{"title":"Book Sets","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"dianetics-the-modern-science-of-mental-health","title":"Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile it is true that \u003ci\u003eDianetics\u003c\/i\u003e has become the self-improvement classic, there can be little doubt what it has to offer is just what people are now looking for in ever-increasing numbers. Reducing stress, achieving goals, improving relationships and striving to live up to one's full potential is definitely the 'in' thing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e New York Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Editor Comments\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"We have around us today many problems: problems of the criminal, war, individual illness and juvenile delinquency. We are faced with very intimate and vital problems which we are not, as a large society, adequately solving. Dianetics has introduced into the society a technique by which it is possible to increase the potential working groups in the country. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I would like to tell you a little more about Dianetics, its general ability to remedy some of the troubles and problems with which the community, the individual, the nation are faced. We have quite a few things in this society today which need remedying, and we are in a little bit better position to remedy these things. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Dianetics is a series of techniques, tested on an engineering basis, which do things with the science of thought. You hear people say, 'Dianetics? This is probably just another idea. If we sleep on featherbeds we will all be much healthier, etc.' This is the sort of thing that has been going on in the past about thought itself: 'If you sit with your legs crossed for fifteen minutes every morning and say, 'Every day in every way we are getting better and better, '\" etc. In the past they were trying to sell this sort of thing as a substitute for a good science of thought. The public is very justly suspicious of anything new that pretends to do something about the human mind. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"We have reached the place where we can blow a whole town off the face of the earth, drive automobiles at 110 miles an hour and unload how many tons of weight, where, at such and such a time, but nobody has been adequately studying the human mind itself. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Doctors know that human ills stem from the mind. New remedies come out: 'All you have to do is take so-and-so and life is wonderful.' The thinking medical men, however, who have ability and who have done observations on their own, know that none of these medicines are panaceas.... With 75% of man's ills very little advance has been made...\" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In Dianetics we demonstrate the fact that we have techniques to do away with psychosomatic illnesses. People say, 'Why didn't someone know this before? Why didn't someone know that we could recover all our memories of childhood? \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"One day I ran into a lady. She hadn't known who her parents were... Her parents had died before she knew them. I took her back to the period where she could see her parents. We found her name, what her birthday was, where her parents had died, of what they had died, etc. She came back to present time in a remarkable state, tremendously enthused. Interesting to me that four psychiatrists had worked on this lady and were in the audience. Two came up and confessed to me that they had thrown this patient at me to prove that Dianetics did not work. They had worked on her for five years and considered her the hardest patient in the area. These two gentlemen were more courteous to me after that. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I have received a letter from a gentleman in the Midwest who wants us at the Foundation to send him a certified auditor trained in these techniques in order to instruct the staff of an entire sanitarium in order to accomplish what they have not accomplished before. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"They did not know how thought works, what are the parts of the mind, etc. As a consequence they could not predict how a person would react under certain circumstances. They did not recognize that when a nation goes to war it was in a period of madness. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Dianetics is interested in experimentation in order to increase the application of these techniques. Our research department is very hard at work running a pilot project on a small group in order to perfect these applications of Group Dianetics. In a few days Group Dianetics has taken an apathetic company and has brought it up to where its income potential has almost doubled. These things are the vital stuff out of which we hope to make a larger and better future for the world.\" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eL. Ron Hubbard Radio broadcast given on 8 February 1951 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHubbard's bestseller has helped millions, and it should be read and used by all who are searching for a true understanding of the mind and a solution to such problems as self-doubt, stress, anxiety and depression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e World Reporter Newspaper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHubbard holds the distinction of being the world's most translated author, according to the Guinness World Records.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Dianetics is] a new science which works with the invariability of physical science in the field of the human mind. From all indications it will prove to be as revolutionary for humanity as the first caveman's discovery and utilization of fire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Daily Mirror\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDianetics\u003c\/i\u003e has always been ahead of its time. More and more people are realizing that Dianetics technology is a vital survival tool for living in the world today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDianetics can remove the aberrations which make man a selfish and anti-social creature. ... It holds hope that man may at last dispense with the ugly institution of war, because wars are the end product of social aberrations at the national level.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Daily News Los Angeles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTREATING CHRONIC PAIN\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Science has explored a number of ways to help people deal with pain. Some developments - such as those involving drugs or physical therapy - may be the type of treatments most people would expect. Others, however, may surprise you. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For example, in 1997 Elvis Winterbottom was accidentally shot in the hip with a .45 caliber gun. After surgery, he was released from the hospital in a wheelchair, unable to walk. Recovery was slow and the pain was intense - to the point where simple actions such as taking a shower were difficult for him. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Winterbottom was a chronic pain sufferer. Chronic pain is a condition that affects an estimated 86 million people in the US. It's defined as pain that continues for a month or more beyond the usual recovery period for an injury, or pain that goes on for months or years as a result of a chronic condition. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Winterbottom experienced pain for years, until he attended a career seminar that did more than help his job outlook. While at a lecture on success in the acting industry, Winterbottom learned about a course on the book \n\u003ci\u003eDianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health\u003c\/i\u003e. He signed up immediately. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e During the course he received Dianetics Therapy - a technique developed by L. Ron Hubbard in which one looks at incidents in the past that may be causing physical and emotional pain in the present. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hubbard said there are two parts of the mind: the analytical and the reactive. The analytical mind records mental images and pictures, except for in times of extreme mental or physical pain, at which point memory is stored in the reactive section. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hubbard maintained the reason people experience chronic emotional or physical pain is that the memories of their injuring events are \"locked up\" in their reactive minds. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I spoke about the shooting and went through the incident with my counselor,\" says Winterbottom. \"I came home and told my wife about it, but didn't think it was that big of a deal.\" The next morning, Winterbottom and his wife set out to do their weekly shopping - a chore which Winterbottom generally needed an ample supply of pain killers to perform. \"After an hour my wife said to me, 'slow down, '\" says Winterbottom. \"Then it hit me: I have no pain. I am not limping. I have no pain!\" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The next day he put his hip to the test. Winterbottom climbed the longest set of stairs in the world at Universal Studios - twice - and still, no pain. Today, Winterbottom's hip is completely pain-free. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"It's a miracle to me,\" he says. \"That course gave me my life back.\" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For more information, visit www.dianetics.org. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranscript-Bulletin \n\u003cbr\u003eMarch 19, 2002 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFAMILY FINDS HOPE WITH DIANETICS\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Families with handicapped children have new hope for solving the problems of emotional stress and strain that come to a family following the birth of a handicapped child. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Los Angeles parents Shirley and Steve Young say they found the solution to raising a handicapped son in the book \"Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.\" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Our son was born with deformity of his lower limbs,\" says Shirley. \"It was necessary for the doctors to amputate both legs just below the knees so that Eric could later be fitted with artificial limbs that would give him a chance for a normal life.\" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Their son's condition proved a shock to both mother and father. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Eric was our first child,\" she says. \"I think every mother faces the fear that her child may be born with a handicap, but you think it will never happen to you.\" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"When it does it puts enormous stress on the family. Corrective surgery is very costly. You have to see that your child gets the special attention that he needs, not only professional attention, but additional caring from the parents,\" she says. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The couple's relationship as husband and wife also suffered for a while, says Shirley and Steve. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"We would find ourselves arguing with one another about what was the best thing to do for Eric,\" says Steve. \"Everyone says they have the answer, but they all tell you that your baby will never really grow up to be a normal, well adjusted child because of his handicap. When you hear that, it hurts you as a parent.\" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Both parents, however, refused to accept what they called \"a lot of misinformation about children and about the mind.\" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"We had both read the book 'Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health' and we knew that a person's physical condition did not in any way influence his mental condition,\" says Mrs. Young. \"It is quite the other way around.\" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Throughout the time her son was being fitted with artificial limbs, the couple applied Dianetics technology both to the baby and to themselves as a family. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"It made our relationship with one another even stronger. It helped us raise our son so that he was free from all the false considerations that counselors and psychologists try to force on handicapped children and their parents.\" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As a result, Eric is happy, healthy, well adjusted boy today. He runs, swims and plays baseball. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"He even climbs trees,\" says his somewhat chagrined mother. \"I have the same worries that any mother has over a rambunctious six year old.\" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Dianetics was really the solution,\" she says. \"I tell any mother with a handicapped child to read the book. It opens the door to solving all the problems that psychologists don't have answers for.\" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlack Voice \n\u003cbr\u003eFebruary 19, 1987 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eL. Ron Hubbard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are only two tests of a life well lived L. Ron Hubbard once remarked: Did one do as one intended? And were people glad one lived? In testament to the first stands the full body of his life's work, including some 12,000 writings and 3,000 tape-recorded lectures of Dianetics and Scientology. In evidence of the second are the hundreds of millions of individuals whose lives have been demonstrably bettered because he lived. They are the more than 28 million students now reading superlatively owing to L. Ron Hubbard's educational discoveries; they are the millions of men and women freed from substance abuse through L. Ron Hubbard's breakthroughs in drug rehabilitation; they are the near 100 million who have been touched by his nonreligious moral code: and they are the many millions more who hold his work to be the spiritual cornerstone of their lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough best known for Dianetics and Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard cannot be so simply categorized. If nothing else, his life was too varied, his influence too broad. There are tribesmen in Southern Africa, for example, who know nothing of Dianetics and Scientology, but they know L. Ron Hubbard the educator. Likewise, there are factory workers in Albania who know him only for his administrative discoveries; children in China who know him only as the author of their moral code, and readers in dozens of languages who know him only for his novels. So, no, L. Ron Hubbard is not an easy man to categorize and certainly does not fit popular misconceptions of \"religious founder\" as an aloof and contemplative figure. Yet the more one comes to know this man and his achievements, the more one comes to realize he was precisely the sort of person to have brought us Scientology, the only major religion to have been founded in the twentieth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat Scientology offers is likewise what one would expect of a man such as L. Ron Hubbard. For not only does it provide a fully unique approach to our most fundamental questions--Who are we? From where did we come and what is our destiny? But it further provides an equally unique technology for greater spiritual awareness. So how would we expect to characterize the founder of such a religion? Clearly, he would have to be larger than life, attracted to people, liked by people, dynamic, charismatic and immensely capable in a dozen fields--all exactly L. Ron Hubbard. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fact is, if Mr. Hubbard had stopped after only one of his many accomplishments he would still be celebrated today. For example, with 46 million works of fiction in circulation, including such monumental bestsellers as Battlefield Earth, Fear and the Mission Earth series, Mr. Hubbard is unquestionably one of the most acclaimed and widely read authors of all time. His novels have earned some of the world's most prestigious literary awards, and he has very genuinely been described as \"one of the most prolific and influential writers of the twentieth century.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis earlier accomplishments are similarly impressive. As a barnstorming aviator through the 1930s he was known as \"Flash\" and broke local records for sustained glider flight. As a leader of expeditions, he is credited with conducting the first complete Puerto Rican mineralogical survey under United States protectorship and his navigational annotations still influence the maritime guides for British Columbia. His experimentation with early radio direction finding further became the basis for the Long Range Navigational system (Loran). And, as a lifelong photographer, his works have been displayed in galleries on two continents, with the definitive body of his photographs in traveling and permanent exhibits still drawing tens of thousands every year. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong other avenues of research, Mr. Hubbard developed and codified an administrative technology that is utilized by more than 200,000 organizations worldwide, including multinational corporations, charitable bodies, political parties, schools, youth clubs and every imaginable small business. Likewise Mr. Hubbard's internationally acclaimed educational methods are utilized by more than a hundred thousand educators, while his equally acclaimed drug rehabilitation program has proven at least five times more effective than similarly aimed programs. \u003c\/p\u003eYet, however impressive these figures, no measure of L. Ron Hubbard is complete without some appreciation of what became his life's work: Dianetics and Scientology. The world's most effective force for positive change, the Church of Scientology represents spiritual freedom for millions of people the world over. They come from every walk of life, every culture and every strata of society. Moreover, when one is speaking of L. Ron Hubbard's discoveries relating to the human mind and spirit, one is ultimately speaking of the philosophic foundation of all he accomplished: better education, crime-free cities, drug-free campuses, stable and ethical organizations and cultural revitalization through the arts--all this and more is made possible because of the breakthroughs in Dianetics and Scientology. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSYNOPSIS i \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eINTRODUCTION \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow \n\u003ci\u003eto \u003c\/i\u003eRead \n\u003ci\u003ethis \u003c\/i\u003eBook 1 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBOOK ONE: \n\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eGOAL \n\u003ci\u003eof \u003c\/i\u003eMAN \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER ONE \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eScope \n\u003ci\u003eof \u003c\/i\u003eDianetics 7 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER TWO \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eClear 13 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER THREE \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eGoal \n\u003ci\u003eof \u003c\/i\u003eMan 25 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER FOUR \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eFour Dynamics 41 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER FIVE \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSummary 47 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBOOK TWO: \n\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eSINGLE SOURCE \n\u003ci\u003eof \u003c\/i\u003eALL INORGANIC \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMENTAL \n\u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003eORGANIC PSYCHOSOMATIC ILLS \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER ONE \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eAnalytical Mind \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eand the \u003c\/i\u003eStandard Memory Banks 55 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER TWO \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eReactive Mind 63 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER THREE \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eCell \n\u003ci\u003eand the \u003c\/i\u003eOrganism 85 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER FOUR \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\"Demons\" 103 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER FIVE \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePsychosomatic Illness 111 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER SIX \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmotion \n\u003ci\u003eand the \u003c\/i\u003eDynamics 133 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER SEVEN \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePrenatal Experience \n\u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003eBirth 149 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER EIGHT \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContagion \n\u003ci\u003eof \u003c\/i\u003eAberration 163 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER NINE \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKeying-in \n\u003ci\u003ethe \u003c\/i\u003eEngram 173 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER TEN \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePreventive Dianetics 187 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBOOK THREE: THERAPY \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER ONE \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eMind's Protection 201 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER TWO \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRelease \n\u003ci\u003eor \u003c\/i\u003eClear 207 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER THREE \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eAuditor's Role 213 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER FOUR \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDiagnosis 221 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER FIVE \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReturning, \n\u003ci\u003ethe \u003c\/i\u003eFile Clerk \n\u003ci\u003eand the \u003c\/i\u003eTime Track 239 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER SIX \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eLaws \n\u003ci\u003eof \u003c\/i\u003eReturning 255 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER SEVEN \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmotion \n\u003ci\u003eand the \u003c\/i\u003eLife Force 279 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER EIGHT \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome Types \n\u003ci\u003eof \u003c\/i\u003eEngrams 319 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER NINE: PART ONE \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMechanisms \n\u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003eAspects \n\u003ci\u003eof \u003c\/i\u003eTherapy 335 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER NINE: PART TWO \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMechanisms \n\u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003eAspects \n\u003ci\u003eof \u003c\/i\u003eTherapy 381 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER TEN \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDianetics-- Past \n\u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003eFuture 479 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDianetics Terms 493 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDianetics \n\u003ci\u003ein the \u003c\/i\u003e21st Century 499 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAPPENDIX \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFurther Study 519 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGuide to the Materials 532 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAddresses 534 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEditor's Glossary of Words, Terms and Phrases 539 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIndex 635 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJacket Description\/Flap\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tContaining discoveries heralded as greater than the wheel or fire, \n\u003ci\u003eDianetics\u003c\/i\u003e has remained a bestseller for more than 50 years. And with over 20 million copies in print, generating a movement that spans virtually every country on Earth, it's indisputably the most widely read and influential book ever written about the human mind. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere is the anatomy and full description of the reactive mind, the previously unknown source of nightmares, unreasonable fears, upsets and insecurities which enslave Man. This book shows you how to get rid of it, and so achieve something Man has previously only dreamed of: the State of Clear. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong the discoveries herein: \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  The Goal of Man The Dynamic Principle of Existence--the one word that motivates all living things The Four Dynamics--the drives upon which all of life is compartmented The Descriptic Graph of Survival--revealing one's true potential and how to achieve it The discovery of and complete anatomy of the reactive mind The painful experiences--engrams--contained in the reactive mind which command one to act irrationally against their own wishes and goals The impact of prenatal engrams--what took place before you were born and how it's influenced you ever since The complete Dianetics procedure to discover and eradicate these harmful experiences so they never affect you again, revealing the one person you've always wanted to know - you. \n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCompanion lecture series: Dianetics Lectures and Demonstrations \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImmediately following the first publication of \n\u003ci\u003eDianetics\u003c\/i\u003e, Ron began lecturing to thousands upon thousands in packed auditoriums across America. And now, you can be there. In these 4 lectures, you'll hear Ron describe the events that sparked his investigation and groundbreaking discoveries and then, even more, his \n\u003ci\u003epersonal\u003c\/i\u003e demonstration of Dianetics \n\u003ci\u003eauditing\u003c\/i\u003e procedure to overcome the reactive mind. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJacket Description\/Back\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDIANETICS THE ALL-TIME SELF-HELP BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever felt there was something holding you back in life, ruining your plans and stopping you from being who you want to be, you were right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fact is, there is a single source of all your problems, stress, unhappiness and self-doubt. It's called the \u003ci\u003ereactive mind\u003c\/i\u003e - the hidden part of your mind that stores all painful experiences, then uses them against you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDianetics gets rid of the reactive mind. It's the only thing that does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith over 22,000,000 copies in 50 languages, and used in more than 150 nations, Dianetics brings dramatic and permanent improvement to people all over the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDon't live with insecurity, negative thoughts, depression and irrational behavior. Use Dianetics and get rid of your reactive mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book has the power to CHANGE YOUR LIFE. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What do you want to change?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e RELATIONSHIPS. Discover what can cause relationships to end up nothing like they started - and how to overcome sabotaging factors such as jealousy and fighting.\u003c\/p\u003eUNHAPPY MOODS. What causes feelings of deep depression or even just \"feeling down\"? Understand this and control your own mood rather than the other way around. \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e MORE SUCCESS. Whether it's success on the job or in life - you can reach your full potential. \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e STRESS AND SELF-DOUBT. There is a source of such crippling problems AND YOU CAN GET RID OF IT.FIND OUT WHY \n\u003ci\u003eDIANETICS\u003c\/i\u003e IS THE ALL-TIME SELF-HELP BESTSELLER. \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e This fascinating easy to read book takes you on an adventure of self-discovery that finds and eliminates the hidden problems that may be holding you back. 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This book shows you how to get rid of it, and so achieve something Man has previously only dreamed of: the State of Clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the discoveries herein: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Goal of Man\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dynamic Principle of Existence--the one word that motivates all living things\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Four Dynamics--the drives upon which all of life is compartmented\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Descriptic Graph of Survival--revealing one's true potential and how to achieve it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe discovery of and complete anatomy of the reactive mind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe painful experiences--engrams--contained in the reactive mind which command one to act irrationally against their own wishes and goals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe impact of prenatal engrams--what took place before you were born and how it's influenced you ever since\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe complete Dianetics procedure to discover and eradicate these harmful experiences so they never affect you again, revealing the one person you've always wanted to know--you.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWHAT'S HOLDING YOU BACK?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever felt there was something holding you back in life, ruining your plans and stopping you from being who you want to be, you were right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fact is, there is a single source of all your unhappiness, problems, stress and self-doubt. It's called the reactive mind -- the hidden part of your mind that stores all painful experiences, then uses them against you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDianetics gets rid of the reactive mind. It's the only thing that does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith over 20,000,000 copies in 50 languages, and used in more than 150 nations, Dianetics brings dramatic and permanent improvement to people all over the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health - quality paperback edition, which gives the complete anatomy of the single source of all unhappiness, stress and negative feelings, and the technology to get rid of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere's only one way to find out if the Dianetics procedure is everything millions of people say it is. 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We went to a marriage counselor, we even went to a psychiatrist and the end result was we still were headed for divorce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"So just when I was about to file the final papers, a close friend of ours insisted, absolutely insisted, that we try Dianetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"And that was when we knew what had come between us - it was the reactive mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"So not only did Dianetics give us the tools to save and rebuild our marriage, but we love each other more today than the day we got married.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eC. L.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Dianetics enabled me to realize my potentials and find the success I had always sought.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eK.B., Top Investment Counselor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"When I was 14 my life became an uphill struggle. A severe injury left me with a crippling back pain 24 hours a day. I was told I would require treatment for the rest of my life and I wold have to live with the pain. Over the next 12 years, I Iooked everywhere for a solution. I even became a Doctor of Chiropractic, but still nothing could make the pain stop. Finally, I tried Dianetics, and I found that the pain was being caused by the reactive mind. Within a few hours I stood up and, for the first time in 12 years, the pain was gone. Dianetics has the answers!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eS.P., Doctor of Chiropractic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I had a terrible accident and fractured my neck, and as a result was in a terrific amount of pain. The doctors did everything that they could to try and handle it, and while my neck did heal, the pain persisted. I began to take drugs to suppress the pain, and I became hooked on drugs. 