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Fernley, Sheila. Ready to use professional development: Focusing on special education. Horsham, Pa: LRP Publications, 2007.

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Focusing-oriented psychotherapy: A manual of the experiential method. New York: Guilford Press, 1996.

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Ginelli, Elisabetta, ed. La ricerca a fronte della sfida ambientale. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-763-8.

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"La ricerca a fronte della sfida ambientale", the third volume in the DOTTA series, this publication documents the third edition of the Osdotta seminar co-ordinated by the Polytechnic of Milan, held in Lecco on 12-13-14 September 2007. The acronym of the Monitoring Centre of the Doctorate in Architectural Technology (Osservatorio del Dottorato in Tecnologia dell'Architettura), Osdotta was generated by the need to create a space for cultural exchange in relation to research contents and methods pertinent to technological disciplines. An experience acknowledged as a site of scientific interconnection and networked structure, it sets itself the goal of exploring the complexity of the research on multiple scales, investigating and focusing emerging issues and studying the national training scenario so as to boost the professional level of the research. The 2007 edition of the national seminar demonstrates the consolidation of an inter-site education/training experiment of an innovative character that materialises in the rendering of the results of exchange and dialogue on a theme with a wealth of faceted values: the environment, in the form of a challenge that explores the relation with technology.

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Deuze, Mark, and Mirjam Prenger, eds. Making Media. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462988118.

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Making Media uncovers what it means and what it takes to make media, focusing on the lived experience of media professionals within the global media, including rich case studies of the main media industries and professions: television, journalism, social media entertainment, advertising and public relations, digital games, and music. This carefully edited volume features 35 authoritative essays by 53 researchers from 14 countries across 6 continents, all of whom are at the cutting edge of media production studies. The book is particularly designed for use in coursework on media production, media work, media management, and media industries. Specific topics highlighted: the history of media industries and production studies; production studies as a field and a research method; changing business models, economics, and management; global concentration and convergence of media industries and professions; the rise and role of startups and entrepreneurship; freelancing in the digital age; the role of creativity and innovation; the emotional quality of media work; diversity and inequality in the media industries. Open Uva Course: the University of Amsterdam has a open course around the book. The course offers a review of the key readings and debates in media production studies. Course slides 2020 Take a look at the Making Media Facebook page here. Take a look at the Table of Contents and Introduction here.

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Stanowski, Rudy. Hearing aid repair for hearing care professionals: A hands-on guide to the inner workings of modern hearing aids focusing primarily on "in-the-ear" and "in-the-canal" instruments. Covina, Calif: Covina Hearing Aid Center, 1996.

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Cantoni, Virginio, Gabriele Falciasecca, and Giuseppe Pelosi, eds. Storia delle telecomunicazioni. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-245-5.

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Focusing on the history of scientific and technological development over recent centuries, the book is dedicated to the history of telecommunications, where Italy has always been in the vanguard, and is presented by many of the protagonists of the last half century. The book is divided into five sections. The first, dealing with the origins, starts from the scientific bases of the evolution of telecommunications in the nineteenth century (Bucci), addressing the developments of scientific thought that led to the revolution of the theory of fields (Morando), analysing the birth of the three fundamental forms of communication – telegraph (Maggi), telephone (Del Re) and radio (Falciasecca) – and ending with the contribution made by the Italian Navy to the development of telecommunications (Carulli, Pelosi, Selleri, Tiberio). The second section, on technical and scientific developments, presents the numerical processing of signals (Rocca), illustrating the genesis and metamorphosis of transmission (Pupolin, Benedetto, Mengali, Someda, Vannucchi), network packets (Marsan, Guadagni, Lenzini), photonics in telecommunications (Prati) and addresses the issue of research within the institutions (Fedi-Morello), dwelling in particular on the CSELT (Mossotto). The next section deals with the sectors of application, offering an overview of radio, television and the birth of digital cinema (Vannucchi, Visintin), military communications (Maestrini, Costamagna), the development of radar (Galati) and spatial telecommunications (Tartara, Marconicchio). Section four, on the organisation of the services and the role of industry, outlines the rise and fall of the telecommunications industries in Italy (Randi), dealing with the telecommunications infrastructures (Caroppo, Gamerro), the role of the providers in national communications (Gerarduzzi), the networks and the mobile and wireless services (Falciasecca, Ongaro) and finally taking a look towards the future from the perspective of the last fifty years (Vannucchi). The last section, dealing with training and dissemination, offers an array of food for thought: university training in telecommunications, with focus on the evolution of legislation and on the professional profiles (Roveri), social and cultural aspects (Longo and Crespellani) as well as a glance over the most important museums, collections and documentary sources for telecommunications in Italy (Lucci, Savini, Temporelli, Valotti). The book is designed to offer a compendium comprising different analytical approaches, and aims to foster an interest in technology in the new generations, in the hope of stimulating potentially innovative research.

