Forty-three of Emily Dickenson's nature poems consider such subjects as robins, mushrooms, hummingbirds, and summer showers; cite the sometimes religious communion between nature and the human spirit; and are accompanied by shadow paper illustrations.

Product Description: When families immigrate to the United States, there are a variety of problems facing the newcomers. Often, the children bear the marks of difficult immigration and assimilation into a new society through their adult years. Newcomers to the United States identifies the political and social issues affecting children and their families...read more

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Product Description: Is marketing appropriate for child care programs? National leaders in marketing management and child care discuss the growing trend toward marketing child care programs. As more agencies recognize the need to develop their own marketing programs, inherent obstacles--particularly negative public and professional attitudes--are revealed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Designed to clarify the critical issues concerning infant intervention, this timely and insightful book features some controversial observations on the state of existing programs. Nationally recognized authorities present an historical overview of infant stimulation, discuss infant intervention research and public policy decisions, assess the efficacy of current intervention programs, and address general issues of normal child development as they apply to the concepts of infant intervention...read more

Product Description: Experts within the fields of education, government, labor, and industry discuss the national teacher crisis and its impact on economic growth, with recommendations for new partnerships between education and industry that will bring about progress for both.

Product Description: Offers research on the development, organization, and operation of the child’s brain.

Product Description: A thorough study of child-related legislative changes within federal health, education, and welfare programs and their impact on state and local practices.

Product Description: Here are the most recent research and intervention strategies for children of alcoholic parents, children of mentally ill parents, and children of incarcerated parents. Nationally recognized authorities in the fields of child development, social work, social science, medicine, psychology, and psychiatry address the causes of these problems, the impact they have on family relationships and child rearing patterns, the intervention strategies that could be successful in preventing a second generation with similar problems, and the need to establish social agencies and organizations that offer treatment and support for these special families...read more

Product Description: This practical volume focuses on the importance of observation training and techniques for the recognition, identification, diagnosis, and treatment of children with immediate or potential problems.

Product Description: Here are multidisciplinary perspectives concerning early childhood intervention as prevention for juvenile delinquency.

Product Description: Here is an enlightening and exciting volume on the use and impact of technology on children. Professionals from the fields of education, child development, computer and toy manufacturing, and the clergy present the technological, psychological, and philosophical perspectives that surround computer applications in the education of children in today's society...read more