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An Introduction to Psychological Tests and Scales

By: Kate Miriam Loewenthal,Christopher Alan Lewis

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An Introduction to Psychological Tests and Scales

By: Kate Miriam Loewenthal,Christopher Alan Lewis

In its first edition this book successfully enabled readers, with little or no prior knowledge of computing or statistics, to develop reliable and valid tests and scales for assessment or research purposes. In this edition, the author has thoroughly updated the text to include new recent advances in computer software and provide information on relevant internet resources. The book contains detailed guidelines for locating and constructing psychological measures, including descriptions of popular psychological measures and step-by-step instructions for composing a measure, entering data and computing reliability and validity of test results. Advanced techniques such as factor analysis, analysis of covariance and multiple regression analysis are presented for the beginner. An Introduction to Psychological Tests and Scales provides a clear, concise and jargon-free primer for all those embarking in fieldwork or research analysis. It will be an invaluable tool for undergraduates and postgraduates in psychology and a useful text for students and professionals in related disciplines.

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Psychology Press

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1317710142

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Khrushchev's Cold Summer

Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin

By: Miriam Dobson

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Khrushchev's Cold Summer

Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin

By: Miriam Dobson

Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. This exodus included not only victims of past purges but also those sentenced for criminal offenses. In Khrushchev's Cold Summer Miriam Dobson explores the impact of these returnees on communities and, more broadly, Soviet attempts to come to terms with the traumatic legacies of Stalin's terror. Confusion and disorientation undermined the regime's efforts at recovery. In the wake of Stalin's death, ordinary citizens and political leaders alike struggled to make sense of the country's recent bloody past and to cope with the complex social dynamics caused by attempts to reintegrate the large influx of returning prisoners, a number of whom were hardened criminals alienated and embittered by their experiences within the brutal camp system. Drawing on private letters as well as official reports on the party and popular mood, Dobson probes social attitudes toward the changes occurring in the first post-Stalin decade. Throughout, she features personal stories as articulated in the words of ordinary citizens, prisoners, and former prisoners. At the same time, she explores Soviet society's contradictory responses to the returnees and shows that for many the immediate post-Stalin years were anything but a breath of spring air after the long Stalinist winter.

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Cornell University Press

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0801457270

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9780801457272

The Crusades of Cesar Chavez

A Biography

By: Miriam Pawel

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The Crusades of Cesar Chavez

A Biography

By: Miriam Pawel

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the California Book Award A searching portrait of an iconic figure long shrouded in myth by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of an acclaimed history of Chavez's movement. Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched a movement, and inspired a generation. He rose from migrant worker to national icon, becoming one of the great charismatic leaders of the 20th century. Two decades after his death, Chavez remains the most significant Latino leader in US history. Yet his life story has been told only in hagiography-until now. In the first comprehensive biography of Chavez, Miriam Pawel offers a searching yet empathetic portrayal. Chavez emerges here as a visionary figure with tragic flaws; a brilliant strategist who sometimes stumbled; and a canny, streetwise organizer whose pragmatism was often at odds with his elusive, soaring dreams. He was an experimental thinker with eclectic passions-an avid, self-educated historian and a disciple of Gandhian non-violent protest. Drawing on thousands of documents and scores of interviews, this superbly written life deepens our understanding of one of Chavez's most salient qualities: his profound humanity. Pawel traces Chavez's remarkable career as he conceived strategies that empowered the poor and vanquished California's powerful agriculture industry, and his later shift from inspirational leadership to a cult of personality, with tragic consequences for the union he had built. The Crusades of Cesar Chavez reveals how this most unlikely American hero ignited one of the great social movements of our time.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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160819714X

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The Union of Their Dreams

Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement

By: Miriam Pawel

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The Union of Their Dreams

Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement

By: Miriam Pawel

Named one of the Best Books of 2009 by the San Francisco Chronicle A Los Angeles Times Notable Book

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1608190994

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Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication

Communicating as a Global Citizen

By: Miriam Sobre-Denton,Nilanjana Bardhan

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Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication

