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The First Russian Radical Alexander Radishchev 1749-1802

The First Russian Radical Alexander Radishchev 1749-1802

When this was originally published in 1959 it was the first full-length biography of Alexander Radishchev published outside Russia and was based on hitherto unpublished material memoir literature and Radishchev’s own writings. Radishchev occupies a notable position in the history of European social thought as the first writer to apply the criteria of the Western Age of Reason to conditions in Tsarist Russia. Sentenced to death on the orders of Catherine the Great and subsequently exiled in Siberia Radishchev stands out as the first great figure of the Russian radical intelligentsia and the first literary victim of Tsarist official intolerance. | The First Russian Radical Alexander Radishchev 1749-1802

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California’s Recall Election of Gavin Newsom COVID-19 and the Test of Leadership

California’s Recall Election of Gavin Newsom COVID-19 and the Test of Leadership

California went through a political earthquake of sorts when the state recalled Governor Gray Davis in 2003. In 2021 the state faced another political turning point with the threatened recall of Governor Gavin Newsom. Less than two years after Newsom’s overwhelming election victory more than two million Californians signed on to the recall effort hoping to expel him from office in a special election. How could such a monumental turnabout be possible? Normally the political headwinds would be much too strong for a movement to oust a governor who had decisively vanquished his opponent. But-with the COVID-19 pandemic dominating every aspect of society including politics-these weren’t normal times. Organizing a recall election is a demanding enterprise: it takes abundant political energy tremendous amounts of anger with the status quo and mounds of money. Yet for the second time in less than two decades such wheels were set in motion. What is it that makes California so dynamic yet so fragile? This book explains that paradox and in the process enlightens readers about the recall process the challenges of federalism and the pitfalls of direct democracy. It examines the underlying conditions that expose a state with poorly linked institutions a bitterly divided society and a governor who had to act under nearly impossible conditions demonstrating his strengths and vulnerabilities along the way. It’s a story that could happen only in California a state with a history of only stories. Designed to be useful in a variety of college courses this book is the first to unveil the Newsom backstory and will appeal to pundits and politicos as well as interested general readers. | California’s Recall Election of Gavin Newsom COVID-19 and the Test of Leadership

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Pregnancy Delivery Childbirth A Gender and Cultural History from Antiquity to the Test Tube in Europe

Pregnancy Delivery Childbirth A Gender and Cultural History from Antiquity to the Test Tube in Europe

This book reconstructs the history of conception pregnancy and childbirth in Europe from antiquity to the 20th century focusing on its most significant turning points: the emergence of a medical-scientific approach to delivery in Ancient Greece the impact of Christianity the establishment of the man-midwife in the 18th century the medicalisation of childbirth the emergence of a new representation of the foetus as unborn citizen and finally the revolution of reproductive technologies. The book explores a history that far from being linear progressive or homogeneous is characterised by significant continuities as well as transformations. The ways in which a woman gives birth and lives her pregnancy and the postpartum period are the result of a complex series of factors. The book therefore places these events in their wider cultural social and religious contexts which influenced the forms taken by rituals and therapeutic practices religious and civil prescriptions and the regulation of the female body. The investigation of this complex experience represents a crucial contribution to cultural social and gender history as well as an indispensable tool for understanding today’s reality. It will be of great use to undergraduates studying the history of childbirth the history of medicine the history of the body as well as women's and gender history more broadly. | Pregnancy Delivery Childbirth A Gender and Cultural History from Antiquity to the Test Tube in Europe

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State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

The collection examines state–society relations during the COVID-19 pandemic from governance at the outset of the pandemic to vaccine rollouts via a series of case studies from around the world. With a focus on the Global South the book includes chapters on the experiences of – Angola Zimbabwe South Africa Bolivia Argentina Brazil Jamaica and Indonesia as well as contributions from the Global North – on Sweden Canada Czech Republic and New Zealand. The collection demonstrates that the effects of the pandemic can only be properly revealed by looking at the regional and local contexts in which states and societies experienced it. Contributors examine themes such as the nature of contemporary democracy state capacity the legitimacy of state institutions and trust in government questions of social solidarity and forms and impacts of inequality. Focusing on national (or sub-national) cases each chapter analyses the underlying forces and structures revealed when the authority of the state is brought to bear on the agency of citizens under emergency conditions. In doing so contributors embed analysis of pandemic governance in the historical context of each country or region highlighting how political choices histories of the state’s treatment of citizens and the orientations of a region’s elites shaped the actions taken by the state. The book will be of interest to those looking to understand how the pandemic was interpreted accepted or contested at the local (national or sub-national) level and to those interested in state–society relations more generally. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in questions of pandemic government from a social scientific point of view and especially to those interested in perspectives from the Global South. | State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

