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This comprehensive collection of contemporary sociological theory is the definitive guide to current perspectives and approaches in the field, examining key topics and debates in the field. * Collects the most representative material available on topics such as symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, structuralism, network theory, critical theory, feminist theory, and the debates over modernity and postmodernity * Includes examinations of the work of Foucault, Giddens, and Bourdieu * A new section for this edition opens up the debate on power and inequality * Thematically organized Product details Format Paperback | 638 pages Dimensions ...

Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care, Fifth Edition provides students with a solid overview and understanding of leadership in today's complex healthcare delivery system. The Fifth Edition discusses leadership within the context of a new understanding of complex adaptive systems and complex responsive processes. Rather than focus on the mechanics of operations and function, this text emphasizes the characteristics and role of the complex leader through both describing the context of complexity and the application of the role as a leader of these complex systems. Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care, Fifth Edition is unique in that it addresses the postindustrial, complex and highly mobile organizational systems and emphasizes the characteristics, elements, and role of leaders in guiding individuals and teams through effectively navigating work in these essentially new models. In addition, the text integrates the essential requiremen...

Jespersen's Chemistry 7th Edition provides readers with the necessary practice, support, instruction and assessment that is required for learning and teaching the content of a General Chemistry course. This text provides the forum for problem solving and concept mastery of chemical phenomena that leads to proficiency and success. The Seventh Edition includes revisions to key content coverage areas and concepts and the addition of more Analyzing & Solving Multi-Concept problems and examples throughout the text. An increased emphasis has also been placed on the intimate relationship that exists between structure at the submicroscopic molecular level and the observable macroscopic properties of matter. Jespersen provides readers with a clear, concise and easy to understand General Chemistry resource. Product details Format ...

Ancient Egypt is a subject of never-ending fascination for primary grade kids. Here they learn all about hieroglyphs, the beautiful pictogram writing that appears on mummy cases, papyrus scrolls, tomb walls, etc. What do the different symbols mean? How did we learn to decipher hieroglyphs? What was school and learning to read and write like for children of ancient Egypt? The information is accessible and fascinating, plus kids have the fun of creating hieroglyph messages and "works of art" using the accompanying stencil. Product details For ages 9-12 Format Paperback | 32 pages ...

"Wealth, celebrity, sexuality and a tangled web of secrets. . . . Oh boy, what a mix. And it works. . . . It was my first introduction to this writer and I'll be coming back for more.""Irish Examiner""A fine piece of writing . . . a powerful talent . . . a tough, poignant book.""Guardian" (UK)"Highly entertaining . . . offers a salutary corrective to the airbrushed picture presented by the Hollywood publicity machine.""Daily Mail"They say the truth matters. Not in Hollywood, it doesn't. In Hollywood you need to lie because Hollywood doesn't need lesbians. That's the deal, and Yana Ivanova is Hollywood's biggest star. So Yana Ivanova has a boyfriend called Jimmy. And apersonal assistantcalled Penny. But hey, they live in a very glamorous closet.But then letters start to arrive. From a writer who knows the truth. Yana fears blackmail, but she is terrified of bad publicity. And she clearly has a lot to los...

The Art of Gardening - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: the authorised book to the National Horticultural Show, Potsdam In summer 2001, Potsdam, one of the world's famous sites of classical garden art, with the beautiful grounds of the Sans Souci Palace, will be staging international contributions which respond to the tasks and challenges in contemporary landscape architecture. A large number of internationally known architects and landscape architects have come together to cultivate 60 hectares of public park, to redesign urban spaces and other sites where historical townscapes and nature conjoin, to develop avant-garde artistic features, and to create the central spectacular exhibition space. This book will present the various parks and artistic interventions in their finished state, accompanied by lavish illustrations and descriptive texts, thus ensuring that the book remains topical thoughout the festival and will be an enduring documentation long after the doors have been closed...

This text examines the effects of acute and chronic exercise on the metabolism of cyclic AMP and protein kinase in cardiac and skeletal muscle. It also presents information gained during more than 20 years' work in the Soviet Union. Arranged in three parts, the study first provides a comprehensive review of the role of phosphorylation in the functional regulation of cardiac and skeletal muscle. In the second part, it presents information describing the effects of exercise on cAMP and cAMP-dependent protein kinase. The final part gives a summary of this information. Product details Format Paperback | 96 pages Dimensions ...