Communicating as a Global Citizen

By: Miriam Sobre-Denton,Nilanjana Bardhan

Winner of the National Communication Association's International and Intercultural Communication Division's 2014 Outstanding Authored Book of the Year award This book engages the notion of cosmopolitanism as it applies to intercultural communication, which itself is undergoing a turn in its focus from post-positivistic research towards critical/interpretive and postcolonial perspectives, particularly as globalization informs more of the current and future research in the area. It emphasizes the postcolonial perspective in order to raise critical consciousness about the complexities of intercultural communication in a globalizing world, situating cosmopolitanism—the notion of global citizenship—as a multilayered lens for research. Cosmopolitanism as a theoretical repertoire provides nuanced descriptions of what it means to be and communicate as a global citizen, how to critically study interconnectedness within and across cultures, and how to embrace differences without glossing over them. Moving intercultural communication studies towards the global in complex and nuanced ways, this book highlights crucial links between globalization, transnationalism, postcolonialism, cosmopolitanism, social injustice and intercultural communication, and will help in the creation of classroom spaces devoted to exploring these links. It also engages the links between theory and praxis in order to move towards intercultural communication pedagogy and research that simultaneously celebrates and interrogates issues of cultural difference with the aim of creating continuity rather than chasms. In sum, this book orients intercultural communication scholarship firmly towards the critical and postcolonial, while still allowing the incorporation of traditional intercultural communication concepts, thereby preparing students, scholars, educators and interculturalists to communicate ethically in a world that is simultaneously global and local.

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1135136319

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Crime, Bodies and Space

Towards an Ethical Approach to Urban Policies in the Information Age

By: Miriam Tedeschi

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Crime, Bodies and Space

Towards an Ethical Approach to Urban Policies in the Information Age

By: Miriam Tedeschi

With cities increasingly following rigid rules for designing out crime and producing spaces under surveillance, this book asks how information shapes bodies, space, and, ultimately, policymaking. In recent years, public spaces have changed in Western countries, with the urban realm becoming an ever-more monitored, privatised, homogeneous, and aseptic space that has lost its character, uniqueness, and diversity in the name of ‘security’. This underpins precise moral and political choices in terms of what a space should be, how it can be used, and by whom. These choices generate material consequences concerning urban inequality and freedom, or otherwise, of movement. Based on ethnographic and autoethnographic explorations in London’s ‘criminal’ spaces, this book illustrates how rules, policies, and moral values, far from being abstract concepts, are in fact material. Outlining the basis of a new urban information ethics, the book both exposes and challenges how moral values and predefined categories are applied to, and materially shape, the movement of bodies in urban space with regard to crime and security policies. Drawing on Gilbert Simondon’s information theory and a wide range of work in urban studies, geography, and planning, as well as in surveillance studies, object-oriented ontology, and contemporary theoretical work on both materiality and affect, the book provides a radically new perspective on urban space in general, and crime and security in particular. This book uses a balanced mix of theoretical concepts and empirical study to bring theory and practice together in an intertwining of ethnography and autoethnography. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of urban studies, urban geography, sociology, surveillance studies, legal theory, socio-legal studies, planning law, environmental law, and land law.

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0429664532

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Casualties of Care

Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France

By: Miriam I. Ticktin

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Casualties of Care

Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France

By: Miriam I. Ticktin

Casualties of Care is a well crafted, intelligent and carefully argued study of the social and policy effects of a seemingly benevolent set of 'humanitarian practices' used in the French immigration and asylum processes. One of the leading anthropologists of humanitarianism, Miriam Ticktin is well placed to write this definitive study, having undertaken nearly ten years of thorough ethnographic research in France. Her research findings draw from ethnographic interviews and participant observation as well as broader, more structural data on the movement of foreign labor within the French economy." --Richard Ashby Wilson, Gladstein Chair of Human Rights, University of Connecticut "Ticktin cuts to the heart of contemporary concerns, speaking provocatively and incisively about humanitarianism and security through the topic of immigration." --Peter Redfield, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Univ of California Press

