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Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure

Relational and Other Lessons From the African American Organization

By: Anne Maydan Nicotera,Marcia J. Clinkscales,Felicia R. Walker

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Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure

Relational and Other Lessons From the African American Organization

By: Anne Maydan Nicotera,Marcia J. Clinkscales,Felicia R. Walker

Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure: Relational and Other Lessons From the African American Organization presents an innovative view of organizations and the communication processes that constitute them. Arguing that human beings are communicatively embedded in their cultures, Anne Maydan Nicotera and Marcia J. Clinkscales, working with Felicia R. Walker, examine issues concerning task and relational orientations and the ways they and other cultural dimensions connect with organizational structure and function for predominantly African American organizations. Utilizing the results of their own research on organizations, they develop a set of humanistically-based models that illustrate how hidden cultural processes suffuse organizational life and are manifest through communication. Emphasizing the development of alternative theories and models of organizing which are rooted in African-American culture, such as team-based versus hierarchy-based interactions, this book explores such organizational functions as leadership and management, power, authority and control, communication and interpersonal dynamics, and cultural identity and human development. Applying their findings in a broader analysis of contemporary practices in organizational restructuring, the authors present research that serves as the foundation for generating several emergent models with significant implications for organizational systems. Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure stimulates and inspires current researchers of organizational communication, and is certain to raise greater awareness of the operation of culture in organizing. The text is intended for scholars and students in organizational communication, management, organizational psychology, African studies, and related areas.

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Routledge

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1135653046

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Kaplan & Sadock's Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry

By: Robert Boland,Marcia Verduin

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Kaplan & Sadock's Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry

By: Robert Boland,Marcia Verduin

Succinct, authoritative, and affordable, Kaplan & Sadock’s Concise Textbook of Psychiatry, 5th Edition, provides must-know information in clinical psychiatry from the names you trust. From cover to cover, it contains the most relevant clinical material from the bestselling Kaplan and Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry, 12th Edition, including the foundational chapters on assessment, the disorder specific chapters, and all of the treatment-specific chapters among other essential topics such as emergency psychiatry, ethics, and palliative/end-of-life care. New editors Robert Boland and Marcia L. Verduin, along with consulting editor Pedro Ruiz, have updated all content with a focus on reformatting and summarizing for faster access to key information.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975167503

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Leave a Message for Willie

By: Marcia Muller

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Leave a Message for Willie

By: Marcia Muller

Amid the shifting world of San Francisco flea markets, shady vendors sell junk, precious antiques, and stolen goods side by side. Somewhere in the mix, a priceless collection of sacred Torah scrolls is gathering dust—and attracting a group of fanatical killers. When private investigator Sharon McCone helps one flea market kingpin fend off a stalker, she's drawn into the netherworld of deal-making and thievery, a dangerous milieu seldom seen by outsiders. For her client Willie Whelan, the sidewalk sales are a game: trick the customer, outsell the competition, and stay one step ahead of the cops. But Willie's enemies have something more sinister in mind—a conspiracy so heinous it threatens the religious artifacts, Willie's freedom, and McCone's life.

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Blackstone Publishing

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160998613X

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Student Diversity at the Big Three

Changes at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Since the 1920s

By: Marcia Synnott

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Student Diversity at the Big Three

Changes at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Since the 1920s

By: Marcia Synnott

Strengthening affirmative action programs and fighting discrimination present challenges to America's best private and public universities. US college enrollments swelled from 2.6 million students in 1955 to 17.5 million by 2005. Ivy League universities, specifically Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, face significant challenges in maintaining their professed goal to educate a reasonable number of students from all ethnic, racial, religious, and socio-economic groups while maintaining the loyalty of their alumni. College admissions officers in these elite universities have the daunting task of selecting a balanced student body. Added to their challenges, the economic recession of 2008-2009 negatively impacted potential applicants from lower-income families. Evidence suggests that high Standard Aptitude Test (SAT) scores are correlated with a family's socioeconomic status. Thus, the problem of selecting the "best" students from an ever-increasing pool of applicants may render standardized admissions tests a less desirable selection mechanism. The next admissions battle may be whether well-endowed universities should commit themselves to a form of class-based affirmative action in order to balance the socioeconomic advantages of well-to-do families. Such a policy would improve prospects for students who may have ambitions for an education that is beyond their reach without preferential treatment. As in past decades, admissions policies may remain a question of balances and preferences. Nevertheless, the elite universities are handling admission decisions with determination and far less prejudice than in earlier eras.

