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Parenting: Selected Writings of Marc H. Bornstein

Parenting: Selected Writings of Marc H. Bornstein

In the World Library of Psychologists series international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their most interesting publications – extracts from books key articles research findings and practical and theoretical contributions. Marc H. Bornstein has published widely in experimental methodological comparative developmental and cultural science as well as neuroscience pediatrics and aesthetics. In this volume he has collected an integrated series of his papers on parenting. Many disciplines over many centuries have expounded on parenting but theory and opinion have prevailed. Bornstein initiated efforts to make parenting an evidence-based field of study through his journal Parenting: Science and Practice the Handbook of Parenting and two monograph series Monographs in Parenting and Studies in Parenting. In addition Bornstein has undertaken empirical studies that address the determinants nature   scope and consequences of parenting. The writings selected for this collection symbolize the development of an empirical parenting science and the meaning and importance of parenting for the lives and well-being of children parents and society. Including a specially written introduction in which Marc Bornstein reflects on the importance of parenting and contextualizes both the field and the evolution of his wide-ranging career this collection will serve as a valuable resource for students and researchers of parenting developmental science and all disciplines from anthropology to zoology concerned with nurturing socializing and educating the next generation.

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Renaissance TruthsHumanism Scholasticism and the Search for the Perfect Language

Renaissance TruthsHumanism Scholasticism and the Search for the Perfect Language

Though they have long been portrayed as arch rivals Alan Perreiah here argues that humanists and scholastics were in fact working in complementary ways toward some of the same goals. After locating the two traditions within the early modern search for the perfect language this study re-defines the lines of disagreement between them. For humanists the perfect language was a revived Classical Latin. For scholastics it was a practical logic adapted to the needs of education. Succeeding chapters examine the concepts of linguistic meaning and truth in Lorenzo Valla’s Dialectical Disputations and Juan Luis Vives’ De disciplinis. The third chapter offers a new interpretation of Vives’ Adversus pseudodialecticos as itself an exercise in scholastic sophistry. Against this humanistic background the study takes up the concepts of meaning and truth in Paul of Venice’s Logica parva a popular scholastic textbook in the Quattrocento. To advance recent research on language pedagogy in the Renaissance it clarifies the connections between truth and translation and shows how scholastic logic performed an essential task in the early modern university: it was a translational language that enabled students who spoke mainly their regional vernaculars to learn the language of university discourse. A conclusion reviews some major themes of the study-e.g. linguistic determinism and relativity vernacularity and translation semantical vs. epistemic truth-and evaluates the achievements of humanism and scholasticism according to appropriate criteria for a perfect language.

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E-Commerce UsabilityTools and Techniques to Perfect the On-Line Experience

E-Commerce UsabilityTools and Techniques to Perfect the On-Line Experience

Top performing dotcoms share a common feature. It isn't a new software plug-in or a design gadget or any other piece of technology. These sites share a passionate focus on usability. This book is written by an international usability consultant writer and trainer who specializes in the design and evaluation of web-based and wireless applications e-commerce sites and interactive television. The author has worked with a number of blue-chip clients that value usability including Hewlett-Packard Thomas Cook Philips the Financial Times and Motorola.This guide is designed for software developers project managers business analysts and user interface designers and does not require a background in human factors or usability. E-Commerce Usability: Tools and Techniques to Perfect the On-Line Experience presents a practical structured customer-centered design method that encourages innovation yet helps you make sure your final design is still easy to use.

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Color Correction for VideoUsing Desktop Tools to Perfect Your Image

Color Correction for VideoUsing Desktop Tools to Perfect Your Image

Use color to improve your storytelling deliver critical emotional cues and add impact to you videos. This book shows you how to analyze color correction problems and solve them- whatever NLE or plugin you use. Experienced editors and colorists in their own right the authors also include the wisdom of top colorists directors of photography and color scientists to deliver this insightful and authoritative presentation of the theory and practice of color correction.The book provides technical insight into how to effectively color correct your video also delving into how color can impact storytelling and deliver critical emotional cues. The new edition also includes 2 new "Quickstart Tutorials" a new chapter on how color impacts storytelling information on the impact HD has had on the correcting process and updated application specifications. The downloadable resources feature new and more robust tutorial media.

