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Robert C Smith, Richard M. Frankel, Francesca C. Dwamena, Auguste H. Fortin - Smith's Patient Centered Interviewing: An Evidence-Based Method, Third Edition, E-bok

Smith's Patient Centered Interviewing: An Evidence-Based Method, Third Edition

AvRobert C Smith,Richard M. Frankelm. fl.

E-bok

Engelska, 2012

668 kr

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A comprehensive, evidence-based introduction to the principles and practices of patient communication in a clinical setting

Endorsed by the American Academy on Communication for Healthcare

Updated and expanded by a multidisciplinary team of medical experts, Smith’s Patient-Centered Interviewing, Third Edition presents a step-by-step methodology for mastering every aspect of the medical interview. You will learn how to confidently obtain from patients accurate biomedical facts, as well as critical personal, social, and emotional information, allowing you to make precise diagnoses, develop effective treatment plans, and forge strong clinician-patient relationships.

The most evidence-based guide available on this topic, Smith’s Patient-Centered Interviewing applies the proven 5-Step approach, which integrates patient- and clinician-centered skills to improve effectiveness without adding extra time to the interview’s duration.

Smith’s Patient-Centered Interviewing covers everything from patient-centered and clinician-centered interviewing skills, such as:

Patient education Motivating for behavior change Breaking bad news Managing different personality stylesIncreasing personal awareness in mindful practice Nonverbal communication Using computers in the exam room Reporting and presenting evaluations

Companion video and teaching supplement are available online. Read details inside the book.

Power, Philosophy and Egalitarianism

Women, the Family and African Americans

AvRobert C. Smith

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

599 kr

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In this book, Robert C. Smith presents a philosophical and empirical examination on the subordination of women and blacks in the United States. Comparing liberalism—specifically the major social contract philosophies—and Marxism on the nature of the subordination of blacks and women and their proposals, if any, for women’s and black liberation, Smith argues that sexual and racial equalitarianism in the United States is about politics and power. He begins with a discussion of the multiple meanings of politics and its relationship to power, and an analysis of nine power bases blacks and women should acquire and manipulate in order to advance a moral and substantive equalitarianism. These power bases include money, knowledge (including technology and information), religion, morality, authority, size/solidarity, charisma, violence and status. Smith concludes by making a moral case for racial and sexual equalitarianism and advocates for black leadership to use the power bases available to it to make reparations for the civil rights issue of the 21st century.Power, Philosophy and Egalitarianism is an essential read for all those interested in race, women and politics today.

Power, Philosophy and Egalitarianism

Women, the Family and African Americans

AvRobert C. Smith

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

2 192 kr

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In this book, Robert C. Smith presents a philosophical and empirical examination on the subordination of women and blacks in the United States. Comparing liberalism—specifically the major social contract philosophies—and Marxism on the nature of the subordination of blacks and women and their proposals, if any, for women’s and black liberation, Smith argues that sexual and racial equalitarianism in the United States is about politics and power. He begins with a discussion of the multiple meanings of politics and its relationship to power, and an analysis of nine power bases blacks and women should acquire and manipulate in order to advance a moral and substantive equalitarianism. These power bases include money, knowledge (including technology and information), religion, morality, authority, size/solidarity, charisma, violence and status. Smith concludes by making a moral case for racial and sexual equalitarianism and advocates for black leadership to use the power bases available to it to make reparations for the civil rights issue of the 21st century.Power, Philosophy and Egalitarianism is an essential read for all those interested in race, women and politics today.

Observational Astrophysics

AvRobert C. Smith

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

723 kr

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Observational Astrophysics provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the whole of modern astrophysics beyond the Solar System. It combines a critical account of observational methods (telescopes and instrumentation) with a lucid description of the Universe, including stars, galaxies and cosmology. The first half describes the techniques used by astronomers to observe the Universe: optical telescopes and instruments are discussed in detail, but observations at all wavelengths are covered, from radio to gamma-rays. After a short interlude describing the appearance of the sky at all wavelengths, the role of positional astronomy is highlighted. In the second half, a clear description is given of the contents of the Universe, including accounts of stellar evolution and cosmological models. Fully illustrated throughout, with exercises given in each chapter, this textbook provides a thorough introduction to astrophysics for all physics undergraduates, and a valuable background for physics graduates turning to research in astronomy.

Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide

AvRobert C. Smith,Richard Seltzer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

1 820 kr

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Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide is a detailed study of some of the most racially divisive issues America has encountered in the past decade. Smith and Seltzer employ more than forty surveys to explore race-based public opinion differences on high-profile controversies including the Rodney King and O. J. Simpson cases; the arrest, trial, jailing, and subsequent reelection of Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry; the Million Man March and Louis Farrakhan; and the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill controversy. The authors also look at race-based opinion differences on the inner-city crack cocaine epidemic and the spread of AIDS among the American populace. The divisions in opinion between blacks and whites on these controversies are explained in terms of the distinctive historical and cultural experiences of the different races and the gaps, gulfs, and chasms in their contemporary social and economic conditions. While also noting significant commonalities in opinion across the color line, the book focuses on racial differences and their sources, and in a concluding chapter advances suggestions as to how the nation might overcome its racial divisions. This innovative study is a unique, rich, contextualized, dynamic analysis of race opinion, unlike anything else in literature.

Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide

AvRobert C. Smith,Richard Seltzer

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

607 kr

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Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide is a detailed study of some of the most racially divisive issues America has encountered in the past decade. Smith and Seltzer employ more than forty surveys to explore race-based public opinion differences on high-profile controversies including the Rodney King and O. J. Simpson cases; the arrest, trial, jailing, and subsequent reelection of Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry; the Million Man March and Louis Farrakhan; and the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill controversy. The authors also look at race-based opinion differences on the inner-city crack cocaine epidemic and the spread of AIDS among the American populace. The divisions in opinion between blacks and whites on these controversies are explained in terms of the distinctive historical and cultural experiences of the different races and the gaps, gulfs, and chasms in their contemporary social and economic conditions. While also noting significant commonalities in opinion across the color line, the book focuses on racial differences and their sources, and in a concluding chapter advances suggestions as to how the nation might overcome its racial divisions. This innovative study is a unique, rich, contextualized, dynamic analysis of race opinion, unlike anything else in literature.

Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era

Now You See It, Now You Don't

AvRobert C. Smith

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

450 kr

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Convincingly demonstrates that racism continues to exist in contemporary American society twenty-five years after the civil rights revolution.This is the first book to assess in a systematic and theoretically informed way the course and status of racism in the post-civil rights era. It convincingly demonstrates that racism continues to exist in contemporary American society twenty-five years after the civil rights revolution. Smith clarifies the concept of racism through a historical analysis of the doctrine and practice of white supremacy. Then, drawing on a variety of data-surveys, court cases, the academic literature, government and privately collected statistical reports and studies, and personal experiences-Smith traces the present-day manifestations of racism ideologically, attitudinally, behaviorally, and institutionally. The final chapter presents a detailed critique of the literature on the black underclass and of William Julius Wilson's thesis on the declining significance of racism in explaining the underclass. In the process, it presents a persuasive argument that the persistence and growth of the underclass is itself major evidence of the prevalence of racism today.

We Have No Leaders

African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era

AvRobert C. Smith

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

393 kr

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This comprehensive study of African American politics since the civil rights era concludes that the black movement has been co-opted, marginalized, and almost wholly incorporated into mainstream institutions.CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic BooksThis is the first comprehensive study of African American politics from the end of the 1960s civil rights era to the present. Not an optimistic book, it concludes that the black movement has been almost wholly encapsulated into mainstream institutions, co-opted, and marginalized. As a result, the author argues, African American leadership has become largely irrelevant in the development of organizations, strategies, and programs that would address the multifaceted problems of race in the post-civil rights era.Meanwhile, the core black community has become increasingly segregated, and its society, economy, culture, and institutions of governance and uplift have decayed. In exhaustive detail Smith traces this sad state of affairs to certain internal attributes of African American political culture and institutional processes, and to the structure of American politics and its economic and cultural underpinnings. Sure to be controversial, this book challenges both liberal and conservative notions of the black political struggle in the United States. It will serve as a major reference for academic study and a point of departure for political activists.