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Advanced Methods in Automatic Item Generation

Advanced Methods in Automatic Item Generation

Advanced Methods in Automatic Item Generation is an up-to-date survey of the growing research on automatic item generation (AIG) in today’s technology-enhanced educational measurement sector. As test administration procedures increasingly integrate digital media and Internet use assessment stakeholders—from graduate students to scholars to industry professionals—have numerous opportunities to study and create different types of tests and test items. This comprehensive analysis offers thorough coverage of the theoretical foundations and concepts that define AIG as well as the practical considerations required to produce and apply large numbers of useful test items.

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Perfect 800 SAT Math Advanced Strategies for Top Performance

Perfect 800 SAT Math Advanced Strategies for Top Performance

Getting into the nation's most competitive universities requires more than a good SAT score—it requires a perfect score. Perfect 800: SAT Math: Gives advanced students the tools needed to master the SAT math test. Includes 250+ problems two complete practice tests and 25 logic games. Covers arithmetic concepts algebra geometry trigonometry and more. Emphasizes critical thinking and analytic skills over memorization and trial and error. This updated 2021 edition offers exposure to a wide range of degrees of difficulty in a holistic approach that allows students to experience the real thing including the impact of time constraints on their performance. This book ensures optimal usage of time and maximizes the pace of progress as students prepare for the all-important test. The book contains one complete practice test and a second practice test is downloadable from www. routledge. com/9781646321049. Grades 9-12 | Perfect 800 SAT Math Advanced Strategies for Top Performance

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The Psychology of Political Polarization

The Psychology of Political Polarization

The Psychology of Political Polarization was inspired by the notion that to understand the momentum of radical political movements it is important to understand the attitudes of individual citizens who support such movements. Leading political psychologists have contributed to this important book in which they share their latest ideas about political polarization – a complex phenomenon that cannot be traced back to a single cause and that is associated with intolerance overconfidence and irrational beliefs. The book explores the basis of political polarization as being how citizens think and feel about people with a different worldview how they perceive minority groups and how much they trust leaders and experts on pressing societal issues such as climate change health international relations and poverty. The chapters are organized into two sections that examine what psychological processes and what social factors contribute to polarization among regular citizens. The book also describes practical strategies and interventions to depolarize people. The book offers a state-of-the-art introduction to the psychology of political polarization which will appeal to the academic market and political professionals.

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Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder From Science to Practice

Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder From Science to Practice

The second edition of Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder is an essential read for all clinicians researchers and anyone who wants to learn about how cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can be applied to treatment for generalized anxiety disorder. Building on the idea that intolerance of uncertainty keeps people with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) stuck in repeated cycles of excessive worry anxiety and avoidance this revised and updated edition lays out the essentials of GAD assessment and diagnosis step-by-step illustrations of CBT treatment and questionnaires and monitoring forms that can be used in assessment treatment and research. Readers will come away from the book with a clear sense of how to: design powerful individualized behavioral experiments targeting the fear of uncertainty; help clients discover and re-evaluate their beliefs about the usefulness of worry; encourage clients to view worry-provoking problems as challenges to be met rather than threats; use written exposure to help clients confront lingering worries and core fears. | Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder From Science to Practice

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Drug Calculations for Nurses A Step-by-Step Approach

