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2. The Random Factor : How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us
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Prof. Mark Robert Rank and Prof. Mark Robert Rank
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- Fortune, Random variables, Serendipity
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A poverty expert reveals how truly random the world is—including how economic inequality is experienced—and how we can learn to acknowledge chance and appreciate it. It's comforting to think that we can be successful because we work hard, climb ladders, and get what we deserve, but each of us has been profoundly touched by randomness. Chance is shown to play a crucial role in shaping outcomes across history, throughout the natural world, and in our everyday lives. In The Random Factor, Mark Robert Rank draws from a wealth of evidence, including interviews and research, to explain how luck and chance play out and reveals how we can use these lessons to guide our personal lives and public policies. The Random Factor traverses luck from macro to micro, from events like the Cuban Missile Crisis to our personal encounters and relationships. From his perspective as a scholar of poverty, Rank also delves into the class and race dynamics of chance, emphasizing the stark disparities it brings to light. This transformative book prompts a new understanding of the twists and turns in our daily lives and encourages readers to fully appreciate the surprising world of randomness in which we live.
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- 2024
3. Mzala Nxumalo, Leftist Thought and Contemporary South Africa
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Robert J. Balfour and Robert J. Balfour
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- DT1949.N88
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Written as a tribute to the revolutionary intellectual and leader Mzala Nxumalo, this book discusses the significance of his work in the context of contemporary South African left politics. It explores the history and struggle of the apartheid era that preceded the advent of democracy to analyze a crucial aspect of the national question – that is, the quest for the establishment of a united South Africa to overcome racist and sexist policies that create and nurture divisions among black people.The subjects in this book deal with a wide range of topics, including the new social, economic and political challenges facing democratic South Africa; the need to reexamine the critique of capitalism in the 21st century; the relationship between race, class and community struggles; and the ecological challenges under capitalism.Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa
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- 2024
4. The Anthem Companion to Raymond Boudon
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Christian Robitaille, Robert Leroux, Christian Robitaille, and Robert Leroux
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- Sociology
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This book seeks to identify the main threads of a resolutely complex course of thought which has contributed greatly to sociology. Although he founded no “school,” Raymond Boudon certainly made original contributions to the discipline in his own time, including his theory of rationality, his interpretation of the work of the founders of sociology, and his explanation of educational inequalities. He also presented convincing arguments about how the overly narrow utilitarianism of mainstream economists was incomplete and betrayed major theoretical gaps. It is true in any case that his thought laid the groundwork for many theoretical and empirical social studies. Through an analysis of the most important parts of this thought, each of the chapters will not merely demonstrate the scientific rigor which can be associated to his work, but also show how it remains relevant to our understanding of contemporary society and how it can hence be used for future research projects. There can be no doubt, Boudon's thought has for various reasons undergone new assessments. Chapters of this book hence reflect a variety of points of view on how his work can be understood, criticized, and used for future research endeavors.
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- 2024
5. American Swastika : Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate
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Pete Simi, Robert Futrell, Pete Simi, and Robert Futrell
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- Racism--United States, Terrorism--United States, White supremacy movements--United States, Hate groups--United States
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Today's white supremacist activism originated in carefully cultivated homes, parties, rituals, music festivals, and digital media and went on to reshape the U.S. political landscape. With powerful case studies, interviews, and first-person accounts, the third edition of American Swastika guides readers through these hidden enclaves of hate to link past circumstances to present conditions. It discusses new players in the world of white power and offers a vital perspective on how white supremacy persists and why we must be vigilant if we want to check its influence. American Swastika is essential reading for anyone hungry to understand the threat of white supremacist extremism to American society.New to the Third EditionDiscussion of white extremists'“surprise” return to the American political landscape counters claims that this is “new” by explaining that it emanates from networks and ideas long nurtured outside the public eye An investigation of new hate music genres and changes in the white power music festival scene expands the discussion of how music is essential to white supremacist identity Research on new digital spaces where white supremacists connect and cultivate their culture, including mainstream and fringe networking platforms, retail sites, and video gaming sites demonstrates how online mechanisms serve as entry points for radicalization Discussion of new attention from the Biden administration on domestic terror offers hope for confronting and constraining white supremacy, while also defining many challenges involved
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- 2024
6. Everyday People : Understanding the Rise of Trump Supporters
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Robert Hartmann McNamara and Robert Hartmann McNamara
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- Political culture--United States, Polarization (Social sciences)--United States, Right-wing extremists--United States
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Everyday People provides a comprehensive assessment of Trump supporters including white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, the Christian right, and cult followers and offers students a discussion of how this group is a symptom of a much larger social issue and movement in the United States. McNamara examines the appeal of Trump as a president and explains why so many people voted for him in the first place. The text reviews the most recent and relevant literature on Trump supporters and their makeup including historical documents, government reports, research studies, and media sources, to unpack and understand the issues in an objective and empirical way. Students will understand the source and substance of the controversies surrounding Trump and his followers and understand how fear and complacency causes people to suspend rational thinking and to develop misguided loyalties.
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- 2024
7. Death, Society, and Human Experience
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Robert Kastenbaum, Christopher M. Moreman, Robert Kastenbaum, and Christopher M. Moreman
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- Death--Psychological aspects, Death--Social aspects
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The 13th edition of Death, Society, and Human Experience provides a panoramic overview of the ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as individuals and as members of society. A landmark text in the field, the authors draw on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, including perspectives offered through history, philosophy, religion, literature, and the arts, to provide thorough coverage and understanding of topics associated with the end of life and death and dying. By approaching the subject from multiple angles, the authors explain the various ways that individual, cultural, and societal attitudes influence both how and when we die and how we live and deal with the knowledge of death and loss.Originally written by Robert Kastenbaum, a renowned scholar who developed one of the world's first death education courses, Christopher M. Moreman, who has worked in the field of death studies for two decades, has updated this edition. In addition to infusing his close areas of focus, both in afterlife beliefs and experiences and how these might affect how people live their lives, he's weaved in new coverage of current affairs, including: The impact of COVID-19 on experiences of death, bereavement, mourning, and more Expanded legalization of physician-assisted dying in the United States and several countries Changes in bereavement rituals and traditions stemming from technology use and social media With additional content and classroom extensions available online, Death, Society, and Human Experience remains a thoughtful, exploratory, and impressively comprehensive overview for undergraduate and graduate courses in death, dying, and bereavement.
