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How do we reflect upon ourselves and our concerns in relation to society, and vice versa? Human reflexivity works through ''internal conversations'' using language, but also emotions, sensations and images. Most people acknowledge this ''inner-dialogue'' and can report upon it. However, little research has been conducted on ''internal conversations'' and how they mediate between our ultimate concerns and the social contexts we confront. In this book, Margaret Archer argues that reflexivity is progressively replacing routine action in late modernity, shaping how ordinary people make their way through the world. Using interviewees'' life and work histories, she shows how ''internal conversations'' guide the occupations people seek, keep or quit; their stances towards structural constraints and enablements; and their resulting patterns of social mobility.

In an individual''s later years, bereavement poses an array of difficult issues for coping, assessment, and intervention. In this volume, Hansson and Stroebe present a critical review of the literature and dominant theories in the field of bereavement and examine how protective and problematic developmental processes affect the experience of bereavement in late life.

The Battle of Gettysburg is told from a fresh perspective--the women, immigrants, and African Americans who participated in this epic battle, through memoirs, letters, diaries, and newspaper accounts culled from the documentary history of the period. 30,000 first printing.

Explores the relationship between structure and agency through human reflexivity and the internal conversation.

This easy-to-use resource provides the most current information on practical veterinary medicine. Offering a fresh perspective on many diseases and disorders, it allows for quick and easy access to various subjects. Content is presented in a concise, outline format and covers a wide range of topics including Cardiovascular, Neurology, Reproduction, Dermatology, Diseases of the Ear and Eye, Nutrition, Environment, and a whole lot more! Information is presented in an accessible and concise manner. Nineteen distinct sections and a logical outline format make finding information easier. Each disorder includes: definition, cause(s), pathophysiology, clinical signs, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, treatment, and patient monitoring. Features appendices on normal values, apothecary measures and equivalents, recommended vaccination procedures, and a drug formulary cross-referenced to the chapters of discussion. Discusses surgical treatments and briefly reviews surgical techniques. The drug formulary is expanded and easy to use. A bibliography of selected readings is included. Spanish version of 3rd edition also available, ISBN: 84-8174-351-8

Firms often cite financing constraints as one of their primary obstacles to investment. Global capital flows, by bringing in scarce capital, may ease host-country firms'' financing constraints. However, if incoming foreign investors borrow heavily from domestic basnks, direct foreign investment (DFI) may exacerbate financing constraints by crowding host country firms out of domestic capital markets. Combininb a unique cross-country firm-level panel with time-series data on restrictions on international transactions and capital flows, we find that different measures of global flows are associated with a reduction in firm-level financing constraints. First, we show that one type of capital inflow--DFI--is associated with a reduction in financing constraints. Second, we test whether restrictions on international transactions affect firms'' financing constraints. Our results suggest that only one type of restriction--those on capital account transactions--negatively affect firms'' financing constraints. We also show that multinational firms are not financially constrained and do not appear to be sensitive to the level of DFI. This implies that DFI eases financing constraints for non-multinational firms. Finally, we show that DFI only eases financing constraints in the non-G7 countries.

An examination of the life of Marshal Jean Lannes, this study looks at the career of the only soldier of any rank who consistently said exactly what he thought to Napoleon at every stage of their amazing careers. The marshal not only survived these frank encounters, he was well rewarded for his abilities, which were remarkable even among the stellar senior officers who served the Emperor. While Lannes was best known for his military skill, especially as an advance-guard commander, his unconventional three-year diplomatic career was equally noteworthy, since his diplomatic tactics resulted in particular benefits for France. His career spanned much of what many historians and readers believe to be one of the most fascinating and controversial eras in French history. The marshal''s personality and his tendency to lead by example rather than by orders won him the respect and the affection of his troops. He also charmed a diverse number of his contemporaries, from autocratic rulers to literary icons. Although his relationship with Napoleon was stormy at times, he earned and kept the Emperor''s friendship and esteem. Chrisawn avoids the tendency of previous biographers to either canonize or condemn the marshal, providing instead a balanced treatment of her subject which includes both his strengths and his shortcomings. Marshal Jean Lannes emerges as a complete person within the context of his own intriguing world.

This authoritative handbook provides a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research as well as an assessment of future trends in the field of interpersonal processes. Ensures thorough and up-to-date coverage of all aspects of interpersonal processes Includes contributions by academics and other experts from around the world to ensure a truly international perspective Provides a comprehensive overview of classic and current research and likely future trends Fully referenced chapters and annotated bibliographies allow easy access to further study Now available in full text online via xreferplus, the award-winning reference library on the web from xrefer. For more information, visit www.xreferplus.com

"This paper reports some preliminary efforts to document heat issues in the M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle. This research compared surface and ambient temperatures throughout the driver compartments of the M2A3 and its predecessor, the M2A2 ODS (Operation Desert Storm) vehicle. Reports by Bradley Fighting Vehicle personnel had suggested that the M2A2 ODS was hot, but that the M2A3 was hotter. Results of this study supported these reports. Surface temperature measurements indicated that radiant heat through engine adjacent areas of the driver''s compartment of the M2A3 produced extreme heat levels that were substantially hotter than the M2A2 ODS, although both models were found to have extremely high levels of heat in these areas. This study provided empirical evidence for a primary source of excessive heat within the M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle driver''s compartment. One of the possible engineering solutions to reduce heat in the driver''s compartment suggested was implemented on a trial basis. Additional temperature readings on an insulated vehicle indicated that the insulation significantly reduced the heat coming from the engine area to the driver."--DTIC.

