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Reading, Writing, and Murder

By: Alan Druckman

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What novel presents a realistic, comprehensive, laugh-until-you-almost-pee look at an urban elementary school in a middle-class neighborhood in New York City through the eyes of a retiring principal? The answer is Reading, Writing, and Murder. Here are some of the subjects in the school curriculum: How to Murder a Teacher in School How to Conduct an Adulterous Affair How to Deal with Disruptive Pupils How to Deal with Complaining Parents and Teachers How to Dissuade a Pupil Threatening to Commit Suicide How to Save a Parent Having a Heart Attack How to be Classified as a Pedophile How to Celebrate a Principal's Retirement How to Reminisce on the Good, the Bad, the Ugly How to Solve a School Murder Only someone with thirty-five-and-a-half years as teacher, assistant principal, and principal in New York City elementary schools could tell it like it is.

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Laugh Your Way Through School

By: Alan Druckman

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Laugh Your Way Through School

By: Alan Druckman

If you thought The Wacky World of Bobby Tribble was hilarious, you ain’t read nothing until you’ve read Laugh Your Way Through School. Like jolly jokes? Riddle reservoir? Ridiculous rhymes? Laughable lists? Nonsensical news? Funny false facts? Loony letters to the editor? Stupid stories? They’re all between the pages of this book. Does it solve all the problems in the world? Definitely not. It has only one aim: make ’em laugh.

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The Wacky World of Bobby Tribble

By: Alan Druckman

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The Wacky World of Bobby Tribble

By: Alan Druckman

Laugh and the whole world laughs with you. I can't be sure of the whole world, but I'm certain you will when you read The Wacky World of Bobby Tribble. Bobby Tribble, almost eleven, a prankster skilled in exaggeration, tells you about his experiences and wacky dreams going to the doctor and a dentist, trying to cook, competing in a fun run, going to a summer day camp, looking for his dog, playing Little League baseball, switching bodies with his sister in kindergarten, and other hilarious misadventures. Heed this warning: Buckle up your seat belt to prevent you from falling on the floor laughing.

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Interrogating Public Policy Theory

A Political Values Perspective

By: Linda Courtenay Botterill,Alan Fenna

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Interrogating Public Policy Theory

A Political Values Perspective

By: Linda Courtenay Botterill,Alan Fenna

This book questions the way policy making has been distanced from politics in prevailing theories of the policy process, and highlights the frequently overlooked ubiquity of values and values conflicts in politics and policy. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of current theories, reviews the illusions of rationalism in politics, and explores the way values are implicated throughout the democratic process, from voter choice to policy decisions. It argues that our understanding of public policy is enhanced by recognizing its intrinsically political and value-laden nature.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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Integrated Inferences

Causal Models for Qualitative and Mixed-Method Research

By: Macartan Humphreys,Alan M. Jacobs

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Integrated Inferences

Causal Models for Qualitative and Mixed-Method Research

By: Macartan Humphreys,Alan M. Jacobs

Introduces a Bayesian approach to the use of causal models to design and carry out qualitative and mixed-methods research. Addressed to researchers across the social sciences, this book shows how causal models allow us to combine extensive and intensive data strategies to answer both general and case-specific causal questions.

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Cambridge University Press

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Unhealthy Politics

The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine

By: Eric M. Patashnik,Alan S. Gerber,Conor M. Dowling

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Unhealthy Politics

The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine

By: Eric M. Patashnik,Alan S. Gerber,Conor M. Dowling

How partisanship, polarization, and medical authority stand in the way of evidence-based medicine The U.S. medical system is touted as the most advanced in the world, yet many common treatments are not based on sound science. Unhealthy Politics sheds new light on why the government's response to this troubling situation has been so inadequate, and why efforts to improve the evidence base of U.S. medicine continue to cause so much political controversy. This critically important book paints a portrait of a medical industry with vast influence over which procedures and treatments get adopted, and a public burdened by the rising costs of health care yet fearful of going against "doctor's orders." Now with a new preface by the authors, Unhealthy Politics offers vital insights into the limits of science, expertise, and professionalism in American politics.

