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Table of Contents “...Gaer -- Accessing justice by all means : individual communications before UN treaty bodies : a case study of CERD / Chris Maina Peter -- The complementary role of general comments in enhancing the implementation of treaty bodies' recommendations and views (the example of CESCR) / Aslan Abashidze -- Universal suffrage and the international human rights treaty bodies : where are the women? ...”

Table of Contents “...Adventure stories -- African American literature -- African literature -- American Library Association -- American literature before 1900 -- American literature, 1900-1945 -- American literature, 1945-60 -- American literature: contemporary -- Animal stories -- Asian and Asian American literature -- Australian literature -- Awards -- Awards: publishing trends -- Bible in children's literature -- Biography -- Book clubs for children -- Book clubs for teachers -- Book design -- Books as film -- Books for the very young -- British literature -- Caldecott medal -- Canadian literature -- Caribbean literature -- Carnegie medal -- Censorship -- Chapter books for beginning readers -- Children's Book Council -- Classic novels -- Comic books and graphic novels -- Critical theorists -- Crossovers: children's books for adult readers -- Death and dying in children's literature -- De Grummond reference collection -- Disabled in children's and young adult literature -- Disney, entertainment and publishing --Drama -- Easy-to-read books -- Editors of note -- Fairy tales -- Family stories -- Fantasy -- Fine arts -- Folklore -- High interest-easy reading book series -- Holocaust -- How-to books -- Humor -- Illustration -- Indian (East) literature -- Informational books -- Informational books, an author's point of view -- International board on books for young people -- International literature -- International Reading Association -- Internet resources for children -- Kate Greenway medal -- Kerlan collection -- Coretta Scott King awards -- Latina/o literature -- Librarians and publishing -- Librarians and storytelling -- Libraries and children's reading programs -- Magazines and periodicals -- Middle-grade stories -- Miniature books -- Mother goose -- Movable books (pop-up books) -- Multicultural literature -- Music and children's literature -- Mystery and detective stories -- Mythology and legend -- National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) -- Native American literature -- Newbery medal -- New Zealand literature -- Orbis Pictus award -- Picture books -- Picture books for older readers -- Poetry in children's literature -- Professors of children's literature -- Publishers and book publishing in the United States -- Publishers, independent -- Reading Rainbow and children's literature on television -- Realistic fiction -- Research on children's literature -- Review journals -- School stories -- Science fiction -- Series books -- Society of children's book writers and illustrators -- Sports stories -- Storyographies: picture-book biographies -- Storytelling -- Storytelling: a professional point of view -- Survival stories -- Technology and communication -- Translation -- Visual literacy -- Young adult literature....”

Table of Contents “...Contents note continued: Norway -- Finland -- Western Europe -- Germany -- The Netherlands -- Russia -- The Soviet Model -- Epidemiological Transition -- Post-Soviet Reform -- Future Prospects -- Summary -- Israel -- Origins of the Israeli Health System -- Health Resources and Expenditures -- Health Reforms -- Mental Health -- Healthy Israel 2020 -- Quality Assurance -- Summary -- Health Systems in Developing Countries -- Federal Republic of Nigeria -- Female Genital Mutilation -- Communicable Diseases -- Non-Communicable Diseases -- Nigeria's Health System -- Millennium Development Goals -- Cancer -- HIV/AIDS -- Food Fortification/Malnutrition -- Health Reform -- Summary -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Colombia -- Asia -- India -- China -- Japan -- Comparing National Health Systems -- Economic Issues in National Health Systems -- Reforming National Health Systems -- Summary -- Note -- Bibliography -- International -- United States -- Canada -- United Kingdom -- Europe --...”

Table of Contents “...-- Sex-role concepts and stereotypes -- Explaining sex-role development -- Biological approaches -- Think critically -- Conduct your own research -- Summary -- Key terms -- 11: Development of social relationships -- Relationships with parents -- Attachment theory -- Parent's bond to the child -- Child's attachment to the parent -- Parent-child relationships in adolescence -- Variations in the quality of attachments -- Secure and insecure attachments -- Temperament and attachment -- Stability and long-term consequences of attachment quality -- Relationships with peers -- Peer relationships in infancy and the preschool years -- Peer relationships at school age -- Social status -- Peer relationships in adolescence -- Sibling relationships -- Behavior with peers -- Prosocial behavior -- Aggression -- Developmental science in the real world: Rearing helpful and altruistic children -- Thinking about research: Bullies and victims -- Trait aggression -- Think critically -- Conduct your own research -- Summary -- Key terms -- 12: Thinking about relationships: social-cognitive and moral development -- Development of social cognition -- Some general principles and issues -- Describing other people -- Developmental science in the real world: Learning and unlearning prejudice -- Reading others' feelings -- Thinking about research: Preventing violence by increasing children's emotional competence -- Describing friendships -- Understanding rules and intentions -- Moral development -- Dimensions of moral development -- Kohlberg's stages of moral development -- Causes and consequences of moral development -- Alternative views -- Think critically -- Conduct your own research -- Summary -- Key terms -- Part 6: Whole Child -- 13: Ecology of development: the child within the family system -- Understanding the family system -- Family systems theory -- Bronfenbrenner's bioecological approach -- Dimensions of family interaction -- Individuals in the family system -- Warmth and responsiveness -- Methods of control and communication patterns -- Thinking about research: To spank or not to spank? ...”