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- 2024
8. Social Panics & Phantom Attackers : A Study of Imaginary Assailants
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Robert E. Bartholomew, Paul Weatherhead, Robert E. Bartholomew, and Paul Weatherhead
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- Deviant behavior, Social control, Mass media and history, Social psychology, Mass media and crime, Sociology, Knowledge, Sociology of
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This book provides an accessible overview of one particular type of social panic: that of the phantom attacker. Such panics are characterised by outbreaks of sensational claims of attacks by mysterious figures that seem to emerge from nowhere, attack their innocent human and animal victims, only to vanish without a trace. Taking the recent wave of needle-spiking reports in Europe as a starting point, this book does more than just catalogue such outbreaks historically and geographically. It also ties the phenomenon of phantom assailants to the moral panics literature. Meticulously investigating archival sources, the authors examine the social construction of social panics and unearth the parallels between contemporary episodes and historical antecedents in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. Focusing on the sociohistorical and -cultural context, they uncover the role of mass media in creating and perpetuating these panics, which respond to anxieties pervading societies at particular points in history. Written in a lively style, this book is not only of interest for scholars and students of sociology, criminology, social psychology, media studies and history but also appeals to a lay audience interested in urban legends and true crime.
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- 2024
9. Le 48 leggi del potere
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Robert Greene and Robert Greene
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Un testo irrinunciabile per chi vuole scalare i vertici della società, che offre garanzie a tutti quelli che nella vita vogliono sfondare. Osare non è l'unico imperativo per accaparrarsi il potere: occorre rispettare un ferreo codice in virtù del quale è facile prevedere l'esito delle proprie mosse. Qualcuno è attratto dal potere ma, dopo averlo conquistato con grande abilità, lo perde per qualche errore imperdonabile. Altri, sulla strada del potere, si spingono oltre le proprie possibilità: vanno troppo avanti. Oppure, spesso, rimangono indietro e perdono perché osano troppo poco. E poi ci sono quelli che sanno cavalcare il potere e riescono a utilizzarlo senza sbagliare una mossa: ogni loro gesto, con istintiva intelligenza, è in armonia con le 48 leggi che lo governano. Scrittori e filosofi si sono interrogati lungamente sulle leggi che reggono il potere. Hanno cercato di far affiorare, dai successi e dalle sconfitte di chi ci ha preceduto, indicazioni che possano guidarci nel nostro quotidiano. Disincantato, apparentemente amorale e cinico ma assolutamente realistico e denso di indicazioni: un libro che nasce dall'analisi di trenta secoli di storia del potere, dal pensiero dei più profondi strateghi, dall'esperienza di guerrieri e leader carismatici, conquistatori di nazioni e manipolatori di folle.
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- 2024
10. L'arte della seduzione
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Robert Greene and Robert Greene
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Dopo'Le 48 leggi del potere'e'Le 33 strategie della guerra', Robert Greene ritorna con un'altra indagine, questa volta intorno alla seduzione intesa come una delle più sottili, sfuggenti ed efficaci forme di potere. Uno studio condotto attraverso l'analisi della personalità di alcuni grandi seduttori della storia - da Cleopatra a JFK, da Ovidio a Casanova - e dei classici sull'argomento - da Kierkegaard a Freud - in cui l'autore svela le regole di un gioco amorale e senza tempo, e spiega come'stregare'il nostro'obiettivo', far crollare le sue difese e, infine, costringerlo ad arrendersi.'Scegli la tua vittima con attenzione', insegna questo manuale, definito dal'New York Times''ambiguo, perché quando si parla di seduzione, l'ambiguità diventa cruciale'.
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- 2024
11. The Welsh in Metro America : Respectability and Assimilation in San Francisco, Seattle, Columbus, and Milwaukee, 1870–1930
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Robert Llewellyn Tyler and Robert Llewellyn Tyler
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- Welsh Americans--Wisconsin--Milwaukee, Welsh Americans--History, Welsh--United States--History, Welsh Americans--Cultural assimilation, Welsh Americans--Social conditions, Welsh Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle, Welsh Americans--Ohio--Columbus, Immigrants--United States--History, Welsh Americans--California--San Francisco
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Through a consideration of settlement patterns, economic activity, language use, and cultural and religious institutions, The Welsh in Metro America: Respectability and Assimilation in San Francisco, Seattle, Columbus, and Milwaukee, 1870–1930 provides a micro study of four Welsh immigrant communities in urban America. This book endeavors to understand the strength and long-term viability of these communities and the ways in which they changed by analyzing the forces that enabled Welsh immigrants and their children to so rapidly become Welsh Americans and, ultimately, to almost seamlessly enter the mainstream world of white, English-speaking, Protestant America.
