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War in the Shadows

The Irish-American Fenians Who Bombed Victorian Britain

By: Shane Kenna

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War in the Shadows

The Irish-American Fenians Who Bombed Victorian Britain

By: Shane Kenna

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Merrion Press

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1908928530

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Get Ready, Get Set, Get Real!!

Being Real with Yourself, Others, and God!! a Life Devotional

By: B. Shane Anderson

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Get Ready, Get Set, Get Real!!

Being Real with Yourself, Others, and God!! a Life Devotional

By: B. Shane Anderson

WHY THIS BOOK? The purpose and desire I have in writing this is to help give us a place to begin developing our passion to dig in, to be changed, and be a changer of lives. In becoming authentic, fully dedicated followers of Christ we begin to understand our weakness and understand that God’s power is essential to our perspective and furtherance of His good news. Through the stories and readings, I pray and hope that God would allow you to begin seeing the need to dig in, to daily grow closer to abiding with Him, to grow into the godly person He has called you to be, and begin growing others in the discipline of faith. ...So Be Real!! “God Lovers Hate what is Phony and FAKE... Prov. 13:5 MSG Version

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WestBow Press

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1664251642

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9781664251649

Momentum and the East Timor Independence Movement

The Origins of America’s Debate on East Timor

By: Shane Gunderson

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Momentum and the East Timor Independence Movement

The Origins of America’s Debate on East Timor

By: Shane Gunderson

Momentum and the East Timor Independence Movement: The Origins of America’s Debate on East Timor examines the campaigns by people in the United States on behalf of those seeking peace for East Timor. The diplomatic work of voluntary advisors and supporters living in the United States in the early years of the movement have not been thoroughly explored until now. Through in-depth interviews with twenty activists and intellectuals involved in the East Timor movement from 1975-1999 and qualitative data analysis on information obtained from these interviews, this book explores “momentum” and “turning points” as perceptions in the minds of individual movement actors. The author takes readers through a combination of historical events that shaped social movement actors' attitudes and started a social movement momentum sequence in 1995. The East Timor All Inclusive Dialogue, the Timorization of Indonesia, the public outcries, organizational evolution, and a number of other turning points in the movement represented a series of successes that led to East Timor's independence.

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Lexington Books

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1498502350

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9781498502351

Pro Football Records

A Guide for Every Fan

By: Shane Frederick

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Pro Football Records

A Guide for Every Fan

By: Shane Frederick

This comprehensive look at pro football records covers everything from Jerry Rice's astonishing marks for receiving yards and receiving touchdowns to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' unmatched losing streak. Among the record highs and lows, budding fans will find loads of epic accomplishments and eye-popping numbers. And discovering football's record book only multiplies the fun of following the game.

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Compass Point Books

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1543554660

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9781543554663

Altruism and Prosocial Behavior in Groups

By: Shane R. Thye,Edward J. Lawler

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Altruism and Prosocial Behavior in Groups

By: Shane R. Thye,Edward J. Lawler

Addresses a range of phenomena related to the general question of when people behave in an altruistic fashion. This book contains topics that include how empathy induced altruism can actually be a threat to the some larger collective good, and the role of egoism in the production and maintenance of social order.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1848555725

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9781848555723

Alcohol, Power and Public Health

A Comparative Study of Alcohol Policy

By: Shane Butler,Karen Elmeland,Betsy Thom,James Nicholls

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Alcohol, Power and Public Health

A Comparative Study of Alcohol Policy

By: Shane Butler,Karen Elmeland,Betsy Thom,James Nicholls

In recent years, the reduction of alcohol-related harm has emerged as a major policy issue across Europe. Public health advocates, supported by the World Health Organisation, have challenged an approach that targets problem-drinking individuals, calling instead for governments to control consumption across whole populations through a combination of pricing strategies, restrictions on retail availability and marketing regulations. Alcohol, Power and Public Health explores the emergence of the public health perspective on alcohol policy in Europe, the strategies alcohol control policy advocates have adopted, and the challenges they have faced in the political context of both individual states and the European Union. The book provides a historical perspective on the development of alcohol policy in Europe using four case studies – Denmark, England, Scotland and Ireland. It explores the relationship between evidence, values and power in a key area of political decision-making and considers what conditions create – or prevent – policy change. The case studies raise questions as to who sets policy agendas, how social problems are framed and defined, and how governments can balance public health promotion against both commercial interests and established cultural practices. This book will be of interest to academics and researchers in policy studies, public health, social science, and European Union studies.