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Addressing healthcare workforce issues for the future: Hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, on examining ways to address healthcare workforce issues for the future, focusing on primary care professionals, February 12, 2008. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2009.

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United, States Congress Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions. Addressing healthcare workforce issues for the future: Hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, on examining ways to address healthcare workforce issues for the future, focusing on primary care professionals, February 12, 2008. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2009.

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Riddoch, Hamish Neil. Marketing professional services: ... focusing on environmental consultancy. Bradford, 1988.

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LRP. Ready to Use Professional Development: Focusing on Special Education. LRP Publications, 2007.

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LRP. Ready to Use Professional Development: Focusing on Behavior Management. LRP Publications, 2007.

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Ready to use professional development: Focusing on LRE and inclusion. Horsham, Pa: LRP Publications, 2007.

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Mercedes Tita De La Cruz. JEROME BRUNER: FOCUSING THE TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEBATE IN NURSING EDUCATION. 1993.

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Sako, Mari. Outsourcing and Offshoring of Professional Services. Edited by Laura Empson, Daniel Muzio, Joseph Broschak, and Bob Hinings. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199682393.013.15.

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This chapter analyzes the causes and consequences of outsourcing and offshoring by professional service firms (PSFs). Outsourcing and offshoring result from the same strategic drivers triggering firms to reconfigure their activities organizationally (make-or-buy) and geographically (onshore or offshore). The chapter reviews various economic and management theories that are relevant to outsourcing and offshoring, and makes links to professional services. It then discusses trends towards disaggregation and standardization of professional work, along with digital technology, as prerequisites for outsourcing and offshoring. The chapter homes in on PSFs, and argues that the mode of decisions over outsourcing and offshoring is affected by PSFs’ governance structure. It identifies reasons why professional partnerships make reluctant outsourcers and offshorers compared to managed professional business, and discusses the consequences of outsourcing and offshoring by PSFs, focusing on the ecology of professions, with non-professionals competing with professionals, and the disruptive nature of new entrants in business services.

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School Board Guide to Leading Successful Schools: Focusing on Learning. Corwin Press, 2013.

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Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential Method. The Guilford Press, 1998.

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Reihlen, Markus, and Andreas Werr. Entrepreneurship and Professional Service Firms. Edited by Laura Empson, Daniel Muzio, Joseph Broschak, and Bob Hinings. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199682393.013.17.

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Research on entrepreneurship in professional services is rather limited. The authors argue that one reason why the two fields of professional services and entrepreneurship have operated in isolation rather than in mutual interaction is an inherent contradiction between the very ideas of entrepreneurship and professionalism. The perspective on entrepreneurship for this chapter is rather broad, focusing on new venture management and renewal in Professional Service Firms as well as embracing aspects such as learning, innovation, and institutional change. The chapter reviews previous work on entrepreneurship in professional services from three levels of analysis—the entrepreneurial team, the entrepreneurial firm, and finally the organizational field within which the creation and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities take place.

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Broschak, Joseph. Client Relationships in Professional Service Firms. Edited by Laura Empson, Daniel Muzio, Joseph Broschak, and Bob Hinings. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199682393.013.4.

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This chapter reviews the research literature on professional service firm–client relationships. Client relationships are a defining feature of professional service firms, but are also critical strategic assets and an indicator of the market strategy of professional service firms. To assess the state of knowledge about client relationships the chapter is organized around three themes. First is the different ways that professional service firm–client relationships have been characterized and how this shapes researchers’ assumptions about and focus on client relationships. Second, it examines the life cycle of client relationships, focusing specifically on research that addresses the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of client relationships. The third theme examines research that has identified how client relationships affect professional service firms, particularly in the areas of strategy, structure, learning, and human resource practices. The author identifies important gaps in our understanding of client relationships and suggests several potential avenues for future research.