African American Leadership

AvRonald W. Walters,Robert C. Smith

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

474 kr

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Written by two of the nation's preeminent scholars on the topic, this book provides a panoramic overview of black leadership in the United States.CHOICE 2000 Outstanding Academic TitleWritten by two preeminent scholars of the subject, this book provides a panoramic view of the theory, research, and praxis of African American leadership. Walters and Smith offer a great deal to students of black leadership, as well as important strategy and policy recommendations for black leaders. The book first presents a comprehensive assessment of the social science research literature on black leadership. It finds that older studies (1930s to 1960s) dealt with the nascent formation of leadership theory, where blacks were located predominantly in the context of southern politics and had to adopt a conservative to moderate leadership style. The authors also review and evaluate research on black leadership from the 1970s to the present and suggest attention be given to studies of leadership that involve community level leadership, female leaders, black mayors, and black conservatives.African American Leadership also focuses on the practice of black leadership. It begins with an analysis of the roles of black leadership and historical analysis of strategies or "strategy shift." The authors then provide illustrative case studies of the styles of black leadership. They examine the continued utilization of mass mobilization in the form of boycotts, direct action, and mass demonstrations and marches. The issue of collective black leadership or the framework of unity-an illusive but necessary form of community organization-is also explored, and serious attention is given to issues, recruitment, and deployment.

Keeping Track: Success in Track and Field

AvRobert C. Smith

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

232 kr

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Power, Philosophy and Egalitarianism

Women, the Family and African Americans

AvRobert C. Smith

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2020

682 kr

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In this book, Robert C. Smith presents a philosophical and empirical examination on the subordination of women and blacks in the United States.

Comparing liberalism—specifically the major social contract philosophies—and Marxism on the nature of the subordination of blacks and women and their proposals, if any, for women’s and black liberation, Smith argues that sexual and racial equalitarianism in the United States is about politics and power. He begins with a discussion of the multiple meanings of politics and its relationship to power, and an analysis of nine power bases blacks and women should acquire and manipulate in order to advance a moral and substantive equalitarianism. These power bases include money, knowledge (including technology and information), religion, morality, authority, size/solidarity, charisma, violence and status. Smith concludes by making a moral case for racial and sexual equalitarianism and advocates for black leadership to use the power bases available to it to make reparations for the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

Power, Philosophy and Egalitarianism is an essential read for all those interested in race, women and politics today.

Power, Philosophy and Egalitarianism

Women, the Family and African Americans

AvRobert C. Smith

E-bok

Engelska, 2020

682 kr

Läs direkt efter köp

In this book, Robert C. Smith presents a philosophical and empirical examination on the subordination of women and blacks in the United States.

Comparing liberalism—specifically the major social contract philosophies—and Marxism on the nature of the subordination of blacks and women and their proposals, if any, for women’s and black liberation, Smith argues that sexual and racial equalitarianism in the United States is about politics and power. He begins with a discussion of the multiple meanings of politics and its relationship to power, and an analysis of nine power bases blacks and women should acquire and manipulate in order to advance a moral and substantive equalitarianism. These power bases include money, knowledge (including technology and information), religion, morality, authority, size/solidarity, charisma, violence and status. Smith concludes by making a moral case for racial and sexual equalitarianism and advocates for black leadership to use the power bases available to it to make reparations for the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

Power, Philosophy and Egalitarianism is an essential read for all those interested in race, women and politics today.

American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom

AvRobert C. Smith,Sherri L. Wallacem. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

