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Book Turmoil and Transition in Boston

Download or read book Turmoil and Transition in Boston written by Lawrence DiCara and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the personal and political story of Larry DiCara, the youngest person ever elected to the Boston City Council. In this memoir, he offers an insider's perspective on the decade of turmoil of the 1970s surrounding the federal court order mandating busing to integrate Boston Public Schools.

Book The Promise of Adolescence

    Book Details:
  • Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2019-07-26
  • ISBN : 0309490111
  • Pages : 493 pages

Download or read book The Promise of Adolescence written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolescenceâ€"beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20sâ€"is a critical period of development during which key areas of the brain mature and develop. These changes in brain structure, function, and connectivity mark adolescence as a period of opportunity to discover new vistas, to form relationships with peers and adults, and to explore one's developing identity. It is also a period of resilience that can ameliorate childhood setbacks and set the stage for a thriving trajectory over the life course. Because adolescents comprise nearly one-fourth of the entire U.S. population, the nation needs policies and practices that will better leverage these developmental opportunities to harness the promise of adolescenceâ€"rather than focusing myopically on containing its risks. This report examines the neurobiological and socio-behavioral science of adolescent development and outlines how this knowledge can be applied, both to promote adolescent well-being, resilience, and development, and to rectify structural barriers and inequalities in opportunity, enabling all adolescents to flourish.

Book  I Know What s Next

    Book Details:
  • Author : Betsy Evans
  • Publisher : High/Scope Foundation
  • Release : 2007-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781573792974
  • Pages : 115 pages

Download or read book I Know What s Next written by Betsy Evans and published by High/Scope Foundation. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides guidelines that help teachers understand transitions from the child's point of view, along with a host of strategies, songs, games, and other experiences that are useful for particular transitions. Included are ideas for drop-off and pickup times; the times before and after each part of the daily routine, including wait times; cleanup time; room-to-room transitions; and the transition to kindergarten. Also offered are parent handouts, real-life transition scenarios, photos, and illustrations with adult-child dialogues depicting contrasting approaches to transitions.

Book Albania s Economy in Transition and Turmoil 1990 97

Download or read book Albania s Economy in Transition and Turmoil 1990 97 written by Anthony Clunies-Ross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, the contents of this book is the result of a series of studies by several Albanian scholars, in cooperation with contributors of differing nationalities, on various aspects of the Albanian economy during its ‘transition to market’. This study’s multiple aim is to provide an accessible body of information for outsiders interested in Albania ; to provide locally based teaching material for Albanian economics students; and to also clarify policy issues.

Book Turmoil and Transition

Download or read book Turmoil and Transition written by Philip G. Altbach and published by New York : Basic Books. This book was released on 1969 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Teens in Turmoil

Download or read book Teens in Turmoil written by Carol Maxym and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines teen culture both inside and outside of the home; tells the stories of families who have become involved in downward spirals; offers advice on how parents can take positive steps on behalf of their teens and themselves; and includes a guide to making decisions about selecting appropriate placement programs for teens.

Book Socdem

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin T. Tolosa
  • Publisher : Ateneo de Manila University Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9789715350334
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Socdem written by Benjamin T. Tolosa and published by Ateneo de Manila University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because a full-fledged study of Filipino social democracy has not been undertaken before, this effort at collective story-telling is valuable in itself as a way to recover political tradition. The study also aims to document the history of Filipino social democracy both as an ideology (a social vision appropriate to Philippine conditions) and as a political movement (the organizations who have espoused it and their political praxis, including efforts at coalition building). From these stories, we can draw out distinctive themes and learning experiences that have relevance not just from the perspective of the past, but also for renewing political education and engagement at present.

Book Transitions

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  • Author : William Bridges
  • Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
  • Release : 2004-08-11
  • ISBN : 0738211427
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book Transitions written by William Bridges and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2004-08-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling guide for coping with changes in life and work, named one of the 50 all-time best books in self-help and personal development Whether you choose it or it is thrust upon you, change brings both opportunities and turmoil. Since Transitions was first published, this supportive guide has helped hundreds of thousands of readers cope with these issues by providing an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful roadmap of the transition process. With the understanding born of both personal and professional experience, William Bridges takes readers step by step through the three stages of any transition: The Ending, The Neutral Zone, and, eventually, The New Beginning. Bridges explains how each stage can be understood and embraced, leading to meaningful and productive movement into a hopeful future. With a new introduction highlighting how the advice in the book continues to apply and is perhaps even more relevant today, and a new chapter devoted to change in the workplace, Transitions will remain the essential guide for coping with the one constant in life: change.

