Dl4All - Download free For All: software and educational resource.

Children and Television: Fifty Years of Research (LEA's Communication Series) (Routledge Communication Series) By et al Norma Pecora
2006 | 488 Pages | ISBN: 0805841393 | PDF | 2 MB
This seminal volume is a comprehensive review of the literature on children's television, covering fifty years of academic research on children and television.The work includes studies of content, effects, and policy, and offers research conducted by social scientists and cultural studies scholars. The research questions represented here consider the content of programming, children's responses to television, regulation concerning children's television policies, issues of advertising, and concerns about sex and race stereotyping, often voicing concerns that children's entertainment be held to a higher standard. The volume also offers essays by scholars who have been seeking answers to some of the most critical questions addressed by this research. It represents the interdisciplinary nature of research on children and television, and draws on many academic traditions, including communication studies, psychology, sociology, education, economics, and medicine. The full bibliography is included on CD.Arguably the most comprehensive bibliography of research on children and television, this work illustrates the ongoing evolution of scholarship in this area, and establishes how it informs or changes public policy, as well as defining its role in shaping a future agenda. The volume will be a required resource for scholars, researchers, and policy makers concerned with issues of children and television, media policy, media literacy and education, and family studies.

Read More: Children and Television Fifty Years of Research (LEA's Communication Series) (Routledge Communication Series)

Children Reading Pictures: Interpreting Visual Texts By Evelyn Arizpe
2002 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 0415275768 | PDF | 3 MB
This book describes the fascinating results of a two year study of children's responses to contemporary picturebooks. Children of primary school age, from a range of backgrounds, read and discussed books by the award-winning artists, Anthony Browne and Satoshi Kitamura. They then made their own drawings in response to the books.The authors found that children are sophisticated readers of visual texts, and are able to make sense of complex images on literal, visual and metaphorical levels. They are able to understand different viewpoints, analyse moods, messages and emotions, and articulate personal responses to picturebooks - even when they struggle with the written word.With colour illustrations, and interviews with the two authors whose books were included in the study, this book demonstrates how important visual literacy is to children's understanding and development. Primary and Early Years teachers, literacy co-ordinators and all those interested in children's literature will find this a captivating read.

Read More: Children Reading Pictures Interpreting Visual Texts

Child and Adolescent Neurology: Blackwell's Neurology and Psychiatry Access Series (Access) By Ronald David
2005 | 664 Pages | ISBN: 1405117672 | PDF | 8 MB
Blackwell's Neurology and Psychiatry Access Series has been designed to teach the art of diagnosis and treatment of neurologic and mental disease using a rational approach. In this way the trainee specialist can apply both deductive and inductive reasoning to arrive at a diagnosis and formulate a plan for treatment.The Access Series consists of four books:Child & Adolescent PsychiatryAdult PsychiatryChild & Adolescent NeurologyAdult NeurologyIt is the goal of this text in the Blackwell Neurology/Psychiatry Access Series to convey not only essential knowledge but also the collected wisdom of its many highly regarded contributors. To achieve the goal of conveying not only knowledge but wisdom, each volume is divided into three sections:· Tools for Diagnosis· Diseases and Disorders· Common ProblemsAlso included to facilitate a physician's use of this book are:· Nosologic Diagnosis tables· "Pearls and Perils" boxes· "Consider Consultation When..."· Selected annotated bibliographies· A complete bibliography · Key Clinical Questions and What They UnlockThe Nosologic Diagnosis tables are based on a discriminator model to promote clearer understanding and are superior to a criterion-based model and others that lack similar specificity. This strong emphasis on differential diagnosis and on providing a structure for the understanding of the disease process means that they are true "how to do it" books.This title is now available for the PDA, powered by Skyscape - to buy your copy click here

Read More: Child and Adolescent Neurology Blackwell's Neurology and Psychiatry Access Series (Access)

Child Labour in a Globalized World By Giuseppe Nesi, Luca Nogler, and Marco Pertile
2008 | 492 Pages | ISBN: 0754672220 | PDF | 2 MB
This volume examines the legal dimension of the ILO's action in the field of Child Labour. The authors investigate the implementation of the relevant legal instruments and assess the effectiveness of the ILO supervisory system. All relevant instruments are considered while particular attention is given to Convention 182 on the elimination of the worst forms of child labour.This volume describes the ILO's activities concerning the eradication of child labour. It assesses the effectiveness of the relevant legal framework and evaluates the functioning of the supervisory system with reference to the main instruments. It discusses recent developments in the subject both within the Organization and in State practice. It examines the interaction between the ILO System and other international organizations and institutions. It evaluates the implementation of Convention 182 in national systems. It contextualizes the issue of the eradication of the worst forms of child labour in the recent doctrinal debate on the nature of labour standards and the transformation of the ILO.This important work will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers with an interest in labour law, international law, and children's rights.

Read More: Child Labour in a Globalized World

Child Development and Teaching the Pupil with Special Educational Needs By Anne Anderson; Christina Tilstone; Lyn Layton; et al
2002 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 0415276217 | PDF | 2 MB
A thought-provoking book which provides a framework for understanding the physical, sensory, emotional, social, linguistic and cognitive development of children with special educational needs. It gives practitioners and students a sound grasp of the theoretical ground needed to fully understand cognitive development and will help them track children's developmental progress in order to optimise learning opportunities. The authors handle complex topics in a highly accessible manner, explaining how to put theory into practice. In three lucidly argued sections they present: an overview of the work of key theorists and thinkers, including Vygotsky, Piaget, Freud, Erikson, Bruner and the Korning theorists an evaluation of the educational implications of the work of each theorist, using illustrative case studies a consideration of areas of development in learning and teaching children with special educational needs. This book will be a beacon for teachers, head teachers, educational psychologists and all practitioners involved in special needs education who seek the opportunity to help empower their pupils, and enhance their own understanding.