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0520269047

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The Drug Trial

Nancy Olivieri and the Scandal that Rocked the Hospital for Sick Children

By: Miriam Shuchman

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The Drug Trial

Nancy Olivieri and the Scandal that Rocked the Hospital for Sick Children

By: Miriam Shuchman

Winner of the Writers' Trust of Canada's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the Canadian Science Writers' Association's Science in Society Book Award. Poison-pen letters, possible medical misconduct and a swirl of competing accusations that led to two inquiries – the Olivieri affair ended careers and shook the international research establishment. A riveting anatomy of Canada’s most controversial drug trial, by the medical journalist who helped break the story. In August 1998, a medical scandal erupted in the national and international media whose consequences still reverberate. A charismatic young doctor named Nancy Olivieri, working with young people who suffered from a rare blood disorder, stated that she had discovered serious problems with an experimental drug manufactured by Canada’s largest drug company, Apotex. Though her research contract required her to remain silent, she decided she had no choice but to warn the patients enrolled in her trials. Apotex retaliated by cancelling her research and slamming her reputation. In the aftermath, Olivieri became a whistleblower applauded in academia and the media for standing up to powerful corporate interests. The Olivieri affair spawned two inquiries and multiple lawsuits, but the full story of Canada’s biggest science scandal has never been told – until now. In the hands of psychiatrist and medical journalist Miriam Shuchman, the debacle over the pill called L1 is revealed as a modern morality play in which every crack in the system of scientific research, corporate financing and peer review stands out in stark relief. By talking with the people whom both Olivieri and Apotex wanted to heal – the young men and women struggling to have normal lives despite debilitating treatment – Shuchman also brings us the moving story of the toll on patients’ health when battles break out among the physicians and researchers aiming to heal them.

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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0679310843

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9780679310846

A Research Primer for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

By: Miriam Schapiro Grosof,Hyman Sardy

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A Research Primer for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

By: Miriam Schapiro Grosof,Hyman Sardy

A Research Primer for the Social and Behavioral Sciences provides an introductory but comprehensive overview of the research process that primarily concerns human subjects. This book discusses the methods of acquiring knowledge, importance of a well-chosen problem, review of the literature, and relationship between theory-building and hypothesis-testing. The common sources of invalidity in practice, non-experimental research types, Stevens' classification of scales, and estimation based on probabilistic sampling are also elaborated. This text likewise covers the role of computer in research, techniques for analysis of data, univariate and bivariate statistics, and assumptions underlying analysis of variance. Other topics include the canonical correlation analysis, non-parametric analysis of variance, deterministic problem analysis techniques, and common errors in presentation of findings. This publication is intended for novice investigators in the broad category of social and behavioral sciences.

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Academic Press

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1483258017

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9781483258010

“The Compassionate and Benevolent”: Jewish Ruling Elites in the Medieval Islamicate World

Alexandria as a Case Study

By: Miriam Frenkel

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“The Compassionate and Benevolent”: Jewish Ruling Elites in the Medieval Islamicate World

Alexandria as a Case Study

By: Miriam Frenkel

This is a monograph about the medieval Jewish community of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Through deep analyses of contemporary historical sources, mostly documents from the Cairo Geniza, life stories, conducts and practices of private people are revealed. When put together these private biographies convey a social portrait of an elite group which ruled over the local community, but was part of a supra communal network.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110713683

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9783110713688

Reconstructing Citizenship

The Politics of Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France

By: Miriam Feldblum

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Reconstructing Citizenship

The Politics of Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France

By: Miriam Feldblum

Studying the politics of citizenship reforms and immigration in contemporary France, Reconstructing Citizenship reveals the influential roles played by key figures and institutions in reconstructing French citizenship. An extended political process framework is used by Feldblum to study domestic changes in citizenship policies, nationality reforms, and immigrant incorporation politics. Focused on a decade of citizenship conflicts in France, Reconstructing Citizenship provides new insight into the re-envisioning of national membership taking place not just in France, but across European politics today.

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State University of New York Press

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1438402481

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Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo

By: Miriam Paeslack

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Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo

By: Miriam Paeslack

Buffalo, in New York state, is 'ineffable': a typical city in transition between its past and future. It is a classic example of one of many 'shrinking cities' in North America and elsewhere which once prospered because of heavy industrialization, but which now have to deal with various degrees of urban decay. Bringing together a range of scholars from the humanities, the social sciences, art and architecture, this volume looks at both the literal city image and urban representation generated by photographs, video, historical and contemporary narratives, and grass-root initiatives. It investigates the notion of agency of media in the city and, in return, what the city’s agency is. This agency matters particularly as it is both transforming - shrinking, fading, being redefined - and being shaped through its visual and spatial mediation. While illustrated by Buffalo in particular, the book examines a broader phenomenon: the identity of those cities that were built and blossomed during the late 19th and early 20th century and are now in different stages of decline and disintegration. However, while such cities are all confronted with complex issues of economic instability, social and racial segregation, urban sprawl and shrinking processes both in the inner city and more and more in their ex-urban belts, they are too often described through dramatically simplifying visual and linguistic tropes. In Buffalo such tropes refer dialectically either to the city’s past glory or its presumed current cultural, political and economical stasis and decline. This book takes such tired, and familiar tropes and questions them.

