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This is the story of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures-from its origins in the 1860s until today. It highlightes the role of key individuals in the development of the institution and the path from artifact standards of the metre and the kilogram to units based on the fundamental constants of physics.

Innovations in Psychosocial Interventions and Their Delivery provides an integrated and detailed overview of advances, challenges, and necessary new directions with regard to evidence-based psychological interventions. Drawing on diverse fields such as public health, business, entertainment, social policy and law, and other domains that may inform efforts to deliver interventions more effectively, Alan Kazdin explores an assortment of novel and inventiveways to address the world's mental health crisis.

The Trial by Franz Kafka stands both as one of the most emblematic and fiercely debated novels of the 20th Century. This collection brings Kafka experts together in order to explore the novel's particularly philosophical significance.

The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice charts some of the major sites of convergence between the humanities and the social sciences, where new disciplinary perspectives are being brought to bear on the field of cultural heritage. These convergences have the potential to provide the interdisciplinary expertise needed not only to critique but also to achieve the intertwined intellectual, political, and socioeconomic goals of culturalheritage in the twenty-first century.

Arts and humanities education is widespread in undergraduate but almost non-existent in postgraduate medical education where it is arguably more helpful. This book fills that gap. It covers a wide range of arts and humanities including film, theatre, narrative, visual art, history, ethics and social sciences. It also touches on interprofessional education, research in the medical humanities and fundraising. It is not only a hands-on guide to creating arts- andhumanities-base programming, but provides literature reviews and a theoretical discussion on each topic. Each chapter has appendices with lesson plans and resources.

Moving between theology, medical treatments, psychological theories, feminist movements and popular culture, Innocent Ecstasy demonstrates how Christianity has shaped Americans' sexual expectations-and laid the foundations for the sexual revolution.

On any given day, nearly half a million children are served by foster care services in the U.S. at an annual cost of over $25 billion. Growing demand and shrinking funds have so greatly stressed the child welfare system that calls for orphanages have re-entered the public debate for the first time in nearly half a century. New ideas are desperately needed to transform a system in crisis, guarantee better outcomes for children in foster care, and reduce the need forout-of-home care in the first place.Yet little is known about what works in foster care. Very few studies have examined how alumni have fared as adults or tracked long-term health effects, and even fewer have directly compared different foster care services. In one of the most comprehensive studies of adults formerly in foster care ever conducted, the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study found that quality foster care services for children pay big dividends when they grow into adults. Key investments in highly trained staff, lowcaseloads, and robust supplementary services can dramatically reduce the rates of mental disorders and substance abuse later in life and increase the likelihood of completing education beyond high school and remaining employed. The results of this unparalleled study document not only the morefavorable outcomes for youth who receive better services but the overall return when an investment is made in high quality foster care: every dollar invested in a child generates $1.50 in benefits to society. These findings form the core of this book's blueprint for reform.By keeping more children with their families and investing additional funds in enhanced foster care services, child welfare agencies have the opportunity to greatly improve the health, well being, and economic prospects for foster care alumni. What Works in Foster Care? presents a model foster care program that promises to revolutionize the way policymakers, administrators, case workers, and researchers think about protecting our most vulnerable youth.

Intended for the nonspecialist as well as the specialist, this multi-volume encyclopaedia serves as a useful reference on ancient Egypt, covering the period from the first known settlements in the Nile Delta before 5,000 BC to the end of the Pharaoh's kingdoms under Greece and Rome.

Designed for the first course in Computer Architecture, usually offered at the junior/senior (3rd, 4th year) level in electrical engineering, computer science or computer engineering departments. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to computer architecture, covering topic from design of simple microprocessors to various techniques.

Media and Performance in the Musical explores the American musical both from the standpoint of media in which musicals have been created and from the people who do the work to bring a musical to life.

Identies and Audiences in the Musical analyzes the ways that musicals have addressed identity in American culture and considers what it means to create a promote a receptive environment.

Histories of the Musical looks at the ways that the American musical has evolved from early minstrel shows to the present day.

This book is an introduction to professional ethics in chemistry based on the view that the specific codes of conduct derive from a moral ideal. Ethical questions unique to chemistry are discussed. A large collection of specific ethical problems are included.

The book turns the concepts of identity politics and foreign policy as traditionally used in IR scholarship inside out. It uses an in-depth exploration of Turkey's identity debates to develop of theory of how elites use foreign policy to advance their own understanding national identity back home.

The Oxford Handbook of Polling and Survey Methods, divided into four main sections, first examines data collection. It then addresses data analysis and the methods available for combining polling data with other types of data and also cover analytic issues, including the new approaches to studying public opinion (for example, social media, the analysis of open-ended questions using text analytic tools, and data imputation. The final section of theHandbook focuses on the presentation of polling results, an area where there is a great deal of innovation.

