Hardback. New. A title that critically examines the reality behind the rhetoric of development assistance and the discrepancy between the targets that the 21 member countries of the OECD Development Assistance Committee are publicly committed to and the aid that is actually disbursed. hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. In this examination of crying behavior and the meaning of tears attachment theory and original research is analyzed to present a thorough look at crying through the life cycle and practical advice concerning this fundamental behaviour. paperback
Hardback. New. Featuring documents of the period by participants such as Norman Mailer Allen Ginsberg H. The contributions are divided into five sections covering ideas influential on the early New Left the anti-war movement SDS and Weathermen the counterculture and Yippies and the the women's movement. hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. This ethnography based on fieldwork and interviews carried out at the California Institute of the Arts in the 1980s analyses the day-to-day life of an organization devoted to work in the arts. It offers insights into the worlds of art and education and how they interact in particular settings. paperback
Hardback. New. Explores the potential and early development of high-level subject access. This title examines Web tools and traditionally maintained library structures that facilitate the automated relation of resources to high-level subject categories based on the descriptive metadata that already exists in traditional library records. hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. Each year more people die in health care accidents than in road accidents. Increasingly complex medical treatments and overstretched health systems create more opportunities for things to go wrong and they do. This title presents a systematic analysis of the issues challenges and outcomes surrounding patient safety in health care. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. Through examining the history of dress in the period the personal nature of political relationships the history of ideas and political philosophy "Sacred to Female Patriotism" makes a case for the extensive power of females in the political system of late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain. paperback
Hardback. New. This book analyses how generations of university and college students in the Global South have responded to issues such as problems in their own universities as well as standing up against violent military dictatorships human rights abuses oppressive poverty foreign interference and the effects of neoliberal austerity regimes. hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. A debate on the politics of theory is being conducted within literary studies. What is meant by politics What is meant by theory This book brings together not only outstanding questioners but outstanding questions. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. Introducing the fundamental issues in dance pedagogy such as movement analysis improvisation and theory this collection features contributions from leading experts in the field. paperback
Hardback. New. Addresses four common problems that couples therapists face everyday in their offices problems that leave therapists exhausted drained challenged alive racing and on edge. This book offers therapists strategies to use and help them understand and handle their own profound experiences while doing this work. hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. Offering a chronological summary of major stages in Southeastern United States' development this book overviews the region's archaeology from 20000 years ago to World War I. It reviews the history and development of archaeology as a discipline. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. An interdisciplinary study of the important question of the place of Judaism in the religious changes and development within the Roman Empire as part of the setting of the emergence of Christianity. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. Addresses four common problems that couples therapists face everyday in their offices problems that leave therapists exhausted challenged racing and on edge. This book includes case illustrations of these dilemmas and also gives therapists strategies to use and help them understand and handle their own experiences while doing this work. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. This handbook offers a comprehensive description of the wide array of second language programmes available to undergraduate students in the United States and abroad. Addressing both theory and practice it presents the historic development practices and future directions of each type of programme. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. This book examines the theory and practice of traditional medicine in modern China. Farquhar describes the logic of diagnosis and treatment from the inside perspective of doctors and scholars. She dem paperback
Paperback / softback. New. Explores how Christian narrative representation in the early Empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the self as sufferer - and why forms of suffering such as martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. Suitable for middle high school and higher education students this title focuses on 8 core skills: attending empathizing summarizing questioning genuineness assertiveness confrontation and problem solving. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. This volume describes the theoretical and empirical results of a seven-year collaborative effort of cognitive scientists to develop a computational model for narrative understanding. Disciplines represented include artificial intelligence cognitive psychology and communicative disorders. paperback
Hardback. New. Each chapter contains a brief introductory essay that describes works by Tolkien published within a particular time frame and summarizes the patterns or trends of critical response during the period covered. Following this is an alphabetical by title listing of works by Tolkien and a chronologically organized bibliography of Tolkien criticism. hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. Judith Brown explores Nehru as a figure of power and provides an assessment of his leadership at the head of a newly independent India with no tradition of democratic politics. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. Mary Tudor is often written off as a twisted queen who tried desperately to pull England back to the Catholic Church that was so dear to her mother and sent many to burn at the stake in the process. This biography argues that Mary neither boring nor basically bloody was a hard-working 'hands on' and decisive queen than is commonly recognized. paperback
Hardback. New. Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States shows the complexity of migrant experiences advocating for immigration as a social issue rather than a social problem and understanding that immigration rests on larger units of meaning structured by time and place. hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. Offers a presentation of the contributions achievements and personal stories of American women during the Civil War era. This encyclopedia encompasses the wartime experiences of famous and lesser-known women of all ethnic groups and social backgrounds throughout the United States during the Civil War era. paperback