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Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Research

By: Gayle Letherby,John Scott,Malcolm Williams

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Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Research

By: Gayle Letherby,John Scott,Malcolm Williams

Objectivity and subjectivity are key concepts in social research. This book, written by leading authors in the field, takes a completely new approach to objectivity and subjectivity, no longer treating them as opposed - as many existing texts do - but as logically and methodologically related in social research. The book debates: - the philosophical bases of objectivity and relativity - relationism and dynamic synthesis - situated objectivity - theorised subjectivity - social objects and realism - objectivity and subjectivity in practice The authors explain complex arguments with great clarity for social science students, while also providing the detail and comprehensiveness required to meet the needs of practising researchers and scholars.

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1446290719

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Endocrinology Adult and Pediatric: Reproductive Endocrinology

By: J. Larry Jameson,David M. de Kretser,John C. Marshall,Leslie J. De Groot

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Endocrinology Adult and Pediatric: Reproductive Endocrinology

By: J. Larry Jameson,David M. de Kretser,John C. Marshall,Leslie J. De Groot

Endocrinology: Adult and Pediatric: Reproductive Endocrinology is a new eBook from the same experts responsible for the highly acclaimed two-volume Endocrinology clinical reference book. It puts all of the latest advances in adult and pediatric reproductive endocrinology at your fingertips, instantly accessible on your favorite eReader - so you can give your patients the benefit of today’s best know-how. Stay abreast of the newest knowledge in reproductive endocrinology, including endocrinology of sexual behavior and gender identity; genetic pathways that control gonadal development and sex differentiation; management of PCOS and hirsutism; management of male androgen deficiency; management of gynecomastia; and much more. Effectively review the causes and management of precocious or delayed puberty. Count on all the authority that has made Endocrinology, 6th Edition, edited by leading endocrinologists Drs. Jameson and DeGroot, the go-to clinical reference for endocrinologists worldwide. Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability. Compatible with Kindle®, nook®, and other popular devices.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323221521

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9780323221528

Political Tolerance and American Democracy

By: John L. Sullivan,James Piereson,George E. Marcus

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Political Tolerance and American Democracy

By: John L. Sullivan,James Piereson,George E. Marcus

This path-breaking book reconceptualizes our understanding of political tolerance as well as of its foundations. Previous studies, the authors contend, overemphasized the role of education in explaining the presence of tolerance, while giving insufficient weight to personality and ideological factors. With an innovative methodology for measuring levels of tolerance more accurately, the authors are able to explain why particular groups are targeted and why tolerance is an inherently political concept. Far from abating, the degree of intolerance in America today is probably as great as it ever was; it is the targets of intolerance that have changed.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226779920

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9780226779928

HBR's 10 Must Reads for HR Leaders Collection (5 Books)

By: Harvard Business Review,Marcus Buckingham,W. Chan Kim,Renee Mauborgne,John Kotter

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HBR's 10 Must Reads for HR Leaders Collection (5 Books)

By: Harvard Business Review,Marcus Buckingham,W. Chan Kim,Renee Mauborgne,John Kotter

Build the workforce of the future. In our volatile and complex era--which boasts a competitive market for top talent--HR's traditional model will fail. Your company needs to adopt the latest skills to successfully manage performance and evaluate potential. HBR's 10 Must Reads for HR Leaders Collection features innovative ideas on how to foster a vibrant, high-performing company culture, spearhead constructive change, and reap the benefits of a diverse workforce. Included in this five-book set are HBR's 10 Must Reads on Reinventing HR, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Building a Great Culture, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Diversity, and HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People. The collection includes fifty articles selected by HBR's editors from renowned thought leaders including Marcus Buckingham, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne, and Sylvia Ann Hewlett, plus the indispensable article "People Before Strategy" by Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey. With HBR's 10 Must Reads for HR Leaders Collection, break free from the traditional HR mindset and learn how to build the workforce of the future. HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.

