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AUT Nuttall, Sarah.
TIT African and diaspora aesthetics.
PUB Durham : Duke University Press ; The Hague : Prince Claus Fund Library, 2006.
CON Contents: Rethinking beauty / Sarah Nuttall -- Picasso, Africa and the schemata of difference / Simon Gikandi -- Variations on the beautiful in Congolese worlds of sound / Achille Mbembe -- Two thoughts on drawing beauty / William Kentridge -- The place of beauty: reflections on Elaine Scarry and Zakes Mda / Rita Barnard -- Quelle Libert�: art, beauty and the grammars of resistance in Douala / Dominique Malaquais -- Fresh stories / Pippa Stein -- The love of the body: Ousmane Sow and beauty / Els van der Plas -- Inheritance / Mark Gevisser -- Let's eat: banquet aesthetics and social epicurism / C�lestin Monga -- Let's cook! / Fran�oise Verg�s -- On the slipperiness of food / Cheryl-Ann Michael -- Afro-aesthetics in Brazil / Patricia Pinho -- Yor�b� aesthetics and Trans-Atlantic imaginaries / Kamari Maxine Clarke -- Urban imaging: the Friche waiting to happen / Rodney Place -- Things ugly: Ghanaian popular painting / Michelle Gilbert -- Two stories: old man with garden at the rear end of time and the fat Indian girl / Mia Couto -- Seeing the familiar: Notes on Mia Couto / Isabel Hofmeyr. 121 F829o, 2006
AUT Frankfurt, Harry G.
TIT On truth. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Knopf, 2006. 126 S713s, 2006
AUT Sorabji, Richard.
TIT Self : ancient and modern insights about individuality, life, and death.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Existence of self and philosophical development of the idea -- Personal identity over time -- Platonism : impersonal selves, bundles, and differentiation -- Identity and persona in ethics -- Self-awareness -- Ownerless streams of consciousness rejected -- Mortality and loss of self. 152.4 C954b, 2006
AUT Crozier, W. Ray.
TIT Blushing and the social emotions : the self unmasked.
PUB Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillian, 2006. 154.63 B6452w 2006
AUT Bleandonu, G�rard.
TIT What do children dream?.
PUB London : Free Association Books, c2006.
CON Contents: pt. 1: What is the function of children's dreams? Young children's dreams -- Playing, maybe dreaming -- Adolescents and dreams -- Ways of dreaming in childhood -- pt. 2: How do children dream? Dreams in the laboratory -- Can blind children dream without the use of their eyes? -- Night terrors, sleepwalking, and nightmares -- Post-traumatic dreams -- pt. 3: Dreamy child, creative child : dreams and culture. The formulation of dreams and the dreamer's mentalisation -- Foetal dreams -- From the mental image to visual thinking -- Culture inscribes dreams in myths, tales, and legends -- Dreams as a source of literary works. Ref 155.4 H2366, 2006 v.1-4
AUT Damon, William ; Lerner, Richard M.
TIT Handbook of child psychology. - 6th ed.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
CON Contents: v. 1. Theoretical models of human development / volume editor, Richard M. Lerner: Developmental science, developmental systems, and contemporary theories of human development / Richard M. Lerner -- Developmental psychology: philosophy, concepts, methodology / Willis F. Overton -- The making of developmental psychology / Robert B. Cairns and Beverley D. Cairns -- Developmental epistemology and implications for methodology / Jaan Valsiner -- The significance of biology for human development: a developmental psychobiological systems view / Gilbert Gottlieb, Douglas Wahlsten, and Robert Lickliter -- Dynamic systems theories / Esther Thelen and Linda B. Smith -- Dynamic development of action and thought / Kuri W. Fischer and Thomas R. Bidell -- The person in context: a holistic-interactionistic approach / David Magnusson and H�kan Stattin -- The developing person: an experiential perspective / Kevin Rathunde and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Action perspectives on human development / Jochen Brandtst�dter -- Life span theory in developmental psychology / Paul B.Baltes, Ulman Lindenberger, and Ursula M. Staudinger -- The life course and human development / Glen H. Elder, Jr. and Michael J. Shanahan -- The cultural psychology of development: one mind, many mentalities / Richard A. Shweder ... [et. al.] -- The bioecological model of human development / Urie Bronfenbrenner and Pamela A. Morris -- Phenomenology and ecological systems theory: development of diverse groups / Margaret Beale Spencer -- Positive youth development: theory, research, and applications / Peter L. Benson ... [et. al.] -- Religious and spiritual development throughout the life span / Fritz K. Oser, W. George Scarlett, and Anton Bucher -- v. 2. Cognition, perception, and language / volume editors, Deanna Kuhn, Robert S. Siegler: SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS: Neural bases of cognitive development / Charles A. Nelson III, Kathleen M. Thomas, and Michelle de Haan -- The infant's auditory world: hearing, speech, and the beginnings of language / Jenny R. Saffran, Janet F. Werker, and Lynne A. Werner -- Infant visual perception / Philip J. Kellman and Martha E. Arterberry -- Motor development / Karen E. Adolph and Sarah E. Berger -- Infant cognition / Leslie B. Cohen and Cara H. Cashon -- SECTION TWO: COGNITION AND COMMUNICATION: Acquiring linguistic constructions / Michael Tomasello -- Early world learning / Sandra B. Waxman and Jeffrey L. Lidz -- Nonverbal communication: the hand's role in talking and thinking / Susan Goldin-Meadow -- SECTION THREE: COGNITIVE PROCESSES: Event memory / Patricia J. Bauer -- Information processing: approaches to development / Yuko Munakata -- Microgenetic analyses of learning / Robert S. Siegler -- Cognitive strategies / Michael Pressley and Katherine Hilden -- Reasoning and problem solving / Graeme S. Halford and Glenda Andrews -- Cognitive science and cognitive development / Frank Keil -- Culture and cognitive development in phylogenetic, historical, and ontoge... 155.924 M435r, 2006
AUT Matta, William J.
TIT Relationship sabotage : unconscious factors that destroy couples, marriages, and family.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.
SER Sex, love, and psychology, 1554-222X.
CON Contents: 1. What people bring to counseling is often not the real problem -- 2. The unconscious mind : friend or foe? -- 3. The mixture of unconscious forces and childhood wounds can be lethal to marriage -- 4. Your family problems may have started back in medieval times -- 5. Unconscious forces can destroy not only relationships, but whole families -- 6. People who feel divorced but are still married -- 7. Games people play in relationships -- 8. Organizing problem-solving conversations -- 9. Extramarital affairs : silence, secrets, and self-disclosure / Edward Igle -- 10. Addictions : a vain attempt to make us feel whole / Daniel Hoffman -- 11. Our nervous systems and relational problems -- 12. Emotional detachment : the ultimate relationship destroyer / Tami L. Grovatt-Dawkins -- 13. So what now?. 170 C689m, 2006
AUT Cole, Phillip.
TIT The myth of evil : demonizing the enemy.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
CON Contents: Terrorism, torture, and the problems of evil -- Diabolical evil, searching for Satan -- Philosophies of evil -- Communities of fear -- The enemy within -- Bad seeds -- The character of evil -- Facing the Holocaust -- Twenty-first-century mythologies. 170 K12o, 2007
AUT Kahn, Paul W.
TIT Out of Eden : Adam and Eve and the problem of evil.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction: the study of evil -- A preliminary meditation on Oedipus and Adam -- Evil and the image of the sacred -- Love and evil -- Political evil: slavery and the shame of nature -- Political evil: killing, sacrifice, and the image of god -- Conclusion: tragedy, comedy, and the banality of evil. 172.2 W182m, 2006
AUT Walker, Margaret Urban.
TIT Moral repair : reconstructing moral relations after wrongdoing.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: 1. What is moral repair? -- 2. Hope's value -- 3. Damages to trust -- 4. Resentment and assurance -- 5. Forgiving -- 6. Making amends. 172.42 B557c, 2006
AUT Bess, Michael.
TIT Choices under fire : moral dimensions of World War II. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : A.A. Knopf, 2006.