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Princeton University Press

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Governing for the Long Term

Democracy and the Politics of Investment

By: Alan M. Jacobs

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Governing for the Long Term

Democracy and the Politics of Investment

By: Alan M. Jacobs

In Governing for the Long Term, Alan M. Jacobs investigates the conditions under which elected governments invest in long-term social benefits at short-term social cost. Jacobs contends that, along the path to adoption, investment-oriented policies must surmount three distinct hurdles to future-oriented state action: a problem of electoral risk, rooted in the scarcity of voter attention; a problem of prediction, deriving from the complexity of long-term policy effects; and a problem of institutional capacity, arising from interest groups' preferences for distributive gains over intertemporal bargains. Testing this argument through a four-country historical analysis of pension policymaking, the book illuminates crucial differences between the causal logics of distributive and intertemporal politics and makes a case for bringing trade-offs over time to the center of the study of policymaking.

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Essential Israel

Essays for the 21st Century

By: Arnon Golan,Maoz Azaryahu,Michael Brenner,Alan Dowty,David Makovsky,Gil Troy,Yedidia Stern,Donna Robinson Divine,Steven Bayme,David Ellenson,Yaakov Ariel,Norman Stillman,Rachel S. Harris,Ranen Omer-Sherman

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Essential Israel

Essays for the 21st Century

“An excellent tool in Middle Eastern politics classes [and] an intellectual resource for experts who want to learn more about the complexities of Israel.”—Reading Religion Americans debate constantly about Israel, its place in the Middle East, and its relations with the United States. Essential Israel examines a wide variety of complex issues and current concerns in historical and contemporary contexts to provide readers with an intimate sense of the dynamic society and culture that is Israel today, providing a broader and deeper understanding to inform the conversation. The expert contributors to this volume address the Arab-Israeli conflict, the state of diplomatic efforts to bring about peace, Zionism and the impact of the Holocaust, the status of the Jewish state and Israeli democracy, foreign relations, immigration and Israeli identity, as well as literature, film, and the other arts. This unique and innovative volume provides solid grounding to understandings of Israel’s history, politics, culture, and possibilities for the future.

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Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress

The Lawmakers

By: Craig Volden,Alan E. Wiseman

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Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress

The Lawmakers

By: Craig Volden,Alan E. Wiseman

This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.

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Memory and Amnesia

An Introduction

By: Alan J. Parkin

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Memory and Amnesia

An Introduction

By: Alan J. Parkin

Memory and Amnesia provides a clear and comprehensive account of amnesia set in the context of our understanding of how normal memory operates. Part I provides the reader with an up-to-date survey of contemporary memory theories along with an account of the various methods for improving memory ability. Part II begins with an overview of memory assessment which incorporates all important new developments, and focuses on the nature and explanation of the amnesic syndrome. A new chapter deals with the emerging field of memory disorders linked to frontal lobe dysfunction, related to which is an entirely new approach to the study of age-related memory loss. The account of dementia is extended and includes a discussion of comparisons between different forms of the illness. The chapters on transient amnesic states and on psychogenic states are fully updated (including discussion of the false memory debate), and the significant advances in memory remediation are discussed in the last chapter.

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Deliberative Public Engagement with Science

An Empirical Investigation

By: Lisa M. PytlikZillig,Myiah J. Hutchens,Peter Muhlberger,Frank J. Gonzalez,Alan J. Tomkins

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Deliberative Public Engagement with Science

An Empirical Investigation

By: Lisa M. PytlikZillig,Myiah J. Hutchens,Peter Muhlberger,Frank J. Gonzalez,Alan J. Tomkins

This compact open access reference delves beyond popular concepts of educated consumers and an informed public by examining the science behind deliberative engagement. Using data from four longitudinal studies, the authors assess public engagement methods in deliberative discussions of ethical, legal, and social issues concerning innovations in nanotechnology. Coverage includes the theoretical origins of the studies, forms of engagement and variations used, and in-depth details on cognitive, affective, and social components that go into the critical thinking process and forming of opinions. Not only are the findings intriguing in and of themselves, but researchers from varied fields will also find them useful in pursuing their own projects. Featured in the coverage: Experimental methods and measures used in relation to specific outcomes. Forms of deliberative engagement affecting objective and subjective knowledge. Effects of engagement variables on attitude formation, change, and polarization. Tracing the processes leading to policy acceptance and support. Study conclusions and evaluation. Plus supplemental materials giving readers access to full study data. Since public engagement methods are widely regarded as valuable for policy input, planning purposes, and understanding societal processes, Deliberative Engagement with Science stands to have a wide audience among psychologists, researchers, academics, and policymakers, as well as professionals in the corporate sphere and the tech industries.

