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Measuring Outcome in the Public Sector
ISBN: 9780748404049 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Outcome in the management of public services refers to the impact of a particular public sector activity. This book provides a critical assessment of the way outcome is measured, exploring the need to balance objective and subjective forms of measurement.
Outcome in the management of public services refers to the impact of a particular public sector activity. This book provides a critical assessment of ...
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Understanding Changes In Time : The Development Of Diachronic Thinking In 7-12 Year Old Children
ISBN: 9780748404704 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides an analysis of how children come to be able to understand the dynamic nature of causality - how processes take place through time. The author studies the capabilities and limitations of 7-12 year old children in order to assess their conception of evolutionary processes. His study follows on from Piaget's work on causality, and is intended to contribute to the literature on theory of mind and children's scientific development. The book draws on experimental studies of diachronic thinking in children and adults, and discusses the importance of a well-developed diachronic...
This text provides an analysis of how children come to be able to understand the dynamic nature of causality - how processes take place through time. ...
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Beyond Fragments: Adults, Motivation and Higher Education
ISBN: 9780748404865 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adults now constitute the majority of students in higher education; what they bring to it, want and need are important questions in the development of a more responsive higher education. The author discusses the relationship between motives, education, and life history to explore how culture and history shape people and their motives for learning, taking into account variations in gender, social background and ethnicity, challenging the orthodox view that non-traditional students enter higher educational for vocational/material reasons.
Adults now constitute the majority of students in higher education; what they bring to it, want and need are important questions in the development of...
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215,01 |
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Psychology, Discourse And Social Practice : From Regulation To Resistance
ISBN: 9780748405039 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by expert practitioner-researchers, this co-authoured book explores how psychology legislates on normality and then uses its expert knowledge to turn social marginalism into pathology. Chapters address a range of cultural and institutional arenas in which inequalities structured around categories of gender, race, class and sexuality are reproduced by psychological practices: from self-help books to special hospitals, from school exclusions to Gender Identity Clinics, from mothering magazines to mental health services. Far from documenting just the damage, this book identifies the ways...
Written by expert practitioner-researchers, this co-authoured book explores how psychology legislates on normality and then uses its expert knowledge ...
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928,67 |
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Psychology, Discourse and Social Practice: From Regulation to Resistance
ISBN: 9780748405046 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What damage does psychology do to people's lives, and what can we do about it? How do we recognise and support resistance? Written by expert practitioners-researchers, this co-authored book explores how psychology legislates on normality and then uses its "expert" knowledge to turn social marginalisation into pathology.
Chapters address a range of cultural and institutional arenas in which inequalities structured around categories of gender, "race," class and sexuality are reproduced by psychological practices: from self-help books to special hospitals, from school exclusions to Gender... What damage does psychology do to people's lives, and what can we do about it? How do we recognise and support resistance? Written by expert practitio...
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The Social Psychology of Collective Action
ISBN: 9780748405114 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides an analysis of collective behaviour - a central topic in social psychology. Considering why individuals do or don't get involved in collective action, the book gives an overview of, and integrates, social psychology research on the relationship between the individual and society.
This text provides an analysis of collective behaviour - a central topic in social psychology. Considering why individuals do or don't get involved in...
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The Little Trials of Childhood: And Children's Strategies for Dealing with Them
ISBN: 9780750704540 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A little explored area of childhood is that of the troubles and difficulties children experience simply by being children. Using adults' stories about being a child, such as not being believed, being left unprotected against monsters, and discovering that Santa Claus is not real, this book presents children as they live in the social worlds of adults and in social worlds of their own making. The book brings to life the "little trials of childhood" - anxieties and problems facing children which seem to escape the attention of adults.
A little explored area of childhood is that of the troubles and difficulties children experience simply by being children. Using adults' stories about...
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Children's Reflections On Family Life
ISBN: 9780750705738 / Angielski / Twarda / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How important is the family for children? How do children cope when parents have to juggle child care, employment and other responsibilities? In this volume these questions, and others, are raised and reflected upon, by children themselves, providing insights for parents and professionals.
How important is the family for children? How do children cope when parents have to juggle child care, employment and other responsibilities? In this ...
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928,67 |
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Children's Reflections on Family Life
ISBN: 9780750705745 / Angielski / Miękka / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How important is the family for children? How do children cope when parents have to juggle child care, employment and other responsibilities? In this volume these questions, and others, are raised and reflected upon, by children themselves, providing insights for parents and professionals.
How important is the family for children? How do children cope when parents have to juggle child care, employment and other responsibilities? In this ...
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Studies in Behavioral Anthropology
ISBN: 9780759105744 / Angielski / Twarda / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a unique collection of essays illustrating the author's distinctive approach to cross-cultural research, and a valuable companion volume to Graves's Behavioral Anthropology. Graves and his co-authors offer fifteen research essays as supplemental readings in research methodology, to convey the challenge and excitement of conducting systematic behavioral science research cross-culturally. For those concerned with a behavioral, scientific approach to anthropology, this book will be a valuable reference and teaching tool.
