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Peacekeeping Under Fire

Culture and Intervention

by Robert A. Rubinstein ...

The international community increasingly responds to civil wars, humanitarian crises, and other intrastate conflicts through the instrument of UN peacekeeping. Nearly all of these interventions take place in non-Western areas and involve interactions among militaries and nongovernmental organizations from all around the globe. In this wide-ranging book, Rubinstein draws on decades of his own ... Read more

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The international community increasingly responds to civil wars, humanitarian crises, and other intrastate conflicts through the instrument of UN peacekeeping. Nearly all of these interventions take place in non-Western areas and involve interactions among militaries and nongovernmental organizations from all around the globe. In this wide-ranging book, Rubinstein draws on decades of his own
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The Social Dynamics Of Peace And Conflict

Culture In International Security

by Robert A Rubinstein, Mary Lecron Foster ...

This volume shows the importance for international security studies for better understanding the social dynamics of peace and conflict. It illustrates the crucial role that culture and symbols play in facilitating peace or fostering conflict and intended for anthropologists widely. ... Read more

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This volume shows the importance for international security studies for better understanding the social dynamics of peace and conflict. It illustrates the crucial role that culture and symbols play in facilitating peace or fostering conflict and intended for anthropologists widely.
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Curtains Up!

Theatre Games and Storytelling

by Robert Rubinstein ...

Theatre games help to develop students' skills in storytelling, improvisation, and public speaking. They also build confidence, teamwork, and vocabulary. Here is a collection of theatre games that have been classroom tested. Try the collaborative and fun activity "The Monster with Three Heads." Three students form one monster where each participant can say just one word at a time in response to ... Read more

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Theatre games help to develop students' skills in storytelling, improvisation, and public speaking. They also build confidence, teamwork, and vocabulary. Here is a collection of theatre games that have been classroom tested. Try the collaborative and fun activity "The Monster with Three Heads." Three students form one monster where each participant can say just one word at a time in response to
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Zishe the Strongman

by Robert Rubinstein ...

Illustrated by Woody Miller ...

At the age of 3, Zishe was lifting a nine-pound hammer in his father's blacksmith shop. By the age of eleven, there was not a bar he couldn't bend or a chain he could not snap.This is the unusual story of Zishe, a poor Polish Jew, who became the featured Strongman of circuses throughout the world. Based on the true story of Zishe of Lodz. ... Read more

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At the age of 3, Zishe was lifting a nine-pound hammer in his father's blacksmith shop. By the age of eleven, there was not a bar he couldn't bend or a chain he could not snap.This is the unusual story of Zishe, a poor Polish Jew, who became the featured Strongman of circuses throughout the world. Based on the true story of Zishe of Lodz.
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The SAGE Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine

Edited by Robert A. Rubinstein, Julian Fisher, Susan C. Scrimshaw, Sandra D. Lane ...

With new chapters on key topics such as mental health, the environment, race, ethnicity and health, and pharmaceuticals, this new edition maintains its multidisciplinary framework and bridges the gap between health policy and the sociology of health. It builds upon the success of the first by encompassing a range of issues, studies, and disciplines. The broad coverage of topics in addition to new ... Read more

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With new chapters on key topics such as mental health, the environment, race, ethnicity and health, and pharmaceuticals, this new edition maintains its multidisciplinary framework and bridges the gap between health policy and the sociology of health. It builds upon the success of the first by encompassing a range of issues, studies, and disciplines. The broad coverage of topics in addition to new
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Doing Fieldwork

The Correspondence of Robert Redfield and Sol Tax

Edited by Robert A. Rubinstein ...

Prior to the 1930s the highlands of Guatemala were largely undescribed, except in travelogues. Just two decades later, the highlands had become one of the most anthropologically well-investigated areas of the world. This is largely due to the research that Robert Redfield and Sol Tax carried out between 1934 and 1941. Separately and together, Redfield and Tax anticipated and guided anthropological ... Read more

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Prior to the 1930s the highlands of Guatemala were largely undescribed, except in travelogues. Just two decades later, the highlands had become one of the most anthropologically well-investigated areas of the world. This is largely due to the research that Robert Redfield and Sol Tax carried out between 1934 and 1941. Separately and together, Redfield and Tax anticipated and guided anthropological
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Anthropology and Aging

Comprehensive Reviews

Edited by Robert L. Rubinstein ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
$115.99 CAD
Inside Assisted Living

The Search for Home

by J. Kevin Eckert, PhD, Paula C. Carder, PhD, Leslie A. Morgan, PhD, Ann Christine Frankowski, PhD, Erin G. Roth, MA ...