From nature to cultural appropriation, and from black to terror, the most important words in political and cultural debate have complicated and complex histories. Keywords for Today takes us deep into the history of these and other important words in the English language, helping us to better understand our contemporary world.

This book uniquely captures program evaluation concepts, methods, and strategies that are most useful to nonprofit leaders, social science professionals, and students as they engage in evaluation practice. Readers will learn how to work with key stakeholders to determine answerable questions/design studies and analyze, interpret, and report useful findings.

First published in 2008, Stuart Vyse's Going Broke described the epidemic of personal debt that existed in the years leading up to the Great Recession, and anticipated the home mortgage crisis that started it. Ten years later, a fully-updated new edition tackles personal savings and debt in the post-recession era of economic recovery.

This book is a comprehensive and easy-to-read volume addressing the critical need to close the gap between social work education and training and the field of addiction treatment. It includes a unique critical review of existing evidence and health disparities, and provides organizational, community, and policy perspectives on implementation.

Sabina Augusta: An Imperial Journey traces the development of Sabina's partnership with her husband, the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117-138), and shows the vital importance of the empress for Hadrian's own aspirations.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Education brings together preeminent scholars to craft a comprehensive survey and assessment of the study of religion and education in the United States.

By focusing on bad kingship, or tyranny, Evil Lords offers innovative insights into pre-modern conceptions of sovereignty, as well as into the relation between ethics and politics, individual and society, and power and propaganda, as elaborated in a number of different contexts, periods, and genres from Antiquity to the Renaissance.

Where Is All My Relation? presents the first sustained academic discussion of the poetry, pottery, and culture of David Drake, an antebellum slave who distinguished himself by composing verse on the ceramics he produced in the years leading up to the Civil War.

Ethnography introduces readers to traditions of ethnographic research and writing through detailed discussions of their histories, exploratory designs, representational conventions, and standards of evaluation. While situating ethnography within its original, anthropological context, the book simultaneously introduces new frameworks for grasping its rich and ever expanding practices.

For over 50 years students, professors, clergy, and general readers have relied on The New Oxford Annotated Bible as an unparalleled authority in Study Bibles. This fifth edition of the Annotated remains the best way to study and understand the Bible at home or in the classroom. This thoroughly revised and substantially updated edition contains the best scholarship informed by recent discoveries and anchored in the solid Study Bibletradition.┬╖ Introductions and extensive annotations for each book by acknowledged experts in the field provide context and guidance. ┬╖ Introductory essays on major groups of biblical writings - Pentateuch, Prophets, Gospels, and other sections - give readers an overview that guides more intensive study.┬╖ General essays on history, translation matters, different canons in use today, and issues of daily life in biblical times inform the reader of important aspects of biblical study.┬╖ Maps and diagrams within the text contextualize where events took place and how to understand them.┬╖ Color maps give readers the geographical orientation they need for understanding historical accounts throughout the Bible.┬╖ Timelines, parallel texts, weights and measures, calendars, and other helpful tables help navigate the biblical world.┬╖ An extensive glossary of technical terms demystifies the language of biblical scholarship.┬╖ An index to the study materials eases the way to the quick location of information.The New Oxford Annotated Bible, with seventeen new essays and introductions and othersΓÇöas well as annotationsΓÇöfully revised, offers the reader flexibility for any learning style. Beginning with a specific passage or a significant concept, finding information for meditation, sermon preparation, or academic study is straightforward and intuitive.A volume that users will want to keep for continued reference, The New Oxford Annotated Bible continues the Oxford University Press tradition of providing excellence in scholarship for the general reader. Generations of users attest to its status as the best one-volume Bible reference tool for any home, library, or classroom.

Political Science Research in the Middle East and North Africa helps fill this vacuum, focusing specifically on doing research in the one of the most important regions in contemporary world politics. Janine A. Clark and Francesco Cavatorta have gathered together a large and diverse group of researchers who study the region and focus on methodological "lessons learned" from their first hand experiences of employing a variety of research methods whileconducting fieldwork.

This book is about love in the classical world - not erotic passion but the love that binds together intimate members of a family and close friends, but may also include a wider range of individuals for whom we care deeply. Among the topics discussed are friendship, loyalty, gratitude, grief, and civic solidarity.

Political Science Research in the Middle East and North Africa helps fill this vacuum, focusing specifically on doing research in the one of the most important regions in contemporary world politics. Janine A. Clark and Francesco Cavatorta have gathered together a large and diverse group of researchers who study the region and focus on methodological "lessons learned" from their first hand experiences of employing a variety of research methods whileconducting fieldwork.

Essential Interviewing Skills for the Helping Professions reaches beyond most other essential skills for clinical interviewing books with its emphasis on social justice, attention to the role of microaggressions in clinical practice, and the upmost importance of practitioner wellness as integral to longevity in the helping professions.