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  • Perceptual Coherence

    Hearing and Seeing

    by Stephen Handel ...
    The job of any sensory system is to create objects in the world out of the incoming proximal stimulus energy. The energy is neutral; it does not specify the objects itself. Thus, sensory systems must abstract the energy that does specify objects and differentiate it from the noise energy. The perceptual variables that specify objects for both listening and looking become those of contrast and ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Perceptual Organization

    An Integrated Multisensory Approach

    by Stephen Handel ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This textbookgoes beyond introductory sensory perception by incorporating supplementary electronic materials to demonstrate the parallels between both hearing and seeing. Each chapter intermixes seeing and hearing processes so that students can easily understand that perceptual organization is the same across different kinds of sensations and modalities. Figures illustrating visual organization ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Perceptual Coherence

    Hearing and Seeing

    by Stephen Handel ...
    The job of any sensory system is to create objects in the world out of the incoming proximal stimulus energy. The energy is neutral; it does not specify the objects itself. Thus, sensory systems must abstract the energy that does specify objects and differentiate it from the noise energy. The perceptual variables that specify objects for both listening and looking become those of contrast and ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

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  • Thrive

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  • First Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts

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    by Caroline Archer ...
    `This excellent book looks at the attachment and development of very young children in the fostering and adoption situation. It deals sensitively and practically with the young child's "hurts" to help adopters and foster carers understand and cope with the many traumas they may experience in integrating a young child into their family. Caroline Archer is a real adoptive parent speaking from ... Read more

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  • Violence Against Women

    Myths, Facts, Controversies

    by Walter S DeKeseredy ...
    In Violence Against Women, award-winning author Walter S. DeKeseredy offers a passionate but well-documented sociological overview of a sobering problem. He starts by outlining the scope of the challenge and debunks current attempts to label intimate violence as gender neutral. He then lays bare the structural practices that sustain this violence, leading to a discussion of long- and short-term ... Read more

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  • A Tragedy Waiting to Happen – The Chaotic Life of Brendan O'Donnell

    The true story of an abandoned orphan who became a psychotic killer

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    For years, Tony Muggivan urged the Irish social system to offer appropriate treatment to the desperately sick Brendan O'Donnell. A Tragedy Waiting to Happen is the harrowing story of his doomed attempts and the awful consequences of that failure: a triple murder. Tony Muggivan is a farmer. One wet night in February 1989, Brendan O'Donnell entered his life and that of his family. He had absconded ... Read more

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  • Legacies of Crime

    A Follow-Up of the Children of Highly Delinquent Girls and Boys

    by Peggy C. Giordano ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Criminology
    Legacies of Crime explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys in the United States who were followed over a twenty-year period as they grew to adulthood. In-depth interviews with these women and men and their children - a majority now adolescents themselves - depict the adults' economic and social disadvantages and continued criminal involvement, and in turn the unique ... Read more

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  • Violence in the Home

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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  • Social Perspectives in Mental Health

    Developing Social Models to Understand and Work with Mental Distress

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    by James Rorie ...
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