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163369934X

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The Wreck of the San Francisco

Disaster and Aftermath in the Great Hurricane of December 1853

By: John Stewart

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The Wreck of the San Francisco

Disaster and Aftermath in the Great Hurricane of December 1853

By: John Stewart

On December 22, 1853, a new steamship left New York on its maiden voyage. The San Francisco--perhaps the finest ocean-going vessel of its time--had been chartered by the U.S. Government to transport the U.S. Army's Third Artillery Regiment to the Pacific Coast. Two days out, the ship ran into one of the great hurricanes of maritime history. Sails and stacks were blown away, the engine was wrecked and scores of people were washed overboard, as the men frantically worked the pumps to keep afloat. A few days later, cholera broke out. After two weeks adrift, the survivors were rescued by three ships. The nightmare was not over. Two of the vessels, damaged by the storm, were in no position to take on passengers. Provisions ran out. Fighting thirst, starvation, disease and mutiny, survivors barely made it back. Then came the aftermath--accusations, denials, revelations of government ineptitude and negligence, and a cover-up.

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McFarland

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1476674108

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True Heroes of Gettysburg

By: John Hinman

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True Heroes of Gettysburg

By: John Hinman

Dubaville, PA, 1863. Thirteen-year-old Darrell Stouffer is infamous for the pranks he plays at school; in fact, they got him expelled. He also wants to win fame and glory as a soldier in the Union army, but his father forbids him from volunteering. Then, suddenly, General Robert E. Lees Confederate army appears in the area. Darrell runs away to Gettysburg, just fifteen miles from Darrells small town, hoping to join the Union soldiers gathering there to defend Pennsylvania. War, as it turns out, is not as Darrell could have ever imagined, not even in his wildest dreams. True Heroes of Gettysburg is the story of one boy rising above his fears to help the real heroes of warthe soldiers who risk their lives for their country. Though Darrell is only an observer on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, the savage bloodshed shakes him to his core. In the following days, pure chance sees Darrell accompanying the medical corps amidst the thickest action. The soldiers heroism, not only on the battlefield but also in the face of dreadful wounds, amputation, and death, teaches Darrell that by facing his fears and challenges, even moments of monumental sadness can become a triumph of human spirit.

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iUniverse

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1462039243

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The Empire of Chance

How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life

By: Gerd Gigerenzer,Zeno Swijtink,Theodore Porter,Lorraine Daston,John Beatty,Lorenz Kruger

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The Empire of Chance

How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life

By: Gerd Gigerenzer,Zeno Swijtink,Theodore Porter,Lorraine Daston,John Beatty,Lorenz Kruger

The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the last three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine, polling and baseball. Separate chapters explore the theoretical and methodological impact in biology, physics and psychology. Themes recur - determinism, inference, causality, free will, evidence, the shifting meaning of probability - but in dramatically different disciplinary and historical contexts. In contrast to the literature on the mathematical development of probability and statistics, this book centres on how these technical innovations remade our conceptions of nature, mind and society. Written by an interdisciplinary team of historians and philosophers, this readable, lucid account keeps technical material to an absolute minimum. It is aimed not only at specialists in the history and philosophy of science, but also at the general reader and scholars in other disciplines.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107393000

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Pioneers of Sociological Science

By: John H. Goldthorpe

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Pioneers of Sociological Science

By: John H. Goldthorpe

In this study of pioneers of the field, Goldthorpe explains how present-day sociological science developed from the seventeenth century onwards. It will appeal to students and scholars of sociology and to anyone engaged in social science research, from statisticians to social historians.

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1108832156

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The Deadly Brotherhood

The American Combat Soldier in World War II

By: John McManus

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The Deadly Brotherhood

The American Combat Soldier in World War II

By: John McManus

In his book Men Against Fire, [historian S. L. A.] Marshall asserted that only 15 to 25 percent of American soldiers ever fired their weapons in combat in World War II. . . . Shooting at the enemy made a man part of the “team,” or “brotherhood.” There were, of course, many times when soldiers did not want to shoot, such as at night when they did not want to give away a position or on reconnaissance patrols. But, in the main, no combat soldier in his right mind would have deliberately sought to go through the entire ear without ever firing his weapon, because he would have been excluded from the brotherhood but also because it would have been detrimental to his own survival. One of [rifle company commander Harold] Leinbaugh’s NCOs summed it up best when discussing Marshall: “Did the SOB think we clubbed the Germans to death?”

