Dictionaries, Reference & Language Books

Book SynopsisThe progression from newborn to sophisticated language user in just a few short years is often described as wonderful and miraculous. What are the biological, cognitive, and social underpinnings of this miracle?What major language development milestones occur in infancy?What methodologies do researchers employ in studying this progression? Why do some become adept at multiple languages while others face a lifelong struggle with just one?What accounts for declines in language proficiency, and how might such declines be moderated? Despite an abundance of textbooks, specialized monographs, and a couple of academic handbooks, there has been no encyclopedic reference work in this area--until now. The Encyclopedia of Language Developmentcovers the breadth of theory and research on language development from birth through adulthood, as well as their practical application. Features: This affordable A-to-Z referenc

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Book SynopsisDefenders and critics of the controversial Spitzer study analyze its methodologies and findingsIn 2001, Robert L. Spitzer, MD, presented his study on sexual conversion therapy with its controversial findings that some homosexuals can change their sexual orientation. The resulting media sensation and political firestorm enraged the study’s critics and emboldened its supporters. Ex-Gay Research: Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics, and Culture presents leading experts examining Spitzer’s research methodology and findings to discern whether the study itself deserves deeper consideration or outright dismissal. Every facet of the study is reviewed to discuss the positive or negative aspects of the results, its significance in political and social terms, and the implications for the future. Dr. Spitzer himself was an instrumental figure in the American Psychiatric Association's decision in 1973 to remove homosexuality as a mental illness listing from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-III. His later study that states that in some individuals, homosexuality may be more fluid than previously thought stirred controversy in the psychiatric community and society at large. His study is presented here to allow the reader to evaluate and consider it for themselves. Leading experts then voice their own pro or con views on the methodology and findings. Ex-Gay Research: Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics, and Culture fearlessly illustrates the sometimes fuzzy boundary between science and politics, courageously spotlighting the culture wars now dividing our society.Ex-Gay Research: Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics, and Culture discusses: the ex-gay movement the nature of scientific inquiry the relationship between science and politics the results of sexual conversion therapies gay and lesbian rights Ex-Gay Research: Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics, and Culture is essential reading for sex researchers, mental health professionals, pastoral counselors, political activists, and any person asking if one can truly change his or her homosexuality.Table of Contents About the Editors Contributors Preface Section I: Editors’ Introductions 1. The Politics and Science of Reparative Therapy (Kenneth J. Zucker) 2. Gold or Lead? Introductory Remarks on Conversions (Jack Drescher) Section II: Perspectives on Changing Sexual Orientation 3. Position Statement on Therapies Focused on Attempts to Change Sexual Orientation (Reparative or Conversion Therapies) (Commission on Psychotherapy by Psychiatrists [COPP] and American Psychiatric Association) 4. Can Some Gay Men and Lesbians Change Their Sexual Orientation? 200 Participants Reporting a Change from Homosexual to Heterosexual Orientation (Robert L. Spitzer) Section III: Commentaries on the Spitzer Study and Dr. Spitzer’s Response from Archives of Sexual Behavior 5. Can Sexual Orientation Change? A Long-Running Saga (John Bancroft) 6. Understanding the Self-Reports of Reparative Therapy Successes (A. Lee Beckstead) 7. The Malleability of Homosexuality: A Debate Long Overdue (A. Dean Byrd) 8. A Methodological Critique of Spitzer’s Research on Reparative Therapy (Helena M. Carlson) 9. Are Converts to Be Believed? Assessing Sexual Orientation Conversions (Kenneth M. Cohen and Ritch C. Savin-Williams) 10. Reconsidering Sexual Desire in the Context of Reparative Therapy (Lisa M. Diamond) 11. The Spitzer Study and the Culture Wars (Jack Drescher) 12. Sexual Orientation Change: A Study of Atypical Cases (Richard C. Friedman) 13. The Politics of Sexual Choices (John H. Gagnon) 14. Too Flawed: Don’t Publish (Lawrence Hartmann) 15. Evaluating Interventions to Alter Sexual Orientation: Methodological and Ethical Considerations (Gregory M. Herek) 16. Guttman Scalability Confirms the Effectiveness of Reparative Therapy (Scott L. Hershberger) 17. Methodological Limitations Do Not Justify the Claim That Same-Sex Attraction Changed Through Reparative Therapy (Craig A. Hill and Jeannie D. DiClementi) 18. Initiating Treatment Evaluations (Donald F. Klein) 19. A Positive View of Spitzer’s Research and an Argument for Further Research (Richard B. Krueger) 20. Penile Plethysomography and Change in Sexual Orientation (Nathaniel McConaghy) 21. Finally, Recognition of a Long-Neglected Population (Joseph Nicolosi) 22. Sexual Orientation Change and Informed Consent in Reparative Therapy (Bruce Rind) 23. Reparative Science and Social Responsibility: The Concept of a Malleable Core As Theoretical Challenge and Psychological Comfort (Paula C. Rodríguez Rust) 24. A Candle in the Wind: Spitzer’s Study of Reparative Therapy (Donald S. Strassberg) 25. Spitzer’s Oversight: Ethical-Philosophical Underpinnings of Reparative Therapy (Marcus C. Tye) 26. Sexual Diversity and Change Along a Continuum of Bisexual Desire (Paul L. Vasey and Drew Rendall) 27. Science and the Nuremberg Code: A Question of Ethics and Harm (Milton L. Wainberg,Donald Bux, Alex Carballo-Dieguez, Gary W. Dowsett, Terry Dugan, Marshall Forstein, Karl Goodkin, Joyce Hunter, Thomas Irwin, Paulo Mattos, Karen McKinnon, Ann O’Leary, Jeffrey Parsons, and Edward Stein) 28. Sexual Reorientation Therapy: Is It Ever Ethical? Can It Ever Change Sexual Orientation? (Jerome C. Wakefield) 29. Heterosexual Identities, Sexual Reorientation Therapies, and Science (Roger L. Worthington) 30. How Spitzer’s Study Gives a Voice to the Disenfranchised Within a Minority Group (Mark A. Yarhouse) 31. Study Results Should Not Be Dismissed and Justify Further Research on the Efficacy of Sexual Reorientation Therapy (Robert L

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Book SynopsisHow is the pre-Stonewall generation aging? What can the Stonewall generation expect?Combining personal experience and original research, this fascinating collection explores the practical and psychological issues of aging for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. Midlife and Aging in Gay America provides highlights from the SAGE 2000 National Conference on the personal, psychological, and economic issues related to growing older as a member of a sexual minority. Midlife and Aging in Gay America delivers reports from a national conference on urgent issues, including: health care concerns retirement plans intergenerational romances lifestyle issues caregiving grief and loss Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Keynote Speeches A Call to Action Is Having the Luck of Growing Old in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Community Good or Bad Luck? Aging in the United States Today Being Transgender and Older: A First Person Account Research Being Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and 60 or Older in North America Gay Men: Aging Well! What Are Older Gay Men Like? An Impossible Question? Special Topics Gods or Monsters: A Critique of Representation in Film and Literature of Relationships Between Older Gay Men and Younger Men Retirement Intentions of Same-Sex Couples Preliminary Study of Caregiving and Post-Caregiving Experiences of Older Gay Men and Lesbians Vision and Older Adults Responding to the Mental Health and Grief Concerns of Homeless HIV-Infected Gay Men Index Reference Notes Included

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Book SynopsisYou are always selling. You're not just convincing people to buy your products or services, you're asking them to buy into you and your ideas. In a world where attention is at a premium, we have to be able to cut through the noise. Pitches and presentations aren't something to wing. Top performers understand the importance of preparation: knowing exactly what to say and how to say it. Get it right and you will supercharge your results and propel your career forward. Cut-Through reveals a proven step-by-step process for crafting your ideas, then delivering a winning performance. You'll discover how to crystallise your thinking into sticky' key messages, then wrap them into a narrative framework that makes your audience lean in and engage. Packed with easy-to-implement tools and techniques, it also gives you access to a library of powerful resources including a diagnostic scorecard, bite size videos, cheat sheets and more. Dominic Colenso started his career as an actor, most famously playing Virgil Tracy in the Hollywood remake of Thunderbirds alongside Sir Ben Kingsley. He now works with businesses around the world, helping individuals and teams take centre stage and deliver outstanding results.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Table of ContentsB. Rapp, M. Miozzo, Introduction to Papers From the 5th Workshop on Language Production: The Neural Bases of Language Production. K. Emmorey, S. McCullough, S.Mehta, L.L.B. Ponto, T.J. Grabowski, Sign language and Pantomime Production Differentially Engage Frontal and Parietal Cortices. J. Hanulova, D. J. Davidson, P.Indefrey, Where Does the Delay in L2 Picture Naming Come From? Psycholinguistic and Neurocognitive Evidence on Second Language Word Production. D. Poeppel, P.J.Monahan, Feedforward and Feedback in Speech Perception: Revisiting Analysis-by-synthesis.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1995. The Military Balance is updated each year to provide a timely, quantitative assessment of the military forces and defence expenditures of over 160 countries. The current volume contains as of 1 June 1994. The break-up of the Soviet Union necessitated a re-evaluation of the way in which The Military Balance divides the world into geographical sections. Russia is both a European and an Asian state and is given a separate section in the book.Table of ContentsThe Military Balance 1994-1995: Layout and Principles of Compilation; Index; 1. COUNTRIES; The United States; NATO; Non-NATO Europe; Russia; The Middle East and North Africa; Central and Southern Asia; East Asia and Australasia; Caribbean and Latin America; Sub-Saharan Africa; 2. TABLE AND ANALYSES; Developments in the Field of Weapons of Mass Destruction Other Arms-Control Developments; Table: Conventional Forces in Europe; Peacekeeping Operations; Estimating and Interpreting Defence Economic Data Reader Reaction Questionnaire; Abbreviations

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Book SynopsisThe guide was assembled by researchers working on the Decoding Antisemitism project at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at Technische Universität Berlin, building on existing basic definitions of antisemitism, and drawing on expertise in various fields.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction: Pragmatics & Interpretation.- Reflections on contemporary U.S. political rhetoric and our data: With a special focus on Trump and Biden/Harris (2020 – 2024).- The case studies: Origins and contexts of the controversial utterances.- Analysis of the ‘kung flu’ incident.- Comparison of Trump’s controversial “Bloodbath” utterance incident with Biden’s controversial “Bullseye” comment incident.- Consequences and outputs.- Discussions & Conclusions.

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