Authors:Margaret Carlisle Duncan, Garry Chick, Alan Aycock,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: play, studies, culture, amp, vol, fields, volume, diversions, divergences
Number of Pages: 299
Published: 1998-05-08
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1567503713
ISBN-13: 9781567503715

This work is concerned with furthering our understanding of the phenomenon of play in humans and in animals, and across various cultural, social and activity settings. Topics covered include traditional play; children’s play; playful primates; resistant play; and intertextual play.

Authors:Margaret Carlisle Duncan, Garry Chick, Alan Aycock,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: play, culture, studies, amp, fields, divergences, diversions, volume
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 1998-05-27
List price: $131.95
ISBN-10: 1567503705
ISBN-13: 9781567503708

Diversions and Divergences in Fields of Play reflects the critical efforts of its editors. They have organized recent, quality play scholarship into six thematic sections, including Theorizing Play, Traditional Play, Children’s Play, Playful Primates, Resistant Play, and Intertextual Play.

Authors:Terry E. Duncan, Susan C. Duncan, Lisa A. Strycker,
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Keywords: quantitative, methodology, issues, applications, series, concepts, modeling, latent, variable, growth, curve, introduction
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-05-23
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0805855475
ISBN-13: 9780805855470

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to latent variable growth curve modeling (LGM) for analyzing repeated measures. It presents the statistical basis for LGM and its various methodological extensions, including a number of practical examples of its use. It is designed to take advantage of the reader’s familiarity with analysis of variance and structural equation modeling (SEM) in introducing LGM techniques. Sample data, syntax, input and output, are provided for EQS, Amos, LISREL, and Mplus on the book’s CD. Throughout the book, the authors present a variety of LGM techniques t

Author: Rodney P. Carlisle
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: right, politics, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 1100
Published: 2005-03-17
List price: $320.00
ISBN-10: 1412904099
ISBN-13: 9781412904094

Although the distinction between the politics of the left and the right is commonly assumed in the media and in treatments of political science and history, the terms are used so loosely that the student and the general reader are often confused: What exactly are the terms left and right supposed to imply? This two-volume Encyclopedia of Politics: The Left and the Right contains over 450 articles on individuals, movements, political parties, and ideological principles, with those usually thought of as left in the left-hand volume (Volume 1), and those considered on the right in the right-hand

Author: Janice Carlisle
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: victorian, fiction, encounters, comparative, scents, common
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2004-02-19
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0195165098
ISBN-13: 9780195165098

Who smells? Surveying nearly eighty novels written in the 1860s to answer that impolite question, Common Scents provides a new reading of Victorian values, particularly as they assess the relative merits of men and women, spirit and matter. In depictions of comparative encounters, the commonplace meetings of everyday life, such fiction often registers the inequalities that distinguish one individual from another by marking one of them with a smell. In a surprisingly consistent fashion, these references constitute what cultural anthropologists call an osmology, a system of differentiations that

Author: Kate Carlisle
Publisher: Signet
Keywords: mystery, bibliophile, bind, lies
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-11-02
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0451231694
ISBN-13: 9780451231697

Book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright returns home to San Francisco to teach a bookbinding class. Unfortunately, the program director Layla Fontaine is a horrendous host who pitches fits and lords over her subordinates. But when Layla is found shot dead, Brooklyn is bound and determined to investigate-even as the killer tries to close the book on her for good.

Author: Clare Carlisle
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: series, theology, continental, thought, suny, positions, philosophy, becoming, movements, kierkegaard
Number of Pages: 173
Published: 2005-09-22
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0791465470
ISBN-13: 9780791465479