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

Written for the beginning and seasoned counsellor, this text emphases the importance of affective competence. It offers a different model of the way relationships are formed, and how the individual being counselled needs to become acquainted with the variety of relationships in their life.

Affective Competence in Counseling

Hall, Jack

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

Reference

Scicluna, Charles J.

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

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

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

This book analyzes China's bureaucratic behavior since the inauguration of administrative reform in the late 1970s. Although bureaucratic behavior in China in the past decade was increasingly corrupted, this aspect of China's post-Mao reform has not been subjected to a rigorous scrutiny. This book explores the gulf between desired and the actual bureaucratic behavior among China's public administrators. The author argues that this behavioral gap in China's modernization stems from several factors including the nation's cultural heritage, the ruling party's approach to government, and the absence of trusted, full-fledged academic groups assigned to advise on administrative reform. The book then probes one of the gravest consequences of the behavioral gap: 'reform corruption', a phenomenon which seems to be a mixed blessing of modernization.

Administrative Reform in Post-Mao China: Efficiency or Ethics

Ma, Stephen K.

Politics & Government

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

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