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Routledge

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1351487779

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Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom

By: Carol Ann Tomlinson,Marcia B. Imbeau

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Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom

By: Carol Ann Tomlinson,Marcia B. Imbeau

Updated with new research and insights, the second edition of this foundational guide to the how of differentiation provides the thoughtful strategies teachers need to create and maintain classrooms where each student is recognized and respected and every student thrives. One of the most powerful lessons a teacher must learn is that classroom management is not about control; it's about delivering the support and facilitating the routines that will make the classroom work for each student, and thus, set all students free to be successful learners. In Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom, Carol Ann Tomlinson and Marcia B. Imbeau explore the central priorities and mindsets of differentiation and provide practical guidelines for making effective student-centered, academically responsive instruction a reality. Their classroom management approach is based on three critical understandings: 1. When students are engaged, they have no motivation to misbehave. 2. When students understand that their teacher sees them as worthwhile people with significant potential, it opens doors to learning. 3. The classroom can't work for anybody until it works for everybody. Written for K–12 teachers and instructional leaders, this book is packed with strategies for structuring and pacing lessons, organizing learning spaces and materials, starting and stopping class with purpose, setting up and managing routines, and shifting gears if something isn't going well. It also gives teachers the guidance they need to help students, colleagues, and parents understand the goals of differentiated instruction and contribute to its success. Along with examples of recommended practice drawn from real-life classrooms at a variety of grade levels, you will find answers to frequently asked questions and specific advice for balancing content requirements and the needs of learners. You'll gain confidence as a leader for and in your differentiated classroom and be better prepared to teach in a way that's more efficient and rewarding for you and more effective for every student in your care.

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ASCD

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1416631798

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Gerontological Home Health Care

A Guide for the Social Work Practitioner

By: Goldie Kadushin,Marcia Egan

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Gerontological Home Health Care

A Guide for the Social Work Practitioner

By: Goldie Kadushin,Marcia Egan

Answering the urgent call for a textbook that deals specifically with adults in this setting, Goldie Kadushin and Marcia Egan synthesize empirical research to extract practical applications for practice, emphasizing the "how to" of gerontological home health care by discussing the field's most relevant issues. The authors include chapters on home health care policies and funding, cultural and diversity issues, the contemporary challenges of the social work role in home health care, the development of a relation, the client's role in helping with care, practice evaluations, and individual and social system assessment and intervention."--Back cover.

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Columbia University Press

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0231124651

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9780231124652

Computers, Teachers, Peers

Science Learning Partners

By: Marcia C. Linn,Sherry Hsi

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Computers, Teachers, Peers

Science Learning Partners

By: Marcia C. Linn,Sherry Hsi

Shows how computers, teachers, & peers can serve as learning partners, helping students build on their ideas & regularly restructure their views. Synthesizes design principles from authors' experience creating the computer as learning partner curric.

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1135666709

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Port of Last Resort

The Diaspora Communities of Shanghai

By: Marcia Reynders Ristaino

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Port of Last Resort

The Diaspora Communities of Shanghai

By: Marcia Reynders Ristaino

This book examines two large and generally overlooked diaspora communities, one Jewish, the other Slavic, who found refuge in Shanghai during the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century.

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Stanford University Press

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0804750238

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9780804750233

Evidence-Based Interventions for Social Work in Health Care

By: Marcia Egan

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Evidence-Based Interventions for Social Work in Health Care

By: Marcia Egan

Social work practice in health care requires that practitioners be prepared to meet the interdisciplinary and managed care demands for best practices in efficacious, time-limited, and culturally competent interventions, with populations across the lifespan. This text is designed to meet that demand for evidence-based practice. The result of extensive systematic reviews, Evidence-based Interventions for Social Work in Health Care provides substantive in-depth knowledge of empirically based interventions specifically for major and emerging medical diseases and health conditions particularly affecting diverse, at-risk and marginalized populations. It outlines best practices for the psychosocial problems associated with the emerging chronic and major health conditions of the twenty-first century, such as paediatric asthma, Type I and Type II diabetes, obesity, paediatric cancer, and adult hypertension. The interventions discussed are detailed in terms of for whom, by whom, when, under what circumstances, for what duration, and for what level client system the intervention has proven most effective. This invaluable text is suitable for students and will be a useful reference for practitioners specialising in social work in health settings.

