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Science, Math, and Nutrition for Toddlers: Setting the Stage for Serendipity

By: Rita Schrank

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Science, Math, and Nutrition for Toddlers: Setting the Stage for Serendipity

By: Rita Schrank

This exciting new activity guide successfully introduces science, math, and nutrition concepts to toddlers. The importance of laying a strong foundation of critical thinking skills is recognized in this book, which details the abilities learned and practiced with each exercise. Thorough explanations of the scientific, mathematic, or nutritional principles accompany each activity, so no outside research is necessary -- it's all included for hassle-free lessons! Developmentally appropriate variations are also listed for reinforcing concepts while adding on to toddlers' knowledge. Each activity is categorized to facilitate integration with older groups. Includes a large annotated bibliography and huge resource list for teachers and homeschoolers.

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Green Dragon Books

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0893347000

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Toddlers Learn by Doing: Toddler Activities and Parent/Teacher Activity Log

By: Rita Schrank

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Toddlers Learn by Doing: Toddler Activities and Parent/Teacher Activity Log

By: Rita Schrank

Your toddler needs a broad base of experience before starting preschool; these positive, fun experiences will enhance a toddler’s enthusiasm for learning right from the start. This book includes activities for both active and quiet play, five-sense stimulation, language enhancement, concept development, and the fostering of independence. Old favorites are combined with new games, craft, and cooking ideas that use common, inexpensive materials. The activities within this book will help parents and teachers stay ahead of a toddler’s short attention span and boundless energy.

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Green Dragon Books

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089334639X

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9780893346393

The Limits of Critique

By: Rita Felski

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The Limits of Critique

By: Rita Felski

Why do critics feel impelled to unmask and demystify the works that they read? What is the rationale for their conviction that language is always withholding some important truth, that the critic's task is to unearth what is unsaid, naturalized, or repressed? These are the features of critique, a mode of thought that thoroughly dominates academic criticism. In this book, Rita Felski brilliantly exposes critique's more troubling qualities and proposes alternatives to it. Critique, she argues, is not just a method but also a sensibility--one best captured by Paul Ricoeur's phrase "the hermeneutics of suspicion." As the characteristic affect of critique, suspicion, Felski shows, helps us understand critique's seductions and limitations. The questions that Felski poses about critique have implications well beyond intramural debates among literary scholars. Literary studies, says Felski, is facing a legitimation crisis thanks to a sadly depleted language of value that leaves the field struggling to find reasons why students should care about Beowulf or Baudelaire. Why is literature worth bothering with? For Felski, the tendencies to make literary texts the object of suspicious reading or, conversely, impute to them qualities of critique, forecloses too many other possibilities. Felski offers an alternative model that she calls "postcritical reading." Rather than looking behind the text for its hidden causes, conditions, and motives, she suggests that literary scholars place themselves in front of a text, reflecting on what it calls forth and makes possible. Here Felski enlists the work of Bruno Latour to rethink reading as a co-production between actors, rather than an unraveling of manifest meaning, a form of making rather than unmaking. As a scholar with an abiding respect for theory who has long deployed elements of critique in her own work, Felski is able to provide an insider's account of critique's limits and alternatives that will resonate widely in the humanities.

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237

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University of Chicago Press

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022629403X

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9780226294032

Adulthood

An Introduction

By: Rita M. Curl-Langager

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Adulthood

An Introduction

By: Rita M. Curl-Langager

Adulthood: An Introduction offers a thorough foundation to learn, consolidate, and apply developmental concepts and current knowledge to the psychology of adult development. It illustrates major ideas with carefully selected research that is widely referenced and topically pertinent to development in early, middle, and late adulthood. This comprehensive text reviews the five domains of development, including biological development, cognitive development, personality development, social development, and ecological influences in development. It introduces multicultural perspectives and contexts in these discussions, as well as developmental themes such as nature and nurture, early and later experiences, and the individual’s active role. Accompanied by learning objectives and section reviews, vignettes portray numerous adult experiences, and commentaries for students offer additional information and interpretation with the students’ perspectives in mind. Designed to encourage students to think critically about topics of adulthood in both academic and applied settings, Adulthood is appropriate for undergraduate students in psychology and related disciplines, such as addiction studies, speech pathology, criminal justice, nursing, and business. Combined with a complete ancillary package, the book provides activities for individuals and groups, critical thinking questions, vignette-specific questions and responses, perspectives across disciplines, and much more. Additional resources for both students and instructors are available in the book's Support Material.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003800807

