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This volume brings together many of the leading figures in contemporary Russian psychology, who show how the discipline got to where it is and examine what may result in the future.

This is the fourth title in John Lent's bibliography of comic art worldwide - the series includes over 30, 000 citations. The current volume covers 67 countries on the various continents.

Developing an interactional theory of 45 actual military leaders, this volume stresses the interplay between sociodemographic variables, psychological dynamics and situational factors. Issues such as age, birthplace, socioeconomic status, family life, and ethnicity and religion are documented.

No single system of development can accommodate all types of economic, social and political environments in developing economies. This book analyses the changing role of the public sector in promoting socioeconomic development. It concentrates on three major issues of macroeconomic management.

This work on the post-industrial USSR shows how it lagged behind the West in terms of technology, attitudes to consumerism and respect for the environment. It warns that a future authoritarian regime could revive the technological race, it also criticises feminism and post-modernism in the West.

This chronicle of Raoul Wallenberg's sojourn to Budapest in the last part of World War II documents his efforts to rescue several thousand Budapest-based Jews from the Nazis. It highlights the fact that his efforts were aided by various members of the Hungarian state apparatus.

This book provides a panoramic view during 1927-1938 of the development of a physical theory that has been on the cutting edge of theoretical physics ever since P.A.M. Dirac's quantization of the electrodynamics field in 1927.

Should welfare be abolished because it fosters dependency, or should it be expanded to offer more effective help? Are people poor due to their own irresponsibility or as a result of social injustice? Is the key welfare problem non-work or illegitimacy? Should government help the poor, or is aid a job for the church? Such polarized questions have hampered the quest for constructive welfare reform and have left Christians criticizing each other ...

From the first African communities in North America to the days of slavery, from the aesthetic achievements of the Harlem Renaissance to the political triumphs of the civil rights movement, from Harriet Tubman's creation of the Underground Railroad to the election of Carol Moseley Braun -- the first black woman senator -- in 1992, this comprehensive book illuminates African Americans both famous and little known. Thousands of entries document ...

Representing a fascinating spectrum of feelings and opinions about lesbianism, the friendships women share -- or fear -- and the rich diversity of personal choices women make today, this collection of brash and thoughtful essays, stories, and interviews offers -- Dorothy Allison on what it means to be a lesbian -- Carla Trujillo on the impact of "sexual betrayal" by an ex-lover -- Elizabeth Wurtzel on the creative freedom experienced only by l...

A fresh approach to finding and keeping customers through powerful, long-lasting partnerships. Author speaking engagements.

A constructivist leader facilitates professional dialogue and inquiry to enable all teachers to make sense of their work together and to reconstruct the major purposes of schooling. Illustrating their work with vignettes of the activities of such leaders, the authors of this book create a clear picture of constructivist teaching and leadership. They also formulate strategies for altering the school culture to accommodate constructivist leaders...

In current practice most staff development in the United States education system is designed for an entire school or district in a `one size fits all' approach. However, new approaches to staff development, based on constructivist learning theory, are beginning to acknowledge the individuality and self-determination of professional teachers. Nine such models of staff development are presented clearly in this book, and the profiles of teachers...

This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. In this penetrating study of the concept of meaning, Gerhard Sauter shows that -- contrary to popular belief -- the human quest for meaning is a relatively recent development, arising only after the deconstruction of metaphysics at the end of the nineteenth century. Since then, people have continually sought after the meaning of history, the meaning of their labors, their sufferi...

It does not take long to tell the difference in the sound of the explosion of a gas, shrapnel, or high explosive shell, " Carl Andrew Brannen said of his introduction to trench warfare. As that nineteen-year-old marine from Texas had quickly learned, the first big war of the twentieth century promised new horrors on the battlefield. In this intense journey through the beginnings of modern war, C. A. Brannen's memoirs and battlefield snapshots ...

SPANISH EDITION. The author describes the use of a variety of visual aids and their importance in the teaching process.

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