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The Ecology of Prevention

Illustrating Mental Health Consultation

By: Robert E Hess

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The Ecology of Prevention

Illustrating Mental Health Consultation

By: Robert E Hess

This provocative volume offers an enlightening look at mental health consultation as a preventive service. To enhance the prospects of consultation being preventive, consultation is defined as an ecological enterprise. Although attention is given to outcomes, process is the key in this book. This beneficial volume presents ten valuable principles to guide the work of a consultant, plus case studies representing different topics--self-esteem of high school students in rural Oregon, child abuse prevention in a rural and urban setting in Iowa, a junior high school consolidation in Maryland, and preventive services for Lutheran congregations in Minnesota. Each of the authors of the four case examples in their actual consultation and in their descriptions of their consultation have extended and elaborated what it means to think ecologically. Following an unusual format, the comments from the recipients of the interventions described in the case studies have been included as a reminder that prevention, in its truest spirit, involves partnerships, that “subjects” or “consultees” have feelings and opinions about their participation, and that subjective data are as important as objective data.

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1317735773

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Career Stress in Changing Times

By: Robert E Hess

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Career Stress in Changing Times

By: Robert E Hess

In terms of time, energy, and money, a career is one of the most important investments that a person makes during his or her lifetime. Career Stress in Changing Times is an exciting volume that covers the entire career cycle, from beginning through mid-career dilemmas to the retirement transition. Many key career issues and stressors--as they are experienced during each stage of one’s career--are examined. Experts also explore the major social and cultural forces that influence careers and will continue to do so in the next century, including women’s influx into the workplace, the decline of blue-collar labor, the changing demographics of our nation, and the movement toward a world economy.Career Stress in Changing Times is ideal for individuals involved in career planning activities, professionals counseling people engaged in career planning transitions, and educators involved in teaching career planning seminars. This volume is unique in that it blends the work of academic researchers with that of practitioners on the firing line; it blends theoretical and conceptual work with empirical, data-based research as well as with the results of in-depth interviews and reports from the direct experience of practitioners.

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1317736400

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International Approaches to Prevention in Mental Health and Human Services

By: Robert Hess,Wolfgang Stark

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International Approaches to Prevention in Mental Health and Human Services

By: Robert Hess,Wolfgang Stark

Here is a new book devoted to prevention efforts outside of the United States. Chapters present prevention efforts from a variety of countries, including Costa Rica, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland, and reflect the diversity in the cultures of the authors. Despite cultural differences, common themes emergemainly an orientation toward the community and a focus on empowerment. International Approaches to Prevention in Mental Health and Human Services increases knowledge of differences and similarities in prevention strategies from around the world and stimulates international relationships which can enrich the field of prevention for all.

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Psychology Press

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1560247177

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Ethical Implications of Primary Prevention

By: Robert Hess

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Ethical Implications of Primary Prevention

By: Robert Hess

Here is the first systematic and focused treatment of the ethical implications of primary prevention practice and research. This important volume reviews historical precedents, assesses current practice, and points to future directions concerning the ethical implications of primary prevention interventions and research. It provides a philosophical framework for the consideration of the ethical issues involved when preventionists intervene to "do good." The primary prevention movement has gained increasing momentum across a wide variety of mental health ans social service fields, including psychology, psychiatry, social work, psychiatric nursing, and public health. Because of the primitive state of development of the field of primary prevention, many planned social interventions are, necessarily, based upon hunches, thus exposing citizens to interventions whose outcomes are not altogether assured. Although there is wide acknowledgment that ethical considerations should be significant in determining preventionists'actions, scant attention has been paid to the ethical implications of this rapidly growing area of practice and research. Minimal literature exists that addresses the ethical implications of preventive interventions in the human services, and training programs give short shrift to the issue. Professional codes of ethics also do not address the unique issues of primary prevention, focusing instead on the more traditional direct practice roles. In beginning to suggest how ethical standards for prevention research and practice can be developed, this volume will stimulate discussion and fram the future debate about ethical behavior by preventionists. Even more important, preventionists will no longer be able to discount or omit ethical considerations as they conceptualize and implement their work. Ethical Implications of Primary Prevention contains provocative chapters--from a variety of perspectives--that will promote a spirited debate about the real impact of preventionists'actions.

