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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Develop the untapped possibilities of this potential tourist El Dorado! Given its size, location, cultural attractions, and natural beauty, South America gets far less of the international tourist dollar than it deserves. This valuable book identifies and explores the major issues that influence and shape tourism in South America. Tourism in South America includes original empirical research into the image people have of this varied continent, the factors that draw people to visit South America, and the fears, lack of knowledge, and negative images that can keep tourists away. Tourism in South America examines current practices and suggests alternative models of development. Its informative discussions range from cultural tourism to sustainable tourism to developing human resources. The original empirical research in this volume offers unique insights, and reference notes are included. The reader will encounter varied points of view in Tourism in South America.You can expect to: view Australian travel industry perspectives on Latin American tourism explore the impact of tourism on the Argentina's Patagonian Coast examine the environmental tactics that Mexican and Jamaican hotel companies employ survey the recreation preferences of hikers in a Colombian National Park ponder the implications of performing traditional dances for modern tourists in the Amazon Tour operators, hotel managers, local tourism boards, and others seeking the attention of tourists will profit from the new strategies and original research presented in Tourism in South America.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A Special Issue of Journal of Clinical Child Psychology.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Intergenerational Approaches in Aging: Implications for Education, Policy, and Practice, leading practitioners and academics from a variety of disciplines come together to discuss theoretical issues, current practice, and future directions for this rapidly developing field. The authors address key topics such as defining the intergenerational field, the effects of the segregation of groups by age on social function and organization in our communities, and designing, implementing, and assessing programs that create cross-generational connections.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This new edition of a standard quantifies the processes whereby streams cleanse themselves, reducing their pollutant load as a natural process. It clarifies the self-purifying function of streams and rivers in light of recent EPA rules on nonpoint pollutants and total maximum daily loads. The book covers basic concepts such as biological oxygen demand and contains an extended discussion of how streams originate and how they fit into the geomorphology of the earth and other water supply sources. It provides a practical introduction to ecology combined with an explanation of how streams absorb and react to pollution. This text provides an excellent preparation aid to wastewater/water operator licensing exams.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Latino Elders and the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Challenges for Culturally Competent Research and Practice will help social workers, researchers, and organizations identify and analyze ways of meeting the demands of the increasing number of elderly Latinos. Working from conceptual frameworks, case studies, and examples, this book provides you with a demographic picture of Latino elders and investigates the needs of ethnic-specific groups. Latino Elders and the Twenty-First Century will help you develop and create culturally competent intervention methods that take the culture, beliefs, and situations of Latino elders into consideration.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Examines the current knowledge base and provides specific recommendations for educators and parents on ways to construct engaging learning environments for all young adolescent girls that promote research-based, high quality, & gender-equitable schooling.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The lives of more than a billion people depend on the answer! This valuable book surveys the problems of the rice-wheat cropping system practiced on the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP). Introduced at the time of the Green Revolution, it transformed agriculture and produced thirty years of bumper crops. The Rice-Wheat Cropping System of South Asia: Efficient Production Management offers scientific analysis of the aftereffects of this intense cropping. The Rice-Wheat Cropping System of South Asia: Efficient Production Management focuses on the questions of soil depletion, pest infestation, and soil alkalinity as elements of declining productivity. Along with clear charts, maps, and graphs, it provides practical suggestions for improving and maintaining the productivity of this irreplaceable farmland.The Rice-Wheat Cropping System of South Asia looks at the problems that have arisen for both the rice and wheat phases, including: \* depletion of micronutrients \* degradation of major nutrients from unbalanced fertilization practices \* infestations of nematodes \* increasing soil alkalinity as a result of irrigation It also suggests solutions for maintaining productivity, including: \* integrated pest management \* sustainable agriculture \* micronutrient fertilizers This informative book and its companion volume, The Rice-Wheat Cropping System of South Asia: Trends, Constraints, Productivity and Policy, are essential planning tools for agronomists, policymakers, and agroeconomists. It is also a useful reference for anyone interested in the problems of famine and intensive cropping not only in South Asia but in the world.