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A global history of 'Biafra', providing a new explanation for the ascendance of humanitarianism in a postcolonial world.
Learn how small changes can make a big difference in your powers of persuasion with this New York Times bestselling introduction to fifty scientifically proven techniques for increasing your persuasive powers in business and life. Every day we face the challenge of persuading others to do what we want. But what makes people say yes to our requests? Persuasion is not only an art, it is also a science, and researchers who study it have uncovered a series of hidden rules for moving people in your direction. Based on more than sixty years of research into the psychology of persuasion, Yes! reveals fifty simple but remarkably effective strategies that will make you much more persuasive at work an...
Two days aboard what he believes is the Trans-Siberian Express, the author discovers he's on the wrong train. It is 1987, and he is traveling in the Soviet Union, holding a train voucher that mistakenly identifies him as a Finn. In fact, he is a short, dark-skinned Mexican-American-Russian-Jew, who speaks only enough Russian to proclaim that he is Bob, the tourist from America. Throughout the story, Goldstein interjects historical anecdotes, as well as his own family's past in czarist Russia. "The Gentleman from Finland" is a sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant story of the misadventures of a traveler who discovers that a journey on the world's longest rail line is much more than just a big train ride.
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This volume may serve as a text in a survey course, a seminar, or a clinical program. The materials are in sufficient detail to aid students who are searching for research topics and who are writing papers. It may also prove valuable to students in other disciplines, such as social welfare, psychology, and public health. And this text may also serve practitioners as it contains the relevant canon of Supreme Court cases and certain lower court cases.
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Published in 1991, The Self-determination of Minorities in International Politics is a valuable contribution to the field of Politics.
The third edition of this handbook addresses not only the concept of resilience in children who overcome adversity, but it also explores the development of children not considered at risk addressing recent challenges as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new edition reviews the scientific literature that supports findings that stress-hardiness and resilience in all children leads to happier and healthier lives as well as improved functionality across the lifespan. In this edition, expert contributors examine resilience in relation to environmental stressors as phenomena in child and adolescent disorders and as a means toward positive adaptation into adulthood. The significantly expa...
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