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Where War Lives

By: Paul Watson

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A Pulitzer Prize — winning journalist takes us on a personal and historic journey from Mogadishu through Rwanda to Afghanistan and Iraq. With the click of a shutter the world came to know Staff Sgt. William David Cleveland Jr. as a desecrated corpse. In the split-second that Paul Watson had to choose between pressing the shutter release or turning away, the world went quiet and Watson heard Cleveland whisper: “If you do this, I will own you forever.” And he has. Paul Watson was born a rebel with one hand, who grew up thinking it took two to fire an assault rifle, or play jazz piano. So he became a journalist. At first, he loved war. He fed his lust for the bang-bang, by spending vacations with guerilla fighters in Angola, Eritrea, Sudan, and Somalia, and writing about conflicts on the frontlines of the Cold War. Soon he graduated to assignments covering some of the world’s most important conflicts, including South Africa, Rwanda, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Watson reported on Osama bin Laden’s first battlefield victory in Somalia. Unwittingly, Watson’s Pulitzer Prize—winning photo of Staff Sgt. David Cleveland — whose Black Hawk was shot down over the streets of Mogadishu — helped hand bin Laden one of his earliest propaganda coups, one that proved barbarity is a powerful weapon in a modern media war. Public outrage over the pictures of Cleveland’s corpse forced President Clinton to order the world’s most powerful military into retreat. With each new beheading announced on the news, Watson wonders whether he helped teach the terrorists one of their most valuable lessons. Much more than a journalist’s memoir, Where War Lives connects the dots of the historic continuum from Mogadishu through Rwanda to Afghanistan and Iraq.

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McClelland & Stewart

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1551992841

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Light

A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age

By: Bruce Watson

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Light

A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age

By: Bruce Watson

Light begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. After sampling myths explaining First Light, the story moves on to early philosophers' queries, then through the centuries, from Buddhist temples to Biblical scripture, when light was the soul of the divine. Battling darkness and despair, Gothic architects crafted radiant cathedrals while Dante dreamed a "heaven of pure light." Later, following Leonardo's advice, Renaissance artists learned to capture light on canvas. During the Scientific Revolution, Galileo gathered light in his telescope, Descartes measured the rainbow, and Newton used prisms to solidify the science of optics. But even after Newton, light was an enigma. Particle or wave? Did it flow through an invisible "ether"? Through the age of Edison and into the age of lasers, Light reveals how light sparked new wonders--relativity, quantum electrodynamics, fiber optics, and more. Although lasers now perform everyday miracles, light retains its eternal allure. "For the rest of my life," Einstein said, "I will reflect on what light is." Light explores and celebrates such curiosity.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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162040561X

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9781620405611

Watson's Really Big WWII Almanac

By: Patrick Watson

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Watson's Really Big WWII Almanac

By: Patrick Watson

This book covers events that have occured throughout history that pertain to the Second World War. The dates range from the 1800´s to 2007. It uses the same format and contains the same type of information as Volume 1, but it covers the period from July to December, whereas Volume 1 concentrates on the first 6 months of the year. It was also the 2008 North American Book Exchange´s Pinnacle Book Award winner in the Reference Category.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1425789935

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Behaviorism

By: John B. Watson

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Behaviorism

By: John B. Watson

Watson was the father of behaviorism. His now-revered lectures on the subject defined behaviorism as a natural science that takes the whole field of human adjustment as its own. It is the business of behaviorist psychology to predict and control human activity. The field has as its aim to be able, given the stimulus, to predict the response, or seeing the reaction, to know the stimulus that produced it. Watson argued that psychology is as good as its observations: what the organism does or says in the general environment. Watson identified "laws" of learning, including frequency and recency. Kimble makes it perfectly clear that Watson's behaviorism, while deeply indebted to Ivan Pavlov, went beyond the Russian master in his treatment of cognition, language, and emotion. It becomes clear that Behaviorism is anything but the reductionist caricature it is often made out to be in the critical literature. For that reason alone, the work merits a wide reading. Behaviorism, as was typical of the psychology of the time, offered a wide array of applications all of which can be said to fall on the enlightened side of the ledger. At a time of mixed messages, Watson argued against child beating and abuse, for patterns of enlightened techniques of factory management, and for curing the sick and isolating the small cadre of criminals not subject to correction. And anticipating Thomas Szasz, he argued against a doctrine of strictly mental diseases, and for a close scrutiny of behavioral illness and disturbances. Kimble's brilliant introduction to Watson ends with a challenge to subjectivism to provide evidence that Watson's behaviorism cannot explain human actions without introspective notions of the mind. This genuine classic of social science hi our century remains relevant not just for the conduct of psychological research, but for studies in the philosophy of science and the sociology of knowledge.

