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| Author | : Stephanie Lorenz |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 1998 |
| ISBN | : 1853465062 |
| Pages | : 112 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (534 download) |
Download or read book Children with Down's Syndrome written by Stephanie Lorenz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : James C. McPartland |
| Publisher | : Guilford Publications |
| Release Date | : 2014-04-01 |
| ISBN | : 1462514146 |
| Pages | : 497 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (625 download) |
Download or read book Asperger Syndrome written by James C. McPartland and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Subject Areas/Keywords: adolescents, adults, AS/HFA, ASD, Asperger syndrome, assessments, autism spectrum disorders, behavioral, children, communication, developmental disabilities, diagnosis, DSM-V, DSM-5, genetics, high-functioning, interventions, neuropsychology, PDD-NOS, pervasive developmental disorders, psychopharmacological, social competence, social skills training, treatments Description: Completely revised with the latest research and clinical strategies, this is the authoritative volume on Asperger syndrome (now part of DSM-5 autism spectrum disorder). Considered the definitive reference since its initial publication, the book focuses on how to assess each child or adolescent's needs and provide effective interventions in the areas of communication, behavior, and academic and vocational functioning. The neural and genetic bases of autism spectrum disorders are also explored. "--
| Author | : Peilin LI |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Release Date | : 2019-11-11 |
| ISBN | : 9004418628 |
| Pages | : 442 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (44 download) |
Download or read book Chinese Research Perspectives on Society, Volume 6 written by Peilin LI and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Front Matter --Copyright page --Figures and Tables --Expanding the Middle-Income Groups, Building a Middle Class-Dominated Modern Society--Analysis and Forecast of China's Social Conditions during the Period 2016-2017 /Research Group for Social Situation Analysis and Forecast, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Guangjin Chen --Report on the Income and Spending of China's Urban and Rural Residents in 2016 /Qingzhe Lyu --The Impact of the Adjustment of China's Industrial Structure on the Employment of College Graduates in 2016 /Rong Mo and Xinyu Wang --Changes in the Income Gap of Chinese Residents in 2016 /Yiyong Yang and Zhenhe Chi --Continual Improvements in China's Social Security System in 2016 /Fayun Wang and Wei Wu --Report on Education Reform and Development in China in 2016 /Lei Fan --Report on the Development of China's Health Care in 2016 /Lijie Fang --Research Report on the New Social Class in China's Megacities--Based on Surveys in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou /Haidong Zhang, Chengchen Yang and Siqi Lai --Changes in the Living Conditions of the Elderly in Urban and Rural Areas and Future Trends--Based on Data Analysis of Four National Surveys during the Period 2000-2015 /Haitao Wang, Yu Fang and Zheng Ouyang --Leisure, Class Status and Reading for Pleasure /Yi Zhang --Report on the Usage of the Internet and Social Networks in China in 2016 /Di Zhu, Feng Tian and Xiaobing Wang --Research Report on the Chinese Public's Knowledge of and Attitudes towards Genetic Modification /Guangxi He, Miao Liao, Changhui Shi, Wenxia Zhang and Yandong Zhao --Research Report on the Values and Belief System of Young Employees of Chinese Enterprises /Chen Chen --Report on the Analysis of Internet Public Opinion in China in 2016 /Huaxin Zhu, Yufeng Pan and Xiaoran Chen --Progress Report on China's Rural Land Property Rights Reform in 2016 /Qiang Gao --Report on the Situation of Food and Drug Safety in China in 2016 /Jie Luo and Hao Zhang --The State of and New Issues in China's Environmental Protection in 2016 /Feng Jia, Ke Yang, Huicong Zhang, Shuo Tian, Jingyi Huang, Zijiao Zhang and Liantong Zhou --Report on the Analysis of the Situation of Public Safety in China in 2016 /Yandong Zhou and Zhigang Gong --The Status of Workers in the Supply-Side Structural Reform in 2016 /Jian Qiao --Report on Women's Development in China in 2016 /Yunzhu Jia --Statistical Overview of China's Social Development (2016) /Liping Zhang --Back Matter --Index.
| Author | : Betty H. Marshall |
| Publisher | : Author House |
| Release Date | : 2014-06-16 |
| ISBN | : 1496917685 |
| Pages | : 251 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (969 download) |
Download or read book What a Friend written by Betty H. Marshall and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The young woman watched me like a cat watches a rat he is going to catch for his dinner. As I walked up the stairs to let myself in the building she jumped in front of me. She pressed her face close to my ear. I could feel and smell her hot stinking breath as she whispered menacingly into my ear, "Open this goddamned door quick bitch. You better not scream or I will run this knife right through your side." I fumbled in my purse for my key. I tried to keep as still as possible because I could feel the knife pricking my skin every time I moved. I finally found the key and my hand was trembling so badly that I could barely turn the lock. "You better hurry up bitch if you don't want to die." Once I got the door opened the woman pushed me to the floor. She went straight to the cabinets and rambled through the vaccine bottles and other medicines that had been set aside for the research project. "You better not try anything." she yelled, while she rambled through the cabinets, She cursed and threw bottles on the floor as she pillaged through every cabinet in the office. She finally found what she was looking for. She headed towards the door, turned back, came to where I was lying on the floor, leaned close to me and yelled in my face, "You better not call the sheriff bitch, or I will come back, find you, and kill your fuckin ass."
