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Capturing the Commons: Devising Institutions to Manage the Maine Lobster Industry

James Acheson

One of the most pressing concerns of environmentalists and policy makers is the overexploitation of natural resources. Efforts to regulate such resources are too often undermined by the people whose livelihoods depend on their use. One of the great challenges for wildlife managers in the twenty-first century is learning to create the conditions under which people will erect effective and workable rules to conserve those resources.

James M. Acheson, author of the best-selling Lobster Gangs of Maine (the seminal work on the culture and economics of lobster fishing), here turns his attention to the management of the lobster industry. In this illuminating new book, he shows that resource degradation is not inevitable. Indeed, the Maine lobster fishery is one of the most successful fisheries in the world. Catches have been stable since World War II, and record highs have been achieved since the late 1980s. According to Acheson, these high catches are due, in part, to the institutions generated by the lobster-fishing industry to control fishing practices. These rules are effective.

Rational choice theory frames Acheson’s down-to-earth study. Rational choice theorists believe that the overexploitation of marine resources stems from their common-pool nature, which results in collective action problems. In fisheries, what is rational for the individual fishermen can lead to disaster for the society. The progressive Maine lobster industry, lobster fishermen, and local groups have solved a series of such problems by creating three different sets of regulations: informal territorial rules; rules to control the number of traps; and formal conservation legislation. In recent years, the industry has successfully influenced new regulations at the federal level and has developed a strong co-management system with the Maine government. The process of developing these rules has been quite acrimonious; factions of fishermen have disagreed over lobster rules designed to give commercial advantage to one group or another. Although fishermen and scientists have come to share a conservation ethic, they often disagree over how to best conserve the lobster and even the quality of science.

The importance of Capturing the Commons is twofold: it provides a case study of the management of one highly successful fishery, which can serve as a management model for policy makers, politicians, and local communities; and it adds to the body of theory concerning the conditions under which people will and will not devise institutions to manage natural resources.
Discovering Sociology: Using MicroCase ExplorIt

Steven E. Barkan

This best selling software-based workbook lets students explore dozens of sociological topics and issues, using data from the United States and around the world. With the workbook and accompanying ExplorIt software and data sets, students won't just read about what other sociologists have done, they will discover sociology for themselves.
Relevant No More?: The Catholic/Protestant Divide in American Electoral Politics

Mark D. Brewer

Relevant No More? The Catholic/Protestant Divide in American Electoral Politics re-examines current prevailing views on the political affiliations of religious voters. Analysing both the history of religious voting behavior and current trends, author Mark Brewer argues that the supposedly drastic shift of the allegiance of American Catholics from the Democratic party to the Republican party has been greatly exaggerated. He then provides a fascinating exploration of the views and outlooks which divide Catholic and Protestant voting behavior, making a convincing case that many of these differences originate in the religions' world views. Highly empirical and creative,Relevant No More? provides new insight into interactions between religious values and voting behavior in America.
Gerontological Social Work in Small Towns and Rural Communities

Sandra S. Butler and Lenard W. Kaye

Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities provides a range of intervention and community skills aimed precisely at the needs of rural elders. This book fills a gap in the literature by focusing on the specific practice concerns for social workers assisting older adults in rural areas, including the aging experience, social worker skills, professional functions, working with special populations, and health and long-term care concerns. This valuable resource will benefit social workers, gerontologists, allied health professionals in rural areas, health and human services administrators and managers.

Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities explores the challenges social workers need to overcome when working with the elder community in rural areas. This book’s significance to social workers will only increase as more adults choose to live and grow old away from the cities. Experts in the field suggest strategies to overcome barriers in planning and providing services such as:

* a longer distance for the elderly to travel to use social service centers
* a narrower range of available services in the local area
* increased poverty levels for the elderly
* a stronger dependency by elderly on family rather than public assistance

This book is divided into five sections:

Rurality and Aging—introduces the concept of rurality and examines the demographics of aging from a rural perspective.

Practice Dimensions of Social Work with Rural Elders—includes clinical practice models, intervention and advocacy techniques, program planning, and marketing approaches.

Special Populations—gives attention to four special population groups: indigenous elders, African-American older adults, elderly Latinos, and disabled elders.

Special Issues Pertaining to Rural Elders—covers five essential issues for rural gerontological social workers: health promotion, older workers and retirement preparation, aging in place, specialized housing, and ethical practice.