Drug Calculations for Nurses A Step-by-Step Approach

This new edition of Drug Calculations for Nurses teaches healthcare professionals how to perform drug calculations with confidence and competence. It provides step-by-step guidance to carry out accurate drug calculations with units and drug strengths clearly explained. This bestselling pocket-size book begins with the basic mathematical skills required to perform calculations including tips on estimating answers. It then covers drug strengths and concentrations dosage calculations IV infusion therapies and pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. Separate chapters focus on children adults and the elderly addressing specific challenges encountered in these populations with new content on pregnancy and renal and liver function. Helpful worked examples key points and objectives are included in every chapter and this new edition includes more calculations for prescribing and patient-focused scenarios. The companion website www. drugcalcsnurses. co. uk provides a comprehensive test bank with a pre-test and revision test to identify strengths and weaknesses along with additional practice questions for readers to test themselves on. Designed for students and practitioners in nursing midwifery and allied health this textbook enables readers to improve their numeracy skills for clinical practice and develop their understanding of the broader context for these calculations. | Drug Calculations for Nurses A Step-by-Step Approach

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IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

This popular guide clarifies the requirements for inspection and testing explaining in clear language those parts of the IET Wiring Regulations that most need simplifying. In addition to the descriptive and diagrammatic test methods that are required explanations of the theory and reasoning behind test procedures are given together with useful tables for the comparison of test results. The book also provides essential information on the completion of electrical installation certificates with a step-by-step guide on the entries that need to be made and where to source data. With the content suitable for both City & Guilds and EAL Inspection and Testing courses and containing a sample MCQ paper and answers it is also an ideal revision guide. Fully up to date with the latest amendments to the 18th Edition of the IET Wiring Regulations. Simplifies the advice found in the Wiring Regulations explaining how they apply to working practice for inspection testing and certification. Expert advice from an engineering training consultant supported with colour diagrams examples and key data. | IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

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Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology Science Testing and Challenges

Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology Science Testing and Challenges

Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology thoroughly examines the meaning of culture in the context of neuropsychology focusing on the fundamental neuroscience underlying how different aspects of culture influence neuropsychological test performance and how that is related to brain function. It explores in detail the relationship between brain activity and culture and the influence of various cultural educational and linguistic factors on neuropsychological test performances across various cognitive domains. Written by leadings researchers in cross-cultural neuropsychology the book first introduces the basic concepts in the field. It goes on to focus on the influence of cultural variables on specific domains of cognition including perception attention memory language and executive functions. It also explores the implications of cross-cultural neuropsychology in practice including a focus on test adaptation the use of interpreters the influence of acculturation and the practice of neuropsychological rehabilitation in different cultural settings. This book is essential reading for neuropsychologists and related practitioners working with culturally diverse clients who need a good grasp of the cultural impacts on neuropsychological test performance when assessing clients from different cultural linguistic and educational backgrounds. It is also valuable for neuropsychologists in countries around the world who need a means of understanding the ways in which their culture impacts the performances of their clients on tests which have been mostly developed in the U. S. or other Western cultures. | Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology Science Testing and Challenges

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Transcending Addiction An Existential Pathway to Recovery

Transcending Addiction An Existential Pathway to Recovery

Addiction is often thought about in terms of cause be that brain chemistry attachment patterns or cognitive schemas. But this does not allow an understanding of what addiction is. It does not illuminate how addiction is lived. A phenomenology of addiction reveals that addiction is characterised by an intolerance of pain a pursuit of pleasure immediacy technocratic solutions alienation ambiguity and is drenched in deception. These are its individual clinical manifestations but this is also the way life in this century is lived. The addict is thus the ultimate 21st century subject consuming without end intolerant of emotion and unable to grasp their own limitations. Rather than embraced these subjects act as a denied symptom haunting late capitalism and exposing the vampire-like nature of our culture. As such these subjects need to be treated not just as individuals who have gone too far but as victims of the political agenda shaping our lives. Thus the heart of the book is a description of addiction deepened by existential-phenomenological theory. This description is then used to understand the historical emergence of addiction its socio-political manifestation and also the crucial issue of how to clinically treat the addict-subject. | Transcending Addiction An Existential Pathway to Recovery

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Master Lecture Series for the NCE CPCE CECE and State Counseling Exams The Updated and Expanded Vital Information and Review Questions Program

Master Lecture Series for the NCE CPCE CECE and State Counseling Exams The Updated and Expanded Vital Information and Review Questions Program

