Search Results - Social Sciences

Behind the crisis Marx's dialectics of value and knowledge / by Carchedi, Guglielmo

Table of Contents: “…-- Formal logic and dialectical logic -- Induction, deduction and verification -- Debates -- Recasting the issues -- Abstract labour as the only source of (surplus-) value -- The materiality of abstract labour -- The tendential fall in the average profit-rate (ARP) -- The transformation-'problem' -- The alien rationality of homo economicus -- Crises -- Alternative explanations -- The cyclical movement -- The subprime debacle -- Either Marx or Keynes -- Subjectivity -- Crisis-theory and the theory of knowledge -- Neither information-society nor service-society -- Individual knowledge -- Social knowledge -- Labour's knowledge -- Knowledge and value -- The general intellect -- Science, technique and alien knowledge -- Trans-epochal and trans-class knowledge -- Knowledge and transition.…”
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Analysis of child attachment behavior of domestically and internationally adopted children in Kenya / by Ayuya, Caroline Vihenda

Efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapy on depression and anxiety disorders among caregivers of kidney patients on dialysis in Nairobi County / by Waiyaki, Winnie W.

Effectiveness of performance contracting on public service delivery : a study of the State Department of Devolution in Kenya / by Waithaka, Regina N.

Planning for two transformations in education and learning technology report of a workshop /

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Solutions to coastal disasters 2011 proceedings of the 2011 Solutions to Coastal Disasters Conference, June 25-29, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Coastal vulnerability -- Coastal flood loss estimation modeling -- Post-Katrina New Orleans : flood protection and land use -- Coastal disasters : facilities and infrastructure case studies -- Oil spills -- Social science of disaster recovery.…”
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Quaker brotherhood interracial activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950 / by Austin, Allan W.

Table of Contents: “…Friendly principle of brotherhood -- Let's do away with walls: the AFSC's Interracial Section and race work in the United States, 1924-1929 -- Bridging race and peace: the AFSC in good times and bad, 1927-1931 -- Intelligent leadership in the cause of racial brotherhood: Quakers, social science, and the AFSC's interracial activism in the 1930s -- Refugees from abroad and at home: the hostel method and victims of war -- From race relations to community relations -- Race and reconciliation at mid-century.…”
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A valedictory reflections on 60 years in educational testing /

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Factors contributing to cheating in examinations among high school students in selected schools in Nairobi / by Pembere, Mary

Disclosure of HIV status and adherence in children to antiretroviral therapy: a study of Thika District hospital / by Wahome, Consolata

The role of single parents in the academic achievement of children : a study of selected primary schools in Kasarani / by Ann, Muthee G.

Effects of parenting styles on academic performance : a case study of Dagoretti boys high school / by Ndehi, Violet Ngendo

Prevalence of burnout syndrome among staff at Deloitte limited, Nairobi, Kenya / by Kinuthia, Gladys Wairimu

The psychosocial needs of children with disabilities in remand homes : a case of Nairobi children remand home / by Gowi, Ruby

What is honor? a question of moral imperatives / by Welsh, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…On moralities of obedience and respect -- Help from anthropology and psychology -- Respect in the ethics of Aristotle -- Cicero's mediation of the same -- Shakespeare's recourse to Roman honor -- His Antony, Cleopatra, and Coriolanus -- Honor by that name in Mandeville and Montesquieu -- Leveling down in Enlightenment fiction -- Coming of age in neoclassical drama -- And how Rousseau's Emile comes of age -- Kant's engagement with honor -- Parallels to Kant's moral philosophy -- Respect and Adam Smith's impartial spectator -- Adam Smith and recent social science -- Coming to terms with honor in philosophy.…”
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An assessment of the usefulness of reading intervention tools in the early childhood years : a case of selected schools in Nairobi county / by Kiage, Yunia

Challenges faced by class one children in learning Kiswahili language : a case of selected schools in Kagaari north division Embu county / by Njagi, Trizer

Examination of the psychological risk factors leading to adolescents' depression : a case of selected private secondary schools in Nairobi, Kenya / by Mugambi, Priscilla W.

Profile problem behavior among adolescent girls committed at Kirigiti Rehabilitation Center, Kiambu County / by Sisa-Kiptoo, Pauline N.

Efficacy of cognitive-behavioral coping-skills therapy on alcohol and cannabis users among Daystar University undergraduate students, Machakos County / by Ndegwa, Stephen N.