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Professional Ethics for the Construction Industry

By: Rebecca Mirsky,John Schaufelberger

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Professional Ethics for the Construction Industry

By: Rebecca Mirsky,John Schaufelberger

This second edition of Professional Ethics for the Construction Industry empowers a new generation of built environment professionals to navigate the ethical challenges confronting them at every stage of a project, from the initial bid to its completion and beyond. Authored by a pair of veteran educators and industry professionals, this textbook introduces ethical dilemmas aspiring construction professionals will face on the job—and the critical thinking skills to reason their way out of them. Written to meet curriculum requirements for all levels of construction education, this book explores ethics specific to the construction industry, illustrated by detailed and realistic case studies. All-new chapters on privacy, cutting-edge technologies, and pandemic-era worker protections complement chapters on perennial ethical issues surrounding the environment, client relationships, and more. Features include: Completely revised and updated to reflect changes in construction technology, workforce composition, and working environments. Updated to include new chapters on social media, privacy and technology, and construction during a disease outbreak or natural disaster. Ideal reading for courses in professional ethics, leadership, construction law, workforce readiness, and continuing education. Downloadable instructor's manual with commentary on scenarios provided at the end of each chapter. As vital on the jobsite as in the classroom, Professional Ethics for the Construction Industry guides aspiring design and construction professionals through the thorniest on-the-job conundrums.

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Routledge

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1000591298

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Russomania

Russian culture and the creation of British modernism, 1881-1922

By: Rebecca Beasley

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Russomania

Russian culture and the creation of British modernism, 1881-1922

By: Rebecca Beasley

Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism provides a new account of modernist literature's emergence in Britain. British writers played a central role in the dissemination of Russian literature and culture during the early twentieth century, and their writing was transformed by the encounter. This study restores the thick history of that moment, by analyzing networks of dissemination and reception to recover the role of neglected as well as canonical figures, and institutions as well as individuals. The dominant account of British modernism privileges a Francophile genealogy, but the turn-of-the century debate about the future of British writing was a triangular debate, a debate not only between French and English models, but between French, English, and Russian models. Francophile modernists associated Russian literature, especially the Tolstoyan novel, with an uncritical immersion in 'life' at the expense of a mastery of style, and while individual works might be admired, Russian literature as a whole was represented as a dangerous model for British writing. This supposed danger was closely bound up with the politics of the period, and this book investigates how Russian culture was deployed in the close relationships between writers, editors, and politicians who made up the early twentieth-century intellectual class—the British intelligentsia. Russomania argues that the most significant impact of Russian culture is not to be found in stylistic borrowings between canonical authors, but in the shaping of the major intellectual questions of the period: the relation between language and action, writer and audience, and the work of art and lived experience. The resulting account brings an occluded genealogy of early modernism to the fore, with a different arrangement of protagonists, different critical values, and stronger lines of connection to the realist experiments of the Victorian past, and the anti-formalism and revived romanticism of the 1930s and 1940s future.

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Oxford University Press

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0192522477

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9780192522474

Fundamentalism

By: Rebecca Joyce Frey

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Fundamentalism

By: Rebecca Joyce Frey

Presents a guide to religious fundamentalism, including definitions, primary sources, important documents, research tools, organizations, and notable persons.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438108990

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9781438108995

The Amnesias

A Clinical Textbook of Memory Disorders

By: Andrew C. Papanicolaou,Rebecca Billingsley-Marshall

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The Amnesias

A Clinical Textbook of Memory Disorders

By: Andrew C. Papanicolaou,Rebecca Billingsley-Marshall

These disciplines include neurology, neurobiology, neuropsychology, psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, rehabilitation medicine, and gerontology."--Jacket.

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Oxford University Press

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0195172450

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The New Republic, 1783-1830

By: Rebecca Stefoff

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The New Republic, 1783-1830

By: Rebecca Stefoff

Presents the history of the New Republic of America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through excerpts from documents, letters, journals, and newspaper articles.

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Marshall Cavendish

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0761416951

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9780761416951

Baby Teacher

Nurturing Neural Networks From Birth to Age Five

By: Rebecca Shore

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Baby Teacher

Nurturing Neural Networks From Birth to Age Five

By: Rebecca Shore

Dr Shore has produced a well-informed, highly readable book that has potential for substantially influencing a number of critical educational issues.

