Social Science - General

The proliferation in terrorist activity has provoked an increase in the body of law, both at national and international level, which has sought to counter and prevent it. The bodies involved in this process range from the UN Security Council to government legislatures. This...

Since its creation immediately after the Russian revolution, the militia has had a broad range of social, political and economic functions necessary to direct and control a highly centralized socialist state.However, as the communst party lost its legitimacy the militia was increasingly thrust into...

This book shows the impact of postmodernism upon the theory and practice of education and how it challenges the existing concepts, structures and hierarchies.Author: Richard Edwards,Robin UsherISBN-10: 0415102804ISBN-13: 9780415102803Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/1994Pages: 252Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.32h x 6.24w x 0.98d

The growing popularity of alternative therapies poses challenging questions for the medical establishment and the state. By confronting these questions, The Healing Bond makes an important contribution to current debates about health care. The contributors, who are all experts in the fields of health...

According to UNESCO statistics, 10 million of the world's 600 million students study at a distance. Theoretical Principles of Distance Education seeks to lay solid foundations for the education of these students and for the structures within which they study. As a more industrialised...

Working with case studies of actual practice, Jean McNiff argues that educational knowledge is created by individual teachers as they attempt to express their own values in their professional lives.Author: Jean McNiffISBN-10: 0415089808ISBN-13: 9780415089807Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/14/1993Pages: 140Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.44h x 6.36w x...

Radical reforms of the civil service during the 1980s and 90s have broken up the old unified hierarchical structures. In their place are peripheral agencies concerned with policy implementation and a central core comcerned with policy-making. The radical reforms are described and assessed in...

Adapts rhetorical exercises such as paraphrase and precis to give students a range of strategies for making sense of texts, and encourages the development of practical, critical skills in a wide range of humanities students.Author: Peter Washington *Ga*,Jeff Mason,Peter WashingtonISBN-10: 0415073189ISBN-13: 9780415073189Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Social Movements have become a central focus of political study in recent years. Paul Byrne's accessible account of British Social movements introduces students to the relevant theories, and puts them into practice by examining groups such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Women's...

The revaluation of the yen in 1985 helped stimulate a dramatic increase in the already high level of Japanese outward investment. Few developed countries do not now host a large and growing community of Japanese businessmen and Japanese corporations are now major players in...

Cancer is extremely common and in many situations a truly frightening disease, but for too long the psychological aspects and effects have been ignored. An Introduction to Psycho-Oncology deals in a clear and simple manner with the reactions of cancer patients to their illness,...

This book explores the struggle for gains from direct investment between multinationals and developing countries. It discusses which policies work best in influencing the behaviour of MNEs and how developing countries compete with one another for multinational investment. It argues that the tax regimes...

Provides a vital insight into the ways in which teachers' backgrounds and career histories affect their teaching. The studies employ a range of different methodologies, but they all reaffirm the centrality of the teacher in educational research.Author: I. GoodisonISBN-10: 0415035090ISBN-13: 9780415035095Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/06/1992Pages:...

This book examines complex challenges in managing major strategic economic and social infrastructure projects. It is divided into four primary themes: value-based approach to infrastructure systems appraisal, enabling planning and execution, financing and contracting strategies for infrastructure systems and digitising major infrastructure delivery.Within these...

This collection surveys everything from the beginnings of police psychology and early influences on the profession, to pre-employment screening, assessment, and evaluation, to clinical interventions. Author: Jack KitaeffISBN-10: 0367209071ISBN-13: 9780367209070Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/17/2019Pages: 652Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.01lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.44d

First published in 2004, this volume recognises that there is much more to museums than the documenting, monumentalizing, or theme-parking of identity, history and heritage. This landmark anthology aims to make strange the very existence of museums and to plot a critical, historical and...

This first biography of V.F. Calverton gives an intellectual history of the American radical movement from 1920 to 1940 and shows how he and his Modern Quarterly led the forefront in wars of ideas about sex, lit, and party. This lively study of the...

Michael L. Young's dictionary defines the most important terms in contemporary public opinion research. About 400 words mark out the field, words needed if one wants to understand the language of polling and to claim literacy in the field. This reference is designed for...

The USAir Force human capital management (HCM) system is not easily defined or mapped. It affects virtually every part of the Air Force because workforce policies, procedures, and processes impact all offices and organizations that include Airmen and responsibilities and relationships change regularly. To...

How we produce and consume food has a bigger impact on Americans' well-being than any other human activity. The food industry is the largest sector of our economy; food touches everything from our health to the environment, climate change, economic inequality, and the federal...

The federal government plays the predominant role in supporting research and development (R&D) and in establishing public policies that affect science and technology (S&T) in the United States. However, the federal government is no longer the sole focus of R&D funding and S&T policy...

More than 7 million recipients of Social Security benefits have a representative payee--a person or an organization--to receive or manage their benefits. These payees manage Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance funds for retirees, surviving spouses, children, and the disabled, and they manage Supplemental...

The largest volumes of radioactive wastes in the United States contain only small amounts of radioactive material. These low-activity wastes (LAW) come from hospitals, utilities, research institutions, and defense installations where nuclear material is used. Millions of cubic feet of LAW also arise every...

Historically, most terrorist attacks on civilian targets have involved the use of firearms or explosives, and current defensive strategies are aimed at preventing attacks perpetrated by such means. However, the use of the nerve agent sarin in 1995 to attack the Tokyo subway system,...

Two members of the Committee on Human Rights (CHR), NAS member Mary Jane West-Eberhard and NAS/NAE member Morton Panish, undertook a mission to Guatemala to observe the trial of two high-level Guatemalan military officials who were charged with ordering the murder of Guatemalan anthropologist...

The report describes potential applications of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis by HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research for understanding housing needs, addressing broader issues of urban poverty and community development, and improving access to information and services by the many...

Information technology (IT) is essential to virtually all of the nation's critical infrastructures making them vulnerable by a terrorist attack on their IT system. An attack could be on the system itself or use the IT system to launch or exacerbate another type of...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is engaged in redesigning its disability determination process for providing cash benefits and medical assistance to blind and disabled persons under the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program (Title II and Title...

This report assesses the operational performance of explosives-detection equipment and hardened unit-loading devices (HULDs) in airports and compares their operational performance to their laboratory performance, with a focus on improving aviation security.Author: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sci,National Materials Advisory BoardISBN-10: 0309067871ISBN-13:...

Today, we are bombarded with calls for change, as if all change was an improvement over the status quo. Dr. Gastil challenges this view in a thorough examination of concepts of change and progress. He asserts that our cultural world is divided between those...

Appearing for the first time in English, this award-winning book is a masterpiece of scholarship that reads like an adventure story. In The United States and the Pacific, Jean Heffer offers a history of the Pacific as a "frontier" of the United States, with...

Though not often acknowledged openly, killing represents by far the most common form of human interaction with animals. Humans kill animals for food, for pleasure, to wear, and even as religious acts, yet despite the ubiquity of this killing, analyzing the practice has generally...

"Rationalist theories of political behavior have recently risen in status to that of a new--or, more accurately, rediscovered--paradigm in the systematic study of politics. Brian Barry's short, provocative book played no small part in the debate that precipitated this shift. . . . Without...

In this innovative book, Toni Erskine offers a challenging and original normative approach to some of the most pressing practical concerns in world politics - including the contested nature of the prohibitions against torture and the targeting of civilians in the 'war on terror'.Erskine's...

The aim of this book are two-fold: (1) to evaluate the current progress of theoretical approaches to tourism marketing and (2) to show the ways to further develop the concept of tourism marketing for application within tourist destinations and individual businesses and evaluate its...

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the relationship between higher education and working life from three different perspectives: society, higher education and the world of work. The purpose of the volume is twofold: first, to critically analyse the relationship between higher education and...

Much of land use and transportation planning today aims to reduce traffic congestion. However, the barometers typically used to measure congestion provide only a snapshot of a select dimension of a city's transportation system and fail to accurately reflect how easy it is to...

This book examines comparative performance and best practice in National Tourism Organisations/ Administrations from extensive research carried out in 2003 and 2004. It compares qualitative and quantitative data in order to ascertain best performance. Analysis is contained in detail for eight National Tourism Organisations...

This book is a pioneering investigation of the tourism practices in the world's other, cold water, islands. Located in extreme latitudes and subject to extreme weather conditions, these islands have been developing their tourism appeal in manners that appear sustainable. They present themselves in...

This book presents a collection of papers from an international symposium on Science and Education in the 21st Century held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as part of a celebration of their 250th anniversary. The papers, written by leading scientists and educators,...

Fast-paced life is removing us from meaningful connections with our families, neighbours, friends, and other people in society. By acknowledging her human traits, the author can see each individual for who they are-from the youngest humans to the eldest.Raising Me is a heartfelt exploration...

This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with Europe's future in space. Space has become a strategic domain of critical importance - not only for economic growth, but also for security and defence. To meet this urgent challenge, leading voices from politics, business,...

What does it take to lead-and to thrive-when intelligence itself is the new frontier of power?In Thriving and Leading in the Intelligent Age, Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder of the World Economic Forum and architect of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, distills half a century of...

Slave Narratives, Volume III: Florida Narratives is part of the groundbreaking Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s, compiling firsthand accounts from formerly enslaved African Americans in Florida. These narratives offer an extraordinary glimpse into the daily life, labor, traditions, and resilience of those who...

This book tells the story of American nationhood. It tells how, on the deep foundations of the long colonial past, there arose a splendid young nation.It goes on to tell how the bright promise of our early days was darkened by the disaster of...

George Washington's Rules DefinedWhile our civilization continues to advance, our capacity to live civilly-to appreciate our common humanity with empathy and humility-ironically dwindles daily. Even as we become more technologically connected, many of us feel increasingly disconnected and disengaged from each other.Civility Rules! offers...

This reprint comprises a collection of 10 articles previously published in 2023 and 2024 to form a Special Issue of the journal Youth on "Residential Care for Children and Young people". The Special Issue was conceived to explore both conceptual and practice issues in...

Alonzo Moore returns in this gripping second installment, facing an escalating war between loyalty and betrayal, truth and survival. Haunted by past decisions and drawn deeper into a world shaped by deception and danger, Alonzo's journey tests the limits of trust and the price...

The Problems of Philosophy is one of Bertrand Russell's most accessible and influential works, designed to introduce readers to key questions and methods in philosophy. In this concise book, Russell explores fundamental philosophical problems and presents his views on the nature of knowledge, reality,...

This book discusses the situation of the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic and the way the Govt handled the situation.Author: Musa Khan JalalzaiISBN-10: 9390439698ISBN-13: 9789390439690Publisher: Vij BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2021Pages: 200Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d