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Bad Students, Not Bad Schools

By: Robert Weissberg

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Americans are increasingly alarmed over our nation's educational deficiencies. Though anxieties about schooling are unending, especially with public institutions, these problems are more complex than institutional failure. Expenditures for education have exploded, and far exceed inflation and the rising costs of health care, but academic achievement remains flat. Many students are unable to graduate from high school, let alone obtain a college degree. And if they do make it to college, they are often forced into remedial courses. Why, despite this fiscal extravagance, are educational disappointments so widespread? In Bad Students, Not Bad Schools, Robert Weissberg argues that the answer is something everybody knows to be true but is afraid to say in public America's educational woes too often reflect the demographic mix of students. Schools today are filled with millions of youngsters, too many of whom struggle with the English language or simply have mediocre intellectual ability. Their lackluster performances are probably impervious to the current reform prescriptions regardless of the remedy's ideological derivation. Making matters worse, retention of students in school is embraced as a philosophy even if it impedes the learning of other students. Weissberg argues that most of America's educational woes would vanish if indifferent, troublesome students were permitted to leave when they had absorbed as much as they could learn; they would quickly be replaced by learning-hungry students, including many new immigrants from other countries. American education survives since we import highly intelligent, technically skillful foreigners just as we import oil, but this may not last forever. When educational establishments get serious about world-class mathematics and science, and permit serious students to learn, problems will dissolve. Rewarding the smartest, not spending fortunes in a futile quest to uplift the bottom, should become official policy. This book is a bracing reminder of the risks of political manipulation of education and argues that the measure of policy should be academic achievment.

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Pernicious Tolerance

How Teaching to Accept Differences Undermines Civil Society

By: Robert Weissberg

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Pernicious Tolerance

How Teaching to Accept Differences Undermines Civil Society

By: Robert Weissberg

Recent decades have seen a consistent effort by the American educational establishment to instruct schoolchildren about the importance of "appreciating differences," all in the name of "tolerance," so as to quell burgeoning "hate." In Pernicious Tolerance, Robert Weissberg argues that educators' endless obsession with homophobia, sexism, racism, and other alleged hateful disorders is part of a much larger ongoing radical ideological quest to transform America, by first capturing education.In pursuing their objectives, radical pedagogues have abandoned the idea of tolerance of what some find objectionable. In its place they have adopted a fantasy?that tolerance can be replaced with a blank-check appreciation of diversity. Weissberg argues that this approach is guaranteed to promote civil strife. In rejecting a more workable version of tolerance, today's professional educators risk civic disaster in an effort to achieve legitimacy for those they believe are unfairly marginalized, stigmatized, underappreciated, and otherwise disdained.Weissberg also addresses the issue of an ever-expanding welfare state not only concerned with our material being, but, critically, also with our "mental health," defined as beliefs about the vulnerable or victims in waiting?women, ethnic and racial minorities, homosexuals, and others. He shows that this therapeutic state does not stop at imploring good thinking; it goes much further and criminalizes evil thoughts, as if thinking poorly of those at risk is tantamount to inflicting bodily harm. There is substantial collateral damage in this quest for tolerance; it facilitates intellectual sloth while raising anti-intellectualism to an honored professional norm.

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1351500260

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The Limits of Civic Activism

Cautionary Tales on the Use of Politics

By: Robert Weissberg

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The Limits of Civic Activism

