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The Self in Context

Pathways to Flourishing, Learning, and Well-Being

Edited by Ronnel B. King, Herbert W. Marsh, Rhonda G. Craven, Theresa Dicke, Frédéric Guay ...

Series series International Advances in Self Research
The Self in Context: Pathways to Flourishing, Learning, and Well-Being explores the dynamic and multifaceted nature of self-related processes—such as self-concept, self-esteem, self-efficacy, self-control, self-identity, self-regulation, and self-determination—and their exponential growth in research over recent decades. These constructs have found fertile ground in the fields of positive ... Read more

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The Self in Context: Pathways to Flourishing, Learning, and Well-Being explores the dynamic and multifaceted nature of self-related processes—such as self-concept, self-esteem, self-efficacy, self-control, self-identity, self-regulation, and self-determination—and their exponential growth in research over recent decades. These constructs have found fertile ground in the fields of positive
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Exploring Earth's Secrets: 71 Geology Books

Classic Writings on Deep Time, Fossils, Volcanoes, Glaciers, and Earth Science

by William Harmon Norton, Henry Alleyne Nicholson, William J. Miller, Roy Lee Moodie, Israel C. Russell, Julia Ellen Rogers, Sir John William Dawson, Charles Sir Lyell, Edward Hull, William Herbert Hobbs, G. F. Rodwell, Louis Figuier, G. Hartwig, Thomas McKenny Hughes, Joan Echols, Georges baron Cuvier, Frederic Brewster Loomis, Frederick Chapman, George Frederick Herbert Smith, Archibald Geikie, Edwin Sharpe Grew, Robert W. Wilson, H. E. Balch, Ernest A. Baker, Stanley William Lohman, Roselle M. Girard, William H. Storms, Harold W. Fairbanks, John Chronic, Halka Chronic, Howard A. Meyerhoff, George W. Bain, John C. Reed, J. D. Love, Lucius J. Boyd, W. Keith Leask, John George Francis, Harvey C. Markman, United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications, William Henry Matthews, Elbert A. King, A. S. Walker, Gideon Algernon Mantell, W. H. Collins, Steven R. Brantley, Robert I. Tilling, J. E. Lamar, Romayne Skartvedt, Charles William Collinson, Richard Owen, James L. Dyson, Frank Hall Knowlton, John Collins Warren, Kaye M. Shedlock, L. C. Pakiser, Harry W. Dodge, Illinois State Geological Survey, Thomas P. Thayer, Robert O. Vernon, Robert A. Christman, Dama Margaret Smith, Thomas Wiltshire, L. Fletcher, Erik Norman Kjellesvig-Waering, Gerald Molloy, Michael Casilliano, Paul O. McGrew, Wallace Walter Atwood, Rollin D. Salisbury, John Tyndall, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz, A. P. Coleman ...

Exploring Earth's Secrets: 71 Geology Books gathers a capacious cross-section of writing through which Earth has been made legible: field guides, popular scientific accounts, textbooks, surveys, and narratives of discovery. Its scope reaches from minerals, strata, fossils, and glaciers to volcanoes, caves, mountains, and the deep time recorded in landscapes. Foundational discussions of geological ... Read more

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Exploring Earth's Secrets: 71 Geology Books gathers a capacious cross-section of writing through which Earth has been made legible: field guides, popular scientific accounts, textbooks, surveys, and narratives of discovery. Its scope reaches from minerals, strata, fossils, and glaciers to volcanoes, caves, mountains, and the deep time recorded in landscapes. Foundational discussions of geological
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Ethics at War

How Should Military Personnel Make Ethical Decisions?

by Deane-Peter Baker, Rufus Black, Roger Herbert, Iain King ...

Series series War, Conflict and Ethics
This book debates competing approaches to ethical decision-making for members of the armed forces of liberal democratic states.In this volume, four prominent thinkers propose and debate competing approaches to ethical decision-making for military personnel. Deane-Peter Baker presents and expounds the ‘Ethical Triangulation’ model, an ethical decision-making method he has employed through much of ... Read more

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This book debates competing approaches to ethical decision-making for members of the armed forces of liberal democratic states.In this volume, four prominent thinkers propose and debate competing approaches to ethical decision-making for military personnel. Deane-Peter Baker presents and expounds the ‘Ethical Triangulation’ model, an ethical decision-making method he has employed through much of
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Out of the Revolution

The Development of Africana Studies

by Delores P. Aldridge, Carlene Young, Russell Adams, Makungu M. Akinyela, Amiri Yasin Al-Hadid, Felix Boateng, James H. Bracy, Alan Colón, James Cone0, John A. Davis1, Howard Dodson2, Herbert Eichelberger3, Stanley Crockett Expinoza4, Milfred Fierce5, Madison Foster6, Carolyn Fowler7, Vivian V. Gordon8, Jacquelyn Grant9, Laverne Gyant0, Perry Hall1, Melvin K. Hendrix2, Waddell M. Herron3, Clenora Hudson-Weems4, William M. King5, Richard Long6, Portia Maultsby7, William E. Nelson Jr.8, Hugh Scott9, J Owens Smith0, James B. Stewart1, James Turner2, James P. Upton3 ...

