E E Smith: 544 books
Aspies on Mental Health
Speaking for Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
People with Asperger Syndrome (AS) can be particularly at risk of developing mental health difficulties such as anxiety and depression. Here, adults with Asperger Syndrome speak out about their own experiences of mental health issues, offering sound advice for other Aspies and providing valuable insights...
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Interventions and Treatments for Children and Youth
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
How can you best help children with autism reach their full potential?
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) present a perplexing challenge for parents and school professionals. This essential resource was developed to respond directly to the difficulty school professionals and families...
by Nancy R. Smith, Carolee E. Fucigna, Margaret Ann Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The authors skillfully combine a philosophical and pragmatic approach, exploring the cognitive processes behind children’s painting. To deepen children’s understanding, the book suggests meaningful tasks for each phase of imagery and offers methods for encouraging children to discuss the concepts...
The Heavens on Earth
Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
The Heavens on Earth explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatories, but usually not the only one. It belonged to a larger group of “observatory sciences” that also included geodesy, meteorology, geomagnetism, and...
Prescribing Health
Transcendental Meditation in Contemporary Medical Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Prescribing Health: Transcendental Meditation in Contemporary Medical Care includes important contributions from leading experts on Transcendental Meditation and health, and provides the reader with the most important, cutting edge health research on the effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM) on...
by Sandra Jarvie, Chrissie Rogers, Mirna E. Carranza
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Mothers of Adult Children elucidates what happens when children come of age and leave home, creating new lives in the realms of work and relationships. Mothers from around the world learn that this is the point in which their relationships with their children must drastically change. Mothers often...
Complexities
Social Studies of Knowledge Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2002
Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplicity and complexity to reveal that this dichotomy, itself, is too simplistic. John Law and Annemarie Mol have gathered a distinguished panel of contributors...
Growing Explanations
Historical Perspectives on Recent Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2004
For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components—nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on—but over the past forty years there has been a marked turn toward explaining phenomena by building them...
The Provocative Joan Robinson
The Making of a Cambridge Economist
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903–83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. Robinson studied economics at Cambridge University, where she made a career that lasted some fifty years. She was...
Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China
Plurality and Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2002
As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? If, as some claim, it...
Dry Creek
Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
With cultural remains dated unequivocally to 13,000 calendar years ago, Dry Creek assumed major importance upon its excavation and study by W. Roger Powers. The site was the first to conclusively demonstrate a human presence that could be dated to the same time as the Bering Land Bridge. As Powers...
King Alfonso VIII of Castile
Government, Family, and War
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Continues Fordham's work to bring scholarship on medieval Iberia to an anglophone audience
World at the Crossroads
Towards a sustainable, equitable and liveable world
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Thirty years ago the Russell-Einstein Manifesto warned humanity that our survival is imperilled by the risk of nuclear war.In the spirit of that Manifesto, we now call on all scientists to expand our concerns to a broader set of interrelated dangers: destruction of the environment on a global scale,...
MediaWriting
Print, Broadcast, and Public Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
MediaWriting is an invaluable resource for students planning to enter the dynamic and changing world of media writing in the twenty-first century. With easy-to-read chapters, a wealth of updated, real-world examples, and helpful "How To" boxes throughout, this textbook explains the various...