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Suicide is now the third leading cause of death among adolescents
in the United States, and some studies suggest that as many as 75
percent of all teenagers have considered killing themselves.
Current research on young people who are suicidal (those who
attempt and those who succeed) is discussed in a plain way. Among
the wide ranging topics covered are the prevalence of adolescent
suicide, racial and gender differences, methods used in the study
of suicidal behavior, associated behavioral problems (e.g., drugs
and alcohol), psychological profiles, precipitating events for
suicide attempts, teenage suicide clusters, the effects of suicide
on family and friends, the treatment of suicidal adolescents, and,
most importantly, strategies for intervention and prevention.
Bridging Cultures explores the experiences of international women
faculty as they acculturate to the US academy. In a series of
memoirs shaped by multiple disciplinary perspectives, these women
reflect on their gendered personal experiences as "ex-pat" faculty
members and set their stories within the larger context of American
higher education's increasingly international character. Response
pieces by scholars drawn from a range of fields and institutional
settings situate this project within diverse frameworks. The
response pieces will inform and educate faculty, students, and
administrators interested in shaping the culture of the academy
today. With an introduction focused on their interdisciplinary
feminist methodology, an epilogue revisiting the collaborative
strategies employed throughout their project, and a set of
generative discussion questions, the editors provide numerous tools
to support related research and teaching. They also provide a means
for professional development for both faculty and administrators.
Click here to see excerpts from the book featured in the Journal of
Transnational American Studies.
Since the publication of the first edition in 1993, there have been
important developments in the public's understanding of depression
and in the various approaches to treating the disorder. This new
edition reflects these new realities, giving increased emphasis to
the biological foundations of depression, the development of and
wide use of antidepressant drugs, the shift in the means of
dispensing these drugs from mental health professionals to primary
care physicians, and the development of alternative medicine
approaches to treatment.Written in an easy-to-read manner, the book
provides a wide-ranging picture of what is known about depressed
moods and depression. This section examines the disorder's
demographic, biological, and psychological aspects, considers its
antecedents in childhood experiences, evaluates the role of stress
in bringing on depression, and looks at the disorder's relation to
alcohol and drug abuse. The latter part of the book is devoted to
treatment, providing thorough discussions of antidepressant
medicines, psychotherapy, and electroconvulsive therapy. It
concludes with a discussion of the troublesome issue of recurrence,
presenting some views about how to lessen this risk.
The dynamics of 21st century life have created a social environment
full of stressful situations. The American Psychological
Association claims that stress in the workplace has reached a
critical point, and psychological surveys find that the most common
aspects our lives, such as relationships and daily activities, are
those that cause the greatest degrees of stress. This book provides
a comprehensive look at what professionals know about coping with
stress, drawing upon statistical analysis to assert which methods
of coping seem to be effective and which do not. The book begins
with a discussion of the nature of stress, looking at the effects
of stress in daily life, considering some of the ways researchers
study stress, and examining how the human body reacts to stressful
events. The study then turns to the ways psychologists
conceptualize, measure and study coping mechanisms, and to specific
techniques, concentrating on those that have proven to be most
effective, such as improving basic interpersonal skills and
polishing defense maneuvers for dealing with stress. For
individuals considering professional help, the final chapters
present some basic information about medications, psychotherapy and
alternative medicine approaches.
Our dreams fascinate us as individuals and as a society. What do
surveys report people dream about? How about the dreams of the
blind? The mentally ill? What does research show about the
possibility of dream telepathy? How did the ancient people view
dreams? This wide-ranging book also discusses such topics as REM
studies, the effects of experimental stimulation on dream content,
research on dreams and creativity, symbolism, and nightmares. The
book explores a number of techniques used to analyze dreams,
illustrating these approaches with dream examples and case studies.
Violence has been a part of the human condition for a long time.
Evidence from the distant past of hominids shows traces of violence
inflicted by other hominids. The history of our own species has
more than its share of violent encounters--sometimes rising to the
level of sheer brutality. Indeed, the examples of human inhumanity
are so numerous and so diverse, one might entertain the thesis that
violence is hardwired, as it were, into the genetic makeup of our
species. The thesis underlying this book is that in order to better
understand violence, it is important to examine anger and
aggression and the interrelationship among the three concepts.
Feelings of anger often precede aggressive and violent acts. If we
learn how to control anger better, we can expect a reduction in
violent acts. And aggression itself may be channeled into behaviors
which can be useful rather than destructive. This book addresses
the problem of anger by using an interdisciplinary approach,
drawing on research from psychology, anthropology, sociology and
history as well as statistical data provided by criminologists.
If you are interested-even curious about your nightly dreams and
you would like to know what researchers from psychology and
neuroscience can now tell us about dreams, this is your book. The
author, a dream researcher himself, has published many studies on
dreams and has been a practicing psychotherapist as well. Open the
book and you will see that it is very readable. The science is
presented in a non-technical question-and-answer format. Want to
know about dreaming in color, what affects your recall of dreams,
what most people dream about, those puzzling, sometimes troubling
recurrent dreams, the experience of lucid dreaming, or the new
advances in the treatment of nightmares? It's all in here, along
with a discussion of the approaches that have been used to try to
interpret dreams-- from the ancient Assyrian dictionaries uncovered
by archaeologists to modern dream dictionaries, to the free
association technique of Sigmund Freud, the different approach
offered by Carl Jung and the explorations of the author in using
real incidents that are brought to mind by dreams, probing their
meaning to the individual in an objective way-a technique that has
been successfully used in research studies.
To what extent did the Gothic haunt the nineteenth century? Victorian Gothic seeks to answer this question as it introduces the reader to a timely revision of notions of the Gothic in all its manifestations. The Gothic is found to haunt all aspects of Victorian literature and culture. Moreover, Victorian Gothic connects its disparate areas of research in returning repeatedly to the question of the constitution of the subject, in a study of the Victorians from the 1830s to the 1890s.
This collection of essays studies the depiction of contemporary
urban space in twenty-first century Latin American fiction. The
contributors to this volume seek to understand the characteristics
that make the representation of the postmodern city in a Latin
American context unique. The chapters focus on cities from a wide
variety of countries in the region, highlighting the cultural and
political effects of neoliberalism and globalization in the
contemporary urban scene. Twenty-first century authors share an
interest for images of ruins and dystopian landscapes and their
view of the damaging effects of the global market in Latin America
tends to be pessimistic. As the book demonstrates, however, utopian
elements or "spaces of hope" can also be found in these narrations,
which suggest the possibility of transforming a
capitalist-dominated living space.
This collection of essays studies the depiction of contemporary
urban space in twenty-first century Latin American fiction. The
contributors to this volume seek to understand the characteristics
that make the representation of the postmodern city in a Latin
American context unique. The chapters focus on cities from a wide
variety of countries in the region, highlighting the cultural and
political effects of neoliberalism and globalization in the
contemporary urban scene. Twenty-first century authors share an
interest for images of ruins and dystopian landscapes and their
view of the damaging effects of the global market in Latin America
tends to be pessimistic. As the book demonstrates, however, utopian
elements or "spaces of hope" can also be found in these narrations,
which suggest the possibility of transforming a
capitalist-dominated living space.
Human hair is the subject of a remarkably wide range of scientific
investigations. Its chemical and physical properties are of
importance to the cosmetics industry, forensic scientists and to
biomedical researchers. The fifth edition of this book confirms its
position as the definitive monograph on the subject. Previous
editions were recognized as "concise and thorough" (Journal of the
American Chemical Society), "an invaluable resource" (Canadian
Forensic Science Society Journal), and "highly recommended"
(Textile Research Journal). Chemical and Physical Behavior of Human
Hair is a teaching guide and reference volume for cosmetic chemists
and other scientists in the hair products industry, academic
researchers studying hair and hair growth, textile scientists and
forensic specialists. Features of the Fifth Edition: Recent
advances in the classification and characterization of the
different proteins and genes in IF and keratin associated proteins
in human hair are described. The mechanism and incidence of hair
growth and loss and hair density vs. age of males & females are
described for Asians, Caucasians and Africans in different scalp
regions. Details of hair surface lipids and cuticle membranes
provide a better understanding of the surface and organization of
the CMC and its involvement in stress strain is presented. Recent
evidence demonstrates a more bilateral structure in curly hair and
a more concentric arrangement of different cortical proteins in
straighter hair. SNPs involved in hair form (curl and coarseness)
and pigmentation and genes in alopecia and hair abnormalities are
described. The latest biosynthetic scheme for hair pigments and
structures for these and the different response of red versus
brown-black pigments to photodegradation is described. A new method
for curvature on 2,400 persons from different countries and groups
is used to assign curvature throughout this book. Additional data
for age and effects on diameter, ellipticity, elastic modulus,
break stress and other parameters are presented with much larger
data sets featuring statistical analyses. Hair conditioning,
strength, breakage, split ends, flyaway, shine, combing ease, body,
style retention, manageability and feel parameters are defined and
described. A new section of different life stages by age groups
considering collective and individual changes in hair fiber
properties with age and how these affect assembly properties.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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The purpose of this study is to examine the feasibility and
usefulness of applying Duty Module methodology in the front-end
analysis of the Regular Course, U.S. Army Command and General Staff
College (CGSC). A Duty Module is a cluster of related job tasks
that tend to go together organizationally and occupationally in
meaningful ways. Duty Modules were designed for use by U.S.
