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The Seven Sacred Pools of Oheo

By: J Paul Holahan

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The Seven Sacred Pools of Oheo

By: J Paul Holahan

This narrative delves into the life of a man navigating a sea of universal human trials. It's a journey through loss and the quest for faith and humility, the complexities of relationships, the temptations of greed, and the consequences of selfishness. This story mirrors our collective experience, reflecting how we, as a species, often tread on purity for profit, regardless of the cost. The book promises to immerse you in the triumph over fear, the rediscovery of faith, and the essence of what truly enriches life. It aims to provoke a profound realization of the impactful presence each person holds on this Earth and the unique value of every individual life. By the final page, it is the author’s hope that readers will experience an awakening to their potential and embrace the spirit of Aloha: a compassionate ethos that, if adopted universally, could profoundly transform our world for the better. There is none better. Let this be the mantra we live by, making our existence and our world the very best it can be. No Ka Oi.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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Projects Without Boundaries

Successfully Leading Teams and Managing Projects in a Virtual World

By: Russ J. Martinelli,James M. Waddell,Tim J. Rahschulte

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Projects Without Boundaries

Successfully Leading Teams and Managing Projects in a Virtual World

By: Russ J. Martinelli,James M. Waddell,Tim J. Rahschulte

Clear, proven solutions for virtual project management challenges Projects Without Boundaries offers project managers a clear framework for bringing both project management practices and project team leadership principles to the virtual space. Written by a team of authors with years of experience managing nationally and internationally distributed teams, this book provides a suite of best practices, checklists, and actionable strategies for managing a project and building a high-performing team in a virtual and multicultural environment. Real-world examples illustrate the application of the concepts discussed, and the Virtual Project Readiness Assessment facilitates both team evaluation and transformation planning for virtual project management improvement. Each chapter focuses on the critical challenges encountered while managing virtual projects and details proven solutions that improve a virtual organization, boost project performance, and facilitate positive outcomes. Globalization and technological advances have merged to create dynamic, productive teams that work together from around the globe; this opportunity can bring great difficulty for project managers, who must negotiate hurdles that do not exist on traditional projects. This book provides ready-made solutions specific to distributed and multicultural teams, to help you achieve the full potential of the global talent pool. Overcome common challenges of virtual projects with distributed teams Navigate complex team dynamics to ensure effective collaboration Work seamlessly across borders, time zones, and cultures Determine optimal virtual communication and collaboration tools Apply traditional project management practices in a virtual setting A team fails or thrives on the strength of its management. Fitting the group's needs, expectations, personalities, and skills into a cohesive whole is seldom simple — and distance adds an additional layer of complexity. Projects Without Boundaries provides expert guidance on keeping it together, with proven practices, tools, and virtual team leadership strategies.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119376408

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Remembering the Forgotten Merton

By: William J. Meegan

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Remembering the Forgotten Merton

By: William J. Meegan

This is the first book written about John Paul Merton, Thomas Merton's younger brother. Neither scholar nor saint, the life of John Paul Merton illustrates there is more than one way to live a meaningful and holy life. His was a quietly incubating spirituality guided by his law of love. He began life singing in a crib and ended his life praying as he lay dying in a dinghy in the English Channel during World War II. This book examines the relationship he had with his famous brother, Thomas, especially in the years before Tom became a monk. It examines, among other topics, the relationship between Thomas, the intellectual, and John Paul, the action-oriented younger brother. As a teenager, John Paul earned the nickname "Wildman," and as an adult he learned to live life to the fullest on his own terms. The bumps and bruises of his life--orphaned at twelve years of age, dismissed from Cornell without his degree, and frustrated in his effort to serve in World War II as a fighter pilot--were faced head on. He lived life as an optimist without losing sight of the reality of his world. Most importantly, John Paul's "journey of hidden holiness" can inspire each of us as we, too, journey onward.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666722197

