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View book details for CEO From Home
Run a Successful Business on Your Terms
CEO From Home is an essential guide to starting, acquiring, or continuing to run a business on your own terms while working from home. Aspiring and current CEOs can learn from these pages how to successfully run a virtual business. …
View book details for Honoring the Wild
Reclaiming Witchcraft and Environmental Activism
Deeply rooted in environmentalism and activism, Honoring the Wild answers crucially pertinent questions while driving at lasting change. From political demonstrations to personal calls, Irisanya Moon offers a collection of stories and lessons, as told by Reclaiming Witches from around …
The global expansion of participation rates in higher education continue more or less unabated. However, while the concept of lifelong learning has figured prominently in national and international educational policy discourse for more than three decades, its implications for the …
A practical guide to becoming solution-focused and construction solutions in brief therapy. At the core of the book is a sequence of skill-building chapters that cover all aspects of construction solutions. Each chapter explains and demonstrates a particular skill with …
View book details for Foreign Language Learning
Psycholinguistic Studies on Training and Retention
Based on a research project funded by the Army Research Institute, Foreign Language Learning reports original empirical and theoretical research on foreign language acquisition and makes recommendations about applications to foreign language instruction. The ultimate goal of this project was …
View book details for Structural Equation Modeling With Lisrel, Prelis, and Simplis
Basic Concepts, Applications, and Programming
This book illustrates the ease with which various features of LISREL 8 and PRELIS 2 can be implemented in addressing research questions that lend themselves to SEM. Its purpose is threefold: (a) to present a nonmathmatical introduction to basic concepts …
View book details for Coping with Alcohol and Drug Problems
The Experiences of Family Members in Three Contrasting Cultures
What difference does culture make?Coping with Alcohol and Drug Problems: The Experiences of Family Members in Three Contrasting Cultures aims to deepen and extend understanding of the experiences of family members trying to cope with the excessive drinking or drug …
Indispensable for all plant biologists, this is a fascinating and thorough examination of those factors which affect the sex determination of plant species, describing all of the main classes of plant with unisexual flowers hermaphrodite, monoecious and
Traditionally the military community held the intelligence profession in low esteem, spying was seen as dirty work and information was all to often ignored if it conflicted with a commander's own view. Handel examines the ways in which this situation …
View book details for Crime-Terror Alliances and the State
Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security
This book examines the trans-border connections between militant and criminal networks and the relationship between these and the states in which they operate."Unholy alliances" is a term used to describe hybrid trans-border militant and criminal networks that pose serious threats …
View book details for Whales and Elephants in International Conservation Law and Politics
A Comparative Study
Whales and elephants are iconic giants of the marine and terrestrial animal world. Both are conspicuous representatives of wildlife conservation. The issues of whaling and the ivory trade are closely linked, both legally and politically, in many ways; some obvious, …
View book details for Reporting at the Southern Borders
Journalism and Public Debates on Immigration in the US and the EU
Undocumented immigration across the Mediterranean and the US-Mexican border is one of the most contested transatlantic public and political issues, raising fundamental questions about national identity, security and multiculturalismall in the glare of news media themselves undergoing dramatic transformations. This …
View book details for Occupy Management
Inspirations and Ideas for Self-Organization and Self-Management
It can be said that our times are characterized both by the omnipresence of organizations and by the destabilization of organized social life, caused by the erosion of its structural and moral foundations such as long-term employment, social trust or …
View book details for The Appearance of Witchcraft
Print and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Award. For centuries the witch has been a powerful figure in the European imagination; but the creation of this figure has been hidden from our view. Charles Zikas groundbreaking study investigates how the visual …
View book details for Migration, Family and the Welfare State
Integrating Migrants and Refugees in Scandinavia
Migration, Family and the Welfare State explores understandings and practices of integration in the Scandinavian welfare societies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden through a comprehensive range of detailed ethnographic studies. Chapters examine discourses, policies and programs of integration in the …
View book details for Homosexuality and the Mental Health Professions
The Impact of Bias
For more than half a century, The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) has produced position statements on relevant and controversial psychiatric topics. This latest monograph, Homosexuality and the Mental Health Professions: The Impact of Bias,continues a tradition of …
Volume 25 of The Annual is dedicated to the memory of Michael Franz Basch, who achieved distinction as both a psychoanalytic theorist of the first rank and an authority on the nature and conduct of dynamic psychotherapy. A wide range …
View book details for Brief Therapy
Myths, Methods, And Metaphors
A tapestry of rich and varied perspectives drawn from a remarkable event. The Brief Therapy Congress, sponsored by the Milton H. Erickson Foundation, brought together over 2200 therapists and an impressive faculty that included J. Barber, J. Bergman, S. Budman, …
View book details for Memory, Consciousness and the Brain
The Tallinn Conference
Memory and consciousness have been objects of fascination to psychologists and other brain scientists for over one hundred years. Because of the complexity of the two topics, however, and despite great efforts spent on their study, the progress in their …
View book details for Japan's Changing Generations
Are Young People Creating a New Society?
This book argues that 'the generation gap' in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to that order. Rather, it signifies something more fundamental: the emergence of a new Japan, which …
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The Co-production of Science and the Social Order
Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production Sheila Jasanoff 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society Sheila Jasanoff 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order Clark A. Miller 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant Charis …
Using a clear, organized, and accessible building block approach to managing inventory, this volume offers complete coverage of the basic concepts, calculations, and techniques of inventory. These fundamental techniques, which can be easily applied to handle problems in the workplace, …
View book details for The Case Management Workbook
Defining the Role of Physicians, Nurses and Case Managers
This workbook reflects a number of important regulatory changes that have occurred in the past 13 years, as well as the new landscape of healthcare reform. It serves as an important resource for case managers, administrators, physicians and others who …
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Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions, Third Edition
Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication AwardThe new edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any Lean transformation an ongoing success. It shows you how to implement a sustainable, successful transformation by …
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The Virginia Mason Experience
Accelerating Health Care Transformation with Lean and Innovation: The Virginia Mason Experience describes how Virginia Mason Medical Center (VMMC) has systematically integrated innovative structures, methods, and cultural practices into its implementation of Lean. Describing how an organization can create a …
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