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"Women, War, and Violence: Personal Perspectives and Global
Activism" draws upon a wide global community of activists,
scholars, NGOs, and clinicians to expand the definition of how war
and its violent underpinnings affects everyday women and families
around the world. Benefiting from first-hand research and
definitive assessments of gender-based violence interventions, it
invites diverse perspectives of interdisciplinary documentation and
storytelling beyond traditional academic writing. Reflecting on
anti-militarist activism, structural violence, post-war atrocities,
government commissions and policy solutions, WWV sheds new light on
war-related gender oppression at the intersections of race,
national identity, religion, and social class and the need to
promote a new paradigm of the equality of men and women.
LEGAL POSITIVISM AND NATURAL LAW Three lectures by the Harvard Law
School professor examine legal positivism and natural law. In the
course of his analysis Fuller discusses Kelsen's theory as a
reactionary theory and Hobbes' theory of sovereignty. He defines
legal positivism as the viewpoint that draws a distinction "between
the law that is and the law that ought to be" and interprets
natural law as that which tolerates a combination of the two. He
looks at the effects of positivism's continued influence on
American legal thinking and concludes that law is necessary in a
democracy as a principle of order. LON L. FULLER 1902-1978] was a
professor at Harvard Law School and is remembered for his
contributions to the law of contracts. His debate with H.L.A. Hart
in the 1958 Harvard Law Review (Vol. 71) is noteworthy because it
provided the framework for subsequent debates about legal
positivism and natural law.
Interested in the nexus between sport, gender, and language,
"Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender" deconstructs the role of rhetoric in
the multi-billion dollar popular cultural/infotainment business.
Wide-ranging, its 21 chapters, from contributors representing a
number of different disciplines and athletic interests, examine
sport vis-a-vis the language surrounding and incorporated by it in
the world arena. Edited by Linda K. Fuller, it consists of these
divisions: 1.Sport language per se; 2.Historical perspectives;
3.Print media representations; 4.Broadcast media representations;
5.Visual media representations; and 6.Classic case studies.
The author's solid empirical data and thematic structure is
enhanced by her first-hand experience in Africa and her focus on
the human faces of this issues. Her subjects are brought to life
through case-studies, personal stories and day-to-day details,
offering a study that has research credibility and sensitivity.
Students in U.S. public schools represent an array of cultural
heritages. From students' cultures emerge different ways of
constructing knowledge, making sense of experiences, and learning
(Gay, 2000). The majority of teachers, unlike their students, are
white, mono-cultural females who lack experience with individuals
of other cultures. Student diversity is increasing at a faster rate
than teachers of color. As a result there is a cultural mismatch
between students and teachers. This book introduces readers to
cultural mismatch and culturally responsive teaching. Two
mechanisms for activating change are presented in the "Framework
for Overcoming Cultural Mismatch: Roles of Teachers and
Administrators" and the "Inclusive Schools Action Plan." Stirring
up a sense of urgency in educators and then guiding school teams on
planning and implementation, teachers and school leaders can commit
now to equity for all students. In order to effectively teach all
children - regardless of ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, religious,
and other differences - practicing and pre-service teachers must be
aware of the role a student's cultural background plays in their
readiness to learn and how they learn. In order to develop this
awareness, teachers must reflect on his or her own cultural lens
and how it informs teaching.
Students in U.S. public schools represent an array of cultural
heritages. From students' cultures emerge different ways of
constructing knowledge, making sense of experiences, and learning
(Gay, 2000). The majority of teachers, unlike their students, are
white, mono-cultural females who lack experience with individuals
of other cultures. Student diversity is increasing at a faster rate
than teachers of color. As a result there is a cultural mismatch
between students and teachers. This book introduces readers to
cultural mismatch and culturally responsive teaching. Two
mechanisms for activating change are presented in the "Framework
for Overcoming Cultural Mismatch: Roles of Teachers and
Administrators" and the "Inclusive Schools Action Plan." Stirring
up a sense of urgency in educators and then guiding school teams on
planning and implementation, teachers and school leaders can commit
now to equity for all students. In order to effectively teach all
children - regardless of ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, religious,
and other differences - practicing and pre-service teachers must be
aware of the role a student's cultural background plays in their
readiness to learn and how they learn. In order to develop this
awareness, teachers must reflect on his or her own cultural lens
and how it informs teaching.
