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A Parent's Guide to Teen Addiction

Professional Advice on Signs, Symptoms, What to Say, and How to Help

By: Westreich, Laurence M.

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A Parent's Guide to Teen Addiction

Professional Advice on Signs, Symptoms, What to Say, and How to Help

By: Westreich, Laurence M.

From Berkeley to the Bronx, teenage addiction has reached epidemic levels. Parents may suspect their teen’s substance use, but often don’t know if their teen is addicted or what to do about it. Dr. Laurence Westreich, an addiction expert and the father of two teenagers, helps parents navigate the fraught addiction landscape in A Parent’s Guide to Teen Addiction. Divided into three sections, this book—based on the author’s decades of experience evaluating and treating teenagers who use substances—guides parents from the moment they suspect their teen has a substance abuse problem to the steps families must take after intensive treatment. Dr. Westreich: • Lays out the facts of teen addiction and explains how to recognize a problem with a teen • Details what parents need to know about the substances that teenagers commonly use • Provides information on what to do about the substance abuse, including how to find good one-on-one addiction therapy, how to encourage a teen to enter an outpatient program or inpatient facility, and how to line up aftercare treatment Best of all, he includes “tough talk” dialogues that parents can tailor to their specific situation with their teen. This practical, hopeful, and reassuring book helps parents put their teen on the healthy and life-affirming road to recovery.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510728376

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The Ten Basic Principles of Good Parenting

By: Laurence D. Steinberg

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The Ten Basic Principles of Good Parenting

By: Laurence D. Steinberg

One of the most distinguished psychologists in the country distills decades of research into a parenting book that offers the key to raising a happy, healthy child.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743251156

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9780743251150

Licensing Parents

Family, State, and Child Maltreatment

By: Michael McFall,Laurence Thomas

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Licensing Parents

Family, State, and Child Maltreatment

By: Michael McFall,Laurence Thomas

In Licensing Parents, Michael McFall argues that political structures, economics, education, racism, and sexism are secondary in importance to the inequality caused by families, and that the family plays the primary role in a child's acquisition of a sense of justice. He demonstrates that examination of the family is necessary in political philosophy and that informal structures (families) and considerations (character formation) must be taken seriously. McFall advocates a threshold that should be accepted by all political philosophers: children should not be severely abused or neglected because child maltreatment often causes deep and irreparable individual and societal harm. The implications of this threshold are revolutionary, but this is not recognized fully because no philosophical book has systematically considered the ethical or political ramifications of child maltreatment. By exposing a tension between the rights of children and adults, McFall reveals pervasive ageism; parental rights usually trump children's rights, and this is often justified because children are not fully autonomous. Yet parental rights should not always trump children's rights. Ethics and political philosophy are not only about rights, but also about duties_especially when considering potential parents who are unable or unwilling to provide minimally decent nurturance. While contemporary political philosophy focuses on adult rights, McFall examines systems whereby the interests and rights of children and parents are better balanced. This entails exploring when parental rights are defeasible and defending the ethics of licensing parents, whereby some people are precluded from rearing children. He argues that, if a sense of justice is largely developed in childhood, parents directly influence the character of future generations of adults in political society. A completely stable and well-ordered society needs stable and psychologically healthy citizens in addition to just laws, and McFall demonstrates how parental love and healthy families can help achieve this.

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Lexington Books

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0739133535

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The Ten Basic Principles of Good Parenting

By: Laurence Steinberg

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The Ten Basic Principles of Good Parenting

By: Laurence Steinberg

Most parents do a pretty good job of raising kids, says psychologist Laurence Steinberg, but truly effective parenting means not just relying on natural instincts but also on knowing what works and why. In The Ten Basic Principles of Good Parenting, Dr. Steinberg distills decades of research into a parenting book that explains the fundamentals of raising happy, healthy children, giving readers an invaluable map to help them navigate parenthood from infancy to adolescence. Dr. Steinberg found that the basic principles for effective parenting are simple and universal, and apply to all parents and children regardless of background. He explains each principle and shows how to put it into action, using anecdotes and examples: from “What You Do Matters” (parents make an enormous difference; children are not simply the product of their genes) to “Establish Rules and Limits” (how to provide structure in your child's life, and how to handle conflicts over rules) and “Help Foster Your Child's Independence” (help your child think through decisions instead of making them for him or her). Concise and authoritative, written with warmth and compassion, The Ten Basic Principles of Good Parenting is an intelligent guide to raising a happy, healthy child and to becoming a happier, more confident parent in the process.

