Adolescent pregnancy in an urban environment: Issues, programs, and evaluation

Adolescent Pregnancy in an Urban Environment: Issues, Programs, and Evaluation

Politics & Social Sciences

Hardy, Janet B.

Social Sciences

Univ Pr of Amer

Recreational games provide a primary way for children to interact with, and learn from, their world. Games offer opportunities to practice motor skills, learn social values, and shape personal identity. By carefully choosing the games that children play and changing elements of a game when necessary, leaders in schools, churches, and other community settings can help children acquire positive character values, rather than the negative ones that are often conveyed in the media and the community. Games for Success provides 75 examples of age-appropriate games to play with partners and in small and large groups. Both cooperative and competitive games are suggested and many of the games may be used to increase awareness of other cultures, or to reinforce biblical teachings. The book provides leaders with the rationale and procedures for designing and modifying their own games and includes recommendations for developing healthy self-esteem among children by distinguishing between personhood and performance, and by monitoring the conditions under which children are expected to compete.

Games for Success: Developing Children's Character Through Recreational Play

Humor & Entertainment

Henkel, Steven A.

Puzzles & Games

Scicluna presents a detailed and well-documented study of the way Roman Catholic canonical tradition, especially in the last 150 years, has tackled the challenge of providing a juridical definition of marriage. Three main sources are consistently analyzed: the documents of the magisterium; the jurisprudence of the Apostolic Tribunals of the Catholic church; and the works of experts in canon law. Two important canonical legal texts, the 1917 and 1983 Codes of Canon Law, are taken as essential points of reference which gives chronological structure to the work. The book not only describes developments in a technical and scientific manner but also provides material for further discussion on the meaning and interpretation of phrases like 'the essential obligations of marriage' and 'the essential elements of marriage.'

The Essential Definition of Marriage According to the 1917 and 1983 Codes of Canon Law: An Exegetical and Comparative Study

Scicluna, Charles J.

Religion & Spirituality

A guide which aims to help students develop their proficiency in speaking French. This text explains how to make students more responsible for their learning and focuses on encouraging self-reliance and independence in language practice. Exercises are also included.

Pratique Pratique: Manuel De Conversation Guidee

Lambert, L. Gary

Reference

Risking A Nation: U.S. Japanese Trade Failure and the Need for Political, Social, and Economic Reformation

Risking a Nation: U.S. Japanese Trade Failure and the Need for Political, Social, and Economic Reformation

Business & Money

McKinney, Jerome B.

International

Much has been written about the 'Taiwan miracle'―referring to the extremely successful, widely praised and often emulated economic development of the Republic of China. Less has been written about Taiwan's political development, which in the past dozen or so years has been even more dramatic in many ways. In just three to four decades, the Republic of China's polity has been transformed from an authoritarian, closed system to a democracy. It did this without a contributing colonial experience and while living under the threat of invasion. This book assesses Taiwan's political modernization during a period when political change in Taiwan was remarkable both for its pace and for its impact on Taiwan's polity. During this time Taiwan became a paradigm for success in political modernization. Internal political reform was the most salient part of the modernization process. Elections likewise played an essential role. Finally, an effective foreign policy facilitated the process and vice versa. Students of the process of political development can and should learn much from Taiwan's experiences.

The Taiwan Political Miracle: Essays on Political Development, Elections and Foreign Relations

Copper, John F.

This workbook accompanies the textbook "Practical Statistics for Educators". It contains levels of questions in order to recall, understand, apply and analyse the exercises which are in a range of formats. Answers and detailed explanations are also provided.

Workbook to Accompany: Practical Statistics for Educators

Science & Math

Ravid, Ruth

Mathematics

Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People 1492-1995

<p>This book is a complete history of Haiti from 1492 to the end of 1995. The first edition was and remains the most complete history of Haiti ever written in English and one of the most complete in any language. This second edition contains two more chapters as well as updated information to make it a must read for anyone interested in the history of Haiti and its people. Praise for the First Edition: "There is no work in the English language that even approaches the extravagant wealth of information the Heinls have assembled about the world's first black republic." --WASHINGTON STAR "Praised by all who have read it as the only complete and fully documented history of Haiti in any language, "Written in Blood" is certain to become a classic." --UNITED STATES NAVAL INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS</p>

History

Heinl, Robert Debs

Heinl, Nancy Gordon

Heinl, Michael

Americas

Liberal Education and Value Relativism: A Guide to Today's B.A

Many if not most of the students who enroll in Bachelor of Arts programs do so without a clear sense of purpose. This book introduces new or prospective university students to the B.A. degree. It seeks to explain the nature and purpose of liberal education, and discusses how liberal education is being undermined in today's university. This book is designed to help students get the most out of their university years by encouraging them to think more carefully aobut the ultimate aims of their education. It explains how the various academic disciplines taught at today's university can contribute to the quest for liberal education. In doing so, they give students a better sense of what they should be looking for in their courses, and a better idea of whether the B.A. is really the right program for them. It also provides some practical advice for choosing a course of study and for evaluating university courses and professors.

Education & Teaching

Malcolmson, Patrick

Myers, Richard

O'Connell, Colin

Schools & Teaching

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