| Author | : Joel D. Block |
| Publisher | : Wellness Institute, Inc. |
| Release Date | : 2002-08 |
| ISBN | : 9781587411045 |
| Pages | : 314 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (11 download) |
Download or read book Women and Friendship written by Joel D. Block and published by Wellness Institute, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors reveal that women's friendships are deeper and more enduring than those between men. Based on firsthand interviews, original studies, and extensive research, "Women and Friendship" is a pioneering work that offers a contemporary portrait of these ties.
| Author | : Jane Reynolds |
| Publisher | : eBook Partnership |
| Release Date | : 2012-11-19 |
| ISBN | : 1783010274 |
| Pages | : 421 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (83 download) |
Download or read book Just Good Friends? written by Jane Reynolds and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful, popular and with a husband at the very top of the corporate ladder, Eleanor Geddes has it all, but behind closed doors she's a remote and deeply insecure woman with a secret fear which is about to be realised, as her husband is busy making plans which are set to blow her perfect life apart.Eleanor's friend Ruth Palmer doesn't know it yet, but she's got a problem too. Her marriage feels stale and her husband's working long hours at the office ... or is he?But Ruth's got bigger problems. A drunken kiss with her good friend Helen sets Ruth's life on a downward spiral of sexual frustration, denial and guilt. She turns to drink in a desperate attempt to fight her feelings, but a shocking declaration suddenly changes the course of three families' lives forever.
| Author | : Robert Wuthnow |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Release Date | : 1994 |
| ISBN | : 0029356253 |
| Pages | : 488 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (293 download) |
Download or read book Sharing the Journey written by Robert Wuthnow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at how support groups have affected American society argues that, although support groups provide a warmth and security that holds society together, they can lead to an unhealthy self-absorption and a trivialized sense of what is sacred.
| Author | : Saran Stewart |
| Publisher | : IAP |
| Release Date | : 2020-02-01 |
| ISBN | : 1641137339 |
| Pages | : 243 pages |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (411 download) |
Download or read book Decolonizing Qualitative Approaches for and by the Caribbean written by Saran Stewart and published by IAP. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As academics in postcolonial Caribbean countries, we have been trained to believe that research should be objective: a measurable benefit to the public good and quantifiable in nature so as to generalize findings to develop knowledge societies for economic growth. What happens, however when the very word “research” connotes a derogatory term or semblance of distrust? Smith (1999) speaks towards the distrustful nature of the term as a legacy of European imperialism and colonialism. Against this backdrop, how do Caribbean researchers leverage recognized and valued (indigenous) methods of knowing and understanding for and by the Caribbean populace? How do we learn from indigenous research methods such as Kaupapa Maori (Smith, 1999) and develop an understanding of research that is emancipatory in nature? Decolonizing qualitative methods are rooted in critical theory and grounded in social justice, resistance, change and emancipatory research for and by the Other (Said, 1978). Rodney’s (1969) legacy of “groundings” provides a Caribbean oriented ethnographic approach to collecting data about people and culture. It is an anti-imperialist method of data collection focused on the socioeconomic and political environment within the (post) colonial context. Similar to Rodney, other critical Caribbean scholars have moved the research discourse to center on the notions of resistance, struggle (Chevannes, 1995; Feraria, 2009) and decolonoizing methodologies. This proposed edited volume will provide a collective body of scholarship for innovative uses of decolonizing qualitative research. In order to theorize and conduct decolonizing research, one can argue that the researcher as self and as the Other needs to be interrogated. Borrowing from an autoethnographic ontology, the researcher or investigator recognizes the self as the unit of measure, and there is a concerted effort to continuously see the self, seeing the self through and as the other (Alexander, 2005; Ellis, 2004). This level of interrogation may require frameworks such as Reasonable Humanism in which there is a clear understanding of the role of the researcher and researched from a physiological and psychosocial standpoint. Thereafter, the researcher is better prepared to enter into a discourse about decolonizing methodologies. The origins of qualitative inquiry in the Caribbean can be traced to political and economic discourses – Marxism, postcolonialism, neocolonialism, capitalism, liberalism, postmodernism- which have challenged ways of knowing and the construction of knowledge. Evans (2009) traced the origins of qualitative inquiry to slave narratives, proprietor’s journals, missionaries’ reports and travelogues. Common to the Caribbean is an understanding of how colonial legacies of research have ridiculed oral traditions, language, and ways of knowing, often rendering them valueless and inconsequential. This proposed edited volume acknowledges the significance of decolonizing approaches to qualitative research in the Caribbean and the wider Caribbean diaspora. It includes an audience of scholars, teacher/ researchers and students primarily in and across the humanities, social sciences and educational studies. This proposed volume would provide much needed knowledge and best practice strategies to the community of researchers engaged in decolonizing methodologies. Additionally, this volume will allow readers to think of new imaginings of research design that deconstruct power and privilege to benefit knowledge, communities and participants. It will spark key objectives, directions and frameworks for deeper discussions and interrogations of normative, westernized and hegemonic approaches to qualitative research. Lastly, the volume will welcome empirical studies of application of decolonizing methodologies and theoretical studies that frame critical discourse.