Training and Policy Recommendations—future training and education recommendations for social workers are explored, as well as service capacity building, the aging network, and the future of long-term care.

While a variety of theoretical perspectives are explored in Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities, the book’s empowerment orientation and strengths-based approach will enhance your abilities to improve quality of life for elderly individuals in rural communities. Each chapter contains a comprehensive review of the literature on the subject it addresses, and several chapters include tables and graphs to further establish their revealing empirical findings. An appendix provides additional sources to turn to for more information.
Sex Matters for College Students: FAQs in Human Sexuality

Sandra L. Caron

Using a convenient question/answer format, this brief, easy-to-read, affordable paperback is designed specifically for today's young adults to answer basic sexual questions in a friendly, nonthreatening, age-appropriate way. Featuring questions that come from young adults themselves,it helps readers wade through the barrage of information/misinformation overload they encounter everyday as they struggle to become aware of and understand their sexual feelings and responses, to accept these feelings in themselves, and to enhance their lives. Sexual Organs. Sexual Health. Body Image. Birth Control. Pregnancy Testing. Abortion. Sexual Thoughts and Behaviors. Sexual Self-Pleasuring. Orgasm. Virginity. First Experience with Sexual Intercourse. Sexual Decision-Making. Loving Relationships. Sexual Communication. Dating Dilemmas. Long Distance Dating. Relationship in Crisis/Breaking Up. Sex Under the Influence: Alcohol and Other Drugs. Sexual Function And Dysfunction. Sexually Transmitted Disease. Smart Sex. Gender/Sex Role. Sexual Orientation. Gender Identity. Sexual Assault. Sexual Abuse. Sexual Harassment.
A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation

Patricia A. Champ Editor, Kevin J. Boyle Editor, and Thomas C. Brown Editor

A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation is unique in its clear descriptions of the most commonly used nonmarket valuation techniques and their implementation. Individuals working for government agencies, attorneys involved with natural resource damage assessments, graduate students, and others will appreciate the non-technical and practical tone of this book.

The first section of the book provides the context and theoretical foundation of nonmarket valuation, along with practical data issues.

The middle two sections of the Primer describe the major stated and revealed nonmarket valuation techniques. For each technique, the steps involved in implementation are laid out and described. Both practitioners of nonmarket valuation and those who are new to the field will come away from these methods chapters with a thorough understanding of how to design, implement, and analyze a nonmarket valuation study.
Discovering the Universe

Neil F. Comins and William J. Kaufmann III

Discovering the Universe is the best-selling brief text for descriptive one-term astronomy courses (especially those with no mathematics prerequisites). Carried along by the book's vibrant main theme--the process of scientific discovery--readers will encounter spectacular sights, landmark experiments, and recent discoveries, while learning to avoid the pitfalls created by common misconceptions about astronomy.
Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging

Margaret Cruikshank

What does it mean to grow old in America today? Is 'successful aging' our responsibility? What will happen if we fail to 'grow old gracefully'? Especially for women, the onus on the aging population in the United States is growing rather than diminishing. Gender, race, and sexual orientation have been reinterpreted as socially constructed phenomena, yet aging is still seen through physically constructed lenses. This book helps put aging in a new light, neither romanticizing nor demonizing it. Feminist scholar Margaret Cruikshank looks at a variety of different forces affecting the progress of aging, including fears and taboos, multicultural traditions, and the medicalization and politicization of natural processes. Through it all, we learn a better way to inhabit our age whatever it is.
Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and Exercise Epidemiology

Nellie M. Cyr

This book explores the physiological mechanisms and consequences of an under active society as well as the concept of prevention in the form of health promotion programs.
Permanence Through Change: the Variable Media Approach

Alain Depocas Editor, Jon Ippolito Editor, and Caitlin Jones Editor
Evaluation Practice: Thinking and Action Principles for Social Work Practice

Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen French Gilson

This text presents both the quantitative and qualitative methods and focuses on teaching students how to skillfully apply the full range of research designs, methods and strategies to evaluation of social work in all domains of social work practice. The book provides a framework for the integration of systematic inquiry with practice that can be used by all social workers. The authors have created a model called, "evaluation practice" that provides the evidence-based structure within which diverse social work theories and skills can be organized, examined and verified.
Foundations of Geographic Information Science

Matt Duckham Editor, Michael F. Goodchild Editor, and Mike Worboys Editor

As the use of geographical information systems develops apace, a significant strand of research activity is being directed to the fundamental nature of geographic information. This volume contains a collection of essays and discussions on this theme.