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1439126801

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Essays on Saving, Bequests, Altruism, and Life-cycle Planning

By: Laurence J. Kotlikoff

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Essays on Saving, Bequests, Altruism, and Life-cycle Planning

By: Laurence J. Kotlikoff

This collection of essays, coauthored with other distinguished economists, offers new perspectives on saving, intergenerational economic ties, retirement planning, and the distribution of wealth. The book links life-cycle microeconomic behavior to important macroeconomic outcomes, including the roughly 50 percent postwar decline in America's rate of saving and its increasing wealth inequality. The book traces these outcomes to the government's five-decade-long policy of transferring, in the form of annuities, ever larger sums from young savers to old spenders. The book presents new theoretical and empirical analyses of altruism that rule out the possibility that private intergenerational transfers have offset those by the government.While rational life-cycle behavior can explain broad economic outcomes, the book also shows that a significant minority of households fail to make coherent life-cycle saving and insurance decisions. These mistakes are compounded by reliance on conventional financial planning tools, which the book compares with Economic Security Planner (ESPlanner), a new life-cycle financial planning software program. The application of ESPlanner to U.S. data indicates that most Americans approaching retirement age are saving at much lower rates than they should be, given potential major cuts in Social Security benefits.

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MIT Press

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0262263343

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9780262263344

Family and Succession Law in the USA

By: Lynn Dennis Wardle,William C. Duncan,Laurence C. Nolan

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Family and Succession Law in the USA

By: Lynn Dennis Wardle,William C. Duncan,Laurence C. Nolan

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this concise exposition and analysis of the essential elements of law with regard to family relations, marital property, and succession to estates in the USA covers the legal rules and customs pertaining to the intertwined civic status of persons, the family, and property. After an informative general introduction, the book proceeds to an in-depth discussion of the sources and instruments of family and succession law, the authorities that adjudicate and administer the laws, and issues surrounding the person as a legal entity and the legal disposition of property among family members. Such matters as nationality, domicile, and residence; marriage, divorce, and cohabitation; adoption and guardianship; succession and inter vivos arrangements; and the acquisition and administration of estates are all treated to a degree of depth that will prove useful in nearly any situation likely to arise in legal practice. The book is primarily designed to assist lawyers who find themselves having to apply rules of international private law or otherwise handling cases connected with the USA. It will also be of great value to students and practitioners as a quick guide and easy-to-use practical resource in the field, and especially to academicians and researchers engaged in comparative studies by providing the necessary, basic material of family and succession law.

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9403545321

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9789403545325

Ultimate Modern jQuery for Web App Development

Create Stunning Interactive Web Applications with Seamless DOM Manipulation, Animation, and AJAX Integration of jQuery and JavaScript

By: Laurence Svekis

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Ultimate Modern jQuery for Web App Development

Create Stunning Interactive Web Applications with Seamless DOM Manipulation, Animation, and AJAX Integration of jQuery and JavaScript

