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The troubling gap between moral values and professional action poses a problem for professional education that is not easily resolved by offering courses on ethics or moral development. This book provides a framework for professors and practitioners who are seeking integration of moral reasoning into professional education and interventions.

In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the United States, killing more than 1, 500 people and directly affecting 1.5 million people, while destroying 300, 000 homes. This title focuses on the ability of law and legal institutions to not only survive such disasters but to effectively facilitate recovery.

A memoir of the author's growing up in Utica, New York, in the 1940s and 1950s. It celebrates the traditions and experiences of Italian American life. It presents a vivid detail not only his own early experiences but also the motley cast of characters surrounding him, paying tribute to indelible family ties.

Presents a progress review of sector strategy by the World Bank. This book tells that the strategy proposed a fresh conceptual framework - Social Risk Management - to review and reform interventions and propose new ones that better assist vulnerable people in addressing the many risks to which they are exposed.

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Features essays that represent the principal themes and issues that have occupied scholars of late medieval monophonic songs: their place in history and society, the role of women as composers and performers, poetic and musical structures, styles, and genres, relationships between poems and melodies, and written and oral transmission.

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Previously out of print, Reuben and Rachel traces American history in the many generations of one family, emphasizing the stories of women and Native Americans.

Critics within and outside the field of education often point out the absence of a strong reciprocal connection between research and practice. In this book, leading scholars in the field examine the available research on the use of evidence in education and provide suggestions for strengthening the research-to-practice pipeline.

Contains essays that explore identity in different contexts that include space, time, myth, religion, and media. This book offers examples of the various ways in which a number of contextual frameworks work together in creating and sustaining identities, in space and through time.

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What teen wouldn't be interested in a poetry slam, hosting a cable TV show, or learning to be a DJ? This title provides 25 teen programs from public libraries based on the Search Institute's "40 Developmental Assets for Teens". The companion CD-ROM provides the sign-up forms, promotional posters, evaluation worksheets, permission slips, and more.

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No fewer than seven hundred Civil War films have been made by Hollywood from early silent days to the present, from the epoch-making "Birth of a Nation", through "The Red Badge of Courage" and "Gone With the Wind" to the recent "Glory", "Ride with the Devil" and "Cold Mountain". This readable and innovative book on the American Civil War as presented in Hollywood cinema goes deep into the best of these films, arguing that rather than belonging...

What do you do if you need to seek a court order against a former employee who has set up in competition with you, having first helped themselves to your customer database? This guide gives you the knowledge that you need to make crucial decisions to protect your intellectual assets before it is too late.

Focuses on wireless and mobile technologies in the field of rhetoric and composition. This book offers rhetoric and composition teachers, scholars, and administrators a range of practical and theoretical insights on wireless and mobile technologies. It serves as a resource for theoretical explorations on wireless and mobile technology use.

While an avalanche of tourists has a positive impact on the local economy, such modern mass tourism also brings about negative externalities such as congestion, decline in quality of life, low access to cultural amenities and loss of local identity. This book examines these issues and puts forward methodologies for cultural conservation policies.

The home run has changed the game of baseball, moving it into a sport where might makes right and fans clamor for the clout. Home Run¿s Most Wanted¿: The Top 10 Book of Monumental Dingers, Prodigious Swingers, and Everything Long-Ball celebrates all there is about the home run, from the folks that hit it, the guys that serve it up, and even the voices proclaiming, ¿It¿s outta here!¿David Vincent, called¿The Sultan of Swat Stats¿ by ESPN, bring...

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This timely book examines the complex and varied relations between educational institutions and societies at war. Drawn from the pages of the Harvard Educational Review, the essays provide multiple perspectives on how educational institutions support and oppose wartime efforts. As the editors of the volume note, the book reveals how people swept up in wars "reconsider and reshape education to reflect or resist the commitments, ideals, structur...