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Front Stage, Backstage

The Dramatic Structure of Labor Negotiations

By: Raymond Alan Friedman

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Front Stage, Backstage

The Dramatic Structure of Labor Negotiations

By: Raymond Alan Friedman

In this carefully detailed and rigorous study of the social processes of labor negotiations, the author uncovers the pressures and motivations felt by negotiators, showing why the bargaining process persists largely in its traditional form despite frequent calls for change. Raymond Friedman approaches labor negotiations with a conviction that negotiators are situated in a social network that greatly influences bargaining styles. In this carefully detailed and rigorous study of the social processes of labor negotiations, he uncovers the pressures and motivations felt by negotiators, showing why the bargaining process persists largely in its traditional form despite frequent calls for change. Friedman first focuses on the social structure of labor negotiations and the logic of the traditional negotiation process. He then looks at cases where the traditional rituals of negotiation were set aside and new forms emerged and, in the light of these examples, addresses the options for and obstacles to change.In an unusual twist Friedman describes the persistence of the traditional negotiation process by developing a dramaturgical theory in which negotiators are seen as actors who perform for teammates, constituents, and opponents. They try to convince others of their skill, loyalty, and dedication, while others expect them to play the role of opponent, representative, and leader. Friedman shows that the front-stage drama fulfills these needs and expectations, while backstage contacts between lead bargainers allow the two sides to communicate in private. The traditional labor negotiation process, he reveals, is an integrated system that allows for both private understanding and public conflict. Current efforts to change how labor and management negotiate are limited by the persistence of these roles, and are bound to fail if they do not account for the benefits as well as the flaws of the traditional rituals of negotiation. For negotiation scholars, Friedman's perspective provides an alternative to the rational-actor models that dominate the field; his dramaturgical theory is applicable to any negotiations done by groups, especially ones that face political pressures from constituents. For labor scholars, this is the first integrated theory of the negotiation process since Walton and McKersies's classic text, and one that helps unite the four elements of their model. For sociologists, the book provides an example of how a dramaturgical perspective can be used to explain the logic and persistence of a social institution. And practitioners will appreciate this explanation of why change is so difficult. Organization Studies series

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MIT Press

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0262061678

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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology

By: Edwin Amenta,Kate Nash,Alan Scott

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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology

By: Edwin Amenta,Kate Nash,Alan Scott

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology is a complete reference guide, reflecting the scope and quality of the discipline, and highlighting emerging topics in the field. Global in focus, offering up-to-date topics from an interdisciplinary, international set of scholars addressing key issues concerning globalization, social movements, and citizenship The majority of chapters are new, including those on environmental politics, international terrorism, security, corruption, and human rights Revises and updates all previously published chapters to include new themes and topics in political sociology Provides an overview of scholarship in the field, with chapters working independently and collectively to examine the full range of contributions to political sociology Offers a challenging yet accessible and complete reference guide for students and scholars

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Transforming American Governance: Rebooting the Public Square

Rebooting the Public Square

By: Alan P. Balutis,Dwight Ink

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Transforming American Governance: Rebooting the Public Square

Rebooting the Public Square

By: Alan P. Balutis,Dwight Ink

Government and governance will be very different in the future than anticipated by the literature in the field.

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Israel / Palestine

By: Alan Dowty

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Israel / Palestine

By: Alan Dowty

In this ... [book] ... Dowty demystifies the conflict by pitting it in broad historical perspective, identifying its roots, and tracing its evolution up to the current impasse. [He] offers an analytic framework for understanding transformations over time, and in doing so, punctures the myths of an "age-old" conflict with an unbridgeable gap between the two sides. ..."--Back cover.