The introduction of "Black" studies programs into institutions of higher education was a direct response to the mandate for change at all levels that characterized the civil rights movement and the social rebellions of the 1950s and 1960s. In Out of the Revolution, Delores P. Aldridge and Carlene Young collect thirty-one of the nation's top scholars to provide a complete reference for ... Read more

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The introduction of "Black" studies programs into institutions of higher education was a direct response to the mandate for change at all levels that characterized the civil rights movement and the social rebellions of the 1950s and 1960s. In Out of the Revolution, Delores P. Aldridge and Carlene Young collect thirty-one of the nation's top scholars to provide a complete reference for
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America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics

Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy

by Grace Lee Boggs, Benjamin DeMott, Erica Frankenberg, Andrew Grant-Thomas, Lani Guinier, Maria Hinojosa, Gary Howard, Colbert I. King, Marc Mauer, Trinh Minh-Ha, Michael Omi, John Telford, Lisa Thurau, Johanna Wald, James J. Zogby, Nell Irvin Painter, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Houston Baker, Bob Herbert, Arthur Levine, Manning Marable, Alvin F. Poussaint, Cornel West, john a. powell ...

Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after ... Read more

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Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after
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Inertia and Gravitation

The Fundamental Nature and Structure of Space-Time

by Herbert Pfister, Markus King ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book focuses on the phenomena of inertia and gravitation, one objective being to shed some new light on the basic laws of gravitational interaction and the fundamental nature and structures of spacetime. Chapter 1 is devoted to an extensive, partly new analysis of the law of inertia. The underlying mathematical and geometrical structure of Newtonian spacetime is presented from a four ... Read more

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This book focuses on the phenomena of inertia and gravitation, one objective being to shed some new light on the basic laws of gravitational interaction and the fundamental nature and structures of spacetime. Chapter 1 is devoted to an extensive, partly new analysis of the law of inertia. The underlying mathematical and geometrical structure of Newtonian spacetime is presented from a four
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Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Delphi Classics)

by Charles Darwin, Delphi Classics ...

Series Book 10 - Delphi Series Five
One of the most influential scientists of world history, the naturalist Charles Darwin gained widespread fame and notoriety with the 1859 publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’. At first shocking his Victorian readers by suggesting that animals and humans shared a common ancestry, Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies. For the ... Read more

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One of the most influential scientists of world history, the naturalist Charles Darwin gained widespread fame and notoriety with the 1859 publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’. At first shocking his Victorian readers by suggesting that animals and humans shared a common ancestry, Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies. For the
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When the State Meets the Street

Public Service and Moral Agency

by Bernardo Zacka ...

When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives. Combining insights ... Read more

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When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives. Combining insights
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The Collected Works of Charles Darwin

PergamonMedia

by Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Darwin ...

This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • On the origin of species • Studies in the Theory of Descent • The Autobiography of • The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex • The Voyage of the Beagle • On the Origin of Species by Means of ... Read more

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This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • On the origin of species • Studies in the Theory of Descent • The Autobiography of • The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex • The Voyage of the Beagle • On the Origin of Species by Means of
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Critical Perspectives On Educational Leadership

Edited by John Smyth ...

This book is an edited collection of original papers which challenge in a very direct manner the dominant behviourist and functionalist views that have come to entrap those who live, work and conduct research in the areas of educational leadership, and focusing instead on the structures and processes within schools as organisations that frustrate, distort and ultimately stifle educative ... Read more

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This book is an edited collection of original papers which challenge in a very direct manner the dominant behviourist and functionalist views that have come to entrap those who live, work and conduct research in the areas of educational leadership, and focusing instead on the structures and processes within schools as organisations that frustrate, distort and ultimately stifle educative
... Read more
The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle

by Charles Darwin ...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH PADELWhen the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural selection. This theory, published as The Origin of Species in 1859, is the basis of ... Read more

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH PADELWhen the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural selection. This theory, published as The Origin of Species in 1859, is the basis of
... Read more
What’s Happened To The University?

A sociological exploration of its infantilisation

by Frank Furedi ...

The radical transformation that universities are undergoing today is no less far-reaching than the upheavals that it experienced in the 1960s. However today, when almost 50 per cent of young people participate in higher education, what occurs in universities matters directly to the whole of society.On both sides of the Atlantic curious and disturbing events on campuses has become a matter of ... Read more

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The radical transformation that universities are undergoing today is no less far-reaching than the upheavals that it experienced in the 1960s. However today, when almost 50 per cent of young people participate in higher education, what occurs in universities matters directly to the whole of society.On both sides of the Atlantic curious and disturbing events on campuses has become a matter of
... Read more

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