CON Contents: A wide world of racisms -- Causes of the Pacific War : a longer view on Pearl Harbor -- Causes of the war in Europe : the paradoxical legacy of Munich -- Bystanders : how much is not enough? -- Bombing civilian populations : a case of moral slippage -- Deep evil and deep good : the concept of human nature confronts the Holocaust -- Decisions at Midway, 1942 : moral character as a factor in battle -- Tyranny triumphant : the moral awkwardness of the alliance with Stalin -- Kamikaze : wartime suicide attacks in anthropological perspective -- The decision to drop the atomic bomb : twelve questions -- Justice for the unspeakable? : the enduring legacy of the war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo -- Generations under a shadow : the challenge of peace since Hiroshima -- The politics of memory : remembering and unremembering wartime -- Conclusion : what would be the opposite of Hitler's world?. 172.42 C767c, 2006
AUT Conway-Lanz, Sahr.
TIT Collateral damage : Americans, noncombatant immunity, and atrocity after World War II.
PUB New York : Routledge, 2006.
CON Contents: Modern war and mass killing -- The revolt of the admirals and the limits of mass destruction -- The hydrogen bomb and the limits of noncombatant immunity -- A limited war in Korea -- Taming the bomb -- Korean refugees and warnings -- The thermonuclear challenge -- An uneasy reconciliation. 174.28 R824c, 2006
AUT Ross, Lainie Friedman.
TIT Children in medical research : access versus protection.
PUB Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
SER Issues in biomedical ethics. 174.909 C886e 2006
AUT Craig, David.
TIT The ethics of the story : using narrative techniques responsibly in journalism.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction. Ethics paragraph by paragraph -- ch. 1. The power and ethics of the story -- ch. 2. Anecdotes -- ch. 3. Description and attribution -- ch. 4. Quotes and paraphrasing -- ch. 5. Word choice, labeling, and bias -- ch. 6. Interpretation and analysis -- ch. 7. Voice -- ch. 8. The big picture. 193 G988k, 2006
AUT Guyer, Paul.
TIT Kant.
PUB London : Routledge, 2006.
SER Routledge philosophers.
CON Contents: A life in work -- 1: Nature -- Kant's copernican revolution -- The critique of metaphysics -- Building upon the foundations of knowledge -- 2: Freedom -- Laws of freedom: the foundations of Kant's moral philosophy -- Freedom, immortality, and God: the presuppositions of mortality -- Kant's system of duties I: The duties of virtue -- Kant's system of duties II: duties of right -- 3: Nature and freedom -- The beautiful, the sublime, and the morally good -- Freedom and nature: Kant's revision of traditional teleology -- A history of freedom?. 194 P223f, 2006
AUT Paras, Eric.
TIT Foucault 2.0 : beyond power and knowledge.
PUB New York : Other Press, c2006.
CON Contents: I: Discourse -- Surface effects : Foucault, Sartre, and the critique of the subject -- Restructuring : Foucault and the genealogical turn -- II: Power -- Planetary forces : Foucault, Iran, and the nouveaux philosophes -- III: Subjects -- Deep subjects : Foucault and the return of the individual -- Arts of living : antiquity, modernity, and the experience of self -- Conclusion : Foucault's pendulum. top of page |
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AUT Rubin, Rebecca B ; Rubin, Alan M. ; Piele, Linda J.
TIT Communication research : strategies and sources. - 6th ed.
PUB Belmont, Calif. : Thomson, Wadsworth, 2005.
SER BEKKEN J ENG 490 2 HRS RAKUS M ENG 490 2 HRS.
CON Contents: Studying communication -- Searching the communication literature -- Using computers to search electronic databases -- Using the internet for communication research -- General sources -- Access tools -- Communication periodicals -- Information compilations -- The process of communication research -- Designing the communication research project -- Preparing research projects -- Writing research papers. 303.33 C964a 2006
AUT Cudd, Ann E.
TIT Analyzing oppression.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
SER Studies in feminist philosophy.
CON Contents: I: A framework for analysis -- Oppression: the fundamental injustice of social institutions -- Social groups and institutional constraints -- Psychological mechanisms of oppression -- II: Forces of oppression -- Violence as a force of oppression -- Economic forces of oppression -- Psychological harms of oppression -- III: We shall overcome -- Resistance and responsibility -- Fashioning freedom. 303.38 J87m, 2006
AUT Jowell, Roger.
TIT Measuring attitudes cross-nationally : lessons from the European Social Survey.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2007. 303.483 S587c, 2006
AUT Silver, David, Ph. D ; Massanari, Adrienne.
TIT Critical cyberculture studies.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Foreword : Dreams of fields : possible trajectories of Internet studies / Steve Jones -- Introduction : Where is Internet studies? / David Silver -- The historiography of cyberculture / Jonathan Sterne -- Cultural difference, theory, and cyberculture studies : a case of mutual repulsion / Lisa Nakamura -- How we became post-digital : from cyberstudies to game studies / Espen Aarseth -- Internet studies in times of terror / David Silver and Alice Marwick -- Catching the waves : considering cyberculture, technoculture, and electronic consumption / Wendy Robinson -- Cyberculture studies : an antidisciplinary approach (version 3.0) / McKenzie Wark -- Finding the quality in qualitative research / Nancy K. Baym -- Web sphere analysis and cybercultural studies / Kirsten Foot -- Connecting the selves : computer mediated identification processes / Heidi J. Figueroa Sarriera -- The structural problems of the Internet for cultural policy / Christian Sandvig -- Cultural considerations in Internet policy and design : a case study from Central Asia / Beth E. Kolko -- Bridging cyberlife and real life : a study of online communities in Hong Kong / Anthony Fung -- Overcoming institutional marginalization / Blanca Gordo -- The vertical (layered) net : interrogating the conditions of network connectivity / Greg Elmer -- The construction of cybersocial reality / Stine Gotved -- E-scaping boundaries : bridging cyberspace and diaspora studies through nethnography / Emily Noelle Ignacio -- An interdisciplinary approach to the study of cybercultures / Madhavi Mallapragada -- An action research (AR) manifesto for cyberculture power to "marginalized" cultures of difference / Bharat Mehra -- Cyberstudies and the politics of visibility / David J. Phillips -- Disaggregation, technology, and masculinity : elements of Internet research / Frank Schaap -- Gender, technology and visual cyberculture : virtually women / Kate O'Riordan -- How digital technology found utopian ideology : lessons from the first hackers conference / Fred Turner -- Government.com : ICTs and reforming governance in Asia / Shanthi Kalathil -- Dot-coms and cyberculture studies : Amazon.com as a case study / Adrienne Massanari -- Associating independents : business relationships and the culture of independence in the dot-com era / Gina Neff. 305.5 L884p, 2007
AUT Lott, Bernice E ; Bullock, Heather E.
TIT Psychology and economic injustice : personal, professional, and political intersections. - 1st ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2007.
SER Psychology of women book series.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Growing up poor and middle class : Heather Bullock's story -- Working-class origins and class-conscious awakening : Bernice Lott's story -- Psychology, social class, and resources for human welfare -- The psychology and politics of class warfare -- Professional activism for social change and economic justice. 305.5 M621t 2006
AUT Michaels, Walter Benn.
TIT The trouble with diversity : how we learned to love identity and ignore inequality. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Metropolitan Books, 2006. 305.563 C518w 2006
AUT Chen, Guidi ; Chun, Tao.
TIT Will the boat sink the water? : the life of China's peasants. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Public Affairs, c2006.
CON Contents: The martyr -- The village tyrant -- The long and the short of the "antitax uprising" -- The long road -- A vicious circle -- The search for a way out. 305.697 L379i, 2006
AUT Laurence, Jonathan ; Va�sse, Justin.
TIT Integrating Islam : political and religious challenges in contemporary France.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Part I. Being Muslim in France. 1. The steady integration of France's most recent and largest minority ; 2. Patterns of exclusion and inclusion in French society ; 3. From religion to identity : 1,001 ways of being Muslim ; 4. Islamic organizations and leaders in France -- Part II. From Muslims into French citizens : Muslims and public policy. 5. Libert�, �galit�-- la�cit� : creation of the French Council of the Muslim Religion ; 6. Intolerance or integration? The ban on religious symbols in public schools ; 7. An assessment of French policy responses -- Part III. The Politics of Islam in France and Europe. 8. The pursuit of the Muslim vote and its impact on foreign policy ; 9. Anti-Semitism among Muslims and the rise of communautarisme ; 10. The threat of terrorism and the French response ; 11. Conclusion. 305.8 S683t, 2006
AUT Sokol, Jason.
TIT There goes my everything : white Southerners in the age of civil rights, 1945-1975. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
CON Contents: Change seeps in -- In the wake of the war, 1945-1955 -- "Our Negroes" no more -- Daughters of Dixie, sons of the south -- Barbecue, fried chicken, and civil rights: the 1964 civil rights act -- "Softly, the unthinkable": the contours of political and economic change -- The price of liberation. 305.868 R621e, 2006
AUT Rivera, John-Michael.
