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Here's an easy-to-follow, visual guide to using the Wechsler Intelligence and Memory Scales to design assessments and make interpretations you can stand by -- assessments and interpretations that are both psychometrically and theoretically defensible. In this guide, Dawn Flanagan, Kevin McGrew, and Samuel Ortiz modernize the interpretation of the Wechsler Intelligence Scales by applying Gf-Gc theory and the cross-battery approach to intellectual assessment and interpretation.They show you in-depth how to use cross-battery principles and techniques to augment the Wechsler Intelligence Scales (WPPSI-R, WISC-III, WAIS-III) in a psychometrically defensible manner and how to interpret the results of Wechsler-based cross-battery assessments within the context of today's theory and research.In the three comprehensive parts, the guide shows the approach used by the authors: a comprehensive review of the psychometric, theoretical, and qualitative characteristics of all of the individual subtests of the WPPSI-R, WISC-III, WAIS-III, WMS-III, and CMS; and a thorough understanding of the product of grounding cognitive ability assessment and interpretation, with the Wechsler Scales, in strong theory and research -- the Wechsler-based Gf-Gc cross-battery approach.What's more, The Wechsler-based cross-battery approach presented here narrows the theory-practice gap in the field of intellectual assessment and includes well-articulated theory and research based guidelines for conducting Wechsler cross-battery assessments with culturally and linguistically diverse individuals. For practicing clinicians. ... Read more

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Great Book, Great Professors
Great introduction to Gf-Gc Theory for practitioners.The authors did an excellent job of explaining Gf-Gc theory, test interpretation using Gf-Gc theory, and implications of the results.I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in the field of educational assessment.

Must read for professionals in the field
Every psychologist (science-practitioner) who conducts psychoeducational evaluations should read this book.It not only summarizes the latest research on cognitive abilities, but it shows the way to apply theseresults to practice.My only criticism is that maybe the authors shouldhave emphasized a little more the fact that interpretation of results ismostlyscientific, but also a bit artistic/intuitive. ... Read more

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This work approaches the Rorschach as a technique rather than as a test. In the view of the authors, the Rorschach is, more than any other psychological instrument, a powerful clinical tool in that it reveals the unique pattern of psychodynamics and world view of each individual case. This approach should appeal not only to therapists who are psychodynamically oriented, but also to those of other theoretical orientations. ... Read more

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This comprehensive overview of digital media technologies and their impact on society is a user-friendly introduction for students trying to understand how technology is shaping the world around them.   The Digital Age is already upon us and society is feeling its impact. Media and Society in the Digital Age explores both the positive and negative implications of living in a rapidly changing communications environment. This text not only helps lay the foundation for understanding the emerging and constantly changing digital media environment, it also provides readers with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions about their future academic, personal, and professional lives.

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several omissions
I was rather unimpressed with this skimpy text. It quickly skims over many aspects of our digital society. Without having the space to adequately address these. For example, no mention of the rise of blogging. Though this was already common in 2003, when the book was published. The biggest omission is of search engines. Google was already popular in 2003. But even aside from that, other search engines had already been widely used by the late 90s, like Yahoo or Altavista. It was recognised that they played a vital part in enabling access to the Web's riches.

The index is sloppily put together. It lists Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, who is described in the book. But it omits Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the Web. Though Berners-Lee is in fact also mentioned in the narrative. While the crucial "browser" inexplicably does not have its own entry in the index. Instead, it is put under the World Wide Web item. ... Read more

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Everyone knows about Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, but what about the rest of Illinois? Inspired by the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game, the author connects towns in Chicagoland to the sixteenth President within six steps and uncovers some quirky historical facts you may have never heard before.

Read about the city where Lincoln's widow visited a spiritualist, the township named for a general who challenged Lincoln to a duel and many other little-known locations. ... Read more

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This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field of group communication explores communication processes and behaviors that members of decision-making groups can use to accomplish their goals. The text's unique lifespan approach focuses on the changing communication and decision-making patterns that occur as individuals and groups evolve. Managing Group Life explores the many challenges faced by groups and their members and offers solutions on how to manage them through individual and collective communication.

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In-service teachers, district or building administrators, school specialists, pre-service teachers, and paraprofessionals alike will find this an indispensable guide to rediscovering the value, potential, richness, and adventure of diversity–while developing the capacity to professionally address the differential learning and transition needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students. Contemporary, comprehensive, theory and research based, and aligned with TESOL, 2003 standards, Mastering ESL and Bilingual Methods: Differentiated Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Students presents a giant step forward in enhancing the professional development and preparation that educators need for today’s diverse and changing classrooms.

