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Crisis in Sociology

The Need for Darwin

By: Joseph Lopreato,Timothy Crippen

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Crisis in Sociology

The Need for Darwin

By: Joseph Lopreato,Timothy Crippen

Crisis in Sociology presents a compelling portrait of sociology's current troubles and proposes a controversial remedy. In the authors' view, sociology's crisis has deep roots, traceable to the over-ambitious sweep of the discipline's founders. Generations of sociologists have failed to focus effectively on the tasks necessary to build a social science. The authors see sociology's most disabling flaw in the failure to discover even a single general law or principle. This makes it impossible to systematically organize empirical observations, guide inquiry by suggesting falsifiable hypotheses, or form the core of a genuinely cumulative body of knowledge. Absent such a theoretical tool, sociology can aspire to little more than an amorphous mass of hunches and disconnected facts. The condition engenders confusion and unproductive debate. It invites fragmentation and predation by applied social disciplines, such as business administration, criminal justice, social work, and urban studies. Even more dangerous are incursions by prestigious social sciences and by branches of evolutionary biology that constitute the frontier of the current revolution in behavioral science. Lopreato and Crippen argue that unless sociology takes into account central developments in evolutionary science, it will not survive as an academic discipline. Crisis in Sociology argues that participation in the "new social science," exemplified by thriving new fields such as evolutionary psychology, will help to build a vigorous, scientific sociology. The authors analyze research on such subjects as sex roles, social stratification, and ethnic conflict, showing how otherwise disconnected features of the sociological landscape can in fact contribute to a theoretically coherent and cumulative body of knowledge.

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Routledge

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1351320181

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9781351320184

Shopping Tourism, Retailing, and Leisure

By: Dallen J. Timothy

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Shopping Tourism, Retailing, and Leisure

By: Dallen J. Timothy

Features a broad analysis of the relationship between tourism, leisure shopping and retailing. Examines issues relating to consumption and identity in the context of tourism.

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Channel View Publications

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1873150598

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9781873150597

The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (1)

The First Day

By: Timothy Orr

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The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (1)

The First Day

By: Timothy Orr

This first volume of three discusses the tactical decisions made on day one and the ensuing combat, while also including a brief summary of the grand strategy in the Eastern Theater of the war, the conduct of the Pennsylvania Campaign from June 6 to 30, 1863, and the plight of civilians caught up in the conflict. The Battle of Gettysburg, which took place July 1–3, 1863 in and around the town of Gettysburg, PA resulted in the largest number of casualties of the entire American Civil War and is seen as the key turning point in the conflict. On its first day, Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia sought to destroy the Union army, forcing its men to retreat through the streets of the Pennsylvania town to the hills just to the south. This volume, the first of three to cover the battle in depth, includes the morning cavalry skirmish, the morning clash at the Herbst's Woodlot and at the railroad cut, the afternoon clash at Oak Ridge, the afternoon fight at the Edward McPherson farm, the afternoon rout of the 11th Corps, the last stand of the 1st Corps at Seminary Ridge, the Union retreat through town, and the positions of the armies at nightfall.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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147284839X

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9781472848390

The Budget Puzzle

Understanding Federal Spending

By: John Cogan,Timothy Muris,Allen Schick

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The Budget Puzzle

Understanding Federal Spending

By: John Cogan,Timothy Muris,Allen Schick

In the United States, the size and composition of the federal budget is arguably the most important single issue of the 1990's, yet most debates and commentaries on the subject are largely uninformed. Virtually no one - whether government official, member of Congress, journalist, or taxpayer - seems to understand how the budget is put together and what it means. This is hardly surprising, since the budget has become extraordinarily complicated. The structure of the budget reform act of 1911 has been maintained, with the changes of additional reforms (1974, 1986, and 1990) piled on top of it, while virtually nothing has been discarded. Most people are distressed at the enormous size of the federal deficit and perplexed because highly touted plans and agreements to bring the deficit down result in an even higher deficit. Why does this happen? Why is there a growing deficit amid cries of underfunding? Why is there general agreement on a format that has proved so misleading? This book comprises a series of essays about the federal budget - how and why it has grown so large, why most "deficit-reduction" measures are either shams or predestined to fail, and why understanding budget issues is so difficult. The authors offer a new perspective, a microbudgeting approach, which requires examining in detail how the federal government makes its budget decisions. Macrobudgeting, which is concerned with totals rather than parts, has prevailed for more than a generation in both Democratic and Republican administrations; the deficit-reduction drives of the 1980's, for example, failed because the parts added up to more than the targeted totals. By contrast, microbudgeting breaks the budget down into its basic elements, carefully reviews the assumptions underlying each program or account, and critically examines the methods by which savings are computed. Using this approach, the authors demonstrate that it is possible to understand the budget process and to make informed decisions on issues of public policy. Individual essays focus on such topics as: the changing Congressional budget processes that have been critically important in contributing to the federal budget deficits that have persisted since World War II; the origins, uses, and abuses of budget baselines; and the myth of the budget reductions of the Reagan presidency.