By: Laurence Svekis

Turbocharge Your Web Projects with Lightning-fast Element Manipulation, Fluid Animations, and Effortless AJAX Integration of jQuery KEY FEATURES ● Unlock the Full Potential of jQuery with Clear, Concise Syntax Explanations and Real-world Examples. ● Master the Art of Manipulating HTML Elements with Precision and Ease, Empowering You to Craft Dynamic Web Pages. ● Harness the Power of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML to Create Smooth, Dynamic Web Experiences, Backed by Practical Examples and Best Practices. ● Apply Your Knowledge with Confidence through Engaging, Step-by-step Projects That Reinforce Core Concepts and Enhance Your Skillset. DESCRIPTION Unlock the Full Potential of jQuery with this comprehensive resource crafted for web developers eager to excel in interactive web design and development. Beginning with an accessible introduction to jQuery syntax and integration, this book gradually immerses you in advanced concepts, including DOM manipulation and dynamic techniques. Explore the intricacies of jQuery’s hide, show, and animation methods, revolutionizing your approach to web interactivity. Delve into manipulating element contents, inserting new elements, and mastering advanced DOM manipulation for dynamic and responsive web interfaces. Engage in practical, hands-on projects, like crafting dynamic lists with interactive elements, to solidify your understanding and apply your skills in real-world scenarios. From event handling intricacies, including event bubbling and propagation, to mastering AJAX methods and callback options for responsive applications, every aspect is thoroughly covered. By the book’s conclusion, you’ll possess a robust foundation in jQuery, equipped with practical experience in AJAX, event handling, and DOM manipulation, ready to conquer the challenges of modern web development with confidence. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN ● Master jQuery syntax and effortlessly integrate it into your web projects. ● Harness jQuery's DOM methods to select and manipulate web elements with precision. ● Implement dynamic visibility and captivating animation effects to enhance web interfaces. ● Develop interactive and responsive web pages by mastering jQuery's event handling techniques. ● Utilize jQuery AJAX for efficient, asynchronous updates of web content, enhancing user experience. WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR? This book caters to web developers eager to enhance their jQuery skills. Whether you’ re a novice aiming to grasp jQuery fundamentals or an intermediate developer seeking to delve deeper into its intricacies, this resource is tailored to your needs. Front-end developers keen on leveraging jQuery’s power to craft immersive, interactive web experiences will find invaluable insights within these pages. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Getting Started with jQuery 2. Selection of Page Elements and DOM Element Selection jQuery 3. Element Hide and Show Methods and Animation Effects 4. Manipulating Element Contents and Inserting Elements 5. DOM Manipulation and Selection 6. jQuery Dynamic List Project - Interactive Elements 7. CSS Properties and Element Attribute 8. Traversing Page Elements 9. jQuery Data and Element Index Method 10. Handling Events with jQuery 11. Advanced Event Handling Techniques 12. jQuery AJAX Methods and Callback Options Conclusion Index

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Orange Education Pvt Ltd

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8197081948

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Changing Minds with Clinical Hypnosis

Narratives and Discourse for a New Health Care Paradigm

By: Laurence Sugarman,Julie Linden,Lee Warner Brooks

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Changing Minds with Clinical Hypnosis

Narratives and Discourse for a New Health Care Paradigm

By: Laurence Sugarman,Julie Linden,Lee Warner Brooks

This book is a scientifically current, integrative, and practical guide for understanding clinical hypnosis and its place within a new health care paradigm. Blending four original short stories with a treatise, it alternates narrative prose with health science discourse to create a framework for embracing systemic emotional and relational elements that lie beyond diagnosis, medication, surgery, and psychotherapy. Following the stories of four characters, the authors establish an empirically-grounded conceptualization of the mind, then demonstrate how practical applications of therapeutic hypnosis can help readers use individual and family resources in health and healing. Clinicians will learn to improve their care by embracing emotional, relational, and narrative elements that powerfully affect health beyond diagnosis, medication, surgery, and psychotherapy. Further, health care educators and policy makers will find inspiration that enriches professional training.

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Routledge

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1000060551

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CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY

Nature, Nurture, Culture-A Textbook and Practical Reference Guide for Students and Working Professionals in the Fields of Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Forensic Psychology

By: Laurence Miller

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CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY

Nature, Nurture, Culture-A Textbook and Practical Reference Guide for Students and Working Professionals in the Fields of Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Forensic Psychology

By: Laurence Miller

Criminal psychology is the application of the principles of normal and abnormal psychology to the understanding, prediction, and control of criminal behavior. Criminal Psychology: Nature, Nurture, Culture provides an in-depth yet readable introduction to the foundations of criminal psychology as it is understood and practiced from the classroom to the courtroom. The book is organized into five sections. Part I examines the nature and origins of criminal behavior. These chapters outline the role of psychology in the criminal justice system, and review the biology, psychology, and sociology of crime to develop a naturalistic model of criminal behavior that can guide theory and practice in law enforcement, criminal justice, and forensic evaluation. Part II examines the major classes of mental disorder that may be associated with criminal behavior, including psychotic disorders, mood disorders, organic brain syndromes, substance abuse, and personality disorders. Each chapter consists of a description of the syndrome, followed by applications to law enforcement, criminal justice, and forensic mental health issues of competency, sanity, and criminal culpability. Part III deals with death. Topics include homicide, serial murder, mass homicide, workplace and school violence, and terrorism. Part IV covers sexual offenses and crimes within the family, including rape and sexual assault, sex crimes against children, child battery, domestic violence, and family homicide. Part V discusses the psychological dynamics of a variety of common crimes, such as stalking and harassment, theft and robbery, gang violence, organized crime, arson, hate crimes, victimology, the psychology of corrections, and the death penalty. Each chapter contains explanatory tables and sidebars that illustrate the chapter’s main topic with examples from real-life cases and the media, and explore controversies surrounding particular issues in criminal psychology, such as criminal profiling, sexual predator laws, dealing with children who kill, psychotherapy with incarcerated offenders, and the use of “designer defenses” in court. Grounded in thorough scholarship and written in a crisp, engaging style, this volume is the definitive handbook and reference source for forensic psychologists, mental health practitioners, attorneys, judges, law enforcement professionals, and military personnel. It will also serve as an authoritative core text for courses in forensic psychology, criminology, and criminal justice practice.

