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White Racism

The Basics

By: Joe R. Feagin,Hernan Vera,Pinar Batur

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White Racism

The Basics

By: Joe R. Feagin,Hernan Vera,Pinar Batur

This book incorporates a range of new material on racist events and incidents across the United States. It includes a few new concepts and some of the original concepts about individual and institutionalized racism in the United States.

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Routledge

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1000143333

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9781000143331

Colors of Veracity

A Quest for Truth in China and Beyond

By: Vera Schwarcz

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Colors of Veracity

A Quest for Truth in China and Beyond

By: Vera Schwarcz

In Colors of Veracity, Vera Schwarcz condenses four decades of teaching and scholarship about China to raise fundamental questions about the nature of truth and history. In clear and vivid prose, she addresses contemporary moral dilemmas with a highly personal sense of ethics and aesthetics. Drawing on classical sources in Hebrew and Chinese (as well as several Greek and Japanese texts), Schwarcz brings deep and varied cultural references to bear on the question of truth and falsehood in human consciousness. An attentiveness to connotations and nuance is apparent throughout her work, which redefines both the Jewish understanding of emet (a notion of truth that encompasses authenticity) and the Chinese commitment to zhen (a vision of the real that comprises the innermost sincerity of the seeker’s heart-mind). Works of art, from contemporary calligraphy and installations to fake Chinese characters and a Jewish menorah from Roman times, shed light light on the historian’s task of giving voice to the dread-filled past. Following in the footsteps of literary scholar Geoffrey Hartman, Schwarcz expands on the “Philomela Project, which calls on historians to find new ways of conveying truth, especially when political authorities are bent on enforcing amnesia of past traumatic events. Truth matters, even if it cannot be mapped in its totality. Veracity is shown again and again to be neither black nor white. Schwarcz’ accomplishment is a subtle depiction of “fractured luminosity,” which inspires and sustains the moral conviction of those who pursue truth against all odds.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824838750

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9780824838751

Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945

Beneath the Anguish in Philadelphia and Buenos Aires

By: Vera Blinn Reber

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Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945

Beneath the Anguish in Philadelphia and Buenos Aires

By: Vera Blinn Reber

This book focuses on the era during which the cause of tuberculosis had been identified, and public health officials were seeking to prevent it, but scientists had not yet found a cure. By examining tuberculosis comparatively in two Atlantic port cities, Buenos Aires and Philadelphia, it explores the medical, political and economic settings in which patients, physicians and urban officials lived and worked. Reber discusses the causes of tuberculosis, treatments and public health efforts to stop contagion, and how factors such as gender, age, class, nationality, beliefs and previous experiences shaped patient responses, and often defined the type of treatment.

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Routledge

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0429782780

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9780429782787

Understanding Social Anxiety

A Recovery Guide for Sufferers, Family, and Friends

By: Vera Sonja Maass

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Understanding Social Anxiety

A Recovery Guide for Sufferers, Family, and Friends

By: Vera Sonja Maass

This powerful book explains the debilitating effects of social anxiety and the development of the disorder, emphasizing the need for a resolution of this disorder and identifying common but unhelpful coping mechanisms as well as true methods to change and live life unafraid of social situations. It is estimated that some 15 million Americans suffer from social anxiety disorder. For these individuals, parties, sporting events, and even workplaces or public shopping environments evoke anxiety and fear. People who suffer from social anxiety disorder—the most common of all anxiety disorders—fear being scrutinized and judged by others in social or performance situations. They know their fear is unreasonable, but are powerless against the anxiety. This book provides comprehensive coverage of social anxiety disorder by covering its history, explaining the symptoms and root causes, and presenting information on how to make the key changes in thought that can help sufferers find relief and be more comfortable in the modern world. The author uses case histories and dialogue in therapeutic settings to provide a realistic depiction of social anxiety that makes the topic more relevant and understandable to clinicians, students, and friends and family members of sufferers who want to help the socially anxious individual. The emphasis on people's resistance to changing or even examining the basis of their underlying beliefs illustrates the importance of this topic to the overall foundation of social anxiety and the urgency of addressing belief systems in the process of resolution and recovery.

