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The book represents essential reading for landscape historians, geographers, foresters, ecologists, conservationists and land managers with an interest in European forests and is also a useful source for advanced students of these disciplines.

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This volume addresses basic family processes and approaches for describing family dynamics, as well as families who have risk factors such as poverty, malnutrition, and dev'l. delay and retardation. For researchers, clinicians, and educators.

This study investigates the phenomenon of polarity sensitivity, proposing a new perspective which focuses on the behavior and properties sensitive items and the phrases they form. It rests on the observation that the complexity of the phenomenon requires a more articulated analysis than the standard one based on licensing conditions. The study adopts a broader notion of sensitivity, which extends beyond the traditional one restricted to polari...

This is the first textbook to offer a clear, concise articulation of the dimensions of constructivism relevant to social work practice and research. Professor Rodwell recognizes the need to systematize a process of knowledge building and presents specific techniques to accomplish that while maintaining an interpretative stance with the focus on meaning. Social work students will see that their basic way of engaging clients in an assessment and...

This book offers a variety of critical perspectives, looking closely at Beckett's dramatic canon. From Deleuzean rhizomatics to new historicism to the question of gender, each reading repositions Beckett's plays and suggests that the reader rethinks the standard interpretation of the drama.

Leaders and activists associated with the mainstream American Federation of Labor after the election of reformer John Sweeney as president in 1995 offer their plans and visions for the labor movement. In 13 original essays they cover democracy, ideology, and change, organizing the unorganized, dive

Following a case study approach organized around the psychoanalytic process, this book addresses clinical issues that arise in analytic work with adults who were sexually abused as children. Special emphasis is given to the way in which childhood sexual

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In Human Behavior in the Social Environment from an African American Perspective, leading black scholars come together to discuss complex human behavior problems faced by African Americans and to force the abandonment of conceptualization theories made without consideration of the Black experience. Challenging you to engage in different thinking and develop new theories for addressing the needs of African Americans, this book highlights the as...

This title outlines a set of principles and analytical methods that can be adapted to different assessment scenarios designed to enable readers to construct their own effective methods for assessment. Guidelines for design and methods of planning, choosing and implementation are provided.

This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers.

While educators, parents and policymakers are still debating the pros and cons of school choice, it is now possible to learn from choice experiments in public, private, and charter schools across the country.

This new study suggests that the arguments which were used to attack the potentially absolutist monarchy of Charles I were not all that different from those used against the constitutional monarchy of today.

This comprehensive book is based on the Navier-Stokes and other continuum equations for fluids. It interprets the analytical and numerical solutions of the equations of fluid motion. Topics included are turbulence, and how, why, and where it occurs, mathematical apparatus used for the representation and study of turbulence, continuum equations used for the analysis of turbulence, ensemble, time, and space averages as they are applied to turbul...

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This text shows how theories of intelligence can be directly applied by educators to the teaching of subject matter. The focus is not on modifying students' intelligence but on increasing their disciplinary knowledge and understanding.

Centuries-long hostility between Scotland and England affected the pattern of criminal activity in the Anglo-Scottish border lands. This is a fascinating account of how the area created and refined a new system of law to deal with the conflict in the 13th and 15th centuries. It shows how the political and military relationship between the two kingdoms, especially the English crown's reliance on Wardens of the March for frontier defense, played...

Focusing on the conceptual and preliminary stages in bridge design, this book addresses the various conceptual criteria employed when evaluating project proposals. This title considers elements from architectural aspects and structural aesthetics to environmental compatibility.