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0307414957

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Return to Zion

A Novel of The American Revolution

By: John M. O'Toole

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Return to Zion

A Novel of The American Revolution

By: John M. O'Toole

Return to Zion is a novel set during the middle years of the American Revolution, 1776 to 1778, as experienced by Jeremy Thorpe, a patriot-soldier. This focus engages the reader, who becomes a virtual eyewitness to history. Historical events happened just as described in Zion, including the transformation of Ephrata Cloister into a hospital for American casualties of the disastrous defeat at Brandywine. It was a visit to Ephrata by the author that inspired this novel. The reader encounters many familiar figures, including Washington, Knox, von Steuben, Lord Howe and aide John André. Woven into this carefully-researched account are fictitious characters including Jemmy’s beloved Katrin; Jonas Pettingill and Alice Shepleigh, who provide Jemmy’s “cover” in Philadelphia; counterspy Phineas Boylston; saucy Polly Rawlings and Jemmy himself, fictitious prototype of countless steadfast men whose courage transformed independence from noble aspiration to reality.

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1469102749

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Perle & Williams on Publishing Law

By: E. Gabriel Perle,Mark A. Fischer,John Taylor Williams

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Perle & Williams on Publishing Law

By: E. Gabriel Perle,Mark A. Fischer,John Taylor Williams

This valuable handbook covers the latest approaches to relations between writer/publisher and publisher/public including timely and practical advice on clearing text for libel, privacy, and related legal exposure. Perle & Williams on Publishing Law, Third Edition describes contract and problem issues commonly encountered in negotiating royalties, advances, options, writer's warranty, subsidiary rights splits, and much more. You'll also find intellectual property issues as they affect publishing, including electronic publishing and software, trademark and copyright law, filing procedures, antitrust issues, and more, including: Practical and useful model agreements save hours of drafting time Nearly 50 detailed checklists interwoven throughout identify specific factors that should be considered when analyzing materials for legal implications Sample forms with line by line instructions give you the necessary tools to file properly Practical tips to successfully negotiate contracts and issues such as royalties, advances, options, writers warranty and more.

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Wolters Kluwer

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0735504482

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9780735504486

Clearer Light

By: John R. Fielding, Jr.

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Clearer Light

By: John R. Fielding, Jr.

Clearer Light is the story of two men and their parallel rise to fame - parallel, yet in opposite directions. Brian Harris, a young American priest, is sent by Rome to keep close tabs on a man claiming to be the Son of God - and tossing about some rather convincing proof to back it up. Damon Marsh, a lonely Welsh teenager, desperately follows his last friend into a life of lethal crime. Unlike typical parallel lines, those guiding Harris and Marsh do eventually intersect - with deadly results. When I saw the lamb break open the sixth seal, there was a violent earthquake; the sun turned black as a goat’s-hair tent cloth and the moon grew red as blood. The stars in the sky fell crashing to earth ... Then the sky disappeared as if it were a scroll being rolled up; every mountain and island was uprooted from its base... This menacing spectacle from the Bible is how most of us have been taught to see the Second Coming since our earliest school years. But what if destiny has a different idea? What if there is to be another visit before the final judgement? One with as inauspicious a start, and as notorious a conclusion, as the first, some 2,000 years earlier. A scant five chapters after the ominous verse above, the apostle John writes of a woman who bore a son, and of an ancient serpent who searched them out, intending to devour them. Could this refer to a second visit, rather than the first? This interim Second Coming and the battle with the modern-day serpent are the basis of Clearer Light. Even though the action revolves around Jesse Branson (the “Jesus character”), the real focus of the book is on the intense internal struggle of Fr. Brian Harris, the American priest who is traveling with him, to sort out the astounding things he witnesses Jesse do. Similarly, while most of the action involving the antagonist is centered on John Barty, a murder-happy Welsh outlaw bent on self-destruction, the real story is how Damon Marsh, a troubled teen who once revered Barty, comes to grips with his eroding admiration. Clearer Light begins thirty years ago, with the events surrounding Jesse’s birth. Jesse’s mother, Maria Branson, is a single, professional woman living in Atlanta. Maria’s visitation by a heavenly messenger could not be any more different from Gabriel’s conversation with Mary. Involving an ominous subway station, a defenseless Asian tourist, and a botched robbery, the rendezvous is intense and emotional. Two episodes of Jesse’s young life are then told. The first occurs when Jesse, eleven-years-old at the time, restores the life of a classmate who was seriously injured in a tragic automobile accident, much to the astonishment of a team of paramedics who had given the girl little hope. The second story involves the death of Jesse’s grandmother, which occurred when Jesse was in graduate school, and the emotional strain put upon the young man at the thought of standing by idly as his beloved kin passes away. Next, Fr. Brian Harris is introduced, and the story of how he went from being a promising parish priest to a Vatican spy is told. Eventually, Jesse recruits Fr. Harris, and a third person, Charlotte Coatsford, joins their traveling mission. Events follow at roller coaster speed until Jesse has made a real name for himself, turning heads in both the spiritual and business worlds. And wherever there’s a celebrity, there’s a tabloid looking to take the star down. Jesse’s roller coaster derails for a moment, but the issue is emotionally resolved and he perseveres, stronger than ever. Nearly one-third of the way through the novel, John Barty and his apprentice, Damon Marsh, are presented. While the differences between the world of Damon Marsh and that of Fr. Harris are stark, both men grapple internally with their view of their mentors. As the story continues, Jesse’s fol

