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A Sensory Education takes a close look at how sensory awareness is learned and taught in expert and everyday settings around the world.

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Provides a solution to the ecological inference problem, which has plagued users of statistical methods for over seventy-five years: How can researchers reliably infer individual-level behavior from aggregate (ecological) data This work begins with a qualitative overview, readable even by those without a statistical background.

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"An illuminating analysis of the book that helped launch the movement that freed women to participate more fully in American society."--Wall Street Journal

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This major contribution to young adult genealogy studies helps create ethnic pride, self-esteem, and awareness of the extraordinary accomplishments each ethnic group has brought to the American experience.

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Table for one: A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time is the first book to consider the profound relationship between singlehood and time. -- .

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Table for one: A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time is the first book to consider the profound relationship between singlehood and time. -- .

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Some in the social sciences argue that the same logic applies to both qualitative and quantitative methods. This title discusses major differences between these two traditions that touch various aspects of social science research, including design, goals, causal effects and models, concepts and measurement, data analysis, and case selection.

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Some in the social sciences argue that the same logic applies to both qualitative and quantitative methods. This title discusses major differences between these two traditions that touch various aspects of social science research, including design, goals, causal effects and models, concepts and measurement, data analysis, and case selection.

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The 20th century saw a dramatic shift of the hub of science and social science systems to the USA. This dynamic began to unfold at precisely the same time as the power structure of Central Europe shifted towards dictatorship. This book explores the invention of empirical social research and the contribution of German emigres to its establishment.

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The authors analyze the rhetorical discourse characteristic of the Chicano protest movement of the sixties and seventies, focusing on four prominent activists, Cesar Chavez, Rodolfo Corky Gonzalez, Jose Angel Gutierrez, and Reies Lopez Tijerina.

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Action Research and Organizational Development describes a process of change that encourages research and consulting skills. This particular type of applied social research differs from other varieties in the immediacy of the researcher's involvement and collaboration in each stage of researching, focusing, and implementing.

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In this text the authors put forward the view that our short, medium, and long-term behaviour, interactions and relationships - whether planned or spontaneous, purposeful or playful - can be understood in terms of goal-directed systems, and present a theory of goal-directed action.

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The personal and emotional stories related in this work realistically illustrate both the positive and negative aspects of adoption. The varied characters and events of each story address many of the unique situations presented by adoption.

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This compilation of the best thinking about adoption by both historical and current authorities reveals a vital, ever-changing practice affecting the lives of millions of people around the globe.

The ancient practice of adoption has changed significantly through history.

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An advertising executive and sociologist who has studied alcoholism at length analyzes worldwide theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between mass media and advertising and alcohol consumption and abuse.

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