GBP 136.00
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Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe (Routledge Revivals) Selected Papers

Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe (Routledge Revivals) Selected Papers

Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe was first published in English in 1967. Throughout the work the idea that Marc Bloch was not only a historian but a great teacher is exemplified as is his ability to ask interesting and original questions through his writing. Topics covered include medieval Germany technical problems in the medieval economy and society and the medieval class structure. | Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe (Routledge Revivals) Selected Papers

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Changing Conceptions of PsychoanalysisThe Legacy of Merton M. Gill

Changing Conceptions of PsychoanalysisThe Legacy of Merton M. Gill

This outstanding memorial volume records and reassesses the contributions of Merton M. Gill (1914-1994) a principal architect of psychoanalytic theory and a principled exemplar of the modern psychoanalytic sensibility throughout the second half of the 20th century. Critical evaluations of Gill's place in psychoanalysis and a series of personal and professional reminiscences are joined to substantive reengagement of central controversies in which Gill played a key part. These controversies revolve around the "natural science" versus "hermeneutic" orientation in psychoanalysis (Holt Eagle Friedman); the status of psychoanalysis as a one-person and/or two-person psychology (Jacobs Silverman); pyschoanalysis versus psychotherapy (Wallerstein Migone Gedo); and the meaning and use of transference (Kernberg Wolitzky Cooper).

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Urban Design Reader

Urban Design Reader

Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts. Urban design as a form of place making has become an increasingly significant area of academic endeavour of public policy and professional practice. Compiled by the authors of the best selling Public Places Urban Spaces this indispensable guide includes all the crucial definitions and various understandings of the subject as well as a practical look at how to implement urban design that readers will need to refer to time and time again. Uniquely the selections of essays that include the works of Gehl Jacobs and Cullen are presented substantially in their original form and the truly accessible dip-in-and-out format will enable readers to form a deeper practical understanding of urban design.

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Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Re

Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Re

Volume two explores the way a wide range of classic princess tales written by marginalized writers. Rapunzel and Snow White with their pale skin or long ropes of golden hair are particularly popular vehicles for exploring and challenging racialized constructions of beauty. Marriage is the traditional vehicle of a happy ending in Princess tales so marginalized responses to these tales also inherently respond to the doubly colonized position of women in the Anglophone world. The institution of marriage typically exposes the institutional oppression of colonized women. Authors include Charles Chesnutt Jessie Fauset Julia Kavanaugh George Edwards some of the unpublished manuscripts of Jewish-Australian author Joseph Jacobs and the earliest work of Sinèad de Valera as well as fin-de-siècle illustrators such as Harry Clarke and collected oral tales. | Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Re

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Made in FranceStudies in Popular Music

Made in FranceStudies in Popular Music

Made in France: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history sociology and musicology of contemporary French popular music. The volume consists of essays by scholars of French popular music and covers the major figures styles and social contexts of pop music in France. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in France followed by essays that are organized into thematic sections: The Mutations of French Popular Music During the "Trente Glorieuses"; Politicising Popular Music; Assimilation Appropriation French Specificity; and From Digital Stakes to Cultural Heritage: French Contemporary Topics. Contributors: Christian Béthune Juliette Dalbavie Gérôme Guibert Fabien Hein Olivier Julien Marc Kaiser Barbara Lebrun David Looseley Stéphanie Molinero Anne Petiau Cécile Prévost-Thomas Vincent Rouzé Catherine Rudent Matthieu Saladin Jedediah Sklower Raphaël Suire Florence Tamagne

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Why Therapists Choose to Become TherapistsA Practice-Based Enquiry

Why Therapists Choose to Become TherapistsA Practice-Based Enquiry

Almost two decades ago the psychoanalyst Sussman concluded that the therapist's motivation for practicing was a neglected area. Is this maybe a question best left alone? This book revisits the question. The authors support Sussman's rationale for raising the issue in the first place and wonder if much has changed since he referred to it as a 'neglected' area twenty years ago? This is an inquiry that moves from personal musing to collaborative and systematic inquiry. At the heart of the book lie six separate accounts as told by counsellors and psychotherapists in a reflective writing- and peer support group. Each therapist represent a different modality and all come with very different backgrounds. These accounts are put into context of ongoing literature and viewed with reference to a survey where 238 other therapists provide their perspective on the question. Like in the case of for instance Feltham (1999) Rowan & Jacobs (2003) and Val Wosket (1999) 'the therapist's use of self' is a key theme.

