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The Three Languages of Politics

Talking Across the Political Divides

By: Arnold Kling

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The Three Languages of Politics

Talking Across the Political Divides

By: Arnold Kling

When it was first released in 2013, Arnold Kling’s The Three Languages of Politics was a prescient exploration of political communication, detailing the “three tribal coalitions” that make up America’s political landscape. Progressives, conservatives, and libertarians, he argued, are “like tribes speaking different languages. As a result, political discussions do not lead to agreement. Instead, most political commentary serves to increase polarization.” Now available as a newly revised and expanded edition, Kling’s book could not be any more timely, as Americans—whether as media pundits or conversing at a party—talk past one another with even greater volume, heat, and disinterest in contrary opinions. The Three Languages of Politics is an accessible, precise, and insightful guide to how to lower the barriers coarsening our politics. This is not a book about one ideology over another. Instead, it is a book about how we communicate issues and our ideologies, and how language intended to persuade instead divides. Kling offers a way to see through our rhetorical blinders so that we can incorporate new perspectives, nuances, and thinking into the important issues we must together share and resolve.

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Cato Institute

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1944424474

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Invisible Wealth

The Hidden Story of How Markets Work

By: Arnold Kling,Nick Schulz

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Invisible Wealth

The Hidden Story of How Markets Work

By: Arnold Kling,Nick Schulz

The discipline of economics is not what it used to be. Over the last few decades, economists have begun a revolutionary reorientation in how we look at the world, and this has major implications for politics, policy, and our everyday lives. For years, conventional economists told us an incomplete story that leaned on the comfortable precision of mathematical abstraction and ignored the complexity of the real world with all of its uncertainties, unknowns, and ongoing evolution. What economists left out of the story were the positive forces of creativity, innovation, and advancing technology that propel economies forward. Economists did not describe the dynamic process that leads to new pharmaceuticals, cell phones, Web-based information services—forces that fundamentally alter how we live our daily lives. Economists also left out the negative forces that can hold economies back: bad governance, counterproductive social practices, and patterns of taking wealth instead of creating it. They took for granted secure property rights, honest public servants, and the willingness of individuals to experiment and adapt to novelty. From Poverty to Prosperity is not Tipping Point or Freakonomics. Those books offer a smorgasbord of fascinating findings in economics and sociology, but the findings are only loosely related. From Poverty to Prosperity on the other hand, tells a big picture story about the huge differences in the standard of living across time and across borders. It is a story that draws on research from the world’s most important economists and eschews the conventional wisdom for a new, more inclusive, vision of the world and how it works.

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Encounter Books

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1594035423

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Crisis of Abundance

Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care

By: Arnold Kling

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Crisis of Abundance

Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care

By: Arnold Kling

In Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care, economist Arnold Kling argues that the way we finance health care matches neither the needs of patients nor the way medicine is practiced. The availability of "premium medicine," combined with patients who are insulated from costs, means Americans are not getting maximum value per dollar spent. Using basic economic concepts, Kling demonstrates that a greater reliance on private saving and market innovation would eliminate waste, contain health care costs and improve the quality of care. Kling proposes gradually shifting responsibility for health care for the elderly away from taxpayers and back to the individual.

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Cato Institute

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1933995343

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Learning Economics

By: Arnold Kling Ph.D.

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Learning Economics

By: Arnold Kling Ph.D.

This book introduces the subject of economics using clear prose, rather than the graphs and equations common in many textbooks. The focus is on contemporary issues, particularly technological innovation and growth. To browse through the book or read some endorsements of the book, click here. The link below only gives you a brief excerpt.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462834205

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Memory and the Brain

By: Magda B. Arnold

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Memory and the Brain

By: Magda B. Arnold

Published in the year 1984, Memory and the Brain is a valuable contribution to the field of Neuropsychology.

