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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1985.
This highly original book puts the crash of 2008 into a broad
perspective by digging deeply into the misguided theories behind
the policies that allowed it to happen. Who was responsible for the
2008 crash? The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Economy: How Liberals
and Conservatives Both Got It Wrong makes it clear that both
parties were at faul—and explains how and why. This broad and
far-reaching book is the first to analyze the crash from the
perspective of evolution, or "punctuated equilibrium." As it
explains, the punctuated boom brings on change, the bust leads back
to a tightly constrained equilibrium. Both conditions pose risks
and both—as William McDonald Wallace argues—can be managed to
reduce the odds that economic imbalances will arise. Focusing on
the policies that created bubbles in housing, stocks, and more,
Wallace pinpoints historical events that gave rise to unrealistic
theories and ideologies, showing how they, in turn, gave rise to
policies that led to collapse. He explains how Darwin's
now-discredited theory of "uniformitarianism" (evolution as a
continuous, smooth process) led economists to ignore how evolution
actually influences economies and economic behavior, and he shows
what we can do so it doesn't happen again.
Wallace and Hobbs' original edition of "Atmospheric Science" helped
define the field nearly 30 years ago, and has served as the
cornerstone for most university curriculums. Now students and
professionals alike can use this updated classic to understand
atmospheric phenomena in the context of the latest discoveries and
technologies, and prepare themselves for more advanced study and
real-life problem solving.
Atmospheric Science, Second Edition, has been completely revamped
in terms of content and appearance. It contains new chapters on
atmospheric chemistry, the Earth system, climate, and the
atmospheric boundary layer, as well as enhanced treatment of
atmospheric dynamics, weather forecasting, radiative transfer,
severe storms, and human impacts, such as global warming. The
authors illustrate concepts with colorful state-of-the-art imagery
and cover a vast amount of new information in the field. They have
also developed several online materials for instructors who adopt
the text.
With its thorough coverage of the fundamentals, clear explanations,
and extensive updates, Wallace & Hobbs' Atmospheric Science,
Second Edition, is the essential first step in educating today's
atmospheric scientists.
* Full-color satellite imagery and cloud photographs illustrate
principles throughout
* Extensive numerical and qualitative exercises emphasize the
application of basic physical principles to problems in the
atmospheric sciences
* Biographical footnotes summarize the lives and work of scientists
mentioned in the text, and provide students with a sense of the
long history of meteorology
* Companion website encourages more advanced exploration of text
topics: supplementaryinformation, images, and bonus exercises
This book presents an early treatment model for toddlers. It
describes the early life span development, trajectory, and future
potential of toddlers and how it may be powerfully influenced by
the protection and guidance of caregivers to meet toddlers'
physical and mental health needs. It offers an in-depth guide
toParent-Child Interaction Therapy with Toddlers (PCIT-T), an
evidence-based program for addressing and preventing behavior
problems affecting young children's development. The book details
the innovative intervention design and how it guides clinicians in
providing treatment for 12-month old to 24-month old toddlers with
disruptive behaviors in addition to being used as a prevention
model for caregivers experiencing stress of child rearing. PCIT-T
focuses on core areas of social and emotional development,
including behavior management and language skills, and can be used
in dealing with difficulties as diverse as tantrums, language
issues, autistic behaviors, and separation anxiety. Play therapy
and compliance training in child-directed as well as
parent-directed sessions are also examined. Initial chapters
provide an overview of attachment and behavioral theory components
that are foundational to the treatment model. Subsequent chapters
provide a session-by-session guide and clinical manual for
implementation of PCIT-T as well as the clinician tools needed to
monitor treatment integrity and fidelity to the model. Topics
featured in this book include: Core elements and treatment goals of
PCIT-T A range of behavioral assessments used in PCIT-T.
Instructions for room set-up, toy selection, and special
considerations when providing PCIT-T treatment. Preparation guides
for the pretreatment interview, assessment sessions, and weekly
coaching sessions. The importance of child-directed interaction
toddler (CDI-T) and parent-directed interaction toddler (PDI-T) in
teaching children the necessary skills to regulate their emotions
and develop self-control. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy with
Toddlers is a must-have resource for clinicians and related
professionals, researchers and professors, and graduate students in
the fields of clinical child and school psychology, social work,
pediatrics, infancy and early childhood development, child and
adolescent psychiatry, primary care medicine, and related
disciplines.