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Cinematic Game Secrets for Creative Directors and ProducersInspired Techniques From Industry Legends

Cinematic Game Secrets for Creative Directors and ProducersInspired Techniques From Industry Legends

Create effective cinematography for your games with this film-based approach to creating cinematic games. Cinematic Game Secrets gives game producers directors and developers insight into how to make their games more cinematic. Game developers will learn how to create compelling video games by: developing quality stories and characters; visualizing scenes within the game through the eyes of a cinematographer; and using tried and true film industry methods for casting voice-over direction and production.Includes interview with luminaries and leading figures in the field such as Warren Spector (Founder Junction Point Studios) Bruce Block (Author The Visual Story) Ron Burke (Founder GamingTrend) Bob Sabiston (Flat Black Films) Tom Buscaglia (GameDevKit.com) Daniel Erickson (BioWare) Jay Duplass (Director The Puffy Chair) Ray Pena (Spacetime Studios) Richard Rouse III (Author Game Design: Theory and Practice) Mathieu Raynault (Artist 300 King Kong) Donise Hardy (C.S.A.) Patrick Hamilton (President Wardog Studios) and Marc Schaefgen (Midway Games).

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Transcending the PostmodernThe Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm

Transcending the PostmodernThe Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm

Transcending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm gathers an introduction and ten chapters concerned with the issue of Transmodernity as addressed by and presented in contemporary novels hailing from various parts of the English-speaking world. Building on the theories of Transmodernity propounded by Rosa María Rodríguez Magda Enrique Dussel Marc Luyckx Ghisi and Irena Ateljevic inter alia it investigates the links between Transmodernity and such categories as Postmodernity Postcolonialism and Transculturalism with a view to help define a new current in contemporary literary production. The chapters either follow the main theoretical drives of the transmodern paradigm or problematise them. In so doing they branch out towards various issues that have come to inspire contemporary novelists among which: the presence of the past the ascendance of new technologies multiculturalism terrorism and also vulnerability interdependence solidarity and ecology in a globalised context. In so doing it interrogates the ethics aesthetics and politics of the contemporary novel in English.

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New Techniques for Studying Biomembranes

New Techniques for Studying Biomembranes

New Techniques for Studying Biomembranes describes some of the latest methods used to investigate the dynamic distribution of specific lipids in membranes and their effects on other membrane components. The contributors present important discoveries with respect to lipid analysis and lipid interactions with membrane proteins. Various methods which have been used to study lipid bilayer structure and lipid organization in membranes include both in vitro and in vivo membrane systems and study membrane proteins in various membrane systems. Key Features: Reviews both in vivo and in vitro analytical technologies and methods for studying membrane structure and function Explores how lipid bilayers and membrane proteins interact Includes contributions from an international team of researchers actively studying membrane structure and function Identifies various diseases whose causes are related to membrane proteins Related Titles: Christopher R. Jacobs Hayden Huang and Ronald Y. Kwon. Introduction to Cell Mechanics and Mechanobiology (ISBN 978-0-8153-4425-4) Wendell Lim and Bruce Mayer. Cell Signaling: Principles and Mechanisms (ISBN 978-0-8153-4244-1) Stephen Rothman. Proteins Crossing Membranes: A Scientist’s Memoir (978-0-3670-7449-4)

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From Late Adolescence to Young Adulthood

From Late Adolescence to Young Adulthood

By focusing on the transition from late adolescence to young adulthood this innovative book makes a unique and valuable contribution to our understanding of a neglected area of development. Drawing on his extensive clinical experience with this age group as well as his understanding of the complex cultural and social forces that impinge on young people today Brockman has produced that rarest of volumes: a work that is engaging creative and wise while at the same time being eminently practical and useful. Addressing issues that are highly relevant to our older patients as well as our younger ones this landmark book should be required reading for every mental health professional.'- Theodore J. Jacobs M.D.'Dr. Brockman takes us to unexplored terrain. His is a journey to a place where most of us have lived but never really investigated: our life from age 20 to the early 30s. It is always a pleasant surprise to look at something which has been so familiar and now is seen in a new light.