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Routledge

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1351927701

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Social Change And Applied Anthropology

Essays In Honor Of David W. Brokensha

By: Miriam Chaiken,Anne K. Fleuret

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Social Change And Applied Anthropology

Essays In Honor Of David W. Brokensha

By: Miriam Chaiken,Anne K. Fleuret

This collection of essays in the honor of David Brokensha focuses on issues which had concerned him throughout his professional career as an anthropologist. He emphasized on combining indigenous perspectives and knowledge in development planning and on sustainable natural resource management.

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1000311678

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Learning from Experience

Memory and the Teacher's Account of Teaching

By: Miriam Ben-Peretz

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Learning from Experience

Memory and the Teacher's Account of Teaching

By: Miriam Ben-Peretz

This book is about the development of teachers'professional knowledge.

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SUNY Press

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0791423034

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9780791423035

Hear Her Voice!

Twelve Jewish Women who Changed the World

By: Miriam P. Feinberg,Miriam Klein Shapiro

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Hear Her Voice!

Twelve Jewish Women who Changed the World

By: Miriam P. Feinberg,Miriam Klein Shapiro

The authors present the lives of biblical Jewish leaders like Queen Esther and the Prophetess Deborah as well as modern unique personalities like Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Prime Minister Golda Meier. At the end of each biography is a section describing what young readers can do to understand the contribution made by these famous people, as well as a detailed bibliography of where to find additional information about each woman.

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Devora Publishing

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1932687785

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Linguistic Variety of Judaeo-Arabic in Letters from the Cairo Genizah

By: Esther-Miriam Wagner

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Linguistic Variety of Judaeo-Arabic in Letters from the Cairo Genizah

By: Esther-Miriam Wagner

The Cairo Genizah has preserved a vast number of medieval and post-medieval letters written in the Jewish variety of Arabic. The linguistic peculiarities of these letters provide an invaluable source for the understanding of the history of the Arabic language and the development of Arabic dialects. This work compares and contrasts various linguistic features of Judaeo-Arabic letters from different periods, and is one of the first studies to present a comprehensive linguistic investigation into non-literary Judaeo-Arabic. Its main focus is to provide an extensive diachronic linguistic description, while distinguishing between features of epistolary Arabic and vernacular phenomena. This study should be of interest to anyone working on the Arabic language, sociolinguistics, general historical linguistics and language typology. "...in the extant volume she [Wagner] has clearly demonstrated that Judeo-Arabic letters are to be viewed as primary source material, capturing important aspects of language understanding of Jews and Judaism in the medieval and early modern Islamic world, and therefore providing essential insights into the linguistic function of a substandard language or ethnolect like Judeo-Arabic." Wout van Bekkum, BiOr no. LXX 3/4

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BRILL

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9004193685

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This Much is True

'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL

By: Miriam Margolyes

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This Much is True

'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL

By: Miriam Margolyes

There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRY 'As outrageously entertaining as you'd expect' Daily Express BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treasure. Now, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story - and it's well worth the wait. Find out how being conceived in an air-raid gave her curly hair; what pranks led to her being known as the naughtiest girl Oxford High School ever had; how she ended up posing nude for Augustus John as a teenager; why Bob Monkhouse was the best (male) kiss she's ever had; and what happened next after Warren Beatty asked 'Do you fuck?' From declaring her love to Vanessa Redgrave to being told to be quiet by the Queen, this book is packed with brilliant, hilarious stories. With a cast list stretching from Scorsese to Streisand, a cross-dressing Leonardo di Caprio to Isaiah Berlin, This Much Is True is as warm and honest, as full of life and surprises, as its inimitable author.

