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Antislavery Political Writings, first published in 2004, presents
the best speeches and writings of the leading American antislavery
thinkers, activists and politicians in the years between 1830 and
1860. These chapters demonstrate the range of theoretical and
political choices open to antislavery advocates during the
antebellum period.
Bullying. Gang assaults. Rampage shootings. School violence,
especially when it turns deadly, has enduring social and
psychological effects on students, faculty, staff, and the
community. And though a great deal of research focuses on the
significant role children's positive social development plays in
reducing incidents of school violence, in-depth examinations of
evidence-based preventive measures have remained minimal until now.
With its focus on averting lethal school violence, this unique
volume translates the prosocial findings into practicable
preventive measures that can be put to use in school settings.
Making expert use of news reports as well as scholarly data,
Preventing Lethal School Violence clarifies the links between
bullying and lethal violence and delineates typical characteristics
of school shooters while cautioning against outright profiling.
Students' awareness of self and others, strong connections with
adults, and other social and ethical skills form the basis of a
comprehensive, research-based model for reducing -- and potentially
eliminating -- lethal incidents at school. This accessible volume:
* Outlines the scope of school violence as a broader social
problem. * Summarizes current information on the traits common to
students who commit lethal violence at school. * Examines the
relationship between bullying/cyberbullying and rampage incidents.
* Analyzes examples of successful prevention of violent acts and
resolution of hostage situations. * Describes in detail the concept
of positive school climate and introduces the Safe School
Communities Model. * Synthesizes key research data into violence
prevention skills for students, teachers, administrators, and all
professionals working in schools. Preventing Lethal School Violence
is a must-have resource for researchers and professionals in school
psychology and allied education disciplines, including school
administration, school counseling, and social work
Antislavery Political Writings, first published in 2004, presents
the best speeches and writings of the leading American antislavery
thinkers, activists and politicians in the years between 1830 and
1860. These chapters demonstrate the range of theoretical and
political choices open to antislavery advocates during the
antebellum period.
This text avoids preoccupation with "the German question" and
East-West German comparisons, looking at the German Democratic
Republic (GDR) in its own right while recognizing that a legacy of
German history and political precedent persists in the GDR as much
as in the Federal Republic. Dr. Scharf shows how the GDR is subject
to the same development
Accounting for the rapid and often confusing changes currently
underway in the information systems of organizations, such as the
rush to replace mainframes with networks and the decentralization
of data storage and processing, provides insights on the duties and
challenges of a data center manager. Covers strategic planning,
management practices, controls, systems and contingency planning,
network technology, human resources, desktop computing, and future
directions....
This text avoids preoccupation with "the German question" and
East-West German comparisons, looking at the German Democratic
Republic (GDR) in its own right while recognizing that a legacy of
German history and political precedent persists in the GDR as much
as in the Federal Republic. It shows how the GDR is subject to the
same developmental forces that appear in any urban-industrial
society.
Today, Peru is rightly recognized as the number one food
destination on the planet. But twenty-five years ago, the world’s
culinary critics were focusing their attention elsewhere.
Fortunately, wine merchant–turned–archaeologist and art
historian Robert C. Bradley was in Peru. This delightful book is
the product of twenty-five years of exquisite digressions from what
Bradley might call his “real job”—the culmination of decades
of personal discoveries about the food of Peru and the history that
led to its current culinary florescence. Bradley’s book is a tour
of the most delicious facts and foods revealed to him while he
traveled Peru, with several recipes thrown in for good measure.
Journeying from coasts to highlands and back, the intrepid author
introduces us to the most interesting aspects of Peruvian cuisine
that he encounters along the way: How the tomato got to Italy. Why
Tabasco sauce is misnamed. What the superfoods of Peru are. Where
the potato rose and fell. And of course, when coca leaves gave real
meaning to Coca-Cola’s “pause that refreshes.” Bradley
sizzles about Peruvian ceviche, pisco and the pisco sour, and the
country’s best restaurants, all the while sampling food lore,
Andean anthropology, history, linguistics, and the pleasures and
perils of travel. He makes a knowledgeable, congenial guide, and
his book, a generous companion. For the armchair tourist or the
actual traveler, the gourmet and the gourmand, and the merely
curious, Eating Peru offers a welcome break from everyday fare, and
a once-in-a-lifetime invitation to a taste of Peru.
Accounting for the rapid and often confusing changes currently
underway in the information systems of organizations, such as the
rush to replace mainframes with networks and the decentralization
of data storage and processing, provides insights on the duties and
challenges of a data center manager. Covers strategic planning,
management practices, controls, systems and contingency planning,
network technology, human resources, desktop computing, and future
directions....
An obituary so soon! Surely the reports of neoconservatism's death
are greatly exaggerated. C. Bradley Thompson has written (with
Yaron Brook) the most comprehensive and original analysis of
neoconservatism yet published and in the process has dealt it a
mortal blow. Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea reveals
publicly for the first time what the neocons call their philosophy
of governance--their plan for governing America. This book
explicates the deepest philosophic principles of neoconservatism,
traces the intellectual relationship between the political
philosopher Leo Strauss and contemporary neoconservative political
actors, and provides a trenchant critique of neoconservatism from
the perspective of America's founding principles. The theme of this
timely book--neoconservatism as a species of anti-Americanism--will
shake up the intellectual salons of both the Left and Right. What
makes this book so compelling is that Thompson actually lived for
many years in the Straussian/neoconservative intellectual world.
Neoconservatism therefore fits into the "breaking ranks" tradition
of scholarly criticism and breaks the mold when it comes to
informed, incisive, nonpartisan critique of neoconservative thought
and action.
The abolitionist movement in 19th century America led directly to
the end of slavery in the United States. This collection of more
than 20 original documents including speeches, editorials, books
and fiction, captures the deep ideological divisions within the
abolitionist movement.
This is a collection of 20 profiles of prominent Israeli writers,
including Agnon, Yehuda Amichai, Aaron Appelfeld, Amos Oz, A.B.
Yehoshua, David Grossman, Meir Shalev, Orly Castel-Bloom and Dorit
Rabinyan. Each profile is based upon interviews and research and
provides intimate background to each writer and their work.
Together, the 20 Close Encounters create a panorama of the Israeli
experience - diaspora, Holocaust, immigration, gender, the tension
between religious and secular, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, Jews and
Arabs.
America's Revolutionary Mind is the first major reinterpretation of
the American Revolution since the publication of Bernard Bailyn's
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon S.
Wood's The Creation of the American Republic. The purpose of this
book is twofold: first, to elucidate the logic, principles, and
significance of the Declaration of Independence as the embodiment
of the American mind; and, second, to shed light on what John Adams
once called the "real American Revolution"; that is, the moral
revolution that occurred in the minds of the people in the fifteen
years before 1776. The Declaration is used here as an ideological
road map by which to chart the intellectual and moral terrain
traveled by American Revolutionaries as they searched for new moral
principles to deal with the changed political circumstances of the
1760s and early 1770s. This volume identifies and analyzes the
modes of reasoning, the patterns of thought, and the new moral and
political principles that served American Revolutionaries first in
their intellectual battle with Great Britain before 1776 and then
in their attempt to create new Revolutionary societies after 1776.
The book reconstructs what amounts to a near-unified system of
thought-what Thomas Jefferson called an "American mind" or what I
call "America's Revolutionary mind." This American mind was, I
argue, united in its fealty to a common philosophy that was
expressed in the Declaration and launched with the words, "We hold
these truths to be self-evident."
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