Bodies, Politics and African Healing

Bodies, Politics and African Healing

This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront the most intractable illnesses in the region, including AIDS and malaria. She reveals how healers generate new therapies and shape the bodies of their patients as they address devils and parasites, anti-witchcraft medicine, and child immunization. Transcending the dualisms between tradition and science, culture and nature, belief and knowledge, Langwick tells a new story about the materiality of healing and postcolonial politics. This important work bridges postcolonial theory, science, public health, and anthropology.

Bodies, Politics and African Healing

Spinal Injuries and Conditions in Young Athletes

Spinal Injuries and Conditions in Young Athletes

Spinal Injuries and Conditions in Young Athletes provides a comprehensive, in-depth review of the mechanisms and management of back injuries and problems occurring in this ever-growing and active population. Led by Dr. Lyle Micheli and his co-editors, an award-winning group of orthopedists discusses and explores common adolescent spine injuries and procedures, in addition to breakthroughs in gene therapy, tissue engineering, and complex operations. As spine surgery is among the most complex and challenging procedures performed in orthopedics, special considerations and procedures are required in pediatric populations. Since many corrective surgeries run the risk of arthritis later in life, particular efforts must be made in young populations to prevent future injury in a child’s adolescence and young adulthood while maximizing return-to-play potential. Chapters cover acute spinal injuries, concussions, overuse injuries, spinal malformations, tumors, infections and inflammatory diseases across the range of athletics, including swimming and combat sports. Spinal Injuries and Conditions in Young Athletes provides an immeasurable guide for back surgery in pediatric populations and will be a go-to resource for practitioners and residents in pediatric orthopedics and sports medicine.

Spinal Injuries and Conditions in Young Athletes

The Things We Do for Love

The Things We Do for Love

Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSarias heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her familys restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angies fortunes will drastically change yet again when she meets and befriends a troubled young woman.

The Things We Do for Love

Physical Development in the Early Years

Physical Development in the Early Years

Would you like to know more about the way in which a typical child grows and develops in their first eight years? Are you keen to avoid the constraints of an overly formalized early years curriculum? If you answer yes to either of these questions, then this practical, accessible and down-to-earth guide is for you. Arguing that enjoyable, play-based activity forms the basis of all children’s learning. Lynda Woodfield takes examples of children at various stages of their physical development and places their progress in a theoretical context.

Physical Development in the Early Years

A Paris Affair

A Paris Affair

After years of child rearing, chores and career challenges, Valerie feels the sexual heat in her life has cooled. All she wants is a break from her everyday routine – until an unexpected reunion with a man from her past awakens the pure sexual wanting she thought she’d lost.

A Paris Affair

A Guidance Approach for the Encouraging Classroom, Fifth Edition

A Guidance Approach for the Encouraging Classroom, Fifth Edition

A GUIDANCE APPROACH FOR THE ENCOURAGING CLASSROOM, 5/E, easily functions as a primary reference for professionals or in classes that address group management, the learning environment, child guidance, child behavior, challenging behavior, conflict management, and peace education topics. The book addresses ages 3-8 years in three parts. Part 1 explores the foundation of guidance in early childhood education and covers key concepts such as conventional discipline versus guidance, mistaken behavior, the guidance tradition, and innovative theories about child development with guidance. Part 2 focuses on building and organizing an encouraging classroom, as well as providing key elements of an encouraging classroom, including daily schedule, routines, use of thematic instruction, importance of working with parents, and leadership communication. Part 3 addresses problem solving and challenging behavior in the encouraging classroom, including a practical illustration for how to use and teach conflict management and coverage of the ‘five-finger-formula.’ The book also covers nontraditional families as well as the effects of societal violence in the classroom. Throughout, this experience-based resource includes tips, techniques, and real-life anecdotes that help professionals make the shift from conventional classroom to developmentally appropriate guidance.