Book The Little Book of Child and Adolescent Development

Download or read book The Little Book of Child and Adolescent Development written by Karen J. Gilmore and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Book of Child and Adolescent Development presents a modern, psychoanalytically-informed summary of how the mind develops from infancy through young adulthood. It is a comprehensive work that integrates analytic theories with a contemporary systems model of development, and also draws on scholarly research from neighboring fields. Key models discussed include attachment theory, intersubjective theory, cognitive development theory, and infancy research. This book's contemporary approach to development makes it relevant to such timely topics as bullying, the experience of LGBT youth, preadolescent and adolescent use of the internet, and the struggles of young (emerging) adults in modern society. Written to optimize ease of use for the busy clinician, key clinical points are summarized at the end of each chapter, and a glossary of important concepts and terminology is also included. The text will be valuable for psychiatric residents, psychoanalytic candidates and faculty, and graduate students who would benefit from a quick and concise review of the developmental trajectory.

Book Game Theory and Applications

Download or read book Game Theory and Applications written by V. V. Mazalov and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together papers of well-known specialists in game theory and adjacent problems. It presents the basic results in dynamic games, stochastic games, applications of game theoretical methods in ecology and economics and methodological aspects of game theory.

Book Truth and Transitional Justice

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  • Author : Alice Panepinto
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2022-02-24
  • ISBN : 1509921273
  • Pages : 445 pages

Download or read book Truth and Transitional Justice written by Alice Panepinto and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a unique transitional justice perspective on the Arab Spring, this book assesses the relocation of transitional justice from the international paradigm to Islamic legal systems. The Arab uprisings and new and old conflicts in the Middle East, North Africa and other contexts where Islam is a prominent religion have sparked an interest in localising transitional justice in the legal systems of Muslim-majority communities to uncover the truth about past abuse and ensure accountability for widespread human rights violations. This raises pressing questions around how the international paradigm of transitional justice, and in particular its truth-seeking aims, might be implemented and adapted to local settings characterised by Muslim majority populations, and at the same time drawing from relevant norms and principles of Islamic law. This book offers a critical analysis of the relocation of transitional justice from the international paradigm to the legal systems of Muslim-majority societies in light of the inherently pluralistic realities of these contexts. It also investigates synergies between international law and Islamic law in furthering truth-seeking, the formation of collective memories and the victims' right to know the truth, as key aims of the international paradigm of transitional justice and broadly supported by the shari'ah. This book will be a useful reference for scholars, practitioners and policymakers seeking to better understand the normative underpinnings of (potential) transitional truth-seeking initiatives in the legal systems of Muslim-majority societies. At the same time, it also proposes a more critical and creative way of thinking about the challenges and opportunities of localising transitional justice in contexts where the principles and ideas of Islamic law carry different meanings.

Book Albania s Economy in Transition and Turmoil  1990 97

Download or read book Albania s Economy in Transition and Turmoil 1990 97 written by Anthony Clunies Ross and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work draws attention to the distinctive features of Albania's transition as well as those it shares with other Central and East European economies. The distinctive features include: very low income base; large proportion of the work force in agriculture; rapid restoration of macroeconomic stability (stable exchange rate and low inflation); large proportion of working-age population emigrated; and quite exceptionally high economic growth in the last four years to December 1997. It examines the inter-relationships of these features, including an account and tentative analysis of the events of 1997, with an attempt to explain why the failed financial institutions (again without parallels elsewhere in the ex-Communist state) existed and behaved as they did.

Book The Teen Years Explained

Download or read book The Teen Years Explained written by Clea McNeely and published by Jayne Blanchard. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide incorporates the latest scientific findings about physical, emotional, cognitive, identity formation, sexual and spiritual development in adolescent, with tips and strategies on how to use this information inreal-life situations involving teens.

