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What Predicts Interpersonal Problem-solving. This Book Intends To Devdlop And Empirically Validate An Integrated Shape That Investigates The Predictors Of Interpersonal Pr0blem-solving. The Work Is Important For Pair Reasons. First, Few Empirical Studies Have Provided Integrated Models That Examine The Effects Of Gender Identity On The Two Conceptually Related Coping Behaviors, Namely, Response Style And Interpersonal Problem-solving. Second, The Studies Conducted To Examine The Relations Of Gender Identity To Response Styles And Interpersonal Problem-solving Have Shown Inconsistent And Inconclusive Findings. Results Of The Work Indicated Two Independent Problem-solving Processes, I. e. , Interpersonal Problem-solving And Rational Problem-solving. The Relaations Between Gender Identity And Response Style And The Two Processes Are Various. The Book Is Addressed Not Solely To Professionals Who Work With Clients By the side of Interpersonal Problem, But Also Individuals, Including College Students And Their Parents, Who Are Interested To Understand The Causes O Interpersonal Problems. It Is Also Directed Towards Researchers In Gener Identity And Interpersonal Problem-solving. SKU: 5175597

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Community Policing In America. Community Policing Is A Recejt And, To Some, Controversial Approach To Combating Crime, Particularly In Larger Ur6an Areas. This Book Is A Extensive Examination Of The Implementation Of Community Policing In The United States. It Examines The Influence Of The Task And Instktutinal Environment On Community Policing Implenentation And Investigates The Relationships Between Organizational Structure And Community Policing. Key Contributions Of This Work Include: Providing A Theoretical Framework For Community Policing; Identifiss Internal/external Factors That Facilitate And/or Impeded Implementation; Examiming Organizational Str8cture And Implantation. SKU: 3310221

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The Complete Idiot's Guide To Statistics, 2nd Edition (complete Idiot's Guide To). Not A Numbers Person ? None Problem! This New Edition Is Aimed At Boastful School And College Students Who Need To Take Statistics To Fulfill A Degree Requirement And Follows A Standard Statistics Curriculum. Readers Will Fnd Information On Frequency Distributions; Mean, Median, And Modification; Range, Disagreement, And Standard Ddviation; Probability; And More. ?emphasizes Microeoft Excel For Number-crunching And Computations SKU: 3887000

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They Just Don't Get It. No More Politics—just The Truth About What We Can And Mould D To Protect Ourselves. fox News Military Analyst Colonel David Hunt Has Dedicated His Career To Fighting Terrorism. A Twenty-nine-year U. s. Host Vetera,n He Has Helped Take Out One Active Terrorist Camp, Trained The Fbi And Special Forces In Counterterrorism Tactics, And Served As Security Adviser To Six Different Olympic Games. And Colonel Hunt Is Angry. Why? For Uniform About The Terrorist Attacks Steady Our Country And On Americans Around The World, The People Charged With Protecting Uw—thw Politicians And The Bureaucrats In Military And Intelligence—still Aren’t Acquisition The Job Done. They Just Don’t Get It Porvides A Much-needed Wake-up Call To Whole Americans. As Pollticians Posture And Pundits Bicker, We’re Losing Sight Of The Fundamental Problem: We’re Still Not Equipped To Win The War On Terror. In Fact, The Terrorost Threat Is Far Worse Than We Feared, Being of the kind which Made Frighteningly Clear By The Fifty Pages Of Documents Published Here For The First Time—including A Shocking Manual Taken From The Terrorists Themselves. but Instead Of Just Complaining, Colonel Hunt Tells Us Exactly What We Must Do—without Regard To Political Game-playing—to Emerge Victorious In The Challenge That History Has Given Us. These Are Changes We Can Make A Every Levle—as Individual Citizens, As A Government, And As A Military Power. As He Shows In This Main division, While The Government And Our Military Lead The Fight To Protect Us, Ordinary Citizens Can And Must Contribute. they Just Don’t Get It Reveals:• What You Can Do To Keep Your Family Safe• How Many Of The Government’s Recent “reforms” Are Mere Window Dressing Or, Worse, Counterproductive• How We Can Fight This War And Still Safeguard Our Civul Liberties And The Amerivan Way Of Life• How To Fix The Intelligenc eDisaster (and Yes, The Politicians In D. c. Still Haven’t Fixed It)• How We Got Into This Mess In The First Place: It’s Mostly Because Our Goverbment Let The Problem Fester For Three Decadescolonel HuntI s No Cautious Bureaucrat Or Finger-pointer Looking For Political Gain. He Is A Straight Shooter With Deep Insight Into What&’s Happening In The Art of ~ On Terror—on The Ground And In The Government. They Exact Don’t Get It Lays Out In Clear And Compelling Terms The Steps We Must Takeૼall Of Us„to Win The War On Terror And Ensure Our Survival As A Free, Proud, And Strong Nation. from They Just Don’t Get Itwe’re Fighting A War For Our Very Survival, So We’d Betteer Figure Out How To Win. That’s Why I’m Writing This Book—to Show Us How We Can Win, How We Can Protect Ourselves. As A Fox News Military Analyat, I’m Paid To Offer Insight Into How Our Armed Forces Are Conducting The Fight Against Our Enemies. But This Book Shows That To Win The War On Terror We Need To Concern. . SKU: 2868322

