Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: carlson

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  • THE SWEDISH EXPERIMENT IN FAMILY POLITICS
    ALLAN C. CARLSON
    This devastating account of the work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal is a monumental case study in the uses and abuses of social science. It portrays how these two young scholars used the power of ideas to help engineer a new domestic order in Sweden. The book focuses on the Myrdals' unique fusion of socialism and feminism with nationalism and pro-nationalism in their joint 1934 book...

    $1,240.00

  • SO YOU WANT TO DO NARRATIVE THERAPY?
    SANNI PALJAKKA / TOM STONE CARLSON
    So You Want to Do Narrative Therapy? is an engaging and accessible introduction to contemporary narrative therapy practice. Each of the ten chapters is written in the series of letters personally addressed to a real student who is learning how to do narrative therapy at a narrative therapy agency. Each letter highlights the most useful discoveries during the authors’ years of p...

    $1,120.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND FUTURES
    CARLSON, BRONWYN
    Providing an international reference work written solely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors, this book offers a powerful overview of emergent and topical research in the field of global Indigenous studies. It addresses current concerns of Australian Indigenous peoples of today, and explores opportunities to develop, and support the development of, Indigenous resil...

    $1,360.00

  • GLOBAL RESEARCH ETHICS
    CAREN J. FROST / LISA H. GREN / L. SCOTT BENSON / MARGARET CARLSON
    Global Research Ethics is a guide for students and their instructors as well as practitioners and researchers to understand topics linked to research ethics from a more global perspective. Research plays a key role in identifying health disparity trends and evaluating interventions to improve the health and well-being of the populations at the individual, local, national, and g...

    $1,340.00

  • WRITING AND THE ARTICULATION OF POSTQUALITATIVE RESEARCH
    DAVID LEE CARLSON
    Writing and the Articulation of Postqualitative Research is a collection of experimental essays on the implications of articulating or performing qualitative research from postqualitative philosophies. Although writing has been an integral part of qualitative research, for better or worse, throughout the history of the field, the recent emergence of postqualitative inquiry nece...

    $1,200.00

  • GEORGE C. WALLACE AND THE POLITICS OF POWERLESSNESS
    JODY CARLSON
    This is the only complete study of the Wallace phenomenon. It covers all of the presidential campaigns and views wallace from a variety of vantage ints: historical context, content anal-ysis of speeches, and analysis of elec-tion data, including voting statistics and attitudinal patterns of supporters. Poli-tics of Powerlessness examines na-tionwide support for George C. Wal-la...

    $1,380.00

  • TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN APARADIGMATIC CONTEXTS
    TINE DESTROOPER, LINE ENGBO GISSEL, AND KERSTIN BREE CARLSON
    This book explores the practical and theoretical opportunities as well as the challenges raised by the expansion of transitional justice into new and ‘aparadigmatic’ cases. The book defines transitional justice as the pursuit of accountability, recognition and/or disruption and applies an actor-centric analysis focusing on justice actors’ intentions of and responses to transiti...

    $1,100.00

  • THE AMERICANIZATION SYNDROME
    ROBERT A. CARLSON
    The Americanization Syndrome (1987) examines the historical role of education in the process of ‘Americanization’. It argues that beginning with seventeenth century puritan leaders such as John Winthrop and Cotton Maher, the pattern of American education has been not the promotion of a blend of different cultures but the indoctrination of norms of belief of religion, politics a...

    $860.00

  • HUMAN HEALTH AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS
    GAIL CARLSON
    Human Health and the Climate Crisis offers a detailed exploration of the human health aspects of climate change, examining both the direct and indirect human health impacts of climate change while uniquely exploring climate justice -- the equitable protection of all people from climate impacts and the participation of all people in climate-related decision-making regardless of ...

    $381.00

  • FEARING GOD
    NATHAN CARLSON
    Discover the power of one of God's greatest blessings in this enlightening and empowering read. Don't be afraid of God, fear him. The fear of the Lord is a wonderful gift from God for through it Christians find godly wisdom and so much more. It also keeps them from sin and all of sin's devastation, provides contentment and rest, protection and security, and through it God's ble...

