David M Kennedy: 14 books
Don't Shoot
One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country. In some neighborhoods in America, one out of every two hundred young black men is shot to death every year, and few initiatives of government and law enforcement...
Freedom from Fear:The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom From Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. The Depression was both a disaster and an opportunity....
Over Here
The First World War and American Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history. It also left a residue of disruption and disillusion that spawned an even more ruinous conflict scarcely a generation later. Over Here is the single-most comprehensive discussion...
The American People in the Great Depression
Freedom from Fear, Part One
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
On October 24, 1929, America met the greatest economic devastation it had ever known. In this first installment of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear, Kennedy tells how America endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of that unprecedented calamity. Kennedy vividly demonstrates that...
The American People in World War II
Freedom from Fear, Part Two
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Even as the New Deal was coping with the Depression, a new menace was developing abroad. Exploiting Germany's own economic burdens, Hitler reached out to the disaffected, turning their aimless discontent into loyal support for his Nazi Party. In Asia, Japan harbored imperial ambitions of its own....
Deterrence and Crime Prevention
Reconsidering the Prospect of Sanction
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Deterrence is at the heart of the preventive aspiration of criminal justice. Deterrence, whether through preventive patrol by police officers or stiff prison sentences for violent offenders, is the principal mechanism through which the central feature of criminal justice, the exercise of state authority,...
Energy Sprawl Solutions
Balancing Global Developmand Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Over the next several decades, as human populations grow, the demand for energy will soar. But renewable energy sources have a large energy sprawl—the amount of land needed to produce energy—which can threaten biodiversity. In Energy Sprawl Solutions, scientists Joseph M. Kiesecker and David Naugle...
by Jill Ehrenreich-May, Sarah M. Kennedy, Jamie A. Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is arguably the most effective psychotherapy model for children and adolescents with emotional disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, trauma and stress-related disorders, etc.). Emotional disorders in youth frequently overlap or co-occur,...
Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents
Therapist Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is arguably the most effective psychotherapy model for children and adolescents with emotional disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, trauma and stress-related disorders, etc.). Emotional disorders in youth frequently overlap or co-occur,...
by Jill Ehrenreich-May, Sarah M. Kennedy, Jamie A. Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is arguably the most effective psychotherapy model for children and adolescents with emotional disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, trauma and stress-related disorders, etc.). Emotional disorders in youth frequently overlap or co-occur,...
American Catholics and Civic Engagement
A Distinctive Voice
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with the Commonweal Foundation and with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding...
by Dr Adam S. Davis, Dr Bruce Maxwell, Prof. David R. Clements
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Summarises latest research on IWM principles and methods
Assesses current challenges facing herbicide use
Detailed review of the range of cultural, physical and biological methods of control available for IWM.
by Pat Adams, American Association of Museums, Association of Science-Technology Centers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
There has been, and continues to be, an explosion of interest in developing new small science centers that is changing the world of museums. This handbook is designed to be a one-stop source for future and current centers, and anyone interested in the important roles these institutions play in their...
The 2012 Nomination and the Future of the Republican Party
The Internal Battle
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
The 2012 Republican nomination process went on longer than most pundits predicted early on. While Mitt Romney began the season as the prohibitive favorite, he was tested repeatedly by what was seemingly the Republican flavor of the week (including Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich,...