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This book reports the work of a 20-year collaboration between 36 psychologists who have created and investigated a new tool to elicit and analyze children's narratives. This tool is the MacArthur Story Stem Battery, a systematic collection of story beginnings that are referred to as 'stems.' These stems are designed to elicit information from...

This book presents a radically different argument for what has caused, and likely will continue to cause, the collapse of emerging market economies. The book asserts that while Wall Street is keenly aware of the implications of capital structure for stability and predictability, it has all but ignored these implications for emerging economies. The...

Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way round? The universe began with the Big Bang - will it end with a `Big Crunch'? Now in paperback, this book presents an innovative and controversial view of time and contemporary physics. Price urges physicists, philosophers, and anyone who has...

In this series of essays published over forty years Charles Kahn explicates the        ancient Greek concept of Being. His linguistic aim of explaining the meaning of the        verb einai is intertwined with his historical and philosophical project of        understanding how the concept came to be central to Greek philosophy from...

The Oxford Handbook of Lifelong Learningis a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of the theory and practice of lifelong learning, encompassing perspectives from human resources development, adult learning, psychology, career and vocational learning, management and executive development, cultural anthropology, the humanities, and...

With parallel Latin textTibullus was one of the great Roman elegists, alongside Ovid and Propertius. His poems of love, addressed to his mistresses Delia and Nemesis and the boy Marathus portray idealism, anguish, and betrayal, newly translated into stylish English by A. M. Juster, with parallel Latin text, introduction, and notes by Tibullus...