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The year 2004 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: A Journal of Developmental Psychology, providing an occasion to celebrate the journal's heritage and its long history of scholarly contributions to its field. This volume celebrates this milestone by bringing together twenty-three distinguished essays that showcase past accomplishments, current progress, and future challenges in the human developmental sciences.The essays presented in this volume offer perspectives on many of the research domains and specialty areas that have been prominent in MPQ's history. Accordingly, chapters are organized around ten conceptual themes, including methodological and interpretive considerations, cognitive development and learning, temperament and emotional development, children's social development and peer relations, family relations, moral development, the nature-nurture debate and behavioral genetics, cultural psychology, early child care and school-readiness, and evidence-based programming and public policy. In addition, an introductory chapter provides a historical overview of MPQ, examining the events, persons, institutional forces, and publication trends that brought the journal into existence and have contributed to its success and longevity.These commentaries are accessible and of interest to all who work with infants, children, adolescents, and families. As a result, this volume will appeal to researchers and professionals alike.

Contains nearly thirty years of work by a noted writer and folklore scholar. This book includes writings from her scholarly articles and books spanning 1975-2004, which contain reflections on the value of fairy tales as adult literature. It offers a look at both the evolution of a career and the recent history of fairy-tale scholarship.

Looks at the life and writings of cultural critic Aby Warburg through the prism of Warburg's little-known political views. This work argues, based on archival research, that Warburg's work and teachings developed as a reaction to the growing anti-Semitism in Germany, which he saw as a threat to classical education and university scholarship.

Thestory of the Gibsons, a working-class family from El Paso, Texas, that is struggling to survive the desertion of their father. It is an account of a young man forced to measure memory and love against reason and reality. It is also an illuminating look at the surreal lives of America's homeless and a tribute to the strength of faith and family.

This study chronicles how German nationalism developed simultaneously with the historical novel and the field of history, both at universities and in middlebrow reading material. The book examines Germany's emerging national narrative as 19th-century writers adapted it to their own visions and to changing circumstances.

This biography is devoted to the life and career of Roy D. Chapin - one of the foremost figures in the history of Detroit's independent automotive industry.

Filmmaker John Sayles has tackled issues ranging from race and sexuality to the abuses of capitalism and American culture. This collection offers coverage of Sayles's craft and content, with a variety of critical methods to explore the scope of his work. The essays give an understanding of his individual films and of his place in American cinema.

In ""A Hanging in Detroit"" David G. Chardavoyne evokes not only the crime, trial, and execution of Simmons, but also the setting and players of the drama, social and legal customs of the times, and the controversy that arose because of the affair.

In the 1970s, feminism transformed fairy-tale studies and sparked a debate that would change the way society thinks about fairy tales and the words ""happily ever after."" After three decades of provocative criticism and controversy, this book reevaluates the feminist critique of fairy tales.

Providing both theory and praxis, this volume explains how to write humour, comedy, satire, parody, nonsense, and both the literary and the joke monologue. It includes the history and cultural background of each major genre, followed by an array of writing exercises and examples.

The eight essays in this volume consider questions concerning spatial transformations in and around Weimar cinema. They analyse the periphery - the other spaces that are implicated, if not present, in the films themselves.

Because of the increasing influence of Hip hop music and culture, it is important to address Hip hop and African American vernacular as rhetoric worthy of serious scrutiny. Kermit E. Campbell not only insists on this worthiness but also investigates the role that African American vernacular plays in giving a voice to America's marginalized.

This is the memoir of Nanda Herbermann, a German Catholic writer and editor who was arrested and deported to Ravensbruck concentration camp after being accused of collaboration. An introduction placing her work within current debates about gender and the Holocaust is included.

An examination of the benefits and consequences to cities when companies relocate to the suburbs. Theoretic models of a manufacturing plant and a business services office in the Chicago area illustrate such phenomena as suburban wealth creation, increased traffic congestion and housing abandonment.

Formed in 1901 by US Steel Corporation, the Pittsburgh Steamship Company became the largest fleet in Great Lakes shipping and the American steel industry. This work tells its story: the ships, the men who sailed them, and the conditions that shaped their times.

Detroit is home to one of the largest and most diverse Arab communities outside the Middle East. This collection of memoirs, poetry, interviews and essays brings together the work of 25 contributors to paint a colourful portrait of Detroit's Arab community.

This study of German Jewry's contribution to Jewish and German culture.

From 1870 to 1910, the prosperity of the copper and iron mining, lumbering and shipping industries of the Lake Superior region created a demand for more substantial buildings. This book examines the region as a built environment and the efforts of architects and builders to use local red sandstone.

This collection of essays is arranged around the themes of organizing, reaching out, and self-transformation, seeking to demonstrate the interconnection of the concepts. It examines prospects for growth and considers the current environment for organizing departures from past practices.

This collection studies the cultural tradition of the ""qassas"", or storyteller, and the Arab folktale. The annotated stories offer an insight into Arab culture and tell of the trials and tribulations of ordinary people but also describe fantastic creatures and encounters with supernatural beings.

This work paints a portrait of German-Jewish women who fled from Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. Arriving in South America, they faced haunting memories of the terror they had escaped and the challenge of adjusting to Brazil's patriarchal culture, unstable economy and tropical climate.

This volume is a documented history of the Jewish people in North America from the late 16th century. It chronicles the evolving domestic, religious and political experiences of Jews in the American colonies and later the United States.