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Popular Representations of Development
Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media
Series: Rethinking Development
Although the academic study of development is well established, as is also its policy implementation, less considered are the broader, more popular understandings of development that often shape agendas and priorities, particularly in representative democracies. Through its accessible and...
To Be Published August 22nd 2013 by Routledge
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Red Activists and Black Freedom
James and Esther Jackson and the Long Civil Rights Revolution
This book deals with the forgotten history of the civil rights movement. The American Left played a significant part in the origins of that movement, whose history has traditionally been focused on the later 1940's and early 1950's. This approach needs serious re-thinking in light of what took...
To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
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Red Activists and Black Freedom
James and Esther Jackson and the Long Civil Rights Revolution
This book deals with the forgotten history of the civil rights movement. The American Left played a significant part in the origins of that movement, whose history has traditionally been focused on the later 1940's and early 1950's. This approach needs serious re-thinking in light of what took...
Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
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A Life Adrift
Soeda Azembo, Popular Song and Modern Mass Culture in Japan
Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan’s first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding of how ordinary people experienced and accommodated the tumult of life in prewar Japan. Azembo ...
Published July 19th 2010 by Routledge
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Operations Management
Series: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management
Operations management is concerned with the fundamental activity of organizations - how they provide goods and services. One of the earliest branches of business and management studies, the increase in international competition has seen a resurgence of interest in the development of the operation...
Published January 22nd 2003 by Routledge
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Soothing and Stress
This volume addresses topics related to the nature of the stress response, the role of environment in individual differences in stress, and the different strategies used for coping with stressful events. The chapters present theoretical and empirical work focused on a wide range of issues related...
Published May 12th 1999 by Psychology Press
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Soothing and Stress
This volume addresses topics related to the nature of the stress response, the role of environment in individual differences in stress, and the different strategies used for coping with stressful events. The chapters present theoretical and empirical work focused on a wide range of issues related...
Published March 31st 1999 by Psychology Press
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Families, Risk, and Competence
The problems of studying families arise from the difficulty in studying systems where there are multiple elements interacting with each other and with the child. How should this system be described? Still other problems relate to indirect effects; namely the influence of a particular dyad's...
Published June 30th 1998 by Routledge
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Emotional Development in Atypical Children
Early emotional development, emotional regulation, and the links between emotion and social or cognitive functioning in atypically developing children have not received much attention. This lack is due in part to the priorities given to the educational and therapeutic needs of these children. Yet...
Published May 31st 1996 by Psychology Press