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John Guare’s Theatre

The Art of Connecting

By: Robert J. Andreach

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John Guare’s Theatre

The Art of Connecting

By: Robert J. Andreach

From the 1960s to the present day, John Guare’s plays have ranged from one-act to cyclic, realistic to surrealistic, naturalistic to experimental, and tragic to comic dramas. This study’s approach to the cornucopia the playwright himself provided when in an interview he gave a fundamental aesthetic principle of his craft. Like a person—and Guare’s plays develop the personal as well as the artistic self—a play must be grounded in reality; only then can it soar. The ground is traditional theatre with characters, no matter how larger than life they can be, and plot, no matter how illogical it can be. The soaring is in interrupting the action with monological narratives and musical interludes, bringing characters back from the dead, and having the action take hairpin turns into a mixture of genres and styles, modes and tones. In verbal and visual images, the flight invokes works by authors as varied as Aeschylus and Whitman, Dante and Feydeau, Verdi and Romberg. Soaring from ground to new ground, the theatre creates the transmission of the American heritage in Lake Hollywood, an idealism corrupted by a fraudulent American Dream in Lydie Breeze, and the recovery of the past in A Few Stout Individuals. As Guare said about his plays: they “interconnect.”

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Economics, Politics, and American Public Policy

By: James J. Gosling,Marc Allen Eisner

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Economics, Politics, and American Public Policy

By: James J. Gosling,Marc Allen Eisner

This text introduces students to the interrelationship of politics and economics in American public policymaking: how economic concerns have been legislated into law since Franklin Roosevelt's time and how politics (e.g., Washington gridlock) affects the economy and the making of public policy. Students learn how to measure various indicators of economic performance, how the U.S. economy works (domestically and with international linkages), and how and why policymakers act to stabilise an economy in an economic downturn. Additionally, many social insurance programs (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid) are explained and the current fiscal issues concerning current/future costs are treated in some detail. The book concludes with a full chapter case study on the Obama administration's response to the Great Recession and its dealings with Congress; the implementation of the Affordable Care Act is also discussed.

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Routledge

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131747239X

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The Social Welfare of Women and Children with HIV and AIDS

Legal Protections, Policy, and Programs

By: Theodore J. Stein

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The Social Welfare of Women and Children with HIV and AIDS

Legal Protections, Policy, and Programs

By: Theodore J. Stein

This book examines the issues surrounding the growing epidemic of women and children with HIV and AIDS. It explores such issues as discrimination in employment, housing, health care, and education, and looks at medical testing, confidentiality, reproductive freedom, income assistance, child welfare, and child custody. Focusing on the federal and state statutes that protect women and children with HIV and AIDS from discrimination, this book also examines the statutes that govern the operation of the public systems to which significant numbers of women with HIV and AIDS turn to for financial and medical needs, housing assistance, and social services. Clear and accessible, this book is vital reading for anyone interested in learning more about the policies, provisions, and legal concepts surrounding this issue.

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0195109422

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Handbook of State Government Administration

By: John J. Gargan

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Handbook of State Government Administration

By: John J. Gargan

Devised to meet the ongoing challenge of identifying the skills and knowledge necessary for expanding the governing capacity of state and local authorities, this book discusses the fiscal consequences of get tough approaches to crime and presents more effective and less expensive policy options. Surveying the range of administrative and management practices employed by state governments, the editor and contributors explore the results of the governmental reform tradition, the impact of federalism and intergovernmental relations, and the effects of political culture on state government by focusing on economic development, welfare, corrections, and environmental programs and policies.

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Hollow Mandates

American Public Opinion And The Conservative Shift

By: Howard J. Gold

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Hollow Mandates

American Public Opinion And The Conservative Shift

By: Howard J. Gold

Examining American public opinion from the Johnson administration through the Reagan years, this book uncovers the true nature of American public opinion, showing that, in fact, the American public has not embraced a conservative ideology.

