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Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit
Detroit in the 1960s was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr., dancing in the street with Martha and the Vandellas, and facing off with city police. Through it all, Motown provided the beat. This book tells the story of Motown--as both musical style and entr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Possibilities and Problems in America's New Urban Centers: The Rise of Cities (America's Industrial Society in the 19th Century Ser.)
Discusses the problems faced in the cities during the Industrial Revoultion, including over-crowding, poor working conditions, and low wages. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Multispecies Archaeology (Archaeological Orientations)
Multispecies Archaeology explores the issue of ecological and cultural novelty in the archaeological record from a multispecies perspective. Human exceptionalism and our place in nature have long been topics of academic consideration and archaeology has been synonymous with an axclusively human past... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Geographies of International Student Mobility: Spaces, Places and Decision-Making
This book offers critical insights into the geographies of the international student higher education experience from initial recruitment, through to the plethora of personal factors which influence their decisions to become mobile and experiences when abroad. From the student perspective these incl... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Fertile Bonds: Bedouin Class, Kinship, and Gender in the Bekaa Valley
"Provides rich new ethnographic material on a little-known population, the Bedouin of the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. It positions such marginal populations in the broader theoretical context of modernization and health and demographic transitions."--Allan G. Hill, Harvard University With an average... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Preparing Teachers for Inclusive Education: Case Pedagogies and Curricula for Teacher Educators
This book--a companion volume to Inclusive Education: A Casebook and Readings for Prospective and Practicing Teachers--is designed to assist instructors in using Inclusive Education as a text for preservice or in-service teacher education courses. Part I (Chapters 1-5) of Preparing Teachers for Inc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death
From antebellum slavery to the twenty-first century, African American funeral directors have orchestrated funerals or “homegoing” ceremonies with dignity and pageantry. As entrepreneurs in a largely segregated trade, they were among the few black individuals in any community who were economically in... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
In Policing China, Suzanne E. Scoggins delves into the paradox of China's self-projection of a strong security state while having a weak police bureaucracy. Assessing the problems of resources, enforcement, and oversight that beset the police, outside of cracking down on political protests, Scoggins... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Inclusive Education: A Casebook and Readings for Prospective and Practicing Teachers
Inclusive Education includes two sections: readings and cases. The readings present approaches for creating inclusive classrooms and schools; their purpose is to give prospective and practicing teachers background information in curricular, instructional, assessment, and collaborative problem-solvin... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
Controversies in Critical Criminology
These original essays introduce students to the complex and influential field of critical criminology. It presents many of the theories of critical criminology -- Marxist, Feminist, Left Realist, Postmodern, Constitutive, Peacemaking, and Restorative Justice -- and explores how, despite their distin... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
The Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)
Written by leading researchers in educational and social psychology, learning science, and neuroscience, this edited volume is suitable for a wide-academic readership. It gives definitions of key terms related to motivation and learning alongside developed explanations of significant findings in the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Substance Use and the Acute Psychiatric Patient: Emergency Management (Current Clinical Psychiatry)
This book fills a gap in the existing medical literature by providing a best-practice approach to the evaluation and acute treatment of patients presenting for emergency care with identifiable substance use and/or co-occurring psychiatric disorders. As the first interdisciplinary book to integrate p... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Banking Systems in the Crisis: The Faces of Liberal Capitalism (Routledge Critical Studies in Finance and Stability)
The 2008 financial crisis has severely shaken confidence in liberal economic theory and policy. However, the sharply divergent experiences of the six Anglo-Saxon ‘liberal market economies’ (LMEs) suggest that the reality is not so simple. This book traces the evolution of liberal capitalism, from it... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Occupational Therapy in Acute Care
"Occupational therapy is an allied health profession with an underlying belief that engaging in occupations promotes both health and wellness. While working in a hospital setting, which operates predominantly in a hierarchical and paternalistic medical model, occupational therapy professionals can f... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The Power of Partnership in Open Government: Reconsidering Multistakeholder Governance Reform (Information Policy)
What the Open Government Partnership tells us about how international initiatives can and do shape domestic public sector reform.At the 2011 meeting of the UN General Assembly, the governments of eight nations—Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Design Guideline Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments
A basal reinforced piled embankment consists of a reinforced embankment on a pile foundation. The reinforcement consists of one or more horizontal layers of geosynthetic reinforcement installed at the base of the embankment.A basal reinforced piled embankment can be used for the construction of a ro... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Fantastic Voyages: Learning Science Through Science Fiction Films
By revealing the facts behind the fiction of some of the finest films in the sci-fi genre, "Fantastic Voyages" offers a novel approach to teaching science: using scenes from science fiction films to illustrate fundamental concepts of physics, astronomy, and biology.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
A Brief History Of Chinese And Japanese Civilizations
This compelling text explores the development of China and Japan through their art, religion, literature, and thought as well as through their economic, political, and social history. The author team combines strong research with extensive classroom teaching experience to offer a clear, consistent,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Empowering Young Voices for the Planet
Because action is the best antidote to climate change! Use this manual to teach your students the science and reality of climate change, while empowering them to take action in their own communities. In this companion to the remarkable Young Voices for the Planet film series, you’ll find: Inspi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Labour, Finance and Inequality: The Insecurity Cycle in British Public Policy (Routledge Critical Studies in Finance and Stability)
Following the 2008 "global" financial crisis, the viability of globalised financial capitalism was called into question. The resulting fear and uncertainty produced a momentary return to "Keynesian" policies. But as soon as emergency stimuli – and bank bail-outs – appeared to stabilise the situation... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Promoting High Technology Industry: Initiatives And Policies For State Governments
In the wake of declining federal involvement in state affairs, state governments have taken the initiative in creating science and technology policies and programs for economic development. The contributors to this study look at the attempts of eight states—California, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnes... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1987 -
Dive Into Systems: A Gentle Introduction to Computer Systems
Dive into Systems is a vivid introduction to computer organization, architecture, and operating systems that is already being used as a classroom textbook at more than 25 universities.This textbook is a crash course in the major hardware and software components of a modern computer system. Designed ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Laboratory Manual For Conceptual Integrated Science
This guide provides a variety of hands-on activities and experiments that complement the Active Explorations throughout the text.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Russian Politics Today: Stability and Fragility
Russian Politics Today: Stability and Fragility provides an accessible and nuanced introduction to contemporary Russian politics at a time of increasing uncertainty. Using the theme of stability versus fragility as its overarching framework, this innovative textbook explores the forces that shape Ru... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Post-Soviet Power
Post-Soviet Power tells the story of the Russian electricity system and examines the politics of its transformation from a ministry to a market. Susanne Wengle shifts our focus away from what has been at the center of post-Soviet political economy corruption and the lack of structural reforms to dr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015