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Special Operations and Elite Units, 1939-1988 - Roger Beaumont - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Special Operations and Elite Units, 1939-1988 - Roger Beaumont - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

In contemporary military parlance, special operations denotes unconventional, often covert, military actions usually performed by specially trained forces for strictly defined objectives. In this volume, Roger Beaumont provides the most comprehensive survey available of modern special operations literature. His wide-ranging introduction sets the subject in its historical, typological, and national contexts, offering an illuminating overview of the use of special operations and elite units from the second World War to the present. The bibliographic entries describe a broad sampling of materials, from those accessible through interlibrary loan services to those far removed from central archives and major research libraries. The aim throughout has been to provide both those new to the subject and seasoned researchers with a single, easy-to-use source for information about this little-known and commonly misunderstood facet of military practice. Following the detailed introductory essay, the bibliographical section is dividied into 10 categories: background and analysis, elite forces, special operations in major wars, special operations in low-intensity conflict and counterinsurgency, counterterror operations, biography and autobiography, bibliography, official sources, critiques, and popular images. Entries are arranged alphabetically within these sections. Complete author, title, and subject indexes are included to further aid the researcher and four appendices provide valuable supplemental information on elite forces and counterterrorist operations. Scholars and students of military affairs, government officials, and practitioners of special operations will find Beaumont's work indispensable.

DKK 596.00
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Diversity in the Power Elite - G. William Domhoff - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Social Work and Service Learning - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Social Work and Service Learning - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Chapter 1 Service Learning and Social Work Education: A Natural but Tenuous ConnectionChapter 2 The Components of Service Learning as Pedagogy in Social Work EducationChapter 3 Service Learning Across the Social Work CurriculumChapter 4 Social Welfare Policy and Services: Service Learning through Social Policy Projects in Human Service OrganizationsChapter 5 Social Work Practice: Beginning Practice Skill Development in Introduction to Social Work Courses: Mobilizing Partnerships between Youth Development Agencies and Social Work Education through Service LearningChapter 6 Research: Infusing Service Learning into Research, Social Policy, and Community-Based PracticeChapter 7 Human Behavior and the Social Environment: An Oral History Service-Learning ProjectChapter 8 Human Diversity: Service Learning and Gender Studies within a Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) ContextChapter 9 Populations-at-Risk/Immersion Experience: Social Work in the Sun: Service Learning at Summer CampChapter 10 General Education: Herding Cats and Making History: Service Learning in a Large General Education Social Welfare CourseChapter 11 Developing Partnerships between Community and Curriculum: How Does the Team Assess Student Outcomes?Chapter 12 Service Lerning for Social Justice: Mandate for Long-Term Evaluation?Chapter 13 Service Learning in Social Work: A Curricular and Evaluative ModelChapter 14 Social Work, Service Learning, and the American Democracy Project: The Creation of a More Socially Conscious Campus Community

DKK 442.00
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Elite Foundations of Liberal Democracy - John Higley - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Elite Foundations of Liberal Democracy - John Higley - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

This compelling and convincing study represents the culmination of the authors'' several decades of research on the pivotal role played by elites in the success or failure of political regimes. Revising the classical theory of elites and politics, John Higley and Michael Burton distinguish basic types of elites and associated political regimes. They canvas political change during the modern historical and contemporary periods to identify circumstances and ways in which the sine qua non of liberal democracy, a consensually united elite, has formed and persisted. The book considers an impressive body of cases, examining how consensually united elites have fostered forty-five liberal democracies and how disunited or ideologically united elites have thus far prevented liberal democracy in more than one hundred other countries. The authors argue that obstacles to the emergence of elites propitious for liberal democracy are more formidable than democratization enthusiasts recognize. They assess prospects for the transformation of disunited and ideologically united elites where they now exist, ask whether current challenges to Western liberal democracies will undermine their consensually united elites, and explore what the rise of the distinctive elite clustered around George W. Bush may portend for America''s liberal democracy. The authors'' powerful and important argument reframes our thinking about liberal democracy and questions optimistic assumptions about the prospects for its spread in the twenty-first century.

DKK 407.00
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Philosophy and the Problems of Work - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Philosophy and the Problems of Work - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Philosophy and the Problems of Work brings together for the first time important philosophical perspectives on the subjects of labor and work, spanning analytical and Continental traditions. This comprehensive collection engages contemporary debates in political theory and the philosophy of economics, including the perspectives of classical and welfare liberals, anarchists, and feminists, about the nature and meaning of work in modern technological society, the issues of meaningful work and exploitation, justice and equality, the welfare state and democratic rights, and whether market socialism is a competitive alternative to traditional capitalism. An introduction by the editor charts the historical development of these issues in philosophical and political discussions and examines the central importance of the organization and structures of work for both individual self-realization and human societies generally.Philosophy and the Problems of Work brings together for the first time important philosophical perspectives on the subjects of labor and work, spanning analytical and Continental traditions. This comprehensive collection engages contemporary debates in political theory and the philosophy of economics, including the perspectives of classical and welfare liberals, anarchists, and feminists, about the nature and meaning of work in modern technological society, the issues of meaningful work and exploitation, justice and equality, the welfare state and democratic rights, and whether market socialism is a competitive alternative to traditional capitalism. An introduction by the editor charts the historical development of these issues in philosophical and political discussions and examines the central importance of the organization and structures of work for both individual self-realization and human societies generally.