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- 2024
12. Researching Animal Research : What the Humanities and Social Sciences Can Contribute to Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare
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Gail Davies, Beth Greenhough, Pru Hobson-West, Robert G. W. Kirk, Alexandra Palmer, Emma Roe, Gail Davies, Beth Greenhough, Pru Hobson-West, Robert G. W. Kirk, Alexandra Palmer, and Emma Roe
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- Laboratory animals, Animal experimentation, Animal models in research--Great Britain, Animal models in research--Moral and ethical aspects--Great Britain, Laboratory animals--Moral and ethical aspects--Great Britain, Animal experimentation--Moral and ethical aspects--Great Britain, Laboratory animals--Great Britain, Animal experimentation--Great Britain, Animal welfare--Great Britain
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Every year around 80 million scientific procedures are carried out on animals globally. These experiments have the potential to generate new understandings of biology and clinical treatments. They also give rise to ongoing societal debate. This book demonstrates how the humanities and social sciences can contribute to understanding what is created through animal procedures – including constitutional forms of research governance, different institutional cultures of care, the professional careers of scientists and veterinarians, collaborations with patients and publics, and research animals, specially bred for experiments or surplus to requirements. Developing the idea of the animal research nexus, this book explores how connections and disconnections are made between these different elements, how these have reshaped each other historically, and how they configure the current practice and policy of UK animal research.
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- 2024
13. Handbuch Drogen in sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive
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Robert Feustel, Henning Schmidt-Semisch, Ulrich Bröckling, Robert Feustel, Henning Schmidt-Semisch, and Ulrich Bröckling
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- Culture, Sociology, Social groups, Social sciences—Philosophy, Culture—Study and teaching
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Die Beiträge dieses Bands kartographieren das soziologische und kulturwissenschaftliche Feld in Bezug auf Drogen und die mit ihnen verbundenen sozialen, gesellschaftlichen und politischen Praktiken. Die Neuauflage wurde um einen Teil über Drogen und Rassismus erweitert sowie um zahlreiche neue Beiträge ergänzt und aktualisiert. Der Inhalt Kulturgeschichtliche Zugänge zu Drogen und Rausch Drogen und Sucht Theorie der Drogen: Soziologische und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven Drogenmärkte und Prohibition Drogen und Rassismus Ethnografische Streifzüge Klassische Beiträge zur Drogenforschung Die Herausgeber Dr. Robert Feustel ist am Institut für Soziologie der Universität Jena im Arbeitsbereich Wissenssoziologie und Gesellschaftstheorie tätig. Dr. Henning Schmidt-Semisch ist Professor am Fachbereich Human- und Gesundheitswissenschaften der Universität Bremen. Dr. Ulrich Bröckling ist Professor für Kultursoziologie an der Universität Freiburg im Breisgau.
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- 2024
14. Convivence: Beyond Cohabitation and Conviviality
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Robert Lanquar and Robert Lanquar
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Convivence is a new word in English. Its root comes from the Spanish word “Convivencia”, emerging in the 12th century. During the year 2004, the French Academy included it in its Dictionary (“convivance”). It means a situation where different communities and human groups live together, maintaining neighborliness, harmony, and exchanging relations. The United Nations General Assembly, in its resolution 72/130, declared 16 May of each year, the International Day of Living Together in Peace, (or ‘Convivence') “as a means of regularly mobilizing the efforts of the international community to promote peace, tolerance, inclusion, understanding and solidarity”. This book explores the main issues and needs around convivence at the local, regional, national, and international levels. Our fragmented world is facing vast crises: climate change, migrations, growing inequalities, geopolitical clashes, a rise of nationalism, identity conflicts, and racism. The objective is to show that the pursuit of Convivence can be a driving ethical issue of tomorrow. Projected situations will be described in a series of scenarios, explaining what paths should be taken to make this aspiration for peace possible, for solidarity beyond coexistence and conviviality. This thought-provoking book will be of interest to researchers and students in Peace Studies, Sociology and International Relations, as well as those working in community issues in governments, NGOs and the private sector.
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- 2024
15. Living with Chronic Illness : The Experience of Patients and Their Families
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Robert Anderson, Michael Bury, Robert Anderson, and Michael Bury
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- RC108
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First published in 1988, Living with Chronic Illness presents a vivid account of the reality of life with chronic illness – from the perspective of patients and their families. The authors look at the expectations, priorities, and problems of those most affected by chronic illness, and examine the strategies they have developed to cope with their considerable disadvantages. The experience of carers, the ways in which their problems change over time, are also major themes in the book.The book looks at the everyday life of people with the following conditions: stroke, renal failure, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, arthritis, heart attack, epilepsy, rectal cancer, psoriasis, and diabetes. In each case, an overview of the consequences of a particular illness is presented, before discussion of specific problems in daily life – maintaining family relationships, managing treatment regimes, coping with work and home commitments, and living with bodily change and social stigma.This volume will be of importance to all those concerned with providing support and planning care for the chronically ill – in the health and social services and in voluntary organizations. Students of medical sociology, policy makers and planners will also find the insights and research presented here valuable in the understanding of the daily life of people with chronic illness. It will also be of use for those in professional training, in nursing, social work, general practice and related areas.
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- 2024
16. Dreams Achieved and Denied : Mexican Intergenerational Mobility
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Robert Courtney Smith and Robert Courtney Smith
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- Mexican Americans--Social conditions.--New Yor, Mexicans--Social conditions.--New York (State), Immigrants--Social conditions.--New York (Stat, Noncitizens--Social conditions.--New York (Sta, Social mobility--New York (State)--New York
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U.S.-born Mexicans in New York City have achieved perhaps the biggest single generation jump in mobility in American immigration history. In 2020, 42-percent of second-generation U.S.-born Mexican men and 49-percent of U.S.-born Mexican women in New York City had graduated from college – versus a 13-14-percent second-generation college graduation rate for most places for most studies done in recent decades. How did U.S.-born Mexicans in New York City achieve such remarkable mobility? In Dreams Achieved and Denied, sociologist Robert Courtney Smith examines the laws, policies, and individual and family practices that promoted – and inhibited – their social mobility. For over twenty years, Smith followed the lives and mobility of nearly one hundred children of Mexican immigrants in New York City. Smith's longitudinal, ethnographic data enabled him to intimately describe how specific mechanisms blocked or promoted mobility for years as his participants moved from adolescence through early adulthood and into established adulthood. Smith documents how having or gaining legal status made certain New York City or New York State policies and practices more efficacious in supporting individual and family efforts and strategies for mobility. Such immigrant-inclusive and mobility-promoting measures include enabling undocumented people to attend public colleges at in-state tuition rates, and later to get driver's licenses, offering healthcare to all in New York City, and the City's subway and school choice systems, which enabled students to attend better schools or take opportunities outside their neighborhoods. Smith finds that keeping the immigrant bargain – whereby children of immigrants redeem their parents'sacrifice by doing well in school, helping their parents and siblings, and becoming “good” people (in their parents'words) – helped them towards better adult outcomes and lives. Having mentors, picking academically stronger schools and friends, and using second chance mechanisms also promoted more adult mobility. However, lacking legal status blocked mobility, by preventing them from benefiting from these same mobility-promoting city and state policies, from mentors, or from working hard and keeping the immigrant bargain. Dreams Achieved and Denied deeply analyzes the historic upward mobility of U.S.-born Mexicans in New York City. Itcounters the dominant story research and public discourse tell about Mexican mobility in the U.S. and shows how thoughtful public policy can improve the lives of young immigrants and families.