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Routledge

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1136192409

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9781136192401

The Cajuns

Americanization of a People

By: Shane K. Bernard

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The Cajuns

Americanization of a People

By: Shane K. Bernard

The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period, they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People explores these six decades and analyzes the forces that had an impact on Louisiana's Acadiana. In the 1940s, when America entered World War II, so too did the isolated Cajuns. Cajun soldiers fought alongside troops from Brooklyn and Berkeley and absorbed aspects of new cultures. In the 1950s as rock 'n' roll and television crackled across Louisiana airwaves, Cajun music makers responded with their own distinct versions. In the 1960s, empowerment and liberation movements turned the South upside down. During the 1980s, as things Cajun became an absorbing national fad, “Cajun” became a kind of brand identity used for selling everything from swamp tours to boxed rice dinners. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the advent of a new information age launched “Cyber-Cajuns” onto a worldwide web. All these forces have pushed and pulled at the fabric of Cajun life but have not destroyed it. A Cajun himself, the author of this book has an intense personal fascination in his people. By linking seemingly local events in the Cajuns' once isolated south Louisiana homeland to national and even global events, Bernard demonstrates that by the middle of the twentieth century the Cajuns for the first time in their ethnic story were engulfed in the currents of mainstream American life and yet continued to make outstandingly distinct contributions.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496800923

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9781496800923

Trucking Country

The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy

By: Shane Hamilton

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Trucking Country

The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy

By: Shane Hamilton

Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait of the rural highways of the American heartland, and in doing so explains why working-class populist voters are drawn to conservative politicians who seemingly don't represent their financial interests. Hamilton challenges the popular notion of "red state" conservatism as a devil's bargain between culturally conservative rural workers and economically conservative demagogues in the Republican Party. The roots of rural conservatism, Hamilton demonstrates, took hold long before the culture wars and free-market fanaticism of the 1990s. As Hamilton shows, truckers helped build an economic order that brought low-priced consumer goods to a greater number of Americans. They piloted the big rigs that linked America's factory farms and agribusiness food processors to suburban supermarkets across the country. Trucking Country is the gripping account of truckers whose support of post-New Deal free enterprise was so virulent that it sparked violent highway blockades in the 1970s. It's the story of "bandit" drivers who inspired country songwriters and Hollywood filmmakers to celebrate the "last American cowboy," and of ordinary blue-collar workers who helped make possible the deregulatory policies of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and set the stage for Wal-Mart to become America's most powerful corporation in today's low-price, low-wage economy. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

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Princeton University Press

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1400828791

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9781400828791

Disconnected America: The Future of Mass Media in a Narcissistic Society

The Future of Mass Media in a Narcissistic Society

By: Ed Shane,Michael C. Keith

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Disconnected America: The Future of Mass Media in a Narcissistic Society

The Future of Mass Media in a Narcissistic Society

By: Ed Shane,Michael C. Keith

Ed Shane here traces a change in the American pervasive mass media that once disseminated information quickly and stimulated mass cultural response, to a de-massified individual media that incubate a new electronic narcissicism, producing an inwardly-focused society.

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Routledge

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1317473027

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9781317473022

Dirty Tricks

Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

By: Shane O'Sullivan

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Dirty Tricks

Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

By: Shane O'Sullivan

The victory of Richard Nixon in the US presidential election of 1968 swung on an “October Surprise”— a treasonous plot engineered by key figures in the Republican Party to keep the South Vietnamese government away from peace talks in Paris, costing thousands of American lives. There is growing evidence that the CIA was deeply involved in illegal domestic operations targeting Daniel Ellsberg, and in the Watergate break-ins during Nixon’s 1972 campaign, which ultimately led to his downfall. CIA Director Richard Helms’ relationship with Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt was much closer than previously disclosed and the CIA agent inside the plot was sent on a double agent mission by American intelligence after he got out of prison. Drawing on newly-declassified files and previously-unpublished documents, Dirty Tricks debunks the myths around Watergate and deepens our understanding of the “dirty tricks” that undermined democracy during the Nixon years and destroyed public trust in politics during the seventies. These scandals turn on the covert action of two powerful interest groups—the senior CIA officers around Helms, and the key advisers around Nixon – in this chilling story of political espionage and deception.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510729593