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0398087164

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9780398087166

Health Promotion for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

By: Laurence Taggart,Wendy Cousins

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Health Promotion for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

By: Laurence Taggart,Wendy Cousins

People with learning disabilities are affected by significantly more health problems than the general population and are much more likely to have significant health risks. Yet evidence suggests they are not receiving the same level of health education and health promotion opportunities as other members of society. This important, interdisciplinary book is aimed at increasing professional awareness of the importance of health promotion activities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Written by an international board of experts, it is a thorough and comprehensive guide for students, professionals and carers. The book considers a variety of challenges faced by those with intellectual disabilities, from physical illnesses such as diabetes, epilepsy and sexual health issues, through to issues such as addiction, mental health and ageing. Contributors: Jim Blair, Penny Blake, Malin Broberg, Michael Brown, Eddie Chaplin, Bob Davies, Gillian Eastgate, Paul Fleming, Dora Fisher, Linda Goddard, Tamar Heller, John Heng, Thanos Karatzias, Mike Kerr, Nick Lennox, Tadhg MacIntyre, Beth Marks, Jane McCarthy,Judith Moyle,Karen Nankervis,Ruth Northway, Joseph O'Grady, Renee Proulx, Janet Robertson, Cathy Ross, Jasmina Sisirak, Eamonn Slevin, David S Stewart, William F. Sullivan, Beverley Temple, Hana Válková , Henny van Schrojenstein Lantman-de Valk. "I highly recommend this book to anyone working directly with people with an intellectual disability as well as professionals, academics and students who strive to promote issues and improve the lives of people with intellectual disabilities and their families." Agnes Lunny OBE, Chief Executive of Positive Futures, Northern Ireland "The editors and authors have done practitioners a great favour in bringing together in one volume a comprehensive account of how children and adults with intellectual disabilities can be supported to lead healthier lives." Roy McConkey, Professor of Developmental Disabilities, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland "This timely and important book synthesises current knowledge about health promotion interventions for people with intellectual disabilities. Written by leading researchers and practitioners, it should be on the bookshelves of everyone concerned with addressing the stark inequalities in health experienced by people with intellectual disabilities around the world." Eric Emerson, Professor of Disability Population Health, University of Sydney, Australia and Emeritus Professor of Disability and Health Research, Lancaster University, UK "This book is current and different from other textbooks I have used before. The book is pitched at a very easy to understand level and any healthcare professional or student working with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities can use it. The content is very up to date and relevant. The use of comprehensive authors with differing backgrounds demonstrates the textbook has a wide range of expertise and knowledge packed into it that makes the book very relevant learning disabilities practice. I will definitely be recommending this textbook to undergraduate nursing students in Learning Disabilities." Dorothy Kupara – Lecturer in Learning Disabilities Nursing, University of West London.