WHO ELSE WANTS TO SAY I PASSED? The Master Lecture Series Boosts Exam Scores While Reducing Test Anxiety and Study Time Say goodbye to boring study sessions. Dr. Rosenthal’s Master Lecture Series makes learning enjoyable. Revolutionize your exam prep and have fun doing it! This study guide will transform your comprehensive exam journey into an engaging adventure that you'll actually enjoy! The Master Lecture Series is a great standalone exam prep guide and the perfect companion to the Encyclopedia of Counseling and the Human Services Dictionary. The new edition includes updated and expanded lectures on every exam area and questions and answers on all major topics including those frequently asked by users of Dr. Rosenthal’s materials. The book includes a complete test anxiety prevention program with hundreds of never-before published tiny test hints for effective micro-study sessions exclusive memory devices and the most advanced Super Review Boot Camp he has ever created. This is the perfect study tool for every counselor wanting to take their career to the next level. | Master Lecture Series for the NCE CPCE CECE and State Counseling Exams The Updated and Expanded Vital Information and Review Questions Program

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The Romans An Introduction

The Romans An Introduction

The Romans: An Introduction is a concise readable and comprehensive survey of the Roman world which explores 1 200 years of political military and cultural history alongside religion social pressures literature art and architecture. This new edition includes updated and revised materials designed to develop analytical skills in literary and material evidence evoking themes that resonate in both ancient and modern societies: fake news class struggles urbanization concepts of race and gender imperialism constitutional power and religious intolerance. The fourth edition incorporates a number of new features and evolving fields: A new chapter on provinces provincial administration and acculturation in the Roman Empire. An extended chapter on Christianity and Rome’s legacy with new case studies in the reception of Roman culture. An extended chapter on Roman society and daily life including recent scholarship on gender and race in the ancient world. Integrated use of text and material evidence which is designed to develop analytical skills in critical source assessment. The book’s successful Open Access website updated to include new case studies on emerging topics such as performance politics religious syncretism media sensationalism and cultural heritage. Thoroughly updated and redeveloped this new edition of The Romans will continue to serve as the definitive introduction to the life history and culture of the Roman world from its foundation to its significance to later civilizations. | The Romans An Introduction

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Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing

Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing

The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing forms a theoretical comprehensive and critically astute overview of the history and future of Pakistani literature in English. Dealing with key issues for global society today from terrorism religious extremism fundamentalism corruption and intolerance to matters of love hate loss belongingness and identity conflicts this Companion brings together over thirty essays by leading and emerging scholars and presents:the transformations and continuities in Pakistani anglophone writing since its inauguration in 1947 to today;contestations and controversies that have not only informed creative writing but also subverted certain stereotypes in favour of a dynamic representation of Pakistani Muslim experiences;a case for a Pakistani canon through a critical perspective on how different writers and their works have at different times both consciously and unconsciously helped to realise and extend a uniquely Pakistani idiom. Providing a comprehensive yet manageable introduction to cross-cultural relations and to historical regional local and global contexts that are essential to reading Pakistani anglophone literature The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing is key reading for researchers and academics in Pakistani anglophone literature history and culture. It is also relevant to other disciplines such as terror studies post-9/11 literature gender studies postcolonial studies feminist studies human rights diaspora studies space and mobility studies religion and contemporary South Asian literatures and cultures.

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Straight Skin Gay Masks and Pretending to be Gay on Screen

Straight Skin Gay Masks and Pretending to be Gay on Screen

Straight Skin Gay Masks and Pretending to Be Gay on Screen examines cinematic depictions of pretending-to-be-gay assessing performances that not only reflect heteronormative and explicitly homophobic attitudes but also offer depictions of gay selfhood with more nuanced multidirectional identifications. The case of straight protagonists pretending to be gay on screen is the ideal context in which to study unanticipated progressivity and dissidence in regard to cultural construction of human sexualities in the face of theatricalized epistemological collapse. Teasing apart the dynamics of depictions of both sexual stability and fluidity in cinematic images of men pretending to be gay offers new insights into such salient issues as sexual vulnerability and dynamics and long-term queer visibility in a politically complicated mass culture which is mostly produced in a heteronormative and even hostile cultural environment. Additionally this book initially examines queer uses of sexuality masquerade in Alternate Gay World Cinema that allegorically features a world pretending to be gay in which straights are harassed and persecuted in order to expose the tragic consequences of sexual intolerance. Films and TV series examined as part of the analysis include The Gay Deceivers Victor/Victoria Happy Texas William Friedkin’s Cruising and many other straight and gay screens. This is a fascinating and important study relevant to students and researchers in Film Studies Media Studies Gender Studies Queer Studies Sexuality Studies Communication Studies and Cultural Studies. | Straight Skin Gay Masks and Pretending to be Gay on Screen

