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The Old Testament: Canon Literature and Theology Collected Essays of John Barton

How Do Families Cope With Chronic Illness?

How Do Families Cope With Chronic Illness?

Because chronic disorder is becoming an ordinary feature of family life and development understanding its impact has become critical. This volume and the conference proceedings it reports represents a major effort to examine the family's response to chronic physical or psychopathological illness in one or more of its members. Recent data are revising our notions of chronic illness. Evidence is mounting that chronic psychiatric disorders reflect in part abnormalities of brain structure and function. In this sense they are in part medical disorders. On the other hand a number of traditionally labeled medical disorders produce a broad range of psychological symptoms and are exquisitely sensitive to psychosocial influences. Families undergo a complex process of adaptation during which their response to stress and their fundamental beliefs about learning and parenting change. These beliefs endure and are difficult to alter. By examining the processes in a wide range of chronic conditions this volume helps to identify the common underlying processes of adaptation. The first three chapters concern the families' responses to disorders that are distinctly medical; the next three focus on families' responses to grey zone disorders or anomalies that appear early in life minor physical anomalies and communication handicaps; and one chapter focuses exclusively on schizophrenia. The last chapter reflects an effort to develop a model based on the experience of researchers with both psychiatric and medical illness. | How Do Families Cope With Chronic Illness?

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How Do Institutions Steer Events? An Inquiry into the Limits and Possibilities of Rational Thought and Action

How Do Institutions Steer Events? An Inquiry into the Limits and Possibilities of Rational Thought and Action

Theories of explanation in the social sciences vacillate between holism and individualism. Wettersten contends that this has been a consequence of theories of rationality which assume that rationality requires coherent theories to be shown to be true. Rejecting these traditional assumptions about rationality Wettersten claims that the traditional explanations of rationality have placed unrealistic demands on both individuals and institutions. Analysing the theories of Weber and Popper Wettersten shows that Popper made considerable progress in the theory of rationality but ultimately stayed too close to the ideas of Hayek he explains how this dilemma leads to difficulties in economics anthropology sociology ethics and political theory and constructs an alternative theory that rationality is critical problem-solving in institutional contexts. Wettersten contends that 'the critical consideration of theories followed by their improvement' dispenses with the need for justification and sees rationality as a social phenomena with an institutional basis. The main social advantages this view offers is that the degree of rationality individuals achieve may be increased by institutional reform without moralizing and that we can explain how institutions steer events insofar as we understand how they determine the problems which individuals seek to solve. It is argued that the central moral advantage of this view is that rationality is shown to be Spinozistic in the sense that it is natural and furthers morality and peace of mind. | How Do Institutions Steer Events? An Inquiry into the Limits and Possibilities of Rational Thought and Action

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Mixing with Impact Learning to Make Musical Choices

Writing and America

Disability and Accessibility in the Music Classroom A Teacher's Guide

The Routledge Companion to the Practice of Christian Theology

Angel Song: Medieval English Music in History

The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook From Theory to Practice

The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook From Theory to Practice

As an increasing number of individuals go to work in the nonprofit sector nonprofit managers need support on how best to build their human resource management capacity. They need to know what systems to examine what questions to ask and how to ensure they are managing people in a legal manner and as effectively as possible given their particular resource constraints. Important questions include: Do we have a clear philosophy one that aligns with our nonprofit mission and values and allows us to treat our employees as the professionals they are? How do we select develop and retain the best people who will produce high value high performance work and how do we do so with limited resources? How do we effectively manage our mix of volunteers and paid staff? What do we need to consider to ensure diverse people work together in a harmonious fashion? With all-new chapters written by the top scholars in the field of nonprofit HRM these are but a few of the many questions that are addressed in this timely volume. These scholars delve into their particular areas of expertise offering a comprehensive look at theories and trends; legal and ethical issues; how to build HRM from recruitment management labor relations to training and appraisal; as well as topics in diversity technology and paid versus volunteer workforce management. This essential handbook offers all core topic coverage as well as countless insider insights additional resource lists and tool sets for practical application. With chapters grounded in existing research but also connecting research to practice for those in the field The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook will be required reading for a generation of scholars students and practitioners of nonprofit human resource management. | The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook From Theory to Practice

