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    The Serve Here Initiative

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of how communities can leverage their social capital to improve overall quality of life for citizens. In addition, it offers detailed guidance on the design, implementation, and evaluation of social capital initiatives. It defines critical concepts of social capital, its decline in recent years, and the potential for rebuilding it through progressive ... Read more

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  • Accommodating the Lively Arts - An Architect's View

    by Martin Bloom ...
    Architect Martin Bloom has written Accommodating the Lively Arts to encourage the building and preservation of spaces that can nurture live performance in an age increasingly threatened by the steady encroachment of simulated electronic entertainments. This book is essential reading for anyone who might ever be involved in making decisions about the design or renovation of performance facilities - ... Read more

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  • Accommodating Life

    An Architect’S View

    by Martin Bloom ...
    From Accommodating Life, The accommodation of human beings within created space is the true concern of any well-conceived built environment. In architecture, the term modern means an architecture that is acutely responsive to the demands of current accommodation while utilizing the most advanced techniques available in order to achieve an apt expression of its particular now. In other words, ... Read more

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  • Successful Aging

    Strategies for Healthy Living

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    There is a near-universal folk saying that everyone wishes to live a good long life, but no one wishes for old age. More contemporarily, the rock and roll band, Little Feat, sang, "You know that you're over the hill when your mind's making promises your body can't fill. " This book is about the good long life. It is a book about primary prevention strategies in the aging process; it is not about ... Read more

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  • Accommodating the Lively Arts

    An Architect’s View

    by Martin Bloom ...
    ACCOMMODATING THE LIVELY ARTS, An Architect's View, insightfully analyzes the needs of those who design theatres, work in theatre, or attend theatre. Illustrating his points with many sketches, Bloom shows how, over time, the elements of Focus, Platform and Frame have determined – and still determine – the success of the theatrical performance. Essential reading for anyone involved in making ... Read more

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  • A Blueprint for Promoting Academic and Social Competence in After-School Programs

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    School activities alone are not always sufficient to ensure children’s academic progress or socio-emotional development and well-being. And the time when many children typically have the least adult supervision – immediately after school – is also the time that they are at the highest risk to act as perpetrators or become victims of antisocial behavior.Throughout A Blueprint for Promoting Academic ... Read more

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  • Double Accounting for Goodwill

    A Problem Redefined

    by Martin Bloom ...
    Series series Routledge New Works in Accounting History
    Goodwill, sometimes purchased but often more significantly internally generated, is the major constituent of the value of many listed companies. Accounting aims to provide users of financial statements with useful information, and more than fifty current International Financial Reporting Standards prescribe accounting disclosure requirements in minute detail. However, these Standards dismiss ... Read more

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  • The Architecture of Happiness

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  • Simplifying Response to Intervention: Four Essential Guiding Principles

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    Series series What Principals Need to Know
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