V. Mark Durand When Children Don't Sleep Well: Interventions for Pediatric Sleep Disorders This comprehensive guide provides intervention options for a wide variety of sleep problems, including bedtime disturbances, night waking, sleep terrors, and nightmares. It also addresses sleep hygiene, bedwetting, and other sleep related issues. It uses a modular format, starting with a thorough assessment of the child's sleep problems and the family's ability to intervene. Each intervention module outlines how to instruct families in selecting an intervention and carrying it out successfully. Helping Parents With Challenging Children The positive family intervention program may be useful for a variety of behavior problems and in conjunction with treatment for other disorders. It can be used with a range of ages and family situations. Facilitators working with families of children with challeging behavior will find this an invaluable gift. Abnormal Psychology: an integrative approach Balancing biological, psychological, social and cultural approaches, ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY successfully blends sophisticated research (including new prevention coverage) with the most widely recognized method of discussing psychopathology. Going beyond simply describing different schools of thought on psychological disorders, the authors explore the interactions of the various forces that contribute to psychopathology. A conversational writing style, consistent pedagogical elements, integrated case studies (95 percent from authors' own files), video clips of clients (on the free accompanying Abnormal Psychology Live CD-ROM), and additional study tools make this text the most complete learning resource available. Deni Elliott The Burden of Knowledge The Provocative documentary explores the difficult ethical issues arising from advances in biotechnology that now make it possible to identify genetic defects during pregnancy. It features interviews with seven couples who speak openly and honesty about how they made their individual decisions about prenatal testing - as well as about how they have dealt with the positive and negative consequences of those decisions Buying Time When 3rd party payers refused to pay for the bone marrow transplants that could have saved the lives of two medical patients, they went public with their stories. Buying Time explores what happens when the media gets involved. Ethics in the First Person Ethics in the First Person is a comprehensive guide to teaching and learning practical ethics in the twenty-first century but also focuses on the teaching and learning of practical ethics as a first-person, present-tense activity. Practical ethics instruction can bring about more sophisticated decision making only if students and teachers remain cognizant of their own values, belifs, and processes for thinking through ethical issues. The book closes with an analysis of how ethics serves as a bridge across cultures. A resource for teachers of ethics across the curriculum, this book may also be used as a supplemental text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, or as a guide for self-study. The Ethics of Scientific Research This guidebook for instructors details experiences in training faculty and in planning, teaching, and evaluating a course in ethics for students of science. The book outlines strategies developed by a team of faculty at Dartmouth College. It addresses the value of teaching ethics, the structure and goals of the course, and tools used for evaluation of the success of the course. An extensive bibliography lists additional resources. Journalism Ethics This timely, multiauthored volume focuses on the major issues that shape journalism ethics today-issues such as objectivity, freedom of the press, privacy, control of news organizations by nonmedia concerns, increased diversity in news media outlets, morality, professionalism, and accountability. Providing a detailed chronology of key events in journalism ethics, this book also contains biographical sketches of some of the leading issue makers and ethicists in the field. The Kindness of Strangers In The Kindness of Strangers, Deni Elliott examines ethically questionable situations that have arisen in response to institutional dependency on external benefactors. Major concerns analyzed include: the increased professionalism of fundraising and of donating; an increased willingness of institutions to cater to the demands of donors; creation of dual roles for faculty, students and staff when they are fundraisers and donors in addition to playing their primary roles in higher education; business-university research partnerships that put business values in conflict with academic values; the commercialization of student athletics; and endowment use and investment. Research Ethics: A Reader This reader provides a thorough overview of the ethical dilemmas confronting contemporary research scientists. Original material, reprints, and cases on topics such as relationships with colleagues, institutional responsibility, conflict of interest, experimentation with animals and humans, and methodologies for etically conducting, reporting, and funding research clarify difficult questions for students and professionals alike. The collection supports efforts, in response to increasingly stringent federal mandates, to include ethics instruction in research training. Responsible Journalism Responsible Journalism addresses the contentious issue of defining journalistic responsibility. The authors identify the functions that news media take responsibility for performing in society and the philosophy behind specific obligations. They consider the relationship between news media responsibility and legal and press theories. The power of the press in policymaking is discussed and the daily conduct of the media is examined. This book asks and answers many fundamental ethical questions concerning the media's role in Western democracies. Martine Fernandes "Les écrivaines francophones en liberté : Farida Belghoul, Maryse Condé, Assia Djebar, Calixthe Beyala" Martine Fernandes Through the study of four Francophone novels (Georgette! by French-Algerian author Farida Belghoul, Heremakhonon by Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé, Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade by Algerian author Assia Djebar and Your Name Shall be Tanga by Cameroonian author Calixthe Beyala) the author proposes a stylistic approach to study the literary representation of cultural hybridity. The book analyzes the literary effect of cultural hybridity produced by the integration and questioning of metaphorical concepts resulting from various cultures: such as identity conceived as a straight line, a woman’s destiny conceived as a predetermined path, love conceived as war. Her study is based on cognitive linguistics, in particular George Lakoff’s metaphor theory and on Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner’s theory of conceptual integration. The author argues that Francophone literature needs to be studied for its style like canonical French literature and not only as a cultural object. The book is of interest to students and scholars in French and Francophone literary studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, women’s studies, and cognitive linguistics. Read CV (.pdf) Gary R. Mormino Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams Gary Mormino ranges far and wide across the landscape and boundaries of a place that is at once America's southernmost state and the northernmost outpost of the Caribbean. From the capital, Tallahassee--a day's walk from the Georgia border--to Miami--a city distant but tantalizingly close to Cuba and Haiti--Mormino traces the themes of Florida's transformation: the echoes of old Dixie and a vanishing Florida; land booms and tourist empires; revolutions in agriculture, technology, and demographics; the seductions of the beach and the dynamics of a graying population; and the enduring but changing meanings of a dreamstate. Beneath the iconography of popular culture is revealed a complex and complicated social framework that reflects a dizzying passage from New Spain to Old South, New South to Sunbelt. Mike Killenberg "Public Affairs Reporting Now: News of, by and for the People" "Public Affairs Reporting Now: News of, by and for the People" is meant for both journalism students and working professionals. The book intends to teach the best practices and offer the best advice for covering a range of public affairs subjects and beats. At its best, public affairs reporting keeps people informed as citizens and keeps our institutions, public and private, focused on the public good. "Interviewing: Speaking, Listening and Learning for Professional Life" "Interviewing: Speaking, Listening and Learning for Professional Life (2nd ed.)" offers students a practical guide to the fascinating art of asking and answering questions. Throughout the book, the process of interviewing is presented as a opportunity for learning through dialogue. The basic motivation for interviewing is learning something new. Hugh LaFollette "The Practice of Ethics" Hugh LaFollette Ethics’s ultimate aim is to improve how people live.  However, ethics cannot help us live better lives by focusing narrowly on individual moral behavior or decisions.  It can achieve its aims only by becoming an integrated practice informed by relevant insights from history, psychology, sociology, and biology, and structured by normative theorizing and meta-theoretical reflection. To illustrate this holistic view of ethics, LaFollette discusses a wide array of practical ethical issues (race relations, euthanasia, gun control, and animal rights), and familiar normative and meta-theoretical issues. "Ethics in Practice: An Anthology (3rd Edition) (Editor)" The third edition of Ethics in Practice is a comprehensive collection of nearly seventy new, revised, and classic essays on thirteen ethical issues. Through the selection of essays, the organization of the sections, and incisive general and section introductions, this book integrates ethical theory with the discussion of practical ethical issues Read CV (.pdf) James McHale "Charting the Bumpy Road of Co-Parenthood: Understanding the Challenges of Family Life" James McHale Written for both parents and professionals, Charting the Bumpy Road of Coparenthood presents findings from a large federally-funded project that studied couples as they navigated the transition to new parenthood. The book outlines how parents' thoughts, expectations, and relationships prior to the baby's birth affect how they coordinate together with one another – or don’t -- as they begin to care for their infants and young children. Filled with interviews with new parents and observations of new parents and their babies, this new study offers key information that clinicians, policymakers, and parents need to know about creating consistent and coordinated coparenting strategies during pregnancy and in a child’s earliest years. Among the study’s major findings is that parents begin developing signature coparenting dynamics within 100 days after the baby’s birth, that these dynamics remain remarkably stable through time, and that by the time children enter the “terrible twos”, these coparenting dynamics have already begun affecting their social and emotional development, behavioral adjustment, and even pre-academic skills. Parents of young children will see much of themselves in the book’s interview excerpts and in the advice offered by parents, for parents. A Podcast audio that discusses the book and its findings is located here: http://www.usfsp.org/iNews/view.asp?ID=222 Read CV (.pdf) Ambe Njoh "Planning Power: Town Planning and Social Control in Colonial Africa" Ambe Njoh Planning Power examines British and French colonial town and country planning efforts in Africa. Drawing out similarities in the colonial administrative and economic strategies of the two powers, rather than emphasizing the differences, the book offers an unusually juanced view of African planning systems in a time of upheaval and political change. In showing how the colonial authorities sought to gain political and social control in Africa, it can be seen how their will to exert political power influenced every area of planning practice during their administration. Planning in Contemporary Africa The book focuses in particular on Cameroon, the only African country to have been colonized by three different European powers: Germany, Britain and France. It discusses the nature of the state in peripheral capitalist countries and sets current planning and land use