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Today's children are bombarded with images of violence in cartoons, news reports, television shows, computer games, movies, and other media. In growing numbers, they are also exposed to real-life violence in their own homes and communities - as witnesses, victims, and, increasingly, perpetrators. Emphasizing the need for early intervention and prevention, this timely book details the incidence and scope of the violence epidemic and examines the developmental impact of violence on children. Contributors describe several exemplary prevention and intervention programs currently in place around the country and propose a range of educational and policy initiatives.

Levensbeschrijving van de Nederlandse psycholoog (1939-1998), die bekendheid verwierf vanwege zijn talrijke populair-wetenschappelijke publicaties en optreden in de media.

Objectieve levensbeschrijving van persoon en leven van de Zwitserse psychiater (1875-1961).

[Zorg bij grootschalig geweld in oorlogsgebieden; zoektocht naar methoden van meten en psychosociale interventies; PTSS]

Looks at the development of the samurai in Japan from the Heian period to the Edo period and shows and describes the samurai's elaborate armor

Illustrates how modern painters convey human sexuality through fantasy, romance, symbolism, and super realism

Jan Amos Comenius, grondlegger van de pedagogiek, heeft ook naam gemaakt als theoloog, filosoof en diplomaat. In alles wat hij deed, streefde hij onvermoeibaar naar het verbeteren van de menselijkheid van de mensheid. Comenius, in 1592 in Tsjechië geboren, leefde ten gevolge van onderdrukking en oorlogsgeweld als een opgejaagde vluchteling in verschillende landen in Europa. In de laatste veertien jaar van zijn leven, tot zijn dood in 1670, woonde hij in Amsterdam. Hij schreef er boeken en maakte deze stad tot een ontmoetingsplaats voor Tsjechische vluchtelingen in Europa. Hij werd begraven in de Waalse kerk in Naarden-Vesting, waar deze kerk, naast het Comeniusmuseum, tegenwoordig is ingericht als mausoleum. Comenius is niet alleen een belangrijke erflater van de Tsjechische cultuur, maar ook in de Nederlandse geschiedenis heeft hij een onuitwisbare plaats.

One of the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the mid-20th century, Howard S. Becker’s Outsiders is a thorough exploration of social deviance and how it can be addressed in an understanding and helpful manner.

A compulsively readable and thoroughly researched exploration of social deviance and the application of what is known as "labeling theory" to the studies of deviance. With particular research into drug culture, Outsiders analyzes unconventional individuals and their place in normal society.

Overzicht van de geschiedenis van de Provo-beweging in de periode 1965-1967.

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

Novelist and critic Jonathan Wilson clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the birth of the State of Israel. Marc Chagall’s work addresses these transforming events, but his ambivalence about his role as a Jewish artist adds an intriguing wrinkle to common assumptions about his life. Drawn to sacred subject matter, Chagall remains defiantly secular in outlook; determined to “narrate” the miraculous and tragic events of the Jewish past, he frequently chooses Jesus as a symbol of martyrdom and sacrifice.

Wilson brilliantly demonstrates how Marc Chagall’s life constitutes a grand canvas on which much of twentieth-century Jewish history is vividly portrayed. Chagall left Belorussia for Paris in 1910, at the dawn of modernism, looking back dreamily on the world he abandoned. After his marriage to Bella Rosenfeld in 1915, he moved to Petrograd, but eventually returned to Paris after a stint as a Soviet commissar for art. Fleeing Paris steps ahead of the Nazis, Chagall arrived in New York in 1941. Drawn to Israel, but not enough to live there, Chagall grappled endlessly with both a nostalgic attachment to a vanished past and the magnetic pull of an uninhibited secular present.

Wilson’s portrait of Chagall is altogether more historical, more political, and edgier than conventional wisdom would have us believe–showing us how Chagall is the emblematic Jewish artist of the twentieth century.

Visit nextbook.org/chagall for a virtual museum of Chagall images.

Studie in een evolutionair kader van de geslachtsbepaling bij de mens en daarmee samenhangende zaken.

Louis IV represents the apogee of French royal power and the Ancien Regime. Having restored the nation's finances and rebuilt the army, he embarked on a series of wars of conquest which made France universally feared and respected as the central power of continental Europe. In the age of Moliere, Corneille, Racine et al, French culture blossomed at the court of Versailles. The counterpoint to these achievements was the emasculation of the political and legal institutions that might have limited the exercise of the royal will. In this new history, Geoffrey Treasure explores a unique combination of a personal philosophy, moulded by absolutist thinking and propaganda, and by Marzarin's deliberate training. He examines the influences and traits which permitted the growth of this particular exercise of power and its descent into an absolutism that ultimately set France on the road to 1789.

Een autistische jongen beschrijft zijn ervaringen en gevoelens in een geheel eigen stijl.