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269

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440841969

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9781440841965

Be Beryllium

The Element. Physical Properties (continued) and Electrochemical Behavior

By: Gudrun Bär,Lieselotte Berg,Gerhard Czack,Dieter Gras,Vera Haase

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Be Beryllium

The Element. Physical Properties (continued) and Electrochemical Behavior

By: Gudrun Bär,Lieselotte Berg,Gerhard Czack,Dieter Gras,Vera Haase

The present Supplement Volume Beryllium A 3 continues and completes the description of the physical properties of the element, begun in Supplement Volume A 2, 1991, and also treats the electrochemical behavior of the metal. The unique combination of the Be properties, which was pointed out in Supplement Volume A 2, is also demonstrated in the following chapters of this Volume A 3: 13. Electrical Properties 14. Electronic Properties 15. Optical Properties. Emission and Impact Phenomena 16. Electrochemical Behavior Starting with the electrical properties, Be isarather good electrical conductor in centrast to what might be expected. Superconductivity was studied, especially on films. Quantum effects, which are more pronounced in Be than in most other metals, are the reason for numerous in vestigations of the magnetoresistance and the magnetic-breakdown effect. The basis for many of the characteristic properties is the unique nature of bonding in Be as a consequence of its peculiar electronic structure and the special shape of its Fermi surface which also gave rise to further numerous studies. Detailed cluster calculations were per formed to better understand the bonding in the metal. Regarding the optical properties, the high reflectivity of Be, particularly in the infrared region, makes it attractive for the fabrication of precision optical surfaces (mirrors); it is also useful for solar-collector surfaces in spacecraft applications. Emission and electron-and ion impact phenomena as well as neutron optics are also discussed.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662103206

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9783662103203

From My Heart to His Heart

A Wilderness Journey

By: Vera L. Smith

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From My Heart to His Heart

A Wilderness Journey

By: Vera L. Smith

From unexpected struggles and precious moments spent in God’s presence, God is building life stories of strength, endurance, and an overcoming spirit because nothing in life is wasted. Looking through a biblical lens, God seeks out ordinary clay vessels to tell his story to bring to light what his own eyes behold. The book From My Heart to His Heart reveals real-life experiences encountered during a personal wilderness season that challenge the reader to look within. The book opens the eye to recognizing that those who walk closely with God are not exempt from a wilderness season for it comes to us all. Entwined with biblical Scriptures and history, and divinely inspired poetry that tells of intimacy with God, the reader is drawn to reflect on God’s presence when prayers seem to go unanswered. From compelling real-life stories that engage the heart, the mind, and the soul—truth is revealed. Walk with the author to experience joy from a place of sorrow, and to trust God from a place of isolation and silence, and then rejoice in understanding that God takes all of what we’ve gone through to build purpose and to position us to bless his kingdom.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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166678236X

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9781666782363

Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575–1725

By: Vera Keller

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Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575–1725

By: Vera Keller

Many studies relate modern science to modern political and economic thought. Using one shift in order to explain the other, however, has begged the question of modernity's origins. New scientific and political reasoning emerged simultaneously as controversial forms of probabilistic reasoning. Neither could ground the other. They both rejected logical systems in favor of shifting, incomplete, and human-oriented forms of knowledge which did not meet accepted standards of speculative science. This study follows their shared development by tracing one key political stratagem for linking human desires to the advancement of knowledge: the collaborative wish list. Highly controversial at the beginning of the seventeenth century, charismatic desiderata lists spread across Europe, often deployed against traditional sciences. They did not enter the academy for a century but eventually so shaped the deep structures of research that today this once controversial genre appears to be a musty and even pedantic term of art.

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361

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Cambridge University Press

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1316395618

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9781316395615

Cultural Politics of Ethnicity

Discourses on Roma in Communist Czechoslovakia

By: Vera Sokolova

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Cultural Politics of Ethnicity

Discourses on Roma in Communist Czechoslovakia

By: Vera Sokolova

This book maps out the history of Czechoslovak linguistic and social practices directed at Roma during the communist period. It explains how contemporary Czech society has come to understand the Romani population in terms of inherited social, medical and juridical ideas. Rather than focusing on the Roma people as an object of analysis, the book problematizes assumed notions of “Gypsiness” and “Czechness” in mainstream society by highlighting the role of different socialist discourses in constructing images of Roma as socially deviant and abnormal. By uncovering the lines of continuity in the intersections of ethnic discrimination, social deviance and citizenship from the 1950s to the collapse of communism, this book comes to terms with a variety of questions that have not yet been adequately addressed in the literature: What underlying assumptions informed the socialist regime’s understanding of “Gypsiness,” and how did these conceptions relate to notions of citizenship, equality and normality? How and why did the meaning of the terms “Gypsies” and “Roma” become imbued in popular discourse with ideas of unhealthiness and social deviance? What implications does translating perceived cultural traits and lifestyles of Roma into non-ethnic frames of reference have for understanding racism and ethnic sensibilities in the country today? The work emphasizes historical continuities between contemporary xenophobia and the strategies which the communist regime used to deal with the “Gypsy question.” Focusing on the discrepancies between written laws and policies as well as their implementation, this study exposes the intricate relationships between official beliefs, institutional policies and popular consciousness under the communist regime. For it was these relationships which together created the mechanisms of social control that facilitated discrimination of Czechoslovak Roma under the guise of social welfare.

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ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press

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3838258649

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9783838258645

Essentials of Community-based Research

By: Vera Caine,Judy Mill

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Essentials of Community-based Research

By: Vera Caine,Judy Mill

Community-based research (CBR) is the most commonly used method for serving community needs and effecting change through authentic, ethical, and meaningful social research. In this brief introduction to CBR, the real-world approach of noted experts Vera Caine and Judy Mill helps novice researchers understand the promise and perils of engaging in this research tradition. This book • outlines the basic steps and issues in the CBR process—from collaboratively designing and conducting the research with community members to building community capacity; • covers how to negotiate complicated questions of researcher control and ethics; • includes a chapter written by community partners, among the examples from numerous projects from around the world.

