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Human Evolutionary Psychology

By: Louise Barrett,Robin Dunbar,John Lycett

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Human Evolutionary Psychology

By: Louise Barrett,Robin Dunbar,John Lycett

Why do people resort to plastic surgery to look young? Why are stepchildren at greatest risk of fatal abuse? Why do we prefer gossip to algebra? Why must Dogon wives live alone in a dark hut for five days a month? Why are young children good at learning language but not sharing? Over the past decade, psychologists and behavioral ecologists have been finding answers to such seemingly unrelated questions by applying an evolutionary perspective to the study of human behavior and psychology. Human Evolutionary Psychology is a comprehensive, balanced, and readable introduction to this burgeoning field. It combines a sophisticated understanding of the basics of evolutionary theory with a solid grasp of empirical case studies. Covering not only such traditional subjects as kin selection and mate choice, this text also examines more complex understandings of marriage practices and inheritance rules and the way in which individual action influences the structure of societies and aspects of cultural evolution. It critically assesses the value of evolutionary explanations to humans in both modern Western society and traditional preindustrial societies. And it fairly presents debates within the field, identifying areas of compatibility among sometimes competing approaches. Combining a broad scope with the more in-depth knowledge and sophisticated understanding needed to approach the primary literature, this text is the ideal introduction to the exciting and rapidly expanding study of human evolutionary psychology.

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Princeton University Press

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0691096228

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9780691096223

Reaching an Understanding

Innovations in How We View Reading Assessment

By: John Sabatini,Elizabeth Albro,Tenaha O'Reilly

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Reaching an Understanding

Innovations in How We View Reading Assessment

By: John Sabatini,Elizabeth Albro,Tenaha O'Reilly

Reaching an Understanding: Innovations in How We View Reading Assessment builds upon the editors previous book Measuring Up: Advances in How We Assess Reading Ability by representing some early attempts to apply theory to help guide the development of new assessments and measurement models. Reaching an Understanding is divided into two sections: “assessment, learning, and instruction: connecting text, task, and reader/ learner” and “how to build for the future”. These sections identify ways to assess students reading comprehension through multiple text sources, purpose readings, and assessment while a student is reading in order to determine deficits. In light of federal legislation towards common core standards and assessments, as well as significant national investments in reading and literacy education, it is a critical and opportune time to bring together the research and measurement community to address fundamental issues of measuring reading comprehension, in theory and in practice.

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213

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R&L Education

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1475801025

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The Canadian Family in Crisis

Fifth Edition

By: John F. Conway

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The Canadian Family in Crisis

Fifth Edition

By: John F. Conway

In this book, sociology professor John F. Conway looks at families past, present and future and examines the changing nature of family. Figures from the first decade of the new milennium tell us that one marriage in two may well end in divorce. Conway considers the implications of divorce, the impact of social changes on men, women and children, and suggests how these issues might be better addressed through family policy. The new edition addresses the harsh new reality facing Canadian families, especially those most vulnerable as a result of the crisis of the family. The Canadian Family in Crisis is the first book to examine the drastic changes in the Canadian family over the last thirty years.

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340

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James Lorimer & Company

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1550287982

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9781550287981

Historical Sketch And Roster Of The Georgia 38th Infantry Regiment

By: John C. Rigdon

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Historical Sketch And Roster Of The Georgia 38th Infantry Regiment

By: John C. Rigdon

The GA 38th Infantry Regiment was a part of the Lawton - Gordon - Evans brigade made up of the 13th, 26th, 31st, 38th, 60th, & 61st Georgia Regiments and the 12th Georgia Light Artillery Battalion. It fought in many conflicts from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor, then moved with Early to the Shenandoah Valley and was active around Appomattox. The unit lost 54 killed and 118 wounded at Gaines' Mill and sixty-two percent of the 123 engaged at Sharpsburg. In the fight at Fredericksburg there were 10 killed and 91 wounded, and of the 341 at Gettysburg, more than thirty-five percent were disabled. It surrendered with 112, of which 73 were armed.

