Biography
Ebook Albert Bandura: The Man and his Contributions to Educational Psychology
Submitted by antoq on Fri, 12/26/2008 - 08:25In June 1993, Albert Bandura’s colleagues and former students surprised him by gathering in California’s verdant Napa Valley for a two-day Bandurafest. Months of secretive planning behind his back had eluded his typically observant eye, and he came to the event under a cover story. That so many people attended the gathering may seem remarkable because no papers were presented and no Festschrift publication was planned.
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Ebook USA Basketball Men’s Olympic Team Coaching Staff Profiles
Submitted by antoq on Sat, 12/13/2008 - 01:30
Jerry Colangelo was named Managing Director of the USA Basketball Men’s Senior National Team program on April 27, 2005. Under his skilled hand, USA Basketball's Senior National Team program has compiled a striking 23-1 overall mark, while winning gold at the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship and qualifying the U.S. men for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and finishing with the bronze medal and an 8-1 record at the 2006 FIBA World Championship.
Throughout his storied career as a sports executive, he has succeeded with a unique combination of know-how both on the basketball court and on the business side of the operation. That savvy and experience is what makes him one of the top executives in professional sports.
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Ebook the Story of Crime: Biography and the Excavation of Transgression
Submitted by antoq on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 01:52The history and dominant themes of cultural criminology have been discussed and rehearsed elsewhere, especially in the recent cultural criminology edition of Theoretical Criminology (Volume 8, Number 3, 2004). Here I want to concentrate on one particular recurring theme: the prioritizing of biographical accounts of everyday life - with their ability to produce superior descriptions and explanationsof crime and transgression - over and against quantitative accounts of crime, criminality and criminalisation that re-produce numerical life rather than everyday life. Since the emergence of academic disciplines structured on ‘rational’ lines, there has been a seemingly irrevocable disjuncture between scientific knowledge and everyday experience, with the former dominating research into the latter. This quantitative rational scientific approach is epitomized by those government agencies that I have described elsewhere as ‘fact factories’ (Presdee: 2004), their role being the production of ‘suitable’ facts to support governments and their existing and future political agendas. But too much information is no information. The more facts we have the less we really know. Facts are in reality a form of disinformation, an obesity of the system that distorts rather than informs and gives shape. They become the ‘sacred shit’ of a rational society. (Baudrillard 1990:43)
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The Stories in George Bush's Acceptance Speech
Submitted by antoq on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 02:44There is a body of communication research which explores turning points in relationship development—those moments when communi-cation partners perceive that their relationship is changing dramatically in either tone or intensity. The relationship between a political candidate and the public is also built upon a series of turning points—com-munication events within a campaign which have the power to alter the tone and intensity of the campaign.
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Transcript of Barack Obama's acceptance speech as prepared for delivery
Submitted by antoq on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 02:34To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation; With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.
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