New Releases by Christopher Green

First there was the Toddler Taming phenomenon - now this is the sequel every parent has been waiting for... Dr Christopher Green has written Beyond Toddlerdom for all those parents in need of calm and wise advice on parenting the 5-12 year age group. The 5-12s have to face a number of developmental hurdles. They become aware of the world outside the home. They will start school, make friends, take up hobbies and develop personal interests. They may move house, may live through a parental divorce, and will develop personality patterns that will stay with them for life. It is an important time. Writing with his usual humourous, practical and down-to earth style, Chris Green draws on his many years of expertise as a paediatrician, father and grandfather to enable parents to understand their child''s needs and development during their pre-teen years. He takes full account of all the physical, psychological and sociological influences that are of importance during this time - and helps parents to make appropriate decisions about everything from friends to homework, sibling rivalry to positive discipline. Beyond Toddlerdom is the ideal companion to Chris Green''s Toddler Taming ''bible'' and is a must for every parent.

For those with less time on their hands Toddler Taming Tips offers authoritative but instant, practical and commonsense advice for parents with children at the challenging stage of toddlerdom. Based on over twenty-five years'' experience, Dr Green''s methods will help you to enjoy the toddler years, demystifying childcare and bringing the fun back into parenting. Toddler Taming Tips includes advice on: - sleep solutions that really work - successful potty training - the very latest on healthy eating - discipline - how to make life easier for yourself - dealing with tantrums - the low-down on playgroups, pre-schools, being a working parent And much more!

This illustrated book focuses on the aesthetic impact ancient art had on twentieth-century artists Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, and Picabia between 1906 and 1936.

A new model is needed for storm water "green solutions" such as rain gardens, bioswales, and rain barrels. Estimating average annual runoff at the property level is essential to providing precise estimates on the effectiveness of stormwater "green solutions" like rain barrels and rain gardens. This information can also be used to implement a more accurate stormwater fee so municipalities can generate revenue to fund water infrastructure improvements, water conservation efforts, or storm water mitigation projects, while also providing a performance based rebate for those property owners who do install a storm water green solution. Rather than use modeling tools that utilize single design storms and runoff coefficients, site-specific GIS data can be input for a continuous runoff model whose focus is not conveyance but interception and infiltration. A distributed, deterministic Economic Water Model (EWM) method and modeling software was developed to estimate runoff using site-specific climate, soil, slope, and surface conditions extracted from GIS, weather station, and USDA soil data. Findings indicate that widespread implementation of rain barrels and rain gardens can have significant effects on urban runoff, especially in dense residential areas with small lot sizes. While this model also demonstrates that energy consumption is reduced at the municipal level through reduced combined sewer water treatment, the most significant water-related energy savings is from simple water-saving devices like low-flow faucet aerators. The results of this modeling can be used to implement and maintain more sustainable water infrastructure systems, economically and environmentally.

Stay on the rails with Dr Christopher Green''s new pocket survival guide to the ups and downs of life with children aged five to twelve. BEYOND TODDLERDOM TIPS is packed with practical, commensense advice for parents with less time on their hands. With irresistible humour it reveals the secrets to: helping your child start school with confidence and success; keeping the mood positive as you discipline your child; talking to your child about sex and personal development; the very latest on healthy eating.

The arrival of a baby is an exciting and memorable time yet many parents feel uncertain, confused and not sure what to do. Well, don''t despair, as BABIES is here to put the joy back into childcare. Full of common sense, it is a practical, up-to-date guide to the everyday concerns of parents facing the first year of their baby''s life. The book looks at such practical day to day concerns as feeding, crying, sleeping and bonding, but also includes the more humorous, light-hearted moments of family life, for this book is not just about babies, it''s also about families and relationships. It is for mothers, fathers, grandparents and anyone who is interested in children. Now you can enjoy - as well as survive - baby''s first year!

In this groundbreaking new study of the leading artist of the twentieth century, Christopher Green explores Picasso''s fascination with ideas about the living and the dead. He shows how Picasso oscillated between the animate and the inanimate, creating objects that ''live'' and figures that are ''dead'' as objects. Covering the period from the creation of the Demoiselles d''Avignon in 1907 to the artist''s association with the Surrealists in the 1930s, the book offers a journey through Picasso''s imagination and reveals - by way of Freud, André Breton and Guillaume Apollinaire, among theirs - the ideas and reflections associated with life and death in his work. Published in association with the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, the book also includes an essay on Picasso''s biomorphic motifs by the leading Spanish critic J.F. Yvars.

