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About the Author Kevin J. Knoop. MD, MS, Director, Professional Education, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA; Assistant Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD Lawrence B. Stack, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Alan B. Storrow, MD, Vice Chairman for Research and Academic Affairs, Associate Professor for Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN R. Jason Thurman, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Associate Director, Residency Program, Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Review America's justice system has become increasingly punitive toward our teenagers during past 25 years. Terrifying terms like "super predator," "zero tolerance" and "vicious youth gangs" are part of our everyday speech. But as Scott and Steinberg show, new neuroscientific and psychological evidence challenges the punitive approach. The book combines rigorous science and impeccable legal scholarship, with forceful prose, to argue for a wholesale reform of the juvenile justice system. --Terrie Moffitt, Duke University and King's College London (20090101) Scott and Steinberg, leading figures in juvenile law and adolescent developmental psychology, have joined forces to argue that now is the moment to reconstitute, in a completely original way, how America deals with juvenile crime and juvenile offenders. At once deeply learned and altogether pragmatic, Rethinking Juvenile Justice is one of the most transformative books this field has seen in the past 20 years. --John Monahan, Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia The subject of juvenile justice breeds extreme responses. The academic sensibility is extremely lenient, seeing misguided kids who need understanding and help more than punishment. The legal system is mindlessly punitive: juvenile defendants in the US are treated more harshly than adults elsewhere in the Western world. In the midst of this crazy conversation, Scott and Steinberg are voices of sanity. Their wholly novel approach to juvenile crime will make equal sense to judges, juvenile advocates, and urban police forces. This book is a terrific example of what speaking truth to power, effectively, looks like. --William Stuntz, Harvard Law School This multidisciplinary book is exactly what policy makers should consult when thinking about ways to change a system that is in dire need of repair. --D. S. Mann (Choice ) What distinguishes this book from other writings in the field are not the proposals made, which are relatively modest, but rather the developmental sophistication with which they are defended. And in the end, the hard questions the book raises are not about juvenile justice policy, but rather about the interrelationship between law and science. Offering us the gold standard in legal-developmental collaboration, it presses us to consider the role the developmental sciences should play in shaping the law affecting children...What makes the book so valuable is that it can be relied upon by judges, legislatures, lawyers, and policymakers to enhance the sophistication with which they consider the very issues that they are currently being called on to decide. In this sense, Rethinking Juvenile Justice is a complete success. Lawmakers already look to Scott and Steinberg's earlier work when they address how the law should respond to juvenile crime, and this book should only enhance the sophistication of those lawmaking efforts...Rethinking Juvenile Justice promises to enhance the sophistication of those addressing juvenile justice policy on a broad range of issues. --Emily Buss (University of Chicago Law Review ) [Scott and Steinberg] believe that new juvenile justice reforms that publicize available scientific developmental data and empirical data demonstrating savings in recidivism and costs due to keeping kids in the juvenile system will be successful. They believe that we can avoid the demolition of the courts or at least staunch the loss of so many young offenders from the courts' jurisdiction...This book is one of the very few works that provides legal and developmental analyses and offers politically savvy advice about implementing a successful legislative strategy...This is a book that everyone should read. --Lucy S. McGough (Law and Politics Book Review ) About the Author Elizabeth S. Scott is Harold R. Medina Professor of Law at Columbia University. Laurence Steinberg is Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at Temple University.

About the Author Mary Jane Kehily is Lecturer in Childhood Studies at the Open University, U.K. She has a background in cultural studies and education and has research interests in childhood and youth particularly in relation to issues of gender and sexuality, narrative and identity, and popular culture. She has published widely on these themes. She is author of Sexuality, Gender and Schooling, shifting agendas in social learning (Routledge/Falmer 2002).

About the Author Catherine Powell is Consultant Nurse Safeguarding Children at Portsmouth City Teaching Primary Care Trust and a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton. Firmly committed to the realisation of the potential of the nursing and midwifery contribution to safeguarding children and young people, she is actively engaged in practice, research, education and policy development.

Book Description This teaching resource offers great lesson ideas and activities based on quality children's literature. All titles are based on the theme of work, giving children an insight into the working environment and the skills that are needed to succeed. About the Author CAROL M. BUTZOW, Ed.D., is an educational consultant, teacher of English as a second language and writer based in Indiana, Pennsylvania. JOHN W. BUTZOW, Ed.D., is Dean of the College of Education and Educational Technology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Amazon.com Review Nine-year-old Beezus Quimby has her hands full with her little sister, Ramona. Sure, other people have little sisters that bother them sometimes, but is there anyone in the world like Ramona? Whether she's taking one bite out of every apple in a box or secretly inviting 15 other 4-year-olds to the house for a party, Ramona is always making trouble--and getting all the attention. Every big sister can relate to the trials and tribulations Beezus must endure. Old enough to be expected to take responsibility for her little sister, yet young enough to be mortified by every embarrassing plight the precocious preschooler gets them into, Beezus is constantly struggling with her mixed-up feelings about the exasperating Ramona. There's no one in the world like Beverly Cleary, either. This terrifically popular author of over two dozen children's books has withstood the test of time for generations, as her many awards, including the Newbery Medal, attest. Two books in the Ramona series, and , were also named Newbery Honor Books. Louis Darling's wonderful ink illustrations are the kind that will stay with a reader for a lifetime. (Ages 8 to 12) --Emilie Coulter From the Inside Flap 2 hours, 22 minutes2 cassettesPerformance by Stockard Channing Beezus Quimby's four-year-old sister, Ramona, is exasperating. Ramona always manages to get her way. Poor Beezus, she must be the only ten-year-old in the world with such a pest for a sister. How can she learn to love and accept this four-year-old terror? --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review `Essential equipment for the nursery, this book will be treasured far beyond the early years' Sunday Times `Ian Beck has replaced Kate Greenaway in giving us the most idyllic images of childhood' Amanda Craig, Independent on Sunday --This text refers to an alternate edition. About the Author The Elves and the Shoemaker, Chicken Licken, The Tortoise and the Hare, Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, The Gingerbread Boy, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Enormous Turnip, Jack and the Beanstalk, and The Princess and the Pea, Best-Loved Stories and Nursery Rhymes, The Oxford Nursery Treasury, The Oxford Nursery Story Book, The Oxford Nursery Book, Oranges and Lemons, Round and Round the Garden, Pudding and Pie, Stories and Songs for Bedtime. --This text refers to an alternate edition.

From the Back Cover Advanced Practice in Critical Care provides experienced critical care nurses with a clear and distinct evidence base for contemporary critical care practice. Central to the book is the application of research and evidence to practice and, therefore, case studies and key critical care clinical situations are used throughout the book. This key new book provides in-depth rationales for contemporary critical care practice in an effort to increase the depth of knowledge of nurses who care for the critically ill patient, so that they can truly evaluate their care interventions in view of underlying pathophysiology and evidence.  Each chapter introduces a patient scenario, which is developed and explored throughout the course of the chapter.   Advanced assessment techniques are explained and the underlying pathophysiology is discussed in depth. Advanced Practice in Critical Care is an essential resource for experienced practitioners within critical care whom primarily care for patients requiring high dependency or intensive care. About the Author Sarah McGloin is Senior Lecturer in Acute Care at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. Anne McLeod is Senior Lecturer Critical Care at City University, UK.

From School Library Journal Grade 6 Up -More promising in theme than in execution, this gathering of step diagrams for 15 paper monsters, creatures, and deities contains a few sparklers, but will most likely leave even veteran paper folders dissatisfied. Nguyen is a prolific and inventive designer, but his models tend to be abstract, hard to identify without a label-and that's nowhere more true than here. Despite artfully posed color photos of finished models, the Cyclops, mermaid, sphinx, centaur, and several others are just jumbles of tiny pleats and reverse folds. Also, though the three-headed Cerberus and an eight-headed hydra have nicely menacing looks, both require a lot of very small, precise folds and scissors cuts. The diagrams and text directions are, overall, clear and exact, except that Nguyen is vague about just how and where to apply glue. Also, the few skimpy sentences at the end on the mythological nature of each figure and a truly pointless index seem tacked on as afterthoughts. Origamists willing to take on the challenge will find a particularly graceful unicorn and a well-posed, multiarmed, dancing Shiva here, but on the whole this title is a supplementary purchase, even for deeper collections.-John Peters, New York Public Library Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review Imagination and Play in the Electronic Age is a fascinating description of the way that TV, video games, and computers shape both our real life actions and our imaginative worlds. The Singers combine impressive scholarship with deep insight about the dangers and potential benefits of the increasing role of electronic media in the lives of children and adults--and in the end, offer an optimistic view of our wired future. --Marjorie Taylor, Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon (20070701) Brings to light some potentially important issues for how various forms of media may facilitate or hinder the likelihood of young children engaging in symbolic and imaginative play...The book should be required reading for persons with an interest in the question of how the shifts in childhood leisure time activities may be affecting culture as a whole. --Robert T. Hitlan and M. Catherine DeSoto (PsycCritiques ) Concise and readable, this book offers a compelling examination of the ways in which video games, television, and the Internet (both e-mail and the Web) help to shape the lives of contemporary children, adolescents, and adults. Singer and Singer focus on the younger set, and they begin with a discussion of the mind's capacity for growth and self-knowledge. They move through an authoritative discussion of the impact of television on individual consciousness to arrive at a reasoned but impassioned indictment (no other word seems possible) of violent "point and kill" video games, which reduce all social transactions to the level of primal violence. In the chapter titled 'Adrift in Cyberspace,' the authors discuss the implications of children set free in that vast territory. The volume concludes with an argument for the "role of play in early learning," in which corporate sponsors do not commodify children's imaginations. Lucid, reasoned, elegantly written, and meticulously documented, this is a volume of considerable importance and value. --W. W. Dixon (Choice ) Senior Research Scientist Dorothy G. Singer and Professor Emeritus Jerome L. Singer provide the reader with a compelling examination of how television and video games both foster and impede a child's imagination and creativity...As electronic media becomes more prevalent in the lives of children, Imagination and Play in the Electronic Age is essential reading for all concerned educators and parents. --Javier Gonzalez (Childhood Education ) In the prevailing climate of judicial criticism of the growing medication of children for Attention Deficit Disorder, a book about the effect of the ever-increasing electronic bombardment of today’s youth is timely...The studies presented in this book are likely to be of interest to family lawyers dealing with parenting cases involving heavy usage of electronic babysitting and criminal lawyers interested in probing the causation of mitigating psychological disorders. If the electronic screen is the square, here is the argument that we should all think outside it. --Yasmine Swifte (Law Society Journal ) Review Imagination and Play in the Electronic Age is a fascinating description of the way that TV, video games, and computers shape both our real life actions and our imaginative worlds. The Singers combine impressive scholarship with deep insight about the dangers and potential benefits of the increasing role of electronic media in the lives of children and adults--and in the end, offer an optimistic view of our wired future. (Marjorie Taylor, Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon 20070701) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.