policies in their historical, colonial and post-colonial contexts. The author then proceeds to examine key planning issues such as housing, land ownership, sustainable development, environmental and waste management, transportation, infrastructure and gender. Tony Silvia "Baseball Over the Air: The National Pastime on the Radio and in the Imagination" Tony Silvia Dr. Tony Silvia joined USFSP's Department of Journalism and Media Studies in January 2006. In addition to Baseball Over the Air, he is the author of Student Television in America: Channels of Change (1998), Global News: Perspectives on the Information Age (2001), both published by Iowa State University Press. He has completed his fourth book, Baseball's Father and Son Broadcasters, which will be published by McFarland in spring, 2009, and a fifth, titled Power Performance: Effective Multi-Media Communication, will be published by Blackwell Press of Oxford, England in 2010. His professional background is in television news, where he has worked at the local and network level, including a stint at CNN, where his work as a correspondent was aired globally on all Turner networks and won a national award from the Broadcast Education Association in 1997. At USFSP, he regularly teaches "Senior Seminar," the department's capstone course for majors and special topics courses, including "Journalism in the 21st Century: Changes and Challenges" with the Poynter Institute, "Media Coverage of War," and the upcoming "Sports Journalism" (Spring 2009). Thomas W. Smith History and International Relations What are the lessons of history for the study of international politics? Do international relations scholars twist history? Are historians antiquarians? This book is a major contribution to the debate about philosophy and method in history and international relations. Thomas W. Smith draws on insights from historiographic theory and analyzes international relations scholarship from classical realism to structural, quantitative, and postmodernist work. Jay Sokolovsky "The Cultural Context of Aging: Worldwide Perspectives" Jay Sokolovsky The consequences of global aging will influence virtually all areas of life to be encountered in the 21st century, including the biological limits of the healthy longevity, the generational contract and nature of family ties, the makeup of households and communities, symbolic representations of midlife and old age, and attitudes toward disability and death. The new edition (3rd) of the award winning book "The Cultural Context of Aging: World-Wide Perspectives" covers all these topics and more. This unique volume uses a qualitative, case study approach to look at the rapidly emerging new cultural spaces and social scripts through which mid and late life are being encountered globally. It is completely revised with over thirty new original works covering China, Japan, Denmark, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, indigenous Amazonia, rural Italy and the ethnic landscape of the U.S. A new feature of the book includes an integrated set of web book articles integrated into the table of contents and available on the book’s web site (www.stpt.usf.edu/jsokolov/webbook). This is in addition to the largest web support of its kind providing literature updates, educational activities and even access to power points, graphics and video supplementing the text. Mark J. Walters Six Modern Plagues In Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, Mark Jerome Walters tells the human stories behind these diseases and brilliantly shows the connections between new epidemics and human changes to the natural environment. "So closely are new epidemics linked to ecological change, deforestation, heavily industrialized agriculture, and wildlife decimation, not to mention global travel and commerce, he shows, have all contributed to the emergence and spread of these diseases. We are not simply victims of new illnesses; we are helping to cause or exacerbate them through changes we've made to the natural world. Kathryn Weedman Gender and Hide Production Kathryn Weedman is an anthropological archaeologist who is currently a visiting assistant professor at the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg. She received her PhD in 2000 from the University of Florida and her MA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. The focus of her work has been to expose intragroup distinctions (class, caste, gender, kinship, etc.), bringing to the forefront social groups, who tend to be ignored. During the last eight years, she has received numerous grants to conduct ethnoarchaeological research among hideworkers living in southern Ethiopia. Lachlan Whalen "Contemporary Irish Republican Prison Writing" Lachlan Whalen Dr. Lachlan Whalen left a tenured position at Marshall University to come to the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg in August 2007. Here, he teaches classes on twentieth-century and contemporary Irish, British, and postcolonial literature. His research focuses primarily on the writings of Irish political prisoners, and his critical book on the subject, Contemporary Irish Republican Prison Writing, was published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2007. He currently is editing an anthology of Irish prison writing. Minority languages are another of Lachlan’s interests, and he speaks Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic) and Lakota (Sioux). In his spare time he plays a number of instruments including guitar, mandolin, bodhrán (Irish frame drum) and uilleann pipes (Irish bagpipes), and is also secretly writing a zombie novel. He thinks The Builders and the Butchers are the best band known to humankind. Read CV (.pdf)     Keith D. White John Keats and the Loss of Romantic Innocence John Keats and the Loss of Romantic Innocence traces Keats's use of an "Apollonian metaphor." Of the nearly 150 works listed in Jack Stillinger's standard edition, approximately half contain references to the god of nature and of art. What emerges are three distinct phasesin Keats's aesthetic development. From his initial fondness for bower imagery and the pastoral voices of Spenser and Hunt, to the Neo-Platonism of his poems about art and imagination, to his ultimate rejection of romantic idealism, Keats and his Apollonian metaphor are rarely seperated.