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When Tyler's mom and dad go away for a few days, Tyler gets to stay at his best friend Cindy's house. Mom, Dad, Come Back Soon is about both a child's trepidation at being away from home for the first time and the joy and pride that can come with this new experience. This charmingly illustrated book contains an extensive "Note to Parents" with specific suggestions for preparing a child for a short-term separation.

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The pirate's parrot knew all about 'pieces of eight', but an authoritative reference book to the coins that kept the Spanish Empire running has been lacking. This book fills that gap.-- over two thousand photos with coins catalogued by mint, king, denomination, mint assayer and type-- discussions of, and examples from, all ten early Spanish mints from Cuba to Peru-- the author's expertise in international affairs provides the historical backgr...

This text presents a complete and realistic aircraft engine design experience. From the request for proposal for a new aircraft to the final engine layout, the book provides the concepts and procedures required for the entire process.

This is the first book to assemble comprehensive, leading-edge information about the psychosocial and physiological influences affecting spinal surgery--from evaluation to preparation and post-operative rehabilitation. Expert authors translate results from the field's leading researchers into directly applicable protocols to create assessment and treatment frameworks for use with patients suffering chronic, intractable back pain.

This revised edition explores the personal motives, attitudes, assumptions and perceptions of men who are recurrently violent. How patterned and consistent is the violence of such men? What are the dynamics of their escalating encounters? What dispositions are most apt and lead to violence?

What is play therapy? What happens in a session? Beginning therapy for a child and parent is a time of curiosity, questions, and worry. "Play Therapy" is designed to answer the questions that children have about therapy in words and images that 4- to 7-year-olds can understand. Issues are addressed in simple language with many illustrations.

This bestselling reference guide contains the most reliable and comprehensive material on launch programs in Brazil, China, Europe, India, Israel, and the United States. Packed with illustrations and figures, this edition has been updated and expanded, and offers a quick and easy data retrieval source for policy makers, planners, engineers, launch buyers, and students.

This book provides an authoritative and practical presentation of the determination of gust loads on airplanes, especially continuous turbulence gust loads. The text emphasizes the basic concepts involved in gust load determination and enriches the material with discussion of important relationships, definitions of terminology and nomenclature, historical perspective, and explanations of relevant calculations. Coverage begins with discrete-gus...

Sammy Samson can't say hello, not even to his friendly neighbors. Then one day Sammy's beloved dog disappears, and he is able to set aside his shyness and talk to anyone who can help. A special section explains all forms of shyness and offers parents an extensive list of specific and practical tips to help their child become more socially comfortable and self-confident.

This book is Clare's journal and scrapbook the year that her mother is diagnosed with cancer and goes through treatment. Clare tells her story, shares her feelings, and describes her family's experiences from her mother's diagnosis through surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation.

Like its predecessor volumes, Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology, Volume IV offers provocative glimpses into the lives of early major psychological figures. Written by experts in salient subfields of psychology, this volume covers a whole range of disciplines, vividly depicting twenty-one preeminent men and women whose lives spanned the 19th and 20th centuries. Among those featured are Evelyn Hooker, who helped declassify homosexuality as a d...

Magination Press is an imprint of the American Psychological Association, the premier source of information about psychology. Magination Press presents a full line of books for children's special concerns, including beautifully written storybooks and guidebooks designed to help children understand and cope with a variety of personal psychological issues.This lively best-selling story -- now in its third edition -- will appeal to youngsters dia...

The essays in this collection of John Gibbons's non-technical writings show both the limiting and liberating influence of government on technological research and development. Gibbons addresses the issues involved in the government's directing as well as supporting technological and scientific advance, he discusses the ways in which government and science join in serving society, and provides a look behind the scenes of the making of science p...

From Child Sexual Abuse to Adult Sexual Risk examines the relation between child sexual abuse (CSA) and adult sexual health outcomes in men and women. Leading researchers and clinicians integrate research from a variety of disciplines, including epidemiology, traumatology, and prevention science, to bridge the current scientific literatures on CSA, basic trauma research, and clinical practice. This comprehensive resource delineates an emerging...

Part of the "Psychology in the Classroom" series, "Teaching for Thinking" helps teachers face challenges in the classroom. All the books in this series have user-friendly features that make the educational principles discussed easy to adapt for classroom use.

Maybe Days is a straightforward look at the issues of foster care, the questions that children ask, and the feelings that they confront. A primer for children going into foster care, the book also explains the responsibilities of everyone involved - parents, judges and social workers.

The primary purpose of the Checklist is to provide for scholars and librarians a ready bibliography of all monographic volumes, both current and out-of-print, of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic texts on papyrus, parchment, ostraca or wood tablets. A seco

Magination Press is an imprint of the American Psychological Association, the premier source of information about psychology. Magination Press presents a full line of books for children's special concerns, including beautifully written storybooks and guidebooks designed to help children understand and cope with a variety of personal psychological issues.Now available in a second edition with all new illustrations, Double-Dip Feelings is a deli...

Explores the adoption process and the feelings children have about being adopted.