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Sophia's Gift (Hardcover)
Karen B. Kurtz; Illustrated by Loran Chavez
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This volume examines the tax systems of some twenty countries to
determine whether their tax laws are used to support growth and
development across borders in lower-income and poor countries.
Given the critical economic development needs of poorer countries
and the importance of stability in these regions to the security of
populations throughout the world, the use of a country's tax laws
to support investment in the developing world gains crucial
significance. This book explores whether international standards
promoting the fundamental values of the major tax systems of the
world accommodate incentives for these nations. In addition, it
analyzes the way in which adoption of principles by higher income
nations to protect their own revenue bases has a spill-over effect,
impairing the ability of developing countries to sustain their
economies. Following an introduction that synthesizes worldwide
trends, the volume contains separate chapters for a variety of
countries detailing the underlying goals and values of each system
and the way in which the decision to employ (or not employ)
incentives accommodates those ends. The chapters include reports
for: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, France,
Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Maldives, the Netherlands,
Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Uganda, United Kingdom, United
States, and Venezuela. The volume memorializes the work of the
General Reporter and National Reporters at the Taxation and
Development session of the 19th Congress of the International
Academy of Comparative Law held in July, 2014, in Vienna, Austria.
Learn to initiate the integration of your clients' spirituality as
an effective practical intervention. A client's spiritual and
religious beliefs can be an effective springboard for productive
therapy. How can a therapist sensitively prepare for the task? The
Therapist's Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling is
the first volume of a comprehensive two-volume resource that
provides practical interventions from a wide range of backgrounds
and theoretical perspectives. This volume helps prepare clinicians
to undertake and initiate the integration of spirituality in
therapy with clients and provides easy-to-follow examples. The book
provides a helpful starting point to address a broad range of
topics and problems. The chapters of The Therapist's Notebook for
Integrating Spirituality in Counseling are grouped into five
sections: Therapist Preparation and Professional Development;
Assessment of Spirituality; Integrating Spirituality in Couples
Therapy; Specific Techniques and/or Topics Used in Integrating
Spirituality; and Use of Scripture, Prayer, and Other Spiritual
Practices. Designed to be clinician-friendly, each chapter also
includes sections on resources where counselors can learn more
about the topic or technique used in the chapter-as well as
suggested books, articles, chapters, videos, and Web sites to
recommend to clients. Each chapter utilizes similar formatting to
remain clear and easy-to-follow that includes objectives, rationale
for use, instructions, brief vignette, suggestions for follow-up,
contraindications, references, professional readings and resources,
and bibliotherapy sources for the client. The first volume of The
Therapist's Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling
helps set a solid foundation and provides comprehensive instruction
on: ethically incorporating spirituality into the therapeutic
setting professional disclosure building a spiritual referral
source through local clergy assessment of spirituality the
spirituality-focused genogram using spirituality in couples therapy
helping couples face career transitions dealing with shame
addiction recovery the use of scripture and prayer overcoming
trauma in Christian clients and much more! The Therapist's Notebook
for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling is a stimulating,
creative resource appropriate for any clinician or counselor, from
novices to experienced mental health professionals. This first
volume is perfect for pastoral counselors, clergy, social workers,
marriage and family therapists, counselors, psychologists,
Christian counselors, educators who teach professional issues,
ethics, counseling, and multicultural issues, and students.
This volume provides a fascinating look at the anti-tax avoidance
strategies employed by more than fifteen countries in eastern and
western Europe, Canada, the Pacific Rim, Asia, Africa, and the
United States. It surveys the similarities and differences in
anti-avoidance regimes and contains detailed chapters for each
country surveying the moral and legal dimensions of the problem.
The proliferation of tax avoidance schemes in recent years signals
the global dimensions of a problem presenting a serious challenge
to the effective administration of tax laws. Tax avoidance involves
unacceptable manipulation of the law to obtain a tax advantage.
These transactions support wasteful behavior in which corporations
enter into elaborate, circuitous arrangements solely to minimize
tax liability. It frustrates the ability of governments to collect
sufficient revenue to provide essential public goods and services.
