Stereotyping is one of the most important issues in social psychology, but relatively little is known about how and why stereotypes form. This book explores the process of stereotype formation; the way people develop impressions and view social groups. Conventional approaches to stereotyping assume that stereotypes are based on erroneous and distorted processes, but the authors of this unique s…
PROCEEDINGS World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2016: Hydraulics and Waterways and Hydro-Climate/Climate Change Edited by Chandra S. Pathak, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers); Debra Reinhart, Ph.D., P.E.(University of Central Florida) Papers from sessions of the Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2016, held in West Palm Beach, …
Proceedings of the Geotechnical and Structural Engineering Congress 2016. Held in Phoenix, Arizona, February 14-17, 2016. Sponsored by the Geo-Institute and the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE. Edited by C. Yoga Chandran, Ph.D., G.E.(Senior Project Manager, CH2M Hill); Marc I. Hoit, Ph.D.(Vice Chancellor for Information Technology, North Carolina State University) This collection…
This contributed volume presents selected research papers from the 8th workshop on Logistics and Supply Chain Management, which was held in October 2013 in Berkeley, California. It focuses on the topical issue of quantitative approaches in logistics and supply chain management, mainly covering facility location and location routing; vehicle routing and scheduling; courier, express and parcel se…
This volume includes the full proceedings from the 2010 Cultural Perspectives in Marketing Conference held in Lille, France with the theme Cultural Perspectives in a Global Marketplace. This volume presents papers on various topics including marketing management, marketing strategy, and consumer behavior. Founded in 1971, the Academy of Marketing Science is an international organization dedi…
Law enforcement on women's rights in Indonesia.
Economics and Business School, Telkom University in 2015 is held a 6th Seminar & Conference on Business & Technology in ICT Industry (SCBTII). The theme of this year is "Managing Business for Smart Economy". This event is the second year for the Conference where the speakers assembled for the dissemination of research results and their thoughts related to the field of management and the ICT …
Including illustrations and examples from an international range of films drawn from over a century of movie making and a glossary of terms for ease of reference, this book is a must-have guide for any film student or fan
Following on from the ground-breaking collection Fashion Cultures, this second anthology, Fashion Cultures Revisited, contains 26 newly commissioned chapters exploring fashion culture from the start of the new millennium to the present day. The book is divided into six parts, each discussing different aspects of fashion culture:Shopping, spaces and globalisationChanging imagery, changing mediaA…
In this timely new book, Christopher Paul analyzes how the words we use to talk about video games and the structures that are produced within games shape a particular way of gaming by focusing on how games create meaning, lead to identification and division, persuade, and circulate ideas. Paul examines the broader social discourse about gaming, including: the way players are socialized into gam…