Assisted living is the fastest-growing alternative to skilled nursing care for frail older persons in the United States. The expectations, settings, and missions of these residences are varied, making it difficult for prospective residents and their families to anticipate what it would be like to live in them. This book is a unique portal into the real world of assisted living and the key issues ... Read more

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Assisted living is the fastest-growing alternative to skilled nursing care for frail older persons in the United States. The expectations, settings, and missions of these residences are varied, making it difficult for prospective residents and their families to anticipate what it would be like to live in them. This book is a unique portal into the real world of assisted living and the key issues
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Blow the House Down

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by Robert Baer ...

Narrated by John Rubinstein ...

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Former CIA operative Robert Baer pushes fiction to the absolute limit in this riveting and unnervingly plausible alternative history of 9/11.Veteran CIA officer Max Waller has long been obsessed with the abduction and murder of his Agency mentor. Though years of digging yield the name of a suspect—an Iranian math genius turned terrorist—the trail seems too cold to justify further effort. Then Max ... Read more

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Former CIA operative Robert Baer pushes fiction to the absolute limit in this riveting and unnervingly plausible alternative history of 9/11.Veteran CIA officer Max Waller has long been obsessed with the abduction and murder of his Agency mentor. Though years of digging yield the name of a suspect—an Iranian math genius turned terrorist—the trail seems too cold to justify further effort. Then Max
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The City on the Edge of Forever

by Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir, D. C. Fontana1 ...

Narrated by Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir, LeVar Burton, Jean Smart, Scott Brick, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki, Robert Forster, David Gerrold0, Orson Scott Card2, Bonnie MacBird3, Paul Boehmer4, Ryan C. Britt5, Richard Gilliland6, Alex Hyde-White7, Richard McGonagle8, Jim Meskimen9, Larry Nemecek0, Veronica Scott1, Judy Young2, a full cast3, Christian O’Connell4, Richard Brewer5 ...

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The original teleplay that became the classic Star Trek episode, with an expanded introductory essay by Harlan Ellison, The City on the Edge of Forever has been surrounded by controversy since the airing of an “eviscerated” version—which subsequently has been voted the most beloved episode in the series’ history. In its original form, The City on the Edge of Forever won the 1966–67 Writers Guild ... Read more

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The original teleplay that became the classic Star Trek episode, with an expanded introductory essay by Harlan Ellison, The City on the Edge of Forever has been surrounded by controversy since the airing of an “eviscerated” version—which subsequently has been voted the most beloved episode in the series’ history. In its original form, The City on the Edge of Forever won the 1966–67 Writers Guild
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Sleeping With the Devil

How Washington Sold Our Soul For Saudi Crude

by Robert Baer ...

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Former CIA operative Robert Baer examines the dangers behind America's collaboration with Saudi Arabia. Nominally based on a "harmony of interests" - the Saudis sold their oil to the American government very inexpensively - what we offered in exchange has damaged our position in the Middle East and left our country vulnerable to economic and terrorist threats. Baer goes behind the scenes to show ... Read more

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Former CIA operative Robert Baer examines the dangers behind America's collaboration with Saudi Arabia. Nominally based on a "harmony of interests" - the Saudis sold their oil to the American government very inexpensively - what we offered in exchange has damaged our position in the Middle East and left our country vulnerable to economic and terrorist threats. Baer goes behind the scenes to show
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Living with Bad Surroundings

War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda

by Sverker Finnström, Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...

Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
Since 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil war, with the Lord’s Resistance Army and other groups fighting the Ugandan government. Acholi have been murdered, maimed, and driven into displacement. Thousands of children have been abducted and forced to fight. Many observers have perceived Acholiland and northern Uganda to be an exception in ... Read more

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Since 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil war, with the Lord’s Resistance Army and other groups fighting the Ugandan government. Acholi have been murdered, maimed, and driven into displacement. Thousands of children have been abducted and forced to fight. Many observers have perceived Acholiland and northern Uganda to be an exception in
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