Electronic book
    Note: "Prepared for the United States Army , "RR-257-A"--Page 4 of cover , At head of title: Arroyo Center , Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-66)
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  • 99
    ISBN: 9780833084354 , 0833089951 , 0833084356 , 9780833089953
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 112 pages)
    Series Statement: Research report RR-471-AF
    Parallel Title: Print version Sims, Carra S Strength testing in the Air Force
    Keywords: United States Personnel management ; United States Physical training ; United States ; United States ; Physical fitness Evaluation ; Physical fitness Measurement ; Physical fitness ; Physical fitness ; Military & Naval Science ; Law, Politics & Government ; Air Forces ; HISTORY ; Military ; Aviation ; Armed Forces ; Personnel management ; Armed Forces ; Physical training ; Physical fitness ; Measurement ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Introduction -- Background and Research on the Strength Aptitude Test -- Observations and Interviews at the Military Entrance Processing Stations -- Strength Requirements Survey: Sample and Screener -- Survey Results: Actions and Movement Type -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Appendix A: AFSC Codes and Career Field Specialty Names -- Appendix B: Additional Details on the Process Currently Used to Establish SAT Cut Scores -- Appendix C: LNCO and Recruit Interview Questions -- Appendix D: Tabular Overview of Survey -- Appendix E: Responses to Open-Ended Survey Questions -- Appendix F: Population and Sample Characteristics for Strength Requirements Survey
    Note: "Prepared for the United States Air Force , "RAND Project Air Force , Includes bibliographical references
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  • 100
    ISBN: 9780833089793 , 083308979X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF file (xi, 85 pages)))
    Series Statement: Research report RR-650-ASAI
    DDC: 617.9/6092
    Keywords: Anesthesiologists Supply and demand ; Anesthesiologists Employment ; Anesthesiologists ; Anesthesiologists ; Anesthesiology manpower ; Health Workforce ; United States ; Anesthesiologists ; Supply and demand ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Important changes are taking place in the health care sector that have implications for future supply and demand of anesthesiologists including expansion of coverage, an aging population, greater movement of women into the physician workforce, increasing cost pressures, and shifting modes of delivery. To determine what the implications of these changes might be for the anesthesiologist workforce, RAND Corporation researchers conducted a national survey of American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) members, who include more than 90 percent of all practicing anesthesiologists in the United States. This survey was a follow-up to a 2007 survey, also conducted by the RAND Corporation. The authors document large and persistent regional differences in anesthesiologists' practices. In addition, there were several large differences by gender. With regard to shortage, the survey reveals substantial evidence for variation in anesthesiologist shortages across states, from which the authors argue that certain areas of the country are experiencing shortages. However, the national level of shortage has decreased since 2007 by approximately 2,000 full-time-equivalent anesthesiologists. The authors estimate that midwestern and western states were more likely than states in other regions to have a shortage of anesthesiologists in 2013
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF title page
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