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Climate Changed Refugee Border Stories and the Business of Misery

Climate Changed Refugee Border Stories and the Business of Misery

Climate Changed is an honest humane account about the rapid downsizing of the world’s natural resources and the consequences this has for millions of people who year after year are displaced from their home countries because of politically-instigated and economically-justified war and conflict. Based on interviews with 110 refugees who arrived into Europe from 2015 to 2018 and observations of refugee camps border crossings inner-city slums social housing projects NGO and related refugee associations this book offers a moving insight into the refugee experience of leaving home crossing borders and settling in Europe. Briggs sets this against the geopolitical and commercial enterprise that dismantled refugees’ countries in the international chase for wilting quantities of the world’s natural resources. At every point of their journey to their new lives and in the resettlement process the refugees are victimised and exploited as there is always money to be made from them. Even if refugees’ labour is in demand there is a European social climate of intolerance and stigma which jeopardises integration and counters their well-being and safety. The climate has changed. This book will appeal to students and scholars in core areas of sociology environmental and sustainability studies human geography and politics. Policymakers practitioners and voluntary workers within the sector of frontline immigration as well as aid workers town planners and welfare support staff will also find this book of interest. | Climate Changed Refugee Border Stories and the Business of Misery

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Trump Effect

Trump Effect

Professor Karina V. Korostelina presents insights into the Trump effect and explains how the support for Trump among the American general public is based on three complementary pillars. First Trump champions a specific conception of American national identity that empowers his supporters. Second Trump's leadership has to an extent been crafted from his ability to recognize where and with whom he can get the most return on his investment (e. g. his political comments) and address the perceived general malaise in the U. S. Trump also mirrors the emotions of a disenfranchised American public and inspires the use of frustration based anger and insults to achieve desired aims. He addresses the public’s intolerance of uncertainty and ambivalence by providing simpler solutions to complex national problems and by blurring the boundary betweent he leading political parties. Further Trump employs existing political polarization and has established a new kind of morality. Third Trump challenges the existing political balance of power within the U. S. and globally. The overarching goal of this book is to show how the popularity of Trump has revealed substantial problems in the social political and economic fabric of American life. Aimed at the general public and students in the U. S. and internationally the book goes beyond many explanations of the Trump Effect. Using a multidisciplinary theoretical lens it provides a systemic multifaceted analysis based on multiple theories of social identity emotions cognitions morality and power to explain the broader social phenomena of the rise of individuals in society.

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The Language of Hate A Corpus Lingusitic Analysis of White Supremacist Language

The Language of Hate A Corpus Lingusitic Analysis of White Supremacist Language

In this book Andrew Brindle analyzes a corpus of texts taken from a white supremacist web forum which refer to the subject of homosexuality drawing conclusions about the discourses of extremism and the dissemination of far-right hate speech online. The website from which Brindle’s corpus is drawn Stormfront has been described as the most powerful active influence in the White Nationalist movement (Kim 2005). Through a linguistic analysis of the data combining corpus linguistic methodologies and a critical discourse analysis approach Brindle examines the language used to construct heterosexual white masculinities as well as posters’ representations of gay men racial minorities and other out-groups and how such groups are associated by the in-group. Brindle applies three types of analysis to the corpus: a corpus-driven approach centered on the study of frequency keywords collocation and concordance analyses; a detailed qualitative study of posts from the forum and the threads in which they are located; and a corpus-based approach which combines the corpus linguistic and qualitative analyses. The analysis of the data demonstrates a convergence of reactionary responses to not only women gay men and lesbians but also to racial minorities. Brindle’s findings suggest that due to the forum format of the data topics are discussed and negotiated rather than dictated unilaterally as would be the case in a hierarchical organization. This research-based study of white supremacist discourse on the Internet facilitates understanding of hate speech and the behavior of extremist groups with the aim of providing tools to combat elements of extremism and intolerance in society. | The Language of Hate A Corpus Lingusitic Analysis of White Supremacist Language

