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  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIOLOGY IN THE SOVIET UNION
    ELIZABETH ANN WEINBERG
    The Development of Sociology in the Soviet Union (1974) examines the institutionalisation of sociology in the Soviet Union. Of primary concern are the obstacles to and mechanisms for the acceptance of sociological inquiry. The study shows how sociology was advanced as a legitimate discipline in the Soviet Union in the post-Stalin years. The social characteristics of Soviet soci...

    $860.00

  • THE VIRTUAL GROUP THERAPY CIRCLE
    HAIM WEINBERG
    This book provides group therapists and counselors with the necessary knowledge and help to develop their skills in effectively conducting online groups. Group therapy represents the most efficient utilization of the scarce resource of mental health interventions. Online settings dramatically increase the dissemination of this approach. This book identifies the diverse challeng...

    $800.00

  • PRESERVATION IN AMERICAN TOWNS AND CITIES
    NATHAN GERALD WEINBERG
    This book provides a glimpse of what has happened in the preservation movement in 130 years, from the lawns of Mount Vernon to the row houses of Mount Auburn. It discusses the need to continue refining standards, identifying weaknesses, and extolling excellence in the marketplace of preservation. ...

    $1,160.00

  • SOURCE-TO-SEA MANAGEMENT
    JOSH WEINBERG
    This book is the first of its kind on the emerging topic of source-to-sea management. It showcases different applications of the concept to improve the environmental health of freshwater, land and coastal and marine systems, drawing upon research performed across Europe, Africa and Asia. Improved management of land, freshwater, coasts and oceans is a key environmental challenge...

    $1,120.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF DEMOCRACY AND SECURITY
    LEONARD WEINBERG / ELIZABETH FRANCIS / ELIOT ASSOUDEH
    This handbook explores how democracies around the world seek to balance democratic values with the requirement to protect their citizens from the threat of politically motivated violence. Over the past few decades, the majority of the world’s democracies have had to confront serious security threats, and in many instances these challenges have not come from rival states but fro...

    $1,260.00

  • EMERGING CONTAMINANTS
    KATHLEEN SELLERS / DENICE K. NELSON / NADINE WEINBERG
    Emerging Contaminants: Anticipating Developments examines the factors that have led "new" environmental contaminants to emerge in the past and combines the lessons learned to anticipate potential new developments. The analyses described in this book originate in multiple disciplines: the science of toxicology; environmental law and regulation; the field of product stewardship; ...

    $3,300.00

  • THE RISE AND FALL OF ITALIAN TERRORISM
    LEONARD WEINBERG / WILLIAM L EUBANK
    Italian democracy may not be as fragile as many of its observers feared or imagined. It has lasted more than twice as long as the Fascist dictatorship that preceded it. Since the end of the Second World War, Italy's citizens and their political leaders have had to overcome massive problems of both state and society that their counterparts in more tranquil parts of Europe have n...

    $1,200.00

  • THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ONLINE THERAPY
    HAIM WEINBERG / ARNON ROLNICK
    This innovative new resource outlines the process of conducting individual, family and group therapy online with the use of video conferencing tools, and explores the unique concerns associated with this increasingly popular and convenient approach to treatment. Offering mental health practitioners a definitive presentation on how to use online tools to facilitate psychological...

    $960.00

  • RURAL COMMUNITIES STUDY GUIDE
    JAN L. FLORA / CORNELIA FLORA / ELIZABETH HOUDEK / MARK WEINBERG
    This book examines the process of rural community development and transition—exploring the ways in which history, culture, and policies limit change as well as the extent to which local community resources can mobilize to support efforts for community change. ...

    $1,060.00

  • COMPUTERS IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
    NATHAN WEINBERG
    This book examines the unfolding cultural and organizational impact of computers on human society. Through this analysis, it discusses the role of information technology in people's lives, interdependence between the society and its computer creations, and expectations in the information society. ...