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Psychology Press

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1560240199

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Prevention

The Michigan Experience

By: Robert E Hess

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Prevention

The Michigan Experience

By: Robert E Hess

Providing practical information for all prevention professionals, this helpful volume presents an in-depth look at the excellent program models and prevention efforts used in the state of Michigan. Contributors discuss pilot demonstrations and model developments to illustrate what a state can do to further prevention efforts.

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Psychology Press

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1317774205

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The National Mental Health Association

Eighty Years of Involvement in the Field of Prevention

By: Robert E Hess

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The National Mental Health Association

Eighty Years of Involvement in the Field of Prevention

By: Robert E Hess

Here is a unique and important volume that pays tribute to the contributions of the National Mental Health Association to the field of prevention. For more than 80 years, the National Mental Health Association has been a major force in the advancement of the field of prevention. It has pursued an impressive three-pronged mission of promoting health, preventing mental illness, and improving the care and treatment of persons with mental illnesses through advocacy at all levels of state and national government and the development of prevention programs. The National Mental Health Association: Eighty Years of Involvement in the Field of Prevention traces the history of the association’s involvement in prevention back to the first decade of the century. Mental health professionals from Pennsylvania, Michigan, Texas, South Carolina, New York, and Illinois describe some of the diverse activities relating to prevention in which local associations are involved, such as public education, direct intervention, and legislative advocacy. In addition, a large part of the volume is devoted to in-depth descriptions of seven programs of sufficient distinction and merit to have received the association’s prestigious Lela Rowland Prevention Award, which recognizes outstanding prevention programs in the area of mental health. This volume should be read by the hundreds of thousands of Mental Health Association members, as well as community psychologists, social workers, and professionals in mental health centers and state mental health departments.

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1317839560

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Prevention in Community Mental Health Centers

By: Robert Hess,John Morgan

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Prevention in Community Mental Health Centers

By: Robert Hess,John Morgan

Familiarize yourself with successful prevention programs in mental health centers throughout the country. Prevention in Community Health Centers offers a very positive view of prevention efforts that have flourished in the past several years, despite the lack of federal support. Whether you are currently involved in an established prevention program or your agency is considering upgrading its prevention efforts, this practical volume will provide guidelines and incentives. Learn about the development and management of prevention services within applied settings--a social-problem solving program in a public school system, prevention services within a medical school-based community mental health center, a preventive intervention program for divorced and separated adults organized by a local mental health center and a chapter of Parents Without Partners, and a variety of self-help groups.

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Psychology Press

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0866569995

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Carboxylic Ortho Acid Derivatives: Preparation and Synthetic Applications

Preparation and Synthetic Applications

By: Robert H. Dewolfe

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Carboxylic Ortho Acid Derivatives: Preparation and Synthetic Applications

Preparation and Synthetic Applications

By: Robert H. Dewolfe

Carboxylic Ortho Acid Derivatives: Preparation and Synthetic Applications discusses the principal classes of ortho acid derivatives and their preparation, properties, and reactions. The book is a critical survey and attempts to collate literature regarding the wide array of information on ortho acid derivatives to be of use to chemists studying different sorts of problems. The text is divided into seven chapters, where Chapter 1 begins with a discussion of the general concepts of carboxylic ortho esters, their synthesis, and properties. Chapters 2 to 4 tackle reactions of ortho esters that result to different bonds and bond formations such as (a) carbon-oxygen and carbon-halogen bond, (b) carbon-nitrogen or carbon-phosphorus, and (c) carbon-carbon or carbon-hydrogen bond formation. Chapter 5 discusses the synthesis, properties, and applications of carbohydrate ortho esters. Related compounds and their properties, preparation, and chemical transformations are the topic of Chapters 6 and 7. Some of these compounds are trithioorthocarboxylates, tetrathioorthocarbonates, and amide acetals. The book is a valuable reference to students or anyone else interested in chemistry.