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Originally published in 1955 as The Case for Modern Man, this book challenges the reader to believe in the essence of the modern temperament: the belief in the human mastery of destiny. It remains a brilliant answer to pessimists who try to frighten individuals with tales of sin and disaster, or those who hold the view that human beings are victims of circumstances.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Learn reliable techniques to prepare and present effective testimony!'Soon after leaving graduate school I was thrown to the courtroom wolves with no preparation. No social worker should have to go through that,' says Janet Vogelsang, author of The Witness Stand. Few colleges of social work prepare their students for the inevitable involvement with the courts entailed by their profession. This timely book provides you with a blueprint for presenting yourself as a competent and credible professional in court cases. This indispensable guide tells exactly what happens in court, how to counter common strategies for discrediting your profession, and what to do when your client's attorney is obnoxious. The Witness Stand emphasizes the biopsychosocial assessment as the essential tool for a social worker called on to testify in court. Its helpful features include sample forms and affidavits and actual court testimony. The end-of-chapter summaries can be used for rapid review and as a 'to do' checklist for preparing a court case.The Witness Stand offers practical, detailed advice on such matters as: how the legal system works how to handle contacts with attorneys and investigators what to do with documents and files how to prepare your testimony how to handle direct testimony and cross-examination how to define your social work expertise on the stand what to wear when you go to courtThe Witness Stand can help you deal with the anxiety-provoking complexities of the legal system. Instead of being confused or intimidated by legal arcana, you will be well-prepared, well-organized, and ready to present yourself as the confident, reliable professional you are.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Appearing simultaneously in Residential Treatment for Children and Youth volume 18, number 3 (2001), these eight papers describe prevention programs addressing serious emotional problems in children and adolescents. Each chapter examines one program, discussing its mission and goals, treatments, logistical and operational considerations, evaluation.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - One of the most important skills of successful managers is dealing with change. 'Managing Change Effectively' combines philosophical insights with practical applications to help managers effectively incorporate change with the least disruption.'Managing Change Effectively' details specific approaches and methods for making change decisions and getting changes accepted. From communication to participation, Kirkpatrick shows managers and executives how to make change their ally. Packed with examples that illustrate the principles and procedures for implementing new ideas, policies and strategies for almost any type of organization, this text is a valuable resource for managers at all levels, especially those in training and human resources.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - With contributions from nearly 80 international experts, this comprehensive resource covers diverse issues, aspects, and features of public administration and policy around the world. It focuses on bureaucracy and bureaucratic politics in developing and industrialized countries and emphasizing administrative performance and policy implementation, as well as political system maintenance and regime enhancement. The book covers the history of public administration and bureaucracy in Persia, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium and among the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas, public administration in small island states, Eastern Europe, and ethics and other contemporary issues in public administration.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Woody Allen, who first became famous as a stand up comedian and a writer of comedy routines, has also had a distinguished career as a playwright and screenwriter/director. Allen owes his celebrity status primarily to his critically acclaimed films, such as 'Manhattan, Hannah and her Sisters, and Crimes and Misdemeanors.' In Woody Allen: A Casebook, editor Kimball King, who is also General Editor of the Casebook Series, has selected major plays and films by Woody Allen and has chosen well-known scholars to examine their complexities in detail. Allen's sophisticated movie musical scores as well as his thoughtful studies of American character and life are analyzed by contemporary critics, such as William Hutchings, Tom Sahy, and King himself. The result is a volume that surveys artistic highpoints of the Allen canon and illustrates the creative impact of Allen's works on audiences and readers.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the study of personality and communicated social competency.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Perceiving the Affordances' is a personal history and intellectual autobiography of Eleanor Gibson, the groundbreaking research psychologist who was influential in the founding of the theory of perceptual development. It is also a biography of her husband, James J. Gibson, who was a major perceptual theorist and the founder of the ecologically-oriented theory of perception. This is the story of their lives together and how each came to make particular contributions. This book is of interest to people who study perception, perceptual development, infancy, developmental psychology, and the history of psychology.