Avoidance of duly enacted provisions (or manipulation to secure tax
benefits unintended by the legislature) poses a threat to the
effective operation of a free society for the benefit of a small
group of members who seek the privilege of shifting their tax
burden onto others merely to compete in the world of commerce. In a
world in which world treasuries struggle for the resources to
battle terrorist threats and to secure a decent standard of living
for constituents tax avoidance can bring economies close to the
edge of sustainability. As tax avoidance is one of the top concerns
of most nations, the importance of this work cannot be overstated.
Proceedings of Session VII of the Tenth International Symposium on
Chromaffin Cell Biology, held August 25-28, 1999, in Bergen,
Norway, and a post-symposium workshop on Chromogranins: from
Fundamental Physiology to Clinical Aspects, held August 28, 1999,
on board the coastal steamer MS Richard With. This book deals with
the chromogranins, secretory prohormones from the diffuse
neuroendocrine system. The current concepts of their structure,
biogenesis, biosynthesis, secretion, tissue-specific distribution,
and processing are presented for the first time all within one
volume, with emphasis on the functional aspects of the biologically
active sequences and the clinical perspectives of the circulation
prohormones.
More activities to tap into the strength of your clients' spiritual
beliefs to achieve therapeutic goals. The Therapist's Notebook for
Integrating Spirituality in Counseling II is the second volume of a
comprehensive two-volume resource that provides practical
interventions from respected experts from a wide range of
backgrounds and theoretical perspectives. This volume includes
several practical strategies and techniques to easily incorporate
spirituality into psychotherapy. You'll find in-session activities,
homework assignments, and client and therapist handouts that
utilize a variety of therapeutic models and techniques and address
a broad range of topics and problems. The chapters of The
Therapist's Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling II
are grouped into four sections: Models of Therapy Used in
Integrating Spirituality; Integrating Spirituality with
Age-Specific Populations: Children, Adolescents, and the Elderly;
Integrating Spirituality with Specific Multicultural Populations;
and Involving Spirituality when Dealing with Illness, Loss, and
Trauma. As in Volume One, each clinician-friendly chapter also
includes sections on resources where the counselor can learn more
about the topic or technique used in the chapter-as well as
suggested books, articles, chapters, videos, and Web sites to
recommend to clients. Every chapter follows the same easy-to-follow
format: objectives, rationale for use, instructions, brief
vignette, suggestions for follow-up, contraindications, references,
professional readings and resources, and bibliotherapy sources for
the client. The Therapist's Notebook for Integrating Spirituality
in Counseling II adds more useful activities and homework
counselors can use in their practice, such as: using religion or
spirituality in solution-oriented brief therapy "Cast of Character"
counseling using early memories to explore adolescent and adult
spirituality cognitive behavioral treatment of obsessive-compulsive
disorder age-specific clients such as children or the elderly
multicultural populations and spirituality dealing with illness,
loss, and trauma recovering from fetal loss creative art techniques
with caregivers in group counseling and much more! The Therapist's
Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling II provides
even more creative and helpful homework and activities that are
perfect for pastoral counselors, clergy, social workers, marriage
and family therapists, counselors, psychologists, Christian
counselors, educators who teach professional issues, ethics,
counseling, and multicultural issues, and students.
This book addresses critical issues related to appropriately
servicing gifted students with other learning exceptionalities,
also known as twice exceptional (2e) students. Utilizing a social,
emotional, and cultural lens, it extends beyond the historical
cognitive discussion within the domains of special and gifted
education and draws on a variety of interpreted perspectives,
featuring leading authors, experts, and specialists from several
countries and from different academic disciplines and backgrounds.
The collection offers a balance between theoretical/methodological
and empirical chapters to provide a discourse for
operationalization and implementation of services that best serve
the educational and individualized needs for a diverse group of
students.This work demonstrates the importance of knowing and
attending to the social, emotional and cultural dimensions of 2e
students while simultaneously fostering the appropriate cognitive
skill development for whole-child well-being.
This will be the first time a volume will be compiled focusing
on South American monkeys as models to address and test critical
issues in the study of nonhuman primates. In addition, the volume
will serve an important compliment to the book on Mesoamerican
primates recently published in the series under the DIPR book
series. The book will be of interest to a broad range of scientists
in various disciplines, ranging from primatology, to animal
behavior, animal ecology, conservation biology, veterinary science,
animal husbandry, anthropology, and natural resource management.
