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Alcohol misuse presents a major risk for health and well-being
throughout the life-span, but youth have a special vulnerability.
Alcohol is the most widely used drug by adolescents. For some, this
may be one or two isolated occasions of youthful experimentation;
for others, the use becomes excessive, placing them in danger of
immediate adverse consequences such as accidental injury and
alcohol poisoning, or encouraging other high-risk behavior patterns
including unprotected sex. Moreover, a pattern of heavy drinking
established in adolescence and young adulthood may continue into an
adult pattern of alcohol abuse.
Concerned communities and institutions across the nation are
tackling the problem of alcohol use and abuse by young people.
Research-based knowledge is urgently needed to inform these efforts
and to ensure that limited prevention resources are used as
effectively as possible. The origins of youthful alcohol use and
abuse are found within the complex interplay of individual
characteristics, family and peer influences, the larger societal
context for alcohol use, environmental conditions, and maturational
processes that accompany adolescence.
This volume, which began as a special issue of the "Journal of
Research on Adolescence," contains all of the material from the
journal issue plus additional chapters. It helps researchers to
meet the tremendous challenge of disentangling the key determinants
of risk, and developing effective interventions. Primary sources of
influence on youthful alcohol use are described, ranging from
individual expectancies about alcohol effects and cognitive
decision processes to parenting practices, peer influences, social
environments, and economic factors; and a corresponding range of
prevention interventions is discussed. This book will serve as a
primer to those with an interest in developing and improving
effective programs and activities to reduce alcohol-related
problems among young people. For those engaged in prevention
research, the text will provide useful reviews and current findings
that should aid in directing future research activities.
Shahzia Sikanderis one of the most influential artists working
today. This lively volume presents her powerful early work (1987 to
2003) from South Asian, West Asian, and Western perspectives,
illuminating new understandings for a wide audience. Pioneering
Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander is widely celebrated for
expanding and subverting miniature painting to explore gender roles
and sexuality, cultural identity, racial and other underrepresented
narratives, and colonial and postcolonial histories.
ExtraordinaryRealitiesdoes what no other publication has done by
examining her work from 1987 to 2003, charting her early
development as an artist in Lahore and the United States, and
reclaiming her critical role in bringing miniature painting into
dialogue with contemporary art, especially in Pakistan,
international art discourse of the 1990s, and contemporary global
practices and debates.
Richard Brown Baker (1912-2002) began collecting works by emerging
artists in the 1940s, becoming one of the first collectors to
actively embrace both Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art and
eventually amassing more than 1,600 works from the postwar period.
Represented among these are groundbreakingAmerican artists such as
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Morris,
Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, and James Rosenquist, as well
as European and Asian artists such as Alberto Burri, Jean Dubuffet,
Georges Mathieu, Kurt Schwitters, and Jiro Yoshihara. Baker
bequeathed the majority of his collection to the Yale University
Art Gallery, and the balance to the Museum of Art, Rhode Island
School of Design.Highlighting 130 works, this is the first complete
history of Baker's important collection. Essays by renowned art
historians Thomas Crow, Serge Guilbaut, Robert Storr, and others
contextualize each of the five decades of Baker's collecting
efforts, while entries on individual artists illustrate the
remarkable scope of Baker's holdings. Throughout the publication,
firsthand accounts from Baker's extensive personal journals
describe his collecting activities within the dynamic New York art
scene of the day.
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