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Policy Drift

Shared Powers and the Making of U.S. Law and Policy

By: Norma Riccucci

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Policy Drift

Shared Powers and the Making of U.S. Law and Policy

By: Norma Riccucci

The role of formal and informal institutional forces in changing three areas of U.S. public policy: privacy rights, civil rights and climate policy There is no finality to the public policy process. Although it’s often assumed that once a law is enacted it is implemented faithfully, even policies believed to be stable can change or drift in unexpected directions. The Fourth Amendment, for example, guarantees Americans’ privacy rights, but the 9/11 terrorist attacks set off one of the worst cases of government-sponsored espionage. Policy changes instituted by the National Security Agency led to widespread warrantless surveillance, a drift in public policy that led to lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of wiretapping the American people. Much of the research in recent decades ignores the impact of large-scale, slow-moving, secular forces in political, social, and economic environments on public policy. In Policy Drift, Norma Riccucci sheds light on how institutional forces collectively contributed to major change in three key areas of U.S. policy (privacy rights, civil rights, and climate policy) without any new policy explicitly being written. Formal levers of change—U.S. Supreme Court decisions; inaction by Congress; Presidential executive orders—stimulated by social, political or economic forces, organized permutations which ultimately shaped and defined contemporary public policy. Invariably, implementations of new policies are embedded within a political landscape. Political actors, motivated by social and economic factors, may explicitly employ strategies to shift the direction of existing public polices or derail them altogether. Some segments of the population will benefit from this process, while others will not; thus, “policy drifts” carry significant consequences for social and economic change. A comprehensive account of inadvertent changes to privacy rights, civil rights, and climate policy, Policy Drift demonstrates how unanticipated levers of change can modify the status quo in public policy.

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NYU Press

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1479839833

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Using Information Technology in Mathematics Education

By: James Tooke,Norma Henderson

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Using Information Technology in Mathematics Education

By: James Tooke,Norma Henderson

Computers have changed the ways that mathematics are taught and learned. Is your institution taking advantage of what today's technology offers?With contributions from researchers and practitioners alike, Using Information Technology in Mathematics Education explores the impact of the computer on the curriculum, the teaching and learning of mathematics, and the professional development of teachers, both pre-service and in-service.As editor James Tooke states: “The connection between mathematics and the computer is obvious. Elementary notions of mathematics gave rise to the computer; advanced notions gave it a more powerful state. As the computer advanced, it expanded mathematics, allowing the creation of further branches of the field; for instance, fractal geometry had no reality until the advent of high-speed computers.”In its look at the relationship between mathematics, the computer, and mathematics education, Using Information Technology in Mathematics Education: addresses the computer as a vehicle for teaching calculus at Texas A&M includes reports from several programs that have utilized the computer when teaching mathematics at lower levels of content than calculus such as intermediate algebra and geometry examines the computer's role in student learning probability discusses the use of computers in the professional development of teachers explores ways to use computers to reduce mathematics anxietyUsing Information Technology in Mathematics Education examines the history and impact of computers in mathematics and mathematics education--from the early, crude computer-assisted instruction efforts through LOGO software for elementary schools, through MAPLE for the university, to the Web-based calculus courses now being offered by outstanding universities. Use it to facilitate learning and teacher growth in your institution!

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1040278701

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The Maquinna Line

A Family Saga

By: Norma Macmillan

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The Maquinna Line

A Family Saga

By: Norma Macmillan

A murder, a tryst, a mysterious child. A Victoria aristocrat who obsesses over her Churchill relatives. A repressive Welsh mother with a royalty fixation. A once-carefree Hesquiat girl from Nootka Sound. A dashing Icelandic philanderer. And quiet, steady Julia Godolphin, trying to rise above it all. The lost novel of Norma Macmillan, the Vancouver actress who lived much of her life in New York and Hollywood, is the work of a woman steeped in the American entertainment industry but deeply in love with the history of her native province, which eventually drew her home before her death in 2001. The Maquinna Line: A Family Saga is set on Vancouver Island from 1871 to 1945, with a nod to the meeting of Captain Cook and Chief Maquinna in 1778. It traces the stories of the five families of varied social standing, including two descendents of Chief Maquinna. In the end, they’re all ordinary people trying to find happiness in the face of intrigue, ambition, misunderstanding and changing social and sexual mores.

