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Adopts a historical and comparative perspective to show how legal rules, technical knowledge (or the lack of it) and political ideas combined to shape attitudes and behavior in the business of oil production, leading to the original adoption of the law of capture, its consolidation in the United States, and its marginalization elsewhere.

A research-based resource for helping professionals dealing with women who were sexually abused by female perpetrators, this text focuses on the female perpetrator, defining what treatments have been found workable and providing.

A study of patients who cannot bear commitment to any one person, or who jeopardise their commitments with a need to spark their lives with promiscuity. This text teaches psychotherapists to respond to their patients' promiscuous behaviour as a symptom of a problem, not the problem itself.

A compilation of findings in the field of drug abuse research with specific ethnic-minority groups. This guide, by authors from the same ethnic-minority backgrounds, suggests effective methods of conducting and enhancing opportunities to study such groups, especially the young and homeless.

Presents the information and clinical skills necessary to assess and evaluate persons suffering from substance abuse and/or antisocial personality disorders, and details how to develop effective psychotherapy and treatment strategies for them.

Why do women turn to food for comfort? What part does culture play in this world of increased eating disorders and inhibited sexual desire? This work explores the roots of these phenomena and the strong relationships food and sex have represented to women over the years.

This short history of China includes a new preface, additional illustrations and a more "reader-friendly" format.

This book investigates the anti-semitic foundations of Nazi curricula for elementary schools, with a focus on the subjects of biology, history and literature.

Since the last edition, many significant challenges have occurred in the media. To do justice to these recent "troubles" of the news media, important additions and modifications have been made in every chapter.

A study of bilingual young people who have been selected by their families to mediate communication between themselves and the outside world. It shows that these family interpreters perform at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared with others of their age.

Topics addressed in this second edition include: the development of statistics; science, psychology and statistics; the organization of data probability; sampling and estimation; comparisons, correlations and predictions; the design of experiments; the rise of ANOVA; and the statistical hotpot.

Tailored health messages enhance communication effectiveness on health issues and concerns. This volume includes a practical approach for practioners and students of health communication, health psychology, behavioural medicine, public health and related areas.

This text describes research on the emotional communication between parents and children, and its effect on the children's emotional development. Inspired by the work of Dr. Haim Ginott, it presents the result of initial exploratory work with meta-emotion - feelings about feelings.

This text provides a comprehensive survey of the various theoretical contributions which have been made to the study of argumentation. It discusses the historical works that provide the background to the field and major approaches and trends in contemporary research.

This text focuses on the process of assisting employees who have lost their jobs to develop career plans and to find new employment. Topics include: the theoretical basis of outplacement counselling; the relation between outplacement and psychotherapy; and the supervision of practitioners.

Considers how technology such as computers and online courses transform the assessment of writing. Diane Penrod examines how computers and interactive material disrupt conventional literacy practices, while the influence of computers allows teachers to propose and develop models for thinking and writing to engage students in real-world settings.

This oral history introduces the people involved with some of the most important 1st Amendment law cases in recent times. It is aimed at students and scholars of media law and 1st Amendment issues.

Suiatble for laboratory chemists who need a guide to the essentials of organic chemistry - the literature, nomenclature, stereochemistry, spectroscopy, hazard information, and laboratory data, this edition contains data that chemists need access to for experimentation and research.

Exploring fluency from multiple vantage points that together constitute a cognitive science perspective, this book examines research in second language acquisition and bilingualism that point to promising avenues for understanding and ultimately helping to promote fluent second language skills.

Presents articles from 23 community practitioners and researchers who challenge the 'reform' that has turned public aid from a right to a privilege. This book analyses the consequences of legislative changes made to the public assistance program formerly known as Aid to Families with Dependant Children (AFDC).