Authors:John Paul Robinson, Phillip R. Shaver, Lawrence S. W
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: attitudes, psychological, social, measures, volume, personality
Number of Pages: 753
Published: 1991-01-11
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 0125902441
ISBN-13: 9780125902441

This volume is sponsored by Division 9 of the American Psychological Association: The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.****This is an essential reference book for any social scientist or student who uses measuresof attitude or personality in his or her research. The earlier version, published twenty years ago, was to be found on the shelf of virtually everyone who worked in the field. Key Features* Serves as an update and extension of a highly useful book published twenty years ago* Employs a systematic standardized evaluation of 150 sc

Author: Lea Shaver
Publisher: Information Society Project at Yale Law School
Keywords: property, innovation, development, intellectual, research, knowledge, brazil, new, access
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2008-10-10
List price: $29.98
ISBN-10: 0615250386
ISBN-13: 9780615250380

This volume features four chapters on current issues facing intellectual property, innovation and development policy in Brazil. Each chapter is authored by legal scholars affiliated to the Fundacao Getulio Vargas law schools in Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro. The volume is edited by Lea Shaver of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Each chapter examines a policy area that significantly impacts access to knowledge in Brazil. These include: exceptions and limitations to copyright, free software and open business models, patent reform and access to medicines, and open innovation in

Author: Jessica Shaver
Publisher: Tyndale House
Keywords: books, living, lived, aborted, gianna
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 1561797111
ISBN-13: 9781561797110

At the tender age of 17, Tina was frightened and pregnant. Feeling abandoned and desperate, she stepped into the clinic to have an abortion. But in the midst of it, something unexpected happened . . . something wonderful. Instead of snuffing out the growing life within, the procedure failed. And with defiance and courage, a baby girl made her way into the world. Gianna is the incredible true story of one girl’s remarkable journey from abortion survivor to steadfast defender and lover of life. This book isn’t about issues —it’s about a young woman’s determination to ma

Author: Dick Shaver
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: marketing, record, profits, customers, guided, consumer, database, privacy
Number of Pages: 482
Published: 1996-09-04
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0471133590
ISBN-13: 9780471133599

Praise for The Next Step in Database Marketing "This book should be required reading for every direct marketer!" —Karen Quinn, Vice President, Marketing Education and Training American Express "Something new in relationship marketing. A truly important subject—a vital subject—treated with force and common sense. Shaver has never pulled his punches and he certainly doesn’t here. Dick gets to the heart of the matter—a ’segment of one.’ He’s specific about how this can be done, what it means in dollars and cents and . . . its potential impact on the priva

Author: Heidi Shaver
Publisher: Corwin Press
Keywords: time, leadership, principals, empower, communicate, organize
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2004-02-12
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0761931422
ISBN-13: 9780761931423

Instructional leaders need a wide range of skills and talents to be effective in today’s schools, and this text highlights techniques, skills, and strategies for effective performance.

Author: Robert Shaver
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: history, critical, selective, egoism, rational
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 1998-11-28
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0521632536
ISBN-13: 9780521632539

It is often thought that the rational thing to do must always be to pursue one’s own self-interest, to pursue, in philosophical terms, rational egoism. This book is the first full-length treatment of rational egoism, and it provides both a selective history of the subject as well as a philosophical analysis of the arguments that have been deployed in its defense. The author focuses on Hobbes and Sidgwick because they are, after the ancients, the foremost exponents of rational egoism. However, he also treats the instrumental theory of rationality as found in the work of Grotius, Samuel Cl

Authors:Phillip, Jr. Bell, Phillip Staines, Joel Michell,
Publisher: New South Wales Univ Pr Ltd
Keywords: writing, psychology, reasoning, explanation, psych, logical
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2000-10
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0868405930
ISBN-13: 9780868405933

An indispensable guide to skills of reasoning, explanation and writing. This book takes common problems in Psychology & relevant public controversies showing many arguments around the same problem. It also provides guidelines for writing good reports and essays.