Author: Grzegorz W. Kolodko
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Keywords: studies, central, europe, rochester, economies, catching, transition, globalization
Number of Pages: 110
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 158046050X
ISBN-13: 9781580460507

Kolodko, former finance minister of Poland, considers the links between issues of globalization and post-communist transition, the two most important economic features of the turn of the century. He discusses the pattern of economic growth and contraction of the past fifty years, and reviews the options for the next half century. He accounts for the severity of the transitional recession in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union as a result of both the legacies of the past and current policy mistakes, but demonstrates how structural reforms and gradual institutional building have enabled s

Author: Elizabeth Isichei
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Keywords: studies, rochester, african, history, diaspora, imagination, popular, poor, africa, moral, economy, voices
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1580461794
ISBN-13: 9781580461795

Author: Elizabeth MacGonagle
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Keywords: african, history, diaspora, studies, rochester, identity, zimbabwe, mozambique, crafting
Number of Pages: 205
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 158046257X
ISBN-13: 9781580462570

With this first comprehensive history of the Ndau of eastern Zimbabwe and central Mozambique, Elizabeth MacGonagle moves beyond national borders to show how cultural identities are woven from historical memories that predate the arrival of missionaries and colonial officials on the African continent. Drawing on archival records and oral histories from throughout the Ndau region, her study analyzes the complex relationships between social identity and political power from 1500 to 1900. Ndauness has been created and recreated within communities through marriages and social structures, cultural

Author: Elizabeth Brayer
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Keywords: biography, eastman, george
Number of Pages: 654
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1580462472
ISBN-13: 9781580462471

Now back in print, this life of George Eastman is the first biography since 1930 of the man who transformed the world of photography. In this revealing and informative work, Brayer shows us how such key innovations as roll film and the light, hand-held camera helped the Eastman Kodak Company dominate the world market. More importantly, Brayer draws a vivid portrait of the man behind the money. Eastman worked hard at staying out of the limelight and even insisted that his donations be kept anonymous, prompting the Boston Globe to call him "America’s most modest and least-known millionaire

Authors:Edward L. Deci, Edward L. Deci, Richard M. Ryan,
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Keywords: research, determination, handbook
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1580461565
ISBN-13: 9781580461566

Over the past twenty years an increasing number of researchers from various universities have been investigating motivational issues underlying the self-regulation of behavior. Using either Self-Determination Theory or closely related theoretical perspectives, these researchers have performed laboratory experiments, as well as field studies in a variety of real-world settings, including education, work, parenting, health care, sport, and protection of the environment. In April 1999 thirty of these researchers convened at the University of Rochester to present their work, share ideas, and discu

Authors:Anthony L. Suchman, Patricia Hinton-Walker, Richard
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Keywords: process, relational, transforming, healthcare, partnerships
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1998-06-11
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1878822802
ISBN-13: 9781878822802

This extensive collection of 28 essays written by over 40 leading health care professionals in the United States provides both theoretical and practical approaches to improving the quality of partnership skills practiced within the health system, and whether at the level of patient and clinician or of insurers and government -without a commitment to partnership and the knowledge and skills to make it happen. Using theoretical models and a wide variety of specific examples from clinical,educational and administrative settings, the authors show how the partnership process can be guided by core v

Author: John Edward Philips
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Keywords: african, history, diaspora, studies, rochester, writing
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2005-05
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1580461646
ISBN-13: 9781580461641

Writing African History is an essential work for anyone who wants to write, or even seriously read, African history. It will replace Daniel McCall’s classic Africa in Time Perspective as the introduction to African history for the next generation and as a reference for professional historians, interested readers, and anyone who wants to understand how African history is written. Africa in Time Perspective was written in the 1960s, when African history was a new field of research. This new book reflects the development of African history since then. It opens with a comprehensive introdu