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Written by a distinguished cast of authors, including many of the top British crime-writers themselves, such as Andrew Taylor, Laura Wilson, Jessica Mann and Natasha Cooper, it examines every aspect of the subject, from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century, via the classic stories of Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Age of Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers et al, to outstanding contemporary British writers such as P. D. James, Ruth Rendell and Ian Rankin. Every key writer is covered here, along with all the important one-shot and fringe authors. Additionally, there are articles on film scripts, TV series, topics and a variety of sub-genres. Longer discursive essays on key themes add stimulating and lively debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt a time when classic British crime fiction is enjoying greater popularity than ever (and television incarnations of such Brit classics as Sherlock Holmes and Jane Marple proliferate, along with more recent coppers such as the tough Inspector Rebus), innovative forms and styles are taking crime fiction in new directions. Writers of science fiction tailoring their cloth to a more profitable discipline have powered a growth in high-tech crime thrillers; women writers have tackled issues of violence and sexuality in breathtakingly direct ways. The encyclopedia covers all new developments, as well as examining traditional genres, such as espionage, historical crime, clerical crime, crime in academe, noir (and tart noir), literary crime and true crime. The result is a synthesis of the scholarly and the lively - making this the perfect guide for those wanting reliable information or looking for stimulating analysis or interested in tips for great novels to put on their reading lists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarc Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBibl. ref. \u0026amp; index.;v. 1. A-H -- v. 2. I-Z.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarry Forshaw\u003c\/b\u003e is the editor of \u003ci\u003eCrime Time\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, he is the crime fiction reviewer for \u003ci\u003eThe Independent, The Express, Publishing News\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eItalian Cinema: A Pocket Essentials Guide\u003c\/i\u003e. As well as his specialist area of crime fiction, he writes on film for a variety of magazines. 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Enjoy!\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrime Squad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One reason for the size of these two volumes is that along with the expected entries on James, PD, Christie, Agatha, and Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur, are the unexpected inclusions; not just the usual suspects, but just about anyone who has written a novel with a crime theme. 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While other works provide longer articles and include international authors--two examples come to mind, Scribner's Mystery \u0026amp; Suspense Writers and Gale's massive Dictionary of Literary Biography--their focus isn't contemporary British writing, as is the case here.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The book is bang up to date with entries for a number of authors who have made a name for themselves in the past decade plus a number of literary writers, some of whose key work falls into the crime category (Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Iain Sinclair). 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The book is littered with reviews of magazines, films and TV shows, overviews of the works of anthologists and true crime writers... it's a book that can be picked up and browsed or read from cover to cover. Either way, you'll stumble across half a dozen new things: again, a random sampling turned up the fact that Jasper Fforde began his writing career whilst working as a focus puller on blockbuster movies (amongst them the film that reinvented James Bond, \u003ci\u003eGoldenEye\u003c\/i\u003e). 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Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...a remarkably comprehensive book of reference...A preliminary Guide to Related Topics (such as Golden Age Crime Fiction and Television), many portraits and other illustrations, a substantial Bibliography (including journals and web sites) and an excellent index make this an indispensable work of reference.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by a distinguished cast of authors include many high profile British crime-writers including Andrew Taylor, Laura Wilson, Jessica Mann and Natasha Cooper. This encyclopedia presents the most comprehensive view of British crime writing (both fiction and true crime) ever attempted: every key writer is here, along with all the important one-shot and fringe authors. There are essays on all key writers, lively analyses of important topics and sub-genres, from serial killer novels to the contemporary breed of tough women writers. There are longer discursive essays on key themes including social comment in crime fiction and crime fiction and sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis two-volume encyclopedia presents the most comprehensive view of British crime-writing (both fiction and true crime) yet to appear. Written by a distinguished cast of authors, including many of the top British crime-writers themselves, such as Andrew Taylor, Laura Wilson, Jessica Mann and Natasha Cooper, it examines every aspect of the subject, from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century, via the classic stories of Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Age of Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers et al, to outstanding contemporary British writers such as P. D. James, Ruth Rendell and Ian Rankin. Every key writer is covered here, along with all the important one-shot and fringe authors. Additionally, there are articles on film scripts, TV series, topics and a variety of sub-genres. Longer discursive essays on key themes add stimulating and lively debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt a time when classic British crime fiction is enjoying greater popularity than ever (and television incarnations of such Brit classics as Sherlock Holmes and Jane Marple proliferate, along with more recent coppers such as the tough Inspector Rebus), innovative forms and styles are taking crime fiction in new directions. Writers of science fiction tailoring their cloth to a more profitable discipline have powered a growth in high-tech crime thrillers; women writers have tackled issues of violence and sexuality in breathtakingly direct ways. The encyclopedia covers all new developments, as well as examining traditional genres, such as espionage, historical crime, clerical crime, crime in academe, noir (and tart noir), literary crime and true crime. 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Consolini \n\u003cbr\u003e State Behavior in International Crisis: A model - Michael Brecher \n\u003cbr\u003e Crisis Simulations: Exploring tomorrow′s vulnerabilities and threats - Arjen Boin, Celesta Kofman-Bos and Werner Overdijk \n\u003cbr\u003e Bridging the two Cultures of Risk Analysis - Sheila Jasanoff \n\u003cbr\u003e Homeland Security Warnings: Lessons learned and unlearned - Benigno E. Aguirre \n\u003cbr\u003e Blindsided? September 11 and the origins of strategic surprise - Charles F. Parker and Eric K. Stern \n\u003cbr\u003e Governing by Looking Back: Historical analogies and crisis management - Annika Brändström, Fredrik Bynander and Paul ′t Hart \n\u003cbr\u003e Toxic Fear: The management of uncertainty in the wake of the Amsterdam air crash - Arjen Boin, Menno van Duin and Liesbet Heyse \n\u003cbr\u003e Some Consequences of Crisis which Limit the Viability of Organizations - Charles F. 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Crises are \"inconceivable threats come true\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGovernments and organizations must be prepared to meet these threats. They cannot afford to ignore crisis management requisites or deal with them in a superfluous, mostly symbolic fashion. This major work provides a map towards effective crisis management starting with an introductory essay by the editor explaining the reasoning behind the selection, defining key concepts and introducing the key themes around which the major work set is organiszed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection is organized into three parts, each part dealing with a specific theme. Part I is devoted to understanding the causes and dynamics of modern crises. Part II collects together key articles discussing the core challenges of crisis management, reporting empirical findings and theoretical milestones. 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His most recent books include Managing Crises: Threats, Dilemmas, Opportunities (Charles C Thomas Publisher), The Politics of Crisis Management and Governing after Crisis (both Cambridge University Press).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Sage Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51502544093462,"sku":"9781847870889","price":1161.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9781847870889.jpg?v=1783309926"},{"product_id":"foundations-of-educational-thought-sage-library-of-educational-thought-practice-1st-ed","title":"Foundations of Educational Thought (Sage Library of Educational Thought \u0026 Practice) (1ST ed.)","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVolume 1: Classic\/Early Modern (Antiquity to 1945) \n\u003cbr\u003eEditor′s Introduction: Understanding the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education \n\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to Volume 1 - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr \n\u003cbr\u003e Early Modern and Modern (to 1929) \n\u003cbr\u003eOf Education - Michel de Montaigne \n\u003cbr\u003eOf Custom and Education - Francis Bacon \n\u003cbr\u003eSelection from The Great Didactic - Jan Amos Comenius \n\u003cbr\u003eOf Education - John Milton \n\u003cbr\u003eSelections from the Orbis Pictus Sensualium - Jan Amos Comenius \n\u003cbr\u003eSelections from Some Thoughts Concerning Education - John Locke \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Education of Women - Daniel Defoe \n\u003cbr\u003eSelection from The Spirit of Laws - Montesquieu \n\u003cbr\u003eSelection from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin \n\u003cbr\u003eSelection from Émile - Jean Jacques Rousseau \n\u003cbr\u003eSelection from Notes on the State of Virginia - Thomas Jefferson \n\u003cbr\u003eOf the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic - Benjamin Rush \n\u003cbr\u003eSelections from Leonard and Gertrude - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi \n\u003cbr\u003eOn National Education - Mary Wollstonecraft \n\u003cbr\u003eOn Education - Johann Friedrich Herbart \n\u003cbr\u003eAn Address to the Public; Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education - Emma Hart Willard \n\u003cbr\u003eSelection from Improvements in Education, as It Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community - Joseph Lancaster \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Education of Human Nature - Frederick Froebel \n\u003cbr\u003eSelection from the First Annual Report to the Massachusetts State Board of Education - Horace Mann \n\u003cbr\u003eReport No. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board - Horace Mann \n\u003cbr\u003eOn Education - Ralph Waldo Emerson \n\u003cbr\u003eReport of the Committee of Ten - National Education Association \n\u003cbr\u003eMy Pedagogic Creed - John Dewey \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Function of Education in Democratic Society - Charles W. Eliot \n\u003cbr\u003ePsychology and the Art of Teaching - William James \n\u003cbr\u003eChild Study and Its Relation to Education - G. Stanley Hall \n\u003cbr\u003eEducational Methods - Jane Addams \n\u003cbr\u003eOn Education and Society - Emile Durkheim \n\u003cbr\u003eIndustrial Education for the Negro - Booker T. Washington \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Talented Tenth - W.E.B. Du Bois \n\u003cbr\u003eThe School and Social Progress - John Dewey \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Contribution of Psychology to Education - Edward L. Thorndike \n\u003cbr\u003eHistory of Methods - Maria Montessori \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Uses of Intelligence Tests - Lewis M. Terman \n\u003cbr\u003eA Modern School - Abraham Flexner \n\u003cbr\u003eAims in Education - John Dewey \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Project Method - William Heard Kilpatrick \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Problem of the School - Antonio Gramsci \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Aims of Education - Alfred North Whitehead \n\u003cbr\u003eThe American Experimental School - Harold Rugg \n\u003cbr\u003eVolume 2: Modern (1932-1979) \n\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to Volume 2: Modern (to 1979) - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr \n\u003cbr\u003eSelection from Dare the Schools Build a New Social Order - George S. Counts \n\u003cbr\u003eOrientation - George S. Counts \n\u003cbr\u003eOn Education - Albert Einstein \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Crisis in Contemporary Education - Mortimer J. Adler \n\u003cbr\u003eA Manifesto on Democracy and Education in the Current Crisis - Faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University \n\u003cbr\u003eAs We May Think - Vannevar Bush \n\u003cbr\u003eThe School in American Culture - Margaret Mead \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Tradition of the West - Robert M. Hutchins \n\u003cbr\u003eSchools and Systems of Social Status - Howard S. Becker \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Role of Government in Education - Milton Friedman \n\u003cbr\u003eForward to A.S. Neill′s Summerhill - Erich Fromm \n\u003cbr\u003eA Talk to Teachers - James Baldwin \n\u003cbr\u003eVulnerability and Education - Jules Henry \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1, Life in Classrooms - Philip W. Jackson \n\u003cbr\u003eShould the Teacher Always Be Neutral? - George S. Counts \n\u003cbr\u003eStudent Social Class and Teacher Expectations - Ray C. Rist \n\u003cbr\u003e The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Ghetto Education \n\u003cbr\u003eWhy We Must Disestablish School - Ivan Illich \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Adult Literacy Process as Cultural Action for Freedom - Paulo Freire \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Process of Education Revisited - Jerome S. Bruner \n\u003cbr\u003eHandle with Care - Harry F. Wolcott \n\u003cbr\u003e Necessary Precautions in the Anthropology of Schooling \n\u003cbr\u003eUnequal Education and the Reproduction of the Social Division of Labor - Samuel Bowles \n\u003cbr\u003eVolunteerism to Bureaucracy in American Education - Michael Katz \n\u003cbr\u003eCultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction - Pierre Bourdieu \n\u003cbr\u003ePublic Education and the Education of the Public - Lawrence Cremin \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Means of Correct Training - Michel Foucault \n\u003cbr\u003eClass and Pedagogies: Visible and Invisible - Basil Bernstein \n\u003cbr\u003eServitude of the Mind? Education, Dependency, and Neocolonialism - Philip G. Altbach \n\u003cbr\u003eIn Pursuit of Equity, Ethics, and Excellence: The Challenge to Close the Gap - Jesse L. Jackson \n\u003cbr\u003eCan Our Schools Get Better? - John I. Goodlad \n\u003cbr\u003eVolumes 3 and 4: Postmodern Educational Thought (1979-) \n\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to Volume 3 and 4: Postmodern (1979 - ) - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr \n\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction - Gregory Bateson \n\u003cbr\u003eSocial Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work - Jean Anyon \n\u003cbr\u003eCurriculum as Cultural Reproduction: - C. A. Bowers \n\u003cbr\u003e An Examination of Metaphor as a Carrier of Ideology \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Day Our Children Disappear - Neil Postman \n\u003cbr\u003e Predictions of a Media Ecologist \n\u003cbr\u003eA Concept of Power for Education - David Nynerg \n\u003cbr\u003eExcluding Women from the Educational Realm - Jane Roland Martin \n\u003cbr\u003eBodyreading - Madeleine R. Grumet \n\u003cbr\u003eValuing Teachers - Linda Darling-Hammond \n\u003cbr\u003e The Making of a Profession \n\u003cbr\u003eImagination and Learning - Kieran Egan \n\u003cbr\u003eOn Listening to What the Children Say - Vivian Gussin Paley \n\u003cbr\u003eTeaching as Research - Eleanor Duckworth \n\u003cbr\u003eIn Search of a Critical Pedagogy - Maxine Greene \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Functions and Uses of Literacy - Shirley Brice Heath \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Silenced Dialogue - Lisa Delpit \n\u003cbr\u003e Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People′s Children \n\u003cbr\u003ePostmodernism and the Discourse of Educational Criticism - Henry Giroux \n\u003cbr\u003eMetaphor and Meaning in the Language of Teachers - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., Gary N. McCloskey, Robert B. Kottkamp and Marilyn M. Cohn \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Violation of People at Work in Schools - Arthur G. Wirth \n\u003cbr\u003eMulticultural Education as a Form of Resistance to Oppression - Christine E. Sleeter \n\u003cbr\u003eWhy Doesn′t This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy - Elizabeth Ellsworth \n\u003cbr\u003eDemocratic Education in Difficult Times - Amy Gutmann \n\u003cbr\u003ePost-Critical Pedagogies - Patti Lather \n\u003cbr\u003e A Feminist Reading \n\u003cbr\u003eRadical Pedagogy as Cultural Politics - Henry