Cautionary Tales on the Use of Politics

By: Robert Weissberg

Today's political climate overflows with admonitions to "get involved," as if entering the political fray is the great cure-all for almost any conceivable social problem. This advice may be a recipe for disaster. Staying out of politics is sometimes wiser. Pursuing non-political options may even be best given the inherent difficulties of the political pathway. In this volume, Robert Weissberg offers a corrective to a view that has evolved into a civic religion. A nearly missionary flavor infuses the very notion of political activism, and it is especially prevalent among those on the ideological spectrum's left, though hardly unknown among conservatives. Getting involved, it is said, will do everything from improve our education to make us healthier (or, for conservatives, reduce immorality). This benefit is grossly oversold, especially given our gridlock-mired political system, one that greatly limits what can be accomplished. Even the most worthy causes face stiff opposition, and for every winner, there are countless losers. Academics in particular have promoted politics as the great remedy for social and economic ills, but this prescription rests on flawed, often myopic research that may have a hidden (liberal statist) ideological agenda. We cannot safely assume that those befuddled by economic tasks will eventually become adroit political players. Furthermore, research often demonstrates zero about political progress that results from political activism, though it persuasively asserts that such gains have been made. Scholars also forget that most goals that can be pursued in the civic realm can also be sought through private channels. Millions of parents, for example, have secured better educations for their children simply by abandoning public education, not battling "the system." This volume constitutes both a powerful challenge to the dogma that political activism is an unqualified good, and a strong case that in many instances following the private route may be the superior option. It will be of interest to political scientists, sociologists, and students of public policy. "The Limits of Civic Activism constitutes both a powerful challenge to the dogma that political activism is an unqualified good, and a strong case that in many instances following the private route may be the superior option. The book will be of interest to political scientists, sociologists, and students of public policy." -SirReadaLot.org Robert Weissberg is professor of political science emeritus, University of Illinois-Urbana. He is author of Polling, Policy and Public Opinion, The Politics of Empowerment, Political Tolerance, and Political Learning, Political Choice and Democratic Citizenship.

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From Principles of Learning to Strategies for Instruction-with Workbook Companion

A Needs-Based Focus on High School Adolescents

By: Robert J. Seidel,Allyson L. Kett,Kathy C. Perencevich

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From Principles of Learning to Strategies for Instruction-with Workbook Companion

A Needs-Based Focus on High School Adolescents

By: Robert J. Seidel,Allyson L. Kett,Kathy C. Perencevich

In this workbook companion, we expand on the strategies presented in the book by supplying need-based practical and specific strategies for implementation of a variety of other subject matters. The book provides contributions from a mix of teacher educators and practitioners. We focus on a specific targeted group, high school age adolescents. Our targeted readers are new and experienced teachers developing curricula for this group.

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Preventive Counseling

Helping People to Become Empowered in Systems and Settings

By: Robert K. Conyne

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Preventive Counseling

Helping People to Become Empowered in Systems and Settings

By: Robert K. Conyne

Among the new features in this edition are an entire section devoted to the practical applications of preventive counseling, a comprehensive guide to useful resources, and a self-check assessment tool. Written for both students and practitioners, this wholly updated and revised edition is sure to become a standard resource within the growing fields of counseling and counseling psychology in particular, and within the human services professions in general."--Jacket.

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Prevention Program Development and Evaluation

An Incidence Reduction, Culturally Relevant Approach

By: Robert K. Conyne

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Prevention Program Development and Evaluation

An Incidence Reduction, Culturally Relevant Approach

By: Robert K. Conyne

The use of seatbelts, the requirements for smoke detectors, and other kinds of public health interventions have been highly successful in reducing disability, injuries, and premature mortality. Prevention in mental health— identifying and treating mental illnesses before they become full blown syndromes or identifying people at risk for a condition—is just as critical to public mental health. This research-based resource gives practitioners a nuts-and-bolts guide to designing and evaluating prevention programs in mental health that are culturally relevant and aimed at reducing the number of new problems that occur. Key Features Employs a 10-step prevention program development and evaluation model that emphasizes the concepts of community, collaboration, and cultural relevance Offers a brief, practical, how-to approach that is based on rigorous research Identifies specific prevention program development and evaluation steps Highlights examples of "everyday prevention" practices as well as concrete prevention programs that have proven, effective implementation Promotes hands-on learning with practical exercises, instructive figures, and a comprehensive reference list Intended Audience Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Prevention Program Development and Evaluation can be used as a core text in undergraduate courses devoted to prevention or in graduate programs aimed at practice issues. Current practitioners or policymakers interested in designing prevention programs will find this book to be an affable guide.

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The Acoustical Unconscious

From Walter Benjamin to Alexander Kluge

By: Robert Ryder

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The Acoustical Unconscious

From Walter Benjamin to Alexander Kluge

By: Robert Ryder

Is there an acoustical equivalent to Walter Benjamin’s idea of the optical unconscious? In the 1930s, Benjamin was interested in how visual media expand our optical perception: the invention of the camera allowed us to see images and details that we could not consciously perceive before. This study argues that Benjamin was also concerned with how acoustical media allow us to “hear otherwise,” that is, to listen to sound structures previously lost to the naked ear. Crucially, they help sensitize us to the discursive sonority of words, which Benjamin was already alluding to in his autobiographical work. In five chapters that range in scope from Tieck’s Blonde Eckbert, which Benjamin once called his locus classicus of his theory of forgetting, to Alexander Kluge’s films and short texts, where he develops what he calls “sound perspectives,” this monograph discusses how the acoustical unconscious enriches our understanding of different media, from the written word to radio and film. As the first book-length study of Benjamin’s linguistic, cultural-historical, and media-theoretical reflections on sound, this book will be particularly relevant to students and scholars of both German studies and sound studies.