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324

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Lulu.com

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0359723241

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9780359723249

Doggett's New York City Directory

By: John Doggett

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Doggett's New York City Directory

By: John Doggett

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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470

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385263557

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9783385263550

Administrative Law

By: John M. Rogers,Michael P. Healy,Ronald J. Krotoszynski,Kent Barnett

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Administrative Law

By: John M. Rogers,Michael P. Healy,Ronald J. Krotoszynski,Kent Barnett

For instructors who prefer a case-oriented approach, the Fifth Edition of Administrative Law is a case-rich text that focuses on the core issues in administrative law. Lightly-edited cases preserve the feel of reading entire opinions and include facts, content, full analyses, and citations. Keystone cases introduce important themes and topics. Introductory material and questions following the cases focus students’ reading and stimulate class discussion, while helpful notes facilitate keen understanding of legal doctrines, introduce students to academic responses to judicial decisions and agency practices, and identify recent developments in doctrine and academic study. “Theory Applied” sections at the conclusion of major parts offer teachers an opportunity to evaluate students’ grasp of the materials in new factual and legal contexts. This flexible, easily teachable text is designed for a 3-unit course, and its self-contained parts can be taught in any order. New to the Fifth Edition: Addition of important, recent U.S. Supreme Court and Circuit Court decisions throughout Extended discussion of “informal” agency adjudication Updated discussion of the nondelegation doctrine and its possible future Recent developments in judicial review, including with Kisor and Chevron deference and standing Professors and students will benefit from: Notes and discussion materials addressing contemporary issues in Administrative Law, including: due process in the administrative setting formalities of administrative rulemaking and adjudication benefits and costs of agency adjudication and rulemaking modification of agency interpretations and interpretive rulemaking delegation of authority to agencies and private entities political influence on agency policy justiciability and judicial deference Lightly-edited cases, similar to reading entire opinions, including facts, content, full analyses, and citations Flexible, teachable text, designed for a 3-unit course with modular sections that allow for easy reshuffling of materials Helpful Notes crafted to enrich students’ understanding of legal doctrines, introduce important themes and topics, and identify possible future developments to theory and doctrine. “Theory Applied” problems and capstone cases that allow systemic review and integration of major concepts Up-to-Date content that includes coverage of important new developments in administrative practice, including recent Executive Orders that attempt to further centralize control of policy-making in the White House. Coverage of contemporary separation of powers problems and controversies affecting the administrative state, including comprehensive treatment of the Vacancies Reform Act.

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1090

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Aspen Publishing

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1543825893

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Renaissance Drama in England and Spain

Topical Allusion and History Plays

By: John Clyde Loftis

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Renaissance Drama in England and Spain

Topical Allusion and History Plays

By: John Clyde Loftis

Spain alone produced a Renaissance drama comparable to that of England, yet the two nations were enemies, separated by the worldwide conflict of Catholics and Protestants. Major dramatists on both sides addressed the divisive issues: Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Calderon de la Barca in Spain; Shakespeare, Marlowe, Chapman, Massinger, and Middleton in England. In this comprehensive work, a distinguished authority on drama examines history plays, masques, and spectacles, with close attention to the changing development of the two national dramas, he directs us to the study of their suprrising similarities. The author's lucid exposition makes possible an assessment of the commentary on historical events provided by the dramatists. In the early years of the Thirty Years' War, he points out, dramtaists unknowingly carried on a dialogue now audible to us: Massinger and Middleton warn of Spain's intentions; Lope, Tirso, and Calderon provide assurance that their English coutnerparts were not alarmists. Goruping works chronologically by subject or thematic relevance to phases of Anglo-Spanish relations in broad European context, Professor Loftis examines Lope's plays about the campaigns fought by the Spanish Army of Flanders and Marlowe's and Chapman's plays about French history from 1572 to 1602. John Loftis is Margery Bailey Professor of English Emeritus at Stanford University. He is author of numerous works, including The Spanish Plays of Neoclassical England (Yale) and Sheridan and the Drama of Georgian England (Blackwell/Harvard). Originally published in 1987. 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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Princeton University Press

