Authors:Steven J. Spencer, Steven Fein, Mark P. Zanna, James
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: ontario, social, psychology, personality, series, symposia, symposium, perception, motivated, volume
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0805840362
ISBN-13: 9780805840360

This volume highlights state-of-the-art research on motivated social perception by the leaders in the field. Recently a number of researchers developed influential accounts of how motivation affects social perception. Unfortunately, this work was developed without extensive contact between the researchers, and therefore evolved into two distinct traditions. The first tradition shows that the motivation to maintain a positive self-concept and to define oneself in the social world can dramatically affect people’s social perception. The second one shows that people’s goals have a dram

Authors:Steven H Woolf, Steven Jonas, Evonne Kaplan-Li,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilki
Keywords: practice, health, prevention, promotion, disease, clin, clinical
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 078177599X
ISBN-13: 9780781775991

Incorporating the latest guidelines from major organizations, including the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, this book offers the clinician a complete overview of how to help patients adopt healthy behaviors and to deliver recommended screening tests and immunizations. Chapters provide practical guidance on how to counsel patients about exercise, nutrition, tobacco use, substance use, sexually transmitted infections, and depression. Written by clinicians for clinicians, the book lays out the details on gathering information from the patient, ordering evidence-based screening tests, designi

Authors:Steven R. Winkel, David S. Collins FAIA, Steven P.
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: building, understanding, international, code, guide, secondary, codes, illustrated, elementary, schools
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2007-04-13
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0470048484
ISBN-13: 9780470048481

Now more than ever, architects need an interpretive guide to understand how the building code affects the early design of specific projects. This easy-to-use, illustrative guide is part of a new series covering building codes based on the International Building Code for 2006. This book presents the complex code issues inherent to elementary and secondary school design in a clear, easily understandable format.

Author: Steven Simpson; Dan Miller; Buzz BocherSteven Sim
Publisher: Wood N Barnes
Keywords: processing, guide, pinnacle, educator
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-07-30
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 188547363X
ISBN-13: 9781885473639

"Processing is an intuitive practice, and the processing pinnacle is an attempt to put logic and structure to something that is not particularly logical." --The Processing Pinnacle Experiential education focuses mainly on the idea that there are two components to experience: the action and reflection. The Processing Pinnacle offers a theoretical approach to more effective processing, the reflective component of experience. Offering different points of view from the growing world of experiential education, the authors consider the difficulties of processing and suggest techniques to remove th

Authors:Steven H., M.D. Woolf, Steven Jonas, Robert S. Lawre
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: practice, health, prevention, disease, promotion, clin, amp, clinical
Number of Pages: 618
Published: 1996-01-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0683092707
ISBN-13: 9780683092707

Medical College of Virginia, Richmond. Practical, detailed reference on how to practice evidence-based preventative medicine, for nurses, physician assistants, and other primary care providers. Topics include exercise, tobacco use, weight control, injury prevention, and more.

Authors:Patricia Shehan Campbell, Steven M. Demorest, Steven
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: music, education, orientation, teacher, amp, musician
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2007-09-19
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0393927563
ISBN-13: 9780393927566

Musician & Teacher blends traditional music education with innovative curricular and educational changes currently taking place in the field. Designed for the first course in music education, Musician & Teacher surveys the theoretical, philosophical, historical, social, and psychological foundations of teaching music and pays tribute to the local and global realms of music teaching and learning. At the same time, the book examines the developmen

Authors:Steven R. Corman, Marshall Scott Poole, Steven R. Co
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: common, ground, finding, communication, organizational, perspectives
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 2000-11-08
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1572306025
ISBN-13: 9781572306028

This unique volume promotes constructive dialogue among the basic methodological positions in organizational communication today. The goal is to identify theoretical moves and scholarly practices that can help people with divergent views compare or integrate their ideas instead of waging war. Essays from three distinguished scholars first discuss the concept of common ground from interpretive, post-positivist, and critical vantage points. Brief commentaries from a diverse array of colleagues then expand on key issues raised in the essays, explore creative tensions among the different perspecti