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- 00042485 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-357) and index.".
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- 00042487 description "Introduction : ethics and the built environment / Warwick Fox -- Greening urban society / Herbert Girardet -- Building ethics into the built environment / John Whitelegg -- Green building : establishing principles / Tom Woolley -- Building, global warming and ethics / Terry Williamson and Antony Radford -- Contested constructions : the competing logics of green buildings and ethics / Simon Guy and Graham Farmer -- Social inclusion and the sustainable city / Roger Talbot and Gian Carlo Magnoli -- Transformative architecture : a synthesis of ecological and participatory design / Bob Fowles -- Ethics and vernacular architecture / Paul Oliver -- Ethical building the everyday environment : a multilayer approach to building and place design / Christopher Day -- Can 'spirit of place' be a guide to ethical building? / Isis Brook -- The conceptual basis of building ethics / Mustafa Pultar -- How to think about the ethics of architecture / Saul Fisher -- The Taj Mahal and the spider's web / Keekok Lee -- Ethical arguments about the aesthetics of architecture / Nigel Taylor -- Towards an ethics (or at least a value theory) of the built environment / Warwick Fox -- Conclusion : towards an agenda for the ethics of the built environment / Warwick Fox.".
- 00042488 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-207) and index.".
- 00042489 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-141) and index.".
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- 00042493 description "Machine generated contents note: List of figures xiv -- List of tables xv -- Notes on contributors xviii -- Acknowledgements xxii --PART I -- Introducing household panels 1 -- 1 Household panel studies: an overview 3 -- DAVID ROSE -- Introduction 3 -- Society and social change 4 -- Social science and social change 5 -- Social surveys and social change 7 -- The design of household panels 13 -- Panel data quality 15 -- Analytical advantages of household panel surveys 20 -- Household panel surveys and social policy 27 -- Plan and purpose of the book 29 -- 2 Panel surveys: adding the fourth dimension 36 -- GRAHAM KALTON AND CONSTANCE F. CITRO -- Introduction 36 -- Panel surveys 40 -- Conclusion 51 -- 3 Using panel studies to understand household behaviour and well-being 54 -- GREG DUNCAN -- Introduction 54 -- The structure of household panel surveys 55 -- Analytical advantages ofpanel surveys 56 -- Possible disadvantages ofpanel surveys 65 -- Avoiding the disadvantages: elements of high-quality panel data 70 -- Conclusion 73 --PART II -- Panel data quality 77 -- 4 Panel attrition 79 -- JEROEN W. WINKELS AND SUZANNE DAVIES WITHERS -- Introduction 79 -- Attrition - the panel researcher's nightmare? 80 -- Attrition - does it make a difference? 81 -- Attrition - is it associated with behaviour? 87 -- Conclusion 93 -- 5 Weighting in household panel surveys 96 -- GRAHAM KALTON AND MICHAEL BRICK -- Introduction 96 -- Wave non-response 98 -- Weighting methods 103 -- Cross-sectional estimation 109 -- Conclusion 111 -- 6 Dealing with measurement error in panel analysis 113 -- CHRIS SKINNER -- Introduction 113 -- The analysis of transitions between states 114 -- Event history analysis 120 -- Conclusion 125 -- 7 Tangled webs of family relationships: untangling them with survey data 126 -- MARTHA S. HILL, MARITA A. SERVAIS AND PETER SOLENBERGER -- Introduction 126 -- Nature of the problem and its treatment 127 -- Building blocksfor relationships 135 -- Building the algorithm 137 -- Constructing a manageable set of codes 140 -- An illustrative example of using the file 143 -- Summary and conclusion 144 -- 8 Dissemination issues for panel studies: metadata and documentation 146 -- MARCIA FREED TAYLOR -- Introduction 146 -- Why disseminate data? 146 -- The casefor good documentation of research data 147 -- Documentation and metadata 148 -- Documentation of household panels 152 -- Conclusion 161 --PART III -- Panel data analyses 163 -- 9 Dynamics of poverty and determinants of poverty transitions: results from the Dutch -- socioeconomic panel 165 -- RUUDJ. A. MUFFELS -- Introduction 165 -- The definition and calculation of three poverty lines 166 -- Trend analysis 1985-8 169 -- The analysis of income and poverty mobility 169 -- Duration ofpoverty 175 -- The determinants of spell beginnings and spell endings 181 -- Conclusion 186 -- 10 Low-income dynamics in 1990s Britain 188 -- SARAHJARVIS AND STEPHEN P. JENKINS -- Introduction 188 -- Data and definitions 189 Low-income dynamics 191 -- Low-income exit and