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0335246958

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9780335246953

Rapport

The Four Ways to Read People

By: Emily Alison,Laurence Alison

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Rapport

The Four Ways to Read People

By: Emily Alison,Laurence Alison

Laurence Alison is one of my academic heroes. He does what every writer longs to do. He makes the difficult clear - without losing his rigour.' Malcolm Gladwell 'They are quietly revolutionising the study and practice of interrogation... Their findings are changing the way law enforcement and security agencies approach the delicate and vital task of gathering human intelligence.' Guardian Get what you want from even the most difficult characters All of us have to deal with difficult people. Whether we're asking our neighbour to move a fence or our boss for a pay rise, we can struggle to avoid arguments and get what we want. Laurence and Emily Alison are world leaders in forensic psychology, and they specialise in the most difficult interactions imaginable: criminal interrogations. They advise and train the police, security agencies, the FBI and the CIA on how to deal with extremely dangerous suspects when the stakes are high. After 30 years' work - and unprecedented access to 2,000 hours of terrorist interrogations - they have developed a ground-breaking model of interpersonal communication. This deceptively simple approach to handling any encounter works as well for teenagers as it does for terrorists. Now it's time to share it with the world. Rapport reveals that every interaction follows four styles: Control (the lion), Capitulate (the mouse), Confront (the Tyrannosaur) and Co-operate (the monkey). As soon as you understand these styles and your own goals you can shape any conversation at will. And you'll be closer to the real secret: how to create instant rapport.

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Random House

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1473560799

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Philosophy, Law and the Family

A New Introduction to the Philosophy of Law

By: Laurence D. Houlgate

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Philosophy, Law and the Family

A New Introduction to the Philosophy of Law

By: Laurence D. Houlgate

This textbook uses cases in family law to illustrate both traditional philosophical problems in the law as well as problems that are unique to family law. In the beginning chapters family law cases are employed to introduce the reader to philosophical debates about the relationship between law and morals, about how one ought to interpret the U.S. Constitution and its amendments, about the conditions under which individual liberty is justifiably limited by law, about the justification of punishment, and about the justification of remedies and standards of care in determining negligence in tort cases. Later chapters are devoted to contemporary issues unique to family law, including justifiable limits of access to marriage, alternatives to marriage, the rights of children, child custody disputes involving surrogate births, quasi-property disputes involving custody of frozen embryos, and the justifiable limits of the right not to procreate. The book reflects current movements, contemporary debates, and recent research on the philosophical problems in family law.

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Springer

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3319511211

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9783319511214

Pro ASP.NET 1.1 in VB .NET

From Professional to Expert

By: Laurence Moroney,Matthew MacDonald

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Pro ASP.NET 1.1 in VB .NET

From Professional to Expert

By: Laurence Moroney,Matthew MacDonald

* Takes advantage of lateness to market by including experienced real-world knowledge of ASP.NET development as well as core information. * Single volume covering both C# and VB.NET.

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Apress

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1430200227

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9781430200222

Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005

By: Laurence Moroney,Matthew MacDonald

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Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005

By: Laurence Moroney,Matthew MacDonald

*Completely up to date with the ASP.NET 2.0 technology and demonstrates the new best-practices and coding styles that it requires *Focuses on the needs of the developer and explains the technology in a way that is easy to apply to their development projects *Provides a comprehensive coverage of the whole of ASP.NET 2.0 (with VB .NET 2.0) to give the reader the best possible understanding of the whole subject area

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1430201185

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9781430201182

Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing

Third International Conference, GPC 2008, Kunming, China, May 25-28, 2008. Proceedings

By: Laurence Tianruo Yang

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Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing

Third International Conference, GPC 2008, Kunming, China, May 25-28, 2008. Proceedings

By: Laurence Tianruo Yang

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing, GPC 2008, held in Kunming, China, in May 2008. The 45 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 184 submissions. The papers cover all current issues of grid and pervasive computing and focus on topics such as cluster computing, grid computing, high performance computing, network storage, peer-to-peer computing, pervasive computing, the Semantic Web and the Semantic Grid, and service-oriented computing.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540680810

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9783540680819

Crossing Paths

By: Laurence Steinberg,Wendy Steinberg

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Crossing Paths

By: Laurence Steinberg,Wendy Steinberg

Written with warmth, sensitivity, and insight, Crossing Paths shows parents how to get through the worst flash points of an adolescent-induced midlife crisis and how to make this time an opportunity for positive change.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743205537

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9780743205535

God, Schools, and Government Funding

First Amendment Conundrums

By: Laurence H. Winer,Nina J. Crimm

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God, Schools, and Government Funding

First Amendment Conundrums

By: Laurence H. Winer,Nina J. Crimm

In recent years, a conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, over vigorous dissents, has developed circumventions to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment that allow state legislatures unabashedly to use public tax dollars increasingly to aid private elementary and secondary education. This expansive and innovative legislation provides considerable governmental funds to support parochial schools and other religiously-affiliated education providers. That political response to the perceived declining quality of traditional public schools and the vigorous school choice movement for alternative educational opportunities provokes passionate constitutional controversy. Yet, the Court’s recent decision in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn inappropriately denies taxpayers recourse to challenge these proliferating tax funding schemes in federal courts. Professors Winer and Crimm clearly elucidate the complex and controversial policy, legal, and constitutional issues involved in using tax expenditures - mechanisms such as exclusions, deductions, and credits that economically function as government subsidies - to finance private, religious schooling. The authors argue that legislatures must take great care in structuring such programs and set forth various proposals to ameliorate the highly troubling dissention and divisiveness generated by state aid for religious education.