This is a unique collection of essays illustrating the author's distinctive approach to cross-cultural research, and a valuable companion volume to Gr...
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518,10 |
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Studies in Behavioral Anthropology
ISBN: 9780759105751 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a unique collection of essays illustrating the author's distinctive approach to cross-cultural research, and a valuable companion volume to Graves's Behavioral Anthropology. Graves and his co-authors offer fifteen research essays as supplemental readings in research methodology, to convey the challenge and excitement of conducting systematic behavioral science research cross-culturally. For those concerned with a behavioral, scientific approach to anthropology, this book will be a valuable reference and teaching tool.
This is a unique collection of essays illustrating the author's distinctive approach to cross-cultural research, and a valuable companion volume to Gr...
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205,29 |
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Self Recognition: Your Path to Love, Peace and Fulfillment
ISBN: 9780759623965 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author introduces 189 universal truths, illustrates each with case histories from her experience as a teacher/counselor, provides a powerful self-awareness exercise to clarify life-problems related to each truth, and guides readers to the appropriate practical action that leads to lasting change.
The author introduces 189 universal truths, illustrates each with case histories from her experience as a teacher/counselor, provides a powerful self-...
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Self Recognition: Your Path to Love, Peace and Fulfillment
ISBN: 9780759623972 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author introduces 189 universal truths, illustrates each with case histories from her experience as a teacher/counselor, provides a powerful self-awareness exercise to clarify your life-problems related to each truth, and guides readers to the appropriate practical action that leads to lasting change.
The author introduces 189 universal truths, illustrates each with case histories from her experience as a teacher/counselor, provides a powerful self-...
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Wounded Monster: Hitler's Path from Trauma to Malevolence
ISBN: 9780761824169 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few authors who have written about Hitler have understood the deeply damaging effects of psychic trauma on his private life and the way he functioned in the public sphere. Nearly all major biographers have neglected the importance of Hitler's childhood trauma and his later combat trauma during World War I.
Few authors who have written about Hitler have understood the deeply damaging effects of psychic trauma on his private life and the way he functioned ...
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Desire and Belief: Introduction to Some Recent Philosophical Debates
ISBN: 9780761827153 / Angielski / Miękka / 618 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Some call it folk psychology; others call it the perennial philosophy. According to Arthur Falk, author of Desire and Belief, it's the traditional account of the mind's features that make it unique in nature. This work examines the nature of what philosophers call de re mental attitudes, paying close attention to the controversies over the nature of these and allied mental states. Over the course of the book, a story emerges within the traditional account that ultimately appeals to Darwinian principles. The book concludes with two chapters on the contemporary project of naturalizing the mind.
Some call it folk psychology; others call it the perennial philosophy. According to Arthur Falk, author of Desire and Belief, it's the traditional acc...
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Toward a Unified Platonic Human Psychology
ISBN: 9780761828167 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Toward a Unified Platonic Human Psychology defends a coherent view of "Platonic Psychology," or looking at human psychology as circular motion in the brain. Author John Mark Reynolds, using the psychology of Plato's Timaeus, advances the discussion of Plato's psychology by proposing a new reading of his view of the human soul. The implications of Plato's psychology on his ethics, view of the animal world, and theology are also examined.
Toward a Unified Platonic Human Psychology defends a coherent view of "Platonic Psychology," or looking at human psychology as circular motion in the ...
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When Things Begin to Go Bad: Narrative Explorations of Difficult Issues
ISBN: 9780761828655 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does a person make sense of their life when things begin to go bad? Editors George Howard and Edward Delgado-Romero posed this question to several psychologists, counselors, and therapists, to have them talk about a time in their lives when things began to go bad. When Things Begin to Go Bad presents thirteen personal narratives focused on hope--rather than despair and darkness--and deals with issues including health problems, racism, homophobia, disability, dysfunction, and death. The hope generated by these stories provides a realistic and mature trust that there is something to be...
How does a person make sense of their life when things begin to go bad? Editors George Howard and Edward Delgado-Romero posed this question to several...
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Disordered and Deviant Behavior: Learning Gone Awry
ISBN: 9780761828822 / Angielski / Twarda / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes several programs of research into psychological disorder and deviance conducted by author Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr. during his distinguished career as a university professor.
This book describes several programs of research into psychological disorder and deviance conducted by author Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr. during his disti...
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Disordered and Deviant Behavior: Learning Gone Awry
ISBN: 9780761828839 / Angielski / Miękka / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes several programs of research into psychological disorder and deviance conducted by author Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr. during his distinguished career as a university professor.
This book describes several programs of research into psychological disorder and deviance conducted by author Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr. during his disti...
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Taking Narrative Risk: The Empowerment of Abuse Survivors
ISBN: 9780761829140 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This powerful book recounts the process of a study that examines personal narratives of abuse survivors by assessing the relationship between narration and teller empowerment.
This powerful book recounts the process of a study that examines personal narratives of abuse survivors by assessing the relationship between narratio...
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190,63 |