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0323163238

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Prevention and Health

Directions for Policy and Practice

By: Alfred Hyman Katz,Robert Hess

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Prevention and Health

Directions for Policy and Practice

By: Alfred Hyman Katz,Robert Hess

Devoted to the prevention of health-related problems, this timely book focuses on work being conducted in several important sectors of the health field. Health care workers, as well as government planners and policymakers at all levels can read about the most up-to-the-minute practical efforts being undertaken to reduce the incidence and prevalence of a variety of accidents, illnesses, and diseases. Experts offer insights into the most current existing research on family planning programs, breastfeeding, immunization, motor vehicle accidents, and more.

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World War II Cincinnati

From the Front Lines to the Home Front

By: Robert Earnest Miller

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World War II Cincinnati

From the Front Lines to the Home Front

By: Robert Earnest Miller

World War II transformed Cincinnati from a relatively important but parochial midwestern city into a teeming bastion of military might. While thousands served in the nation's armed forces, others contributed to rationing programs, salvage drives, blackouts and war bond rallies. Scores of community-based programs blossomed as Cincinnatians on the home front threw themselves wholeheartedly into the "total war" that Washington believed necessary for victory. After answering the call to treat domestic duty as seriously as any battleground assignment, the Queen City emerged from the war as utterly changed as the nation itself. Author Robert Miller brings to life this dramatic, patriotic period in Cincinnati's history.

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Arcadia Publishing

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A Lifelong Call to Learn

Continuing Education for Religious Leaders

By: Robert E. Reber,D. Bruce Roberts

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A Lifelong Call to Learn

Continuing Education for Religious Leaders

By: Robert E. Reber,D. Bruce Roberts

A Lifelong Call to Learn is aimed at directors of lifelong learning and continuing education that serve both clergy and laity in Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish seminaries and conference and retreat centers. While proposing new approaches in continuing theological education, it also addresses the need for programs that involve both clergy and laity at the congregational level and that support ongoing interreligious dialogue in our increasingly pluralistic society. The contributors to this book include seasoned practitioners as well as teachers and scholars in seminaries and universities from every part of the country in both denominational and ecumenical settings. The chapters explore historical perspective and educational contexts; theory and research in professional continuing education; innovations in continuing theological education; development, management, and promotion of programs; and directions and resources for the future. Particularly in this time of foment in theological education, when institutional leaders are striving to develop new models for the basic master of divinity degree, this collection will be of keen interest to theological educators in every setting.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1566994586

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Artifacts in Behavioral Research

Robert Rosenthal and Ralph L. Rosnow's Classic Books

By: Robert Rosenthal,Ralph L. Rosnow

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Artifacts in Behavioral Research

Robert Rosenthal and Ralph L. Rosnow's Classic Books

By: Robert Rosenthal,Ralph L. Rosnow

This volume was designed as both introduction and reminder - an introduction to the topic for graduate students, advanced undergraduates and younger researchers, and a reminder to more experienced researchers, in and out of academia, that the problems of artifacts in behavioural research have not gone away.

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Oxford University Press

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0195385543

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Historical Dictionary of the Sudan

By: Robert S. Kramer,Richard Andrew Lobban,Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban

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Historical Dictionary of the Sudan

By: Robert S. Kramer,Richard Andrew Lobban,Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban

The Republic of the Sudan was long the largest country in Africa and, according to the general consensus, also one of the least successful in many ways. This was not entirely its fault since it lay along the fault line between Muslim and Christian Africa and between the Nile Valley civilizations and African Sudanic cultures. This partly explains the long and bloody warfare waged by the Southerners to achieve independence, which they did in July 2011. So this hefty book actually covers not one but two states. This fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Sudan does so, first, through a lengthy and detailed chronology tracing its relatively few successes and numerous failures. The introductory essay does an admirable job of putting it all in perspective. But the most informative part is the dictionary, with now over 700 entries for this fourth edition. They deal with important personalities, politics, the economy, society, culture, religion and inevitably the civil war. There are also appendixes and an extensive bibliography.

