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Domestic Violence Perpetrators

Evidence-Informed Responses

By: John Devaney,Anne Lazenbatt

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Domestic Violence Perpetrators

Evidence-Informed Responses

By: John Devaney,Anne Lazenbatt

Domestic violence is a serious, widespread public, social and health problem that affects the lives of many women, children and men. There is also evidence to suggest it has one of the highest rates of recidivism. This comprehensive book provides an overview of what the research tells us about the perpetrators of domestic violence and what works, and what doesn’t, in promoting positive change. Collecting together the most up-to-date evidence from the international literature and bringing psychological, sociological, gendered and socio-political theoretical perspectives to bear on the issue, the authors explore: - what domestic violence is, why it happens and how it can be measured - who the perpetrators of domestic violence are, including discussion of non-stereotypical patterns such as male victims, female perpetrators, couples where the abuse is mutual, and couples with abusive relationships who want the abuse to end but the relationship to be sustained - strategies for engaging perpetrators in interventions and for promoting behaviour change - evidence-informed interventions, programmes and policies for working with perpetrators - where robust evidence is lacking and more research needs to be undertaken. Domestic violence is a significant problem for those individuals and families whose life is affected by this issue, the social, health and criminal justice agencies that respond to it, and wider society which must bear the costs and its devastating effects. This volume is an important reference for all those researching and working with the victims, survivors and perpetrators of domestic violence, including academics and students from fields such as social work, sociology, criminology, psychology and social policy.

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Routledge

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1317704444

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Reason and Emotion

Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory

By: John M. Cooper

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Reason and Emotion

Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory

By: John M. Cooper

This book brings together twenty-three distinctive and influential essays on ancient moral philosophy--including several published here for the first time--by the distinguished philosopher and classical scholar John Cooper. The volume gives a systematic account of many of the most important issues and texts in ancient moral psychology and ethical theory, providing a unified and illuminating way of reflecting on the fields as they developed from Socrates and Plato through Aristotle to Epicurus and the Stoic philosophers Chrysippus and Posidonius, and beyond. For the ancient philosophers, Cooper shows here, morality was "good character" and what that entailed: good judgment, sensitivity, openness, reflectiveness, and a secure and correct sense of who one was and how one stood in relation to others and the surrounding world. Ethical theory was about the best way to be rather than any principles for what to do in particular circumstances or in relation to recurrent temptations. Moral psychology was the study of the psychological conditions required for good character--the sorts of desires, the attitudes to self and others, the states of mind and feeling, the kinds of knowledge and insight. Together these papers illustrate brilliantly how, by studying the arguments of the Greek philosophers in their diverse theories about the best human life and its psychological underpinnings, we can expand our own moral understanding and imagination and enrich our own moral thought. The collection will be crucial reading for anyone interested in classical philosophy and what it can contribute to reflection on contemporary questions about ethics and human life.

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Princeton University Press

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0691223262

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9780691223261

Epic Arts in Renaissance France

By: Phillip John Usher

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Epic Arts in Renaissance France

By: Phillip John Usher

Epic Arts in Renaissance France' examines the relationship between art and literature in 16th-century France, and considers how the epic genre became 'public' via realisations in various other art forms.

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0199687846

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Northrup Lake and other Short Stories

By: John Edgar

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Northrup Lake and other Short Stories

By: John Edgar

Author John Edgar gives us stories of adventure, raising a child, deceit, tragedy, work, and grit that took place during and after the Great Depression. We can relate to stories like these now. Have you ever been in a wilderness of trees and lakes, where your hike home may take you a week to reach civilization? Have you ever been cheated out of a fortune? What would it be like to work alongside of one of the then modern Steam Locomotives? Should you punish your six-year-old for stealing 10 cents from your purse? See how Author Edgar's characters are no different from us today. About the Author Born in Phoenix, in the late 1920s, John Edgar grew up in Albany, graduated from the Milne School in Albany, and spent a year and a half in the U.S. Army in 1946–1948. He earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1971. Working as a consultant with Booz, Allen and Hamilton, and later at Arthur D. Little, John Edgar consulted with clients in Egypt, Abbu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Venezuela, Uruguay, Canada, and the United States. After retirement since 1992, he has promoted the expansion of wind and solar power. He is a member of the Citizens Climate Lobby.

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Dorrance Publishing

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ISBN 13

9798892116657

Animal Learning and Cognition

An Introduction

By: John M. Pearce

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Animal Learning and Cognition

An Introduction

By: John M. Pearce

This is a revision of An Introduction to Animal Cognition. The book reviews the main principles and experimental findings that have emerged from a century of research into animal intelligence. The book opens with an account of the various methods that have been used to study the intelligence of animals. The next four chapters then examine the contribution made by learning processes to intelligent behaviour. Topics covered include Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning, discrimination learning, categorisation, and an introduction to connectionist theories of learning. The second half of the book is concerned with animal cognition. There is a chapter on the representation of time, number and serial order. Additional chapters are devoted to memory, navigation, social learning, and language and communication. Issues raised throughout the book are reviewed in a concluding chapter that examines the way in which intelligence is distributed throughout the animal kingdom.

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Psychology Press

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0863774334

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9780863774331

Plato’s Beautiful City and the Essence of Politics

By: Scott John Hammond

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Plato’s Beautiful City and the Essence of Politics

By: Scott John Hammond

This inquiry attempts to probe the essence of politics in-itself, something that has been singularly discerned by Plato in Republic, grounded in his theory of universal forms and gradually but fully developed through a consideration of the elements of the City in Speech. Those elements, and the ideal city itself as envisioned in Republic, are immanent within the Second Best City of the Laws, even though presented in a modified way. Plato's Statesman will also be discussed as a means to further illustrate Plato's commitment to the principles conveyed in Republic. This project rests on the premise that Plato's intelligible city is genuinely intended to convey Plato’s full understanding of the real essence of the polis, not simply the arena of political behavior and governance as we have come to know it, but the essence of what politics universally means and what a political community should objectively seek.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793602514

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9781793602510

The Platonic Political Art

A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy

By: John R. Wallach

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The Platonic Political Art

A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy

By: John R. Wallach

In this first comprehensive treatment of Plato’s political thought in a long time, John Wallach offers a "critical historicist" interpretation of Plato. Wallach shows how Plato’s theory, while a radical critique of the conventional ethical and political practice of his own era, can be seen as having the potential for contributing to democratic discourse about ethics and politics today. The author argues that Plato articulates and "solves" his Socratic Problem in his various dialogues in different but potentially complementary ways. The book effectively extracts Plato from the straightjacket of Platonism and from the interpretive perspectives of the past fifty years—principally those of Karl Popper, Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, M. I. Finley, Jacques Derrida, and Gregory Vlastos. The author’s distinctive approach for understanding Plato—and, he argues, for the history of political theory in general—can inform contemporary theorizing about democracy, opening pathways for criticizing democracy on behalf of virtue, justice, and democracy itself.

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Penn State Press

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0271031026

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9780271031026

Plato's Theaetetus

By: John M. Cooper

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Plato's Theaetetus

By: John M. Cooper

Originally published in 1990. This book discusses in a philosophically responsible and illuminating way the progress of the dialogue and its separate sections to improve our understanding of Plato’s work on Theaetetus. An early coverage of this dialogue, this investigation predated a surge in study of Plato’s piece which examined Socratic and pre-Socratic thought. The author’s argument is that the Theaetetus engages in re-evaluation of earlier doctrines of middle-period Platonism as well as reaffirming theories about knowledge. An important work in Platonic studies and epistemology.

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Routledge

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1317440498

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9781317440499

Pewter at Colonial Williamsburg

By: John D. Davis

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Pewter at Colonial Williamsburg

By: John D. Davis

Pewter was the metal of choice for household goods in England and America in the seventeenth and into the eighteenth centuries. Immense quantities of porringers, candlesticks, plates, and other items could be found on both sides of the Atlantic. The collection of British pewter at Colonial Williamsburg, which illustrates the development of basic forms and types of decoration, is remarkable for its breadth and detail. The collection also contains a number of American examples that often exhibit regional and individual preferences.

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Colonial Williamsburg

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0879352183

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9780879352189

Child Labor in America

The Epic Legal Struggle to Protect Children

By: John A. Fliter

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Child Labor in America

The Epic Legal Struggle to Protect Children

By: John A. Fliter

Child labor law strikes most Americans as a fixture of the country’s legal landscape, involving issues settled in the distant past. But these laws, however self-evidently sensible they might seem, were the product of deeply divisive legal debates stretching over the past century—and even now are subject to constitutional challenges. Child Labor in America tells the story of that historic legal struggle. The book offers the first full account of child labor law in America—from the earliest state regulations to the most recent important Supreme Court decisions and the latest contemporary attacks on existing laws. Children had worked in America from the time the first settlers arrived on its shores, but public attitudes about working children underwent dramatic changes along with the nation’s economy and culture. A close look at the origins of oppressive child labor clarifies these changing attitudes, providing context for the hard-won legal reforms that followed. Author John A. Fliter describes early attempts to regulate working children, beginning with haphazard and flawed state-level efforts in the 1840s and continuing in limited and ineffective ways as a consensus about the evils of child labor started to build. In the Progressive Era, the issue finally became a matter of national concern, resulting in several laws, four major Supreme Court decisions, an unsuccessful Child Labor Amendment, and the landmark Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Fliter offers a detailed overview of these events, introducing key figures, interest groups, and government officials on both sides of the debates and incorporating the latest legal and political science research on child labor reform. Unprecedented in its scope and depth, his work provides critical insight into the role child labor has played in the nation’s social, political, and legal development.