    $1,200.00

  • FASCISM, POPULISM AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
    LEONARD WEINBERG
    Hard right-wing politics is growing in popularity in America, marked by Donald Trump’s success in the 2016 election, and it is worth questioning what this means for the American democratic system. This book seeks to explain the vulnerability of democracies to the appeal of right-wing politics through a contemporary case study of the US, and how democracies are possibly under th...

    $1,160.00

  • LIR. NEUROCIENCIA
    CLAUDIA KREBS / JOANNE WEINBERG / ELIZABETH AKESSON / ESMA DILLI
    LIR. Neurociencia presenta en el clásico y funcional estilo de la serie LIR, una cobertura amplia y esencial de la neurociencia en un marco integrado, conjugando la neuroanatomía con la neurofisiología en un contexto clínico. Ofrece todas las características de la exitosa serie Lippincott Illustrated Reviews: cientos de ilustraciones a todo color, resúmenes de capítulos y pregu...

    $1,064.00

  • THE PARADOX OF INTERNET GROUPS
    HAIM WEINBERG
    The New International Library of Group Analysis Drawing on the seminal ideas of British, European, and American group analysts, psychoanalysts, social psychologists, and social scientists, the books in this series focus on the study of small and large groups, organisations, and other social systems, and on the study of the transpersonal and transgenerational sociality of human ...

    $960.00

  • THE TRANSFORMATION OF ITALIAN COMMUNISM
    LEONARD WEINBERG
    The end of the cold war and the fall of the Soviet empire have had major consequences for Italian politics. Leonard Weinberg explores some of those consequences, focusing on the transformation of the Italian Communist party from a Leninist to a democratic party. He also discusses the relationship between the end of communism and the unfolding of the entire Italian system.The Tr...

    $1,320.00

  • FAIRY TALES AND THE SOCIAL UNCONSCIOUS
    RAVIT RAUFMAN / HAIM WEINBERG
    The book combines two main perspectives: the study of the social unconscious and the study of fairy tales. Examining different versions of fairy tales told by different ethnic communities teaches us about the relations between universal and local/cultural aspects of the social unconscious. Exploring the unique status of fairy tales as located on the border line between concrete...

    $780.00

  • SOCIOLOGY IN THE SOVIET UNION AND BEYOND
    ELIZABETH A. WEINBERG
    This fascinating and comprehensive volume traces the development, scope and character of sociological research in Russia and subsequently the Soviet Union from the turn of the 20th century to the 1990s. Opening with the lively social debates of pre-Revolution Russia, Elizabeth Weinberg discusses the intellectual factions of the post-Revolutionary period and the eventual replace...

    $640.00

  • RADAR DETECTION THEORY OF SLIDING WINDOW PROCESSES
    GRAHAM WEINBERG
    Constant false alarm rate detection processes are important in radar signal processing. Such detection strategies are used as an alternative to optimal Neyman-Pearson based decision rules, since they can be implemented as a sliding window process running on a radar range-Doppler map. This book examines the development of such detectors in a modern framework. With a particular f...

    $1,360.00

  • PARADOXES IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
    MERLINDA WEINBERG
    In the helping professions, codes of ethics and decision-making models have been the primary vehicles for determining what constitutes ethical practice. These strategies are insufficient since they assume that shared meanings exist and that the contradictory universal principles of codes can be reconciled. Also, these tools do not emphasize the significance of context for ethic...

    $1,280.00

  • THE NEGLECTED SHELLEY
    ALAN M. WEINBERG / TIMOTHY WEBB
    New editions and facsimiles of Percy Bysshe Shelley's works are changing the landscape of Shelley studies by making complete compositions and fragments that have received only limited critical attention readily available to scholars. Building on the work begun in Weinberg and Webb's 2009 volume, The Unfamiliar Shelley, The Neglected Shelley sheds light on the breadth and depth ...

    $1,240.00

  • DEVIANCE
    EARL RUBINGTON / MARTIN WEINBERG
    This highly successful reader presents the interactionist approach to the study of deviance, examining deviance as a phenomenon that is constituted through social interpretations and the reactions of persons caught up in this social process. This book focuses on issues such as how individuals interpret and label people, how people relate to one another based on these interpreta...

