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  • Title IV-E Child Welfare Education

    Impact on Workers, Case Outcomes and Social Work Curriculum Development

    Edited by Patrick Leung, Monit Cheung ...
    BSW/MSW education funded by Title IV-E of Social Security Act ("Title IV-E Child Welfare Education") is an important incentive to encourage social workers to stay in the child protection field. It aims to demonstrate the training partnership between universities and public child welfare agencies.This book contains essential research results with a focus on the impact of Title IV-E Child Welfare ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • New Perspectives on China’s Late Imperial Period

    Why China Slept

    by Patrick Leung ...
    The book offers new perspectives on the history of China’s late imperial period and presents a much-needed novel explanation for China’s stagnation and decline in recent centuries. It begins by questioning all the conventional wisdom on the factors behind China’s relative lack of progress and subsequent decline since the 15th century and follows with a fresh interpretation of China’s past. The new ... Read more

    $112.29 USD

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  • When China Rules the World

    The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order: Second Edition

    by Martin Jacques ...
    Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese powerSoon, China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more Western.Since the first publication of When China Rules the World, the landscape of world power has shifted dramatically. In the three years ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Educating Physicians

    A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency

    by Molly Cooke, David M. Irby, Bridget C. O'Brien ...
    Series Book 16 - Jossey-Bass/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
    EDUCATING PHYSICIANSThe current blueprint for medical education in North America was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The basic features outlined by Flexner remain in place today. Yet with the past century's enormous societal changes, the practice of medicine and its scientific, pharmacological, and technological foundations have ... Read more

    $40.00 USD

  • China: Its History and Culture

    by W. Scott Morton, Charlton M. Lewis ...
    “A wonderful job! So lucid, beautfully written, with greatrange and insight. This will set a new standard for shortgeneral histories of China.”—Michael Gasster,professor emeritus of history at Rutgers UniversityNewly updated and revised, China: Its History and Culture,Fourth Edition, incorporates the crucial social and economicchanges that have taken place in China over the last decade.Through ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Certified Nurse Educator (CNE) Review Manual

    Edited by Maryann Godshall, PhD, CNE, CCRN, CPN, Ruth A. Wittmann-Price, PHD, RN, CNS, CNE, CHSE, CNEcl, ANEF, FAAN ...
    "Nurse Educators can no longer be just experts in their specific fields; they need to be able to teach a variety of students in a variety of settings. This book encompasses all topics necessary to assist nurses to become educators. I am not aware any other books that address this area so thoroughly." Score: 98, 5 stars--Doody'sìI truly believe that your book made it possible for me to successfully ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • The Invention of China

    by Bill Hayton ...
    "[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy), this provocative account shows that “China”—and its 5,000 years of unified history—is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this dayChina’s current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but “China” as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Escape from Rome

    The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity

    by Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Leading With Data

    Pathways to Improve Your School

    by Dr. Ellen B. Goldring, Dr. Mark Berends ...
    Series series Leadership for Learning Series
    This hands-on guidebook helps principals collect, analyze, and use data to make meaningful instructional decisions to impact learning, school improvement goals, and accountability issues. ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Decline and Rise of Democracy

    A Global History from Antiquity to Today

    by David Stasavage ...
    **"One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation."**—Steven Levitsky, New York Times–bestselling author of How Democracies DieA new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what this history teaches us about the futureHistorical accounts of democracy’s rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and pre-Renaissance Europe. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Work-Life Balance

    A Psychological Perspective

    Edited by Fiona Jones, Ronald J Burke, Mina Westman ...
    What are the effects of conflict between home and work?Does work stress affect those who live with you?In the rapidly changing modern work environment, time pressures seem ever increasing and new technology allows work to be conducted any time and anywhere. These are just two of the factors that make it more and more difficult for working men and women to integrate work and home life. Consequently ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Bully of Asia

    Why China's Dream is the New Threat to World Order

    by Steven W. Mosher ...
    The Once and Future HegemonIn a world bristling with dangers, only one enemy poses a truly mortal challenge to the United States and the peaceful and prosperous world that America guarantees. That enemy is China, a country-that invented totalitarianism thousands of years ago-whose economic power rivals our own-that believes its superior race and culture give it the right to universal deference ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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