1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458622803321

Autore

Hammond Michael

Titolo

Decisive parenting [[electronic resource] ] : strategies that work with teenagers / / Michael Hammond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Jason Aronson, 2010

ISBN

1-282-56125-1

9786612561252

0-7657-0765-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

649/.125

Soggetti

Parenting

Parent and teenager - Vocational guidance

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Building a secure foundation -- pt. 2. Problem behaviors and what to do about them.

Sommario/riassunto

Decisive Parenting is unique; there is no other book like it. Never before has a book provided such a detailed roadmap for success in deterring problematic teenage behavior while increasing the occurrence of positive behavior.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456588403321

Autore

Liu Catherine

Titolo

American idyll [[electronic resource] ] : academic antielitism as cultural critique / / Catherine Liu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2011

ISBN

1-60938-051-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

305.5/52097309045

Soggetti

Elite (Social sciences) - United States

Intellectuals - United States

Education, Higher - United States

Electronic books.

United States Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: populist idylls, cultural politics -- The problem with the meritocracy -- Ordinary Americans, average students -- The curious cult of religious practicality -- Against all experts: no experience necessary -- The new age of cultural studies: crisis in the PMC -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

A trenchant critique of failure and opportunism across the political spectrum, American Idyll argues that social mobility, once a revered hallmark of American society, has ebbed, as higher education has become a mechanistic process for efficient sorting that has more to do with class formation than anything else. Academic freedom and aesthetic education are reserved for high-scoring, privileged students and vocational education is the only option for economically marginal ones.Throughout most of American history, antielitist sentiment was reserved for attacks aga



3.

Record Nr.

UNICASTO00172630

Autore

Querini, Giulio

Titolo

Convergenza e conflitti tra il Nord e il Sud della Comunità Economica Europea : problemi di sviluppo economico e di cooperazione internazionale / Giulio Querini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli, : Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 1983

Titolo uniforme

Convergenza e conflitti tra il Nord e il Sud della Comunità Economica Europea

Descrizione fisica

139 p. ; 21 cm.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia