Authors:Dena Phillips Swanson, Malik C. Edwards, Margaret Be
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: era, global, development, adolescence
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 2010-02-22
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0123744245
ISBN-13: 9780123744241

This edited textbook will be appropriate for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses and will serve as a comprehensive and timely introduction to the field of adolescent development, providing students with a strong foundation for understanding the biological, cognitive and psychosocial transitions occurring during adolescence. While certain normative biological and cognitive processes are relevant for all youth, development varies dramatically based on a youth’s position in society. The volume will focus on contextual factors such as culture, racial identity, socioecono

Authors:Vern G. Swanson, Robert S. Olpin, Donna L Poulton, Ja
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Keywords: utah, survey, years, artists, art
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-11-20
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 158685111X
ISBN-13: 9781586851118

Utah Art, Utah Artists surveys 150 years of the extraordinary talent and achievements of Utah artists. This overview ranges from the sublime paintings of a resourceful ranching woman to the polished work of artists trained in Paris, Rome, and New York. It highlights the rural and the cosmopolitan, the traditional and the modern, the concrete and the transcendent that encompass Utah art. This sweeping exhibition showcases 300 works of art by 220 artists painstakingly compiled from a list of 10,000 Utah artists. Selection was made in light of five considerations: quality of the work; cri

Authors:Anthony S. Y. Leong, Mark R. Wick, Paul E. Swanson,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: pleomorphic, tumors, anaplastic, microscopy, electron, immunohistology
Number of Pages: 303
Published: 1997-09-28
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0521440920
ISBN-13: 9780521440929

This book describes in detail the use of immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy in the examination and study of a wide range of undifferentiated tumors. Such tumors are described with clinical case examples and the plentiful illustrations serve as a guide to recognition and diagnosis. The organization of the book reflects the diagnostic process, with algorithms and diagnostic panels of antibodies to help the pathologist elucidate the nature of the neoplasm. Coverage ranges from basic aspects of immunohistochemistry and diagnostic electron microscopy to new ways of predicting tumor behavi

Authors:Charles R. Swanson, Leonard Territo, Robert W. Taylo
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: behavior, processes, structures, administration, police
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $126.00
ISBN-10: 0131589334
ISBN-13: 9780131589339

The best-selling, most comprehensive book available for police administration & management, Police Administration 7/e presents a carefully researched and vivid introduction to police organizations that focuses on the procedures, politics and human relations issues that law enforcement managers and administrators must understand in order to succeed. Representing the collective experience of the authors’ decades of experience in law enforcement, training, and teaching, Police Administration 7/e is recognized by both the academic and law enforcement communities as the authoritative trea

Authors:Charles Swanson, Neil Chamelin, Leonard Territo, Robe
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Keywords: investigation, criminal
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2008-05-14
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073401536
ISBN-13: 9780073401539

Widely recognized as the most accurate and comprehensive text in the field, this practical, step-by-step introduction to criminal investigation gives students a logical framework for understanding the investigative process. Major sections cover current issues such as environmental crime, the looting of archaeological sites, videotaping of crime scenes, street gangs, and drugs. Case studies throughout the text emphasize the applied technique of criminal investigation. Graphs, charts, and arresting photographs found throughout the text depict the practical aspects of investigation and help to c

Authors:Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, Scott Guthri
Publisher: Wrox
Keywords: programmer, wrox, mvc, net, asp, professional
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2009-04
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 0470384611
ISBN-13: 9780470384619

This book begins with you working along as Scott Guthrie builds a complete ASP.NET MVC reference application. He begins NerdDinner by using the File->New Project menu command within Visual Studio to create a new ASP.NET MVC Application. You’ll then incrementally add functionality and features. Along the way you’ll cover how to create a database, build a model layer with business rule validations, implement listing/details data browsing, provide CRUD (Create, Update, Delete) data form entry support, implement efficient data paging, reuse UI using master pages and partials, secure the ap

Authors:Scott B. MacDonald, David Leith Crum, Scott MacDonal
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: game, 1990s, development, elephants, tigers, old, new
Number of Pages: 297
Published: 2000-07-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0765806339
ISBN-13: 9780765806338

Which factors identify "winners" (tigers) in the development game and which characterize "losers" (elephants) are described in this original and comprehensive approach to understanding economic development in a post-cold war environment.