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176

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Stanford University Press

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0804779988

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9780804779982

Urban Hydrology (revised edition)

By: Timothy R. Lazaro

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Urban Hydrology (revised edition)

By: Timothy R. Lazaro

Comprehensive guide and reference to city stormwater runoff and streamflow management.

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276

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CRC Press

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0877625476

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9780877625476

100 Years on the Road

The Traveling Salesman in American Culture

By: Timothy B. Spears

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100 Years on the Road

The Traveling Salesman in American Culture

By: Timothy B. Spears

Drawing on sources such as diaries, advice manuals and autobiographies, this work shows how travelling salesmen from the early-18th century to the 1920s shaped the customs of life on the road and helped to develop the modern consumer culture in the United States.

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Yale University Press

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0300070667

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9780300070668

The SAGE Handbook of Remote Sensing

By: Timothy A Warner,Giles M Foody,M. Duane Nellis

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The SAGE Handbook of Remote Sensing

By: Timothy A Warner,Giles M Foody,M. Duane Nellis

Remote sensing acquires and interprets small or large-scale data about the Earth from a distance. Using a wide range of spatial, spectral, temporal, and radiometric scales remote sensing is a large and diverse field for which this Handbook will be the key research reference. Illustrated throughout, an essential resource for the analysis of remotely sensed data, The SAGE Handbook of Remote Sensing provides researchers with a definitive statement of the core concepts and methodologies in the discipline.

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SAGE Publications

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1412936160

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9781412936163

Routledge Library Editions: World War II in Asia

By: Timothy Hall,John J. Sbrega

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Routledge Library Editions: World War II in Asia

By: Timothy Hall,John J. Sbrega

The 4 volumes in this set, originally published between 1980 and 1983, bring to light and focus on the conflict between Japan and Australia and Japan and the USA. Timothy Hall’s volumes, richly illustrated with black & white photographs, used highly contentious documents as their sources and give fascinating insights into a period of Australian history which is sometimes less than gloious. John J. Sbrega’s tour de force is not only one of the most extensive annotated bibliographies on the USA and Japan in World War 2 ever published, but it also provides invaluable information on lesser known but no less important aspects of the conflict.

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1317424883

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9781317424888

Saratoga Springs

A Historical Portrait

By: Timothy A. Holmes,Martha Stonequist

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Saratoga Springs

A Historical Portrait

By: Timothy A. Holmes,Martha Stonequist

Brilliant afternoons awash in sunshine . . . health, history, and horses . . . this is the experience Saratoga Springs spreads out for visitors, year after golden year. From the long distant past, the powerful waters from deep in the earth made this place a wellspring of the healing arts. The allure of meeting in the healthy country environment brought society first from the eastern cities and then from all points of the globe. Society itself became an object for summer entertainment, and connecting with living history came to be a recreational pursuit. Nestled in the foothills of the Adirondacks, Saratoga Springs, across two centuries, has been the midsummer mecca. There is more to Saratoga Springs. While the Spa City opens its arms to all travelers, along with the charms there stands a robust, cheerful, and stalwart core of residents who have over the years transformed a northern wilderness into an oasis of leisure and elegance. Behind the grand hotels of Broadway and America's Monte Carlo are the mansions of Union Avenue and Circular Street, the winter play, and the personalities shaping a place of character, comfort, and culture. Saratoga Springs: A Historical Portrait is their story--the small town at the heart of the City in the Country.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738504386

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9780738504384

The Challenger

By: Timothy L. Biel

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The Challenger

By: Timothy L. Biel

Examines the Challenger disaster from a scientific and historic perspective and discusses its effect on the space shuttle program.

