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Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children

By: Nancy R. Kaufman

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Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children

By: Nancy R. Kaufman

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Wayne State University Press

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0814324681

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9780814324684

Bodies in the Making

Transgressions and Transformations

By: Nancy N. Chen

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Bodies in the Making

Transgressions and Transformations

By: Nancy N. Chen

In the twenty-first century, the body is experienced less as a fixed entity than it is as a protean product and a project of technological, medical and artistic invention. The essays in Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations address the proliferation of such transformative practices as tattooing, piercing, self-cutting, cosmetic and transsexual surgery, prosthetics, organ transplants and life extension technologies. Establishing links among these varied practices, the contributors illuminate the dramatic and widespread changes that have taken place across generations in attitudes towards the relation of the body to the mind, to agency and to subjectivity. Bodies in the Making also addresses a paradox that has shaped recent body modification debates. Although physical transformations are usually experienced as self-expressive and libratory, they are frequently understood to be socially determined, economically driven and culturally enmeshed. Contributors to the volume engage this contradiction directly, exploring ways in which diverse body practices are capable of subverting power while also at times re-inscribing it.

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North Atlantic Books

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097125463X

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9780971254633

Whitney M. Young, Jr., and the Struggle for Civil Rights

By: Nancy Joan Weiss

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Whitney M. Young, Jr., and the Struggle for Civil Rights

By: Nancy Joan Weiss

Whitney M. Young, Jr., the charismatic executive director of the National Urban League from 1961 to 1971, bridged the worlds of race and power. The "inside man" of the black revolution, he served as interpreter between black America and the businessmen, foundation executives, and public officials who constituted the white power structure. In this stimulating biography, Nancy J. Weiss shows how Young accomplished what Jesse Jackson called the toughest job in the black movement: selling civil rights to the nation's most powerful whites. With race at center stage in American national politics, Young brought the National Urban League into the civil rights movement and made it a force in the major events and debates of the decade. Within the civil rights leadership, he played an important role as strategist and mediator. A black man who grew up in a middle class family in the segregated South, Young spent most of his adult life in the white world, transcending barriers of race, wealth, and social standing to advance the welfare of black Americans. His goals were to gain access for blacks to good jobs, education, housing, health care, and social services; his tactics were reason, persuasion, and negotiation. He understood keenly the value to the movement of creative tension between moderates and militants, and he took good advantage of that understanding to promote his aims. Andrew Young said of Whitney Young that he knew the "high art of how to get power from the powerful and share it with the powerless." How he managed that, and with what consequence, is the central theme of this book. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400860237

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9781400860234

Grassroots Expectations of Democracy and Economy

Argentina in Comparative Perspective

By: Nancy R. Powers

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Grassroots Expectations of Democracy and Economy

Argentina in Comparative Perspective

By: Nancy R. Powers

This highly readable study addresses a range of fundamental questions about the interaction of politics and economics, from a grassroots perspective in post-transition Argentina. Nancy R. Powers looks at the lives and political views of Argentines of little to modest means to examine systematically how their political interests, and their evaluations of democracy, are formed. Based on the author's fieldwork in Argentina, the analysis extends to countries of Latin America and Eastern Europe facing similarly difficult political and economic changes.Powers uses in-depth interviews to examine how (not simply what) ordinary people think about their standard of living, their government, and the democratic regime. She explains why they sometimes do, but more often do not, see their material conditions as political problems, arguing that the type of hardship and the possibilities for coping with it are more politically significant than the degree of hardship. She analyzes alternative ways in which people define democracy and judge its legitimacy.Not only does Powers demonstrate contradictions and gaps in the existing scholarship on economic voting, social movements, and populism, she also shows how those literatures are addressing similar questions but are failing to "talk" to one another. Powers goes on to build a more comprehensive theory of how people at the grassroots form their political interests. To analyze why people perceive only some of their material hardships as political problems, she brings into the study of politics ideas drawn from Amartya Sen and other scholars of poverty.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822972220

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9780822972228

Today's Economic Issues

Democrats and Republicans

By: Nancy S. Lind,Erik T. Rankin,Gardenia Harris

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Today's Economic Issues

Democrats and Republicans

By: Nancy S. Lind,Erik T. Rankin,Gardenia Harris

What are the real differences between the Democrats and the Republicans on major economic issues that influence the character and vitality of the American economy? This volume answers this question in a thorough, nonpartisan, and evenhanded fashion. Both the Democratic and Republican parties proclaim that they have the best interests of the nation and its people at heart. Both are also adamant that they have the best proposals and positions on economic policies, including taxation, spending priorities, wages, business regulation, and other influences on economic growth and household finances. This volume carefully examines the two parties' respective policies, providing a detailed yet readable and understandable look at how the parties agree, disagree, and find compromise on the broad range of problems and issues facing American society in the 21st century. Each entry includes an infographic that offers bulleted "at-a-glance" summaries of the two parties' positions on each issue today, an "Issue Overview" providing basic definitions and background for understanding the debate on each issue, and a main entry that explains prevailing party sentiments, the diversity of opinion within each party, and the shifts in party position on that issue over time. Selected entries also feature informative sidebars that supply additional content, such as primary documents that showcase the viewpoints of key political figures and institutions or biographical profiles of individuals who have helped shape their party's policies on the issue in question.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216156239

Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children

By: Nancy R. Kaufman

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Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children

By: Nancy R. Kaufman

Based on years of experience and research, The Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children (KSPT) is an innovative new resource that assists in the diagnosis and treatment of developmental apraxia (dyspraxia) of speech in preschool children. Developed by Nancy Kaufman, a national authority on verbal dyspraxia, the KSPT identifies the level of breakdown in a child's ability to speak so that treatment can be established and improvement tracked. Easy to administer and score, the test measures a child's imitative responses to the clinician, locates where the child's speech system is breaking down, and points to a systematic course of treatment. Results of the KSPT are useful beyond establishing an initial diagnosis. Gains in motor-speech proficiency can be measured and quantified in several ways. Individual sections of the test can be used to establish treatment goals and measure progress. The KSPT kit features a sturdy carrying case that includes the reference Manual, which includes normative data and Information on the psychometric properties of the test. It also includes a spiral-bound Clinician's Guide, which can be set up on the user's desk or table to refer to as the test is being given. This guide has an overview and section-by-section instructions on administering and scoring the test, along with a helpful Glossary. The KSPT kit also includes 25 Test Booklets, used in administering and scoring the test; there is space for the initial assessment and retest scores. (Additional test booklets can be purchased separately, 25 to a package.)

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Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children

Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children

Bodies in the Making

Bodies in the Making

Whitney M. Young, Jr., and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Whitney M. Young, Jr., and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Grassroots Expectations of Democracy and Economy

Grassroots Expectations of Democracy and Economy

Today's Economic Issues

Today's Economic Issues

Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children

Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children

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