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- 2024
17. Supervision of Police Personnel
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Nathan F. Iannone, Marvin D. Iannone, Jeff Bernstein, Robert Dowd, Nathan F. Iannone, Marvin D. Iannone, Jeff Bernstein, and Robert Dowd
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- Police--Supervision of--United States, Police administration--United States
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Supervision of Police Personnel is the oft-cited “bible of police supervision.” Doubling as prep for promotional exams, this longtime bestseller addresses the essential knowledge, skills and characteristics of the professional law enforcement supervisor and manager. It examines key supervisory responsibilities, as well as best practices for handling citizen complaints, problem employees, and tactical deployment of field forces in critical situations. The 10th Edition examines complex management challenges, such as supervising a diverse workforce, evaluating fitness for duty, and responding to active shooters. This edition has updated accreditation information and a new dictionary of terms specific to supervising police personnel.
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- 2023
18. Project-Based Leisure : Toward Personal Well-Being and Community Involvement
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Robert A. Stebbins and Robert A. Stebbins
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- Leisure, Well-being
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This short book discusses the relatively new concept of project-based leisure in leisure research, and relates it to individual and community well-being and quality of life. The book defines PBL as a short-term, reasonably complicated, one-off or occasional, though infrequent, creative undertaking carried out in free time, or time free of disagreeable obligation. Such leisure requires considerable planning, effort, and sometimes skill or knowledge. The book discusses how PBL contributes to subjective well-being, though doing so more modestly than serious leisure and occupational devotion. The book surveys existing field research of the author's own and other studies, and provides original insights on how PBL activities can be used to generate community involvement and subjective well-being.
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- 2023
19. Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics : ... or Why Things Tend to Go Wrong and Seem to Get Worse
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Robert Fleck and Robert Fleck
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- Entropy--Popular works, Second law of thermodynamics--Popular works
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This book is a brief and accessible popular science text intended for a broad audience and of particular interest also to science students and specialists. Using a minimum of mathematics, a number of qualitative and quantitative examples, and clear illustrations, the author explains the science of thermodynamics in its full historical context, focusing on the concepts of energy and its availability and transformation in thermodynamic processes. His ultimate aim is to gain a deep understanding of the second law—the increase of entropy—and its rather disheartening message of a universe descending inexorably into chaos and disorder. It also examines the connection between the second law and why things go wrong in our daily lives. Readers will enhance their science literacy and feel more at home on the science side of author C. P. Snow's celebrated two-culture, science-humanities divide, and hopefully will feel more at home in the universe knowing that the disorder we deal with in our daily lives is not anyone's fault but Nature's.
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- 2023
20. The Future of Sociology : Ideology or Objective Social Science?
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Robert Leroux, Thierry Martin, Stephen Turner, Robert Leroux, Thierry Martin, and Stephen Turner
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- Sociology--Study and teaching
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This book explores the shift in sociology away from the shared aspiration of the classical transition, of transcending partiality through the construction of a'science of society', in the face of challenges to the notion of objectivity. With the increasing subjugation of sociology to political ideologies and a growing emphasis on'policy', which casts sociology in the role of a provider of intellectual content for political programs, this volume asks whether the situation is the result of an exhaustion of ideas or might perhaps be rooted in the failure in the very program of establishing sociology as a science. Taking seriously the challenges to the classical aspiration of constructing theories that both explain and are grounded in empirical reality, The Future of Sociology asks whether the core idea of transcending ideology is still worth pursuing, and whether there remains scope for making sociology scientific.As such, it will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, social theory, and social scientific methodology.
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- 2023
21. The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
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Robert C. Brears and Robert C. Brears
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- Clean energy, Sustainable development, Food supply--Environmental aspects, Green technology, Water-supply--Environmental aspects
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This book argues that a variety of policies will be required to create synergies between the water-energy-food nexus sectors while reducing trade-offs in the development of a green economy. Despite rising demand for water, energy and food globally, the governance of water-energy-food sectors has generally remained separate with limited attention placed on the interactions that exist between them. Brears provides readers with a series of in-depth case studies of leading cities, states, nations and regions of differing climates, lifestyles and income-levels from around the world that have implemented a variety of policy innovations to reduce water-energy-food nexus pressures and achieve green growth. The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus will be of interest to town and regional planners, resource conservation managers, policymakers, international companies and organisations interested in reducing water-energy-food nexus pressures, environmental NGOs, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students.