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The Organization of Cities

Initiative, ordinary life, and the good life

By: John R Miron

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The Organization of Cities

Initiative, ordinary life, and the good life

By: John R Miron

This book focuses on the relationship between the state and economy in the development of cities. It reviews and reinterprets fundamental theoretical models that explain how the operation of markets in equilibrium shapes the scale and organization of the commercial city in a mixed market economy within a liberal state. These models link markets for the factors of production, markets for investment and fixed capital formation, markets for transportation, and markets for exports in equilibrium both within the urban economy and the rest of the world. In each case, the model explains the urban economy by revealing how assumptions about causes and structures lead to predictions about scale and organization outcomes. By simplifying and contrasting these models, this book proposes another interpretation: that governance and the urban economy are outcomes negotiated by political actors motivated by competing notions of commonwealth and the individual desire for wealth and power. The book grounds its analysis in economic history, explaining the rise of commercial cities and the emergence of the urban economy. It then turns to factors of production, export, and factor markets, introducing and parsing the Mills model, breaking it down into its component parts and creating a series of simpler models that can better explain the significance of each economic assumption. Simplified models are also presented for real estate and fixed capital investment markets, transportation, and land use planning. The book concludes with a discussion of linear programming and the Herbert- Stevens and the Ripper-Varaiya models. A fresh presentation of the theories behind urban economics, this book emphasizes the links between state and economy and challenges the reader to see its theories in a new light. As such, this book will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of economics, public policy, public administration, urban policy, and city and urban planning. >

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3319501003

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9783319501000

Strong Arm Tactics

A History and Statistical Analysis of the Professional Quarterback

By: John Maxymuk

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Strong Arm Tactics

A History and Statistical Analysis of the Professional Quarterback

By: John Maxymuk

Signal caller, gunslinger, field general--the quarterback goes by many lofty nicknames. It's arguably the toughest, most high-pressure position to play among all sports. The quarterback touches the ball on every offensive snap, is responsible for reading the defense, adjusting the play, and executing complex schemes that require tremendous physical and mental prowess. He is expected to be the undisputed team leader, whether he's an established veteran or an untested rookie. If he succeeds, he's the most likely player on the field to be canonized by fans and broadcasters. If he fails, he'll be vilified in the press and his home field fans will start cheering for the backup. This book traces the interesting history of the professional quarterback, from the early years when the quarterback was a blocker (and the appellations quarterback, halfback, and fullback were literal and geographically correct) to the modern-day player who must be the eyes, ears, brains, and, of course, the accurate, strong arm of the offense. The narrative history in Section I is rich with statistical analysis. The author employs realistic metrics for statistical comparison across multiple eras, and includes all-time rankings as well as specific rankings among different styles of quarterbacks. Section II compares quarterbacks within their respective eras, putting their accomplishments in context with those of their contemporaries. Section III breaks down the quarterback position, team-by-team, for current NFL franchises. Appendices provide detailed passing records; additional statistics on everything from relative passer ratings to fourth quarter comebacks; and listings of first round draft picks, trades involving quarterbacks, awards, and uniform numbers.

