Digital signal processing in Fortran

Computers & Technology

Taylor, Fred I.

Smith, Steve L.

Hardware & DIY

Lexington

Mathematics of Environmental Processes

Waite, Thomas D.

Predicting dangerousness: The social construction of psychiatric reality

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pfohl, Stephen J.

Psychology & Counseling

The New Politics of Food (Policy Studies Organization Series, No. 19)

The Effects of Television Advertising on Children: Review and Recommendations

Children's Books

Richard P. Adler

Education & Reference

The social psychology of civil defense (The Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers series)

Perry, Ronald W.

Systems theory in international relations: A study in metaphoric hypertrophy

Weltman, John J.

The Overworked Consumer examines how the growing use of self-service technology in the U.S. economy has contributed to Americans’ feelings of busyness and overwork by asking them to perform a variety of tasks in work-like settings for free. Focusing on the adoption of self-checkout lanes in the retail food industry, the book describes how self-service technology is changing the meaning of service in an economy where the boundaries between work and leisure are becoming increasingly blurred. Are big businesses simply being cheap and lazy, preferring to automate and outsource work to unpaid consumers instead of raising wages, or is self-service and its do-it-yourself ethos a response to consumers’ demands for faster, easier ways of buying goods and services? And what exactly are shoppers getting when they go through the self-checkout lane? Is it really faster than the cashier lane or just another illusory speed-up meant to distract them from the realization that they are performing unpaid work, unwitting participants in a new retail experiment whose roots can be traced back to the very invention of the modern supermarket? And what about the effect on jobs; is this the end of the checkout line for cashiers and similar forms of work, or are such anxieties over automation overstated? To answer these questions, the author takes readers inside SuperFood, a regional supermarket chain, drawing upon extensive interviews with managers, staff, and customers as well as an array of examples, retail studies, and statistics to separate fact from fiction and figure out what is actually happening in stores. Concluding with a cautionary tale of two grocers, the author suggests the future of retailing is still undetermined, meaning shoppers still have time to decide whether or not they really want to “do-it-yourself”. Caveat emptor.

The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Do-It-Yourself Economy

Business & Money

Andrews, Christopher

Economics

Between Teaching and Caring in the Preschool: Talk, Interaction, and the Preschool Teacher Identity

Product Description 
In Between Teaching and Caring in the Preschool, John C. Pruit argues that preschool teaching is more than a set of roles and duties tied to institutional expectations. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork, twenty-three interviews and countless conversations with preschool teachers, and analysis of preschool documents, Pruit opens the black box of the preschool to show the complexity of the preschool teacher identity as it unfolds in everyday practices of teaching and caring. His analysis of preschool teachers’ talk and interaction addresses pertinent sociological and early childhood education themes, including classroom management, social control, emotions, and identity construction. He demonstrates there is more going on in the preschool than teaching young children and caring for them. Through practices of classroom management and teaching language, preschool teachers socialize children into education contexts and exert social control in and through teaching practices. By managing emotions, preschool teachers also manage impressions of themselves and the preschool. He also shows how preschool teachers use resources like Montessori pedagogy and their lived experience to construct authenticity. Pruit concludes that institutions, such as ECE, shape identities within and away from the institution. 
 Review 
A strength of this book is Pruit’s analysis of emotion management in the preschool. . . . Pruit’s work is relevant to a range of areas of sociological interest: childhood, education, emotions, gender, and work. Pruitt sheds light on how language is used in the early childhood setting to achieve a variety of ends, such as gender neutrality; social control; emotion management of children, teachers, and parents; and the achievement of a preschool teacher identity., 
American Journal of Sociology\nIn Between Teaching and Caring in the Preschool: Talk, Interaction, and the Preschool Teacher Identity, we are told the story of Ellis Montessori preschool’s attempts to create a gender-neutral, child-centered, environment for the young 'friends' who attend. However, as John Pruit’s novel participant observation study demonstrates, there are many ironic tensions at work in the setting. The gendered, institutional discourses of teaching and caring serve as narrative resources that administrators, teachers, and staff draw from to perform meaningful identities in occupations that are underfunded and devalued by society at large. The almost sinister language of 'choice' and feeling rules make Ellis a highly gendered, institution-centered, environment like any other. These data are terrific. This book is relevant to anyone interested gender, education, work and occupations, organizations, institutions, identity, emotions, and more. -- Carol Rambo, University of MemphisA fascinating account of the social situation and identity of the preschool teacher. More than teachers at other levels of education, the preschool teacher is located at the comparatively intense social control, nurturant, and emotion-laden crossroads of schooling. Between Teaching and Caring in the Preschool is an informative must-read for students, scholars, practitioners, and parents. -- Jaber Gubrium, University of Missouri 
 About the Author 
John C. Pruit is assistant professor of sociology in the Department of Anthropology, Geography, and Sociology at Stephen F. Austin State University.

Between Teaching and Caring in the Preschool

Politics & Social Sciences

Pruit, John

Social Sciences

The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is best known for its athletic and youth programs, a heritage that draws on its origins in 1844 to provide wholesome recreation to urban youth away from the moral decay of industrialized urban living. Before long, that uplift mission found a place in the American Civil War, and soon the Y had spread all over the world by the early twentieth century, and in every major war thereafter as well. The YMCA at War: Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars is the first collection of scholarship to examine the YMCA’s efforts during the World Wars of the twentieth century, which proved to be a bastion of support to soldiers and civilians around the world.\nThe YMCA deployed hundreds of thousands of its much-vaunted secretaries to support suffering civilians and ease soldiers’ wartime hardships. Joining forces with governments, other civic organizations, and individuals, the Y could be either an indispensable auxiliary or an arms-length nuisance. In all cases, its support had a significant byproduct: for every person it befriended, the Y invariably made an enemy with an opposing party, its patrons, its sponsor, or at times, all three. The YMCA at War offers fresh, timely research in an international and comparative perspective from scholars around the world that evaluates this conflict and collaboration during the World Wars.

The YMCA at War: Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars

History

Military

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