Adolescent Relationships and Drug Use explores the communicative and relational features of adolescent drug use. It focuses on peer norms, risk, and protective factors and considers how drugs are offered to adolescents, examining such factors as who makes the offers and how they are resisted, where the offers take place, and what relationship exists between the persons making the offers and the persons receiving them. Unlike other studies of drug resistance, this work examines the...

Un hombre, un plan, un canal, ¡Panamá!Antes de 1914, viajar desde la costa este hasta la costa oeste significaba cruzar por tierra todo Estados Unidos. Hacerlo por mar implicaba un largo viaje hacia el sur, rodeando Sudamérica y luego subiendo por la costa del Pacífico. Pero entonces, en una hazaña de ingeniería peligrosa y asombrosa, se excavó un canal de 48 millas de largo a través de Panamá, creando el atajo más famoso del mundo: ¡el canal de Panamá!

Ever since Norman Lear remade the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part into All in the Family, American remakes of British television shows have become part of the American cultural fabric. Indeed, some of the programs currently said to exemplify American tastes and attitudes, from reality programs like American Idol and What Not to Wear to the mock-documentary approach of The Office, are adaptations of successful British shows. Carlen Lavigne and H...

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Each morning patients gathered outside the clinic to see the doctor. So many suffered from the most painful medical conditions Albert could imagine. An old African man told him, "Among us everyone is ill. Our country devours her own children." Albert found himself agreeing. Nothing could have prepared him for the conditions here.Growing up on the French-German border, son of a Lutheran pastor, Albert Schweitzer adopted a peace-loving approach to life. He studied theology, music, an...

Esta obra colectiva refleja una exhaustiva exploración de diversos aspectos relacionados con el panorama laboral global, enfocándose en la evolución del proteccionismo del trabajador, nuevas formas de protección social y desafíos emergentes en el ámbito laboral. Se examinan las tendencias del proteccionismo laboral, destacando la reducción de la jornada laboral en Colombia y las perspectivas del contrato colectivo en Italia post-epidemia. Se profundiza en la tercerización como trabajo cola...

Moral Soundings takes a fresh new approach to introducing students and general readers to contemporary ethics. Rather than surveying the standard fare in a typical anthology format, Furrow collects diversified essays around a structured theme: does Western culture face a moral crisis of values? Prominent voices in the humanities and social sciences provide a range of perspectives on a concentrated set of ethical questions dealing with such topics as family values, the morality of ...

Este livro preenche uma lacuna existente na literatura da psicologia analítica no que se refere ao atendimento de casais. A coletânea aborda, entre outros assuntos, o histórico da abordagem no Brasil, a conjugalidade, o sonho como recurso terapêutico, o uso do sandplay e o processo de individuação. Textos de Adriana Lopes Garcia, Aurea Afonso M. Caetano, Cláudia Nejme, Deusa Rita Tardelli Robles, Irany de Barros Agostinho, Isabel Cristina Ramos de Araujo, Jane Eyre Sader de Siqueira, Liria...

Jam-packed with informative and fun facts, this ABC book teaches Jewish culture and tradition with alliteration and rhyme. In I is for Israel, young readers learn which language is acknowledged nationally, which city is recognized as the capital, and what three major religions are rooted and represented in that country. B is for bagels describes the popular food's variety as well as what is traditionally eaten with them.The entire alphabet is displayed at the top ...

Zapinette spends Christmas in the Big Apple! She reveals a slice of life from a perspective that is both rare and familiar. She is unique in her worldly travels, having been born in the United States, currently living in Paris, and visiting faraway lands with her beloved Unky Berky. She is all too common in her pain as the child of a broken home, her anger and hostility over her mother's new beau ("Fermin the Virmen'), her confusion over the baffling realities of the adult world, and her i...

Janet è un'adolescente che vive nei quartieri popolari della New York di fine '800. Figlia di una sarta e di un padre alcolizzato, passa le giornate con Roy, lo strillone della zona. Un giorno di dicembre incontra per caso il vescovo che le regala un paio di calze ripiene di dolci e qualche soldo. Ma i giorni dell'innocenza stanno giungendo al termine...

Das Handbuch behandelt das Thema Antikorruptions-Compliance umfassend und abschließend. Nach einer Einführung und einem Überblick über die internationalen Vorgaben werden die deutschen Korruptionsstraftatbestände für Taten im Inland wie im Ausland vertiefend erläutert. Es folgt ein Überblick über wichtige Antikorruptions-Compliance-Erfordernisse von bedeutenden Nachbarländern und wichtigen Handelspartnern (A, CH, F, I, E, England und Wales, USA, Russland, Argentinien, Brasilien), teilweise...