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John Murray

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1529379911

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The Browns of California

The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation

By: Miriam Pawel

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The Browns of California

The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation

By: Miriam Pawel

Miriam Pawel’s fascinating book . . . illuminates the sea change in the nation’s politics in the last half of the 20th century."--New York Times Book Review California Book Award Gold Medal Winner * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * A Los Angeles Times Bestseller * San Francisco Chronicle's "Best Books of the Year" List * Publishers Weekly Top Ten History Books for Fall * Berkeleyside Best Books of the Year * Shortlisted for NCIBA Golden Poppy Award A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist's panoramic history of California and its impact on the nation, from the Gold Rush to Silicon Valley--told through the lens of the family dynasty that led the state for nearly a quarter century. Even in the land of reinvention, the story is exceptional: Pat Brown, the beloved father who presided over California during an era of unmatched expansion; Jerry Brown, the cerebral son who became the youngest governor in modern times--and then returned three decades later as the oldest. In The Browns of California, journalist and scholar Miriam Pawel weaves a narrative history that spans four generations, from August Schuckman, the Prussian immigrant who crossed the Plains in 1852 and settled on a northern California ranch, to his great-grandson Jerry Brown, who reclaimed the family homestead one hundred forty years later. Through the prism of their lives, we gain an essential understanding of California and an appreciation of its importance. The magisterial story is enhanced by dozens of striking photos, many published for the first time. This book gives new insights to those steeped in California history, offers a corrective for those who confuse stereotypes and legend for fact, and opens new vistas for readers familiar with only the sketchiest outlines of a place habitually viewed from afar with a mix of envy and awe, disdain, and fascination.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1632867338

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Spinning Fantasies

Rabbis, Gender, and History

By: Miriam Peskowitz

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Spinning Fantasies

Rabbis, Gender, and History

By: Miriam Peskowitz

It is through this study of the imagery and remains of spinning that Peskowitz shows how gender and rabbinic Judaism were indeed inextricable.

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0520209672

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Mother's Intuition? (1994)

Choosing Secondary Schools

By: Miriam David,Anne West,Jane Ribbens

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Mother's Intuition? (1994)

Choosing Secondary Schools

By: Miriam David,Anne West,Jane Ribbens

Published in 1994, Mother’s Intuition? examines the process of choosing secondary schools in two inner London boroughs. The research is based upon detailed interviews with parents as well as questionnaires filled in by pupils themselves. The authors address several important dimensions in the choosing process which had not been investigated by previous research. The book particularly focusses on the main question arising from the interviews; who does the choosing – mother, father or the child? Other areas discussed are the changing nature of families and the role different members in lone parent families play, as well as the different decisions made between families with girls and boys, and those from different racial and ethnic groups.

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Routledge

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1351265660

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Shadows of Treblinka

By: Miriam Kuperhand,Saul Kuperhand

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Shadows of Treblinka

By: Miriam Kuperhand,Saul Kuperhand

The authors provide two very different stories of life in Siemiatcyze, a small town located forty miles from the Treblinka death camp.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252023390

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9780252023392

Reflective Writing in Medical Practice

A Linguistic Perspective

By: Miriam A. Locher

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Reflective Writing in Medical Practice

A Linguistic Perspective

By: Miriam A. Locher

This book reports the results of a linguistic analysis of reflective written texts, produced during medical education or practice. It explores the topics and communication skills the authors write about, how the narratives develop, how these texts are shaped, what genres influence their composition, how relational work surfaces in them and how the writers linguistically create their identities as experts or novices. It is clear that both experienced and trainee medics grapple with the place of emotions in their communicative acts, and with the idea of what it means to be a doctor. The book makes a valuable contribution to genre analysis, interpersonal pragmatics and the study of linguistic identity construction, and will be essential reading for those involved in teaching doctor–patient communication skills.

