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  • THE QUALITY SYSTEM
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    THE QUALITY SYSTEM
    FRANK CAPLAN
    In its second edition, the purpose of this handbook is to assist remediation site managers and their operating contractors in ensuring that each remediation system is effectively making progress toward site cleanup objectives and remains protective of human health and the environment. ...

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  • THE CARE OF THE OLDER PERSON
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    THE CARE OF THE OLDER PERSON
    RONALD CAPLAN
    The fifth edition of this widely used book by caregivers brings to you updated and revised content, built on the basic understanding that medicine does not work in a vacuum, but rather alongside other disciplines to provide the environment for a healthy and fulfilling long life. Edited by alumni and senior faculty at McGill University, with international contributions, this boo...

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  • TODAY'S CURIOSITY IS TOMORROW'S CURE
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    TODAY'S CURIOSITY IS TOMORROW'S CURE
    STEVE CAPLAN
    Basic curiosity-driven biomedical science has delivered many of today’s most significant medical advances. This book provides clearly explained examples from recent biomedical history and includes convincing arguments for sustaining a robust portfolio of basic research. Intended as an engaging read, which will delight undergraduate and graduate students, as well as scientific r...

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  • FUTILE DIPLOMACY - A HISTORY OF ARAB-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS, 1913-56
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    FUTILE DIPLOMACY - A HISTORY OF ARAB-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS, 1913-56
    NEIL CAPLAN
    These four volumes provide a careful and balanced behind-the-scenes account of the intricate diplomatic activity of the period between 1913 and 1956. Exploiting a range of available archive sources as well as extensive secondary sources, they provide an authoritative analysis of the positions and strategies which the principal parties and the would-be mediators adopted in the e...

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  • FEASTS, FASTS, FAMINE
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    FEASTS, FASTS, FAMINE
    PAT CAPLAN
    This study deals with three domains of food which raise complex epistemological, political and moral issues. Through an examination of a wide range of material drawn from anthropology, history, literature and political economy, the author discusses the relationship between food and entitlement, gender, notions of the body and development. Food is shown to be a powerful metaphor...

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  • CHILDREN OF COLONIALISM
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    CHILDREN OF COLONIALISM
    LIONEL CAPLAN
    Among the legacies of the colonial encounter are any number of contemporary ‘mixed-race' populations, descendants of the offspring of sexual unions involving European men (colonial officials, traders, etc.) and local women. These groups invite serious scholarly attention because they not only challenge notions of a rigid divide between colonizer and colonized, but beg a host of...

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  • THE ETHICAL CHALLENGES OF EMERGING MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES
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    THE ETHICAL CHALLENGES OF EMERGING MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES
    ARTHUR L. CAPLAN / BRENDAN PARENT
    This collection of essays emphasizes society’s increasingly responsible engagement with ethical challenges in emerging medical technology. Expansion of technological capacity and attention to patient safety have long been integral to improving healthcare delivery but only relatively recently have concepts like respect, distributive justice, privacy, and autonomy gained some pow...

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  • UNDERSTANDING DISPUTES
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    UNDERSTANDING DISPUTES
    PAT CAPLAN
    Are disputes ever really resolved, or do people need to find ways of accommodating them and living with the consequences? Can dispute settlement procedures at the local level be transferred to wider environments? In attempting to answer these questions, some of the foremost specialists in the anthropology of law and disputing behaviour examine how people in a variety of social ...

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  • STATE OF THE UNION 1994
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    STATE OF THE UNION 1994
    RICHARD CAPLAN / JOHN FEFFER / GERALD HORNE / JOHN CAVANAGH
    Clinton rode into office on the promise of "change." It was a safe, content- free slogan. After all, in recent years, the most radical proposals for change have come not from the Democrats but from the Republican right. "Change" could mean the further downsizing of government and neglect of social problems, or, of course, the reversal of these trends. When they went to the poll...

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  • CHOICE AND CONSTRAINT IN A SWAHILI COMMUNITY
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    CHOICE AND CONSTRAINT IN A SWAHILI COMMUNITY
    ANN PATRICIA CAPLAN
    Originally published in 1975, this book examines property and power relations in a Swahili village on Mafia Island off Tanzania. It focuses on the cognatic descent groups which are important in many areas of village life such as land-holding, marriage, residence, Islamic activities and spirit possession cults. Some anthropologists have contended that groups with multiple member...