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TouchWood Editions

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192674151X

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Impressionism: A Feminist Reading

The Gendering Of Art, Science, And Nature In The Nineteenth Century

By: Norma Broude

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Impressionism: A Feminist Reading

The Gendering Of Art, Science, And Nature In The Nineteenth Century

By: Norma Broude

An original interpretation of Impressionism and nineteenth-century art and culture by a noted feminist art historian. This book is a pioneering reading of Impressionism from a feminist perspective by a noted art historian. Norma Broude analyzes the philosophical underpinnings of landscape painting in the late nineteenth century discussing the crit

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0429688946

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A Personal Grief & a Reasonable Faith

A Mother's Journey from Tragedy to Triumph in Understanding the Christian Faith

By: Norma E. Sawyers

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A Personal Grief & a Reasonable Faith

A Mother's Journey from Tragedy to Triumph in Understanding the Christian Faith

By: Norma E. Sawyers

Content: Have you ever had questions about God and ultimate reality? Have you ever wondered about origins, values, and destiny? If you have, you're not alone. Millions of peoplein our generation face genuine difficulties regarding questions of life and faith - Why isthere suffering? Is God really "there"? Howdo I cope with death? Although the majority of men and women in our day struggle with tough questions such as these, most Christians downplay the importance of philosophical questioning. Thus, seekers of truth are often reluctant to ask the awesome questions lurking just beneath the surface. Understanding firsthand the current deemphasis on religious questioning, Norma Sawyers has written this book - both to call attention to the seriousness of the situation and to provide a context for asking and answering some of the questions. First, in A Personal Grief, Norma Sawyers tel ls about her own intensely personal and painful journey to an intelligent knowledge of God. Then, in A Reasonable Faith, she not only calls attention to the fact that an objectiveapproach to the spreading of the gospel is desperately needed today, but also provides in-sights and answers to such questions as: Whatis Faith? - Is it Wrong to Doubt to Question? - Is it Enough to "Just Believe?"--Is Christianity Just a Psychological Crutch? - Are All Religions True? - Does the Bible Conflict with Science? - Was Jesus Really God? - Why Does God Allow Evil and Suffering? - Is the Bible Truly God's Word? - Does God Really Send People to Hell? - Why Are There So Many Hypocrites in the Church? - Is There Need for a Christian Reformation? Each chaper of A Reasonable Faith is based on one of these tough questions, and each answer is given with empathy and love for the real people with urgent queo.

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Dogwood Publishing

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0963003100

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Visual Pattern Analyzers

By: Norma Van Surdam Graham

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Visual Pattern Analyzers

By: Norma Van Surdam Graham

Organized to help the reader find needed information quickly and easily, this book emphasizes psychophysical experiments which measure the detection and identification of near-threshold patterns and the mathematical models used to draw inferences from experimental results.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195148355

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Responsible Research Practice

Revisiting Transformative Paradigm in Social Research

By: Norma RA Romm

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Responsible Research Practice

Revisiting Transformative Paradigm in Social Research

By: Norma RA Romm

This book explores ways in which creative research practice can be explicitly and mindfully geared to make a difference to the quality of social and ecological existence. It offers a range of examples of how different research methods can be employed (and re-tuned) with this intention. The book suggests that what Romm names "active" research involves using the research space responsibly to open up new avenues for thinking and acting on the part of those involved in the inquiry and wider stakeholders. The book includes a discussion of a range of epistemological, ontological, methodological and axiological positions (or paradigms) that can be embraced by inquirers implicitly or explicitly. It details the contours of an epistemology where knowing is recognized to be grounded in social relations, as a matter of ethics. While focusing on discussing the “transformative paradigm” and attendant view of research ethics, it considers to what extent the borders between paradigms can be treated as being permeable in creative and active inquiries. Apart from considering options for enhancing responsible research practice during the process of inquiry (and reconsidering mixed-research designs) the book also considers options for responsible theorizing that is inspirational for pursuing goals of social and ecological justice.

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Springer

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3319743864

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Medicinal Chemistry

By: Norma K Dunlap,Donna M Huryn

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Medicinal Chemistry

By: Norma K Dunlap,Donna M Huryn

Medicinal Chemistry begins with the history of the field, starting from the serendipitous use of plant preparations to current practice of design- and target-based screening methods. Written from the perspective of practicing medicinal chemists, the text covers key drug discovery activities such as pharmacokinetics and patenting, as well as the classes and structures of drug targets (receptors, enzymes, nucleic acids, and protein-protein and lipid interactions) with numerous examples of drugs acting at each type. Selected therapeutic areas include drugs to treat cancer, infectious diseases, and central nervous system disorders. Throughout the book, historical and current examples illustrate the progress to market and case studies explore the applications of concepts discussed in the text. Each chapter features a Journal Club, as well as review and application questions to enhance and test comprehension. This textbook is ideal for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students taking a one-semester survey course on medicinal chemistry and/or drug discovery, as well as scientists entering the pharmaceutical industry.

