Search results for “[subject: applied-sciences]”

• Author(s): Ladislav Valach • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe authors describe a view that our short-, medium-, and long- term behavior, interactions, and relationships--whether planned or spontane...

• Author(s): Henry B. Biller • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Exercise - GeneralBiller integrates research about exercise, nutrition, and health within an applied developmental psychological framework. Readers are presen...

• Author(s): Frank E. Eyetsemitan • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GerontologyMost studies of human development in developing societies have focused on the childhood stage, and in a few cases exploration has extended up ...

• Author(s): Anthony Mawson • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: CriminologyMawson proposes that transient criminality results from acute environmental stress and/or physiological disturbances in a context of diminished soci...

• Author(s): American Association for the Advancement • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: History

• Author(s): Henry B. Biller • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Exercise - GeneralBiller integrates research about exercise, nutrition, and health within an applied developmental psychological framework. Readers are presen...

• Author(s): Dorothy J. Howell • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyIf, as has been asserted, everything in nature is connected to everything else, it is a lesson yet to be reflected among environmenta...

• Author(s): George Kuttickal Chacko • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Decision Making & Problem SolvingDrawing upon his considerable practical experience in the field and his highly regarded theoretical work, Chacko ...

• Author(s): Joyce Iutcovich • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn this welcome guide, sociologists who have successfully established consulting practices present practical examples of how to apply socio...

• Author(s): Unknown • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Political Process - General

• Author(s): Nancy Feyl Chavkin • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Counseling - GeneralChavkin tests the theory that there is a relationship between organizational structure and the use of research recommendations in schoo...

• Author(s): Ofer Feldman • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsFeldman, Valenty, and their contributors present state-of-the-art evaluations of linkages between personality, motivation, decision making, l...

• Author(s): Zbigniew K. Brzezinski • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Political Process - General

• Author(s): Jung Min Choi • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialPostmodern philosophy is shown to be a valuable tool for exposing the bankruptcy of laissez-faire economics and culture and ...

• Author(s): Robert Jackson Alexander • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Political Process - General

• Author(s): Robert F. Mulcahy • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Educational PsychologyThis collection of essays addresses problem solving, decision making, critical thinking, and various conceptions of the learning and t...

• Author(s): John B. Dunlop • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Comparative Politics

• Author(s): Terrence E. Cook • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialCook's principles of coalition politics are really rules of thumb followed by boundedly rational actors, and can predict ...

• Author(s): Philip G. Altbach • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThis is the first book to provide detailed analysis of the relationship between higher education and scientific research i...

• Author(s): Richard N. Rosecrance • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: International Relations - General

• Author(s): Cynthia Watson • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Military ScienceThis book examines how the United States's extensive nation-building and stability operations will continue to evolve in the 21st century in th...

• Author(s): Bruce E. Johansen • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Agriculture - GeneralForty years after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, this important study examines the history, industrial uses, and har...

• Author(s): Robert G. Fleagle • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Global Environmental Change reviews the facts and the uncertainties relating to some of the major ...

• Author(s): Morton Wagman • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionWagman gives a broad, structured, and detailed account of advancing intellectual developments in both psychological and comp...

• Author(s): Jock Abra • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralThe past century has seen many changes in the study of psychology. One of those major changes was the adoption of scientific principles to define and build t...

• Author(s): Unknown • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Communication Studies

• Author(s): Janet Wiles • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionThe papers in this collection, and the editors' introductions, illustrate the ferment of ideas, the wide range of theories, me...

• Author(s): Morton Wagman • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionWagman presents a general, unified theory of artificial and human intelligence under which the nature of human reasoning, pr...

• Author(s): Eliezer Geisler • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Management ScienceGeisler argues that the over-reliance on co-variation techniques and statistical methods, instead of process approach and in-depth analysis,...

• Author(s): M. Daniel Fernando • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Forensic MedicineThe name AIDS is an accusation. It implies punishment for sin--homosexuality and promiscuity. AIDS is a moral judgement masquerading as a ...

• Author(s): Unknown • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Communication Studies

• Author(s): Shlomo Sharan • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Teaching - Methods & StrategiesThis professional reference provides a broad picture of cooperative learning methods. The volume includes descriptions of the...

• Author(s): George W. Grayson • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Latin America - MexicoAn up-to-date examination of Mexico's version of the "War on Drugs" that exposes the evolution of major cartels and their corruption o...

• Author(s): Dave Pruett • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: PhilosophyIn this enlightening and provocative exploration, Dave Pruett sets out a revolutionary new understanding of our place in the universe, one that reconcil...

• Author(s): Gary Westfahl • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Science Fiction & FantasyWith our lives firmly controlled by the steady pace of time, humans have yearned for ways to escape its constraints, and authors ha...

• Author(s): Karen Sands • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Science Fiction & FantasyMuch literature for children appears in the form of series, in which familiar characters appear in book after book. In the late ninet...