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Hope for the Journey
Helping Children Through Good Times and Bad
Av C. R. Snyder, Diane McDermott m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
587 kr
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The authors—professional psychologists who work with children and families—believe that adults can help children build hope and combat hopelessness, and use stories that children construct about themselves to document the hope-building process. Included are two useful appendixes and a new …
Marxist Archaeology
Häftad, 2002
627 kr
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A rich intellectual tradition that offers archaeologists a way around many seemingly irresolvable theoretical oppositions, Marxism deserves a place in the philosophical and substantive debates in archaeology. This book applies Marxist theory to archaeology, explores long-term historical change and …
Managing Boundaries in the Health Professions
Av John G. Bruhn, Harold Grumet Levine m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
719 kr
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The availability and delivery of health care is one of the most important issues on the contemporary American public policy agenda. The authors analyze the social, psychological, and bureaucratic boundaries that define health care in the United States, discuss how organizational change affects …
Evolution of the Human Mind
From Supernaturalism to Naturalism An Anthropological Perspective
Häftad, 2010
636 kr
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For ages the events of human experience were explained by recourse to supernatural agents and forces. Given the rudimentary intellectual tools then available to the human race, no better explanations were possible. Over the ensuing centuries, the ideas and methods of empirical science came into …
Hunter-Gatherer Foraging
Five Simple Models
Häftad, 2009
499 kr
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Within the last three decades, foraging theory has established itself as a major cornerstone for both archaeological and ethnographic hunter-gatherer research. Until now, however, no introductory treatment has presented the subject in a form that was quantitatively explicit and yet easy to follow. …
Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd
Eleanor's Rival, FDR's Other Love
Häftad, 2018
581 kr
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What more could there be to know about FDR, given how exhaustively his life has been written about? As it happens, there is more and that focuses on Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the queen of her Washington social circle, later FDR's friend and love-and Eleanor's rival, as the title of Christine Totten's …
Chiefdoms
Yesterday and Today
Av Robert L Carneiro, Leonid E. Grinin m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
547 kr
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What many anthropologists regard as the major step in political development occurred when, for the first time in history, previously autonomous villages gave up their individual sovereignties and were brought together into a multi-village political unit--the chiefdom. Though long neglected as a …
Spectacular Flops
Game-Changing Technologies That Failed
Häftad, 2019
503 kr
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Many technologies begin life as someone's vision of an ambitious, perhaps audacious, technology that is expected to have a revolutionary impact on consumers-whether families, companies, or societies. However, if this highly touted technology fails 'prematurely' at some point in its life history, it …
Cloud People
Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations
Av Joyce Marcus, Kent V. Flannery
Häftad, 2003
709 kr
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A case study in the divergent evolution of Mexico’s Zapotec and Mixtec civilizations, this collection has become a basic resource in the literature of Mesoamerican prehistory and has been widely cited by scholars working on divergent evolution in other parts of the world. Originally published by …
Stability and Change in American Education
Structure, Process and Outcomes
Av Maureen T. Hallinan, Maureen T. Hallinan m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
287 kr
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Robert Dreeben is one of the most widely read and influential sociologists of education of the past half-century and the author of several important books, one of which (the 1968 classic On What Is Learned in School) has been republished by Percheron Press. In this volume inspired by Dreeben’s work …
Confederate Quartermaster in the Trans-Mississippi
The Blockade Runner's Texas Connection
Häftad, 2006
575 kr
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This book recounts the history and activities of the Denbigh, one of the Civil War's most successful blockade runners. A new introduction by J. Barto Arnold III (which includes a lengthy appendix) reviews recent archival and archaeological research and highlights the blockade runner's place in the …
Ethnography of England in the Year 1685
Being the Celebrated Third Chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England
Av Robert L. Carneiro, Thomas Babington Macaulay
Häftad, 2014
335 kr
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Thomas Babington Macaulay was one of the great English historians of the nineteenth century. He first made his name as an essayist, contributing many articles on a variety of topics to the Edinburgh Review, the leading literary journal of its day. Among the contributions Macaulay made in these …
Foraging Spectrum
Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways
Häftad, 2007
631 kr
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The author wrote this book (which was originally published by Smithsonian Institution Press in 1995) to show his archaeology students how dangerous anthropological analogy is and how variable the actual practices of foragers of the recent past and today are. His survey of the anthropological …
Schooner Sail to Starboard
The US Navy vs. Blockade Runners in the Western Gulf of Mexico
Av W. T. Block
Häftad, 2007
536 kr
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From the Introduction to the Dogwood Press Edition . . . The writer is fully aware that several books already exist about Confederate blockade-running, enough so that one might think there is nothing new to be written, but many of those books deal solely with the Atlantic seaboard. Nevertheless, it …
Evolution of the Human Mind
From Supernaturalism to Naturalism An Anthropological Perspective
Inbunden, 2010
1465 kr
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For ages the events of human experience were explained by recourse to supernatural agents and forces. Given the rudimentary intellectual tools then available to the human race, no better explanations were possible. Over the ensuing centuries, the ideas and methods of empirical science came into …
Personality Coherence and Incoherence
A Perspective on Anxiety and Depression
Inbunden, 2014
1369 kr
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This book presents the Complex-System Approach to Personality, which seeks to promote the development of integrative theorizing and subsumes particular insights from earlier models while permitting both within-person and between-person comparisons. The C-SAP is based on an assumption that a systems …
Temperament as a Regulator of Behavior
After Fifty Years of Research
Av Jan Strelau
Häftad, 2010
618 kr
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'Nature or nurture? Are individuals born as an empty slate and shaped by their environment or are we already programmed to react in certain ways? Jan Strelau has spent more than fifty years studying this age-old question. He bases some of his conclusions on the pioneering work of the Russian …
Historical Archaeology of the Chesapeake
Av Paul A Shackel, Barbara J Little
Häftad, 2014
762 kr
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The field of historical archaeology has changed dramatically over the years and archaeologists working in the Chesapeake have often been in the forefront of such changes. This book reflects the variety and complexity in historical archaeology in the Chesapeake, while a new prologue by the editors …
Education-Jobs Gap
Underemployment or Economic Democracy
Häftad, 2003
370 kr
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From the Preface: "The education-jobs gap refers to the discrepancy between our work-related knowledge and our opportunities to use this knowledge in interesting and fairly compensated work. [This text's] basic argument is that our knowledge generally far exceeds our job opportunities. We are …
Settlement Pattern Studies in the Americas
Fifty Years since Virú
Av Brian R. Billman, Gary M. Feinman
Inbunden, 1999
734 kr
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Seventeen distinguished scholars recount the history of settlement pattern archaeology and detail case studies ranging from Alaska to Oaxaca to Peru. The chapters grow out of papers prepared for a symposium at the 61st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, held in New Orleans in …
Archaeology of Elmina
Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400-1900
Inbunden, 2001
737 kr
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An Archaeology of Elmina examines a complex African settlement on the coast of present-day Ghana from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries using the archaeological record, European narratives and indigenous oral histories. Placing the site in broader context as the first European trading …
Regional Archaeology in Eastern Inner Mongolia
A Methodological Exploration
Av Chifeng International Collaborative Archeological Research Project
Inbunden, 2003
575 kr
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Published in China in 2003, this book presents maps and discussion of changing settlement patterns through seven thousand years across an intensively surveyed area of 765 square kilometers in northeastern China that lies near the traditional frontier between the large settled agricultural zone of …