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Routledge

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1317126432

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9781317126430

High-Performance Computing

Paradigm and Infrastructure

By: Laurence T. Yang,Minyi Guo

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High-Performance Computing

Paradigm and Infrastructure

By: Laurence T. Yang,Minyi Guo

The state of the art of high-performance computing Prominent researchers from around the world have gathered to present the state-of-the-art techniques and innovations in high-performance computing (HPC), including: * Programming models for parallel computing: graph-oriented programming (GOP), OpenMP, the stages and transformation (SAT) approach, the bulk-synchronous parallel (BSP) model, Message Passing Interface (MPI), and Cilk * Architectural and system support, featuring the code tiling compiler technique, the MigThread application-level migration and checkpointing package, the new prefetching scheme of atomicity, a new "receiver makes right" data conversion method, and lessons learned from applying reconfigurable computing to HPC * Scheduling and resource management issues with heterogeneous systems, bus saturation effects on SMPs, genetic algorithms for distributed computing, and novel task-scheduling algorithms * Clusters and grid computing: design requirements, grid middleware, distributed virtual machines, data grid services and performance-boosting techniques, security issues, and open issues * Peer-to-peer computing (P2P) including the proposed search mechanism of hybrid periodical flooding (HPF) and routing protocols for improved routing performance * Wireless and mobile computing, featuring discussions of implementing the Gateway Location Register (GLR) concept in 3G cellular networks, maximizing network longevity, and comparisons of QoS-aware scatternet scheduling algorithms * High-performance applications including partitioners, running Bag-of-Tasks applications on grids, using low-cost clusters to meet high-demand applications, and advanced convergent architectures and protocols High-Performance Computing: Paradigm and Infrastructure is an invaluable compendium for engineers, IT professionals, and researchers and students of computer science and applied mathematics.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471732702

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9780471732709

Get What's Yours

The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security

By: Laurence J. Kotlikoff,Philip Moeller,Paul Solman

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Get What's Yours

The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security

By: Laurence J. Kotlikoff,Philip Moeller,Paul Solman

Learn the secrets to maximizing your Social Security benefits and earn up to thousands of dollars more each year with expert advice that you can't get anywhere else. Want to know how to navigate the forbidding maze of Social Security and emerge with the highest possible benefits? You could try reading all 2,728 rules of the Social Security system (and the thousands of explanations of these rules), but Kotlikoff, Moeller, and Solman explain Social Security benefits in an easy to understand and user-friendly style. What you don't know can seriously hurt you: wrong decisions about which Social Security benefits to apply for cost some individual retirees tens of thousands of dollars in lost income every year. How many retirees or those nearing retirement know about such Social Security options as file and suspend (apply for benefits and then don't take them)? Or start stop start (start benefits, stop them, then re-start them)? Or-just as important-when and how to use these techniques? Get What's Yours covers the most frequent benefit scenarios faced by married retired couples, by divorced retirees, by widows and widowers, among others. It explains what to do if you're a retired parent of dependent children, disabled, or an eligible beneficiary who continues to work, and how to plan wisely before retirement. It addresses the tax consequences of your choices, as well as the financial implications for other investments. Many personal finance books briefly address Social Security, but none offers the thorough, authoritative, yet conversational analysis found here. You've paid all your working life for these benefits. Now, get what's yours.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476772290

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9781476772295

Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005, Special Edition

By: Laurence Moroney,Matthew MacDonald

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Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005, Special Edition

By: Laurence Moroney,Matthew MacDonald

To celebrate recent innovations, and to demonstrate Apress’ commitment to the ASP.NET market, we are publishing a special edition of Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005, with new chapters explaining how to use these important new technologies. On top of the book’s already extensive coverage, readers will learn how to create Ajax and Atlas applications in ASP.NET 2.0. They will be treated to a deeper coverage of ASP.NET 2.0 Performance Tuning and will be given a slew of bonus material to truly make this special edition special. This includes a free eBook of the title’s content and a bonus 150 page eBook of carefully selected ASP.NET 2.0 articles.