This text provides applicable material to any of the doing portions of the occupational therapy curriculum, fieldwork and workplace that address the use of daily life skills, work and leisure activities as strategies for intervention. The book is sequentially organized from the historical background of occupation as the basis of occupational therapy, to its use as therapeutic intervention.

A revindication of the concept of humanity and the primacy of practice over language.

"The Combat Leaders'' Guide (CLG) is a job performance aid for leaders to use as a memory jogger during realistic combat training like that at the Combat Training Centers or in continuous operations environments. The CLG is a pocket-sized, quick reference system to be used by trained soldiers at company, platoon, or squad level. The CLG helps to overcome the effects of performance decay over time and during periods of high stress and fatigue. It supports unit readiness by providing a leader with doctrinal, tactical, and technical materials in a quick-reference format."--DTIC.

This is a revised edition of Margaret Archer''s Culture and Agency (CUP, 1988), a seminal contribution to social theory and the case for the role of culture in sociological thought. Described as "a timely and sophisticated treatment", the book showed that the "problems" of culture and agency and structure and agency could be solved using the same analytical framework. The revised edition contextualizes the argument in 1990s sociology and links it to Professor Archer''s latest book, Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach (CUP, 1995).

"This report is a research byproduct that documents the Front End Analysis for development of the Brigade-Battle Staff Training System (BDE-BSTS). BDE-BSTS, a set of functional area training packages for brigade level staff officers, is a combination of text and computer based instruction (CBI). Sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the BDE-BSTS was developed for use by the U.S. Army National Guard (ARNG). The prototype BSTS comprised 13 courses for training brigade staff officers in individual functional areas and those tasks required to prepare staffs for collective battle staff tasks. The BSTS program, sponsored under the DARPA program umbrella of Simulation in Training for Advanced Readiness (SIMITAR), is coordinated with three other programs: Simulation Based Mounted Brigade Training Program (SIMBART), Simulation Based Multiechelon Training for Armor Units (SlMTA), and Combat Service Support (CSS) Training System Development for the National Guard."--DTIC.

So-called ovarian transplantations, performed in the early twentieth century, foreshadowed the modern practice of egg donation, and the first experiments in human in vitro fertilization date back to the 1930s. Marsh and Ronner also tell the little-known story of free and low-cost clinics in the urban North where low-income women were treated for infertility beginning in the nineteenth century.

Building on her seminal contribution to social theory in Culture and agency, Margaret Archer develops here her morphogenetic approach, applying it to the problem of structure and agency. Since structure and agency constitute different levels of stratified social reality, each possesses distinctive emergent properties which are real and causally efficacious but irreducible to one another. The problem, therefore, is shown to be how to link the two rather than conflate them, as has been common practice - whether in upwards conflation (by the aggregation of individual acts) downwards conflation (through the structural orchestration of agents), or, more recently, in central conflation which holds the two to be mutually constitutive and thus precludes any examination of their interplay by eliding them. Realist social theory: the morphogenetic approach thus not only rejects methodological individualism and collectivism, but argues that the debate between them has been replaced by a new one between elisionary theorizing (such as Giddens'' structuration theory) and the emergentist theories based on a realist ontology of the social world. The morphogenetic approach is the sociological complement of transcendental realism, and together they provide a basis for non-conflationary theorizing which is also of direct utility to the practising social analyst.

This book contributes to what has recently been called a ''new social history of seafaring''. This new maritime history places sailors themselves at the center, not the periphery, of the maritime past, and explores ways that the history of the sea and the history of the shore have intersected. It differs from traditional accounts which celebrate exotic trades, powerful merchants, maritime technologies, and military exploits. Drawn on the evidence of nearly two hundred ship logs and sailors'' diaries, Rites and Passages examines American whalemen at the height of the whaling industry in the 1800s and argues that whaling life and culture was shaped by both the American mainland and by the exigencies of ocean life. Unlike other published accounts of seafaring, this work brings gender into the maritime equation, not only with a discussion of the ways that women figured in this male world, but also with an examination of the ways that seafaring served as a rite of passage into manhood.