TIT The emergence of Mexican America : recovering stories of Mexican peoplehood in U.S. culture.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2006.
SER Critical America.
CON Contents: How do you make the invisible, visible? : locating stories of Mexican peoplehood -- Don Zavala goes to Washington : translating U.S. democracy -- Constituting terra incognita : the "Mexican question" in U.S. print culture -- Embodying manifest destiny : Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the color of Mexican womanhood -- Claiming los bilitos : Miguel Antonio Otero and the fight for New Mexican manhood -- "Con su pluma en su mano" : Am�rico Paredes and the poetics of "Mexican-American" peoplehood -- Recovering la memoria : locating the recent past. 305.896 H176s, 2005
AUT Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo.
TIT Slavery and African ethnicities in the Americas : restoring the links.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2005. 305.896 R615g, 2006
AUT Ritterhouse, Jennifer Lynn.
TIT Growing up Jim Crow : how Black and White southern children learned race.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : forgotten alternatives -- The etiquette of race relations -- Carefully taught -- I knew then who I was -- Playing and fighting -- Adolescence -- Conclusion : children of the sun. 305.9 M326r, 2006
AUT Marfleet, Philip.
TIT Refugees in a global era.
PUB Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
CON Contents: Refugees: the pressing questions -- Disordered world -- Globalisation and forced migration -- Crisis of the state -- Migrants old and new -- Chain migration to forced migration -- Rights -- Refugees and rights -- Towards disaster - From ambassadors to aliens -- Legality and authenticity -- Journeys and destinations -- Displacement -- Circuits of migration -- Cultures of terror, cultures of abuse -- Racism without end?. 306.44 M996r 2005
AUT Myers, Kristen A.
TIT Racetalk : racism hiding in plain sight.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005.
CON Contents: Hiding in plain sight : racetalk, the language of racism -- pt. 1. The foundations of this study. -- Revealing racetalk -- Racetalk as reproducing racism : a theoretical toolbox -- pt. 2. The structures. -- The structure of signification : whiteness -- The structure of signification : blackness -- The structure of signification : brownness -- The structure of domination : surveillance and the policing of boundaries -- The structure of legitimation : accounting for racetalk -- pt. 3. The actors. -- Bridging boundaries : counterhegemonic practices -- The accidental antiracist : research as a tool for raising consciousness -- pt. 4. The consequences. -- Dialectics revisited : racetalk and the racial regime -- Praxis : in search of a balm. 306.484 K62w, 2005
AUT Kitwana, Bakari.
TIT Why white kids love hip-hop : wankstas, wiggers, wannabes, and the new reality of race in America.
PUB New York : Basic Civitas Books, c2005.
SER GILLIAMS T ENG 235 2 HRS.
NOT Includes index.
CON Contents: Part 1. Questions. Do white boys want to be black? ; Why white kids love hip-hop ; Identity crisis? : more than acting black ; Erasing blackness : are white suburban kids really hip-hop's primary audience? -- Part 2. Answers. From W.E.B. Du Bois to Chuck D ; Wankstas, wiggers, and wannabes : hip-hop, film and white boyz in the hood ; Fear of a culture bandit : Eminem, the source and America's racial politics (old and new) ; Coalition building across race : organizing the hip-hop voting bloc. 306.77 S741p, 2006
AUT Spector, Jessica.
TIT Prostitution and pornography : philosophical debate about the sex industry.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: Sex, money, and philosophy / Jessica Spector -- Critiques of the sex industry -- Duet : prostitution, racism, and feminist discourse / Vednita Carter and Evelina Giobbe -- Stripping as a system of prostitution / Christine Stark -- What's wrong with prostitution? / Carol Pateman -- Equality and speech / Catharine MacKinnon -- Split at the root : prostitution and feminist discourses of law reform / Margaret A. Baldwin -- Liberalism and prostitution -- Porn stars, radical feminists, cops and outlaw whores : the battle between feminist theory and reality, free speech and free spirits / Norma Jean Almodovar -- "Whether from reason or prejudice" : taking money for bodily services / Martha Nussbaum -- Contractarians and feminists debate prostitution / Sibyl Schwarzenbach -- Prostitution and the case for decriminalization / Laurie Shrage -- Liberalism and pornography -- Private acts versus public art : where prostitution ends and pornography begins / Theresa A. Reed -- Freedom, equality, and pornography / Joshua Cohen -- Women and pornography / Ronald Dworkin -- Desire and disgust : Hustler magazine / Laura Kipnis -- The limits of liberalism -- The name of the pose : a sex worker by any other name? / Tracy Quan -- Thinking outside the box : men in the. sex industry / Julian Marlowe -- Prostitution and sexual autonomy : making sense of the prohibition of prostitution / Scott A. Anderson -- Markets in women's sexual labor / Debra Satz -- Obscene division : feminist liberal assessments of prostitution versus feminist liberal defenses of pornography / Jessica Spector. 306.848 S675g 2006
AUT Snyder, R. Claire.
TIT Gay marriage and democracy : equality for all.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006.
SER Polemics.
CON Contents: What does same-sex marriage have to do with democracy? -- What is marriage? -- The logic of liberalism : American political theory and the case for gay marriage -- A false consensus : Christian right politics and the attack on same-sex marriage -- Neopatriarchy and the agenda of the antigay right -- Are lesbian and gay Americans actually citizens? : the homophobic myopia of communitarianism -- Marriage equality and sexual freedom : toward a more progressive union. 306.85 F467f, 2006
AUT Fiese, Barbara H.
TIT Family routines and rituals.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.
SER Current perspectives in psychology.
CON Contents: Routines of daily living and rituals in family life -- Myths and misconceptions about family routines and rituals -- Developmental life course of routines and rituals -- Cultural variations -- Family health -- Protective processes and family rituals -- Therapeutic forms of routines and rituals -- Promising prospects. 307.11 S955s, 2006
AUT Summers, John ; Texley, Juliana ; Kwan, Terry.
TIT Science safety in the community college.
PUB Arlington, Va. : NSTA Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- SciLinks -- Setting the scene : safer science in a drive-through learning community -- Communities of learners : promoting science for every citizen -- Where science happens : equip your lab for safety -- Finders keepers : essentials of safer storage -- Lively science : living organisms and more -- Modern alchemy : safer teaching with chemistry -- Striking gold : exploring earth and space sciences -- Falling for science : physics phenoms -- The great outdoors : field studies near and far -- The kitchen sink : a potpourri of teaching tips -- Live long and prosper : and remember you are responsible -- Conclusion : review the basics -- Web resources -- Glossary -- Appendix A: Chemicals to go : candidates for disposal -- Appendix B: NSTA Position Statement on Safety. 307.76 M141u 2006
AUT Macek, Steve.
TIT Urban nightmares : the media, the right, and the moral panic over the city.
PUB Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: A landscape of fear -- The origins of the crisis : race, class, and the inner city -- Inventing the savage urban other -- Catastrophe is now : the discourse on the underclass -- Crack alleys and killing zones : news coverage of the postindustrial city -- The cinema of suburban paranoia -- Wouldn't you rather be at home? : marketing middle-class agoraphobia -- Conclusion: Awakening from urban nightmares. 320.01 S435p, 2006
AUT Scruton, Roger.
TIT A political philosophy.
PUB London ; New York : Continuum, 2006.
CON Contents: Conserving nations -- Conserving nature -- Eating our friends -- Dying quietly -- Meaningful marriage -- Extinguishing the light -- Religion and Enlightenment -- The totalitarian temptation -- Newspeak and Eurospeak -- The nature of evil -- Eliot and conservatism. 323.042 C187w, 2006
AUT Campbell, David E.
TIT Why we vote : how schools and communities shape our civic life.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Voting alone -- Putting Madison and Tocqueville to the test : the dual motivations theory of public engagement -- Further implications of the dual motivations theory -- Social networks -- Social environments and adolescents' public engagement -- The links between adolescents' and adults' public engagement -- Adolescents' social environments and adults' public engagements : the civic motivation model -- Conclusion : implications for theory and policy. 323.044 H737f, 2006
AUT Hollander, Paul.
TIT From the Gulag to the killing fields : personal accounts of political violence and repression in communist states. - 1st ed.
PUB Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, 2006.
