When young people learn they have attention deficit disorder, with or without hyperactivity, they often have many questions, doubts, and fears. Written from both a pediatric and an educational perspective, this highly successful book - now available in a new edition - attempts to address their questions and needs. ADD and ADHD specialist Patricia ...
There are no greater experts on regional American dining than Jane and Michael Stern. "The Durgin-Park Cookbook" features recipes for classic Yankee dishes from the Boston area.
Cobol...Still standing tall. Just like the evergreen, the COBOL programming language has remained vibrant and full of life year after year. Today, COBOL is running a large number of the world's business data applications, and it's likely to remain a viable language in the years ahead. Now in its 11th Edition, Nancy Stern, Robert Stern, and James ...
All you need to know about attention deficit disorder is included in this updated edition of the bestselling classic, "Putting on the Brakes". This resource for young people, their parents, and professionals is now revised and expanded, covering the newest techniques in diagnosing and treating ADHD, including updated information about medication; ...
"Putting on the Brakes Activity Book for Kids with ADD or ADHD" is an expanded and updated edition of APA's classic, best-selling workbook. The activities are comprehensive and cover practically every area in a kid's life that AD/HD can affect: school (homework, test-taking, planning for projects, time management, making friends, proofreading, etc ...
A hardy perennial! Despite years of dire predictions, COBOL is still thriving. In fact, it's practically a perennial. New version of COBOL for PCs now enable you to use COBOL to develop interesting graphical user interfaces, create Web pages, and even incorporate components from other languages such as Visual Basic. Now with COBOL FOR THE 21ST ...
Stern seeks to expose the roots of the Hitler myth. He has done a pioneering study of the rhetoric of Nazism, and he examines the speeches, writings, and conversations of Hitler, and places them in the context of the traditional beliefs of the society into which Hitler, the "ideal outsider," made his way.
This is the first critical study of Sons and Lovers to engage with the new Cambridge edition, which prints for the first time the whole text that Lawrence wrote, restoring the substantial cuts made by the first editor. Michael Black gives special attention to the genesis of the book - the writing and editing process, where first Jessie Chambers ...
This up-to-date account of the novel's composition, structure, and achievement provides readers with the literary and historical knowledge needed to make sense of the text. Professor Bellos explains how Balzac challenged prevailing nineteenth-century expectations of what novels should be like.
This critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels aims at giving a fresh and impartial account of the world-famous satire. It characterises the significant historical and literary background to the work, and explores the text itself in the reading order intended by Swift. It gives proper attention to Swift's narrative and stylistic art, and to the ...
This book covers everything in the MRCPsych syllabus that a trainee psychiatrist needs to know in order to pass the exam. The book originates from a successful MTCPsych training course that teaches many exam candidates each year. The book is divided three parts. Part I (The Foundations of Psychiatry) describes the historical development of ...
This study focuses on the Bible as a landmark of literature, showing both how it has influenced writers through the ages and how it in turn has been influenced by contemporary literature. It describes what is known about the historical context of the documents, the changes of interpretation they have undergone over the centuries, and the problems ...
Stendhal's great novel The Red and the Black, published in 1830, is seen as one of the most distinguished monuments of literary realism. In this introductory study, Stirling Haig shows how this realism derives from the incorporation of both history and legal reportage into the novel, and how it combines autobiography with mimesis. Professor Haig ...
Conrad's great novel is a rich study not only of a typical South American country, but of the politics of any underdeveloped country, and for this reason it is permanently topical. Ian Watt addresses Conrad's concerns when writing the work, and provides an accessible introduction, taking account of background, history and politics, and reception ...
This book studies individual works by twelve major writers of German modernism, including Thomas Mann, Musil, Brecht and Rilke, in relation to the history of the twentieth century. It explores the theme of the 'dear purchase', an ideal of moral strenuousness and sacrifice seen as characteristic of Germany after Nietzsche, and reveals the ...
Rather than analyzing Hitler's life and times, this book tries to answer the question, how could it have happened? Why did the German people follow him? It aims to reconstruct the nature of Hitler's political ideology, its roots, logic and function.
A comprehensive introduction to Middlemarch, offering both general information and an original interpretation. It pays considerable attention to the intellectual and social context surrounding Middlemarch, and situates the work within nineteenth-century traditions of the novel in England and Europe. Karen Chase gives particular emphasis to the ...
Dr Wood traces in detail the frequently paradoxical development of themes and situations introduced in the opening chapters and lays stress on the novel's intricate writing. He places the book in its historical, intellectual and biographical context and examines its reception by writers as various as Stendhal, George Eliot, and Tolstoy.
"This is a time to shape the future-precisely because everything is in flux. This is a time for self-assessment, clear-minded decisions, and, above all, a time for action." -Peter F. Drucker"As a tool for clarifying the thinking of volunteer boards, the Self-Assessment Tool is unparalleled. This is a real way to develop a language, get to the ...
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