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Glăveanu, Vlad Petre, and Todd Lubart. Cultural Differences in Creative Professional Domains. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190455675.003.0006.

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This chapter offers a new conceptualization of culture, focusing on domains of professional activity. Culture is understood as a dynamic system integrating material, symbolic, and social elements and describing the context of human action. From this perspective, culture exists not only between nations but also within nations, at the level of different groups and communities. Professional groups are cultural units, which bring together people who share a number of norms and values, work within a given set of material constraints, and co-construct a common identity. Artists, scientists, and designers represent distinctive professional groups associated with recognized forms of creative activity. Research is presented concerning (a) the factors involved in creative expression in art, science, and design, and (b) the creative processes specific for different stages of creative work within each of these domains. The findings are interpreted in terms of cultural and contextual influences.

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The gender shift: A comparative look at professional attitudes focusing exclusively on DVM Newsmagazine's survey results, work/life balance and compensation. [Lenexa, KS]: Advanstar Veterinary Healthcare Communications, 2005.

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Gardner, Heidi. Teamwork and Collaboration in Professional Service Firms. Edited by Laura Empson, Daniel Muzio, Joseph Broschak, and Bob Hinings. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199682393.013.21.

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The nature of teamwork in professional service firms, as in many other knowledge-intensive environments, is evolving from highly structured project teams to more fluid, open-ended, peer-to-peer collaboration such as that between powerful, high-autonomy partners. This shift is especially challenging because senior-level collaboration requires peers from different practice groups or offices with different sub-cultures to negotiate task allocation, credit recognition, and decision-making norms, which can be difficult and politically charged. Increased partner-level collaboration is further complicated by other trends in the PSF arena such as expertise specialization, heightened professional mobility, and increased competition. Yet, this phenomenon remains largely under-researched and under-theorized. The chapter therefore lays out a research agenda focusing on opportunities to better understand peer collaboration in PSFs. In addition, the chapter identifies ways that recent changes in the professional sector challenge our understanding of traditional teamwork, and it identifies specific gaps that deserve scholarly attention.

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Blanchard, Adam J. E., Catherine S. Shaffer, and Kevin S. Douglas. Decision Support Tools in the Evaluation of Risk for Violence. Edited by Phillip M. Kleespies. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352722.013.21.

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Professionals often utilize some form of structured approach (i.e., decision support tool or risk assessment instrument) when evaluating the risk of future violence and associated management needs. This chapter presents an overview of decision support tools that are used to assist professionals when conducting a violence risk assessment and that have received considerable empirical evaluation and professional uptake. The relative strengths and weaknesses of the two main approaches to evaluations of risk (actuarial and structured professional judgment) are discussed, including a review of empirical findings regarding their predictive validity. Following a summary of commonalities among the tools, this chapter provides a brief description of 10 decision support tools focusing on their applicability and purpose, content and characteristics, and available empirical research. Finally, the chapter concludes with a discussion of several critical considerations regarding the appropriate use and selection of tools.

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Kaslow, Nadine J., and M. Victoria Ingram. Board Certification. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780195372434.003.0003.

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This chapter discusses board certification from a competency-based perspective. It begins by definingthe relevant constructs and reviewing the evolution of the shift toward aculture of competence and competency assessment within professional psychology, and then discusses the history of a competency-based approach within board certification in professional psychology, focusing on the currentcompetencies of interest to ABPP’s board certification process.

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FitzGerald, Brian. The Scholastic Exegesis of Prophecy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808244.003.0003.

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This chapter traces developments within the tradition of scholastic biblical exegesis that arose in the twelfth century. Focusing on the Psalms, a locus classicus for discussions of non-apocalyptic prophetic knowledge, the chapter examines the commentaries of Parisian masters Gilbert of Poitiers and Peter Lombard and then compares some thirteenth-century works by members of the Dominican Order. It emphasizes two important developments. First, exegetes paid a great deal of attention to the ‘literary’ qualities of prophetic language, trying to assess what made that language sacred. Secondly, the rise of professional exegetes in an academic setting led them to appropriate the sacred authority of the interpreted texts. Relying on the principle that inspired texts required inspired interpreters, these professionals began promoting themselves as possessors of contemporary prophetic authority.