CON Contents: The Soviet Union -- Eastern Europe: Albania -- Bulgaria -- Czechoslovakia -- East Germany -- Hungary -- Poland -- Romania -- Yugoslavia -- China -- Cambodia -- Vietnam -- Cuba -- Nicaragua -- North Korea -- Ethiopia. 323.09 B433e, 2007
AUT Bell, Daniel ; Coicaud, Jean-Marc.
TIT Ethics in action : the ethical challenges of international human rights nongovernmental organizations.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: The pornography of poverty : a cautionary fundraising tale / Bette Plewes and Rieky Stuart -- An imperfect process : funding human rights--a case study / Mona Younis -- Transformational development as the key to housing rights / Steven Weir -- Human rights INGOs, the north-south gap : the challenge of normative and empirical learning / Bonny Ibhawoh -- Dilemmas facing INGOs in coalition-occupied Iraq / Lyal Sunga -- Human rights in action : supporting human rights work in authoritarian countries / Birgit Lindsnaes, Hans-Otto Sano, and Hatla Thelle -- Driving without a map : implementing legal projects in China aimed at improving human rights / Sophia Woodman -- Normative compliance and hard bargaining : China's strategies and tactics in response to international human rights criticism / Sun Zhe -- Defending economic, social and cultural rights : practical issues faced by an international human rights organization / Kenneth Roth -- Thinking through social and economic rights / Neera Chandhoke -- Amnesty International and economic, social and cultural rights / by Curt Goering -- Moral priorities for international human rights NGOs / Thomas W. Pogge -- The problem of doing good in a world that isn't : reflections on the ethical challenges facing INGOs / Joseph H. Carens -- Conclusion: International NGOs as collective mobilization of transnational solidarity : implications for human rights work at the United Nations / Jean-Marc Coicaud. 323.173 R759c, 2006
AUT Romano, Renee Christine ; Raiford, Leigh.
TIT The Civil Rights movement in American memory.
PUB Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006. 323.3 C976t 2006
AUT Currah, Paisley ; Juang, Richard M ; Minter, Shannon.
TIT Transgender rights.
PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2006. 324.7 F687w, 2006
AUT Foot, Kirsten A ; Schneider, Steven M.
TIT Web campaigning.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
SER Acting with technology. 324.7 S539f 2007
AUT Shea, Daniel M ; Green, John Clifford.
TIT Fountain of youth : strategies and tactics for mobilizing America's young voters.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.
SER Campaigning American style.
CON Contents: The turned-off generation: fact and fiction? / Daniel M. Shea and John C. Green -- Throwing a better party: local political parties and the youth vote / John C. Green and Daniel M. Shea -- Tales from the trenches: party organizations that are connecting with young citizens / Daniel M. Shea and John C. Green -- Building youth party identification and revitalizing democracy / J. Cherie Strachan -- Civic knowledge, civic education, and civic engagement / William A. Galston -- Political participation and service learning: civic education as problem and solution / Melissa K. Comber -- Promoting diversity in democracy: mobilizing the hip-hop generation / Maya Rockeymoore and Mark Rockeymoore -- Youth political engagement: why Rock the Vote hits the wrong note / Michael Hoover and Susan Orr -- Mobilizing the youth vote in 2004 and beyond / Heather Smith and Ivan Frishberg -- Young voter mobilization projects in 2004 / Daniel M. Shea and John C. Green -- Faces of the future / John Kenneth White. 327.1247 K69h, 2005
AUT Knight, Amy W.
TIT How the Cold War began : the Igor Gouzenko Affair and the hunt for Soviet spies.
PUB New York : Carroll & Graf ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2005.
CON Contents: The defection -- A man called Corby -- "Primrose," Miss Corby, and the politics of espionage -- Red storm clouds -- Cold War justice -- Anti-communist agendas -- The right wing unleashed -- The south against the north -- "Elli," Philby, and the death of a diplomat -- Traitors and spies -- The naming of names. 327.73 S867h 2006
AUT Stoddard, Abby.
TIT Humanitarian alert : NGO information and its impact on US foreign policy.
PUB Bloomfield, Conn. : Kumarian Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Agents, advisors, antagonists -- Ants in the ground, gnats in the ear -- Somalia -- Bosnia -- Kosovo -- Some conclusions from the three cases -- The humanitarian alert in "forgotten emergencies". 327.73009 S355u, 2006
AUT Schmitz, David F.
TIT The United States and right-wing dictatorships, 1965-1989.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: No acceptable alternative : Mobutu in the Congo -- Degrading freedom : the Johnson administration and right-wing dictatorships -- Madmen : Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and the quest for order -- Morality and diplomacy : the Church Committee and post-Vietnam foreign policy -- A fundamental tenet of foreign policy : Jimmy Carter and human rights -- What is the alternative? : the Reagan Doctrine and authoritarian regimes. Ref 327.73056 H148h, 2007
AUT Hahn, Peter L.
TIT Historical dictionary of United States-Middle East relations.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.
SER Historical dictionaries of U.S. diplomacy. ; no. 5.
CON Contents: Editor's foreword / Jon Woronoff -- Acknowledgments -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Map -- Chronology -- Introduction -- The dictionary -- Appendix : U.S. presidents and secretaries of state -- Bibliography -- About the author. Ref 327.7308 S653h, 2007
AUT Smith, Joseph.
TIT Historical dictionary of United States-Latin American relations.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.
SER Historical dictionaries of U.S. diplomacy. ; no. 3. 330.94 E34e, 2007
AUT Eichengreen, Barry J.
TIT The European economy since 1945 : coordinated capitalism and beyond.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
SER Princeton economic history of the Western world.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Mainsprings of growth -- The postwar situation -- Dawn of the golden age -- Eastern Europe and the planned economy -- The integration of western Europe -- The apex of the golden age -- Mounting payments problems -- Declining growth, rising rigidities -- The collapse of central planning -- Integration and adjustment -- Europe at the turn of the twenty-first century -- The future of the European model. 330.952 T163j 2005
AUT Tandon, Rameshwar.
TIT The Japanese economy and the way forward.
PUB Houndmils, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 333.72 B344f, 2006
AUT Bauer, Joanne R.
TIT Forging environmentalism : justice, livelihood, and contested environments.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2006.
CON Contents: China : a foreword / Judith Shapiro. The politics and ethics of going green in China : air pollution control in Benxi City and wetland preservation in the Sanjiang Plain / Liu Yu ... [et al.] -- Japan : a foreword / Jeffrey Broadbent. From Kogai to Kankyo mondai : nature, development, and social conflict in Japan / Kada Yukiko ... [et al.] -- India : a foreword / Paul Greenough. Rethinking Indian environmentalism : industrial pollution in Delhi and fisheries in Kerala / Amita Baviskar, Subir Sinha, and Kavita Philip -- The United States : a foreword / Keith Kloor. Two faces of American environmentalism : the quest for justice in southern Louisiana and sustainability in the Sonoran desert / David Jenkins ... [et al.] --The value of legality in environmental action / Sheila Jasanoff -- Environmental transformations and the values of modernity / Arun Agrawal -- Evaluating environmental justice claims / Robert Melchior Figueroa -- Framing shared values : reason and trust in environmental governance / Clark A. Miller -- How shall we study environmental values? / Joanne Bauer and Anna Ray Davies. 333.79 M687e, 2007
AUT Moan, Jaina L ; Smith, Zachary A.
TIT Energy use worldwide : a reference handbook.
PUB Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2007.
SER Contemporary world issues. 333.91 A615g, 2006
AUT Annin, Peter.
TIT The Great Lakes water wars.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Hope and hopelessness -- To have and have not -- The Aral experiment -- Rising temperatures, falling water? -- Aversion to diversion -- Battle lines and skirmishes -- Reversing a river -- Long Lac and Ogoki -- Pleasing Pleasant Prairie -- Sacrificing Lowell -- Tapping Mud Creek -- Akron gets the nod -- New rules of engagement -- The Nova group and Annex 2001 -- Marching toward a compact -- Waukesha worries -- Who will win the war?. 333.91 W324U 2006
AUT Unesco
TIT Water : a shared responsibility.
PUB Paris, France : United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) ; New York : Berghahn Books, 2006.
SER United Nations world water development report ; 2.