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0429722745

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Across the Divide

Union Soldiers View the Northern Home Front

By: Steven J. Ramold

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Across the Divide

Union Soldiers View the Northern Home Front

By: Steven J. Ramold

Ramold disputes the old argument that citizen-soldiers in the Union Army differed little from civilians. He shows how a chasm of mutual distrust grew between soldiers and civilians during four years of fighting that led many Democratic soldiers to…build the groundwork for the postwar Republican Party. Filled with gripping anecdotes, this book makes for fascinating reading." —Scott Reynolds Nelson, College of William & Mary Union soldiers left home in 1861 with expectations that the conflict would be short, the purpose of the war was clear, and public support back home was universal. As the war continued, however, Union soldiers noticed growing disparities between their own expectations and those of their families at home with growing concern and alarm. Instead of support for the war, an extensive and oft-violent anti-war movement emerged. In this first study of the gulf between Union soldiers and northern civilians, Steven J. Ramold reveals the wide array of factors that prevented the Union Army and the civilians on whose behalf they were fighting from becoming a united front during the Civil War. In Across the Divide, Ramold illustrates how the divided spheres of Civil War experience created social and political conflict far removed from the better-known battlefields of the war. Steven J. Ramold, Associate Professor of American History at Eastern Michigan University, is the author of two previous books, Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy and Baring the Iron Hand: Discipline in the Union Army. He and his wife reside in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

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0814729193

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Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions

Farnsworths Charge, South Cavalry Field, and the Battle of Fairfield, July 3, 1863

By: Eric J. Wittenberg

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Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions

Farnsworths Charge, South Cavalry Field, and the Battle of Fairfield, July 3, 1863

By: Eric J. Wittenberg

An award-winning historical study of the important role played by Union and Confederate horse soldiers on the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg. The Union army’s victory at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 3, 1863, is widely considered to have been the turning point in America’s War between the States. But the valuable contributions of the mounted troops, both Northern and Rebel, in the decisive three-day conflict have gone largely unrecognized. Acclaimed Civil War historian Eric J. Wittenberg now gives the cavalries their proper due. In Gettysburg’s Forgotten Cavalry Actions, Wittenberg explores three important mounted engagements undertaken during the battle and how they influenced the final outcome. The courageous but doomed response by Brig. Gen. Elon J. Farnsworth’s cavalry brigade in the wake of Pickett’s Charge is recreated in fascinating detail, revealing the fatal flaws in the general’s plan to lead his riders against entrenched Confederate infantry and artillery. The tenacious assault led by Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt on South Cavalry Field is also examined, as is the strategic victory at Fairfield by Southern troops that nearly destroyed the Sixth US Cavalry and left Hagerstown Road open, enabling General Lee’s eventual retreat. Winner of the prestigious Bachelder-Coddington Award for historical works concerning the Battle of Gettysburg, Eric J. Wittenberg’s Gettysburg’s Forgotten Cavalry Actions rights a long-standing wrong by lifting these all-important engagements out of obscurity. A must-read for Civil War buffs everywhere, it completes the story of the battle that changed American history forever.

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1611210712

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Policy and Choice

Public Finance Through the Lens of Behavioral Economics

By: William J. Congdon,Jeffrey R. Kling,Sendhil Mullainathan

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Policy and Choice

Public Finance Through the Lens of Behavioral Economics

By: William J. Congdon,Jeffrey R. Kling,Sendhil Mullainathan

Argues that public finance--the study of the government's role in economics--should incorporate principles from behavior economics and other branches of psychology.

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0815704984

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A Child of God

Stories of Jesus and Stewardship Activities for Children

By: Michael J. Caduto

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A Child of God

Stories of Jesus and Stewardship Activities for Children

By: Michael J. Caduto

Explores the life of Jesus and his close relationship to creation with stories, reflections, and activities to help foster compassion and caring toward every part of creation.

