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1	Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Shifting Paradigms in Essential Knowledge for Social Work Practice more books like this by Joe M Schriver add to wishlist This text compares and contrasts both traditional (dominant) and alternative paradigms or worldviews in examining human behavior and the social environment. Professor Schriver's text is innovative in its examination of new paradigms that include diversity, feminism, client empowerment, and other perspectives that are mandated by CSWE. Both ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $71.37! \| first editions \| SVS
2	World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction more books like this by Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, Immanuel Wallerstein add to wishlist In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to the revolutionary approach to understanding the history and development of the modern world that he pioneered thirty years ago. Since Wallerstein first developed world-systems analysis, it has become a widely utilized methodology ... see all copies from $9.40! new only from $14.44! \| SVS
3	Family therapy in clinical practice more books like this by Murray Bowen add to wishlist When Bowen was a student and practitioner of classical psychoanalysis at the Menninger Clinic, he became engrossed in understanding the process of schizophrenia and its relationship to mother-child symbiosis. Between the years 1950 and 1959, at Menninger see all copies from $13.03! new only from $69.68! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Social Systems Theory more books like this by Orren Dale, Rebecca Smith, Julia M Norlin add to wishlist This unique text provides a framework for evaluating various Human Behavior theories and a context for addressing social work practice with varying levels of social systems. This revision places current theories of human behavior in a systems context. It is based upon a generalist practice foundation and includes practice examples that help ... see all copies from $4.27! new only from $63.54! \| SVS
5	Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A Social Systems Approach more books like this by Ralph E Anderson add to wishlist Revised and updated, this fifth edition shows a sensitivity to the diverse constituencies of the human services. It reflects awareness of the role of the varied cultural and ethnic features within the social environment it explores, and of the importance of the lengthened life cycle. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.12! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology more books like this by Patrick Nolan add to wishlist "Human Societies" is written for today's students who are confronted by a rapidly changing world. It differs greatly from most texts for the introductory sociology course, being neither an eclectic, encyclopedia-like collection of materials nor a limited survey of contemporary American society. By introducing students to the broad range of human ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.50! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Aesthetics of change. more books like this by Bradford P. Keeney add to wishlist The fundamental concern of psychotherapy is change. While practitioners are constantly greeted with new strategies, techniques, programs, and interventions, this book argues that the full benefits of the therapeutic process cannot be realized without fundamental revision of the concept of change itself. Applying cybernetic thought to family ... see all copies from $5.80! new only from $23.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Models, Metaphors, and Maps for Applying Theoretical Perspectives to Practice more books like this by James A Forte add to wishlist This first edition theories-based book for human behavior provides students with three key tools for theory-by-theory comprehension: models, metaphors and maps. These tools help students to easily compare and contrast theories as well as understand their relevance to social work practice. see all copies from $49.94! new only from $65.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The limits of organization more books like this by Professor Kenneth Joseph Arrow add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! new only from $9.11! \| SVS
10	Living Systems more books like this by James Grier Miller add to wishlist see all copies from $244.99! first editions
11	The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration more books like this by Robert Axelrod add to wishlist Robert Axelrod is widely known for his groundbreaking work in game theory and complexity theory. He is a leader in applying computer modeling to social science problems. His book "The Evolution of Cooperation" has been hailed as a seminal contribution and has been translated into eight languages since its initial publication. "The Complexity of ... see all copies from $10.43! new only from $26.50! \| SVS
12	Marriage and Marital Therapy more books like this by Thomas J Paolino (Editor), Barbara S McCrady (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $63.88! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	An Introduction to the World-System Perspective: Second Edition more books like this by Thomas R Shannon add to wishlist In this second edition, Thomas Shannon extends his overall assessment of the world-system perspective to include the new theoretical and empirical developments in the field since 1989. Incorporating most leading arguments of world-system theorists, he addresses the fall of the Eastern Bloc as well as such current topics as relations with ... see all copies from $2.94! new only from $41.04! \| SVS
14 view cover	Seeing Systems more books like this by Barry Oshry add to wishlist This text on human behaviour in organizations aims to help create a better organizational environment. It focuses on the human systems existing in organizations in order to develop a workable framework. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $44.71!