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1476621837

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Draftee Division

The 88th Infantry Division in World War II

By: John Sloan Brown

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Draftee Division

The 88th Infantry Division in World War II

By: John Sloan Brown

The involuntary soldiers of an unmilitary people such were the forces that American military planners had to pit against hardened Axis veterans, yet prewar unpreparedness dictated that whole divisions of such men would go to war under the supervision of tiny professional cadres. Much to his surprise and delight, Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall found that the 88th Infantry Division, his first draftee division, "fought like wildcats" and readily outclassed its German adversaries while measuring up to the best Regular Army divisions. Draftee Division is at once a history of the 88th Division, an analysis of American unit mobilization during World War II, and an insight into the savage Italian Campaign. After an introduction placing the division in historical context, separate chapters address personnel, training, logistics, and overseas deployment. Another chapter focuses upon preliminary adjustments to the realities of combat, after which two chapters trace the 88th's climactic drive through the Gustav Line into Rome itself. A final chapter takes the veteran 88th to final victory. Of particular interest are observations concerning differences connected with mobilization between the 88th and less successful divisions and discussions of the contemporary relevance of the 88th's experiences. Draftee Division is especially rich in its sources. John Sloan Brown, with close ties to the division, has secured extensive and candid contributions from veterans. To these he has added a full array of archival and secondary sources. The result is a definitive study of American cadremen creating a division out of raw draftees and leading them on to creditable victories. Its findings will be important for military and social historians and for students of defense policy

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813162262

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Becoming Penn

The Pragmatic American University, 1950-2000

By: John L. Puckett,Mark Frazier Lloyd

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Becoming Penn

The Pragmatic American University, 1950-2000

By: John L. Puckett,Mark Frazier Lloyd

After World War II, the University of Pennsylvania became one of the world's most celebrated research universities. John L. Puckett and Mark Frazier Lloyd trace Penn's rise to eminence amid the postwar social, institutional, moral, and civic contexts that shaped American research universities.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812246802

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Media Audiences

Effects, Users, Institutions, and Power

By: John L. Sullivan

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Media Audiences

Effects, Users, Institutions, and Power

By: John L. Sullivan

Whether we are watching TV, surfing the Internet, listening to our iPods, or reading a novel, we all engage with media as an audience. Despite the widespread use of this term in our popular culture, the meaning of the "audience" is complex, and it has undergone significant historical shifts as new forms of mediated communication have developed from print, telegraphy, and radio to film, television, and the Internet. John L. Sullivan's second edition of Media Audiences: Effects, Users, Institutions, and Power explores the concept of media audiences from four broad perspectives: as "victims" of mass media, as market constructions & commodities, as users of media, and as producers & subcultures of mass media. The goal is for students to be able to think critically about the role and status of media audiences in contemporary society, reflecting on their relative power in relation to institutional media producers.

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SAGE Publications

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1506397395

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Terror, Security, and Money

Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security

By: John Mueller,Mark G. Stewart

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Terror, Security, and Money

Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security

By: John Mueller,Mark G. Stewart

In seeking to evaluate the efficacy of post-9/11 homeland security expenses--which have risen by more than a trillion dollars, not including war costs--the common query has been, "Are we safer?" This, however, is the wrong question. Of course we are "safer"--the posting of a single security guard at one building's entrance enhances safety. The correct question is, "Are any gains in security worth the funds expended?"In this engaging, readable book, John Mueller and Mark Stewart apply risk and cost-benefit evaluation techniques to answer this very question. This analytical approach has been used throughout the world for decades by regulators, academics, and businesses--but, as a recent National Academy of Science study suggests, it has never been capably applied by the people administering homeland security funds. Given the limited risk terrorism presents, expenses meant to lower it have for the most part simply not been worth it. For example, to be considered cost-effective, increased American homeland security expenditures would have had each year to have foiled up to 1,667 attacks roughly like the one intended on Times Square in 2010--more than four a day. Cataloging the mistakes that the US has made--and continues to make--in managing homeland security programs, Terror, Security, and Money has the potential to redirect our efforts toward a more productive and far more cost-effective course.

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OUP USA

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0199795754

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9780199795758

Boundary Value Problems in Linear Viscoelasticity

By: John M. Golden,George A.C. Graham

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Boundary Value Problems in Linear Viscoelasticity

