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The Oxford handbook of happiness / edited by Susan A. David, Ilona Boniwell, Amanda Conley Ayers.

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Part of the series [Oxford library of psychology];[Oxford handbooks];Oxford library of psychology.;Oxford handbooks.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Psychological approaches to happiness — Psychological definitions of happiness — Philosophical approaches to happiness — Spiritual approaches to happiness — Happiness and society — Positive education — Happiness and organizations — Relationships and happiness — Development, stability, and change of happiness — Happiness interventions.
In recent decades there has been a shift in focus from psychological and social problems-what might be called the dark side of humanity-to human well-being and flourishing. The Positive Psychology movement, along with changes in attitudes toward organisational and societal health, has generated a surge of interest in human happiness. The Oxford Handbook of Happiness is the definitive text for researchers and practitioners interested in human happiness. Its editors and chapter contributors are world leaders in the investigation of happiness across the fields of psychology, education, philosophy, social policy and economics. The study of happiness is at the nexus of four major scientific developments: the growing field of Positive Psychology which researches the conditions that make people flourish advances in the biological and affective sciences which have contributed to the understanding of positive emotions Positive Organizational Scholarship, an emerging discipline aimed at investigating and fostering excellence in organisations and findings from economics indicating that traditional markers of economic and societal well-being are insufficient. The Oxford Handbook of Happiness offers readers a coherent, multi-disciplinary, and accessible text on the current state-of-the-art in happiness research. This volume features ten sections that focus on psychological, philosophical, evolutionary, economic and spiritual approaches to happiness happiness in society, education, organisations and relationships and the assessment and development of happiness. Readers will find information on psychological constructs such as resilience, flow, and emotional intelligence theories including broaden-and-build and self-determination and explorations of topics including collective virtuousness, psychological capital, coaching, environmental sustainability and economic growth. This handbook will be useful to academics, practitioners, teachers, students, and all those interested in theory and research on human happiness.

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W.E.B. Du Bois [electronic resource] : a biography in four voices / Corporation for Public Broadcasting produced and directed by Louis Massiah.;W.E.B. DuBois;W. E. B. DuBois;Biography in four voices;Biography in 4 voices

Mike — Thu, 05 May 2016 16:30:00 +0000

[San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel, [1995]
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System requirements: MPEG-4 video file playback capability.
Streaming video.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Biographical documentary feature film.
Narrated by Toni Cade Bambara, Amiri Baraka, Wesley Brown, Thulani Davis.
Directors of photography, Michael Chin, Arthur Jafa, Larry Banks editor, Monica Henriquez.
Title from title frames.
Documentary chronicles the biography of W.E.B. Du Bois and his role in the civil rights movement.
AUGSBURG COLLEGE LINDELL LIBRARY has purchased access to streaming video from 18 November 2015 to 1 December 2018. Access provided by California Newsreel.

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Amish society / John A. Hostetler.

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Hostetler, John A. (John Andrew), 1918-2001.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1993.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-425) and index.
I: Foundations — Models for understanding Amish society — The birth of Amish society — To America — II: Stability and fulfillment — The Amish charter — The community — Agriculture and subsistence — The Amish family — Child nurture and training — The life ceremonies — Ritual integration of the community — The symbolism of community and custom — III: Patterns of change — Government and the Amish — Change and fragmentation — Deviation and vulnerability — Health and healing — Backstage Amish life — Response to change — IV: Survival — The discourse with survival.
Presents the history and culture of Amish communities in the United States.

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The ethnic myth : race, ethnicity, and class in America / Stephen Steinberg.

Mike — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:43:00 +0000

Steinberg, Stephen.
Boston : Beacon Press, ©2001.
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Prologue: My Education as a Teacher of Race Relations — I. Racial Liberalism: The Rise and Fall of a Paradigm — 1. An American Dilemma: A New Liberal Orthodoxy on Race — 2. Paradigm Crisis: The Decline of Liberal Orthodoxy — 3. The 1960s and the Scholarship of Confrontation — II. The Scholarship of Backlash — 4. Backlash Outside and Inside the University — 5. The Liberal Retreat from Race during the Post-Civil Rights Era — 6. The Underclass: A Case of Color Blindness, Right and Left — 7. The Politics of Memory — 8. Affirmative Action and Liberal Capitulation — III. The Enduring Legacy of Slavery — 9. Occupational Apartheid and the Myth of the Black Middle Class — 10. America Again at the Crossroads — Epilogue Up from Slavery: The Myth of Black Progress.

