Authors:Rachel Joffe Falmagne, Marjorie Hass,
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: formal, logic, theory, feminist, reason, representing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-12
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0847696693
ISBN-13: 9780847696697

"Philosophy’s traditional man of reason"--independent, neutral, unemotional--is an illusion. That’s because the "man of reason" ignores one very important thing--the woman. As feminist philosophy grew in the 1980s and ’90s, it became clear that the attributes philosophical tradition wrote off as "womanly" are in fact part of human nature. No longer can philosophy maintain the dichotomy between the rational man and the emotional woman, but must now examine a more complex human being, able to reason and feel. Yet feminist philosophy also makes it clear that men and wome

Authors:Ethel Tobach, Rachel Joffe Falmagne, Mary Brown Parl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: social, doing, cognitive, perspectives, learning, computational, sylvia, practice, selected, writings, mind, scribner
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1997-01-13
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0521467675
ISBN-13: 9780521467674

Sylvia Scribner’s contributions to the emergent field of cultural psychology have been monumental. Her studies of reasoning and thinking within contexts of culture and activity added new concepts, methods, and findings to what many now consider a distinctive branch of psychology. Mind and Social Practice brings together published and unpublished work from Sylvia Scribner’s wide-ranging and prolific career. The book is arranged chronologically and includes five section introductions by the editors, placing Scribner’s work in the context of her life, her commitments, and the

Author: R Joffe
Publisher: BC Decker Inc.
Keywords: press, empowering, depression, conquering
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0969778171
ISBN-13: 9780969778172

Depression is one of the most common illnesses today, affecting one in five people at some time in their lives. It is potentially a severe and disabling mental illness influencing all aspects of a person’s daily life. Better skills, medications, and techniques have been developed in the past ten years to successfully treat it. This important new book clears away the confusion and misunderstandings about depressive illness and provides valuable information about the dramatic advances that have been made in dealing with this disease. It explains how patients and those who care for them can

Author: Judah A. Joffe
Publisher: Pohl Press
Keywords: composers, russian, modern
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1406738409
ISBN-13: 9781406738407

LEONID MODERN RUSSIAN COMPOSERS TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY JUDAH A. JOFFE INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS Copyright, 3f, 937, by INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, INC. Printed in the 17. , A, CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 11 SERGEY TANEYEFF 19 ALYEKSANDR SKRYABIN 40 IGOR STRAVINSKI 64 SERGEY PROKOFYEFF 87 SERGEY RAKHMANINOFF 103 VLADIMIR RYEBIKOFF 121 NIKOLA Y METNER 129 A. GRYECHANINOFF 144 NIKOLAY MYASKOVSKI 149 SAMUIL FEINBERG 163 MIKHAYIL GNYESIN 172 ALYEKSANDR KREIN 181 GRIGORIY KREIN 137 ALYEKSEY STANCHINSKI . . . . . . . 190 FYODOR AKIMYENKLO . 195 NIKOLAY ROSLAVYETS 201 BOLYESLAV YAVORSKI AND His PU

Author: Laura Joffe Numeroff
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: give, cookie, mouse
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 1985-05-09
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0060245867
ISBN-13: 9780060245863

If a hungry little traveler shows up at your house, you might want to give him a cookie. If you give him a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk. He’ll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn’t have a milk mustache, and then he’ll ask for a pair of scissors to give himself a trim....The consequences of giving a cookie to this energetic mouse run the young host ragged, but young readers will come away smiling at the antics that tumble like dominoes through the pages of this delightful picture book.

Authors:Elya B. Joffe, Kai-Sang Lock,
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Pre
Keywords: handbook, system, circuit, grounding, grounds
Number of Pages: 1064
Published: 2010-01-07
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 0471660086
ISBN-13: 9780471660088

The first book to cover grounding from the circuit to system and across the entire spectrum of applications Grounds for Grounding provides a complete and thorough approach to the subject of designing electrical and electronic circuits and systems, blending theory and practice to demonstrate how a few basic rules can be applied across a broad range of applications. The authors begin with the basic concepts of Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) that are essential for understanding grounding theory and its applications, such as "ground loop," which is one of the most misunderstood concepts in

Authors:Russell T., M.D. Joffe, Anthony, J., M.D. Levitt,
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: illness, psychiatric, axis, thyroid
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1993-03
List price: $92.00
ISBN-10: 0880483644
ISBN-13: 9780880483643

This book assembles the latest information about the relationship between thyroid state and behavior. It is intended to serve as a reference for both the basic scientist and the clinician in the field of psychiatry and the behavioral sciences. The Thyroid Axis and Psychiatric Illness also presents the controversies, ambiguities, and unanswered questions that will be left to the future to resolve. This book not only provides information about the role of the thyroid axis in psychiatric illness, it is also designed to promote further research and understanding of this complex subject.