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Roman Catholicism and the Family
Mark J. Cavanaugh
American families and religions are facing a challenge -- the challenge of adapting to a rapidly changing society with a self-oriented culture. The contributors examine a spectrum of responses to changing social norms, and assess the role that religion plays in modern family life. They seek to interpret the problems faced by one of our most basic social institutions through a variety of perspectives. 'The macro perspective and editorial unity are everywhere evident, but readers will also appreciate many individual articles...Definitely recommended.' -- Choice, April 1984 '...taken together...the essays represent a good resource for anyone who wants a sociologically grounded understanding of the relationship between the family and religion in modern society.' -- Religious Studies Review, Vol 10 No 4, October 1984.
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The Romance of Cearbhall and Fearbhlaidh
James E. Doan
Probably composed during the mid-15th century, this describes the love and tragic death of the poet Cearbhall O Dalaigh of Corcomroe in County Clare and Fearbhlaidh, the daughter of Seamus, king of Scotland. Although much is fictional, derived from early Irish myth and legend, some of the characters are based on historical figures. The first translation to appear in English, this includes both the prose and poetry found in the manuscript.
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Effects of Drilling Fluids on Reef Corals: A Review
Richard E. Dodge and Alina Szmant-Froelich
This chapter reviews research on the effects of drilling fluid on reef-building, or hermatypic, corals. Experiments have shown that the burial of corals in drilling fluid, or mud, caused mortality and that certain drilling fluids applied as slurries could not be removed by corals. Under field conditions, however, slurries were removed with the assistance of natural currents, but appeared to cause lowered growth rates in treated specimens. Certain species showed behaviorial stress symptoms after 96-h exposure to 0.100 ml liter-1 of drilling fluid (0.100 ml of fluid in 1 liter of seawater) and exposure to 1.000 ml liter-1 caused mortality in 65 h for three of seven species tested. A chronic 6-week exposure to 0.100 ml liter-1 of drilling fluid caused an 84% decrease in calcification, a 40% decrease in respiration, reductions in gross photosynthesis (26%), nitrate uptake (28%), ammonium uptake (49%), and feeding, as well as some death. Other studies showed that average linear skeletal growth also decreased. A field assessment of a reef, several years after drilling , indicated a 70-90% reduction in foliose, branching, and platelike corals within a 115 m x 85 m ellipse around the drilling site. Detrimental effects on corals, as extrapolated from the limited information on effects, seem probable within a minimum distance of 100m from the source.
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Communication and Conflict Management Skills
Neil Katz and John W. Lawyer
This is the seminal work in interpersonal skills training. Dr. Neil Katz and John W. Lawyer present numerous invaluable frameworks for learning such skills as: active listening, problem solving, conflict management, assertion, and feedback
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Communication Skills for Ministry
John W. Lawyer and Neil Katz
This text enables individuals and teams, dedicated to helping others, develop strong communication and conflict management skills. It provides ample opportunities to enhance interpersonal skills, and consequently, your effectiveness. This in an invaluable resource for training and development programs
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Nonviolent Protest and Third Party Public Opinion: A Study of the June 1978, Seabrook, New Hampshire, Antinuclear Power Protest
Neil H. Katz and John P. Hunt
Political protest and nonviolent struggle have had a long history in the United States, dating back to colonial times. During the nineteenth century, nonviolence was associated with such causes as abolition, temperance, antimilitarism, and women's suffrage. More recently, the nonviolent tactics and strategies used in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1950s and 1960s spawned similar activity on a diverse array of issues, including urban poverty, Native American rights, welfare reform, homosexuality, women's rights, and environmental pollution. Although many of these movements have been chronicled and protest has been recognized as an effective method for influencing political and social policy, less is known about the ways by which protest operates to exert such effects.
One aspect of this process, the ability of protesters to influence third-party observers, forms the focus of the present study. Surveying the data collected shortly after the 1978 demonstration against the construction of the Seabrook, New Hampshire, nuclear power plant provides an opportunity to examine the views of local townspeople toward the antinuclear protesters. Specifically, this research addresses the following four groups of questions:
1. How did third-party observers view construction of the Seabrook nuclear power plant and how did they view demonstrations against construction in terms of legitimacy and appeal?
2. Did third parties perceive the protesters as immature troublemakers or as responsible citizens, and did third parties view the protest as mostly violent or mostly peaceful?
3. To what extent did the protest group's ability to contact the public and legitimize its issue increase its appeal ? Furthermore, how were the protest group's abilities to contact the public, to legitimize its issue, and to generate public appeal interrelated?
4. How did the social and ideological backgrounds of third-party observers relate to the ways in which they perceived protest?
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Appendix 3: Quantitative Analysis of Skeletal Growth Records Part C: Probabilistic Population Descriptions
J. Rimas Vaisnys and Richard E. Dodge
In this appendix we propose some probabilistic and statistical techniques for describing biological populations. The techniques are illustrated with actual data, obtained from studies of coral reefs in Bermuda. In our example, we use skeletal band counts, made for a small sample of corals, to construct an age-frequency description of the coral reef population. The techniques are quite general and are applicable whenever a quantifiable skeletal growth record is exhibited by an individual organism and when one is interested in estimating the frequency distribution of the same growth pattern in the species population.
In this appendix we propose some probabilistic and statistical techniques for describing biological populations. The techniques are illustrated with actual data, obtained from studies of coral reefs in Bermuda. In our example, we use skeletal band counts, made for a small sample of corals, to construct an age-frequency description of the coral reef population. The techniques are quite general and are applicable whenever a quantifiable skeletal growth record is exhibited by an individual organism and when one is interested in estimating the frequency distribution of the same growth pattern in the species population.
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Chapter 13: Pragmatists and Visionaries in the Post World War II American Peace Movement: SANE and CNVA
Milton S. Katz and Neil Katz
This collection of twelve separately authored essays, analyzing various aspects of peace advocacy in six nations over a duration of nearly a century, manages to maintain a surprising unity of theme. Despite diversities of approach in essays as a group serve effectively, as Solomon Wank suggests, to destroy whatever remains of the "commonplace view of the peace movement as a monolith."
This chapter contains an account of SANE and CNVA in the United States that completes the book's collection.
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Secondary Operations in K-theory and the Generalized Vector Field Problem
Wolf Iberkleid and Sam Feder
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Plasma instabilities and anomalous transport; proceedings of a conference, with a collection of reprints
William B. Pardo, Harry S. Robertson, Lawrence Carl Hawkins, and Edward Currie
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