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0691198098

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9780691198095

Private Equity Demystified

An Explanatory Guide

By: John Gilligan,Mike Wright

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Private Equity Demystified

An Explanatory Guide

By: John Gilligan,Mike Wright

This book deals with risk capital provided for established firms outside the stock market, private equity, which has grown rapidly over the last three decades, yet is largely poorly understood. Although it has often been criticized in the public mind as being short termist and having adverse consequences for employment, in reality this is far from the case. Here, John Gilligan and Mike Wright dispel some of the biggest myths and misconceptions about private equity. The book provides a unique and authoritative source from a leading practitioner and academic for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers that explains in detail what private equity involves and reviews systematic evidence of what the impact of private equity has been. Written in a highly accessible style, the book takes the reader through what private equity means, the different actors involved, and issues concerning sourcing, checking out, valuing, and structuring deals. The various themes from the systematic academic evidence are highlighted in numerous summary vignettes placed alongside the text that discuss the practical aspects. The main part of the work concludes with an up-to-date discussion by the authors, informed commentators on the key issues in the lively debate about private equity. The book further contains summary tables of the academic research carried out over the past three decades across the private equity landscape including: the returns to investors, economic performance, impact on R&D and employees, and the longevity and life-cycle of private equity backed deals.

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Oxford University Press

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0192636790

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Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1

Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

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Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1

Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of prosaics, the Comaroffs free themselves to analyze a vivid series of images and events as objects of analysis. These they mine for clues to the 19th-century contents of the British imagination and of Tswana minds. They are themselves imagining the imagination of others, and they do the job with characteristic aplomb....The first volume creates an appetite for the second."—Sally Falk Moore, American Anthropologist

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University of Chicago Press

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0226114473

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9780226114477

Rogue

A Biography of Civil War General Justus McKinstry

By: John K. Driscoll

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Rogue

A Biography of Civil War General Justus McKinstry

By: John K. Driscoll

From his first court martial as a cadet at West Point through his dismissal from the United States Army at the age of 49, Justus McKinstry made his career through outright cunning and manipulation of the legal system. Graduating from West Point in 1838, he eventually landed a long-sought-after position in the quartermaster corps. During his service here he took advantage of the extraordinary wartime circumstances to betray the public trust and make a profit for himself in the guise of acquiring much needed supplies. He was brought before a court of inquiry or a court martial six times during his nefarious career, yet only one time were charges initiated from within the Army itself. The final charges--once again initiated from a source outside the Army--brought his crimes to light and resulted in his dismissal from the service. This biography takes a look at the forces within the life of Brigadier General Justus McKinstry that shaped him into the man he eventually became. It briefly discusses his upbringing as well as his unprecedented six years at West Point and his service during the Second Seminole and Mexican wars. The bulk of the text, however, concentrates on his Civil War commission and his duties as an officer of the quartermaster corps, especially his position as Chief Quartermaster of the Department of the West during the summer and fall of 1861. Special emphasis is placed on the ways in which the system itself failed McKinstry, bringing into question the ability of the Army to police itself. Sources incorporate an abundance of official records from the time period, including a transcript of McKinstry's final court martial.

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McFarland

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0786423854

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9780786423859

The Nature of Grief

The Evolution and Psychology of Reactions to Loss

By: John Archer

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The Nature of Grief

The Evolution and Psychology of Reactions to Loss

By: John Archer

In this study on the evolution of grief John Archer shows that grief is a natrual reaction to losses of many sorts and he proves this by bringing together material from evolutionary psychology, ethology and experimental psychology.

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1134683529

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Book's by John M. Wilson

Human Evolutionary Psychology

Human Evolutionary Psychology

Reaching an Understanding

Reaching an Understanding

The Canadian Family in Crisis

The Canadian Family in Crisis

Historical Sketch And Roster Of The Georgia 38th Infantry Regiment

Historical Sketch And Roster Of The Georgia 38th Infantry Regiment

Doggett's New York City Directory

Doggett's New York City Directory

Administrative Law

Administrative Law

Renaissance Drama in England and Spain

Renaissance Drama in England and Spain

Private Equity Demystified

Private Equity Demystified

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1

Rogue

Rogue

The Nature of Grief

The Nature of Grief

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