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Explores the interplay of historical, traditional culture with contemporary youth culture. It also examines the relationship between individual outcome and community disorganization and illustrates how peer relationships are conditioned by gender.

Libraries need to develop standards by which they can assess their individual performances in a larger context, and this work makes contributions to this discussion. This book addresses its subject matter via approaches ranging from case studies of individual libraries to general discussions of best practices.

Based on data collected around the world on drivers of all age groups, this work provides a picture of the realities of driving, including visual perception issues, cell phone distractions, fatigue, drugs, and the effects of aging. It explains why we crash, as well as how we achieve the amazing feat of not crashing more often than we do.

As scientific literature abounds with studies of decision-making and effort, this book emphasizes the importance of demythologizing our understanding of cognitive systems in order to link motivation, behavioral inhibition, self-regulation, and will. It is for researchers and students in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and clinical psychology.

This work offers insights into children's descriptions of their invented or "make-believe" worlds, and the role that the children's experience with media plays in creating these worlds; based on the results of a cross-cultural study conducted in the United States, Germany, Israel, and South Korea.

This volume documents and describes the growth of task-based research in language acquisition. It presents the origins, principles and key distinctions of referential communication research in first and second language studies, plus analyses and illustrations of different types of materials.

Digs beneath the public scandals to explore the underlying causes of sexual abuse by priests and nuns from the unique perspective of an abuse victim/survivor who is an experienced mental health practitioner and social science researcher. This book examines the prevalence and characteristics of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and nuns.

This study examines the complex problem of school violence using qualitative and ethnographic data from observations, individual interview and focus groups, as well as published data. The book also analyzes violence programmes and assesses their effectiveness.

This updated edition presents a civic journalism treatment of the field of mass communication. It focuses on the empirical consequences of the work of journalists and includes additional material concerning media ownership structures and their possible relationship to media content and effects.

Discusses the political science research studies and theories that political activists and professionals can apply to effectively campaign for an issue or candidate. This text, a compilation of research, theory, and practical application, guides readers through the complexities of everyday political marketing and campaigning.

Focuses on polymer properties at the molecular level. This title discusses chemical structures, synthesis, characterization, and properties. It integrates theories and experiments made possible by instrumentation advances. It includes chapters on controlled polymerization and chain conformations.

Demonstrates how quality assurance tools and methods that have been applied successfully in the manufacturing and service industries can be applied in the testing industry. This book reviews how business process concepts can be used to improve the way in which tests are designed, administered, scored and reported so that errors can be eliminated.

Gives a teachers perspective to the field of adult education as it continues to grapple with issues of teacher professionalization/certification. This work examines the literacy practices of exemplary adult education teachers working within critical literacy frameworks. It also looks at the complexity of adult literacy education.

Addresses theoretical, methodological, and empirical multilevel models as they relate to the analysis of individual and cultural data. This book describes the methodological aspects of multilevel research, including data-analytic and structural equation modeling techniques. It is suitable for researchers and advanced students in psychology.

A book about effective literacy instruction for students in grades K-4 who use the language variety that many linguists call African American English, but which, as explained in the Introduction, the author calls Black Communications (BC).

Takes readers through the process starting from creating a mystery story to getting it to the library bookshelf and the patrons. This book features contributions by authors, readers, critics, scholars, and librarians, who give an inside look at the production and collection of one of the most popular genres in literature, the mystery.

Case studies of individual language learners are a valuable means of illustrating issues connected with learning, using, and in some cases, losing another language. This volume provides an overview of case study methodology and examples of published case studies in applied linguistics.

Most people are visual learners. Seeing their ideas in pictures gives them great impact and more meaning. Presenting a therapeutic technique founded on sound clinical principles, this book clearly discusses the clinical rationale behind using standard drawing in therapy and demonstrates how the interactive nature of the approach helps.

Addresses students' ideas about time, evidence, significance, and agency, as well as classroom contexts of history education and broader social influences on students' and teacher's thinking. This book emphases on techniques for interviewing children, the impact of theory on research, and the importance of cross-cultural comparisons.

Brings together probabilistic risk assessment and decision analysis using real case studies. This book focuses on methods for making logical decisions about complex engineered systems and products in which safety is a key factor in design - and where failure can cause great harm, injury, or death.