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Healthcare Systems Engineering

By: Paul M. Griffin,Harriet B. Nembhard,Christopher J. DeFlitch,Nathaniel D. Bastian,Hyojung Kang,David A. Munoz

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Healthcare Systems Engineering

By: Paul M. Griffin,Harriet B. Nembhard,Christopher J. DeFlitch,Nathaniel D. Bastian,Hyojung Kang,David A. Munoz

Apply engineering and design principles to revitalize the healthcare delivery system Healthcare Systems Engineering is the first engineering book to cover this emerging field, offering comprehensive coverage of the healthcare system, healthcare delivery, and healthcare systems modeling. Written by leading industrial engineering authorities and a medical doctor specializing in healthcare delivery systems, this book provides a well-rounded resource for readers of a variety of backgrounds. Examples, case studies, and thoughtful learning activities are used to thoroughly explain the concepts presented, including healthcare systems, delivery, quantification, and design. You'll learn how to approach the healthcare industry as a complex system, and apply relevant design and engineering principles and processes to advance improvements. Written with an eye toward practicality, this book is designed to maximize your understanding and help you quickly apply toward solutions for a variety of healthcare challenges. Healthcare systems engineering is a new and complex interdisciplinary field that has emerged to address the myriad challenges facing the healthcare industry in the wake of reform. This book functions as both an introduction and a reference, giving you the knowledge you need to move toward better healthcare delivery. Understand the healthcare delivery context Use appropriate statistical and quantitative models Improve existing systems and design new ones Apply systems engineering to a variety of healthcare contexts Healthcare systems engineering overlaps with industrial engineering, operations research, and management science, uniting the principles and practices of these fields together in pursuit of optimal healthcare operations. Although collaboration is focused on practitioners, professionals in information technology, policy and administration, public health, and law all play crucial roles in revamping health care systems. Healthcare Systems Engineering is a complete and authoritative reference for stakeholders in any field.

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1118971108

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The Handbook of Technical Writing, Seventh Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

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The Handbook of Technical Writing, Seventh Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

The seventh edition of this classic comprehensive reference is now easier to use and more thorough than ever. With up-to-date coverage of workplace technology—from e-mail, Internet research, and writing for the Web to Web forms and page design—the Handbook of Technical Writing offers expert advice for meeting the demands of online writing. Abundant "real world" examples and sample documents throughout the text provide models for effective technical communication. The book's new "five-way access" structure—the alphabetical organization, topical key to the alphabetical entries, checklist of the writing process, comprehensive index, and new topical list of figures and model documents—provides even more ways of retrieving information, faster. This edition also includes new and revised entries on research, documenting sources, brochures, formal reports, newsletters, proposals, sales letters, presentations, and visuals. With entries that have been consolidated and streamlined, and in-depth treatment of grammar, usage, and the writing skills that both students and professionals need to master, the Handbook of Technical Writing remains both an accessible and easy-to-use guide, and the quick reference faithful users have come to appreciate.

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Macmillan

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0312309236

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The Dictionary of Health Economics, Third Edition

By: Anthony J. Culyer

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The Dictionary of Health Economics, Third Edition

By: Anthony J. Culyer

This third edition of Anthony Culyer�s authoritative The Dictionary of Health Economics brings the material right up to date as well as adding plentiful amounts of new information, with a number of revised definitions. There are now nearly 3,000 entrie

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1781001995

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State-level Databook on Health Care Access and Financing

By: David Liska,Niall J. Brennan,Brian K. Bruen

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State-level Databook on Health Care Access and Financing

By: David Liska,Niall J. Brennan,Brian K. Bruen

As the debate over the health care crisis continues, state policymakers can turn once again to the Databook for an up-to-date, comprehensive picture of the health system at the state level. The third edition of this invaluable sourcebook provides data on the insurance coverage of different groups; the characteristics of the uninsured; Medicaid enrollees and expenditures; health status; health care costs, access, and utilization; and state-specific demographics and economic profiles. It also reports totals for the United States and averages for the nine Census regions. Each section has a short introduction discussing the measures included and highlighting particularly significant results.