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Program Development and Evaluation in Prevention

By: Robert K. Conyne

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Program Development and Evaluation in Prevention

By: Robert K. Conyne

Program Development and Evaluation in Prevention" by Robert K. Conyne, Ph. D. University of Cincinnati. This book in the Prevention Practice Kit illustrates how carefully constructed programs are involved with reaching prevention goals. Using examples and drawing from a clearly presented framework, this book helps readers easily translate concepts and principles of program development and evaluation (PDE) into doable, practical steps. Five tenets guide this book: prevention occurs through programs applied early; a program is comprised of interrelated elements existing within an open system; PDE involves cyclical phases of planning, implementation and effects, while being infused by the processes of community, collaboration, and cultural relevance; conducting prevention PDE relies on both technical and people skills; effective programs depend on sound processes that are guided by an overall 10-step PDE in Prevention Model: Plan the Program. It features: Lay the groundwork for community, collaboration and cultural relevance; Analyze local context and conduct professional literature review; create problem statement; develop preventive goals, objectives, strategies, evaluation; obtain inputs and resources; implement, including Process Evaluation; implement program plan with participants through strategies, comprised of sequenced and coordinated activities, tasks, responsibilities, resources, and timelines; examine process evaluation data to generate feedback; Effects: Evaluate Output; examine outcome evaluation data to determine outcomes; identify impacts, incidence reduction; and disseminate results.

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Chicago's Forgotten Synagogues

By: Robert A. Packer

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Chicago's Forgotten Synagogues

By: Robert A. Packer

The disappearing history of Chicago's Jewish past can be found in the religious architecture of its stately synagogues and communal buildings. Whether modest or majestic, wood or stone, the buildings reflected their members' views on faith and their commitment to the neighborhoods where they lived in a time when individuals and the community were inseparable from their neighborhood synagogues, temples, and shuls. From Chicago's oldest Jewish congregation, Kehilath Anshe Maariv Temple (Pilgrim Baptist), to Ohave Sholom (St. Basils Greek Orthodox), to Kehilath Anshe Maariv's last independent building (Operation Push), come and explore Chicago's forgotten synagogues and communal buildings. Nearly 150 years of Chicago history unfolds in Chicago's Forgotten Synagogues as the photographs and accompanying stories tell of the synagogues' past greatness and their present and uncertain future.

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Building Sustainable Leadership Capacity

By: Alan M. Blankstein,Paul D. Houston,Robert W. Cole

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Building Sustainable Leadership Capacity

By: Alan M. Blankstein,Paul D. Houston,Robert W. Cole

Bringing together a powerful group of leading educational thinkers, including Michael Fullan, Dennis Sparks, Linda Lambert, and Dean Fink, this volume examines how to sustain improvement through shared leadership.

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1452212236

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Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior

Creating Sustainable, Resilient Classrooms

By: Sam Goldstein,Robert B. Brooks

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Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior

Creating Sustainable, Resilient Classrooms

By: Sam Goldstein,Robert B. Brooks

This book sets the standard in delivering a comprehensive, state-of-the-art approach for understanding, treating, and preventing classroom behavior difficulties. It should be on the bookshelves of all professionals who work in school settings. I will certainly recommend this text to my colleagues and students." —George J. DuPaul, PhD, Professor of School Psychology, Associate Chair, Education and Human Services, Lehigh University A classic guide to creating a positive classroom environment Covering the most recent and relevant findings regarding behavior management in the classroom, this new edition of Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior has been completely updated to reflect the current functional approach to assessing, understanding, and positively managing behavior in a classroom setting. With its renewed focus on the concept of temperament and its impact on children's behavior and personality, Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior emphasizes changing behavior rather than labeling it. Numerous contributions from renowned experts on each topic explore: How to identify strengths and assets and build on them Complete functional behavioral assessments The relationship between thinking, learning, and behavior in the classroom Practical strategies for teachers to improve students' self-regulation How to facilitate social skills Problem-solving approaches to bullies and their victims Medications and their relationship to behavior The classic guide to helping psychologists, counselors, and educators improve their ability to serve all students, Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior, Second Edition will help educators create citizens connected to each other, to their teachers, to their families, and to their communities.