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Garland Science

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1351586211

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From Thunder to the Throne Room and God’S Amazing Grace.

Hebrews: a Bible Study

By: Norma Blackmon

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From Thunder to the Throne Room and God’S Amazing Grace.

Hebrews: a Bible Study

By: Norma Blackmon

A Bible Study through Hebrews Wow! What an amazing book of the Bible! All of Gods word is so pertinent to our lives today. It provides strength, courage, and hope. It also offers correction and edification that in our present time we would be able to stand, complete and fully equipped. Gods word keeps us ever mindful of His majesty, His sovereignty, and His incredible grace as He ever faithfully meets with, leads, and provides for His people. The book of Hebrews is such a powerful message of Gods truths and His eternal plan of redemption for a lost peopleyou and I. Not only are we blessed with amazing understanding as we delve into such wonderful questions such as: Who are angels? By what order was Jesus called High Priest? What is the difference between the priestly order under the law verses Melchizedek? What six elementary principles does the author have us address and why? And can you lose your salvation? There is so much to learn from Hebrews, and I assure you I could not begin to touch a fraction of it. Yet my prayer, my hope, is that after you have turned these pages, you too will be assured of Gods beautiful promise, His unfailing love, and His perfect plan for us, His children.

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WestBow Press

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Accountability in Social Research

Issues and Debates

By: Norma Romm

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Accountability in Social Research

Issues and Debates

By: Norma Romm

In this book I have concentrated on drawing attention to various conceptions of accountability that might be brought to bear in judging the practice of social research. Much of the book is organized around making explicit the assumptions that influence what counts as “proper” research in society, including assumptions about how social inquirers might be held accountable. My focus is on reviewing discourses around the practice of “professional” inquiry, with a view to reconsidering the way in which people create expectations for accountable social inquiry. My focus hereon is related to my concern that the manner in which judgments about researchers’ accountability are made, is not without social consequences for our way of living in society. I have approached the issues by beginning with a discussion of tenets of the position called “positivism” (so named by certain proponents), and by considering the view on accountability that is implied by adherence to these tenets. Briefly expressed, positivist argumentation suggests that researchers are required to “do science” in a manner that warrants their being considered, indeed, scientists. I use my discussion of accountability as seen within positivist argumentation to explicate ways in which alternative positions have arisen as ways of treating accountability issues. Through my way of comparing the various positions, I hope to provide some indication of the complexity ofethical and accountability issues in social inquiry.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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030647199X

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Homegirls

Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs

By: Norma Mendoza-Denton

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Homegirls

Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs

By: Norma Mendoza-Denton

In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña and Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges that signal their gang affiliations and ideologies. Her engrossing ethnographic and sociolinguistic study reveals the connection of language behavior and other symbolic practices among Latina gang girls in California, and their connections to larger social processes of nationalism, racial/ethnic consciousness, and gender identity. An engrossing account of the Norte and Sur girl gangs - the largest Latino gangs in California Traces how elements of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges are used to signal social affiliation and come together to form youth gang styles Explores the relationship between language and the body: one of the most striking aspects of the tattoos, make-up, and clothing of the gang members Unlike other studies – which focus on violence, fighting and drugs – Mendoza-Denton delves into the commonly-overlooked cultural and linguistic aspects of youth gangs

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118910877

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Public Personnel Administration and Labor Relations

By: Norma M Riccucci

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Public Personnel Administration and Labor Relations

By: Norma M Riccucci

The readings in this volume will enlighten and enliven the contents of any standard public administration text covering human resource management. Selected mainly from the pages of Public Administration Review and Review of Public Personnel Administration, these classic articles trace the historical and evolutionary development of the fields of public personnel administration and labor relations from the point at which the first civil service law was passed - the Pendelton Act in 1883 - through the 21st century. The collection covers everything from the seminal concerns of civil service (e.g., keeping spoils out) to topics that early reformers would never have envisioned (e.g., affirmative action and drug testing). These works continue to inform the theory and practice of public personnel and labor relations. To facilitate an instructor's ability to assign readings that illuminate lectures and course material, a correlation matrix on the M.E. Sharpe website shows how this book can be used easily alongside eight leading textbooks.