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The Urban Insitute

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0877666776

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One Nation After Trump

A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported

By: E.J. Dionne, Jr.,Norman J. Ornstein,Thomas E. Mann

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One Nation After Trump

A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported

By: E.J. Dionne, Jr.,Norman J. Ornstein,Thomas E. Mann

A call to action from three of Washington's ... political scholar-journalists, [this book] offers [a treatise on what they see as] the threat posed by the Trump presidency and how to counter it"--Amazon.com.

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1250164052

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The Dictionary of Health Economics, Second Edition

By: Anthony J. Culyer

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The Dictionary of Health Economics, Second Edition

By: Anthony J. Culyer

Another masterpiece in health economics from a doyen in the field, this expanded and updated dictionary will undoubtedly become a standard reference work for scholars, practitioners and others working in this area. The definitions are concise, the coverage is comprehensive, the cross-referencing is excellent, and the subject and name indexes greatly assist navigation of this substantial tome. You will want to keep this one within arm''s reach.'' Jim Butler, Australia National University ''Health economics and health service research as well as health care policy, delivery and finance rely on a dizzying array of terms drawn from a diverse set of disciplines including (but not limited) to economics, epidemiology, risk science and statistics. Moreover, the health and health care systems are replete with acronyms and specialized institutions. The Dictionary of Health Economics provides the most comprehensive set of definitions and explanations of these terms available. It is a fantastic resource for anyone working in any health related field.'' Michael Chernew, Harvard Medical School, US ''This dictionary is unique. What other dictionary borders on being an enjoyable read? Its breadth is quite astonishing. It is also very clearly a health economics dictionary and will allow those in mainstream economics, in the other social sciences and in health sciences and health care to understand and be better able to communicate with health economists. It will also be a most useful addition to the bookshelves of health economists like myself.'' Gavin Mooney, University of Sydney, Australia ''This book is a welcome addition for graduate students or professionals interested in the taxonomy of health care.'' David Cutler, Harvard University, US ''Health economics is at the crossroads of medicine, economics, statistics, insurance, and the law. This often makes for difficult reading. But help is now available thanks to this amazingly comprehensive Dictionary of Health Economics. I for one ran into several entries that I did not or did not fully understand, but the very clear explanations changed that within a few moments! This Dictionary is a true service to the scientific community.'' Peter Zweifel, University of Zurich, Switzerland ''The Dictionary provides a comprehensive overview and authoritative yet accessible explanation of important terms and concepts from the increasingly important field of health economics. This excellent work will enable many entering this field, students and professionals alike, to quickly yet thoroughly grasp the meaning of the health economics jargon, facilitating study and (multi-disciplinary) co-operation. Anthony Culyer is sharing his impressive knowledge in this field in a clear and user-friendly fashion, hopefully to the benefit of many readers.'' Werner Brouwer, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands ''An essential book to steer the student away from a minefield of inaccurate and woolly definitions and an important resource of the practitioner of health economics. A book that offers the reader accuracy and rigour in the definitions it provides of key terms in health economics alongside ready access.'' John Brazier, University of Sheffield, UK This second edition of Culyer''s authoritative Dictionary of Health Economics brings the material up to date and adds large amounts of new information. Some definitions have been revised. There are over 700 new entries. The Dictionary now also contains extensive references to the literature to identify original source material or to provide illustrations of the headword in use. The bibliography comprises some 1,000 items. In view of the huge growth in cost-effectiveness studies and the continuing variability in their quality, an appendix lists 100 high quality cost-effectiveness studies from all parts of the world. There are now many more entries and references relating to the developing world. New and separate subject and name indices provide supplementary means of searching the material and identifying individuals who have contributed significantly to the oeuvre.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1849806624

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The Handbook of Technical Writing, Sixth Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

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The Handbook of Technical Writing, Sixth Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

The definitive technical writing reference in an updated sixth edition. This comprehensive resource-alphabetically arranged for quick reference-provides guidance on the writing process, in-depth treatment of grammar and usage, abundant real-world examples of technical writing, and up-to-date coverage of technology.