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0810861801

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The Healing Brain

Breakthrough Discoveries about how the Brain Keeps Us Healthy

By: Robert Evan Ornstein,David Sobel

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The Healing Brain

Breakthrough Discoveries about how the Brain Keeps Us Healthy

By: Robert Evan Ornstein,David Sobel

Previously published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.

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ISHK

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1883536170

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The Lighter Side of Mathematics: Proceedings of the Eugene Strens Memorial Conference on Recreational Mathematics and Its History

By: Richard K. Guy,Robert E. Woodrow

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The Lighter Side of Mathematics: Proceedings of the Eugene Strens Memorial Conference on Recreational Mathematics and Its History

By: Richard K. Guy,Robert E. Woodrow

In August of 1986, a special conference on recreational mathematics was held at the University of Calgary to celebrate the founding of the Strens Collection. Leading practitioners of recreational mathematics from around the world gathered in Calgary to share with each other the joy and spirit of play that is to be found in recreational mathematics. It would be difficult to find a better collection of wonderful articles on recreational mathematics by a more distinguished group of authors. If you are interested in tessellations, Escher, tilings, Rubik's cube, pentominoes, games, puzzles, the arbelos, Henry Dudeney, or change ringing, then this book is for you.

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1470457318

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Murder 101

Homicide and Its Investigation

By: Robert L. Snow

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Murder 101

Homicide and Its Investigation

By: Robert L. Snow

Of all crimes, murder fascinates the public more than any other. While considered a detestable act, for which society reserves its severest punishments, homicide still captivates the American public. But the way homicide and its investigation are depicted in our media fail to capture just how murders get solved. Here, Snow takes us on a tour of murder, its investigation, and its prosecution from the perspective of a seasoned homicide detective. From the commission of the crime to the collection of evidence, examination of the crime scene, roundup of suspects, interrogation, and resolution, he leads readers from the scene to the courtroom, stopping along the way to consider all the elements that go into a murder investigation. He considers the culprits, the motives, the victims and their families, and offers readers a glimpse into the actual techniques and methods used to solve real crimes. This volume will fascinate and inform anyone interested in knowing the truth behind the scene of the crime of murder.

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0313036845

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Marital Rights

By: Robert Leckey

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Marital Rights

By: Robert Leckey

This volume gathers influential and cutting-edge scholarship on the international and domestic rights attaching to married couples and other adult relationships. Addressing examples from the European Court of Human Rights, UK, USA, Canada, Australia and South Africa, it traces contentious debates about the content of marital rights and responsibilities and whether law should reach beyond marriage, and if so how. Twenty-four essays and a substantial introduction highlight the complexity and contradictions as marital law grapples with gender equality, the aftermath of recognizing gay and lesbian rights, abiding economic inequalities, and ?exotic? issues such as forced marriage and polygamy.

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The Physics of Time Reversal

By: Robert G. Sachs

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The Physics of Time Reversal

By: Robert G. Sachs

The notion that fundamental equations governing the motions of physical systems are invariant under the time reversal transformation (T) has been an important, but often subliminal, element in the development of theoretical physics. It serves as a powerful and useful tool in analyzing the structure of matter at all scales, from gases and condensed matter to subnuclear physics and the quantum theory of fields. The assumption of invariance under T was called into question, however, by the 1964 discovery that a closely related assumption, that of CP invariance (where C is charge conjugation and P is space inversion), is violated in the decay of neutral K mesons. In The Physics of Time Reversal, Robert G. Sachs comprehensively treats the role of the transformation T, both as a tool for analyzing the structure of matter and as a field of fundamental research relating to CP violation. For this purpose he reformulates the definitions of T, P, and C so as to avoid subliminal assumptions of invariance. He summarizes the standard phenomenology of CP violation in the K-meson system and addresses the question of the mysterious origin of CP violation. Using simple examples based on the standard quark model, Sachs summarizes and illustrates how these phenomenological methods can be extended to analysis of future experiments on heavy mesons. He notes that his reformulated approach to conventional quantum field theory leads to new questions about the meaning of the transformations in the context of recent theoretical developments such as non-Abelian gauge theories, and he suggests ways in which these questions may lead to new directions of research.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226733319

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So Far From Home

Royal Air Force and Free French Air Force Flight Training at Maxwell and Gunter Fields during World War II

By: Robert Kane

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So Far From Home

Royal Air Force and Free French Air Force Flight Training at Maxwell and Gunter Fields during World War II

By: Robert Kane

During World War II, the US Army Air Forces (AAF) trained over 21,000 aircrew members from 29 Allied countries. The two largest programs, 79 percent of those trained, were for Britain and France. The Royal Air Force (RAF), fully engaged against the German Air Force by December 1940, was not able to train new aircrews. The British government asked the United States to train new pilots until it could get its own flight training program underway. Lieutenant General Henry "Hap" Arnold, chief of the Army Air Corps, authorized the training of RAF pilots at select airfields in the southeast United States, including at Maxwell and Gunter fields near Montgomery, Alabama. Between June 1941 and February 1943, when the RAF terminated what became known as the Arnold Plan, 4,300 of more than 7,800 RAF cadets sent to the United States completed the three-phase AAF flight training program. Within three months, some of the same schools, including the phase 2 school at Gunter Field, began training Free French Air Force flight cadets. By November 1945, when the US government terminated the French training program, 2,100 French flight cadets out of the 4,100 who came to the United States had received their wings. This book tells for the first time the story of the RAF and Free French flight training programs in central Alabama, covering the origins, the issues, and the problems that occurred during the training programs, and the results and lessons learned.

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NewSouth Books

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1603063706

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Contraceptive Technology

By: Robert Anthony Hatcher

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Contraceptive Technology

By: Robert Anthony Hatcher

The leading reference in reproductive health for 30 years, with over 2,000,000 copies in print, Contraceptive Technology is included on CD-ROM with all copies of the book and also available separately as listed below. This is a direct electronic conversion, complete and unabridged, in a PDF format. Includes word searching capabilities of the full Contraceptive Technology text. Patient instructions or other content for individual counseling or use may also be printed out. Active links are provided to the 300 websites recommended by the authors throughout Contraceptive Technology. Please see the pages in the back of this book with instructions on how to activate and use the CD-ROM. Book jacket.

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Ardent Media

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1597080012

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Korean War Filmography

91 English Language Features through 2000

By: Robert J. Lentz

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Korean War Filmography

91 English Language Features through 2000

By: Robert J. Lentz

The Korean experience changed the way Americans viewed war. The lack of a clear-cut victory inspired filmmakers to try to make sense of fighting another country's civil war and risking American lives for an unpopular cause. This filmography details more than 90 English-language films. Each entry includes complete cast and credit listings, a plot synopsis, evaluation, review snippets, and notice of video availability. This book places each film in its historical context, assesses the essential truthfulness of each film and evaluates its entertainment value, and discusses how--and why--Korean War films differ from other Hollywood war genres. Four appendices list the films by chronology; production company and studio; level of historical accuracy; and subject and theme. Additional appendices list films with incidental references to the Korean War; documentaries on the Korean War; and South Korean films about the war. Photographs, a bibliography, and an index are included.

