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  • Chronological Arrogance: Historical Blindness of the Presentism Bias

    Ego, Retrospection, and the Flawed Moral Judgments in Modern Sociological Paradigms

    by Laura Olson ...
    It is incredibly satisfying to judge the historical figures of the 18th century by the highly evolved moral standards of the 21st century. It is also intellectually dishonest and sociologically dangerous. Presentism is the cognitive bias of projecting contemporary cultural values onto the past, effectively judging historical actors by rules they had no concept of. This chronological arrogance ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Handbook of Long-Term Care Administration and Policy

    Edited by Cynthia Massie Mara, Laura Olson ...
    Series series Public Administration and Public Policy
    Attitudes toward long-term care contain a strong residue of negativity in today‘s society and current problems with the system augment such perceptions. Unless dealt with now, this will only get worse, as the 85-and-older crowd is the fastest growing part of the population, and the first wave of Baby Boomers is approaching 60. Exploring and delinea ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Religion, Politics, and American Identity

    New Directions, New Controversies

    by Louis Bolce, Joe Bowersox, Cynthia Burack, John Francis Burke, Mark Button, Gerald De Maio, Elson J. Eisenach, Larycia Hawkins, Jyl J. Josephson, Jennifer Miller, Sam Nelson, Laura Olson, Melissa M. Wilcox ...
    Scholarship on the role of religion in American public life has taken on a new urgency in the increasingly contentious wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001. This volume brings together an impressive group of scholars to build on past work and broaden the scope of this crucial inquiry in two respects: by exploring aspects of the religion-politics nexus in the United States that have been ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Performing Russia

    Folk Revival and Russian Identity

    by Laura Olson ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia, exploring why this folk culture has come to represent Russia, how it has been approached and produced, and why memory and tradition, in these particular forms, have taken on particular significance in different periods. Above all it shows how folk "tradition" in Russia is an artificial cultural construct, which is periodically ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Jewish Holiday Rapper

    by Laura Olson ...
    A fun and delightful rapper book on the Jewish holidays for children and adults. ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

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    Edited by James R. Knickman, PhD, Brian Elbel, PhD, MPH ...
    This fully updated and revised 12th edition of the highly acclaimed textbook on health care delivery provides graduate and undergraduate students with a comprehensive survey of health care in the United States ranging in topics from the organization of care, the politics surrounding healthcare in the United States, to population health and vulnerable populations, healthcare costs and value, health ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Divided by Faith

    Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America

    by Michael O. Emerson, Christian Smith ...
    Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face-to-face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical America. They found that despite recent efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination, evangelicals themselves seem to be preserving America's racial chasm. In fact, most white ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • Cases in Public Policy Analysis

    Third Edition

    by George M. Guess, Paul G. Farnham ...
    Combining the insights of an economist and a political scientist, this new third edition of Cases in Public Policy Analysis offers real world cases to provide students with the institutional and political dimensions of policy problems as well as easily understood principles and methods for analyzing public policies.Guess and Farnham clearly explain such basic tools as problem-identification, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Rights from Wrongs

    A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights

    by Alan M. Dershowitz ...
    This is a wholly new and compelling answer to one of the most persistent dilemmas in both law and moral philosophy: If rights are "natural"-if, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, it is "self-evident that all men are endowed . . . with certain inalienable rights"-where do these rights come from? Does natural law really exist outside the formal structure of humanly enacted law? On the ... Read more

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  • Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States, Tenth Edition

    by Victoria D. Weisfeld, MPH ...
    This tenth edition of a classic textbook, updated in November 2013 with a free, downloadable chapter on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), presents the critical issues and core challenges surrounding our health care system. Designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, it includes the contributions of leading thinkers, educators, and practitioners who provide an in-depth and objective ... Read more

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    by Andrew Sullivan ...
    With same-sex marriage igniting a firestorm of controversy in the press and in the courts, in legislative chambers and in living rooms, Andrew Sullivan, a pioneering voice in the debate, has brought together two thousand years of argument in an anthology of historic inclusiveness and evenhandedness. Among the selections included here:- The 2003 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling in ... Read more

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  • Jonas' Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System, 7th Edition

    by Karen Goldsteen, PhD, MPH, Raymond Goldsteen ...
    "There are many books on the U.S. healthcare system, but few have the longevity of this one. It is easy to read and straightforward in its approach to difficult subjects such as the rise of the Tea Party and how that movement has impacted healthcare. This update is certainly needed as the landscape has changed dramatically since the previous edition was published in 2007."--Doody's Medical ... Read more

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