1 121 kr

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American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom is known for its lucid style, student-oriented approach, and wide-ranging perspective. Designed to allow flexibility in teaching approaches, this tenth edition retains all the features that made previous editions so popular. All chapters have been updated with new content and the latest data available, including:Inclusive and affirming language throughoutEnhanced discussion on “Elements of Black Culture” and the political significance of African American music and the Black ChurchBlack American public opinion and the various strands of African American ideologyThe CROWN Act, the politics of black hair, and the African American celebrity impact on politicsPolitical significance of the increasing ethnic diversity of Black communities due to immigration from Africa and the Caribbean and the latest on “Black Lives Matter” discussionDiscussion on the first Black sorority political action committee established in the U.S. and advocacy organizations serving the Black LGBTQIA+ communityCharacteristics of eligible and registered Black voters, the coverage of the 2024 presidential and congressional elections, and the results of the congressional elections with respect to partisan control of Congress and the size of the Black congressional delegationDemographic characteristics of the members of the 118th Congress now includes sexual orientation and generational data for comparisonRace policies of former President Biden, reclassifying him as “antiracist.” An alternative method of ranking presidents that brings the views of Black experts to the conversation and includes a discussion of the record number of Black political appointments and policies implemented under BidenConfirmation hearing of the first Black woman, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, appointed to the Supreme Court. New material on the Voting Rights Act, Affirmative Action, and the Pigford cases testing institutional racism“Tennessee Three,” highlighting racism in the rare expulsion of two Black members of the Tennessee House of Representatives, and how Republican state-controlled legislatures are stunting the quest for universal freedomRevisions using the Urban League’s State of Black America “Equality Index,” as a measure of material well-being in the African American community, to examine historic and systemic patterns in structural inequities as manifested in economics, health, education, social justice, and civic engagementUpdated Textbook Media Integration Guide featuring lecture power points, chapter summaries, critical thinking questions, the profiles and “Faces and Voices”, and the links to the biographical material and videosAmerican Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom continues to offer a comprehensive, rigorous, and accessible understanding of how the presence of African Americans in the United States has profoundly influenced and influences American politics. It remains essential reading for all students of American Government, Black Politics, and African American Studies, particularly those approaching the study of race and politics for the first time.

American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom

AvJr. Hanes Walton,Sherri L. Wallacem. fl.

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2025

1 328 kr

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American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom is known for its lucid style, student-oriented approach, and wide-ranging perspective. Designed to allow flexibility in teaching approaches, this tenth edition retains all the features that made previous editions so popular. All chapters have been updated with new content and the latest data available, including:

• Inclusive and affirming language throughout.

• Enhanced discussion on “Elements of Black Culture” and the political significance of African American music and the African American Church.

• Black American public opinion and the various strands of African American ideology.

• The CROWN Act, the politics of black hair, and the African American celebrity impact on politics.

• Political significance of the increasing ethnic diversity of Black communities due to immigration from Africa and the Caribbean and the latest on “Black Lives Matter” discussion.

• Discussion on the first Black sorority political action committee established in the U.S. and advocacy organizations serving the Black LGBTQI+ community.

• Characteristics of eligible and registered Black voters, the coverage of the 2024 presidential and congressional elections, and the results of the congressional elections with respect to partisan control of Congress and the size of the Black congressional delegation.

• Demographic characteristics of the members of the 118th Congress now includes sexual orientation and generational data for comparison.

• Race policies of former President Biden, reclassifying him as “antiracist.” An alternative method of ranking presidents that brings the views of Black experts to the conversation and includes a discussion of the record number of Black political appointments and policies implemented under Biden.

• Confirmation hearing of the first Black woman, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, appointed the Supreme Court. New material on the Voting Rights Act, Affirmative Action, and the Pigford cases testing institutional racism.

• “Tennessee Three,” highlighting racism in the rare expulsion of two Black members of the Tennessee House of Representatives, and how Republican state-controlled legislatures are stunting the quest for universal freedom.

• Revisions using the Urban League’s State of Black America “Equality Index,” as a measure of material well-being in the African American community, to examine historic and systemic patterns in structural inequities as manifested in economics, health, education, social justice and civic engagement.

• Updated Textbook Media Integration Guide featuring lecture power points, chapter summaries, critical thinking questions, the profiles and “Faces and Voices”, and the links to the biographical material and videos.

American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom continues to offer a comprehensive, rigorous, and accessible understanding of how the presence of African Americans in the United States has profoundly influenced and influences American politics. It remains essential reading for all students of American Government, Black Politics and African American Studies, particularly those approaching the study of race and politics for the first time.

American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom

AvJr. Hanes Walton,Sherri L. Wallacem. fl.

E-bok

Engelska, 2025