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How to Resolve Conflict
A Practical Mediation Manual
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
A guide to the practice of mediation as a means of resolving conflict, this short how-to manual includes all the resources needed to teach and train mediators in the skills of conflict resolution. It explains the conceptual framework of conflict and peacemaking, the stages and steps of the mediation...
Paleopathology in Perspective
Bone Health and Disease through Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Our bones can reveal fascinating information about how we have lived, from the food we have eaten to our levels of activity and the infections and injuries we have suffered. Elizabeth Weiss introduces readers to how lifestyle—in complex interaction with biology, genes, and environment—affects...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
As editor Kenneth E. Hendrickson, III, notes in his introduction: “Since the end of the nineteenth-century, industrialization has become a global phenomenon. After the relative completion of the advanced industrial economies of the West after 1945, patterns of rapid economic change invaded societies...
The Political Thought of Justice Antonin Scalia
A Hamiltonian on the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2006
The Political Thought of Antonin Scalia: A Hamiltonian on the Supreme Court traces Justice Antonin Scalia's jurisprudence back to the political and constitutional thought of Alexander Hamilton. Not only is there substantial agreement between these two men in the areas of constitutional interpretation,...
Tally's Corner
A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2003
The first edition of Tally's Corner, a sociological classic, was the first compelling response to the culture of poverty thesis_hat the poor are different and, according to conservatives, morally inferior—and alternative explanations that many African Americans are caught in a tangle of pathology...
The Last Place You'd Look
True Stories of Missing Persons and the People Who Search for Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
What happens when a non-custodial parent kidnaps her son? Or a college student vanishes after a night out with friends? Or a middle-aged man seemingly drowns in calm waters? What do family members, friends, and law enforcement do when a beloved goes missing? Here, Moore explores an array of missing...
The Badax Tigers
From Shiloh to the Surrender with the 18th Wisconsin Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2007
When the Badax County Tigers left the small town of Viroqua, Wisconsin, in the autumn of 1861, they had little notion of what military service would demand of them.
The Badax Tigers were as common a company in as common a regiment as may be found in the annals of the Civil War. They marched,...
by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
In this concise and balanced survey of heresy and inquisition in the Middle Ages, Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane explores the increasingly bitter encounters between piety, reform, dissent, and the institutional Church between 1100 and 1500. Although the loaded terms of "heresy" and "orthodoxy"...
Rome and Canterbury
The Elusive Search for Unity
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
Rome and Canterbury tells the story of the determined but little known work being done to end the nearly five hundred year old divisions between the Roman Catholic and the Anglican/Episcopal Churches. The break was never intended, has never been fully accepted and is experienced, by many, as a painful...
Martin Buber's Spirituality
Hasidic Wisdom for Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
How do we find meaning in our life? This book explores how Martin Buber, one of the 20th century’s greatest religious thinkers, answers this timeless question. Author Kenneth Paul Kramer explains Buber’s Hasidic spirituality—a living connection between the human and the divine—and how it is...
Cracked, Not Broken
Surviving and Thriving After a Suicide Attempt
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most recognizable structures to define a modern city. Yet, for author Kevin Hines the bridge is not merely a marker of a place or a time. Instead, the bridge marks the beginning of his remarkable story. At 19 years old, Kevin attempted to take his own life by jumping...
by Journal of School Public Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
The Journal of School Public Relations is a quarterly publication providing research, analysis, case studies and descriptions of best practices in six critical areas of school administration: public relations, school and community relations, community education, communication, conflict management/resolution,...
Five Generations of a Mexican American Family in Los Angeles
The Fuentes Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2007
Despite their citizenship and English monolingualism, Mexican Americans have long been known to remain largely working class, which, academically, has meant that they tend to be mostly high school graduates, with low rates of college attendance and completion. Attempting to understand this phenomenon,...
Discovery
The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
From the moment Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr. first left Anarctica, he knew he would return. Both the scope of the strange land and the uncharted scientific promise it held were too much to leave behind forever. Launched during the Great Depression amid great public skepticism, and with funding at...