Examines the effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on the development of dialectal varieties of Spanish in Africa, America, Asia and Europe. In this title, nineteen essays investigate a variety of complex situations of contact between Spanish and typologically different languages, including Basque, Bantu languages, English, and Quechua.
This popular book gives medical students, primary care physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists a jargon-free introduction to the basics, including topics such as schizophrenia, electroconvulsive therapy, transference, and tranquilizers.
A Popular Guide to Understanding Scientific Studies
Helps to cut through the conflicting reports and findings related to the claims and counterclaims of consumer products, medications, foods, safety devices, and more. This book reviews sample studies to expose their traps and pitfalls. It discusses the methods of good and bad studies to explain how scientific results can differ sometimes radically.
A sequel to "Pragmatism", it argues that objective truth exists, but it can only be known in terms of experience, and that truth isn't 'out there' waiting to be discovered. It also argues that knowledge derives from a process of inquiring in which a chain of mental and physical intermediaries connect thought and things.
After an overview of family, adoption and tw in studies of genetic and environmental influences, Bergeman examines such topics as longevity and health research, cogn itive functioning, personality and psychopathology, and soci al support. '
Why do people age differently? Gerontological research has indicated that there are large individual differences in personality, cognitive functioning, physical health, psychological well-being and quality of life in old age. This book explores this variability. Following an overview of family, adoption and twin studies of genetic and environmental influences on ageing, the author examines such topics as: longevity and health research; cognitive functioning, personality and psychopathology; and social support, life events and family environment measures. The book concludes with a summary of finding from gerontological behavioural genetics.
Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
Redefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, this title offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself.
Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and ......
This new release of Martin E. Marty's classic book on Holy Communion features a new study guide to help individual readers and study groups ponder the meaning of this Christian sacrament. In his personal and inviting voice, Marty describes the origins of Holy Communion and the important role this sacrament has played throughout the history of ......
