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Valuable Disconnects in Organizational Learning Sy...
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Product Description Valuable Disconnects in Organizational Learning Systems: Integrating Bold Visions and Harsh Realities offers a comprehensive framework for understanding how knowledge, skills and capabilities are developed in organizations--and how this process offers deep insights into the predi..
Value-Free Science?: Ideals and Illusion
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Review"Historians of science whose work has led them to puzzle over their own and their historical actors' judgments of the relations between value and scientific fact will find much of value here."--Alan Richardson, Isis"A valuable anthology of essays by contemporary philosophers."--Choice"A well s..
Values Clarification in Counseling and Psychothera...
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This work meets a long-standing need in the helping professions by being the first and only comprehensive book on how counselors and psychotherapists can work with clients around values, goal-setting, decision-making and action planning. Helping clients determine their priorities, set goals, make de..
Vanguard of Empire: Ships of Exploration in the Ag...
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In this book, Smith has assembled a portrait of the small vessels invented and refined in the shipyards of Spain and Portugal half a millennium ago. He focuses on the advances in maritime technology that made the European conquest of the New World possible. Shipwrights worked by trial anderror to ma..
Vanity, Vitality, and Virility: The Science behind...
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What is the secret of shower cleaners How does the dangerous explosive nitroglycerin ward off heart attacks And what medicines, usually prescribed for other purposes, are said to produce the ultimate orgasm In Vanity, Vitality, and Virility, award-winning science writer John Emsley offers a fascin..
Variety and Unity in New Testament Thought (Oxford...
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The blend of variety and unity apparent in the thought of the New Testament has long been a subject for theological debate. Certain themes, teaching, and characterizations are clearly consistent, but others are perplexing in their diversity. This study explores the different aspects of variety and u..
Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the German...
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Review"An important contribution to research on empirical and analytical issues in the center of theoretical debate. The scholarship is copiously, carefully, and clearly presented and is scrupulously up-to-date and thorough."--Ken Safir, Rutgers UniversityProduct DescriptionThis book is the study of..
Verdi: A Biography
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On October 9, 1813, in the small town of Roncole, Italy, a baby by the name of Giuseppe Verdi was born. Little did his parents know that this child, born in the auspicious week of the Feast of San Donnino, would grow up to be not only a national hero of Italy, but also one of the mostsuccessful comp..
Verdi: A Biography
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Drawing on numerous original documents provided by Verdi's descendants, the Carrara-Verdi family, this long awaited biography presents a reexamination of Verdi's life not only as a composer, but as a philanthropist and son of Italy. Matz places Verdi against a backdrop of a century of fierceItalian ..
Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the ...
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Art historians have long speculated on how Vermeer achieved the uncanny mixture of detached precision, compositional repose, and perspective accuracy that have drawn many to describe his work as "photographic." Indeed, many wonder if Vermeer employed a camera obscura, a primitive form ofcamera, to e..
Vietnam at War
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For many Westerners, the Vietnam War summons images of American soldiers patrolling rice paddies, battling an elusive enemy as helicopters circle overhead. But there were, in fact, many Vietnam wars--an anti-colonial war with France, a cold war turned hot with the United States, a civil warbetween N..
Vietnam at War: The History: 1946-1975
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Weaving together the histories of three distinct conflicts, Phillip B. Davidson follows the entire course of the Vietnam War, from the initial French skirmishes in 1946 to the dramatic fall of Saigon nearly thirty years later. His connecting thread is North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap, a remar..
Violence in the Home: Multidisciplinary Perspectiv...
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Violence in the home is one of the most damaging and widespread of social problems. It is an issue that cuts across all socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, gender, and age boundaries. This important book reviews the most current theoretical explanations of family violence and then links theory to practic..
Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolesc...
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Violent video games are successfully marketed to and easily obtained by children and adolescents. Even the U.S. government distributes one such game, America's Army, through both the internet and its recruiting offices. Is there any scientific evidence to support the claims that violent games contri..
Virginia Woolf (Authors in Context) (Oxford World'...
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Product DescriptionDuring Virginia Woolf's lifetime Britain's position in the world changed, and so did the outlook of its people. The Boer War and the First World War forced politicians and citizens alike to ask how far the power of the state extended into the lives of individuals; the rise of fasc..
Virtue Ethics (Oxford Readings in Philosophy)
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This volume brings together much of the most influential work undertaken in the field of virtue ethics over the last four decades. The ethics of virtue predominated in the ancient world, and recent moral philosophy has seen a revival of interest in virtue ethics as a rival to Kantian and utilitarian..
Virtues in Medical Practice
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In recent years, virtue theories have enjoyed a renaissance of interest among general and medical ethicists. This book offers a virtue-based ethic for medicine, the health professions, and health care. Beginning with a historical account of the concept of virtue, the authors construct a theory of th..
Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self (St...
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In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. Visible Identities fills this gap. Drawing on both philosophical sources as well as theories and empirical studies in the social sciences, MartÃn Alcoff makes..
Visions of Utopia (New York Public Library Lecture...
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From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common--they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics--Edward Rothstein, Martin Marty, and Her..
Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the America...
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Fear, rage, courage, discrimination. These are facts of everyday life for many Americans with disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has made working, traveling, and communicating easier for many individuals. But what recourse do individuals have when enforcement of the law is ambi..
Voices from the Inside: Readings on the Experience...
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One of sociology's most important missions is giving voice to those whose experiences are typically otherwise blunted, marginalized, or simply ignored. Featuring memorable, first-person accounts of mentally ill individuals, Voices from the Inside: Readings on the Experiences of Mental Illness allows..
Voices of Ancient Philosophy: An Introductory Read...
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Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Voices of Ancient Philosophy: An Introductory Reader is a unique and accessible introduction to the richness of ancient philosophy. Featuring a topical--as opposed to chronological--organization, this text introduces students to the wide rang..
Voices of Resurgent Islam
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Essays discuss Islamic identity, influential Islamic leaders, and reasons for the revitalization of Islam in the Middle East Author: Esposito, John L. Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 019503340X ISBN-13: 9780195033403..
Voices of Russian Literature: Interviews with Ten ...
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Voices of Russian Literature presents in-depth interviews with ten of the most interesting figures writing in Russian today. These figures range from established authors such as Andrei Bitov and Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, who began their careers in the post-Stalinist thaw of the 1950s, to newcomers li..
Voices of the Poor: From Many Lands
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A multi-country research initiative to understand poverty from the eyes of the poor, the Voices of the Poor project was undertaken to inform the World Bank's activities and the upcoming World Development Report 2000/01. The research findings are being published in three books:"Can Anyone Hear Us " g..