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- 2023
22. Effective Writing for Sociology : A Guide for Researchers and Students
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Ben Kail, Robert Kail, Ben Kail, and Robert Kail
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- Sociology--Research, Sociology--Authorship, Sociology--Methodology
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Writing well is an essential skill for sociologists, but few books help students learn to write well. Designed to help students produce a manuscript that is clear, concise, and compelling, Effective Writing for Sociology demonstrates and deconstructs what makes effective writing and how best to communicate scholarly ideas. The first half of the book addresses the fundamentals of good writing: writing clearly, conveying emphasis, writing concisely, and crafting effective paragraphs. The second half then looks to the three most important sections of a research report: framing an introduction, reporting results, and discussing findings. Each chapter of the book describes strategies for effective writing, illustrated with multiple examples and providing exercises where students can try their hand at implementing these strategies. The Epilogue provides tips on choosing a title as well as writing an abstract and method section; it also includes suggestions on how to master the tips described in the lessons. Ben Lennox Kail and Robert V. Kail's book is essential reading in courses on research methods, qualitative methods, quantitative methods, sociological writing, and social science writing in allied disciplines such as education, criminology, health, and all research fields.
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- 2023
23. Démondialisation et démocratie de travail
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Robert Cabanes and Robert Cabanes
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Relier une possible démocratie du travail à un possible internationalisme ouvrier est un défi. Citant E. Varlin (Première association internationale des travailleurs, 1868) pour lequel l'union ouvrière doit garantir la paix entre les nations, et s'appuyant ensuite sur des commentaires de Gramsci et de Simone Veil, entre autres, l'auteur questionne la possibilité de réalisation de l'injonction de Marx : « Prolétaires de tous les pays, unissez-vous! ». Observant les handicaps de l'industrie (taylorisme, individualisme, fordisme) et les ressources du travail (émergence des biens communs, démocratie du travail, nouveau monde de gestion du travail, ancien et nouveau syndicalisme), ce texte plaide pour une démocratie du travail généralisée, capable d'assurer l'exercice d'une internationale ouvrière, « l'échange des enracinements ouvriers » (S. Veil) et in fine, la gestion durable de la planète.
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- 2023
24. Inter-firm Networks : Coordination Through Board and Department Interlocks
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Lucio Biggiero, Robert Magnuszewski, Lucio Biggiero, and Robert Magnuszewski
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- Industrial organization, Business networks
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This book examines the inter-firm networks created by interlock coordination through shared directors (inter-board) and managers (inter-department) at various levels: whole aggregate, core vs. peripheral companies, and distribution by country and sector. Presenting an empirical case study on all the limited liability or stock companies of the aerospace industry in the European Union and its interlock partners worldwide, the authors shed new light on these forms of coordination. Moreover, they reveal the relevance of shared managers'coordination and hybrid manager-director interlocks.The book applies advanced statistical and social network analysis alike by combining firms'attributes (e.g. standard economic-financial parameters) and topological indices for firms (e.g. centrality and cluster measures). By conducting the analysis at both the aggregate network level and the cluster or corporate group level, the authors show how extensive and intensive the interlock forms of coordination are, especially when dealing with shared managers. By testing seven hypotheses concerning the research stream on board interlocks and (more broadly) inter-firm networks, the study offers new insights into the role of the financial sector, on the relations between interlock coordination and firms'performance, on the role of geographical, technological and organizational proximity, and on the relations between interlock coordination and firms'size. As such, this book will appeal to scholars of organization studies, business and management studies, industrial and evolutionary economics, and economic sociology, as well as officers and policymakers at anti-trust regulation institutions.
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- 2023
25. Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution : Papers Held at the 7th Conference on South African Literature at the Protestant Academy, Bad Boll
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Robert Kriger, Ethel Kriger, Robert Kriger, and Ethel Kriger
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- 2023
26. Handbuch Öffentliche Soziologie
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Stefan Selke, Oliver Neun, Robert Jende, Stephan Lessenich, Heinz Bude, Stefan Selke, Oliver Neun, Robert Jende, Stephan Lessenich, and Heinz Bude
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- Knowledge, Sociology of, Political sociology, Sociology, Culture
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Das Handbuch ist das erste im deutschsprachigen Raum, in dem Geschichte, Theorie und Praxisfelder der Öffentlichen Soziologie umrissen werden. Damit wird einerseits an die Tradition der Public Sociology angeknüpft, andererseits aber auf die Relevanz einer kritisch reflektierenden Soziologie verwiesen, die ihre Bezugspunkte auch außerhalb der Disziplin findet.
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- 2023
27. Sustainable Digital Transformation : Paving the Way Towards Smart Organizations and Societies
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Stefano Za, Robert Winter, Alessandra Lazazzara, Stefano Za, Robert Winter, and Alessandra Lazazzara
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- Information society, Digital communications--Social aspects, Information resources management
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Digital transformation is one of the most discussed topics today because of its impact on society and the economy. This book explores how digital transformation can be made sustainable and how sustainability strategies can be integrated into the different phases of digital transformation development. It shows how ICT experts, managers, and policy makers can contribute to a sustainable digital transformation by examining the technological, organizational, and societal implications. The book is based on a selection of best papers on this topic presented at the annual conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS in Trento, Italy, in October 2021.The plurality of views offered makes the book particularly relevant for scholars, companies, and organizations in the public sector.
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- 2023
28. Toward a Political Economy of Development : A Rational Choice Perspective
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Robert H. Bates and Robert H. Bates
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- Social choice
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29. Things Change : Black Material Culture and the Development of a Consumer Society in South Africa, 1800-2020
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Robert Ross and Robert Ross
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- Economic anthropology--South Africa, Material culture--South Africa, Black people--Material culture--South Africa
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Since the early nineteenth century, the things which Black South Africans have had in their homes have changed completely. They have adopted things like tables, chairs, knives, forks, spoons, plates, cups and saucers, iron pots, beds, blankets, European clothing, and later electronic apparatus. Thus they claimed modernity, respectability and political inclusion. This book is the first systematic analysis of this development. It argues that the desire to possess such goods formed a major part of the drive behind the anti-apartheid struggle, and that the demand to consume has significantly influenced both the economy and the politics of the country.