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Psychology Press

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1134922817

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9781134922819

Unchecked and Unbalanced

How the Discrepancy Between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy

By: Arnold S. Kling

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Unchecked and Unbalanced

How the Discrepancy Between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy

By: Arnold S. Kling

In Unchecked and Unbalanced, Arnold Kling provides a blueprint for those who are skeptical of political and financial elitism. At the heart of Kling's argument is the growing discrepancy between two phenomena: knowledge is becoming more diffuse, while political power is becoming more concentrated. Kling sees this knowledge/power discrepancy at the heart of the financial crisis of 2008. Financial industry executives and regulatory officials lacked the ability to fathom the complexity of the system that had emerged. And, in response, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, said that they required still more power, including $700 billion to purchase "toxic assets" from banks. Kling warns that increased concentration of power is a problem, not a panacea, for our modern world and suggests reforms designed to curb the growth of government and allow citizens greater control over the allocation of public goods. Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution

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Rowman & Littlefield

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144220124X

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Sermons: Chiefly on the Interpretation of Scripture

By: Thomas Arnold

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Sermons: Chiefly on the Interpretation of Scripture

By: Thomas Arnold

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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3368878611

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Vincent van Gogh:

Chemicals, Crises and Creativity

By: ARNOLD

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Vincent van Gogh:

Chemicals, Crises and Creativity

By: ARNOLD

As a five year old I encountered a picture of a young man in a rakish hat and a yellow coat, on the wall of a large classroom. There was something instantly intriguing about the image, but it was also puzzling because it represented neither politician nor prince, the usual fare for Australian school decorations. I was eventually told that this was a reproduction of a painting, the artist was Vincent van Gogh, and that the subject was some young Frenchman. On special days we assembled in that room and during the next several years I found myself gazing beyond visiting speakers at the fellow in the yellow jacket. It was almost another fifty years before I felt properly conversant with the portrait and realized that van Gogh's subject, Armand Roulin, was seventeen at the time ofthe original painting and had died at seventy-four during my schoolboy contemplations. In the interim my enjoyment of the works of the Impressionists and Post Impressionists had grown and I occasionally ran into the name of Dr. Gachet, Vincent's last attending physician, in books and catalog essays. The doctor was my entree to the overlapping charms of medical and art histories. In 1987 I had the good fortune to participate as a biochemist in the centenary celebration of the Pasteur Institut in Paris.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461229766

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The Liszt Companion

By: Ben Arnold

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The Liszt Companion

By: Ben Arnold

Franz Liszt is most well-known for his compositions for piano and orchestra, but his influence is also strong in chamber music, choral music, and orchestral transcriptions. This new collection of essays presents a scholarly overview of all of the composer's work, providing the most comprehensive and current treatment of both his oeuvre and the immense amount of secondary literature written about it. Highly regarded critics and scholars write for both a general and academic audience, covering all of Liszt's major compositions as well as the neglected gems found among his choral and chamber works. Following an outline of the subject's life, The Liszt Companion goes on to detail Liszt's critical reception in the German press, his writings and letters, his piano and orchestral works, his neglected secular choral works, and his major organ compositions. Also explored here are his little-known chamber pieces and his songs. An exhaustive bibliography and index of works conclude the volume. This work will both elucidate aspects of Liszt's most famous work and revive interest in those pieces that deserve and require greater attention.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313092141

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9780313092145

Statistics, Econometrics and Forecasting

By: Arnold Zellner

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Statistics, Econometrics and Forecasting

By: Arnold Zellner

Based on two lectures presented as part of The Stone Lectures in Economics series, Arnold Zellner describes the structural econometric time series analysis (SEMTSA) approach to statistical and econometric modeling. Developed by Zellner and Franz Palm, the SEMTSA approach produces an understanding of the relationship of univariate and multivariate time series forecasting models and dynamic, time series structural econometric models. As scientists and decision-makers in industry and government world-wide adopt the Bayesian approach to scientific inference, decision-making and forecasting, Zellner offers an in-depth analysis and appreciation of this important paradigm shift. Finally Zellner discusses the alternative approaches to model building and looks at how the use and development of the SEMTSA approach has led to the production of a Marshallian Macroeconomic Model that will prove valuable to many. Written by one of the foremost practitioners of econometrics, this book will have wide academic and professional appeal.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521540445

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9780521540445

Juvenile Delinquency:

Historical, Cultural & Legal Perspectives

By: Arnold Binder,Gilbert Geis,Dickson D Bruce Jr.