By: John M. Golden,George A.C. Graham

The classical theories of Linear Elasticity and Newtonian Fluids, though trium phantly elegant as mathematical structures, do not adequately describe the defor mation and flow of most real materials. Attempts to characterize the behaviour of real materials under the action of external forces gave rise to the science of Rheology. Early rheological studies isolated the phenomena now labelled as viscoelastic. Weber (1835, 1841), researching the behaviour of silk threats under load, noted an instantaneous extension, followed by a further extension over a long period of time. On removal of the load, the original length was eventually recovered. He also deduced that the phenomena of stress relaxation and damping of vibrations should occur. Later investigators showed that similar effects may be observed in other materials. The German school referred to these as "Elastische Nachwirkung" or "the elastic aftereffect" while the British school, including Lord Kelvin, spoke ofthe "viscosityofsolids". The universal adoption of the term "Viscoelasticity", intended to convey behaviour combining proper ties both of a viscous liquid and an elastic solid, is of recent origin, not being used for example by Love (1934), though Alfrey (1948) uses it in the context of polymers. The earliest attempts at mathematically modelling viscoelastic behaviour were those of Maxwell (1867) (actually in the context of his work on gases; he used this model for calculating the viscosity of a gas) and Meyer (1874).

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3662061562

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Analyzing Environmental Data

By: Walter W. Piegorsch,A. John Bailer

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Analyzing Environmental Data

By: Walter W. Piegorsch,A. John Bailer

Environmental statistics is a rapidly growing field, supported by advances in digital computing power, automated data collection systems, and interactive, linkable Internet software. Concerns over public and ecological health and the continuing need to support environmental policy-making and regulation have driven a concurrent explosion in environmental data analysis. This textbook is designed to address the need for trained professionals in this area. The book is based on a course which the authors have taught for many years, and prepares students for careers in environmental analysis centered on statistics and allied quantitative methods of data evaluation. The text extends beyond the introductory level, allowing students and environmental science practitioners to develop the expertise to design and perform sophisticated environmental data analyses. In particular, it: Provides a coherent introduction to intermediate and advanced methods for modeling and analyzing environmental data. Takes a data-oriented approach to describing the various methods. Illustrates the methods with real-world examples Features extensive exercises, enabling use as a course text. Includes examples of SAS computer code for implementation of the statistical methods. Connects to a Web site featuring solutions to exercises, extra computer code, and additional material. Serves as an overview of methods for analyzing environmental data, enabling use as a reference text for environmental science professionals. Graduate students of statistics studying environmental data analysis will find this invaluable as will practicing data analysts and environmental scientists including specialists in atmospheric science, biology and biomedicine, chemistry, ecology, environmental health, geography, and geology.

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0470012226

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9780470012222

Case Study Research

Principles and Practices

By: John Gerring

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Case Study Research

Principles and Practices

By: John Gerring

Case Study Research: Principles and Practices aims to provide a general understanding of the case study method as well as specific tools for its successful implementation. These tools can be utilized in all fields where the case study method is prominent, including business, anthropology, communications, economics, education, medicine, political science, social work, and sociology. Topics include the definition of a 'case study,' the strengths and weaknesses of this distinctive method, strategies for choosing cases, an experimental template for understanding research design, and the role of singular observations in case study research. It is argued that a diversity of approaches - experimental, observational, qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic - may be successfully integrated into case study research. This book breaks down traditional boundaries between qualitative and quantitative, experimental and nonexperimental, positivist and interpretivist.

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A Leader's Guide to Knowledge Management

Drawing on the Past to Enhance Future Performance

By: John Girad,JoAnn Girard

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A Leader's Guide to Knowledge Management

Drawing on the Past to Enhance Future Performance

By: John Girad,JoAnn Girard

This book is your guide to ensuring future generations know what you know and can apply it in their time. This book is your guide to knowledge management for the future leaders of your organization. In other words, it ensures that they will know what you know and be able to apply your experiences to similar encounters in their time.

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1606490192

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Branding: A Key Marketing Tool

By: John M. Murphy

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Branding: A Key Marketing Tool

By: John M. Murphy

Branding is l about brands in both the packaged goods and the services industries - how to develop them, how to protect them, how to use them effectively. It combines the practical experience of marketing executives, trade mark lawyers, designers, advertising agents and others.