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Multilingual Matters

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1783098252

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9781783098255

Making History / Making Blintzes

How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America

By: Mickey Flacks,Miriam Hartman Flacks,Dick Flacks,Richard Flacks

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Making History / Making Blintzes

How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America

By: Mickey Flacks,Miriam Hartman Flacks,Dick Flacks,Richard Flacks

This book chronicles the political and personal lives of progressive activists Richard and Miriam Flacks. Their story, rooted in 'old left' childhoods, shaped by the sixties New Left, and culminating in intellectual and community leadership, is a valuable first-hand account of how progressive American activism has evolved over the last 100 years.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813589223

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9780813589220

Modern Discoveries in Neuroscience... And What They Reveal About You (Collection)

By: Dale Purves,Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald,Andrew Koob

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Modern Discoveries in Neuroscience... And What They Reveal About You (Collection)

By: Dale Purves,Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald,Andrew Koob

3 remarkable books reveal what neuroscientists have just learned about your brain — and you! Neuroscientists have made absolutely stunning discoveries about the brain: discoveries that are intimately linked to everything from your health and happiness to the age-old debate on free will. In these three extraordinary books, leading scientists and science journalists illuminate these discoveries, helping you understand what they may mean — and what may come next. In Brains: How They Seem to Work, Dale Purves reviews the current state of neuroscientific research, previewing a coming paradigm shift that may transform the way scientists think about brains yet again. Building on new research on visual perception, he shows why common ideas about brain networks can’t be right, uncovers the factors that determine our subjective experience, sheds new light on the so-called “ghost in the machine,” and points towards a far deeper understanding of what it means to be human. Next, in Pictures of the Mind, Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald uses images from the latest fMRI and PET scanners to illuminate science’s new understanding of the brain as amazingly flexible, resilient, and plastic. Through masterfully written narrative and stunning imagery, you'll watch human brains healing, growing, and adapting… gain powerful new insights into the interplay between environment and genetics… begin understanding how people can influence their own intellectual abilities and emotional makeup… and join scientists in tantalizing discoveries about everything from coma to PTSD and Alzheimer’s. Finally, in The Root of Thought, Andrew Koob shows why glial cells — once thought to be merely “brain glue” — may actually hold the key to understanding intelligence, treating psychiatric disorders and brain injuries, and perhaps even curing Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. You'll learn how these crucial cells grow and develop... why almost all brain tumors are comprised of them… and even their apparent role in your every thought and dream! From world-renowned scientists and science journalists, including Dale Purves, Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald, and Andrew Koob

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0133039684

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Pictures of the Mind

What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are

By: Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald

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Pictures of the Mind

What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are

By: Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald

Neuroscientists once believed your brain was essentially "locked down" by adulthood. No new cells. No major changes. If you grew up depressed, angry, sad, aggressive, or nasty, you'd be that way for life. And, as you grew older, there'd be nowhere to go but down, as disease, age, or injury wiped out precious, irreplaceable brain cells. But over the past five, ten, twenty years, all that's changed. Using fMRI and PET scanning technology, neuroscientists can now look deep inside the human brain and they've discovered that it's amazingly flexible, resilient, and plastic. Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are shows you what they've discovered and what it means to all of us. Through author Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald’s masterfully written narrative and use stunning imagery, you'll watch human brains healing, growing, and adapting to challenges. You'll gain powerful new insights into the interplay between environment and genetics, begin understanding how people can influence their own intellectual abilities and emotional makeup, and understand the latest stunning discoveries about coma and "locked-in" syndrome. You'll learn about the tantalizing discoveries that may lead to cures for traumatic brain injury, stroke, emotional disorders, PTSD, drug addiction, chronic pain, maybe even Alzheimer's. Boleyn-Fitzgerald shows how these discoveries are transforming our very understanding of the "self", from an essentially static entity to one that can learn and change throughout life and even master the art of happiness.

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Balancing the Big Stuff

Finding Happiness in Work, Family, and Life

By: Miriam Liss,Holly H. Schiffrin

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Balancing the Big Stuff

Finding Happiness in Work, Family, and Life

By: Miriam Liss,Holly H. Schiffrin

While the current conversation about work-family balance and “having it all” tends to focus on women, both men and women are harmed when conditions make it impossible to balance meaningful work with family life. Yet, both will benefit from re-evaluating what it means to have it all and fighting for changes in their relationships and society to make greater equality possible. Here, Miriam Liss and Holly Hollomon Schiffrin discuss the ways in which we all define “having it all” and how we can obtain it for ourselves through a better evaluation of what we want from ourselves, our families, our jobs, and each other. Determining a 50/50 division of labor around the house may not be the thing that works for everyone. Working from home or not at all may not be the thing to bring us satisfaction, but learning what studies show and how to feel balanced and make those decisions to bring balance is crucial. The authors argue that people can find balance in their roles by doing things in moderation. Although being engaged in both parenting and work is good for well-being, people can avoid the pitfalls of over-parenting and over-working. They show that balance can come from a meaningful consideration of what happiness and contentedness mean to us as individuals, and how best to achieve our goals within the limitations of our current circumstances. They illustrate that balance is not simply an individual problem. Social issues such as the lack of parental leave, flexible work schedules, and affordable, high quality child care make balance difficult. With attention now on the issue, they argue that it’s time men and women advocate for better services and better opportunities to achieve balance, happiness, and success in all their roles.