Few questions of global politics are more pressing than how to
respond to widespread violence against civilians. Despite the
efforts of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) proponents to draw
attention away from exclusively military responses, debates on
humanitarian intervention and R2P's "Third Pillar" still tend to
boil down to two unsatisfying options: stand by and "do nothing" or
take military action to protect civilians - essentially using
violence to stop violence. Accordingly - and given disagreement and
uncertainty regarding moral claims, as well as the unpredictability
of military effectiveness - this book asks: how can we counter
violence ethically and effectively, taking action consistent with
our particular moral commitments while also nurturing difference
and enacting responsibility towards multiple others? After
evaluating the pragmatic and ethical failings of military action,
the book proposes nonviolent intervention as a third - unarmed,
on-the-ground - option for protecting civilians during humanitarian
crises. In the empirical section of the book, focusing on the
discursive and psychological conditions enabling violence, Wallace
analyses the mechanisms by which Nonviolent Peaceforce - an
international NGO engaged in nonviolent intervention/ unarmed
civilian peacekeeping (UCP) - was able to protect civilians and
prevent violence, even if on a limited scale, in the broader
context of Sri Lanka's war/counterinsurgency in 2008. Both
philosophically innovative and practically useful to those working
in the field, the book contributes to a range of literatures and
debates: from just war theory and poststructuralist ethics to
nonviolent action and conflict transformation, and from
humanitarian intervention, R2P, and civilian protection to
strategic theory and discursive and psychological theories of
violence.
Few twenty-first century academics take seriously mysticism's claim
that we have direct knowledge of a higher or more "inner" reality
or God. But Philosophical Mysticism argues that such leading
philosophers of earlier epochs as Plato, G. W. F. Hegel, Ludwig
Wittgenstein, and Alfred North Whitehead were, in fact, all
philosophical mystics. This book discusses major versions of
philosophical mysticism beginning with Plato. It shows how the
framework of mysticism's higher or more inner reality allows
nature, freedom, science, ethics, the arts, and a rational
religion-in-the-making to work together rather than conflicting
with one another. This is how philosophical mysticism understands
the relationships of fact to value, rationality to ethics, and the
rest. And this is why Plato's notion of ascent or turning inward to
a higher or more inner reality has strongly attracted such major
figures in philosophy, religion, and literature as Aristotle,
Plotinus, St Augustine, Dante Alighieri, Immanuel Kant, Hegel,
William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson,
Whitehead, and Wittgenstein. Wallace's Philosophical Mysticism
brings this central strand of western philosophy and culture into
focus in a way unique in recent scholarship.
First published in 1983, this book examines a work whose
intricacies have baffled and infuriated generations of readers and
proposes a theory of Coleridge's writing habits that "explain(s)
his explanation". The author painstakingly analyses the
Biographia's organising structure distinguishing between the daring
conception and often inept execution of Coleridge's idea of
critical discourse. It is argued that Coleridge's autobiographical
format present a richly metaphorical "self" whose literary life has
led to the now-famous doctrine of secondary imagination. The
author's command of Coleridge scholarship will shed new light on
the Biographia for specialists and non-specialists alike.
Short, inspiring lessons and prayers based on John's gospel A
devotional book of meditations based on specific verses or passages
from the Gospel of John. It uses the highly acclaimed and popular
translation, The Message, by Eugene Peterson. Consisting of short
and very accessible meditations, the author Peter Wallace
approaches Jesus through the eyes of the disciple whom Jesus loved.
From this perspective, readers can begin to see themselves in
John's place as the beloved one, and, as a result, take up the
responsibilities of discipleship in a world that needs Jesus'
loving touch.
This book explores the management of change to improve public
service effectiveness. It breaks new ground in addressing why
public service change is becoming increasingly complex to manage,
how people cope with this new complexity, what implications arise
for improving policy and practice, and which avenues for further
research and theory-building look particularly promising. The
contributors are all leading researchers from the USA, Canada and
the UK. Together they provide a synthesis of state-of-the-art
thinking on the complex change process in Anglo-American contexts,
policy-making for public service reform that generates managerial
complexity, and practice in service organizations to improve
provision. Special reference is made to education and health: the
largest and most complex of the public services. The analysis has
wider relevance for other public services and national contexts.
Managing Change in the Public Services is essential reading for all
concerned with public service improvement - leaders and managers in
service organizations, administrators, trainers, advisers and
consultants who support the management of change, policy-makers and
public servants, and advanced course students and academics. The
book also offers general insights for the theory and practice of
managing organizational and systemic change.
This up-to-date immunology textbook provides a clear and simple
introduction to clinical and laboratory immunology for health
professionals in training or in practice. It covers:
- essential basic immunology
- clinical immunology
- laboratory investigations of immunological disorders
- treatments used in immunological disorders.
Focusing on clinical problems seen in practice and including
self-assessment questions and case histories to aid learning and
understanding, this is an invaluable resource for all medical
students, nurses, nutritionists, pharmacists and
physiotherapists.
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