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9781510729599

Let's Talk Culture

The conversations you need to create the team you want

By: Shane Michael Hatton

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Let's Talk Culture

The conversations you need to create the team you want

By: Shane Michael Hatton

Packed with research-based insights from leading workplaces, Let's Talk Culture is the how-to guide for people leaders who want to shape a world-class team culture by design. Successful leaders and organizations know that culture is the unseen advantage of world-class teams. But can it be influenced? And what role do managers play in building and shaping it? Author and expert in leader communication, Shane Michael Hatton, says the research suggests it can be influenced and that the people leader plays a crucial role – but it all starts with effective communication. Based on extensive research with people leaders on the ground, Let's Talk Culture reveals the five practical conversations people leaders need to have to design a world-class team culture within their organzation. An easy-to-understand guide for future culture champions, this book will give you the tools to build a team that attracts and retains your top talent, confidently address cultural inconsistencies in the workplace and meaningfully reward the behaviors that strengthen your team culture.

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Major Street Publishing

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1922611395

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9781922611390

The Power of Expert Teaching

Lessons for Modern Education

By: Shane N. Phillipson,Sivanes Phillipson

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The Power of Expert Teaching

Lessons for Modern Education

By: Shane N. Phillipson,Sivanes Phillipson

Throughout the world, the challenges facing modern education are formidable. Although some of the challenges facing are unique to each educational jurisdiction, there are also some important commonalities that transcend jurisdictions. Irrespective of the nature of these challenges, there is an increasing focus on teacher quality – what it is and how to enhance it. To date, research tells us what expert teachers should be doing in their classrooms. This approach is based on the idea that teaching expertise is nothing more than the accumulation of specific skills and knowledge, and as teachers acquire these skills and knowledge most of our educational challenges can be overcome. This book questions this idea by asking 37 teachers who are already recognised as experts to share their classroom secrets. Importantly, the teachers come from diverse cultural contexts, including Australia, Finland, Hong Kong and the US, and they share: how they became expert teachers; their expectations for every student when they enter their classroom; how they view and encourage teacher–parent partnerships; and what skills and knowledge they consider important for expert teaching. To our knowledge, this is the first book that compares and contrasts the approaches taken by expert teachers from four very different cultural groups. The book helps to demystify the work of the modern teacher – what they do and the challenges they face. If you aspire to be an expert teacher, this book provides a clear model of how to approach the process. If you are an education researcher searching for ‘impact’, this book outlines what are some of the emerging hot topics in education research. If you are involved in teacher education then this book offers some new approaches to initial teacher education. If your focus is on educational policy, this book helps make sense of the links between the classrooms of expert teachers, education research and academic achievement. Finally, this book will help parents understand how best to partner with their child’s teacher in order to enhance their learning.

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Routledge

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1351139746

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9781351139748

Fighting Armed Conflicts in Southeast Asia

Ethnicity and Difference

By: Shane Joshua Barter

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Fighting Armed Conflicts in Southeast Asia

Ethnicity and Difference

By: Shane Joshua Barter

This Element seeks to make sense of Southeast Asia's numerous armed conflicts. It makes four contributions. First, this study provides a typology, distinguishing between revolutionary, secessionist, and communal conflicts. The first two are types of insurgencies, while the latter are ethnic conflicts. Second, this study emphasizes the importance of ethnicity in shaping conflict dynamics. This is true even for revolutionary conflicts, which at first glance may appear unrelated to ethnicity. A third contribution relates to broad conflict trends. Revolutionary and secessionist conflicts feature broad historical arcs, with clear peaks and declines, while communal conflicts occur more sporadically. The fourth contribution ties these points together by focusing on conflict management. Just as ethnicity shapes conflicts, ethnic leaders and traditions can also promote peace. Cultural mechanisms are especially important for managing communal conflicts, the lone type not declining in Southeast Asia.

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Cambridge University Press

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110864323X

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9781108643238

The Ultimate Collection of Pro Football Records

By: Shane Gerald Frederick

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The Ultimate Collection of Pro Football Records

By: Shane Gerald Frederick

Many players have stepped onto a pro football field, but few can be called kings of the gridiron. Legends such as Walter Payton, Dan Marino, and Jerry Rice are in the record books for their amazing play. Find the answers to the following questions and more inside The Ultimate Collection of Pro Football Records. Who has thrown the most touchdowns in a single season? Which wide receiver has the most career catches? Who is the only player to rush for 99 yards on a single play? Which two teams combined for the most points ever in a Super Bowl?

