Authors:Leonore Loeb Adler, Uwe P. Gielen,
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Keywords: perspective, international, emigration, immigration, migration
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-05-30
List price: $91.95
ISBN-10: 0275976661
ISBN-13: 9780275976668

Adler and Gielen developed this volume to add the voices of a prominent international group of cross-culturally oriented psychologists to the worldwide debate on migration. Here contributors analyze worldwide configurations of migration, fundamental psychosocial factors involved in immigration and emigration, and patterns of migration from and to 16 nations and regions around the globe.

Authors:Leonore Loeb Adler, Uwe P. Gielen,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: psychology, topics, cultural, cross
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2001-01-30
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 027596972X
ISBN-13: 9780275969721

This second edition of a classic work in cross-cultural psychology brings together scholars from the United States and abroad to provide a concise new introduction to selected topics in cross-cultural psychology, the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes under diverse cultural conditions.

Authors:Leonore Loeb Adler, Florence L. Denmark,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: violence, prevention
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1995-01-01
List price: $117.95
ISBN-10: 0275948730
ISBN-13: 9780275948733

Under the aegis of the two grandes dames of international studies in psychology, 23 experts examine violence in all of its multivarious forms around the world. They find that it is present in practically every society, at every socioeconomic level, and in every age group. The first group of essays look at violence as a societal phenomenon--its motivational aspects as related to, for example, terrorism or machismo. The second group of essays discuss violence involving children--incest, trauma, delinquency, school violence, and the death penalty for youths. The last section looks at adult violen

Authors:U.P. Gielen, L. Loeb-Adler, N. Milgram,
Publisher: Garland Science
Keywords: perspective, intl, psychology
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 9026512368
ISBN-13: 9789026512360

Author: Leonore Tiefer
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: essays, amp, natural, sex
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-02-13
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 081334185X
ISBN-13: 9780813341859

This newly updated collection of pioneering sexologist Leonore Tiefer’s essays includes popular as well as professional writings on the social construction of sexuality and includes a new section on Tiefer’s most recent essays on female sexual dysfunction (fsd). Tiefer’s background as a sexologist is unusually broad, including rodent copulation research, sex therapy, classification of dysfunctions and feminist analysis. Her wit and passion are evident in such recent essays as "Doing the Viagra Tango: Sex Pill as Symbol and Substance," "From Viagra to Niagara: Why is it so Har

Authors:Ellyn Kaschak, Leonore Tiefer,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: problems, sexual, womens, view, new
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 2002-02-25
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0789016826
ISBN-13: 9780789016829

Take a new look at women’s sexuality!This fascinating book looks at the wide-ranging therapeutic, social, and political implications of the new paradigm of women’s sexuality. International in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, A New View of Women’s Sexual Problems examines the theoretical and practical effects of the landmark document produced by the Working Group on a New View of Women’s Sexuality. The book brings together gender theory, psychology, social science, and medicine in a powerful cultural critique of the reigning medical approach to women’s sexual health. Internati

Authors:Marilyn vos Savant, Leonore Fleischer,
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: weeks, building, brain
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1991-08-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0553353489
ISBN-13: 9780553353488