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1349082805

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The 3M Model of Motivation and Personality

Theory and Empirical Applications to Consumer Behavior

By: John C. Mowen

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The 3M Model of Motivation and Personality

Theory and Empirical Applications to Consumer Behavior

By: John C. Mowen

Integrating control theory, evolutionary psychology, and a hierarchical approach to personality, this book presents a new approach to motivation, personality, and consumer behavior. Called the 3M, which stands for `Meta-theoretic Model of Motivation', this theory seeks to account for how personality traits interact with the situation to influence consumer attitudes and actions. The book proposes that multiple personality traits combine to form a motivational network that acts to influence behavior. Mowen argues that in order to understand the causes of enduring behavioral tendencies, one must identify the more abstract traits underlying surface behaviors. In constructing the 3M model, the author reports data from fifteen empirical studies employing over 3500 respondents. In this hierarchical model, four types of personality traits are identified: elemental, compound, situational, and surface traits. Eight elemental traits are proposed as forming the underlying dimensions of personality. Consistent with control theory, the research reveals that the elemental traits combine to form compound traits, such as self-efficacy, task orientation, playfulness, and competitiveness. These elemental and compound traits combine with situational influences to cause enduring behavioral tendencies within general situational contexts. Examples of situational traits investigated include impulsive buying, value consciousness, sports interest, and health motivation. In the 3M model the elemental, compound, and situational traits combine to yield surface traits, which are enduring dispositions to act in specific behavioral contexts. Five surface traits are empirically investigated in the book: compulsive buying, sports participation, healthy diet lifestyles, proneness to bargaining, and a tendency to frugality. Across these five studies, the empirical results reveal that the 3M model accounts for over 44% of the variance in the surface trait measures. By presenting a new meta-theory of motivation and personality that is testable, Mowen's 3M model accounts for high levels of variance in consumer behavior. By integrating the work of selected past and current theorists into a comprehensible whole, the 3M model provides coherence in a field currently dominated by conflicting ideas, theories, and approaches. The book provides evidence that by understanding the individual dispositions that underlie consumer behavior, public policy officials and marketing specialists can develop better communication programs to influence and persuade their target audiences. The book shows how to employ the 3M model to segment the marketplace, provide psychographic inventories, position brands, create promotional themes, and develop brand personalities.

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Universities as If Students Mattered

Social Science on the Creative Edge

By: John H. Scanzoni

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Universities as If Students Mattered

Social Science on the Creative Edge

By: John H. Scanzoni

Universities As If Students Mattered is centered around the goal of coaching college students to become active, self-directed learners whose obligation to serve society is integral to their active learning. At the same time, the innovations in this book would focus the attention, energy, and considerable talents of professors, graduate students, and post-docs on some potential ways and means of addressing urgent social issues, contributing to a more thorough and comprehensive understanding of the social world.

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Ocean Circulation and Climate

Chapter 27. Sea-Level and Ocean Heat-Content Change

By: John A. Church,Neil J. White,Catia M. Domingues,Didier P. Monselesan,Elaine R. Miles

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Ocean Circulation and Climate

Chapter 27. Sea-Level and Ocean Heat-Content Change

By: John A. Church,Neil J. White,Catia M. Domingues,Didier P. Monselesan,Elaine R. Miles

The ocean has the largest heat capacity in the climate system and as a result the ocean plays a critical role in the climate. Changes in ocean heat content dominate the Earth’s energy storage; and the ocean’s thermal expansion has been a major contributor to sea-level rise in the twentieth century and likely to be the largest contributor in the twenty-first century. The agreement between changes in ocean heat storage over recent decades and changes in the Earth’s radiative balance, within uncertainties, provides strong support for current understanding of anthropogenic climate change. As a result of improvements in observations and modeling of sea level and components contributing to sea-level change, there is now an improved explanation for twentieth century sea-level rise. Models project a continuing sea-level rise during the twenty-first century and beyond. However, a number of uncertainties remain in our understanding of the global mean and regional distribution of sea-level rise resulting from changes in ocean circulation and changes in the Earth’s gravitational field. Ocean-ice-sheet interactions are important for quantitatively estimating future ice-sheet contributions to sea-level rise.

