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In Local Hands

Village Government Incorporation and Dissolution in New York State

By: Lisa K. Parshall

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In Local Hands

Village Government Incorporation and Dissolution in New York State

By: Lisa K. Parshall

In Local Hands examines the contemporary (post-2010) village government dissolution movement and renewed state-level effort to encourage local government restructuring against the backdrop of evolving statutory authority, growing fiscal pressures, and state incentives. Drawing on multiple disciplines, Lisa K. Parshall explores the contemporary village dissolution movement in New York State, the impetus behind these reforms, and the impact of the state-level policies and incentives that are driving a growing number of local communities to consider local government reorganization through the elimination of villages as governing entities. Parshall explores the social, political, and narrative contexts in which these community-level debates occur, providing us with a study of local democracy in action and of the power of local control over the creation and dissolution of local governing entities. With its dual within and cross-case study focus on New York State villages, In Local Hands is both timeless and timely, providing valuable contributions to the study of municipal development and reorganization.

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State University of New York Press

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1438492472

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A Faith of Their Own

Stability and Change in the Religiosity of America's Adolescents

By: Lisa Pearce,Melinda Lundquist Denton

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A Faith of Their Own

Stability and Change in the Religiosity of America's Adolescents

By: Lisa Pearce,Melinda Lundquist Denton

Adding to the contributions made by Soul Searching and Souls in Transition--two books which revolutionized our understanding of the religious lives of young Americans--Lisa Pearce and Melinda Lundquist Denton here offer a new portrait of teenage faith. Drawing on the massive National Study of Youth and Religion's telephone surveys and in-depth interviews with more than 120 youth at two points in time, the authors chart the spiritual trajectory of American adolescents and young adults over a period of three years. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the authors find that religion is an important force in the lives of most--though their involvement with religion changes over time, just as teenagers themselves do. Pearce and Denton weave in fascinating portraits of actual youth to give depth to mere numerical rankings of religiosity, which tend to prevail in large studies. One teenager might rarely attend a service, yet count herself profoundly religious; another might be deeply involved in a church's social world, yet claim to be "not, like, deep into the faith." They provide a new set of qualitative categories--Abiders, Assenters, Adapters, Avoiders, and Atheists--quoting from interviews to illuminate the shading between them. And, with their three-year study, they offer a rich understanding of the dynamic nature of faith in young people's lives during a period of rapid change in biology, personality, and social interaction. Not only do degrees of religiosity change, but so does its nature, whether expressed in institutional practices or personal belief. By presenting a new model of religious development and change, illustrated with compelling personal accounts of real teenagers, Pearce and Denton offer parents, scholars, and religious leaders a new guide for understanding religious development in teens.

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Oxford University Press

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0199792844

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9780199792849

Faith and Money

How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty

By: Lisa A. Keister

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Faith and Money

How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty

By: Lisa A. Keister

For those who own it, wealth can have extraordinary advantages. High levels of wealth can enhance educational attainment, create occupational opportunities, generate social influence and provide a buffer against financial emergencies. Even a small amount of savings can improve security, mitigate the effects of job loss and other financial setbacks and improve well-being dramatically. Although the benefits of wealth are significant, they are not enjoyed uniformly throughout the United States. In the United States, because religion is an important part of cultural orientation, religious beliefs should affect material well-being. This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans' incomes, savings and net worth.

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Cambridge University Press

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113950262X

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9781139502627

Radical Solidarity

Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence

By: Lisa G. Materson

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Radical Solidarity

Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence

By: Lisa G. Materson

Radical Solidarity tells the riveting story of Ruth Reynolds (1916–89), a white pacifist from South Dakota who became a stalwart ally of nationalist revolutionaries during Puerto Rico's long struggle for independence. Reynolds dedicated her life to ending US control of the archipelago. She testified before Congress and the UN, organized fellow North Americans, investigated the brutal tactics used by the colonial state to quash independence sentiment, and was incarcerated as a political prisoner. Lisa G. Materson introduces the concept of "radical solidarity" to describe Reynolds's powerful model for globally engaged activism. Guided by her vision of allyship, Reynolds developed deep bonds with the Puerto Rican nationalist women with whom she was imprisoned, collaborated across ideological divides with revolutionary leaders, and established lasting relationships with civil rights lawyers, political exiles, and New Left activists. Her radical solidarity enabled her to remain a tireless champion for Puerto Rico's independence through five decades of hope, disappointment, and political change. Her life reveals the price paid by those who supported an independent Puerto Rico and sheds light on the possibilities of working across differences in the face of US state-sanctioned violence and colonialism.