Flinders Petrie has been called the “Father of Modern Egyptology”—and indeed he is one of the pioneers of modern archaeological methods. This fascinating biography of Petrie was first published to high acclaim in England in 1985. Margaret S. Drower, a student of Petrie’s in the early 1930s, traces his life from his boyhood, when he was already a budding scholar, through his stunning career in the deserts of Egypt to his death in Jerusalem at the age of eighty-nine. Drower combines her first-hand knowledge with Petrie’s own voluminous personal and professional diaries to forge a lively account of this influential and sometimes controversial figure. Drower presents Petrie as he was: an enthusiastic eccentric, diligently plunging into the uncharted past of ancient Egypt. She tells not only of his spectacular finds, including the tombs of the first Pharaohs, the earliest alphabetic script, a Homer manuscript, and a collection of painted portraits on mummy cases, but also of Petrie’s important contributions to the science of modern archaeology, such as orderly record-keeping of the progress of a dig and the use of pottery sherds in historical dating. Petrie''s careful academic methods often pitted him against such rival archaeologists as Amélineau, who boasted he had smashed the stone jars he could not carry away to be sold, and Maspero and Naville, who mangled a pyramid at El Kula they had vainly tried to break into.

Which behavior patterns are detrimental to one''s health? Which mechanisms mediate the impact of stressful events on health? Stroebe and Stroebe explore such questions and offer an integrative approach that combines psychological, economic, and environmental interventions to reduce behavioral risk factors. This unique approach moves away from purely biomedical models of illness and addresses two major factors detrimental to health and well-being: (1) health-impairing behaviors and (2) stressful life events.

Focusing on a variety of criminal activities, the author applies his structural criminology to the relationships of power which operate in a range of institutional spheres. He looks at the relationship between class and criminality, showing the inadequacy of a simple causal link and discussing the prevalence of "white collar" crime. Hagan sees other significant structures of power in the relative influence of corporate actors - for example large commercial establishments - who bring charges against individuals, and he analyzes both the legal outcome of such conflicts and the symbolic aspects of sentencing and judicial operations in general. Throughout, these essays stress the structural importance of unemployment, race and gender in the legal definitions of criminal behavior and the need to situate each factor within its complex of power relationships.

For more than 20 years, Margaret Fox served up some of California''s tastiest breakfasts and brunches at her landmark restaurant Caf?© Beaujolais on the Mendocino coast. The original MORNING FOOD shared Fox''s legendary dishes and became a comfort food classic. Fully revised with the addition of 30 new recipes, evocative photographs, and a fresh look, the new edition of MORNING FOOD has all the cozy appeal and culinary authority of the original in a charming new package.Reviews "It''s a book worth getting up for."-San Francisco Chronicle"With homey graphics and photographs and authors named Fox and Bear, the book has a cozy feeling that matches its subject."-Philadelphia Inquirer and Baltimore Sun "Whether you''¬?re a Caf?© Beaujolais neophyte or a longtime groupie, Morning Food is a treasure."-Kansas City Star". . . for those who love breakfast (any time of day)."-Omaha World-Herald"An unpretentious take on wonderful, homey food."-Sacramento Bee"Caf?© Beaujolais founder finds a delicious new calling."-Los Angeles Times"Morning Food belies its contents. . . these are foods that diners would find satisfying and nurturing at any time of day. . . the Buttermilk Cinnamon Coffee Cake is incredible."-Contra Costa Times "Fox''¬?s conversational tone makes you want to pick up the phone to call and chat it up with her as you whip up your mouth-watering first meal of the day. ...The recipes are consistently delicious and impressive. If you enjoy good morning food, you''¬?ll enjoy this book any time of day."-Cookbook Digest

After 25 years of expansion and liberalisation in the post-war period, social security policies in industrial countries have been encountering stresses and strains in the 1970s and 1980s in an environment of slower economic growth, concern over inflation and high unemployment. This has led to intensified controversy between conservatives, who blame economic instability on the generosity of the welfare state and liberals who defend the role of social security programmes in contributing to economic stability and preventing people from falling into poverty. The discussion focuses on questions such as the relative merits of earnings-related, income-tested and universal benefits; who bears the financial burden; and the impact of social security benefits on incentives to work. Among the controversial issues receiving considerable attention are the arguments over the persistence of high unemployment in Western Europe, the attacks on ''entitlements'' that benefit the middle class and the growing problem of disadvantaged youth, especially in the ghetto areas of large cities in some of the Western European countries and in the United States.

Does the popular notion of a ''broken heart'' have some grounding in reality? How can grief affect the body in ways that necessitate medical care and may even be life-threatening? Bereavement and Health constitutes a comprehensive review of what is known about the impact of bereavement on surviving partners. Drawing on the work of psychologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, and psychiatrists, Wolfgang and Margaret Stroebe offer a theoretically coherent perspective focused on conjugal loss. After a thorough discussion of stress and depression models of bereavement, the authors present their own theoretical approach, emphasizing social contacts and the interpersonal nature of grief. They then examine the psychological and medical consequences of bereavement: Are the bereaved at higher risk than those who have not lost a partner? What has research revealed about the causes, symptoms, and outcomes of grief? Key questions about recovery from grief are also addressed: Is the health risk of bereavement severe enough to have lasting or even fatal consequences? Is it possible to identify those bereaved who are at high risk before their health suffers? What are the strategies that are most likely to lead to effective coping? Can attempts at intervention be effective? The Stroebes'' combination of theoretical integration and methodological rigor will make Bereavement and Health a standard text for years to come.