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A study of male prostitution in Latin America, particularly juvenile prostitution in San Jose, Costa Rica. It discusses the dangers which these young men face, including contraction of the AIDS virus and drug or alcohol addiction, highlighting the need for intervention programmes.

This title takes readers into the lives of urban and suburban adolescents for a close-up look at how they navigate the conflicting discourses and disciplinary practices of American cultural crosscurrents that flow through economic, kinship, religious, and political domains of American life.

This text addresses Internet and multimedia issues from an international perspective by outlining issues of international sovereignty and the potential impact of national interests on global technology policy. It supplies a survey that points out accomplishments, issues and problems.

A description of the impact of US government civilization and education policies on a Native American tribe from 1793 to 1995. The author dicovers a direct relationship between educational policies and their impact on his family and tribe through the process of civilization.

Addresses questions that cross borders between onsite, hybrid, and distributed learning environments, between higher education and workplace, and between distance education and composition pedagogy. This volume explores specific applications of WAC and WID in distributed environments.

This volume is the result of four years work on the study and teaching of multiculturalism and literature - a vicarious counterpart to the 17th-century "Grand Tour". The research team examined how students approached texts from their own and other cultures, and how teachers perceived their role.

This practical guide contains methodologically-grounded descriptions of how to successfully undertake individual assessment which is a professional practice important to Human Resource Managers, executives and anyone making decisions about employees.

In today's economic climate, many libraries are working cooperatively and sharing facilities, staff, and resources. This book gives you practical examples of how to make joint use a positive reality.

Brings insight to the conundrum: which evolved first - language or cognition? This book addresses the notion that once language was created, it superimposed itself throughout our cognitive architecture, so that although language and cognition seem inseparable, they are in fact two different systems.

The developmental psychology text covers such topics as Darwinian dichotomies and their dissolution, dynamic systems theories, the creation and origins of knowledge, and coupled primal and plastic interactions in humans.

Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth shows how children's rights have slowly evolved over many years, from children's status as property in the 1600s to the twentieth-century innovations that give a child a specific legal status with a certain amount of freedom and self-determination.

This work gathers together research concerning identity-based approaches to understanding thoughts, feelings and actions in organizations. The author creates ways of viewing the many forms of role transitions evident in organizational life.

This text presents a comprehensive survey of causes and effective approaches to intervention and prevention for all those students, trainees and professionals concerned with aggressive children and adolescents.

Provides comprehensive treatment approaches for a wide spectrum of presentations of gender dysphoria, the condition of being ill at ease with one's gender. This text stresses the need for evaluating and treating the disorder in the context of the client's overall physical and mental health.

Aims to enhance our understanding of the family's transition through adolescence by examining data about the experiences of parents and teens across multiple relationships and social contexts. This volume is intended for researchers in a variety of disciplines such as social work, psychology, and sociology.

This volume examines the role of time in relationships with a focus on the transpersonal dimension of intimacy and the temporal aspects of relationships. The chapters address issues such as the forces of time; the process of intimacy; and time, addiction and intimacy.

This book examines young reader's narratives about Nazism and the Holocaust in terms of the official as well as the understated motivations of their authors.

The US No Child Left Behind Act put high-stakes testing into the educational limelight. The purpose of this book is to: describe high-stakes testing; identify types of collateral damage that have attended the testing programs; analyze methods for coping with the damage; and suggest lessons to be learned from the high-stakes-testing experience.

This work discusses the relationship between the development of the global economy and educational policy, covering topics such as European colonialism, the Japanese response to colonialism, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank, and the United Nations.