Moreover, although the volume will highlight South American
primates, chapters will not simply review particular taxa or
topics. Rather the focus of each chapter is to examine the nature
and range of primate responses to changes in their ecological and
social environments, and to use data on South American monkeys to
address critical theoretical questions in the study of primate
behavior, ecology, and conservation. Thus, we anticipate that the
volume will be widely read by a broad range of students and
researchers interested in prosimians, New World monkeys, Old World
monkeys, apes, humans, as well as animal behavior and tropical
biology.
This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary,
ecological, and demographic perspectives with new results from
field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular and hormonal
techniques to understand how different primates behave and the
significance of these insights for primate conservation. Each
chapter is organized around the major research themes in the field,
with Strier emphasizing the interplay between theory, observations,
and conservation issues. Examples are drawn from the "classic"
primate field studies as well as more recent studies, including
many previously neglected species, to illustrate the vast
behavioral variation that exists across the primate order. Primate
Behavioral Ecology 6th Edition integrates the impacts of
anthropogenic activities on primate populations, including zoonotic
disease and climate change, and considers the importance of
behavioral flexibility for primate conservation. This fully updated
new edition brings exciting new methods, theoretical perspectives,
and discoveries together to provide an incomparable overview of the
field of primate behavioral ecology and its applications to primate
conservation. It is considered to be a "must read" for all students
interested in primates.
This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary,
ecological, and demographic perspectives with new results from
field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular and hormonal
techniques to understand how different primates behave and the
significance of these insights for primate conservation. Each
chapter is organized around the major research themes in the field,
with Strier emphasizing the interplay between theory, observations,
and conservation issues. Examples are drawn from the "classic"
primate field studies as well as more recent studies, including
many previously neglected species, to illustrate the vast
behavioral variation that exists across the primate order. Primate
Behavioral Ecology 6th Edition integrates the impacts of
anthropogenic activities on primate populations, including zoonotic
disease and climate change, and considers the importance of
behavioral flexibility for primate conservation. This fully updated
new edition brings exciting new methods, theoretical perspectives,
and discoveries together to provide an incomparable overview of the
field of primate behavioral ecology and its applications to primate
conservation. It is considered to be a "must read" for all students
interested in primates.
This book offers a comprehensive examination of Methodist practice, tracing its evolution from the earliest days up to the present. Using liturgical texts as well as written accounts in popular and private sources, Karen Westerfield Tucker investigates the various rites and seasons of worship in Methodism and examines them in relation to American society.
This book has gone to great lengths to reveal, through research and
practice, the possibilities of addressing and reducing racist
practices in our schools. It features an Antiracist Education
Teacher Study that assisted in providing baseline figures of
teacher perceptions of racism, and demonstrated how teachers can
successfully implement antiracist concepts in their classrooms.
Findings further indicate that such teacher involvement makes a
difference in student acceptance and attitude. As teachers display
enthusiasm for teaching their subject areas multiculturally, and
having an intolerance for racist behavior, many students have shown
greater respect and appreciation for their teachers who are willing
to expose life's realities. Educators in the Teacher Study became
role models for their students. This role modeling empowered
students in positive ways to address issues of racism from the
student perspective. Dr. Donaldson also focuses on shattering the
denial of teachers who doubt the existence of racism in schools and
who question how student learning is adversely affected by racism.
She uncovers the difficulty teachers have with coming to grips with
the realities of racism. In light of these difficulties, those who
endured became empowered to become better teachers.
This book explores racism in American schools and provides
possible solutions to this widespread problem. Dr. Donaldson
documents recent incidents of racism and explores the
manifestations of racism and its toll on our society. The major
part of Donaldson's work focuses on the role of the arts in
antiracist/multicultural education. She brings together the views
of leaders in multicultural education with her own insights to
substantiate the importance of the arts in fighting racism. Dr.
Donaldson focuses her research on high school students, discovering
that even high achievers perceive racism as a deterrent to their
learning. The students most often perceive racism as a problem
caused by adults, and Donaldson shows that multicultural arts can
empower students to stand against this racism. Finally, Donaldson
explores the reeducation of teachers in an antiracist,
interdisciplinary curriculum development and implementation pilot
study.