| Author | : Bill Hybels |
| Publisher | : Tyndale House |
| Release Date | : 2014-08-19 |
| ISBN | : 1414396236 |
| Pages | : 320 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (143 download) |
Download or read book Simplify written by Bill Hybels and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhausted. Overwhelmed. Overscheduled. Sound familiar? Today’s velocity of life can consume and control us . . . until our breakneck pace begins to feel normal and expected. That’s where the danger lies: When we spend our lives doing things that keep us busy but don’t really matter, we sacrifice the things that do. What if your life could be different? What if you could be certain you were living the life God called you to live—and building a legacy for those you love? If you crave a simpler life anchored by the priorities that matter most, roll up your sleeves: Simplified living requires more than just cleaning out your closets or reorganizing your desk drawer. It requires uncluttering your soul. By eradicating the stuff that leaves your spirit drained, you can stop doing what doesn’t matter—and start doing what does. In Simplify, bestselling author Bill Hybels identifies the core issues that lure us into frenetic living—and offers practical steps for sweeping the clutter from our souls.
| Author | : Hartmut Berghoff |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Release Date | : 2015-05-01 |
| ISBN | : 1782385940 |
| Pages | : 376 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (823 download) |
Download or read book The Respectable Career of Fritz K. written by Hartmut Berghoff and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneur and Nazi functionary Fritz Kiehn lived through almost 100 years of German history, from the Bismarck era to the late Bonn Republic. A successful manufacturer, Kiehn joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and obtained a number of influential posts after 1933, making him one of the most powerful Nazi functionaries in southern Germany. These posts allowed him ample opportunity to profit from “Aryanizations” and state contracts. After 1945, he restored his reputation, was close to Adenauer's CDU during Germany's economic miracle, and was a respected and honored citizen in Trossingen. Kiehn's biography provides a key to understanding the political upheavals of the twentieth century, especially the workings of the corrupt Nazi system as well as the “coming to terms” with National Socialism in the Federal Republic.
| Author | : Catherine L. Bagwell |
| Publisher | : Guilford Press |
| Release Date | : 2013-01-10 |
| ISBN | : 1462509606 |
| Pages | : 412 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (625 download) |
Download or read book Friendships in Childhood and Adolescence written by Catherine L. Bagwell and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly readable and comprehensive, this volume explores the significance of friendship for social, emotional, and cognitive development from early childhood through adolescence. The authors trace how friendships change as children age and what specific functions these relationships play in promoting adjustment and well-being. Compelling topics include the effects of individual differences on friendship quality, how friendship quality can be assessed, and ways in which certain friendships may promote negative outcomes. Examining what clinicians, educators, and parents can do to help children who struggle with making friends, the book reviews available interventions and identifies important directions for future work in the field.
| Author | : Michael O. Emerson |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Release Date | : 2010-12-16 |
| ISBN | : 1400837707 |
| Pages | : 276 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (8 download) |
Download or read book People of the Dream written by Michael O. Emerson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is sometimes said that the most segregated time of the week in the United States is Sunday morning. Even as workplaces and public institutions such as the military have become racially integrated, racial separation in Christian religious congregations is the norm. And yet some congregations remain stubbornly, racially mixed. People of the Dream is the most complete study of this phenomenon ever undertaken. Author Michael Emerson explores such questions as: how do racially mixed congregations come together? How are they sustained? Who attends them, how did they get there, and what are their experiences? Engagingly written, the book enters the worlds of these congregations through national surveys and in-depth studies of those attending racially mixed churches. Data for the book was collected over seven years by the author and his research team. It includes more than 2,500 telephone interviews, hundreds of written surveys, and extensive visits to mixed-race congregations throughout the United States. People of the Dream argues that multiracial congregations are bridge organizations that gather and facilitate cross-racial friendships, disproportionately housing people who have substantially more racially diverse social networks than do other Americans. The book concludes that multiracial congregations and the people in them may be harbingers of racial change to come in the United States.