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Capstone

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1491404442

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Bertie Ahern and the Drumcondra Mafia

By: Shane Coleman,Michael Clifford

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Bertie Ahern and the Drumcondra Mafia

By: Shane Coleman,Michael Clifford

In March 2008, Bertie Ahern announced his resignation as Taoiseach, prompted by ongoing evidence in a planning inquiry that uncovered he had received large sums of money when minister for finance. Yet, even in defeat, he remained the most popular politician of his generation, one for whom the defining 'Teflon Taoiseach' tag had not entirely slid away. However, what made Bertie Ahern unique was not his enormous popularity or the revelations about his personal finances, but his dependence on a power base largely separate to Fianna Fail: 'the Drumcondra Mafia', a largely unknown, fiercely loyal, close-knit group of friends. When Ahern was Taoiseach the centre of power was arguably as much in St Luke's, the legendary constituency office bought by the Drumcondra Mafia, as in Government Buildings. Bertie Ahern and the Drumcondra Mafia takes the reader inside the organisation and examines how they not only established the most efficient electoral machine in the country but put 'their man' in the most senior political office in the state. It also details how, in his rise to power, Ahern acquired substantial sums of money while propagating the image of a man with no interest in money. Finally, it tracks his descent with the investigation into his finances, a descent punctuated by one final victory, in the 2007 general election. This is the story not just of Bertie Ahern but of the men and women who travelled with him on his extraordinary journey.

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Hachette Books Ireland

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1444725750

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9781444725759

Football Stats and the Stories Behind Them

What Every Fan Needs to Know

By: Shane Frederick

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Football Stats and the Stories Behind Them

What Every Fan Needs to Know

By: Shane Frederick

Explains important statistics and their history in the sport of football"--

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Capstone Classroom

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1491485833

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Causes of the Civil War

The Differences Between the North and South

By: Shane Mountjoy,Tim McNeese

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Causes of the Civil War

The Differences Between the North and South

By: Shane Mountjoy,Tim McNeese

Examines the sectional rivalries that surfaced in the early 19th century and intensified in the decades leading up to the war.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438126654

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Nuclear Apartheid

The Quest for American Atomic Supremacy from World War II to the Present

By: Shane J. Maddock

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Nuclear Apartheid

The Quest for American Atomic Supremacy from World War II to the Present

By: Shane J. Maddock

After World War II, an atomic hierarchy emerged in the noncommunist world. Washington was at the top, followed over time by its NATO allies and then Israel, with the postcolonial world completely shut out. An Indian diplomat called the system "nuclear apartheid." Drawing on recently declassified sources from U.S. and international archives, Shane Maddock offers the first full-length study of nuclear apartheid, casting a spotlight on an ideological outlook that nurtured atomic inequality and established the United States--in its own mind--as the most legitimate nuclear power. Beginning with the discovery of fission in 1939 and ending with George W. Bush's nuclear policy and his preoccupation with the "axis of evil," Maddock uncovers the deeply ideological underpinnings of U.S. nuclear policy--an ideology based on American exceptionalism, irrational faith in the power of technology, and racial and gender stereotypes. The unintended result of the nuclear exclusion of nations such as North Korea, Pakistan, and Iran is, increasingly, rebellion. Here is an illuminating look at how an American nuclear policy based on misguided ideological beliefs has unintentionally paved the way for an international "wild west" of nuclear development, dramatically undercutting the goal of nuclear containment and diminishing U.S. influence in the world.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807895849

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9780807895849

Construction Manager-at-risk Project Delivery for Highway Programs

By: Douglas D. Gransberg,Jennifer Sue Shane

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Construction Manager-at-risk Project Delivery for Highway Programs

By: Douglas D. Gransberg,Jennifer Sue Shane

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 402: Construction Manager-at-Risk Project Delivery for Highway Programs explores current methods in which state departments of transportation and other public engineering agencies are applying construction manager-at-risk (CMR) project delivery to their construction projects. CMR project delivery is an integrated team approach to the planning, design, and construction of a highway project, to help control schedule and budget, and to help ensure quality for the project owner. The team consists of the owner; the designer, who might be an in-house engineer; and the at-risk construction manager. The goal of this project delivery method is to engage at-risk construction expertise early in the design process to enhance constructability, manage risk, and facilitate concurrent execution of design and construction without the owner relinquishing control over the details of design as it would in a design-build project.

