Why Children Make Up Stories is an exploration in recognizing the underlying reasons children make up stories, respond to questions, and describe situations from the reality of their viewpoints. Social workers, psychologists and counselors, child protective specialists, and law enforcement officers can use this book as a guide when they are investigating cases with children and writing reports. The book is very useful to those dealing with false-memory syndrome and its effects.

This book is written to draw attention to some of the concerns and problems that teachers have in dealing with technology issues. The chapters of the book are designed with a practical approach. Professionals and educators have the opportunity to respond to prompts on what technology means in the school setting. There is an excellent chapter in the book designed to help education professionals plan teacher technology inservice training. The book also contains technological phrases that will help teachers in writing reports and developing grant proposals in the technology area. A highlight of the book is in the final chapter where there are two hundred questions of things teachers would like to know about technology in the educational setting.

The at-risk population is a growing segment of the American school population and one demanding the utmost from its teachers and program coordinators. Dr. Peterson's book is a welcome addition - straight forwards, though honest and hopefull of powerful ideas for class use.

This is a user-friendly (and extensively tested) tool for educational researchers, whether students, faculty or researchers. It focuses on helpful phrases and concepts needed in the writing of research papers, articles, grant proposals, theses and doctoral dissertations.

This important new study traces a sociologist's search for meaning using biography and interview in the ever changing world of feminism. Reflecting on her life experiences, the author examines how her own views of feminism have changed through life cycle events and a dual career marriage. She seeks to define feminism in a broad sense and to understand its confusion. The author analyzes the anger often associated with feminism. Peterson takes into account how women gain a realization about feminism by internalizing, expressing and reexamining their views on feminism.