DKK 520.00
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Men Still at Work - Elizabeth F. Fideler - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Women Still at Work - Elizabeth F. Fideler - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

The Value of Time and Leisure in a World of Work - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Max Weber and Charles Peirce - Basit Bilal Koshul - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Max Weber and Charles Peirce - Basit Bilal Koshul - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Max Weber and Charles Peirce: At the Crossroads of Science, Philosophy, and Culture shows that a relational conception of science is implicit in Max Weber’s reflections on scientific inquiry as a bridge between the Geisteswissenschaften (soft sciences) and Naturwissenschaften (hard sciences). Because he is not a trained philosopher, Weber does not have the precise philosophical language in which to articulate his ideas clearly. Consequently, his relational vision of science remains obscure. Basit Bilal Koshul brings clarity and precision to Weber’s insights using the pragmaticist philosophy of Charles Peirce. He makes explicit the phenomenology, semiotics, and logic that are implicit in Weber’s methodological writings and translates them into Peircean terms. Since Peirce explicitly offers his philosophy of science as a critique of the modern divide between the humanistic and natural sciences and of the divide between religion and science, this translation has a double effect. It clarifies Weber’s insights on the methodology of scientific inquiry, and it extends the reparative force of these insights into the larger culture of which science is one part. The reconstruction of Weber’s relational conception of science along the lines of Peirce’s pragmaticism, in turn, reveals that Weber’s work points toward deep affinities between religion and science. Given the fact that the same phenomenology, semiotics, and logic that underpin Peirce’s philosophy of science are also at the root of his philosophy of religion, we can begin to appreciate the fact that Weber’s work makes an important contribution to bridging the divide between religion and science. In providing models that bridge divides and move towards complementary relationships, Weber and Peirce not only help us to better understand disenchantment as the fate of our times, but also offer uniquely valuable resources to reach for cultural horizons that lie beyond it.

DKK 442.00
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The Politics of Organized Crime and the Organized Crime of Politics - Alfredo Schulte Bockholt - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Dirty Work - Jeffrey E. Cole - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Making Mentoring Work - Emily Davis - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Work and Family Commitments of Low-Income and Impoverished Women - Judith Hennessy - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Work and Family Commitments of Low-Income and Impoverished Women - Judith Hennessy - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Conflict between work and family life is an all too familiar experience for many Americans. The difficult choices facing women who combine paid work with childcare are the subject of a deluge of books and articles in addition to an ongoing public debate about how women and men should balance their work and family commitments. Although we know a great deal about the social and cultural environment fueling these contradictions among middle-class and upper middle class women, we know little about the forces that influence poor and low-income women. Work and Family Commitments of Low-Income and Impoverished Women addresses this omission and gives voice to women in poverty as it traces the moral and cultural structures that help shape the meaning and value of paid work and motherhood among a group of mothers who rely on welfare or a combination of low-wage work and welfare to provide and care for their families. This portrayal of poor women’s lives rarely enters the work-life debate over women’s choices, generally characterized as between mothers who have to work versus those who choose to. Judith Hennessy puts low-income women front and center to shed light on less explored aspects of the moral and cultural foundations of contemporary work and family conflict from interviews and survey data of a group of low-income and poor mothers on and off welfare.Hennessey explores the paradox in American society where combining paid work with caring for children continues to generate considerable ambivalence (and often guilt) on the part of married middle-class mothers for devoting too much time to paid work and supposedly neglecting their children. While poor and working class mothers who might otherwise rely on welfare are relegated to working at low-wage jobs outside the home in fulfillment of their family responsibilities.

DKK 442.00
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Time Autonomy and Work in France, Germany, and China - Jens Thoemmes - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

MotherScholars' Perceptions, Experiences, and the Impact on Work-Family Balance - Megan Reister - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

The Work of France - James R. Farr - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

The Work of France - James R. Farr - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

This clearly written and deeply informed book explores the nature and meaning of work in early modern France. Distinguished historian James R. Farr considers the relationship between material life—specifically the work activities of both men and women—and the culture in which these activities were embedded. This culture, he argues, helped shape the nature of work, invested it with meaning, and fashioned the identities of people across the social spectrum. Farr vividly traces the daily lives of peasants, common laborers, domestic servants, prostitutes, street vendors, craftsmen and -women, merchants, men of the law, medical practitioners, and government officials. Work was recognized and valued as a means to earn a living, but it held a greater significance as a cultural marker of honor, identity, and status. Constants and continuities in work activities and their cultural aspects shared space with changes that were so profound and sweeping that France would be forever transformed. The author focuses on three salient, interconnected, and at times conflicting developments: the extension and integration of the market economy, the growth of the state's functions and governing apparatus, and the intensification of social hierarchy. Presenting a unified and compelling argument about the role of labor in society, Farr addresses a complex set of questions and succeeds masterfully at answering them. With its stylish writing and clear themes, this book will find a broad audience among students and scholars of early modern Europe, French history, economics, gender studies, anthropology, and labor studies.

DKK 399.00
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