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Transportation Research Board

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0309143012

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9780309143011

Learning and Teaching in the Chinese Classroom

Responding to Individual Needs

By: Shane N. Phillipson,Bick-har Lam

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Learning and Teaching in the Chinese Classroom

Responding to Individual Needs

By: Shane N. Phillipson,Bick-har Lam

A major concern of all education authorities around the world is the challenge that schools face in catering for learner diversity. That this concern is shared by authorities in East Asia, including the Education Bureau (EDB) of Hong Kong, is surprising given the high academic achievement of students from this part of the world. This book helps to meet this challenge for teachers in East Asia by focusing on specific research that helps explain the basis for diversity in the Chinese learner. Although there are many textbooks that cover the basic principles of educational psychology, few do not focus on the Chinese learner. This book makes the link between the broad field of educational psychology and how these theories contribute to our understanding of the Chinese learner. This book is unique in that it draws on recent research to illustrate the application of these theories, thereby helping teachers and students in teacher education progammes understand the variability in student achievement. Our book is based on the idea that the Chinese context is in many ways different to other cultural contexts, and that teachers can make a difference to the outcomes of student learning. We also draw on our many years of experience in educating future teachers where our students want us to focus on the Chinese classroom. Our student-teachers also want to be educated by professors who are themselves researchers. In drawing on research about the Chinese learner we also bring to our student-teachers the richness and value of educational research. We also encourage our student-teachers to think of themselves as “professional researchers” in terms of developing an understanding of the research literature and in finding solutions to their classroom problems.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9888139517

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9789888139514

The Ancient Phonograph

By: Shane Butler

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The Ancient Phonograph

By: Shane Butler

A search for traces of the voice before the phonograph, reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to Augustine. Long before the invention of musical notation, and long before that of the phonograph, the written word was unrivaled as a medium of the human voice. In The Ancient Phonograph, Shane Butler searches for traces of voices before Edison, reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to Augustine. Here the real voices of tragic actors, ambitious orators, and singing emperors blend with the imagined voices of lovesick nymphs, tormented heroes, and angry gods. The resonant world we encounter in ancient sources is at first unfamiliar, populated by texts that speak and sing, often with no clear difference between the two. But Butler discovers a commonality that invites a deeper understanding of why voices mattered then and why they have mattered since. With later examples that range from Mozart to Jimi Hendrix, Butler offers an ambitious attempt to rethink the voice—as an anatomical presence, a conceptual category, and a source of pleasure and wonder. He carefully and critically assesses the strengths and limits of recent theoretical approaches to the voice by Adriana Cavarero and Mladen Dolar and makes a rich and provocative range of ancient material available for the first time. The Ancient Phonograph will appeal not only to classicists and to voice theorists but to anyone with an interest in the verbal arts—literature, oratory, song—and the nature of aesthetic experience.

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MIT Press

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1935408925

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Swamp Pop

Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues

By: Shane K. Bernard

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Swamp Pop

Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues

By: Shane K. Bernard

Music of Louisiana was at the heart of rock-and-roll in the 1950s. Most fans know that Jerry Lee Lewis, one of the icons, sprang out of Ferriday, Louisiana, in the middle of delta country and that along with Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley he was one of the very first of these “white boys playing black music.” The genre was profoundly influenced by New Orleans, a launch pad for major careers, such as Little Richard's and Fats Domino's. The untold “rest of the story” is the story of swamp pop, a form of Louisiana music more recognized by its practitioners and their hits than by a definition. What is it? What true rock enthusiasts don't know some of its most important artists? Dale and Grace (“I'm leaving It Up to You”), Phil Phillips (“Sea of Love”), Joe Barry (“I'm a Fool to Care”), Cooke and the Cupcakes (“Mathilda”), Jimmy Clanton (“Just a Dream”), Johnny Preston (“Runnin' Bear”), Rod Bernard (“This Should Go on Forever”), and Bobby Charles (“Later, Alligator”)? There were many others just as important within the region. Drawing on more than fifty interviews with swamp pop musicians in South Louisiana and East Texas, Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues finds the roots of this often-overlooked, sometimes-derided sister genre of the wildly popular Cajun and zydeco music. In this first book to be devoted entirely to swamp pop, Shane K. Bernard uncovers the history of this hybrid form invented in the 1950s by teenage Cajuns and black Creoles. They put aside the fiddle and accordion of their parents' traditional French music to learn the electric guitar and bass, saxophone, upright piano, and modern drumming trap sets of big-city rhythm-and-blues. Their new sound interwove country-and-western and rhythm-and-blues with the exciting elements of their rural Cajun and Creole heritage. In the 1950s and 1960s American juke boxes and music charts were studded with swamp pop favorites.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604737255