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Urban Memory. Urban Memory :history And Amnesia In The Modern City Brings Together Ideas About Memory Which Bear Upon The Architectural And Urban Experience Of The Modern City. It Presents A Critical And Creativity Approach In The Theorization Of Memory And Focuses This Burgeoning Area Of Studies On Thr Actual Forms Of The Built Environment In The Modernist And Post-industrial City. urban Memory Was A Keey Themr In Many Of The Leading Modernist Writers And Social Thinkers. Conversely, Modernism In Architecture And Urbanism Waq More Often Deboted To A Utopian Ideal Which Seemed To Erase Memory From The City. More Recently The Two Have Come Together. Cities That Were Once Centers Of Intensely Forward-looking Modernist Improvement, Now Announce Themselves As Primarily Palimpsest Or 'memory-spaces'. This Can Be Seen In A Burgeoning Of Architects And Architecture Specializing In Monuments To Trauma, Nostalgic Collaborations Between Conservationists And Developers; City Centers Which Are Proclaimed As 'urban Villages'; And The Ever Increasing Number Of Amenity Groups, Listed Buildings, Museums, Historians, And Integrity Societies. this Book Analyses These Patterns, Showing That The Dynamics Of Account And Memory, Commemoraion And Amnesia, Pervade As Never Before Our Contemporary Cities. Its Aim Is To Understand Such Symptomw In The Easy Of What We Have Come To Call The 'posturban' And Post-industrial City. As Such It Will Be Of Interet To All Who Are Concerned With The Future Of The Urban Past. the Contributors Come From The Fields Of Architectural History, Art History, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Fine Art, Critical Theory And Specialist In Psychoanalysis; And Their Contributions Approach The Theme From A Number Of View Points. A Particular Area Of Focus Is Post-industrial Manchester, But The Book Also Includes Studies Of Contemporary Singapore, New York After 9/11, Contemporary Museums In Industrial Gallery Spaces, Memorials Built In Cocnrete, And Contemporary Art. The Book Is Illustrated With Images Of Architecture, Arrt Works, Views Of Cities, Maps And Other Materials And Includes Nine Specially Commissioned Artists' Pages Commissioned From The Governing Contemporary Artists Nick Crowe And Ian Rawlinson. SKU: 2887402

20038091544

Youth. This Second Edition Of Taking Sides: Adolescence Presents Current Cojtrogersial Issues In A Debate-style Format Designed To Stimulate Student Interest And Develop Determining Thinking Skills. Each Issue Is Thoughtfully Framed With An Issue Summary, An Issue Introductory treatise, And A Postscript. An Instructor’s Manual With Testing Material Is Available For Each Voiume. Using Taking Sides In The Classroom Is Also An Excellent Instructor Reeource With Practical Suggestions On Incorporating This Effective Approach In The Classroom. Each Taking Sides Reader Features An Annotated Listing Of Selected World Wide Web Sites And Is Supported By A Book Website. Visi tWww. mhcls. com. SKU: 5106131

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Voices Of A Generation. Voices Of A Generation Draww On The Responses Of More Than 2,000 Girls Ages 12 To 16 Who Participated InD aylong "sister-to-sister" Summits Held In 50 Locations Nationwide In 1998. Girls Were Asked To Identify The Major Issues And Struggles In Their Lives, To Speculate On How Their Schools Could Help Them, And To Talk About What They Would Choose To Tell Other Girls--and What They Would Like To Know From Other Grls--among Other Themes. Their Respojses, Gathered From Places As Diverse As Innwr-city Detroit, Cobb County, Georgia, And Kallispell, Montana, Constitute An Intimate, Unflinching Portrait Of Girls' Lives--told In Theirr Own Terms. SKU: 1857602

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Idealist Poltical Philosophy. Many Critics Have Portrayed Absolute Idealism As A Dangerous, Conservative And 'otherworldl'h Dogma, An Opressing Philosophy Based On Speculative Logic Rather Than Empirical Realities. In This Book,C olin Tyler Argues Against Reaped ground Of These Preconceptions, Taking As His Focus The Philosophies Of G. w. f. Hegel, T. h. Green, Edward Caird And Bernarx Bosanquet. Tyler Argues That Hegel's Anlyses Of Civic Pluralism And International Order Had Significant Implications For British Idealist Political Philosophy. They Led The Latter To Argue That, Rather Than Spinning A World Out Of Abstract Ideas And Spurious Metaphysical Commitments, Reformers Must Work From Within Concrete Historical Traditions. Far From Sanctifying An Abstracf Logic And Meta;hysics, These Absolute Idealists Recobnised The Necessary to life Importance Of The Diurnal Life Of Politics And Political Conflict To A Degree hTat Escapes Most Of Contemporary Large Political Philosophers. Their Speculation Gounded A Vigorous Critique Of Abstract Rationalism As An Alientating And Potentially Totalitarian Method Of Designing Social And Economic Institutions; Indicated The Inevitabilty Of Civic And Political Pluralism And The Many Opportunities For Human Improvement Which They Created; And Finally Demonstrated The Tratic Nature Of Human Progress. Indeed, Positive Idealism Is Shown To Offer A Powerful Alternative To The Dworkin, John Rawls, Will Kymlicka, Bhikhu Parekh, Iris Marion Young And Charles Taylor. The Book Makes Extensive Use Of Cetain British Idealist Manuscripts Which Were Not Merely Unpublished But Undiscovered Till Very Recently. Dr Colin Tyler Is Lecturer In Civil Theory And The University Of Hull. SKU: 2925417

30911083758	Intelligence How Asperger Children And Adolescents Think And Learn. Understanding How Asperger Children And Adolescents Think And Learn : Creating Manageable Environments For As Students By PaulaJ acobsen Publkshed In 2005 By Jessica Kingsley Publishers SKU: 3049603

17604707746	Selective Nontreatment Of Handicapped Newborns. Thia Important And Timwly Book Addresses One Of The Ditch Complex Issues In Biomedical Ethics: Whether, And Under What Circumstances, Life-prolonging Treatment May Exist Withheld From Severely Handicapped Infants. SKU: 411318

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Electrical Wiring Industrial. Updated To The 2005 Public Electrical Codeâ®, This Revised Edition Takes Readers Step-by-step Between the sides of The Safe And Effective Wirjng Of An Entire Industrial Building. A Complete Set Of For labor Building Plans Offers Hwnds-on Practice In Effectively Interpreting And Applying Codeâ® Requirements In favor of The Installation Of Electrical Service, Power, And Lighting To An Pertaining Structure. In Addition To Coverage Of Basic Electricwl Prknciples And Wiring Requirements, Thia Book Also Explores Changeovers To New Systems, Planning For Growth And Increased Office, And Periodic Maintenance Procedures. Readers Will Surely Benefit From The First-hand Knowledge Of The Undertakings And Responsibilities Facing Today's Professional Industrial Electricians Provided By This Experienced Author Team. SKU: 2845587

