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1.259,95 kr. This volume addresses issues that are inherent to language assessment development, regardless of the modality of the language. Comprised of 36 chapters, the book takes a new approach to exploring theoretical and practical issues related to assessment of signed and spoken languages by bringing together well known experts from both fields to engage in stimulating discussions about key issues related to language assessment. Grouped around twelve topics, the volumeeditors present different perspectives to emphasize the points of similarity and chart a path for future interdisciplinary collaborations .
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- A Very Short Introduction
118,95 kr. In one way or another, we are all affected by the actions of the American judicial system. This VSI explains how and why this is - cracking the vail that surrounds American courts and the law by translating the legal technicalities, structural complexities, and jargon of the law into plain English with a real-world context. Aimed at anyone who is caught up on the legal process or someone just curious about how it all works and why, this VSI is the starting placeto understanding the workings and importance of the third branch of American government
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- 118,95 kr.
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- Principles and Practice
810,95 kr. Critical Care Psychology and Rehabilitation unites both critical care and rehabilitation teams across a continuum of critical care settings and with survivors of critical illness. Written by the leading researchers in the field, the book builds upon the rapidly expanding literature and illustrates the benefits of this integration between disciplines.
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1.776,95 kr. The Social Worker's Desk Reference fourth edition remains the definitive resource for social work students and professionals. Expanded sections on current hot topics such as white nationalism, gaming disorder, substance abuse, LGBTQ+ populations, suicide, sexual violence in the military, and vulnerable populations make the fourth edition a fully updated and essential reference.
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- A Philosophical History
242,95 kr. How can nothing cause something? The absence of something might seem to indicate a null or a void, an emptiness as ineffectual as a shadow. In fact, 'nothing' is one of the most powerful and effective ideas the human mind has ever conceived. This short and entertaining book is a lively tour of the history and philosophy of nothing, explaining how various thinkers throughout history have conceived and grappled with the mysterious power of absence - and how theseideas about shadows, gaps, and holes have in turned played a positive role in the development of some of humankind's most important ideas. Filled with anecdotes, puzzles, curiosities, and philosophical speculation, the book is ordered chronologically, starting with the ancients and moving forward to themiddle ages and the early modern period, then up to the existentialists and present day philosophy. The result is a diverting tour through the history of human thought, seen from a novel and unusual perspective.
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- 242,95 kr.
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- The Life of Dorothy Wright Nelson
522,95 kr. Dorothy Wright Nelson was a prominent federal judge on the level just below the U.S. Supreme Court for over 40 years. Although women had few opportunities in law when she graduated, she became one of the first female law professors and deans. The book offers an in-depth look at her life and her rise as a national expert in what is now the major field of alternative dispute resolution or conflict resolution. Featuring extensive interviews with judges, professors, andlegal leaders, they offer first-hand accounts and multiple perspectives on how she was an extraordinary trailblazer in a traditional, male-dominated profession.
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- 522,95 kr.
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- How AI, VR, and Robots Will Reshape Our Emotional Lives
241,95 kr. Accessible and compelling, Relationships 5.0 reveals the ongoing epochal change in human relationships towards technology meant to fulfill emotional, intellectual, and physical needs that have until now been met by other humans.
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- Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
235,95 kr. In downtown Manhattan, in the shadow of the half-built Twin Towers, hardhats beat scores of hippies bloody in May 1970, four days after Kent State. This is the story of when the old Democratic Party attacked the new and of how Richard Nixon seized the breach, realizing that "these, quite candidly, are our people now." We relive the schism that tore liberalism apart by returning to when it was all laid bare one brutal day, when the Democrats' future was bludgeoned byits past, as if it was a violent last gasp to say, we once mattered to them too.
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- The Global Rise of White Supremacist Terrorism
282,95 kr. Spreading Hate offers a history of the modern white power movement, describing key moments in its evolution since the end of World War Two. Daniel Byman focuses particular attention on how the threat has changed in recent decades, examining how social media is changing the threat, the weaknesses of the groups, and how counterterrorism has shaped the movement as a whole. Each chapter uses an example, such as the Christchurch mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant orthe British white hate band Skrewdriver, as a way of introducing broader analytic themes.
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- Doing Time in Jail
319,95 kr. Indefinite is an ethnographic study of life in a contemporary county jail system. Having been arrested and jailed, Michael Walker turned his experience into an examination of jails from the inside out, revealing the physical and emotional experience of doing time, the set of strategies prisoners use to endure it, and the deputies who use race to control prisoners and the kinds of experiences prisoners had.
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- Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq
406,95 kr. Compulsion in Religion investigates religion and politics in Saddam Hussein's Iraq as well as the roots of the religious insurgencies that erupted in Iraq following the American-led invasion in 2003. In looking at Saddam Hussein's policies in the 1990s, many have interpreted his support for state religion as evidence of a dramatic shift away from Arab nationalism toward political Islam. While Islam did play a greater role in the regime's symbols and Saddam'sstatements in the 1990s than it had in earlier decades, the archival records and the regime's internal documents challenge this theory.
