Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: fine

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  • PSYCHOLOGY AND THE POETICS OF GROWTH
    HOWARD R. POLLIO / JACK M. BARLOW / HAROLD J. FINE / MARILYN R. POLLIO
    In this volume, originally published in 1977, the authors describe the relevance of figurative language for the psychology of language and present a methodological approach best described as naturalistic in orientation. The first section presents the idea of figurative language in terms of linguistic, aesthetic, and philosophical background. Also included is a description of em...

    $1,339.00

  • NARRATIVE MEDICINE IN VETERINARY PRACTICE
    KAREN R. FINE
    This is the first guide to Veterinary Narrative Medicine, a cutting-edge approach in human medicine with multiple applications in veterinary medicine. The text combines the latest research with numerous real-world examples and practical techniques to improve client communication, patient care, and veterinary well-being. Narrative Medicine maintains that a patient should be view...

    $739.00

  • WOMEN AND WORK IN IRELAND
    MARGRET FINE-DAVIS
    This book chronicles the evolution of women’s participation in the labour force in Ireland over the last five decades. This was largely spearheaded by married women and mothers, leading to many related social issues including childcare, flexible working, the sharing of domestic work and work-life balance. The book presents empirical data on these topics, drawn from the author’s...

    $1,059.00

  • MATERIAL CULTURES OF FINANCIALISATION
    KATE BAYLISS / ‎BEN FINE / ‎MARY ROBERTSON
    This collection offers pathbreaking framing of the material culture of financialisation. It begins with a tight definition of financialisation in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financialisation from its effects and from the looser associations prevalent within much of the literature such as the presence of credit or even simply (more extensive) monetary relations. To lo...

    $1,059.00

  • THE NATURE OF HEALTH
    MICHAEL FINE / JAMES PETERS
    This pioneering work addresses a key issue that confronts all industrialised nations: How do we organise healthcare services in accordance with fundamental human rights, whilst competing with scientific and technological advances, powerful commercial interests and widespread public ignorance? "The Nature of Health" presents a coherent, affordable and logical way to build a heal...

    $1,599.00

  • DIGITAL MEDIA, PROJECTION DESIGN, AND TECHNOLOGY FOR THEATRE
    ALEX OLISZEWSKI / DANIEL FINE / DANIEL ROTH
    Digital Media, Projection Design, and Technology for Theatre covers the foundational skills, best practices, and real-world considerations of integrating digital media and projections into theatre. The authors, professional designers and university professors of digital media in live performance, provide readers with a narrative overview of the professional field, including cur...

    $1,059.00

  • WHEN MARX MATTERED
    DORIS FINE / HAROLD J. BERSHADY
    A beautifully written, trenchant, and moving memoir, When Marx Mattered follows Harold J. Bershady's odyssey from childhood through his coming of intellectual age. The wounds and pleasures of his childhood include fear of Nazis, poverty, the joys and constraints of Jewishness, his caring family and love of music, and the confusion surrounding World War II. In this book, Bershad...

    $739.00

  • THE WORLD OF CONSUMPTION
    BEN FINE
    Consumption has become one of the leading topics across the social sciences and vocational disciplines such as marketing and business studies. In this comprehensively updated and revised new edition, traditional approaches as well as the most recent literature are fully addressed and incorporated, with wide reference to theoretical and empirical work. Fine's refreshing and auth...

    $1,399.00

  • CHANGING POLITICS OF EDUCATION
    MICHAEL FABRICANT / MICHELLE FINE
    The authors persuasively argue that the present cascade of reforms to public education is a consequence of a larger intention to shrink government. The startling result is that more of public education's assets and resources are moving to the private sector and to the prison industrial complex. Drawing on various forms of evidence-structural, economic, narrative, and youth-gene...

    $1,259.00

  • GENDER ROLES IN IRELAND
    MARGRET FINE-DAVIS
    Gender Roles in Ireland: three decades of attitude change documents changing attitudes toward the role of women in Ireland from 1975 to 2005, a key period of social change in this society. The book presents replicated measures from four separate surveys carried out over three decades. These cover a wide range of gender role attitudes as well as key social issues concerning the ...

