From Research and Reference Book News "A July 2005 symposium, held in Australia by Swinburne University, brought together Australian and international researchers and practitioners to explore theories, applications, and controversies of emotional intelligence (EI). Papers from the symposium give information on how EI is defined, measured, and applied across many different domains, grounded with emerging data, trends, and debates. The presentations begin by examining the construct validity of EI, then turn to applications of EI in the workplace, clinical psychology, and educational and school settings, and look at EI in cross-cultural studies. The material will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, HR managers, psychologists, and students."

Emotional Intelligence: International Symposium 2005

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Stough, Con

Mental Health

Eliot Werner Publications

Robert Dreeben is one of the most widely read and influential sociologists of education of the past half-century and the author of several important books-one of which (On What Is Learned in School) was recently republished by Percheron Press. In this volume inspired by Dreeben's work and career, chapters written by Dreeben's colleagues, students, and even one of his mentors present the latest academic research on schools and schooling and examine recent and ongoing school reform policies.

Stability and Change in American Education

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

"In the two decades since this book was first published, excuse- making has flourished - both as a practice and as a process inviting investigation and theory. Indeed, how could it be otherwise?" So write the authors in their new introduction. But they also maintain that excuse-making is a critical element in what social psychologists refer to as "reality negotiation." Originally published by John Wiley in 1983.

Excuses: Masquerades in Search of Grace (Foundations of Psychology)

Higgins, Raymond L.

Stucky, Rita J.

Snyder, C.R.

Psychology & Counseling

George Frison’s report on the 10,000-year-old Casper Site helped establish how large animal communal kill sites should be excavated, analyzed, and reported. With his background in ranching and hunting, Frison knows more about large animals than any other archaeologist. In The Casper Site Frison began to share that knowledge as well as the techniques of bone bed excavation; that, and the book’s interdisciplinary approach, make it a landmark in paleoindian archaeology and faunal analysis. As Marcel Kornfeld writes in his new introduction, "One of Frison’s outstanding contributions to Great Plains prehistory has been in the arena of bison studies and bone beds in particular, and Casper is one of its finest examples." Originally published by Academic Press in 1974.

The Casper Site: A Hell Gap Bison Kill on the High Plains (Foundations of Archaeology)

History

Americas

Thomas Babington Macaulay was one of the great English historians of the nineteenth century. He first made his name as an essayist, contributing many articles on a variety of topics to the Edinburgh Review, the leading literary journal of its day. Among the contributions Macaulay made in these essays was setting forth a distinct philosophy of historiography, in which he argued that written history should be more than a catalog of conspicuous events. It should, he held, also portray events in the everyday lives of common people-something most historians of the day felt was "beneath the dignity of history." By insisting that depicting such events was indeed a proper function of the historian, Macaulay showed himself to be not only a historian with an unusually wide vista, but also an anthropologist before his time. When Macaulay came to write his famous five-volume History of England from the Accession of James II, he gave expression to this philosophy by including in this work a long chapter in which many aspects of English society and culture were surveyed as they stood in the year 1685. This groundbreaking chapter, now all but forgotten, deserves to be rescued from oblivion. It is presented here, standing alone, preceded by a long introduction in which Macaulay's life and career are set forth in detail--highlighting his contributions to English history, politics, and letters.

An Ethnography of England in the Year 1685: Being the Celebrated Third Chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England

Thomas Babington MacAulay

Robert L Carneiro

Europe

Temperament as a Regulator of Behavior: After Fifty Years of Research

Nature or nurture? Are individuals born as an empty slate and shaped by their environment or are we already programmed to react in certain ways? Strelau (emeritus, psychology, Warsaw University; since 1998 professor at the Warsaw School of Social Psychology) has spent more than fifty years studying this age-old question. He bases some of his conclusions on the pioneering work of the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov but carries them into the twenty-first century by including genetic studies. Strelau intends this book to provide a framework for others studying the field. He spends several chapters on methodology. He also gives the results of his studies, primarily on how different people react in stressful situations.

Strelau, Jan

"The ships carried cotton to Havana and manufactured goods to the Confederacy. The problem was the Union heavily blockaded the area, and even the fast steamship Denhigh, now part of an underwater archeological site, was in peril of losses in trade the south could ill afford. Independent scholar Block turns from the Atlantic seaboard, where most accounts of the Union Navy's blockade are set, to the area west of the Mississippi River on the Gulf of Mexico. The result is a close description the blockade and blockade-running from Galveston to western Louisiana, the coast of Texas, and ports in Alabama and Florida. He pays close attention to the accounts of officers and sailors on both sides and provides excellent maps, illustrations and photographs. This was originally published in 1997 under another title and has been updated with new appendices, figures and introduction."

Schooner Sail to Starboard: The US Navy vs. Blockade Runners in the Western Gulf of Mexico (Denbigh Shipwreck Project Publication)

BLOCK, W.T.

From Reference and Research Book News "This biography of Confederate financial agent Colin McRae is now offered in an expanded 2008 edition which includes archival documents, correspondence and accounting records that illustrate how this man was instrumental in the financial management of the Southern States during the Civil War. Arnold (Texas A&M U.) has easily doubled Davis' original 1960 text, adding more insight into how McRae used blockade running along the Mississippi River to shore up financial strength in order to fight the war. Written for Civil War history buffs and students, this book contains plenty of photographs of the original documents and correspondence."

Colin J. McRae. Confederate Financial Agent: Blockade Running in the Trans-Mississippi as Affected by the Confederate Governments Direct European Procurement of Goods

Davis, Charles S.

The Evolution of the Human Mind: From Supernaturalism to Naturalism - An Anthropological Perspective

This is the first single book to document the evolution in human thinking from a belief in supernaturalism to a belief in naturalism. The author shows how the ideas that people have held through the centuries about the world have developed from human experience - particularly during the last four hundred years - to the point today where, for the first time in human history, we see scientists in whom a belief in naturalism is complete and all-encompassing. As a philosopher of science, the author is concerned not so much with the ideas of particular individuals as he is with a system of ideas; as a cultural anthropologist, he is primarily interested in culture as the product of human thought.

Carneiro, Robert L.

This is the first single book to document the evolution in human thinking from a belief in supernaturalism to a belief in naturalism. The author shows how the ideas that people have held through the centuries about the world have developed from human experience - particularly during the last four hundred years - to the point today where, for the first time in human history, we see scientists in whom a belief in naturalism is complete and all-encompassing. As a philosopher of science, the author is concerned not so much with the ideas of particular individuals as he is with a system of ideas; as a cultural anthropologist, he is primarily interested in culture as the product of human thought.

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Emotional Intelligence: International Symposium 2005

Stability and Change in American Education

Excuses: Masquerades in Search of Grace (Foundations of Psychology)

The Casper Site: A Hell Gap Bison Kill on the High Plains (Foundations of Archaeology)

An Ethnography of England in the Year 1685: Being the Celebrated Third Chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England

Temperament as a Regulator of Behavior: After Fifty Years of Research

Schooner Sail to Starboard: The US Navy vs. Blockade Runners in the Western Gulf of Mexico (Denbigh Shipwreck Project Publication)

Colin J. McRae. Confederate Financial Agent: Blockade Running in the Trans-Mississippi as Affected by the Confederate Governments Direct European Procurement of Goods

The Evolution of the Human Mind: From Supernaturalism to Naturalism - An Anthropological Perspective

The Evolution of the Human Mind: From Supernaturalism to Naturalism - An Anthropological Perspective