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Pfeiffer, Steven I., and Megan Foley Nicpon. Knowns and Unknowns about Students with Disabilities Who Also Happen to Be Intellectually Gifted. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190645472.003.0006.

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High-ability students with coexisting disabilities (i.e., twice exceptional) are challenging to diagnose and treat due to multiple issues, including variable definitions of what it means to be “gifted,” the influence of high intellectual or creative ability on mental health diagnostic presentation and intervention, time of onset of both the abilities and disabilities, and symptom-masking effects. While the child psychiatry and child clinical psychology fields offer several empirically validated intervention options, few have examined efficacy or effectiveness among twice exceptional youth. Also, extant studies are often fraught with methodological weaknesses. This chapter advocates that best clinical practice include implementing empirically validated interventions with attention to the child’s profile of abilities and talent domain, focusing on resilience and wellness/growth-promoting strategies, and providing advocacy, professional development, supervision, and training opportunities to educators and mental health professionals about this unique populations’ needs.

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Oliveira, Francisco Nilton Gomes de, Beatriz Akemi Takeiti, and Claudia Reinoso Araujo Carvalho. Terapia ocupacional, saberes e fazeres. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-381-7.

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The field of knowledge of Occupational Therapy is diversified and expanding. This book addresses several themes inherent in the profession from different theoretical and empirical perspectives. Organized by occupational therapy teachers from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), the book consolidates the scientific production of different authors and is organized around current themes presented to Occupational Therapy: professional education, health-related approaches and actions, as well as different approaches focusing on the socio-cultural perspectives of the profession. Some texts addressing the history of Occupational Therapy at UFRJ complement the work. The wide scope and diversity of this book are ensured in chapters that report experiences associated with university extension, research, and undergraduate teaching; address Occupational Therapy in the hospital, Occupational Health, Mental Health, and Psychosocial Care settings; emphasize the professional/cultural interface, social issues, and territorial and socio-community approaches; bring ethnic-racial and gender discussions. Finally, the history of the Occupational Therapy course at UFRJ is covered in the last three chapters: the struggling trajectory to establish the course is addressed in the first of these chapters; the second reports how the course has expanded since its first years; the third brings the path to consolidation of the Occupational Therapy service at the university hospital. This book, which is based on successful experiences and current scientific production, will certainly provide its readers with important reflections.

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Karcher, Richard T. The Commissioner’s Power to Discipline Players for On- and Off-Field Misconduct. Edited by Michael A. McCann. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190465957.013.3.

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This article examines the power of professional sports league commissioners to discipline and suspend players for misconduct both on and off the field. It first provides a historical background on disciplinary measures for players in different professional sports leagues, including the National Football League, over the past century. It then considers the source of the commissioner’s power and authority to discipline professional athletes for misconduct as well as the rationale behind it, focusing on the adoption of personal conduct policies at the league level. It also discusses the commissioner’s authority and power to act in the “best interests” of the sport. Finally, it analyzes the limitations on the commissioner’s power and authority, including the collective bargaining agreements and some arbitration and court rulings that involved suspensions of players by league commissioners.

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Cullen, Jay. A culture beyond repair? The nexus between ethics and sanctionsin finance. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198755661.003.0007.

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In the wake of the Great Financial Crisis and the attendant collapse of faith in market discipline, there has been a concerted attempt by regulators and state officials to address the perceived ethical deficit in banking. This chapter asks which form of approach has the best chance of success in encouraging bankers to act more responsibly. In particular, it discusses how law and regulation should be used to control socially excessive risk-taking, focusing on two key areas: the character of “excessive” and socially suboptimal risk-taking in finance, which is often obfuscated, and the extent to which individual liability should be used to remedy the consequences of excessive risk-taking. It critical evaluates a variety of other approaches to this problem, focusing in particular on calls for the industry to introduce professional banking codes, which it rejects as based on conceptual misapprehensions.

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Eagle, Lynne, Stephan Dahl, and David Low. Ethical issues in social marketing. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198717690.003.0011.