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Routledge

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1317461754

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The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters

By: Norma Clarke

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The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters

By: Norma Clarke

If Aphra Benn is widely regarded as the first important woman writer in English, who was the second? In literary history, the eighteenth century belongs to men: Pope and Swift, Richardson and Fielding. Asked to name a woman, even the specialist stumbles. Jane Austen? She didn't publish until 1811. Aphra Benn herself? She died in 1869. The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters tells the remarkable but little-known story of women writers in the eighteenth century - of poets, critics, dramatists and scholars celebrated in their own time but all but forgotten by the beginning of the new century. Eliza Haywood, Catherine Cockburn, Elizabeth Elstob, Delarivier Manley, Elizabeth Rowe, Jane Barker, Elizabeth Thomas, Anna Seward... In a book which ranges from country house to Grub Street, Norma Clarke recovers these and other writers, establishes the reasons for their eclipse and discovers that a room of one's own in the eighteenth century was as likely to be a prison cell as a boudoir.

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Random House

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1446444988

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New Racism

Revisiting Researcher Accountabilities

By: Norma Romm

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New Racism

Revisiting Researcher Accountabilities

By: Norma Romm

This book develops a debate around responsible social inquiry into new racism. A variety of ways of researching new forms of racism (for example, aversive, modern, cultural, purportedly color-blind, and new racism) are addressed. Experiments that have been undertaken to inquire into group identity and people’s implicit bias in relation to those perceived as "other" are critically explored and their potential consequences reconsidered. The book also critically explores survey research, which, it is argued, can serve to reinforce the notion of the existence of ethnoracial groups with defined boundaries that inhere in social life. The book considers interviewing (including focus group interviewing) and case study research (including participant observation/ethnography) in terms of possibilities for moving beyond new forms of racism. Action research (defined by the understanding of an inextricable link between knowing and acting) is examined in-depth in terms of the hopes to "make a difference" at the moment of inquiry. Types of retroductive logic that are used to examine underlying structures that arguably unduly constrain people’s life chances and render human relationships inhumane are also explored. The book draws together the different arguments; and it proposes ways in which the design of research into new racism can better approached as well as ways in which dialogue around processes of inquiry and the products thereof can be better fostered. Suggestions for nurturing humane social relationships that provide for transcultural meaning-making are threaded through the text.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9048187281

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The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence

By: Gavan McCormack,Norma Field

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The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence

By: Gavan McCormack,Norma Field

This work aims to show that Japan even at it's height of success, while the successful version of capitalism was blighted at it's core, being unsustainable. This revised edition features n introduction which gives an analysis of Japan's contemporary crisis.

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1315499355

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Collectivity in Social Group Work

Concept and Practice

By: Norma C. Lang,Joanne Sulman

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Collectivity in Social Group Work

Concept and Practice

By: Norma C. Lang,Joanne Sulman

A concise and comprehensive examination of the theory of collectivity in social group work. Experts explore the impact of collectivity theory on social work practice and provide descriptions of practice in collectivity.

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Psychology Press

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0866566619

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9780866566612

Cover Crops in West Africa

Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture

By: International Development Research Centre (Canada)

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Cover Crops in West Africa

Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture

By: International Development Research Centre (Canada)

Cover Crops in West Africa Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture

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CHILDREN IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT

Linking Social Policy and Clinical Practice (3rd Ed.)

By: Norma Kolko Phillips,Shulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner

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CHILDREN IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT

Linking Social Policy and Clinical Practice (3rd Ed.)

By: Norma Kolko Phillips,Shulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner

This updated and expanded third edition examines the significant changes impacting children in our society and is a significant revision of the second edition, presented 10 years previous. During that period, there have been many important “firsts” in the United States: the first African-American president; the first attempt at a health care system that includes everyone; the first time for gay marriage sanctioned by the federal government; numerous firsts in medical care; a growing globalization; and the ongoing technology revolution changing lives from day to day. At the same time, however, there have been reactionary pulls that have halted progress in many critical areas such as income inequality, racism, poverty, violence, terrorist acts, and critical flaws in the educational and criminal justice systems that continue to have disastrous consequences for children. The chapters in the book discuss the cost in human terms of some of the missing opportunities for urban children and youth and illustrate the impact of social welfare policies on children, their families, and on the broader society. To better prepare social workers to meet some of the pressing needs to children, three completely new chapters have been added to this edition: “Beyond School and Community Violence: Providing Environments Where Children Thrive”; “Urban Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Children”; and “Substance Use by Urban Children.” In addition to sections on “Economic, Social, and Environmental Factors Impacting on Urban Children,” and “Familial Factors Impacting on Urban Children,” a new section, “Behavioral and Physical Health and Urban Children,” has been introduced. This new edition provides a significant resource for students and professionals in social work, family counseling, human services, psychology, and criminal justice. Most importantly, the various chapters in this text will help social workers and social work students recognize the nature of some of the current problems affecting children and come up with innovative solutions for the future.

