Disparities in School Readiness

How Families Contribute to Transitions into School

Edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter

Significant disparities exist in children's behavioral and learning capacities that support successful transitions into school. In this new volume, leading researchers from a variety of...

Published August 3rd 2007 by Psychology Press.

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation and People with Dementia

By Linda Clare

Rehabilitation provides a core concept around which to organise support, intervention and care for people with impairments in memory and other cognitive functions. This book...

Published August 2nd 2007 by Psychology Press.

Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being

The Search for the 'Good Life' and the 'Body Perfect'

By Helga Dittmar

Advertising, materialism and consumption are central aspects of contemporary Western culture. We are bombarded with idealised images of the perfect body, desirable consumer goods, and...

Published August 2nd 2007 by Psychology Press.

Existential and Spiritual Issues in Death Attitudes

Edited by Adrian Tomer, Grafton T. Eliason, Paul T.P. Wong

Existential and Spiritual Issues in Death Attitudes provides: an in-depth examination of death attitudes, existentialism, and spirituality and their relationships; a review of the major...

Published July 31st 2007 by Psychology Press.

International Family Change

Ideational Perspectives

Edited by Rukmalie Jayakody, Arland Thornton, William Axinn

Many dimensions of family life have changed. Age at marriage has risen, arranged marriages and extended families have declined, intergenerational relationships have been altered, and...

Published July 27th 2007 by Psychology Press.

Dyslexia at College

By T. R. Miles, Dorothy Gilroy, Elizabeth Ann Du Pre

This fully updated third edition contains practical and useful advice that will be invaluable for students with dyslexia, their parents and all of those involved...

Published July 26th 2007 by Routledge.

Nature and Sociology

By Tim Newton

This book engages with, and contests, the ‘new sociology of nature’. It moves beyond existing debates by presenting new social theory and working across current...

Published July 26th 2007 by Routledge.

Mental Health

By Various Authors

Published July 26th 2007 by Routledge.

Applied Organizational Communication

Theory and Practice in a Global Environment

By Thomas E. Harris, Mark D. Nelson

Applied Organizational Communication provides a current, in-depth analysis of the theories and practices critical to understanding organizational communication concepts in a global environment. Exploring the...

Published July 25th 2007 by Routledge.

Leadership at a Distance

Research in Technologically-Supported Work

Edited by Suzanne P. Weisband

This volume offers insights from a noted group of scholars who discuss the complex phenomenon of leadership in distributed work settings - also known as...

Published July 23rd 2007 by Psychology Press.