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Greenhaven Press, Incorporated

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1560060131

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9781560060130

Beyond the Border

Tensions across the Forty-Ninth Parallel in the Great Plains and Prairies

By: Kyle Conway,Timothy Pasch

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Beyond the Border

Tensions across the Forty-Ninth Parallel in the Great Plains and Prairies

By: Kyle Conway,Timothy Pasch

The idea that the American Great Plains and the Canadian Prairies are just "fly-over" country is a mistake. In the post-9/11 era, politicians and policy-makers are paying more attention to the region, especially where border enforcement is concerned. Beyond the Border provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the region's increasing importance. Drawing inspiration from Habermas's observation that certain modern phenomena - from ecological degradation and organized crime to increased capital mobility - challenge a state's ability to retain sovereignty over a fixed geographical region, contributors to this book question the ontological status of the Canada-US border. They look at how entertainment media represents the border for their viewers, how Canada and the US enforce the line that separates the two countries, and how the border appears from the viewpoint of Native communities where it was imposed through their traditional lands. Under this scrutiny, the border ceases to appear as self-evident, its status more fragile than otherwise imagined. At a time when the importance of border security is increasingly stressed and the Great Plains and Prairies are becoming more economically and politically prominent, Beyond the Border offers necessary context for understanding decisions by politicians and policy-makers along the forty-ninth parallel. Contributors include Phil Bellfy (Michigan State University), Christopher Cwynar (University of Wisconsin), Brandon Dimmel (Western University), Zalfa Feghali (University of Nottingham), Joshua Miner (University of Iowa), Paul Moore (Toronto Metropolitan University), Michelle Morris (University of Waterloo), Paul Sando (Minnesota State University Moorhead), and Serra Tinic (University of Alberta).

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773588639

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9780773588639

Postmortem Toxicology

Challenges and Interpretive Considerations

By: Timothy P. Rohrig

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Postmortem Toxicology

Challenges and Interpretive Considerations

By: Timothy P. Rohrig

Postmortem Toxicology addresses the various aspects of the practice of forensic postmortem toxicology from a viewpoint of elements which must be taken into consideration for proper interpretation of the toxicological result, not in a vacuum but in a more holistic and global sense. The volume examines pre-analytical factors, storage containers/conditions, prior medical interventions and therapy, along with information from the scene investigation and anatomical findings. This reference also provides explanation of the complicating conditions for the interpretation of the toxicological results due to postmortem decomposition, embalming artifacts and the postmortem redistribution of drugs. Tolerance is also discussed as an aid to interpreting results from a habitual/chronic user of medications and/or drugs of abuse. The book is geared towards the current practitioner; however, it is written to be used as a valuable reference for a graduate or post-graduate level courses in forensic toxicology or forensic pathology. - Presents a holistic approach to the interpretation of toxicology results - Covers pre-analytical factors, storage containers/conditions, prior medical interventions, therapy, and much more - Written for the current practitioner, but an excellent resource for graduate level students training in the field of forensic toxicology

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Academic Press

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0128151641

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9780128151648

The Official Guide to American Historic Bed & Breakfast Inns and Guesthouses

By: Deborah Edwards Sakach,Timothy J. Sakach

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The Official Guide to American Historic Bed & Breakfast Inns and Guesthouses

By: Deborah Edwards Sakach,Timothy J. Sakach

Deborah Edwards Sakach shares with readers her passion for history, travel, and beds & breakfasts.

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0961548134

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9780961548131

Book's by Timothy Alan Crippen

Crisis in Sociology

Crisis in Sociology

Shopping Tourism, Retailing, and Leisure

Shopping Tourism, Retailing, and Leisure

The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (1)

The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (1)

The Budget Puzzle

The Budget Puzzle

Urban Hydrology (revised edition)

Urban Hydrology (revised edition)

100 Years on the Road

100 Years on the Road

The SAGE Handbook of Remote Sensing

The SAGE Handbook of Remote Sensing

Routledge Library Editions: World War II in Asia

Routledge Library Editions: World War II in Asia

Saratoga Springs

Saratoga Springs

The Challenger

The Challenger

Beyond the Border

Beyond the Border

Postmortem Toxicology

Postmortem Toxicology

The Official Guide to American Historic Bed & Breakfast Inns and Guesthouses

The Official Guide to American Historic Bed & Breakfast Inns and Guesthouses

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