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Charles C Thomas Publisher

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0398091331

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Public Personnel Management

By: Norma M. Riccucci

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Public Personnel Management

By: Norma M. Riccucci

Updated in a new 5th edition, Public Personnel Management, by Norma M. Riccucci, is a concise and accessible reader containing all original articles addressing the most current issues in public personnel management. Written expressly for the text by leading scholars, all of the articles are either new to this edition or substantially revised. Each article focuses on specific-often controversial-issues in public personal management, such as comparative personnel management, pensions, sexuality, health, succession planning, unions, and the multi-generational workforce.

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1317344901

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Patterns of Residential Care

Sociological Studies in Institutions for Handicapped Children

By: Roy D. King,Norma V. Raynes,Jack Tizard

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Patterns of Residential Care

Sociological Studies in Institutions for Handicapped Children

By: Roy D. King,Norma V. Raynes,Jack Tizard

Originally published in 1971, this title describes a series of studies dealing with the upbringing of children in residential institutions. Most work has been carried out in institutions for children with learning disabilities, although units caring for able but deprived children and children with physical disabilities have also been examined. The investigations have been concerned with the detailed nature of different institutional environments – that is, the routine patterns of daily life in hospital wards, hostels and cottages of children’s homes – rather than with the effects of specific child-rearing practices upon the intellectual, emotional and social development of the children. The more precise delineation of ‘the environment’ is an essential step towards the evaluation of residential services and the interpretation of their effects upon those who use them, yet this is an area which had received little systematic attention from social scientists at the time. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1971. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000960269

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Colonial Virginians and Their Maryland Relatives

A Genealogy of the Tucker Family and Also the Families of Allen, Blackistone, Chandler, Ford, Gerard, Harmor, Hume, Monroe, Skaggs, Smith, Stevesson, Stone, Sturman, Thompson, Ward, Yowell, and Others

By: Norma Tucker

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Colonial Virginians and Their Maryland Relatives

By: Norma Tucker

This copiously documented volume sheds new light on one of the earliest families to settle in Virginia, that of Captain William Tucker of London, and on a number of allied families whose progenitors figured in the early history of the Virginia and Maryland colonies.

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0806345071

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Habib Bourguiba, Islam and the Creation of Tunisia

By: Norma Salem

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Habib Bourguiba, Islam and the Creation of Tunisia

By: Norma Salem

First published in 1984, Habib Bourguiba, Islam and the Creation of Tunisia is a study of Habib Bourguiba, the founder of independent Tunisia, that argues that Islam played a vital role in the development of the Tunisian nationalist movement. This book is therefore both a biography of the Tunisian leader and a discussion of the role of Islam as the key to legitimacy throughout the Arab world. The author argues that Islam was such a fundamental component in defining the specificity of the Tunisian nation that even Bourguiba, the most secular of Arab leaders, could not shed the Arab-Islamic heritage of Tunisia. Instead, he used Islam as a principle mode of communication to mobilise the Tunisian masses. This book will be of interest to students of African studies, history, political science and religion.

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1003828914

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Evaluation and Assessment in Educational Information Technology

By: D Lamont Johnson,Cleborne D Maddux,Leping Liu,Norma Henderson

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Evaluation and Assessment in Educational Information Technology

By: D Lamont Johnson,Cleborne D Maddux,Leping Liu,Norma Henderson

Choose the right hardware and software for your school! This unique book is the first systematic work on evaluating and assessing educational information technology. Here you?ll find specific strategies, best practices, and techniques to help you choose the educational technology that is most appropriate for your institution. Evaluation and Assessment in Educational Information Technology will show you how to measure the effects of information technology on teaching and learning, help you determine the extent of technological integration into the curriculum that is best for your school, and point you toward the most effective ways to teach students and faculty to use new technology. Evaluation and Assessment in Educational Information Technology presents: a summary of the last ten years of assessment instrument development seven well-validated instruments that gauge attitudes, beliefs, skills, competencies, and technology integration proficiencies two content analysis instruments for analyzing teacher-student interaction patterns in a distance learning setting an examination of the best uses of computerized testing--as opposed to conventional tests, as used in local settings, to meet daily instructional needs, in online delivery programs, in public domain software, and available commercial and shareware options successful pedagogical and assessment strategies for use in online settings a four-dimensional model to assess student learning in instructional technology courses three models for assessing the significance of information technology in education from a teacher?s perspective an incisive look at Michigan?s newly formed Consortium of Outstanding Achievement in Teaching with Technology (COATT) ways to use electronic portfolios for teaching/learning performance assessment and much more!

