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Command area development programmes Command area development programmes M. Venkata Reddy With particular reference to Karnataka, India. OL1039090W
Working and growing up in America Working and growing up in America Jeylan T. Mortimer "Should teenagers have jobs while they're in high school? Doesn't working distract them from schoolwork, cause long-term problem behaviors, and precipitate a "precocious" transition to adulthood?". … OL13605569W
Longitudinal data analysis Longitudinal data analysis Jason T. Newsom "This book provides accessible treatment to state-of-the-art approaches to analyzing longitudinal studies. Comprehensive coverage of the most popular analysis tools allows readers to pick and choose … OL16298117W
American Indians and Alaska natives in postsecondary education American Indians and Alaska natives in postsecondary education D. Michael Pavel 1 volume (various pagings) : 28 cm OL18291758W
Does divorce make people happy? Does divorce make people happy? Linda J. Waite Reports on a late 1980s survey of 5,232 married adults, 645 of whom rated their marriages as unhappy. Five years later two-thirds of the unhappily married who stayed married were happily married. One… OL19159744W
Children of the Great Depression Children of the Great Depression Glen H. Elder "In this work first published in 1974, Glen H. Elder, Jr. presents the first longitudinal study of a Depression cohort. He follows 167 individuals born in 1920-1921 from their elementary school days … OL1916554W
Chance for change Chance for change Joseph Papsidero x, 142 pages ; 24 cm OL19451429W
The life project The life project Helen Pearson "In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to e… OL20027308W
Multivariate Applications In Substance Use Research Multivariate Applications In Substance Use Research Jennifer S. Rose,Laurie Chassin This edited volume introduces the latest advances in quantitative methods and illustrates ways to apply these methods to important questions in substance use research. The goal is to provide a forum … OL20435042W
Shared beginnings, divergent lives Shared beginnings, divergent lives John H. Laub,Robert J. Sampson This is an analysis of data on crime and social development up to the age of 70 for 500 men who were remanded to reform school in the 1940s in the USA. The book updates their lives at the close of th… OL20547498W
Longitudinal field research methods Longitudinal field research methods Andrew H. Van de Ven,George P. Huber Eleven papers, some of which have appeared previously as contributions to the journal Organizational Science , emphasize a range of methodological issues involved in longitudinal field research, incl… OL20885155W
Keepin' On Keepin' On Mark A. Fine,Kathy R., Ph.D. Thornburg,Edward (FWD) Zigler,Jean Ispa xxii, 363 p. : 23 cm OL21711894W
Growing up girl Growing up girl Helen Lucey,June Melody,Valerie Walkerdine "Growing up Girl traces the lives of girls from their early childhood to young adulthood to explore how transformations in class identities are impacting on their lives. Set against a backdrop of dei… OL2244328W
Understanding families over time Understanding families over time Janet Holland,Rosalind Edwards Based on a large-scale qualitative longitudinal study of the life course conducted in the UK (Timescapes Study), this unique collection reveals close-up--and in their own words--the experiences of ch… OL23395399W
Managing to make it Managing to make it Thomas D. Cook,Jr., Glen H. Elder,Jr., Frank F. Furstenberg,Jacquelynne Eccles "One of the myths about families in inner-city neighborhoods is that they are characterized by poor parenting. The distinguished sociologist Frank Furstenberg and his colleagues explode this and othe… OL24317458W
First-year maternal employment and child development in the first 7 years First-year maternal employment and child development in the first 7 years Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Using data from the first two phases of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care, the links between maternal employment in the first 12 months of life and cognitive, social, and emotional outcomes for chi… OL24843264W
Nutrition and growth in infancy and early childhood Nutrition and growth in infancy and early childhood M. Gracey,N. E. Hitchcock,A. I. Gilmour,E. N. Owles Abstract: A monograph for pediatricians, clinical nutritionists, and other health care professional dealing with the role of nutrition in the perinatal development of infants presents the results of … OL27036881W
We're Still Family We're Still Family Constance Ahrons What is the real legacy of divorce? To answer this question, Constance Ahrons, Ph.D., interviewed one hundred and seventy-three grown children whose divorcing parents she had interviewed twenty years… OL273407W
Life Style and Criminality Life Style and Criminality Hans Göppinger This monograph contains the results of an interdisciplinary study into the life histories of male delinquents. Conducted by the Institute of Criminology at the University of Tübingen, it compares the… OL2877551W
Heidi's horse Heidi's horse Sylvia Fein Heidi's Horse is an analysis of a child's artistic life. It reveals that in their drawings all children sequentially obey universal imperatives which are identical to those in the history of mankind'… OL3153507W
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