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University Press of Kansas

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070062631X

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9780700626311

Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

By: George Henry Cornish,John Carroll

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Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

By: George Henry Cornish,John Carroll

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385421950

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Political Returns

Irony In Politics And Theory From Plato To The Antinuclear Movement

By: John Evan Seery

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Political Returns

Irony In Politics And Theory From Plato To The Antinuclear Movement

By: John Evan Seery

This book presents a theory of the politics of irony and tests this theory through readings of political theory texts and through an analysis of the politics of the contemporary anti-nuclear movement, and argues that political writing must be ironic.

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Routledge

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1000307336

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The New Anthropomorphism

By: John S. Kennedy

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The New Anthropomorphism

By: John S. Kennedy

In this 1992 book, John Kennedy's point is that explicit anthropomorphism was well-nigh killed by fierce criticism from the radical Behaviourists, but that we have to recognize that today there is a new anthropomorphism which is much harder to avoid because it is unintended and largely unconscious. For that reason even those who if they were asked would firmly reject anthropomorphism nevertheless unwittingly slip into it from time to time. This book contains nineteen essays on behavioural concepts which have seldom been identified as anthropomorphic but in fact bear that connotation and lead to mistakes. Some of these, such as search images in birds and the learning of grammatical language by apes, have been seen through as errors after a time. A greater number, such as efference copy, goal-directedness, cognition and suffering in animals, are still current though not yet regarded as erroneous. The final chapter outlines things we can do to minimise the damage it does to the causal analysis of animal behaviour.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521422671

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9780521422673

Eggs and Chickens

Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-17

By: John Vivian

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Eggs and Chickens

Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-17

By: John Vivian

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

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Storey Publishing, LLC

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160342301X

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Unconquerable

The Story of John Ross, Chief of the Cherokees, 1828–1866

By: John M. Oskison

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Unconquerable

The Story of John Ross, Chief of the Cherokees, 1828–1866

By: John M. Oskison

This biography of John Ross, the most famous principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, also tells the story of the Cherokee Nation through some of its most dramatic events in the nineteenth century.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496230965

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The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato

By: John T. Hogan

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The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato

By: John T. Hogan

John T. Hogan’s The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato assesses the roles of Pericles, Alcibiades, and Nicias in Athens’ defeat in Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War. Comparing Thucydides’ presentation of political leadership with ideas in Plato’s Statesman as well as Laches, Charmides, Meno, Symposium, Republic, Phaedo, Sophist, and Laws, it concludes that Plato and Thucydides reveal Pericles as lacking the political discipline (sophrosune) to plan a successful war against Sparta. Hogan argues that in his presentation of the collapse in the Corcyraean revolution of moral standards in political discourse, Thucydides shows how revolution destroys the morality implied in basic personal and political language. This reveals a general collapse in underlying prudential measurements needed for sound moral judgment. Furthermore, Hogan argues that the Statesman’s outline of the political leader serves as a paradigm for understanding the weaknesses of Pericles, Alcibiades, and Nicias in terms that parallel Thucydides’ direct and implied conclusions, which in Pericles’ case he highlights with dramatic irony. Hogan shows that Pericles failed both to develop a sufficiently robust practice of Athenian democratic rule and to set up a viable system for succession.

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1498596312

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Book's by John Shorey

Domestic Violence Perpetrators

Domestic Violence Perpetrators

Reason and Emotion

Reason and Emotion

Epic Arts in Renaissance France

Epic Arts in Renaissance France

Northrup Lake and other Short Stories

Northrup Lake and other Short Stories

Animal Learning and Cognition

Animal Learning and Cognition

Plato’s Beautiful City and the Essence of Politics

Plato’s Beautiful City and the Essence of Politics

The Platonic Political Art

The Platonic Political Art

Plato's Theaetetus

Plato's Theaetetus

Pewter at Colonial Williamsburg

Pewter at Colonial Williamsburg

Child Labor in America

Child Labor in America

Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

Political Returns

Political Returns

The New Anthropomorphism

The New Anthropomorphism

Eggs and Chickens

Eggs and Chickens

Unconquerable

Unconquerable

The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato

The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato

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