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The Nationalities Factor In Soviet Politics And Society

The Nationalities Factor In Soviet Politics And Society

The editors express their gratitude to the John M. Olin Foundation for its financial assistance and to the Harvard University Russian Research Center for the facilities and staff support that made this project possible. We wish to thank those who contributed their invaluable scholarly advice including Vernon Aspaturian Abram Bergson Steven Blank Walker Connor Robert Conquest Murray Feshbach Erich Goldhagen Richard Pipes and Marc Raeff. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Barbara A. Anderson and Brian D. Silver with Soviet demographic data used throughout the volume. Susan Zayer and Karen Taylor-Brovkin provided able administrative help. For skillful technical assistance with the manuscript we are indebted to Jane Prokop Elizabeth Taylor and Alison Koff. Catherine Reed Susan Gardos-Bleich Christine Porto and Alex Sich helped generously in diverse ways. Finally the editors profited at every stage from the congenial working atmosphere and the encouragement of colleagues at the Russian Research Center too numerous to mention. To all of them goes our deep appreciation. | The Nationalities Factor In Soviet Politics And Society

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Architecture Aesthetics and the Predicaments of Theory

Architecture Aesthetics and the Predicaments of Theory

Architecture Aesthetics and the Predicaments of Theory offers a critical analysis of the methodological constants and shared critical strategies in the history of theoretical discourse on Western architecture. Central to these constants is the persistent role of aesthetics as a critical tool for the delimitation of architecture. This book analyzes the unceasing critical role aesthetics is given to play in the discourse of architecture. The book offers a close and critical reading of three seminal texts from three different periods in the history of theoretical discourse on Western architecture—the Renaissance the Enlightenment and 19th-century Romanticism. The first text is Leone Battista Alberti's Ten Books on Architecture of 1452 the next Marc-Antoine Laugier’s An Essay on Architecture of 1753 and last John Ruskin’s The Seven Lamps of Architecture of 1849. Additional influential texts from among others the 20th and 21st centuries are engaged with along the way to locate and contextualize the arguments within the broader discursive tradition of Western architecture. The book will interest scholars and students of architecture architectural history and theory as well as scholars and students of cultural studies aesthetic philosophy art history literary criticism and related disciplines.

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Language Education and EmotionsResearch into Emotions and Language Learners Language Teachers and Educational Processes

Language Education and EmotionsResearch into Emotions and Language Learners Language Teachers and Educational Processes

Language Education and Emotions presents innovative empirical research into the influence of emotions and affective factors in language education both in L1 and in foreign language education. It offers a comprehensive overview of studies authored and co-authored by researchers from all over the world. The volume opens and ends with "backbone" contributions by two of the discipline’s most reputed scholars: Jane Arnold (Spain) and Jean-Marc Dewaele (United Kingdom). This book broadens our understanding of emotions including well-known concepts such as foreign language anxiety as well as addressing the emotions that have only recently received scientific attention driven by the positive psychology movement. Chapters explore emotions from the perspective of the language learner and the language teacher and in relation to educational processes. A number of contributions deal with traditional school-based contexts whereas others study new settings of foreign language education such as migration. The book paints a picture of the broad scale of approaches used to study this topic and offers new and relevant insights for the field of language education and emotions. This book will be of great interest to academics researchers and postgraduate students in the field of language education psycholinguistics sociolinguistics and applied linguistics.

GBP 120.00
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Tech TermsWhat Every Telecommunications and Digital Media Professional Should Know

Tech TermsWhat Every Telecommunications and Digital Media Professional Should Know

An avalanche of acronyms terms-of-art buzz words and short-hand phraseology confronts today's busy communications professionals. Now in its 3rd edition Tech Terms is an invaluable learning tool to help grasp key aspects of the television and video PC hardware and software markets multimedia authoring tools and the exploding wireless Internet and mobile telecomputing worlds. With more than 1000 terms described in four sentences or less Tech Terms is perfect the perfect desk reference.

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Theatre Translation Theory and Performance in Contemporary Japan Native Voices Foreign Bodies

Theatre Translation Theory and Performance in Contemporary Japan Native Voices Foreign Bodies

What motivates a Japanese translator and theatre company to translate and perform a play about racial discrimination in the American South? What happens to a 'gay' play when it is staged in a country where the performance of gender is a theatrical tradition? What are the politics of First Nations or Aboriginal theatre in Japanese translation and 'colour blind' casting? Is a Canadian nô drama that tells a story of the Japanese diaspora a performance in cultural appropriation or dramatic innovation? In looking for answers to these questions Theatre Translation Theory and Performance in Contemporary Japan extends discussions of theatre translation through a selective investigation of six Western plays translated and staged in Japan since the 1960s with marginalized tongues and bodies at their core. The study begins with an examination of James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie followed by explorations of Michel Marc Bouchard's Les feluettes ou La repetition d'un drame romantique Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing Roger Bennett's Up the Ladder and Daphne Marlatt's The Gull: The Steveston t Noh Project. Native Voices Foreign Bodies locates theatre translation theory and practice in Japan in the post-war Showa and Heisei eras and provokes reconsideration of Western notions about the complex interaction of tongues and bodies in translation and theatre when they travel and are reconstituted under different cultural conditions. | Theatre Translation Theory and Performance in Contemporary Japan Native Voices Foreign Bodies

