S Scott: 226 books
Connectedness and Contagion
Protecting the Financial System from Panics
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
An argument that contagion is the most significant risk facing the financial system and that Dodd¬Frank has reduced the government's ability to respond effectively.
The Dodd–Frank Act of 2010 was intended to reform financial policies in order to prevent another massive crisis such as the...
Two Is Enough
A Couple's Guide to Living Childless by Choice
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Fall in love. Get married. Have children. For most couples, marriage and children go hand in hand. And yet, the number of people choosing childlessness is on the rise. These are the childless by choice-people who have actively decided not to have children-rather than the childless by circumstance....
The Common Wind
Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era
The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official...
by Susan S. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Susan S. Scott is an experienced psychotherapist who, due to a back injury, was forced to abandon her therapist's couch and walk for therapy. Through her extended strolls through nature, she discovered the ingenious ability of trees to grow around obstacles and, in essence, heal themselves. The result...
Wandering Souls
Protestant Migrations in America, 1630-1865
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Popular literature and frontier studies stress that Americans moved west to farm or to seek a new beginning. Scott Rohrer argues that Protestant migrants in early America relocated in search of salvation, Christian community, reform, or all three.
In Wandering Souls, Rohrer examines the migration...
Reforming U.S. Financial Markets
Reflections Before and Beyond Dodd-Frank
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Two top economists outline distinctive approaches to post-crisis financial reform.
Over the last few years, the financial sector has experienced its worst crisis since the 1930s. The collapse of major firms, the decline in asset values, the interruption of credit flows, the loss of confidence...
The Politics of Pain Medicine
A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Chronic pain is a medical mystery, debilitating to patients and a source of frustration for practitioners. It often eludes both cause and cure and serves as a reminder of how much further we have to go in unlocking the secrets of the body. A new field of pain medicine has evolved from this landscape,...
Hope's Promise
Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
This eloquent study describes the complex process of assimilation that occurred among multi-ethnic groups in Wachovia, the evangelical community that settled a 100,000-acre tract in Piedmont North Carolina from 1750 to 1860. It counters commonplace notions that evangelicalism was a divisive force...
by S. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Benedryl for the heart Sweet words of the Tao Blackberry to make all succinct Eloquent the text, twitter quiet rest Poetry spells relief in the now How many of us can wake up gracefully with a breath of new joyous time? Most start their wake with televised bait that startles their heart and mind....
by S. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2000
I can't remember the beautiful words that meter my tempo, so each day I must poetize life, for only in musical expression do I live.
I'm never bored in nature but in human company, without conversation in some depth, I'm lost.
I am without destination. My path is the warm face that gives...
by S. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Why do people enter total institutions – places that confine and control them around the clock – and how does the experience change them? This book updates Goffman's classic model by introducing the Re-inventive Institution, where members voluntarily commit themselves to pursue regimes of self-improvement.
by A.L.S. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
As Paw Paw tends to his grandson’s scraped-up knee, he tries to distract nine-year-old David by telling a story about a seal and his special mission to save his family. A group of gray seals lived down south in Antarctica on a glacier where they had everything they needed: food, shelter, companionship,...
Geohazards
Natural and man-made
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Dorrik A. V. Stow Editor in Chief, Association of Geoscientists for International Development ( AGID) AGID is particularly pleased to see published this latest hurricanes, floods-that are wreaking havoc, destroying report in its Geosciences in International Development livelihood and lives in some...
by S. Scott Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
Everything you need to pass the NAPLEX® – comprehensive study material and two practice exams – in one student-reviewed package
1,400 case-based questions
Written by an instructor who has taught thousand of students, this all-in-one study guide was developed and reviewed by pharmacists,...