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Explores the evolution of the goals of assessment center programs and the ways in which assessment centers and their component parts have been used. This book differentiates between assessment centers used for prediction, diagnoses, and development. It also explores court cases involving assessment centers, assessor training, and more.

In this text, leading scholars explore the mediated cultural dynamics that construct images and understanding of crime, deviance, and control, examining intertwined practices in producing and consuming contested representations of legality and illegality.

Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress documents the systemic violence that seems endemic throughout all types of prostitution, including escort, brothel, trafficking, strip club and street prostitution.

Appealing to practicing and research psychologists and advanced students in many fields, this book, that is divided into five chapters, proposes an attribution theory of interpersonal or social motivation that distinguishes between the role of thinking and feeling in determining action.

Looks at critical aspects of the assignment process as the selection process, the training required, factors that affect adjustment, performance and commitment, and how to retain and capitalize on the international experience once employees return home.

This text is intended to make issues involved in language understanding, such as speech and discourse, accessible to the widest group possible - scholars and researchers who depend on having a model of how communicative agents understand utterences and expect their own utterances to be understood.

This text explores the use of computer-mediated learning in education. It covers topics such as: computers, composition and Christianity; computer-assisted language revitalization; and cyber service learning.

Examines the operations of power and knowledge in international education under conditions of globalization, with a focus on the three biggest exporters of higher education--the US, Australia, and the UK. An interdisciplinary approach based on the core social sciences is used to explore the power relations that shape global education networks.

"Media Psychology" examines the impact that 21st century media use has on human behaviour, from teenage crushes on pop stars to soap fandom in adulthood. It brings together North American communication research with European media research in a variety of disciplines.

The creation of photorealistic images of three-dimensional models is central to computer graphics. This book presents a practical guide to photon mapping. It provides the theory and the practical insight useful for implementing photon mapping and simulate various types of direct and indirect illumination efficiently.

Written by two young instructors who became giants in their field, this title is suitable for self study and college courses.

This text examines the deep sense of fear that AIDS evokes, stigmatizing those who suffer from the disease, as well as their families and caregivers. Until AIDS can be seen for what it actually is - a life- threatening disease - policies providing for humane treatment will not evolve.

This text organizes stress and health research that has been undertaken within the reversal theory framework. It outlines reversal theory and deals with the effects of stress.

An instructional approach to writing and using the press release. The author reviews the basics of press release writing, gives examples of successful press releases, and explains how an ongoing press release programme in a business setting provides a high degree of publicity at low cost.

An expanded and updated edition of Woronoff's 1986 study of Asia's emerging economic giants, this book looks back at what has happened in the intervening years, especially as regards the "discovery" of this phenomenon in the Western media and the overreactive hype that has accompanied it.

A study of pollution reform that considers how the use of transferable permits to control pollution has evolved, looks at how these programs have been implemented in the US and internationally, and offers an objective evaluation of the resulting successes, failures, and lessons learned over the last twenty-five years.

The essays in this collection detail the fate of gypsies in the countries of Eastern Europe through the socialist era, and pay special attention to the experience of the Nazi holocaust. The volume includes essays on Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Hungary and Romania.

Drawing on interviews, oral histories, personal memoirs and musical analysis, this volume - the first to consider salsa music and its social impact - sheds new light on current debates about race, ethniciy, class and gender.

From the evil prosthesis of Captain Hook to the comical speech of Porky Pig, images in our culture can become the basis of negative attitudes and subliminal prejudice towards persons with disabilties. This text seeks to provide guidance for teachers in how to recognize and counter this.

This anthology discusses Love's Labour's Lost in terms of historical context, dating and sources, character analysis; comic elements, verbal conceits, evidence of authorship and feminist interpretations.

Teaches the chemical concepts necessary to understand the actions of medicinal plants to people who are intimidated by chemistry. This title explores the molecules of medicinal plants and the pharmacology behind their actions on the human body. It is suitable for non-science majors, biology majors, interested scientists of different disciplines.

To deal realistically with the problem of doing neuropsychological assessment without norms, the author of this book describes the principles of a "behavioural neuropsychology", and then sets out interview, test and interpretation methods.

This volume reviews research on the role of interaction in second language acquisition (SLA) studies. It argues that an ethnomethodological approach to conversation analysis can provide valuable and methodological insights into how mundane conversation may function as resources for SLA.