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Curriculum Accreditation and Coming of Age of Higher EducationPerspectives on the History of Higher Education

Curriculum Accreditation and Coming of Age of Higher EducationPerspectives on the History of Higher Education

This latest volume in Roger Geiger's distinguished series on the history of higher education begins with a rare glimpse into the minds of mid-nineteenth century collegians. Timothy J. Williams mines the diaries of students at the University of North Carolina to unearth a not unexpected preoccupation with sex but also a complex psychological context for those feelings. Marc A. VanOverbeke continues the topic in an essay shedding new light on a fundamental change ushering in the university era: the transition from high schools to college.The secularization of the curriculum is a fundamental feature of the emergence of the modern university. Katherine V. Sedgwick explores a distinctive manifestation by questioning why the curriculum of Bryn Mawr College did not refl ect the religious intentions of its Quaker founder and trustees. Secularization is examined more broadly by W. Bruce Leslie who shows how denominational faith ceded its ascendancy to "Pan-Protestantism."Where does the record of contemporary events end and the study of history begin? A new collection of documents from World War II to the present invites Roger Geiger's refl ection on this question as well as consideration of the most signifi cant trends of the postwar era. Educators chafi ng under current attacks on higher education may take solace or dismay from the essay "Shaping a Century of Criticism" in which Katherine Reynolds Chaddock and James M. Wallace explore H. L. Mencken's writings which address enduring issues and debates on the meaning and means of American higher education.

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Integrated Developmental and Life-course Theories of Offending

Integrated Developmental and Life-course Theories of Offending

Developmental and life-course criminology aims to provide information about how offending and antisocial behavior develops about risk and protective factors at different ages and about the effects of life events on the course of development. This volume advances knowledge about these theories of offender behavior many of which have been formulated only in the last twenty years. It also integrates knowledge about individual family peer school neighborhood community and situational influences on offender behavior and combines key elements of earlier theories such as strain social learning differential association and control theory.Contributors Benjamin B. Lahey and Irwin D. Waldman focus on antisocial propensity and the importance of biological and individual factors. Alex R. Piquero and Terrie E. Moffitt distinguish between life-course-persistent and adolescent-limited offenders. David P. Farrington presents the Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) theory which distinguishes between long-term and short-term influences on antisocial potential. Richard F. Catalano J. David Hawkins and their colleagues test the Social Development Model (SDM).Marc Le Blanc proposes an integrated multi-layered control theory in which criminal behavior depends on bonding to society psychological development modeling and constraints. Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub hypothesize that offending is inhibited by the strength of bonding to family peers schools and later adult social institutions such as marriage and jobs. Terence P. Thornberry and Marvin D. Krohn propose an interactional theory of antisocial behavior. Per-Olof H. Witkstr�m's developmental ecological action theory emphasizes the importance of situational factors: opportunities cause temptation friction produces provocation and monitoring and the risk of sanctions have deterrent effects.

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 for Photographers

Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 for Photographers

Completely updated for the latest version of Adobe Photoshop Elements Philip Andrews returns with his comprehensive guide to this popular software package. Akin to Martin Evening's bestselling Photoshop title every feature and function of Elements is covered here in step-by-step detail. Accompanied by helpful screenshots and colorful images highlighted in an updated and modernized design this versatile guide is perfect if you're a first time user wanting to dip your toe into the world of digital image adjustment or a seasoned pro wanting to hone your skills for perfectly fine tuned images. The more advanced projects such as completing a photo book from scratch stitching together multiple images to create fantastic panoramas working with raw files and more are perfect if you want to push your images even further for amazing results from this fabulous software package. The easy to follow tutorials are complemented by general photography tips and tricks to give your images that masterful edge. Truly geared toward the photographer's needs both pre and post-capture this essential guide is a perfect companion for anyone wanting to take their images a step further with Elements.

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