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The social sex : a history of female friendship / Marilyn Yalom, with Theresa Donovan Brown.

Mike — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:32:00 +0000

Yalom, Marilyn, author.
New York, NY : Harper Perennial, [2015]
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Looking for friendship in the bible — Philosophers and clerics — Premodern nuns — Gossips and soul mates — Precious ladies — Patriotic friendships — Romantic friendships — Quilt, pray, club — College girls, city girls, and the new woman — Eleanor Roosevelt and her friends — From couplehood to sisterhood — Friendtimacy — Give and take : friendship in a market economy — Can women and men be just friends ?
Examines the history of female friendship, looking at how women were once considered to be incapable of the highest forms of friendship, and how they were able to co-opt this relationship ideal for themselves over the years. –Publisher’s description.

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New views on pornography : sexuality, politics, and the law / Lynn Comella and Shira Tarrant, editors.

Mike — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:30:00 +0000

Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2015]
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Section I. Foundations and Controversies — Introduction — Pornography and the First Amendment right to free speech / Kimberly A. Harchuck — Seen as a business : adult film’s historical framework and foundations / Kevin Heffernan — Clashing at Barnard’s gates : understanding the origins of the pornography problem in the modern American women’s movement / Carolyn Bronstein — Antiporn agendas : feminism, Internet filtering, and religious strategies / Christopher Boulton — Strange bedfellows : Black feminism and antipornography feminism / Jennifer C. Nash — Porn again Christian? Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill Church, and the pornification of the pulpit / Jessica Johnson.
Queer smut, queer rights / Whitney Strub — Steamy, hot, and political : creating radical dyke porn / Shar Rednour and Jackie Strano — Good vibrations, women, and porn : a history / Carol Queen — Trade associations, industry legitimacy, and corporate responsibility in pornography / Georgina Voss — When species meat : confronting bestiality pornography / Margret Grebowicz — Responding to revenge porn : challenges to online legal impunity / Michael Salter and Thomas Crofts — Section II. Cultural Issues and Effects — Interpreting the data : assessing competing claims in pornography research / Ronald Weitzer — Why do people watch porn? Results from PornResearch.Org / Clarissa Smith, Martin Barker, and Feona Attwood — Pornography and effects studies : what does the research actually say? / Andy Ruddock.
She’s totally faking it! : the politics of authentic female pleasure in pornography / Emily E. Crutcher — Lust, love, and life : a qualitative study of Swedish adolescents’ perceptions and experiences with pornography / Lotta Löfgren-Mårtenson and Sven-Axel Månsson — Race and the politics of agency in porn : a conversation with Black BBW performer Betty Blac / Mireille Miller-Young — Positively fat and queer : an interview with indie porn insider Courtney Trouble / Lynn Comella — Bare-ing witness : bareback porn and the ethics of watching / Gregory Storms — Ambient XXX : pornography in public spaces / Ryan Bowles Eagle — Pornography and pedagogy : teaching media literacy / Shira Tarrant — The science and politics of sex addiction research / Nicole Prause and Timothy Fong.
Why do people use pornography? Is porn addiction a fact or myth? What is revenge porn and is it illegal? Can pornography be more diverse? This interdisciplinary collection presents well-researched facts and up-to-date data that encourages informed discussion about controversial and relevant issues in contemporary society. Chapters address topics such as the history and cultural trends of pornography, labor and production practices in creating porn, the effects of technology, current issues in obscenity law, and myths and facts about the effects of pornography.–From dust jacket.

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The end of automobile dependence : how cities are moving beyond car-based planning / Peter Newman and Jeffrey Kenworthy.

Mike — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:58:00 +0000

Newman, Peter, 1945- author.
Washington, DC : Island Press, [2015];©2015
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-288) and index.
The rise and fall of automobile dependence — Urban transportation patterns and trends in global cities — Emerging cities and automobile dependence — The theory of urban fabrics: understanding the end of automobile dependence — Transportation planning: hindrance or help? — Overcoming barriers to the end of automobile dependence — The end of automobile dependence: a troubling prognosis? — Conclusion: Life after automobile dependence.
In The End of Automobile Dependence, Newman and Kenworthy look at how we can accelerate a planning approach to designing urban environments that can function reliably and conveniently on alternative modes, with a refined and more civilized automobile playing a very much reduced and manageable role in urban transportation. The authors examine the rise and fall of automobile dependence using updated data on 44 global cities to better understand how to facilitate and guide cities to the most productive and sustainable outcomes.

