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Creating Models in Psychological Research
This concise reference serves as a companion to traditional research texts by focusing on such essentials as model construction, robust methodologies and defending a compelling hypothesis. Designed to wean Master's and doctorate-level students as well as new researchers from their comfort zones, the book challenges readers to engage in multi-method approaches to answering multidisciplinary ques…
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- 1
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- 9783319157535
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- XXI, 126
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Psychology
- Call Number
- 150
Couple Resilience: Emerging Perspectives
This distinctive volume expands our understanding of couple resilience by identifying and exploring specific mechanisms unique to intimate relationships that facilitate positive adaptation to life challenges. Committed partnerships represent a unique form of relational alliance that offers an opportunity and challenge to go beyond the self - to develop as individuals and as a relationship. The …
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- 1
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- 9789401799096
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- XX, 210
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- -
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- 150
Practicing Professional Ethics in Economics and Public Policy
This volume explores the professional ethics of addresses the varied ethical needs of the professional economists and public policy professionals. Using terms and methods familiar to the reader, the book goes beyond the typical narrative of economics and morality to walk the professional through the process of ethical decision-making. Designed to be easy to navigate and applicable to everyday…
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- 1
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- 978-94-017-7306-5
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- XII, 297
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- -
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- 174 SEA p
Counseling and Action: Toward Life-Enhancing Work, Relationships, and Identity
Engaging in action is at the heart of our most meaningful experiences. And given the fast-paced, goal-driven nature of modern society, engagement in action is also central to how we perceive ourselves. Action has traditionally been viewed as an end product of the counseling process, but now a bold new redefinition makes counseling not only a driver of action, but an action in itself. Counseling…
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- 1
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- 9781493907731
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- XII, 350
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- -
- Call Number
- 158.3
The Pleasure of Punishment
Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies, contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have generated pleasure, according to contemporary observers, in ancient Greece, in medieval Catholic Europe, in the early-modern absolutist stat…
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- 9780429589614
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- -
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- 174 HOR p
Ambivalences of Creating Life: Societal and Philosophical Dimensions of Synth…
"Synthetic biology" is the label of a new technoscientific field with many different facets and agendas. One common aim is to "create life", primarily by using engineering principles to design and modify biological systems for human use. In a wider context, the topic has become one of the big cases in the legitimization processes associated with the political agenda to solve global problems wit…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-21088-9
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- XVII, 335
- Series Title
- Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
- Call Number
- 100 AMB a
Healing and Change in the City of Gold: Case Studies of Coping and Support in…
This volume collects case studies on the lives of people living in post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. In doing so, it considers how people manage, respond to, narrate and/or silence their experiences of past and present violence, multiple insecurities and precarity in contexts where these experiences take on an everyday continuous character. Taking seriously how context shapes the meani…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-08767-2
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- VIII, 187
- Series Title
- Peace Psychology Book Series
- Call Number
- 150 HAN
Reducing Restraint and Restrictive Behavior Management Practices
This book presents an evidence-based framework for replacing harmful, restrictive behavior management practices with safe and effective alternatives. The first half summarizes the concept and history of restraint and seclusion in mental health applications used with impaired elders, children with intellectual disabilities, and psychiatric patients. Subsequent chapters provide robust data and ma…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-17569-0
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- XV, 249
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- Autism and Child Psychopathology Series
- Call Number
- 155
Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences
This book develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distinguish them from non-reductive explanations. Understanding what reductive explanations are enables one to assess the conditions under which reductive explanations are adequate and thus enhances debates about explanatory reductionism. The account of r…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-25310-7
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- XI, 277
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- History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
- Call Number
- 101
Reappraisals : Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory
Reappraisals is a provocative account of the development of modern critical theory in Germany and the United States. Focusing on the period since World War II, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores key debates on the function of critical theory, illuminating the diverse positions and alliances among the participants. Bringing together six essays, as well as new introductory and concluding chapters, Hohe…
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- -
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- 9780801497063
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- -
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- -
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- 100 HOH r
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