CON Contents: Section 1: Changing Contexts -- 1. Living in a changing world -- 2. The challenges of water governance -- 3. Water and human settlements in an urbanizing world -- Section 2: Changing Natural Systems -- 4. The state of the resource -- 5. Coastal and freshwater ecosystems -- Section 3: Challenges for Well-being and Development -- 6. Protecting and promoting human health -- 7. Water for food, agriculture and rural livelihoods -- 8. Water and industry -- 9. Water and energy -- Section 4: Management Responses and Stewardship -- 10. Managing risks: securing the gains for development -- 11. Sharing water -- 12. Valuing and charging for water -- 13. Enhancing knowledge and capacity -- Section 5: Sharing Responsibility -- 14. Case studies: moving towards an integrated approach -- 15. Conclusions and recommendations for action. 333.95 W552E 2006
AUT Estes, J. A.
TIT Whales, whaling, and ocean ecosystems.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Whales, interaction webs, and zero sum ecology / Robert T. Paine -- Lessons from land : present and past signs of ecological decay and the overture to earth's 6th mass extinction / C. Josh Donlan, Paul S. Martin and Gary W. Roemer -- When ecological pyramids were upside down / Jeremy B.C. Jackson -- Pelagic ecosystem response to a century of commercial fishing and whaling / Timothy E. Essington -- Evidence for bottom-up control of upper trophic level marine populations : is it scale-dependent? / George L. Hunt Jr. -- Evolutionary patterns in Cetacea : fishing up prey size through deep time / David R. Lindberg and Nicholas D. Pyenson -- A taxonomy of world whaling : operations and eras / Randall R. Reeves and Tim D. Smith -- The history of whales read from DNA / Stephen R. Palumbi and Joe Roman -- Changes in marine mammal biomass in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands region before and after the period of commercial whaling / Bete Pfister and Douglas P. DeMaster -- Industrial whaling in the North Pacific Ocean 1952-1978 : spatial patterns of harvest and decline / Eric M. Danner, Matthew J. Kauffman and Robert L. Brownell Jr. -- Worldwide distribution and abundance of killer whales / Karin A. Forney and Paul R. Wade -- The natural history and ecology of killer whales / Lance G. Barrett-Lennard and Kathy A. Heise -- Killer whales as predators of large baleen whales and sperm whales / Randall R. Reeves, Joel Berger and Phillip J. Clapham -- Physiological and ecological consequences of extreme body size in whales / Terrie M. Williams -- Ecosystem impact of the decline of large whales in the North Pacific / Donald A. Croll, Raphael Kudela and Bernie R. Tershy -- The removal of large whales from the Southern Ocean : evidence for long-term ecosystem effects? / Lisa T. Ballance ... [et al.] -- Great whales as prey : using demography and bioenergetics to infer interactions in marine mammal communities / Daniel F. Doak, Terrie M. Williams and James A. Estes -- Whales and whaling in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea : oceanographic insights and ecosystem impacts / Alan M. Springer ... [et al.] -- Legacy of industrial whaling : could killer whales be responsible for declines of sea lions, elephant seals and minke whales in the Southern Hemisphere? / Trevor A. Branch and Terrie M. Williams -- Predator diet breadth and prey population dynamics : mechanism and modeling / Marc Mangel and Nicholas Wolf -- Bigger is better : the role of whales as detritus in marine ecosystems / Craig R. Smith -- Gray whales in the Bering and Chukchi seas / Raymond C. Highsmith ... [et al.] -- Whales, whaling and ecosystems in the North Atlantic Ocean / Phillip J. Clapham and Jason S. Link -- Sperm whales in ocean ecosystems / Hal Whitehead -- Ecosystem effects of fishing and whaling in the North Pacific and Atlantic Ocean / Boris Worm, Heike K. Lotze and Ransom A. Myers -- Potential influences of whaling on the status and trends of pinniped populations / Daniel P. Costa, Michae... Ref 335.6 W927B 2006 v.1-2
AUT Blamires, Cyprian ; Jackson, Paul.
TIT World fascism : a historical encyclopedia.
PUB Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2006.
CON Contents: v. 1. A-K -- v. 2. L-Z. 337.51 N322c, 2007
AUT Navarro, Peter.
TIT The coming China wars : where they will be fought and how they will be won.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Financial Times Press, c2007.
CON Contents: The "China price" and weapons of mass production -- China's counterfeit economy and not-so-swashbuckling pirates -- Killing us (and them) softly with their coal -- The "blood for oil" wars : the sum of all Chinese fears -- The "new imperialist" wars and weapons of mass construction -- The 21st century opium wars : the world's emperor of "precursor chemicals" -- The damnable dam wars and drums along the Mekong -- The bread and water wars : nary a (clean) drop to drink -- China's wars from within : the dragon comes apart at the seams -- Of "bloodheads," gray dragons, and other ticking time bombs -- How to fight--and win!--the coming China wars. 338.43 G773c, 2006
AUT Gratzer, David.
TIT The cure : how capitalism can save American health care. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Encounter Books, 2006.
CON Contents: Dick Cheney's heart -- Two days that changed health care -- Nixon's revenge -- The third way -- Insuring America -- Mills' revenge: Medicaid -- Mills' revenge II: Medicare -- Our drug problem -- The hip that changed history -- The three keys. 338.9 C699b, 2007
AUT Collier, Paul.
TIT The bottom billion : why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Falling behind and falling apart : the bottom billion -- The conflict trap -- The natural resource trap -- Landlocked with bad neighbors -- Bad governance in a small country -- On missing the boat : the marginalization of the bottom billion in the world economy -- Aid to the rescue? -- Military intervention -- Laws and charters -- Trade policy for reversing marginalization -- An agenda for action. 338.91 E13w, 2006
AUT Easterly, William Russell.
TIT The white man's burden : why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good.
PUB New York : Penguin Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Planners versus searchers -- pt. 1. Why planners cannot bring prosperity. -- The legend of the big push -- You can't plan a market -- Planners and gangsters -- pt. II. Acting out the burden. -- The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats -- Bailing out the poor -- The healers: triumph and tragedy -- pt. III. The white man's army. -- From colonialism to postmodern imperialism -- Invading the poor -- pt. IV. The future. -- Homegrown development -- The future of Western assistance. 339.22 N433w 2006
AUT Gordon Nembhard, Jessica ; Chiteji, Ngina.
TIT Wealth accumulation & communities of color in the United States : current issues.
PUB Ann Arbor, Mich. : The University of Michigan Press, c2006. 339.22 R462i, 2006
AUT Reynolds, Alan.
TIT Income and wealth.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
SER Greenwood guides to business and economics. 1559-2367.
CON Contents: Concepts and measures -- Work matters -- A vanishing middle class? -- The wage stagnation thesis -- The top 1 percent -- CEOs and celebrities -- Wealth is not distributed -- Consumption inequality, lifetime income, and mobility -- Causes and cures. 339.7 M146s 2006
AUT McGovern, Charles.
TIT Sold American : consumption and citizenship, 1890-1945.
PUB Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Advertisers and consumers, 1890-1930 -- The nationalization of consumers : the political language of American advertising, 1890-1930 -- Making consumption American : advertisers, consumers, and national identity -- Social science and the pragmatic consumer, 1890-1928 -- The science of purchasing -- Redefining consumption at consumers' research -- Consumer professionals in the Depression -- The American way of life : folklores of capitalism, 1935-1939 -- Fighting for the American way : consumption and Americanism, 1935-1945. 341.6 M696g, 2006
AUT Moghalu, Kingsley Chiedu.
TIT Global justice : the politics of war crimes trials.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, c2006.
CON Contents: War crimes justice in world politics -- Prosecute or pardon? -- The Balkans : the trial of Slobodan Milosevic -- The rise and fall of universal jurisdiction -- Sierra Leone : judging Charles Taylor -- The politics of the International Criminal Court -- Iraq : chronicle of a trial foretold -- International justice: not yet the end of history. 342.6 N157a, 2006
TIT African constitutionalism and the role of Islam.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
SER Pennsylvania studies in human rights. 345 G798L, 2006
AUT Green, Stuart P.
TIT Lying, cheating, and stealing : a moral theory of white-collar crime.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
SER [Oxford monographs on criminal law and justice].
CON Contents: 1. The meaning of white-collar crime -- 2. Some generalizations about the moral content of white-collar crime -- 3. A three-part framework for analysis -- 4. Cheating -- 5. Deception -- 6. Stealing -- 7. Coercion and exploitation -- 8. Disloyalty -- 9. Promise-breaking -- 10. Disobedience -- 11. A concluding thought on moral wrongfulness -- 12. Perjury -- 13. Fraud -- 14. False statements -- 15. Obstruction of justice -- 16. Bribery -- 17. Extortion and blackmail --18. Insider trading -- 19. Tax evasion -- 20. Regulatory offenses -- 21. Conclusion. 345.07 S291u, 2006
AUT Schabas, William.