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R&L Education

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081084284X

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Selected Letters of Rebecca West

By: Rebecca West

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Selected Letters of Rebecca West

By: Rebecca West

From the time that George Bernard Shaw remarked that “Rebecca West could handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely,” West’s writings and her politics have elicited strong reactions. This collection of her letters—the first ever published—has been culled from the estimated ten thousand she wrote during her long life. The more than two hundred selected letters follow this spirited author, critic, and journalist from her first feminist campaign for women’s suffrage when she was a teenager through her reassessments of the twentieth century written in 1982, in her ninetieth year. The letters, which are presented in full, include correspondence with West’s famous lover H. G. Wells and with Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Emma Goldman, Noel Coward, and many others; offer pronouncements on such contemporary authors as Norman Mailer, Nadine Gordimer, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; and provide new insights into her battles against misogyny, fascism, and communism. West deliberately fashions her own biography through this intensely personal correspondence, challenging rival accounts of her groundbreaking professional career, her frustrating love life, and her tormented family relations. Engrossing to read, the collection sheds new light on this important figure and her social and literary milieu.

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Yale University Press

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0300163541

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9780300163544

Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora

By: Rebecca Kobrin

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Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora

By: Rebecca Kobrin

The mass migration of East European Jews and their resettlement in cities throughout Europe, the United States, Argentina, the Middle East and Australia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries not only transformed the demographic and cultural centers of world Jewry, it also reshaped Jews' understanding and performance of their diasporic identities. Rebecca Kobrin's study of the dispersal of Jews from one city in Poland -- Bialystok -- demonstrates how the act of migration set in motion a wide range of transformations that led the migrants to imagine themselves as exiles not only from the mythic Land of Israel but most immediately from their east European homeland. Kobrin explores the organizations, institutions, newspapers, and philanthropies that the Bialystokers created around the world and that reshaped their perceptions of exile and diaspora.

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Indiana University Press

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0253004284

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The Aesthetics of Nostalgia

Historical Representation in Old English Verse

By: Renée Rebecca Trilling

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The Aesthetics of Nostalgia

Historical Representation in Old English Verse

By: Renée Rebecca Trilling

Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical verse in terms of how its aesthetic form interacted with the culture and politics of the period.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802099718

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Into the Forest

A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love

By: Rebecca Frankel

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Into the Forest

A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love

By: Rebecca Frankel

A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist One of Smithsonian Magazine's Best History Books of 2021 "An uplifting tale, suffused with a karmic righteousness that is, at times, exhilarating." —Wall Street Journal "A gripping narrative that reads like a page turning thriller novel." —NPR In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids—until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war they trekked across the Alps into Italy where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States. During the first ghetto massacre, Miriam Rabinowitz rescued a young boy named Philip by pretending he was her son. Nearly a decade later, a chance encounter at a wedding in Brooklyn would lead Philip to find the woman who saved him. And to discover her daughter Ruth was the love of his life. From a little-known chapter of Holocaust history, one family’s inspiring true story.

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St. Martin's Press

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125026765X

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Systems and Models for Developing Programs for the Gifted and Talented

By: Joseph S. Renzulli,E. Jean Gubbins,Kristin S. McMillen,Rebecca D. Eckert,Catherine A. Little

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Systems and Models for Developing Programs for the Gifted and Talented

By: Joseph S. Renzulli,E. Jean Gubbins,Kristin S. McMillen,Rebecca D. Eckert,Catherine A. Little

Now completely revised and expanded, Systems and Models for Developing Programs for the Gifted and Talented includes chapters on the major systems and models for developing programs for the gifted, including the Autonomous Learner Model, the Integrative Education Model, the Multiple Menu Model, the Purdue Three-Stage Model, the Schoolwide Enrichment Model, and Levels of Service. Forty-two experts in gifted education contributed to 25 chapters, and each chapter includes a discussion of the model, theoretical underpinnings, research on effectiveness, and considerations for implementations. Discussion questions follow each chapter. Chapters provide compact, yet comprehensive summaries of the major models developed by leaders in the field of gifted education.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000951405

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Nietzsche's Orphans

Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire

By: Rebecca Mitchell

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Nietzsche's Orphans

Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire

By: Rebecca Mitchell

A prevailing belief among Russia’s cultural elite in the early twentieth century was that the music of composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Nikolai Medtner could forge a shared identity for the Russian people across social and economic divides. In this illuminating study of competing artistic and ideological visions at the close of Russia’s “Silver Age,” author Rebecca Mitchell interweaves cultural history, music, and philosophy to explore how “Nietzsche’s orphans” strove to find in music a means to overcome the disunity of modern life in the final tumultuous years before World War I and the Communist Revolution.