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1135262942

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Painting Gender, Constructing Theory

The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics

By: Marcia Brennan

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Painting Gender, Constructing Theory

The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics

By: Marcia Brennan

Focusing on the key historical criticism and art-works, Brennan shows how the identities of all five Stieglitz circle artists were presented in terms of the masculinity and femininity, and the heterosexuality and homosexuality, thought to be embedded in their work. Brennan also discusses Stieglitz's relation to competing artistic and critical movements, including Thomas Hart Benton's regionalist art and Clement Greenberg's reformulation of formalism."--Jacket.

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MIT Press

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0262523361

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6 Steps to Free Publicity (Easyread Comfort Edition)

By: Marcia Yudkin

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6 Steps to Free Publicity (Easyread Comfort Edition)

By: Marcia Yudkin

There are many good books on publicity. Yudkin certainly matches all the others and actually exceeds them in two areas-humor and creativity."--Booklist Want the world to know who you are, what your company offers, or the urgency of your cause? With the popularity of the Internet, it's never been easier for an ordinary Jane or Joe to use publicity to spread the word. Whether you want to attract new business, establish yourself as an expert, build your company's reputation, or introduce a new concept to the community, free publicity is the cheapest, most credible way to do it. This thoroughly updated edition of 6 Steps to Free Publicity includes detailed tips and techniques for utilizing 21st century grassroots publicity techniques-from blogs and social media to viral videos and podcasting-along with the basics of earning ink or air time. It also covers: * Getting started-how to overcome fears, feel comfortable with fame, and think up newsworthy publicity angles. * How to write tip sheets, pitch letters, articles, and news releases that roll out your message and keep you in people's minds and files. * How to perform on radio, TV, or the Web like a pro. * Publicity writing tips that ensure you'll be easily found online through search engines. * Strategies for building an audience of fervent fans online or within a geographical or special-interest community. * A full range of attention-getting techniques, from wacky and quirky to serious and highly respectable. Read 6 Steps to Free Publicity with highlighter and notebook in hand, because it inspires creative exploits and powerful publicity campaigns ... that cost next to nothing! Author of 11 books, Marcia Yudkin has been turning words into money since 1981, when her first freelance article appeared in The New York Times. She is the author of Web Site Marketing Makeover and Internet Marketing for Less than $500/Year. She has landed publicity in The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, Success Magazine, Women in Business, USBanker, and dozens of newspapers around the world. Yudkin lives in Goshen, Massachusetts.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1442976373

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9781442976375

Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Text of Psychiatry

By: Robert Boland,Marcia L. Verduin

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Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Text of Psychiatry

By: Robert Boland,Marcia L. Verduin

The gold standard reference for all those who work with people with mental illness, Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, edited by Drs. Robert Boland and Marcia L. Verduin, has consistently kept pace with the rapid growth of research and knowledge in neural science, as well as biological and psychological science. This two-volume eleventh edition offers the expertise of more than 600 renowned contributors who cover the full range of psychiatry and mental health, including neural science, genetics, neuropsychiatry, psychopharmacology, and other key areas.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975175743

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9781975175740

The Little, Brown Reader

By: Marcia Stubbs,Sylvan Barnet,William E. Cain

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The Little, Brown Reader

By: Marcia Stubbs,Sylvan Barnet,William E. Cain

This best selling text offers students a balance of contemporary and classic readings that are engaging and promote critical thinking and thoughtful writing.

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321330749

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9780321330741

Public Health Nursing - E-Book

By: Marcia Stanhope,Jeanette Lancaster

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Public Health Nursing - E-Book

