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Drawing on recorded dinner conversations and interviews with native Israeli, American Israeli and Jewish-American middle-class families, this study explores the cultural styles of sociability and socialization in family discourse, demonstrating how talk constructs, invokes and reflects identity.
Analyzes United States' budget management from the early 20th century to the present. The book uses the budget process as a framework for examining the separation of executive nationally derived, and legislative locally derived, powers.
This text places child art within the broader context of children's creative intelligence and intrinsic motivation to invent a pictorial world. It examines the development of drawing and painting from several dominant theoretical perspectives.
Provides a comprehensive review of the theory, research, and treatment of chronic headaches from a biopsychological perspective. This volume places the tools of assessment and therapy in the context of how the disorders arise. It reviews the physiology and psychology of pain, and each disorder.
This work discusses the space of learning, discernment and the question "What can be learned?", covering simultaneity and the enacted object of learning, the semantic enrichment of the space of learning, and the shared space of learning.
This text addresses medieval Christendom in the context of world history. It combines traditional material (from church documents) with the newer material of cultural studies, diversity within European Christianity, and diversity without, in a world context.
How do we extend the 'conservation ethic' to include the cultural links between local populations and their physical environments? This book applies a diverse range of social science methods to focus on the interests of the stakeholders living in the most intimate proximity to managed forests.
This text considers the importance of various factors which influenced the policies of each country during the Cold War including strategic considerations, domestic politics and ideology.
A detailed look at television production's first 50 years, highlighting the pioneers, the writer-producers, directors, actors, agents, and more.
Areas discussed in this text include: a moral outlook; circumstances of education; judgements for excellence; the goodness of teachers; the goodness of students; privilege; and American values.
Offering a comprehensive approach to vocabulary instruction, this book is about how children learn the meanings of new words and how teachers can be strategic in deciding which words to teach, how to teach them, and which words not to teach at all. It covers the 'why to' and 'when to' as well as the 'how to' of teaching word meanings.
Grounded in space and time, and yet speaking of universal concerns, this title includes essays that show how the ancient human scourges of poverty, ignorance, illness, and violence desecrate humanity and weaken the spirit.
Integrating anti-fat-oppressive attitudes into the work of feminist therapy, this text does not treat fat as the problem, but prejudice against fat as the problem. A resource guide for therapists, the book may also be of use to fat women in need of support.
This work aims to describe ongoing research that examines real people making real decisions, and compares it with theoretical predictions to provide readers with "food for thought" when it comes to their own decision making and point out issues that await further research.
This study examines children's films from various critical perspectives, including those provided by classical and current film theory.
With the wide variety of formats and products associated with Beatrix Potter's classic The Tale of Peter Rabbit, the author raises questions about the impact of these developments on young readers.
Focuses on the smart functions implemented in CMOS image sensors as well as the applications of these sensors. After discussing the history of smart CMOS image sensors, this book describes the fundamental elements of CMOS image sensors. It covers some optoelectronic device physics and introduces typical CMOS image sensor structures.
Examines the role of apology in response to public attack. It considers topics, from public figures and individuals to corporations and government. This book explores the ethics and the legal liabilities of apologies. Case studies are featured, including an international example for apology making from Japan.
This work describes the changing language and rhetoric of English-speaking scientists across the 17th-20th centuries. It combines analytical methodologies in the description of scientific writing and offers a "wide angle" perspective that examines the evolution of writing from 1675 to 1975.
In reading history, students engage in cognitive processes of learning, test processing and reasoning. This volume touches on each of these cognitive problems, centred on an in-depth study of college students' text learning and extended to broader issues of text understanding.
Adopts a historical and comparative perspective to show how legal rules, technical knowledge (or the lack of it) and political ideas combined to shape attitudes and behavior in the business of oil production, leading to the original adoption of the law of capture, its consolidation in the United States, and its marginalization elsewhere.
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