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Juvenile Delinquency:

Historical, Cultural & Legal Perspectives

By: Arnold Binder,Gilbert Geis,Dickson D Bruce Jr.

Juvenile Delinquency:

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Routledge

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1437729207

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Problem-Solving Courts and the Criminal Justice System

By: David DeMatteo,Kirk Heilbrun,Alice Thornewill,Shelby Arnold

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Problem-Solving Courts and the Criminal Justice System

By: David DeMatteo,Kirk Heilbrun,Alice Thornewill,Shelby Arnold

Problem-solving courts provide judicially supervised treatment for behavioral health needs commonly found among criminal offenders, including substance abuse and mental health disorders, and they treat a variety of offender populations. These courts employ a team-based approach consisting of a judge, defense attorney, prosecutor, and treatment providers, representing a significant paradigm shift in how the justice system treats offenders with special needs. Despite the proliferation of problem-solving courts, there remains some uncertainty about how they function, how effective they are, and the most promising ways to implement problem-solving justice. Problem-Solving Courts and the Criminal Justice System provides a comprehensive foundation of knowledge related to problem-solving courts and the role they play in the United States criminal justice system. The book begins with an overview that explores precipitating factors in these courts' development, relevant political influence, and their history, purposes, benefits, and drawbacks, followed by a detailed discussion of specific types of problem solving courts, including drug courts, mental health courts, and veterans courts, among many others. Next a review of the legal and ethical considerations of alternative methods to standard prosecution is complemented by an examination of the methodological challenges faced by researchers when attempting to study the effectiveness of problem-solving courts. The book concludes with a discussion of future directions in terms of research, practice, and policy relating to these courts in the United States. Problem-Solving Courts and the Criminal Justice System is appropriate for professionals, researchers, and students in the fields of mental health, criminal justice, and law.

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Oxford University Press

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0190844841

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The Third Bank of the River

Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon

By: Chris Feliciano Arnold

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The Third Bank of the River

Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon

By: Chris Feliciano Arnold

A sweeping look at the war over the Amazon—as activists,locals, and indigenous tribes struggle to save it from the threat of loggers, drug lords, and corrupt cops and politicians Following doctors and detectives, environmental activists and indigenous tribes, The Third Bank of the River traces the history of the Amazon from the arrival of the first Spanish flotilla to the drones that are now mapping unexplored parts of the forest. Grounded in rigorous firsthand reporting and in-depth research, Chris Feliciano Arnold reveals a portrait of Brazil and the Amazon that is complex, bloody, and often tragic. During the 2014 World Cup, an isolated Amazon tribe emerged from the rain forest on the misty border of Peru and Brazil, escaping massacre at the hands of loggers who wanted their land. A year later, in the jungle capital of Manaus, a bloody weekend of reprisal killings inflame a drug war that has blurred the line between cops and kingpins. Both events reveal the dual struggles of those living in and around the world’s largest river. As indigenous tribes lose their ancestral culture and territory to the lure and threat of the outside world, the question arises of how best to save isolated tribes: Keep them away from the modern world or make contact in an effort to save them from extinction? As Brazil looks to be a world leader in the twenty-first century, this magnificent and vast region is mired in chaos and violence that echoes the atrocities that have haunted the rain forest since Europeans first traveled its waters.