re-entry rates 194 -- Who are the persistently poor? 199 -- Who moves out of low income? Who moves in? 202 -- The characteristics of low-income escapers and entrants 204 -- Conclusion 207 -- 11 A new approach to poverty dynamics 210 -- KARL ASHWORTH, MARTHA S. HILL AND ROBERT WALKER -- Introduction 210 -- Rationale 211 -- The analysis 214 -- Method 216 -- Results 217 -- Discussion 226 -- Conclusion 228 -- 12 Using panel data to analyse household and family dynamics 230 -- JOHN ERMISCH -- Introduction 230 -- Methods 231 -- First partnerships 232 -- Leaving the parental home and returning to it 236 -- Econometric models of home leaving and return 239 -- Duration of partnerships 243 -- Conclusion 248 -- 13 Using panel surveys to study migration and residential mobility 250 -- NICHOLAS BUCK -- Introduction 250 -- The British Household Panel Study (BHPS) 254 -- Migration distances and motivations 257 -- Household composition change 259 -- Moving preferences 261 -- Correlates of migration in the BHPS 265 -- Conclusion 271 --Bibliography 273 -- Index 298.".
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- 00042530 description "Thomas must overcome his fear of crossing a very scary bridge.".
- 00042531 description "When Thomas takes children through the Space Fair in the park, he learns about the planets and Earth's moon.".
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- 00042534 description "An inquisitive young raccoon spends the day exploring and eating.".
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- 00042558 description "Machine generated contents note: Preface -- 1. The Lean Organization -- 2. Core Competencies: The Heart of a Strategy -- 3. Strategic Alliances: Matching, Negotiating, Implementing -- 4. Strategic Outsourcing Partnerships -- 5. New Management Disciplines -- 6. Creating a Partnership Culture -- 7. Building Alliances: The Technological Enablers -- 8. Disadvantages of Outsourcing and the Alternatives -- 9. Alliances and Outsourcing in the Public Sector: Public Money -- and Probity 10. Managing Cultural Mismatches -- 11. Conclusion: Key Questions for the Lean Organization -- APPENDIX A: Bidder Due Diligence Checklist -- APPENDIX B: Outsourcing and Local Government -- APPENDIX C: Case Study: LaTrobe Regional Hospital Outsourcing -- Project -- APPENDIX D: Key Questions for a Lean Organization -- Bibliography -- Index.".
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- 00042573 description "Allie knows it's not her imagination when she hears a voice and sees in her mind's eye the face of a girl who seems to be seeking her help.".
- 00042575 description "In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world.".
- 00042576 description "Riders of the Gunsmoke Rim -- The Deadwood drive.".
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- 00042578 description "The Chinese statue -- The luncheon -- The coup -- Old love -- The perfect gentleman -- Broken routine -- One-night stand -- Henry's hiccup -- A matter of principle -- The Hungarian professor -- The first miracle.".
- 00042584 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 529-552).".
- 00042586 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-219) and index.".
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- 00042588 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-255) and index.".
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- 00042603 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-236) and index.".
- 00042604 description "Fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs has to figure out how to get along with the arch-rival in his love life and on the baseball diamond, and both boys must learn how to deal with the unfair expectations of their fathers.".
- 00042605 description "Following her mother's death in the early 1900s, thirteen-year-old Harry lives on Aunt Sarah's farm where an accident with her spirited colt leaves her a changed young woman.".
- 00042606 description "As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.".
- 00042606 description "Newbery Medal Honor Book, 1998.".
- 00042607 description "Eleven-year-old Annie and her friend Violet tell of the hardships endured by their families when dust storms, drought, and the Great Depression hit rural Oklahoma.".
- 00042608 description "When a boy and girl are drowned in the Blackwater River, thirteen-year-old Brodie must decide whether to confess that he may have caused the accident.".
- 00042609 description "Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past.".
- 00042610 description "During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.".
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- 00042622 description "Doc Holliday's gone -- Mrs. Slaughter.".