    $179.00

  • DEFINING THE BOUNDARIES OF DISABILITY
    LICIA CARLSON
    This ground-breaking volume considers what it means to make claims of disability membership in view of the robust Disability Rights movement, the rich areas of academic inquiry into disability, increased philosophical attention to the nature and significance of disability, a vibrant disability culture and disability arts movement, and advances in biomedical science and technolo...

    $1,160.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO ITEM RESPONSE THEORY MODELS AND APPLICATIONS
    JAMES CARLSON
    This is a highly accessible, comprehensive introduction to item response theory (IRT) models and their use in various aspects of assessment/testing. The book employs a mixture of graphics and simulated data sets to ease the reader into the material and covers the basics required to obtain a solid grounding in IRT. Written in an easily accessible way that assumes little mathemat...

    $1,800.00

  • MEASURABLE JOURNALISM
    MATT CARLSON
    This book explores ways in which the increasingly ‘measurable’ news audience has had an impact on journalistic practices, in an era when digital platforms provide real-time, individualizable, quantitative data about audience consumption practices. Considering the combination of digital technology that makes measurable journalism possible, the contributors to this volume examine...

    $1,160.00

  • LINKED DATA FOR THE PERPLEXED LIBRARIAN
    SCOTT CARLSON / CORY LAMPERT / DARNELLE MELVIN / ANNE WASHINGTON
    Linked data has become a punchline in certain circles of the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) community, derided as a much-hyped project that will ultimately never come to fruition. But the fact is, linked data is already happening now, evident in projects from Big Tech and the Wikimedia Foundation as well as the web pages of library service platforms. The goa...

    $838.94

  • EMBRIOLOGÍA HUMANA Y BIOLOGÍA DEL DESARROLLO
    BRUCE M. CARLSON
    Nueva edición del texto de embriología humana que ofrece una visión clara y exhaustiva de cómo se produce el desarrollo humano en condiciones de normalidad, así como una detallada explicación de las principales anomalías congénitas. Uno de los puntos fuertes de la nueva edición es la iconografía; se incorporan tanto nuevos dibujos esquemáticos como fotografías clínicas de alta...

    $1,357.00

  • INDONESIA'S OIL
    SEVINC CARLSON
    Ranked twelfth in world oil production, Indonesia is already an important supplier of oil to Japan, and may become an increasingly important supplier to the United States. Sevinc Carlson presents here the first up-to-date and comprehensive study of the politics and economics of Indonesia's oil, and emphasizes the importance of oil to the country's ...

    $1,200.00

  • ENERGY FUTURES, HUMAN VALUES, AND LIFESTYLES
    RICHARD C CARLSON
    The contours of our energy future are most clearly presented as hard and painful choices. We can, for instance, maintain-perhaps even greatly improve-our current living standards, but at tremendous cost to our environment and to our physical and human resources. Alternatively, we can opt for a more humane society and in many ways a richer life with ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE DISORDERED COUPLE
    JON CARLSON / LEN SPERRY
    The Disordered Couple, Second Edition, focuses on couples with psychiatric disorders and/or relational disorders that significantly impact their relationship, mental health, and well-being. It is the first and only book to provide mental health professionals and trainees with cutting-edge, culturally sensitive, and evidence-based clinical strategies for working effectively with...

    $1,280.00

  • POWER/KNOWLEDGE/PEDAGOGY
    DENNIS CARLSON
    The essays in this volume explore the educational implications of unsettling shifts in contemporary culture associated with postmodernism. These shifts include the fragmentation of established power blocs, the emergence of a politics of identity, growing inequalities between the haves and the have-nots in a new global economy, and the rise in influence of popular culture in def...

    $1,540.00

  • FRACTURED GENERATIONS
    ALLAN C. CARLSON
    Fifty years ago, the phrase "family policy" was rarely heard in America. Individual states maintained laws governing marriage, divorce, education, inheritance, and child protection, which regulated the formation, childrearing practices, and dissolution of families. However, these scattered policy issues were not seen as closely related. Until the 1960s, the nuclear family was a...