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Crime and justice : a review of research / edited by Michael Tonry.

Mike — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:53:00 +0000

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Part of the series Crime and justice : a review of research, 0192-3234 volume 44;Crime and justice (Chicago, Ill.) v. 44. 0192-3234
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Preface / Michael Tonry — From slavery to social class to disadvantage: an intellectual history of the use of class to explain racial differences in criminal involvement / Robert D. Crutchfield — Race, crime, and punishment in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Cassia Spohn — Federal sentencing reform since 1984: the awful as enemy of the good / Michael Tonry — Drug policy: the Dutch model / Marianne van Ooyen-Houben and Edward Kleemans — What can be learned from cross-national comparisons of data on illegal drugs? / Beau Kilmer, Peter Reuter, and Luca Giommoni — Crime trends and the elasticity of evil: has a broadening view of violence affected our statistical indicators? / James P. Lynch and Lynn A. Addington — Community design and crime: the impact of housing and the built environment / John MacDonald — Does marriage reduce crime? / Torbjørn Skardhamar, Jukka Savolainen, Kjersti N. Aase, and Torkild H. Lyngstad — Benefit-cost analysis of crime prevention programs / Brandon C. Welsh, David P. Farrington, and B. Raffan Gowar — Prisoner reentry programs / Cheryl Lero Jonson and Francis T. Cullen — Juvenile justice policy and practice: a developmental perspective / Kathryn Monahan, Laurence Steinberg, and Alex R. Piquero.
The research presented in this volume of Crime and Justice is essential reading for scholars, policy makers, and criminal justice practitioners who need authoritative current knowledge about crime, its causes, and its consequences. Through an international and interdisciplinary approach to core issues in criminology, the essays analyze important developments in crime and the criminal justice system to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, lawyers, apolitical scientists, and scholars in a wide range of related disciplines.

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Street smart : the rise of cities and the fall of cars / Samuel I. Schwartz with William Rosen.

Mike — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 13:46:00 +0000

Schwartz, Samuel I.
New York : PublicAffairs, [2015]
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With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. Gridlock Sam, one of the most respected transportation engineers in the world and consummate insider in NYC political circles, uncovers how American cities became so beholden to cars and why the current shift away from that trend will forever alter America’s urban landscapes, marking nothing short of a revolution in how we get from place to place. When Sam Schwartz was growing up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn-his block belonged to his community: the kids who played punchball and stickball & their parents, who’d regularly walk to the local businesses at which they also worked. He didn’t realize it then, but Bensonhurst was already more like a museum of a long-forgotten way-of-life than a picture of America’s future. Public transit traveled over and under city streets-New York’s first subway line opened in 1904-but the streets themselves had been conquered by the internal combustion engine. America’s dependency on the automobile began with the 1908 introduction of Henry Ford’s car-for-everyone, the Model T. The battle for right-of-way in the 1920s saw the demise of streetcars and transformed America’s streets from a multiuse resource for socializing, commerce, and public mobility into exclusive arteries for private automobiles. The subsequent destruction of urban transit systems and post WWII suburbanization of America enabled by the Interstate Highway System and the GI Bill forever changed the way Americans commuted. But today, for the first time in history, and after a hundred years of steady increase, automobile driving is in decline. Younger Americans increasingly prefer active transportation choices like walking or cycling and taking public transit, ride-shares or taxis. This isn’t a consequence of higher gas prices, or even the economic downturn, but rather a collective decision to be a lot less dependent on cars-and if American cities want to keep their younger populations, they need to plan accordingly. In Street
America’s dependency on the automobile began with the 1908 introduction of Henry Ford’s car-for-everyone, the Model T. The battle for right-of-way in the 1920s saw the demise of streetcars and transformed America’s streets from a multiuse resource for socializing, commerce, and public mobility into exclusive arteries for private automobiles. The subsequent destruction of urban transit systems and post WWII suburbanization of America enabled by the Interstate Highway System and the GI Bill forever changed the way Americans commuted. But today, for the first time in history, and after a hundred years of steady increase, automobile driving is in decline. Younger Americans increasingly prefer active transportation choices like walking or cycling and taking public transit, ride-shares or taxis. This isn’t a consequence of higher gas prices, or even the economic downturn, but rather a collective decision to be a lot less dependent on cars–and if American cities want to keep their younger populations, they need to plan accordingly. In Street Smart, Sam Schwartz explains how. In this clear and erudite presentation of the principles of smart transportation and sustainable urban planning–from the simplest cobblestoned street to the brave new world of driverless cars and trains–Sam Schwartz combines rigorous historical scholarship with the personal and entertaining recollections of a man who has spent more than forty years working on planning intelligent transit networks in New York City. Street Smart is a book for everyone who wants to know more about the who, what, when, where, and why of human mobility — Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253 -274) and index.
Prologue : Bedford and Sullivan — Motordom — For every action … — The millennials — Healthier, wealthier, and wiser — Walk on by — Unlocking the grid — What makes a smart city? — Tuxedos on the subway : transportation anywhere, anytime, and for everybody — Epilogue : Flatbush and Atlantic.
Prologue: Bedford and Sullivan — Motordom — For every action — Millennials — Healthier, wealthier, and wiser — Walk on by — Unlocking the grid — What makes a smart city? — Tuxedos on the subway: transportation anywhere, anytime, and for everybody — Epilogue: Flatbush and Atlantic — Acknowledgments — Notes — Bibliography — Index.
On a Saturday morning in December 1973, a section of New York’s West Side Highway collapsed under the weight of a truck full of asphalt. The road was closed, seemingly for good, and the 80,000 cars that traveled it each day had to find a new way to their destinations. It ought to have produced traffic chaos, but it didn’t. The cars simply vanished. It was a moment of revelation: the highway had induced the demand for car travel. It was a classic case of build it and they will come, but for the first time the opposite had been shown to be true: knock it down and they will go away. Samuel I Schwartz was inspired by the lesson. He started to reimagine cities, freed from their obligation to cars. Eventually, he found, he was not alone. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, a revolution has taken place: every year Americans are driving fewer miles. And the generation named for this new century-the Millennials-are driving least of all. Not because they can’t afford to they don’t want to. They have better ideas for how to use their streets. An urban transformation is underway, and smart streets are at the heart of it. Schwartz’s Street Smart is a history of the struggle for control of American cities, and an off-road map to a more vibrant, active, and vigorous urban future.

