Appeal to the People of the State of New York: Adopted by the Executive Committee of Citizens and Taxpayers for the Financial Reform of the City and C, Stebbins Henry G.

Автор: Stebbins Erec
Название: Writer
ISBN: 0986057118 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780986057113
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 20680.00 T
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Описание: From Hatred, Love. From Many, One."Deeply thoughtful and exciting, warping the expectations of the genre...reminds me of Dan Simmons' Hyperion" -San Francisco Book Review

A love story and scifi epic about the beautiful and terrible destiny of profoundly star-crossed lovers with a galaxy's fate in their hands. Speculative fiction with time travel, metaphysical mysteries, action, adventure, cosmology, cybernetics, religion, and romance.

• "A work of literary fiction that transcends its genre. Read this novel. Immediately." -Portland Book Review
• "Stebbins's trilogy remains both fascinating and unpredictable. WRITER possesses all of the style, elegance, and tension that made READER gripping. Those who loved the first book will find themselves enraptured by the second, which secures a ready audience for what will surely be a stunning conclusion." -Foreword Reviews
• "Anticipate trips through time and space, wrenching separations and confrontations that will test the lovers' bond to each other and to their world...be prepared for another epic story that turns on a dime and leaves its ending open for yet more added attractions later." -Midwest Book Review

Автор: Stebbins Leslie F.
Название: Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth
ISBN: 1442253932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442253933
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Цена: 42240.00 T
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Описание: We live in an information-saturated environment and spend far too much time searching, surfing, skimming, contributing, and organizing the information in our lives. We spend too little time immersing ourselves in reliable high quality information. We are often so buried in information and strapped for time that we grab information like it was fast food, without bothering to evaluate its quality. Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth uses stories or "information adventures" to illustrate the best approaches to searching for information and to help us develop our aptitude for locating high quality resources in a rapidly changing digital environment that is becoming proficient at monopolizing our attention with useless or unreliable information. This book is about taking charge of the search process and not handing over the reins to search engines like Google, Bing, or Yahoo to dictate what information we consume. Each chapter focuses on a quest for different types of information while digging deeper into the complexities of finding credible places to look for information and ways to think about evaluating it. As the Internet evolves and becomes more sophisticated, our strategies for finding and evaluating information need to evolve as well. The stories in this book range from investigating challenging research questions to exploring health issues and everyday life questions like finding a reliable restaurant or product review. These chapters go beyond the simple and more mechanical checklist approach to evaluating information, though these factors are also discussed.

Автор: Stebbins Robert A.
Название: Planning Your Time in Retirement: How to Cultivate a Leisure Lifestyle to Suit Your Needs and Interests
ISBN: 1442221593 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442221598
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Цена: 60550.00 T
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Описание: As the greying of our population continues, retirees are enjoying more and more healthy years of retirement, and those years can be productive, enjoyable, and rewarding. This work speaks to those retirees who wish to enjoy their golden years doing things they enjoy.

Автор: Robert A Stebbins
Название: Sociability Associations: A Literature Review
ISBN: 9004397892 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004397897
Издательство: Brill
Цена: 92980.00 T
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Описание: Friendly social relations during free time, referred to here as leisure-based sociability, constitute a prominent reward of participation in groups based on voluntary membership, consisting for this review mainly of amateurs, hobbyists, volunteers, and their associations. This benefit is analyzed according to two subtypes: sociable nonprofit associations and social clubs. The goal of this issue of the Voluntaristics Review is to examine the leisure component of these two subtypes as framed in the serious leisure perspective (SLP), put nonprofit sociability in organizational context, and then review the empirical literature bearing on it. Excluded are the studies and theoretic treatises approaching nonprofit groups from another angle (e.g., organizational structure, management issues, funding sources, governmental regulation, type of employment). Specifically, this review centers on the relevant publications listed in the SLP website bearing on amateurs, hobbyists, and career volunteers (the serious pursuits), casual leisure, and project-based interests. It includes several extensions of the theory and research on leisure-related aspects of aging and retirement, arts and science administration, library and information science, positive psychology, therapeutic recreation and disability studies, and tourism and event analysis. Compared with the specialties in leisure studies, the SLP casts by far the broadest theoretical and empirical net in that interdisciplinary field. The research reviewed shows that such talk—generically known as socializing—reflects one or more of 14 themes. In general, members find sociability in these clubs and associations in and around the core activities they pursue there and on which the two subtypes have formed. The studies reviewed, taken together, provide considerable validation of the proposition that leisure-based sociability is a prominent reward of participating in a multitude of volunteer groups. Leisure-based sociability is essentially micro-analytic, but when viewed through the lens of the SLP, it can be further understood using meso and macro levels of analysis.

Автор: Stebbins, Robert A.
Название: Social worlds and the leisure experience
ISBN: 1787697169 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787697164
Издательство: Emerald
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Цена: 62330.00 T
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Описание: Anselm Strauss observed 40 years ago that the idea of social world was suffering from weak conceptualization and application to those areas of social life where this formation figures prominently in everyday activities. This book provides a coherent statement about what social worlds consist of, what they do, where they fit in social theory.