L John: 890 books
by John L. Kinsler
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2000
20 million men and women in this country play softball. On the surface, The Softball Game is about men and their need for battles. Aggression is as coded in our DNA as is our need to reproduce.
It is a fun game with laughs recalled from years playing softball. The old storyteller is reluctant...
Eigensinn und Bindung
Katholische Intellektuelle im 20. Jahrhundert
Language: German
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Ob in Philosophie, Literatur, Bildenden Künsten, Publizistik oder Politik - katholische deutsche Intellektuelle haben die geistige Landschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts wesentlich mitgeprägt. Sie stellten Fragen an die Zeit und ihre Mitmenschen, die anderen nicht einfielen oder die sie nicht zu stellen...
Communication Ethics and Crisis
Negotiating Differences in Public and Private Spheres
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
This collection of essays extends the conversation on communication ethics and crisis communication to offer practical wisdom for meeting the challenges of a complex and ever-changing world. In multiple contexts ranging from the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and family to the political and public,...
Religion and Psychiatry
Beyond Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Religion (and spirituality) is very much alive and shapes the cultural values and aspirations of psychiatrist and patient alike, as does the choice of not identifying with a particular faith. Patients bring their beliefs and convictions into the doctor-patient relationship. The challenge for mental...
Single Case Research in Schools
Practical Guidelines for School-Based Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Single Case Research in Schools addresses and examines the variety of cutting-edge issues in single case research (SCR) in educational settings. Featuring simple and practical techniques for aggregating data for evidence-based practices, the book delves into methods of selecting behaviors of interest...
Learning What You Cannot Say
Teaching Free Speech and Political Literacy in an Authoritarian Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
How do teachers know the limits of their speech? Free speech means more than simply being free to agree, though the authoritarian managerial cultures of many schools increasingly ignore the need for a strong and empowered teaching profession. In response to this ongoing systemic contradiction, Learning...
by Stephen Balogh, Laura A. Bozzi, Robin Broad
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
A provocative call for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than accommodating them, accompanied by case studies from Ecuador to Appalachia and from Germany to Norway.
Not so long ago, people North and South had little reason to believe that wealth from oil, gas, and coal brought anything but...
by John E. Bennett, MD, MACP
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
After thirty years, PPID is still the reference of choice for comprehensive, global guidance on diagnosing and treating the most challenging infectious diseases. Drs. Mandell, Bennett, and Dolin have substantially revised and meticulously updated, this new edition to save you time and to ensure you...
Feeding Anorexia
Gender and Power at a Treatment Center
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2003
Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of treatments at a state-of-the-art hospital program, Helen Gremillion reveals how the therapies participate unwittingly in culturally dominant ideals of gender,...
Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1
Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
"Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of prosaics, the Comaroffs free themselves to analyze a vivid series of images and events as objects of analysis. These they mine for clues to the 19th-century contents of the British imagination and of Tswana minds. They are...
Military Intervention
Cases in Context for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2004
Internal conflict continues to be the most common form of organized violence, most often occurring in a so-called 'arc of instability' comprised of Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. The misery and death caused by these conflicts, with helpless civilians often victims, has...
by Orlando Espín, Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, M. Daniel Carroll R.
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Religion and Politics in America's Borderlands brings together leading academic specialists on immigration and the borderlands, as well as nationally recognized grassroots activists, who reflect on their varied experiences of living, working, and teaching on the US-Mexico border and in the borderlands....
by Lee Ann Banaszak, Jeffrey M. Berry, Paul Burstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1998
Social movements in the United States are important political actors because of their scale and duration, their generation of new ideas and understandings of existing problems, their ability to mobilize those who were previously passive citizens, and the impetus they provide for restructuring and...
Withdrawing from Iraq
Alternative Schedules, Associated Risks, and Mitigating Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
In studying the withdrawal from Iraq, RAND assessed logistical constraints, trends in insurgent activity, the readiness of Iraqi security forces, and implications for the size of the residual U.S. force and for security in Iraq and the region. This report presents alternative schedules: one consistent...