By: Marcia Stanhope,Jeanette Lancaster

Prepare for a successful career as a community/public health nurse! Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community, 9th Edition provides up-to-date information on issues that impact public health nursing, such as infectious diseases, natural and man-made disasters, and health care policies affecting individuals, families, and communities. Real-life scenarios show examples of health promotion and public health interventions. New to this edition is an emphasis on QSEN skills and an explanation of the influence of the Affordable Care Act on public health. Written by well-known nursing educators Marcia Stanhope and Jeanette Lancaster, this comprehensive, bestselling text is ideal for students in both BSN and Advanced Practice Nursing programs. Evidence-Based Practice and Cutting Edge boxes illustrate the use and application of the latest research findings in public/community health nursing. Healthy People 2020 boxes highlight goals and objectives for promoting the nation’s health and wellness over the next decade. Levels of Prevention boxes identify specific nursing interventions at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. Practice Application scenarios help you apply chapter content to the practice setting by analyzing case situations and answering critical thinking questions. Linking Content to Practice boxes provide examples of the nurse’s role in caring for individuals, families, and populations in community health settings. Unique! Separate chapters on healthy cities, the Minnesota Intervention Wheel, and nursing centers describe different approaches to community health initiatives. Community/Public Health Nursing Online consists of 14 modules that bring community health situations to life, each including a reading assignment, case scenarios with learning activities, an assessment quiz, and critical thinking questions. Sold separately. NEW! Coverage of health care reform discusses the impact of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) on public health nursing. NEW! Focus on Quality and Safety Education for Nurses boxes give examples of how quality and safety goals, knowledge, competencies and skills, and attitudes can be applied to nursing practice in the community.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323321542

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9780323321549

The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Russia

By: Marcia A. Morris

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The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Russia

By: Marcia A. Morris

This study of the flowering and the antecedents of the picaresque in 17th century Russia seeks to offer new insight into both the genre and its broad appeal to Russian readers. Morris resurrects 18th century picaresques, revealing their fusion of Western and indigenous aesthetics.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810117533

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9780810117532

Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical

By: Marcia Muelder Eaton

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Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical

By: Marcia Muelder Eaton

To "look good" and to "be good" have traditionally been considered two very different notions. Indeed, philosophers have seen aesthetic and ethical values as fundamentally separate. Now, at the crossroads of a new wave of aesthetic theory, Marcia Muelder Eaton introduces this groundbreaking work, in which a bold new concept of merit where being good and looking good are integrated into one.

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Oxford University Press

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0195349881

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9780195349887

Processing Varieties in English

An Examination of Oral and Written Speech across Genres

By: Marcia Macaulay

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Processing Varieties in English

An Examination of Oral and Written Speech across Genres

By: Marcia Macaulay

This study of oral and written speech in English examines media as processing varieties and looks at their interaction with genre. To date, the study of orality and literacy in English has been unsystematic; findings in turn have been inconsistent and contradictory. In this treatment, clear methodological parameters have been set up to ensure accurate and significant findings. All texts used are parallel texts arising out of the same or similar context of situation. With this methodology, ideational meaning is clearly distinguished from textual meaning. Moreover, media and genre, two aspects of textual meaning, are distinguished so that representative features of each are isolated. Lastly, all texts are naturally occurring across representative genres. With such distinctions and criteria in place, the important interaction of media with genre is examined, while the character of oral and written speech as processing varieties is revealed. Above all, this study demonstrates the non-neutrality of oral and written speech as language varieties. Especially important is the resultative/causative split between them in the representation of events. Written speech is not oral speech 'written down' as Bloomfield and de Saussure originally claimed, but a very different system of syntactic and discourse organization which influences how we represent and see the world. Both varieties strongly influence the semantic content and generic function of any text they convey indicating very significant interplay of semantic variables in the processing of language. Processing Varieties in English contributes to a wide range of linguistic areas and topics, including discourse analysis, socio-psycholinguistics, and cognitive science.

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UBC Press

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0774843047

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9780774843041

Through the Eyes of Descartes

Seeing, Thinking, Writing

By: Cecilia Sjöholm,Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

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Through the Eyes of Descartes

Seeing, Thinking, Writing

By: Cecilia Sjöholm,Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

I shall here present my life," writes Descartes in Discourse on Method, "as in a painting" and my method "as a fable." Through the Eyes of Descartes demonstrates how a Cartesian aesthetics is interwoven in his thought. It brings together a variety of materials: his metaphysical writings and essays in natural philosophy, through to his letters, drawings, and printed images. Cecilia Sjöholm and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback seek to bring Descartes into dialogue with contemporary phenomenology as well as contemporary psychoanalytic thought. They focus on how perception interacts with emotions and thought, and the way in which our gaze is directed toward limit-phenomena of beauty and fascination. In Through the Eyes of Descartes, Cecilia Sjöholm and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback counter the traditional picture of Descartes by presenting his work in an entirely different light: a Descartes of the arts, of sensibility, of inner images, and of imagination.

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Indiana University Press

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0253068258

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9780253068255

The Oasis Papers 2

Proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project

By: Marcia F. Wiseman

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The Oasis Papers 2

Proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project

By: Marcia F. Wiseman

This volume of fourteen papers covers the environment, archaeology and conservation of the Dakhleh Oasis, as presented at the Second International Conference of this long-running project (held in Toronto, 1997). Four abstracts from papers not submitted to the published volume are also included, as is the original conference program.