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  • AGEING, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH
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    AGEING, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH
    KARIN VOLKWEIN-CAPLAN
    One of the most pressing questions facing society today is how to care for its burgeoning elderly population. By the year 2050, experts predict that one-third of the world’s population will be over 60 years old. Health promotion for the elderly is therefore becoming an increasingly important topic in public policy and planning. This book examines the challenges presented by an ...

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  • GENETIC COUNSELING
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    GENETIC COUNSELING
    DIANNE M. BARTELS / BONNIE S. LEROY / ARTHUR L. CAPLAN
    Genetic counseling is fairly new. The fact that the field is an accepted professional enterprise in universities, clinics, and hospitals throughout the United States is remarkable. The contributors argue that genetics and medicine rest on beliefs widely held in American society. Scientific progress is good, and highly sophisticated technologies are appropriate means to solving ...

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  • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT RESEARCH ON SEX AND GENDER
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    THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT RESEARCH ON SEX AND GENDER
    PAULA J CAPLAN
    The authors first demonstrate that most of the claims about sex and gender are not well supported by research, and then provide readers with constructive critical tools they can apply to this wealth of research to come to realistic, constructive conclusions. All of this is provided in a concise, inexpensive volume by a best-selling trade author and instructor team. ...

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  • PALESTINE JEWRY AND THE ARAB QUESTION, 1917-1925 (RLE ISRAEL AND PALESTINE)
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    PALESTINE JEWRY AND THE ARAB QUESTION, 1917-1925 (RLE ISRAEL AND PALESTINE)
    NEIL CAPLAN
    This book, first published in 1978, examines the confrontation of the Jewish community of Palestine – the Yishuv – with its Arab question in the period immediately following World War 1, a period of excitement and uncertainty. Its main focus is on the different ways in which the men and women of the Yishuv perceived and defined the question of relations with the Arabs, and how ...

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  • FUTILE DIPLOMACY, VOLUME 1
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    FUTILE DIPLOMACY, VOLUME 1
    NEIL CAPLAN
    Most students of the history of Arab-Jewish relations have come to take for granted the stubborn resistance of the continuing dispute to any form of lasting and ‘reasonable’ solution. This book, first published in 1983, examines early Arab-Zionist negotiating experience with the assumption that this has direct relevance to our understanding of the possible outcomes of diplomati...

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  • FUTILE DIPLOMACY, VOLUME 2
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    FUTILE DIPLOMACY, VOLUME 2
    NEIL CAPLAN
    With half of this book, first published in 1986, being given over to Neil Caplan’s detailed analysis and half to the collection of the original documents, the second volume in Futile Diplomacy provides another essential resource for the understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In Arab-Zionist Negotiations and the End of the Mandate a key period in the negotiations between th...

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  • FUTILE DIPLOMACY, VOLUME 3
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    FUTILE DIPLOMACY, VOLUME 3
    NEIL CAPLAN
    This book, first published in 1997, provides a careful and balanced behind-the-scenes account of the intricate diplomatic activity of the period between the first and second Arab-Israeli wars. The author examines the recurring deadlocks in terms of the motives and calculations of the various parties, and reveals how new incentives of pressures offered by outsiders proved incapa...

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  • FUTILE DIPLOMACY, VOLUME 4
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    FUTILE DIPLOMACY, VOLUME 4
    NEIL CAPLAN
    This book, first published in 1997, focuses on the Anglo-American cooperation which began during the relatively uneventful years 1953 and 1954, and which led to a covert operation, code-named 'Alpha', which aimed – unsuccessfully – at convincing Egyptian and Israeli leaders to consider a settlement through secret negotiations. As with the other three volumes that make up Futile...

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  • A NEW TRUSTEESHIP?
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    A NEW TRUSTEESHIP?
    RICHARD CAPLAN
    This paper analyses and assesses the effectiveness of international administrations of war-torn territories and discusses the key issues - strategic, political, and economic - that arise in the context of these experiences.  It reflects on the policy implications of these experiences and recommends reforms or new approaches to international administration. ...

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  • AN APPROACH TO COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH
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    AN APPROACH TO COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH
    CAPLAN, GERALD
    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 vol...

