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Teaching Gifted Children in Today's Preschool and Primary Classrooms
Identifying, Nurturing, and Challenging Children Ages 4–9
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
These proven, practical early childhood teaching strategies and techniques help teachers identify young gifted children, differentiate and extend the curriculum, assess and document students’ development, and build partnerships with parents. Individual chapters focus on early identification, curriculum...
Healing the Hardware of the Soul
How Making the Brain-Soul Connection Can Optimize Your Life, Love, and Spiritual Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Dr. Daniel Amen's breakthrough brain-healing program has helped hundreds of thousands to overcome depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and attention deficit disorder. The maverick author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life and Healing ADD now presents his proven program for repairing...
Child and Adolescent Treatment for Social Work Pra
A Relational Perspective for Beginning Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
An excellent introductory text for the beginning social work student. Dr. Aiello's unique style organizes and categorizes well what can be an overwhelming bombardment in disorganized clinical studies. Highly readable, useful and comprehensive.
by Robyn Dawes
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Robin Dawes spares no one in this powerful critique of modern psychotherapeutic practice. As Dawes points out, we have all been swayed by the "pop psych" view of the world--believing, for example, that self-esteem is an essential precursor to being a productive human being, that events in one's childhood...
by Irving Lewis Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1985
A biography of legendary sociologist C. Wright Mills, author of The Power Elite and White Collar, among other works,by eminent sociologist Irving L. Horowitz.
Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962) was a famed sociologist, social commentator and critic. Noted for his anti-authoritarian, flamboyant...
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A Good Look at Bad Language
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
Have we always "sworn like sailors"? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? And if such verbal aggression is universal, why is it that some languages (Japanese, for instance) supposedly do not contain any nasty words? Throughout the twentieth century...
by Robert K. Merton
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
A reissue of the classic report of Columbia's Bureau of Applied Social Research, outlining techniques for eliciting specific responses of individuals and groups to particular events and situations.
The 1956 edition of this book may be regarded as seminal within sociology, spawning a whole field...
by Angela Browne
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
A compassionate look at 42 battered women who felt "locked in with danger and so desperate that they killed a man they loved"; scholarly and compelling.
by Bruce D. Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
States make war, but war also makes states.
As Publishers Weekly notes, “Porter, a political scientist at Brigham Young University, demonstrates that wars have been catalysts for increasing the size and power of Western governments since the Renaissance. The state’s monopoly of effective...
by John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A classic book about the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes written by one of the world’s most influential sociologists.
Emile Durkheim’s Suicide addresses the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes. Written by one of the world’s most influential sociologists, this classic...
by Suzanne Sgroi
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1988
In this much-awaited companion book to Vulnerable Populations, Volume 1, Dr. Suzanne Sgroi along with sixteen other veteran practioners describes the latest clinical methods and advances in treating victims of sexual abuse and sexual offenders. Copious in case examples and professional insight, this...
The Hands-On Guide to School Improvement
Transform Culture, Empower Teachers, and Raise Student Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
This practical guide helps principals, administrators, and all members of school leadership bring transformational change to struggling and underperforming schools. Based on the wisdom gained during the author’s twenty-plus years of experience as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal in Chicago...
The Great Poems of the Bible
A Reader's Companion with New Translations
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
From the Psalms to the Prophets, from job to Ecclesiastes, much of the Bible is written in poetry. The poems of the Bible include some of its best known and most beloved passages: "The Lord is my shepherd," "Let justice roll down like waters," "By the rivers of Babylon," "Remember your Creator," "Arise,...
by Judith Marks Mishne
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
In this welcome follow-up and companion to her highly acclaimed Clinical Work with Children, Judith Mishne provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of adolescent psychotherapy. Drawing on her own extensive experience and the work of other professionals, she offers a cogent analysis of...