Department of the Army, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel
planners in matching personnel with Officer Personnel Management
System (OPMS) job requirements. Duty Modules and their associated
data of task criticality, level and time of performance can assist
the curriculum designer in establishing a need for training and
allocating resources to support the curriculum. The study attempts
to correlate the application of Duty Module concepts at CGSC with
the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) requirements
for systems engineering of the CGSC curriculum using the TRADOC
Instructional Systems Development (ISD) Model. A front-end analysis
model using Duty Modules and the ISD process is developed and
applied to structuring the CGSC curriculum. Comparisons of this
hypothetical curriculum and the current one are made to include
discussion of strengths and weaknesses of both. The study concludes
that the application of Duty Module concepts to the CGSC curriculum
is both feasible and useful. Their use would significantly increase
the ability to identify curriculum needs and define the CGSC
output, both critical elements in resource justification.
Additional curriculum improvements would result in more efficient
resource allocation, reduction of subject matter duplication, and
better use of student academic hours to support OPMS specialties;
however, Duty Modules do not identify all training needs for course
development and are in need of technical refinement.
Recommendations include further development of Duty Module
methodology with emphasis on the application to curriculum design
at CGSC.
Syndicated columnist, Harry Ellison, who lives with Sergeant Debbie
Simmons of the Washington, D. C. Metropolitan Police Department,
has a penchant for becoming involved in unusual murder mysteries.
But, the case that began with a telephone call from his niece,
Stephanie, a doctoral student in music, may be the most bizzare
case of all. Recently returned from Vienna where she was doing
research on her doctoral dissertation on Franz Schubert, Stephanie
finds herself stalked by a person, unknown, while working in the
Library of Congress. The person leaves her fragments of musical
notation that appear to be the missing part of an unfinished
Schubert composition. The music is unmistakably Schubert's in
style, but is it authentic or the opening gambit in an elaborate
scam? And, how do these musical fragments relate to the unexplained
deaths of three renowned Schubert scholars? When Harry and Debbie
begin their investigation, they encounter deception, danger, and
ultimately must match wits with a diabolical killer.
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
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To what extent did the Gothic haunt the nineteenth century?
Victorian Gothic seeks to answer this as it introduces the reader
to a timely revision of notions of the Gothic in all its
manifestations. The Gothic is found to haunt all aspects of
Victorian literature and culture. Moreover, Victorian Gothic
connects its disparate areas of research in returning repeatedly to
the question of the constitution of the subject, in a study of the
Victorians from the 1830s to the 1890s.
To what extent did the Gothic haunt the nineteenth century?
Victorian Gothic seeks to answer this as it introduces the reader
to a timely revision of notions of the Gothic in all its
manifestations. The Gothic is found to haunt all aspects of
Victorian literature and culture. Moreover, Victorian Gothic
connects its disparate areas of research in returning repeatedly to
the question of the constitution of the subject, in a study of the
Victorians from the 1830s to the 1890s.
This insightful book introduces the most important trends, people,
events, and products of popular culture in Latin America and the
Caribbean. In recent times, Latin American influences have
permeated American culture through music, movies, television, and
literature. This sweeping volume serves as a ready-reference guide
to pop culture in Central America, South America, and the
Caribbean, focusing on Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Haiti,
Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Costa Rica, among other
areas. The work encourages hands-on engagement with the popular
culture in these places, making such suggestions as Brazilian films
to rent or where to find Venezuelan music on the Internet. To
start, the book covers various perspectives and issues of these
regions, including the influence of the United States, how the idea
of machismo reflects on the portrayal of women in these societies,
and the representation of Latino-Caribo cultures in film and other
mediums. Entries cover key trends, people, events, and products
from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. Each
section gives detailed information and profound insights into some
of the more academic-and often controversial-debates on the
subject, while the inclusion of the Internet, social media, and
video games make the book timely and relevant. Explores
controversial issues like censorship, gender, cultural imperialism,
and globalization Allows for cross-cultural comparisons between
Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States Enables quick
access to areas of interest through well-organized entries and
helpful topic introductions Features a discussion on the influence
of modern technologies-the Internet, social media, and video
games-in Latin American cultures Provides substantial citations and
references on each element of popular culture
This work aims to explain and examine the processes by which
Slovenia transformed itself from a constituent part of a socialist
federation, dominated by a single party, to an independent state
with a liberal democratic political system and a free enterprise
economy.
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