Cohen: 1795 books
Reconstructing the Campus
Higher Education and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
The Civil War transformed American life. Not only did thousands of men die on battlefields and millions of slaves become free; cultural institutions reshaped themselves in the context of the war and its aftermath. The first book to examine the Civil War’s immediate and long-term impact on higher...
Foundations in Music Psychology
Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
A state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research in music psychology, written by leaders in the field.
This authoritative, landmark volume offers a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research in music perception and cognition. Eminent scholars from...
Should the West Engage Putin’s Russia?
The Munk Debates
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
How should the West deal with Putin’s Russia? For the U.S. and some European powers the answer is obvious: isolate Russia with punishing economic sanctions, remove it from global institutions such as the G8, and arm the nations directly threatened by Putin. In short, return to the Cold War doctrine...
Making a New Deal
Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as they make choices about whether to attend ethnic benefit society meetings or to go to the movies, whether...
Multinational Corporations and Foreign Direct Investment
Avoiding Simplicity, Embracing Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2007
Foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational corporations (MNCs)--for better and worse--play a large and growing role in shaping our world. The integrating thesis of this book is the inevitability of heterogeneity in FDI and MNCs and, accordingly, the imperative of disaggregation. Large companies...
The Open Mind
Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The Open Mind chronicles the development and promulgation of a scientific vision of the rational, creative, and autonomous self, demonstrating how this self became a defining feature of Cold War culture. Jamie Cohen-Cole illustrates how from 1945 to 1965 policy makers and social critics used the idea...
by Steven Cohen, George Dube
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Legal, Tax and Accounting Strategies for the Canadian Real Estate Investor begins and ends with the premise that buying property in Canada can be a smart, safe and successful way to invest your money. However, like most things in life, success requires hard work. You need to do your homework, understand...
by Benjamin J. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by some of the worlds leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated...
Economic Models for Policy Making
Principles and Designs Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Over the past decades, many different kinds of models have been developed that have been of use to policy makers, but until now the different approaches have not been brought together with a view to enhancing the systematic unification and evaluation of these models. This new volume aims to fill this...
The Doomsday Machine
The High Price of Nuclear Energy, the World's Most Dangerous Fuel
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Today, there are over one hundred nuclear reactors operating in our backyards, from Indian Point in New York to Diablo Canyon in California. Proponents claim that nuclear power is the only viable alternative to fossil fuels, and due to rising energy consumption and the looming threat of global warming,...
Human Subjects Research Regulation
Perspectives on the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects.
The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largely in reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, revealed at the Nuremburg trials,...
Children's Services
Partnerships for Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Co-author of the popular titles Booktalking Bonanza and The Early Literacy Kit, Betsy Diamant-Cohen brings together 18 examples of successful outreach partnerships that children's librarians and administrators can adapt to their own situations. Contributors from the U.S and Canada explain how they...
by Stuart Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
The Seventh System is about the human emotional system which encompasses all emotional states and regulates how people feel moment to moment and through the years. Unlike many other psychological texts, it is a comprehensive view that covers the full range of human feelings.
The book offers a big...
T’ai Chi & Qigong for Your Health
Historical and Scientific Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
T’ai Chi and qigong are popular because of their great reputations as exercises with numerous health-related benefits. Can these benefits simply be results of placebo effects? Chapters in this e-book not only provide an interesting historical backdrop in which taiji...