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A General Theory of Entrepreneurship

The Individual-opportunity Nexus

By: Scott Andrew Shane

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A General Theory of Entrepreneurship

The Individual-opportunity Nexus

By: Scott Andrew Shane

This ambitious book draws upon a wide variety of literature in developing a comprehensive theory of entrepreneurship, ranging from the discovery of entrepreneurial activities, to industry differences in entrepreneurial activity, to the organizing process. It represents a major contribution to the field.' - Arnold C. Cooper, Purdue University, US 'Professor Scott Shane provides a deep and comprehensive discussion of the individual-opportunity nexus in entrepreneurship. Eschewing the usual approaches of either focusing exclusively on the individuals and their motivations and actions or focusing exclusively, almost always ex-post, on the economic potential of opportunities, Scott Shane fixes his gaze squarely on the nexus of the individual and the opportunity. It is this nexus that I believe is the building block for a better understanding of the entrepreneurial phenomenon.' - From the foreword by Sankaran Venkataraman In the first exhaustive treatment of the field in 20 years, Scott Shane extends the analysis of entrepreneurship by offering an overarching conceptual framework that explains the different parts of the entrepreneurial process - the opportunities, the people who pursue them, the skills and strategies used to organize and exploit opportunities, and the environmental conditions favorable to them - in a coherent way.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1781007993

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9781781007990

Positive Psychology

The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths

By: Shane J. Lopez,Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti,C. R. Snyder

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Positive Psychology

The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths

By: Shane J. Lopez,Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti,C. R. Snyder

Positive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths comprehensively covers the science and application of positive psychology. Authors Shane J. Lopez, Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, and C. R. Snyder bring positive psychology to life by illustrating issues such as how psychological strength can help increase positive outcomes in school and the workplace and promote cooperative relationships among people. Furthermore, the book encourages readers to engage with concepts in order to understand positive emotions and strengths, such as empathy, altruism, gratitude, attachment, and love. Over 50 case studies grounded in practice, research, and the authors’ teaching experience reveal how positive psychological phenomena operate in the lives of real people.

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SAGE Publications

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1544341768

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The Ultimate Guide to Pro Football Teams

By: Shane Frederick

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The Ultimate Guide to Pro Football Teams

By: Shane Frederick

Describes each of the teams in the NFL, including players, coaches, history, and fun facts"--Provided by publisher.

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Nice Try

A Murray Whelan Mystery

By: Shane Maloney

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A Murray Whelan Mystery

By: Shane Maloney

The Third Murray Whelan Adventure When Murray Whelan, lovelorn political minder and part-time fitness fanatic, is recruited to massage Australia's bid for the Olympics he has no idea how tough the going will get. Not even the sight of the gorgeous Holly Deloite in her taut blue leotard at the City Club can stop him diving head first into trouble. And, when the death of the young Aboriginal athlete Darcy Anderson proves that murder is a contact sport, Murray is soon breaking all the rules. Mixing it with a savvy black activist, a body-building psychopath and the enigmatic Dr Phillipa Knox, Murray jumps the gun every time. 'One of the most outrageously funny voices in modern detective fiction...Shane Maloney's prose is more than a 'nice try' at combining social and political satire with the conventions of the crime novel. It's spot on.' Age Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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1628724730

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Big Skies & Bygone Days

By: Shane Dunning

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Big Skies & Bygone Days

By: Shane Dunning

Welcome to Powder River Country, where the rivers run north, and the history never runs dry! Here, collected in one volume, are thirty-five vignettes of Montana and Wyoming history. Award-winning author Shane Dunning relates the stories your grandparents whispered among themselves. Learn the powerful influence of the cattle barons, experience the fighting spirit of Native Americans, and feel the rugged example of homesteader families. From the Big Horns to the Black Hills, this collection tells the unvarnished truth.

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159152363X

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Recognition Theory as Social Research

Investigating the Dynamics of Social Conflict

By: Shane O'Neill,Nicholas H. Smith

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Recognition Theory as Social Research

Investigating the Dynamics of Social Conflict

By: Shane O'Neill,Nicholas H. Smith

Presents the case for an exciting new research program in the social sciences based on the theory of recognition developed by Axel Honneth and others in recent years. The theory provides a frame for revealing new insights about conflicts and the potential of recognition theory to guide just resolutions of these conflicts is also explored.

