Browsing Sociology by Title

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    • Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures 

      Toker, Leona (Cornell University Press, 2016)
      Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures." Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures ...

    • Napoleon: A Concise Biography 

      Bell, David A. (Oxford University Press, 2015)
      This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for ...

    • Narrative and Innovation: New Ideas for Business Administration, Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship 

      Becker, Lutz; Muller, Andreas p. (VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften, 2013)
      The editors bring two terms, narrative and innovation, together in an interdisciplinary and interactive way. Narratives are ubiquitous and hold the potential to indicate future changes in politics, economies and markets. ...

    • NASA Spaceflight: A History of Innovation 

      McCurdy, Howard E.; Launius, Roger D. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book presents the first comprehensive history of innovation at NASA, bringing together experts in the field to illuminate how public-private and international partnerships have fueled new ways of exploring space since ...

    • National Electrical Code 2011 (National Fire Protection Association National Electrical Code) 

      National Fire Protection Association (Delmar Cengage Learning, 2010)
      Safe, efficient, code-compliant electrical installations are made simple with the latest publication of this widely popular resource. Like its highly successful previous editions, the National Electrical Code 2011 softcover ...

    • Native Cultural Competency in Mainstream Schooling: "Outsider" Teachers with Insider Knowledge 

      Williams, Sharon Vegh; Cole, Joni M. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book provides an in-depth analysis of Native American educational issues in the Northeast and highlights teacher training and instruction that address the experience and needs of the many Native students that attend ...

    • Native to the Republic: Empire, Social Citizenship, and Everyday Life in Marseille since 1945 

      Nasiali, Minayo (Cornell University Press, 2016)
      In Native to the Republic, Minayo Nasiali traces the process through which expectations about living standards and decent housing came to be understood as social rights in late twentieth-century France. These ideas evolved ...

    • A Natural Experiment on Electoral Law Reform: Evaluating the Long Run Consequences of 1990s Electoral Reform in Italy and Japan 

      Grofman, Bernard; Giannetti, Daniela (Springer, 2011)
      In the early 1990s, major electoral reforms took place in both Italy and Japan each replaced a form of “proportional representation” (in which voters cast a ballot for a party list) with a “mixed member” system (in which ...

    • Natural Language Processing 

      Eisenstein, Jacob (MIT Press, 2018)
      Natural language processing is the set of methods for making human language accessible to computers. In the past decade, natural language processing has become embedded in our daily lives: automatic machine translation is ...

    • Nature and the Greeks and Science and Humanism 

      Schrödinger, Erwin (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
      Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century his lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' ...

    • The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference 

      Morning, Ann (University of California Press, 2011)
      Americans think "race" means? What determines one's race--appearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? How do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, Ann Morning ...

    • The Nature of School Leadership: Global Practice Perspectives 

      Miller, Paul W. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book explores school leadership through a cross-cultural comparative lens, drawing on data from 16 countries located on five continents. The book gives a voice to both primary and secondary school principals, who ...

    • Navigating Educational Change in China: Contemporary History and Lived Experiences 

      Wang, Fang; Lo, Leslie N.K. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book is a reflection on the complexity of educational change in China through the lens of a senior academic who has occupied many diverse roles in the academe, from political worker to dean of faculty. It narrates his ...

    • Navigating information literacy : your information society survival toolkit 

      Bothma, Theo (Pearson Education , 2011)
      Navigating information literacy: your information society survival toolkit captures a range of skills and topics essential for students who intend positioning themselves in academic or workplace environments that are ...

    • Navigating life with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 

      Banks-Bromberg, Diane; Bromberg, Mark B. (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Navigating Life with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis provides accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date information about the challenges patients, family members, and caregivers face when confronted by ALS. This guide covers ...

    • Navigating life with epilepsy 

      Spencer, David C. (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Roughly 3 million people in the United States have already been diagnosed with epilepsy and another 200,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Worldwide, approximately 1 percent of the global population is diagnosed with ...

    • NCLEX-PN Review 

      Miller, Judith C. (Delmar Cengage Learning, 2010)
      For anyone pursuing a career in practical or vocational nursing, NCLEX-PN REVIEW will help you prepare. Each subject is presented concisely and thoroughly in outline format and is organized around the Nursing Process. ...

    • Negotiation Readings, Exercises, and Cases 

      Lewicki, Roy J.; Barry, Bruce; Saunders, David M. (McGraw-Hill Education, 2015)
      The Readings portion of the book is ordered into seven sections: (1) Negotiation Fundamentals, (2) Negotiation Subprocesses, (3) Negotiation Contexts, (4) Individual Differences, (5) Negotiation across Cultures, (6) Resolving ...

    • Neither physics nor chemistry : a history of quantum chemistry 

      Gavroglu, K.; Simoes, Ana (MIT Press, 2012)

    • Neoliberal Bio-Economies? 

      Birch, Kean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      In this book, Kean Birch analyses the co-construction of markets and natures in the emerging bio-economy as a policy response to global environmental change. The bio-economy is an economic system characterized by the use ...