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Job Skills and Minority Youth

New Program Directions

By: Barton J. Hirsch

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Job Skills and Minority Youth

New Program Directions

By: Barton J. Hirsch

Minority youth unemployment is an enduring economic and social concern. This book evaluates two new initiatives for minority high school students that seek to cultivate marketable job skills. The first is an after-school program that provides experiences similar to apprenticeships, and the second emphasizes new approaches to improving job interview performance. The evaluation research has several distinct strengths. It involves a randomized controlled trial, uncommon in assessments of this issue and age group. Marketable job skills are assessed through a mock job interview developed for this research and administered by experienced human resource professionals. Mixed methods are utilized, with qualitative data shedding light on what actually happens inside the programs, and a developmental science approach situating the findings in terms of adolescent development. Beneficial for policy makers and practitioners as well as scholars, Job Skills and Minority Youth focuses on identifying the most promising tactics and addressing likely implementation issues.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107075009

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9781107075009

After-School Centers and Youth Development

Case Studies of Success and Failure

By: Barton J. Hirsch,Nancy L. Deutsch,David L. DuBois

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After-School Centers and Youth Development

Case Studies of Success and Failure

By: Barton J. Hirsch,Nancy L. Deutsch,David L. DuBois

This book examines after-school programs in light of their explosive growth in recent years. In the rush to mount programs, there is a danger of promoting weak ones of little value and failing to implement strong ones adequately. But what is quality and how can it be achieved? This book presents findings from an intensive study of three after-school centers that differed dramatically in quality. Drawing from 233 site visits, the authors examine how – and why – young people thrive in good programs and suffer in weak ones. The book features engaging, in-depth case studies of each of the three centers and of six youths, two from each center. Written in a highly accessible style for academics, youth workers, after-school program leaders and policy makers, the study breaks new ground in highlighting the importance of factors such as collective mentoring, synergies among different programs and activities, and organizational culture and practices.

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367

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Cambridge University Press

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1139497995

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9781139497992

World Military History Bibliography

Premodern and Nonwestern Military Institutions and Warfare

By: Barton Hacker

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World Military History Bibliography

Premodern and Nonwestern Military Institutions and Warfare

By: Barton Hacker

Preclassical and indigenous nonwestern military institutions and methods of warfare are the chief subjects of this annotated bibliography of work published 1967–1997. Classical antiquity, post-Roman Europe, and the westernized armed forces of the 20th century, although covered, receive less systematic attention. Emphasis is on historical studies of military organization and the relationships between military and other social institutions, rather than wars and battles. Especially rich in references to the periodical literature, the bibliography is divided into eight parts: (1) general and comparative topics; (2) the ancient world; (3) Eurasia since antiquity; (4) sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania; (5) pre-Columbian America; (6) postcontact America; (7) the contemporary nonwestern world; and (8) philosophical, social scientific, natural scientific, and other works not primarily historical.

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847

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BRILL

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9047402103

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9789047402107

Fabricating History

English Writers on the French Revolution

By: Barton R. Friedman

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Fabricating History

English Writers on the French Revolution

By: Barton R. Friedman

Barton Friedman demonstrates the ways in which English men of letters in the nineteenth century attempted to grasp the dynamics of history and to fashion order, however fragile, out of its apparent chaos. The authors he discusses--Blake, Scott, Hazlitt, Carlyle, Dickens, and Hardy--found in the French Revolution an event more compelling as a paradigm of history than their own "Glorious Revolution." To them the French Revolution seemed universally significant--a microcosm, in short. For these writers maintaining the distinction between "history" and "fiction" was less important than making sense of epochal historical events in symbolic terms. Their works on the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars occupy the boundary between history and fiction, and Fabricating History advances the current lively discussion of that boundary. At the same time, this work explores questions about narrative strategies, as they are shaped by, or shape, events. Narratives incorporate the ideological and metaphysical preconceptions that the authors bring with them to their writing. "This is not to argue," Professor Friedman says, "that historical narratives are only about the mind manufacturing them or, more narrowly yet, about themselves as mere linguistic constructs. They illumine both the time and place they seek to re-create and, if by indirection, the time and place of the mind thinking them into being." Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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250

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Princeton University Press

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1400859344

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9781400859344

After Hitchcock

Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality

By: David Boyd,R. Barton Palmer

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After Hitchcock

Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality

By: David Boyd,R. Barton Palmer

Alfred Hitchcock is arguably the most famous director to have ever made a film. Almost single-handedly he turned the suspense thriller into one of the most popular film genres of all time, while his Psycho updated the horror film and inspired two generations of directors to imitate and adapt this most Hitchcockian of movies. Yet while much scholarly and popular attention has focused on the director's oeuvre, until now there has been no extensive study of how Alfred Hitchcock's films and methods have affected and transformed the history of the film medium. In this book, thirteen original essays by leading film scholars reveal the richness and variety of Alfred Hitchcock's legacy as they trace his shaping influence on particular films, filmmakers, genres, and even on film criticism. Some essays concentrate on films that imitate Hitchcock in diverse ways, including the movies of Brian de Palma and thrillers such as True Lies, The Silence of the Lambs, and Dead Again. Other essays look at genres that have been influenced by Hitchcock's work, including the 1970s paranoid thriller, the Italian giallo film, and the post-Psycho horror film. The remaining essays investigate developments within film culture and academic film study, including the enthusiasm of French New Wave filmmakers for Hitchcock's work, his influence on the filmic representation of violence in the post-studio Hollywood era, and the ways in which his films have become central texts for film theorists.

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University of Texas Press

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029271338X

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9780292713383

A Place to Call Home

After-school Programs for Urban Youth

By: Barton Jay Hirsch

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A Place to Call Home

After-school Programs for Urban Youth

By: Barton Jay Hirsch

Barton J. Hirsch identifies the strengths of after-school settings while challenging them to rise to new levels of excellence. He describes his research conducted over a four-year period at six Boys & Girls Clubs all located in low income, predominantly minority, urban neighbourhoods.

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Amer Psychological Assn

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1591472024

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9781591472025

What Do I Read Next?

A Reader's Guide to Current Genre Fiction 1996

By: Gale Group,Barron,Barton,Steven A. Stilwell

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What Do I Read Next?

A Reader's Guide to Current Genre Fiction 1996

By: Gale Group,Barron,Barton,Steven A. Stilwell

This annual selection guide covers new novels in the mystery fiction, science fiction, fantasy, horror, western fiction and romance genres. By identifying similarities in various books, it seeks to help readers to independently choose titles of interest published during 1995 - 1996. Entries are arranged by author within six genre sections, and provide: publisher and publication date; series name and number; description of characters; time/geographical setting; review citation; genre and setting notations; and related books.

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Gale Cengage

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0787610488

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9780787610487

Book's by Barton Jay Hirsch

Job Skills and Minority Youth

Job Skills and Minority Youth

After-School Centers and Youth Development

After-School Centers and Youth Development

World Military History Bibliography

World Military History Bibliography

Fabricating History

Fabricating History

After Hitchcock

After Hitchcock

A Place to Call Home

A Place to Call Home

What Do I Read Next?

What Do I Read Next?

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