A guide for parents through the toddler years including ideas for dealing with tantrums and sibling rivalry, sleep solutions, healthy eating, toilet training, coping as a working parent, coping as a sole parent.

El autor aborda la estructura pictórica y escultórica y, sobre todo, la arquitectura del conocimiento y de la sociedad en la obra de Picasso, es decir, las estructuras de la tradición, de las diferencias raciales, sociales y culturales, de la lógica y de la tecnología, proponiendo nuevas vías para apreciar la oscilación entre orden y desorden en la obra de Picasso, así como la confrontación y el reto que su obra supuso respecto a las arquitecturas de la ortodoxia. Tal reto comienza con una serie de intervenciones que el artista protagonizó en la turbulenta historia europea de los primeros años veinte, que revelan su postura respecto a temas vitales como la raza, la diferencia cultural, la modernidad, la sexualidad y el descontento de la civilización.

Chris Green explores how private interests are influencing the public education process and investigates the Labour government''s successes and failures.

In 1997, controversial TV star Paula Yates discovered that her true father was not, as she had believed, disgraced television personality Jess Yates, but the man who had destroyed his career--Hughie Green. Devastated, she approached Green''s son, Christopher, in an effort to unravel the mystery behind her two ''fathers''. Hughie Green was a huge showbiz figure and probably the first star of British TV. His show, Opportunity Knocks, launched the career of Les Dawson and many others. Christopher Green''s investigation, which forms the heart of this extraordinary book, uncovered many of the dark and deeply buried secrets that Paula Yates, tragically, never lived to hear.

"Good preaching is the present Word of God to his people", argues J. I. Packer. And it is to communicate this that is our first calling. In this inspiring collection of essays, experienced preachers explore the different aspects of preaching.

This study sets developments within the frameworks both of their unstable social, political and intellectual world and of the official and independent institutions of art.

An exciting and provocative collection of works by Gino Severini from the most significant decade (1910-20) of his career, Gino Severini: From Futurism to Classicism traces the evolution of his art from his pre-war Futurist period to his adoption of a vigorous geometric ordering based on classical principles.

A world expert offers the definitive guide to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. As renowned pediatrician Dr. Christopher Green explains, A.D.H.D. is actually a cluster of behaviors--including inattentiveness, impulsiveness, and overactivity--that causes children to underachieve at school and behave poorly at home.

This volume is in the series of scholarly catalogues of The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection deals with some of the most innovative artworks of the first half of the twentieth century. More than forty artists from ten countries, including France, Spain, Italy, Britain and the Netherlands, are represented, and the catalogue throws fresh light on a period of intense creative ferment in the visual arts. An illustrated catalogue of 97 works by more than 40 artists: Georges Braque, Salvador Dalí, Theo van Doesburg, Juan Gris, Piet Mondrian, Picasso. Christopher Green''s introductory essay presents a valuable overview of the complex period, teasing out the various lines of inquiry and elucidating the central themes. His catalogue offers new research on significant groups of works by Braque, Ernst, Gris, Kupka, Leger, Picasso, and Schwitters, as well as important discoveries concerning major paintings by Balla, Bomberg, Dali, Miro and Wadsworth. A special feature of many entries is the use of technical investigations to address questions concerning processes of conception and making. Fresh light is thrown on the so-called ''automatist'' procedures of the leading Surrealists (especially Ernst), on the open-ended working methods of the leading Cubists and Mondrian, and on the explicitly mechanistic methods of artists like Van Doesburg or Servranckx. Based on extensive documentary and archival research, this latest catalogue of The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection makes a major contribution to twentieth century art history.

Unemployment insurance is the federal government''s largest single social program and its most controversial. This document asks: How do we make unemployment insurance work? Two papers, by Christopher Green and Fred Lazar, give very direct, if also very differenct, answers to that question. Two other papers, by Miles Corak and Dominique Gross, provide background analysis on what economic research has discovered about the workings of Canada''s unemployment insurance program and how other countries handle unemployment insurance.

This study focuses on the rise and subsequent relative economic decline of Montreal, the short-run or first-round effects of a friendly breakup, and the longer-run or second-round effects of that event.

A practical, common-sense guide to solving the problems and sharing the joys of baby''s first year. It''s all here in a guide that dispenses wisdom, humor, and experience by beloved pediatrician and veteran father Dr. Christopher Green.