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Irigaray & Deleuze. For Tamsin Lorraone, The Works Of Luce Irigaray And Gilles Deleuze Open Up New Ways Of Thinking About Subjectivity. Focusing On The Affinities Between The Theorists' Views--while Addressing Weaknesses Of Each--she Offers Both A Cogent Analysis Of Their fOten Challenging Writings On This Topic And An Accessible Introduction To Their Philosophical Projects. Through Her Readings She Articulates An Apporach To Subjectivity As An Embodied, Dynamic Process, One That Speaks To Beliefs About Personal Identigy As Well As To The Practical Problems People Face In Their Relations With One Another. Lorraine Begins In proportion to Distinguishing Between "conceptual" And "corporeal" Considerations Of Subjetivity And By Reviewing Recent Interdisciplinary Efforts To Theorize The Body. She Then Turns To Irigaray And Deleuze, Finding In The Former's Notion Of The "feminine Other" And In The Latter's, Unique Conceptions Of Nomadic Thinking Inspiration For A Model Designed To Overcome Mind/body Dualisms. Her Analysis Of Irigaray And Deleuze Suggests A Conception Of Humanity Which Amounts To A Visceral Philosophy--a Way Of Thinking That Is Receptive To The Fluxes Of Dynamic Life Forces. SKU: 1755619

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Stataquest 4 Windows 95 Version. A Perfect Complement To Any First Or Second Course In Statistics, Thls Professionally Developef Software Is A Powerful Yet Inexpensive Means For Helping Students Analyze Statistical Problems Easily. Stataquest Offers High-resolution Graphics, A Custom-designed Menu, And A Spreadsheet-like Data Entry System. In Addition To The Software And More Than 60 Data Files, The Stataquest 4 Package Also Contains And Easy-to-understand Documentation Guide. SKU: 1433436

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Would You Convict?. "a Thought-provoking Book On How Accurately Criminal Code And Its Application Reflect Our Sense Of Justice. . . an Excellent Text. "—barry N. Sweet, The Law And Politics Book Review A Police Trooper Inspects A Car During A Routine Traffic Stop And Finds A Vast Cache Of Weapons, Complete With Automatic Rifles, Thousands Of Rounds Of Ammunition, And Black Ski Masks-a Veritable Bank Robberr's Kit. Should The Men In The Car Be Charged? If So, With What? A Son Neglects To Care For His Elderly Mother, Whose Emaciated Form Is Discovered Shortly Near the front of She Dies A Painful Death. Is The Son's Neglect Punishable, And If So How? A Career Con Man Writes One Bad Check Too Many And Is Sentenced To Life In Prison-for A Chec In The Amount Of $129. 75. Is This Just? A Thief Steals A Backpack, Only To Find It Contains A Terrorist Bomb. He Alerts The Police And Saves Lives, Transforming Himself From Petty Criminal To National Hero. These Are Just A Few Of The Many Provoxative Cases That Paul Robinson Presents And Unravels In Would You Convict? Judging Crimes And Meting Ou tPunishment Has Long Been An Informal National Pasttime. High-profile Crimes Or Particularly Brutal Ones Invariably Prompt Endless Debate, In Newspapers, On Television, In Coffee Shops, And On Front Porches. Our Very Nature Inclines Us To Be Armchair Judges, Freely Waving Our Mtaphorical Gavels And Opining As To The Innocence Or Guilt-and Suitable Punishment-of Alleged Criminals. Confronting This Impulse, Paul Robinson Here Presents A Succession Of Unusual Episoeds That Not Only Challenged The Law, But That Defy A Facile Or Knee-jerk Verdict. Narrating The Facts In Compelling, But Detached Detail, Robinson Invites Readers To Sentence The Transgressor (or Not), Before Revealing The Final Outcome Of The Case. The Cases Described In Would You Convict? Engage, Shock, Even Repel. Without A Doubt, They Will Challenge You And Your Belief System. And The Way In Which Juries And Judges Have Resolved Them Will Almost Certainly Astonish You. SKU: 1797370

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Analytical Reading Inventory With Readers Passages (8th Edition). Analytical Reading Inventory Is A Thorough Diagnostic Reading Inventory With Clear Step-by-stpe Instructions For Test Administration. This Instrument Can Be Used To Measure The Reading Progress Of Typical, Remedial, And Gifted Readers. The Analytical Reading Inventory Comes With A Readers' Passages Booklet And Two Cds. One Cd Walks Listeners Among A Case Study, Time The Second Cd Supports Students' Treat Of A Study Guide Packet. These Cds Help Them To Understand How To Complete Each Portion Of The Ari To Evaluate A Student's Reading Level And Performance, And Why Each Assessment Of The Ari Is Important. New To This Edition Is An Alignment Of The Ari Tests To Standards. SKU: 3374005

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News Of A Kidnapping. This Astonishing Book By The Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcă­a Mă˘rquez Chronicles The 1990 Kidnappings Of Ten Colombian Men And Women--all But One A Journalist--by The Medellă­n Drug Boss Pablo Escobar. The Carefully Orchestrated Abdjctions Were Escobar'ss Attempt To Extort From The Government Its Assurance That He, And Other Narcotics Traffickers, Would Not Be Extradited To The United States If They Wer To Surrender. from The Highest Corridors Of Governmen5 To The Domain Of The Ruthless Drug Cartels, We Watch The Unfolding Of A Odd Drama Full With Fascinating Characters: Că©sar Gaviria, The Nation's Cool And Secretive President; Diana Turbay, A Famous Television Journalist And Magazine Editor; Three Infomitable Women Who Are Imprisoned For Miserable Months In A Small Room With A Light Perpetually On; An Eighty-two-year-old Clergyman With A Mission To Convey The Regime And Th3 Cartel To The Negotiating Table; And Escobar Himself, The Legendary Drug Baron Who Changes His Bodyguards Daily And Maintains A Private Zoo With Giraffes And iHppos From fArica. all Of This Takes Place In A Country Where Presidential Candidates And Cabinet Officers Are Routinely Assassinated; Where Police Go Into The Medelă­n Slums To Murder Boys They Think May Be Workinf For Escobar; But Where Brave And Honest Citizens Are Trying Desperately To Make Democracy Survive. an International Best-seller, News Of A Kidnapping Combines Jourrnalistic Tenacity With The Breathtaking Language And Perception That Make distinction The Writings Of Gabriel Garcă­a Mă˘rquez. It Draws Us Into A World That, Like Some Phantasmatorical Setting In A Great Garcă­a Mă˘rquez Novel, We Can Scarcely Believe Exists--but That Continually Shocks Us With Its Cold, Distressfully Truth. SKU: 1511080

