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Time for Things

Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption

By: Stephen D. Rosenberg

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Time for Things

Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption

By: Stephen D. Rosenberg

Modern life is full of stuff yet bereft of time. An economic sociologist offers an ingenious explanation for why, over the past seventy-five years, Americans have come to prefer consumption to leisure. Productivity has increased steadily since the mid-twentieth century, yet Americans today work roughly as much as they did then: forty hours per week. We have witnessed, during this same period, relentless growth in consumption. This pattern represents a striking departure from the preceding century, when working hours fell precipitously. It also contradicts standard economic theory, which tells us that increasing consumption yields diminishing marginal utility, and empirical research, which shows that work is a significant source of discontent. So why do we continue to trade our time for more stuff? Time for Things offers a novel explanation for this puzzle. Stephen Rosenberg argues that, during the twentieth century, workers began to construe consumer goods as stores of potential free time to rationalize the exchange of their labor for a wage. For example, when a worker exchanges his labor for an automobile, he acquires a duration of free activity that can be held in reserve, counterbalancing the unfree activity represented by work. This understanding of commodities as repositories of hypothetical utility was made possible, Rosenberg suggests, by the standardization of durable consumer goods, as well as warranties, brands, and product-testing, which assured wage earners that the goods they purchased would be of consistent, measurable quality. This theory clarifies perplexing aspects of behavior under industrial capitalism—the urgency to spend earnings on things, the preference to own rather than rent consumer goods—as well as a variety of historical developments, including the coincident rise of mass consumption and the legitimation of wage labor.

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Harvard University Press

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0674250524

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9780674250529

Genetics of Obesity Syndromes

By: Philip R. Beales,I. Sadaf Farooqi,Stephen O'Rahilly

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Genetics of Obesity Syndromes

By: Philip R. Beales,I. Sadaf Farooqi,Stephen O'Rahilly

Obesity is one of the most important contributing factors to disease throughout the world and is an area of great current interest among researchers and clinicians. The genetics of common obesity is complex, and an important thread through this labyrinth is the study of genetic syndromes in which obesity is a major component. By examining the genetic mechanisms of obesity in these syndromes, the authors will shed new light on the genetics of common obesity. This is the first book on this important and exciting new area and addreses both the molecular and clinical features of the obesity syndromes, providing hard-core information for researchers and practical guidelines for clinicians caring for obese patients. The book is divided into three sections: the first covers approaches for assessing and investigating the obese individual; the second describes nondysmorphic, monogenic forms of obesity; and the third documents key, multisystem obesity syndromes with various genetic etiologies. It is as much a reference book as it is a manual and will appeal to clinical geneticists, obesity researchers, endocrinologists, nutritionists, and medical biologists.

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300

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Oxford University Press

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0199719861

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9780199719860

Dental Secrets - E-Book

By: Stephen T. Sonis,Jennifer Anne Magee

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Dental Secrets - E-Book

By: Stephen T. Sonis,Jennifer Anne Magee

Offering practical tips and expert answers to topics in dentistry, oral medicine, and patient management, Dental Secrets, 5th Edition serves as an ideal preparation tool for exams, clinical rotations, and board certification. A concise, illustrated Q&A format covers key areas such as oral pathology, radiology, periodontology, endodontics, restorative dentistry, prosthodontics, orthodontics, infection control, and oral and maxillofacial surgery. This mini reference makes it easier to prepare for real-world clinical scenarios and review for the INBDE and other certification exams! - Dentistry's best "secrets" are shared by experts specializing in various areas of dentistry and oral medicine. - Concise answers to more than 2,000 questions in dentistry and oral medicine provide valuable pearls, tips, memory aids, and "secrets" in an easy-to-read, numbered format. - More than 100 illustrations, tables, and boxes highlight key takeaways. - NEW! Brand-new chapter reveals "secrets" surrounding orofacial pain. - NEW! Questions and examples are prepared with the new INDBE exam content in mind. - NEW! A new group of contributing authors and a new co-editor — all leaders in the field of dentistry — bring a fresh perspective and valuable expertise to the text. - NEW! An enhanced eBook, included with print purchase, provides access to all the text, figures, and references, plus the ability to search, customize content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. - UPDATED! Fresh revisions with the most current clinical information keep students, practitioners, and those preparing for recertification up to date on key advances in the practice of dentistry.

