books about: identity     books:       The Power of Identity: The Information Age: Economy, Society and C Volume II (The Information Age) 2nd Edition5 reviews Manuel Castells Wiley-Blackwell, 2004 Brave New World Castells trilogy, The Information Age, was written in the late 20th century but it is really the first sociology classic of the 21st and, as such, comparable to the masterworks of Durkheim and Weber. The first audacious volume chronicled the rise of a new global order based on a network of information flows. Since Castells views the human species as essentially predatory, some remedial ...             The Bourne Identity (Bourne Trilogy, Book 1)292 reviews Robert Ludlum Bantam, 1984 Wow - blows the movie right out of the water! I first read this book 4 years before the movies started coming out, and it blew me out of the water. Wow. I read spy/action books all the time, and this was amazing. James Bond is the classy blue-blooded spy - he wouldn't stand a chance going through what Bourne did in these books. Please buy it. And forget what you saw in the movie!             Double Identity44 reviews Margaret Peterson Haddix Aladdin, 2007 Surprising twist! Bethany starts to wonder what is going on when her parents dump her at her aunt's place, with numerous fake I.D.'s. She and her family seem to be being tracked, but she doesn't know why. With quite a bit of investigation she finally uncovers the truth: she is an illegal clone and her parents have been raising her as the daughter they have lost. An enjoyable book, and I did not guess at all ...             In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong17 reviews Amin Maalouf Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003 extremely important Maalouf's point on globalization is that it can be (should be?) seen mainly as an extension of modernity. Modernity, in turn, can be (should be?) seen as a project, originating in Europe, that is as yet incomplete and in many cases self-serving for those who have taken "the white man's burden" upon themselves. Modernity brought with it -- through colonialism, conceptions of nature and culture, ...             Identity Crisis (DC Comics)72 reviews Brad Meltzer DC Comics, 2006 DC COMICS IDENTITY CRISIS Identity Crisis (DC Comics) this comic makes you fundementally change the way you view the characters and their lives. it shows their complete flaws and humanity in a disturbingly real light. what people do for love and to protect those they love. and the 'true' villian of this story will shock you.             Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope125 reviews Don & Susie Van Ryn, Newell, Colleen & Whitney Cerak Howard Books, 2008 Interesting theme The story line of this book is fascinating and intriguing. It evokes many strong emotions as you walk through the events these families lived through. One is drawn into the theme right from the beginning and the book holds your attention throughout. As I read about Laura in the hospital and how many times people questioned many things that did not add up, it baffled me as to how this family could ...             New Perspectives on Racial Identity Development: A Theoretical and Practical Anthology Charmaine Wijeyesinghe, Bailey Jackson NYU Press, 2001 Decades have passed since our original theories of racial identity development were formed, bringing with them changes in our society and in our understandings of race and racism. New Perspectives on Racial Identity Development seeks to update these foundational models. The volume brings together leaders in the field to deepen, broaden, and reassess our understandings of racial identity development among Blacks, Latino/as, Asian Americans, ...             Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities (Russell Sage Foundation Books at ...1 review Mary C. Waters Harvard University Press, 2001 Interesting, illuminating but somewhat skewed because a great many of the interview subjects were teachers. I can see how the author would have found interviewing and possibly 'relating' to teachers in a more easygoing natural way. But the presentation of the views of others was not as extensive. This book gave me some excellent information and probably insight into the experience of the West Indian black immigrant to a society that ...             The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook21 reviews Deborah Bray Haddock McGraw-Hill, 2001 DID This book has excellent information on this topic of dissociative disorders. Full of details easy for others to pick up on and completely understand. I have learned alot about this disorder and have been able to reach out to others also suffering in silence with this disorder. Well written with passion, concern and knowledge... Deborah Bray Haddock has really put her heart into writting this ...             Designing Brand Identity: A Complete Guide to Creating, Building, and Maintaining Strong Brands43 reviews Alina Wheeler Wiley, 2006 Very thorough with great examples I used this book for a graphic design course that I'm taking and it was very informative as well as thorough. It was interesting to read about all of the brand identities and how logos really affect the way a company is viewed. I like the detail, the graphics and the comparisons for the different logos. This helped me in developing a good design for my project.             Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy10 reviews Natan Sharansky PublicAffairs, 2008 This should be required reading for every American Sharansky opens the book talking about his time in The Gulag and the type of character it takes to survive the brutality and torcher despensed at the hands of the KGB. He talks about the current utopian world vision that seeks to undermine the West and what it will take to defeat it. He wrote this book to America to inspire American's to live up to the ideals that beat back and defeated Communism ...             Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career23 reviews Herminia Ibarra Harvard Business School Press, 2004 Keeping Your Head When Others Are Losing Theirs So many of us feel lost in these shaky economic times and troubling globalizing trends that foster paranoia and sometimes very rational fears about job in/security. Ibarra offers helpful advice about finding ways to uncover "what's next" for you in the professional domain. She doesn't subscribe to the fashionable belief that there is just one treasure within you that is the work you were meant to ...             Education and Identity (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) Arthur W. Chickering, Linda Reisser Jossey-Bass, 1993 Arthur Chickering and Linda Reisser have produced an intelligent and penetrating scholarly work that is a worthy sequel to its distinguished predecessor. If the history of Education and Identity is any indication, this second edition will take its place among the classics in higher education literature. ?Ernest T. Pascarella, professor of educational psychology, the University of Illinois, Chicago This completely revised and updated ...             Identities and Inequalities: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality David M. Newman McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2005 We don’t experience our everyday lives through just one lens; rather, we experience all elements of our identity--race, class, gender, sexuality--simultaneously. This ground-breaking, engaging, highly accessible new book acknowledges this reality and brings to light the importance of studying the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality, both as elements of personal identity and as sources of social inequality.             Identity Development of Diverse Populations: Implications for Teaching and Administration in Higher ... Vasti Torres, Mary F. Howard-Hamilton, ... Jossey-Bass, 2003 This monograph is focused on educating faculty and administrators about the developmental issues faced by students from different racial, ethnic, or other social groupings as they attempt to define themselves during the college years and the ways this information can enhance campus classrooms, programs, and policies. Although there is a growing body of work on how various racial, ethnic, gender and other social groups develop their identity, ...             Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity31 reviews Hyperion Book CH, 2007 Just as good as the first I fell in absolute love with the first Knuffle Bunny and I must say that this is as worthy a sequel as it gets! Trixie is now in preschool... with another little girl possessing a similar Knuffle Bunny. Mo Willems shows off his fantastic art of drawings against Brooklyn photos with amazing attention to characters, personality, body language, and a sly and hilarious wit.             A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality11 reviews John R. Perry Hackett Publishing Company, 1978 a joy to read In this delightful booklet John Perry, a philosophy professor at Stanford, discusses personal identity and immortality. It is implied that immortality is meaningless without personal identity, and therefore almost the entire argument is about personal identity really. The setting of the dialogue is dramatic: a philosophy teacher, Gretchen, lies dying in a hospital after a motorcycle accident. ...             Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement, Revised and Expanded Edition Carlos Munoz Verso, 2007 Youth, Identity, Power is a unique exploration of the origins and development of Chicano radicalism in America. Carlos Muñoz, Jr, himself a leader of the Chicano movement of the 1960s, places the movement in the wider context of the political development of Mexicans and their descendants in the US. Fully revised and updated throughout, Youth, Identity, Power fills a significant gap in the history of political protest in the United States, and ...             Identity and the Life Cycle3 reviews Erik H. Erikson W. W. Norton & Company, 1994 Erickson's Ident and life cycle is a classic For those licensed counselors who work with adolescents, Erickson's book is a good review of some basic psychological concepts that form personalities in people of all walks of life. This book is especially good for those that work with youth in foster care and the criminal justice system.             Identity and Violence21 reviews Amartya Sen Penguin Books Ltd, 2007 A prayer for freedom of identity Sen is so eloquent it's overkill. To a global but divided world he speaks of identity as a multi-layered matter of personal choice: "The same person can, for example, be a British citizen, of Malaysian origen, with Chinese racial characteristics, a stock broker, a non-vegitarian, an asthmatic, a linguist, a bodybuilder, a poet, an opponent of abortion, a bird-watcher, an astrologer, and one who ...              search for books administration, anthology, democracy, designing, development, dissociative, exploring, foundation, identities, immigrant, immortality, implications, indispensable, inequalities, information, intersections, maintaining, perspectives, populations, practical, protecting, realities, reinventing, sexuality, sourcebook, strategies, theoretical, unconventional, university, unwavering books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Selig- und Heiligsprechung zwischen 1740 und 1870 home  impressum - about us