    $1,099.00

  • THE SECOND HANDBOOK ON PARENT EDUCATION
    MARVIN J. FINE
    This book should enhance the reader's understanding of the contemporary scene in parenting education, including effective programming, important issues, and future trends. ...

    $2,393.00

  • THEORIES OF PROBABILITY
    TERRENCE L. FINE
    Theories of Probability: An Examination of Foundations reviews the theoretical foundations of probability, with emphasis on concepts that are important for the modeling of random phenomena and the design of information processing systems. Topics covered range from axiomatic comparative and quantitative probability to the role of relative frequency in the measurement of probabil...

    $970.00

  • HANDBOOK OF DIVORCE AND RELATIONSHIP DISSOLUTION
    FINE, MARK A. / HARVEY, JOHN H.
    This Handbook presents up-to-date scholarship on the causes and predictors, processes, and consequences of divorce and relationship dissolution. Featuring contributions from multiple disciplines, this Handbook reviews relationship termination, including variations depending on legal status, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation. The Handbook focuses on the often-neglected proc...

    $2,500.00

  • FREUD (RLE: FREUD)
    REUBEN FINE
    In this book, originally published in 1963, Dr Fine sets out to describe what Freud said, and to re-evaluate his views critically in the light of the best knowledge of the time. Freud’s numerous changes of view, his constant searching for the truth wherever it might lead him, as well as his resolute adherence to certain hard-won positions once he had achieved them, are all skil...

    $1,139.00

  • HANDBOOK OF FAMILY THEORIES
    MARK A. FINE
    Organized by content areas rather than by theory, this comprehensive, accessible handbook helps readers gain greater insight into how key theories have impacted today’s family research. Most competing books, organized by theory, do not provide a strong sense of the links between theory and research. Using the 2000 and 2010 decade-in-review issues of the Journal of Marriage and ...

    $2,300.00

  • OFF WHITE
    MICHELLE FINE / LOIS WEIS / LINDA POWELL PRUITT / APRIL BURNS
    With a fascinating new introduction on the proliferation and development of the field of whiteness studies and updated essays throughout, this much-anticipated second ddition continues to redefine our understanding of race and society. Also inlcludes three maps. ...

    $1,399.00

  • CHILDREN OF DIVORCE
    JOHN H. HARVEY / MARK A. FINE
    Featuring excerpts of essays collected from over one thousand young adults while in the throes of divorce, this book paints a picture of the pain and the hope shown by the storytellers. By framing the narratives with an analysis of the most recent divorce literature, the authors provide readers with a greater and more vivid understanding of the effects of divorce. Challenging t...

    $1,099.00

  • FROM POLITICAL ECONOMY TO ECONOMICS
    DIMITRIS MILONAKIS / BEN FINE
    Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in this new major work of critical recollection. The authors show how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional and pluralistic, and unravel the processes that lead to orthodoxy’s current predi...

    $1,559.00

  • SOCIAL CAPITAL VERSUS SOCIAL THEORY
    BEN FINE
    The idea of Social Capital is an attempt to incorporate social considerations into mainstream economic thinking. Its proponents feel that social factors are properly quantifiable. So, they use the compex algebra and statistics beloved of mainstream economic theory and measure 'units' of health care or education in the same way that they would machinery or transport. Ben Fine's ...

    $1,399.00

  • CONSUMPTION IN THE AGE OF AFFLUENCE
    BEN FINE / MICHAEL HEASMAN / JUDITH WRIGHT
    With growing affluence in the developed world, food has become an increasing focus for attention. Here, the authors argue that in order to understand the extensive and dramatic developments in the world of food, a new interdisciplinary approach is necessary. The Age of Affluence successfully addresses food consumption in this way. The volume: * argues the importance of socioeco...