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0128058765

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Criminal Law

Cases and Materials

By: John Kaplan,Robert Weisberg,Guyora Binder

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Criminal Law

Cases and Materials

By: John Kaplan,Robert Weisberg,Guyora Binder

Criminal Law: Cases and Materials has long been respected for its distinguished authorship. The late John Kaplan’s extraordinary work continues with the scholarship of Robert Weisberg and Guyora Binder in the Ninth Edition. This casebook’s renowned interdisciplinary approach fuels class discussion as it enriches study. Logically organized, the text addresses the purposes and limits of punishment and considers the meaning and types of crime. Well-edited cases, interesting materials, and clear notes combine with cutting-edge issues and important social questions, such as whom and why we punish. Especially strong are the sections addressing the phenomenon of mass incarceration (including the movement towards prison abolition), the theme of and challenges to racial justice in our criminal law system, and the evolution of our laws on sexual assault. New to the Ninth Edition: Addition of up-to-date empirical and public policy research as well as expanded discussion of the role of constitutional law in the criminalization of homelessness, and issues of racial justice on such topics as criminal liability of police for use of lethal force and the controversies over citizen’s arrest powers. Incorporation of new feminist research in such areas as battered women’s self-defense and sexual assault (including treatment of the ongoing efforts to revise the Model Penal Code laws on rape). New historically informed treatment of felony murder, including legislative and judicial developments in reform and possible abolition of felony murder doctrine. Updated notes and questions aimed at improving the casebook’s usefulness for exam preparation. New case law on the challenges of applying criminal law in the Internet world on such topics as possession of child pornography images and criminal conduct through cyber-messaging. A fresh new analytic guide on “impossible attempts”, designed to assist students with this perennially challenging doctrine. Professors and student will benefit from: Strong authorship team: The late John Kaplan, a storied teacher and scholar; Weisberg and Binder, noted scholars in criminal law An interdisciplinary approach Well-edited cases, interesting materials, and clear notes Logical organization “Snapshot Review” exercises to aid students in exam preparation. Teaching materials Include: Improved Teacher’s Manual designed to make casebook accessible and useful for new professors. Includes suggested answers to “Snapshot Review” questions. CasebookConnect features: ONLINE E-BOOK Law school comes with a lot of reading, so access your enhanced e-book anytime, anywhere to keep up with your coursework. Highlight, take notes in the margins, and search the full text to quickly find coverage of legal topics. PRACTICE QUESTIONS Quiz yourself before class and prep for your exam in the Study Center. Practice questions from Examples & Explanations, Emanuel Law Outlines, Emanuel Law in a Flash flashcards, and other best-selling study aid series help you study for exams while tracking your strengths and weaknesses to help optimize your study time. OUTLINE TOOL Most professors will tell you that starting your outline early is key to being successful in your law school classes. The Outline Tool automatically populates your notes and highlights from the e-book into an editable format to accelerate your outline creation and increase study time later in the semester.

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154383115X

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Carbon Transfer Printing

A Step-by-Step Manual, Featuring Contemporary Carbon Printers and Their Creative Practice

By: Sandy King,Don Nelson,John Lockhart

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Carbon Transfer Printing

A Step-by-Step Manual, Featuring Contemporary Carbon Printers and Their Creative Practice

By: Sandy King,Don Nelson,John Lockhart

Carbon Transfer Printing is a book about one of the earliest photographic processes that provided the first permanent printing methods, available in one form or another for over 150 years. This book reviews the extensive history of carbon transfer and related pigment processes in both monochrome and color, to serve as point source for a new carbon printer to begin to master the craft of carbon printing, as well as provide new material for experienced carbon printers so they can expand their techniques. The book includes never-before-published information on pre-sensitizing carbon tissue with newly identified compounds, information on the safe use and disposal of hexavalent chromium compounds, and simplified methods of producing 3-color carbon prints. Carbon Transfer Printing is divided into two parts, illustrated with 175 photographs. Part One is a complete how-to on the carbon transfer process, from simple to complex, with a troubleshooting guide and an extensive chapter on digital negatives. Part Two is devoted to contemporary carbon printers who share their methods and secrets to creating their beautiful carbon prints. Topics that the book covers are: Key events in carbon’s history How to organize the carbon workplace Sections on necessary supplies and equipment A step-by-step digital method of making high quality digital negatives Simple and advanced methods of carbon printing How to make carbon tissue, including several methods of pre-sensitizing How to choose UV light sources for printing in carbon Step-by-step processing directions How to prepare final support papers Troubleshooting carbon Multi-layer printing to add tone, or make a full color carbon print Finishing and final presentation of carbon prints A gallery of images and advice from contemporary carbon printers Carbon Transfer Printing is designed for both the beginning carbon enthusiast as well as for the advanced practitioner. Backed with extensive research on carbon printing from books, journals, and magazine articles from the 1800s to present day, and the extensive personal experience in carbon printing of the authors, there is enough information in this book to provide inspiration and proof of both the glorious past of carbon printmaking and its enduring importance to a new generation of image makers who value the handmade print.

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