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- 2023
30. Alone Together : Social Order on an Urban Beach
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Robert B. Edgerton and Robert B. Edgerton
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
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- 2023
31. Rules, Exceptions, and Social Order
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Robert B. Edgerton and Robert B. Edgerton
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.
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- 2023
32. Blue and Green Cities : The Role of Blue-Green Infrastructure in Managing Urban Water Resources
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Robert C. Brears and Robert C. Brears
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- Environmental sciences—Social aspects, Human ecology—Study and teaching, Environment, Sociology, Urban, Environmental geography, Sustainable architecture
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A completely revised and updated new edition of this successful book focused on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably. Since the first edition published, nature-based solutions in general and blue-green infrastructure, in particular, have become a more recognised solution to various societal challenges, including mitigating climatic extremes in cities while restoring the natural environment and enhancing biodiversity. This new edition provides updated research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of BGI in managing water resources sustainably. In particular, the book contains case studies that illustrate how cities of differing climates, lifestyles and income levels have implemented policy innovations that promote the application of BGI in managing water, wastewater and stormwater sustainably to enhance resilience to climate change and reduce environmental degradation. The seven case studies are leading cities that have implemented various fiscal and non-fiscal policy tools to encourage the implementation of BGI on both public and private property to reduce stormwater runoff volumes, enhance the health of waterways, enhance resilience to climate change and meet regulatory requirements.
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- 2023
33. The Holy Fire and the Divine Photography : The Image of the Holy Shroud of Christ
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Giulio Fanti, Robert Siefker, Giulio Fanti, and Robert Siefker
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- BT587.S4
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The information presented in this book will startle the world. For centuries, the authenticity of the Holy Shroud has been argued about. Skeptics push their negative opinion based on a few highly questionable clues, while the authenticists continue to detect new facts confirming that the Relic wrapped the corpse of Jesus Christ and that the body image impressed on it was produced by a source of energy generated during the Resurrection.What is world-changing is that to explain this'impossible image'of a tortured and crucified man, the book presents a startling new hypothesis, the'Divine Photograph'taken at the instant of the Resurrection, based on a phenomenon, the'Miracle of the Holy Fire'that manifests on every Holy Saturday at the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. As this amazing relationship becomes more broadly known, the world will be shocked.
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- 2023
34. The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream : Volume 2
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Robert C. Hauhart, Mitja Sardoč, Robert C. Hauhart, and Mitja Sardoč
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- Social values--United States, Quality of life--United States, American Dream, Social mobility--United States
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The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream: Volume 2 explores the social, economic, and cultural aspects of the American Dream in both theory and reality in the twenty-first century. This collection of essays brings together leading scholars from a range of fields to further develop the themes and issues explored in the first volume.The concept of the American Dream, first expounded by James Truslow Adams in The Epic of America in 1931, is at once both ubiquitous and difficult to define. The term perfectly captures the hopes of freedom, opportunity and upward social mobility invested in the nation. However, the American Dream appears increasingly illusory in the face of widening inequality and apparent lack of opportunity, particularly for the poor and ethnic, or otherwise marginalized, minorities in the United States. As such, an understanding of the American Dream through both theoretical analyses and empirical studies, whether qualitative or quantitative, is crucial to understanding contemporary America. Like the first volume of The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream, this collection will be of great interest to students and researchers in a range of fields in the humanities and social sciences.
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- 2023
35. Masking in the Pandemic : Materiality, Interaction, and Moral Practice
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Owen Abbott, Vanessa May, Sophie Woodward, Robert Meckin, Leah Gilman, Owen Abbott, Vanessa May, Sophie Woodward, Robert Meckin, and Leah Gilman
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- Personal protective equipment--Social aspects, COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
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This book assumes an “everyday life” perspective towards masking in public spaces in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic. Facemasks are perhaps one of the most tangible ways in which the changes wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic were made visible. In the space of a few months in 2020, masking in the UK went from being almost non-existent in public to becoming widespread, both before and after the UK government mandated masking in most enclosed public spaces in July 2020. In this context, the speed and scale of the introduction of masking in public settings offers sociologists a rare chance to document the (contested) emergence of a new social practice. The authors argue that the nature of masking during the pandemic means that masking practices need to be understood through the entwinement of material, interactional, and moral dimensions. By developing a relational perspective to explore the relationship between the materiality and moral significance of masking, and how this translated into the development of masking practices in public spaces, the authors argue further that the specific context of masking during the pandemic provides sociologists with a unique lens to think through the nature of material, interactional, and moral practices in general.
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- 2023
36. The Rationalization Movement in German Industry : A Study in the Evolution of Economic Planning
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Robert A. Brady and Robert A. Brady
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1933.
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- 2023
37. Households : Comparative and Historical Studies of the Domestic Group
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Robert McC. Netting, Eric J. Arnould, Richard R. Wilk, Robert McC. Netting, Eric J. Arnould, and Richard R. Wilk
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
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- 2023
38. Le leggi della natura umana
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Robert Greene and Robert Greene
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Dall'autore numero 1 del New York Times di Le 48 leggi del potere, arriva il nuovo libro definitivo per decodificare il comportamento delle persone che vi circondano. Robert Greene è un maestro di guida per milioni di lettori, che distilla saggezza e filosofia antiche in testi essenziali per chi cerca potere, comprensione e padronanza. In questo nuovo libro, si dedica all'argomento forse più importante di tutti: capire le pulsioni e le motivazioni delle persone, anche quando loro stesse non ne sono consapevoli. Siamo animali sociali. La nostra stessa vita dipende dalle relazioni con gli altri. Sapere perché fanno quello che fanno è lo strumento più importante che possiamo possedere, senza il quale gli altri talenti possono portarci solo fino a un certo punto. Attingendo alle idee e agli esempi di personali storici come Pericle, la regina Elisabetta I, Martin Luther King Jr. E molti altri, Robert Greene ci insegna a distaccarci dalle nostre emozioni e a diventare maestri nell'autocontrollo, a sviluppare l'empatia che porta all'intuizione, a guardare dietro le maschere delle persone e a opporci al conformismo per sviluppare invece il proprio, personale scopo nella vita, nel lavoro e nelle relazioni. In tutti gli ambiti della nostra esistenza, nel rapporto incessante con il mondo che ci circonda, Le leggi della natura umana offre al lettore brillanti tattiche per il successo, l'auto-realizzazione e la creatività.
