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Alternative development
strategies for the post-2015 era /edited by José Antonio Alonso, Giovanni
Andrea Cornia, Rob Vos.
Provides
new ideas to address today's global development challenges, evaluating past
experience and exploring answers for the future.
Basic income: a transformative
policy for India /Sarath Davala, Renana Jhabvala , Soumya Kapoor Mehta and
Guy Standing.
This book
draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in
which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditional
monthly cash payment. The book draws on a series of evaluation surveys
conducted over the course of the eighteen months in which the main pilot was in
operation, supplemented with detailed case studies of individuals and families.
It looks at the impact on health and nutrition, on schooling, on economic
activity, women’s agency and the welfare of those with disabilities. Above all,
the book considers whether or not a basic income could be transformative, in
not only improving individual and family welfare but in promoting economic
growth and development, as well as having an emancipatory effect for people
long mired in conditions of poverty and economic insecurity.
The first
edition of this book attracted a record number of online hits. Busy public
sector managers now have available to them an updated version that integrates
an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide that incorporates the many practical tips
needed for successful procurement activity.
Public debt, inequality, and power:
the making of a modern debt state /Sandy Brian Hager.
The first
comprehensive historical analysis of public debt ownership in the United
States. It reveals that ownership of federal bonds has been increasingly
concentrated in the hands of the 1 percent over the last three decades. Based
on extensive and original research, Public Debt, Inequality, and Power will
shock and enlighten.
EDUCATION
Tells the
extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California,
created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries.
The Master Plan's equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach
of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world's
leading system of public research universities. Yet remarkably, the political
conditions supporting the California idea in California itself have evaporated.
Can the social values embodied in Kerr's vision be renewed?
LINGUISTICS
Syntax
of Dutch /Hans Broekhuis ... [et al.].
A synthesis
of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily
concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and
provides support to all researchers interested in matters relating to the
syntax of Dutch, including advanced students of language and linguistics.
PHILOSOPHY
The
Cambridge companion to medieval logic /edited by Catarina Dutilh Novaes and
Stephen Read.
This
volume, the first dedicated and comprehensive companion to medieval logic,
covers both the Latin and the Arabic traditions, and shows that they were in
fact sister traditions, which both arose against the background of a
Hellenistic heritage and which influenced one another over the centuries. The
volume is divided into two parts, 'Periods and Traditions' and 'Themes',
allowing readers to engage with the subject from both historical and more
systematic perspectives. It will be a must-read for students and scholars of
medieval philosophy, the history of logic, and the history of ideas.
The
Cambridge companion to Popper /edited by Jeremy Shearmur (Australian
National University), Geoffrey Stokes (RMIT University).
This book
sets out the historical and intellectual contexts in which Popper worked, and
offers an overview and diverse criticisms of his central ideas. The volume
brings together contributors with expertise on Popper's work, including people
personally associated with Popper, specialists on the topics treated, and
scholars with special interests in aspects of Popper's work.
Purely
objective reality /by John Deely.
This
volume solves the problem of the subjectivity/objectivity couplet, making an
indispensable contribution both to semiotics and to philosophy. Foremost
American philosopher, John Deely, offers the first sustained and theoretically
consistent interrogation of the means by which human understanding of 'reality'
will be instrumental in the survival – or destruction – of planet Earth.
POLITICAL STUDIES
Barack Obama's post-American
foreign policy /Robert Singh
Robert
Singh argues that Obama's approach of 'strategic engagement' was appropriate
for a new era of constrained internationalism, but it has yielded modest
results. Obama's search for the pragmatic middle has cost him political support
at home and abroad, whilst failing to make decisive gains. Singh suggests by
calibrating his foreign policies to the emergence of a 'post-American' world,
the president has yet to preside over a renaissance of US global leadership.
PSYCHOLOGY
Clinical
handbook of couple therapy /edited by Alan S. Gurman.
Lauded as
"the definitive Handbook of Couple Therapy," this authoritative work
provides a definitive overview of the major models of couple therapy and their
clinical applications. In the newly revised and expanded fourth edition,
leaders in the field describe the history, theoretical and empirical
underpinnings, and methods of each approach. The treatment of specific problems
and populations is then addressed, complete with detailed illustrations of
therapeutic strategies and techniques. Important new topics include treating
borderline personality disorder in couple therapy, working with remarried
partners, culturally competent practice with African American clients, and
legal and ethical issues.
What
is narrative therapy?: an easy-to-read introduction /by Alice Morgan. PRINT
With
accessible language, a concise structure, and a wide range of practical
examples, this is a very popular easy-to-read introduction to the ideas and
practices of narrative therapy. This book covers a broad spectrum of narrative
practices including externalisation, re-membering, therapeutic letter writing,
and the use of rituals, leagues, reflecting teams, and much more. If you are a
therapist, health worker, or community worker who is trying to apply narrative
ideas in your own context, this book has been written with you in mind.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Facets of Facebook: use
and users /Katsiaryna S. Baran and Kathrin Knautz.
This
collected volume gathers a broad spectrum of social science and information
science articles about Facebook. We also consider Facebook as a source for
local temporary history and respond to acceptance and quality perceptions of
this social network service, as well. It is a much needed compilation written
by leading scholars in the fields of investigation of the impact of Web 2.0.
Scale: discourse and dimensions of
social life /edited by E. Summerson Carr and Michael Lempert.
This
pathbreaking volume attends to the practical labor of scale-making and the
communicative practices this labor requires. From an ethnographic perspective,
the authors demonstrate that scale is practice and process before it becomes
product, whether in the work of projecting the commons, claiming access to the
big picture, or scaling the seriousness of a crime.
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
The
Cambridge companion to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament /edited by Stephen B.
Chapman and Marvin A. Sweeney.
This
Companion offers a concise and engaging introduction to the Hebrew Bible or Old
Testament. Providing an up-to-date 'snapshot' of scholarship, it includes
essays, specially commissioned for this volume, by twenty-three leading
scholars. The volume examines a range of topics, including the historical and
religious contexts for the contents of the biblical canon, and critical
approaches and methods, as well as newer topics such as the Hebrew Bible in
Islam, Western art and literature, and contemporary politics. This Companion is
an excellent resource for students at university and graduate level, as well as
for laypeople and scholars in other fields who would like to gain an
understanding of the current state of the academic discussion.
Hand
book of Wesleyan missions [electronic resource]: briefly describing their rise,
progress, and present state in various parts of the world /William Moister.
The prime
object of this brief manual is to present as clearly, and in as small a compass
as possible, a simple statement of the
principal facts and incidents connected with the present state of the work in
various parts of the world. The author has carefully read and studied all the
communications of the missionaries which have been published from the
beginning; as well as some valuable manuscripts preserved at the Mission House
which have been placed at his disposal. The information gleaned from these
interesting records has been carefully tabulated, analysed and used after being
tested by the writer’s personal experience and observation during the past
fifty years.
SCIENCES
The
Cambridge companion to Newton /edited by Rob Iliffe, University of Oxford,
George E. Smith, Tufts University.
This new
edition of The Cambridge Companion to
Newton provides authoritative introductions to his endeavours as well as to
many aspects of his physics. It includes a revised bibliography, a new
introduction and six new chapters: updating previous chapters on Newton's
mathematics, his chemistry and alchemy and the reception of his religious views,
his ancient chronology and the treatment of continuous and discontinuous forces
in his second law of motion.
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