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Accountability in Social Services

The Culture of the Paper Program

by Jill Florence Lackey
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014

Accountability in Social Services examines how - and why - social and human services programs can function even though they are monitored by written communication instead of face-to-face interaction. Author Jill Florence Lackey draws on her experience as a consultant for more than 50 social programs...
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Lively Capital

Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets

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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012

Lively Capital is an urgent and important collection of essays addressing the reconfigured relations between the life sciences and the market. Exploring the ground where social and cultural anthropology intersect with science and technology studies, prominent scholars investigate the relationship...
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Local Cells, Global Science

The Rise of Embryonic Stem Cell Research in India

by Aditya Bharadwaj, Peter Glasner
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008

One of the first studies of an exciting new development in global biotechnology, this cutting edge text examines the extent of the transnational movements of tissues, stem cells, and expertise, in the developing governance framework of India. Documenting the impact of local and global governance...
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Social policies and social control

New perspectives on the 'not-so-big society'

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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014

Drawing on a wide array of policy domains and events, this book provides an innovative account of social control and behaviourism within welfare systems and social policies, and the implications for disadvantaged groups. This accessible collection reviews the controls, assumptions and persuasions...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014

This book argues that interior architects have a responsibility to practice their profession in collaborative ways that address the needs of communities and of to be the agents of social justice and cultural heritage. The book is divided into three sections, based on three pivotal themes — community...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016

In recent years the organisation and practice of collaboration in the life sciences has undergone radical transformations, owing to the advent of big science enterprises, newly developed data gathering and storage technologies, increasing levels of interdisciplinarity, and changing societal expectations...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013

Sustainability is a key concept used by social scientists interested in interactions between human society and the environment. This text offers a systematic and critical review of established and emerging methodological approaches, as well as tools for the integrated investigation of sustainability...
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Inhuman Networks

Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection

by Dr. Grant Bollmer
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016

Social media's connectivity is often thought to be a manifestation of human nature buried until now, revealed only through the diverse technologies of the participatory internet. Rather than embrace this view, Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection argues that the human nature...
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by Martin Lee Abbott, Jennifer McKinney
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013

A fresh approach to bridging research design with statistical analysis While good social science requires both research design and statistical analysis, most books treat these two areas separately. Understanding and Applying Research Design introduces an accessible approach to integrating design...
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by Beth Perry, Tim May
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010

What are the critical gaps in thinking about reflexivity and social research? How is reflexive practice shaped by the contexts and cultures in which researchers work? How might research practice respond to twin demands of excellence and relevance in the knowledge-based economy? Thinking...
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Human Beings and Freedom

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

by Michael Hemmingsen, J.L. Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013

Human Beings and Freedom: An Interdisciplinary Perspective focuses on some contemporary issues relating to freedom, equality, identity and resistance from various perspectives, such as psychological, social, political, and metaphysical. In doing so it addresses topics such as the nature of human...
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Genes and the Bioimaginary

Science, Spectacle, Culture

by Deborah Lynn Steinberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

Genes and the Bioimaginary examines the dramatic rise and contemporary cultural apotheosis of 'the gene'. The book traces not only the genetification of modern life but is also a journey through the complex relationship between science and culture. At the heart of this book are three interlinked questions....
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by Paul C. Rosenblatt
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

In spite of the existence of statistics and numerical data on various aspects of African American life, including housing, earnings, assets, unemployment, household violence, teen pregnancy and encounters with the criminal justice system, social science literature on how racism affects the everyday...
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Third Grade Social Science

For Homeschool or Extra Practice

by Terri Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014

Over 50 discussion questions and activities, and 50 quiz questions, fill this comprehensive social science book. The book covers the following topics: American Discovery and Economy, Geography, Native Americans, Resources, and Government and its Citizens If you are homeschooling (or...
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