Deborah R : 62 books
On Middle Ground
A History of the Jews of Baltimore
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
In 1938, Gustav Brunn and his family fled Nazi Germany and settled in Baltimore. Brunn found a job at McCormick’s Spice Company but was fired after three days when, according to family legend, the manager discovered he was Jewish. He started his own successful business using a spice mill he brought...
The Earthquake Observers
Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet’s hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteenth century, a scientific description of an earthquake...
The Fifth Decade
Is It Just My Life or Is It Perimenopause? Sorting through the Emotional Upheaval of Women in Their Forties and Fifties
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
An indispensable and insightful roadmap for women entering the shifting landscape of life in the middle decades.
With balanced, accessible, and humorous discussions of female physiology and psychology as well as current treatment options, author and psychologist Deborah R. Wagner PhD, provides...
Climate in Motion
Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth’s climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary. Climate in Motion shows that this multiscalar, multicausal framework emerged well before computers and satellites....
Dictionary of Natural Healing
Your First Stop for Facts on Complementary Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Find out about the newest natural remedies and what they can do for you!
With the hundreds of complementary treatments available today, this new, up-to-the-minute A-Z reference lets you quickly and easily investigate all the natural approaches for your health needs. Whether you've wondered...
On the Chocolate Trail
A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Explore the surprising Jewish and other religious connections to chocolate in this gastronomic and historical adventure through cultures, countries, centuries and convictions. Rabbi Deborah Prinz draws from her world travels on the trail of chocolate to enchant chocolate lovers of all backgrounds as...
by Deborah R. Simkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Patients in psychiatry, or their parents, experiment with alternative methods and practices. Psychiatrists, in search of scientifically-based discussion and evidence of use for daily practice, find that information in this issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics. Readers will find clinically...
by Deborah R. Simkin, MD, Charles W. Popper
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Patients in psychiatry, or their parents, experiment with alternative methods and practices; psychiatrists, in search of scientifically-based discussion and evidence of use for daily practice, find that information in this issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics. Readers will find clinically...
Wavy, Curly, Kinky
The African American Child's Hair Care Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Your hands-on guide to the best care for your child's hair
Now taking care of your child's hair can be fun, easy, and trouble-free! In Wavy, Curly, Kinky, renowned stylist Deborah Lilly shows parents the best ways to style and maintain African American boys' and girls' hair from infancy to...
by Deborah R. Shatzkes, MD
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Editor Deborah Shatzkes and authors review important areas in Craniofacial Trauma. Articles will include: Optimizing craniofacial CT technique, Orbital and facial fractures, Orbital and facial soft tissue injuries, Skull base fractures and their complications, Temporal bone trauma, Pediatric considerations...
Speaking Green with a Southern Accent
Environmental Management and Innovation in the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
The nation's environmental policy approaches and methods are becoming more flexible and diverse, with state governments composing the fulcrum of policy changes. Southern environmental politics and policy are especially valuable when considering a changing environmental policy landscape because they...
Lost in the Long Transition
Struggles for Social Justice in Neoliberal Chile
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
In Lost in the Long Transition, a group of scholars who conducted fieldwork research in post-dictatorship Chile during the transition to democracy critically examine the effects of the country's adherence to neoliberal economic development and social policies. Shifting government responsibility for...
Nanotechnology and Scientific Communication
Ways of Talking about Emerging Technologies and Their Impact on Society (2004-2008)
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
This study examines findings from a 4-year-long ethnography of communication among a research university’s community of scientists and engineers working in nanoscience and nanotechnology. It includes analysis of 20 in-depth interviews with scientists and engineers from 18 different disciplines self-identified...
by Deborah R. Becker, Robert E. Drake
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2003
Traditional approaches to vocational rehabilitation, such as skills training classes, job clubs, and sheltered employment, have not been successful in helping people with severe mental illness gain competitive employment. Supported employment, in which clients are placed in jobs and then trained by...