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Addressed in this issue: the prevention of behavioral and emotional disorders, the creation of interdisciplinary prevention efforts, strategies to increase early screening, and systematic ways to create change in childhood settings.

The Journal of Beat Studies is devoted exclusively to the scholarly criticism of Beat Generation writing and writers. Its mandate is to provide readers with intelligent and penetrating criticism across the range of Beat writing, including fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, life writing, travel writing, and screenplay writing. The ultimate goal of the journal is to advance the quality of Beat Studies scholarship through application of diverse critical perspectives that address Beat production as both complex art and cultural critique.

This issue touches on gender nonconformity and identity, paternal impact on child development and skill acquisition, and how children adapt to kindergarten, according to kindergarten teachers.

"Aftershock: Rethinking the Future Since September 11, 2001" is the record of a three-day conference held in Lower Manhattan September 6 - 8, 2006 at Pace University. Bringing together stellar speakers and informed panelists representing a wide range of constituencies, from first responders to families of those who died at the World Trade Center, the conference explored the economic, cultural, environmental, educational, and political consequences of the attacks.

In a sense, the multifaceted contributions in this compendium deconstruct and reconstruct the very concept of personal construct psychology, tracing its personal origins in the life and work of George Kelly, examining its implications for the construction of a social self and its shadow side, alienation, and exploring its affordances for a striking range of clinical and theoretical issues. Anyone who wonders whether this wellspring of constructivist psychology continues to feed into vital contemporary discourse will be reassured by the strength, vitality and novelty of the contributions to these pages, and the clarity with which Kelly's voice is echoed and extended in the voices of subsequent generations of scholars. Robert A. Neimeyer, Ph.D. University of Memphis and author, Constructivist Psychotherapy

The essays in this volume explore a number of new topics in the religious, economic, social, and cultural history of Staten Island. They seek to expand upon and enrich the traditional story of the Island's past by opening up new avenues of historical inquiry and raising key questions about the identity of Staten Island and its complex and contested relationship with Greater Focusing on the last two centuries of Staten Island's history, the essays examine how major institutions, individuals, and industries have shaped, for better or worse, the public image of Staten Island

The Journal of the Early Book Society publishes several substantial articles in each volume with emphasis on the period of transition from manuscript to print.