For undergraduate courses in Marriages & Families found in departments of Sociology and Psychology. Also found in departments of Child and Family Studies, Human Development, and Human Ecology. Marriages and Families: Diversity and Change empowers and challenges students to examine their personal belief systems and societal views to make informed ...
Sociology: Making Sense of the Social World is a unique introduction to sociology by two experienced educators and social activists, featuring integrated coverage of social stratification and inequality throughout; the theory and application of social change; and the inclusion of feminism as one of the major sociological paradigms. Three goals of ...
Essential reading for second-year optometry students, this important core text covers the procedures, diagnostic issues, and treatment modalities in preparation for more advanced clinical welcome. Key points to remember for national board exams are highlighted and discussions of applications and procedures abound in every chapter that are ...
This volume brings together behavioral, medical, and public health approaches and provides the knowledge necessary for a wide range of practitioners to effectively address the current obesity epidemic among children and adolescents. The book addresses several themes in pediatric and adolescent obesity. Experts in the field discuss the prevalence, ...
Aimed at both new and more experienced teachers of introductory courses in women's studies, this collection of works provides overviews, resources and classroom applications. At the same time, it offers them opportunities to reflect on transformation of context, population and content.
Using mathematics as a subject focus, the authors examine several specific aspects of instructional leadership, such as teacher supervision and classroom observation, curriculum selection, and student assessment.
Poetry Grand Slam Finale presents the dazzling gifts of poet Alan MacDougall, who traveled the United States almost continuously for thirty years, sharing his art at writers' retreats, libraries, bookstores and poetry gatherings. Known for prophetic high drama and brilliant delivery, Alan MacDougall's poetry readings attracted intellectuals, Las ...
This two-volume set describes the first five years of the Silver Creek Archaeological Research Project, the 0 University of Arizona's archaeological field school located just north of the Mogollon Rim in east-central Arizona. The 15 chapters describe the primary analyses and syntheses of research at 13th-14th century Bailey Ruin, 13th century ...
This book challenges readers to become involved in a direct way in examining their personal belief systems and societal views of the many diverse forms that marriages and families have taken in the past and their evolution in the present. The authors use a broad, inclusive approach, focusing on the link between social structure and their personal ...
"Scott's forcibly argued book suggests that economic and political crises are interconnected and that the real crisis in higher education today is a poltical crisis...Scott's is a very important book--one which should be read by all of those who profess concern about the direction of American higher education...[Through] the scholarly development ...
This book is concerned with the dilemma faced as a result of a new emphasis on developing useful knowledge and marketable skills at the expense of nurturing critically aware and intellectually able citizens through a liberal arts tradition.
This is a book different from any other. The authors are speaking about lovers - as meaning really older lovers 70, 80, and up. Being older lovers themselves - of other people, not each other, they are seniors speaking to seniors. This book reviews the past, considers the present and gives light-hearted, but serious "directions" for making love ...
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