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Macmillan

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Sixteen for '16

A Progressive Agenda for a Better America

By: Salvatore J. Babones

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Sixteen for '16

A Progressive Agenda for a Better America

By: Salvatore J. Babones

The progressive movement is on the march in America and this accessible book points toward a destination. Sixteen for '16 offers a new agenda for the 2016 US election crafted around sixteen core principles that all progressives can believe in, from securing jobs to saving the Earth. Decades of destructive social, economic, and political policies have devastated poor, working, and even middle class American communities. It is now clear to everyone that the emperor has no clothes, that harsh austerity does not bring prosperity, and that the wealthy have no intention to see their wealth trickle down. Each generation is no longer better off than the ones that came before. America now needs jobs, infrastructure, a rededication to public education, universal healthcare, higher taxes on higher incomes, a more secure Social Security, an end to the rule of the bankers, stronger unions, a living minimum wage, better working conditions, an end to the prison state, secure reproductive rights, voter equality, a more moral foreign policy, a more sane environmental policy, and action on global warming. Sixteen for '16 is a manifesto which makes the argument for each of these positions, clearly, concisely, and supported by hard data. As ambitious as these policies are, they represent a beginning, not an end. The progressive agenda laid out in Sixteen for '16 charts a realistic path toward a better tomorrow.

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Policy Press

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1447324420

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The Changing American Family and Public Policy

By: Andrew J. Cherlin

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The Changing American Family and Public Policy

By: Andrew J. Cherlin

This book brings social science perspective to bear on family change and family policy; identifies the determinants of change and analyzes the role that government has played and can play in affecting the course of family life.

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0877664218

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Core Competencies in Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy

Becoming a Highly Effective and Competent Brief Dynamic Psychotherapist

By: Jeffrey L. Binder,Ephi J. Betan

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Core Competencies in Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy

Becoming a Highly Effective and Competent Brief Dynamic Psychotherapist

By: Jeffrey L. Binder,Ephi J. Betan

This book addresses the essential clinical competencies required to conduct brief dynamic therapy. Authors Jeffrey L. Binder and Ephi J. Betan discuss the conceptual foundation of their treatment model, and the application of this framework in forming and maintaining a therapeutic alliance, assessment, case formulation, implementing a treatment plan, termination, and treatment evaluation. All topics include a multicultural perspective and sensitivity to ethical issues. Binder and Betan attempt to bridge practice and research by consistently incorporating relevant research findings. Graduate students in the mental health fields and beginning therapists will find in this text the basic concepts and principles of brief dynamic psychotherapy presented in a clear and straightforward style, with many clinical examples drawn from detailed patient and therapist interchanges. Seasoned psychotherapists will find in Binder and Betan’s discussions of case formulation and therapeutic discourse a fresh treatment of classic ideas about the therapeutic value of constructing personal narratives. At all times, the authors explicitly tie the components of their approach to the competencies required of the brief dynamic therapist. In the current environment of accountability for results, attention is given to the ongoing assessment of therapeutic progress and ultimate outcomes. This text is a scholarly yet practical guide to the evidence-based practice of brief dynamic psychotherapy.