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Surviving Twilight

A soldier's chronicle of daily life in Iraq

By: Shane A. Bernskoetter

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Surviving Twilight

A soldier's chronicle of daily life in Iraq

By: Shane A. Bernskoetter

Plunge into the life of a young Army Reserve soldier as he leaves his civilian life to deploy to Baghdad, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. His journey begins in Fort Riley, Kansas and continues at Log Base Seitz, where Sergeant Bernskoetter spends the next year fixing weaponry and trying to stay alive one day at a time.Relive Sergeant Bernskoetter's experiences through vivid daily journal entries detailing life deep in the heart of a country torn by hatred and violence. Join him on this trip into terrifyingly unfamiliar territory and straight into a year of darkness, as only he can tell it.

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Booksurge

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1419619179

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The Scene of Harlem Cabaret

Race, Sexuality, Performance

By: Shane Vogel

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The Scene of Harlem Cabaret

Race, Sexuality, Performance

By: Shane Vogel

Harlem's nightclubs in the 1920s and '30s were a crucible for testing society's racial and sexual limits. Combining performance theory, historical research, and biographical study, this title explores the role of nightlife performance as a definitive touchstone for understanding the racial and sexual politics of the early 20th century.

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0226862526

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Marine Decapod Crustacea

A Guide to Families and Genera of the World

By: Gary C.B. Poore,Shane T. Ahyong

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Marine Decapod Crustacea

A Guide to Families and Genera of the World

By: Gary C.B. Poore,Shane T. Ahyong

Decapod crustaceans, shrimps, crabs, prawns and their allies are highly visible and important members of marine environments. They are among the most charismatic of marine animals, inhabiting beaches, rocky shores and the deep sea, hiding under stones, burrowing in the sediment and nestling in among algae and many other microhabitats. However, most are difficult to identify by the specialist and amateur naturalist alike. Marine Decapod Crustacea explains the anatomical features necessary for differentiating taxa and includes diagnoses and identification keys to all 189 families and 2121 genera of marine Decapoda. Many decapods have vivid colours, which are showcased in a selection of spectacular photographs of many representative species. This volume provides an entry to the literature for taxonomists, naturalists, consultants, ecologists, teachers and students wanting to identify local faunas and understand this diverse group

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1486311792

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McGraw-Hill Manual Endocrine Surgery

By: Shane Y. Morita,Alan P. B. Dackiw,Martha A. Zeiger

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McGraw-Hill Manual Endocrine Surgery

By: Shane Y. Morita,Alan P. B. Dackiw,Martha A. Zeiger

Sales Handle A concise, point-of-care book that delivers essential information on endocrine surgery. About the Book The endocrine system is a complex group of glands that make hormones. The endocrine glands include the thyroid, parathyroid, pituatary, adrenal, and hypothalamus, as well as the pancreas, ovaries, and testes. The endocrine system is a complex group of glands that make hormones. The endocrine glands include the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pituitary, and hypothalamus, as well as the pancreas, ovaries, and testes. While there are a few thorough textbooks on the topic of endocrine surgery, there are no small handbooks that allow quick reference of key information, including diagnostic tables and management algorithms. Every general surgeon needs to be able to perform endocrine surgery since the endocrine system travels throughout the body. This handy guide fills the gap in our surgery list by providing ready, detailed, and accessible information on endocrine surgical procedures. It also serves to compliment AccessSurgery.com by including easy-to-access tables, algorithms, and bulleted and formatted information. This pocket-sized manual will feature contributors from every major endocrine department in the US, as well as a number from Canada and Australia. They are primarily fellows, thereby creating the unique perspective of continuing to learn while teaching residents. Features Laboratory coat pocket sized 2-color design will provide easy navigation Brief, summarized information permits rapid access Benefit to the Customer Can be used as a guide, a resource, a refresher, or a board review Medical illustrations clarify anatomy and surgical technique for the reader Market / Audience Primary market: General Surgeons (~33,000), Surgery residents: (~4,000); General Surgeons Worldwide: (~120,000) Secondary market: Oncologists (~10,000) About the Authors Shane Morita, M.D. (Baltimore, MD), is a Fellow in the Department of Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. Alan Dackiw, M.D., Ph.D. (Baltimore, MD), is Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Department of Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. Martha A. Zeigler, M.D. (Baltimore, MD), is Associate Professor of Surgery in the Department of Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD.

