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Seeks to show that historical insights extrapolated from an understanding of history are essential for grasping and solving the basic problems facing Taiwan, including the Taiwan-Mainland relationship in the twenty-first century. This book elaborates on the "where from" and the "where to" of the Taiwan transformation.

This work brings together the reflections and ruminations of statesmen, policy-makers and academics on developments and forecasts relating to Russia, one of the world's leading geopolitical actors. The articles have all appeared in "The National Interest".

This book provides a broad history of East and Southeast Asia in both regional and country-specific contexts from prehistory to the current day.

This is a collection of 46 essays by specialists in Asian literature, who offer a wide range of possibilities for introducing Asian literature to English-speaking students. It is intended to help in promoting multicultural education.

This text introduces and integrates adolescent developmental themes and family systems theory into a coherent assessment and intervention model. Worden emphasizes the process of evaluation and intervention of adolescents and their families with typical therapeutic dilemmas.

An introduction to sociocognitive therapy, covering practical methods of assessment and change. It is designed for both students and practitioners, detailing and explaining the concept of terminal and instrumental interaction hypotheses, showing how it can be applied.

Addresses several forms of violence, including rape, intimate partner violence, stalking, and sexual harassment in a contemporary linguistic style carefully crafted to avoid victim blaming. This book also describes a variety of efforts to treat both offenders and victims highlighting their importance and their insufficiency in preventing violence.

Julie Yingling considers communication and relationships through the lens of human development. Beginning with infancy and moving through adolescence to adulthood, the chapters examine communication and cognition in the various stages of human development.

Written for researchers, practitioners, parents and teachers, amongst others, this text describes the communicative and relational features of adolescent drug use. It informs the reader about how drugs, adolescents and the social world affect an adolescent's relationship with his/her parents.

During the 1990s there was increased awareness of the limitations of standard approaches to the study of development. When the focus is on variables and relationships, the individual is easily lost. This title describes an alternative, person-orientated approach.

This volume's goal is to help readers understand how people react to career barriers and how people develop constructive ways of coping with them. The methods also suggest what managers and organizations should do to help their employees who are or may soon be facing career barriers.

This volume presents a chronological overview of Piaget's early ideas and the source of his inspiration, and reviews his research work dividing it into four main periods plus a transitional one. It also contains a glossary covering explanatory concepts which are essential to Piaget's theory.

This is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary review of what the author has learned from decades of research on the nature, development and functions of exploration and play in children and animals.

This volume examines both the theoretical and practical aspects of cross-cultural psychology. It takes a contextual-developmental-functional approach linking the child, family and society as they are embedded in culture. It also examines the role of psychology in inducing social change.

Designed to provide practical information to those concerned with the development of young children, this book details patterns of language development over the first three years of life; examines the impact of external factors on language development; and provides information for investigators.

This volume presents a theoretical framework for understanding consciousness and learning. It develops a descriptive scheme that allows perceptual, symbolic and emotional awareness to be discussed in common theoretical terms.

The author of this book believes that cognition should not be rooted in innate rules and primitives, but rather grounded in human memory. More specifically, he suggests viewing linguistic comprehension as a time-constrained process - a race for building an interpretation in short-term memory.

Cognition is a naturally selected response by genetic programmes to the evolutionary pressure of guiding behaviours to goals. This text addresses the topic of the evolutionary rationale of cognition and the way this rationale has shaped the major types of cognition.

This volume examines the links between scientific cognition and folk ways of thoughts. It poses two questions: what is the nature of folk psychology and how is it related to scientific psychology; and what should the relationship be between the two areas?