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0470114673

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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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Sustaining Professional Learning Communities

By: Alan M. Blankstein,Paul D. Houston,Robert W. Cole

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Sustaining Professional Learning Communities

By: Alan M. Blankstein,Paul D. Houston,Robert W. Cole

This resource brings together an incredible blend of leading educational thinkers. Their diverse experiences, perspectives, and wisdom will stimulate in leaders the ′deep work′ of the heart, mind, and soul essential for creating schools that continuously improve teaching, learning, and relationships in ways that benefit all members of the school community." —Dennis Sparks, Emeritus Executive Director National Staff Development Council A concise volume packed with research and innovative ideas from today′s key thinkers! Professional learning communities have become a significant factor in improving instructional effectiveness and student achievement. In the third volume of The Soul of Educational Leadership series, educators and leaders will discover key concepts and strategies for sustaining the critically important work of these communities. Contributions from Shirley M. Hord, Maurice J. Elias, Karen Seashore Louis, Andy Hargreaves, Stephanie A. Hirsh, and other nationally known educators highlight: Leadership teams and a collaborative culture The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Multiple approaches for supporting social-emotional learning in schools Leadership, real-world challenges, and moral choices A thought-provoking collection from educational visionaries, Sustaining Professional Learning Communities is essential reading for all school leaders committed to strengthening learning environments.

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Handbook Of Structured Techniques In Marriage And Family Therapy

By: Robert Sherman,Norman Fredman

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Handbook Of Structured Techniques In Marriage And Family Therapy

By: Robert Sherman,Norman Fredman

Published in the year 1986, Handbook of Structured Techniques in Marriage and Family Therapy is a valuable contribution to the field of Family Therapy.

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Fallen Angel

The Life of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Robert Morgan

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Fallen Angel

The Life of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Robert Morgan

Over 170 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe remains a figure of enduring fascination and speculation for readers, scholars, and devotees of the weird and macabre. In Fallen Angel, acclaimed novelist and poet Robert Morgan offers a new biography of this gifted, complicated author. Focusing on Poe’s personal relationships, Morgan chronicles how several women influenced his life and art. Eliza Poe, his mother, died before he turned three, but she haunted him ever after. The loss of Elmira Royster Shelton, his first and last love, devastated him and inspired much of his poetry. Morgan shows that Poe, known for his gothic and supernatural writing, was also a poet of the natural world who helped invent the detective story, science fiction, analytical criticism, and symbolist aesthetics. Though he died at age forty, Poe left behind works of great originality and vision that Fallen Angel explores with depth and feeling.

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The Harvest of Sorrow

Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-famine

By: Robert Conquest

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The Harvest of Sorrow

Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-famine

By: Robert Conquest

Chronicles the events of 1929 to 1933 in the Ukraine when Stalin's Soviet Communist Party killed or deported millions of peasants; abolished privately held land and forced the remaining peasantry into "collective" farms; and inflicted impossible grain quotas on the peasants that resulted in mass starvation.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195051807

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Brighter Than a Thousand Suns

A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists

By: Robert Jungk

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Brighter Than a Thousand Suns

A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists

By: Robert Jungk

An account of the remarkable scientists who discovered that nuclear fission was possible and then became concerned about its implications. Index. Translated by James Cleugh.