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Routledge

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1351314300

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Father, Son & Co.

My Life at IBM and Beyond

By: Thomas J. Watson,Peter Petre

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Father, Son & Co.

My Life at IBM and Beyond

By: Thomas J. Watson,Peter Petre

In this eloquent first-person account of a family drama that changed the face of American business, the man who transformed IBM into the world's largest computer company reflects on his lifelong partnership with his father--and how their management style and shared dedication to excellence united to create a unique corporate culture that became the blueprint for the entire technology boom. In the course of sixty years Thomas J. Watson Sr. and his son, Thomas J. Watson Jr., together built the international colossus that is IBM. This is their story: a riveting and revealing account of two men who loved each other--and fought each other--with a terrible fierceness. But along with the story of a father and son, this is IBM's story too. It chronicles the management insights that shaped its course and its unique corporate culture, the style that made Thomas Watson Sr. one of America's most charismatic bosses, and the daring decisions by Thomas Watson Jr. that transformed IBM into the world's largest computing company. One of the greatest business-success stories of all time, Father, Son & Co. is a moving lesson for fathers who dream for their children, as well as a testament to American ingenuity and values, told in a disarmingly frank and eloquent voice. Promising to remain an important business reference as we move into the next century, FATHER, SON & CO. takes a look at the management insight that helped to shape IBM's course and unique corporate culture. It looks at Watson, Sr., one of America's most charismatic bosses, and Watson, Jr., who spurred IBM into the computer age. Ten years after its original publication, FATHER, SON & CO. remains a uniquely honest book. Watson's willingness to write about the loving but ferociously combative relationship he had with his father and the turbulent battles behind some of IBM's most far-reaching decisions gives readers rare insights into the realities of leadership. -->

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Bantam

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0804150907

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Human Caring Science

By: Jean Watson

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Human Caring Science

By: Jean Watson

Rev. ed. of: Nursing: human science and human care / Jean Watson. c1999.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449628109

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No Place Like Home

By: Margaret Watson

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No Place Like Home

By: Margaret Watson

Running away is what Bree McInnes does best. So when the single mother returns to Spruce Lake to help clean out her father's house, she plans on getting the job done and getting out again before anyone in the small town ferrets out her secrets. Her plans are complicated, however, when she falls for her boss, a celebrity orchid hunter at the local college. Bree is appalled by her attraction to Parker Ellison, but she's having a hard time resisting him. And her defenses are demolished by Parker's kindness to her son Charlie. Between rebuilding her relationship with her sisters and taking care of Charlie, Bree doesn't have time for a relationship. Which is fine with Parker, because he's not interested in long term. But could home and family be exactly what the world-traveling celebrity needs?

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Dragonfly Press

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1944422277

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The Souls of White Folk

African American Writers Theorize Whiteness

By: Veronica T. Watson

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The Souls of White Folk

African American Writers Theorize Whiteness

By: Veronica T. Watson

The first book to examine whiteness as an intellectual tradition within African American literature

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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161703889X

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Double Helix

By: James D. Watson

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Double Helix

By: James D. Watson

Portions of this book were first published in The Atlantic monthly.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684852799

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Watson's Really Big WWII Almanac

Volume II: July to December

By: Patrick Watson

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Watson's Really Big WWII Almanac

Volume II: July to December

By: Patrick Watson

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Xlibris Corporation

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1425789943

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Progressivism

The Strange History of a Radical Idea

By: Bradley C. S. Watson

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Progressivism

The Strange History of a Radical Idea

By: Bradley C. S. Watson

At its core this book is intellectual history, tracing the work of progressive historians as they in turn wrote the history of progressivism. In Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea, Bradley C. S. Watson presents an intellectual history of American progressivism as a philosophical-political phenomenon, focusing on how and with what consequences the academic discipline of history came to accept and propagate it. This book offers a meticulously detailed historiography and critique of the insularity and biases of academic culture. It shows how the first scholarly interpreters of progressivism were, in large measure, also its intellectual architects, and later interpreters were in deep sympathy with their premises and conclusions. Too many scholarly treatments of the progressive synthesis were products of it, or at least were insufficiently mindful of two central facts: the hostility of progressive theory to the Founders’ Constitution and the tension between progressive theory and the realm of the private, including even conscience itself. The constitutional and religious dimensions of progressive thought—and, in particular, the relationship between the two—remained hidden for much of the twentieth century. This pathbreaking volume reveals how and why this scholarly obfuscation occurred. The book will interest students and scholars of American political thought, the Progressive Era, and historiography, and it will be a useful reference work for anyone in history, law, and political science.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268106991