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Yale University Press

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0300216491

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9780300216493

Developing Young Minds

From Conception to Kindergarten

By: Rebecca A. Shore

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Developing Young Minds

From Conception to Kindergarten

By: Rebecca A. Shore

Ever wonder what is going on in a baby's brain? Or how you can best nurture a child's natural development? Or why exactly Bach is better than Mozart for babies? This book will explain why. No technical knowledge is necessary, as Shore makes recent neurological findings accessible to all those who come into contact with young children. Everything a baby experiences in his or her first five years is building the foundation of life's learning potential. Through increasing the complexity of the early childhood environment in developmentally appropriate ways, we can nurture young children's brains. Developing Young Minds is a must-have for new parents or caregivers of young children.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1607093545

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Suffering For Science

Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America

By: Rebecca Herzig

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Suffering For Science

Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America

By: Rebecca Herzig

From gruesome self-experimentation to exhausting theoretical calculations, stories abound of scientists willfully surrendering health, well-being, and personal interests for the sake of their work. What accounts for the prevalence of this coupling of knowledge and pain-and for the peculiar assumption that science requires such suffering? In this lucid and absorbing history, Rebecca M. Herzig explores the rise of an ethic of "self-sacrifice" in American science. Delving into some of the more bewildering practices of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, she describes when and how science-the supposed standard of all things judicious and disinterested-came to rely on an enthralled investigator willing to embrace toil, danger, and even lethal dismemberment. With attention to shifting racial, sexual, and transnational politics, Herzig examines the suffering scientist as a way to understand the rapid transformation of American life between the Civil War and World War I.3 Suffering for Science reveals more than the passion evident in many scientific vocations; it also illuminates a nation's changing understandings of the purposes of suffering, the limits of reason, and the nature of freedom in the aftermath of slavery.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813537649

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Popes and Jews, 1095-1291

By: Rebecca Rist

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Popes and Jews, 1095-1291

By: Rebecca Rist

In Popes and Jews, 1095-1291, Rebecca Rist explores the nature and scope of the relationship of the medieval papacy to the Jewish communities of western Europe. Rist analyses papal pronouncements in the context of the substantial and on-going social, political, and economic changes of the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, as well the characters and preoccupations of individual pontiffs and the development of Christian theology. She breaks new ground in exploring the other side of the story - Jewish perceptions of both individual popes and the papacy as an institution - through analysis of a wide range of contemporary Hebrew and Latin documents. The author engages with the works of recent scholars in the field of Christian-Jewish relations to examine the social and legal status of Jewish communities in light of the papacy's authorisation of crusading, prohibitions against money lending, and condemnation of the Talmud, as well as increasing charges of ritual murder and host desecration, the growth of both Christian and Jewish polemical literature, and the advent of the Mendicant Orders. Popes and Jews, 1095-1291 is an important addition to recent work on medieval Christian-Jewish relations. Furthermore, its subject matter - religious and cultural exchange between Jews and Christians during a period crucial for our understanding of the growth of the Western world, the rise of nation states, and the development of relations between East and West - makes it extremely relevant to today's multi-cultural and multi-faith society.

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Oxford University Press

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0191027847

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Educating and Caring for Very Young Children

The Infant/toddler Curriculum

By: Doris Bergen,Rebecca Reid,Louis Torelli

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Educating and Caring for Very Young Children

The Infant/toddler Curriculum

By: Doris Bergen,Rebecca Reid,Louis Torelli

This volume focuses on play as the basis for curriculum and shows how infant/toddler "educarers" can combine theory and practice, taking into account both the physical and social environments. Through case descriptions of actual children, this insightful volume discusses how to accommodate children with different development levels, backgrounds, personalities, and special needs. The authors also examine infant/toddler curriculum in the context of family, community, and society, and explore ways to enhance curriculum quality.

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