Описание: Compares the Japanese cabinet system to its counterparts in other capitalist parliamentary democracies, particularly in Great Britain. Brian Woodall demonstrates how the nation`s long history of dominant bureaucracies has led to weakness at the top levels of government, while mid-level officials exercise much greater power than in the British system.
Описание: Regional Conflict and Cooperation: A Framework for Understanding Global Geography is an invaluable tool for comprehending the complexity of the world in clear, simple terms. The book helps students to understand the influences that shape world regions. It employs conventional approaches to the study of world regions, then highlights important moments, events, and trends that either fostered conflict or led to regional cooperation.Ten regions are discussed: Europe; Russia and Central Asia; North Africa and Southeast Asia; Sub-Saharan Africa; North America; Central and South America; the Indian Sub-continent; Southeast Asia and the Island Realms: East Asia; and Pacifica. The material neatly sidesteps the possibility of becoming outdated by creating frameworks of understanding that enable students to process and analyze events as they happen. Each unit includes a regional overview, key terms, case studies, and classroom discussion activities.While written for beginning courses in global or world regional geography, Regional Conflict and Cooperation is also an excellent text for interdisciplinary social science classes, classes in anthropology and political science, or programs in peace and conflict studies.
Описание: In this volume, a bipartisan group of leading academic and policy experts unravel the core causes of instability in the Middle East and North Africa. Their answers should help policymakers and students understand the region on its own terms, and enable the United States and its allies to adjust policy and focus on core challenges facing the area.
This helpful book explores mental health issues relating to elders who do not fit into the "usual" mold for research--white, married or widowed, urban or suburban persons with adult children. The Forgotten Aged focuses on those groups of elders often overlooked in gerontological literature--elder African-Americans, rural aged, gay and lesbian aged, parents of developmentally disabled offspring, older developmentally disabled persons themselves, and "orphan" elders (those who do not have close family members who can serve as caretakers). The book offers "how to" advice on issues such as outreach, intervention, residential placement and transition, assessment, psychotherapy, and team building to help readers learn effective ways of helping elderly persons from these various groups. With an optimistic tone, it explores how more attention and resources, combined with flexible modifications of programs and practices, can yield favorable results for everyone involved. In The Forgotten Aged, authors examine a variety of pertinent topics including:
assessment of dementia and depression in African-Americans
multidisciplinary team outreach to elderly living in rural areas
therapeutic issues with gay and lesbian aged
residential transitions for developmentally disabled elderly
helping aging parents of developmentally disabled offspring
intervention with "orphan" elderly with Alzheimer's diseaseSocial workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, geriatricians, nurses, and counselors involved in providing support and care for elderly persons will find The Forgotten Aged a useful guide in their daily work and decisionmaking. This book can also serve as an enlightening supplementary text in courses that study aging and the elderly.
It might seem that African Americans and Mexican Americans would have common cause in matters of civil rights. This volume, which considers relations between blacks and browns during the civil rights era, carefully examines the complex and multifaceted realities that complicate such assumptions—and that revise our view of both the civil rights struggle and black-brown relations in recent history. Unique in its focus, innovative in its methods, and broad in its approach to various locales and time periods, the book provides key perspectives to understanding the development of America’s ethnic and sociopolitical landscape.
These essays focus chiefly on the Southwest, where Mexican Americans and African Americans have had a long history of civil rights activism. Among the cases the authors take up are the unification of black and Chicano civil rights and labor groups in California; divisions between Mexican Americans and African Americans generated by the War on Poverty; and cultural connections established by black and Chicano musicians during the period. Together these cases present the first truly nuanced picture of the conflict and cooperation, goodwill and animosity, unity and disunity that played a critical role in the history of both black-brown relations and the battle for civil rights. Their insights are especially timely, as black-brown relations occupy an increasingly important role in the nation’s public life.
Автор: Herman, A. L. , Herman, Arthur Название: A Brief Introduction To Hinduism ISBN: 0367314215 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367314217 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores Hinduism by empirically discovering the problems that it faces and the solutions that it offers to those problems. It summarizes the results of the authors` investigations into the problem-identifying and problem-solving ways of Gandhi, Maharshi, and Bhaktivedanta.
Автор: Rubin Michael, Katulis Brian Название: Seven Pillars: What Really Causes Instability in the Middle East? ISBN: 0844750247 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780844750248 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11449.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this volume, a bipartisan group of leading academic and policy experts unravel the core causes of instability in the Middle East and North Africa. Their answers should help policymakers and students understand the region on its own terms, and enable the United States and its allies to adjust policy and focus on core challenges facing the area.
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