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Dramatic events in Somalia between June and December 2006 included the rise and fall of a radical Islamic movement, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), which attracted global attention to the strategic area of the Horn of Africa. This volume analyzes the background and the events that led Somalia to this situation.

Suitable for professionals and scholars in forestry, public administration, and organizational behavior who are interested in the administration of public lands and how the top managers of a large, dispersed organization with multiple objectives like the Forest Service shape the behavior of its field officers into a coherent, unified program.

Drawing upon the experiences of social workers and community-based professionals, this book provides a cross-section of models and strategies for those engaged in social change. The chapters include data-based practice principles and guidelines for action.

Provides a synthesis of research on the oral language and literacy skills of African American children from preschool to fifth grade. This book's research characterizes influences on the child's use of AAE and the relationship between AAE and aspects of literacy acquisition. It also leads to the other nondialectal aspects of language development.

Psychologists now assess an increasingly diverse clientele: immigrants, refugees, second and third generations still influenced by different cultures and languages, and indigenous peoples now moving towards the mainstream. Richard Dana proposes a new model of multicultural assessment practice and points directions for future training and research.

This revised edition of "Employing Bureaucracy" is an attempt to understand how industrial labour was transformed and to identify the historical process by which good jobs were created. It is, therefore, an account of the bureacratization of employment.

Examines the interrelationship between neuroscience and developmental science to help us understand how children differ in their capacity to benefit from their early motor and cognitive experiences. This book helps us understand how experience affects brain growth and a child's capacity to learn. It reviews various research findings.

This title documents the impact of educational television in a variety of subject areas and proposes mechanisms to explain its effects. Drawing from a wide variety of research spanning several disciplines, author Shalom M. Fisch analyses the literature on the impact of educational resources.

Explores learning second languages through a study of seven adults learning Japanese in a classroom setting. The research is grounded in a socio-cognitive framework based on Vygotsky's theory, analyzing both interactions between learners in the classroom and individual learners' private speech.

Presents the theory and methodology of cognitive psychology that may be applied to problems of the real world and describes the range of cognitive applications to real-world situations. This text is useful for students who are studying cognitive psychology or applied cognitive psychology.

This work provides a comprehensive resource for analyzing a range of categorical data. Accessible to social scientists and students, no advance mathematical training is required. It includes applications, examples, computer tutorials, and exercises.

In common with earlier editions of Halpern's work on critical thinking, this brief version has a rigorous academic grounding and contains practical examples and anecdotes. Exercises promote the transfer of critical thinking skills to real-world settings and allow flexibility of topics.

This text studies what it is like to live on the US-Mexico border. The author describes of a small town and school, languages, social class, history and what it means to be an immigrant. Vignettes from Marleen Pugach's experiences and interpretations of her interviews and observations are included.

Written by a professor and his ten students, this book explores their attempts to come to grips with fundamental issues related to writing narrative accounts purporting to represent aspects of people's lives. In its entirety, the book seeks to present an interpretive study of teaching and learning.

This volume addresses the importance of images of nations in international relations, assuming that the behaviour of states is not the same as that of individuals. The studies presented in the book relate to deliberate attempts to induce change in images.

By defining the problems that need to be addressed in health care costs and management, this text presents a model for health care organizations. It also presents a profile of the Behavioral Social Worker, which defines the abilities needed to be effective in the role. It is suitable for practitioners of behavioral medicine in health settings.

As open access initiatives, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) provide Internet access to graduate student research documents from hundreds of academic institutions, thus furthering international scholarly communication. This book presents a comprehensive treatise on ETDs.

Presents leading authorities discussing the many possibilities of using Google products as effective, user-friendly tools in libraries. Google Scholar and Print are explored with an eye towards offering an expanded view of what is and may be possible for the future, with practical insights on how to make the most of the product's capabilities.

A salient feature of modern poetics is its connection with cultural history and politics. Among the great American poets of the twentieth century, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams offer a significant contrast with T S Eliot and Ezra Pound. This work offers a comparative study of these representative and distinctively influential poets.

Presents the complex issues that arise in the effort to provide individual therapy in group care settings. It reviews classical case material, presents contemporary case studies, and examines practical and theoretical issues important to the effective delivery of treatment to individuals living in residential care.

One man's jouney down the road less travelled - a single gay man adopting and raising his adopted sons. Details the emotional, financial, practical, and social realities of the adoption process for gay men.

Talks about native English speakers teaching English as a global language in non-English speaking countries. Through analysis of naturally occurring dialogic encounters, this book examines the multifaceted ways in which teachers and students utilize diverse communicative resources to construct, display, and negotiate their identities.

Offers an account of the nature of personality, showing how to use personality to understand, evaluate, select, deselect, train, and understand organizations. This book brings insights from a psychologist who asserts that personality is real, and that it determines the careers of individuals and the fate of organizations.

Reviews research on emotions. This book begins by reviewing a number of principles governing emotion, or "the laws of emotion". It examines the nature of emotions and the motivational processes underlying them, and the nature and causes of pleasure and pain. It also explores the processes that lead to emotional arousal.

A survey of research, writings and professional practices concerned with death and dying. The focus is interdisciplinary and eclectic - medical, psychological, religious, philosophical, artistic, and demographic matters concerned with dying, death, bereavement and widowhood - are all considered.