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Picador

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1250098955

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Riceyman Steps

By: Arnold Bennett

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Riceyman Steps

By: Arnold Bennett

A middle-aged bookshop proprietor marries a widowed shopkeeper but their chance for late-in-life happiness is threatened by his obsessive miserliness. Winner of the 1923 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

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Courier Dover Publications

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0486846911

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9780486846910

Burning the Dead

Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition

By: David Arnold

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Burning the Dead

Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition

By: David Arnold

Burning the Dead traces the evolution of cremation in India and the South Asian diaspora across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through interconnected histories of movement, space, identity, and affect, it examines how the so-called traditional practice of Hindu cremation on an open-air funeral pyre was culturally transformed and materially refashioned under British rule, following intense Western hostility, colonial sanitary acceptance, and Indian adaptation. David Arnold examines the critical reception of Hindu cremation abroad, particularly in Britain, where India formed a primary reference point for the cremation debates of the late nineteenth century, and explores the struggle for official recognition of cremation among Hindu and Sikh communities around the globe. Above all, Arnold foregrounds the growing public presence and assertive political use made of Hindu cremation, its increasing social inclusivity, and its close identification with Hindu reform movements and modern Indian nationhood.

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Univ of California Press

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0520976649

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9780520976641

The Story and Confessions of My Life

What Is My Life?

By: Rev. Dale John Arnold

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The Story and Confessions of My Life

What Is My Life?

By: Rev. Dale John Arnold

The Story and Confessions of My Life: What Is My Life? By: Rev. Dale John Arnold In the first part to The Story and Confessions of My Life, Rev. Dale John Arnold shares his first twenty-five years. Growing up in the 1980s, Rev. Arnold takes us along his journey from his first memories of school, both the exciting and the hardships; becoming a teenager and finding himself faced with the decision to follow Christ; and the challenges of being a young married adult with a growing family of six. Through humor and testimony to coming to Jesus, Rev. Arnold provides a detailed and eye-opening look into how an entire life can change by these first few but significant years.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1638671362

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Ship Island, Mississippi

Rosters and History of the Civil War Prison

By: Theresa Arnold-Scriber,Terry G. Scriber

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Ship Island, Mississippi

Rosters and History of the Civil War Prison

By: Theresa Arnold-Scriber,Terry G. Scriber

Ship Island was used as a French base of operations for Gulf Coast maneuvers and later, during the War of 1812, by the British as a launching point for the disastrous Battle of New Orleans. But most memorably, Ship Island served as a Federal prison under the command of Union Major General Benjamin F. Butler during the Civil War. This volume traces this fascinating and somewhat sinister history of Ship Island. The main focus of the book is a series of rosters of the men imprisoned. Organized first by the state in which the soldier enlisted and then by the company in which he served, entries are listed alphabetically by last name and include information such as beginning rank; date and place of enlistment; date and place of capture; physical characteristics; and, where possible, the fate and postwar occupation of the prisoner.

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McFarland

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0786468998

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9780786468997

Institutions and Ideologies

A SOAS South Asia Reader

By: David Arnold,Peter Robb

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Institutions and Ideologies

A SOAS South Asia Reader

By: David Arnold,Peter Robb

Informative, timely and accessible introduction to the study of South Asia by leading scholars in the field.

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Routledge

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1136102426

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9781136102424

Hush of the Land

A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness

By: Arnold "Smoke" Elser,Eva-Maria Maggi

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Hush of the Land

A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness

By: Arnold "Smoke" Elser,Eva-Maria Maggi

Hush of the Land chronicles the six-decade quest of backcountry packer and outfitter Smoke Elser to protect wilderness areas not by keeping people away but by leading them deep into the wild mountains of western Montana.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496231007

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9781496231000

Colonizing the Body

State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India

By: David Arnold

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Colonizing the Body

State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India

By: David Arnold

In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers. Focusing on three major epidemic diseases—smallpox, cholera, and plague—Arnold analyzes the impact of medical interventionism. He demonstrates that Western medicine as practiced in India was not simply transferred from West to East, but was also fashioned in response to local needs and Indian conditions. By emphasizing this colonial dimension of medicine, Arnold highlights the centrality of the body to political authority in British India and shows how medicine both influenced and articulated the intrinsic contradictions of colonial rule.

