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Experimental economics involves the use of controlled, experimental methods both in the laboratory and the field to better comprehend how individuals and groups make economic decisions and to more clearly identify causal relationships. This book takes the reader to the frontier of research in this exciting and rapidly growing field. Unlike other texts, this book discusses both the methodology of experimental economics and some of the main appl...

This book provides practical guidance and awareness for a growing body of knowledge developing across a variety of disciplines. This initiative is a celebration of the Gavriel Salvendy International Symposium (GSIS) and provides a survey of topics and emerging areas of interest in human¿automation interaction. This set of articles for the GSIS emphasizes a main thematic area: transportation. Main areas of coverage include Section A: Interactio...

Dr. John Duffy, clinical psychologist and parenting expert, has brought together 12 practical steps for parenting teen boys and helping them grow into happy, successful, capable adults.

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This book provides practical guidance and awareness for a growing body of knowledge developing across a variety of disciplines. This initiative is a celebration of the Gavriel Salvendy International Symposium (GSIS) and provides a survey of topics and emerging areas of interest in human¿automation interaction. This set of articles for the GSIS emphasizes a main thematic area: transportation. Main areas of coverage include Section A: Interactio...

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All of us yearn for a lifelong love relationship, whether it is a marriage or a friendship-or both. But few of us know the secrets to cultivating and maintaining one. Secrets for a Lifelong Love is based on John V. Duffy's experience of lifelong love in his marriage of almost 60 years. In these pages, he unlocks the secrets he has learned and shares the tips, virtues, values, statements, and problem-solving techniques that he has found benefic...

John Duffy's The edge of seeing is a collection full of a deep-rooted love, one that finds its anchor in the sheer reliable physicality of the world and the universe it turns in. The poems range widely through Celtic legend, through revolutionary France and the schoolrooms and parlours of a Glasgow childhood. They move easily from the lyrical to the heft and swagger of Glasgow demotic speech. They are crowded with voices, and the felt observat...

Genevieve and Andrew are British children happily living with their scientist parents in rural Switzerland. Suddenly, one night they find themselves being bundled out of bed by Nanny Claudia as a gang of men surround the house. They break through the circle but Claudia is captured. What should they do now, and who are these men? What is going on? Join Genie and Andrew on an epic trek across the length and breadth of Switzerland as by water, ai...

A guidebook for parents navigating the new teen years

No parent experienced their teen years the way children do today, children as young as eight-years-old are prematurely self-conscious, over-stressed, and overwhelmed. Dr. John Duffy, the regular parenting and relationship expert on Steve Harvey, is here to provide strategies and tips for actively learning the world of our children, so that when they need us, we can be there armed with understanding.

Rhetoric Ethics and the Teaching of Writing.

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This volume has been updated and revised to reflect all applicable diagnostic categories of the DSM-IV, as well as recent advances in psychopharmacology. Over 600 challenging questions covering material most likely to be found on the board examination are included, reflecting current theory and practice in child and adolescent psychiatry, psychopathology, psychopharmacology, and other selected topics. Software includes randomized question sequ...

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Based on National Book Award-winner Joyce Carol Oates novella about the Chappaquiddick scandal, this tragic and beautiful new opera enthralls as a handsome Senator uses power to enchant, seduce and carelessly destroy. Starring Karen Burlingame and Patrick Mason

?Students of the history of Vermont should find much to interest them in the book. Duffy and Muller probe more deeply into the phenomena they discuss than did David Ludlum, whose Social Ferment in Vermont, 1791-1850, provides the only previous systematic treatment of reform movements in the 1830s. ... An Anxious Democracy is a useful addition to the rapidly increasing literature about northern New England. Regional historians should become fam...

The study of Health and Medical Aspects of Disaster Preparedness was approved by NATO/CCMS in 1985 with the first pilot study meeting in June of that year. The pilot study, under the leadership of the United States and Belgium, focused on the current status of disaster preparedness in partici­ pating nations. An objective look was taken at the availability or resources to cope with disasters from an international standpoint. The types of disas...

At this moment, schools are doing everything they can to win the Race to the Top. They are allocating their funding to test preparation, riffing beloved teachers, and transferring students who "drag down" their grade average on the state report card. This book describes the current state of the education system in the United States. Readers will be on the front lines of the protests in Madison, in the inner city public-turned-charter schools, ...

This is a detailed account of the Hmong experience in Laos and the US.