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9780268106997

The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived

Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age

By: Ralph Watson McElvenny,Marc Wortman

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The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived

Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age

By: Ralph Watson McElvenny,Marc Wortman

The enduring story of Thomas Watson Jr.—a figure more important to the creation of the modern world than Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and Morgan Nearly fifty years into IBM’s existence, Thomas Watson Jr. undertook the biggest gamble in business history when he “bet the farm” on the creation of the IBM System/360, the world’s first fully integrated and compatible mainframe computer. As CEO, Watson drove a revolution no other company—then or now—would dare, laying the foundation for the digital age that has transformed every society, corporation, and government. The story of Watson being “present at the creation” of the digital age is intertwined with near-Shakespearean personal drama. While he put IBM and its employees at risk, Watson also carried out a family-shattering battle over the future of the company with his brother Dick. This titanic struggle between brothers led to Dick’s death and almost killed Watson Jr. himself. Though he was eventually touted by Fortune magazine as “the greatest capitalist who ever lived,” Watson’s directionless, playboy early years made him an unlikely candidate for corporate titan. How he pulled his life together and, despite personal demons, paved the way for what became a global industry is an epic tale full of drama, inspiration, and valuable lessons in leadership, risk-taking, and social responsibility.

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PublicAffairs

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1541768531

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9781541768536

Nursing

Human Science and Human Care : a Theory of Nursing

By: Jean Watson

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Nursing

Human Science and Human Care : a Theory of Nursing

By: Jean Watson

This classic book discusses the balance between science and caring that is he basis of the nursing profession. Watson's Theory of Human Care draws from the works of Western and Eastern philosophers, approaching the human care relationship as a moral idea that includes concepts such as phenomenal field, actual caring occasion, and transpersonal caring. Inherent in this theory are concepts of health and illness, the environment, and the universe."--Back cover.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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076371111X

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9780763711115

The Detox Strategy

Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps

By: Brenda Watson,Leonard Smith

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The Detox Strategy

Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps

By: Brenda Watson,Leonard Smith

The creator of the best-selling The Fiber35 Diet introduces her simple, effective, and natural process R.E.N.E.W.--Remove, Eliminate, Nourish, Energize, Wellness--designed to free the body of toxins that can overload the system and promote the processes of internal cleansing for a healthier, more vibrant lifestyle. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416572546

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In Too Deep

By: Jude Watson

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In Too Deep

By: Jude Watson

C.1 GENERAL FUNDS. SAMS. 03-22-2010. $12.99.

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Scholastic Inc.

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054506046X

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9780545060462

Vespers Rising

By: Rick Riordan,Peter Lerangis,Gordon Korman,Jude Watson

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Vespers Rising

By: Rick Riordan,Peter Lerangis,Gordon Korman,Jude Watson

Travel to one of the most remote National Parks, the Dry Tortugas, off the southern most tip of the United States, Key West.

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Scholastic Inc.

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0545326060

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9780545326063

Measuring Caring

International Research on Caritas as Healing

By: John Nelson (R.N.),Jean Watson

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Measuring Caring

International Research on Caritas as Healing

By: John Nelson (R.N.),Jean Watson

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826163513

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9780826163516

The Martyrs of Columbine

Faith and the Politics of Tragedy

By: Justin Watson

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The Martyrs of Columbine

Faith and the Politics of Tragedy

By: Justin Watson

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 fellow students and one teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Two of the victims of the Columbine massacre, Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott, reportedly were asked by the gunmen if they believed in God. Both allegedly answered “Yes” and were killed. Within days of their death, Cassie and Rachel were hailed as modern-day Christian martyrs, and became useful symbols for those seeking to advance a conservative political agenda. According to police investigators, however, Cassie and Rachel may never have been asked by their killers about God; they simply may have been victims of a senseless crime rather than martyrs to a cause. As the religious and political use of Cassie and Rachel continues, The Martyrs of Columbine provides a careful examination of the available evidence and attempts to discover what really occurred.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0312239572

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9780312239572

Deadwood

The Golden Years

By: Watson Parker

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Deadwood

The Golden Years

By: Watson Parker

Chronicles Deadwood, South Dakota, a typical American frontier and gold rush town, especially the volatile years 1875-1925.

