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NEW SOLUTIONS and the Blue Green Alliance—Good Jobs/Green Jobs
Guest Editor: James Young
Due to the nature of this special issue we are offering the opportunity to purchase the single issue without a full subscription.
In collaboration with the Blue Green Alliance, this special issue of NEW SOLUTIONS, Green Jobs, Green Recovery, presents the speeches and presentations from the second Good Jobs/Green Jobs National Conference held in Washington, D.C., February 4-6, 2009, putting forward powerful ways to rebuild the U.S. economy with good, green jobs in sustainable energy generation, conservation, new transportation systems, and other ways of greening industry.
The list of contributing authors include current members of the Obama Administration, elected officials, union leaders, environmental leaders and policy analysts provide a set of ideas and concepts for a "green recovery," "green new deal," and "green economy"—terms chosen to frame a broad program to address the national and international crises resulting from destructive modes of production and consumption and failures to commit to socially just distributions of wealth and resources.
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Content Management: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice
Edited by George Pullman and Baotong Gu
This book begins a conversation about the effects of electronic content management systems on the profession of technical communications and advocates the need for more community involvement in the design and implementation of CMS.
Clothbound list price: $46.95 + p&h.
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Connecting People with Technology: Issues in Professional Communication
Edited by George F. Hayhoe and Helen M. Grady
This book explores five areas where technology affects society—making technology usable, meeting the needs of global audiences, disseminating health and safety information, communicating about biotechnology, and understanding how technology and global business shape the corporate environment—and suggests ways in which human communication can facilitate technology use.
Clothbound list price: $56.95 + p&h.
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At the Point of Production: Social Analysis of Occupational and Environmental Health
Edited by Charles Levenstein
The book locates workers' health and safety problems in the broad political economy, arguing that without a deep understanding of the social/political/economic context of particular industries and workplaces, we cannot fully grasp the process of recognition and control of industrial hazards. A series of case studies use the "point of production" framework to investigate particular problems or industries.
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The Language of Work: Technical Communication at Lukens Steel, 1810 to 1925
Carol Siri Johnson
The author's textual analysis of the papers of a single manufacturing company shows the shift from prediscursive (oral) to chirographic (written) forms of technical communication. As standards emerged and industry became more complex, new forms of literacy arose to meet the need to communicate ideas across space and time.
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Death and Bereavement Around the World, Volume 5: Reflective Essays
Edited by John D. Morgan, Pittu Laungani and Stephen Palmer
This final volume in the Death and Bereavement Around the World series reflects on some major themes, including death and after-life, end-of-life care, religion and spirituality, rites and rituals, secularist approaches, cultural variations, suicide, attitudes and needs of children, gender differences in death customs, and HIV/AIDS in the developing world.
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Loss, Grief and Trauma in the Workplace
Neil Thompson
This book provides information on the demands and challenges presented by loss, grief,
and trauma in the workplace. It explains key theoretical ideas and shows how these are
relevant to real-life issues as they relate to working life.
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Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley
Robert Forrant
Thousands of workers’ lives changed in 1986 when United Technologies Corporation shuttered the
76-year-old American Bosch plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, the watershed for large-firm metalworking
in the Connecticut River Valley. The author, a former Bosch worker and union activist, interjects his
recollections into this history of the firm’s and the region’s demise.
Paperbound list price: $38.95 + p&h.
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Environmental Unions: Labor and the Superfund
Craig Slatin
The author examines the history of a national worker health and safety training grant program,
presenting an analysis of the political economy of the hazardous waste management industry,
environmental protection laws, and the efforts of labor and public health professionals to
protect workers and communities from hazardous waste exposures.
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A Cop Doc’s Guide to Public Safety Complex Trauma Syndrome: Using Five Police Personality Styles
Daniel Rudofossi
Rudofossi’s theory of public safety complex trauma integrates other models of trauma and loss into an original intervention model. His eco-ethological existential analyses deal with personality differences in police officers through composite clinical case examples shaped by the impact of repetitive losses in multiple experiences of hidden trauma.