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McFarland

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(Con)Fusing Signs and Postmodern Positions

Spanish American Performance, Experimental Writing, and the Critique of Political Confusion

By: Robert Neustadt

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(Con)Fusing Signs and Postmodern Positions

Spanish American Performance, Experimental Writing, and the Critique of Political Confusion

By: Robert Neustadt

Foregrounding a strategy of experimental techniques which Neustadt call (con)fusing signs, the book explores critical and political dimensions of contemporary Spanish American artistic practices that are often explained away in the vague name of postmodern fragmentation. ( Con)Fusing Signs explores the techniques, consequences and purposes for this type of fragmentation. This study reassesses the much discussed crisis of representation through an analysis of the complexity of political critique in areas as diverse (and related) as postmodernity, military dictatorship and postcolonialism. This book explores the manner in which multimedia artists Diamela Eltit, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Guillermo G-mez-Pe-a articulate political critiques through textual (con)fusion while paradoxically underscoring their inability to get outside of discourse.

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1135579261

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Aachen

The U.S. Army's Battle for Charlemagne's City in World War II

By: Robert W. Baumer

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Aachen

The U.S. Army's Battle for Charlemagne's City in World War II

By: Robert W. Baumer

By September 1944, the Allied advance across France and Belgium had turned into attrition along the German frontier. Standing between the Allies and the Third Reich's industrial heartland was the city of Aachen, once the ancient seat of Charlemagne's empire and now firmly entrenched within Germany's Siegfried Line fortifications. The city was on the verge of capitulating until Hitler forbade surrender.

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Stackpole Books

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0811760987

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Communication, Media, and Identity

A Christian Theory of Communication

By: Robert S. Fortner

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Communication, Media, and Identity

A Christian Theory of Communication

By: Robert S. Fortner

Communication, Media, and Identity: A Christian Theory of Communication is the first comprehensive theoretical look at the nature of communication from a biblical Christian perspective. This groundbreaking new work discusses the implications of such a theory for interpersonal relations, use of media, and the development of digital culture in the wake of the computer. It also draws widely from the literature of the secular world, critiquing perspectives where necessary and adopting perspectives that are in line with Christian anthropology, epistemology, and ontology. Through this unique lens, the reader is able to understand communication as an art, as a tool for evangelism, and as a unique human activity that allows people to have a stake in the creation. It covers both mediated and non-mediated forms of communication, is sensitive to theological differences within the Christian faith, and examines closely the problem of technology, and especially digital technology, for the practice of communication. As the newest book in the Communication, Culture, and Religion Series, Robert Fortner's work illuminates the theological aspects of communication.

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0742551954

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(Con)fusing Signs and Postmodern Positions

Spanish American Performance, Experimental Writing, and the Critique of Political Confusion

By: Robert Alan Neustadt

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(Con)fusing Signs and Postmodern Positions

Spanish American Performance, Experimental Writing, and the Critique of Political Confusion

By: Robert Alan Neustadt

Conflicting Identities and Multiple Masculinities takes as its focus the construction of masculinity in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages until the fifteenth century, crossing from pre-Christian Scandinavia across western Christendom. The essays consult a broad and representative cross section of sources including the work of theological, scholastic, and monastic writers, sagas, hagiography and memoirs, material culture, chronicles, exampla and vernacular literature, sumptuary legislation, and the records of ecclesiastical courts. The studies address questions of what constituted male identity, and male sexuality. How was masculinity constructed in different social groups? How did the secular and ecclesiastical ideals of masculinity reinforce each other or diverge? These essays address the topic of medieval men and, through a variety of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary approaches, significantly extend our understanding of how, in the Middle Ages, masculinity and identity were conflicted and multifarious.