TIT The UN international criminal tribunals : the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Creation of the tribunals -- The legitimacy and legality of the tribunals -- Sources of law --Territorial, personal and temporal jurisdiction -- Subject-matter jurisdiction generally -- Genocide -- Crimes against humanity -- War crimes -- General principles of law -- Investigation and pre-trial procedure -- Trial and post-trial procedure -- Evidence -- Rights of the accused -- Punishment -- Structure and administration of the tribunals. 347.731 S958a 2006
AUT Sunstein, Cass R.
TIT Are judges political? : an empirical analysis of the federal judiciary.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Studying judges with numbers -- Ideological votes and ideological panels -- Nonideological voting and entrenched views -- Explaining the data : conformity, group polarization, and the rule of law -- The case of big decisions : of segregation, abortion, and obscenity -- More conservative than thou? judicial voting across circuits, across presidents, and over time -- What should be done? of politics, judging, and diversity. 352 K87m, 2007
AUT Kotler, Philip ; Lee, Nancy.
TIT Marketing in the public sector : a roadmap for improved performance.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Wharton School Pub., c2007. 355.02 G646a 2006
AUT Goodby, James E.
TIT At the borderline of Armageddon : how American presidents managed the atom bomb.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
CON Contents: At the beginning : Churchill, Roosevelt and Truman -- Nuclear deterrence or preventive war? : Eisenhower's choice -- John F. Kennedy : from crisis to triumph to tragedy -- Lyndon Johnson : the offense-defense riddle -- Richard Nixon : only connect -- Gerald Ford : a time to plant -- Jimmy Carter : the limits of presidential power -- The Reagan revolution in nuclear weaponry -- George H.W. Bush : managing the Soviet succession -- Bill Clinton : facing new threats -- George W. Bush : overthrowing the old order. 355.33 W515c 2006
AUT Wessells, Michael G.
TIT Child soldiers : from violence to protection.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006. 355.82 Y78d, 2006
AUT Youngblood, Norman.
TIT The development of mine warfare : a most murderous and barbarous conduct.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006.
SER War, technology, and history, 1556-4924.
CON Contents: The origins of mine warfare -- The age of invention: from America to Russia -- The American Civil War -- The sea mine comes of age -- The Great War -- World War II-- Mine warfare since 1945 -- Appendix A Hague convention 1907 -- Appendix B Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-personnel Mines. 361.1 E26t, 2006
AUT Edy, Jill A.
TIT Troubled pasts : news and the collective memory of social unrest.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Real-time news: covering the Watts riots and the Chicago Convention -- Political officials and the public past -- Defusing controversy and paving the way for collective memory -- Building collective memory: story integration -- Using collective memory: the role of the past in the present -- Conclusions: The future of the past. 362.196 M141t4, 2006
AUT Mace, Nancy L ; Rabins, Peter V.
TIT The 36-hour day : a family guide to caring for people with Alzheimer disease, other dementias, and memory loss in later life. - 4th ed.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
SER A Johns Hopkins Press health book.
CON Contents: 1. Dementia -- What is dementia? -- The person with dementia -- Where do you go from here? -- 2. Getting medical help for the person with dementia -- The evaluation of the person with a suspected dementia -- Finding someone to do an evaluation -- The medical treatment and management of dementia -- The physician -- The nurse -- The social worker -- The geriatric care manager -- The pharmacist -- 3. Characteristic behavioral symptoms of dementia -- The brain, behavior, and personality : why people with dementia do the things they do -- Caregiving : some general suggestions -- Memory problems -- Overreacting, or catastrophic reactions -- Combativeness -- Problems with speech and communication -- Problems the person with dementia has in making himself understood -- Problems the person with dementia has in understanding others -- Loss of coordination -- Loss of sense of time -- Symptoms that are better sometimes and worse at other times -- 4. Problems in independent living -- Mild cognitive impairment -- When a person must give up a job -- When a person can no longer manage money -- When a person can no longer drive safely -- When a person can no longer live alone -- When you suspect that someone living alone is getting confused -- What you can do -- Moving to a new residence. Contents: 5. Problems arising in daily care -- Hazards to watch for -- In the house -- Outdoors -- In the car -- Highways and parking lots -- Smoking -- Hunting -- Nutrition and mealtimes -- Meal preparation -- Mealtimes -- Problem eating behaviors -- Malnutrition -- Weight loss -- Choking -- When to consider tube feeding -- Exercise -- Recreation -- Meaningful activity -- Personal hygiene -- Bathing -- Locating care supplies -- Dressing -- Grooming -- Oral hygiene -- Incontinence (wetting or soiling) -- Urinary incontinence -- Bowel incontinence -- Cleaning up -- Problems with walking and balance ; falling -- Becoming chairbound or bedbound -- Wheelchairs -- Changes you can make at home -- Should environments be cluttered or bare? -- 6. Medical problems -- Pain -- Falls and injuries -- Pressure sores -- Dehydration -- Pneumonia -- Constipation -- Medications -- Dental problems -- Vision problems -- Hearing problems -- Dizziness -- Visiting the doctor -- If the ill person must enter the hospital -- Seizures, fits, or convulsions -- Jerking movements (myoclonus) -- The death of the person with dementia -- The cause of death -- Dying at home -- Hospice -- Dying in the hospital or nursing home -- When should treatment end? -- What kind of care can be given at the end of life?. 7. Behavioral symptoms of dementia -- The six R's of behavior management -- Concealing memory loss -- Wandering -- Reasons why people wander -- The management of wandering -- Sleep disturbances and night wandering -- Worsening in the evening ("sundowning") -- Losing, hoarding, or hiding things -- Rummaging in drawers and closets -- Inappropriate sexual behavior -- Repeating the question -- Repetitious actions -- Distractibility -- Clinging or persistently following you around -- Complaints and insults -- Taking things -- Forgetting telephone calls -- Demands -- Stubbornness and uncooperativeness -- When the person with dementia insults the sitter -- Using medication to manage behavior -- 8. Symptoms that appear as changes in mood -- Depression -- Complaints about health -- Suicide -- Alcohol or drug abuse -- Apathy and listlessness -- Remembering feelings -- Anger and irritability -- Anxiety, nervousness, and restlessness -- False ideas, suspiciousness, paranoia, and hallucinations -- Misinterpretation -- Failure to recognize people or things (agnosia) -- "You are not my husband" -- "My mother is coming for me" -- Suspiciousness -- Hiding things -- Delusions and hallucinations -- Having nothing to do -- 9. Special arrangements if you become ill -- In the event of your death. Contents: 10. Getting outside help -- Help from friends and neighbors -- Finding information and services -- Kinds of services -- Having someone come into your home -- Adult day care -- Short-stay residential care -- Planning in advance for home care or day care -- When the person with dementia rejects the care -- Your own feelings about getting respite for yourself -- Locating resources -- Paying for care -- Should respite programs mix people who have different problems? -- Determining the quality of services -- Research and demonstration programs -- 11. You and the person with dementia as parts of a family -- Changes in roles -- Understanding family conflicts -- Division of responsibility -- Your marriage -- Coping with role changes and family conflict -- A family conference -- When you live out of town -- When you are not the primary caregiver, what can you do to help? -- Caregiving and your job -- Your children -- Teenagers -- 12. How caring for a person with dementia affects you -- Emotional reactions -- Anger -- Embarrassment -- Helplessness -- Guilt -- Laughter, love, and joy -- Grief -- Depression -- Isolation and feeling alone -- Worry -- Being hopeful and being realistic -- Mistreating the person with dementia -- Physical reactions -- Fatigue -- Illness -- Sexuality -- If your spouse is impaired -- If your impaired parent lives with you -- The future -- You as a spouse alone -- When the person you have cared for dies. Contents: 13. Caring for yourself -- Take time out -- Give yourself a present -- Friends -- Avoid isolation -- Find additional help if you need it -- Recognize the warning signs -- Counseling -- Joining with other families : The Alzheimer's Association -- Support groups -- Excuses -- Advocacy -- 14. For children and teenagers -- 15. Financial and legal issues -- Your Financial assessment -- Potential expenses -- Potential resources -- Where to look for the forgetful person's resources -- Legal matters -- 16. Nursing homes and other living arrangements -- Types of living arrangements -- Moving with the person with dementia -- Finding a nursing home or other residential care setting -- Paying for care -- Guidelines for selecting a nursing home or other residential care facility -- Moving to a nursing home or other residential care facility -- Adjusting to a new life -- Visiting -- Your own adjustment -- When problems occur in the nursing home or other residential care facility -- Sexual issues in nursing homes or other care facilities -- 17. Brain disorders and the causes of dementia -- Dementia -- Dementia associated with alcohol abuse -- Alzheimer disease -- Vascular (multi-infarct) dementia -- Lewy body dementia -- The frontotemporal dementias, including Pick disease -- Depression -- Binswanger disease -- HIV-AIDS -- Other brain disorders -- Delirium -- Senility, chronic organic brain syndrome, acute or reversible organic brain syndromes -- TIA -- Localized brain injuries -- Head injuries (head trauma) -- Anoxia or hypoxia -- Mild Cognitive impairment. 18. Research in dementia -- Understanding research -- Bogus cures -- Research in vascular (multi-infarct) dementia and stroke -- Research in Alzheimer disease -- Structural changes in the brain -- Brain cells -- Neurotransmitters -- Abnormal proteins -- Nerve growth factors -- Transplants of brain tissue -- Drug studies -- Metals -- Prions -- Immunological defects -- Head trauma -- Epidemiology -- Down syndrome -- Old Age -- Heredity -- Gender -- Promising clinical and research tools -- Keeping active -- The effect of acute illness on dementia -- Research into the delivery of services -- Protective factors -- Appendix 1. Using the Internet -- Appendix 2. Organizations. 362.2 F828b, 2006
AUT Frank, Richard G ; Glied, Sherry.