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Oxbow Books

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178570561X

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The New Social Learning, 2nd Edition

Connect. Collaborate. Work.

By: Tony Bingham,Marcia Conner

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The New Social Learning, 2nd Edition

Connect. Collaborate. Work.

By: Tony Bingham,Marcia Conner

“Social learning is a fundamental shift in how people work leveraging how we have always worked, now with new, more humanizing tools, accelerating individual and collective reach, giving us the resources to create the organization, and the world, we want to live in.” In this newly revised and updated edition of The New Social Learning, Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner dispel organizational myths and fears about social media. By sharing the success stories of socially engaged companies and people, the much-anticipated second edition persuasively makes the case for using social media to encourage knowledge transfer and real-time learning in a connected and engaging way. As Steve LeBlanc noted, “Social learning thrives in a culture of service and wonder. It is inspired by leaders, enabled by technology, and ignited by opportunities that have only recently unfolded.” Brand-new case studies about innovative organizations such as Boston Children s Hospital, National Australian Bank, LAZ Parking, Sanofi Pasteur, Cigna, CENTURY 21, and Roche Pharmaceuticals illustrate cutting-edge social learning approaches that cultivate environments where great people can do their best work. The New Social Learning lays the foundation for improving the way you engage with colleagues, collaborate with teams anywhere in the world, and build workforce capability. Take the next step to connect skills and knowledge and move your own organization forward as you reclaim and revolutionize workplace learning.

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Association for Talent Development

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1607282879

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9781607282877

America’s Arab Refugees

Vulnerability and Health on the Margins

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

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America’s Arab Refugees

Vulnerability and Health on the Margins

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

America's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Tracing the history of Middle Eastern wars—especially the U.S. military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan—to the current refugee crisis, Marcia C. Inhorn examines how refugees fare once resettled in America. In the U.S., Arabs are challenged by discrimination, poverty, and various forms of vulnerability. Inhorn shines a spotlight on the plight of resettled Arab refugees in the ethnic enclave community of "Arab Detroit," Michigan. Sharing in the poverty of Detroit's Black communities, Arab refugees struggle to find employment and to rebuild their lives. Iraqi and Lebanese refugees who have fled from war zones also face several serious health challenges. Uncovering the depths of these challenges, Inhorn's ethnography follows refugees in Detroit suffering reproductive health problems requiring in vitro fertilization (IVF). Without money to afford costly IVF services, Arab refugee couples are caught in a state of "reproductive exile"—unable to return to war-torn countries with shattered healthcare systems, but unable to access affordable IVF services in America. America's Arab Refugees questions America's responsibility for, and commitment to, Arab refugees, mounting a powerful call to end the violence in the Middle East, assist war orphans and uprooted families, take better care of Arab refugees in this country, and provide them with equitable and affordable healthcare services.

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Stanford University Press

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1503604381

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9781503604384

Gender and the Musical Canon

By: Marcia J. Citron

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Gender and the Musical Canon

By: Marcia J. Citron

A classic in gender studies in music Marcia J. Citron's comprehensive, balanced work lays a broad foundation for the study of women composers and their music. Drawing on a diverse body of feminist and interdisciplinary theory, Citron shows how the western art canon is not intellectually pure but the result of a complex mixture of attitudes, practices, and interests that often go unacknowledged and unchallenged. Winner of the Pauline Alderman Prize from the International Alliance of Women in Music, Gender and the Musical Canon explores important elements of canon formation, such as notions of creativity, professionalism, and reception. Citron surveys the institutions of power, from performing organizations and the academy to critics and the publishing and recording industries, that affect what goes into the canon and what is kept out. She also documents the nurturing role played by women, including mothers, in cultivating female composers. In a new introduction, she assesses the book's reception by composers and critics, especially the reactions to her controversial reading of Cécile Chaminade's sonata for piano. A key volume in establishing how the concepts and assumptions that form the western art music canon affect female composers and their music, Gender and the Musical Canon also reveals how these dynamics underpin many of the major issues that affect musicology as a discipline.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252056825

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9780252056826

Interest Groups and Political Change in Israel

By: Marcia Drezon-Tepler

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Interest Groups and Political Change in Israel