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Taylor & Francis

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0815332726

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Skill Acquisition and Training

Achieving Expertise in Simple and Complex Tasks

By: Addie Johnson,Robert W. Proctor

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Skill Acquisition and Training

Achieving Expertise in Simple and Complex Tasks

By: Addie Johnson,Robert W. Proctor

Skill Acquisition and Training describes the building blocks of cognitive, motor, and teamwork skills, and the factors to take into account in training them. The basic processes of perception, cognition and action that provide the foundation for understanding skilled performance are discussed in the context of complex task requirements, individual differences, and extreme environmental demands. The role of attention in perceiving, selecting, and becoming aware of information, in learning new information, and in performance is described in the context of specific skills. A theme throughout this book is that much learning is implicit; the types of knowledge and relations that can profitably be learned implicitly and the conditions under which this learning benefits performance are discussed. The question of whether skill acquisition in cognitive domains shares underlying mechanisms with the acquisition of perceptual and motor skills is also addressed with a view to identifying commonalities that allow for widely applicable, general theories of skill acquisition. Because the complexity of real-world environments puts demands on the individual to adapt to new circumstances, the question of how skills research can be applied to organizational training contexts is an important one. To address this, this book dedicates much content to practical applications, covering such issues as how training needs can be captured with task and job analyses and how to maximize training transfer by taking trainee self-efficacy and goal orientation into account. This comprehensive yet readable textbook is optimized for students of cognitive psychology looking to understand the intricacies of skill acquisition.

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1315531631

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The Recorder

By: David Lasocki,Robert Ehrlich,Nikolaj Tarasov,Michala Petri

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The Recorder

By: David Lasocki,Robert Ehrlich,Nikolaj Tarasov,Michala Petri

The fascinating story of a hugely popular instrument, detailing its rich and varied history from the Middle Ages to the present The recorder is perhaps best known today for its educational role. Although it is frequently regarded as a stepping-stone on the path toward higher musical pursuits, this role is just one recent facet of the recorder's fascinating history--which spans professional and amateur music-making since the Middle Ages. In this new addition to the Yale Musical Instrument Series, David Lasocki and Robert Ehrlich trace the evolution of the recorder. Emerging from a variety of flutes played by fourteenth-century soldiers, shepherds, and watchmen, the recorder swiftly became an artistic instrument for courtly and city minstrels. Featured in music by the greatest Baroque composers, including Bach and Handel, in the twentieth century it played a vital role in the Early Music Revival and achieved international popularity and notoriety in mass education. Overall, Lasocki and Ehrlich make a case for the recorder being surprisingly present, and significant, throughout Western music history.

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Yale University Press

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0300118708

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9780300118704

We, the Students and Teachers

Teaching Democratically in the History and Social Studies Classroom

By: Robert W. Maloy,Irene S. LaRoche

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We, the Students and Teachers

Teaching Democratically in the History and Social Studies Classroom

By: Robert W. Maloy,Irene S. LaRoche

We, the Students and Teachers shows history and social studies educators how to make school classrooms into democratic spaces for teaching and learning. The book offers practical strategies and lesson ideas for transforming democratic theory into instructional practice. It stresses the importance of students and teachers working together to create community and change. The book serves as an essential text for history and social studies teaching methods courses as well as professional development and inservice programs for history and social studies teachers at all grade levels.

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State University of New York Press

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1438455607

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9781438455600

Animal Tool Behavior

The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals

By: Robert W. Shumaker,Kristina R. Walkup,Benjamin B. Beck

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Animal Tool Behavior

The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals

By: Robert W. Shumaker,Kristina R. Walkup,Benjamin B. Beck

When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck’s Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human animals. Beck showed that animals—from insects to primates—employed different types of tools to solve numerous problems. His work inspired and energized legions of researchers to study the use of tools by a wide variety of species. In this revised and updated edition of the landmark publication, Robert W. Shumaker and Kristina R. Walkup join Beck to reveal the current state of knowledge regarding animal tool behavior. Through a comprehensive synthesis of the studies produced through 2010, the authors provide an updated and exact definition of tool use, identify new modes of use that have emerged in the literature, examine all forms of tool manufacture, and address common myths about non-human tool use. Specific examples involving invertebrates, birds, fish, and mammals describe the differing levels of sophistication of tool use exhibited by animals.

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JHU Press

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1421401282

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9781421401287

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