    $1,560.00

  • TEACHERS AND CRISIS
    DENNIS CARLSON
    Advocates of the ‘back-to-basics’ movement argue that a basic skills programme ensures that students are educated to a minimum level of literacy required to enter the labour force. Critics charge that these efforts only increase school bureaucracy and undermine teachers’ autonomy in the classroom. First published in 1992, this book moves beyond the rhetoric surrounding the basi...

    $960.00

  • A CONCRETE INTRODUCTION TO REAL ANALYSIS
    ROBERT CARLSON
    A Concrete Introduction to Analysis, Second Edition offers a major reorganization of the previous edition with the goal of making it a much more comprehensive and accessible for students. The standard, austere approach to teaching modern mathematics with its emphasis on formal proofs can be challenging and discouraging for many students. To remedy this situation, the new editio...

    $1,340.00

  • PERFORMANCE: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION
    MARVIN CARLSON
    Since its original publication in 1996, Marvin Carlson's Performance: A Critical Introduction has remained the definitive guide to understanding performance as a theatrical activity. It is an unparalleled exploration of the myriad ways in which performance has been interpreted, its importance to disciplines from anthropology to linguistics, and how it underpins essential concep...

    $1,100.00

  • CONJUGAL AMERICA
    ALLAN C. CARLSON
    The institution of marriage has become perilously weak in America. Changes in the law over the past three decades, such as the spread of no-fault divorce and broad acquiescence to cultures of divorce and intentional childlessness, have stripped traditional marriage of important legal supports. Half of all marriages end in divorce and just as many are childless. Conjugal America...

    $1,320.00

  • MISTAKE PROOFING FOR LEAN HEALTHCARE
    SAMUEL CARLSON
    The principles of mistake proofing, long used to eliminate errors and defects across a range of industries, are now being applied in healthcare organizations around the world to help ensure patient safety, improve services, and eliminate waste.Mistake Proofing for Lean Healthcare is based on the definitive mistake-proofing philosophy and system developed by Shigeo Shingo. This ...

    $820.00

  • THE NATURAL FAMILY WHERE IT BELONGS
    ALLAN C. CARLSON
    The Natural Family Where It Belongs emphasizes the vital bond of the natural family to an agrarian-like household, where the "sexual" merges with the "economic" through marriage and child-rearing and where the family is defined by its material efforts. This agrarianism is alive and well in twenty-first century America and Europe. Allan C. Carlson argues that recreating a family...

    $1,340.00

  • THE NEW AGRARIAN MIND
    ALLAN C. CARLSON
    The self-sufficiency and regional outlook of farm life characterized the United States until the Civil War period. With the triumph of the industrial North over the rural South, the expansion of urbanism, and the closing of the frontier, the agrarian sector became an economic and cultural minority. The social benefits of rural life - a sense of independence, commitment to democ...

    $1,320.00

  • GODLY SEED
    ALLAN C. CARLSON
    Interview with Allan Carlson In an ironic twist, American evangelical leaders are joining mainstream acceptance of contraception. Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973, examines how mid-twentieth-century evangelical leaders eventually followed the mainstream into a quiet embrace of contraception, complemented by a brief acceptance of abortion. It p...

    $1,460.00

  • FAMILY CYCLES
    ALLAN C. CARLSON
    In this paradigm-shifting volume, Allan C. Carlson identifies and examines four distinct cycles of strength or weakness of American family systems. This distinctly American family model includes early and nearly universal marriage, high fertility, close attention to parental responsibilities, complementary gender roles, meaningful intergenerational bonds, and relative stability...

    $1,340.00

  • THE NATURAL FAMILY
    ALLAN C. CARLSON
    Sixty years ago, the UN declared the family to be the "natural and fundamental" unit of society. Today, many people are unsure as to what the word "family" even means. In response to this confusion, The Natural Family: Bulwark of Liberty defines the family based on universal human experience. Insisting, without apology, on the reality of the "natural family," the manifesto issu...

    $1,320.00


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