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This collection of articles critically addresses current issues in Hawai'i's Japanese American community such as the decline of plantation communities, Uchinanchu identity and culture, changing definitions of being Japanese American, the significance of the Cherry Blossom Queen pageant, and Yonsei identity.

Discovering Nutrition" offers a concise look at the science of nutrition through the lens of today's issues and hot topics. In this compact, accessible overview, the central topics and scientific building blocks of nutrition are emphasized. The book follows the "life and times" of nutrients from their presence in the environment and the body to their role in health and disease, with a focus throughout on the current practical and social issues...

Examines substance use and abuse from a variety of sociological perspectives.

Author Randi Stone is an expert at observing award-winning classroom teachers and creating compilations of their best practices that all teachers can enjoy reading and adapting for their own use. This collection focuses on how creative teachers cope with constant change: new standards, new requirements for curriculum, instruction, and assessment, shifts in funding, class size, and school populations, rapid advances in math, science, and techno...

Die richtig erfolgreichen und berühmten Trader verdienen Millionen von Euro, manchmal in nur wenigen Tagen. Jack Schwager, in Deutschland bekannt durch seine renommierten Publikationen über die Terminmärkte, lüftet in feinfühligen Interviews mit 15 Stars der amerikanischen Trader- und Investorenszene die Geheimnisse ihres Erfolges. Dem praxisorientierten US-Trader gelingt es nicht nur, ein Lebensgefühl dieser

This completely revised third edition of Smith's classic text on Arizona politics and public policy brings its examination up to date through the most recent election cycle.

Using some 200 hours of oral history by survivors of the Holocaust as a window into the operation of extended recall of personally experienced traumatic events, Kraft (cognitive psychology, Otterbein U.) applies constructs from memory research to the testimony. In separate chapters he looks at how memories are constructed by those who were infants

Rethinking the Purpose of Business challenges reigning shareholder and stakeholder management theories using philosophical and theological dimensions of the Catholic social tradition. In this useful book, the contributors, including management theorists, moral theologians, economists, ethicists, and attorneys, debate complicated issues such as the ethics of profit seeking, equity and efficiency in the firm, the shareholder value principle, soc...

Lernen mit elektronischen Dokumenten wird immer wichtiger. Der entscheidende Vorteil des Mediums Computer ist die Möglichkeit, dynamische Dokumente zu erzeugen. Diese Dynamik kann zum einen in den einzelnen Inhalten liegen (Animationen, Simulationen) oder in der Erstellung der Dokumente (adaptive Anpassung an die einzelnen Benutzer/innen). Die Lerndokumente liegen dafür in Modulen, nicht als ein großes Dokument vor. Um diese Vorteile nutzen zu...

Reassesses Synge's dramatic canon, arguing that he drafted the means for achieving a new, radical Ireland.

Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (RSSSR) publishes reports of innovative studies that pertain empirically or theoretically to the scientific study of religion, including spirituality, regardless of their academic discipline or professional orientation. It is academically eclectic, not restricted to any one particular theoretical orientation or research method. Most of our articles report the findings of quantitative or quali...

This is the most thorough and up-to-date treatment of the Eleventh Amendment's guarantee of state sovereign immunity. Beginning with an extensive history of the Amendment and its ratification, Durchslag then provides a chronological discussion of the development of its jurisprudence from 1793-1890. The developments of various doctrinal components are then traced topically, along with suggestions as to how they may evolve. The work concludes wi...

Analyzes the art of using armed force to support diplomacy and military activities short of major conventional war.

Uses personal stories/interviews to construct a collective narrative of abortion.

Examines the worldwide growth of women-owned businesses, who the entrepreneurs are and what motivates them, their successes and how they were achieved, with lists of sources for assistance and a model business plan to help in your search for funding.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part I. A Knowledge Services Profession -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Point of Departure -- Chapter Three. Professional Learning -- Chapter Four. Professionalism, Accreditation, and Certification -- Chapter Five. Information, Knowledge Services, and the Organization -- Chapter Six. KD/KS: Knowledge Development/Knowledge Sharing: -- Chapter Seven. KD/KS: Qualification Management f...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Tables -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE. Publishing from the Past to the Present -- CHAPTER TWO. Publishing in the Global Economy -- CHAPTER THREE. Forms of Publishing -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Publishing Process -- CHAPTER FIVE. Selling Books -- CHAPTER SIX. Information Technology and Publishing -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Publishing in a Networked World -- Backmatter

Argues that a new class is emerging in the wake of the information economy and studies how this class is reshaping American culture.

The author provides long-needed evidence challenging widespread claims about the supposed shortcomings and weak impact of educational research. The study is based on interviews with principals sampled from major types of schools in two nations: the United States--a highly populated country where research knowledge is often distributed through secondary sources but policy decisions may be made at the local level--and Australia--a less-populated...

This important new study explores how American health care evolved in the 1990s, as well as the changes in public support and policy.