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1442223367

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Babel and Babylon

Spectatorship in American Silent Film

By: Miriam Hansen

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Babel and Babylon

Spectatorship in American Silent Film

By: Miriam Hansen

Although cinema was invented in the mid-1890s, it was a decade more before the concept of a “film spectator” emerged. As the cinema began to separate itself from the commercial entertainments in whose context films initially had been shown—vaudeville, dime museums, fairgrounds—a particular concept of its spectator was developed on the level of film style, as a means of predicting the reception of films on a mass scale. In Babel and Babylon, Miriam Hansen offers an original perspective on American film by tying the emergence of spectatorship to the historical transformation of the public sphere. Hansen builds a critical framework for understanding the cultural formation of spectatorship, drawing on the Frankfurt School’s debates on mass culture and the public sphere. Focusing on exemplary moments in the American silent era, she explains how the concept of the spectator evolved as a crucial part of the classical Hollywood paradigm—as one of the new industry’s strategies to integrate ethnically, socially, and sexually differentiated audiences into a modern culture of consumption. In this process, Hansen argues, the cinema might also have provided the conditions of an alternative public sphere for particular social groups, such as recent immigrants and women, by furnishing an intersubjective context in which they could recognize fragments of their own experience. After tracing the emergence of spectatorship as an institution, Hansen pursues the question of reception through detailed readings of a single film, D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916), and of the cult surrounding a single star, Rudolph Valentino. In each case the classical construction of spectatorship is complicated by factors of gender and sexuality, crystallizing around the fear and desire of the female consumer. Babel and Babylon recasts the debate on early American cinema—and by implication on American film as a whole. It is a model study in the field of cinema studies, mediating the concerns of recent film theory with those of recent film history.

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Harvard University Press

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0674038290

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Fetal Well-Being

Physiological Basis & Methods of Clinical Assessmnt

By: Miriam Katz,Israel Meizner,Vaclav Insler

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Fetal Well-Being

Physiological Basis & Methods of Clinical Assessmnt

By: Miriam Katz,Israel Meizner,Vaclav Insler

First published in 1990. This exciting volume provides an in-depth look at all of the aspects of fetal well-being. It bases each chapter on a critical evaluation of medical literature and on the authors' clinical experience regarding the subject. Easy to read and understand, this book presents discussions on the anatomical structure and respiratory function of the placenta and their effects on the fetus. The 67 figures illustrate theoretical concepts and clinical applications, and the conveniently placed tables allow speedy access to precise data throughout the text. This publication gives special consideration to the developments in ultrasound and direct access to the fetus. Every person involved with obstetrics, gynecology, reproductive medicine, pediatrics, and ultrasound will consider this monograph a must.

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CRC Press

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0429558546

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Babysitter

An American History

By: Miriam Forman-Brunell

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Babysitter

An American History

By: Miriam Forman-Brunell

In Babysitter, Miriam Forman-Brunell brings critical attention to the ubiquitous, yet long-overlooked babysitter in the popular imagination and American history. --from publisher description.

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NYU Press

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0814728952

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Lively Legends--Jewish Values

An Early Childhood Teaching Guide

By: Miriam P. Feinberg

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Lively Legends--Jewish Values

An Early Childhood Teaching Guide

By: Miriam P. Feinberg

Age-appropriate, read-aloud stories about rabbis and sages, kings and common folk explore Jewish values and themes and expand your students' Jewish world. Activities for role play, arts and crafts, music, science, and more, plus evocative discussion questions help teachers use literature fully and creatively in the classroom.

