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  • THE COST OF CONQUEST
    LINDA NEWSON
    At the time of the Spanish conquest, Honduras was inhabited by two distinct social systems, which defined the boundary between the cultures of Mesoamerica and South America. Each system was administered in a different way, and subsequently the survival of each civilization varied markedly. This study examines the nature of each culture at the time of Spanish conquest, the size ...

    $1,200.00

  • CHILDHOOD INTO ADOLESCENCE
    JOHN NEWSON / ELIZABETH NEWSON
    This book is about the lives of 11-year-old children growing up in a Midlands city in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Based on interviews with their parents, it describes family life at the time, as well as the experiences, hopes and concerns of the children as they themselves become adolescents. The book reflects upon the changes that occur for children in the transitional perio...

    $1,380.00

  • SEVEN YEARS OLD IN THE HOME ENVIRONMENT
    JOHN NEWSON / ELIZABETH NEWSON
    John and Elizabeth Newson’s long-term investigation of child up-bringing attracted intense interest from its earliest beginnings: ‘pathbreaking’ and ‘seminal’ were adjectives that greeted their first report. The study is now established as one of the major projects of the seventies. This third volume of the series catches some seven hundred Nottingham children at a critical sta...

    $980.00

  • TOYS AND PLAYTHINGS
    JOHN NEWSON / ELIZABETH NEWSON
    John and Elizabeth Newson were well known for their studies of child rearing, which have combined a rigorous research methodology with sympathetic insights into family life and a lively approach to scientific reporting. ‘Path-breaking’, ‘brilliant’, ‘seminal’, ‘outstanding’, ‘fascinating’, ‘enthralling’ and ‘enchanting’ are some of the adjectives used by critics to describe the...

    $980.00

  • POST-CONFLICT ARCHAEOLOGY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
    PAUL NEWSON
    The human cost in any conflict is of course the first care in terms of the reduction, if not the elimination of damage. However, the destruction of archaeology and heritage as a consequence of civil and international wars is also of major concern, and the irreversible loss of monuments and sites through conflict has been increasingly discussed and documented in recent years. Po...

    $1,160.00

  • THE FAMILY AND THE HANDICAPPED CHILD
    ELIZABETH NEWSON
    This book describes an inquiry into the upbringing of young cerebral palsied children. Following the precedent set by John and Elizabeth Newson in their studies of normal children at home; Sheila Hewett visited the mothers of 180 spastic children and obtained their personal accounts of their experiences.There is considerable literature on handicapped children in which the adver...

    $1,320.00

  • FOUR YEARS OLD IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY
    JOHN NEWSON / ELIZABETH NEWSON
    Although psychologists by training, John and Elizabeth Newson have more aptly been described as pioneers in social ecology; they work from the conviction that the causes and the consequences of child-rearing attitudes can fruitfully be investigated only in the framework of the total social environment in which they occur. This book continues their analysis of child rearing in a...

    $1,460.00

  • INFANT CARE AND MOTHERHOOD IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY
    JOHN NEWSON / ELIZABETH NEWSON
    Infant Care and Motherhood in an Urban Community investigates the behavior and attitudes of 709 mothers towards their year-old babies. John and Elizabeth Newson, impatient with the voluminous and contradictory literature telling parents how their children should be brought up, decided to find out how they were being brought up. Infant Care in an Urban Community is focused on so...

    $1,320.00

  • BLOGGING AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA
    ALEX NEWSON / JUSTIN PATTEN
    Blogging and other types of social media such as wikis and social networking sites have transformed the way we use the internet in recent years. It is a transformation that business is eager to exploit. In order to do so, a clear commercial strategy needs to be established; does your organization wish to use the media actively as a business tool, or do you need to respond to t...

    $1,180.00

  • GOOGLE COMPUTE ENGINE
    MARC COHEN / KATHRYN HURLEY / PAUL NEWSON
    Learn how to run large-scale, data-intensive workloads with Compute Engine, Google’s cloud platform. Written by Google engineers, this tutorial walks you through the details of this Infrastructure as a Service by showing you how to develop a project with it from beginning to end. You’ll learn best practices for using Compute Engine, with a focus on solving practical problems. W...

    $321.00

  • FOUR YEARS OLD IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY
    JOHN NEWSON / ELIZABETH NEWSON
    John and Elizabeth Newson investigate the upbringing of seven hundred Nottingham children as they reach the age of four. Parents are interviewed in their homes with a realistic yet human approach and the minimum of technical jargon, and the open-ended questions allow them to produce 'a detailed and descriptive study of how parents do in fact treat their children and - equally i...

    $1,280.00

  • PERSPECTIVES ON SCHOOL AT SEVEN YEARS OLD
    ELIZABETH NEWSON
    This volume looks at the social and intellectual forces which the child encounters in class-room and playground from the parent’s point of view. School and home are seen as the separate yet overlapping worlds of childhood – for some children more uncompromisingly separated than for others. In the social development of the child, school functions as a link between the kinds of d...

    $1,340.00

  • LAND, WATER AND DEVELOPMENT
    MALCOLM NEWSON
    Water is newsworthy: there is, or will be, a world water crisis. Aggravated by climate change, we are approaching the limits of human exploitation of freshwater resources, notably in growing essential food. The complexities and uncertainties associated with improving our management of fresh water take the potential remedies out of the hands of simple, local, hard engineering an...

    $1,560.00

  • GOOGLE COMPUTE ENGINE
    MARC COHEN / KATHRYN HURLEY / PAUL NEWSON
    Learn how to run large-scale, data-intensive workloads with Compute Engine, Google’s cloud platform. Written by Google engineers, this tutorial walks you through the details of this Infrastructure as a Service by showing you how to develop a project with it from beginning to end. You’ll learn best practices for using Compute Engine, with a focus on solving practical problems. W...

    $321.00

  • IMPERIALISM AND APPROPRIATION IN RURAL ROMAN SYRIA
    PAUL NEWSON
    This book reassesses our understanding of rural landscapes in the Near East between the first and fourth centuries CE. Previous histories of the Roman Near East have been influenced by an underlying set of assumptions, based mainly on readings of Classical literature, regarding the impact of Rome on this region. To achieve these aims the book explores the nature of rural settle...

    $1,240.00

  • PONGASE EN FORMA SIN IR AL GIMNASIO YOGA Y PILATES
    NEWSON
    Agotado

    $199.00