15 view cover	Social Systems more books like this by Professor Niklas Luhmann, John Bednarz (Translator), Dirk Baecker (Translator) add to wishlist A major challenge confronting contemporary theory is to overcome its fixation on written narratives and the culture of print. In this presentation of a general theory of systems, Niklas Luhmann, Germany's most prominent and controversial social thinker, sets out a contribution to sociology that reworks our understanding of meaning and ... see all copies from $26.29! new only from $30.21! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Social System more books like this by Talcott Parsons (Preface by) add to wishlist In the history of sociological theory, Talcott Parsons holds a very special place. His The Structure of Social Action (1937), was a pioneer work that has influenced many social scientists. The present work, The Social System, presents a major scientific and intellectual advance towards the theory of action first outlined in his earlier work. see all copies from $24.00! new only from $164.84!
17 view cover	Sociopolitical Ecology: Human Systems and Ecological Fields more books like this by Frederick L Bates add to wishlist Sociopolitical Ecology introduces the concept of ecological field' to replace that of ecosystem' and extends the boundaries of self-referential systems to a new, more complex level of analysis. Ecological field refers to an overarching system that contains many self-referential (or autopoietic) systems that interact in a common space, with human ... see all copies from $39.20! new only from $88.96! \| first editions \| SVS
18	On purposeful systems more books like this by Russell Lincoln Ackoff, F. E. Emery add to wishlist see all copies from $2.16! new only from $36.71! \| first editions
19 view cover	Destiny and Control in Human Systems: Studies in the Interactive Connectedness of Time (Chronotopology) more books like this by Charles Muses add to wishlist Reprint of the Boston 1985. 218pp. Charles A. Muses (1919-2000), a figure who wrote articles and books under various pseudonyms (including Muss, Musaios, Kyril Demys, Arthur Fontaine, Kenneth Demarest and Carl von Balmadis), was the founder of the Lion Path, a shamanistic movement. He held unusual and controversial views relating to mathematics, ... see all copies from $21.79! new only from $21.79! \| SVS
20 view cover	Social Emergence: Societies as Complex Systems more books like this by R Keith Sawyer add to wishlist Can we understand important social issues by studying individual personalities and decisions Or are societies somehow more than the people in them Sociologists have long believed that psychology can't explain what happens when people work together in complex modern societies. In contrast, most psychologists and economists believe that if we have ... see all copies from $36.21! new only from $36.21!
21	Dichotomies of the Mind more books like this by Walter Lowen, Lawrence H Miike add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00! first editions
22 view cover	Studying Human Societies: A Primer and Guide more books like this by Patrick Nolan add to wishlist Authored by Patrick Nolan, the newly revised student supplement study guide for "Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology, Eleventh Edition" prepares your students for class by providing them with general tips, guidelines, and strategies on how to read the text effectively and apply it to the subjects covered in your syllabus. The study ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.75!
23 view cover	International Systems in World History: Remaking the Study of International Relations more books like this by Professor Barry Buzan, Richard Little add to wishlist This book tells the 60,000 year story of how humankind evolved from a scattering of hunter-gatherer bands to todays highly integrated global international political economy. It traces the evolution of ever-wider economic, societal and military-political international systems, and the interplay between these systems and the tribes, city states, ... see all copies from $36.94! new only from $50.47! \| SVS
24 view cover	Systems Theory and Family Therapy: A Primer - Second Edition more books like this by Dr. Dorothy Stroh Becvar, Dr. Raphael J Becvar add to wishlist 33.00 see all copies from $17.79! new only from $34.98! \| SVS
25 view cover	Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life more books like this by John H Miller, Scott E Page add to wishlist This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems - whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies - present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly ... see all copies from $21.54! new only from $25.95! \| SVS

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