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  • THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF SEXUALITY
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    THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF SEXUALITY
    PAT CAPLAN
    First Published in 1987. Illustrates the argument that sexuality is not a `thing in itself' but a concept that can only be understood with reference to economic, political and social factors. ...

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  • LAND AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN EAST NEPAL
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    LAND AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN EAST NEPAL
    PROFESSOR LIONEL CAPLAN / LIONEL CAPLAN
    This book examines the relations between the Limbus, an indigenous tribal people in East Nepal, and the Hindus who have entered their region during the past two hundred years. Describing the divisions which have arisen between the two groups as a result of confrontation over land, the book nonetheless stresses how they are linked by ties of economic and political interdependenc...

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  • GENDERED FIELDS
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    GENDERED FIELDS
    BELL, DIANE / CAPLAN, PAT / KARIM, WAZIR JAHAN
    Virtually all anthropologists undertaking fieldwork experience emotional difficulties in relating their own personal culture to the field culture. The issue of gender arises because ethnographers do fieldwork by establishing relationships, and this is done as a person of a particular age, sexual orientation, belief, educational background, ethnic identity and class. In particul...

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  • HELPING THE HELPERS NOT TO HARM
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    HELPING THE HELPERS NOT TO HARM
    GERALD CAPLAN / RUTH B. CAPLAN
    The authors of this controversial volume have collected case studies and observational accounts of caregivers for over 15 years. Iatrogenic harm is a serious and widespread problem that many have been reluctant to speak out about for fear of being blacklisted by their colleagues. In writing this book the authors hope to establish guidelines that will help caregivers to recogni...

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  • FOOD, HEALTH AND IDENTITY
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    FOOD, HEALTH AND IDENTITY
    PAT CAPLAN
    By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today this collection considers the ways in which food habits are changing and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health risk influence people's food choices.The articles explore, among other issues:• the family meal• wedding cakes• nostalgia and the invention of tradition• the rise of vegetarianism•...

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  • THE NEEDS ABC THERAPEUTIC MODEL FOR COUPLES AND FAMILIES
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    THE NEEDS ABC THERAPEUTIC MODEL FOR COUPLES AND FAMILIES
    TOM CAPLAN
    The Needs ABC Therapeutic Model for Couples and Families: A Guide for Practitioners shows readers how to successfully tailor a therapeutic approach to meet the needs of couples and families. Beginning clinicians will come away from this book with concrete, practical skills and expanded theoretical base for their practice. They will be able to apply their new knowledge directly ...

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  • THE VALUE OF TALENT
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    THE VALUE OF TALENT
    JANICE CAPLAN
    In today's business environment extraordinary rates of change are driving the evolution of talent management from being a strategy that deals with skills shortages to a more comprehensive one that represents a radically different way of managing people and organizations. In The Value of Talent Janice Caplan proposes a brand new inclusive approach to talent management which reco...

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  • THE PENN CENTER GUIDE TO BIOETHICS
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    THE PENN CENTER GUIDE TO BIOETHICS
    RAVITSKY, VARDIT / FIESTER, AUTUMN / CAPLAN, ARTHUR L.
    Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 byChoice!"[A] set of almost 70 essays, all well informed and many with attitude."Harold Shapiro, PhDProfessor Emeritus and Professor of Economics and Public AffairsPrinceton University, Former Chair, National Bioethics Advisory Board "This most noteworthy and authoritative collection of 67 essays...represents 'the Penn way of doing b...

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  • BRAIN EMBOLISM
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    BRAIN EMBOLISM
    LOUIS R. CAPLAN
    The only source to fully cover every aspect of brain embolism, this guide analyzes the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and management of this disorder-providing a detailed overview of major topics pertinent to embolism including donor sources, recipient sites, embolic material, recipient brain supply arteries, vascular and brain pathology, and the tre ...

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  • AFRICAN VOICES, AFRICAN LIVES
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    AFRICAN VOICES, AFRICAN LIVES
    PAT CAPLAN
    African Voices, African Lives explores the world of 'Mohammed', a swahili peasant living on Mafia Island, Tanzania. Through his own words - some written, some spoken - and those of his relatives, including his ex-wife and one of his daughters, he enables us to see the world through his eyes, including the invisisble world of spirits which plays a significant role in his life. T...

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