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Neuroaesthetics
Martin Skov and Oshin Vartanian
Neuroaesthetics is a field of inquiry concerned with uncovering the ways in which aesthetic behavior is caused by brain processes. This book illustrates how this emerging interdisciplinary field incorporates experimental, evolutionary, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging perspectives to advance our knowledge of how the brain represents visual art, literature, music, dance, and film.
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Nursing and Globalization in the Americas: A Critical Perspective
Edited by Karen Lucas Breda
The history and politics of nursing are presented through case studies from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. The studies show the strengths and contradictions in nursing and offer a new platform for understanding the struggles and obstacles of nursing in a climate of economic globalization.
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Unhealthy Work: Causes, Consequences, Cures
Edited by Peter L. Schnall, Marnie Dobson, and Ellen Rosskam
How work is organized can be as toxic to the mental and physical health of workers as the
chemicals they breathe. This interdisciplinary book examines the changing nature of work,
new evidence linking work conditions with ill-health, and “unhealthy work” as a public health
problem. Case studies inform recommendations for prevention.
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One Breath Apart: Facing Dissection
Sandra L. Bertman
It is our hope that this slim volume—this collection of words and images created by the
medical students at University of Massachusetts during the last thirty years (and augmented
by Meryl Levin’s documentary photographs of students from Weill Medical College of Cornell
University and their journal entries written in 1998 and published in Anatomy of Anatomy)—will
provide you with what good doctors provide for their patients: catharsis, personal insights,
and support.
Clothbound list price: $28.95 + p&h.
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Shoes, Glues and Homework: Dangerous Work in the Global Footwear Industry
Pia Markkanen
This book describes working conditions in informal-sector shoe production in Indonesia and
the Philippines, their gender dimensions, and national and international policy
implications. The use of organic solvents makes shoemaking a particularly hazardous
occupation. Introduction of safer chemical alternatives is hindered by complex
relationships among various global and local actors.
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Beyond Child's Play: Sustainable Product Design in the Global Doll-Making Industry
Sally Edwards
Sustainable product design is more than eco design: it goes beyond “green” to consider the work environment, community impacts, consumer health, economic viability, and environmental attributes. This concept is explored in the context of the global toy industry, through three case studies of doll-making in China, Germany and Peru.
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Train Your Brain: How to Maximize Memory Ability in Older Adulthood
Robert G. Winningham
Scientifically based suggestions are provided on how older adults can improve their memory ability. Topics such as cognitive stimulation, nutrition, depression, social support, stress, and sleep are addressed in the context of memory and aging. The book contains many activities that can be used in a cognitive enhancement program.
Clothbound list price: $58.95 + p&h.
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Lucky Man: A Matter of Life and Death
Written by Kent L. Koppelman with Paul Dominic Heckman
Produced by Jan Koppelman
A one-act play originally performed for the International Death, Grief and Bereavement Conference at La Crosse, Wisconsin, June, 2007. SYNOPSIS: A middle-aged man named Adam Mensch receives a surprise visit from the Angel of Death. Mensch protests that he is not ready to go, but the Angel insists that his time has come. The play presents their discussion before Adam agrees to leave with his visitor.
mp3 download price: $4.99
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Assessment in Technical and Professional Communication
Edited by Margaret Hundleby and Jo Allen
This book presents a broad view of current work in assessment in technical and professional communication, demonstrating differing purposes, uses, methods, and focus for helping faculty and program chairs determine how well students are learning in classrooms and experiential settings. A chapter-and-response format represents the dialogic nature of quality assessment work.
Clothbound list price: $56.95 + p&h
Pre-publication Price Extended through March 15, 2010: $48.41 + p&h
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Step Into Our Lives at the Funeral Home
Jo Michaelson
Interspersed through every chapter are stories and vignettes shared by many funeral directors throughout the Midwest, concerning the lifestyle for the family living in the funeral home and true incidents of specific funerals. Some stories are sad. Others are tragic. A few are humorous. Embracing faith, hope, and love is a primary requisite for healing.
Clothbound list price: $39.95 + p&h
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