Risk in an Evolving World (Custom)

Caring for School-Age Children

Summary CARING FOR SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN, 6th Edition, presents the most pertinent information needed by those involved in after-school programs. Current research has established the importance of quality after-school programs due to their tremendous impact on children's academic achievement, overall happiness, and self-esteem. To address this reality, the new edition presents the latest research and information on school-age child care, and offers numerous practical applications and activities that can be put to use immediately in a child care setting.

Exploring Psychology

SummaryExploring Psychology creatively helps students retain and appreciate psychology's big ideas, with insights that enable readers to be better students, more tuned-in friends and partners, more effective co-workers, and wiser parents. These best-selling authors aim to captivate students with what psychologists are learning about our human nature, to help them think more like psychological scientists, and to help them relate psychology to their own lives - their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Drugs In Perspective

Histories

Summary Here is the first new translation for over thirty years of Polybius'Histories, the major source for our knowledge of the Eternal City's early rise to power, covering the years of the Second Punic War, the defeat of Hannibal, and Rome's pivotal victories in the Mediterranean. Polybius, himself a leading Greek politician of the time, attributes Rome's success to the greatness of its constitution and the character of its people, but also allows Fortune a role in shaping world events. This new translation by Robin Waterfield includes the first five books in their entirety, and all of the fragmentary Books 6 and 12. Brian McGing's lucid introduction discusses the period covered by theHistories, Polybius' major role in the reconstruction of Greece after the defeat of the Achaean League, the themes and subject matter of the individual books, Polybius' outspoken views on how (and how not), and his significance for historiography. The book also includes succinct, clear notes, maps, a glossary, and an index of proper names.