Development category: 15312 books
Culture and Sustainability in European Cities
Imagining Europolis
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is capable of coping with economic crises, ecological challenges and social disparities in different nation-states and regions throughout Europe.
This book reveals in a pluralistic way how European cities...
The Developing Individual in a Changing World
Volume 2, Social and Environmental Isssues
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This two-volume work levels both criticism and challenge to traditional developmental psychology. For too long, developmental psychologists have been studying individuals as if they developed in a sociocultural vacuum. As psychologists began to study the individual's development more broadly, they...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The biggest challenges faced by the software industry are cost control and schedule control. As such, effective strategies for process improvement must be researched and implemented. Analyzing the Role of Risk Mitigation and Monitoring in Software Development is a critical scholarly resource that...
Adaptive Web Services for Modular and Reusable Software Development
Tactics and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Web services provide systems with great flexibility and easier maintenance which result in better ways to communicate and distribute applications. There are good procedures in place for the design, development, and management of Web services; however, there are areas in which Web service adaptation is...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Rapid gender assessments of 12 projects in four countries were undertaken as part of the Asian Development Bank’s commitment to improving aid effectiveness. The assessment of three loans in Viet Nam found that positive gender equality results were achieved due to the implementation of gender action...
Toward an Environmentally Sustainable Future
Country Environmental Analysis of the People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This publication presents the results of a 2-year effort to update environmental assessment in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The research was a collaborative effort involving the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the National Development and Reform Commission,...
Organized Activities As Contexts of Development
Extracurricular Activities, After School and Community Programs
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
School-aged children in the U.S. and other Western nations spend almost half of their waking hours in leisure activities. For some, out-of-school time is perceived as inconsequential or even counterproductive to the health and well-being of young persons. Recently, however, there has been a growing...
Biology and Knowledge Revisited
From Neurogenesis to Psychogenesis
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Biology and Knowledge Revisited focuses on the classic issue of the relationship between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development, and their neurological substrates.
Contributors trace the history of ideas concerning...
Play in Child Development and Psychotherapy
Toward Empirically Supported Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2003
Child psychotherapy is in a state of transition. On the one hand, pretend play is a major tool of therapists who work with children. On the other, a mounting chorus of critics claims that play therapy lacks demonstrated treatment efficacy. These complaints are not invalid. Clinical research has only...
Lifespan Development in Context
A Topical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Award-winning author Tara L. Kuther presents Lifespan Development in Context, a topically organized version of her bestselling Lifespan Development text that provides a panoramic view of the many influences that shape human development. Kuther’s student-friendly narrative guides the reader through...
by Elisabetta Basile
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
This book explores the economy and society of Provincial India in the post-Green Revolution period. It argues that the low 'quality' of capital development in India's villages and small towns is the joint outcome of the informal economic organisation, that is strongly biased in favour of capital,...
by Cheryl Arnold, Ralph Fisch
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
The Impact of Complex Trauma on Development describes what happens cognitively and emotionally, behaviorally and relationally, to people who are repeatedly traumatized in childhood. Part One brings together trauma theory with a number of theories of human development. It directly addresses and describes...
The Global Context for New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 147
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Take an in depth look at the field of child and adolescent development. In this issue, the new leadership of this series offers different aspects of relevant work throughout multiple disciplines and continents, capturing both the variability and the richness of the themes considered and topics investigated...
The Developing Individual in a Changing World
Volume 1, Historical and Cultural Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This two-volume work levels both criticism and challenge to traditional developmental psychology. For too long, developmental psychologists have been studying individuals as if they developed in a sociocultural vacuum. As psychologists began to study the individual's development more broadly, they...