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Bringing together for the first time prominent researchers in
social insect pheromone communication, including nestmate
recognition, this book looks at ants, wasps, bees, and termites,
highlighting areas of convergence and divergence among these
groups, and identifying areas that need further investigation.
Presenting broad synthetic overviews as
This study examines the development of competency approaches for
school management in the UK. Using examples of current attempts to
apply competency models for staff selection and professional
development in education, it provides practical suggestions for the
everyday use of these models.
This study examines the development of competency approaches for
school management in the UK and raises issues to be considered if
these approaches are to be used more widely. Using examples of
current attempts in education to apply competency models for staff
selection and professional development, it develops suggestions for
the use of competency models in schools for the 1990s, including
the setting up of a lead body to provide a proper framework for
school manager development. The book also contains useful addresses
for those who want to make a start and a short bibliography.
This volume brings together classical and cutting-edge protocols on
the spatio-temporal study of the cellular subsets constituting the
bone and the marrow in both mouse and human. Chapters details
methods on bone marrow (BM) ecosystem, to label, sort, analyse, and
culture specific cell subsets as well as techniques allowing the
evaluation of the function of some of the cellular elements of the
BM. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology
series format, chapters include introductions to their respective
topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents,
step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips
on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and
cutting-edge, Bone Marrow Environment: Methods and Protocols aims
to help new investigators to pursue the characterization of the BM
microenvironment in the coming years.
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The Parakeet (Hardcover)
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Bastien is eight years old, and his mother is ill. She often has
what his father and grandparents call "episodes." She screams and
fights, scratches and spits, and has to be carted away to
specialized clinics for frequent treatments. Bastien doesn't like
it when she goes, because when she comes home, she isn't the same.
She has no feelings, no desires, and not much interest in him.
According to the doctors, Bastien's mother suffers from "bipolar
disorder with schizophrenic tendencies," but he prefers to imagine
her as a comic-book heroine, like Jean Grey, who may become Dark
Phoenix and explode in a superhuman fury at any moment. Based on
the creator's own childhood experiences, The Parakeet is the story
of a boy whose only refuge from life's harsh realities lies in his
imagination. In his eyes, we see the confusion and heartache he
feels as he watches his mother's illness worsen and the treatments
fail. Through his eyes, we see how mental illness can both tear
families apart and reaffirm the bonds of love. Poignant yet
playful, The Parakeet follows Bastien's struggle to accept the
mother he has while wishing for the mother he needs.
These essays analyze the ideological and historical sources of the
apparent reversal of the pattern of welfare state expansion in the
United States, Great Britain, and Western and Eastern Europe.
This book uses Viktor Frankl's Existential Psychology (logotherapy)
to explore the ways some professors use unusually personal
scholarship to discover meaning in personal adversity. A
psychiatrist imprisoned for three years in Nazi concentration
camps, Frankl believed the search for meaning is a powerful
motivator, and that its discovery can be profoundly therapeutic.
Part I begins with four stories of professors finding meaning.
Using the case studies as a foundation, Part II investigates issues
of epistemology and ethics in unusually personal research from an
existential perspective. The book offers advice for graduate
students and faculty who want to live and work more meaningfully in
the academy.
This volume presents state-of-the-art protocols for key experiments
that have revolutionized our understanding of the bacterial
nucleoid. This book is divided into five parts: Part I introduces
molecular genetic methods to study bacterial nucleoids; Part II
highlights the study of bacterial nucleoid with whole genome
analysis method; Part III discusses molecular biology methods to
study nucleoid structuring factors; Part IV looks at imaging
bacterial nucleoid; and Part V explores biophysics of the bacterial
nucleoid. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular
Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their
respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents,
step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips
on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Thorough and
cutting-edge, The Bacterial Nucleoid: Methods and Protocols is a
valuable resource that provides a wealth of new information about
this chromosome.
This book uses Viktor Frankl's Existential Psychology (logotherapy)
to explore the ways some professors use unusually personal
scholarship to discover meaning in personal adversity. A
psychiatrist imprisoned for three years in Nazi concentration
camps, Frankl believed the search for meaning is a powerful
motivator, and that its discovery can be profoundly therapeutic.
Part I begins with four stories of professors finding meaning.
Using the case studies as a foundation, Part II investigates issues
of epistemology and ethics in unusually personal research from an
existential perspective. The book offers advice for graduate
students and faculty who want to live and work more meaningfully in
the academy.
This volume presents state-of-the-art protocols for key experiments
that have revolutionized our understanding of the bacterial
nucleoid. This book is divided into five parts: Part I introduces
molecular genetic methods to study bacterial nucleoids; Part II
highlights the study of bacterial nucleoid with whole genome
analysis method; Part III discusses molecular biology methods to
study nucleoid structuring factors; Part IV looks at imaging
bacterial nucleoid; and Part V explores biophysics of the bacterial
nucleoid. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular
Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their
respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents,
step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips
on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Thorough and
cutting-edge, The Bacterial Nucleoid: Methods and Protocols is a
valuable resource that provides a wealth of new information about
this chromosome.
Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much
attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western
societies. G?sta Esping--Andersen, one of the most distinguished
contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new
analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the
functioning of contemporary advanced western societies.
Esping--Andersen distinguishes several major types of welfare
state, connecting these with variations in the historical
development of different western countries. Current economic
processes, the author argues, such as those moving towards a
post--industrial order, are not shaped by autonomous market forces
but by the nature of states and state differences. Fully informed
by comparative materials, this book will have great appeal to
everyone working on issues of economic development and
post--industrialism. Its audience will include students and
academics in sociology, economics and politics.