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The Great Terror

A Reassessment

By: Robert Conquest

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The Great Terror

A Reassessment

By: Robert Conquest

The definitive work on Stalin's purges, the author's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. Provides accounts of on everything form the three great 'Moscow Trials' to methods of obtaining confessions, the purge of writers and other members of the intelligentsia, on life in the labor camps, and many other key matters. On the fortieth anniversary of thew first edition, it is remarkable how many of the most disturbing conclusions have born up under the light of fresh evidence." --

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0195316991

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The Fast Track Program for Children at Risk

Preventing Antisocial Behavior

By: Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group,Karen L. Bierman,John D. Coie,Kenneth A. Dodge,Mark T. Greenberg,John E. Lochman,Robert J. McMahon,Ellen E. Pinderhughes

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The Fast Track Program for Children at Risk

Preventing Antisocial Behavior

By: Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group,Karen L. Bierman,John D. Coie,Kenneth A. Dodge,Mark T. Greenberg,John E. Lochman,Robert J. McMahon,Ellen E. Pinderhughes

This unique volume reports on the largest long-term preventive intervention study ever conducted with children at risk for serious violence and poor life outcomes. From first through 10th grade, Fast Track provided multicomponent interventions to support children, families, and schools in achieving positive social, emotional, and academic outcomes. The book explores the developmental processes associated with early aggression, describes how each component of FastTrack was developed and implemented, and summarizes outcomes up to 20 years later. Vivid case studies track the impact of comprehensive school- and family-based programming on children's pathways through the elementary and high school years. The concluding chapter offers recommendations for using Fast Track components in future violence prevention initiatives. See also the authors' Social and Emotional Skills Training for Children: The Fast Track Friendship Group Manual, a step-by-step guide to implementing one of the core components of Fast Track.

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Guilford Publications

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1462541410

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Designing & Teaching Learning Goals & Objectives

By: Robert J. Marzano

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Designing & Teaching Learning Goals & Objectives

By: Robert J. Marzano

Design and teach effective learning goals and objectives by following strategies based on the strongest research available. This book includes a summary of key research behind these classroom practices and shows how to implement them using step-by-step hands-on strategies. Short quizzes help readers assess their understanding of the instructional best practices explained in each section.

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Solution Tree Press

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1935542443

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The Bifurcation of the Self

The History and Theory of Dissociation and Its Disorders

By: Robert W. Rieber

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The Bifurcation of the Self

The History and Theory of Dissociation and Its Disorders

By: Robert W. Rieber

This book uses case history methodology to illustrate the relationship between theory and practice of the study of Dissociation Identity Disorder (DID). Challenging conventional wisdom on all sides, the book traces the clinical and social history of dissociation in a provocative examination of this widely debated phenomenon. It reviews the current state of DID-related controversy so that readers may draw their own conclusions and examines the evolution of hypnosis and the ways it has been used and misused in the treatment of cases with DID. The book is rigorously illustrated with two centuries’ worth of famous cases.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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From Principles of Learning to Strategies for Instruction

Empirically Based Ingredients to Guide Instructional Development

By: Robert J. Seidel,Kathleen C. Perencevich,Allyson L. Kett

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From Principles of Learning to Strategies for Instruction

Empirically Based Ingredients to Guide Instructional Development

By: Robert J. Seidel,Kathleen C. Perencevich,Allyson L. Kett

The primary goal of instructional design is improving the quality of learning and instruction. Instructional designers have focused on a number of areas of critical concern and developed a variety of techniques to achieve this goal (Reigeluth, 1983, 1999). Critical areas of concern for those who plan, implement and manage instruction include (a) needs assessment (identifying gaps or deficiencies in knowledge and performance to be addressed in instruction); (b) task analysis (identifying the types of knowledge, skills and attitudes to be developed during instruction); (c) learner analysis (determining who the learners are, what they know, relevant differences, etc. ); (d) instructional strategies (developing strategies appropriate for the task and learners involved); and (e) assessment and evaluation (determining how to assess individual progress and evaluate programs). There are many books already in print that treat the general domain of instructional design, as well as texts that target each of these areas of concerns. Why then another book on these issues? There are several answers to this question. Many of the available books treat instruction as a formal process that proceeds according to specific and detailed instructional systems development models (see, for example, Dick, Carey & Carey, 2005). Indeed, the US military has created a series of handbooks specifying details of the various instructional development processes (see Department of Defense, 1999).

