Michael Thompson

Teresa Barker

Daniel James Kindlon

Offers advice and guidance to parents and educators on how to cope with boys at risk and introduces a program designed to give boys an essential emotional education.

Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys

Raising Cain

Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought

Life and Action

The Creation and Destruction of Value

Rubbish Theory

Offers advice and guidance to parents and educators on how to cope with boys at risk and introduce a program designed to give boys an essential emotional education

Catherine O'Neill Grace

Lawrence J. Cohen (Child psychologist)

A practical child-care handbook answers important questions about children's social problems and offers effective, how-to advice for parents on how to help youngsters deal with rejection, name-calling, bullying, cliques, and other difficult social interaction situations. Reprint.

Helping Your Child Solve Social Problems

Mom, They're Teasing Me

An instructional book helps parents and educators distinguish between needless worry and reasonable concern over their children's education and development to more effectively aid young ones in becoming successful learners in school and in life. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Freeing Our Kids from Performance Overdrive and Helping Them Find Success in School and Life

The Pressured Child

The authors of Raising Cain present a definitive handbook for parents on raising boys, from birth to age eighteen, furnishing specific, practical information and advice on how to deal with the day-to-day challenges of each stage of development and offering helpful sidebars, tips, and case studies that cover boys' emotional, psychological, social, and academic life. 50,000 first printing.

Understanding Your Son's Development from Birth to Age 18

It's a Boy!

Lawrence J. Cohen (Ph. D.)

Details the complex nature of children's friendships and discusses the difference between friendship and popularity, how boys and girls deal with intimacy and commitments, and related topics.

Understanding the Social Lives of Children

Best Friends, Worst Enemies

An instructional book helps parents and educators distinguish between needless worry and reasonable concern over their children's education and development to more effectively aid young ones in becoming successful learners in school and in life.

Helping Your Child Find Success in School and Life

Sing with The Birds

How do objects that are worth little to nothing become valuable? Who is behind the creation of value, and which types of people find value and comfort in transient, durable, and rubbish objects? When his highly influential Rubbish Theory, first published in 1979, Michael Thompson launched the discipline of waste studies. It remains the most comprehensive analysis on the culture of waste to date. Thompson argues that there are two mutually exclusive cultural categories that are socially imposed on the world of objects: a transient category and a durable category. However, he identifies a region of flexibility, wherein a transient object that declines in value and life span can linger in a valueless and timeless limbo of rubbish, until it is discovered by a creative individual and transferred into something deemed durable. He links stability and change on one hand, with materiality on the other, providing a rich analysis of social and cultural dynamics. His instrumental theory of rubbish draws on case studies and anthropological fieldwork to highlight the ever-changing subtleties of object value and our complex relationship to waste. Bringing Rubbish Theory back into print, this updated edition includes a new introduction, preface, foreword, and afterword, thoroughly exploring how Thompson's key theories have affected our world in the four decades since it was first published and placing it in a contemporary context that shines light on the continued relevance of the book today.

Pankaj Vadgama

Serban Peteu

There are many remaining challenges impeding future progress in field of Clinical Diagnostics. This book presents a technical assessment and vision of clinical leaders, scoping the clinical and other diagnostic needs and the bottle-necks in their cognate fields. Issues of real environmental biological measurements from the perspective of the end-user are presented and thus the book serves to inform the direction of the fundamental scientific efforts. Both editors are experienced practitioners within the biosensor technology and are involved first-hand with the healthcare and clinical applications of detection science.

Detection Challenges in Clinical Diagnostics

Understanding Events that Entangle People and Vibrant Matter

The Fat Made Us Do it

Vince Aletti

Acclaimed by American Photo as "one of the most important photographers working today," the fashion and celebrity photographer Michael Thompson began his career in the late 1980s as a studio assistant to Irving Penn, and now is famed for his glamorous portraiture. In our celebrity-besotted culture, the magazine photographer holds tremendous power to sculpt the public's conception of a star; and Thompson has done so for such A-listers as Cate Blanchett, Sting, Mariah Carey, Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Sting and Meryl Streep. Michael Thompson: Portraits presents work spanning Thompson's illustrious 20-year career. Taken from the pages of fashion and lifestyle magazines including Vogue, W, GQ, Allure and Vanity Fair, the nearly 150 images in this book intensify the mythic pungency of their subjects while simultaneously inviting an intimate glimpse into their inner lives. The images have been selected by the widely admired photography critic and connoisseur Vince Aletti, who conducts a far-reaching appraisal of celebrity, using Thompson's images as a touchstone to examine the emergence of celebrity as cult, as well as the power of the photographer's astringent gaze to strip artifice from his subject. As one of the foremost celebrity photographers of the last two decades, Thompson emerges here as a leading image-broker for our times.

Michael Thompson. Portraits. Ediz. italiana, inglese e francese

A Series of Monographs on Analytical Chemistry and Its Applications

Chemical Analysis

Robert Evans

Working with Today's Independent School Parents

Hopes and Fears

The Heart of a Warrior: Before You Can Become the Warrior You Must Become the Beloved Son

The Gentrification of the ALP

Labor Without Class

Dunstan, the long-neglected Music Director for 'The City,' decides one day to blow Gabriel's forbidden Trumpet, unwittingly disrupting the string vibrational patterns which govern the universe. The 'Underling World' scientists, pursuing nature's final mysteries, slowly realize that something has gone horribly wrong. Can they restore the strings to proper working order in time to save the universe?

Michael Thompson

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