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CRC Press

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1000447944

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9781000447941

Higher Education Administration

A Guide to Legal, Ethical, and Practical Issues

By: Rachel S. Blechman,Norma M. Goonen

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Higher Education Administration

A Guide to Legal, Ethical, and Practical Issues

By: Rachel S. Blechman,Norma M. Goonen

Goonen and Blechman provide an analysis useful as a desk reference or as a text for practicing and prospective administrators and university counsel. They examine the legal points, ethical questions, and practical steps an administrator or university counsel should be aware of in dealing with some of the most frequently encountered issues in the administration of a college, university, or other postsecondary institution. Each chapter targets a selected area of academic affairs, and the format includes four sections—legal parameters, ethical considerations, practical suggestions, and an illustrative case. Hiring issues, compensation and employment issues, promotion and tenure, terminations, non-renewals, and reductions in force, academic freedom, student disputes on academic matters, and transcript and degree issues are all analyzed. Goonen and Blechman provide a general guide that can be readily utilized and understood by those without specific prior training in the law or in higher education administration. The discussions and information the guide contains will be valuable to current and prospective practitioners as they seek to balance the legal, ethical, and practical issues that surface in every decision in the increasingly complex higher education arena.

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0313005311

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9780313005312

Industrial Relations in Japan

The Peripheral Sector

By: Norma Chalmers

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Industrial Relations in Japan

The Peripheral Sector

By: Norma Chalmers

The conventional picture of industry and industrial relations in Japan is of a number of very large firms providing extremely attractive working conditions for their happy and contented workforce. Norma Chalmers shows that there is in fact another, very different side to the picture, which occurs in the the peripheral sector. Here, conditions are often poor, wages very low and continuity of employment virtually non-existent. There are many small firms where the effectiveness of worker organisation and bargaining declines as the firm's size and proximity to the industrial centre decrease. Moreover, as Chalmers shows, the peripheral sector is very large, and the conventional picture of the model workforce should probably be confined to a few flagship companies. The book argues that the model nature of the large firms may stem in part from the fact that they are able to off-load problems onto smaller firms who produce the components necessary for the large firm sector at disadvantageous subcontract terms.

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1134990324

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Feminism And Art History

Questioning The Litany

By: Norma Broude

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Feminism And Art History

Questioning The Litany

By: Norma Broude

A long-needed corrective and alternative view of Western art history, these seventeen essays by respected scholars are arranged chronologically and cover every major period from the ancient Egyptian to the present. While several of the essays deal with major women artists, the book is essentially about Western art history and the extent to which it has been distorted, in every period, by sexual bias. With 306 illustrations.

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0429980167

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9780429980169

Afflicted Aphrodite

By: Norma Molla

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Afflicted Aphrodite

By: Norma Molla

I kept seeing her most prized possession sitting in the backseat of the car: her favorite child, my baby brother, Mateo. The non-problematic child. The healthy child. The eleven-year-old boy who protested against her cruel decision to abandon his gravely ill sister. The child she refused to lose to cancer." March 2012. A single doctors statement of three words morphs a familys merriment into turmoil and distress. An ordinary teenage girl is forced into a battle against cancer for the second time in her life. But for the first time, she is evasively forced by her mother into fighting the battle alone. Along with the pressures of growing up and trying to be a normal teenage girl, drop-dead-gorgeous Tegan Giovanno determinedly tries to face her life-threatening illness without the aid of her nurturing mother, in the process becoming an ordinary teenager coping with extraordinary things...

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1477233717

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The Expanding Discourse

Feminism And Art History

By: Norma Broude

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The Expanding Discourse

Feminism And Art History

By: Norma Broude

A sequel to the pioneering volume, Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, published in 1982, The Expanding Discourse contains 29 essays on artists and issues from the Renaissance to the present, representing some of the best feminist art-historical writing of the past decade. Chronologically arranged, the essays demonstrate the abundance, diversity, and main conceptual trends in recent feminist scholarship.

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0429972466

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9780429972461

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