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Archaeology and Created Memory
Public History in a National Park
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Archaeology can either bolster memory and tradition, or contradict the status quo and provide an alternative view of the past. An archaeology of Harpers Ferry's wartime and Victorian eras confronts time-honored historical interpretations of the past (created and perpetuated by such interest groups...
The Biological Revolution
Applications of Cell Biology to Public Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Basic biological research is not in trouble, but support for this cultural product is perhaps more fragile than it should be. We have developed, in this country, in Europe, and in Japan a triumphant record of research accomplishment that has rev olutionized our vision of the cell, the body, and...
Effective Risk Communication
The Role and Responsibility of Government and Nongovernment Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
One of the greatest challenges facing those concerned with health and environmental risks is how to carry on a useful public dialogue on these subjects. In a democracy, it is the public that ultimately makes the key decisions on how these risks will be controlled. The stakes are too high for us not...
Computers, Jobs, and Skills
The Industrial Relations of Technological Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"Faith. Hope. and Charity and the greatest of these is Charity. " "Hardware. Software. and Lil'ell'are and the greatest of these is . . . " As information technology ceased to be the prerogative of computer scientists and electronics engineers, those of us from other disciplines...
by Steve Baldwin, Philip J. Barker
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Why write another book on ethics? As practitioners we are involved both in the design and delivery of services to people with mental health problems. In common with all other professionals, our work has led to the experience of ethical dilemmas: typically, these have involved major confrontations,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
The vertebrate retina has a form that is closely and clearly linked to its func tion. Though its fundamental cellular architecture is conserved across verte brates, the retinas of individual species show variations that are also of clear and direct functional utility. Its accessibility, readily...
Pioneers in Historical Archaeology
Breaking New Ground
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
In this unique volume, twelve pioneers of historical archaeology offer reminiscences of the early part of their respective careers, circa 1920 to 1940. Each scholar had to overcome numerous biases held by historians and archaeologists-thus each chapter documents a step in the field's march from a...
by Michael J. Nakkula, Karen C. Foster, Marc Mannes
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
It is a great pleasure to offer this volume from Michael J. Nakkula, Karen C. Foster, Marc Mannes, and Shenita Bolstrom as the latest in the Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society. Its importance to the series and this ?eld of inquiry and practice is readily evident...
The Risks of Knowing
Developmental Impediments to School Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
It gives me great pleasure to introduce this important and fascinating book on the internal dilemmas youngsters face in school, which often cause them to stop learning. We are all too ready to ascribe learning problems to an inability to learn and leave it at that. This book should go a long way toward...
Dynamics of Visual Motion Processing
Neuronal, Behavioral, and Computational Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Motion processing is an essential piece of the complex brain machinery that allows us to reconstruct the 3D layout of objects in the environment, to break camouflage, to perform scene segmentation, to estimate the ego movement, and to control our action. Although motion perception and its neural basis...
Depression in Latinos
Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2009
Depression ranks as a leading mental health problem among Hispanic immigrants and their US-born children. And a wide array of issues - starting with the widespread stereotype of the “illegal immigrant” - makes the Latino experience of this condition differ from that of any other group. Depression...
by Kenneth C. Bausch
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In The Emerging Consensus of Social Systems Theory Bausch summarizes the works of over 30 major systemic theorists. He then goes on to show the converging areas of consensus among these out-standing thinkers.
Bausch categorizes the social aspects of current systemic thinking as falling into five broadly...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Chemical pretreatment of nuclear wastes refers to the sequence of separations processes used to partition such wastes into a small volume of high-level waste for deep geologic disposal and a larger volume of low-level waste for disposal in a near-surface facility. Pretreatment of nuclear wastes now...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As the demands put on the polymer/metal interface, particularly by the microelectronics industry, become more and more severe, the necessity for understanding this interface, its properties and its limitations, becomes more and more essential. This requires a broad knowledge of, and a familiarity...