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A practical guide to improve classes that are bored, hostile,
aggressive or just not quite right. The book provides tips form
making small class teaching more effective, with practical
suggestions for a broad range of problems that teachers regularly
encounter.
'A towering achievement. There is simply nothing like it in the
history of Black radical thought' Cornel West 'Cedric Robinson's
brilliant analyses revealed new ways of thinking and acting' Angela
Davis 'This work is about our people's struggle, the historical
Black struggle' Any struggle must be fought on a people's own
terms, argues Cedric Robinson's landmark account of Black
radicalism. Marxism is a western construction, and therefore
inadequate to describe the significance of Black communities as
agents of change against 'racial capitalism'. Tracing the emergence
of European radicalism, the history of Black African resistance and
the influence of these on such key thinkers as W. E. B. Du Bois, C.
L. R. James and Richard Wright, Black Marxism reclaims the story of
a movement.
Learn from these authors' experiences tailoring TPM to the
disctinctive needs of North American plants, and how TPM fits into
an overall manufacturing improvement strategy. A real-world view on
what works and what doesn't, Robinson and Ginder provide and
excellent resource for strategic planning and an educatioinal tool
for middle and upper management. Includes the seven levels of
autonomous maintenance, a discussion of unions and TPM, and a TPM
master plan.
Cedric Robinson was one of the most important and influential Black
radical scholars of recent times, best known for the pathbreaking
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. In this
late major work, he turns his attention to European radical
traditions and explores a genealogy of emancipatory thought and
practice that predates Marxism and capitalism itself, and which
continues to guide struggles for liberation today. Accompanied by a
foreword by H. L.T. Quan and a preface by Avery Gordon, this
invaluable text reimagines the communal ideal from a broader
perspective that transcends modernity, industrialisation and
capitalism.
COMPARATIVE URBANISM 'Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the
scope and purpose of urban studies today, distilling innovative
conceptual and methodological tools. The theoretical and empirical
scope is astounding, enlightening, emboldening. Robinson peels away
conceptual labels that have anointed some cities as paradigmatic
and left others as mere copies. She recalibrates overly used
theoretical perspectives, resurrects forgotten ones long in need of
a dusting off, and brings to the fore those often marginalised.
Robinson's approach radically re-distributes who speaks for the
urban, and which urban conditions shape our theoretical
understandings. With Comparative Urbanism in our hands, we can
start the practice of urban studies anywhere and be relevant to any
number of elsewheres.' Jane M. Jacobs, Professor of Urban Studies,
Yale-NUS College, Singapore 'How to think the multiplicity of urban
realities at the same time, across different times and rhythmic
arrangements; how to move with the emergences and stand-stills,
with conceptualisations that do justice to all things gathered
under the name of the urban. How to imagine comparatively amongst
differences that remain different, individualised outcomes, but yet
exist in-common. No book has so carefully conducted a specifically
urban philosophy on these matters, capable of beginning and ending
anywhere.' AbdouMaliq Simone, Senior Research Fellow, Urban
Institute, University of Sheffield The rapid pace and changing
nature of twenty-first century urbanisation as well as the
diversity of global urban experiences calls for new theories and
new methodologies in urban studies. In Comparative Urbanism:
Tactics for Global Urban Studies, Jennifer Robinson proposes
grounds for reformatting comparative urban practice and offers a
wide range of tactics for researching global urban experiences. The
focus is on inventing new concepts as well as revising existing
approaches. Inspired by postcolonial and decolonial critiques of
urban studies she advocates for an experimental comparative
urbanism, open to learning from different urban experiences and to
expanding conversations amongst urban scholars across the globe.
The book features a wealth of examples of comparative urban
research, concerned with many dimensions of urban life. A range of
theoretical and philosophical approaches ground an understanding of
the radical revisability and emergent nature of concepts of the
urban. Advanced students, urbanists and scholars will be prompted
to compose comparisons which trace the interconnected and
relational character of the urban, and to think with the variety of
urban experiences and urbanisation processes across the globe, to
produce the new insights the twenty-first century urban world
demands.
Each of the contributions in this book sheds new light on key
elements in the changing size, structure, and distribution of the
Spanish American population during the colonial period. Several
authors provide new source materials, while others manipulate
well-known data in innovative ways to provide new insights into the
past. In several of the essa
Forest tenure reforms are occurring in many developing countries
around the world. These reforms typically include devolution of
forest lands to local people and communities, which has attracted a
great deal of attention and interest. While the nature and level of
devolution vary by country, all have potentially important
implications for resource allocation, local ecosystem services,
livelihoods and climate change. This book helps students,
researchers and professionals to understand the importance and
implications of these reforms for local environmental quality,
climate change, and the livelihoods of villagers, who are often
poor. It is shown that local forest management can often be more
successful than top-down management of common pool forest
resources. The relationship of local forest tenure reform to the
important climate change initiative REDD+ is also considered. The
work includes a number of generic chapters and also detailed case
studies from China, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania and Uganda.
