Author: Jeffrey W. Rubin
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: juchitã¡n, mexico, democracy, radicalism, regime, ethnicity, decentering
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0822320630
ISBN-13: 9780822320630

Since 1989 an indigenous political movement—the Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus (COCEI)—has governed the southern Mexican city of Juchitán. In Decentering the Regime, Jeffrey W. Rubin examines this Zapotec Indian movement and shows how COCEI forged an unprecedented political and cultural path—overcoming oppression in the 1970s to achieve democracy in the 1990s. Rubin traces the history and rise to power of this grassroots movement, and describes a Juchitán that exists in substantial autonomy from the central Mexican government and Mexican nationalism—there

Authors:Rachel Rubin, Jeffrey Melnick,
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: nation, newcomers, introduction, culture, american, popular, immigration
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-12-06
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0814775527
ISBN-13: 9780814775523

How does a ’national’ popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in America, and how has it used them?Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick uncover how specific trends in popular culture—such as portrayals of European immigrants as gangsters in 1930s cinema, the zoot suits of the 1940s, the influence of Jamaican Americans on r

Authors:Jeffrey Rubin, Dana Chisnell,  Jared Spool,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: conduct, effective, tests, design, plan, usability, testing, howto, handbook
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-05-12
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0470185481
ISBN-13: 9780470185483

Whether its software, a cell phone, or a refrigerator, your customer wantsno, expectsyour product to be easy to use. This fully revised handbook provides clear, step-by-step guidelines to help you test your product for usability. Completely updated with current industry best practices, it can give you that all-important marketplace advantage: products that perform the way users expect. Youll learn to recognize factors that limit usability, decide where testing should occur, set up a test plan to assess goals for your products usability, and more.

Authors:Dean Pruitt, Jeffrey Rubin, Sung Hee Kim, Dean Pru
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Language
Keywords: settlement, stalemate, escalation, conflict, social
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-07-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0072855355
ISBN-13: 9780072855357

Useful at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, Social Conflict has been the standard-bearer for brief, sophisticated coverage of all the key research on social conflict and its resolution from a psychological perspective. Dealing with interpersonal, intergroup, interorganizational, and international conflict, the new edition is thoroughly updated and offers additional content to address recent findings and world events. This text is a part of the McGraw-Hill Series in Social Psychology.

Authors:Rebecca B. Rubin, Alan M. Rubin, Paul M. Haridaki,
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: sources, strategies, research, communication
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $76.95
ISBN-10: 0495095885
ISBN-13: 9780495095880

Designed to help readers learn how to successfully use literature and other sources in writing effective papers, COMMUNICATION RESEARCH: STRATEGIES AND SOURCES, Seventh Edition, demystifies the research process by helping students master library skills, scholarly writing, and the latest research technology tools. In addition, this communication research text places special emphasis on using library resources in the literature search as it helps readers strategize, develop, and complete communication research.

Authors:Rebecca B. Rubin, Alan M. Rubin, Linda J. Piele,
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: infotracâ®, sources, strategies, research, communication
Number of Pages: 321
Published: 2004-06-21
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0534564860
ISBN-13: 9780534564865

This text for communication research is designed to help students learn how to successfully use literature and other sources in writing effective papers and to strategize, develop and complete communication research, placing special emphasis on using library resources to search for literature. It demystifies the research process by teaching students library skills and scholarly writing, and it acquaints them with the latest research technology tools.

Authors:Jordan Rubin, Nicki Rubin, Pancheta Wilson M.D.,
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Keywords: health, women, physician
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-01-02
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0785219013
ISBN-13: 9780785219019

Jordan Rubin, along with his wife Nicki and Dr. Panchetta Wilson, gives the 7 Keys to Health and wellness, customized to the unique needs of women.