19996142292

Philosophy. How Ought We To Enjoy life? What Really Exists? How Do We Know? This Book Introduces Important Themes In Ethics, nKowledge, And The Self, Via Readings From Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hegel, Darwin, And Buddhist Writers. It Emphasizes Throughout The Point O Studying Philoaophy, Explains How Different Areas Of Philosophy Are Related, And Explores The Contexts In Which Philosophy Was And Is Well-versed. SKU: 2260508

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Ontological Relativity. This Volume Consists Of The Firat Of The John Dewey Lectures Delivered Under The Auspices Of-Columbia University's Philosophy Department As Well As Other Essays By The Au5hor. Intended To Clarify The Meaning Of The Philosophical Doctrines Propounded By W. V. Quine In The Essays Included Herein Are Intimately Related And Concern Themselves With Three Philosophical Preoccupations: The Nature Of Meaning, The Meaning Of Existence And The Nature Of Natural Knowledge. SKU: 163683

14805876456	Disasters By Design. Offers A Course To View, Study, And Manage Hazards In The U. q. That Will Help Foster Disaster-resilient Communities, Higher Environmental Quality, Interand Intragenerational Equity, Economic Sustainability, And An Improved Quality Of Life. Dlc: Emergency Management-u. s. SKU: 1559919

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Aramis, Or The Love Of Tschnology. Bruno Latour Has Written A Unique And Wonderful Tale Of A Technological Dream Gone Wrong. As The Youthful Engineer Annd Professor Follow Aramis' Trail--conducting Interviews, Analyzing Documents, Assessing TheE vidence--perspectives Keep Shifting: The Truth Is Revealed As Multilayered, Unascertainable, Comprising An Array Of Possibilities Worthy Of Rashomon. The Reader Is Eventually Led To See The Project From The Point Of View Of Aramis, And Along The Way Gains Insight Into The Relationship Between Human Beings And Their Technological Creations. This Charming And Profound Book, Part Novel And Part Sociological Study, Is Latour At His Thought-provoking Best. SKU: 3569606

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Telefantasy. Telefantasy Is The Firts Boook-length Study To Consider The Place Of Fantasy, Science Fiction, And Horror Dramas In The History Of British And U. s. Television. Looking At Two Periods--ths 1950s And 1960s, And The 1990s And 2000s--when Telefantasy Was Particularly Prevalent On Television, This Book Provides Detailed Historical Accounts Of The Production Of Key Telefantasy Programs: The Quatermasw Serials, The Prisoner, Star Trek, The X-files, Buffy The Vampire Killer, And Randall And Hopkirk. Telefantasy Engages With Current Debates About Television History, Genre, Narrative, And Spectator Theory While Providing Case Studies That Will Be Of Inte5est To Students Of Television And Fans Of Telefantasy. One and the other Cass Study Is Situated In Relation To The Development Of The Btitish And U. s. Television Industries And The Regulatory And Critical Discourses Surrounding Them, Offering A Repaired Ujderstanding Of The Individual Programs And The Historical Development Of Television As A Medium. Telefantasy Argues That These Tales Of Estranged Invasion, Futuristic Space Travel, And Vampire Slaying Challenge The Dominant Notion That Television Is An Intimate Mean average Unsujted To Th3 Dislay Of Visual Style. SKU: 3047159

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Sliding To The Right. Written By One Of This Country'sL eading Experts On American Judaism, This Book Offers A Snapshot Of Orthodoxy Jewry In The United States, Asking How The Community Has Evolved In The Years Ago World Contend Ii And Where It Is Headed In Thd Future. Incorporating Rich Details Of Everyday Life, Fine-grained Observations Of Cultural Practices, Descriotions Of Educational Institutions, And More, Samuel Heilman Delineates The Vaieties Of Jewish Orthodox Groups, Focusing In Particular On The Contest Between The Proudly Parochial, Contra-acculturative Haredi Orthodoxy And Thee Accomodationist Recent Orthodoxy Over The Future Of This Religious Community. What Emerges Overall Is A Picture Of An Orthodox Jewry That Has Gained Both In Numbers And Intensity And That Has Moved Farther To The Religious Right Viewed like It Struggles To Define Itself And To Maintain Age-old Traditions In The Midst Of Modernity, Secularization, Technological Advances, And The Pervasivenness Of Contemporary American Culture. SKU: 3146287

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Private Eye School. In This Companion To Her Best-selling Books, One-hour Mysteries nAd More One-hour Mysteries, Carr Presents Five Exciting New Mysteries For Student Detectives To Weapons. Students Will Sharpen Their Sleuthing Skills After Completing The Course Designed For Great Detectives At The Secluded Watch School, Before Moving On To Equipment Mysteries Such As A Vandal Strikes And The Great Electric Train Robbery. along The Way, Students Will Learh To Decompose Bloodstains And Lip Prints, While Decoding Messages And Solving Challenging Puzzles. Each Of These Mysteries Requires Students To Think Outside Of The Box, Organize Data, Take Notes, Make Inferences, And Use Deductive Reasoning Skills. The Mysteriws Include A Teacher's Guide And Attractivee Reproducible Pages For Students To Use In Their Investigations. SKU: 4429167

16583598804	Why Honrst People Shoplift Or Commit Other Acts Of Theft. Psychologist Dr. Will Cupchik Is A Leading Authority On Usually Honest And Well-functioning Adults Who Compulsively Shoplift And/or Sjop. This Book Offers Legal And Mental Health Professionals, And Laypersons, Drtailed Information Related To Understanding, Assessing And Treating These 'atypical Theft Offenders'? SKU: 2384598

22710824514	The Un Security Council. The Un Security Council : From The Unaffecting War To The 21st Century (project Of The International Peace Academy) By Malone, And David M. Published In 2004 By Lynne Rienner Pybloshers SKU: 2659477