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Routledge

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1136870385

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Medicaid Politics

Federalism, Policy Durability, and Health Reform

By: Frank J. Thompson

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Medicaid Politics

Federalism, Policy Durability, and Health Reform

By: Frank J. Thompson

Medicaid, one of the largest federal programs in the United States, gives grants to states to provide health insurance for over 60 million low-income Americans. As private health insurance benefits have relentlessly eroded, the program has played an increasingly important role. Yet Medicaidâ€™s prominence in the health care arena has come as a surprise. Many astute observers of the Medicaid debate have long claimed that â€œa program for the poor is a poor programâ€? prone to erosion because it serves a stigmatized, politically weak clientele. Means-tested programs for the poor are often politically unpopular, and there is pressure from fiscally conservative lawmakers to scale back the $350-billion-per-year program even as more and more Americans have come to rely on it. For their part, health reformers had long assumed that Medicaid would fade away as the country moved toward universal health insurance. Instead, Medicaid has proved remarkably durable, expanding and becoming a major pillar of Americaâ€™s health insurance system. In Medicaid Politics, political scientist Frank J. Thompson examines the programâ€™s profound evolution during the presidential administrations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama and its pivotal role in the epic health reform law of 2010. This clear and accessible book details the specific forces embedded in American federalism that contributed so much to Medicaidâ€™s growth and durability during this period. It also looks to the future outlining the political dynamics that could yield major program retrenchment.

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Georgetown University Press

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1589019342

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Back to Reform

Values, Markets, and the Health Care System

By: Charles J. Dougherty

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Values, Markets, and the Health Care System

By: Charles J. Dougherty

Back to Reform is a persuasive discussion of the moral values that spurred the movement for health care reform and that remain insistent today. The book is also a critique of exclusive reliance on marketplace reforms for improvements in health care. By examining the values at the heart of the need for health care reform, Dougherty displays the incompatibilities between these values and those related to the marketplace.

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Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis

By: Ronald J. Angel,Laura Lein,Jane Henrici

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Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis

By: Ronald J. Angel,Laura Lein,Jane Henrici

Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis examines the implications of the fragmented and two-tiered health insurance system in the United States for the health care access of low-income families. For a large fraction of Americans their jobs do not provide health insurance or other benefits and although government programs are available for children, adults without private health care coverage have few options. Detailed ethnographic and survey data from selected low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio document the lapses in medical coverage that poor families experience and reveal the extent of untreated medical conditions, delayed treatment, medical indebtedness, and irregular health care that women and children suffer as a result. Extensive poverty, the increasing proportion of minority households, and the growing dependence on insecure service sector work all influence access to health care for families at the economic margin.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139454552

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Human Performance, Workload, and Situational Awareness Measures Handbook

By: Valerie J. Gawron

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Human Performance, Workload, and Situational Awareness Measures Handbook

By: Valerie J. Gawron

Human performance measurement is the cornerstone of human factors and experimental psychology and the Human Performance Measures Handbook has long been its foundational reference. Reflecting a wider range and scope, the second edition, newly named Human Performance, Workload, and Situational Awareness Measures Handbook, presents changes in th

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1420064509

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An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

By: Timothy J. Coelli,Dodla Sai Prasada Rao,Christopher J. O'Donnell,George Edward Battese

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An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

By: Timothy J. Coelli,Dodla Sai Prasada Rao,Christopher J. O'Donnell,George Edward Battese

Softcover version of the second edition Hardcover. Incorporates a new author, Dr. Chris O'Donnell, who brings considerable expertise to the project in the area of performance measurement. Numerous topics are being added and more applications using real data, as well as exercises at the end of the chapters. Data sets, computer codes and software will be available for download from the web to accompany the volume.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387242651

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The Business Writer's Handbook, Seventh Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

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The Business Writer's Handbook, Seventh Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

Expert advice for meeting the demands of on-line writing as well as research, documenting and presenting materials, this is a valuable resource for anyone who needs information on formal business writing.