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Many social marketers assume that because they are focusing on positive behaviour change they may expect fewer ethical issues arising from their work than conventional, commercial marketing. However, such a view is sadly too simplistic. This chapter focuses on the ethical issues facing social marketing. It argues that social marketers face an even greater potential for ethical issues and gives examples of these by focusing on targeting, stigmatization, victim blaming, coercion, and the use of financial incentives, among others. Recognizing the manifold potential for ethical challenges, and the lack of a decisive manner in which to resolve them easily, it then discusses ethical frameworks which can aid social marketers in formulating a response to potential issues and arriving at a considered decision. The chapter concludes by discussing the potential role of a professional code of ethics, and how this can aid future ethical decision-making.

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Zick, Timothy. Rights Speech. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190841416.003.0003.

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Chapter 2 examines the regulation of “rights speech”—communications about or concerning the recognition, scope, or exercise of constitutional rights. It categorizes and discusses the constitutional implications of different types of rights speech (ideological, informational, and consultative communications) and rights speakers (private, professional, and governmental). The chapter highlights the critical importance of the Free Speech Clause to both healthy and robust constitutional discourse and, in many cases, the effective exercise of constitutional rights. It advocates careful scrutiny, under the Free Speech Clause, of rights speech regulations affecting private and professional communications and offers suggestions for limiting the potential harms of governmental rights speech. The chapter also advocates focusing greater attention on the underlying rights that are affected by rights speech regulations.

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Clarke, Imogen. The Ether at the Crossroads of Classical and Modern Physics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797258.003.0002.

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This chapter aims to liberate the ether from its historiographical assignment to classical physics, instead considering its role in debates surrounding the future of the discipline. Focusing on the British case, it explores the discussions underway in professional spaces between 1909 and 1914, suggesting that a physicist’s commitment to the ether does not classify them as a ‘classicist’ but rather as an advocate of continuity in the discipline. It then examines the ether’s ‘popular’ life following the well-publicised 1919 eclipse expedition, and the subsequent expository efforts by the ‘classical’ Oliver Lodge and ‘modern’ Arthur Stanley Eddington. By moving beyond a traditional approach that divides physics and physicists into classical and modern, this chapter suggests a more substantial role for the ether in professional and popular early twentieth-century British physics.

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Fink, Robert, Zachary Wallmark, and Melinda Latour. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199985227.003.0001.

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The introduction discusses the conceptual underpinnings of the book, focusing on the ideological values ascribed to tone in popular music. It begins with a discussion of the ways electric guitar tone is represented in hobbyist and professional magazines, and how it is understood by the amateur and professional musicians who seek to find “their” tone through various modes of production and amplification. Tone in popular music is best understood as a “quasi-object” in the sense defined by philosopher Bruno Latour, as a complex ongoing negotiation in a distributed network of things, ideas, and bodies. This sociological view gives way to the scientific discussion of timbre and the dialectical relationship between the two concepts, both of which will be discussed in the ensuing chapters. The introduction concludes with a discussion of the organization of the book and a summary of the chapters.

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Eakin, Marshall C. Brazilian Historical Writing. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199225996.003.0022.

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This chapter addresses how, starting in the 1940s, historical writing in Brazil was gradually professionalized and then pluralized under the impact of Western historiographical trends such as Marxism, the Annales School, and dependency theory. With the independence of Brazil in 1822, gentlemen scholars began to produce the first notable historical works that helped define the nation’s identity, particularly focusing on Brazil’s culturally and racially mixed heritage of Africans, Native Americans, and Portuguese. Professional academic history began to emerge in the 1940s and 1950s, taking off after 1960. Over the last half-century, Brazilians have constructed a very sophisticated and vibrant community of professional historians writing for both academic and non-academic audiences. Although historical writing in Brazil over the last century has been deeply influenced by US and European historians, Brazilian historical writing today is largely shaped by domestic issues and concerns.

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Grow, Nathaniel. An Aborted Trial. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038198.003.0007.

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This chapter examines Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore, Inc. v. National League of Professional Baseball Clubs and its dismissal, focusing on the period between February 1916 and June 1917. In the weeks following the dismissal of the Federal League's antitrust suit, organized baseball worked behind the scenes to resolve its budding dispute with the Baltimore Federals. The American and National Leagues sought to persuade Jack Dunn, owner of the city's International League team, to purchase the BaltFeds's stadium, thereby securing some settlement proceeds for the rival franchise. At the same time that organized baseball was dealing with Baltimore, it was also trying to resolve its own outstanding legal fees from the Federal League case. Baltimore, meanwhile, continued to build its case that federal antitrust law applied to professional baseball. This chapter first considers the BaltFeds's settlement negotiations with organized baseball before discussing the proceedings of its antitrust suit and Judge Oliver B. Dickinson's decision to dismiss the case.

