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Considers four major events in modern Chinese history in the perspective of the rapid changes that were shaping the Chinese society, economy, polity, and sense of place in the world in the 1980s, a time when China was making rapid strides toward becoming more integrated with the outside world.

Investigates how e-government is helping to revolutionize democracies across the globe. This pioneering text offers the experiences of many leading countries using electronic government, showing what mistakes they made, the benefits they've reaped, and the impact of e- government to democracy, traditional government, etc.

Exploring the principles of spiritual care as applied to clinical practice, including perspectives on the theology of healing, the connection between body and spirit and the roles of faith and meaning, this book offers practical suggestions on how to apply these principles throughout the healing process.

This is an A-Z reference guide that dispels the myth that men dominated the film industry during its formative years. Denise Lowe presents a rich collection that profiles many of the women who were crucial to the development of cinema as an industry - and as an art form.

Dr Jay Goldstein clearly presents both the theoretical and the practical aspects of his revolutionary approach to treating chronic fatigue syndrome and other conditions that have often been termed psychosomatic.

This book provides a description of pre-literate children's developing ideas about writing and numerals, and it illustrates the many ways in which cultural artifacts influence the mind and vice versa.

This work illustrates the experiences of elementary school teachers across one year's time as they participated in a teacher development seminar focused on mathematics, and as a result changed their beliefs, their knowledge, and their practices.

A guide to marketing and promotional activities that aims to raise the library's visibility in the face of competition from other information providers. This book features tables, figures, and appendices that provide examples of marketing and promotional activities. Accompanied by a Web site, it includes a bibliography of marketing resources.

A study of the social and political significance of having sexual relationships with more than one partner.

Written for mental health professionals, crisis hot line workers, educators and clergy, this resource discusses how to prevent and recognise child sexual abuse and what to do if abuse is suspected. The content covers many settings in which sexual abuse may occur.

This work presents an alternative approach to presuming that incidents with diverse outcomes of serious injury or death are the result of an error committed solely by the health care provider.

This work deals with the politics of identity and the concept of boundaries during a time of rapid change. It investigates how the role of schooling for Hispanos in Northern New Mexico, has changed significantly over the past three generations.

This volume deals with the relationship of writing to its technologies. It uses history, theory and empirical research to argue that the effects of computer technologies on literacy are complex. The author argues that just as computers impact on discourse, discourse itself impacts technology.

Presenting a longitudinal study of the social and psychological consequences of teen parenting for both parents and children, this text uses both qualitative and quantitative analyses to demonstrate different outcome patterns and recommend social policy programmes.

Proposes a prototype for a global school - an eco-school that functions to protect the biosphere and human rights and to support the happiness and well-being of the school staff, students, and immediate community - and for a global core curriculum based on holistic models for lessons and instruction.

Joel Spring explores three major international educational ideologies that are shaping global society: neo-liberal educational ideology, human rights education, and environmentalism. These changes are fueling a clash between the ideas of free-market and consumer-based neo-liberals and those of human rights and environmental educations.

This work presents the findings of the largest British study of violence on TV ever undertaken. The study was carried out at the same time as similar research was being conducted in the United States. The research groups kept in contact, and one chapter compares findings from Britain and the USA.

This study is concerned with the psychological, academic, and mathematical development of African American adolescents. The author adds complexity to discussions of mathematics learning, achievement, and persistence among African Americans, as well as reconceptualizing these issues.

This text examines the historical contexts and associated ideologies that gave rise to specific punishment policies and practices at each juncture in the history of crime and punishment in the US.

This text shows how the process by which brains construct meaning tends to isolate brains into self-centred worlds and how nature has provided a remedy to ensure reproduction of the young dependent on parents. The remedy is based in the neurochemistry of sex which dissolves belief structures.

Features briefs that provide coverage of topics of vital importance to criminal justice personnel - prison law, probation, parole, the death penalty, juvenile justice, and sentencing. This book contains briefs of cases that include capsule, facts, issue, holding, reason, and case significance.

Based on a study examining the meaning of the term 'media literacy' in children, this volume concentrates on audiovisual narratives of television and film and their effects. It closely examines children's concepts of real and unreal and how they learn to make distinctions between the two.

This work offers a reasoned justification and definition for the universal right to education - applicable to all cultures - as provided for in Article 26 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It concludes by proposing guidelines for human rights education and instruction.