What is geographic information? What fundamental principles are associated with it? How can it be represented? How does it represent the world? How can geographic information be quantified? How can it be communicated and related to the other information sciences? How does HCI tie in with it? A number of other more specific but relevant issues are considered, such as Spatio-temporal relationships, boundaries, granularity and taxonomy.
Wood Deterioration and Preservation: Advances in Our Changing World

Barry Goodell Editor, Darrel D. Nicholas Editor, and Tor P. Schultz Editor

In recent years considerable progress has been made in elucidating wood decay mechanisms. This basic knowledge not only has the potential to develop alternative environmentally-benign wood preservatives, but may also impact other areas such as bioremediation and pulp and paper. This book will summarize the latest knowledge of the developments, potential impacts, and applications from some of the world's leading experts.
After the Palace Burns

Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei

After the Palace Burns is the stunning debut of Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei and is the year 2002 winner of the Paris Review Prize in Poetry. Each line in this extraordinary collection articulates entrance into a world of intense clarity and deep surprise, nuanced by questions about the limits of the possible and knowable.
Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe

Alexander I. Grab

The book explores the impact of Napoleon's domination throughout his empire and the response of the Europeans to his rule. This important book focuses on the developments and the events in the ten states that comprised the Grand Empire: France itself, Belgium, Germany, The Illyrian Provinces, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland. Grab discusses Napoleon's exploitation of occupied Europe and particularly his reform policies, and assesses their success in transforming Europe.
Brushless Permanent Magnet Motor Design

Duane C. Hanselman

Written for electrical, electronics and mechanical engineers responsible for designing and specifying motors, as well as motor topologies, this guide covers topics ranging from the fundamentals of generic motor design to concepts for designing brushless permanent-magnet motors. In addition, the author explains techniques for magnetic modelling and circuit analysis, shows how magnetic circuit analysis applies to motor design, describes major aspects of motor operation and design in simple mathematical terms, develops design equations for radial flux and axial flux motors, and illustrates basic motor drive schemes. The text aims to clearly define all common motor design terms.
Tectonic Evolution of Northwestern Mexico and the Southwestern USA

Scott E. Johnson Editor, Scott R. Paterson Editor, John M. Fletcher Editor, Gary H. Girty Editor, David L. Kimbrough Editor, and Arturo Martin-Barajas Editor
Natural States: The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation

Richard W. Judd and Christopher Beach

Richard Judd and Christopher Beach define the environmental imagination as the attempt to secure 'a sense of freedom, permanence, and authenticity through communion with nature.' The desire for this connection is based on ideals about nature, wilderness, and the livable landscape that are personal, variable, and often contradictory. Judd and Beach are interested in the public expression of these ideals in post-World War II environmental politics. Arguing that the best way to study the relationship between popular values and politics is through local and regional records, they focus on Maine and Oregon, states both rich in natural beauty and environmentalist traditions, but distinct in their postwar economic growth. Natural States reconstructs the environmental imagination from public commentary, legislative records, and other documents. Judd and Beach trace important divisions within the environmental movement, noting that they were balanced by a consistent, civic-minded vision of environmental goods shared by all. They demonstrate how tensions from competing ideals sustained the movement, contributed to its successes, but also limited its achievements. In the process, they offer insight into the character of the broader environmental movement as it emerged from the interplay of local, state, and national politics. The study ends in the 1970s when spectacular legislative achievements at the national level were masking a decline in mainstream civic engagement in state politics. The authors note the rise of the private ecotopia and the increasing complexity in the way Americans viewed their connections with the natural world. Yet, today, despite wide variations in beliefs and lifestyles, a majority of Americans still consider themselves to be environmentalists. In Natural States, environmental politics emerges less as a conflict between people who do and do not value nature, and more as a debate about the way people define and then chose to live with nature. In their attempt to place the passion for nature within a changing political and cultural context, Judd and Beach shed light on the ways that ideals unify and divide the environmental movement and act as the source of its enduring popularity.
Making Facts Come Alive: Choosing & Using Quality Nonfiction Literature K-8

Janice V. Kristo and Rosemary A. Bamford
Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science International Conference, COSIT 2003

Werner Kuhn Editor, Mike Worboys Editor, and Sabine Timpf Editor

Conference proceedings.
International Workshop on Semantic Processing of Spatial Data