| Author | : George A. Barnett |
| Publisher | : SAGE Publications |
| Release Date | : 2011-09-07 |
| ISBN | : 1506338259 |
| Pages | : 1112 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (63 download) |
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Social Networks written by George A. Barnett and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Request a FREE 30-day online trial to this title at www.sagepub.com/freetrial This two-volume encyclopedia provides a thorough introduction to the wide-ranging, fast-developing field of social networking, a much-needed resource at a time when new social networks or "communities" seem to spring up on the internet every day. Social networks, or groupings of individuals tied by one or more specific types of interests or interdependencies ranging from likes and dislikes, or disease transmission to the "old boy" network or overlapping circles of friends, have been in existence for longer than services such as Facebook or YouTube; analysis of these networks emphasizes the relationships within the network . This reference resource offers comprehensive coverage of the theory and research within the social sciences that has sprung from the analysis of such groupings, with accompanying definitions, measures, and research. Featuring approximately 350 signed entries, along with approximately 40 media clips, organized alphabetically and offering cross-references and suggestions for further readings, this encyclopedia opens with a thematic Reader's Guide in the front that groups related entries by topics. A Chronology offers the reader historical perspective on the study of social networks. This two-volume reference work is a must-have resource for libraries serving researchers interested in the various fields related to social networks.
| Author | : Irene Alexander |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Release Date | : 2020-06-12 |
| ISBN | : 1725261472 |
| Pages | : 210 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (252 download) |
Download or read book How Relationships Work, Second Edition written by Irene Alexander and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores some of the basic principles of a wide range of relationship topics from boundaries, to sex, to differentiation, assertive communication, and conflict. We often are not taught these rules of the game of life when we are growing up and so have to learn them the hard way: by trial and painful error. This book won’t explain how to manipulate people to make lots of money. Nor how to charm everyone to your point of view. Rather it is about learning to relate more openly and effectively—to lead a good life that brings fulfilment and joy.
| Author | : George Patterson |
| Publisher | : William Carey Library |
| Release Date | : 2013-06-21 |
| ISBN | : 9780878084470 |
| Pages | : 268 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (844 download) |
Download or read book Church Multiplication Guide written by George Patterson and published by William Carey Library. This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture/CommunicationDissertation SeriesEMS SeriesHinduismHistory/BiographiesHolismIslamLatin AmericaMediaMedicalMember CareMission StrategyPerspectivesPrayer/WorshipReferenceSEANET SeriesSending/SupportingThe Great CommissionTraining/EducationWEA SeriesWomen Church Multiplication Guide (Revised Edition)The Miracle of Church Reproductionby: George Patterson (Author), Richard Scoggins (Author)List Price: $13.99Our Price: $11.19add to cart Login to save this to your wish list DescriptionThis book is very practical in addressing the topics of church multiplication from ten points of view in response to Jesus' command. "As our teams apply the Biblical principles explained in these pages, we see fruit: disciples are made, churches are born and multiply." -Kevin Sutter, Church Planting Coach, Youth With A Mission
| Author | : Matt Messner |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Release Date | : 2018-11-29 |
| ISBN | : 1532665962 |
| Pages | : 170 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (326 download) |
Download or read book Friendship Leadership written by Matt Messner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one can deny that friendships are powerful relationships of influence. Why not strategically incorporate friendship within a philosophy of leadership? People long for relational models of leadership, yet few specific methodologies have been developed. This book examines the friendship of God with humanity, and the leadership of Jesus with his disciples, to whom he declared, "I no longer call you servants . . . Instead, I have called you friends" (John 15:15). In response to this enduring example of the Divine bringing together both friendship and leadership, this book presents an unexplored model of leadership for the Christian practitioner: Friendship Leadership. The authors of Friendship Leadership share research, historical examples, and their personal experiences with this leadership model, as they describe both the trials and triumphs. Through this process, the book addresses the primary barriers a leader might experience when utilizing the Friendship Leadership model. Finally, the authors offer a guide for how to incorporate friendship into their leadership, strengthening others as they follow the example of our great Leader. The result is a transformational way of leading that nurtures relationships.
| Author | : Bishop, Jonathan |
| Publisher | : IGI Global |
| Release Date | : 2014-04-30 |
| ISBN | : 1466660392 |
| Pages | : 312 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (666 download) |
Download or read book Transforming Politics and Policy in the Digital Age written by Bishop, Jonathan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital technology and the Internet have greatly affected the political realm in recent years, allowing citizens greater input and interaction in government processes. The mainstream media no longer holds all the power in political commentary. Transforming Politics and Policy in the Digital Age provides an updated assessment of the implications of technology for society and the realm of politics. The book covers issues presented by the technological changes on policy making and offers a wide array of perspectives. This publication will appeal to researchers, politicians, policy analysts, and academics working in e-government and politics.