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Behrman House, Inc

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0867050306

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Dying in the Law of Moses

Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World

By: Miriam Bodian

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Dying in the Law of Moses

Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World

By: Miriam Bodian

Miriam Bodian's study of crypto-Jewish martyrdom in Iberian lands depicts a new type of martyr that emerged in the late 16th century -- a defiant, educated judaizing martyr who engaged in disputes with inquisitors. By examining closely the Inquisition dossiers of four men who were tried in the Iberian peninsula or Spanish America and who developed judaizing theologies that drew from currents of Reformation thinking that emphasized the authority of Scripture and the religious autonomy of individual interpreters of Scripture, Miriam Bodian reveals unexpected connections between Reformation thought and historic crypto-Judaism. The complex personalities of the martyrs, acting in response to psychic and situational pressures, emerge vividly from this absorbing book.

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Indiana University Press

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0253116910

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Every Lie We Wrote

By: Miriam Meza

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Every Lie We Wrote

By: Miriam Meza

It all started with a lie... When I saw you for the first time I fell in love with your wild spirit, with how free you were and what you made me feel. But it was all a lie, wasn’t it? Just one of the thousands we told. It was easier to pretend and ignore the signs. It was easier to write each other letters and hold hands. But that was my mistake, I guess. Going along with your game. Now you’re gone... One day you simply disappeared, turning my world upside down. There’s not a single place left where they haven’t looked for you, and no one seems to know where you are. You vanished without a trace, and now everyone looks at me in suspicion because, according to them, no one knows you like I do. Your leaving is a mystery to everyone. What they don’t know is that there’s an even bigger mystery. And that’s you. But don’t worry, Liv. Because whatever it takes, I’m going to find you.

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Babelcube Inc.

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1071579975

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9781071579978

United Kingdom Publications and Theses on Africa 1967-68

By: Miriam Alman

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United Kingdom Publications and Theses on Africa 1967-68

By: Miriam Alman

First Published in 1973. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0714629960

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Carrying a Big Schtick

Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century

By: Miriam Eve Mora

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Carrying a Big Schtick

Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century

By: Miriam Eve Mora

Jewish masculinity as a diverse set of adaptive reactions to masculine hegemony and the political, religious, and social realities of American Jews throughout the twentieth century. For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam Eve Mora demonstrates, this performance is consistently challenged by American mainstream society that holds Jewish men outside of the American ideal of masculinity. Depicted as weak, effeminate, cowardly, gentle, bookish, or conflict-averse, Jewish men have been ascribed these qualities by outside forces, but some have also intentionally subscribed themselves to masculinities at odds with the American mainstream. Carrying a Big Schtickdissects notions of Jewish masculinity and its perception and practice in America in the twentieth century through the lenses of immigration and cultural history. Tracing Jewish masculinity through major themes and events including both World Wars, the Holocaust, American Zionism, Israeli statehood, and the Six-Day War, this work establishes that the struggle of this process can shed light on the changing dynamics in religious, social, and economic American Jewish life.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814349641

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9780814349649

The Imaginary Australian

Anglo-Celts and Identity, 1788 to the Present

By: Miriam Dixson

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The Imaginary Australian

Anglo-Celts and Identity, 1788 to the Present

By: Miriam Dixson

Examination of the nature of Australian national identity; includes reference to Aborigines discussed in terms of violence, racism, guilt, remorse and memory; questions the characterisation of race relations through forgetting and silence (Stanner) and violence (Rowley); argues that simplified historical narratives about race relations impede reparative energy in race relations; psychological understanding of racism; theories of the nation; crisis of history and time in Australia and its impact on identity.

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UNSW Press

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0868406651

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9780868406657

Realizing Reparative Justice for International Crimes

From Theory to Practice

By: Miriam Cohen

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Realizing Reparative Justice for International Crimes

From Theory to Practice

By: Miriam Cohen

This book provides a timely and systematic study of reparations in international criminal justice, going beyond a theoretical analysis of the system established at the International Criminal Court (ICC). It originally engages with recent decisions and filings at the ICC relating to reparation and how the criminal and reparative dimensions of international criminal justice can be reconciled. This book is equally innovative in its extensive treatment of the significant challenges of adjudicating on reparations, and proposing recommendations based on concrete experiences. With recent and imminent decisions from the ICC, and developments in national courts and beyond, Miriam Cohen provides a critical analysis of the theory and emerging jurisprudence of reparations for international crimes, their impact on victims and stakeholders.

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1108597084

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