Distant Friends And Intimate Strangers

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Fourteen stories on old age. In Crazy Heart, an old man reflects on his failed marriage, while Mr. Alello is on the indignity of a lonely death.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Charles East
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Release : 1996
File : 204 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0252065794


Data Mining For Social Network Data

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Driven by counter-terrorism efforts, marketing analysis and an explosion in online social networking in recent years, data mining has moved to the forefront of information science. This proposed Special Issue on Data Mining for Social Network Data will present a broad range of recent studies in social networking analysis. It will focus on emerging trends and needs in discovery and analysis of communities, solitary and social activities, activities in open for a and commercial sites as well. It will also look at network modeling, infrastructure construction, dynamic growth and evolution pattern discovery using machine learning approaches and multi-agent based simulations. Editors are three rising stars in world of data mining, knowledge discovery, social network analysis, and information infrastructures, and are anchored by Springer author/editor Hsinchun Chen (Terrorism Informatics; Medical Informatics; Digital Government), who is one of the most prominent intelligence analysis and data mining experts in the world.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Nasrullah Memon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2010-06-10
File : 217 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781441962874


Urban Japanese Housewives

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"A product of solid research, rich in information. There is no doubt about its admirable quality; I strongly recommend it for all those interested in Japan, women, housewifery, life course, urban community, or housing problems." --American Anthropologist

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Anne E. Imamura
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Release : 1992-06-01
File : 212 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0824814991


United States Law And Policy On Transitional Justice

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In United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics, Zachary D. Kaufman explores the U.S. government's support for, or opposition to, certain transitional justice institutions. By first presenting an overview of possible responses to atrocities (such as war crimes tribunals) and then analyzing six historical case studies, Kaufman evaluates why and how the United States has pursued particular transitional justice options since World War II. This book challenges the "legalist" paradigm, which postulates that liberal states pursue war crimes tribunals because their decision-makers hold a principled commitment to the rule of law. Kaufman develops an alternative theory-"prudentialism"-which contends that any state (liberal or illiberal) may support bona fide war crimes tribunals. More generally, prudentialism proposes that states pursue transitional justice options, not out of strict adherence to certain principles, but as a result of a case-specific balancing of politics, pragmatics, and normative beliefs. Kaufman tests these two competing theories through the U.S. experience in six contexts: Germany and Japan after World War II, the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, the 1990-1991 Iraqi offenses against Kuwaitis, the atrocities in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, and the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Kaufman demonstrates that political and pragmatic factors featured as or more prominently in U.S. transitional justice policy than did U.S. government officials' normative beliefs. Kaufman thus concludes that, at least for the United States, prudentialism is superior to legalism as an explanatory theory in transitional justice policymaking.

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Genre : Law
Author : Zachary D. Kaufman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2017
File : 433 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780190655488


Urban Migrants In Developing Nations

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What are the effects of migration and the change to city life on migrants and their families in developing countries? How is the quality of life influenced by the influx of migrants into a region? This book addresses these and related questions by focusing on four case studies in Korea (Seoul), Indonesia (Surabaya), Colombia (Bogota), and Iran (Teh

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Calvin Goldscheider
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2019-03-18
File : 216 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781000008807


Emerging And Young Adulthood

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The most distinctive feature of the Second Edition is its theoretical orientation coupled with a focus on understanding emerging and young adulthood from multiple perspectives. The updated and expanded book offers readers an opportunity to “listen to the voices” of emerging and young adults, parents, and employers, which is key to understanding this particular developmental period. In addition, the case studies provided throughout the book are diverse and detailed. The issues of emerging adulthood are complicated, nuanced, and defy easy characterizations. This book provides an opportunity to debunk many established pernicious stereotypes about emerging and young adults. The presentation of diverse voices and case material serves as a springboard for discussion and engages readers with material depicting emerging adults in the throes of working through developmental challenges characteristic of this period. In addition, the recent economic downturn has created havoc and further instability in the lives of emerging and young adults. The Second Edition focuses on the effects of – as well as possible solutions to – unemployment on emerging and young adults. A new chapter focuses on career experimentation versus career floundering, which is an important distinction. Additional new chapters address the effects of technology as well as depression and anxiety on emerging and young adults. The Second Edition examines emerging and young adulthood within a larger developmental and ecological context. In addition, it ensures that readers are well positioned to understand how the developmental demands of this period intersect with current economic, social, and political realities. It is a must-have resource for developmental, clinical child and school psychologists, rehabilitation counselors and therapists, I/O psychologists, and sociologists as well as for researchers and graduate-level students across these various disciplines.

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Genre : Psychology
Author : Varda Konstam
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2014-10-07
File : 232 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783319113012


Key Words For Astrology

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Excellent instruction manual for people who want to learn traditional astrological concepts and interpretation. The book covers all the basics as well as the not-so-obvious, and the planetary glyphs in the thumb margins make it a reference that every student of astrology will want to keep within easy reach. Bibliography.

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Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
Author : Hajo Banzhaf
Publisher : Weiser Books
Release : 1996-01-15
File : 308 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781609254193


The Friend

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Genre : Society of Friends
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Release : 1879
File : 436 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:AH6FGM


Connecting Self To Society

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Belonging is often overlooked in its relationship to society and social change, and yet it forms the bedrock of how we relate to the world around us. Through the work of Marx, Giddens and Goffman, this book covers the familiar terrain of identity theory, while going beyond it to other sites of identification and social change.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Vanessa May
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release : 2013-10-01
File : 192 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781137367266


Healthy Friendships

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This title looks at the ups and downs of friendship, including making new friends and saying goodbye to old ones. It offers helpful suggestions on what makes a true friend and how to be one yourself. Features include an ask the expert section, tips on being healthy, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Author : Emma Huddleston
Publisher : ABDO
Release : 2020-12-15
File : 115 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781098210090