Book Transitions

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Bridges
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9780738285917
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Transitions written by William Bridges and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating 40 years of the best-selling guide for coping with life's changes, named one of the 50 all-time best books in self-help and personal development -- with a new Discussion Guide for readers, written by Susan Bridges and aimed at today's current people and organizations facing unprecedented change First published in 1980, Transitions was the first book to explore the underlying and universal pattern of transition. Named one of the fifty most important self-help books of all time, Transitions remains the essential guide for coping with the inevitable changes in life. Transitions takes readers step-by-step through the three perilous stages of any transition, explaining how each stage can be understood and embraced. The book offers an elegant, simple, yet profoundly insightful roadmap to navigate change and move into a hopeful future: -Endings. Every transition begins with one. Too often we misunderstand them, confuse them with finality -- that's it, all over, finished! Yet the way we think about endings is key to how we can begin anew.-The Neutral Zone. The second hurdle: a seemingly unproductive time-out when we feel disconnected from people and things in the past, and emotionally unconnected to the present. Actually, the neutral zone is a time of reorientation. How can we make the most of it' -The New Beginning. We come to beginnings only at the end, when we launch new activities. To make a successful new beginning requires more than simply persevering. It requires an understanding of the external signs and inner signals that point the way to the future.

Book Risks and Opportunities

    Book Details:
  • Author : National Research Council and Institute of Medicine
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 1999-11-16
  • ISBN : 0309172462
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Risks and Opportunities written by National Research Council and Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-11-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report constitutes one of the first activities of the Forum on Adolescence, a cross-cutting activity of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council of the National Academies. Established under the auspices of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families, the forum's overaching mission is to synthesize, analyze, and evaluate scientific research on critical national issues that relate to youth and their families, as well as to disseminate research and its policy and programmatic implications. The goals of the forum are to: (1) review and establish the science base on adolescent health and development and make efforts to foster this development; (2) identify new directions and support for research in this area, approaching research as a resource to be developed cumulatively over time; (3) showcase new research, programs, and policies that have demonstrated promise in improving the health and well-being of adolescents; (4) convene and foster collaborations among individuals who represent diverse viewpoints and backgrounds, with a view to enhancing the quality of leadership in this area; and (5) disseminate research on adolescence and its policy implications to a wide array of audiences, from the scientific community to the lay public.

Book The Science of Adolescent Risk Taking

Download or read book The Science of Adolescent Risk Taking written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolescence is a time when youth make decisions, both good and bad, that have consequences for the rest of their lives. Some of these decisions put them at risk of lifelong health problems, injury, or death. The Institute of Medicine held three public workshops between 2008 and 2009 to provide a venue for researchers, health care providers, and community leaders to discuss strategies to improve adolescent health.

Book Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

Download or read book Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood written by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps students understand how culture impacts development in adolescence and emerging adulthood. Grounded in a global cultural perspective (within and outside of the US), this text enriches the discussion with historical context and an interdisciplinary approach, including studies from fields such as anthropology and sociology, in addition to the compelling psychological research on adolescent development. This book also takes into account the period of "emerging adulthood" (ages 18-25), a term coined by the author, and an area of study for which Arnett is a leading expert. Arnett continues the fifth edition with new and updated studies, both U.S. and international. With Pearson's MyDevelopmentLab Video Series and Powerpoints embedded with video, students can experience a true cross-cultural experience. A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience-- for you and your students. Here's how: Personalize Learning - The new MyDevelopmentLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. Improve Critical Thinking - Students learn to think critically about the influence of culture on development with pedagogical features such as Culture Focus boxes and Historical Focus boxes. Engage Students - Arnett engages students with cross cultural research and examples throughout. MyVirtualTeen, an interactive simulation, allows students to apply the concepts they are learning to their own "virtual teen." Explore Research - "Research Focus" provides students with a firm grasp of various research methods and helps them see the impact that methods can have on research findings. Support Instructors - This program provides instructors with unbeatable resources, including video embedded PowerPoints and the new MyDevelopmentLab that includes cross-cultural videos and MyVirtualTeen, an interactive simulation that allows you to raise a child from birth to age 18. An easy to use Instructor's Manual, a robust test bank, and an online test generator (MyTest) are also available. All of these materials may be packaged with the text upon request. Note: MyDevelopmentLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyDevelopmentLab, please visit: www.mydevelopmentlab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MyDevelopmentlab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205911854/ ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205911851. Click here for a short walkthrough video on MyVirtualTeen! http://www.youtube.com/playlist'list=PL51B144F17A36FF25&feature=plcp