«Di tanto in tanto, i sociologi potrebbero sottrarsi dalle occupazioni correnti per indagare se i loro interessi di ricerca contribuiscano in qualche misura alla domanda fondamentale della sociologia, ovvero alla questione hobbesiana: com'è possibile la società? Le risposte a tale domanda potrebbero ben contribuire a unificare una disciplina che forse non s'è ancora dimenticata dei suoi fondatori, ma che nondimeno ha dimenticato il perché è stata fondata.»

Originally (1981) envisioned as a melding of Dr. Milton H. Erickson’s work and their own therapeutic experience of using metaphor in child therapy and hypnotherapy, this thoroughly revised second edition is now bolstered by current research in neurobiology, a new heart-over-head approach, as well as expanded with indigenous wisdom teachings and a discussion of healing after trauma. They aim to develop creative solutions for children, families, and communities with their expanded therapeutic vision. Ten chapters are divided into four parts: prisms of metaphor; creating therapeutic metaphors; multidimensional applications; evolutions. Part 1 deals with metaphor and story writing. Part 2 is about learning the language of children. Part 3 describes artistic metaphors. Part 4 covers community healing and story-play. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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A Decision-Making Guide for Integrative Play Therapists.

Revered by some as the ultimate warrior and condemned by others as ruthless assassins, the combat sniper is more than just a crack shot. This collection of biographies, written by leading military historians, explores the careers of the top snipers of World War II. Snipers are highly disciplined, calm professionals skilled in marksmanship, reconnaissance, and camouflage. During World War II, these lethal fighters were deployed by both sides to deadly effect. Because they were condemned as cold-hearted killers who took lives without risking their own, sniper veterans often concealed their wartime duties. However, modern snipers, and those of the past, are recognized today as representing the peak of combat skills. The remarkable stories of ten combat snipers of the Second World War are told by military men aptly skilled to do so. Drawing on firsthand accounts that have never been published, the authors supply details of their subjects to give graphic insight into each sniper's skill. As well as providing incisive technical information, authors offer a glimpse of the character and personality of their chosen snipers, giving them a human face. The list of snipers includes World War II's most accomplished fighting figures such as Finland's Simo Häyhä; Germany's finest shooter, Sepp Allerberger; Russia's famed Vassili Zaitsev and Lyudmila Pavlichenko; and America's Bert Kemp. These stories detail the bitter cold in which Eastern Front snipers Zaitsev and Allerberger often fought; the stinking, steaming jungles where Japanese snipers lost their lives atop palm trees; tales of personal revenge that drove Pavlichenko; how Häyhä applied his skills as a moose hunter and skier to become World War II's deadliest sniper; and how West Tennessee farmer Bert Kemp used his amazing ability for precision and almost supernatural marksmanship to become one of America's unsung heroes. These gripping, in-depth narratives go beyond the cursory treatment in existing histories and are essential reading for anyone wanting to learn about the role and technique of the sniper during the Second World War.

Bradley; Programming in Visual Basic 2010The author team of Julia Bradley and Anita Millspaugh remain the guiding light for countless students around the world in Programming with Visual Basic 2010. How better to master the most popular object-oriented programming language than to use the bestselling textbook? Be at the cutting edge of technology with examples, feedback questions, and a full Hands On Programming Example. Apply the concepts yourself with Case Studies and Exercises. Screen captures, step-by-step exercises, and thorough appendices ensure that Programming Excellence Begins Here.

Welfare research has established a range of scientific indicators of stress, welfare and suffering in animals that can be applied to all aspects of improving their welfare through good housing and management, and the topic continues to grow in importance among both professionals and the public.

Under a team of expert subject editors led by Professor Daniel Mills, the UK's first specialist in veterinary behavioural medicine, over 180 international experts from all areas of the field have contributed a wealth of fully cross-referenced entries ranging from concise definitions to detailed short essays. Biological, practical, clinical and ethical aspects of behaviour and welfare are described in domestic, exotic, companion, laboratory, zoo and wild animals, including human-animal interactions, animal rights and stereotypic behaviours.

The practical focus of this authoritative, comprehensive encyclopedia promotes the understanding and improvement of animals' behaviour without compromising welfare. It will be an essential resource for practising veterinarians, researchers and students in zoology and ethology, and for all those working with and interested in animals and their welfare.

For more than five decades, pioneering researcher Dorothy Seymour Mills has studied and written about baseball's past. With this groundbreaking book, she turns her attention to the historians, stat hounds, and many thousands of not-so-casual fans whose fascination with the game and its history, like her own, defies easy explanation. As Mills demonstrates, baseball elicits a passion--and inspires a slightly off-kilter, obsessive behavior--that is only slightly less interesting than the people who indulge it.

Turner, a leading Weber scholar and sociologist, has assembled the key papers of renowned sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920), as translated by H.H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills. In addition, the book includes a biographical overview of Weber and his political and intellectual interests. The papers include Weber's writings on science and politics, structures of power, religion, social structures, and other issues such as class and status. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

They came from US slave culture or had been slaves themselves. They lived in a small enclave in the region around All Saints Parish, between the Waccamaw River and the Atlantic Ocean. There were more than a hundred of them, and they had a lot to say to Genevieve W. Chandler, a worker in the WPA Federal Writers Project between 1936 and 1938. Their narratives include slavery, celebration, poverty, folk medicine, childhood spent working, adulthood spent under Jim Crow. They were nine years old, they were 104 years old, they spoke Gullah, which Chandler recorded so faithfully Creole linguists value her work now. Finally, after 70 years of being published in bits and pieces, they speak within the covers of the same book for the first time. This is extremely exciting primary material for linguists, historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and those who care to learn what it was to be Gullah. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

With Mr. Camel's help, Sammy the Elephant learns to strengthen his trunk muscles so he is finally able to assume his circus duty of carrying water and appreciate all the other things he can do, too.

With Mr. Camel's help, Sammy the Elephant learns to strengthen his trunk muscles so he is finally able to assume his circus duty of carrying water and appreciate all the other things he can do, too.

Amanda the squirrel is upset that she is going to lose her friend Gentle Willow, but the tree wizards give advice that help both her and Gentle Willow accept the change that comes with death.

Although she is saddened that storm damage has caused her to lose some of her branches, Little Tree draws strength and happiness from the knowledge that she still has a strong trunk, deep roots, and a beautiful heart.

Amanda the squirrel is upset that she is going to lose her friend Gentle Willow, but the tree wizards give advice that help both her and Gentle Willow accept the change that comes with death.

In print for fifty years, White Collar by C. Wright Mills is considered a standard on the subject of the new middle class in twentieth-century America. This landmark volume demonstrates how the conditions and styles of middle class life--originating from elements of both the newer lower and upper classes--represent modern society as a whole.
By examining white-collar life, Mills aimed to learn something about what was becoming more typically "American" than the once-famous Western frontier character. He painted a picture instead of a society that had evolved into a business-based milieu, viewing America instead as a great salesroom, an enormous file, and a new universe of management.
Russell Jacoby, author of The End of Utopia and The Last Intellectuals, contributes a new Afterword to this edition, in which he reflects on the impact White Collar had at its original publication and considers what it means to our society today.
"A book that persons of every level of the white collar pyramid should read and ponder. It will alert them to their condition for their better salvation."-Horace M. Kaellen, The New York Times (on the first edition)