    $1,499.00

  • FUNCTIONAL JOB ANALYSIS
    SIDNEY A. FINE / STEVEN F. CRONSHAW
    This book was written to address the need for timely, thorough, practical, and defensible job analysis for HR managers. Under continuing development over the past 50 years, Functional Job Analysis (FJA) is acknowledged by major texts in HR and industrial/organizational psychology as one of the premier methods of job analysis used by leading-edge organizations in the private and...

    $1,379.00

  • CÓMO ESCRIBIR REALMENTE MAL
    FINE ANNE
    Martín Vicente es un niño que ha llegado nuevo al colegio. La señorita le sienta al lado de Javier Pastor, el niño que peor escribe del mundo. Martín empieza, casi sin darse cuenta, a ayudarle a escribir mejor. Así es como empieza a cambiar la vida de Martín. ¿Conseguirá adaptarse a sus nuevos compañeros? Una historia que refleja con humor y ternura la superación de las dificul...
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    $195.00

  • HANDBOOK ON ANIMAL-ASSISTED THERAPY: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS AND GUIDELINES FOR PRACTICE
    FINE, AUBREY H.
    In the 10 years since the first edition of Handbook on Animal-Assisted Therapy published, the field has changed considerably. The third edition of the Handbook highlights advances in the field, with 10 new chapters and over 50% new material. In reading this book, therapists will discover the benefits of incorporating animal assisted therapy into their practice, how to design an...

    $928.00

  • LABOUR MARKET THEORY
    BEN FINE
    This book is a commanding assessment of labour market theory across the social sciences. It provides a radically original critique of labour market theory, which draws constructively but critically on existing literature. The work: * contributes to the debates on key issues in labour economics such as unemployment, gender, equal pay and the minimum theory * illustrates the poli...

    $1,379.00

  • THERAPIST'S GUIDE TO LEARNING AND ATTENTION DISORDERS
    FINE, AUBREY H. / KOTKIN, RONALD A.
    Practitioners seeking the most current advances in the field of ADHD and LD must often bridge the gap between research and practice. The Therapist's Guide to Learning and Attention Disorders provides that bridge through the authors, who are both researchers and practitioners with extensive experience in providing direct services to children and adults with ADHD and LD. Practiti...

    $1,169.00

  • HANDBOOK OF DIVERSITY IN PARENT EDUCATION: THE CHANGING FACES OF PARENTING AND PARENT EDUCATION
    FINE, MARVIN J. / LEE, STEVEN W.
    Traditionally, books on parent education have focused on techniques from a certain tradition, either behavioral or humanistic, that could be applied to any problem of parenting or child behavior change. These books have used a "cook-book" approach that is frequently oblivious to environmental conditions that influence behavior or take into account the individual differences of ...

    $1,577.00

  • HANDBOOK ON ANIMAL-ASSISTED THERAPY: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS AND GUIDELINES FOR PRACTICE
    FINE, AUBREY H.
    The original edition was the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the ways in which animals can assist therapists with treatment of specific populations, and/or in specific settings. The second edition continues in this vein, with 7 new chapters plus substantial revisions of continuing chapters as the research in this field has grown. New coverage includes: Anim...

    $1,055.00

  • POLITICAL INVESTIGATIONS
    ROBERT FINE
    In this highly innovative book Robert Fine compares three great studies of modern political life: Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Marx's Capital and Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, and argues that they are all profoundly radical texts, which jointly contribute to our understanding of the modern world. Fine maintains that these works are far more reveali...

    $1,799.00

  • FROM ECONOMICS IMPERIALISM TO FREAKONOMICS
    BEN FINE / DIMITRIS MILONAKIS
    Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and intolerant orthodoxy, that has, nonetheless, increasingly directed its attention to appropriating the subject matter of other social...

    $1,399.00

  • BENCHMARK TASKS FOR JOB ANALYSIS
    SIDNEY A. FINE / MAURY GETKATE
    Human resource practitioners are repeatedly faced with the challenge of effectively using language to clearly describe the work performed on a job. Functional Job Analysis--an internationally recognized and respected job analysis method --has been meeting this challenge for more than forty years. In this book, the authors show how human resource practitioners can use structured...

    $1,259.00


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