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Politicised Cinema Post-War Film Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO

Politicised Cinema Post-War Film Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO

Politicised Cinema demonstrates how taking a collection of seemingly apolitical films and using them as an instrument for serving explicit political aims can be used as a force for good. Through an analysis of Orient: A Survey of Films Produced in Countries of Arab and Asian Culture a film catalogue published by UNESCO and the BFI in 1959 to promote intercultural understanding between the East and the West this book argues for the importance of studying the ways the interpretation of films can be guided to serve a specific political agenda even when the films themselves were originally produced with very different aims in mind. The author focuses on how the catalogue positions culture and its cinematic representations as a marker of difference between the Eastern and Western worlds and shows that even major cultural conflicts such as the Cold War and the decolonisation process can be reframed in service of UNESCO’s cultural diplomatic agenda. The book explores the ways in which the catalogue of Eastern films deemed suitable for Western audiences became a weapon to fight against prejudice intolerance and bigotry in a politicised battle over dismantling the proclaimed link between difference and conflict. This book will be of interest to students researchers and academics in visual politics cinematic international relations cultural diplomacy global governance and international cultural politics as well as film studies Asian studies and cultural studies. In addition policymakers and practitioners in the fields of cultural diplomacy and cultural policy will find the empirical case study to be of use in practical work. | Politicised Cinema Post-War Film Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO

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A Study of Innovative Behavior in High Technology Product Development Organizations

A Study of Innovative Behavior in High Technology Product Development Organizations

Originally published in 1999 this volume integrates several streams of research on the antecedents of innovation to test a model of individual innovative behavior in a high technology product development organization. The sample for this research was a group of Engineers Designers and Lab Technicians employed in an engineering department responsible for the development of high technology products. Structural equation modeling techniques and multiple linear regression were used to evaluate the research. | A Study of Innovative Behavior in High Technology Product Development Organizations

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An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment is the successor to Cooper’s prize-winning book Psychological Testing: Theory and Practice. This expanded and updated volume shows how psychological questionnaires and tests can be chosen administered scored interpreted and developed. In providing students researchers test users test developers and practitioners in the social sciences education and health with an evaluative guide to choosing using interpreting and developing tests it provides readers a thorough grasp of the principles (and limitations) of testing together with the necessary methodological detail. This book has three distinctive features. First it stresses the basic logic of psychological assessment without getting bogged down with mathematics; the spreadsheet simulations and utilities which are integrated into the text allow users to explore how numbers behave rather than reading equations. Readers will learn by doing. Second it covers both the theory behind psychological assessment and the practicalities of locating designing and using tests and interpreting their scores. Finally it is evaluative. Rather than just describing concepts such as test reliability or adaptive testing it stresses the underlying principles merits and drawbacks of each approach to assessment and methods of developing and evaluating questionnaires and tests. Unusually for an introductory text it includes coverage of several cutting-edge techniques and this new edition expands the discussion on measurement invariance methods of detecting/quantifying bias and hierarchical factor models and features added sections on: Best practices for translation of tests into other languages and problems of cultural bias Automatic item generation The advantages drawbacks and practicalities of internet-based testing Generalizability theory Network analysis Dangerous assumptions made when scoring tests The accuracy of tests used for assessing individuals The two-way relationship between psychometrics and psychological theory Aimed at non-mathematicians this friendly and engaging text will help you to understand the fundamental principles of psychometrics that underpin the measurement of any human characteristic using any psychological test. Written by a leading figure in the field and accompanied by additional resources including a set of spreadsheets which use simulated data and other techniques to illustrate important issues this is an essential introduction for all students of psychology and related disciplines. It assumes very little statistical background and is written for students studying psychological assessment or psychometrics and for researchers and practitioners who use questionnaires and tests to measure personality cognitive abilities educational attainment mood or motivation. | An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

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