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Greek Americans: Struggle and Success
by Charles C. MoskosThis is an engrossing account of Greek Americans--their history, strengths, conflicts, aspirations, and contributions. This is the story of immigrants, their children and grandchildren, most of whom maintain an attachment to Greek ethnic identity even as they have become one of this country's most successful ethnic groups.
Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction
by Martin HelanderThis Handbook is concerned with principles of human factors engineering for design of the human-computer interface. It has both academic and practical purposes; it summarizes the research and provides recommendations for how the information can be used by designers of computer systems. The articles are written primarily for the professional from another discipline who is seeking an understanding of human-computer interaction, and secondarily as a reference book for the professional in the area, and should particularly serve the following: computer scientists, human factors engineers, designers and design engineers, cognitive scientists and experimental psychologists, systems engineers, managers and executives working with systems development.The work consists of 52 chapters by 73 authors and is organized into seven sections. In the first section, the cognitive and information-processing aspects of HCI are summarized. The following group of papers deals with design principles for software and hardware. The third section is devoted to differences in performance between different users, and computer-aided training and principles for design of effective manuals. The next part presents important applications: text editors and systems for information retrieval, as well as issues in computer-aided engineering, drawing and design, and robotics. The fifth section introduces methods for designing the user interface. The following section examines those issues in the AI field that are currently of greatest interest to designers and human factors specialists, including such problems as natural language interface and methods for knowledge acquisition. The last section includes social aspects in computer usage, the impact on work organizations and work at home.
The Haunt of Misery: Critical essays in social work and helping (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1989, The Haunt of Misery offers social workers and students critical essays for critical times. Faced with unreflective wealth creation and the fragmentation of the counterculture, social work is perceived as failing to meet the needs of the client. Many social workers are left feeling angry, stranded and confused. Written by academics and professionals, the essays range over social work and unemployment, the crisis of AIDS and HIV infection, drug use, client collectives, the elderly, the ethnic minorities, professionalism, and self-management. The authors offer constructive criticism of existing social work practice and suggest radical and exciting issues for the profession in the 1990s and beyond.
The Haunt of Misery: Critical essays in social work and helping (Routledge Revivals)
by Chris Rojek Geraldine Peacock Stewart CollinsFirst published in 1989, The Haunt of Misery offers social workers and students critical essays for critical times. Faced with unreflective wealth creation and the fragmentation of the counterculture, social work is perceived as failing to meet the needs of the client. Many social workers are left feeling angry, stranded and confused. Written by academics and professionals, the essays range over social work and unemployment, the crisis of AIDS and HIV infection, drug use, client collectives, the elderly, the ethnic minorities, professionalism, and self-management. The authors offer constructive criticism of existing social work practice and suggest radical and exciting issues for the profession in the 1990s and beyond.
A Hidden Workforce: Women Homeworkers in Britain, 1850-1985 (Women in Society)
by Shelley Pennington Belinda WestoverA study of women homeworkers in the context of the changing status of women from 1850 to 1985, this examines the changes in the homework labour force, and the alternatives open to women. The authors critically evaluate attempts to improve the position of homeworkers and comment on future prospects.
Home and Family: Creating the Domestic Sphere
by Graham Allan Graham CrowExamining the role of home and family in the latter part of the 20th century, this book covers such subjects as the single parent, institutions and homes, the role of the mother in the family, and domestic architecture and domestic life.
Ideas about Illness: An Intellectual and Political History of Medical Sociology (Studies In Historical Sociology Ser.)
by Uta GerhardtIn this book, Uta Gerhardt maintains that the sociological definition of deviance as disease has, at its roots, a political connotation. She traces how the four schools of mid- and late-twentieth century sociology have dealt with the idea of illness from structural functionalism through interactionism and phenomenology to conflict theory.
Improving Traditional Rural Technologies
by Jeffrey JamesThis book contends that large numbers in the Third World will become reliant on traditional rural technologies over the next thirty to forty years. The author is concerned that policy responses to this problem are insufficient and advocates a broader analytic framework to tackle the problem.
Independent Television in Britain: Volume 3
by Jeremy PotterThe third volume of this history of independent television in Britain focuses on the central issues facing the Authority and companies during twelve and a half eventful years between the beginning of a new contract period in July 1968 and the announcement of the successful applicants for new contracts in December 1980. For ITV these were years of recession and inflation, of expansion and prosperity - above all, of enquiry and uncertainty.
