1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480414203321

Autore

Aiken Lewis R. <1931->

Titolo

Aging [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction to gerontology / / Lewis R. Aiken

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c1995

ISBN

1-322-42314-8

1-4522-6766-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (485 p.)

Disciplina

305.260973

Soggetti

Gerontology - United States

Aging - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-452) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Chapter 1 - The Study of Aging; Chapter 2 - Physical Structure and Functioning; Chapter 3 - Illness and Health Care; Chapter 4 - Cognitive Abilities; Chapter 5 - Personality and Problems of Adjustment; Chapter 6 - Treating Adjustment Problems and Mental Disorders; Chapter 7 - Sex and Marital Relations; Chapter 8 - Social Status and Roles; Chapter 9 - Employment and Retirement; Chapter 10 - Economics and Aging; Chapter 11 - Living Arrangements and Activities; Chapter 12 - Crime and the Law; Chapter 13 - Death and Bereavement; Appendix A - Glossary

Appendix B - Organizations and Programs Concerned With Aging and Older AdulthoodAppendix C - Periodicals Concernd With Aging and Older Adulthood; References; Name Index; Subject Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

An introductory textbook that identifies and reviews what is known about aging and older adulthood and the methods by which such information and the resulting practical guidelines for dealing with the problems and possibilities of this time of life have been and continue to be obtained. Each chapter concludes with questions and activities and suggestions for further reading.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457030103321

Titolo

Militarism and Israeli society [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gabriel Sheffer and Oren Barak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Ind., : Indiana University Press, c2010

ISBN

9786612555152

0-253-00420-9

1-282-55515-4

Descrizione fisica

vii, 386 p. : ill

Collana

Israel studies book

Altri autori (Persone)

ShefferGabriel

BarakOren

Disciplina

355/.03305694

Soggetti

Civil-military relations - Israel

Militarism - Israel

Electronic books.

Israel Politics and government 1993-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Gabriel Sheffer and Oren Barak -- The study of civil-military relations in Israel: a new perspective / Oren Barak and Gabriel Sheffer -- Military knowledge and weak civilian control in the reality of low intensity conflict : the Israeli case / Kobi Michael -- Civil society, the military, and national security: the case of Israel's security zone in South Lebanon / Avraham Sela -- Intractable conflict and the media / Yoram Peri -- Tensions between military service and Jewish orthodoxy in Israel: implications imagined and real / Stuart A. Cohen -- From "obligatory militarism" to "contractual militarism" : competing models of citizenship / Yagil Levy, Edna Lomsky-Feder, and Noa Harel -- Shadow lands: the use of land resources for security needs in Israel / Amiram Oren -- "The battle over our homes": reconstructing/decontructing sovereign practices around Israel's separation barrier on the West Bank / Yuval Feinstein and Uri Ben-Eliezer -- The debate over the defense budget in Israel / Zalam F. Shiffer -- Civilian control over the army in Israel and France / Samy Cohen -- The making of Israel's political-security culture / Amir Bar-Or



-- The discourses of "psychology" and the "normalization" of war in contemporary Israel / Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari -- Visual representations of IDF women soldiers and "civil-militarism" in Israel / Chava Brownfield-Stein -- Contradictory representation of the IDF in cultural texts of the 1980's / Yuval Benziman -- Military and society since 9/11: retrospect and prospect / Christopher Dandeker.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780982003321

Autore

Baldwin Davarian L

Titolo

Chicago's new Negroes [[electronic resource] ] : modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life / / Davarian L. Baldwin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

1-4696-0463-9

0-8078-8760-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/0730773109045

Soggetti

African Americans - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century

African Americans - Illinois - Chicago - Social conditions - 20th century

African Americans - Migrations - History - 20th century

Migration, Internal - United States - History - 20th century

Chicago (Ill.) History 1875-

Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century

Chicago (Ill.) Population History 20th century

Chicago (Ill.) Race relations History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-353) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. "Chicago has no intelligentsia?": consumer culture and intellectual life reconsidered -- Mapping the Black metropolis: a cultural geography of the stroll -- Making do: beauty, enterprise, and the "makeover" of race womanhood -- Theaters of war: spectacles, amusements, and the emergence of urban film culture -- The birth of two nations: White fears, Black jeers, and the rise of a "race film" consciousness -- Sacred tastes: the migrant aesthetics and authority of



gospel music -- The sporting life: recreation, self-reliance, and competing visions of race manhood -- Epilogue. The crisis of the Black bourgeoisie, or, What If Harold Cruse had lived in Chicago?

Sommario/riassunto

Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life

4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910694460103321

Titolo

The National drug control strategy Budget summary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Control Policy

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (volumes)

Disciplina

362

Soggetti

Drug control - United States

Drug abuse - United States - Prevention

Drug abuse - Prevention

Drug control

Periodicals.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico