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Offers a comprehensive review and analysis of what is known about the worldwide bullying phenomena. This book reviews and integrates what is known about how cultural and regional issues affect bullying behaviour and its prevention.

Dealing with the field of reading/literacy education, this book seeks to offer glimpses of what the future of literacy research and practice might be. It features chapters that are structured around many themes related to research, practice, and theories of reading and literacy processes that characterize the authors' scholarship.

Reviews methods of conceptualizing, measuring, and analyzing interdependent data in developmental and behavioral sciences. This book addresses The Actor-Partner Interdependence Model for analyzing influence between two individuals; and The Intraclass Correlational Approach for analyzing distinguishable roles (parent-child) dyadic data.

Encompasses a range of disciplines that underlie the field of peace education and provides the rationales for the ways it is actually carried out.

Emphasizing that learning to read proficiently is a long-term developmental process involving many interventions of various kinds, all keyed to individual developmental needs, this title addresses traditional questions but from multiple or alternative perspectives.

Every person at one time or another suffers when his or her dreams are shattered. This title provides innovative approaches to therapeutically help individuals work through and survive grief and loss.

Part of the "Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy," this edition of Hobbes's Leviathan is framed by a pedagogical structure designed to make this important work of philosophy more accessible and meaningful for undergraduates.

This book illustrates correct techniques and demonstrates how to achieve optimal results in Badminton. It focuses on skills and drills or program design, and addresses a broad range of strategies specifically designed to improve performance now and in the future.

This book accomplishes three objectives: It gives readers the basic methodology and techniques followed in the contributors' funds of knowledge research; it extends the boundaries of what these researchers have done; and it explores the applications to classroom practice that can result from teachers knowing the communities in which they work.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Complex Systems. The sessions ranged from the opening talk by Nobel laureate Philip Anderson on emergence and the relevance of complex systems to physics to the final panel that included many of the great management gurus of this generation. The plenary session topics included emergence, description and modeling, self-organization, networks, time series, agents in action, and complexity and management. The conference presentations dealt with issues of significant public interest, including individual psychology, dynamics of social and economic change, the human genome, and ecology.

Originating in a CIERA conference at Michigan University, this book examines how readers understand text and how comprehension is assessed. It provides contexts for the study of reading comprehension, examines how vocabulary, motivation, and expertise influence comprehension, and analyses the developmental course and correlates of comprehension.

This collection was assembled in response to the interest in understanding media power using the concept of framing. It covers theoretical and methological perspectives, specific cases and empirical efforts by framing analysis and looks at framing in new subject areas and the future.

Designed for professionals in the aviation psychology, assessment and evaluation, vocational, technical, educational psychology, and educational technology communities, this book explores the training and assessment of aircrews and includes a review and description of the use of simulations in the area of aircrew training and assessment.

This volume establishes and explores the essential features of reader response theory and its rendering of the reading process. It also acknowledges a philosophy of teaching and illustrates teaching strategies to evoke and enhance readers' responses.

The Public Administration Casebook is a practice-based collection that speaks to the lived experience of students and prepares them to become more effective practioners of public and non-profit sectors by providing case studies arranged around major themes in public administration.

This best-selling text focuses on the analysis and design of complicated dynamics systems. CHOICE called it ¿a high-level, concise book that could well be used as a reference by engineers, applied mathematicians, and undergraduates. The format is good, the presentation clear, the diagrams instructive, the examples and problems helpful¿References and a multiple-choice examination are included.¿

A practical manual for voice users of all kinds, The Voice Book is written by one of the world's leading voice teachers. Michael McCallion has spent over 35 years training various professionals, from performers to auctioneers, how to use their voice. Used throughout the world in actor training and as suggested reading for lawyers, the earlier edition of The Voice Book became the classic work on using one's voice. It has now been revised to make use of the feedback from numerous readers of the earlier edition. Clearly written and easy to use, McCallion covers everything from Body Use and Breathing, to Tuning and Voice Energy. Whether you are a professional or amateur actor, a classical or popular singer, a teacher, or need to present for business, The Voice Book will help you discover how to use your voice freely, powerfully and with pleasure.

Presents a survey of the active packaging technologies that play a role in packaging for the improvement of food preservation, quality and safety. This work focuses on technologies in commercial use or with the potential to become commercial, including oxygen scavenging, moisture control, antimicrobials, odor removal and aroma emission.

With descriptions of important environmental and ecological models, this handbook provides overviews of more than 360 models that are arranged according to ecosystem, allowing readers to locate information they need about models in a given ecosystem. It provides chapters that cover a particular ecosystem and include descriptions of the models.

Offers coverage of high temperature electronics, including techniques, tradeoffs, best design practices and applications such as avionics and geothermal measurements.

Explores various aspects of electromagnetic-mechanical (EM) machines. It discusses basic machine physics and principles of operation to real-world applications and relevant control issues for various types of machine. It covers DC, induction, and synchronous machines and specialized machines such as transformers, and translational machines.

Improvements in sensor technology as well as in optics and electronics technologies have elevated digital still cameras (DSCs) to levels of quality comparable to those of film cameras. This book acquaints engineers with the concepts, applications, and directions of digital image acquisition and signal processing technology in DSCs.

Offers details on the utilization of electrical heating elements in consumer appliance design and industrial processes. This text includes basic theory, metallurgy and production advice for developing reliable and cost-effective heaters. It provides tables comparing resistivity and surface resistance of different materials.

Reveals the Art Nouveau period as an era dedicated to design reform in all areas of the visual arts. Annotated bibliographic entries from period literature provide evidence for the spread of design changes, with later publications demonstrating the changes in the way the period has been studied.

Gives new social science graduate students sufficient background in quantitative multivariate analysis (e.g., regression analysis) to allow them to read research relying on such analysis prior to formal training in statistical methods.

Longitudinal data are critical for understanding how individuals change across time. Researchers face a complex task when modeling the contexts in which longitudinal processes unfold. This book reviews the challenges and approaches to modeling these influences and provides data analytic strategies for behavioral and social science researchers.

Although social psychology has been traditionally focused on interpersonal relationships, the cognitive revolution in psychology has had the effect of refocusing some social psychology on intra-psychic processes. This book documents the changing conceptions and the value accorded the self in psychology over time.

The "Handbook of Complementary Methods in Education" "Research "is a successor volume to AERA's earlier and highly acclaimed editions of "Complementary Methods for Research in Education," More than any book to date (including its predecess

As external forces increase the demand for land conversion, communities are increasingly open to policies that encourage conservation of farm and forest lands. This title explores the causes and consequences of rapidly accelerating land conversions in urban-fringe areas, as well as implications for effective policy responses.

Employing the lens of critical sociocultural research, this volume articulates and develops the argument that directions in sociocultural theory are needed in order to address important issues of identity, agency, and power.