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Decisive Parenting teaches parents concrete skills for quickly and permanently altering their teenagers' problem behaviors, ranging from argumentativeness and neglecting chores or homework to more serious issues such as shoplifting, underage drinking, and drug use. Michael Hammond provides clear, easy-to-follow, and proven solutions to permanently stop negative behavior while establishing good behavior in its place. By adapting Hammond's "active consequences" strategy, parents can expect to see major changes in their teenagers' behavior in three to six weeks, as well as great improvement in the parent-child relationship.

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This book is an introduction to the rudiments of Perl programming. It provides the general reader with an interest in language with the most usable and relevant aspects of Perl for writing programs that deal with language.Exposes the general reader with an interest in language to the most usable and relevant aspects of Perl for writing programs that deal with language.Contains simple examples and exercises that gradually introduce the reader to the essentials of good programming.Assumes no prior programming experience.Accompanied by exercises at the end of each chapter and offers all the code on the companion website: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~hammond

Programming for Linguists: Java (TM) Technology for Language Researchers is a practical introduction to programming using the Java Programming Language for linguists and related language professionals.

Discusses prominent TV programmes and their influence within the industry. An engaging and provocative study of the contemporary prime time 'quality' serial television format, this book gives a timely account of prominent programmes such as 24, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER, The Sopranos and The West Wing.

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Product Description: The first complete study of mainstream and nontraditional film since 1960 Indispensable to film students and general readers interested in this art form, Contemporary American Cinema culls together the writings of the world's leading film scholars to provide the first comprehensive introduction to postclassical American film...read more

Product Description: In writing the definitive account of film exhibition and reception in Britain in the years 1914 to 1918, Michael Hammond shows how the British film industry and British audiences responded to the traumatic effects of the Great War...read more

Product Description: This guide charts the NQT's next steps in teaching from finishing a teacher training programme, through to the probationary year, and then into the comparatively settled routine of the second and third years of teaching. Suitable for all new teachers in secondary schools, this book aims to: help with navigating the pitfalls of teaching describe some of the possible challenges and difficulties faced in the classroom and provide advice based on the experiences of other teachers describe the successful strategies new teachers have used to develop teaching highlight the satisfaction of teaching...read more

Product Description: Check for bruises. You’re likely being beaten about the head and shoulders by a higher power trying to get your attention. We’re all a work in progress, here for a reason, sharing a road to a unique purpose. And we’re all given important signs on that journey, by a guide, trying hard to keep us on the right path...read more

Product Description: This text offers an approach to English phonology which focuses on the prosody of the language, ie syllable and foot structure, and does so from an optimality-theoretic (OT) perspective. The emphasis is on surface distributional regularities and the results presented are based on extensive searches through various computerized lexicons...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is an introduction to phenomenology for students of philosophy and the social sciences. The authors explain what is distinctive about the phenomenological tradition, and how its major proponents connect and diverge, and where to look for lines of fruitful and positive criticism...read more

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