Using specific examples and a wide variety of disciplinary
perspectives, including quantitative and qualitative analytical
methods, the book provides an authoritative and critical picture of
local forest reforms in light of the key challenges humanity faces
today.
Forest tenure reforms are occurring in many developing countries
around the world. These reforms typically include devolution of
forest lands to local people and communities, which has attracted a
great deal of attention and interest. While the nature and level of
devolution vary by country, all have potentially important
implications for resource allocation, local ecosystem services,
livelihoods and climate change. This book helps students,
researchers and professionals to understand the importance and
implications of these reforms for local environmental quality,
climate change, and the livelihoods of villagers, who are often
poor. It is shown that local forest management can often be more
successful than top-down management of common pool forest
resources. The relationship of local forest tenure reform to the
important climate change initiative REDD+ is also considered. The
work includes a number of generic chapters and also detailed case
studies from China, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania and Uganda.
Using specific examples and a wide variety of disciplinary
perspectives, including quantitative and qualitative analytical
methods, the book provides an authoritative and critical picture of
local forest reforms in light of the key challenges humanity faces
today.
Children learn a great deal from other people, including history,
science and religion, as well as language itself. Although our
informants are usually well-intentioned, they can be wrong, and
sometimes people deceive deliberately. As soon as children can
learn from what others tell them, they need to be able to evaluate
the likely truth of such testimony. This book is the first of its
kind to provide an overview of the field of testimony research,
summarizing and discussing the latest findings into how children
make such evaluations - when do they trust what people tell them,
and when are they skeptical? The nine chapters are organized
according to the extent to which testimony is necessary for
children to learn the matter in question - from cases where
children are entirely dependent on the testimony of others, to
cases where testimony is merely a convenient way of learning.
Chapters also consider situations where reliance on testimony can
lead a child astray, and the need for children to learn to be
vigilant to deception, to ask questions appropriately, and to
evaluate what they are told. With an international range of
contributors, and two concluding commentaries which integrate the
findings within a broader perspective of research on child
development, the book provides a thorough overview of this emerging
sub-field. Trust and Skepticism will be essential reading for
researchers, academic teachers and advanced students working in the
areas of cognitive development and language development, and will
also be of great interest to educationists concerned with nursery
and primary education.
Six of the ten essays in this collection (Lombardi, Villamarin,
Chance, Greenow, Robinson, and Cook) were originally presented at a
Special Session during the 43rd International Congress of
Americanists, held in Vancouver during August, 1979. Jointly
organized by David J. Robinson and Juan Villamarin, the session was
designed to bring together a group of individuals who had been
working on the changing population of colonial Spanish America from
various disciplinary perspectives, to facilitate an exchange of
information and ideas, and to promote the further investigation of
significant research questions. The paper of Brian Evans was
presented at the same Congress, in another session, but given its
purpose and content it was thought to provide an ideal complement
to several papers in the present collection.
Your toolkit for managing and overcoming the worst symptoms of
depression--quickly and effectively. In an increasingly stressful
world--filled with fear and uncertainty--the prospect of
effectively managing your depression can seem overwhelming. Add to
that the all-consuming grind of day-to-day life, and things can get
overwhelming in a hurry. Everyday tasks can seem like
insurmountable challenges, your symptoms pile up, and relief slips
further out of reach. Your mood becomes darker, your sense of
isolation more extreme, and your motivation falls through the
floor. What you need is relief--and STAT! Written by a veritable
dream team of mental health experts, this short, easy-to-use guide
offers evidence-based skills grounded in mindfulness, acceptance
and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT),
and behavioral activation to help you effectively manage negative
thoughts, get motivated, rediscover hope, and develop healthy
habits. Designed to get right to the point, this book wastes no
time in giving you the tools you need to quickly improve your mood,
get unstuck from difficult feelings, and stay on top of symptoms
before they build up and get the best of you. The sooner your
symptoms are under control, the sooner you can get back on
track--happier, more motivated, and looking forward with hope. If
you're the type who likes to cut through the clutter and get to the
heart of the matter, pick up this book, and pick up the tools
inside--relief is only pages away.