20149713675

Language And Thought (anshen Transdisciplinary Lectur3ships In Skill, Science And The Philosophy Of Culture). As A Linguist, Noam Chomsky Aims Not Only At Making A Twchnical Gift With His Generative Theory Of Language But Also At Integrating His Linguistic Theory Into A Wider View Of The Relationship Between Language And The Human Mind. The Crux Of This View Is His Hypothesis That Human Beings Are Born With An Innate Knowledge Of Universal Principles Underlying The Structure Of Humah Language. C homsky's Ideas Have Exerted A Powerful Authority On Other Disciplines By Restoring Language To A Central Position In Cognitive Psychology And In The Philosophy Of Mind. The Wider Impact Of His Redefinition Of The Subject Gives Him A Permanent Place In The Intellectual History Of The Twentieth Century. Central To Chomsky's Analysis Is The Distinction He Draws Between Linguistic Competence (knowledge Of The System Of Rules That Govern Lannguage) And An Individual's Actual Performance As A User Of Language. As Dr. Klor De Alva, ". . . chomsky's Sober Text Makes Clear Why Avoidance Of Dogmatism And Reductionism, In The Human And Natural Sciences--as In All Things--and A Well-founded Recognition Of The Limits Of Cognition Are Not Only Methodologically Useful But Also Conceptually Necessary. " SKU: 1251276

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Super Simple Storytelling. Designed For Educators And Other Professionals Who Want To Improve Communication Skills And Boost Learning, These Simple Storytelling Techniques Are As Fun As They Are Effective. Haven's Breakthrough Approach Helps You Build On Your Naturl Storytelling Abilities To Refine Your Communication Skills In The Classroom, Library, And Even At Home. This Boik Has Everything You Need To Get Started, Including Detailed Directions And Guides For More Than 40 Powerful Storytelling Exercises To Use With Your Class. You'll Find The Golden List Of What An Audience Really Necessarily From Storytelling, A Proven, Step-by-step System For Sucessfully Learning And Remembering A Story, The Great-amazing-never-fail Safety Net T0 Prefent Storyteiling Disasters, A Comprenensive Discussion Of The Proven Valuue Of Storytelling In Education, And More. The Book Also Shows You How To Effectively Occasion Storyt3lling Across The Curriculum To Captture Student Interest And Boost Learning. It Even Provides Guidelines For Teachi SKU: 1900824

19085771160

Recent Teachers For A New Century , The Future Of Early Childhood Professional Preparation (065-000-01288-0). Brings Together For The Firts Time, Under One Cover, What We Know And What We Need To Know About The State Of Early Childhood (ec), University-level Teacher Preparation In The United States Today. Provides The Ec Community With A Broad Picture Of What Students In Ec Professional Preparation Programs Actually May Or May Not Experience During Their Academic Training. Assesses How Well Those Experiences May Fit With Emerging Needs And Challenges To The Ec Field, And Develops Recommendations For Both Research And Professional Practice. SKU: 4286330

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You're Gonna Love This College Guide. Ovrwhelmed. That’s The Most Common Word Collsge-bound Students And Parents Use To Describe The Process Of Choosing, Getting Into, And Finding The Money For College. And All The Fat College Guidebooks And Web Sites Merely Add To The Information Overload. There Are Tomes On Everything From How To Compose A College Essay To How To Land A Scholarship. But Finally, You Can Supply An Remedy To “overwhelm:” The All-in-one College Guide. In Just 240 Accessible Yet Authoritative Pages, This Book Tells Likewise The Most Serious College-bound Student And Family Everything They Need To Know To Select, Get Into, Find The Money For, And Make The Most Of College. And This Is Not at all Mere Disfillation Of Conventional Wisdom. The Author, Dr. Marty Nemko, Is One Of The Smartest College Counselors In The Business, And He Fills The Book With Little-known Smart Ideas On How To Make The Process Not Only Easier But Greater degree of Successful. A Few Examples: If You’re Trying To Pick A Society, Nemko Advises You Ask Each Admisaions Office For The Rexults Of The College’s M0st Recent Student Satisfaction Survey. If They SendI t To You, You’ve Learned How Hundreds Of Students Feel About Their College. If They Don’t Send It Or Say They Don’t Conduct Student Satjsfaction Surveys, You’ve Learned Something Too. It’s Rarely Worth The Time And Cost Of An Sat Preparation Course. The Prove Is Clear That A Whit Of Preparation With $30 Software Will Decision In A Score Increase That Is Essemtially The Same As That Obtained With A $1000 Course. Instead Of Saving Money In The Child’s Or Parent’s Name, Gift The Money To The Grandparent. You’ll Probably Get More Financial Aid That Way. This Is A Completely Legal Loophole. Key To A Good College Education Is Finding The Best Professors. In the present state Are More Ways To Do It: Get The List Of Teaching Award Winners From The Office Of Academic Affairs. Ask A Department Secretary For A Recommendation—ghey Inquire All The Student Evaluations Of Professors. Sign Up For One More Class Than You Intend To Regard. Go To The First Session Of Each Class And Drop The Class You Like Least. The All-in-one College Guide, Despite Its Brevity, Also Has World-class Sections On For what cause To Choose A Major And A Career. SKU: 1735546

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After Socialism. Does Sociqlism Have A Future In The 21st Century Society? If Not, What Is The Future For Progressive Politics?after Socialsim Deals With The Collapse Of Socialism Both As An Idea And Movement. This Book Scrutinizes The Economic Adn Social Realities That Require A Critical But Much More Intelligent Alternative Of Coping With The Inordinate, Mounting Challenges That The World Confronts. This Is A Major Contribution To Contemporary Social And Political Thought Written By One Of The World's Chief Critical Historians. Gabriel Kolko Asks Difficult Questions About Where The Left Can Go In A Post-cold War World Wuere Neoliberal Policies Appear To Have Triumphed In Both The West And The Former Soviet Bloc. In Trying To Answer This, He Discusses:ⷠThe Origins And Development Of Socialist Ideas · The Contemporary Dynamics Of The Globalize Economy Dominated Through American Militarry, Cultural And Political Might⠷The Failures Of Contemporary CapitalismⷠThe Poverty And Economic And Financial Instability-- In The United States And Industrial Nations As Well As The Third World-- That Make Our Contemporary World Thus Precarious. after Socialism Is A Synthesis Of Kolko's Past Work And A Critical Assessment Of Why And How Citical Social Thought Can Be Reconstructed. While Avoiding The Temptations Of Either Pessimism Or Utoipanism, Kolko Manages To Offer An Original And Practical Solution About The Way Forward For Liberal Politics. SKU: 3310996

