W Stephen Smith: 27 books
End-of-Life Decisions in Medical Care
Principles and Policies for Regulating the Dying Process
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Those involved in end-of-life decision making must take into account both legal and ethical issues. This book starts with a critical reflection of ethical principles including ideas such as moral status, the value of life, acts and omissions, harm, autonomy, dignity and paternalism. It then explores...
Columns to Characters
The Presidency and the Press Enter the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
The relationship between the presidency and the press has transformed—seemingly overnight—from one where reports and columns were filed, edited, and deliberated for hours before publication into a brave new world where texts, tweets, and sound bites race from composition to release within a matter...
There is a Gunman on Campus
Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
In our media-saturated culture, momentous events occur quickly, as news and images are broadcast around the country and the world. We are often riveted by the news and our everyday reality is suddenly changed. Yet, almost as quickly, that critical event is replaced by a new story. The old event fades...
Inside Job
Doing the Work Within the Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2015
Recognize and determine the inner and outer markers of success
Explore eight compelling virtues that every leader must possess
Use the principle of rhythm rather than chase the myth of balance
Recognize the limits of your own leadership
Discover how to thrive, not just survive
Inside Job
by Roland Marchal, Ned Dalby, Faouzi Kilembe
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked. Democracy, in any kind of a meaningful sense, has eluded the country. Since the mid-1990s, army mutinies and serial rebellion in CAR have resulted in two major successful...
The Mouse in Biomedical Research
Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
Diseases, the second volume in the four volume set, The Mouse in Biomedical Research, departs from the first edition, by discussing specific disease causing microorganisms, rather than the format used in the first edition which discussed infectious diseases affecting specific organs and tissues. As...
Christian Physicalism?
Philosophical Theological Criticisms
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional...
The Jesus Life: Eight Ways to Recover Authentic Christianity
Eight Ways to Recover Authentic Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Lost? Explore the way to life!
We've lost the way that leads to life. With competing priorities and rival demands, we're more confused than ever in how to live the life Jesus offers. Is it the church way, the American way, or the busy way? With so many ways facing us, we're more paralyzed than...
Preventing Problem Behaviors
Schoolwide Programs and Classroom Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Prevention is the key to a successful school behavior plan!
This research-based guide offers strategies and plans for preventing problem behavior at both the classroom and school level. The book focuses on four essential areas—foundations, intervention, collaboration, and evaluation—and...
The Legal, Medical and Cultural Regulation of the Body
Transformation and Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The regulation of the body provides an important concern in law, medical practice and culture. This volume contributes to existing research in the area by encouraging experts from a range of related disciplines to consider the legal, cultural and medical ways in which we regulate the body, further...
The Mouse in Biomedical Research
Normative Biology, Husbandry, and Models
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Normative Biology, Husbandry, and Models, the third volume in the four volume set, The Mouse in Biomedical Research, encompasses 23 chapters whose contents provide a broad overview on the laboratory mouse’s normative biology, husbandry, and its use as a model in biomedical research. This consists...
Preventing Problem Behaviors
Schoolwide Programs and Classroom Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
In today's increasingly diverse PreK12 classrooms, problem behaviors can often interrupt instructional time and disrupt learning. Designed for 21st-century school leaders, administrators, behavior specialists, and classroom teachers, this research-based guide offers specific strategies and plans...
Comrades in Health
U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health...
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