Read More: Child Development and Teaching the Pupil with Special Educational Needs

Chicken with Plums By Marjane Satrapi
2006 | 92 Pages | ISBN: 0375424156 | DJVU | 19 MB
In her acclaimed Persepolis books and in Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi rendered the events of her life and times in a uniquely captivating and powerful voice and vision. Now she turns that same keen eye and ear to the heartrending story of her great-uncle, a celebrated Iranian musician who gave up his life for music and love.We are in Tehran in 1958, and Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most revered tar players, discovers that his beloved instrument is irreparably damaged. Though he tries, he cannot find one to replace it, one whose sound speaks to him with the same power and passion with which his music speaks to others. In despair, he takes to his bed, renouncing the world and all its pleasures, closing the door on the demands and love of his wife and his four children. Over the course of the week that follows, his family and close friends attempt to change his mind, but Nasser Ali slips further and further into his own reveries: flashbacks and flash-forwards (with unexpected appearances by the likes of the Angel of Death and Sophia Loren) from his own childhood through his children's futures. And as the pieces of his story slowly fall into place, we begin to understand the profundity of his decision to give up life.Marjane Satrapi brings what has become her signature humor, insight, and generosity to this emotional tale of life and death, and the courage and passion both require of us. The poignant story of one man, it is also a story of stunning universality-and an altogether luminous work.

Read More: Chicken with Plums

Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies By Suzanne Ferris
2007 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0415962552 | PDF | 2 MB
From An Affair to Remember to Legally Blonde, "chick flicks" have long been both championed and vilified by women and men, scholars and popular audiences. Like other forms of "chick culture," which the editors define as a group of mostly American and British popular culture media forms focused primarily on twenty- to thirtysomething, middle-class-and frequently college-educated-women, chick flicks have been accused of reinscribing traditional attitudes and reactionary roles for women. On the other hand, they have been embraced as pleasurable and potentially liberating entertainments, assisting women in negotiating the challenges of contemporary life. A companion to the successful anthology Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction, this edited volume consists of 11 original essays, prefaced by an introduction situating chick flicks within the larger context of chick culture as well as women's cinema. The essays consider chick flicks from a variety of angles, touching on issues of film history, female sexuality (heterosexual and homosexual), femininity, female friendship, age, race, ethnicity, class, consumerism, spectatorship, pleasure and gender definition. An afterword by feminist film theorist Karen Hollinger considers the chick flick's transformation from the woman's films of the '40s to the friendship films of the '80s and those of the "return to the classics" trend of the '90s, while highlighting the value of the volume's contributions to contemporary debates and sketching possibilities for further study.

Read More: Chick Flicks Contemporary Women at the Movies

Chicano School Failure and Success: Past, Present, and Future By R. Valencia
2002 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0415257735 | PDF | 3 MB
This new edition of the best-selling Chicano School Failure and Success, has been updated and expanded to provide state-of-the-art coverage of the Chicano school experience. The contributors include experts in the fields of anthropology, psychology, educational history and policy, special education, and child and family studies, reflecting the wide and complex range of issues affecting Chicano school students. The book is in five parts:Part I: A comprehensive review of schooling conditions and outcomes; the implications of a rapidly growing Chicano population; segregation, desegregation and integration; issues arising from the high dropout rate of Chicano students.Part II: Language, public policy and schooling issues for English language learners; the effectiveness of bilingual education in the US.Part III: Chicano/Latino ethnography of education; the relationship between Chicano families and schools.Part IV: Select testing issues that impact on Chicano students; the role of special education in the history of Chicano schooling.Part V: Analysis of the factors contributing to the success or failure of Chicano education; a synthesis of ideas to help promote success.This is a timely new edition that will be of great interest to academics, researchers and students in the areas of education, sociology and anthropology.

Read More: Chicano School Failure and Success Past, Present, and Future

Chicano English in Context By Carmen Fought
2002 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0333986377 | PDF | 1 MB
Chicano English in Context is the first modern, comprehensive study of Chicano English, a variety spoken by millions of Latinos in the U.S. It is also one of the first studies of ongoing sound change within an ethnic minority community. It briefly describes the phonology, syntax and semantics of this variety, and explores its crucial role in the construction of ethnic identity among young Latinos and Latinas. It also corrects misconceptions I how the general public views Chicano English.

Read More: Chicano English in Context

Chemistry Connections: The Chemical Basis of Everyday Phenomena, Second Edition (Complementary Science) By Kerry K. Karukstis, Gerald R. Van Hecke,
2003 | 250 Pages | ISBN: 0124001513 | PDF | 15 MB
One of the greatest challenges facing chemists and chemical educators today is conveying the central importance and relevance of chemistry to students and society at large. The new edition of Chemistry Connections highlights the fundamental role of chemical principles in governing our everyday experiences and observations.Introductory chemistry students and educators as well as laypersons with an inquisitiveness about the world around them will find the book an informative introduction to the context of chemistry in their lives. The book is written in a lively question-and-answer format with presentations in both lay and technical terms. * Two levels of explanations: general, accessible ones highlight the chemical essence of the phenomenon; and technical ones using chemical principles provide more in-depth interpretation * Indexing of questions according to key principles or terms enhances instructional use * Figures and 3-D chemical structures illustrate the chemical concepts presented * References to related World Wide Web sites for further exploration provide inexpensive and convient access to related information.* Color plates enhance connections between specific topics

Read More: Chemistry Connections The Chemical Basis of Everyday Phenomena, Second Edition (Complementary Science)