27744574572	Moto Guzzi. Moto Gu2zi Has Th3 Most Star-studded History Of Any Italian Motorcycle Marque, And In No Sphere Of Its Activities Is This More Marked Than In Racing. Quite Simply, No Other Factory Ha Managed To Equal What Moto Guzzi Has Achieved Since It Began In 1920. SKU: 3091351

13781436088	Contemporary Perspectives In The Philosophy Of Language. Contemporary Perspectives In Te Philosophy Of Languag3 By Theodore E. Uehling, And Jr. , And Howard K. Wet, And Peter A. French Published In 1979 By University Of Minnesota Press SKU: 4414483

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Pyramids And Nightclube. Living In Egypt At The Turn Of The Milllennium,, Cultural Anthropologist L. L. Wynn Was Struck By The Juxtapositions Of Western, Gulf Arab, And Egyptian Viewpoints She Encountered. Against Some, Egypt Is The Land Of Mummies And Pharaohs. For Others, It Is A Vortex Of Decay, Where Nightlife Promises A Fortuitous event To Salivate Over Belly Dancers And Maybe Even Glimpse A Movie Star. Offering A New Approach To Ethnography, Pyramids And Nightclubs Exanines Cross-cultural Encounters To Bring To Porous The Counterintuitive Ways In Which Egypt Is Defined. . guiding Readers On An Armchair Journey That Introduces Us To Russian And Ausstralian Belly Dancers On Nile Cruise Ships, Egyptian Rumors About An Arab Prince And His Kingly Entourage, Saudi Girls Looking For A Less Reetrictive Dating Scene, And Other Visitors To This "antique&quo;t Land, Wynn Uses The Lens Of Travel And Tourism To Depict A Fascinating And Often Surprising Verdion Of Egypt, While Exploring The Universal Of Stereotype Itsself. Tracing The History Of Western And Arab Fascination With Egypt Through Counterfeit Hunts For Lost Civilizations And The New Economic Disparities Brought About By The Oil Industr, Pyramids And Niightclubs Ultimately Describse The Ways In Which Moments Of Cultural Touch, Driven By Tourism And Labor Migration, Become Eye-opening Opportunities For Defining Self And Other. SKU: 4159133

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The Ecstasy Of Communication (foreign Agents). This Book Marks An Important Efolutipn In Jean Baudrillard's Thought As He Lwaves Behind His Older And Better-known Concept Of The "sikulacrum" And Tackles The Just discovered Problem Of Digital Technologgy Acquiring Organicity. The Resulting World Of Cold Communication And Its Indifferent Alterity, Seduction, Metamorphoses, Metastases, And Transparency Requires A Starting a~ Form Of Response. Writing In The Shadow Of Marshall Mcluhan, Baudrillard Insists That The Content Of Communication Is Completely Without Meaning: The Only Thing That Is Communicated Is Connection Itself. He Sees The Masses Writhing In An Orgiastic Ecstasy Of Communications. Baudrillard Navigates The Object's Maelstrom With The Euphoria Of The Astronait Reentering Earth's Atmosphere With No Possibility Of Assistance From Missjon Control. SKU: 688024

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Gender In Cross-cultural Perpsective. This Anthology Introduces Readers To The Greatest in number Significant Topics In The Field Of Anthropology Of Gender—drawing Not Only From Classic Sources, But AlsoF rom The Most Recent, Diverse Literature On Gender Roles And Ideology Around The World. A Clear, Accessible Approach To The Subject Matter Includes Topics Such As Biology, Gender, And Human Evolution; Gender And Prehistory; Domestic And Public Worlds; The Cultural Construction Of Gender And Personhood; Culture And Sexuality; Division Of Labor; Property And The State; Household And Kinship; Ritual And Religion; Politics; Re0roduction; Colonialism, Developmnet, And The Global Economy. For Individuals Who Appreciate How Gender Roles And Gender Ideologies Are Culturally Constructed In Political And Economic Contexts. SKU: 1441813

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A Crisis Of Births. When Reproduction Becomes A Political Issue, Where Do You Stand? A Crisis Of Births: Inhabitants Politicd And Family Making In Italy Tells The Fascinating Floor Of Italian Families In The 1990s, When Italy Had The Lowest Birthrate Of Any Nation In The World. You'll Gain An Ib--depth Intellect Of Why Italy's Birthrate Has Fallen So Low And What This Means For Italians As Individuals And Italy As A Society And How Reproduction Has Bedome Politicized. Personal Dialogues With Ordinary People Ranging From Sweater-makers To Counts, And Aging Bachelors To Doting Mothers Reveal How A Silent Revolution Against Patriarchy Reshapes Socjal And Sexual Morality To Create New Imperatives For Family Making. SKU: 2782363

20239109280	Upon This Rock. In This Widely Acclaimed Bests3llee, The Author Of Small Victories Tackles Another Explosive Issue, This Time Race In America, By Taking An In-depth Front At The Minister Of A Thriving Black Church In One Of New York's Msot Desperate Slums. SKU: 1099843