This volume brings together the skills and protocols of numerous
laboratories that are at the heart of investigation into the
biology of Tfh cells in both mice and humans. As a volume in the
highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, chapters
contain introductions to their respective topics, lists of the
necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily
reproducible protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding
known pitfalls. Concise and easy-to-use, T follicular Helper Cells:
Methods and Protocols provides scientist with techniques and
protocols that have facilitated breakthroughs in Tfh biology and to
present them in a way that will enable both new and experienced
researchers to continue to move this exciting field forward.
The inter-comparison of specific skills as represented by
performance on neu- psychological tests is at the heart of the
neuropsychological assessment process. However, there is a tendency
to regard the interpretation of single tests as a process that is
independent of performance on other tests, with integration of test
information representing a summary of these individual test
performances. As neuropsychology has become increasingly
sophisticated, it has been recognized that many factors influence
the performance on any given test. The meaning of the same score
may vary considerably from one person to another, depending on his
or her performance on other neuropsychological tests. Thus, a low
score on the Halstead Category Test may indeed reflect frontal lobe
damage, but only if we first rule out the influence of
visual-spatial problems, emotionality, attentional issues,
motivation, fatigue, and comprehension of the instructions.
Simplistic interpre- tions that assume a common interpretation
based on a specific score will inva- ably lead to errors in
interpretation and conclusions. The purpose of this book is to
provide each test that is described with a compendium of the
possible interpretations that can be used with a variety of common
tests that are often included in a neuropsychological test battery.
The first chapter discusses some of the pitfalls and cautions when
comparing the tests, while the second chapter examines
administrative and scoring issues that may be unclear or
unavailable for a given test.
Bringing together for the first time prominent researchers in
social insect pheromone communication, including nestmate
recognition, this book looks at ants, wasps, bees, and termites,
highlighting areas of convergence and divergence among these
groups, and identifying areas that need further investigation.
Presenting broad synthetic overviews as
Tassajara, the California spa/retreat center, has long been
renowned for its gourmet vegetarian cuisine. In this comprehensive
book, one of Tassajara's most well-known and beloved cooks presents
hundreds of recipes using fresh, whole foods.
This volume brings together classical and cutting-edge protocols on
the spatio-temporal study of the cellular subsets constituting the
bone and the marrow in both mouse and human. Chapters details
methods on bone marrow (BM) ecosystem, to label, sort, analyse, and
culture specific cell subsets as well as techniques allowing the
evaluation of the function of some of the cellular elements of the
BM. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology
series format, chapters include introductions to their respective
topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents,
step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips
on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and
cutting-edge, Bone Marrow Environment: Methods and Protocols aims
to help new investigators to pursue the characterization of the BM
microenvironment in the coming years.
The inter-comparison of specific skills as represented by
performance on neu- psychological tests is at the heart of the
neuropsychological assessment process. However, there is a tendency
to regard the interpretation of single tests as a process that is
independent of performance on other tests, with integration of test
information representing a summary of these individual test
performances. As neuropsychology has become increasingly
sophisticated, it has been recognized that many factors influence
the performance on any given test. The meaning of the same score
may vary considerably from one person to another, depending on his
or her performance on other neuropsychological tests. Thus, a low
score on the Halstead Category Test may indeed reflect frontal lobe
damage, but only if we first rule out the influence of
visual-spatial problems, emotionality, attentional issues,
motivation, fatigue, and comprehension of the instructions.
Simplistic interpre- tions that assume a common interpretation
based on a specific score will inva- ably lead to errors in
interpretation and conclusions. The purpose of this book is to
provide each test that is described with a compendium of the
possible interpretations that can be used with a variety of common
tests that are often included in a neuropsychological test battery.
The first chapter discusses some of the pitfalls and cautions when
comparing the tests, while the second chapter examines
administrative and scoring issues that may be unclear or
unavailable for a given test.
"The Tassajara Bread Book" has been a favorite among renowned chefs
and novice bakers alike for more than 30 years. In this deluxe
edition, the same clear instructions and wonderful recipes are
presented in a new hardcover format.
This comparative analysis of Scandinavian social democracies argues
that the fate of socialist parties is decided, to a significant
degree, by their own policies and reforms_not solely by the changes
in social structure emphasized in previous studies. Combining
quantitative analysis and historical case studies to demonstrate
the electoral effects of party policy, Gosta Esping-Andersen
formulates a theory that is applicable not only to Scandinavia but
to Western Europe as a whole. In addition, he explains why the
support basis of social democracy has deteriorated so much more in
Denmark than in Sweden and Norway Originally published in 1988. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much
attention as the changing nature of welfare states in Western
societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the foremost contributors
to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of
the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of
contemporary advanced Western societies. Esping-Andersen
distinguishes three major types of welfare state, connecting these
with variations in the historical development of different Western
countries. He argues that current economic processes, such as those
moving toward a postindustrial order, are shaped not by autonomous
market forces but by the nature of states and state differences.
Fully informed by comparative materials, this book will have great
appeal to all those working on issues of economic development and
postindustrialism. Its audience will include students of sociology,
economics, and politics."
This comparative analysis of Scandinavian social democracies argues
that the fate of socialist parties is decided, to a significant
degree, by their own policies and reforms_not solely by the changes
in social structure emphasized in previous studies. Combining
quantitative analysis and historical case studies to demonstrate
the electoral effects of party policy, Gosta Esping-Andersen
formulates a theory that is applicable not only to Scandinavia but
to Western Europe as a whole. In addition, he explains why the
support basis of social democracy has deteriorated so much more in
Denmark than in Sweden and Norway Originally published in 1988. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Khor (Paperback)
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