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0071606467

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Social Commitments in a Depersonalized World

By: Edward J. Lawler,Shane R. Thye,Jeongkoo Yoon

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Social Commitments in a Depersonalized World

By: Edward J. Lawler,Shane R. Thye,Jeongkoo Yoon

As individuals' ties to community organizations and the companies they work for weaken, many analysts worry that the fabric of our society is deteriorating. But others counter that new social networks, especially those forming online, create important and possibly even stronger social bonds than those of the past. In Social Commitments in a Depersonalized World, Edward Lawler, Shane Thye, and Jeongkoo Yoon examine interpersonal and group ties and propose a new theory of social commitments, showing that multiple interactions, group activities and, particularly, emotional attachment, are essential for creating and sustaining alignments between individuals and groups. Lawler, Thye, and Yoon acknowledge that long-term social attachments have proven fragile in a volatile economy where people increasingly form transactional associations—based not on collective interest but on what will yield the most personal advantage in a society shaped by market logic. Although person-to-group bonds may have become harder to sustain, they continue to play a vital role in maintaining healthy interactions in larger social groups from companies to communities. Drawing on classical and contemporary sociology, organizational psychology, and behavioral economics, Social Commitments in a Depersonalized World shows how affiliations—particularly those that involve a profound emotional component—can transcend merely instrumental or transactional ties and can even transform these impersonal bonds into deeply personal ones. The authors study the structures of small groups, corporations, economic transactions, and modern nation-states to determine how hierarchies, task allocation, and social identities help or hinder a group's vitality. They find that such conditions as equal status, interdependence, and overlapping affiliations figure significantly in creating and sustaining strong person-to-group bonds. Recurring collaboration with others to achieve common goals—along with shared responsibilities and equally valued importance within an organization—promote positive and enduring feelings that enlarge a person's experience of a group and the significance of their place within it. Employees in organizations with strong person-to-group ties experience a more unified, collective identity. They tend to work more cost effectively, meet company expectations, and better regulate their own productivity and behavior. The authors make clear that the principles of their theory have implications beyond business. With cultures pulling apart and crashing together like tectonic plates, much depends on our ability to work collectively across racial, cultural, and political divides. The new theory in Social Commitments in a Depersonalized World provides a way of thinking about how groups form and what it takes to sustain them in the modern world.

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1610446607

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The Best of Everything Football Book

By: Shane Gerald Frederick

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The Best of Everything Football Book

By: Shane Gerald Frederick

Who holds the record for most career rushing yards? Which NFL coach has won the most games? What are some wacky ways the pros have celebrated touchdowns? Learn the answer to these questions and more in The Best of Everything Football Book.

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1491404760

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A Guidebook for Nighttime Construction

Impacts on Safety, Quality, and Productivity

By: Jennifer Sue Shane,Amr Ahmed Kandil,Cliff J. Schexnayder

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A Guidebook for Nighttime Construction

Impacts on Safety, Quality, and Productivity

By: Jennifer Sue Shane,Amr Ahmed Kandil,Cliff J. Schexnayder

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 726: A Guidebook for Nighttime Construction: Impacts on Safety, Quality, and Productivity provides suggested guidance on the conduct of nighttime highway construction and maintenance operations. These guidelines are based on best practices and strategies for nighttime operations that relate to the personnel and traveling public safety and the quality of the as-built facility. The guide also addresses work-zone risk analysis planning and implementation, construction nuisances to both neighbors and workers, and work-zone illumination methods."--Publisher's description.

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0309258472

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Ethical Decision Making in Clinical Neuropsychology

American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology Workshop Series

By: Shane S. Bush

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Ethical Decision Making in Clinical Neuropsychology

American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology Workshop Series

By: Shane S. Bush

This is an up-to-date guide to ethical decision making in the daily practice of clinical neuropsychology that includes a Continuing Education (CE) component administered by the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology. Emphasizing positive ethics, the book models a decision-making process by which practitioners can successfully resolve common ethical challenges. It is organized around the Ethical Standards of the American Psychological Association, each of which is systematically applied to neuropsychology and brought to life through extensive case studies that show the ethical decision-making model in action. (The book contains a total of 27 cases.) The book reflects the most recent published ethical, professional, and legal requirements and guidelines and synthesizes the latest research. Graduate students, those preparing for board certification, and even experienced clinical neuropsychologists will find much here that is useful; it will be especially valuable neuropsychologists who do forensic work. Those who wish to earn CE credit after reading the book are directed to a test on the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology website.

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019972749X

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