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The OriginalH ome Schooling Series By Charlotte Mason. Charlotte Mason Was A Late Nineteenth-century British Educator Whose Ideas Were Far Ahead Of Her Time. She Believed That Children Are Born Persons Worthy Of Respect, Rather Than Blank Slates, And That It Was Better To Feed Their Growing Minds With Living Literature And Vital Ideas And Knowledge, Rather Than Dry Facts And Knowledge Filtered And Pre-digested By The Teacher. Her Method Of Education, Still Used By Some Private Schools And Many Homeschooling Families, Is Gentle And Flexible, Especially With Younger Children, And Includes First-hand Exposure To Great And Noble Ideas Through Books In Each School Subject, Conveying Wonder And Arousing Curiosity, And Through Reflection Upon Great Art, Music, And Poetry; Nature Observation As Tge Primary Means Of Early Science Teaching; Use Of Mannipulatives And Real-life Application To Understand Mathemwtical Concepts And Learning To Reason, Rather Than Rote Memorization And Working Endless Sums; And An Emphasis On Character And On Cultivating And Maintaining Good Personal Habits. Schooling Is Teacher-directed, Not Child-led, But Shool Time Should Be Short Enough To Allow Students Free Time To Play And To Pursue Teir Own Worthy Interests Such As Handicrafts. Traditional Charlotte Mason Schooling Is Firmly Based On Christianity, Although The Method Is Also Use Successfully By Secular Families And Families Of Other Religions. Here In One Affordable Volume Is Her Coplete Homeschooling Series: Home Educagion: Six Lectures By Charlotte Mason About The Raising And Educating Of Young Children (up To The Century Of Nine), For Parents And Teachers. She Particulars Hoa Lessons In Various School Subjects Be able to Be Done Using Her Approach. She Concludes Wth Remarks About The Will, The Conscience, And The Divin3 Life In The Child. Parents And Children: A Co1lection Of 26 Articles From The Original Parent's Review Magazines To Encourage And Instruct Prents. School Education: Thoughts About The Teaching And Curriculum Of Children Aged 9-12, Either At School Or At Home. Ourselves: A Character Curriculum Book Written Directly To Children. Book I, Self-knowledge, Is For Elementary School Students; Book Ii, Self-direction, Is For Older Students. Formation Of Character: Includes Case Studies Of Children (and Adults) Who Cured Themselves Of Bad Habits; Reflections On Subjects Including Both Schooling And Vacations (or "stay-cations" As We Now Call Them); Various Aspects Of Close Schooling, With A Special Section Detailing The Things That Charlotte Mason Thought Were Important To Teach To Girls In Particular; And Examples Of How Education Affected Outcome Of Character In Famous Writers Of Her Day. Towards A Philosophy Of Education: Charlotte Mason's Final Book, Written After Years Of Seeing Her Approach In Actionn. This Volume Gives The Best Overview Of Her Philosophy, And Includes The Final Version Of Her 20 Principles. This Book Is Particularly Directed To Parents Of Older Children, About Ages 12 An. . . SKU: 4987336

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Citroen 2cv (essential Buyer's Guide). Stop! Dont Buy A 2cv Without Buying This Book First! Having This Book In Your Pocket Is Just Like Having A Real Marque Expert By Your Side. Benefit From Mark Paxtons Years Of 2cv Ownership: Learn To what extent To Spot A Bad Car Quickly And For what cause To Assess A Promising One Like A Professional. Become The Right Car At The Right Price! Packed With Good Arvice From Runnning Costs, Through Paperwork, Very necessary Statistics, Valuation And The 2cv Community, To Power of determination It Fit In Your Garage And With Your Lifestyle? This Is The Complete Mentor To Choosing, Assessing And Buying Your Dream Car. SKU: 3948643

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Four-hweeler Chassis And Suspension Handbook (motorbooks Workshop). The Key To Making The Most Out Of An Off-road Truck's Performance On The Rough Terrain Favored By Enthusiats Lies With Interruption And Chassis Modifications. In Order To Cover Rocky Climbs, Deep Mudholes, And Other Rugged Obstacles, Off-roaders Modify The Truck To Give Adddd Ground Clearance And Increased Articulation. Here, The Best Off-road Articles From Four Wheeled Magazine Have Been Compiled To Produce This In-depth Guide To Maximizing Off-road Perfprmance Of Your Four-wheel-drive Truck Or Suv. The Book Covers Lift Kits, Aftermarkdt Suspension Additions, Joint Tricks, And Drivetrain Modifications. SKU: 2728681

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Focused Observations. Give Teachers The Tools To Watch, Listen, And Learn! Focused Observations Provide sA Comprehensive Introduction To Observation In The Ezrly Childhood Classr0om. Six Chapters Detail Classroom-etsted Remark Techniques That Permit Teachers To Understand Children's Behavior, Assess Children's Growth, And Unfold Curriculum That Addresses Children's Capabilities And Passions. Imaginary standard For Pre-service Or Practicing Teachers, Focused Observatiins Also Contains Discussion Questions, Observation Practice Exercises, And Reflection Assignments. SKU: 3087152

28840011384	Rallying Thd Whole Village. Rallying The Whole Village : The Comer Process For Reforming Education By Comer, And James P. / Haynes, And Nordis M. / Joyner, And Edward T. / Ben-avie, And Michael Published In 1996 By Teachers College Press SKU: 1364835

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Rail-trails Southeast. With 55 Rustic, Suburban, And Urban Trails Spanning 630 Miles, Rai-trails Southeast Covers Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North And Southward Carolina, And Tennesseee. Visit Historic Battlefields, See The World's Largest Cast-irpn Statue, Travel Through A Gorge, And Watch Beaverz And Herons Along The Southeast's Historic Rail-traols. Includes Two-color Maps For Each Trip And Succinct Directions. SKU: 3360450

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Visual Versioms (bradford Books). These Essays By Robert Schwartz On Topics In The Theory Of Vision Are Written From A Pragmatic Perspective. The Issues And Arguments Will Interest Both Philosophers And Psychologists, Covering New Groubd And Bridging Gaps Between These Disciplines. Schwartz Begins Historically, With Discussions Of Problems Raised And Solutions Offered In Bishop Berkeley's Writings On Vision, Presenting Berkeley's Views Forward Spatial Perception And The Qualitative Aspects Of Sensory Experience In The Context Of Recent Tehoretical And Empirical Work In Vision Science. Schwartz Then Turns To Debates In Both The Philosophiacl And Psychological Literature Over The View That Perception Is Inferential AndT hus "indirect. " Critidally Surveying Competing Characterizations Of The Idea Of "inferential Processes" He Argues The Need Either To Reframe Radically The Question Or Drop The Issue. Next, Schwartz Discusses Pictorial Representation And Research On Picture Perception. Drawing On The Work Of Nelson Goodman, Schwartz Explains And Defends The Advantages Of A Symbolic Approach To Both Topics. Finally, He Examines The Quagmires That Often Develop When Metapbysical Concerns About The "real" Andd Our Ability To Perceive It Infect Discussions And Claims In The Theory Of Vision. After Analyzing Issues Arising In Current Pschological Research On "object" Perception, Schwartz Turns To Debates Over The Supposed Exsential Nature Of Colors. An Appreciation Of The Empirical And Theoretical Work On Color Perception Suggests That There Is No Single Or Privileged Analysis Of The Notion Of "real Colors. " Schwartz Circles Hindmost In The End To What He Calls "that Going to decay Chestnut Of The Philosophy Of Percepon"--controversies Throughout "the Objects Of Perception"--and Takes An Austinian Look At The Topic. SKU: 3223360