    $3,300.00

  • ASIA AND THE FUTURE OF FOOTBALL
    BEN WEINBERG
    Football is the most popular sport in the world. Globalisation and commercialisation of the game, however, have created new conflicts and challenges. This book explores the role of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) within the rising significance of football in Asia, drawing on three key theoretical perspectives: globalisation, neo-institutionalism and governance, as well a...

    $1,420.00

  • TO EXPLAIN THE WORLD
    STEVEN WEINBERG
    The Nobel Prize–winner shares "a masterful journey through humankind's scientific coming-of-age" from the Greeks to modern times (Brian Greene). In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries of human striving to unravel the mysteries of the world. This sweeping saga ranges from ancient Miletus to mediev...

    $249.00

  • THE SYSTEMATIC MISTREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM
    LOIS WEINBERG
    The Systematic Mistreatment of Children in the Foster Care System tells the stories of 10 children in the foster care system from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds and the efforts by advocates to find them permanent places to live, appropriate schooling, and other essentials they need to survive. The children’s case studies highlight the difficulties in placing and mainta...

    $2,000.00

  • THE ECONOMICS OF HOUSING VOUCHERS
    JOSEPH H. FRIEDMAN / DANIEL H. WEINBERG
    The Economics of Housing Vouchers is a seven-chapter text that examines the housing choices of low-income families in two metropolitan areas, namely, Phoenix and Pittsburgh. Some of these households are offered a novel kind of housing subsidy, including a housing allowance or housing voucher, in an experimental framework designed to test this approach to demand-side housing ass...

    $970.00

  • CHILD PSYCHOLOGY IN RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT
    WILLARD W. HARTUP / RICHARD A. WEINBERG
    This 32nd volume of the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology celebrates the 75th anniversary of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development. All eight essays are devoted to developmental science, its history, and current status. Taken together, the chapters in this book show how the history of science connects past and future, how it gives the individual inv...

    $1,560.00

  • AN EXAMINATION OF LOGICAL POSITIVISM
    JULIUS RUDOLPH WEINBERG
    First published in 2000. This is Volume II of six in the Library of Philosophy series on the Philosophy of Science. Written in 1938, philosophical systems which employ logical methods almost exclusively would undoubtedly be expected to produce non-empirical results. If, however, logic is taken simply as a method of connecting meanings it is not difficult to reconcile logical me...

    $1,320.00

  • THE DEMOCRATIC EXPERIENCE AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE
    RAPOPORT, DAVID C. / WEINBERG, LEONARD
    An incisive analysis of the connections between democracy and violence by acknowledged experts in the field. The connection between the two activities has often been largely ignored because of a widespread reluctance among democrats to consider the possibility that democratic forms perhaps encourage violence. This challenging volume opens up the debate. ...

    $1,420.00

  • THE END OF TERRORISM?
    LEONARD WEINBERG
    This book considers not the beginning or origins of terrorism but how groups that use terrorism end. Terrorism as a tactic is unlikely to disappear, however virtually all the groups that employed terrorist violence during the 1960s and 1970s have passed from the scene in one way or another. Likewise most of the individuals who embarked on ‘careers’ in terrorism over these same ...

    $1,260.00

  • DEMOCRACY AND TERRORISM
    LEONARD WEINBERG
    This book examines the relationships between democratic government and political terrorism. Since the 9/11 attacks, the United States and many of its allies have declared a ‘war on terrorism’. This struggle has been inspired in part by the belief is that by promoting democracy they will also bring an end to terrorism. Where people enjoy the blessings of liberty, they will natur...

    $1,160.00

  • ASIAN-AMERICAN EDUCATION
    MEYER WEINBERG
    Asian-American Education: Historical Background and Current Realities fills a gap in the study of the social and historical experiences of Asians in U.S. schools. It is the first historical work to provide American readers with information about highly individual ethnic groups rather than viewing distinctly different groups as one vague, global entity such as "Asians." The peop...

    $1,280.00


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