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- 2023
39. The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability
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Robert Brinkmann and Robert Brinkmann
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- Sustainable development--Handbooks, manuals, etc
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The field of sustainability continues to evolve as a discipline. The world is facing multiple sustainability challenges such as climate change, water depletion, ecosystem loss, and environmental racism. The Handbook of Sustainability will provide a comprehensive reference for the field that examines in depth the major themes within what are known as the three E's of sustainability: environment, equity, and economics. These three themes will serve as the main organizing body of the work. In addition, the work will include sections on history and sustainability, major figures in the development of sustainability as a discipline, and important organizations that contributed or that continue to contribute to sustainability as a field. The work is explicitly global in scope as it considers the very different issues associated with sustainability in the global north and south
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- 2022
40. Social Theory and Social Policy
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Robert Pinker and Robert Pinker
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- HV245
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Originally published in 1971 and now reissued with a new Preface by John Offer this book examines the historical origins, (both institutional and academic) of social policy and administration and the theoretical contribution of such key figures in the development of the social sciences as Marx, Spencer, Weber and Durkheim. It then analyses the application of normative theory in this field; examines the concepts of exchange and stigma in social welfare; and looks at the idea of citizenship and the use of the social services. In a final section the author presents a number of models of social welfare.
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- 2022
41. Bewegter Unterricht – reloaded! : Eine empirische Untersuchung zu Effekten lernzeitwahrender und lernzeitschonender Maßnahmen zur Sitzzeitreduzierung in der Grundschule
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Robert Zimmermann and Robert Zimmermann
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- Education, Children, Schools, Social medicine, Alternative Education
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Übermäßiges, ununterbrochenes Sitzen und wenig körperliche Aktivität sind Risikofaktoren für zahlreiche Zivilisationskrankheiten. Bereits im Kindesalter wirkt sich das sedentäre Verhalten negativ auf die Gesundheit aus und bedingt nachweislich Adipositas. Den Großteil der täglichen hohen Sitzzeiten verbringen Kinder in der Schule. Nationale Interventionsstrategien versuchen derweil den Schulalltag bewegungsfreundlicher zu gestalten, stoßen jedoch in der Praxis häufig an ihre Grenzen. Grund hierfür ist häufig die fehlende Zeit, um Bewegung in Lernphasen des Unterrichts zu integrieren. Die vorliegende Arbeit erweitert den Blick zur Gestaltung des bewegungsfreundlichen Unterrichts um zentrale Ergebnisse internationaler Forschung. Die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse werden für die Entwicklung praxisnaher, lernzeitwahrenden (Nutzung aktivierender Sitzgelegenheiten) und lernzeitschonenden (bewegungsförderliche Methoden) Interventionen zur Sitzzeitenreduzierung im Unterricht herangezogen. Neben der ausführlichen Evaluation der beiden Interventionsstrategien mittels moderater Technik (u.a. activPAL® Sensoren) werden ausblickend wertvolle Tipps für den praktischen Einsatz formuliert.
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- 2022
42. Occupational Devotion: Finding Satisfaction and Fulfillment at Work
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Robert Stebbins and Robert Stebbins
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- Job enrichment, Quality of work life, Job satisfaction
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The idea of occupational devotion, or devotee work, was conceptualized and incorporated in the serious leisure perspective as one of the two serious pursuits. The other pursuit is serious leisure itself, with both forms being anchored in activities that are immensely appealing and fulfilling. Despite such desirable qualities the serious pursuits constitute a minority of all work and leisure, these two domains being dominated by disagreeable work and hedonic casual leisure activities. The devotee occupations serve as full-time or part-time livelihoods for people fortunate enough to have found them. Such work has so far been observed to exist in four sectors of the economy: the liberal professions, consulting occupations, craft-like trades, and creativity-based small businesses. In ways set out in this book, devotee work roots in serious leisure, even while many participants in the latter have no desire to pursue the former.
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- 2022
43. Traces of Violence : Writings on the Disaster in Paris, France
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Prof. Robert R. Desjarlais, Khalil Habrih, Prof. Robert R. Desjarlais, and Khalil Habrih
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- Terrorism--France--Paris--21st century
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In this highly original work, Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih present a dialogic account of the lingering effects of the terroristic attacks that occurred in Paris in November 2015. Situating the events within broader histories of state violence in metropolitan France and its colonial geographies, the authors interweave narrative accounts and photographs to explore a range of related phenomena: governmental and journalistic discourses on terrorism, the political work of archives, police and military apparatuses of control and anti-terror deterrence, the histories of wounds, and the haunting reverberations of violence in a plurality of lives and deaths. Traces of Violence is a moving work that aids our understanding of the afterlife of violence and offers an innovative example of collaborative writing across anthropology and sociology.
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- 2022
44. Soziologie des Körpers
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Robert Gugutzer and Robert Gugutzer
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Die erste deutschsprachige Einführung in die Soziologie des Körpers liegt nun in einer vollständig aktualisierten, überarbeiteten und erweiterten 6. Auflage vor. Der Band geht der Frage nach, inwiefern der menschliche Körper ein gesellschaftliches Phänomen ist. Im Mittelpunkt stehen vielfältige soziologische Zugänge zum Körper als Produkt und Produzent von Gesellschaft.