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The Craft of Political Research

The Craft of Political Research

The Craft of Political Research is a non-technical introduction to research design and analysis in political science emphasizing the choices we make when we design a research project and analyze its results. The book’s approach centers on asking an interesting research question and then designing inquiry into the question so as to eliminate as many alternative explanations as possible. How do we develop theory and what constitutes a good research question? How do we develop measures and gather evidence to answer a question? How do we analyze our findings? Students will be introduced to such topics as multidimensional concepts levels of measurement validity reliability random and non-random measurement error sampling case selection causality experimental and quasi-experimental design statistical inference and regression and correlation analysis. Throughout the emphasis is on understanding the back story of analysis — why do we measure in a particular way why do we choose one design as against another why do we conduct our analysis as we do. Emphasizing the internal logic of research methods and the collaborative nature of the research process the greatest strength of the book is its clarity and the large range of political science examples it provides. It works at a conceptual level seeking an understanding of the principles that underlie techniques and the reasons that we choose them. New to this edition: Updated and international examples from the US UK Latin America and China amongst others and international organizations such as the World Bank and the United Nations. New section Reading Political Science reviews sources of published political research with some broad principles for how to find good sources and advises students on what to look for in reading a research report New section Gathering Accurate Information reviews published sources of data such as UNESCO and offers advice about how to use such sources. It advises students on how to gather data in personal interviews and it acquaints them with publicly available data sets for secondary analysis. Online material featuring revised learning objectives for each chapter and a new section offering projects and questions for each chapter.

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Introduction to Facility Management

College Curriculum at the Crossroads Women of Color Reflect and Resist

Rhetorical Public Speaking Social Influence in the Digital Age

The Risk of Regional Governance Cultural Theory and Interlocal Cooperation

Mapping Foreign Correspondence in Europe

The Routledge Advanced Persian Course Farsi Shirin Ast 3

Rhetorical Delivery and Digital Technologies Networks Affect Electracy

Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature

The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader Popular Texts and the Practices of Reading

Understanding and Teaching the Indirect Object in Spanish

Communication Public Opinion and Globalization in Urban China

Communication Public Opinion and Globalization in Urban China

As China is increasingly integrated into the processes of economic political social and cultural globalization important questions arise about how Chinese people perceive and evaluate such processes. At the same time international communication scholars have long been interested in how local national and transnational media communications shape people’s attitudes and values. Combining these two concerns this book examines a range of questions pertinent to public opinion toward globalization in urban China: To what degree are the urban residents in China exposed to the influences from the outside world? How many transnational social connections does a typical urban Chinese citizen have? How often do they consume foreign media? To what extent are they aware of the notion of globalization and what do they think about it? Do they believe that globalization is beneficial to China to the city where they live and to them personally? How do people’s social connections and communication activities shape their views toward globalization and the outside world? This book tackles these and other questions systematically by analyzing a four-city comparative survey of urban Chinese residents demonstrating the complexities of public opinion in China. Media consumption does relate though by no means straightforwardly to people’s attitudes and beliefs and this book provides much needed information and insights about Chinese public opinion on globalization. It also develops fresh conceptual and empirical insights on issues such as public opinion toward US-China relations Chinese people’s nationalistic sentiments and approaches to analyze attitudes toward globalization. | Communication Public Opinion and Globalization in Urban China

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Conspiracy Theories The Philosophical Debate

Esports and the Media Challenges and Expectations in a Multi-Screen Society

Safety Health and Environmental Auditing A Practical Guide Second Edition

Risk-Based Thinking Managing the Uncertainty of Human Error in Operations