A. Giroux and Peter L. McLaren \n\u003cbr\u003e Beyond the Discourse of Critique and Anti-Utopianism \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Three Curricula that all Schools Teach - Elliot W. Eisner \n\u003cbr\u003eFeminist Politics in Radical Pedagogy - Carmen Luke \n\u003cbr\u003eDreamt Into Existence by Others - William Pinar \n\u003cbr\u003e Curriculum Theory and School Reform \n\u003cbr\u003eEducational Reform and the Ecology of Schooling - Elliot W. Eisner \n\u003cbr\u003eExcellence as a Guide to Educational Conversation - Nel Noddings \n\u003cbr\u003eBeyond the Methods Fetish - Lilia I. Bartolome \n\u003cbr\u003e Toward a Humanizing Pedagogy \n\u003cbr\u003eDemocracy and Education - Noam Chomsky \n\u003cbr\u003eEngaged Pedagogy - Bell Hooks \n\u003cbr\u003eWhen Basic Skills and Information Processing Just Aren′t Enough - Allan Luke \n\u003cbr\u003e Rethinking Read in New Times \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Challenges of National Standards in a Multicultural Society - Cherry McGee Banks \n\u003cbr\u003eDancing with Bigotry - Lilia I. Bartolome and Donaldo P. Macedo \n\u003cbr\u003e The Poisoning of Racial and Ethnic Identities \n\u003cbr\u003eRewriting the Discourse of Racial Identity - Henry A. Giroux \n\u003cbr\u003e Towards a Pedagogy and Politics of Whiteness \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Death of Child Nature - David Elkind \n\u003cbr\u003e Education in the Postmodern World \n\u003cbr\u003eTheory Practice and the Education of Professionals - Lee S. Shulman \n\u003cbr\u003eCurriculum, After Culture, Race, Nation - John Willinsky \n\u003cbr\u003eSocial Justice, Curriculum, and Spirituality - David E. Purpel \n\u003cbr\u003eNew Standards, Old Inequalities - Linda Darling-Hammond \n\u003cbr\u003e The Current Challenge for African-American Education \n\u003cbr\u003eSummary - Joel Spring \n\u003cbr\u003e The Universal Right to Education \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Care Tradition: Beyond ′Add Women and Stir′ - Nel Noddings \n\u003cbr\u003eToward an Eco-Justice Pedagogy - C.A. Bowers \n\u003cbr\u003eGlobalizing Education - Michael Singh, Jane Kenway and Michael W. Apple \n\u003cbr\u003e Perspectives from Above and Below \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World - Václav Havel \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis landmark study brings together a comprehensive collection of readings on Educational Thought from Antiquity to the Present. It includes four volumes and over 100 different selections: \n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVol 1: Classic\/Early Modern (to 1945)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVol 2: Modern (1945-1979)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVol 3\/4: Postmodern (1979-present)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Montaigne to Chomsky, the editor has included articles from some of the Western world′s most influential educational thinkers alongside authoritative voices from the field to show a full spectrum of ideas about Education, its purpose and objectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first volume includes a lead essay by the editor on the nature of Educational Thought and the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education. Each volume also includes its own introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaken together, the volumes provide an unparalleled resource featuring broad coverage of the subject with historical depth and contemporary relevance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Sage Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51502544126230,"sku":"9781412945868","price":1568.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9781412945868.jpg?v=1783309928"},{"product_id":"comparative-political-science-sage-library-of-political-science-1st-ed","title":"Comparative Political Science (Sage Library of Political Science) (1ST ed.)","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVOLUME 1: RESEARCH SCHOOLS AND MODES OF EXPLANATION: RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY, CULTURAL ANALYSIS, STRUCTURAL THEORY, AND METHODS: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE \n\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \n\u003cbr\u003e A Perspective on Comparative Politics, Past and Present - Alan S. Zuckerman \n\u003cbr\u003e Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics - Harry Eckstein \n\u003cbr\u003e Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method - Giovanni Sartori \n\u003cbr\u003e Case Study and Theory in Political Science - Arend Lijphart \n\u003cbr\u003e Conceptual ′Stretching′ Revisited: Adapting Categories in Comparative Analysis - Harry Eckstein \n\u003cbr\u003e Human Nature in Politics: The Dialogue of Psychology with Political Science - David Collier and James Mahon \n\u003cbr\u003e A Culturalist Theory of Political Change - Herbert A. Simon \n\u003cbr\u003e Political Culture and Political Preferences - Harry Eckstein \n\u003cbr\u003e The Renaissance of Political Culture - David, D. Laitin \n\u003cbr\u003e Games Real Actors Could Play: The challenge of complexity - Ronald Inglehart \n\u003cbr\u003e Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms - Franz Scharpf \n\u003cbr\u003e Comparative Politics and Rational Choice: A review essay - Peter Hall and Rosemary C. R. Taylor \n\u003cbr\u003e Analytic Narratives - Robert H. Bates \n\u003cbr\u003e The Analytic Narrative Project - Jon Elster \n\u003cbr\u003e Returning to the Social Logic of Politics - Robert H., Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal \u0026amp; Barry R. Weingast \n\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME 2: MACRO-POLITICS: REGIME STRUCTURE AND CHANGE - Alan S. Zuckerman, \n\u003cbr\u003e Some Social Requisites of Democracy \n\u003cbr\u003e The State as a Conceptual Variable - Seymour Martin Lipset \n\u003cbr\u003e Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model - John Nettl \n\u003cbr\u003e Still the Century of Corporatism? - Dankwart Rustow \n\u003cbr\u003e The Return to the State - Philippe Schmitter \n\u003cbr\u003e The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws, 1945-85 - Gabriel Almond \n\u003cbr\u003e Political Regime Change: Structure and Process-Driven Explanations? - Arend Lijphart \n\u003cbr\u003e Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development - Herbert Kitschelt \n\u003cbr\u003e Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic Consolidation: Parliamentarianism and presidentialism - Mancur Olson \n\u003cbr\u003e Democratic Transitions in Comparative Perspective - Alfred Stepan and Cindy Skatch \n\u003cbr\u003e Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited - Gerardo Munck \n\u003cbr\u003e Decision Making in Political Systems: Veto players in presidentialism, parliamentarism, multicameralism, and multipartyism - Seymour Martin Lipset \n\u003cbr\u003e Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics - George Tsebelis \n\u003cbr\u003e Comparative Democratization: Big and bounded generalizations - Kathleen Thelen \n\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME 3: MACRO-POLITICS: POLITICS, ECONOMICS, AND SOCIETY - Valerie Bunce \n\u003cbr\u003e Political Cleavage: A Conceptual and Theoretical Analysis \n\u003cbr\u003e Political Parties and Macroeconomic Policy - Alan S Zuckerman \n\u003cbr\u003e The Expansion of the Public Economy: A comparative analysis - Douglas Hibbs \n\u003cbr\u003e Modernization and Dependency: Alternative perspectives in the study of Latin American underdevelopment - David Cameron \n\u003cbr\u003e The Structure of Class Conflict in Democratic Capitalist Societies - J. Samuel Valenzuela and Arturo Valenzuela \n\u003cbr\u003e Working-Class Formation: Constructing Cases and Comparisons - Adam Przeworski and Michael Wallerstein \n\u003cbr\u003e Union Organization in Advanced Industrial Democracies - Ira Katznelson \n\u003cbr\u003e Invested Interests: The politics of national economic policies in a world of global finance - Michael Wallerstein \n\u003cbr\u003e Government Partisanship, Labor Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance - Jeffrey Frieden \n\u003cbr\u003e Bringing Capital Back In, or Social Democracy Reconsidered - Michael Alvarez, Geoffrey Garrett, and Peter Lange \n\u003cbr\u003e The Dynamics of Trade Unionism and National Economic Performance - Peter Swenson \n\u003cbr\u003e Beyond Corporatism: Toward a new framework for the study of labor in advanced capitalism - Miriam Golden \n\u003cbr\u003e From Comparative Public Policy to Political Economy: Putting institutions in their place and taking interests seriously - Kathleen Thelen \n\u003cbr\u003e Labor Markets, Production Strategies and Wage-Bargaining Institutions - Jonas Pontusson \n\u003cbr\u003e The Sources of Business Interest in Social Insurance: Sectoral versus national differences - Jonas Pontusson and Peter Swenson \n\u003cbr\u003eVolume 4: Political Choice and Behavior: Voting, political participation, contentious, and revolutionary behavior - Isabela Mares \n\u003cbr\u003e Of Time and Partisan Stability \n\u003cbr\u003e Corruption, Machine Politics, and Political Change - Philip E. Converse \n\u003cbr\u003e Political Clientelism and Ethnicity in Tropical Africa - James C. Scott \n\u003cbr\u003e The Selfish Voter Paradox and the Thrown-Away Vote Argument - René Lemarchand \n\u003cbr\u003e The Two-Party System and Duverger′s Law: An essay on the history of political science - Paul E. Meehl \n\u003cbr\u003e Testing the converse partisanship model with new electorates - William H. Riker \n\u003cbr\u003e The Political Bases of Citizen Contacting: A crossnational analysis - Richard G. Niemi, G. Bingham Powell Jr., Harold W. Stanley and C. Lawrence Evans \n\u003cbr\u003e American Voting Turnout in Comparative Perspective - Alan S. Zuckerman and Darrell West \n\u003cbr\u003e Political Institutions and Voter Turnout in the Industrial Democracies - G. Bingham Powell Jr. \n\u003cbr\u003e Rethinking Rationality and Rebellion: Theories of collective action and problems of collective dissent - Robert W. Jackman \n\u003cbr\u003e Political Leadership and Representation in West European Democracies: A test of three models of voting - Mark Irving Lichbach \n\u003cbr\u003e The 5% Percent Rule - Torben Iversen \n\u003cbr\u003e Explaining Interethnic Cooperation - Mark Irving Lichbach \n\u003cbr\u003e Politics and Society: Political diversity and uniformity in households as a theoretical puzzle - James Fearon and David Laitin \n\u003cbr\u003e Wanton and Senseless? The Logic of Massacres in Algeria - Alan S. Zuckerman and Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz \n\u003cbr\u003e Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society: India and beyond - Stathis Kalyvas \n\u003cbr\u003e Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity - Ashutosh Varshney \n\u003cbr\u003e Patterns of Disagreement in Democratic Politics: Comparing Germany, Japan, and the United States - James Fearon and David Laitin \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe SAGE Library of Political Science collects together the articles that have been most influential in shaping the discipline. \n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach multi-volume set presents a collection of field-defining published works, both classical and contemporary, sourced from the foremost publications in the discipline by an internationally renowned editor or editorial team. They also include a full introduction, presenting a rationale for the selection and mapping out the past, present and likely future of each area.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe series covers both the key approaches to studying the discipline and the primary sub-fields that form the focus of political scientists′ work. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe SAGE Library of Political Science will be an essential addition for university libraries throughout the world with an interest in Political Science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComparative politics addresses the central questions of political science anywhere and everywhere: from ancient Greece to the contemporary world; from established democracies to totalitarian regimes; from small communities to capital cities; and from the international scale to the individual. Edited by one of the world′s foremost political science scholars, this four-volume set provides researchers with a comprehensive overview of the numerous methods and applications of the comparative approach. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume I: Research Schools and Modes of Explanation: Rational Choice Theory, Cultural Analysis, Structural Theory, and Methods: Quantitative and Qualitative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume II: Macro-Politics: Regime Structure and Change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume III: Macro-Politics: Politics, Economics, and Society \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume IV: Political Choice and Behavior\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eZuckerman, Alan S\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlan S. Zuckerman is a Professor of Political Science at Brown University. His scholarship has focused on the analytical principles of comparative politics; the social context of political preferences, choice, and behavior; the individual and the state in established democracies; and the political structure of small groups. Professor Zuckerman is the author, coauthor, editor, and co-editor of several books. He has published numerous articles in the leading journals of political science, as well as monographs in the United States, Britain, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Israel on topics as diverse as the Holocaust, the political cohesion of households, political cleavages, the determinants of political preferences, voting in Israel, the comparative historical analysis of Jewish communities, party factions in Italy and Israel, and party identification.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Sage Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51502544355606,"sku":"9781412944878","price":1815.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9781412944878.jpg?v=1783309930"},{"product_id":"encyclopedia-of-obesity-1st-ed","title":"Encyclopedia of Obesity (1ST ed.)","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarc Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"The United States has seen a dramatic increase in obesity over the last 20 years. This work, edited by Keller (human nutrition, Columbia Univ. Coll. of Physicians \u0026amp; Surgeons; research associate, New York Obesity Research Ctr.), seeks to be a starting point for those interested in learning about all aspects of obesity. There are approximately 500 entries, some with black-and-white photos. The scope is global: continents are listed as entries by geographical region, e.g., Asia is broken down into \"Asia, Central,\" \"Asia, East,\" etc. These entries contain brief historical overviews of obesity in various countries, obesity studies, and\/or obesity prevention strategies. The appendix in Volume 2 has a section addressing the prevalence (according to the World Health Organization) of obesity in males and females by country. In addition to a glossary and an index at the back of both volumes, the encyclopedia also features a reader′s guide-in the front of Volume 1-that assists readers in finding articles by category or theme (e.g., ethnicity\/race, children, social influences and outcomes, new research frontiers). Volume 1 also contains an explanation of the body mass index (BMI) and the BMI table. Although there are bibliographies at the end of entries, multiple references are lumped together in paragraph form, which may make it hard for some readers to distinguish among them. Since the bibliographies are not extensive, this encyclopedia would have benefited from including additional resources for patrons wanting more information. BOTTOM LINE Dana K. Cassell and David H. Gleaves′s Encyclopedia of Obesity and Eating Disorders (Facts On File, 2006, 3d ed.) is geared more toward a general audience and libraries with smaller budgets. 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Additionally, the majority of entries have been provided by experts from the medical and scientific research community. In many cases, entries are written by pioneering or premiere researchers in the topic at hand. \n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis two-volume Encyclopedia provides a catalogue of entries from a variety of expert contributors from a vast array of disciplines, including molecular biology, psychology, medicine, public health and policy, food science, environmental health, pharmaceuticals, and many others to summarize pertinent topics in obesity, and related health conditions. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScholars, educators, researchers, physicians, and the general public will be able to access this resource for current, factual details on topics related to this growing epidemic. This new encyclopedia will be the most reliable, accurate, and thorough resource for information about obesity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e′Moving Forward in an Ever Expanding World′ in this section Kathleen Keller addresses the topic of a changing society that is slowly adapting to accommodate obesity. Covering recent lawsuits on fast food industries and airlines, discussing how these are telling of the decades to come. In addition, this text will look at the new frontiers on obesity treatment and research and the importance of prevention in children, and in studying obesity in a variety of ethnic groups and in developing countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This work, featuring a reading level appropriate for high school audiences and above, is recommended for academic and public libraries.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003c\/em\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cb\u003eEncyclopedia of Obesity\u003c\/b\u003e is as much of a reference resource as it is a tool to raise awareness in the medical and public health communities. With almost 500 entries, these two volume summarize pertinent topics in obesity and related health conditions, including molecular biology, psychology, medicine, public health and policy, food science, environmental health, and pharmaceuticals. The editor has chosen topics that capture the current climate of obesity research while still addressing and defining the core concepts related to this condition. Based on a theme of \"Moving Forward in an Ever Expanding World\" articles address topics for a changing society that is slowly adapting to accommodate obesity, including recent lawsuits, new options for medical and dietary treatment, and the importance of prevention in children.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Themes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Biological or Genetic Contributors to Obesity\u003cbr\u003e- Children and Obesity\u003cbr\u003e- Dietary Interventions to Treat Obesity\u003cbr\u003e- Disordered Eating and Obesity\u003cbr\u003e- Environmental Contributors to Obesity\u003cbr\u003e- Health Implications of Obesity\u003cbr\u003e- Medical Treatments for Obesity\u003cbr\u003e- New Research Frontiers on Obesity\u003cbr\u003e- Obesity and Behavior\u003cbr\u003e- Obesity and Ethnicity\/Race\u003cbr\u003e- Obesity as a Public Health Crisis\u003cbr\u003e- Psychological Influences\/Outcomes on Obesity\u003cbr\u003e- Societal Influences\/Outcomes on Obesity\u003cbr\u003e- Women and Obesity\u003cbr\u003e- Worldwide Prevalence of Obesity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cb\u003eEncyclopedia of Obesity\u003c\/b\u003e is intended to serve as a general and nontechnical resource for biology, sociology, health studies, and other social science students, teachers, scholars, researchers, and anyone in the general public who wishes to understand the development of obesity as it prevails in the United States and worldwide. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/15\/2008 pg. 123 (EAN 9781412952385, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 07\/01\/2008 pg. 83 (EAN 9781412952385, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eScitech Book News\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/01\/2008 pg. 107 (EAN 9781412952385, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Sage Publications, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51502544388374,"sku":"9781412952385","price":408.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9781412952385.jpg?v=1783309931"},{"product_id":"strategy-and-globalization-four-volume-set-contemporary-issues-in-business-globalization-1st-ed","title":"Strategy and Globalization (Four-Volume Set) (Contemporary Issues in Business \u0026 Globalization) (1ST ed.)","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVOLUME 1 \n\u003cbr\u003eResources and Competencies for Internationalization \n\u003cbr\u003e Gestion - Louis Hebert \n\u003cbr\u003e The Rise of the Region State - Kenichi Ohmae \n\u003cbr\u003e Taking the High Road when Going International - Joseph A. Monti and George S. Yip \n\u003cbr\u003e Global Strategy: An organizing framework - Sumantra Ghoshal \n\u003cbr\u003e Internationalization Process of Firm - Model of Knowledge Development and Increasing Foreign Market Commitments - J. Johanson and J. Vahlne \n\u003cbr\u003e Diagnosing Global Strategy Potential: The world chocolate confectionery industry - George S. Yip and George A. Coundouriotis \n\u003cbr\u003e Knowledge of the Firm and the Evolutionary - Theory of the Multinational-Corporation, - B. Kogut and U. Zander \n\u003cbr\u003e Going Global Lesson from Late Movers - Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal \n\u003cbr\u003e Charting Strategic Roles for International Factories - Kasra Ferdows \n\u003cbr\u003e Navigating the Five Currents of Globalization: How leading companies are capturing global advantage - Jim Hemerling, David Young and Thomas Bradtke \n\u003cbr\u003e Rethinking Competition - Abbas J. Ali \n\u003cbr\u003eFrom Competition to Co-operation \n\u003cbr\u003e A Note on the Dynamics of Learning Alliances: Competition, cooperation, and relative scope - Andrew C. Inkpen \n\u003cbr\u003e Cross-Border Alliances: Advice from the executive suite - Pieter Klaas Jagersma \n\u003cbr\u003e Knowledge, Bargaining Power, and the Instability of International Joint Ventures - Andrew C. Inkpen and Paul W. Beamish \n\u003cbr\u003e Control and Performance of Internnational Joint Ventures - Michael Geringer and Louis Herbert \n\u003cbr\u003e Learning and Knowledge Acquisition through International Strategic Alliances - Andrew C. Inkpen \n\u003cbr\u003e Reappraising the Eclectic Paradigm in an Age of Alliance Capitalism - John Dunning \n\u003cbr\u003e Critical Contingencies in Joint Venture Management: Some lessons from managers - Robert C. Hill and Don Hellriegel \n\u003cbr\u003e When to Ally and When to Acquire - Jeffrey H. Dyer, Prashant Kale and Harbir Singh \n\u003cbr\u003e Do Firms Learn to Create Value? The Case of Alliances - Bharat N. Anand and Tarun Khanna \n\u003cbr\u003e The Fine Art of Friendly Acquisition - Robert J. Aiello and Michael D. Watkins \n\u003cbr\u003e Integrate Where It Matters - Till Vestring, Ted Rouse and Sam Rovit \n\u003cbr\u003e A Perspective on Global and Regional Strategy - Alan Rugman and Alain Verbeke \n\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME 2 \n\u003cbr\u003eManaging Global Versus Local \n\u003cbr\u003e Tap Your Subsidiaries for Global Reach - Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal \n\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to the Symposium - Lorraine Eden and Stephanie Lenway \n\u003cbr\u003e Organizing for Worldwide Effectiveness: The transnational solution - Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal \n\u003cbr\u003e Attention HQ - Julian Birkinshaw, Cyril Bouquet and Tina Ambos \n\u003cbr\u003e Managing Knowledge in Global Service Firms: Centers of excellence - Karl Moore and Julian Birkinshaw \n\u003cbr\u003e Making Global Strategies Work - W. Chan Kim and Renee A. Mauborgne \n\u003cbr\u003e Is Your Innovation Process Global? - Jose Santos, Yves Doz and Peter Williamson \n\u003cbr\u003e National and Organizational Culture Differences and International Joint Venture Performance - Vijay Pothukuchi, Fariborz Damanpour, Jaepil Choi, Chao C. Chen and Seung Ho Park \n\u003cbr\u003e The Transition from Decentralized to Network-Based MNC Structures: An evolutionary perspective - Thomas W. Malnight \n\u003cbr\u003e The Tortuous Evolution of the Multinational firm - Howard Perlmutter \n\u003cbr\u003e Clusters and the New Economics of Competition - Michael Porter \n\u003cbr\u003e Global Strategy... in a World of Nations - George S. Yip \n\u003cbr\u003e The Competitive Advantage of Nations - Michael E. Porter \n\u003cbr\u003eGlobal Leaders \n\u003cbr\u003e Developing Leaders for the Global Frontier - Hal B. Gregersen, Allen J. Morrison and J. Stewart Black \n\u003cbr\u003e The Transcultural Manager - Karl Moore \n\u003cbr\u003e What did GLOBE Really Measure? Researchers′ minds versus respondents′ minds. - Geert Hofstede \n\u003cbr\u003e Cultivating a Global Mindset - Anil K. Gupta and Vijay Govindarajan \n\u003cbr\u003e The Need for a Corporate Global Mind-Set - Thomas M. Begley and David P. Boyd \n\u003cbr\u003eNewly Emerging Nations \n\u003cbr\u003e The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman \n\u003cbr\u003e The World is Spiky - Richard Florida \n\u003cbr\u003e New Institutional Economics and FDI Location in Central and Eastern Europe. - Robert Grosse and Len J. Trevino \n\u003cbr\u003e The End of Corporate Imperialism - C.K. Prahalad and Kenneth Lieberthal \n\u003cbr\u003e Digitally Empowered Development - Allen L. Hammond \n\u003cbr\u003e Managing Ethically with Global Stakeholders: A present and future challenge - Archie B. Carroll \n\u003cbr\u003e Globalization and the Economic Role of the State in the New Millennium - Joseph Stiglitz \n\u003cbr\u003e Globalization and Growth in Emerging Markets and the New Economy - Joseph Stiglitz \n\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME 3 \n\u003cbr\u003eSome Fundamentals of Strategy \n\u003cbr\u003e The Concept of Corporate Strategy - K.R. Andrews \n\u003cbr\u003e What is Strategy? - Michael E. Porter \n\u003cbr\u003e The Strategy Concept I: Five Ps for strategy - Harry Mintzberg \n\u003cbr\u003e Rethinking Strategic Planning Part I: Pitfalls and fallacies - Harry Mintzberg \n\u003cbr\u003eStrategy, the Environment of the Firm and Competition \n\u003cbr\u003e How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy - Michael E. Porter \n\u003cbr\u003e Global Strategic Analyses: Frameworks and approaches - Howard Thomas, Timothy Pollock and Philip Gorman \n\u003cbr\u003e Decision-driven Scenarios for Assessing four Levels of Uncertainty - Hugh Courtney \n\u003cbr\u003e Is Performance Driven by Industry- or Firm-specific Factors? A new look at the evidence - Gabriel Hawawini, Venkat Subramanian and Paul Verdin \n\u003cbr\u003e Institutional Transitions and Strategic Choices - Mike W. Peng \n\u003cbr\u003eMeeting Stakeholders′ Expectations \n\u003cbr\u003e Strategy and Society: The link between competitive advantage and corporate social responsibility - Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer \n\u003cbr\u003e Stakeholder Influence Strategies - Jeff Frooman \n\u003cbr\u003e Shareholder Value, Stakeholder Management, and Social Issues: What′s the bottom line? - Amy J. Hillman, Gerald D. Keim \n\u003cbr\u003e Proactive Environmental Strategies: A stakeholder management perspective. - Kristel Buysse and Alain Verbeke \n\u003cbr\u003e The Corporate Challenges of Sustainable Development - Pratima Bansal \n\u003cbr\u003e Strategies for Responsible Restructuring - Wayne F. Cascio \n\u003cbr\u003eFrom Resources to Competitive Advantage \n\u003cbr\u003e Resource-based Theories of Competitive Advantage: A ten-year retrospective on the resource-based view - Jay B. Barney \n\u003cbr\u003e Strategy, Value Innovation, and the Knowledge Economy - W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne \n\u003cbr\u003e Toward a Knowledge-based Theory of the Firm - Robert M. Grant \n\u003cbr\u003e Knowledge, Clusters, and Competitive Advantage - Stephen Tallman, Mark Jenkins, Nick Henry and Steven Pinch \n\u003cbr\u003e Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management - David J. Teece, Gary Pisano and Amy Shuen \n\u003cbr\u003e How Valuable are Organizational Capabilities? - David J. Collis \n\u003cbr\u003e The Cornerstones of Competitive Advantage: A resource-based view - Margaret A. Peteraf \n\u003cbr\u003e The Dynamic Resource-based View: Capability lifecycles - Constance E. Helfat and Margaret A. Peteraf \n\u003cbr\u003e Knowledge and the Speed of the Transfer and Imitation of Organizational Capabilities: An empirical test - Udo Zander and Bruce Kogut \n\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME 4 \n\u003cbr\u003eMeeting the Challenge of Growth and Renewal \n\u003cbr\u003e The Dominant Logic: Retrospective and extension - Richard A. Bettis and C.K. Prahalad \n\u003cbr\u003e Strategic Intent - Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad \n\u003cbr\u003e The Icarus Paradox: How exceptional companies bring about their own downfall - Danny Miller \n\u003cbr\u003e Blue Ocean Strategy: From theory to practice - W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne \n\u003cbr\u003e The Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation in Stimulating Effective Corporate Entrepreneurship - Gregory G. Dess and G. T. Lumpkin \n\u003cbr\u003e Creating Knowledge through Collaboration - Andrew C. Inkpen \n\u003cbr\u003e A Process Model of Strategic Business Exit: Implications for an evolutionary perspective on strategy - Robert A. Burgelman \n\u003cbr\u003e Organizational Learning and Strategic Renewal - Mary M. Crossan and Iris Berdrow \n\u003cbr\u003e Customer Power, Strategic Investment, and the Failure of Leading Firms - Clayton M. Christensen and Joseph L. Bower \n\u003cbr\u003e The Art of Continuous Change: Linking complexity theory and time-paced evolution in relentlessly shifting organizations - Shona L. Brown and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt \n\u003cbr\u003eManaging the Multi-Business Firm \n\u003cbr\u003e From Competitive Advantage to Corporate Strategy - Michael E. Porter \n\u003cbr\u003e Corporate Strategy and Parenting Theory - Michael Goold, Andrew Campbell and Marcus Alexander \n\u003cbr\u003e Creating Corporate Advantage - David J. Collis and Cynthia A. Montgomery \n\u003cbr\u003e Configurations Revisited - Danny Miller \n\u003cbr\u003e International Diversification: Effects on innovation and firm performance in product-diversified firms - Michael A. Hitt, Robert E. Hoskisson and Hicheon Kim \n\u003cbr\u003e Learning through Acquisitions - Freek Vermeulen and Harry Barkema \n\u003cbr\u003eLooking at the Future \n\u003cbr\u003e Achieving and Maintaining Strategic Competitiveness in the 21st Century: The role of strategic leadership - R. Duane Ireland and Michael A. Hitt \n\u003cbr\u003e Has Strategy Changed? - Kathleen M. Eisenhardt \n\u003cbr\u003e Are you Sure you have a Strategy? - Donald C. Hambrick and James W. Fredrickson \n\u003cbr\u003e Theory and Research in Strategic Management: Swings of a pendulum - Robert E. Hoskisson, Michael A. Hitt, William P. Wan and Daphne Yiu \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eKarl Moore\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor in the Strategy area at McGill University in Montreal. He has had numerous articles published in the areas of globalization and strategy, in leading academic and executive journals such as Strategy Management Journal, Business History, Marketing Journal, Canadian Journal of Public Health, MIR, European Business Forum, Business Strategy Review, AIB Insights, JIBS, Chief Executive, Human Relations, Leader to Leader, Across the Board, and Strategy + Business. \n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouis Hébert\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of strategy and international business at HEC Montréal. His interests encompass the value creation strategies firm implement to expand and exploit their international scope of activities, in particular through strategic alliances and mergers \u0026amp; acquisitions. Dr. Hébert has taught a variety of courses in International Business and Strategic Management in executive and degree programs in North America, Europe and Asia. He was recently named academic director of the HEC\/McGill EMBA program. He published and presented several papers on the management of joint ventures, the internationalization of the firm and the management of the post-acquisition integration process, among others in JIBS, JBR, Organization Studies and MIR. 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Prior to that, she was a Senior Research Fellow at City University (where the Attitude Measurement volumes were compiled) and a member of the Central Co-ordinating Team and Questionnaire Design Team of the European Social Survey. In this role, she was responsible for a programme of research into the methodological challenges involved in mixing modes of data collection in comparative social surveys, looking at issues such as how to design survey measures that are equivalent across modes. She has a PhD in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her doctoral research investigated the stability of British attitudes towards European integration, focusing on the role played by information, issue involvement and identity in attitude change and the challenges involved in obtaining accurate measures of public opinion. Her recent publications include a co-edited book on cross-national attitude measurement and co-authored papers in the field of public opinion and survey methodology. \n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoger Jowell\u003c\/b\u003e is a Research Professor at City University London and is the Founder Director of its Centre for Comparative Social Surveys. He is the Founder Director of the European Social Survey, an academically-driven, cross-national survey designed to chart the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of European citizens. Prior to joining City, he was the Director of the National Centre for Social Research, which he started in 1969 and helped build into Britain′s largest social research institute. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, an Academician of the Academy for Social Sciences and was awarded a CBE in 2001 for services to social science. He is a recent vice-president of the UK′s Royal Statistical Society. His main research output has been in the field of social and political attitude monitoring and survey methods. His writing has focused primarily on social and political values, social change, voting behaviour and survey methods. His publications include a textbook on survey research, 18 edited books on British Social Attitudes, four co-authored books on British electoral behaviour and a recent co-edited book about the European Social Survey, entitled ′Measuring attitudes cross-nationally′.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVOLUME 1: BASIC CONCEPTS AND HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS \n\u003cbr\u003e Attitudes versus actions - LaPiere, R.T. \n\u003cbr\u003e Attitudes - Allport, G.W. \n\u003cbr\u003e The sociological significance of measurable attitudes - LaPiere, R.T. \n\u003cbr\u003e A consideration of beliefs, and their role in attitude measurement - Fishbein, M. \n\u003cbr\u003e Attitude measurement: a cognitive perspective - Tourangeau, R. \n\u003cbr\u003e A simple theory of the survey response: Answering questions versus revealing preferences - Zaller, J. and Feldman, S. \n\u003cbr\u003e Measuring social distances - Bogardus, E.S. \n\u003cbr\u003e Attitudes can be measured - Thurstone, L.L. \n\u003cbr\u003e A technique for measurement of attitudes - Likert, R. \n\u003cbr\u003e A comparison of the Thurstone and Likert techniques of attitude scale construction - Edwards, A.L. and Kenney, K.C. \n\u003cbr\u003e A basis for scaling qualitative data - Guttman, L. \n\u003cbr\u003e A technique for the construction of attitude scales - Edwards, A.L. and Kilpatrick, F.P. \n\u003cbr\u003e Attitude Measurement - Osgood, C.E., Suci, G.J. and Tannenbaum, P.H. \n\u003cbr\u003e A technique and a model for multi-dimensional attitude scaling - Abelson, R.P. \n\u003cbr\u003e Latent structure analysis - Lazarsfeld, P.F. \n\u003cbr\u003e Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix - Campbell, D.T. and Fiske, D.W. \n\u003cbr\u003e Reliability and validity assessment in attitude measurement - Bohrnstedt, G.W. \n\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME 2: DESIGNING DIRECT MEASURES \n\u003cbr\u003e Open versus closed questions - Schumann, H. and Presser, S. \n\u003cbr\u003e Strong arguments and weak evidence: The openosed questioning controversy of the 1940s - Converse, J.M. \n\u003cbr\u003e The wording of questions - Rugg, D. and Cantril, H. \n\u003cbr\u003e Experiments in wording opinion questions - Kalton, G., Collins, M., and Brook, L. \n\u003cbr\u003e Three-point Likert scales are good enough - Jacoby, J. and Matell, M.S. \n\u003cbr\u003e Are three-point scales always good enough? - Lehman, D.R., and Hulbert, J. \n\u003cbr\u003e The relationship between number of response categories and reliability of Likert-type questionnaires - Masters, J.R. \n\u003cbr\u003e The optimal number of response alternatives for a scale: A review - Cox, E.P. \n\u003cbr\u003e Feeling thermometers versus 7-point scales: Which are better? - Alwin, D.F. \n\u003cbr\u003e How often is often? - Hakel, M.D. \n\u003cbr\u003e Often is where you find it - Chase, C.I. \n\u003cbr\u003e Vague quantifiers - Bradburn, N.M. and Miles, C. \n\u003cbr\u003e Extreme response on a Likert scale - Albaum, G. and Murphy, B.D. \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Don′t know\" Item ambiguity or respondent uncertainty? - Coombs, C.H. and Coombs, L.C. \n\u003cbr\u003e Decisions about ignorance: Knowing that you don′t know - Glucksberg, S. and McCloskey, M. \n\u003cbr\u003e \"No-opinion\" filters: A cognitive perspective - Hippler, H.J. and Schwarz, N. \n\u003cbr\u003e Should we take don′t know for an answer? - Gilljam, M., and Granberg, D. \n\u003cbr\u003e The impact of no opinion response options on data quality: Non-attitude reduction or an invitation to satisfice? - Krosnick, J.A., Holbrook, A.L., Berent, M.K., Carson, R.T., Hanemann, W.M., Kopp, R.J., Mitchell, R.C., Presser, S., Ruud, P.A., Smith, V.K., Moody, W.R., Green, M.C., and Conaway, M. \n\u003cbr\u003e Response alternatives: The impact of their choice and presentation order. - Schwarz, N. and Hippler, H.J. \n\u003cbr\u003e The effect of ordinal position upon responses to items in a checklist - Campbell, D.T. and Mohr, P.J. \n\u003cbr\u003e The effects of offering a middle response option with opinion questions - Kalton, G., Roberts, J. and Holt, D. \n\u003cbr\u003e The middlemost choice on attitude items: Ambivalence, neutrality, or uncertainty - Klopfer, F.J. and Madden, T.M. \n\u003cbr\u003e Experiments with the middle response alternative in survey questions - Bishop, G.F. \n\u003cbr\u003e The measurement of attitudes - Krosnick, J.A., Judd, C.M. and Wittenbrink, B. \n\u003cbr\u003e The retrospective question - Fink, R. \n\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME 3: OBSTACLES TO DIRECT MEASUREMENT \n\u003cbr\u003e Response sets and test validity - Cronbach, L.J. \n\u003cbr\u003e The great response-style myth - Rorer, L.G. \n\u003cbr\u003e Attitude intensity, importance and certainty and susceptibility to response effects - Krosnick, J.A. and Schuman, H. \n\u003cbr\u003e Response strategies for coping with the cognitive demands of attitude measures in surveys - Krosnick, J.A. \n\u003cbr\u003e Effects of presenting one versus two sides of an issue in survey questions - Bishop, G.F., Oldendick, R.W. and Tuchfarber, A.J. \n\u003cbr\u003e Not forbidding isn′t allowing: The cognitive basis of the forbid-allow symmetry - Hippler, H.J. and Schwarz, N. \n\u003cbr\u003e The effect of question order on responses - Bradburn, N.M. and Mason, W.M. \n\u003cbr\u003e An evaluation of a cognitive theory of response-order effects in survey measurement - Krosnick, J.A. and Alwin, D.F. \n\u003cbr\u003e Context and congruity in survey questionnaires - Schuman, H., Kalton, G. and Ludwig, J. \n\u003cbr\u003e Cognitive processes underlying context effects in attitude measurement - Tourangeau, R. and Rasinski, K.A. \n\u003cbr\u003e Acquiescence: Measurement and theory - Martin, J. \n\u003cbr\u003e Controlling for acquiescence response set in scale development - Winkler, J.D., Kanouse, D.E., and Ware, J.E. \n\u003cbr\u003e Privacy and the expression of white racial attitudes - Krysan, M. \n\u003cbr\u003e The effect of black and white interviewers in black responses - Schuman, H. and Converse, J.M. \n\u003cbr\u003e The nature of belief systems in the mass public - Converse, P.E. \n\u003cbr\u003e Pseudo-opinions on public affairs - Bishop, G.F., Oldendick, R.W., Tuchfarber, A.J. and Bennett, S.E. \n\u003cbr\u003e Public opinion and public ignorance: The fine line between attitudes and nonattitudes - Schumann, H. and Presser, S. \n\u003cbr\u003e Question wording effects: Presenting one or both sides of the case - Hedges, B.M. \n\u003cbr\u003e Nonattitudes: A review and evaluation - Smith, T.W. \n\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME 4: EXPANDING THE MEASUREMENT HORIZONS \n\u003cbr\u003e The indirect assessment of social attitudes - Campbell, D.T. \n\u003cbr\u003e New technologies for the direct and indirect assessment of attitudes - Dovidio, J.F. and Fazio, R.H. \n\u003cbr\u003e Evidence for racial prejudice at the implicit level and its relationship with questionnaire measures - Wittenbrink, B., Judd, C.M. and Park, B. \n\u003cbr\u003e Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition: The implicit association test. - Greenwald, A.G., McGhee, D.E. and Schwartz, J.L.K. \n\u003cbr\u003e Implicit attitude measures: Consistency, stability and convergent validity - Cunningham, W.A., Preacher, K.J. and Banaji, M.R. \n\u003cbr\u003e Implicit measures in social cognition research: Their meaning and uses - Fazio, R.H. and Olson, M.A. \n\u003cbr\u003e Physiological techniques of attitude measurement - Mueller, D.J. \n\u003cbr\u003e Galvanic skin response to negro and white experimenters - Rankin, R.E. and Campbell, D.T. \n\u003cbr\u003e Attitude and pupil size - Hess, E.H. \n\u003cbr\u003e A projective method for the study of attitudes - Proshansky, H.M. \n\u003cbr\u003e Measuring attitudes by error-choice: an indirect method - Hammond, K.R. \n\u003cbr\u003e Asking the embarrassing question - Barton, A.M. \n\u003cbr\u003e The lost-letter technique: A tool for social research - Milgram, S., Mainn, L. and Harter, S. \n\u003cbr\u003e Twenty years of bogus pipeline research: A critical review and meta-analysis - Roese, N.J. and Jamieson, D.W. \n\u003cbr\u003e Randomized response: A survey technique for eliminating evasive answer bias - Warner, S.L. \n\u003cbr\u003e A multiple-indicator approach to attitude measurement - 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But the ever-increasing popularity of survey research as a source of what the public thinks and feels about a wide range of issues has brought the subject into the popular arena, heightening the relevance of the theory and practice of attitude measurement. \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eCaroline Roberts and Roger Jowell, acknowledged specialists in this area of research, have combed the literature to bring together the most comprehensive collection available. The four volumes cover key advances since serious study of the subject began, where the selection of articles and papers present the key figures, major steps forward in theory or practice and some of the most creative and ingenious methodological work in the social sciences. This set will provide a rich reference source that should appeal to academics and practitioners alike. \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eVolume 1 - Basic concepts and historical foundations \n\u003cbr\u003eVolume 2 - Designing direct measures \n\u003cbr\u003eVolume 3 - Obstacles to direct measurement \n\u003cbr\u003eVolume 4 - Expanding the measurement horizons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eRoberts, Caroline\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tI am an applied environmental scientist with specific interests in sustainable water resource management. Iam also the Director of the Technology Strategy Board-funded 'Environmental Sustainability Knowledge Transfer Network' (ESKTN), based at the University of Oxford. * The ESKTN is accelerating the UK's transition to a low carbon, resource and energy efficient economy by connecting businesses, universities and Government agencies, and catalysing innovation across a wide range of environmental technologies. I have also been a frequent expert witness in Public Inquiries and Crown Court. Most recently I was the Technical Adviser to Gloucestershire County Council following the severe flooding in summer 2007, and I continue to advise local authorities on flooding. The Gloucestershire event was the largest civil emergency in the UK, ever; and this project explore this theme further. I was previously Associate Dean of the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Sciences at the University of Gloucestershire and Director of the Centre for Active Learning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eJowell, Roger\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWe were very sorry to hear that Sir Roger Jowell passed away over Christmas. Roger was the Founder and Director of the National Centre for Social Research, Britain's largest social research institute until 2001, and in 2008 was knighted for his services to the social sciences. We were very privileged to have worked with Roger as an author and friend for many years, most notably on one of his legacy works, the British Social Attitudes report series. In 1983 when it first launched, it was already a significant undertaking, surveying 1700 people in its first year. In an era where surveys were ad hoc and sporadic, work like this made it clear how important tracking opinion and trends over time would be. Writing in that first edition, Roger wrote: \"The term 'public opinion' is in itself misleading. Our data demonstrate that on nearly all social issues there are actually several publics and many opinions.\" Published by SAGE since 2000 it is now in its 28th volume and continues to be just as challenging, and as important. Roger was also co-founder and Director of the European Social Survey (ESS), a 34-nation comparative study of changing social values throughout Europe. We published the initial book of methods and findings: Measuring Attitudes Cross-Nationally: Lessons from the European Social Survey in 2007. A key figure for the social sciences he was also, simply, an extremely nice man and a pleasure to work with. 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Keohane \n\u003cbr\u003e A Functional Theory of International Regimes - Robert O. Keohane \n\u003cbr\u003eConstructivist and Normative Approaches \n\u003cbr\u003e Introduction - Christian Reus-Smit \n\u003cbr\u003e How do Norms Matter? - Friedrich V Kratochwil \n\u003cbr\u003e Toward a Theory of International Relations: Some Conceptual and Measurement Issues - Gary Goertz and Paul F Diehl \n\u003cbr\u003e Explaining the Strategic Behavior of States: International Law as System Structure - Stephen A Kocs \n\u003cbr\u003e Legitimacy in the International System - Thomas M Franck \n\u003cbr\u003eLegalization and Judicialization \n\u003cbr\u003e The Concept of Legalization - Kenneth W Abbott, Robert O Keohane, Andrew Moravcsik, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Duncan Snidal \n\u003cbr\u003e Judicialization and the Construction of Governance - Alec Stone Sweet \n\u003cbr\u003ePART TWO - International Law and International Relations - the Conceptual Terrain \n\u003cbr\u003eSovereignty \n\u003cbr\u003e Sovereignty and Its Discontents - Stephen D Krasner \n\u003cbr\u003e A New Sovereignty Regime - Robert H Jackson \n\u003cbr\u003e Who is Sovereign? - Richard H Steinberg \n\u003cbr\u003e International Integration and Democracy: No Love at First Sight - Eric Stein \n\u003cbr\u003eInternational and Domestic Settings \n\u003cbr\u003e International Law and Domestic Institutions: Reconciling North American \"Unfair\" Trade Laws - Judith Goldstein \n\u003cbr\u003e Domestic Politics and International Resources: What Role for International Law? - Eyal Benvenisti \n\u003cbr\u003e The European Union′s Legal System and Domestic Policy: Spillover or Backlash? - Karen J Alter \n\u003cbr\u003e How Do International Institutions Matter? The Domestic Impact of International Rules and Norms - Andrew P Cortell and James W Davis, Jr. \n\u003cbr\u003e How International Human Rights Law Affects Domestic Law - Roger S Clark \n\u003cbr\u003e International Commitment and Domestic Politics: A Note on the Maastricht Case - Ralph Rotte \n\u003cbr\u003eDemocracies and International Law \n\u003cbr\u003e International Law in a World of Liberal States - Anne-Marie Slaughter \n\u003cbr\u003e Do Liberal States Behave Better? A Critique of Slaughter′s Liberal Theory - Jose E Alvarez \n\u003cbr\u003e Democratic States and Commitment in International Relations - Kurt Taylor Gaubatz \n\u003cbr\u003e The Argument in a Nutshell - Charles Lipson \n\u003cbr\u003e Uniting for Peace?: Democracies and United Nations Peace Operations after the Cold War - James H Lebovic \n\u003cbr\u003ePART THREE - Institutions and Theories of Compliance \n\u003cbr\u003eInternational Design \n\u003cbr\u003e The Design of International Agreements - Andrew T Guzman \n\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of Dispute Settlement Design: Explaining Legalism in Regional Trade Pacts - James McCall Smith \n\u003cbr\u003e Contracting around International Uncertainty - Barbara Korremenos \n\u003cbr\u003e The Optimal Design of International Trade Institutions: Uncertainty and Escape - B Peter Rosendorff and Helen V Milner \n\u003cbr\u003eCompliance \n\u003cbr\u003e Compliance with International Agreements - Beth A Simmons \n\u003cbr\u003e International Law, International Relations and Compliance - Kal Raustiala and Anne-Marie Slaughter \n\u003cbr\u003e Is the Good News about Compliance Good News about Cooperation? - George W Downs, David M Rocke and Peter N Barsoom \n\u003cbr\u003e Reputation, Compliance and International Law - George W Downs and Michael A Jones \n\u003cbr\u003e Compliance and Post-Agreement Bargaining - Christer Joensson and Jonas Tallberg \n\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Law and compliance at different levels - Michael Zuern \n\u003cbr\u003e Contested Compliance: Interventions on the Normative Structure of World Politics - Antje Wiener \n\u003cbr\u003eAdjudication \n\u003cbr\u003e Toward a Theory of Effective Supranational Adjudication - Lawrence R Helfer and Anne-Marie Slaughter \n\u003cbr\u003e Capacity, Commitment, and Compliance: International Institutes and Territorial Disputes - Beth A Simmons \n\u003cbr\u003e European before the Court: A Political Theory if Legal Integration - Anne-Marie Burley and Walter Mattli \n\u003cbr\u003e The European Court of Justice, National Governments, and Legal Integration in the European Union - Geoffrey Garrett, R Daniel Kelemen and Heiner Schulz \n\u003cbr\u003e Private Justice in a Global Economy: From Litigation to Arbitration - Walter Mattli \n\u003cbr\u003e Law, politics, and international governance - Wayne Sandholtz and Alec Stone Sweet \n\u003cbr\u003e How International is \"International\" Law? - Kurt Taylor Gaubatz