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Work on female drinking and female drug and alcohol abuse is
proliferating because interest and productivity in alcohol research
has expanded. In this work, the editors' primary focus is on the
abuse of alcohol, its biological effects, behavioral effects,
abuses, and problems. This book updates where this field is at the
moment. The first five chapters deal with basic issues of biology,
epidemology, and anthropology. The next five chapters deal with
substance abuse including antecedents, consequences, comorbidity,
fetal effects, special populations, and illicit drug use. Two
chapters which follow are concerned with related disorders, that
is, smoking and eating disorders. The final chapters cover
treatment and prevention.
This provocative and controversial book challenges a number of
widely held ideas in the alcohol/drug field by critically
evaluating the bases of these ideas. The field of alcohol/drug
studies is fraught with conflict and controversy, and each
generation of researchers and practitioners seems to have its own
special areas of conflict. In this new volume, experts focus on a
number of important issues of current interest and controversy. Is
alcoholism a "disease" or is it not? Should federal bans on drugs
like heroin and cocaine be removed and will that solve, modify, or
exacerbate the problem? Can the risk for alcoholism really be
predicted?Professionals from a very wide variety of
disciplines--medicine and biochemistry, psychiatry and psychology,
philosophy, anthropology, law, social work, and journalism--present
their very differing points of view on the perception of alcoholism
as a disease and on public policy issues like proposed legislative
controls over alcoholic beverages. Current Issues in Alcohol/Drug
Studies touches upon a number of questions that will be of interest
both to people in alcohol/drug research and in alcohol/drug
treatment and prevention. Because it will undoubtedly stimulate
further investigation and debate, researchers and policymakers will
also find it useful.
This text examines the publishing industry from an international
perspective reflecting the growing interdependency of the
publishing world.
'The book under review is indeed a guide, and a practical one too,
but it is not only for engineers and physical scientists - it is
useful to all those who communicate technical information or need
to and want to do the job well. The book achieves the objectives:
every PhD student may not want to read the book, but should - and
will not regret it.'European Science EditingRead this book before
you write your thesis or journal paper! Communicating Science is a
textbook and reference on scientific writing oriented primarily at
researchers in the physical sciences and engineering. It is written
from the perspective of an experienced researcher. It draws on the
authors' experience of teaching and working with both native
English speakers and English as a Second Language (ESL) writers.
For the range of topics covered, this book is relatively short and
tersely written, in order to appeal to busy
researchers.Communicating Science offers comprehensive guidance on:
Graduate students and early career researchers will be guided
through the researcher's basic communication tasks: writing theses,
journal papers, and internal reports, presenting lectures and
posters, and preparing research proposals. Extensive best practice
examples and analyses of common problems are presented. Advanced
researchers who aim to commercialize their research results will be
introduced to business plans and patents, so that they can
communicate optimally with patent attorneys and business analysts.
Likewise, advanced researchers will be assisted in conveying the
results of their research to the industrial and business community,
governmental circles, and the general public in the chapter on
popular media. Researchers at all levels will find the chapter on
CV's and job hunting helpful. The Writing Well chapter will assist
researchers to improve their English usage in scientific writing.
This chapter is oriented both at native English speakers, who have
an intuitive command of English but often lack formal instruction
on grammar and structure, and non-native English writers, who often
have had formal instruction but lack intuitive grasp of what sounds
good.Mentors will find the book a useful tool for systematically
guiding their students in their early writing efforts. If your
students read this book first, you will save time! Communicating
Science may serve as a textbook for graduate level courses in
scientific writing.
'The book under review is indeed a guide, and a practical one too,
but it is not only for engineers and physical scientists - it is
useful to all those who communicate technical information or need
to and want to do the job well. The book achieves the objectives:
every PhD student may not want to read the book, but should - and
will not regret it.'European Science EditingRead this book before
you write your thesis or journal paper! Communicating Science is a
textbook and reference on scientific writing oriented primarily at
researchers in the physical sciences and engineering. It is written
from the perspective of an experienced researcher. It draws on the
authors' experience of teaching and working with both native
English speakers and English as a Second Language (ESL) writers.
For the range of topics covered, this book is relatively short and
tersely written, in order to appeal to busy
researchers.Communicating Science offers comprehensive guidance on:
Graduate students and early career researchers will be guided
through the researcher's basic communication tasks: writing theses,
journal papers, and internal reports, presenting lectures and
posters, and preparing research proposals. Extensive best practice
examples and analyses of common problems are presented. Advanced
researchers who aim to commercialize their research results will be
introduced to business plans and patents, so that they can
communicate optimally with patent attorneys and business analysts.
Likewise, advanced researchers will be assisted in conveying the
results of their research to the industrial and business community,
governmental circles, and the general public in the chapter on
popular media. Researchers at all levels will find the chapter on
CV's and job hunting helpful. The Writing Well chapter will assist
researchers to improve their English usage in scientific writing.
This chapter is oriented both at native English speakers, who have
an intuitive command of English but often lack formal instruction
on grammar and structure, and non-native English writers, who often
have had formal instruction but lack intuitive grasp of what sounds
good.Mentors will find the book a useful tool for systematically
guiding their students in their early writing efforts. If your
students read this book first, you will save time! Communicating
Science may serve as a textbook for graduate level courses in
scientific writing.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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