Forest Futures is an exciting collection of original essays written
by leading scientists, policy analysts, public lands managers, and
advocates that addresses four related issues regarding the future
of our nation's forests: ideas and practices of sustainable
forestry; science and policymaking; threatened and endangered
species protection on forested lands; and the future of public
forest lands management. Offering a genuine debate and dialogue,
Forest Futures discusses the present and future of our nation's
forests in light of the current debate on forest management
concepts, practices, and compromises established a decade ago.
Brings together the observations and analyses of forest scientists,
land managers, social scientists, and legal advocates to address
common concerns regarding the state of our nation's forests, Essays
are uniquely and comprehensively integrated due to a distinctive
'dialogic' approach, Includes a unique section on the relationship
between science and policy exploring the questions of scientific
uncertainty and the use and abuse of science with the policy
process. Forest Futures is an important and timely work ideal for
environmental science, environmental policy, and forestry college
courses, as well as for policymakers, citizens, and activists
interested in forest policy related issues.
In 1848, an 18-year-old boy assumed the throne of Austria, one of
the most powerful countries in Europe. He would be its last
significant emperor, the only monarch to serve two countries, and
the last cogent head of the prestigious Habsburg dynasty. Emperor
Franz Joseph's reign was marked by revolutions, often fueled by
rising liberalism and nationalism, and wars orchestrated by
conquering architects such as Napoleon, Metternich, and Bismarck.
This book gives attention to these political and cultural events,
but it is essentially a biography of Emperor Franz Joseph and his
enigmatic wife, Empress Elisabeth. Franz Joseph, with an
overwhelming sense of dynastic responsibility, played all the roles
assigned to him as Emperor. Elisabeth played none, as a wife,
mother or Empress. Many factors played a part in her ""abdication""
and in the decisions Franz Joseph made during his reign - none more
enigmatic than the self-proclaimed Peace Emperor's final act of
mobilising of Austria-Hungary's armies, detonating World War I at
the cost of 16 million lives.
Bless This Food is a unique cookbook that combines wonderful menus
and recipes with table prayers, food customs, and religious and
cultural traditions. The menus are for a wide variety of
occasions—traditional national holidays, family gatherings,
religious celebrations, ethnic festivals, life passages, and
get-togethers with friends. Organized by seasons, Bless This Food
is eclectic in its choice of cuisines—from French, Italian,
English, American, Jewish, and Irish to Native American, African
American, and Hispanic. The occasions celebrated are also eclectic
and culturally diverse, celebrating the many traditions from which
America’s citizens have originated. The main religious
celebrations of the Christian and Jewish traditions are included.
The authors’ own interests are reflected in their choices of such
occasions as Sir Winston Churchill’s Birthday Breakfast, Claude
Monet’s Birthday, A Jane Austen Holiday Lunch with Friends,
Robert Burns Night, and Blessings in Deed, in which a meal is
prepared for another person or family. Beautifully and elegantly
designed, and illustrated with sketches by Tonya Young, Bless This
Food acknowledges the sacred nature of the everyday pleasures of
food and table.
Detached, alienated people, many of them functioning with a
pathologically developed false self, barely navigate life's
challenges. Our cultural emphasis on autonomy and separateness has
led to a retreat from valuing interpersonal, communal dependence
and has greatly contributed to a rise in the number of people whose
suffering is often expressed in addictions and personality
disorders. Using actual patient material including diaries and
letters, Karen Walant's Creating the Capacity for Attachment shows
how "immersive moments" in therapy--moments of complete
understanding between patient and therapist--are powerful enough to
dislodge the alienated, detached self from its hiding place and
enable the individual to begin incorporating his or her inner core
into his or her external, social self.
Applies an ethnographic perspective to the study of primatesPrimate
Ethnographies, 1/e is a collection of first-person accounts of
immersive field studies of primates, people, and institutions,
revealing the wide spectrum of primate science (primatology).
Essays cover such primates as lemurs, New World monkeys, Old World
monkeys, and apes. Readers experience the excitement of discovery
and the challenges of primate field research. Primate Ethnographies
can be used as a textbook or a companion reader.
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