Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: robert osgood

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  • CHALLENGING THE SINGULARITY OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
    ROBERT L. OSGOOD
    This thought-provoking textbook explores how special education became distinct from general education over time, through changes in teacher education, research funding, teacher licensure, school organization, and student stratification. Each chapter offers key ideas and discussion questions that invite readers to examine the construct of disability and how it came to merit an e...

    $1,240.00

  • SDI AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
    ROBERT W. TUCKER / GEORGE LISKA / ROBERT E. OSGOOD / DAVID P CALLEO
    Showing how the development of space technology could affect the present system of deterrence, the authors consider the consequences for U.S. foreign policy, alliance relations, and strategic stability. In the first essay, Dr. Tucker argues that a greater commitment to defensive systems would not substantially affect deterrence or extended deterren ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE NUCLEAR DILEMMA IN AMERICAN STRATEGIC THOUGHT
    ROBERT E. OSGOOD
    Since the end of World War II, the United States has faced moral and strategic issues in its management of force that are unique in the history of international politics. At the heart of these issues is the heavy reliance of the United States and its allies on the deterrent effect of nuclear weapons and the fact that their use would very likely lea ...

    $1,200.00

  • LIMITED WAR REVISITED
    ROBERT E. OSGOOD
    The strategy of limited war has transformed the American approach to the use of force and played a key role in U.S. foreign policy since World War II. As the mainstay of containment it was designed to deter and fight wars effectively at a tolerable cost and risk in the nuclear age by providing the United States with a flexible and controlled response to a variety of military th...

    $1,200.00

  • FOR “CHILDREN WHO VARY FROM THE NORMAL TYPE”
    ROBERT OSGOOD
    In his perceptive study of the education of disabled children during the 19th and early 20th centuries, Robert Osgood focuses upon the Boston school system as both typical and a national leader among urban centers at that time. Osgood points out that a host of significant figures worked in education in the region, including Horace Mann, George Emerson, and John Philbrick, and a...

    $716.60

  • THE HISTORY OF INCLUSION IN THE UNITED STATES
    ROBERT L. OSGOOD
    As a significant term, inclusion came into use relatively recently in the long history of special education in the United States. Since the 1800s, when children with disabilities first were segregated for instruction in public schools, professionals and parents have called for more equitable, “normal” treatment of these students, and for closer contact with their nondisabled pe...

    $1,048.68