Individual and Small Group Decisions
by K.J. Radfordecision making is one of the most important activities in both our profes D sional and our private lives today. The literature on the subject has grown considerably over the last fifty years and it now covers many different approaches to the subject. These approaches range from that of creating a mathematical model of the decision situation under consideration, as in operations research and other forms of mathematical decision analysis, to those that are based on human and organizational behavior. Recently, those working in the field have begun to combine approaches to the study of decision situations that arise in organizations, in our personal lives and in the communities in which we live. This book is an attempt to assist those concerned with decision making to work with this combination of approaches. In the past, decision problems have been considered according to the condi tions under which they arise and to some extent in terms of the approaches available for their resolution. Writers on the subject who are mathematically oriented have devised a method of classifying decisions based on the type of mathematics that they suggest be used in the resolution of the problems. This approach leads to the division of decision situations into the categories of cer tainty, uncertainty, risk and competition. Deterministic models available in oper ations research have then been offered as the means of treating decision situations in the category of certainty.
The Inner Game of Selling . . . Yourself: Mind-Bending Ways to Achieve Results in Business
by James BorgThe Inner Game of Selling...Yourself: Mind-Bending Ways to Achieve Results in Business offers tips on the art of successful selling not only for professional salespeople but also for anyone in business who wants to effectively get their viewpoint or message accepted. It argues that salesmanship requires no special skills but just draws upon a few basic personal qualities by "putting yourself into selling".Comprised of 12 chapters, this book begins with an overview of salesmanship as an art, focusing on selling as essentially about appealing to human nature. The reader is then introduced to three important techniques of persuasion that enable anyone to strike a chord in the mind of the other(s) and so an idea is accepted: empathy, sincerity, and perspicacity. The importance of questioning and listening in getting inside the mind of someone, as well as holding the audience's attention, is also emphasized. Subsequent chapters explain the importance of a good memory for a person in business who wants to sell himself/herself; the use of the telephone to communicate with potential clients; types of clients; four stereotypical salespeople; the process of negotiation; and the power of words in selling. The final chapter describes the fortunes of a sales manager, first to show how not to do it and then to demonstrate the art of successful selling.This monograph is intended for those in business who wish to know how to sell themselves and how to be able to read people.
The Invisible Medium: Public, Commercial and Community Radio (Communications and Culture)
...the book is recommended and should be read by every member of the IRTC. Those working in radio will also find it rewarding.' - Playback
Juvenile Justice in Double Jeopardy: The Distanced Community and Vengeful Retribution
by The Honorable PolierThroughout her entire career, Judge Polier continually fought for the rights and needs of the poor. In this volume she describes the granting and denial of justice toward the poor -- particluarly poor children -- she observed during her tenure as a Family Court Judge in New York City. The book discusses the current state of the justice system and the outlook for the future. This volume helps readers understand how broadly shared the responsibility for the neglect of today's youth is and how society must reshape its attitudes and realign its priorities to help the thousands of children who are dependent upon the public for care and support. The book identifies how the courts have been weakened by their loss of direct contact with delinquent and neglected children and the "need for humanity and respect in dealing with difficult human problems." (from the introduction). From her personal experiences and observations, Judge Polier describes the granting and denial of justice she observed while she consistently emphasizes the need for direct contact with delinquent and neglected children. For students, professional, and researchers in sociology, criminal justice, and any social science discipline dealing with children and children's problems, Polier's book provides a behind-the-scenes look at one of the major problems facing society today.
Juvenile Justice in Double Jeopardy: The Distanced Community and Vengeful Retribution
by The Honorable PolierThroughout her entire career, Judge Polier continually fought for the rights and needs of the poor. In this volume she describes the granting and denial of justice toward the poor -- particluarly poor children -- she observed during her tenure as a Family Court Judge in New York City. The book discusses the current state of the justice system and the outlook for the future. This volume helps readers understand how broadly shared the responsibility for the neglect of today's youth is and how society must reshape its attitudes and realign its priorities to help the thousands of children who are dependent upon the public for care and support. The book identifies how the courts have been weakened by their loss of direct contact with delinquent and neglected children and the "need for humanity and respect in dealing with difficult human problems." (from the introduction). From her personal experiences and observations, Judge Polier describes the granting and denial of justice she observed while she consistently emphasizes the need for direct contact with delinquent and neglected children. For students, professional, and researchers in sociology, criminal justice, and any social science discipline dealing with children and children's problems, Polier's book provides a behind-the-scenes look at one of the major problems facing society today.