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UNC Press Books

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1469679930

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9781469679938

Cardiovascular Nutrition

Disease Management and Prevention

By: Jo Ann S. Carson,Frances M. Burke,Lisa Hark

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Cardiovascular Nutrition

Disease Management and Prevention

By: Jo Ann S. Carson,Frances M. Burke,Lisa Hark

This resource thoroughly examines the role of nutrition, in the management and prevention of cardiovascular disease. Topics include: risk factor and nutrition assessment, lifestyle counseling strategies for behavior change, the role of functional foods, antioxidants and dietary supplements, preventing cardiovascular complications in diabetes, popular diets in the management of obesity, and an examination of special populations, including women, children and multicultural groups.

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American Dietetic Associati

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0880913452

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9780880913454

Medical Nutrition and Disease

A Case-Based Approach

By: Lisa Hark,Darwin Deen,Gail Morrison

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Medical Nutrition and Disease

A Case-Based Approach

By: Lisa Hark,Darwin Deen,Gail Morrison

Medical Nutrition and Disease: A Case-Based Approach is an ideal way for medical students, physician assistant students, dietetic students, dietetic interns, and medical residents to advance their nutrition knowledge and skills. Dietitians in clinical practice and dietetic educators will also benefit from the updated nutrition concepts and case-based approach. The 5th edition of this best-selling text has been fully updated and includes 13 chapters and 29 cases, with 6 brand new cases. Medical Nutrition and Disease: • Features learning objectives and current references in every chapter and case • Teaches you how to diagnose and manage nutritional problems, integrate nutrition into clinical practice, and answer your patients’ most common questions • Includes nutritional advice for children, teenagers, pregnant women, and older adults • Includes contributions from nationally recognized nutritionists and physicians who teach nutrition in medical schools, and undergraduate and dietetic programs

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118652428

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9781118652428

Religion in America

By: Lisa D. Pearce,Claire Chipman Gilliland

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Religion in America

By: Lisa D. Pearce,Claire Chipman Gilliland

Written in an engaging and accessible tone, Religion in America probes the dynamics of recent American religious beliefs and behaviors. Charting trends over time using demographic data, this book examines how patterns of religious affiliation, service attendance, and prayer vary by race and ethnicity, social class, and gender. The authors identify demographic processes such as birth, death, and migration, as well as changes in education, employment, and families, as central to why some individuals and congregations experience change in religious practices and beliefs while others hold steady. Religion in America challenges students to examine the demographic data alongside everyday accounts of how religion is experienced differently across social groups to better understand the role that religion plays in the lives of Americans today and how that is changing.

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University of California Press

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0520296427

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9780520296428

Admissions by Design

Stop the Madness and Find the Best College for You

By: Lisa Fisher

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Admissions by Design

Stop the Madness and Find the Best College for You

By: Lisa Fisher

The race to matriculate into the most-prestigious-university-possible is killing America's students. There is a better way! Admissions by Design is a poignant, unorthodox, and thorough guide that upends the traditional paradigm of college admissions. Incorporating the latest research in brain science and human development and using stories from her nearly 20 years of work with students, Lisa Fisher offers students practical tools to reframe the college admissions process to one of an inspired and authentic journey toward self-discovery. Building from the root of the word “admission,” meaning “toward purpose,” and tying the college admissions process to the development of self and to emerging trends in economic development, the author argues that the admissions process shouldn’t be about getting into a prestigious “name” school, but about a journey to knowing one’s self, heeding one’s callings, and identifying the “right fit” school that will serve as the catalyst to embracing a purpose-led life. Presenting facts and details about the ways in which the current system of college admissions negatively impacts students, the author challenges prevailing methods and offers new ideas and solutions to reinvent the approach to college admissions to be more humanistic and student-centered. This practical guide challenges students to define and pursue their unique paths and offers hands-on tools to help students in their process of self-discovery and in identifying and applying to the “right fit” college.