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Univ of California Press

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0520082958

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9780520082953

Understanding the Alcoholic's Mind

The Nature of Craving and How to Control It

By: Arnold M. Ludwig

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Understanding the Alcoholic's Mind

The Nature of Craving and How to Control It

By: Arnold M. Ludwig

In this groundbreaking book, Arnold M. Ludwig—a doctor with over twenty-five years of experience working with alcoholics—penetrates the minds of alcoholics in order to explain the behaviors and thought processes they use to get and stay sober. He has worked with over one thousand alcoholics from all walks of life and within many different settings, including hospital clinics, Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, detoxification centers, and private homes. Using clinical vignettes, research findings, and personal anecdotes, he documents the basic principles necessary for conquering craving and achieving recovery.

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Oxford University Press

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0195059182

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Family Measurement Techniques

Abstracts of Published Instruments, 1935-1974

By: Murray Arnold Straus,Bruce W. Brown

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Family Measurement Techniques

Abstracts of Published Instruments, 1935-1974

By: Murray Arnold Straus,Bruce W. Brown

813 measurement techniques, arranged and described under various aspects of family life, e.g., husband-wife relationships. 130 journals and pertinent books used as sources. Each entry gives test name, variables measured, length, availability, and references. Author, test title, and subject indexes.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816607990

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9780816607990

Empathy

Development, Training, and Consequences

By: Arnold P. Goldstein,Gerald Y. Michaels

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Empathy

Development, Training, and Consequences

By: Arnold P. Goldstein,Gerald Y. Michaels

Originally published in 1985, this book sought to thoroughly examine and better understand a dimension of interpersonal relations which at the time had often proven elusive, confusing, and quite difficult to operationalize. Empathy had been diversely defined, hard to measure, often resistant to change, yet emerged as a singularly important influence in human interaction. The Editors lengthy effort to better understand its nature, consequences and alteration was not an easy journey, yet was a rewarding one. This book presents the fruits of their journey, and thus they hoped the reader would feel equally rewarded. The several diverse definitions of empathy are sequentially presented and examined in Chapter 1, in an effort to begin this book with a shared understanding of the major historical and contemporary meanings of the construct. The Editors conclude this initial chapter by subscribing themselves to a particular components definition of empathy, a definition they predict will prove particularly useful in enhancing future understanding, investigation, and application of empathic behaviour. This components definition, therefore, substantially influences and shapes much of the content of the rest of the book.

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Routledge

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1000379191

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Sacred

By: Elana K. Arnold

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Sacred

By: Elana K. Arnold

Since her older brother died Scarlett has felt emotionally cut off from everyone on Catalina Island except for her horse, and she has become anorexic--but when she meets a strange boy named Will Cohen she begins to rediscover herself.

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Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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0385742118

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9780385742115

Reticulate Evolution and Humans

Origins and Ecology

By: Michael L. Arnold

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Reticulate Evolution and Humans

Origins and Ecology

By: Michael L. Arnold

This book describes the important role that the transfer of genes between organisms has played during the origin and evolution of humans, and the evolution of organisms on which the human species depends for shelter, sustenance and companionship.

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Oxford University Press

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0199539588

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In Our Hands

A Hand Surgeon's Tales of the Body's Most Exquisite Instrument

By: Arnold Arem

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In Our Hands

A Hand Surgeon's Tales of the Body's Most Exquisite Instrument

By: Arnold Arem

“Thorough, informative, and warmly modern.” —Kirkus Reviews Over the twenty years that Arnold Arem has worked as a reconstructive hand surgeon, he has reflected on the impact of living with pain and questions of psychic well-being in the face of crippling injury and physical deformity. Many patients have been helped by his mixture of technical skill and an all-too-rare ability to simply listen to them. Arem tells extraordinary stories of the people he has treated in his practice: a boy with a birth defect for whom he fashions opposable thumbs; an elderly woman whose bizarre paralysis he recognizes as psychosomatic, leading to a cure; a man whose spirit remains intact despite the loss of both feet and one hand to Jim Henson’s disease. Above all, In Our Hands evokes the deepest issues of the relationship between the hand and human identity.

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080507435X

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