Sergei Levashkin Editor, Jean Serra Editor, and Max J. Egenhofer Editor

Semantic processing of spatial data is an emerging area of Geomatics that focuses on representation and use of knowledge to support (semi) automatic Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Due to the growing demand for both interactive an d automatic intelligent GIS, the field of semantic processing of spatial dat a has an exciting and promising future. The GEOPRO workshop is relatively small bu t unique Geomatics forum that exclusively concerns with this topic in the fields o f raster to vector conversion, map generalization, image interpretation, spatial databases, and GIS applications.
Function of Newspapers in Society: A Global Perspective

Shannon E. Martin Editor and David A. Copeland Editor

The demise of the newspaper has long been predicted. Yet newspapers continue to survive globally despite competition from radio, television, and now the Internet, because they serve core social functions in successful cultures. Initial chapters of this book provide an overview of the development of modern newspapers. Subsequent chapters examine particular societies and geographic regions to see what common traits exist among the uses and forms of newspapers and those artifacts that carry the name newspaper but do not meet the commonly accepted definition. The conclusion suggests that newspapers are of such core value to a successful society that a timely and easily accessible news product will succeed despite, or perhaps because of, changes in reading habits and technology.
Using the MBTI Instrument in Colleges and Universities

Judith A. Provost and Scott Anchors

Explore the world of personality types and how they affect daily life for students in colleges and universities. Topics in this book range from residential environments and campus retention to academic advising and career development. Administrators, faculty members, and student affairs personnel will find innovative and thought-provoking ideas for implementing or expanding the use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® assessment tool in vocational schools, community colleges and four-year public or private universities.
Diverging Parties: Social Change, Realignment, and Party Polarization

Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Mark D. Brewer, and Mack D. Mariani

Party polarization in the House of Representatives has increased in recent decades. Explaining this development has been difficult, given current interpretations of American elections. The dominant framework for interpreting elections has been to see them as candidate-centered, or individualistic. This framework may have seemed appropriate as a way to see elections during the 1970s and 1980s, when identification with parties declined and split-ticket voting increased. With increasing party differences, however, the presumptions that campaigns focus on candidates separate from parties, and that voters are less partisan in their voting, do not provide a satisfactory framework for understanding our current situation. This proposed book explains the emergence of party polarization by focusing on how the constituencies of House districts affect partisan outcomes and the subsequent voting behavior of House members. This proposed analysis is premised on the simple argument that members are elected from districts, and an explanation of polarization must begin with districts. The origins of polarization lie in the realignment of the electoral bases of the parties, and the shifting demographic composition of America. Liberal voting is more likely among members from urban, lower-income, largely non-white districts. Conservative voting is more likely among members from higher-income, largely white districts. Realignment has resulted in Democrats representing urban, lower-income, heavily non-white districts, while Republicans are more likely to come from suburban-rural, more affluent, white districts. Perhaps most important, the percentage of districts with a substantial proportion of non-whites is steadily increasing in the United States. The analysis will focus primarily on changes since the 1960s.
New England Weather, New England Climate

Gregory A. Zielinski and Barry D. Keim

Combining a scholarly appreciation of weather systems and events with an ability to transmit their passion to a general audience, Gregory A. Zielinski and Barry D. Keim have written a one-of-a-kind guide to New England weather and climate. Not only are weather patterns in New England more changeable and more extreme than almost anywhere in the country, New England is the ultimate destination of nearly all storm tracks nationwide. Recently, newsworthy items such as global warming, El Niño, and La Niña have significantly impacted our local weather, in both the short and long term. Luckily, the science of meteorology and climatology and their tools of observation and analysis have made great strides in the past few years.

The authors offer an in-depth explanation of the latest theoretical insights into New England’s weather along with a flurry of stories and lore about the vagaries of our clime. The book is divided into the seasons as we actually experience them—ski season, mud season, beach and lake season, and foliage season. It includes photos and illustrations: some all too familiar, many hard to believe. Zielinski and Keim succeed in providing an illuminating and entertaining analysis and commentary while whole-heartedly embracing our region’s atmospheric peculiarities. This book won’t do anything about New England’s weather or climate but it will help you understand each of them.
The Wounded Leader: How Real Leadership Emerges in Times of Crisis

Richard H. Ackerman Editor and Pat Maslin-Ostrowski

As any school principal or adminstrator can tell you, the responsibilities of school leadership can take a person from inspired moments to crisis in an instant. How does a school leader with good intentions preserve a healthy sense of self in the face of a crisis which in the best of times challenges the self, and in the worst of times can lead to deep wounds of the heart? How can good leaders minimize the impact of these crises and remain open to learn and grow from these difficult experiences? These are the questions at the heart of the stories contained in The Wounded Leader.