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U of Nebraska Press

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080323600X

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9780803236004

U.S. National Security

A Reference Handbook

By: Cynthia A. Watson

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U.S. National Security

A Reference Handbook

By: Cynthia A. Watson

A thoroughly up-to-date expert analysis of national security issues in the United States, focusing on the dramatic changes brought about by the attacks of September 11, 2001. Written by one of the nation's foremost security policy analysts, the second edition of U.S. National Security: A Reference Handbook follows the trajectory of American security policy from the Cold War to the World Trade Center attacks to the Bush Administration. It brings the distinctive clarity and objectivity of the first edition to the study of a vastly different world. With over 75 percent new material, U.S. National Security, Second Edition provides an up-to-date assessment of security challenges facing the United States today incorporates the full range of viewpoints on the appropriate responses to specific issues. For readers looking for a clear-eyed assessment of the state of our security, the policies that have and haven't worked, and the opportunities and threats that lie ahead, there is no more essential resource available.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1598840428

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9781598840421

Genes, Girls and Gamow

By: James D. Watson

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Genes, Girls and Gamow

By: James D. Watson

In 1953 Watson and Crick discovered the double helical structure of DNA and Watson's personal account of the discovery, The Double Helix, was published in 1968. Genes, Girls and Gamow is also autobiographical, covering the period from when The Double Helix ends, in 1953, to a few years later, and ending with a Postscript bringing the story up to date. Here is Watson adjusting to new-found fame, carrying out tantalizing experiments on the role of RNA in biology, and falling in love. The book is enlivened with copies of handwritten letters from the larger than life character George Gamow, who had made significant contributions to physics but became intrigued by genes, RNA and the elusive genetic code. This is a tale of heartbreak, scientific excitement and ambition, laced with travelogue and '50s atmosphere.

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OUP Oxford

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019164742X

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Star Wars: Jedi Quest: The School of Fear

Book 5

By: Jude Watson

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Star Wars: Jedi Quest: The School of Fear

Book 5

By: Jude Watson

In this fifth volume of the Jedi Quest series, mysterious events are taking place: a Senator's son has vanished and a secret squad of renegade students exists in the shadows of his elite leadership school. Are these events linked, or is the disappearance the result of the Senator's political foes pushing the planet toward war? It is up to Anakin Skywalker and his rival, Ferus Olin, to solve the mystery and maintain peace by infiltrating one of the fiercest places in the galaxy: school.

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Disney Electronic Content

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1484719778

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9781484719770

Unitary Caring Science

Philosophy and Praxis of Nursing

By: Jean Watson

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Unitary Caring Science

Philosophy and Praxis of Nursing

By: Jean Watson

Unitary Caring Science: The Philosophy and Praxis of Nursing takes a profound look at conscious, intentional, reverential caring-healing as sacred practice/praxis and as a necessary turn for survival. Jean Watson posits Unitary Caring Science for the evolved Caritas-conscious practitioner and scholar. A detailed historical discussion of the evolution from Caring Science toward Unitary Caring Science reflects the maturing of the discipline, locating the nursing phenomena of wholeness within the unitary field paradigm. An exploration of praxis as informed moral practice results in an expanded development of the ten Caritas processes, resulting in a comprehensive value-guide to critical Caritas literacy and ontological Caritas praxis. Watson writes for the Caritas Conscious NurseTM or the Caritas Conscious Scholar/Practitioner/Educator on the journey toward the deeper caring-healing dimensions of life. Unitary Caring Science offers a personal-professional path of authenticity, bringing universals of Love, Energy, Spirit, Infinity of Purpose, and Meaning back into nurses lives and their life’s work. Unitary Caring Science serves as a continuing, evolving message to the next generation of nurse scholars and healing-health practitioners committed to a praxis informed by mature disciplinary consciousness. Individual customers will also receive a secure link to select copyrighted teaching videos and meditations on www.watsoncaringscience.org.

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University Press of Colorado

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1607327562

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9781607327561

Sacco and Vanzetti

The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind

By: Bruce Watson

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Sacco and Vanzetti

The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind

By: Bruce Watson

Documents the infamous 1927 trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, from the anarchist bombings in Washington, D.C., for which they may have been wrongfully convicted to the fierce public debates that have subsequently occurred as a result of the case.

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Penguin

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0670063533

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9780670063536

The Selected Poems of Du Fu

By: Fu Du

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The Selected Poems of Du Fu

By: Fu Du

The poems of Du Fu (712-77) had a diverse range of subject matter, from personal detail to historical fact, expressed with a richness of language that stretched from the elegant to the colloquial, and from the allusive to the direct. This selection includes both famous and lesser-known works.

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0231128290

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9780231128292

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