Case Histories in Business Ethics illustrates and extends the role of case histories in the teaching and study of business ethics. Typically, case histories are used to illustrate assertions or arguments, or to stimulate debate about an issue within business ethics. This volume examines that role, illustrating the link between case histories and more general theoretical approaches to business ethics. It also discusses the role of case histories in engaging the wider cognitive and affective capacities of the student and therefore the development of character.
The aim of this book is to reflect upon, illustrate, and extend the role of case histories in the teaching and study of business ethics. Typically, case histories are used to illustrate assertions or arguments, or to stimulate debate about an issue within business ethics. This volume examines that role, illustrating the link between case histories and more general theoretical approaches to business ethics.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has undergone
wide-ranging changes since 2006, when it was given a new maritime
warning mission and the NORAD Agreement was signed in perpetuity.
Andrea Charron and James Fergusson trace NORAD's recent history,
marked by innovations in technology and in command and control, but
also by unprecedented threats. The shared defence of North America
remains an important issue that should extend to other areas, such
as the joint defence of the maritime and cyber domains. Fuelled by
a deep curiosity about the command and its decisions made in the
face of inevitable geopolitical and technological changes, this
book uses a functional lens to evaluate NORAD's options and the
technological and organizational solutions needed to defend North
America. The authors investigate the ways in which the NORAD
command might adapt in the future as it struggles to modernize and
keep ahead of new threats. This book comes at a critical time. The
rise of new peer competitors requires a fundamental reconsideration
of North American defence. As one of very few contemporary analyses
of the command and its future, NORAD will be a vital tool for
scholars and practitioners.
This edition includes the letters exchanged between Charles S.
Peirce and the Open Court Publishing Company between 1890 and 1913.
Open Court published more of Peirce's philosophical writings than
any other publisher during his lifetime, and played a critical role
in what little recognition and financial income he received during
these difficult, yet philosophically rich, years. This
correspondence is the basis for much of what is known surrounding
Peirce's publications in The Monist and The Open Court-two of the
publishers most popular forums for philosophical, scientific, and
religious thought-and is therefore referenced heavily in Peirce
editions dealing partly or wholly with his later work, including
The Essential Peirce series and Writings of Charles S. Peirce. The
edition provides for the first time a complete text of this
oft-cited correspondence, with textual apparatus, contextual
annotation, and careful replications of existential graphs and
other complex illustrations. By so doing, this edition sheds
critical light not only on Peirce and Open Court, but also on the
context, relationships, and concepts that influenced the
development of Progressive Era intellectual history and philosophy.
This intellectual history of Standard Swahili explores the
long-term, intertwined processes of standard making and community
creation in the historical, political, and cultural contexts of
East Africa and beyond. Morgan J. Robinson argues that the
portability of Standard Swahili has contributed to its wide use not
only across the African continent but also around the globe. The
book pivots on the question of whether standardized versions of
African languages have empowered or oppressed. It is inevitable
that the selection and promotion of one version of a language as
standard--a move typically associated with missionaries and
colonial regimes--negatively affected those whose language was
suddenly deemed nonstandard. Before reconciling the consequences of
codification, however, Robinson argues that one must seek to
understand the process itself. The history of Standard Swahili
demonstrates how events, people, and ideas move rapidly and
sometimes surprisingly between linguistic, political, social, or
temporal categories. Robinson conducted her research in Zanzibar,
mainland Tanzania, and the United Kingdom. Organized around periods
of conversation, translation, and codification from 1864 to 1964,
the book focuses on the intellectual history of Swahili's
standardization. The story begins in mid-nineteenth-century
Zanzibar, home of missionaries, formerly enslaved students, and a
printing press, and concludes on the mainland in the mid-twentieth
century, as nationalist movements added Standard Swahili to their
anticolonial and nation-building toolkits. This outcome was not
predetermined, however, and Robinson offers a new context for the
strong emotions that the language continues to evoke in East
Africa. The history of Standard Swahili is not one story, but
rather the connected stories of multiple communities contributing
to the production of knowledge. The book reflects this multiplicity
by including the narratives of colonial officials and anticolonial
nationalists; East African clerks, students, newspaper editors,
editorialists, and their readers; and library patrons, academic
linguists, formerly enslaved children, and missionary preachers.
The book reconstructs these stories on their own terms and
reintegrates them into a new composite that demonstrates the
central place of language in the history of East Africa and beyond.
