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Kearney, a clinical child psychologist at the U. of Nevada, Las Vegas, has written his book mainly with the school psychologist in mind. The problem of school refusal is put into a context in initial
This problem-solving guide gives teachers and other professionals the information and materials they need to improve ADD/LD teens' academic and social skills and develop appropriate educational progra
Strickland chronicles the history of the Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke Amendments of 1965, subsequently known as Regional Medical Plans. He finds that the underlying problem inhibiting realization
Illegal immigration is a problem to not only a labor importing country but also to a labor exporting country, since the implementation of strict immigration policies, i.e., border patrol and employer
Teamwork builds cooperation, problem solving, active learning, and responsibility, all of which are increasingly important in both the classroom and in the workplace. Using Student Teams in the Classr
In this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance. Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood ex
Lexical-Functional Syntax is the definitive text for Lexical-Functional Grammar in the field of syntax. Complete with integrated pedagogy and problem sets to support the text, this book provides an ac
People have finally figured out that things, and a purely worldly life, are simply not enough. They are looking for something deeper, something spiritual; they are looking for God. The problem is, so
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In this classic and deeply insightful book, one of the world's most eminent philosophers describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of anxiety. This edition in
Every engineer or scientist has grappled with this problem of how to present technical information, whether in a report, a paper, an instruction manual, a design brief, project tender, or in a product
Within cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate the problem of modelling representations. The symbolic approach views cognition as computation involving symbolic manipulation. Connectionis
Great managers can lead their teams through any challenge--but what if your people are the problem? From deciding whether an aggressive star performer is worth the trouble to knowing when team morale
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Draws on the principles of the best-selling Life Strategies to provide practical, easy-to-accomplish self-tests, exercises, and questions to help readers identify problem areas and make key changes in
NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropologi
Demonstrating the fallacy of the view that the sociology of education has a narrow problem or policy focus, two dozen contributions sample recent research representing the progress that the field has
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The aim of this book is to discuss the fundamental ideas which lie behind the statistical theory of learning and generalization. It considers learning as a general problem of function estimation based
For those planning and designing cellular mobile telecommunications systems, Ortigoza-Guerrero and Aghvami (both telecommunications, King's College, London) address the problem of allocating channels
This anthology introduces students to the dynamic, rapidly changing field of Community-Oriented Policing and Problem Solving (COPPS). The context of community crime and its causes are brought to the f
Are transnational corporations (TNCs) the solution to poverty in the Third World or are they part of the problem? They are portrayed as bringing rapid economic growth, jobs and development - yet inequ
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Hewey Calloway has a problem. In his West Texas home of 1906, the land of the way of life that he loves are changing too quickly for his taste.Hewey dreams of freedom--he wants only to be a footloose
Ever since the kindhearted sheriff done adopted little Sweetness (and all them other precious orphans), things has been darn near perfect out in Possum Trot. Only problem is, the meals is just a mite
This text, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's late-1990s views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind - in particular, the mind-bady problem, ment
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Addressing the problem of men's violence to known women, this book considers the scale of, and critically reviews the theoretical frameworks used to explain this violence.From the perspective of `crit
In 1947, the bucolic mill town of Magrit, Minnesota, confronts the terrible problem that none of its young men want to return home, leaving the town's girls romantically bereft, until the old mill own
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• Each of the 53 cases presents a practical problem faced by a researcher and the solution he or she selected. •The questions encourage students to evaluate the researcher’s solution and consider alte
Multi-Body Dynamics: Vehicles, Machines, and Mechanisms opens by providing an understanding of engineering dynamics and then leads on to the analysis, techniques, and problem solving approaches. The a
Twenty-eight papers from the September 1998 conference discuss the process of selecting an appropriate power transmission medium to solve a motion control problem. Arrangement is in sections on design
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This is a research monograph covering the majority of known results on the problem of constructing compact symplectic manifolds with no Kaehler structure with an emphasis on the use of rational homoto