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- History and Politics of Innovation
269,95 kr. The Battle over Patents traces the long and contentious history of patents, examining how they have worked in practice. The essays in this volume, written by leading social scientists, historians, and legal academics, explore the shortcomings of imperfect patent systems and explain why, despite all the debate, historically US-style patent systems still dominate all other methods of encouraging inventive activity.
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- The Entwined Histories of a Multi-State Region
1.059,95 kr. Latin America is a region made up of multiple states with a diversity of races, ethnicities, and cultures. In Transnational Perspectives on Latin America, Luis Roniger argues that a regional perspective is significant for understanding this part of the Western hemisphere. He claims that geopolitical, sociological, and cultural trends molded a contiguity of influences, shaping a transnational arena of connected histories, cross-border interactions, and sharedvisions, complementing the process of separate nation-state formation.
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- History and Fiction
1.294,95 kr. The Forgotten Reign of the Emperor Jovian offers a new assessment of the Roman Emperor's brief but impactful rule. Jan Willem Drijvers tracks the intricacies of Jovian's election, offers a novel evaluation of his peace agreement with Shapur II, and examines Jovian's self-representation.
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- Creative Dimensions of Early Buddhist Scripture
1.297,95 kr. Visions of the Buddha offers a groundbreaking new approach to the nature of the early discourses of the Buddha, the most foundational scriptures of Buddhist religion. While the early discourses are commonly considered to be attempts to preserve the Buddha's teachings, Shulman demonstrates that these texts are full of creativity, driven by inspired storytelling. Much of this storytelling is effected through techniques specific to oral literature, in whichoral formulas can be combined in an infinite variety of ways, in order to produce yet more beautified visions of Buddhist truth.
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- New Directions in Theory Construction and Model Development
1.297,95 kr. In Religion, Virtues, and Health: New Directions in Theory Construction and Model Development, Krause suggests that religion may operate, in part, by bolstering physical health as well as psychological well-being. The book is designed to explain how these health-related benefits arise. The main conceptual thrust of his model is that people learn to adopt key virtues from fellow church members, including forgiveness, compassion, and beneficence. Thesevirtues, in turn, promote a deeper sense of meaning in life. Then, meaning in life exerts a beneficial effect on health and well-being.
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- Philosophers and Neuroscientists in Conversation
970,95 kr. This book contains thirty bidirectional exchanges between neuroscientists and philosophers that focus on the most critical questions in the neurophilosophy of free will. It mimics a lively, interdisciplinary conference, where experts answer questions and follow-up questions from the other field, helping each discipline to understand how the other thinks and works. Each chapter is concise and accessible to non-experts-free from disciplinary jargon and highly technicaldetails-but also employs thorough and up-to-date research from experts in the field.
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- 970,95 kr.
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2.072,95 kr. The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics presents up-to-date theoretical analyses of various problems associated with the moral standing of future people and animals in current decision-making. The essays in this handbook shed light on the value of population change and the nature of our obligations to future generations. It brings together world-leading philosophers to introduce readers to some of the paradoxes of population ethics, challenge somefundamental assumptions that may be taken for granted in debates concerning the value of population change, and apply these problems and assumptions to real-world decisions.
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- The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
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- An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South
382,95 - 859,95 kr. Unredeemed Land examines the ways the Civil War and the emancipation of the slaves reconfigured the South's natural landscape, revealing the environmental constraints that shaped the rural South's transition to capitalism during the late nineteenth century.
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- The Struggle to Govern the World's Oceans
362,95 kr. In The Poseidon Project, David Bosco tells the story of how rulers, merchants, navies, environmentalists, and activists have struggled to craft rules for the oceans. From the Dutch challenge to the Portuguese in the 17th century to the current turmoil in the South China Sea, it tracks the tension between efforts to control maritime space and the idea that the oceans should be unowned and open to all.
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2.621,95 kr. Through more than 40 chapters by leading specialists, the Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics examines major aspects of both domestic politics and international relations. In addition to providing a broad overview of contemporary Japanese politics, the chapters are united by a shared question: what is the nature and quality of Japanese democracy? Contributors consider this matter alongside their individual subjects, which together comprehensively addressthe central research topics of the field.
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- Film and Law Enforcement in the United States
475,95 - 1.291,95 kr. Screening the Police explores the history of film's entwinement with law enforcement, showing the role that state power has played in the creation and expansion of a popular medium.
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523,95 kr. Rethinking Music Education and Social Change asseses music education's relation to societal transformation and offers an imaginative, yet critical, vision for music education as utopian theory and practice.
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8.783,95 kr. The reader will find in these essays key insights into the profound differences that have marked the growth of Western modernity-race, gender, sexuality among them-and what they reveal about selfhood, identity, and possibilities for human freedom and oppression.
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- 8.783,95 kr.
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- Personal Growth, Narrative Identity, and the Good Life
902,95 kr. The Transformative Self explains how people create a self-identity in their life stories to cultivate personal growth and the good life. Combining scientific research in psychology with work in philosophy, literature, history, and more, this book shows how personal and cultural narratives shape the development of happiness, love, and wisdom.
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- 902,95 kr.