Annual Editions: The Family 03/04 |
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This Annual Editions reader of public press articles offers varied perspectives on the family; exploring and establishing relationships; maintaining relationships; the challenges and opportunities of crises; and maintaining healthy relationships in families. Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/) is a student Web site designed to support Annual Editions.
Annual Editions: The Family 03/04
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Boomer Basics |
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Provides a comprehensive reference addressing the challenges and intergenerational concerns now being faced by the Baby Boom generation. Provides basic information, advice, and sources for further information on the issues that affect our daily lives.
Boomer Basics
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Crime and Criminology |
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Addresses questions students might ask, while prodding them to see the relevance of other questions that might not have occurred to them; answers these questions with systematic evidence from actual research; presents this material in a way that keeps it interesting without oversimplifying what are often complicated issues.
Crime and Criminology
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Debating Points: Marriage and Family Issues |
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Within each chapter, each issue is presented by two reputable sources in a concise fashion. The material is edited to help the instructor encourage students to engage in critical thinking and carefully considered debate. As students grapple with the complexity of each debate, they gain a new understanding and clarification of the topic. The Debating Points series complements the learning that takes place in textbooks and lectures by asking students to apply the knowledge they have gained from these other sources.
Debating Points: Marriage and Family Issues
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Delinquency and Justice: A Psychosocial Approach |
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Provides in-depth, contemporary coverage of juvenile justice. Views the juvenile offender as being embedded and continually influenced by multiple systems within the social environment. The book examines the causes, prevention, and intervention of juvenile offending within these multiple systems from a contemporary developmental perspective. Expands coverage of the psychosocial aspects of antisocial behavior, including attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders, conduct disorders, learning disorders. Focuses more on contemporary perspectives and issues and less on historical perspectives and methodological issues.
Delinquency and Justice: A Psychosocial Approach
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Essentials of Sociology |
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This brief introduction to sociology helps readers understand that issues of diversity affect each of us on a daily basis. The authors examine the implications on diversity while looking at the intersection of race, class, and gender throughout. Learners will explore the crossover between theory and applications in their everyday life and will be exposed to today's most relevant issues without losing track of the classical theoretical work that defines the core of the discipline. Keeping these three core beliefs, this book delivers a view of sociology that truly develops a strong sociological perspective. Chapter topics cover culture; social structure and formal organizations; socialization and social interaction throughout the life course; sexuality; deviant behavior; crime and criminal justice; stratification in modern societies; racial and ethnic minorities; gender; the family and religion; education and health; politics, economics, and work; population, urbanization, and the environment; and collective behavior, social movements, and social change. For indi
Essentials of Sociology
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Evaluation |
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This timely and accessible guide on the conduct of evaluation studies explores how we apply research methods in evaluating social programs, illustrating its points with reference to a variety of fields, including education, social services, and criminal justice.Offers practical advice on understanding the reasons for the study, identifying key questions to be answered, and planning and implementing the overall design of the study, including measurement, qualitative methods of inquiry, data collection, analysis, reporting, and dissemination. Stresses that understanding the underlying theory of the program is essential to developing the most appropriate evaluation, and emphasizes the need to take ethical considerations into account all along the course of the study. Covers meta-analysis, cost-benefit analysis and includes a non-technical discussion of the logic of data analysis. Includes references to further sources on measurement, existing longitudinal data sets, statistics, and qualitative analysis.For professionals in psychology, sociology, public health, public policy/affairs, education, and criminal justice.
Evaluation
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Food, Society, and Environment |
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This book concerns itself with food and hunger issues, primarily in America, but also as America is located in both history and a broader global system today. It focuses on food consumption and production in relation to history, society (including politics and economics), environmental impacts, and some ethical and social justice issues surrounding food. Chapter topics look at: Food as a Human Value and Problem; The Biological Base: Food, Humans, and Well-Being; Food and History: From Hunter-Gatherers to the Preindustrial West; Food and America: Early Industrial Era Transformation; Food in America and the World 1945-2001: Continuing Transformations; Foodways, Eating and Cuisine in America; Food, Population, and Environment; and Food, Ethics, and Social Justice. For individuals who find food issues fascinating because of their relationship to universal and basic human concerns.
Food, Society, and Environment
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House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live |
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Bringing together elements of behavioral science, cultural history, and interviews with designers and architects, a journalist and cultural critic provides a psychological tour of the American home--past, present, and future--that explores how our homes express how we feel about our families, jobs, bodies, status, and selves. 40,000 first printing.
House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live
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Marte Y Venus Juntos Para Siempre: Secretos Del Amor Duradero |
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En Cuanto a la pasion, no hay como el amor casero. John Gray muestra como transformar el matrimonio en una relacion amorosa para toda la vida. Si el fenomenal bestseller del New York Times de John Gray, 'Los Hombres son de Marte, Las Mujeres son de Venus,' le ha ayudado a mejorar la relacion con su pareja, este estupendo nuevo libro la hara aun mas emocionante y duradera. 'Marte y Venus juntos para siempre' presenta nuevas e innovadoras tecnicas para crear y mantener una intimidad mutuamente satisfactoria--una que crece y se enriquece con el tiempo. Entre las varias lecciones de este libro, Marte y Venus aprenderan: Que necesitan las mujeres mas que nada? Que quieren realmente los hombres? Como puede un hombre escuchar a una mujer sin ponerse molesto? Como puede hablar una mujer para queun hombre la escuche? Cuales son los siete secretos de la pasion duradera. Cuales son los pasos para llegar a una intimidad duradera? Lleno de anecdotas, ejercicios reveladores, aforismos ingeniosos, y profundo sentido comun, 'Marte y Venus juntos para siempre' le ayudara a mantener vivo el amor.
Marte Y Venus Juntos Para Siempre: Secretos Del Amor Duradero
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