Author: Steven Brint
Publisher: Stanford Social Sciences
Keywords: second, societies, schools
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0804750734
ISBN-13: 9780804750738

Schools and Societies provides a synthesis of key issues in the sociology of education, focusing on American schools while offering a global, comparative context. Already a standard text in its first edition, this fully revised and updated second edition offers a broader sweep and stronger theoretical foundation, and takes into consideration key developments in education policy and scholarship since the late 1990s. The book is distinguished from others in the field by its breadth of coverage, compelling institutional history, and lively prose style. It opens with a chapter on schooling as

Author: Steven Brint
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: experts
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1996-05-13
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0691026076
ISBN-13: 9780691026077

Since the 1960s the number of highly educated professionals in America has grown dramatically. During this time scholars and journalists have described the group as exercising increasing influence over cultural values and public affairs. The rise of this putative "new class" has been greeted with idealistic hope or ideological suspicion on both the right and the left. In an Age of Experts challenges these characterizations, showing that claims about the distinctive politics and values of the professional stratum have been overstated, and that the political preferences of professionals are much

Authors:Steven J. Spencer, Steven Fein, Mark P. Zanna, James
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: ontario, social, psychology, personality, series, symposia, symposium, perception, motivated, volume
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0805840362
ISBN-13: 9780805840360

This volume highlights state-of-the-art research on motivated social perception by the leaders in the field. Recently a number of researchers developed influential accounts of how motivation affects social perception. Unfortunately, this work was developed without extensive contact between the researchers, and therefore evolved into two distinct traditions. The first tradition shows that the motivation to maintain a positive self-concept and to define oneself in the social world can dramatically affect people’s social perception. The second one shows that people’s goals have a dram

Authors:Steven H Woolf, Steven Jonas, Evonne Kaplan-Li,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilki
Keywords: practice, health, prevention, promotion, disease, clin, clinical
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 078177599X
ISBN-13: 9780781775991

Incorporating the latest guidelines from major organizations, including the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, this book offers the clinician a complete overview of how to help patients adopt healthy behaviors and to deliver recommended screening tests and immunizations. Chapters provide practical guidance on how to counsel patients about exercise, nutrition, tobacco use, substance use, sexually transmitted infections, and depression. Written by clinicians for clinicians, the book lays out the details on gathering information from the patient, ordering evidence-based screening tests, designi

Authors:Steven R. Winkel, David S. Collins FAIA, Steven P.
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: building, understanding, international, code, guide, secondary, codes, illustrated, elementary, schools
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2007-04-13
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0470048484
ISBN-13: 9780470048481

Now more than ever, architects need an interpretive guide to understand how the building code affects the early design of specific projects. This easy-to-use, illustrative guide is part of a new series covering building codes based on the International Building Code for 2006. This book presents the complex code issues inherent to elementary and secondary school design in a clear, easily understandable format.

Author: Steven Simpson; Dan Miller; Buzz BocherSteven Sim
Publisher: Wood N Barnes
Keywords: processing, guide, pinnacle, educator
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-07-30
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 188547363X
ISBN-13: 9781885473639

"Processing is an intuitive practice, and the processing pinnacle is an attempt to put logic and structure to something that is not particularly logical." --The Processing Pinnacle Experiential education focuses mainly on the idea that there are two components to experience: the action and reflection. The Processing Pinnacle offers a theoretical approach to more effective processing, the reflective component of experience. Offering different points of view from the growing world of experiential education, the authors consider the difficulties of processing and suggest techniques to remove th

Authors:Steven H., M.D. Woolf, Steven Jonas, Robert S. Lawre
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: practice, health, prevention, disease, promotion, clin, amp, clinical
Number of Pages: 618
Published: 1996-01-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0683092707
ISBN-13: 9780683092707

Medical College of Virginia, Richmond. Practical, detailed reference on how to practice evidence-based preventative medicine, for nurses, physician assistants, and other primary care providers. Topics include exercise, tobacco use, weight control, injury prevention, and more.