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Coalescent argumentation is the concept that arguments can function from agreement rather than disagreement. This text discusses how several components - emotional, visceral and kisceral are used everyday, and stresses argumentation as a means for understanding your own and your opposer's position.

This volume brings together existing literature from various fields in which verbal protocols of reading have been generated. The authors aim to provide an organized catalogue of all conscious, verbal processes reported in studies to date.

This text discusses the relationship between Russia, Iran and Turkey since the collapse of the Soviet empire. These nations are the main rivals for influence in the Caucasas and Central Asia, with China a distant factor.

This important work offers the first detailed analysis of recent changes in health care for the elderly. The contributors examine primary care in urban, suburban, and rural settings and show what makes each of these successful care-providers.

Examines how working-class high school students' identity construction is mediated by discourses and cultural practices operating in their classroom, school, family, sports, community, and workplace worlds. This book contributes to understanding the role of institutions in shaping adolescents' lives.

This study is about learning and ethnography in the context of technologies. Simultaneously, it portrays young people's "thinking attitudes" in computer-based learning environments, and it describes how the practice of ethnography is changing in a digital world.

Introduces social workers to the feminist scholarship on relational theories and the practical application of these theories with diverse populations. This work emphasizes the practical application of the basic relational concepts, developing an approach to practice which is useful for both male and female social workers and clients.

A practical guide to taxometric research, it provides a comprehensive introduction to the method. It covers a range of analytic techniques, describing their logic and implementation as well as what is known about their performance from systematic study. It includes an accompanying CD that provides programs for performing taxometric analyses.

Drawing on interview data, the authors describe K-3 students' knowledge and thinking about basic aspects of the social world that are addressed in the elementary social studies curriculum. The interviews focused on human activities relating to cultural universals that are commonly addressed in the elementary social studies curriculum

In this analysis, extended case studies of two veteran teachers and their students are combined with research literature to explore issues of teaching, learning and testing US history. While the two teachers share several similarities, the teaching practices they construct are very different.

A comprehensive overview of schizophrenia and its treatment from a variety of approaches. The book presents a balanced look at the most influential theroetical perspectives based on empirical research, clinical descriptions, and narrative histories.

Contains research, first hand accounts, poetry, theory, and journalistic essays that address and outline the special needs of sexual minorities when dealing with eating disorder and appearance obsession.

This work explores how writers from several different cultures learn to write in their academic settings, and how their writing practices intersect with their evolving identities as students and professionals in academic environments.

The gap between "quantitative" and "qualitative" modellers is dealt with in this book. It discusses reconciling the need to impose rigour and to understand the influence of context. With many uses for models, there is also the realistic possibility of doing credible research without their use.

Based on a research study of journal writing in an English as a second language course, this text provides an understanding of the writing and thinking processes of students. It should be useful in programmes that prepare teachers to work with students for whom English is a second language.

This volume documents the role public relations practitioners play in America's economic, social, and political affairs. It tells how Roosevelt's "Square Deal" reforms brought the first publicity agencies to the nation's capital.

Discusses topics such as: the uses of cannabis in Arabic, Greek, Roman, and early English medicines; pharmacokinetics; pharmacodynamics; separate extracts versus the use of cannabis in its entirety; the therapeutic value of the endocannabinoid system; cannabinoids and newborn feeding; and, a comparison of smoking versus oral preparations.

Addresses how writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) programs can be effective in the context of differences among languages and specializations in disciplines they serve. It argues the importance of comprehensive writing centers to the WAC endeavor; explains tutor training and faculty consultancy; and discusses a multilayered assessment program.

Linda Laidlaw explores what happens when children begin to write. She offers new information about writing and literacy pedagogy linked to research in the complexity sciences and cognition, and considers the possibilities for pedagogy when alternative metaphors, images, and structures are considered for writing and curriculum.

This work is a practical text that employs scientific research, sound advice, and student journal entries to encourage, sustain and challenge the readers to function at their best during the days of student teaching.

This project examines parental roles in controlling television programmes watched by children in Europe. The structure of the study includes an analysis of the technical devices available to assist parents and a corresponding analysis of potential ratings or labelling systems.