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Macmillan

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0312309228

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Community Treatment for Youth

Evidence-Based Interventions for Severe Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

By: Barbara J. Burns,Kimberly Hoagwood

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Community Treatment for Youth

Evidence-Based Interventions for Severe Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

By: Barbara J. Burns,Kimberly Hoagwood

This outstanding textbook presents innovative interventions for youth with severe emotional and behavioral disorders. Community Treatment for Youth is designed to fill a gap between the knowledge base and clinical practice through its presentation of theory, practice parameters, training requirements, and research evidence. Featuring community-based and state-of-the-art services for youth with severe emotional and behavioral disorders and their families, this volume describes each intervention in depth, along with the supporting evidence for its utility. Most chapters present a single intervention as an alternative to institutional care. Shared characteristics of these interventions include delivery of services in the community (homes, schools, and neighborhoods) provided largely by parents and paraprofessional staff. The interventions are appropriate to use in any of the child human services sectors and have been developed in the field with real-world child and family clients. In addition, they offer a reduced cost in comparison to institutional care. Several chapters address diagnostic-specific psychosocial and psychopharmacological treatments, which are likely to be provided as adjunctive treatment in a clinical setting. Designed to update professionals in the field about effective services, Community Treatment for Youth will serve as a resource for academics, policymakers, practitioners, consumers, and researchers.

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Oxford University Press

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0199770727

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The Psychology of Reading

Theory and Applications

By: Paula J. Schwanenflugel,Nancy Flanagan Knapp

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The Psychology of Reading

Theory and Applications

By: Paula J. Schwanenflugel,Nancy Flanagan Knapp

Incorporating cognitive, neuropsychological, and sociocultural perspectives, this authoritative text explains the psychological processes involved in reading and describes applications for educational practice. The book follows a clear developmental sequence, from the impact of the early family environment through the acquisition of emergent literacy skills and the increasingly complex abilities required for word recognition, reading fluency, vocabulary growth, and text comprehension. Linguistic and cultural factors in individual reading differences are examined, as are psychological dimensions of reading motivation and the personal and societal benefits of reading. Pedagogical Features *End-of-chapter discussion questions and suggestions for further reading. *Explicit linkages among theory, research, standards (including the Common Core State Standards), and instruction. *Engaging case studies at the beginning of each chapter. *Technology Toolbox explores the pros and cons of computer-assisted learning.

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Guilford Publications

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1462523528

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The Economy in the 1980s

A Program for Growth Stability

By: Michael J. Boskin

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The Economy in the 1980s

A Program for Growth Stability

By: Michael J. Boskin

In the decade of the 1970s the U.S. economy experienced its worst performance in four decades. Rising U.S. inflation and stagnant productivity growth were responsible for the worst economic performance of any Western country. The institute has published a number of studies on specific economic problems—on energy, planning, health care, tax reform, international trade, and other subjects. This is our first attempt to present an integrated view of the economy as a whole, looking back at serious problems experienced in the 1970s as part of fashioning a systematic statement of what reforms are necessary to restore to the U.S. economy the growth and stability of prior decades.

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Routledge

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1351318748

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The Baroque World of Fernando Botero

By: John Sillevis,Fernando Botero,David Elliott,Edward J. Sullivan

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The Baroque World of Fernando Botero

By: John Sillevis,Fernando Botero,David Elliott,Edward J. Sullivan

Colombian-born Fernando Botero (b. 1932) is a painter, sculptor, and draftsman renowned for his extravagantly rounded figures combining the polish and excess of Spanish colonial baroque with the social realism of the Mexican muralists. Their humorous exaggeration belies the more serious content of Botero’s work—commentary on colonialism, political instability in Latin America, and the vernacular artistic traditions of the region, as well as European art history. Accompanying the artist’s first American retrospective in over thirty years, The Baroque World of Fernando Botero is the most extensive study of his life and work to date. Drawn exclusively from Botero’s private collection, the 100 works featured in this book, including previously unpublished paintings and drawings, represent the full scope of his oeuvre from a uniquely personal perspective. Many of these—portraits of friends and family members and remembered scenes—have remained in the artist’s possession since their creation, while others he has bought back over the years as markers of significant developments in his career. Three essays examine the artist’s creative life, from the aesthetic environment in which Botero developed his unique style to his catalyzing influence on the Colombian art world of the 1960s and 70s.

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Yale University Press

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0300123590

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9780300123593

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