By: Marcia Drezon-Tepler

This book challenges the conventional view of Israeli politics as an ideological, stron party system. Focusing on three important and influential interest groups, the Gush Emunim, the Ihud kibbutz federation, and the Manufacturers' Association, Drezon-Tepler presents a comprehensive view of Israel's society and politics. Integrated here are unpublished sources, and material from personal interviews with prominent personalities including Prime Ministers Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, and Minister Ariel Sharon. The book illuminates such current controversial topics in Israel as the influence of the volatile Gush Emunim, the country's chronically unstable economy, and the continued vitality of the kibbutz movement. Relevant beyond Israel's borders, this book enhances understanding of systems, groups, and change, presenting an original, analytical framework of three models for group and party decision making within democracies.

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SUNY Press

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079140207X

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9780791402078

Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry

By: Robert Boland,Marcia Verdiun,Pedro Ruiz

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Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry

By: Robert Boland,Marcia Verdiun,Pedro Ruiz

Accurate, reliable, objective, and comprehensive, Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry has long been the leading clinical psychiatric resource for clinicians, residents, students, and other health care professionals both in the US and worldwide. Now led by a new editorial team of Drs. Robert Boland and Marcia L. Verduin, it continues to offer a trusted overview of the entire field of psychiatry while bringing you up to date with current information on key topics and developments in this complex specialty. The twelfth edition has been completely reorganized to make it more useful and easier to navigate in today’s busy clinical settings.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975145577

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9781975145576

Opera on Screen

By: Marcia J. Citron,Professor Marcia J Citron

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Opera on Screen

By: Marcia J. Citron,Professor Marcia J Citron

The author draws on ideas from diverse fields, including media studies and gender studies, to examine issues ranging from the relationship between sound and image to the place of the viewer in relation to the spectacle. As she raises questions about divisions between high art and popular art and about the tensions between live and reproduced art forms, Citron reveals how screen treatments reinforce opera's vitality in a media-intensive age."--BOOK JACKET.

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Yale University Press

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0300081588

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The Half-Opened Door

Discrimination and Admissions at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, 1900-1970

By: Marcia Synnott

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The Half-Opened Door

Discrimination and Admissions at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, 1900-1970

By: Marcia Synnott

By the turn of the twentieth century, academic nativism had taken root in elite American colleges—specifically, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant hegemony was endangered by new kinds of student, many of them Catholic and Jewish immigrants. The newcomers threatened to displace native-born Americans by raising academic standards and winning a disproportionate share of the scholarships. The Half-Opened Door analyzes the role of these institutions, casting light on their place in class structure and values in the United States. It details the origins, history, and demise of discriminatory admissions processes and depicts how the entrenched position of the upper class was successfully challenged. The educational, and hence economic, mobility of Catholics and Jews has shown other groups—for example, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Spanish-speaking Americans—not only the difficulties that these earlier aspirants had in overcoming class and ethnic barriers, but the fact that it can be done. One of the ironies of the history of higher education in the United States is the use of quotas by admissions committees. Restrictive measures were imposed on Jews because they were so successful, whereas benign quotas are currently used to encourage underrepresented minorities to enter colleges and professional schools. The competing claims of both the older and the newer minorities continue to be the subject of controversy, editorial comments, and court cases—and will be for years to come.

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Routledge

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1351481592

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9781351481595

Getting Tenure

By: Marcia Lynn Whicker,Jennie J. Kronenfeld,Ruth Ann Strickland

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Getting Tenure

By: Marcia Lynn Whicker,Jennie J. Kronenfeld,Ruth Ann Strickland

This practical guide clarifies the tenure process and gives concrete advice for graduate students and junior faculty members on the strategy required to maximize the chance of achieving tenure. The authors explain the agenda of tenure decisions, emphasizing the need to think politically and focus attention on the priorities of the decision makers.

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164

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SAGE

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0803953038

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9780803953031

Social Studies Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites

20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain

By: Marcia L. Tate

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Social Studies Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites

20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain

By: Marcia L. Tate

Best-selling author Marcia L. Tate brings her trademark "dendrite-growing" teaching strategies to this practitioner-friendly collection of brain-compatible methods for engaging k-12 students in social studies. Included are 20 proven strategies and more than 200 grade-leveled activities for applying them. Teachers will find concrete ways to integrate national social studies content standards into their curriculum with visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile experiences that maximize retention, including: (1) Project-based and problem-based instruction; (2) Storytelling, music, and humor; (3) Graphic organizers, semantic maps, and word webs; and (4) Internet projects. This book provides sample lesson plans and a wealth of examples that demonstrate how to apply these classroom-tested strategies to the 10 themes of social studies. The text also challenges teachers to creatively plan and deliver their own unforgettable lessons. Among the many benefits your students is that they will remember what they've learned and apply it to their lives--the true goal of education.