Through compelling stories that illustrate many of the common dilemmas faced by school leaders, the authors highlight the many paths to healing, and show how sometimes the most painful experience can be an opportunity for growth.
Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade

Douglas Allen

This multidisciplinary study is the first book devoted entirely to the critical interpretation of the writings of Mircea Eliade on myth. One of the most popular and influential historians and theorists of myth, Eliade argued that all myth is religious. Douglas Allen critically interprets Eliade's theories of religion, myth, and symbolism and analyses many of the controversial issues in Eliade's treatment of myth including whether Eliade's approach deals adequately with the relationship between myth and history and how Eliade's anti-modern perspective makes sense of myth in modern culture. A valuable resource for scholars in religious studies, philosophy, anthropology, and history, this book enables readers not only to understand "archaic" and "traditional" religious phenomena, but also to make sense of repressed and sublimated myth dimensions in modern secular life.
Integrating Disability Content in Social Work Education: A Curriculum Resource

Elizabeth DePoy Editor, Stephen French Gilson Editor, Heather L. MacDuffie Editor, and Katherine Meyershon Editor
Photographing Navajos : John Collier Jr. on the reservation, 1948-1953

C. Stewart Doty, Dale Sperry Mudge, and Herbert John Benally

In the early 1950s the great anthropological photographer John Collier Jr. made nearly 1,000 photographs documenting Navajo life in Fruitland, New Mexico, near the Four Corners. Lost until recently in archives far from the Southwest, most of these photos have never before been published. The authors of this book have assembled a selection of Collier's Navajo photographs showing the changes in post-World War II reservation life.

This was the period when cash-crop agriculture and wage work began to supplant the traditional pastoral life centered on raising sheep and using the wool for weaving. Ironically, the photographer was the son of the Indian commissioner who instigated stock reduction on the Navajo Reservation in 1934. Nearly three-quarters of a century later, the senior Collier is still hated by Navajos, and it is a tribute to the younger Collier's personality as well as his skill that he was able to take some of the most intimate pictures ever made of the Navajo people. The Collier photos collected here show people working, cooking, weaving, eating, washing their hair, and engaging in other activities of daily life. The collection also includes handsome portraits, some formal, some casual.

The essays by Benally and Doty set Collier's work in the contexts of Navajo tradition and history as well as provide background on the Fruitland project and Collier's role in it. Dale Mudge's account of Navajo farming practices combines with Collier's photos to present an outstanding summary of traditional Dine agriculture.
Geographic Information Science: Second International Conference

Max J. Egenhofer Editor

The initiation of the GIScience conference series came with the observation that the GIScience field has a widely fragmented conference landscape. Many papers on geographic information science are presented not only at such specialized meetings as the biennial Conferences on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), the Symposia on Spatial and Temporal databases (SSTD), the International Symposia on Spatial Accuracy, the Symposia on Spatial Data Handling (SDH), or the ACM Workshop on Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), but also at the large meetings of the professional organizations that deal with geographic information systems. The lack of an opportunity to exchange ideas across the disciplinary specializations led to the creation of the GIScience conference series as a forum for all GIScience researchers who are interested in the advances in research in the fundamental aspects of geographic information science.
Rugby Tough

Bruce D. Hale Editor and David J. Collins Editor

Rugby is highly demanding from a physical standpoint. But anyone who has played or coached the sport knows that the mental side of the game separates the best players from the rest. Rugby Tough will give you the mental focus you need to give the game everything you've got.

Learn how to apply mental skills effectively in specific match situations and get inside advice from those who've played, coached, and studied the game at every competitive level. Through Rugby Tough, you'll learn new ways to toughen your mindset and eliminate costly mental errors that inhibit your best performance.

Rugby Tough starts with an emphasis on individual player development and the fundamental psychological skills you need to excel at the sport. In later chapters, the focus shifts to the importance of group dynamics and mental strategies in competitive play. From building team cohesiveness to defending and attacking mindsets, you'll discover all the tools you need to take your game to a whole new level.

