By the early 1970s the psychology of age had become an extremely important topic in the field. In the present book, originally published in 1973, the authors are particularly concerned with the subject of intellectual functioning. The assessment of intellect in the aged has many important theoretical and practical implications. At the same time, this work was of vital importance to the problems of medical illness in the aged, particularly with psychiatric and neurological diagnosis. Intell...

Two New Pocket Gophers from Wyoming and Colorado is a scientific paper authored by E. Raymond Hall and H. Gordon Montague that presents the discovery and description of two previously unnamed species of pocket gophers in the regions of Wyoming and Colorado. Pocket gophers, belonging to the family Geomyidae, are small burrowing rodents known for their distinctive features and ecological roles in soil aeration and seed dispersal.In this publication, Hall and Montague provide a thorough taxon...

This book moves scholarly debates beyond the old question of whether or not international institutions matter in order to examine how they matter, even in a world of power politics. Power politics and international institutions are often studied as two separate domains, but this is in need of rethinking because today most states strategically use institutions to further their interests. Anders Wivel, T.V. Paul, and the international group of contributing authors update our underst...

70 Pirate Novels surveys the durable imaginative power of piracy across nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular fiction. Ranging from maritime romance, imperial adventure, historical melodrama, detective-inflected mystery, and juvenile tale to fantasy and proto-science fiction, the volume charts the sea as a space of danger, freedom, commerce, and contested law. Shipwrecks, mutinies, hidden treasure, false identities, and perilous coastlines recur, while especially vivid narratives...

Skull & Crossbones: 70 Pirate Adventures surveys the enduring romance and terror of piracy across nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century popular fiction. Its sea chases, mutinies, treasure quests, island mysteries, and encounters with privateers range from historical romance and boys' adventure to detective-inflected suspense, imperial yarns, and imaginative fantasy. The volume places swashbuckling spectacle beside darker meditations on lawlessness, survival, colonial expansion, and the p...

Fully updated and revised based on the 2020 ASHA standards and recent AAA standards, the new edition of this bestseller is the core textbook for all students in clinical methods courses—and a reliable reference for practicing SLPs and audiologists. Covering a broad range of disorders and developmental levels, this text sets emerging professionals on the path toward mastering all the fundamentals of practice, from conducting effective assessment and intervention to ensuring that pr...

Teaches the principles, methods, and fundamentals of exegeting the New Testament. Any serious student of Scripture would benefit from utilizing this book in the study of the Bible.

The introduction of "Black" studies programs into institutions of higher education was a direct response to the mandate for change at all levels that characterized the civil rights movement and the social rebellions of the 1950s and 1960s. In Out of the Revolution, Delores P. Aldridge and Carlene Young collect thirty-one of the nation's top scholars to provide a complete reference for understanding the impetus for, the development of, and future considerations for the discipline o...

In the wake of the Civil War, Constance Fenimore Woolson became one of the first northern observers to linger in the defeated states from Virginia to Florida. Born in New Hampshire in 1840 and raised in Ohio, she was the grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper and was gaining success as a writer when she departed in 1873 for St. Augustine. During the next six years, she made her way across the South and reported what she saw, first in illustrated travel accounts and then in the poetry, stories...

This volume culls scholarship on both what high literacy is and how it is developed. It embraces the call put forth by Langer and Applebee (2016) that high literacy must continue to be our aim and to see more research analyzing and identifying how teachers might promote literacy practices that promote deep thinking around important content. The editors offer a conceptual framework for high literacy that explicates how each component (i.e. reading, writing, dialogic engagement, and epistemi...

Social Networking and Impression Management: Self-Presentation in the Digital Age, edited by Carolyn Cunningham, offers critical inquiry into how identity is constructed, deconstructed, performed, and perceived on social networking sites (SNSs), such as Facebook, and LinkedIn. The presentation of identity is key to success or failure in the Information Age, especially because SNSs are becoming the dominant form of communication among Internet users. The architecture of SNSs provide opportu...

Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual.Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts, this volume focuses on long-lived religious traditions of the native peoples of the Americas and how religion codifies, justifies, and reinforces these traditions by placing a high value on continuity of beliefs and practice.Using clues from the archaeol...