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A sociological account of sport using the idea of the 'postself' - how individuals regard themselves and want to be remembered by the public.

Focuses on the influence of religion, religiosity, nationalism, and ethnicity on fertility and mortality in Israel. This book focuses on fertility, looks at patterns of nuptiality and contraception and the way marriage patterns are shaping group boundaries, looks at mortality, and looks at social policy effects of the demographic process.

True story of a dozen men on probation in Massachusetts who meet to read Malcolm X, Tolstoy, and Chekov. It becomes a life changing experience.

Includes chapters on polymer composites and functional polymers for electrical, optical, photonic, and biomedical applications. This book features a section on controlled radical polymerizations such as nitroxide, ATRP, RAFT/MADDIX, and CCT and includes material on NMR spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy.

This book elucidates the intricacies and obscurities of graduate enrollment management, allowing scholars and professionals to advance research and practice in the field.

This book elucidates the intricacies and obscurities of graduate enrollment management, allowing scholars and professionals to advance research and practice in the field.

Language Ideologies and Linguistic Identity in Heritage Language Learning addresses the ways in which discourses about language value and identities of linguistic expertise are constructed and negotiated in the Spanish heritage language classroom, and how the classroom discourse shapes, and is shaped by, the world outside.

In this updated edition, the author focuses on topics that are critical to understanding how the basic principles of optics affect design decisions. In addition to information on breadboarding experiments and prototypes, the new edition also expands its coverage of holography and discusses important state-of-the-art issues in modern optics.

Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students is an indispensable resource for parents and educators seeking to understand why gifted children can be so extreme in their behavior and how to manage the highs and lows that accompany emotional intensity.

This book takes readers through the most iconic geologically significant scenery in South America, points out features of interest, and describes how these features came to be. Areas covered include the glacial landscapes of southern Patagonia, the foothills of the Andes, the Atacama Desert, and a trip across the Andes in Darwin's footsteps.

As higher education turns a critical eye inward toward policies and practices related to professionals and students of color, this resource aims to fill a void in the literature by exploring the experience of Black new professionals in the field of student affairs.

As higher education turns a critical eye inward toward policies and practices related to professionals and students of color, this resource aims to fill a void in the literature by exploring the experience of Black new professionals in the field of student affairs.

In Technology Security and National Power, Stephen D

Assesses the legacy and contemporary relevance of the radical US historian and activist, Howard Zinn, with contributions from Noam Chomsky and others.

All parents want their children to be successful, but success is not just about giving your kids praise or setting them on the right direction. Research shows that success is often dependent on mindset. That's where the updated edition of Mindsets for Parents comes in!

Through a range of accessible and innovative chapters dealing with a spectrum of genres, authors, and periods, this volume seeks to examine the complex relationship between translation and the classic, and how translation makes and remakes (and sometimes invents) classic works for new audiences across space and time.

In this practical book, rigor expert Barbara R. Blackburn shows that the differentiated classroom doesn't mean extra work for top students and easy work for others; instead, you can have high expectations for all students and provide scaffolding so that everyone can reach success.

Suitable for third-year students, this revised textbook uses an advanced pedagogy and a proven combination of quantitative and qualitative information. This combination makes it student-friendly and up-to-date. The coverage of machine elements is more complete than other books in this area and goes beyond analysis to develop a deeper understanding in students of the design process. It includes a solutions manual (print and electronic), full PowerPoint/Keynote slides, pdf-based presentations for students, work sheets (detailed examples to distribute to students), and video examples.

This book explores the need to recognize and account for institutional-level factors that shape academic belonging, thereby improving student experience and outcomes.

This book explores the need to recognize and account for institutional-level factors that shape academic belonging, thereby improving student experience and outcomes.