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Chapters provide: an overview of existing literature, model description, research procedures, model application to a specific police executive development program, reaction by North Carolina police chiefs, and a description of how the model can be applied to any police management development program.

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This book treats the New York State bureaucracy as a living laboratory, documenting the ways in which people at work for New York State respond to the unavoidable frustrations of government service.

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Rock climbing is one of today's most popular 'extreme sports.' Although many women are involved, the sport retains a particularly male image and culture. This book presents a study of rock climbing in the UK, analysing what it reveals about the contemporary construction and performance of masculinity through sport.

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Rock climbing is one of today's most popular 'extreme sports.' Although many women are involved, the sport retains a particularly male image and culture. This book presents a study of rock climbing in the UK, analysing what it reveals about the contemporary construction and performance of masculinity through sport.

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Evolution of the Modern Sports Fan: Communicative Approaches analyzes the modern understandings of fanship in an age of mega-media influence by putting in conversation scholarship about fan traits, psychologies, and behavior inside sport and beyond.

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Evolution of the Modern Sports Fan: Communicative Approaches analyzes the modern understandings of fanship in an age of mega-media influence by putting in conversation scholarship about fan traits, psychologies, and behavior inside sport and beyond.

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Arguing against commonly held assumptions about network exchange theory and its interpretation of all social actions as economic exchanges, Zafirovski seeks to explain these processes by employing an interdisciplinary approach and by examining the impact of social and institutional structures on market-economic exchange.

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This book is a sociological exploration of the process of returning to the ordinary world after extraordinary experiences.

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This book is a sociological exploration of the process of returning to the ordinary world after extraordinary experiences.

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A distinctive and accessible introductory text that presents social theory not as a specialist subject, but as a relevant resource for anyone wanting to explain social phenomenon. The text actively encourages those who are new to social theory, as well as more advanced students, to develop and practice their own capacities for social explanation.

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Its a book of thematically interconnected ethnographic essays by the internationally esteemed sociologist Rene C. Fox, who employs a participant observer outlook to provide insight on enduring-and pressing-issues of geopolitics, epidemics, aging, friendship and humanitarian action and on the meaning and meaningfulness of teaching and writing.

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Its a book of thematically interconnected ethnographic essays by the internationally esteemed sociologist Rene C. Fox, who employs a participant observer outlook to provide insight on enduring-and pressing-issues of geopolitics, epidemics, aging, friendship and humanitarian action and on the meaning and meaningfulness of teaching and writing.

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For teachers, the detailed analysis of texts and the method for determining realization rules will help in guiding students who must understand and produce research articles.

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This book provides a comprehensive examination of the human face, providing fascinating information from biological, cultural, and social perspectives.

Our faces identify who we arenot only what we look like and what ethnicities we belong to, but they can also identify what religions we practice and what personal ideologies we have.

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This book draws on research at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary school, to explore how neoliberal education models reproduce raced and classed inequalities. -- .

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This book draws on research at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary school, to explore how neoliberal education models reproduce raced and classed inequalities. -- .

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This book discusses the theory that alternative relationship and family structures challenge the privileged status of the nuclear family as the preferable mode of family life for all, and the one to be endorsed and encouraged by society.

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Families have become an increasingly important source of support for the elderly, and gerontologists are directing more and more attention to older adults and their families.

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An in-depth and multifaceted examination of the contemporary American family, this introductory handbook is the only one of its kind and presents a solid, authoritative overview.

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This volume will be of interest to those concerned with family studies and family history, global environmental history, and the history of disease, as well as those concerned with demographic history.

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