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9781003800804

Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology

By: Allen C. Israel,Jennifer Weil Malatras,Rita Wicks-Nelson

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Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology

By: Allen C. Israel,Jennifer Weil Malatras,Rita Wicks-Nelson

Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology is a comprehensive introduction to the field. It covers theoretical and methodological foundations and examines the characteristics, epidemiology, etiology, developmental course, assessment, and treatment of disorders of childhood and adolescence. At the heart of the text is the partnership of the developmental psychopathology perspective, which analyzes problems of youth within a developmental context, and a traditional clinical/disorder approach, which underscores the symptoms, causes, and treatments of disorders. Woven throughout the text is the view that behavior stems from the continuous interaction of multiple influences, that the problems of the young are intricately tied to their social and cultural contexts, and that empirical approaches and the scientific method provide the best avenue for understanding the complexity of human behavior. This edition explores the latest areas of research and tackles important contemporary topics, including: how to best classify and diagnose problems the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) framework the roles of genetics and early brain development and their interaction with the environment the complex roles of family and peers; sex/gender; and culture, ethnicity, and race in psychopathology progress in early intervention and prevention improvements in accessibility and dissemination of evidence-based treatments social issues such as poverty, child maltreatment, substance use, bullying/victimization, and terrorism and war This edition also features a new full-color design and over 200 color figures, tables, and photos. The text is written in a clear and engaging style and is approachable for students with varying academic backgrounds and experiences. It is rich in case descriptions that allow students to examine problems through the lens of youth and their families. The "Accent" boxes foster discussion of current interest topics such as infant mental health, scientific evidence regarding vaccines and autism, suicidality in sexual minority youth, and the impact of stigmatization. The "Looking Forward" sections focus students’ attention on the central concepts to be addressed, while the "Looking Back" sections provide students with a synopsis of the chapter for further study and reflection. The text is also supplemented with online resources for students and instructors.

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988

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Routledge

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1000198367

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9781000198362

Fisheries Buybacks

By: Rita Curtis,Dale Squires

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Fisheries Buybacks

By: Rita Curtis,Dale Squires

Fisheries buybacks are an important strategy being implemented globally in the efforts to produce a more sustainable and profitable fisheries industry. Fisheries Buybacks provides the reader with an overview of buybacks and the issues surrounding them as well as a synthesis of the literature on this subject of growing importance. Alongside this material are eleven case studies from around the world that look at real life applications of buybacks and its successes and failures. Edited by two leading fisheries economists with chapters contributed by international experts in the field, Fisheries Buybacks will be a valuable resource for fisheries managers, economists, researchers, and policy makers for years to come.

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John Wiley & Sons

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047027655X

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9780470276556

Toddlers Learn by Doing: Toddler Activities and Parent/Teacher Activity Log

By: Rita Schrank

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Green Dragon Books

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Science, Math, and Nutrition for Toddlers: Setting the Stage for Serendipity

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Science, Math, and Nutrition for Toddlers: Setting the Stage for Serendipity

Science, Math, and Nutrition for Toddlers: Setting the Stage for Serendipity

Toddlers Learn by Doing: Toddler Activities and Parent/Teacher Activity Log

Toddlers Learn by Doing: Toddler Activities and Parent/Teacher Activity Log

The Limits of Critique

The Limits of Critique

Adulthood

Adulthood

Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology

Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology

Fisheries Buybacks

Fisheries Buybacks

Toddlers Learn by Doing: Toddler Activities and Parent/Teacher Activity Log

Toddlers Learn by Doing: Toddler Activities and Parent/Teacher Activity Log

Science, Math, and Nutrition for Toddlers: Setting the Stage for Serendipity

Science, Math, and Nutrition for Toddlers: Setting the Stage for Serendipity

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