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Written by recognized experts in the field, Assessment Planning for CLD Students details effective classroom assessment practices for and usefully organizes recommended strategies around the four critical dimensions of the CLD student biography. 

This classroom-ready resource intentionally focuses on those classroom assessment practices that will prove effective with CLD students and useful to preK-12 teachers of those students.  Unlike its competitors, the book begins and ends with practical assessment strategies for each of the four critical dimensions of the CLD student biography:  the sociocultural, linguistic, academic, and cognitive dimensions.

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Accommodations
The book I received was in so-so shape. The cover was torn at the bottom and pretty well worn and used. It did come fairly quickly in the mail

Assessment Accommodations for Classroom Teachers of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
The book arrived quickly and in good condition. For me, the speed of the shipping is most important. This was great.
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Sure to get students engaged and thinking critically about CLD students, this text examines theory and research-based methods that are specific to and effective with CLD students and which promote linguistic and academic achievement. This text concentrates on ways in which the differential needs of CLD students can be mutually accommodated within various classroom settings. Focusing on answering the provocative question: “In what ways do the needs of CLD students differ from those of students whose culture and language correspond to the dominant culture/language in American society?,” students will gain an understanding of the complex realities that CLD students face as well as the differential language and transition needs of these students. The specific challenges and processes of the sociocultural, academic, cognitive, and linguistic dimensions of the CLD student biography are explored in the text.

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Mastering ESL and Bilingual Methods: Differentiated Instruction for Culturally and Linguistially Diverse (CLD) Students
This is a well-written text, which is excellent at explaining methodologies and approaches to teaching CLD students.At times, it is repetitive, but the field notes scattered throughout each chapter, as well as the summaries at the end of each chapter, assist in driving home the theme of the chapter.The authors also introduce the term culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) as a more appropriate description of ELLs because of the knowledge and resources they can bring to the classroom.

Mastering ESL and Bilingual Methods
This book is very interesting and it helped me a lot.It arrived on time. ... Read more

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This rich collection of case studies integrates contemporary and recognizable classic cases to illustrate a wide range of clinical and legal issues related to abnormal psychology. Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology brings the field of abnormal psychology to life for students with its rare combination of readability, humor, and strong scholarship.

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Speedy delivery, GREAT condition!
Was hesitant to order books online as it is my first time, but after having success ordering this one and a few others, I'm all about saving money.Excellent delivery, great condition for a great price!

Good read!
Very interesting book to read, perhaps a bit light for my class but actually good for an "advanced amateur" in psychology.

A very useful book
This book is very useful for students and researchers in Psychology whether in the undergrads or doctorate degrees.

Okay...
The textbook I ordered arrived in a fair amount of time and the condition was good.The only thing that surprised me was that in BIG BOLD letters across the front of the text it read EXAMINATION COPY.Either I missed this, or it was not stated in the description before I made my purchase.The book will serve my needs just fine, however I might not be able to re-sell it as easily.

I have not read it yet
Well, this is for my class.
I hate reading, so I have not read it yet.
Looks very interesting if I would love reading. ... Read more

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In this collection of autobiographical essays, all previously published in print or online magazines, award-winning short story writer Richard Grayson (WITH HITLER IN NEW YORK, I BRAKE FOR DELMORE SCHWARTZ) contemplates some seminal experiences: selling his teenage drawings of Martin Luther King Jr. from a downtown Brooklyn clothing store in the mid-1960s; watching another well-known African-American minister, Louis Farrakhan, unwittingly play Cupid for his friends; avoiding an overly friendly Kevin Bacon on the streets of their Upper West Side neighborhood in the 1980s; childhood TV watching of such sitcoms as "Amos & Andy," "Beulah" and "The People's Choice"; dodging the Vietnam-era draft and hanging out with LSD-taking hippies in Greenwich Village; and making his 80-year-old Jewish grandmother one of Miami's most glamorous celebrities. These wry, funny, thoughtful pieces use the medium of memoirin an entertainingly offbeat way to explore American history of recent decades through the prism of race relations, sexual behavior, and popular culture. ... Read more

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Kindle edition of Wells' classic novel. The story tells the tale ofGriffin, a scientist who theorises that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will be invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a result. This edition includes an active table of contents. ... Read more

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Different than I expected
This again reinforces my experience that using movies to get an idea of what classic novels are about does not always work.There have been many Invisible Man movies, but I don't remember any that were like this book.The main character was significantly different than I expected.He was brilliant, but deeply flawed.He would not fall into my list of literatures most likable characters.

I appreciate the kindle freebies, which has given me a chance to easily read many great works and novels.This edition was very readable.As with many freebies, there is no links in the table of contents, but that is not important to me in a novel like this.You can do a search for the word `Chapter' is you want to see how long a chapter is.

