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Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 449

Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life

This handbook makes a major contribution to the growing international research and policy interest in children’s experienced well-being or quality of life in childhood, linking it to ongoing research on children’s risk and vulnerability. The editors and contributors adopt the broader concept of ‘risk’ in addition to ‘vulnerability’. Not much work considers the connections between risks that children experience and their quality of life. In examining children’s quality of life, the chapters discuss various issues of risk and vulnerability that may affect their lives and also how the quality of childhood might be enhanced and maintained even in the face of these factors. The chap...

Problemas contemporáneos en la niñez y la juventud
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 207

Problemas contemporáneos en la niñez y la juventud

Los diferentes capítulos compilados en el libro Problemas contemporáneos en la niñez y la juventud permiten comprender los efectos del entorno en la vida del ser humano en desarrollo, y constituir un referente valioso para investigadores y profesionales de la psicología y la educación. Lo anterior debido a que la mayoría de los profesionales que se desempeñan en instituciones dedicadas al trabajo directo con niños y jóvenes cuentan con escasa formación en investigación, aunque son ellos quienes están al frente de los procesos de intervención. Los autores de cada capítulo asumen análisis empíricos, comprensiones e interpretaciones que ratifican a niños y jóvenes como sujetos de derechos, quienes demandan ser pensados desde las ciencias sociales y humanas. De esta manera, el libro representa un esfuerzo investigativo mediante el uso de metodologías cuantitativas y cualitativas que abarcan perspectivas desde lo psicosocial y lo socioeducativo como ejes temáticos. Esto con el fin de visibilizar y tensionar el papel de la psicología y la educación en el desarrollo integral de niños y jóvenes en escenarios como la familia, la escuela y la comunidad.

Handbook of Positive Youth Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 679

Handbook of Positive Youth Development

This handbook examines positive youth development (PYD) in youth and emerging adults from an international perspective. It focuses on large and underrepresented cultural groups across six continents within a strengths-based conception of adolescence that considers all youth as having assets. The volume explores the ways in which developmental assets, when effectively harnessed, empower youth to transition into a productive and resourceful adulthood. The book focuses on PYD across vast geographical regions, including Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, North America, and Latin America as well as on strengths and resources for optimal well-being. The handbook addresses the positive development of young people across various cultural contexts to advance research, policy, and practice and inform interventions that foster continued thriving and reduce the chances of compromised youth development. It presents theoretical perspectives and supporting empirical findings to promote a more comprehensive understanding of PYD from an integrated, multidisciplinary, and multinational perspective.

Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery in Urology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery in Urology

This book is a practical guide to the laparoscopic and robotic surgery technique in urology. It includes 34 chapters in three sections, which are adrenal gland, kidney and ureter surgery, bladder and prostate surgery and lympadenectomy. This book covers all parts of laparoscopic and robotic urological surgery, including methods in patient selection, peri-operative management, step-by-step descriptions of specific techniques and complication avoidance. It is accompanied with over 800 illustrations and real-time capture figures. It also includes over 40 surgery videos with online access. Through the combination of texts, pictures and videos, it presents the surgical designing, surgical procedures and surgical techniques in panorama. This book is a good reference book for urologists who interested in these techniques.

Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 315

Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education

This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters-organized under four headings-offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break the traditional mold of teacher education.

Doing Business in 2004
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Doing Business in 2004

A co-publication of the World Bank, International Finance Corporation and Oxford University Press

Peruvian Featherworks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Peruvian Featherworks

  • Categories: Art

This title provides an in-depth and authoritative review of feeatherworking traditions in ancient Peru. The book includes a discussion of important recent discoveries, considerations of iconography, and basic technical characteristics of feather works.

CO2 Sequestration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 166

CO2 Sequestration

This book discusses different strategies that can be adopted by agriculture and industry to enhance CO2 sequestration and reduce the impacts of global warming and climate change. Written by researchers from different fields, chapters cover such topics as the management of agricultural systems with the implementation of agronomic practices that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase soil carbon stocks, the technology of adsorption on activated carbon from low-cost raw material, and the effective methods of carbon capture and storage, among others. This volume is a useful reference for the general public, undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers who aim to deepen their knowledge of those topics.

Toxic Constituents of Plant Foodstuffs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 517

Toxic Constituents of Plant Foodstuffs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12-02
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

Toxic Constituents of Plant Foodstuffs focuses on toxic substances in foods of plant origin, including protease inhibitors, hemagglutinins, goitrogens, cyanogens, saponins, gossypol, lathyrogens, and allergens. The book also considers adventitious toxic factors in processed foods and miscellaneous toxic factors such as stimulants and depressants, hypoglycemic agents, toxic amino acids, metal-binding constituents, and hepatotoxins. This volume is organized into 13 chapters and begins with an overview of protease inhibitors, including their distribution in the plant kingdom, physical and chemical properties, and mechanism of interaction with proteases. The next chapters focus on the adventitio...

Science Education Research in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 572

Science Education Research in Latin America

"This volume of the World of Science Education gathers contributions from Latin American science education researchers covering a variety of topics that will be of interest to educators and researchers all around the world. The volume provides an overview of research in Latin America, and most of the chapters report findings from studies seldom available for Anglophone readers. They bring new perspectives, thus, to topics such as science teaching and learning; discourse analysis and argumentation in science education; history, philosophy and sociology of science in science teaching; and science education in non-formal settings. As the Latin American academic communities devoted to science education have been thriving for the last four decades, the volume brings an opportunity for researchers from other regions to get acquainted with the developments of their educational research. This will bring contributions to scholarly production in science education as well as to teacher education and teaching proposals to be implemented in the classroom"--