This book is an important reference for use by researchers in cognition and emotion and will be of value to anyone who has interests that overlap this area. It would clearly be a key addition to any serious psychology or psychiatry library.
Handbook of Parenting: Styles, Stresses, and Strategies
This book looks at the pattern of family structures, which has evolved as a result of social, cultural and economic changes. An overview of parental monitoring and the development of two new retrospective monitoring scales is examined. This book also focuses on certain parenting styles, stressors, and practices which promote positive and negative child behaviours. The goodness-of-fit concept is emphasised, which concentrates specifically on how a poor fit between the temperament behaviours of infants and young children and parents' expectations ...
The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World
The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics around the World is the ideal resource for all students on undergraduate sociolinguistics courses and researchers involved in the study of language, society and power
Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook
This is an authoritative presentation and discussion of the most basic thematic elements universally found in folklore and literature. The reference provides a detailed analysis of the most common archetypes or motifs found in the folklore of selected communities around the world.
A balanced presentation chronicling both the major events that sparked environmental activism and the nature of that activism in the past century. A massive oil tanker smashes through an outboard motorboat displaying a Greenpeace banner. A woman lives in a giant redwood tree for six months to prevent old growth forest logging. The environment has many defenders, but there are also detractors.