A Guidance Approach for the Encouraging Classroom, Fifth Edition

Best Practice in Professional Supervision

Best Practice in Professional Supervision

Best Practice in Professional Supervision is an authoritative guide to being an excellent supervisor, covering the role, functions and dispositions involved. The authors consider basic skills, the practicalities of forming and maintaining the supervision relationship, and the organisational context and culture of supervision. The book offers practical examples and a model of supervision which draws together ideas from adult learning theory and reflective practice. Viewing supervision as a place for learning, this guide considers how supervision can assist practitioners to develop professional resilience and manage the stresses of complex work environments. It also includes specific chapters on supervision of clinical student placements and in child protection settings. This book covers a range of professions including social care, nursing, counselling, social work and allied health professions, and is an essential guide for all those in these and related professions undertaking supervision or supervision training.

Best Practice in Professional Supervision

The Child Thief

The Child Thief

In the tradition of City of Thieves and Child 44, a troubled First World War veteran races across the frozen steppe of 1930s Ukraine to save a child from a shadowy killer with unthinkable plans

The Child Thief

The Texas Renegade Returns

The Texas Renegade Returns

Having recovered from amnesia, Alex del Toro has a new mission expose his kidnapper and regain his fianc e’s love. Cara Windsor’s instincts tell her to stay away from a man who lied to her and tried to steal her family’s company. Except she has a secret she’s pregnant with Alex’s child!

The Texas Renegade Returns

The Development of Language

The Development of Language

This book presents a unique range of interdisciplinary work on questions of language development and evolution.It makes visible the significant contribution which meaning-oriented linguistics is making to debates about the origins of language – from the perspective of language evolution in the species as well as language development in the child. As well as linguistics in the systemic functional, or Hallidayan, tradition, the book offers contributions from primatology, psychiatry, sociology and education.

The Development of Language

The Differentiated Instruction Book of Lists

The Differentiated Instruction Book of Lists

Hundreds of useful ideas for meeting the needs of each child

The Differentiated Instruction Book of Lists

The Poker Blueprint

The Poker Blueprint

From the man who literally CREATED the poker ebook market and its poster child, ‘Let There Be Range’ (‘a two-thousand dollar poker manual for high-stakes poker professionals’), ‘The Poker Blueprint’ provides the infrastructure for micro- and small-stakes players to build their game on. It also offer advanced strategies that are vital to crushing today’s online short-handed games up to 100NL.

The Poker Blueprint

The Pot-Limit Omaha Book

The Pot-Limit Omaha Book

From the man who literally CREATED the poker ebook market and its poster child, ‘Let There Be Range’ (‘a two-thousand dollar poker manual for high-stakes poker professionals’), ‘The Pot-Limit Omaha Book’ provides a sound theoretical framework for no-limit holdem players looking to cut their teeth on PLO and don’t want to be at disadvantage.

The Pot-Limit Omaha Book

The Memory of Sky

The Memory of Sky

Diamond is an odd little boy, a seemingly fragile child – who proves to be anything but. An epic story begins when he steps into the world his parents have so carefully kept him from, a world where gigantic trees each house thousands of humans and another human species, the papio, rule its far edges. Does Diamond hold the promise to remake one species and, perhaps, change all of the Creation?

The Memory of Sky

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

In a world of chaotic alignments, traditional logic with its strict boundaries of truth and falsity has not imbued itself with the capability of reflecting the reality. Despite various attempts to reorient logic, there has remained an essential need for an alternative system that could infuse into itself a representation of the real world. Out of this need arose the system of Neutrosophy (the philosophy of neutralities, introduced by FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE), and its connected logic Neutrosophic Logic, which is a further generalization of the theory of Fuzzy Logic. In this book we study the concepts of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) and their Neutrosophic analogue, the Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps (NCMs). Fuzzy Cognitive Maps are fuzzy structures that strongly resemble neural networks, and they have powerful and far-reaching consequences as a mathematical tool for modeling complex systems. Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps are generalizations of FCMs, and their unique feature is the ability to handle indeterminacy in relations between two concepts thereby bringing greater sensitivity into the results. Some of the varied applications of FCMs and NCMs which has been explained by us, in this book, include: modeling of supervisory systems; design of hybrid models for complex systems; mobile robots and in intimate technology such as office plants; analysis of business performance assessment; formalism debate and legal rules; creating metabolic and regulatory network models; traffic and transportation problems; medical diagnostics; simulation of strategic planning process in intelligent systems; specific language impairment; web-mining inference application; child labor problem; industrial relations: between employer and employee, maximizing production and profit; decision support in intelligent intrusion detection system; hyper-knowledge representation in strategy formation; female infanticide; depression in terminally ill patients and finally, in the theory of community mobilization and women empowerment relative to the AIDS epidemic.