Knowledgeable Women: Structuralism and the Reproduction of Elites (Routledge Revivals)
by Sara DelamontIn Knowledgeable Women, originally published in 1989, Sara Delamont traces the history of women's education and the elites it produces. She examines class and gender divisions in the structure and contest of education in Britain and the USA from 1850 to 1989. Her empirical focus is of course elites – especially elite women – but the justification for this is the belief that sociologists should study the powerful as well as the poor and powerless. Above all, Delamont argues the case for the relevance to sociology of a serious study of women, their schooling and professional training, and their struggle to enter the professions.She also encourages a broader focus to the sociology of education itself, viewing her subject from an anthropological structuralist perspective and encouraging the inclusion of anti-sexist ideas and material from other areas of sociology such as the study of science and stratification. She demonstrates for the first time the relevance to education of structuralist theorists such as Mary Douglas.Knowledgeable Women is a structuralist and feminist challenge to the sociology of education by an author highly regarded in Britain and the USA. It offers a non-sexist, structuralist, fully sociological sociology of education.
Knowledgeable Women: Structuralism and the Reproduction of Elites (Routledge Revivals)
by Sara DelamontIn Knowledgeable Women, originally published in 1989, Sara Delamont traces the history of women's education and the elites it produces. She examines class and gender divisions in the structure and contest of education in Britain and the USA from 1850 to 1989. Her empirical focus is of course elites – especially elite women – but the justification for this is the belief that sociologists should study the powerful as well as the poor and powerless. Above all, Delamont argues the case for the relevance to sociology of a serious study of women, their schooling and professional training, and their struggle to enter the professions.She also encourages a broader focus to the sociology of education itself, viewing her subject from an anthropological structuralist perspective and encouraging the inclusion of anti-sexist ideas and material from other areas of sociology such as the study of science and stratification. She demonstrates for the first time the relevance to education of structuralist theorists such as Mary Douglas.Knowledgeable Women is a structuralist and feminist challenge to the sociology of education by an author highly regarded in Britain and the USA. It offers a non-sexist, structuralist, fully sociological sociology of education.
Künstlerhäuser: Eine Architekturgeschichte des Privaten
by Hans-Peter Schwarzseape locus ingenio stimolos admovet. Petrarca Der Genius Loci, jene in den letzten Jahren durch Architekturkritik und Architekturtheorie so euphemistisch beschriebene "Besonderheit des Ortes", aus dessen Charakteristik eine sprachlos gewordene Architektur sich die Riickgewinnung verlorengegangener Anmutungsqualitaten er hofft, ist nirgendwo so deutlich spiirbar wie dort, wo durch gesellschaft liche Konvention geadelte Genies ihr kiinstlerisches, literarisches oder musikalisches Tagwerk verrichteten. Das "Vittoriale" Gabriele D' Annunzios ist so ein Wallfahrtsort fiir die Nachgeborenen, oder auch Richard Wagners "Wahnfried" und die Goethe-Hauser in Weimar oder Frankfurt, wobei es niemanden anficht, daB der hier besonders verehrte Olympier "sein" Geburtshaus erst im reifen Mannesalter und allenfalls besuchsweise kennengelernt haben diirfte. Aber die Authentizitat zu hinterfragen, eriibrigt sich fiir den Kultur touristen. Ihm geniigt es, topographische Fixpunkte zu haben, an denen das Stigma des Genialen zumindest in der Imagination wiederentdeckt werden kann. Kiinstlerhauser blieben zumeist Domane romantischer oder lokalpatriotischer Freizeitforscher, denen es weniger darauf an kam, das historisch exakte als das jeweils zeitgenossisch vermittelte Bild yom Kiinstler zu rekonstruieren. Dabei ist eine historische Auseinandersetzung mit den Hausern, die Kiinstler und Architekten fiir sich selbst entworfen und gebaut haben, mit deren Hilfe sie sich in der Gesellschaft eingerichtet oder von ihr abgegrenzt haben, gleich in mehrfacher Hinsicht von Bedeutung. Zum einen konnen wir davon ausgehen, daB gerade die professionellen "Astheten" bei der Einrichtung ihrer unmittelbaren Umgebung beson ders genau und besonders intensiv die Mittel benutzt haben, die Archi tektur, Skulptur und Malerei entwickelt haben, urn Ideen auszudriicken, urn aussagekraftig zu werden, urn gesellschaftliche Anspriiche zu stellen.
Language Processing in Social Context (ISSN #54)
by R. Dietrich C. F. GraumannThe book presents an interdisciplinary analysis of social, cognitive, situational and contextual aspects of language and language processing by first and second language speakers. Linguists and psychologists formulate theoretical models and empirical analyses of the influence of such factors on various levels of language processing. These relate specifically to syntactic and semantic parsing, lexical selection, and text production. The issue of ``hearer orientation'' in language use lies at the forefront of interest in this anthology and is tackled from such different fields as linguistics, text linguistics, formal semantics, social psychology, psychology of language, artificial intelligence, and second language acquisition.