This is a high level introduction to abstract algebra which is
aimed at readers whose interests lie in mathematics and the
information and physical sciences. In addition to introducing the
main concepts of modern algebra - groups, rings, modules and fields
- the book contains numerous applications, which are intended to
illustrate the concepts and to show the utility and relevance of
algebra today. In particular applications to Polya coloring theory,
latin squares, Steiner systems, error correcting codes and
economics are described. There is ample material here for a two
semester course in abstract algebra. Proofs of almost all results
are given. The reader led through the proofs in gentle stages.
There are more than 500 problems, of varying degrees of diffi
culty. The book should be suitable for advanced undergraduate
students in their fi nal year of study and for fi rst or second
year graduate students at a university in Europe or North America.
In this third edition three new chapters have been added: an
introduction to the representation theory of fi nite groups, free
groups and presentations of groups, an introduction to category
theory.
This intellectual history of Standard Swahili explores the
long-term, intertwined processes of standard making and community
creation in the historical, political, and cultural contexts of
East Africa and beyond. Morgan J. Robinson argues that the
portability of Standard Swahili has contributed to its wide use not
only across the African continent but also around the globe. The
book pivots on the question of whether standardized versions of
African languages have empowered or oppressed. It is inevitable
that the selection and promotion of one version of a language as
standard--a move typically associated with missionaries and
colonial regimes--negatively affected those whose language was
suddenly deemed nonstandard. Before reconciling the consequences of
codification, however, Robinson argues that one must seek to
understand the process itself. The history of Standard Swahili
demonstrates how events, people, and ideas move rapidly and
sometimes surprisingly between linguistic, political, social, or
temporal categories. Robinson conducted her research in Zanzibar,
mainland Tanzania, and the United Kingdom. Organized around periods
of conversation, translation, and codification from 1864 to 1964,
the book focuses on the intellectual history of Swahili's
standardization. The story begins in mid-nineteenth-century
Zanzibar, home of missionaries, formerly enslaved students, and a
printing press, and concludes on the mainland in the mid-twentieth
century, as nationalist movements added Standard Swahili to their
anticolonial and nation-building toolkits. This outcome was not
predetermined, however, and Robinson offers a new context for the
strong emotions that the language continues to evoke in East
Africa. The history of Standard Swahili is not one story, but
rather the connected stories of multiple communities contributing
to the production of knowledge. The book reflects this multiplicity
by including the narratives of colonial officials and anticolonial
nationalists; East African clerks, students, newspaper editors,
editorialists, and their readers; and library patrons, academic
linguists, formerly enslaved children, and missionary preachers.
The book reconstructs these stories on their own terms and
reintegrates them into a new composite that demonstrates the
central place of language in the history of East Africa and beyond.
"In this 2nd edition, Robinson and Reiter give us an updated
blueprint for full integration of behavioral health and primary
care in practice. They review the compelling rationale, but their
real contribution is telling us exactly HOW to think about it and
how to do it. This latest book is a must for anyone interested in
population health and the nuts and bolts of full integration
through using the Primary Care Behavioral Health Consultation
model." Susan H McDaniel Ph.D., 2016 President, American
Psychological Association Professor, University of Rochester
Medical Center The best-selling guide to integrating behavioral
health services into primary care is now updated, expanded and
better than ever! Integration is exploding in growth, and it is
moving inexorably toward the model outlined here. To keep pace,
this revised text is a must for primary care clinicians and
administrators. It is also essential reading for graduate classes
in a variety of disciplines, including social work, psychology, and
medicine. This updated edition includes: * A refined presentation
of the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) model * The latest
terms, trends and innovations in primary care * Comprehensive
strategies and resource lists for hiring and training new
Behavioral Health Consultants (BHC) * Step-by-step guidance for
implementing the PCBH model * A plethora of evolved practice tools,
including new Core Competency Tools for BHCs and primary care
providers * Sample interventions for behaviorally influenced
problems * The use of "Third Wave" behavior therapies in primary
care * Detailed program evaluation instructions and tools * The
latest on financing integrated care * An entire chapter on
understanding and addressing the prescription drug abuse epidemic *
Experienced guidance on ethical issues in the PCBH model * Improved
patient education handouts With all of the changes in health care,
the potential for the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) model
to improve primary care-and the health of the population-is greater
than ever. This book should be the first read for anyone interested
in realizing the potential of integration.
Over the past few years social entrepreneurship has grown as a
research field. In this 3rd volume in the series, contributions
explore questions of values in social entrepreneurship as well as
the identification and exploitation of social venturing
opportunities.
Social Entrepreneurship is a global phenomenon that impacts the
lives of citizens by using innovative approaches to solving social
problems. This book offers a comprehensive examination of this
growing area of research and provides an excellent introduction to
social entrepreneurship theory and a framework for future research.
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