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Positive work relationships can enrich employee's lives, while conversely, the stress caused by corrosive work relationships adds to health care costs faced by organizations and can affect the personal lives of employees. This book offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary understanding of how relationships enable people at work.

Elevates global entertainment to an area of worthy media study that was previously reserved for global news and takes a worldwide approach, encompassing Nigeria, Egypt, Brazil, and India - in addition to the more high-profile, heavily researched areas of Europe and East Asia.

Providing an introduction to screenwriting, this text helps budding screenwriters to structure their dramas, refine their characterizations, and craft their language. It also includes: guidelines for working as a screenwriter; exercises to enhance skills; suggested readings for further development; and a list of resources for screenwriting.

Features over 50 illustrations and descriptions of approximately 250 plants which are used for herbal medicine. This title includes information on medicinal plants ranging from Abies spectabilis to Zizyphus vulgaris. It is suitable for physicians, pharmacists, drug collectors, and those interested in the healing arts.

Offers a presentation of the applications of photochemical methodologies. Outlining an assortment of reaction types entailing cycloadditions, cyclizations, isomerizations, rearrangements, and other organic syntheses, this reference offers coverage of various reactions in the foreground of organic photochemistry.

This collection of papers from the 6th conference of the International Society for the Study of Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL) brings together a range of essays concerned with understanding the place and role of literature in its social, historical, psychological, and linguistic dimensions.

Audition Speeches for 6-16 Year Olds offers a generous helping of carefully selected speeches that children can prepare for auditions. Each speech is introduced with commentary to set the scene and help the young actor.

What makes a person confess to a crime he did not commit? Was he coerced? Is he trying to protect someone else? This book focuses on why false confessions exist and how to avoid them. It discusses telephone interviewing, false confessions, field interviewing, sexual harassment interviewing, and confronting the alleged harrasser.

An exciting new way of teaching chaos in dynamical systems to undergraduates, using a combination of text and computer experiments.

This collection of articles explores the field of computing and educational studies. It covers: computing, culture and educational studies; integrating computer technology; literacy online; the computer, sybertext and the history of writing; and computers as theatre.

A study of coding provider-patient interaction. A special issue of "Health Communication", it features papers on: the use of a verbal response mode coding system in determining patient and physician roles in medical interviews; analyzing patient participation in medical encounters; and more.

Addresses curriculum and teaching topics, such as mathematics, science, environmental education, social studies, language arts, and the arts curriculum. This book also sheds light on the issues that arise from inviting student-teachers and practicing teachers into the idea of curriculum of abundance.

In an age of learner empowerment, this study offers examples of successful participatory practices in adult education. It covers programme settings ranging from schools to the workplace, focusing on projects using greater participation to benefit those previously excluded from positions of control.

This textbook for early childhood and literacy education courses provides "how-to-do-it" instructions for promoting emergent literacy in reading, writing and arithmetic from preschool into the primary grades.

Effective group leadership techniques are the focus of this practical, sound volume. Dedicated to assisting occupational therapy practitioners and students in understanding current theory and state-of-the-art techniques in group treatment, this functional book fills the gap left by existing literature and educational programs that focus mainly on diagnoses and task analysis. Highly skilled professionals examine the important concepts of group therapy--structural elements, such as goals, norms, group size, physical environment, and instructions that can be varied depending on the purpose, needs, and functional level of the client; the ability to guide and control process elements, such as spontaneous feedback; and the ability to support clients and help build a cohesive, safe group. Fascinating examples of innovative new group techniques--social skills game, mime group, and the use of robots--demonstrate how creative content can effectively combine structure and process in group treatment.

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Several recent developments in the history of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) and "Technical Communication Quarterly (TCQ)" led to this special issue on the state of technical communication in its academic context. This issue focuses on the work of the association as it helps to guide the evolution of the field, including a description of its members, reflections on the journal and its history, assessment of student learning, research in the field, and the academic job market. The articles are written by members of the Executive Committee and their collaborators or by others who have been identified as leaders in a particular subject area. The ATTW Executive Committee has taken the opportunity that change offers for some self-study and reflection on the field and the role of academics in it. This reflection will help both leaders of the association and academics in general to develop a vision and plan for the future.

This is a special double issue of "Spatial Cognition and Computation".

This special issue on civic engagement and technical communication focuses on the ways educators can help students become actively engaged members of society, particularly a "rhetorical democracy." The first essay examines the concept of community as a l

Brings together leading experts from around the world to explore ways to best provide teaching and learning opportunities, tailored to specific educational needs, to help all children become better readers.

This volume contains information for those engaged in postgraduate research and supervision in mathematics and science education, and those using educational and sociological research paradigms. It provides details for planning, conducting, reporting and publishing qualitative research.

Provides a clear picture of therapeutic role playing - the most naturalistic form of psychotherapy - and explains how it us used and for what purposes. A rationale for its value and examples of its use are provided.

Applies an ethnographic perspective to the study of primates Primate Ethnographies, 1/e, is a collection of first-person accounts of immersive field studies of primates, people, and institutions, revealing the wide spectrum of primate science (primatology). Essays cover such primates as lemurs, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and apes. Readers experience the excitement of discovery and the challenges of primate field research. Primate Ethnographies can be used as a textbook or a companion reader. MySearchLab is a part of the Strier program. Research and writing tools, including access to academic journals, help students explore ethnography in even greater depth. To provide students with flexibility, students can download the eText to a tablet using the free Pearson eText app. NOTE: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase the text with MySearchLab, order the package ISBN: 0205998631 / 9780205998630 Primate Ethnographies Plus MySearchLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 0205214665 / 9780205214662 Primate Ethnographies 0205239927 / 9780205239924 MySearchLab with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card

Records the potential for computers to be put into instructional roles in school, the workplace and high technology research facilities. It offers teachers and trainers a vision of how their professions will be fundamentally altered by these new systems and how their roles could change.

This book serves as the starting point for human resource and business leaders who struggle to identify and to communicate the value of investing in assessing and improving work environments to increase levels of employee satisfaction.

This book consists of conclusions drawn from the expertise shared at the Conference on Standards for Prekindergarten and Kindergarten Mathematics Education. It offers substantive detail regarding young students' understandings of mathematical ideas.

Helps teachers plan for independent reading in their own classrooms. This book describes the structure of an independent reading period and other components of a balanced literacy programme that work together to ensure young pupils grow into strong, well-rounded readers. It helps create the kind of classrooms where children learn to love to read.

Presenting recent discoveries on ethnomedicinal plants from around the world, this book focuses on current progress and the future potential of drug development in ethnomedicine. Eight reviews examine therapeutic applications, including the spasmolitic effects of various plants, the anti-inflammatory activity of plants from Brazil and Tunisia, common fertility treatments in Trinidad and Tobago, traditional medicines from Cameroon and their interaction with estrogen receptors, the medicinal plants used in Spain to treat digestive problems, immune-modulators and stimulators from plants, and antimicrobial herbs from India.

Addressing the evolution of key innovations in metazoans, this challenging book summarizes the more recent results in phylogenetics and developmental biology. Divided into three sections, the first considers the phylogenetic issues involving this area of the tree of life and the elucidation of those relationships that continue to trouble taxonomists. The second section considers the developmental biology of metazoan evolution including the development of the nervous system, sensory organs, and physiological maturation. Part three focuses on the evolution of pattern and process in the Metazoa.