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Elevate Publishing

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1943425558

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9781943425556

Criminal Courts for the 21st Century

By: Lisa Stolzenberg,Stewart J. D'Alessio

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Criminal Courts for the 21st Century

By: Lisa Stolzenberg,Stewart J. D'Alessio

Based on fundamental principles from mathematics, linear systems, and signal analysis, digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms are useful for extracting information from signals collected all around us. Combined with todaye(tm)s powerful computing capabilities, they can be used in a wide range of application areas, including engineering, communications, geophysics, computer science, information technology, medicine, and biometrics. Updated and expanded, Digital Signal Processing with Examples in MATLAB, Second Edition introduces the basic aspects of signal processing and presents the fundamentals of DSP. It also relates DSP to continuous signal processing, rather than treating it as an isolated operation. New to the Second Edition Discussion of current DSP applications New chapters on analog systems models and pattern recognition using support vector machines New sections on the chirp z-transform, resampling, waveform reconstruction, discrete sine transform, and logarithmic and nonuniform sampling A more comprehensive table of transforms Developing the fundamentals of DSP from the ground up, this bestselling text continues to provide readers with a solid foundation for further work in most areas of signal processing. For novices, the authors review the basic mathematics required to understand DSP systems and offer a brief introduction to MATLAB. They also include end-of-chapter exercises that not only provide examples of the topics discussed, but also introduce topics and applications not covered in the chapters.

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0130912891

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9780130912893

Faculty as Global Learners

Off-Campus Study at Liberal Arts Colleges

By: Joan Gillespie,Dana Gross,Lisa Jasinski

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Faculty as Global Learners

Off-Campus Study at Liberal Arts Colleges

By: Joan Gillespie,Dana Gross,Lisa Jasinski

This co-authored collection offers valuable insights about the impact of leading off-campus study on faculty leaders’ teaching, research, service, and overall well-being. Recognizing that faculty leaders are themselves global learners, the book addresses ways that liberal arts colleges can more effectively achieve their strategic goals for students' global learning by intentionally anticipating and supporting the needs of faculty leaders, as they grow and change. Faculty as Global Learners offers key findings and recommendations to stimulate conversations among administrators, faculty, and staff about concrete actions they can explore and steps they can take on their campuses to both support faculty leaders of off-campus programs and advance strategic institutional goals for global learning. This collection includes transferrable pedagogical insights and the perspectives of faculty members who have led off-campus study programs in a variety of disciplines and geographic regions.

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Lever Press

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1643150197

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9781643150192

Marriages in Russia

Couples During the Economic Transition

By: Lisa Cubbins,Marina Malysheva,Elena Meshterina,Marina Pisklakova,Natalja Rimashevskaja,Dana Vannoy

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Marriages in Russia

Couples During the Economic Transition

By: Lisa Cubbins,Marina Malysheva,Elena Meshterina,Marina Pisklakova,Natalja Rimashevskaja,Dana Vannoy

Researched and written by a collaborative team of Americans and Russians, Marriages in Russia explores the myths and realities of how the first years of market transformation have affected Russian family life. The research project, in which 2418 individual interviews of randomly sampled heterosexual couples are used, was initiated to determine if the relationships between gender attitudes and the relative social statuses of spouses—based on such factors as education, occupational prestige, and income—influence the marital quality spouses experience. Whether these variables are linked to domestic violence, as data show they are in the United States, is also examined. The results are surprising in that they often contradict general beliefs about Russian gender attitudes and gender attributes, and the analysis of these findings is ultimately a fascinating look at the post-Cold War realities of family life in Russia.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313388954

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9780313388958

Eyes on the Street: Police Use of Body-Worn Cameras in Miami-Dade County

By: Stewart J. D'Alessio Ph. D.,Jamie L. Flexon Ph. D.,Lisa Stolzenberg Ph. D.

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Eyes on the Street: Police Use of Body-Worn Cameras in Miami-Dade County

By: Stewart J. D'Alessio Ph. D.,Jamie L. Flexon Ph. D.,Lisa Stolzenberg Ph. D.

This study evaluates the impact of the implementation of body-worn cameras in seven districts served by the Miami-Dade Police Department.

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Book's by Lisa Stolzenberg

In Local Hands

In Local Hands

A Faith of Their Own

A Faith of Their Own

Faith and Money

Faith and Money

Radical Solidarity

Radical Solidarity

Cardiovascular Nutrition

Cardiovascular Nutrition

Medical Nutrition and Disease

Medical Nutrition and Disease

Religion in America

Religion in America

Admissions by Design

Admissions by Design

Criminal Courts for the 21st Century

Criminal Courts for the 21st Century

Faculty as Global Learners

Faculty as Global Learners

Marriages in Russia

Marriages in Russia

Eyes on the Street: Police Use of Body-Worn Cameras in Miami-Dade County

Eyes on the Street: Police Use of Body-Worn Cameras in Miami-Dade County

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