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The reader should note that our use ofthe somewhat ambiguous term school consultant is intentional and recognizes that consultants working in schools today represent a variety of professional disciplines.

Proceedings of the Fifth Triennial Meeting of the International Basal Ganglia Society held in Nemuno-Sato, Japan, May 23-26, 1995

Proceedings of a NATO ASI held in Spetsai, Greece, September 16-26, 1994.

Proceedings of a symposium held in Mallorca, Spain, April 5-10, 1992.

- Represents both sides of the problem of violence in the lives of girls - girls as victims of violence; and girls as perpetrators of violence. To fully understand the problem of violence it is essential to consider both sides of the 'violence coin'.

Volume 30 of this authoritative series provides detailed information about current advances in both fundamental and applied electrochemical research.

In the myth of Daphne and Apollo, Cupid fired two arrows: one causing flight from love, the other passionate attraction. Unable to evade the consequences of the arrow that wounded her, Daphne called upon the river, the creative power of both nature and time-a symbol of fertility, but also of oblivion-to help her survive when her strength was gone.

The social nature of psychological phenomena consists in the fact that they are constructed by individuals in the process of social interaction, they depend upon properties of social interaction, one of their primary purposes is facili tating social interaction, and they embody the specific character of his torically bound social relations.

This book is one additional indication that a new field of study is emerging within the social sciences, if it has not emerged already. This definition includes three primary elements: event, conse quences, and causal factors affecting the perception of both.

In a review written in 1979, I noted that there was a paucity of research examining the effects of maternal employment on the infant and young child and also that longitudinal studies of the effects of maternal em ployment were needed (Hoffman, 1979).

In addition to the formal exchange of new ideas and information among scientific experts in specific areas of scaling research, two of the major goals of this volume are an assessment of our progress toward understanding various size-related phe nomena in primates and the identification of future prospects for continuing advances in this realm.

In the treatment of marital problems, behaviorally oriented and com munication oriented approaches have been in conflict and seen as con trasting and unlikely bed partners.

This vital book is a collection on the various ways archaeologists and resource managers have devised to make available and interpret submerged cultural resources for the public, such as underwater archaeological preserves, shipwreck trails, and land-based interpretive media and literature.

Proceedings of the IVth International Symposium on Cephalopods: Present and Past, held in Granada, Spain, July 14-18, 1996

Presents a critical analysis of the culture history approach to Americanist anthropology. This work uses a framework for the analysis that is founded on the contrast between two metaphysics used by evolutionary biologists in discussing their own discipline: materialistic/populational thinking and essentialistic/typological thinking.

Toward the Psychology of Malefaction This is a book about human wickedness. This view is often expressed in a paradigm that regards human conduct as the "dependent variable," while anything that impinges on the human being is considered the "independent variable."

This volume provides broad insights to the most recent discoveries in telomere biology, with current applications in tumor diagnostics and future potentials in therapy. This book will be a core reference for any physician, scientist or "educated reader" with an interest in the exciting developments in this research field.

This book examines volunteering in detail from a civil society perspective, using empirical data garnered from various sources for countries all over the globe.

This resource manual for college-level science instructors reevaluates the role of testing in their curricula and describes innovative techniques pioneered by other teachers.

He focuses on the Maros communities and utilizes the densely encoded social information from their cemeteries to draw a picture of the Maros' social systems.

A source for clinical psychologists and other allied mental health professionals to access information on a range of research on the neurobiology of psychological and psychiatric traits. It is designed to give readers an overview of the knowledge base of the biological processes for each trait.

It began in Spring 1989, thirteen years after our Systems Science Department at SUNY -Binghamton was established, when I was asked by a group of students in our doctoral program to have a meeting with them.

In this new millenium it may be fair to ask, "Why look at Wundt?" Over the years, many authors have taken fairly detailed looks at the work and accomplishments of Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920).

This is a thoroughgoing revision of the first edition of this classic text and reference, published by Plenum in 1992. The authors convey the general principles that underlie this applied subdiscipline and demonstrate how the merging of demography and health care impacts on the planning processes of a range of health care organizations.

In the secret depths of my soul, I still wish to make the world a better place and sometimes fantasize about heroically eradicating its faults. The pain of realizing these things is sometimes so intense that I want to close my eyes and lose myself in the kinds of daydreams that comforted me as a youngster.

The aim of this book on psychotherapies with children and families is to present a comprehensive overview of the current array of intervention approaches in the child mental health field.

In 1996, representatives from 27 different countries met in Jerusalem to share ideas about traumatic stress and its impact. Part I discusses how the current paradigm of traumatic stress disorder developed within the historical, social, and process contexts.