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Routledge

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1134824556

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9781134824557

Emergency Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, An Issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

By: Vera Feuer

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Emergency Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, An Issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

By: Vera Feuer

This issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, guested edited by Dr. Vera Feuer, will cover an array of essential topics surrounding Emergency Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Articles include: Suicide screening in Pediatric Emergency Settings, Agitation management in pediatric emergencies, Child Life's role in a Clinical Pathway for Behavioral Emergencies, The role of Security personnel and a model curriculum, Clinical pathways in ER, Social services and Behavioral Emergencies, Referrals-linkage, Telepsychiatry in Emergency Rooms, and Crisis services in community, among others.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323612881

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9780323612883

Pan-Tribal Activism in the Pacific Northwest

The Power of Indigenous Protest and the Birth of Daybreak Star Cultural Center

By: Vera Parham

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Pan-Tribal Activism in the Pacific Northwest

The Power of Indigenous Protest and the Birth of Daybreak Star Cultural Center

By: Vera Parham

On September 27, 1975, activist Bernie Whitebear (Sin Aikst) and Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman broke ground on former Fort Lawton lands, just outside Seattle Washington, for the construction of the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center. The groundbreaking was the culmination of years of negotiations and legal wrangling between several government entities and the United Indians of All Tribes, the group that occupied the Fort lands in 1970. The peaceful event and sense of co-operation stood in marked contrast to the turbulent and sometimes violent occupation of the lands years before. Native Americans who joined the UIAT came from all parts of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Inspired by the Civil Rights and protest era of the 1960s and 1970s, they squared off with local and federal government to demand the protection of civil and political rights and better social services. Both the scope and the purpose of this book are manifold. The first purpose is to challenge the predominant narrative of Anglo American colonization in the region and re-assert self-determination by re-defining the relationship between Pacific Northwest Native Americans, the larger population of Washington State, and government itself. The second purpose is to illustrate the growth in Pan-Indian/Pan-Tribal activism in the second half of the twentieth century in an attempt to place the Pacific Northwest Native American protests into a broader context and to amend the scholarly and popular trope which characterizes the Red Power movement of the 1960s as the creation of the American Indian Movement (AIM). In this book, casual students of history as well as academics will find that Fort Lawton represents the zone of conflict and compromise occupied by Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest in their ongoing struggle with colonial society.

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Lexington Books

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1498559522

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9781498559522

Documenting and Assessing Learning in Informal and Media-Rich Environments

By: Jay Lemke,Robert Lecusay,Michael Cole,Vera Michalchik

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Documenting and Assessing Learning in Informal and Media-Rich Environments

By: Jay Lemke,Robert Lecusay,Michael Cole,Vera Michalchik

Today educational activities take place not only in school but also in after-school programs, community centers, museums, and online communities and forums. The success and expansion of these out-of-school initiatives depends on our ability to document and assess what works and what doesn't in informal learning, but learning outcomes in these settings are often unpredictable. Goals are open-ended; participation is voluntary; and relationships, means, and ends are complex. This report charts the state of the art for learning assessment in informal settings, offering an extensive review of the literature, expert discussion on key topics, a suggested model for comprehensive assessment, and recommendations for good assessment practices.

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165

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MIT Press

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026252774X

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9780262527743

Your Creation Declares Your Glory!

By: Vera Smith

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Your Creation Declares Your Glory!

By: Vera Smith

Your Creation Declares Your Glory! is a book written to stir the reader's heart to awaken to the sound and beauty of nature as creation speaks its message of beauty, hope and love and softly echoes adoration for its Creator. This inspired book can help the reader recognize that God uses the visible things of this world to teach us about the invisible, and that creation serves as an embodiment of beauty, a healing balm and a pathway to the heart of God.

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Shelter in the Spirit Publishing

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0977763005

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9780977763009

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White Racism

White Racism

Colors of Veracity

Colors of Veracity

Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945

Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945

Understanding Social Anxiety

Understanding Social Anxiety

Be Beryllium

Be Beryllium

From My Heart to His Heart

From My Heart to His Heart

Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575–1725

Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575–1725

Cultural Politics of Ethnicity

Cultural Politics of Ethnicity

Essentials of Community-based Research

Essentials of Community-based Research

Emergency Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, An Issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Emergency Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, An Issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Pan-Tribal Activism in the Pacific Northwest

Pan-Tribal Activism in the Pacific Northwest

Documenting and Assessing Learning in Informal and Media-Rich Environments

Documenting and Assessing Learning in Informal and Media-Rich Environments

Your Creation Declares Your Glory!

Your Creation Declares Your Glory!

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