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This Encyclopedia is a reference work about young children in the
USA, designed for use by policy makers, community planners, parents
of young children, teacher and early childhood educators, programme
and school administrators, among others. The field of early
childhood education has been affected by changes taking place in
the nation's economy, demographics, schools, communities and
families that influence political and professional decisions. These
diverse historical, political economic, socio-cultural,
intellectual and educational influences on early childhood
education have hindered the development of a clear definition of
the field. The Encyclopedia provides an opportunity to define the
field against the background of these influences and relates the
field of early childhood education to its diverse contexts and to
the cultural and technological resources currently affecting it.
Just as Jacob wrestled with God in his long desert night's
dream, author Leslie Williams has experienced many late-night
wrestling sessions of her own. With piercing honesty and refreshing
transparency, "Night Wrestling" shares the deep unsettling
questions that can rob us of peace. More importantly, she offers
hope of God's grace and mercy for those truly seeking His face.
An English translation from Greek of Justin Martyr's two major
apologetic works, which are recognized as a formative influence on
the development of Christian theology in the early church.
This Encyclopedia is a reference work about young children in
the USA, designed for use by policy makers, community planners,
parents of young children, teacher and early childhood educators,
programme and school administrators, among others. The field of
early childhood education has been affected by changes taking place
in the nation s economy, demographics, schools, communities and
families that influence political and professional decisions. These
diverse historical, political economic, socio-cultural,
intellectual and educational influences on early childhood
education have hindered the development of a clear definition of
the field. The Encyclopedia provides an opportunity to define the
field against the background of these influences and relates the
field of early childhood education to its diverse contexts and to
the cultural and technological resources currently affecting
it.
One of the major Latin American writers of the twentieth century.
This book offers discussion and analysis of the subtle writing of
Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez - a traditionalist who draws
from classic Western texts, a Modernist committed to modernizing
the conservative literary tradition in Colombia and Latin America,
an internationally recognized major writer of the 1960s Boom, the
key figure in popularizing what has been called "magic realism"
and, finally, a Modernist who has occasionally engaged in some
ofthe strategies of the postmodern. The author demonstrates that
Garcia Marquez is above all a committed and highly accomplished
Modernist fiction writer who has successfully synthesized his
political vision in his writing and absorbed a vast array of
cultural and literary traditions. Drawing on Garcia Marquez's
interviews with Williams and others over the years, the book also
explores the importance of the non-literary, the presence of oral
tradition and the visual arts, thus providing a more complete
insight into Garcia Marquez's strategies as a Modernist with
heterogeneous aesthetic interests, as well as an understanding of
his social and political preoccupations. RAYMOND LESLIE WILLIAMS is
Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of
California, Riverside.
Quantitative Anthropology: A Workbook contributes an
anthropological perspective to quantitative methods. The book's
authors address characteristics of quantitative data, entering and
manipulating data in SPSS, graphical displays, distributions and
measures of central tendency and dispersion, and including
hypothesis testing with both parametric and nonparametric
statistical tests. Increasingly complex exercises build on
cumulative learning from chapter to chapter and stress the
application of methods beyond coursework. The focus of the manual
is on univariate statistical analysis, and the book is written to
be accessible to higher level undergraduate students and graduate
students in all fields of anthropology.
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