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Polity

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0745656129

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Natural Resource Management

The Human Dimension

By: Alan W Ewert

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Natural Resource Management

The Human Dimension

By: Alan W Ewert

Written by and for scholars, planners, and policymakers, Natural Resource Management: The Human Dimension focuses on issues such as the publics role in the decision-making processes of ecosystem management that affect how we use (or abuse) resources. It exposes the reader to a wide variety of applications of Human Dimensions Research, as well as to significant issues involved. One of the greatest needs in natural resource management is for a deeper understanding of the intricate relationship between humans and the natural environment. Human Dimensions Research, an interdisciplinary field involving a broad variety of social science approaches, seeks to fill this need by providing multidimensional assessments of peoples’ behavior, attitudes, and expectations toward natural resources and their uses. Written by and for scholars, planners, and policymakers, Natural Resource Management: The Human Dimension focuses on issues such as the publics role in the decision-making processes of ecosystem management that affect how we use (or abuse) resources. It exposes the reader to a wide variety of applications of Human Dimensions Research, as well as to significant issues involved. At a time when we are either loving our forests and parks to death or paving them over, a better understanding of the problems is critical if we are to create workable policies that will preserve and protect our natural resources

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0429711034

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The Right Talk

How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society Into the Economic Society

By: Mark Alan Smith

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The Right Talk

How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society Into the Economic Society

By: Mark Alan Smith

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Conflict Resolved?

A Critical Assessment of Conflict Resolution

By: Alan Tidwell

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Conflict Resolved?

A Critical Assessment of Conflict Resolution

By: Alan Tidwell

This work raises questions on whether and how to effectively resolve conflict. Taking stock of the ideas, assumptions and practices of this emerging field, the book provides an examination of conflict theory and practice, focusing on politics and international relations, as well as biology, culture, management, psychology and social psychology. Central to its thesis is the interaction between the skills of resolving conflict and societal pressures for conflict's continuation. Conflict resolution is a growth area of study; its methods are applicable in domestic violence as well as in attempts to secure world peace. This text is written in a deliberately provocative way which does not include every side to an argument.>

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A&C Black

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0826458017

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Theory and Practice of Brief Therapy

By: Simon H. Budman,Alan S. Gurman

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Theory and Practice of Brief Therapy

By: Simon H. Budman,Alan S. Gurman

This classic work provides a richly textured overview of the "whys" and "hows" of brief therapy. The authors identify the central features of effective, time-limited interventions for individuals, couples, families, and groups. Taking a developmental approach to treatment, they explain how brief therapy can help at different times in a patient's life, as changes and transitions bring on new stresses and challenges. A practical framework is provided for selecting and screening patients, rapidly finding a focus for clinical work, and making optimal use of available time. Case examples and extensive transcripts are included to illustrate the use of strategies and techniques drawn from many different psychotherapy perspectives. Throughout, the focus is on creative and efficient ways to help patients build on existing strengths and make desired changes in their interactions with others.

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Guilford Publications

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1462527507

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Environmental Problem Solving

Psychosocial Barriers to Adaptive Change

By: Alan Miller

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Environmental Problem Solving

Psychosocial Barriers to Adaptive Change

By: Alan Miller

Human influences create both environmental problems and barriers to effective policy aimed at addressing those problems. In effect, environmental managers manage people as much as they manage the environment. Therefore, they must gain an understanding of the psychological and sociopolitical dimensions of environmental problems that they are attempting to resolve. In Environmental Problem Solving, Alan Miller reappraises conventional analyses of environmental problems using lessons from the psychosocial disciplines. He combines the disciplines of ecology, political sociology and psychology to produce a more adaptive approach to problem-solving that is specifically geared toward the environmetal field. Numerous case studies demonstrate the practical application of theory in a way that is useful to technical and scientific professionals as well as to policy makers and planners. Alan Miller is Professor of Psychology at the University of New Brunswick.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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The Lark's Lament

A Fools' Guild Mystery

By: Alan Gordon

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The Lark's Lament

A Fools' Guild Mystery

By: Alan Gordon

In 1204 A.D., the Fools' Guild is under attack from the forces of Pope Innocent III. Theophilos and Claudia, jesters with the Guild, are sent to enlist the help of a former guild member - the troubador Folquet, now a Cistercian abbot. But while they are at the abbey pleading their case, a gruesome murder takes place - a monk is killed in the librarium and a cryptic message written on the wall in his blood. With everything on the line, Theophilos, his wife, and their apprentice go off in search of the meaning of the message, uncovering a long-ago series of events that will prove to be as deadly now as they were then.

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