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Learning, Thomson Delmar. Thomson Delmar Learning's Career Success for Health Care Professionals DVD #1: Focusing on the Patient (Career Success for Health Care Professionals DVD Series). Delmar Learning, 2004.

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Howard, Keith David. Christianity and Korean Traditional Music. Edited by Jonathan Dueck and Suzel Ana Reily. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859993.013.005.

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Keith Howard offers an account of how Korean Christians who are professional musicians specializing in traditional music (kugak) have been attempting to construct a relationship between their faith and Korean traditional music, by incorporating Christian narratives into traditional musical forms, such as p’ansori. Howard notes that both Christianity and Korean traditional music constitute powerful symbols of the place of Korea (for Koreans) in the globalized world; however, because of the contradictory logics of two transnationally imagined identity politics—one imagining Korea as modern and privileging the Western, and the other focusing on Korean “heritage” and privileging the “Korean”—the institutional spaces of Korean traditional music and Christian music have remained separate and distinct.

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Howard, Keith David. Christianity and Korean Traditional Music. Edited by Jonathan Dueck and Suzel Ana Reily. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859993.013.005_update_001.

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Keith Howard offers an account of how Korean Christians who are professional musicians specializing in traditional music (kugak) have been attempting to construct a relationship between their faith and Korean traditional music, by incorporating Christian narratives into traditional musical forms, such as p’ansori. Howard notes that both Christianity and Korean traditional music constitute powerful symbols of the place of Korea (for Koreans) in the globalized world; however, because of the contradictory logics of two transnationally imagined identity politics—one imagining Korea as modern and privileging the Western, and the other focusing on Korean “heritage” and privileging the “Korean”—the institutional spaces of Korean traditional music and Christian music have remained separate and distinct.

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Carbonell, Mels. Uniquely You Professionals Profile: Focusing on Relationships, Ministry, Outreach, and Teaching from a Disc Model of Human Behavior. 6th ed. Uniquely You Resources, 1996.

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Thistlethwaite, Jill, and Wendy Hawksworth. Handling Ethical Dilemmas in Multidisciplinary Teams. Edited by John Z. Sadler, K. W. M. Fulford, and Werdie (C W. ). van Staden. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732372.013.41.

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This chapter explores the concept and practice of teamwork and interprofessional collaboration in the support and treatment of clients with mental health problems. Mental health care provision is complex, ethically challenging, and frequently delivered via mental health care teams (MHCT) in both primary and secondary health care settings. We consider how such teams may work together optimally using values-based and client-centered approaches. We discuss the nature of and reasons for conflict arising in multidisciplinary MHCTs, focusing on ethical dilemmas that occur where there is diversity amongst team members in respect of personal, professional, and/or organizational values. The specific ethical issues discussed are: boundary issues; receiving gifts; confidentiality, and involuntary treatment and restraint. Three case studies are used to provide examples of values in action.

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Kitch, Sally L. Afghan Marriage Practices. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038709.003.0007.

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This chapter looks at Marzia's and Jamila's marriages since their last interviews. Their changed status was made quite visible in Jamila's case by the presence of her husband and children. The author was curious about why she had gotten the news through the grapevine that both had gotten married in 2006 and why neither had mentioned her marriage in their e-mail exchanges before 2009. What followed was a detailed discussion about the two women's particular perspectives on the way marriage worked in Afghanistan. During that discussion, it was clear that they were focusing on their own variations as urban Afghans and as educated professional women. At the same time, their discussion indicated that they recognized other variations on marriage practices depending on region, economic capacity, age, education, and individual family practices.

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Nofsinger, John R. Behavioral Aspects of Commodity Markets. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190656010.003.0004.

