pyschological aspects

Seventeen essays discuss theory and research on reading motivation, including the role of affect in reading; student, teacher, and parent attitudes toward reading; motivation techniques; response to reading; and development of affective reading programs.

Draws upon the findings of sleep science to explain what happens in the brain when people dream and discuss connections between sleep and mental illness.

Twenty essays present opposing viewpoints on several aspects of adoption, including the protection of the rights of those involved; adoption as an alternative to abortion; open and closed adoption; transracial adoption; gay and lesbian adoptive parents; and Internet adoption.