and Matthew MacArthur \n\u003cbr\u003e Trials and Errors: Principle and Pragmatism in Strategies of International Justice - Jack Snyder and Leslie Vinjamuri \n\u003cbr\u003ePART FOUR - Issue Areas \n\u003cbr\u003eEconomic and Property Rights Cooperation \n\u003cbr\u003e In the Shadow of Law or Power? Consensus-Based Bargaining and Outcomes in the GATT\/WTO - Richard H Steinberg \n\u003cbr\u003e To Settle of Empanel? An Empirical Analysis of Litigation and Settlement at the World Trade Organization - Andrew Guzman and Beth A Simmons \n\u003cbr\u003e Developing Countries as Plaintiffs and Defendants in GATT\/WTO Trade Disputes - Chad P Bown \n\u003cbr\u003e International Law and State Behavior: Commitment and Compliance in International Monetary Affairs - Beth A Simmons \n\u003cbr\u003e Moments in law: contestation and settlement in the history of intellectual property - Susan Sell and Christopher May \n\u003cbr\u003e Making Rules for Governing Global Commons: The Case of Deep-Sea Mining - Thomas Braeuninger and Thomas Koenig \n\u003cbr\u003eSecurity, Use of Force, and the Laws of War \n\u003cbr\u003e The Territorial Integrity Norm: International Boundaries and the Use of Force - Mark W Zacher \n\u003cbr\u003e International Legal Norms and the Preservation of Peace, 1820-1964: Some Evidence and Bivariate Relationships - Charles W Kegley and Gregory A Raymond \n\u003cbr\u003e The Collapse of Consent: Is a Legalist Use-of-Force Regime Possible? - Michael J Glennon \n\u003cbr\u003e The Laws of War, Common Conjectures, and Legal Systems in International Politics - James D Morrow \n\u003cbr\u003e The New Law of War: Legitimizing Hi-Tech and Infrastructural Violence - Thomas W Smith \n\u003cbr\u003e Which Norms Matter? Revisiting the \"Failure\" of Internationalism - Jeffrey W Legro \n\u003cbr\u003e Scraps of Paper? Agreements and Durability of Peace - Virginia Page Fortna \n\u003cbr\u003eHuman Rights, Humanitarian Intervention and War Crimes \n\u003cbr\u003e Reevaluating Alliance Reliability: Specific Threats, Specific Promises - Brett Ashley Leeds, Andrew G Long and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell \n\u003cbr\u003e The Origins of Human Rights Regimes: Democratic Delegation in Postwar Europe - Andrew Moravcsik \n\u003cbr\u003e Sovereignty Relinquished? Explaining Commitment to the International Human Rights Covenants, 1966-1999 - Wade M Cole \n\u003cbr\u003e Do Human Rights Treaties Make a Difference? - Oona A Hathaway \n\u003cbr\u003e The socialization of international human rights norms into domestic human practices: introduction - Thomas Risse and Kathryn Sikkink \n\u003cbr\u003e International Relations Theory, International Law, and the Regime Governing Atrocities in Internal Conflicts - Kenneth W Abbott \n\u003cbr\u003e Victor′s Justice or the Law? Judging and Punishing at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia - James Meernik \n\u003cbr\u003e Explaining the International Criminal Court: A \"Practice Test\" for Rationalist and Constructivist Approaches - Caroline Fehl \n\u003cbr\u003eEnvironment \n\u003cbr\u003e Compliance with International Treaties: Lessons from International Oil Pollution - Ronald B Mitchell \n\u003cbr\u003e Getting Countries to Comply with International Agreements - Edith Brown Weiss and Harold K Jacobsen \n\u003cbr\u003e Measuring the Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes - Carsten Helm and Detlef Sprinz \n\u003cbr\u003e Trade-Environment Negotiations in the EU, NAFTA, and WTO: Regional Trajectories of Rule Development - Richard H Steinberg \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePre-publication price: £475.00\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNormal price: £525.00\u003c\/p\u003e \n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe role of law in world politics has become a major part of the study of international relations in the last fifteen years. This six-volume set brings together in a single source articles that reflect the spectrum of theoretical and empirical work on International Law in the social sciences. 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This four-volume set brings together in a single source articles that reflect the spectrum of theoretical and empirical work on International Law in the social sciences. Together they address the central questions about the necessity, development and role of International Law: \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- How do international norms and rules about behavior develop?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Do they influence important aspects of interactions among states and other entities?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- How do they condition international politics?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart 1: \u003cb\u003eApproaches to the Study of International Law\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistory and Background, Realism and International Law: Constructivist and Normative Approaches: Legalization and Judicialization: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart 2: \u003cb\u003eInternational Law and International Relations: The Conceptual Terrain\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSovereignty, International and Domestic Settings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInstitutional Design, Compliance, Adjudication\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDemocracies and International Law\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart 3: \u003cb\u003eIssue Areas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEconomic and Property Rights Cooperation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecurity, Use of Force, and the Laws of War\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHuman Rights, Humanitarian Intervention and War Crimes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eSimmons, Beth A\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBeth Simmon\u003c\/b\u003es is a Professor of Government at Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts. Previous positions include Assistant Professor at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) and Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests include international law, international human rights, and international political economy. She is author of Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years, 1924-1939 (1995), and is currently working on a book length manuscript on compliance with international human rights obligations. 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Renzetti\u003c\/b\u003e, PhD, is the Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair in the Center for Research on Violence Against Women, and Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Kentucky. She is editor of the international, interdisciplinary journal, \u003ci\u003eViolence Against Women\u003c\/i\u003e; co-editor with Jeffrey Edleson of the Interpersonal Violence book series for Oxford University Press; and editor of the Gender and Justice book series for University of California Press. She has authored or edited 25 books as well as numerous book chapters and articles in professional journals. Much of her research has focused on the violent victimization experiences of socially and economically marginalized women. Her current research includes studies examining the relationship between religiosity and intimate partner violence perpetration, an evaluation of a horticultural therapy program at a shelter for battered women, and a study of potential jurors' prototypes of sex trafficking victims and perpetrators. She has held elected and appointed leadership positions in national and regional professional organizations, and has been honored with awards for her work to improve the quality of life and the health and safety of women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey L. Edleson, PhD, \u003c\/b\u003eis Dean and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Social Welfare. He is Professor Emeritus in the University of Minnesota School of Social Work and founding director of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse. He has published more than 130 articles and 12 books on domestic violence, group work, and program evaluation. Edleson recently served on the US National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"The first attempt at a comprehensive work on interpersonal violence, this encyclopedia should be considered the resource to consult for those interested in various aspects of this social problem. Written by expert contributors who examine the occurrence and prevalence of all forms of interpersonal violence, the 500 easy-to-read, jargon-free entries provide definitions of key concepts, theoretical principles, relevant legislation, and public policies on the topic. The work will prove useful for students at all academic levels searching for information on the topic and will serve as a primer to those interested in pursuing a career in related disciplines. Practitioners and clinicians in a wide range of fields will also find it a helpful guide to statistics, theories, policies, and programs aimed at dealing with interpersonal violence. Renzetti is a recognized expert in the field and author of the best-selling Women, Men, and Society. Edleson is coeditor of the Sage book series on violence against women and author of numerous articles and books on domestic violence, group work, and program evaluation. BOTTOM LINE Providing accurate, research-supported information needed to educate the public about different forms of interpersonal violence, this distinctive work is a great reference point to Oxford University′s \"Interpersonal Violence\" series by the same two editors. Recommended for public, high school, and academic libraries.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003c\/em\u003eLuis J. Gonzalez, Hunter Coll. Libs., New York--Luis J. Gonzalez, (10\/1\/2008 12:00:00 AM)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCaregivers and Violence - Traci LaLiberte, Elizabeth Lightfoot \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"Interpersonal violence encompasses a wide range of human behaviors. Assault, bullying, child abuse, discrimination, domestic violence, genocide, kidnapping, murder, neglect, rape, self-inflicted injuries, stalking, terrorism and torture may all be defined as violence between individuals. The scope of this encyclopedia covers almost all forms of violence, except armed conflict between nations. Coverage includes both the victims and the perpetrators of violence, with the emphasis upon research-supported studies. More than 500 expert written essays are aimed at students and professionals in social work, criminal justice, education, health care, psychology and counseling, in addition to policy makers in public health and government. Many entries focus on those susceptible to violence, particularly to women, children, the elderly, immigrants, the poor and the homeless. Family and sexual violence are given extra attention. However, there is near equal coverage of those who commit violence. This applies to descriptions of support groups and intervention programs as well as discussions of associated disorders, syndromes and research organizations. Other articles define types of violence; describes its incidence in the United States; and outlines efforts made to combat the problem. Forms or emotional and cultural coercion also are featured. Theoretical approaches examine biochemical factors, socialization issues and subcultures associated with violence. The research methods and instruments for studying both victims and abusers are explained. Also examined are the legislative and responded of our society to violence, from gun control to prosecutorial practices. Supplemental materials include extensive lists of contact information for state, national and international agencies, research organizations, support groups and recovery programs. A substantial statistical section provides data on American crimes from 2002-2006. The is somewhat limited for a scholarly work, but each article provides substantial suggestions for further research. From assisted suicide and battered women to human trafficking and sex offenders, this guide provides an excellent overview of the state research on interpersonal violence. This set is highly recommended for academic libraries.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e--John R. M. Lawrence--John R. M. 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From aversive therapy to twelve-step programs, many entries explore the effectiveness of various treatment options. Social support groups, barriers to recovery and relapse prevention are also emphasized. The scope also includes behavioral addictions such as eating disorders, gambling and compulsive shopping. Preparation for the profession is heavily featured in numerous articles on standards, training, ethics and professional organizations. An emphasis on expectations and current practice make this set an excellent resource for those preparing for work in these fields. Therefore, this title is highly appropriate for academic libraries.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e--John R. M. Lawrence--John R. M. 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Music and popular art.;Includes bibliographical references and index.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume 1: Theater, Film, and Television\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. The Politics of Representation in African American Theater and Drama\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrandi Wilkins Catanese\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Silent Cinema\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDaniel Bernardi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Early African American Pioneers in Independent Cinema: From Humor as Camouflage to Provocation as Revelation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharlene Regester\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Women in Film\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIngrid Banks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Urban Cinema\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaula Massood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Contemporary Independent Filmmakers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTerri Francis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. Television and Civil Rights\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAniko Bodroghkozy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. Racism and Television\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVictoria Johnson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Stereotypes\/ Leading Roles in African American Television\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAngela Nelson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. Sitcoms\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBambi Haggins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. Mainstream African American Cinema\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWendy Sung\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. Oprah's Influence on Pop Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGladys L. Knight\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Editor and Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume 2: Sports\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Black Female Athletes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAngie-Marie Hancock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Pavement, Prejudice, and Perseverance: The Integration of African Americans in College Basketball\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrandon Martin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. A Dream Deferred: African Americans in Baseball\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Nowatzki\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Golf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarvin P. Dawkins and A. C. Tellison Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. African Americans and Sports Television: Symbols and Signs; Dollars, Decay, and Dysfunctionality\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Leonard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. NBA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSanford Richmond\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. NFL Quarterbacks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrandon E. Martin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. NFL\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKeith Harrison\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Olympics and Civil Rights\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDave Zirin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. Tennis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCecil Harris\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. Boxing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrandon E. Martin \u0026amp; Dennis A. Kramer II\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Editor and Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume 3: Music and Popular Art\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Black Radio Stations and the