Authors:Howard Shapiro, Jay Shapiro, Lawrence Shapiro,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: derricks, cranes
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1999-07-27
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0070578893
ISBN-13: 9780070578890

576 pages, 6" x 9" A comprehensive handbook on the selection, installation and safe use of cranes and derricks on construction sites. This 3rd Edition includes information on load handling situations, as well as updated safety and accident avoidance guidelines.

Authors:Susan G. Shapiro, Ronald Shapiro,
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: eastern, europe, communism, histories, rises, oral, curtain
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 2004-01-21
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0786416726
ISBN-13: 9780786416721

Much has been written about how the authoritarianism of the Communist era gave way to more open societies in the former Soviet bloc countries, yet little has been said about how individuals in these countries have been affected and how they contributed to the changes in their societies. How does the relationship between husband and wife change when planned economy gives way to financial incertitude? When all are free to speak their minds publicly, are children more likely to do so at home or at school? How do the elderly adjust to new laws and fewer pensions? This book describes, in thei

Authors:Marianne Shapiro, Michael Shapiro,
Publisher: Peter Lang
Keywords: linguistics, semiotics, insights, berkeley, workbench, critic
Number of Pages: 522
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $92.95
ISBN-10: 0820479152
ISBN-13: 9780820479156

This book comprises twenty-two chapters, including previously unpublished material, written over the entire span of Marianne Shapiro’s working life. Its opening section on the European heritage begins with a long essay on the Aeneid that breaks new interpretative ground by examining the epic from the perspective of Virgil’s implicit prescriptions for leaders and leadership. Chapters on Dante add to the store of knowledge on his minor works as well as the Comedy, and are followed by close readings of Petrarch and Provençal poetry. The American and comparative literature section f

Author: Deb Shapiro
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
Keywords: messages, underlie, illness, spiritual, psychological, mind, decoding, emotional, speaks
Number of Pages: 347
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1591794188
ISBN-13: 9781591794189

We all know how we cry tears when we are sad or get "butterflies" in our stomach when we are nervous. These are simple connections between the mind and the body that are easy for us to understand. But what about the bigger issues, when the body gets ill, diseased, or damaged? Now with Your Body Speaks Your Mind, Deb Shapiro—author of The Body Mind Workbook and Unconditional Love—shows you a practical way to learn the language of your body so you can understand how your thoughts and feelings directly affect your physical health. "The body shows us what we are unconsciously ignoring, denying,

Author: H. Svi Shapiro
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate
Keywords: education, america, children, mis, spiritual, heart, moral, losing
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-11-30
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0805857214
ISBN-13: 9780805857214

In this book Svi Shapiro explores the ideological and attitudinal functions of schools, looking especially at what is called the ’hidden curriculum.’ He offers both an analysis of the role of education in producing and maintaining attitudes and values that contribute to our competitive, socially unequal, instrumental, consumerist, and self-oriented culture and a radically different vision for what our schools should be about—a vision that focuses on education’s role in supporting a more critically reflective, socially responsible, and compassionate culture. Federal and state

Author: Ian Shapiro
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: sciences, human, reality, flight
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-11-19
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0691134014
ISBN-13: 9780691134017

In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of rational choice theory, Shapiro expands his purview here. In discipline after discipline, he argues, scholars have fallen prey to inward-looking myopia that results from--and perpetuates--a flight from reality. In the method-driven academic culture we inhabit, argues Shapiro, researchers too often make display and refinement of their techniques the principal scholarly activity. The result is that they l

Author: Ian Shapiro
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: terror, global, strategy, rebuilding, containment
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-01-29
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0691129282
ISBN-13: 9780691129280

In this powerfully argued book, Ian Shapiro shows that the idea of containment offers the best hope for protecting Americans and their democracy into the future. His bold vision for American security in the post-September 11 world is reminiscent of George Kennan’s historic "Long Telegram," in which the containment strategy that won the Cold War was first developed.The Bush Doctrine of preemptive war and unilateral action has been marked by incompetence--missed opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden, failures of postwar planning for Iraq, and lack of an exit strategy. But Shapiro conten