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Corwin Press

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1412998751

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Gotcha Again for Guys!

More Nonfiction Books to Get Boys Excited about Reading

By: Kathleen A. Baxter,Marcia Agness Kochel

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Gotcha Again for Guys!

More Nonfiction Books to Get Boys Excited about Reading

By: Kathleen A. Baxter,Marcia Agness Kochel

Here's help in selecting current, nonfiction books that will get boys excited about reading. Enticing boys to read is still a hot topic. With chapters like "Disasters and Mysteries," "Gross and Disgusting," "Machines and the Military," and "Prehistoric Creatures," Gotcha Again for Guys!: More Nonfiction Books to Get Boys Excited about Reading is a treasure trove of recent nonfiction books that will interest boys in grades 3-8. This sixth entry in Baxter and Kochel's Gotcha series covers books published between 2007 and 2009, with a few oldies-but-goodies also included. The book is organized into 12 thematic chapters, each of which offers booktalks for a select number of titles, followed by a list of other high-interest, well-reviewed titles that correspond with the chapter's topic. Features new to this volume include numerous booklists to be copied and saved, as well as profiles of new and innovative nonfiction authors writing for this age group. In addition, the book features interviews with seven male authors of nonfiction books for boys.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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159884377X

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9781598843774

Decide & Deliver

5 Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization

By: Marcia W. Blenko,Michael C. Mankins,Paul Rogers

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Decide & Deliver

5 Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization

By: Marcia W. Blenko,Michael C. Mankins,Paul Rogers

-Identify your critical decisions. Focus on those that matter most to your company's performance. --

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Harvard Business Press

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1422147576

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Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites

20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain

By: Marcia L. Tate

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20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain

By: Marcia L. Tate

Tactile learners, spatial thinkers, and logical minds alike will become eager students as the strategies in this handbook are implemented.

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Corwin Press

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0761938818

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9780761938811

"Sit and Get" Won't Grow Dendrites

20 Professional Learning Strategies That Engage the Adult Brain

By: Marcia L. Tate

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"Sit and Get" Won't Grow Dendrites

20 Professional Learning Strategies That Engage the Adult Brain

By: Marcia L. Tate

This indispensable resource draws on the latest research in brain-based learning to provide strategies that motivate adult learners and increase retention.

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Corwin Press

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0761931546

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9780761931546

Cinematic Uses of the Past

By: Marcia Landy

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Cinematic Uses of the Past

By: Marcia Landy

Cinematic Uses of the Past was first published in 1996. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. From the first, cinema has sustained a romance with the past. The nature of this attachment, and what it reveals about our culture, is the subject of Marcia Landy's book. Cinematic Uses of the Past looks at British, American, Italian, and African films for what they can tell us about popular history and our cultural investment in certain images of the past. Landy peruses six different moments in the history of cinema, employing the theories of Nietzsche and Gramsci. Her reading of these films explores their investments in history and memory in relation to ideas of nation, sexuality, gender, and race. Among the films she discusses are A Fistful of Dynamite, The Scarlet Empress, Dance with a Stranger, Holocaust, Schindler's List, Le camp de Thiaroye, Guelwaar, The Leopard, and Veronika Voss. A thoroughly compelling reading of these emblematic films, Cinematic Uses of the Past is also a revealing interpretation of popular history, exposing the fragmentary, tentative, and invested nature of cultural memory. Marcia Landy is professor of literature and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of several books, including Film, Politics, and Gramsci (Minnesota, 1995).

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816628254

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9780816628254

Irish Book of Days

By: Marcia O Levin,Hugh Lauter Levin Associates,Catherine B. Eagan

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Irish Book of Days

By: Marcia O Levin,Hugh Lauter Levin Associates,Catherine B. Eagan

The many voices, events and images that have contributed to the rich diversity of Irish culture and history come together in this perpetual calendar. Not tied to a particular year, this colorful and entertaining journal can be used year after year and features a significant Irish fact for every day of the year. 32 full-color photos.

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Universe Publishing(NY)

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0883632942

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9780883632949

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