For the definitive word on mental preparation, Rugby Tough draws on the experience of coaches and sport psychologists from England, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and the United States. To be among the world's best, you need the mindset of a champion. To prepare for the ultimate challenge, pick up the ultimate resource.
William Carlos Williams and the Language of Poetry

Burton Hatlen Editor and Demetres Tryphonopoulos Editor

The essays collected in this volume explore from many different perspectives the rhythms and textures of Williams's poetic language, to suggest that his work represents a continuous interrogation of language itself. Essays by Suzanne W. Churchill, Kerry Driscoll, Burce Holsapple, Tom Orange, Piotr Parlej, Michael Boughn, George W. Layng, Mark Gorey, Brian M. McGrath, Shane Rhodes, Darryl Whetter, Norman Finkelstein, Aldon Nielsen and Donald Wellman.
Legal Issues for Maine Educators: Omni Guide

Dianne Hoff, Marcia Diamond, and Mark Hatch
Fundamentals of Conservation Biology

Malcolm L. Hunter Jr.

The conservation of biodiversity is one of the most important issues facing ecologists today. In this update of the highly successful first edition, Malcolm Hunter introduces students and professionals to the fascinating and important field of conservation biology, the applied science dealing with the maintenance of the earth′s biological diversity.

Fundamentals of Conservation Biology 2e focuses on what can be done to maintain biodiversity through management of ecosystems and populations. Starting with a succinct look at what conservation and biodiversity really mean and progressing to more complex topics such as mass extinctions, habitat degradation and over exploitation, Hunter creates a context in which the principles of conservation biology can be readily understood. Discussions of the social, political and economic aspects of conservation biology issues are interwoven throughout the text and addressed independently in their own chapters. The new edition has been thoroughly revised with hundreds of new references and web links to many of the organizations involved in conservation biology.
Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach

Walter S. Judd, Christopher S. Campbell, Elizabeth A. Kellogg, Peter F. Stevens, and Michael J. Donoghue
Personality, Creativity, and Art

Colin Martindale Editor, E. A. Malyanov Editor, N. N. Zakharov Editor, E. M. Berezina Editor, L. Y. Dorfman Editor, and V. M. Petrov Editor

In this book we have attempted to gather together a set of chapters that describe new ways of approaching questions about aesthetics and innovation.Rather than going over old ground, the chapters describe attempts to break new ground. A number of chapters are by Russian scholars. A valuable aspect of Russian scholarship is that many topics, such as art history, are studied with quantitative methods rather than being left to imprecise qualitative humanistic approaches. As well as describing new methods and results, they will be novel to most western readers, because the Russian perspective on aesthetics and innovation is rather different than the traditional western perspective. Looking at phenomena from a new viewpoint never hurts and very often helps in science.
The Sense Record: And Other Poems

Jennifer Moxley

Moxley's second full-length collection, THE SENSE RECORD AND OTHER POEMS, takes that earlier style even deeper into the thickets of thought. Uncovering radical similarities between a modular, Oppen-like concentration and 19th century late-Rococo abstraction, THE SENSE RECORD is everywhere obsessed with the problem of dividing and reconciling aesthetic form(s). Some will find ravishing confessions in this book, but others will find a philosophy of art.
Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children

D. Kimbrough Oller Editor and Rebecca E. Eilers Editor

This book sets a high standard for rigor and scientific approach to the study of bilingualism and provides new insights regarding the critical issues of theory and practice, including the interdependence of linguistic knowledge in bilinguals, the role of socioeconomic status, the effect of different language usage patterns in the home, and the role of schooling by single-language immersion as opposed to systematic training in both home and target languages. The rich landscape of outcomes reported in the volume will provide a frame for interpretation and understanding of effects of bilingualism for years to come.
Reading Don't Fix No Chevys: Literacy in the Lives of Young Men

Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

The problems of boys in schools, especially in reading and writing, have been the focus of statistical data, but rarely does research point out how literacy educators can combat those problems. Michael Smith and Jeff Wilhelm worked with a very diverse group of young men to understand how they use literacy and what conditions promote it. In this book they share what they have learned. The authors' data-driven findings explain why boys reject much of school literacy and how progressive curricula and instruction might help boys engage with literacy and all learning in more productive ways.
Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension

Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

Before reading, hand out lines of a poem and have students try to build an idea of what the poem will be about...invite two students to play good angel/bad angel for a book character...have students perform a vocabulary statue depicting the meaning of terms such as global warming or deforestation. This book has many motivating ideas like this that energize students before, during, and after reading. These strategies can be done individually, or through pair work or groups. Great for deepening reading strategies such as activating prior knowledge, inferring, visualizing, making connections, and more.
Criminology: A Sociological Understanding

Steven E. Barkan

This book provides a sociological perspective on crime and criminal justice by treating social structure and social inequality as central themes in the study of crime—and major factors in society's treatment of criminals. It gives explicit attention to key sociological concepts such as poverty, gender, race, and ethnicity, and demonstrates their influence on crime. Recent coverage of major topics and current controversial issues includes computer crimes; harm reduction in society's effort to deal with illegal drug use; workplace violence; police scandals; violence against civilians; gun control; capital punishment; drug legalization; husband battering; civil disobedience; workplace violence; and racial prejudice and policing. For individuals trying to make informed judgements about why crime occurs and how society can best address this problem.
The Economic Value of Water Quality

John C. Bergstrom Editor, Kevin J. Boyle Editor, and Gregory L. Poe Editor

The authors of this in-depth study describe the theory and techniques that can be applied to the specific case of valuing potable drinking water provided by ground water supplies. The theory and techniques can be extended to valuing potable drinking water provided by surface water supplies, and also to valuing alternative levels of water quality. The theory and case studies discussed in the book suggest that important determinants of the economic value of water quality include the probability of contamination measured objectively and subjectively, information on actual levels of contamination in household water supplies, socioeconomic characteristics of households and the extent to which the values of water quality people hold include non-use components. The case study results also suggest that empirical valuation results are sensitive to study design effects such as the particular statistical technique used to estimate mean or median values. These results suggest that estimating water quality values using benefits transfer techniques is problematic, but perhaps feasible with improved data and valuation models.
Polish-speaking Germans?: Language and National Identity Among the Masurians Since 1871

Richard Blanke

The Polish-speaking Masurians who inhabited the southern part of East Prussia until 1945 present the clearest and best documented example anywhere in eastern Europe of national identity developing disregarding native language. Although they spoke Polish and lived adjacent to Poland, Masurians gave every indication over quite a long time period of voluntary and nearly unanimous identification with the Prusso-German state and nation. They did so in a region #A>where national identity based on language was the norm, and in spite of two exceptional opportunities which have to be considered: an internationally supervised plebiscite (1920), whose one-sided result only confirmed that identification, and the assignment of Masurians to Poland (1945), which resulted ultimately in the departure of most Masurians for Germany. Aside from its intrinsic interest, the Masurian experience should also appeal to anyone interested in questions of national consciousness and nationalism.
Estudios críticos del neoliberalismo

Melvin Burke

Essays previously published in various books and journals, some translated from English.
Discovering the Essential Universe

Neil F. Comins
Heavenly Errors: Misconceptions About the Real Nature of the Universe

Neil F. Comins

One of the great paradoxes of modern times is that the more scientists understand the natural world, the more we discover that our everyday beliefs about it are wrong. Astronomy, in particular, is one of the most misunderstood scientific disciplines.

With the participation of thousands of undergraduate students, Neil F. Comins has identified and classified, by origin and topic, over 1,700 commonly held misconceptions. Heavenly Errors provides access to all of them and explores many, including:

• Black holes suck in everything around them.
• The Sun shines by burning gas.
• Comets have tails trailing behind them.
• The Moon alone causes tides.
• Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, is the hottest planet.

In the course of correcting these errors, he explains that some occur through the prevalence of pseudosciences such as astrology and UFO-logy and some enter the public conscience through the "bad astronomy" of Star Trek, Star Wars, and other science-fiction movies.. Perhaps most important, Professor Comins presents the reader with the methods for identifying and replacing incorrect ideas -- tools with which to probe erroneous notions so that we can begin to question for ourselves... and to think more like scientists.
Socialism

Michael W. Howard Editor

This outstanding collection defines the concept, provides competing models, and explores the relationship of socialism to a wide range of fundamental human concerns: freedom, equality (including gender and race), democracy, community, art, culture, religion, ecology, science, and technology. The aim of this study is to provide scholars and students a sample of socialism's diverse meanings and to show both its continuing relevance and vitality. Although some important classic texts are included, the articles brought together in this volume are intended less as an anthology than as a contemporary assessment of socialism by scholars sympathetic to yet not uncritical of the socialist cause: specifically, what it has meant, what conclusions can be drawn from the failed experiments in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, what its future may be, and how it can be justified.