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1430202394

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Nonprofit Law & Finance Essentials e-book set

Tools to Manage Money and Mission

By: Bruce R. Hopkins,Thomas A. McLaughlin,Laurence Scot

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Nonprofit Law & Finance Essentials e-book set

Tools to Manage Money and Mission

By: Bruce R. Hopkins,Thomas A. McLaughlin,Laurence Scot

The ultimate insider guide to managing your nonprofit effectively and protecting its mission—all in one affordable collection This e-book bundle demystifies nonprofit laws and financial responsibilities, providing you with the expert advice to financially manage your nonprofit effectively and understand its complex legal issues. Written by renowned nonprofit leaders Bruce Hopkins, Thomas McLaughlin, and Laurence Scot, the Nonprofit Law and Finance Essentials e-book collection equips you to meet and manage your nonprofit's legal and financial obligations with step-by-step guidance, practical tools, and concrete strategies. Fundraising Law Made Easy/Bruce R. Hopkins—features the ins and outs of fundraising law from nonprofit law authority Bruce Hopkins Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers, Third Edition/Thomas A. McLaughlin—presents plain-English direction for reading, interpreting, and implementing financial data The Simplified Guide to Not-for-Profit Accounting, Formation & Reporting/Laurence Scot—offers a wealth of solid information for understanding nonprofit financial transactions, financial statements, and internal and external reports Learn how constitutional law, governance, and IRS audit practices pertain to charitable fundraising. Make management decisions that ensure your organization's long-term financial viability. Navigate unique nonprofit accounting rules. It's all at your fingertips with Wiley's Nonprofit Law & Finance Essentials e-book set, equipping you with the tools to manage money and mission.

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Programming Android with Kotlin

By: Pierre-Olivier Laurence,Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez,G. Blake Meike,Mike Dunn

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Programming Android with Kotlin

By: Pierre-Olivier Laurence,Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez,G. Blake Meike,Mike Dunn

Developing applications for the Android mobile operating system can seem daunting, particularly if it requires learning a new programming language: Kotlin, now Androidâ??s officialdevelopment language. With this practical book, Android developers will learn how to make the transition from Java to Kotlin, including how Kotlin provides a true advantage for gaining control over asynchronous computations. Authors Pierre-Olivier Laurence, Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez, G. Blake Meike, and Mike Dunn explore implementations of the most common tasks in native Android development, and show you how Kotlin can help you solve concurrency problems. With a focus on structured concurrency, a new asynchronous programming paradigm, this book will guide you through one of Kotlin's most powerful constructs, coroutines. Learn about Kotlin essentials and the Kotlin Collections Framework Explore Android fundamentals: the operating system and the application container and its components Learn about thread safety and how to handle concurrency Write sequential, asynchronous work at a low cost Examine structured concurrency with coroutines, and learn how channels make coroutines communicate Learn how to use flows for asynchronous data processing Understand performance considerations using Android profiling tools Use performance optimizations to trim resource consumption

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1492062979

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9781492062974

Thomson Handbook

By: David Blakesley,Jeffrey Laurence Hoogeveen

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Thomson Handbook

By: David Blakesley,Jeffrey Laurence Hoogeveen

THE THOMSON HANDBOOK, PREVIEW EDITION is an early look at the rhetorical handbook for the digital age. THE THOMSON HANDBOOK puts students' writing front and center with an innovative page format that keeps students' attention focused on their own writing and on activities, checklists, projects, and visual aids that help them write. The page design and innovative visuals make information about writing, reading, research, documentation, technology, and grammar easy for students to access and understand. To accomplish their writing tasks, students are taught to ground their rhetorical decisions in the specific context in which they are writing. As a further aid to writing and research, THE THOMSON HANDBOOK gives students more and better information on using technology than any other handbook. Technology Toolboxes throughout, as well as two dedicated parts of the book (Parts 5 and 6), teach students how to apply technology to their writing tasks, whether the task is to write a personal essay, a persuasive essay, a critical review, a photographic essay, a technology autobiography, a blog, a website, or more than twenty other different kinds of writing projects.

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