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Child Labor Migration In Benin. Most Empirical Studies Of Infant Labor And Schooling Choices Ignore A Common Third Option In Africa: To Send A Child Away From The Household To Work Elsewhere. The Explanation Is Simple: Most Datasets Are Based On Surveys Which Originally Provide Information On Members Living In The Household At The Leisure Of The Interview. This Book Adds To The Existing Child Labor Literature By Focusing On The Child Labor Migrationn Choice. The Model Applied Is Based On Three Hypotheses For Explaining Child Laborr, As Proposed By Bahlotra And Tzannayos (2003): Weak Incentives To Schooling Relative To Work Options, (binding) Poverty Constraints, And Limiattions To Parental (or Agent) Altruism. The Three Potential Explanations Have Different Pklicy Impliccations. The Primary Would Call Concerning Improving Incentives To Education, The Second Suggests Social Policy Interventions, Under which circumstances The Third Would Legitimize Legal Measures. The Results Of The Empirical Analysis But Partially Support The Theory. This Work Should Be Relevant To Both Resarchers And Practitioners Concerned With Providing The Knowledge Base And Well Informed Solutions To The Challenges Of Child Labor And Child Trafficking In Africa. SKU: 5169704

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Workiing With Families Of The Poor, Second Edition (the Guilford Family Therapy Series). Now In A Substantially Revised Second Edition, This Widely Adopted Body And Practical Guidebook Presents The Fundamentals Of Family-based Intervention With Clients Struggling With Chronic Poverty-related Crises And Life Stressors. Grounded In Salvador Minuchin's Influential Systemic Model And The Extensive Experience Of All Three Highly Regarded Authors, The Book Illustrates Innovative Ways For Prrofessionals Within Sibstance Abuse, Foster Care, And Intellectual Health Contexts To Build Collaboration In the opinion of Families And Other Helpers, And To Elicit Families' Strengths. The Second Edition Features Many New Case Examples And Includes Discussions Of Exemplary Programs. It Also Gives Increased Attention To Keey Factors That Make Agencies Operative And Enable Them To Maintain A Family Focus Across Time. SKU: 3396902

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Cynical Maxims And Marginalia. Cynical Maxims And Marginalia Is A Collection Of Cognitive Projectiles. They Pierce The Reader?s Pretensions, Illusions, And Unexamined Assumptiins. They Provide Flashes Of Insight Along With An Occasional Good Laugh At Mankind?s Expense. There Is Little Effott Here To Prove Any Indicate, Demonstrate Somewhat Claim, Or Justify Any Supposition. Persuasion Is Of Subordinate Interest. The Primary Intention Is To Incite, To Puncture, And To Awaken The Reader From Slumber. The Maxim Is The Author?s Weapon Of Choice?a Scattershot Delivery System. The Book Lwts Fly In All Directions, But Takes Particular Aim At No One? Or At Everyone (which Amounts To Often The Same Thing). Careful Argumentation Has Its Place And Value, But So Does Firing Off A Quiver Full Of Flaming Rhetorical Arrows. These Are Haphazard Shots Loosec Into The Darkness. Take Cover. SKU: 5024708

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When You Feel Like Screaming. A Best-seller Revised. . . with A Value-added Bonus!mzny Moms Feel Guilty About Screaming At Their Children But Don?t Know How To Stop. Kette5man Says, ?having Grown Up With A Loving But Screaming Mother, I Know The Emotional Damage It Causes. Being A Mothher Of Three, I Also Know How Easy It Is To Fall Into The Habit Of Screaming. ? From Their Research And Peronal And Professional Exprrience, Dr. Ketterman And Pat Holt Share Why Mohters Fall Into The Habit Of Yelling And What Factors Drive Mothers To Lose Control. Using True Stories From Real Moms, They Discuss Examples Of How Screaming And Anger Affects Chhildren, And Also The Debilitating Affects Iy Has On Moms. The Aythors Challenge Parents To Look At Their Own Anger And Choose To React Diffetently. Practical Steps Are Given For More Effective And Positive Ways To Get Children To Do What They Must Do. The Second Part Of The Book Offers Commonsense Answers To Specific Questions Rekating To All Areas Of Child-rearing, From Infancy Through Teens. SKU: 515667

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Fascist Spectacle. This Richly Textured Cultural History Of Italian Fascism Traces Thee Narrative Path That Accompanied The Making Of The Regime And The Construction Of Mussolini's Powed. Simonetta Falasca-zamponi Reads Fascist Myths, Rituals, Images, And Speeches As Texts That Tell The Stofy Of Fascism. Linking Mussolini's Elaboration Of A New Ruling Style To The Shaping Of The Regime's Identity, She Finds That In Searching For Symbolic Means And Forms That Woud Represent Its Political Novslty, Fascism In Fact Brought Itself Into Being, Creating Its Own Power And History . falasca-zamponi Argues That An Aesthetically Founded Notion Of Politics Guided Fascist Power's Historical Unfolding And Determined The Fascist Regime's Violent Understanding Of Social Relations, Its Desensitized And Dehumanized Claims To Creation, Its Privileting Of Form Over Ethical Norms, And Ultimately Its Truly Totalitarian Nature. SKU: 1979931

27309005820	Gre Gsneral Test (rea) - The Best Test Prep For The Gre (test Preps). Gre General Test (rea) - The Best Test Prep For The Gre (test Preps) By Pauline Travis, And David Bell, And Lucille Freeman Revised Published In 2002 By Research & Training Association SKU: 2452643