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- 2022
45. Institution in Cultures: Theory and Practice
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Robert Lumsden, Patke Rajeev, Robert Lumsden, and Patke Rajeev
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The book represents a selection of papers presented at an international symposium in Singapore on the role of theory and practice in the mutually interactive and mutating relations between institutions and cultures. In effect, the papers turn about a single theme: the ways in which power is expressed through those institutions by means of which cultures mediate their requirements. The symposium brought together scholars and academics from a variety of disciplines, including literature, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, comparative literature and comparative religions. In terms of the geography of cultures and the history of institutions, the range of reference to this book of the symposium is global: from Hong Kong awaiting 1997, through the travails of political democracy in Singapore, and Cultural Studies à la Greenblatt or under the aegis of Shakespeare as cultural idol, through German Romantic theory and its relevance to current theorizing about theory in America, to Zen Buddhism and Nagarjuna and how these two sources refract the concerns of Jung, Lacan and Derrida; through Colonialism and postcoloniality and how they have shaped identity and mediated power to the current crises in education created by these mediations, specifically, in literary studies. The aim of the symposium was twofold: to theorize about the impulse to theorize in relation to the plurality of cultures and institutions which comprises our contemporary world; and to ground this impulse in those specificities and contingencies which provide resistance to such theorizing.
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- 2022
46. The Misuse, Misrepresentation, and Politicization of Statistics in American Society
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Robert E. Parker and Robert E. Parker
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- Statistics--Political aspects--United States, Vital statistics
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The Misuse, Misrepresentation, and Politicization of Statistics in American Society critically examines the early measurement efforts of several government agencies responsible for some of the most widely watched social indicators on unemployment, life expectancy, crime, and population. It argues that official statistics are dubious at best, better seen not so much as objective barometers of social life but rather as socially constructed metrics that are easily manipulated and often politicized. This book argues that official statistics powerfully frame social reality, ultimately helping to determine who counts and what matters in society. It makes the case that, as with other types of official accounts, data derived from government sources needs to be regarded skeptically and systematically investigated. This book concludes that official statistics are a kind of sanctioned cover up of everyday reality, hiding the true extent of joblessness, distorting the real increase in life expectancy, obscuring where crime actually happens, and understating the undeniable growth of minority populations.
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- 2022
47. La complexité autrement : Une réponse nouvelle à la pandémie et à d'autres phénomènes sociaux complexes
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Robert Delorme and Robert Delorme
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- Social action, Social problems
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Ce livre propose une réponse à l'absence de solution que laissent apparaître nombre de phénomènes complexes en sciences sociales. La survenue de la pandémie de Covid-19 en est le dernier avatar. Elle signifie qu'une solution au problème de sa prévention n'a pas été trouvée. Elle n'est qu'un cas parmi d'autres évoqués dans le livre. Cette absence de solution est un problème de plein droit que les sciences de la complexité n'appréhendent pas et laissent dans un vide théorique. À rebours des ouvrages sur les systèmes complexes, sans technicité superflue, mais avec rigueur et en toute transparence, La complexité autrement est une réponse à ce manque d'attention à l'irréductible. Elle offre une grille de lecture et un cadre pour l'action dans les situations problématiques complexes sujettes à une irréductibilité, potentielle ou avérée, dans nos sociétés. L'ouvrage s'adresse à toutes celles et ceux, citoyens, décideurs, enseignants, étudiants, chercheurs, que l'action en situation complexe et ses enjeux ne laissent pas indifférents.
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- 2022
48. Analysis for Financial Management ISE
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Robert Higgins, Jennifer Koski, Robert Higgins, and Jennifer Koski
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- Corporations--Finance
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Like its predecessors, the thirteenth edition of Analysis for Financial Management is for nonfinancial executives and business students interested in the practice of financial management. It introduces standard techniques and recent advances in a practical, intuitive way. This product assumes no prior background beyond a rudimentary and perhaps rusty familiarity with financial statements—although a healthy curiosity about what makes business tick is also useful. The emphasis throughout is on the managerial implications of financial analysis.Analysis for Financial Management should prove valuable to individuals interested in sharpening their managerial skills and to executive program participants. This product has also found a home in university classrooms as the sole text in Executive MBA and applied finance courses, as a companion text in case-oriented courses, and as a supplementary reading in more theoretical courses.
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- 2022
49. Social Problems and the Quality of Life ISE
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Robert Lauer, Jeanette Lauer, Robert Lauer, and Jeanette Lauer
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Social Problems and the Quality of Life explores some of the most crucial social issues of our time and how they impact quality of life, providing a firm foundation in how to identify a social problem and the sociological theories and methods for understanding these key concerns. Exploring social problems on a global level, this book is a comprehensive guide to critically analyzing current issues that the nation and the world face today.
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- 2022
50. Immigration Judicial Reviews : An Empirical Study
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Robert Thomas, Joe Tomlinson, Robert Thomas, and Joe Tomlinson
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- Emigration and immigration law--Great Britain, Judicial review--Great Britain, Contro^le juridictionnel des lois--Grande-Bretag, Emigration and immigration law, Judicial review
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This book analyses how the system of immigration judicial reviews works in practice, as an area which has, for decades, constituted the majority of judicial review cases and is politically controversial. Drawing upon extensive empirical research and unprecedented research access, it explores who brings judicial review challenges against immigration decisions and why, the type of immigration decisions that are challenged, how cases proceed through the judicial review process, how cases are settled out of court, and how judicial review interacts with other legal and non-legal remedies. It also examines the quality of immigration judicial review claims and the quality of the initial administrative decisions being challenged. Through developing a novel account of the operation of the immigration judicial review system in practice and the lived experience of it by judges, representatives, and claimants, this book adds a significant new perspective to the wider understanding of judicial review.
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- 2022