I recommend this short book for anyone interested in literature from this period.As an engineer, I was impressed by the author's explanations that made the invisibility sound plausible.

A Classic and A Great Read!


In the beginning of The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells, attention is brought to a scientist named Griffin who has discovered the means of invisibility with an invisibility serum. Griffin has apparently gone insane in the process. The book is very descriptive and with so much of a scientific background you may think that the serum that the invisible man produced is real. Very frustrated and upset with his situation, Griffin causes a major upset at an inn in rural London which makes him an infamous beast, with London at it's peak of terror already because of the Boer War. When frustrated by failure in his many attempts to restore himself back to visibility, Griffin is determined to embark on a reign of terror upon the world.

H. G. Wells was a very strong writer and it is the situation from which the novel draws most of its power. Invisibility sounds quite enticing, but what if you were to actually become invisible? How would you cope with the ordinary details of every day life? Griffin does not cope well at all, and though Wells suggests that the invisible man's madness had arisen from a number of places and past events, he also implies that it may have arisen from the cold reality of invisibility itself.
Published in 1897, The Invisible Man was one of H. G. Wells's earliest novels. It is an extremely influential novel and it has tremendous energy and style throughout it. It's a very entertaining read and is also quite witty in a sort of way. The sense of realism and scientific explanation creates a story so heart pounding that you will not want to put it down.

What is unseen
Imagine if you were invisible and could come and go as you pleased, with nobody able to see you. Cool, right? Well, not really. H.G. Wells' "The Invisible Man" has the sci-fi master exploring what would happen if a person took an invisibility elixir, and discovered too late that invisibility has some definite downsides. It's possibly Wells' funniest novel, but it also has some wonderfully chilling moments.

A strange man arrives at a hotel in Iping, wrapped up in goggles, bandages, scarves, and heavy clothes. He spends most of his time hidden away in his room, doing odd scientific experiments, and avoiding contact with other people -- while still keeping everything except his nose hidden. Meanwhile, the local vicar and his wife are robbed by a mysterious thief... who is completely invisible.

Well, you can guess what's up with the stranger -- he's an invisible man, and after a blowup with his landlady he reveals his true.... um, lack of appearance to the entire town. After a series of disastrous encounters, the Invisible Man encounters Dr. Kemp, an old friend to whom he reveals how he became invisible, and what he's done since then... as well as his malevolent plans for the future.

H.G. Wells isn't really known for being a funny writer, but the first part of "The Invisible Man" is actually mildly hilarious. He writes the first third or so of the book in a fairly light, humorous style, and there are some fun scenes speckled through the story, like a homeless man dealing with the Invisible Man ("Not a bit of you visible--except-- You 'aven't been eatin' bread and cheese?").

But things get much darker after Mr. Kemp enters the scene, and we find out that the Invisible Man is... well, kind of malevolent and crazy. Very crazy.

And as the plot grows darker and grimmer, Wells also inserts a clever (if far-fetched even by Victorian standards) explanation for how a person could become invisible, using a mix of science and fantasy. The plot hurtles through wild chase scenes and the occasional riot, and some moments of bleak tension ("When dawn came to mingle its pallor with the lamp-light and cigar smoke of the dining-room, Kemp was still pacing...")

The Invisible Man himself (aka Griffin) is a pretty mysterious character for most of the story, since all we know about him is that he's invisible.... and also kind of a jerk. I mean, the guy constantly flies off the handle and even robs a nice little old vicar. And the more we find out about him, the more malignant and insane he turns out to be.

Even if you had a way to become invisible, "The Invisible Man" would be a pretty effective way of dissuading people from using it. A deserving classic.

Invisibility as a Result of Science
H.G. Wells was a scientific man. He wrote this book in the burgeoning scientific society (The book is published in 1897), which was to transform the entire world in the 20.th century. H.G. Wells was acutely curious about the most far reaching possiblities of science. This book actually ponders upon a scientific theory about making matter invisible. According to this theory matter is visible because it is granulated. Wells gives an example with glass: When glass is whole it is transparent and you can look through it. If you break the class and crushes it into a powder, you granulate the glass and makes it into a white powder, which is not transparent. It is the uneven surfaces of the granules which makes them non-transparent. If you can smoothen these surfaces of the granules you can make matter more transparent. Wells gives an example with paper. We can't look through paper because it is made of tiny paper fragments with uneven surfaces. But if you poor oil on the paper it has the effect of smoothening the jagged surfaces of the paper fragments making up the piece of paper, thus the paper is becoming more transparent. This is fundamentals of the theory which the scientist of the novel, Griffin, uses to make himself invisible.

Okay.
Not really what I was expecting but now I can at least say I read it. ... Read more