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Are behavioral biases prevalent in commodities and futures markets? Although retail equity investors display many psychological biases, investors who are more sophisticated exhibit fewer biases. The market makers, traders (locals), speculators, hedgers, and institutions of the commodities and futures markets tend to be professional participants, and thus less prone to behavioral biases. Nevertheless, the fast-paced action of these markets is an environment that fosters behavioral errors. This chapter reviews the literature on the pervasiveness of prospect theory behavior and other biases in these markets. Strong evidence indicates that market participants exhibit loss aversion, the impact of reference points, the disposition effect, and overconfidence. They also engage in positive feedback trading and momentum investing. Lastly, the chapter reviews risk-taking and behavioral biases by the type of market participant, particularly focusing on market makers, floor traders, clearing members, and the public.

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Lægreid, Per. Christopher Hood, “A Public Management for All Seasons?”. Edited by Martin Lodge, Edward C. Page, and Steven J. Balla. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199646135.013.25.

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This chapter focuses on ‘A Public Management for all Seasons?” Authored in 1991 by Christopher Hood, the seminal chapter introduced the term “New Public Management” (NPM) for the first time to describe the reforms that had been around in the public sector in many countries, particularly English-speaking countries, since the early 1980s. The chapter summarizes the main assumptions of Hood’s paper, focusing on NPM’s seven different doctrinal components: hands-on professional management, explicit standards and measures of performance, greater emphasis on output control, disaggregation of units, greater competition, private sector styles of management, and discipline and parsimony in resource utilization. It also considers the set of doctrines proposed by Hood that combine managerialism with economic rationalism. Finally, it assesses the NPM-based administrative reforms based on the premise that effective vertical managerial accountability would translate to better performance.

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Surdam, David George. Should Antitrust Apply to Sports? 1957 and 1958. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039140.003.0006.

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This chapter focuses on the Congressional hearings conducted in 1957 and 1958 to address whether basketball, football, and hockey should be given a broad antitrust exemption similar to that of baseball. It first considers the introduction of different bills pertaining to professional sports and antitrust following the Supreme Court's ruling in Radovich v. NFL, with particular emphasis on antitrust legislation focusing on the National Football League (NFL), before discussing the farm systems in baseball and hockey pioneered by Branch Rickey of the St. Louis Cardinals. It also looks at the issue of the reserve clause and its effect upon competitive balance and concludes with an assessment of Congress's decision not to grant even partial antitrust exemptions for the reserve clause, draft, territorial rights, and commissioner powers in the NFL, National Basketball Association (NBA), and National Hockey League (NHL).

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Newman, Ian, Oskar Cox Jensen, and David Kennerley. Introducing Mr Dibdin. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812425.003.0001.

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The introduction provides an overview of Charles Dibdin’s life and work through a reading of his memoir, The Professional Life. This is a particularly problematic text, directed towards an early-nineteenth-century audience for whom Dibdin was best known as a writer of sentimental songs about heroic sailors. It consequently obscures the more diverse, miscellaneous aspects of his career, which can provide an index for the wide-ranging but overlapping cultural productions of the period. The introduction makes a case for the importance of resisting the narrative of specialization in order to appreciate both the range of Dibdin’s achievements, and the breadth of possibilities available in late Georgian culture. The introduction confronts a series of methodological problems which Dibdin’s self-fashioning raises, and gives an account of how each of the subsequent chapters helps us to reconceive of Dibdin’s importance by focusing on the interrelated networks in which he operated.

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Edwards, Jane. Approaches and Models of Music Therapy. Edited by Jane Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199639755.013.38.

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This chapter presents eleven models and approaches in music therapy practice. The inclusion criteria is that each forms the basis, or is part, of an existing training, and at least one monograph exists. The distinction betweenmodelsand approaches is made such that models refer to developments which evolved from music therapy practice, andapproachesare music therapy techniques and methods overlaid on an existing model of therapy or theoretical principles. Music therapy training requires learning about theory within the parameters of at least one model or approach, and this engagement must be thorough and intensive. Trainees can struggle with having to do so much thinking and analyzing of their own reactions and integration of key theoretical concepts while concurrently focusing on improving their techniques and methods. Ultimately good enough training allows students to first comprehend and eventually internalize, the theoretical basis of their professional thinking in practice.

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Benkler, Yochai, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts. Mainstream Media Failure Modes and Self-Healing in a Propaganda-Rich Environment. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190923624.003.0006.

