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This work examines topics that are considered to be especially relevant for making a strategic leader development investment. The areas covered have theoretical and empirical connections to important aspects of growth, change, adult development, and underlying abilities and skills.

Covers idiom use, learning, and teaching. This work approaches the topic with a balance of theory and research in cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics combined with informed teaching practices. It also includes discussion of idiom definition, classification, usage patterns, and functions.

The primary objective of this book is to offer a comprehensive analysis of the role of visual reportage in our understanding of ourselves, others and the world. It offers a comprehensive analysis of visual reportage as a form of human visual behaviour in contemporary culture.

The Bear Book presents a comprehensive collection of writings covering a significant, but previously uncharted phenomenon of gay male life. Covering every aspect of global bear culture, it will be essential reading for anyone interested in understanding contemporary male homosexuality or aspects and expressions of masculinity in general.

Dramatic events in Somalia between June and December 2006 included the rise and fall of a radical Islamic movement, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), which attracted global attention to the strategic area of the Horn of Africa. This volume analyzes the background and the events that led Somalia to this situation.

Provides a synthesis of research on the oral language and literacy skills of African American children from preschool to fifth grade. This book's research characterizes influences on the child's use of AAE and the relationship between AAE and aspects of literacy acquisition. It also leads to the other nondialectal aspects of language development.

Psychologists now assess an increasingly diverse clientele: immigrants, refugees, second and third generations still influenced by different cultures and languages, and indigenous peoples now moving towards the mainstream. Richard Dana proposes a new model of multicultural assessment practice and points directions for future training and research.

This revised edition of "Employing Bureaucracy" is an attempt to understand how industrial labour was transformed and to identify the historical process by which good jobs were created. It is, therefore, an account of the bureacratization of employment.

This title documents the impact of educational television in a variety of subject areas and proposes mechanisms to explain its effects. Drawing from a wide variety of research spanning several disciplines, author Shalom M. Fisch analyses the literature on the impact of educational resources.

This work provides a comprehensive resource for analyzing a range of categorical data. Accessible to social scientists and students, no advance mathematical training is required. It includes applications, examples, computer tutorials, and exercises.

In common with earlier editions of Halpern's work on critical thinking, this brief version has a rigorous academic grounding and contains practical examples and anecdotes. Exercises promote the transfer of critical thinking skills to real-world settings and allow flexibility of topics.

This text studies what it is like to live on the US-Mexico border. The author describes of a small town and school, languages, social class, history and what it means to be an immigrant. Vignettes from Marleen Pugach's experiences and interpretations of her interviews and observations are included.

Written by a professor and his ten students, this book explores their attempts to come to grips with fundamental issues related to writing narrative accounts purporting to represent aspects of people's lives. In its entirety, the book seeks to present an interpretive study of teaching and learning.

By defining the problems that need to be addressed in health care costs and management, this text presents a model for health care organizations. It also presents a profile of the Behavioral Social Worker, which defines the abilities needed to be effective in the role. It is suitable for practitioners of behavioral medicine in health settings.

As open access initiatives, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) provide Internet access to graduate student research documents from hundreds of academic institutions, thus furthering international scholarly communication. This book presents a comprehensive treatise on ETDs.

Talks about native English speakers teaching English as a global language in non-English speaking countries. Through analysis of naturally occurring dialogic encounters, this book examines the multifaceted ways in which teachers and students utilize diverse communicative resources to construct, display, and negotiate their identities.

Offers an account of the nature of personality, showing how to use personality to understand, evaluate, select, deselect, train, and understand organizations. This book brings insights from a psychologist who asserts that personality is real, and that it determines the careers of individuals and the fate of organizations.

Reviews research on emotions. This book begins by reviewing a number of principles governing emotion, or "the laws of emotion". It examines the nature of emotions and the motivational processes underlying them, and the nature and causes of pleasure and pain. It also explores the processes that lead to emotional arousal.

Provides a critical analysis and a comparison of concepts across neo-Piagetian theories.

A variety of scientific disciplines have set as their task explaining mental activities, recognizing that in some way these activities depend upon our brain. This book is a philosophical examination of how these disciplines continue in the mission of explaining our mental capacities.

Drawing on data from a 5-year longitudinal study of four university students for whom English was not their strongest/primary language, this book captures their literacy experiences throughout their undergraduate careers. It talks about these students' academic development as it entwined with their social experiences and identity formation.

Presents an investigation of the developmental and social processes mediating students' academic identities in settings posing challenges to their school achievement and personal development. Providing a framework for teachers in American schools, this book emphasizes examining the child, the school environment, and also the child in-context.

Offers an examination of technology's impact on media companies and the results of convergence among media industries, considering the effects on journalistic, business, and economic practices. This book explores the changes in communication technologies and the history of media segments and their evolutions as they adapt to global changes.