TIT Better but not well : mental health policy in the United States since 1950.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The population with mental illness -- The evolving technology of mental health care -- Health care financing and income support -- The supply of mental health services -- Policy making in mental health : integration, mainstreaming, and shifting institutions -- Assessing the well-being of people with mental illness -- Looking forward : improving the well-being of people with mental illness. 362.5 E93i, 2005
AUT Eversole, Robyn ; McNeish, John-Andrew ; Cimadamore, Alberto D.
TIT Indigenous peoples and poverty : an international perspective.
PUB London : Zed, 2005.
SER CROP international studies in poverty research.
CON Contents: Introduction: Indigenous peoples and poverty / John-Andrew McNeish and Robyn Eversole -- INDIGENOUS POVERTY: Overview: Patterns of indigenous disadvantage worldwide / Robyn Eversole -- The conditions of life and health for indigenous women in areas of high marginalization, Chiapas, Mexico / Hector Javier Sanchez-Perez, Guadalupe Vargas Morales and Josep Maria Jansa -- Scarred landscapes adn tattooed faces: poverty, identity and land conflicts in a Taiwanese indigenous community / Scott Simon -- Nutritional vulnerability in indigenous children of the Americas: a human rights issue / Siri Damman -- INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN NATION-STATES: RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND SELF-DETERMINATION: Overview: The right to self-determination / John-Andrew McNeish and Robyn Eversole -- Poverty and international aid among Russia's indigenous peoples / Indra Overland -- Indigenous poeples of South-East Asia: poverty, identity and resistance / Don McCaskill and Jeff Rutherford -- Tackling indigenous disadvantage in the Twenty-First Century: 'social inclusion' and Maori in New Zealand -- Political participation and poverty in Colombian indigenous communities: the case of the Zenu and Mokana peoples / A. Carolina Borda and Dario J. Mejia Montalvo -- Indigenous peoples, poverty and self-determination in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States / Stephen Cornell -- INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' PERSPECTIVES ON DEVELOPMENT: Overview: Indigenous peoples' perspective on poverty and development / John-Andrew McNeish -- Ecological wealth versus social poverty: contradictions of and perspectives on indigenous development in Central American and Mexico / Pablo Alarcon-Chaires -- Indigenous anti-poverty strategies in an Australian town / Robyn Eversole, Leon Ridgeway, and David Mercer -- Sami responses to poverty in the Nordic countries / Christian Jakob Burmeister Hicks and Ande Somby -- Conclusions: Poverty, peoples and the meaning of change / John-Andrew McNeish and Robyn Eversole. Rdg/Berks 362.71 S944L, 2007
AUT Sueck, Jerri Diane ; Link, Paul J.
TIT Letters my mother never read : an abandoned orphan's journey.
PUB [S.l.] : distributed by Xlibris Corp., c2007. 362.82 L962i, 2006
AUT Lundberg-Love, Paula K ; Marmion, Shelly L.
TIT "Intimate" violence against women : when spouses, partners, or lovers attack.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
SER Women's psychology, 1931-0021. 363 E68e, 1976
AUT Erikson, Kai.
TIT Everything in its path : destruction of community in the Buffalo Creek flood.
PUB New York : Simon and Schuster, c1976.
SER RICE T FRM 001 2 HRS KAUFFMAN S FRM 001 2 HRS. 363.31 B338c, 2007
AUT Bauder, Julia.
TIT Censorship.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2007.
SER Current controversies.
CON Contents: 1. Should offensive speech be censored? -- Racist hate speech should be banned / Alexander Tsesis -- Protests a funerals should be banned / The Columbus Dispatch -- Banning the desecration of the American flag would not be censorship / Steven Lubet -- Racially and sexually offensive speech should not be banned in the workplace / David E. Bernstein -- Speech that criticizes religion should not be banned / A.C. Grayling -- Protests at funerals should not be banned / Michelle Cottle -- 2. Should high schools and universities censor? -- High schools are permitted to ban speech that attacks other students / Stephen Reinhardt -- Schools should ban sexually-harassing speech / Bernice Resnick Sandler, Harriett M. Stonehill -- School libraries should restrict students' access to controversial books / Mike Masterson -- High schools should not ban speech that offends other students / Eugene Volokh -- Universities should not institute speech codes / Greg Lukianoff -- Universities should encourage open debate / Judith Rodin -- School libraries should not restrict access to any books / Chris Crutcher -- High schools and universities should not censor student newspapers / Mike Hiestand -- 3. Should pornographic and violent material be censored? -- Censoring pornographic and violent material : an overview / Henry Cohen -- Indecent broadcasts should be censored / L. Brent Bozell III -- Internet pornography should be restricted / Phyllis Schlafly -- Virtual child pornography should be banned / Ernest E. Allen -- The government should help parents shield children from obscene and violent material / Kevin W. Saunders -- Indecent broadcasts should not be censored / Marjorie Heins -- Libraries should not use Internet filters to block pornography / Daniel H. Bromberg -- Virtual child pornography should not be banned / Ambika J. Biggs -- Parents should be responsible for monitoring their children's television viewing / Adam Thierer -- 4. Should speech that endangers national security be censored? -- The press should not publish leaked classified material / Pat Buchanan -- Supports of anti-American terrorism should be barred from entering the United States / Steve Emerson -- Scientific information that could help terrorists should be restricted / Mitchel B. Wallerstein -- Punishing reporters of leaked classified information threatens the practice of journalism / Paul K. McMasters -- Journalists have a duty to fight government secrecy / Peter Weitzel -- Organizations to contact. 363.31 B967c, 2007
AUT Burns, Kate.
TIT Censorship.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2007.
SER History of issues. Opposing viewpoints series.
CON Contents: Ch. 1: Early American censorship struggles. Press censorship in the colonies / David A. Copeland -- Anthony Comstock crusades to eradicate obscenity / Mary Alden Hopkins -- A lawyer argues against Comstock censorship / Theodore Schroeder -- ch. 2: Cold War-era censorship. Government repression of dissent during the Cold War / Jerel A. Rosati -- Americans must resist Senator McCarthy's censorship / Edward R. Murrow -- A landmark case over the censorship of films / Marjorie Heins -- ch. 3: Wartime censorship. Military secrets and press censorship / C. Robert Zelnick -- Government censorship during World War I / Robert Justin Goldstein -- Censorship of the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam war / John Prados and Margaret Pratt Porter -- National security is more important than liberty in the war on terror / Richard A. Posner -- Freedom from censorship is crucial in the age of terrorism / Daniel P. Tokaji -- The Patriot Act violates freedom of speech / Nancy Kranich -- The Patriot Act protects national security and civil liberties / George W. Bush -- ch. 4: Censorship struggles in the modern cultural arena. Outlawing flag desecration is dangerous censorship / John S. Keating -- Protecting the flag is patriotism, not censorship / Patrick Brady -- The controversy over Internet filters in libraries / The Why Files -- Librarians organize to fight censorship / Tom Teepen -- Feminists against pornography / Susan Brownmiller -- Censorship of popular music in contemporary America / Paul D. Fischer -- Chronology -- Organizations to contact. 363.31 N163c, 2005
AUT Nakaya, Andrea C.