Community\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarmen Manning-Miller\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Church\/Gospel Music\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMilmon Harrison\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Rock n Roll\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaureen E. Mahon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Hip Hop Moguls\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristopher Holmes Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. The Roots and Aesthetic Foundation of Hip Hop Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCheryl Keyes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. The Blues\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDon Cusic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. Jazz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRon McCurdy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. Comic Books and Superheroes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKeith Booker and Terrence Tucker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Stand-Up Comedy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeon Rappoport\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Editor and Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTodd Boyd\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Critical Studies in U.S.C.'s School of Cinematic Arts, where he also holds the Katherine and Frank Price Endowed Chair for the Study of Race and Popular Culture. Boyd is an accomplished author, media commentator, producer, and consultant. His six books include \u003ci\u003eThe Notorious Ph.D's Guide to the Super Fly 70s: A Connoisseur's Journey Through the Fabulous Flix, Hip Sounds, and Cool Vibes That Defined a Decade\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eYoung, Black, Rich, and Famous: The Rise of the NBA, the Hip Hop Invasion, and the Transformation of American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \u003ci\u003eBasketball Jones: America above the Rim\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003eOut of Bounds: Sports, Media and the Politics of Identity\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), \u003ci\u003eAm I Black Enough For You?: Popular Culture from the 'Hood and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), and \u003ci\u003eThe New H.N.I.C: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), which was cited in Vibe magazine's 10th anniversary issue (2003) as one of the landmark books written on hip hop culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe African American influence on popular culture is among the most sweeping and lasting this country has seen. Despite a history of institutionalized racism, black artists, entertainers, and entrepreneurs have had enormous impact on American popular culture. Pioneers such as Oscar Michaeux, Paul Robeson, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Langston Hughes, Bill Bojangles Robinson, and Bessie Smith paved the way for Jackie Robinson, Nina Simone, James Baldwin, Bill Russell, Muhammad Ali, Sidney Poitier, and Bill Cosby, who in turn opened the door for Spike Lee, Dave Chappelle, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, Tiger Woods, and Michael Jordan. Today, hip hop is the most powerful element of youth culture; white teenagers outnumber blacks as purchasers of rap music; black-themed movies are regularly successful at the box office, and black writers have been anthologized and canonized right alongside white ones. 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Overall the essays are well written, relevant, and accessible, and the index thorough...\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...the series is a good addition to high school, public, and undergraduate libraries.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eARBA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The individual topics are well-chosen and occasionally pleasantly surprising, featuring considerations of superheroes, hip-hop moguls, and sports television, and each topic is covered by either an academic specialist in the field or (as in the case of the sports essays) a non-academic expert. . . . an excellent collection of general writings on popular culture that might nonetheless be too advanced for high school and public library audiences. Highly recommended for all academic library collections.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMultiCultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This three-volume set illustrates how popular culture has been uniquely influenced by African Americans. . . . Boyd is a recognized expert on popular culture, particularly regarding race, media, hip-hop culture and sports.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatholic Library World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe African American influence on popular culture is among the most sweeping and lasting this country has seen. Despite a history of institutionalized racism, black artists, entertainers, and entrepreneurs have had enormous impact on American popular culture. Pioneers such as Oscar Michaeux, Paul Robeson, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Langston Hughes, Bill Bojangles Robinson, and Bessie Smith paved the way for Jackie Robinson, Nina Simone, James Baldwin, Bill Russell, Muhammad Ali, Sidney Poitier, and Bill Cosby, who in turn opened the door for Spike Lee, Dave Chappelle, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, Tiger Woods, and Michael Jordan. Today, hip hop is the most powerful element of youth culture; white teenagers outnumber blacks as purchasers of rap music; black-themed movies are regularly successful at the box office, and black writers have been anthologized and canonized right alongside white ones. 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The scope of the project is vast, including: popular historical movements like the Harlem Renaissance; the legacy of African American comedy; African Americans and the Olympics; African Americans and rock 'n roll; more contemporary articulations such as hip hop culture and black urban cinema; and much more. 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He is the author of \u003ci\u003eNature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNature and the Environment in Twentieth-Century American Life\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonna L. Lybecker\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of political science at Idaho State University. She received her MA from Tulane University and her PhD from Colorado State University where she focused on Environmental Politics and Latin America. 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But to best understand these contemporary debates, students need to understand the long history of these environmental concerns. Great Debates in American Environmental History examines over 200 of the most important and controversial environmental issues in the history of the United States, conveniently organizing them in chronological order from the Colonial period to the present. Each entry describes the issue, the stakeholders of various positions, and both the immediate outcome of the debate, and the long-term consequences of the result.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreat Debates in American Environmental History examines in detail the environmental issues surrounding such turning points in the history of the United States as: The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and the resulting addition of the Great Plains to the United States. The controversial mid-19th century plans for a large urban park in the middle of Manhattan, now known as Central Park. The debates over the federal land grants given to railroads in the 1860s to spur the construction of transcontinental rail, and the resulting environmental effects that impact much of the West today. The 1921 discovery of tetraethyl lead as an anti-knock gasoline additive, which was put on the market with little research as to the health impact. The current debates over the drilling for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR.\u003cbr\u003eEach entry includes all sides of the issue and concludes with a list of resources for further reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"America's history has been shaped not only by political events but also by its environment. Beginning with the establishment of the English Colonies in the late 16th century, this two-volume set edited by Lybecker (political science, Idaho State Univ.) and Black (history \u0026amp; environmental science, Penn State Univ., Altoona; Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Life) presents a chronological view of selected events that demonstrate how the American people have used and adapted the environment to suit their needs and the environment has influenced the American people. Headers for each of the 160-plus articles list the time period being discussed, opposing people or groups during the event, other interested parties, and the general environmental issues under discussion. Subjects covered include political and ecological developments, environmental conservation, agriculture, scalable development, and pollution. Lewis and Clark, American expansion, energy development, and Love Canal articles count among the events covered. The easy-to-read entries vary between one and seven pages in length and conclude with a brief list of sources and titles for further reading.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Black and Lybecker take a more measured and calmly descriptive appraoch than some previous books on environmental history. This resource will be useful to high-school and college students and teachers along with the general public and is well worth consideration by most libraries.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a very useful set of volumes to have available to any college environmental studies program. . . . These volumes are recommended for libraries that have science and contemporary policy collections, especially those accessed by faculty and students in environmental studies programs.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eARBA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStudents today are often confronted with alarms and concerns over the state of the environment. Global warming, biodiversity, genetically engineered food - disputes over such topics are a constant refrain. But to best understand these contemporary debates, students need to understand the long history of these environmental concerns. Great Debates in American Environmental History examines over 200 of the most important and controversial environmental issues in the history of the United States, conveniently organizing them in chronological order from the Colonial period to the present. Each entry describes the issue, the stakeholders of various positions, and both the immediate outcome of the debate, and the long-term consequences of the result.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreat Debates in American Environmental History examines in detail the environmental issues surrounding such turning points in the history of the United States as: The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and the resulting addition of the Great Plains to the United States. The controversial mid-19th century plans for a large urban park in the middle of Manhattan, now known as Central Park. The debates over the federal land grants given to railroads in the 1860s to spur the construction of transcontinental rail, and the resulting environmental effects that impact much of the West today. The 1921 discovery of tetraethyl lead as an anti-knock gasoline additive, which was put on the market with little research as to the health impact. 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The Balkans Campaign\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXXVII. The Invasion of Crete\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXXVIII. The Siege of Britain, Late 1940 to May 1941 21\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXXIX. The North African Sideshow\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXXX. Prelude to Barbarossa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXXXI. Operation Barbarossa: The Invasion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXXXII. Stalins Winter Offensive, 1941-1942\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXXXIII. The Holocaust Begins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXXXIV. The Desert War\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXXXVI. Crisis in the Desert\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXXXVI. The Battle of El Alamein\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXXXVII. The Holocaust Continues\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXXXVIII. The Battle of the North Atlantic, 1941-42\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXXXIX. The Bombings Begin (1942)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXL. Hitlers Summer Offensive, 1942\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXLI. The Battle of Stalingrad\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppendix 1 Table of Comparative Ranks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppendix 2 German Staff Positions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppendix 3 German Units, Ranks and Strengths\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppendix 4 Characteristics of Selected Tanks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppendix 5 Luftwaffe Aviation Units, Strengths and Ranks of Commanders\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rise of the Wehrmacht\u003c\/i\u003e is the first comprehensive work to deal with the German war effort in World War II from this point of view. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it covers the entire war effort from the point of view of the German military that actually conducted and fought the war, something that has never been done before on this scale. Excellent books have been written about the German Army, Navy, the Luftwaffe, and the SS, as well as about the Panzer branch, the parachute arm, the U-Boat forces, etc., but this is the first to cover them all in depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMitcham also covers the German Wehrkreise (roughly translated as military district) system in depth and recognizes its importance, both in the formation and expansion of the German Army before the war and in its continuing importance throughout the conflict. He deals with the German rearmament in greater depth and detail than has been done before, points out the importance of the police in the development of Germany's reserves before and during World War II, and offers new insights into the evolution and development of the German military doctrine of Kesselschlact (the decisive battle of encirclement and annihilation). In addition, \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of the Wehrmacht\u003c\/i\u003e explains the problems the Wehrmacht faced because of its too rapid expansion. This expansion was far more rapid than the German generals intended and resulted in many problems, especially in terms of equipment shortages and a shortage of qualified officers. Finally, Mitcham addresses the contributions of the Hitler Youth to the war effort, where their work on farms, fire and rescue crews, in nursing, and as postal workers, for example, provided essential services to German infrastructure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This volume will be an excellent addition to all collections dealing with WW II. ...A very readable book for all WW II collections. Summing Up: Highly recommended.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Rise of the Wehrmacht: The German Armed Forces and World War II\u003c\/i\u003e is the first comprehensive work to deal with the German war effort in World War II from this point of view. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it covers the entire war effort from the point of view of the German military that actually conducted and fought the war, something that has never been done before on this scale.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLt. Colonel Robert A. 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Excellent books have been written about the German Army, Navy, the Luftwaffe, and the SS, as well as about the Panzer branch, the parachute arm, the U-Boat forces, etc., but this is the first to cover them all in depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMitcham also covers the German Wehrkreise (roughly translated as military district) system in depth and recognizes its importance, both in the formation and expansion of the German Army before the war and in its continuing importance throughout the conflict. He deals with the German rearmament in greater depth and detail than has been done before, points out the importance of the police in the development of Germany's reserves before and during World War II, and offers new insights into the evolution and development of the German military doctrine of Kesselschlact (the decisive battle of encirclement and annihilation). 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