Originally published in 1986, we were living in a world in which
the number of publications in behaviour genetics had reached a
point where it was difficult, even for those teaching the subject,
to keep up with the literature. The editors of this title believe
that there is a need for people who have planned and executed
long-term research programs to summarize and comment on their
results. This volume was intended to help meet that need. The
authors were given free choice of subject and format. The result is
a variety of topics that had been researched mainly over the
previous decade. Chapter 1 is an exception and looked back at the
work of others in behaviour genetics over a quarter-century and
tried to detect trends in the types of research done in the field.
Originally published in 1983, this volume is a collection of papers
by research workers active at the time. It includes reviews of
special areas within the field and discussions of interactions with
other behavioral sciences such as psychology, ethology, and
sociobiology. Applications to medicine, psychiatry, and education
are also considered. Contributors were encouraged to integrate
history, present knowledge, and projections for the future.
Although the book is not divided into sections there is some
grouping of related chapters.
The traditional production measure of moral judgment has been the
Moral Judgment Interview (MJI), which uses hypothetical moral
dilemmas to elicit moral judgment. However, the MJI dilemmas have
been criticized as artificial and may not be entirely appropriate
for children, certain cultures, and practical moral situations.
This unique volume utilizes and evaluates a new production measure
of moral judgment, the Sociomoral Reflection Measure -- Short Form
(SRM-SF), which substitutes brief stimulus materials and evaluative
questions for the moral dilemma technique. The authors report that
the SRM-SF exhibits an impressive degree of reliability and
validity and is quicker to administer and score than other
available measures. To illustrate these findings, this book offers
the resources needed for the assessment of the Kohlbergian stage of
moral judgment using the SRM-SF. These resources include: an
up-to-date review of research and theory, a group-administrable
questionnaire, an efficient scoring manual, and self-training
exercises in assessment. Psychometrically sound and practical, the
SRM-SF has the potential to become the leading moral judgment
measure of the 90s.
Originally published in 1983, this volume is a collection of papers
by research workers active at the time. It includes reviews of
special areas within the field and discussions of interactions with
other behavioral sciences such as psychology, ethology, and
sociobiology. Applications to medicine, psychiatry, and education
are also considered. Contributors were encouraged to integrate
history, present knowledge, and projections for the future.
Although the book is not divided into sections there is some
grouping of related chapters.
Originally published in 1986, we were living in a world in which
the number of publications in behaviour genetics had reached a
point where it was difficult, even for those teaching the subject,
to keep up with the literature. The editors of this title believe
that there is a need for people who have planned and executed
long-term research programs to summarize and comment on their
results. This volume was intended to help meet that need. The
authors were given free choice of subject and format. The result is
a variety of topics that had been researched mainly over the
previous decade. Chapter 1 is an exception and looked back at the
work of others in behaviour genetics over a quarter-century and
tried to detect trends in the types of research done in the field.
Neoconservatism is more of a disposition than a single political
theory, but it is an attitude that has had a profound impact on the
broader conservative effort in the United States since the Fifties.
It is a unique blend of skepticism and fortitude about a host of
wide-ranging issues, spanning culture, economics, and national
defense. This book looks at six neoconservative intellectuals
Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Norman Podhoretz, Midge
Decter, Daniel Bell, and Nathan Glazer and the intellectual
influences on their thinking about the defects of communism,
fascism, progressivism, the dominant American culture, and even
capitalism itself. This book looks at the gestation of political
criticism within the pages of the neoconservatives own writings, as
well as the books they read and the thinkers they either learned
from or came to fear. The book looks at the ways in which the
neoconservatives adapted Lenin s formula for success to
conservative efforts in the United States, arguing that
neoconservatism is an anti-ideology ideology, in that it considers
a New Class of professional, ideologically motivated reformers to
be the greatest problem facing the United States because of their
increased efforts to technocratize ordinary life, their moral
relativism, their efforts to usurp human nature and supplant it
with their own utopian visions, their anti-Americanism, and their
unwillingness to face imminent dangers threatening the American way
of life. The book argues that the neoconservative political
strategy is to take the fight to the enemy.
The traditional production measure of moral judgment has been the
Moral Judgment Interview (MJI), which uses hypothetical moral
dilemmas to elicit moral judgment. However, the MJI dilemmas have
been criticized as artificial and may not be entirely appropriate
for children, certain cultures, and practical moral situations.
This unique volume utilizes and evaluates a new production measure
of moral judgment, the Sociomoral Reflection Measure -- Short Form
(SRM-SF), which substitutes brief stimulus materials and evaluative
questions for the moral dilemma technique. The authors report that
the SRM-SF exhibits an impressive degree of reliability and
validity and is quicker to administer and score than other
available measures. To illustrate these findings, this book offers
the resources needed for the assessment of the Kohlbergian stage of
moral judgment using the SRM-SF. These resources include: an
up-to-date review of research and theory, a group-administrable
questionnaire, an efficient scoring manual, and self-training
exercises in assessment. Psychometrically sound and practical, the
SRM-SF has the potential to become the leading moral judgment
measure of the 90s.
A practical guide to the protection and management of ecosystems
against invasions by non-indigenous plant species. The authors seek
to offer an accessible account of the subject and how to protect
natural habitats. The majority of countries suffer from invasive
plants and there are case studies from North America, Europe,
Australia, South and South East Asia and the Pacific and Atlantic
islands. There is also a list of invasive species, with their
countries of origin and regions of introduction.
This is an in-depth look at the biomedical, socio-cultural,
economic, legal and political, and educational vulnerabilities
faced by the population that is most vulnerable to the risk of
contracting HIV/AIDS: African women.
Inspired by a conference held at Northeastern University on the
topic of Women, War, and Violence, editors Robin M. Chandler, Lihua
Wang, and Linda K. Fuller bring together research and real-life
stories from twenty-one international contributors who document
gender involvement from victims to valiant in wartime and activism.
Interested in the nexus between sport, gender, and language,
"Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender"deconstructs the role of rhetoric in
the multi-billion dollar popular cultural/infotainment business.
Wide-ranging, with contributors representing a number of different
disciplines and athletic interests, this volume examines sport
vis-a-vis the language surrounding and incorporated by it in the
world arena. The book is divided into the following accessible
sections: sport language; historical perspectives; print media
representations; broadcast media representations; visual media
representations; and classic case studies and is an original and
insightful resource.
Your all-access guide to all things Access 2016 If you don't know a
relational database from an isolationist table but still need to
figure out how to organize and analyze your data Access 2016 For
Dummies is for you. Written in a friendly and accessible manner, it
assumes no prior Access or database-building knowledge and walks
you through the basics of creating tables to store your data,
building forms that ease data entry, writing queries that pull real
information from your data, and creating reports that back up your
analysis. Add in a dash of humor and fun, and Access 2016 For
Dummies is the only resource you'll need to go from data rookie to
data pro! This expanded and updated edition of Access For Dummies
covers all of the latest information and features to help data
newcomers better understand Access' role in the world of data
analysis and data science. Inside, you'll get a crash course on how
databases work and how to build one from the ground up. Plus,
you'll find step-by-step guidance on how to structure data to make
it useful, manipulate, edit, and import data into your database,
write and execute queries to gain insight from your data, and
report data in elegant ways. * Speak the lingo of database builders
and create databases that suit your needs * Organize your data into
tables and build forms that ease data entry * Query your data to
get answers right * Create reports that tell the story of your data
findings If you have little to no experience with creating and
managing a database of any sort, Access 2016 For Dummies is the
perfect starting point for learning the basics of building
databases, simplifying data entry and reporting, and improving your
overall data skills.
For forty years, the neoconservatives have been an influential wing
on the American Right. Their critics accuse them of being more
loyal to a foreign government than to American interests. But is
that true? In this book, the author argues that their support of
Israel is rooted just as much in their liberal-democratic
priorities.
"Among the important books in the history of American legal
philosophy. It includes insights into the relations between
morality and law, and advances a theory of law of great practical
relevance. . . . [This] is the best discussion of the demands of
the rule of law in existing literature."-Robert S. Summers, Journal
of Legal Education "Throughout this profound, imaginative and
keenly analytical work, [Fuller] demonstrates his continuing
concern with the tension in morality and law between the 'is' and
the 'ought'. . . . A book of ideas should . . . provoke and
contribute new thoughts. This book does both."-Barry R. Mandelbaum,
New York Law Forum In this classic work the legal philosopher Lon
L. Fuller explores the relationship between law and morality,
distinguishing between the morality of duty and the morality of
aspiration.
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