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You may ask yourself : an introduction to thinking like a sociologist / Dalton Conley, New York University.

Mike — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:32:00 +0000

Conley, Dalton, 1969- author.
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2015]
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ch. 1 The Sociological Imagination: An Introduction — The Sociological Imagination — How To Be A Sociologist According To Quentin Tarantino. A Scene From Pulp Fiction — What Are the True Costs and Returns of College? — Getting That ‘Piece of Paper — What Is a Social Institution? — The Sociology of Sociology — Auguste Comte and the Creation of Sociology — Two Centuries Of Sociology — Classical Sociological Theory — American Sociology — Modern Sociological Theories — Sociology’and Its Cousins — History — Anthropology — The Psychological and Biological Sciences — Economics and Political Science — Divisions within Sociology — Microsociology and Macrosociology — Conclusion — Practice — Paradox — ch. 2 Methods — Research 101 — Causality versus Correlation — Variables — Hypothesis Testing — Validity, Reliability, and Generalizability — Role of the Researcher — Creating and Testing Theory — Data Collection — Samples: They’re Not Just The Free Tastes At The Supermarket — Ethics Of Social Research — Policy: The Political Battle Over Statistical Sampling — Conclusion — Practice — Paradox — ch. 3 Culture and Media — Definitions of Culture — Culture = Human — Nature — Culture = (Superior) Man — (Inferior) Man — Culture = Man — Machine — Material versus Nonmaterial Culture — Language, Meaning, and Concepts — Ideology — Studying Culture — Subculture — Cultural Effects: Give and Take — Reflection Theory — Media — From the Town Crier to the Facebook Wall: A Brief History — Hegemony: The Mother of All Media Terms — The Media Life Cycle — Texts — Back to the Beginning: Cultural Production — Media Effects — The Race And Gender Politics Of Making Out — Mommy, Where Do Stereotypes Come From? — Racism in the Media — Sexism in the Media — Political Economy of the Media — Consumer Culture — Advertising and Children — Culture Jams: Hey Calvin, How ‘Bout Giving That Girl a Sandwich? — Policy: What’s In A Name? — Conclusion — Practice — Paradox — ch. 4 Socialization and

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