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The book series Advances in Spatial Science published by Springer celebrates its 15th anniversary this year.
Since its inception 66 high-quality books have been published in the series, the leading series in the field of regional science. This series contains scientific studies focusing on spatial phenomena, utilizing theoretical frameworks, analytical methods, and empirical procedures specifically designed [...]
Updated: 2010-07-29 02:55:48
Squabbling siblings learn a valuable lesson
New Analysis May Help Clarify the Role of Craving in Addiction
Can artwork influence suicidal thoughts?
Making the Invisible Visible: Verbal Cues Enhance Visual Detection
U.S. Army: Dogs Help Battle PTSD
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Updated: 2010-07-29 02:55:41
The Global Fund for Women is an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice. It is intended to advocate for and defend women’s human rights by making grants to support women’s groups around the world.
The Global Fund for Women supports women’s groups that advance the human rights [...]
Updated: 2010-07-28 05:00:27
Book Highlights in Psychology
Building Healthy Communities for Positive Youth Development
Diagnostic Interviewing, Fourth Edition
The Practice of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
Handbooks and Reference Works
Handbook of Individual Differences in Cognition
Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness
Handbook of Behavioral Medicine
Springer Reference
Handbook of Clinical Psychology Competencies describes the core competency areas in providing psychological services relevant [...]
Updated: 2010-07-28 03:28:38
1. FREE: Most Downloaded Articles
The following were among the 10 most downloaded articles in 2009, published in the highly cited Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (Impact Factor: 3.063 (2009), 4.400 (5 year), ranked 11 of 59 in subject category “Psychology, developmental”)
Enjoy FREE access to these articles until the end of August:
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Updated: 2010-07-28 03:23:50
Mindfulness publishes peer-reviewed papers that examine the latest research findings and best practices in mindfulness. It explores the nature and foundations of mindfulness, its mechanisms of actions, and its use across cultures.
The first two issues are now freely available to you online! HKUL users are able to access the journal continuously at http://library.hku.hk/record=b4392017 .
Inaugural Issue
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Updated: 2010-07-27 22:17:37
Basil Davidson a well known Africanist who championed liberation movements in colonial Africa and became a respected authority on the continent’s cultural history died at the age of 95 on July 9. He published several books on Africa including Old Africa Rediscovered (1959); The Lost Cities of Africa (1960); Africa: History of a Continent (1966); The [...]
Updated: 2010-07-27 17:17:58
A New York Times article reports that a Dutch court imposed a fine of 1 million Euros on the oil trading company Trafigura for illegally exporting and dumping a highly toxic sludge in Ivory Coast. The waste was linked to the deaths of 16 people and thousands of illnesses in the Ivory Coast in 2006. [...]
Updated: 2010-07-27 07:00:06
ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index
The database includes abstract and indexing for 250 U.S.and international criminal justice journals, with more than 100 available in full-text. Areas covered include criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. Some of the key titles are •American Journal of Criminal Justice •FBI Law Enforcement [...]
Updated: 2010-07-27 06:51:55
Battlefield Psychologists Investigate Stress in Combat and After
Insights on Loss of Working Memory
Children, Television, Video Games and Attention Problems
New Study Challenges Stereotypes of Adolescent Sex Offenders
Essential Ingredients of Supportive Sibling Relationships
Why Parenting Isn’t Fun
Are You Spiritual Or Psychotic?
Behavior Problems In School Linked To Two Types Of Families
Reading Children
Too fine to sign
When Children Are [...]
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A start-up company called Quetsol is marketing small solar kits to rural Guatemalan villages to help families light their homes and charge their phones.
Updated: 2010-07-19 21:08:00
As the world has become more global, average media consumption has become less so. The Global Voices network of editors is working to connect and translate between cultures that don't always penetrate Western news.
Updated: 2010-07-13 22:58:00
: MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Wednesday July 14, 2010 Poor countries often create barriers to investment By Don Cayo 13 Jul 2010 COMMENTS(0 Globalization : for better or worse Filed under : poverty regulation red tape foreign investment The policies and practices of many of the world's poor countries go a long way to discourage they kind of investment they need to raise them out of their . poverty Indeed , a World Bank study that analyses laws , regulations and practices affecting foreign direct investment in 87 countries find that the high-income countries , Canada included , are the easiest places for foreign companies to set up shop , and the low-income countries are most apt to have restrictive and obsolete laws and regulations getting in the . way The study looks at
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: : MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Sunday July 4, 2010 Diamonds : a hard act to follow in Botswana By Don Cayo 3 Jul 2010 COMMENTS(0 Globalization : for better or worse Filed under : economic growth Botswana resource wealth In most of subSaharan Africa , resources especially high-value , easily-portable ones have proven to be a curse . All to often they fuel bitter conflicts , and the wealth they produce is shared most unevenly and worsens . inequality But in Botswana wealth extracted from the ground specifically , diamonds have been a major boon , lifting the country out of the dire poverty it was mired in at the time of independence and into the ranks of upper middle income . countries I visited this peaceful country and looked at how it came to do so much better than its