Among the topics considered are: models of market socialism vs. nonmarket participatory planned socialism, the importance of feminism to socialism, socialism and ecology, the relationship of socialism to religion and culture, and more. Michael Howard's introductory essay draws out the themes of and connections among the essays and situates them in the context of the history of socialism and current debates.

This excellent text will be a valuable resource for courses on social justice, Marxism, political theory, critical theory, comparative economic systems, and related courses in philosophy, the humanities, and social sciences.
Managerial Network in a Multinational Enterprise

Ivan M. Manev

This guide discusses the antecedents and the effects of managerial networks, incorporating first-hand data and background characteristics of managers working in 36 different countries.
Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality

Kyriacos C. Markides

An acclaimed expert in Christian mysticism travels to a monastery high in the Trodos Mountains of Cyprus and offers a fascinating look at the Greek Orthodox approach to spirituality that will appeal to readers of Carlos Castaneda.
In an engaging combination of dialogues, reflections, conversations, history, and travel information, Kyriacos C. Markides continues the exploration of a spiritual tradition and practice little known in the West he began in Riding with the Lion. His earlier book took readers to the isolated peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece and into the group of ancient monasteries. There, in what might be called a “Christian Tibet,” two thousand monks and hermits practice the spiritual arts to attain a oneness with God. In his new book, Markides follows Father Maximos, one of Mount Athos’s monks, to the troubled island of Cyprus. As Father Maximos establishes churches, convents, and monasteries in this deeply divided land, Markides is awakened anew to the magnificent spirituality of the Greek Orthodox Church.

Images of the land and the people of Cyprus and details of its tragic history enrich the Mountain of Silence. Like the writings of Castaneda, the book brilliantly evokes the confluence of an inner and outer journey. The depth and richness of its spiritual message echo the thoughts and writings of Saint Francis of Assisi and other great saints of the Church as well. The result is a remarkable work–a moving, profoundly human examination of the role and the power of spirituality in a complex and confusing world.
Role of Friendship in Psychological Adjustment

Douglas W. Nangle Editor and Cynthia A. Erdley Editor

This issue examines the specific role children's experience of friendship plays in their psychological adjustment, and shedding light on the neglected area of peer relations research. The authors discuss the theory and empirical work connecting friendship and adjustment that provides a firm foundation for peer relations research. The authors present the results of an eighteen-year study addressing the question of whether acceptance and friendship are unique or redundant predictors of adult adjustment and well-being. They address the peer relationship difficulties experienced by children suffering from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder; and they examine the potential iatrogenic consequences in the treatment of groups targeting antisocial youth. This volume also offers an informative and provocative essay tracing the conceptual and historical foundations of research and discussing the recent rise of interest in the peer system.
Neuropsychology of Cardiovascular Disease

Shari R. Waldstein Editor and Merrill F. Elias Editor

Cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and many other countries, confers substantial risk for cerebrovascular events, such as stroke and vascular dementia. The neuropsychological sequelae of such conditions are well documented and can have a devastating impact on individuals' quality of life. However, prior to the development of overt cerebrovascular complications, persons with cardiovascular disease or its risk factors may display mild to severe neuropsychological difficulties. Medical and surgical treatments for cardiovascular disease have also been found to affect neuropsychological function.

This landmark volume offers the first comprehensive overview of the neuropsychological consequences of cardiovascular disease, tracking its natural history, epidemiology, and treatments. It encourages researchers and clinicians to consider all relevant facets of vascular disease processes in their evaluation, study, and treatment of affected patients and indicates a need for primary and secondary prevention efforts. Neuropsychology of Cardiovascular Disease will be welcomed as an invaluable resource by neuropsychologists, specialists in behavioral medicine, neurologists, cardiologists, epidemiologists, gerontologists, and many other health professionals whose work brings them into contact with these challenging patients.
Improving Comprehension with Think-aloud Strategies

Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

Think aloud as you read from a novel, a textbook, or any kind of book and watch your students become confident, fluent readers! With this simple, powerful technique, you can show students how you use strategies such as inferring, visualizing, and summarizing. Finally, students can "see" what good readers do and apply it to their own reading process. Think alouds are great for struggling readers, because they make reading an active, social experience. Includes engaging activities like Open Mind, Fish Bowl, Thought Bubbles, Post its, and more.

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