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

Parenting and the Childs World

Parenting and the Childs World

Stimulated by the publication of The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris, Parenting and the Child’s World was conceived around the notion that there are multiple sources of influence on children’s development, including parenting behavior, family resources, genetic and other biological factors, as well as social influences from peers, teachers, and the community at large.

Parenting and the Childs World

From Transmitted Deprivation to Social Exclusion

From Transmitted Deprivation to Social Exclusion

John Welshman’s new book fills a major gap in social policy: the history of debates over ‘transmitted deprivation’, and their relationship with current initiatives on social exclusion. The book explores the content and background to Sir Keith Joseph’s famous ‘cycle of deprivation’ speech in 1972, examining his own personality and family background, his concern with ‘problem families’, and the wider policy context of the early 1970s. Tracing the direction taken by the DHSS-SSRC Research Programme on Transmitted Deprivation, it seeks to understand why the Programme was set up, and why it took the direction it did. With this background, the book explores New Labour’s approach to child poverty, initiatives such as Sure Start, the influence of research on inter-generational continuities, and its new stance on social exclusion. The author argues that, while earlier writers have acknowledged the intellectual debt that New Labour owes to Joseph, and noted similarities between current policy approaches to child poverty and earlier debates, the Government’s most recent attempts to tackle social exclusion mean that these continuities are now more striking than ever before. Making extensive use of archival sources, private papers, contemporary published documents, and oral interviews with retired civil servants and social scientists, ‘Policy, Poverty and Parenting’ is the only book-length treatment of this important but neglected strand of the history of social policy. It will be of interest to students and researchers working on contemporary history, social policy, political science, public policy, sociology, and public health.

From Transmitted Deprivation to Social Exclusion

Justice Perverted

Justice Perverted

Over the past quarter century Congress, state legislatures and the courts have radically reshaped America’s laws dealing with sex offenders in an effort to reduce the prevalence of sex offenses. Most convicted sex offenders must now register with the authorities, who then make information about them available to the public. Possession of child pornography has been made an extremely serious crime often punishable by prison sentences that dwarf those meted out to child molesters, rapists, robbers, and even killers. Federal law now imposes a minimum sentence of ten years in prison for those convicted of using the internet to attempt to lure minors for sex. And the federal government and 20 states have ‘sexually violent predator’ laws that allow the indefinite civil commitment of convicted sex offenders to secure institutions for treatment after they have served their full criminal sentences.All of these changes in sex offender law, as well as numerous others, have been based at least in part on input from psychology, psychiatry and the social sciences. Moreover, enforcement and administration of many of these laws relies to a large extent on the efforts of mental health professionals. However, many questions about this involvement remain largely unanswered. Are these laws supported by empirical evidence, or even by well-reasoned psychological theories? Do these laws actually work? Are mental health professionals capable of reliably determining an offender’s future behavior, and how best to manage it? Finally, are experts capable of providing effective treatment for sex offenders — i.e., treatment that actually reduces the likelihood that an identified sex offender will re-offend?In Justice Perverted, Charles Patrick Ewing poses these difficult questions and others that few in either law or psychology have asked, much less tried to answer. Drawing on research from across the social and behavioral sciences, he weighs the evidence for the spectrum of sex offense laws, to occasionally surprising results. A rational look at an intensely emotional subject, Justice Perverted is an essential book for anyone interested in the science behind public practice.

Justice Perverted

Working with NHibernate 3.0

Working with NHibernate 3.0

This book provides examples using the IQuery, ICriteria, QueryOver, and LINQ to NHibernate API’s within the context of an example Guitar Store inventory program. The reader is walked through the creation of a , , , 2008 database, the creation of a Visual Studio 2010 solution consisting of 3 projects (a Window Presentation Foundation (WPF), a Console Application, and a Class Library). Each one utilizes the .NET 4.0 framework. Then the reader is walked through the steps required to configure and use the many features available contained within NHibernate 3.2. Further instructions and examples exist for the insertion of parent / child relationships, Session management, entity states (transient, persistent and detached), deletion, caching, and batching.

Working with NHibernate 3.0