Culture and Customs of Guatemala proffers a well rounded portrait of the people of the land known for breathtaking highlands, brilliantly colored Mayan textiles, generations of ruthless dictators, and violence against the Mayas since the Spanish conquest. This Central American hotspot is the home to[...]

Whether you're exclusively breastfeeding, combining breastfeeding with pumping, or supplementing with formula, " The Essential Breastfeeding Log "is an indispensable tool to help you track your baby's eating and sleeping habits so that you can see the patterns emerging-and regain some sanity in your[...]

Algebraic Geometry is the study of systems of polynomial equations in one or more variables. This book covers such topics as the Hilbert Basis Theorem, the Nullstellensatz, invariant theory, projective geometry, and dimension theory. It also includes information on AXIOM, CoCoA, Macaulay 2, Magma, M[...]

The Routledge Dance Studies Reader represents the range and diversity of writings from the 1980s and 1990s, providing contemporary perspectives on ballet, modern dance, postmodern 'movement performance' jazz, South Asian dance and Black dance. In an enlightening introduction, Alexandra Carter trace[...]

"The most effective way to understand what a child knows about the reading process is to take a running record. In Running Records, Mary Shea demonstrates how teachers can use this powerful tool to design lessons that decrease reading difficulties, buildon strengths, and stimulate motivation, ensuri[...]

Despite the scope and sophistication of contemporary health care, there is increasing international concern about the perceived lack of compassion in its delivery. Citing evidence that when the basic needs of patients are attended to with kindness and understanding, recovery often takes place at a f[...]

How does the toxicity associated with particular parenting styles affect attachment? How do the contaminated views of themselves that children of poisonous parents have affect their relationships into adulthood? Like physicians, clinicians do not want to amputate, but they sometimes find it necessar[...]

War has diverse and seemingly contradictory effects on liberal democratic institutions and processes. It has led democracies to abandon their principles, expanding executive authority and restricting civil liberties, but it has also prompted the development of representative parliamentary institutio[...]

This book combines curriculum and instruction studies with assessment, which is very popular in higher education today. New laws in special education focus on assessment, and the new tools and forms provided here. Strategies and practical applications for teaching special education are combined in o[...]

THE SUCCESSFUL DISTANCE LEARNING STUDENT is designed to teach students the skills they need to succeed in distance learning courses and to become better students in general. Regardless of the type of distance learning course--Internet-based, telecourse, prerecorded video or interactive video--this b[...]

Few reptiles command more respect than the mighty boas and pythons. Prized for their size, relative docility, and spectacular coloration and patterning, they are the most dramatic snakes in the world. But the same snakes that many consider gentle giants - the Green Anaconda can exceed twelve yards i[...]

The new, revised 2nd Edition of this popular book presents specific strategies and practical methods for conducting thorough psychiatric assessments. Essential psychiatric interviewing techniques from a variety of disciplines provide readers with a strongtheoretical foundation and a broad scope of r[...]