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This chapter examines how mainstream media operated in a propaganda-rich environment by focusing on its failure and recovery modes. In particular, this chapter analyzes two central attributes of mainstream media and professional journalism that shaped election coverage, and in some cases made them particularly susceptible to being manipulated into spreading right-wing propaganda: balance and the scoop culture. The chapter first considers how internal dynamics of news reporting led mainstream media to emphasize the email investigation over substantive discussion of politics. The chapter then shows how Breitbart exploited the hunger for scoops, along with the public performance of objectivity and critical remove of mainstream journalism, to utilize the credibility of the New York Times, and later other major publications, to propagate and accredit the “Clinton corruption” frame. Finally, the chapter describes the failures and corrective mechanisms surrounding the recipients of President Donald Trump’s Fake News Awards for 2017.

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Dudley, Shannon. Musical ambition and community-building in Trinidad and Tobago’s steel orchestras. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199352227.003.0004.

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The steelband emerged in Trinidad in the 1940s as a musical expression of disadvantaged urban youths who made ingenious use of discarded metal containers to accompany carnival dancing and singing. Within a few short years, however, steelpans moved from the social margins to a privileged placed in Trinidad and Tobago’s national culture, and from road to stage. Today, the government of Trinidad and Tobago funds a professional National Steel Symphony Orchestra, and steelpans are also incorporated into Trinidad and Tobago’s National Sinfonia. In this chapter, I reflect on this transformation through the lens of ethnographic research, published scholarship, and my own experience playing in both steelbands and symphony orchestras. I examine some ways in which steelbands have adopted, and adapted, the model of the symphony orchestra, and consider the implications of these changes for community building, focusing especially on the repertoire and procedures of the annual Panorama steelband competition.

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Ehrlich, Matthew C., and Joe Saltzman. Image. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039027.003.0006.

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This chapter looks at image by focusing on the depiction of photojournalists and television journalists. Critiques of the press often warn of the dangers of manufactured image and spin, as with political events that are orchestrated for the camera. Still, others have pointed to the power of visual images to evoke empathy and emotion and appeal to the imagination, whereas many professionals and educators argue that photojournalism and TV journalism at their best serve journalism's self-proclaimed devotion to truth and social responsibility. Popular culture dramatizes both perspectives on those journalistic professions: they can either help present a picture of the world as it really is, or they can promote lies and fluff over reality and substance.

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Sadler, John Z. Ethics and Values in Diagnosing and Classifying Psychopathology. Edited by John Z. Sadler, K. W. M. Fulford, and Werdie (C W. ). van Staden. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732372.013.20.

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Psychiatric diagnosis poses ethical problems because of stigma, the close relationship between personal identity and mental illness, the legal sanctions associated with regulating mentally disordered individuals, and the value-diversity associated with judgments of psychopathology. The ethics of diagnosis can be split into two aspects: first, that of the individual practitioner working with a patient, and second, the developmental process involved in describing psychopathology and classifications of mental illness. The first half of this chapter describes the ethical and aesthetic values involved in good diagnostic practice by clinicians, in reference to Pellegrino’s medical morality of helping/healing/caring/curing. The second half considers the ethics of developing classifications of psychopathology, focusing primarily on the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM manuals and examining them under the ethics lenses of the social aspects of the conduct of science, the ethical aspects of managing a nosological effort, and addressing conflicts between professional/service-oriented interests and selfish/guild interests.

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Lin, Erika T. Festivity. Edited by Henry S. Turner. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199641352.013.11.

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This chapter locates festivity within the early modern theatre. Through an analysis of Thomas Dekker’sThe Shoemaker’s Holiday, it considers how holidays functioned not as communal rituals but as commodified entertainments; how one-off experiences tied to the cyclical rhythms of the seasons came to be understood as performances that could be enacted year-round—that is, rendered intelligible as theatre within linear models of historical time; and how playing came to be imagined not only as a mode of sociality but also as a vendible commodity. The chapter shows how the commercialization of theatre altered the economic exchanges at the heart of traditional festivity and argues that the professional stage was engaged in a complex project to situate its own performances in relation to existing festive practices. By focusing on early modern contexts, it highlights the ways in which theatricality serves and produces multiple—and, from a modern perspective, often unexpected—cultural functions and effects.

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