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Another Famous DiMaggio

By: Robert Joseph DiMaggio

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Another Famous DiMaggio

By: Robert Joseph DiMaggio

This book, in its entirety, is dedicated in memory and in honor of my beloved wife Francine Veronica DiMaggio — a very special woman and wife that I was most fortunate and blessed to know and love in my lifetime, wholeheartedly and unconditionally. I'll always love her till the end of time, and because she was very special to me. I love and miss her very much, and she was, still is, and will always be "The Love of My Life". We were married for nearly fifty-two wonderful years, and during that period, I always put Francine on a pedestal, because she was a very special person, my best friend and deserved this honor. Robert Joseph DiMaggio Author of "Another Famous DiMaggio" Website: www.anotherfamousdimaggio.com In this book, author Robert Joseph DiMaggio tells about his fondest dream to follow the footsteps of his famous cousin, Mr. Joe DiMaggio, his adventures and the meaningful journey he lived with the love of his life, Francine. He has always focused more on 'My Message in the Music' project, entitled "A Special Tribute to America", including the three special songs he wrote "Peace on Earth", "Our Missing Children" and "So Please Give With Me". Also, refer to Mr. DiMaggio's heartfelt "Thank You and 3 wishes" displayed at the beginning of his book. "Another Famous DiMaggio" is more than an autobiography. This is an inspiring life story of a man that will change the readers' view about life and motivate them to discover their own purpose in this world. The two most favorite Record Album projects released by RJD Records is "A Special Tribute to America", and the second most favorite is the one displayed below. "I'm not like my famous cousin, Mr. Joe DiMaggio, one of the Worlds' greatest baseball players of all time, who set some outstanding records, and hitting many home runs, but I'm hitting home runs in the music and entertainment business". God bless you Mr. Joe DiMaggio

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1493158961

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Breaking with Communism

The Intellectual Odyssey of Bertram D. Wolfe

By: Robert Hessen

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Breaking with Communism

The Intellectual Odyssey of Bertram D. Wolfe

By: Robert Hessen

This volume, chiefly Wolfe's letters from 1939 with unpublished speeches and writings from the Hoover Archives, illuminates his struggle to uncover the truth about the history of Soviet Russia and his anguish over his earlier allegiances not only to Lenin but to Karl Marx as well. When intellectuals in Eastern Europe and China are going through the same soul-searching process, this book is especially timely.

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0817988831

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An Introduction to Cognitive Education

Theory and Applications

By: Adrian F. Ashman,Robert N. F. Conway

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An Introduction to Cognitive Education

Theory and Applications

By: Adrian F. Ashman,Robert N. F. Conway

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415128390

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9780415128391

Polling, Policy, and Public Opinion

The Case Against Heeding the "Voice of the People"

By: R. Weissberg

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Polling, Policy, and Public Opinion

The Case Against Heeding the "Voice of the People"

By: R. Weissberg

The opinion poll has become commonplace in politics and typically reveals public desires for greater government social welfare assistance, such as more aid for education or health care. These statistics seem to proclaim the welfare state's enduring popularity. Though sincere, these desires largely reflect how questions are asked. Unfortunately, polls usually lack basic economic restraints. There are no costs, risks or disasters in the world of polling. Market-based solutions are routinely excluded. This book works to reveal these shortcomings and clearly demonstrates why a government ruled by the vox populi would be folly.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0312294956

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9780312294953

DeathQuest

An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Capital Punishment in the United States

By: Robert M. Bohm

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DeathQuest

An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Capital Punishment in the United States

By: Robert M. Bohm

This fifth edition of the first true textbook on the death penalty engages the reader with a full account of the arguments and issues surrounding capital punishment. The book begins with the history of the death penalty from colonial to modern times, and then examines the moral and legal arguments for and against capital punishment. It also provides an overview of major Supreme Court decisions and describes the legal process behind the death penalty. In addressing these issues, the author reviews recent developments in death penalty law and procedure, including ramifications of newer case law, such as that regarding using lethal injection as a method of execution. The author’s motivation has been to understand what motivates the "deathquest" of the American people, leading a large percentage of the public to support the death penalty. The book educates readers so that whatever their death penalty positions are, they are informed opinions.