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Because dysfunctional patterns are closed systems that serve a secret purpose, they are almost impossible to change from the outside. Patterns of Child Abuse helps you recognize the purpose behind the patterns and offers successful strategies for changing the pattern from within. Synthesizing systems theory, behaviorism, and psychoanalysis, this brilliant book teaches you to subvert the most common destructive patterns and therefore to help heal children and families caught in the child welfare system.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A textbook for a course in a two-year associate degree or certificate program for library technicians. Students should have completed a course introducing technical services in general. It interprets and explains the rules and how they should be applied but does not substitute for the reference tools needed to perform cataloguing. The 1995 first ed.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Learn reliable techniques to prepare and present effective testimony!'Soon after leaving graduate school I was thrown to the courtroom wolves with no preparation. No social worker should have to go through that,' says Janet Vogelsang, author of The Witness Stand. Few colleges of social work prepare their students for the inevitable involvement with the courts entailed by their profession. This timely book provides you with a blueprint for presenting yourself as a competent and credible professional in court cases. This indispensable guide tells exactly what happens in court, how to counter common strategies for discrediting your profession, and what to do when your client's attorney is obnoxious. The Witness Stand emphasizes the biopsychosocial assessment as the essential tool for a social worker called on to testify in court. Its helpful features include sample forms and affidavits and actual court testimony. The end-of-chapter summaries can be used for rapid review and as a 'to do' checklist for preparing a court case.The Witness Stand offers practical, detailed advice on such matters as: how the legal system works how to handle contacts with attorneys and investigators what to do with documents and files how to prepare your testimony how to handle direct testimony and cross-examination how to define your social work expertise on the stand what to wear when you go to courtThe Witness Stand can help you deal with the anxiety-provoking complexities of the legal system. Instead of being confused or intimidated by legal arcana, you will be well-prepared, well-organized, and ready to present yourself as the confident, reliable professional you are.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - explores the meaning of equality and freedom in (global) ed. and relationship to universal rights to ed. Specifically, how ed. rights vary between civilizations. Focuses on Confucian, Islamic, Western, and Hindu civilizations.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Describes infrastructure components and outlines economic concepts that explain how and why IT adds value. This book also includes seminal perspectives on why IT supports community policing, and how public policing is changing to a knowledge-based profession.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Sadigh (psychology, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA) argues that stress is intertwined with chronic pain and sleep deprivation, and that reducing stress must therefore be a large part of any treatment for fibromyalgia, chronic pain, and related disorders. His guide for clinicians outlines the techniques and uses of autogenic training, a series o.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A detailed account of the biology and ecology of vascular wetland plants and their applications in wetland plant science, Wetland Plants: Biology and Ecology presents a synthesis of wetland plant studies and reviews from plant biology, plant physiology, evolution, genetics, community and population ecology, environmental science, and engineering. It contains up-to-date information for anyone planning research, writing grant proposals, or designing research protocols. Over 140 figures allow readers to visualize the concepts, and 40 tables give easy access to definitions and data. International examples provide a broad base of information.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Image registration is the process of systematically placing separate images in a common frame of reference so that the information they contain can be optimally integrated or compared. This monograph details the theory, technology, and practical implementations in a variety of medical settings.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The lingo of soil science is a language unto itself. This book includes over 4,000 terms and definitions derived from sources in soil science, geography, biochemistry, applied ecology, microbiology, and remote sensing. It also provides 60 detailed illustrations, appendices for SI units, and tables on soil classification.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Drawing together contributions from the leading experts in biogeography and biodiversity, this book introduces patterns and new developments that add to our understanding of how plants and animals are dispersed in the region. It uses the new techniques of molecular systematics to test older studies based strictly on morphological data. Unique in its inclusion of a wide variety of organisms and in its coordination of scientific data and conservation strategies, Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives, Second Edition provides the only encyclopedic discussion available on the biogeography of the Antilles.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Describes preparation techniques of protein-based surfactants (PBS) in the laboratory by a variety of chemical and enzymatic means, production by using different types of amino acids, and marketplace applications of PBS in medical and personal care products, detergents, cosmetics, antimicrobial agents, and foods.'.