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338

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0443104492

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9780443104497

Fundamentals of Management

Essential Concepts and Applications

By: Stephen P. Robbins,David A. De Cenzo

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Fundamentals of Management

Essential Concepts and Applications

By: Stephen P. Robbins,David A. De Cenzo

Provides a foundation for understanding key management issues. The text maintains a functional focus and presents up-to-date research studies in the field. It is organized around four traditional management functions: planning, organizing, leading and controlling. This edition includes two chapter on Technology and the design of work processes, and Managing teams. Multiple choice questions at the end of each chapter reinforce all of the chapter objectives, and are designed to impart critical thinking skills by facilitating increasing levels of thinking, from knowledge to comprehension and finally to application. An Internet exercise at the end of each chapter requires students to locate information and investigate a variety of issues.

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628

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0138961433

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9780138961435

Ethics in Counseling and Therapy

Developing an Ethical Identity

By: Rick A. Houser,Stephen Thoma

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Ethics in Counseling and Therapy

Developing an Ethical Identity

By: Rick A. Houser,Stephen Thoma

Ethics in Counseling and Therapy develops students' ethical competence through an understanding of theory. Houser and Thoma helps the counselor form his or her own ethical identity and reflect on his or her own values and issues by presenting a theoretical framework that draws on theories from disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, and moral psychology.

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SAGE Publications

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1452241856

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9781452241852

Understanding Physiotherapy Research

By: Chris Littlewood,Stephen May

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Understanding Physiotherapy Research

By: Chris Littlewood,Stephen May

Understanding Physiotherapy Research by Littlewood and May is an introductory level text that aims to be accessible and understandable to all physiotherapists who appreciate the need to integrate research evidence into their practice. The requirement for physiotherapists to engage with evidence-based practice has never been more apparent and the benefits of such an approach are clear. Evidence derived from research is a cornerstone of evidence-based practice, but before such evidence can be incorporated into an evidence-based paradigm, it should be appraised and its trustworthiness and applicability considered. This means that evidence-based physiotherapy practitioners need to be aware of the inherent strengths and limitations of research studies and what these mean for their practice. However, this is not always a straightforward process and it is not uncommon for both novice and experienced physiotherapists to become lost in the language of research. To facilitate the evolution of evidence-based physiotherapy practice, this book aims to bridge the gap by presenting a clinically focused range of methodological discussions in relation to specific research study designs in physiotherapy. The intention of the book is to offer a platform upon which readers can develop their understanding of meaningful critical appraisal and consequently gain confidence when reading published research.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443867950

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The Ethical Foundations of Social Work

By: Stephen Cowden,Annie Pullen-Sansfacon

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The Ethical Foundations of Social Work

By: Stephen Cowden,Annie Pullen-Sansfacon

The Ethical Foundations of Social Work provides you with an engaging, theoretical and practice-based grounding in social work ethics. The authors first examine when, how and why principles and debates historically emerged, then explicitly map them onto everyday ethical challenges and situations in social work practice. As a result, the book promotes an ethically conscious approach where principles can be flexibly and confidently applied as tools to help you with critical problem solving.

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Routledge

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1317862392

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Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care

Around Recovery

By: Stephen Buetow

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Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care

Around Recovery

By: Stephen Buetow

This book explores how person-centred health care could be refined to help persons alleviate pain-related distress and construct pain as a potentially positive experience. Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care is a fascinating contribution to the multidisciplinary literature on person-centred health care, pain and ethics. Traditionally, Western intellectual culture has downplayed the intuitive and emotional, promoting instead rational, natural-scientific perspectives. Applied to pain, an instrumental approach promotes the immediate and effective relief of pain, due to the widespread suffering and expense it can cause. However, different persons experience pain in different ways and Buetow moves beyond a commitment to eliminate pain to exploring how benefits of pain could include creating and managing meaning from pain. Rather than always looking to put pain behind them, persons may flourish by moving around pain, through pain, into pain and above pain. Buetow argues that this model depends on adopting a person-centred approach to health care, focusing less on the condition of pain and more on mobilizing the persons who present with, and manage, pain. This book will be of interest to professionals and academics/researchers in the fields of psychology and psychiatry who have a special interest in people with persistent pain conditions. It will also be an invaluable resource for physiotherapists, chronic pain consultants in secondary care and GPs.

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Routledge

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1000339394

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Time for Things

Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption

By: Stephen D. Rosenberg

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Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption

By: Stephen D. Rosenberg

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Time for Things

Time for Things

Genetics of Obesity Syndromes

Genetics of Obesity Syndromes

Dental Secrets - E-Book

Dental Secrets - E-Book

Fundamentals of Management

Fundamentals of Management

Ethics in Counseling and Therapy

Ethics in Counseling and Therapy

Understanding Physiotherapy Research

Understanding Physiotherapy Research

The Ethical Foundations of Social Work

The Ethical Foundations of Social Work

Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care

Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care

Time for Things

Time for Things

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