TIT Censorship : opposing viewpoints.
PUB Farmington Hills, Mich : Greenhaven Press, c2005.
SER Opposing viewpoints series.
CON Contents: ch. 1. Should there be limits to free speech? -- 1. Limits must be imposed on free speech / Jonah Goldberg -- 2. Free speech must be protected / American Civil Liberties Union -- 3. Censorship should be used for the protection of children / Kevin W. Saunders -- 4. Censorship is not an effective way to protect children / Charles Taylor -- 5. The press should practice self-censorship during times of crisis / Carlos A. Kelly -- 6. The press should not be censored during times of crisis / Anthony Lewis -- 7. Telemarketers should be censored / David Ebel -- 8. Censorship of telemarketers violates the First Amendment / Rodney Smolla -- ch. 2. Should the Internet be censored? -- 1. Internet filters should be used in libraries / William H. Rehnquist -- 2. Internet filters should not be used in libraries / Clarence Page -- 3. Internet pornography should be censored / J. Robert Flores -- 4. The government should not censor Internet pornography / Eugene Volokh -- 5. Regulations should be implemented to reduce spam / Charles E. Schumer -- 6. Regulations should not be implemented to reduce unwanted spam / Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. -- ch. 3. Has America's war on terrorism led to increased censorship? -- 1. The Patriot Act has led to increased censorship in the United States / Eleanor J. Bader -- 2. The Patriot Act has not led to unnecessary censorship in the United States / John Ashcroft -- 3. The right to dissent has been threatened in the war on terrorism / Simon Houpt -- 4. The right to dissent has not been threatened in the war on terrorism / Bobby Eberle -- 5. The U.S. occupation of Iraq has resulted in Iraqi media censorship / Alex Gourevitch -- 6. The U.S. occupation of Iraq has resulted in Iraqi media freedom / Ilene R. Prusher -- ch. 4. Is freedom in the United States threatened by censorship? -- 1. Government regulation of broadcasters is a threat to freedom / Adam Thierer -- 2. Government regulation of broadcasters is necessary / Jonathan S. Adelstein -- 3. Censorship by media conglomerates threatens democracy / Gene Kimmelman -- 4. Current media ownership rules promote freedom of speech / Michael K. Powell -- 5. The proposed Flag Protection Amendment is a threat to liberty in America / Gary E. May -- 6. The proposed Flag Protection Amendment is not a threat to liberty in America / Patrick H. Brady. 363.32 R112b 2006 v.1-2
AUT Rabasa, Angel.
TIT Beyond al-Qaeda.
PUB Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation, 2006.
CON Contents: pt. 1. The global jihadist movement -- pt. 2. The outer rings of the terrorist universe. 363.33 G677d, 2006
AUT Goss, Kristin A.
TIT Disarmed : the missing movement for gun control in America.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
SER Princeton studies in American politics.
CON Contents: The gun control (participation) paradox -- A movement in theory -- Socializing costs: patronage and political participation -- Personalizing benefits: issue frames and political participation -- Changing the calculation: policy incrementalism and political participation -- Mobilizing around modest measures: three cases -- Conclusion: pluralism, participation, and public goods -- Appendixes. Gun-related trends ; Brief case studies of other social-reform movements ; Survey of Million Mom March participants. 363.738 K81f, 2006
AUT Kolbert, Elizabeth.
TIT Field notes from a catastrophe : man, nature, and climate change. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Bloomsbury Pub. : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006.
SER KAUFFMAN S FRM 001 2 HRS RICE T FRM 001 2 HRS.
CON Contents: Shishmaref, Alaska -- A warmer sky -- Under the glacier -- The butterfly and the toad -- The curse of Akkad -- Floating houses -- Business as usual -- The day after Kyoto -- Burlington, Vermont -- Man in the Anthropocene. 364.151 J76g, 2007
AUT Jones, Adam.
TIT Genocide : a comprehensive introduction.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
CON Contents: The origins of genocide -- Imperialism, war, and social revolution -- Genocide of indigenous peoples -- The Armenian genocide -- Stalin's terror -- The Jewish holocaust -- Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge -- Bosnia and Kosovo -- Holocaust in Rwanda -- Psychological perspectives -- The sociology and anthropology of genocide -- Political science and international relations -- Gendering genocide -- Memory, forgetting, and denial -- Justice, truth, and redress -- Strategies of intervention and prevention. 364.1523 R935t 2007 Popular reading
AUT Rule, Ann.
TIT Too late to say goodbye : a true story of murder and betrayal. - 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
PUB New York : Free Press, 2007. 364.16 M621s 2006
AUT Michalowski, Raymond J ; Kramer, Ronald C.
TIT State-corporate crime : wrongdoing at the intersection of business and government.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006.
SER Critical issues in crime and society. 364.168 M135s, 2007
AUT MacDonald, Scott B ; Hughes, Jane E.
TIT Separating fools from their money : a history of American financial scandals.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2007. 368.4 P822s, 2006
AUT Poole, Mary.
TIT The segregated origins of social security : African Americans and the welfare state.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
CON Contents: So now Mr. President, we are looking for something : African Americans, the Social Security Act, and the Great Depression -- The not-so-solid South : southern Democrats in Congress -- Colorblind public policy : the staff of the Committee on Economic Security -- Shaky ground : Black and interracial organizations -- Gender and the white united front : the women of the Federal Children's Bureau -- Conclusion : those old discriminatory practices. 371.26 Y43 2006
AUT Yeh, Stuart S.
TIT Raising student achievement through rapid assessment and test reform.
PUB New York : Teachers College Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Motivating students through rapid feedback -- Less pressure -- Less frustration -- Less narrowing -- Less failure -- The future of testing -- The policy context. 371.302 K79h, 2006
AUT Kohn, Alfie.
TIT The homework myth : why our kids get too much of a bad thing. - 1st Da Capo Press ed.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Life Long, 2006. 371.302 T572w, 2004
AUT Tileston, Donna Walker.
TIT What every teacher should know about instructional planning.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2004.
SER What every teacher should know about.
CON Contents: Diverse learners -- Student motivation -- Learning, memory, and the brain -- Instructional planning -- Effective teaching strategies -- Classroom management and discipline -- Student assessment -- Special learners -- Media and technology -- The profession and politics of teaching. 371.33 R755i, 2007
AUT Rolls, Albert.
TIT International perspectives on education.
PUB [Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co., 2007.
SER The reference shelf ; v. 79, no. 4.
CON Contents: Business of schooling / George Kent -- Educating Amaretch: private schools for the poor and the new frontier for investors / James Tooley -- Crowds of pupils but little else in African schools / Sharon LaFraniere -- Keeping the promise / Birger Fredriksen -- A nation with a long memory, but a truncated history / Hassan M. Fattah -- Should we teach patriotism? / Diane Ravitch -- An education in Muslim integration / Jay Tolson -- Strategies for teaching civic education: an international perspective / Kaye Pepper -- "A" is for Allah, "J" is for jihad / Craig Davis -- Preach your children well / Amanda Gefter -- New paradigms for 21st century education: an international perspective / Victor Ordo�ez and Siegfried Ramler -- College goes global / William R. Brody -- World transformed: how other countries are preparing students for the interconnected world of the 21st century / Vivien Stewart -- Rethinking education in the global era / Marcelo M. Su�rez-Orozco -- Online high-school programs that work: five common strategies for making online high school programs effective in your school district / M. D. Roblyer -- Technology in Ethiopian schools: connecting children from various cultures / Judit Szente -- Promise of open educational resources / Marshall S. Smith and Catherine M. Casserly -- Beyond the book: electronic textbooks will bring worldwide learning / Parker Rossman -- Review of two mainline e-learning projects in the European Union / H�seyin Uzunboylu -- Schools making tough choices: an international perspective / C. Rotberg -- Measure of learning / Alex Kingsbury -- If you think we have problems...Japan's inferior university system / Jane Barnes Mack-Cozzo -- Freedom of choice can only make it better / Kevin Donnelly -- Discounting education's value / Anthony P. Carnevale. 371.39 S545t 2007
AUT Shelton-Colangelo, Sharon ; Mancuso, Carolina |
