Author: Morris Philipson
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: fiction, phoenix, novel, understandings, secret
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0226667529
ISBN-13: 9780226667522

Secret Understandings is a vibrant and richly textured portrait of Shelagh Jackman, a book illustrator who learns to cultivate the loving and complex relationships in her life while struggling to be true to her own best self, even when calamity puts her to the ultimate test-and triumph.

Author: Margaret Urban Walker
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: ethics, study, feminist, understandings, moral
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1997-10-29
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0415914213
ISBN-13: 9780415914215

I oral Understandings perceives morality as practices of responsibility that express our identities, values and connections to others. Morality is a collaborative effort in that we reproduce or shift our moral understandings together in many daily interactions of social life. But not everyone has the same power to set or change moral terms, nor can moral identities be separated from social ones in particular ways of life. Margaret Urban Walker argues for an empirically informed and politically critical ethics that reveals, rather than ignores or conceals, the moral significance of social diff

Author: Virginia Richardson
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: new, understandings, world, building, teacher, education, constructivist
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $57.50
ISBN-10: 0750706163
ISBN-13: 9780750706162

bringing together issues of theory, research and practice in constructivist teacher education, this book raises the questions and offers answers as to how does one persuade students and teachers to change their fundamental beliefs and practices about teaching and learning.

Author: Letitia C Pallone
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: new, understandings, modalities, contexts, correctional, substance, abusers, treating
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 2004-01-21
List price: $50.50
ISBN-10: 0789022788
ISBN-13: 9780789022783

Get the latest information on new and emerging modalities for treating drug-involved offenders! Treating Substance Abusers in Correctional Contexts: New Understandings, New Modalities analyzes the shift in policy and attitude away from two decades of the harsh punishment that characterized the war on drugs toward a more treatment-oriented “medicalization” of the problem. Edited by Dr. Nathaniel J. Pallone, editor of the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation (Haworth), the book presents an overview of new and emerging models for treatment of drug-involved offenders in a variety of settings. An

Author: Chris E. Stout
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: psychological, dimensions, war, peace, perspectives, understandings, terrorism, volume, iii, theoretical, psychology
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-12-30
List price: $81.95
ISBN-10: 0275978672
ISBN-13: 9780275978679

Responding directly to 9/11, an outstanding interdisciplinary group of academics, clinicians, and activists from around the world united to produce this clear exploration of terrorism. Contributors, including Pulitzer Prize-winner Dr. John E. Mack, present an enormous range of terror-related factors in this important multivolume set. Following a foreword by Professor Klaus Schwab, president and founder of the World Economic Forum, chapters address terror and violence perpetrated by children, compare terrorists to cultists, and separate the fact, fiction, and hysteria surrounding bioterrorism.O

Authors:Dennis Klass, Phyllis R. Silverman, Steven Nickman,
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: education, aging, health, care, death, grief, bonds, new, understandings, continuing
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1996-02-01
List price: $54.50
ISBN-10: 1560323396
ISBN-13: 9781560323396

Many modern theories hold that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, freeing the survivor to develop new relationships. This work, however, argues that proper resolution of grief should enable one to develop and maintain a continuing healthy bond with the deceased.

Authors:Ted Hopf, Ted Hopf,
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: policy, foreign, russian, understandings
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 1999-08-01
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0271019158
ISBN-13: 9780271019154

New perspectives on Russia’s foreign policy in the post-Soviet era from an international team of experts pursuing a variety of theoretical approaches. “This collection of essays, with their diverse national perspectives and innovative theoretical approaches, challenges the boundaries of existing scholarship on Russian foreign policy. The authors make a significant contribution both to the theory of international relations and to current understandings of Russian foreign policy.” —James Richter, Bates College “This volume represents an important contribution to theoretical d