1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910696770803321

Titolo

Methods of analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Laboratory [[electronic resource] ] : determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compounds in sediment by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry / / by Mary C. Olson ... [and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Va. : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2004

Descrizione fisica

vi, 45 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

Water-resources investigations report ; ; 03-4318

Altri autori (Persone)

OlsonMary C

Soggetti

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons - Environmental aspects

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons - Analysis

Contaminated sediments - Analysis

Gas chromatography

Mass spectrometry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed July 9, 2008).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792448703321

Autore

Selekman Matthew D. <1957->

Titolo

Collaborative brief therapy with children [[electronic resource] /] / Matthew D. Selekman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Guilford Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-50000-7

9786612500008

1-60623-570-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Disciplina

618.92/89142

Soggetti

Solution-focused therapy for children

Brief psychotherapy

Family psychotherapy

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

Front matter; Table of contents; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this engaging guide, Matthew Selekman presents cutting-edge strategies for helping children and their families overcome a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges. Vivid case material illustrates how to engage clients rapidly and implement interventions that elicit their strengths. Integrating concepts and tools from a variety of therapeutic traditions, Selekman describes creative applications of interviewing, family art and play, postmodern and narrative techniques, and positive psychology. He



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781332203321

Titolo

Children in slavery through the ages [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8214-4339-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CampbellGwyn <1952->

MiersSuzanne

MillerJoseph Calder

Disciplina

306.3/6208309

Soggetti

Enslaved children - History

Slavery - History

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

Child slaves in the early North Atlantic trade in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / António de Almeida Mendes -- Children and European slave trading in the Indian Ocean during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Richard B. Allen -- Small change : children in the nineteenth-century East African slave trade / Fred Morton -- The brief life of 'Ali, the orphan of Kordofan : the Egyptian slave trade in the Sudan, 1820-35 / George Michael La Rue -- Traded babies : enslaved children in America's domestic migration, 1820-60 / Susan Eva O'Donovan -- Singing slave girls (qiyan) of the 'Abbasid court in the ninth and tenth centuries / Kristina Richardson -- Becoming a devşirme : the training of conscripted children in the Ottoman Empire / Gulay Yilmaz -- The third gender : palace eunuchs / Bok-Rae Kim -- The well-being of purchased female domestic servants (mui tsai) in Hong Kong in the early twentieth century / Pauline Pui-ting Poon -- Slave and other nonwhite children in late-eighteenth-century France / Pierre H. Boulle -- The struggle for survival : slave infant mortality in the British Caribbean in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Kenneth Morgan -- Left behind but getting ahead : antebellum slavery's orphans in the Chesapeake, 1820-60 / Calvin Schermerhorn.

Sommario/riassunto

Significant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history



have been children.  The vast literature on slavery has grown to include most of the history of this ubiquitous practice, but nearly all of it concentrates on the adult males whose strong bodies and laboring capacities preoccupied the masters of the modern Americas. Children in Slavery through the Ages examines the children among the enslaved across a significant range of earlier times and other places; its companion volume will examine the children enslaved in recent American contexts and in the contemporary/moder