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Routledge

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1317377834

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Public Opinion

Measuring the American Mind

By: Barbara A. Bardes,Robert W. Oldendick

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Public Opinion

Measuring the American Mind

By: Barbara A. Bardes,Robert W. Oldendick

The fifth edition of Public Opinion: Measuring the American Mind provides a comprehensive, accessible introduction to public opinion in the United States and describes how public opinion data are collected, how they are used, and the role they play in the U.S. political system. Bardes and Oldendick introduce students to the history of polling and explain the factors a good consumer of polls should know in order to critically evaluate public opinion data. Public Opinion: Measuring the American Mind is the only text to devote significant space to the history of polling, the use of polling in America today, and to explain the methods used for survey research. In addition, the authors engage students by providing in-depth coverage of public opinion on such issues as political ideology, health care, race, and foreign policy, as well as an update and discussion of the major changes that have taken place on controversial issues such as gay marriage, gun control, and immigration. Updated to include the latest data from the American National Election Study and the General Social Surveys in 2012 and 2014, this lively, engaging text combines a comprehensive grounding in the nuts and bolts of the field with relevant, real-world examples.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442261897

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9781442261891

Points of View: Readings in American Government and Politics

By: Robert DiClerico,Allan Hammock

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Points of View: Readings in American Government and Politics

By: Robert DiClerico,Allan Hammock

The publication of the tenth edition of Points of View: Readings in American Government and Politics marks this classic reader's 25th anniversary! The goal of the book remains clear: to present readable, succinct, thoughtful, and diverse perspectives across a broad range of issues. This comprehensive reader features contrasting viewpoints on current political debates and traditional topics of interest in contemporary American Government courses. By providing two opposing positions for each topic, Points of View challenges students to examine and appreciate differing perspectives.

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McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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007310681X

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9780073106816

Bargaining with the Devil

When to Negotiate, When to Fight

By: Robert Mnookin

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Bargaining with the Devil

When to Negotiate, When to Fight

By: Robert Mnookin

The art of negotiation—from one of the country’s most eminent practitioners and the Chair of the Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. One of the country’s most eminent practitioners of the art and science of negotiation offers practical advice for the most challenging conflicts—when you are facing an adversary you don’t trust, who may harm you, or who you may even feel is evil. This lively, informative, emotionally compelling book identifies the tools one needs to make wise decisions about life’s most challenging conflicts.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416583645

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9781416583646

The Limits of Civic Activism

Cautionary Tales on the Use of Politics

By: Robert Weissberg

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The Limits of Civic Activism

Cautionary Tales on the Use of Politics

By: Robert Weissberg

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Transaction Publishers

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141283760X

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9781412837606

Percolation Theory for Flow in Porous Media

By: Allen Hunt,Robert Ewing,Behzad Ghanbarian

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Percolation Theory for Flow in Porous Media

By: Allen Hunt,Robert Ewing,Behzad Ghanbarian

This monograph presents, for the first time, a unified and comprehensive introduction to some of the basic transport properties of porous media, such as electrical and hydraulic conductivity, air permeability and diffusion. The approach is based on critical path analysis and the scaling of transport properties, which are individually described as functions of saturation. At the same time, the book supplies a tutorial on percolation theory for hydrologists, providing them with the tools for solving actual problems. In turn, a separate chapter serves to introduce physicists to some of the language and complications of groundwater hydrology necessary for successful modeling. The end-of-chapter problems often indicate open questions, which young researchers entering the field can readily start working on. This significantly revised and expanded third edition includes in particular two new chapters: one on advanced fractal-based models, and one devoted to the discussion of various open issues such as the role of diffusion vs. advection, preferential flow vs. critical path, universal vs. non-universal exponents for conduction, and last but not least, the overall influence of the experimental apparatus in data collection and theory validation. "The book is suitable for advanced graduate courses, with selected problems and questions appearing at the end of each chapter. [...] I think the book is an important work that will guide soil scientists, hydrologists, and physicists to gain a better qualitative and quantitative understanding of multitransport properties of soils." (Marcel G. Schaap, Soil Science Society of America Journal, May-June, 2006)

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Springer

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3319037714

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9783319037714

Harwood-Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine

By: Allan B. Wolfson,Robert L. Cloutier,Gregory W. Hendey,Louis J. Ling

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Harwood-Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine

By: Allan B. Wolfson,Robert L. Cloutier,Gregory W. Hendey,Louis J. Ling

Clinically focused and evidence-based, Harwood-Nuss’ Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine, Seventh Edition, is a comprehensive, easy-to-use reference for practitioners and residents in today’s Emergency Department (ED). Templated chapters rapidly guide you to up to date information on clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, evaluation, management, and disposition, including highlighted critical interventions and common pitfalls. This concise text covers the full range of conditions you’re likely to see in the ED, with unmatched readability for quick study and reference.

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1975111605

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9781975111601

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