The basic principles of the anatomy and physiology of the human body
are presented in easy-to-read language with clearly integrated text and
four-color illustrations.
Full consideration is given to the interests of various disciplines in the health care field.
How does developmental psychology connect with the developing world?
What do cultural representations tell us about the contemporary
politics of childhood? What is the political economy of childhood?
This companion volume to Burman's Deconstructing Developmental Psychology
helps us to explain why questions around children and childhood - their
safety, their sexuality, their interests and abilities, their violence
- have so preoccupied the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In
this increasingly post-industrial, post-colonial and multicultural
world, this book identifies analytical and practical strategies for
improving how we think about and work with children. Drawing in
particular on feminist and postdevelopment literatures, the book
illustrates how and why reconceptualising our notions of individual and
human development, including those informing models of children's
rights and interests, will foster more just and equitable forms of
professional practice with children and their families.
Encyclopedia of Religion - Volumes 1- 14 Edition 2 By Jones L.
Among Library Journal's picks of the most important reference works of the millennium -- with the Encyclopedia Judaica and the New Catholic Encyclopedia -- Mircea Eliade's Encyclopedia of Religion won the American Library Associations' Dartmouth Medal in 1988 and is widely regarded as the standard reference work in the field. This second edition, which is intended to reflect both changes in academia and in the world since 1987, includes almost all of the 2,750 original entries -- many heavily updated -- as well as approximately 600 entirely new articles. Preserving the best of Eliade's cross-cultural approach, while emphasizing religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture, this new edition is the definitive work in the field for the 21st century. An international team of scholars and contributors have reviewed, revised and added to every word of the classic work, making it relevant to the questions and interests of all researchers. The result is an essential purchase for libraries of all kinds. The second edition features approimately 600 new topics and entries, and all the 2,750 original entires have been updated. "Indispensable for students and scholars in many disciplines...The editors serve the interests of both the educated general reader and religious specialists and scholars."