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1. Resilient Grandparent Caregivers

   A Strengths-Based Perspective

   Edited by Bert Hayslip, Jr., Gregory C. Smith

   The study of grandparents raising grandchildren, now almost two decades old, has tended to have a negative bias, emphasizing the difficulties such people face and the negative impact that grandparent caregiving has on them physically, socially, and emotionally. This edited book seeks to reverse...

   To Be Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Management Obligations for Health and Safety

   By Gregory W. Smith

   In recent years, the safety management field has placed leadership and commitment at the center of effective workplace health and safety programs. At the same time, personal liability for workplace health and safety has increased, resulting in poor outcomes for individual managers. Discussing the...

   Published October 24th 2011 by CRC Press
3. Scientific Foundations of Clinical Assessment

   By Stephen N. Haynes, Gregory T. Smith, John D. Hunsley

   Series: Foundations of Clinical Science and Practice

   Scientific Foundations of Clinical Assessment is a user-friendly overview of the most important principles and concepts of clinical assessment. It provides readers with a science-based framework for interpreting assessment research and making good assessment decisions, such as selecting the best...

   Published March 7th 2011 by Routledge
4. Place- and Community-Based Education in Schools

   By Gregory A. Smith, David Sobel

   Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education

   Place- and community-based education – an approach to teaching and learning that starts with the local – addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children now growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. It offers a way to extend...

   Published February 1st 2010 by Routledge
5. Place-Based Education in the Global Age

   Local Diversity

   Edited by David A. Gruenewald, Gregory A. Smith

   "Polished, clear, insightful, and meaningful.... This volume amounts to nothing less than a complete rethinking of what progressive education can be at its best and how education can be reconceptualized as one of the central practices of a genuinely democratic and sustainable society.... It is the...

   Published August 12th 2007 by Routledge
6. Public Schools That Work

   Creating Community

   Edited by Gregory A. Smith

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   Public Schools That Work addresses the efforts of teachers, administrators and parents to develop alternative educational models capable of overcoming the alienation and intellectual disengagement that have become so common in American schools. Educators working in some of the best alternative...

   Published December 5th 1993 by Routledge
7. Toxicology and Pesticide Use in Relation to Wildlife, Organophosphorus, and Carbamate Compounds

   By Gregory J. Smith

   Organophosphorus and carbonate pesticides are used as insecticides, herbicides, nematicides, acaricides, fungicides, rodenticides, and bird repellents throughout the world. Today, organophosphorus and carbamate pesticides use is widespread on agricultural crops, rangelands, forests, and wetlands....

   Published November 8th 1992 by CRC Press