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Scholars--and adults in general--have pondered for centuries the mysterious processes that influence the ways in which children gradually become adults. The development of professional organizations and journals devoted to adolescence, as well as increasing appreciation in academia and the world of policy for the importance of this phase of life, have helped this field catch up with the pace of research on other stages of human development par...

In 2002, Congress charged the Institute of Medicine (IOM) with developing a prevention-focused action plan to reduce the number of obese children and youth in the United States. In 2005, with support from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the IOM is building on its previous work by conducting a study to assess progress toward the obesity prevention recommendations in the original report. The IOM organized three regional meetings in th...

The 2005 conference, "The Genomic Revolution: Implications for Treatment and Control of Infectious Disease, " attracted scientists, engineers, and medical researchers to work on new interdisciplinary responses using genomics to treat and control infectious diseases. Eleven conference working groups gave the participants eight hours to develop new research approaches to problems in infectious disease using genomics. Among the challenges were de...

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Traumhafte Landschaften, selbstbewusste Regionen mit eigenständiger Geschichte, ehrwürdige Zeugen der Vergangenheit, mehr als 1000 Kilometer Küste. Diese Mischung lockt in jedem Jahr mehr als vier Millionen Gäste ins Land zwischen Nord- und Ostsee und macht Schleswig-Holstein mit seinen gleichermaßen weltoffenen wie traditionsbewussten Menschen zu einem der beliebtesten Urlaubsziele in Deutschland. Kultur verbindet sich hier mit Landschaft: Di...

Warum berührt der Clown die Menschen? Welche Gestalt ersteht da in der Manege, für jeden verständlich und sich doch staunend über sich selbst erhebend? Der Clown bringt keine Botschaft, er ist die Botschaft, die uns auf uns selbst zurückverweist.Dem Geheimnis dieser Gestalt nachzugehen, sie in ihrer übergreifenden Bedeu-tung zu erfassen, ist Inhalt dieses Buches. Vom Altertum bis in unsere Gegenwart taucht sie immer wieder zwischen Weisen, Nar...

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Maurice Harmon: Selected Essays assembles published articles with unpublished talks and lectures, all of which show Harmon's lively, readable style and draw upon a lifetime of study and contemplation. They provide authoritative readings of Irish writers and their work over three centuries, beginning with discussions of the origins and development of Irish literature in the nineteenth century and of the issues and contexts that determined the f...

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As the director of the U.S. Army's Central Identification Lab in Hawaii (CILHI), Robert Dean Kel McKelvey has made a career solving some of the country's most complex identification cases. Though fast approaching emotional meltdown, Kel now faces his thorniest case yet: the recovery of Jimmie Carl Trimble, a soldier from Arkansas who died a hero's death in Vietnam forty years ago. When a rare DNA sequence turns up at both the Army and FBI labs...

This volume addresses the question, What does it mean to be a TESOL professional of color? Thirteen narratives by TESOL professionals of color are prefaced by an introduction and overview of critical race theory, narrative inquiry, and educational resear

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