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Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders
What We Know and What We Don't Know
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Sponsored by the Adolescent Mental Health Initiative of the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania and the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands Trust, Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders, Second Edition, provides a major update since the...
Character
New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
This collection contains some of the best new work being done on the subject of character from the perspectives of philosophy, theology, and psychology. From creating a virtual reality simulation of the Milgram shock experiments to understanding the virtue of modesty in Muslim societies to defending...
by Patricia Elizabeth Spencer, Marc Marschark
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
Debates about methods of supporting language development and academic skills of deaf or hard-of-hearing children have waxed and waned for more than 100 years: Will using sign language interfere with learning to use spoken language or does it offer optimal access to communication for deaf children?...
Beyond Functional Sequence
The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 10
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that studies the syntactic structures of a particular language in order to better understand the semantic issues at play in that language. The approach arranges a language's morpho-syntactic features in a rigid universal hierarchy, and its...
Skeletal Development of the Hand and Wrist
A Radiographic Atlas and Digital Bone Age Companion
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Bone age assessment, a crucial part of the diagnosis and management of pediatric growth disorders as well as the timing of certain pediatric orthopedic procedures, has for decades depended on the meticulous examination of plain radiographs. Examining the subtle changes present within the maturing...
Camelot and Canada
Canadian-American Relations in the Kennedy Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
In 1958 Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts proclaimed at the University of New Brunswick that "Canada and the United States have carefully maintained the good fences that help make them good neighbours." He could not have foreseen that his presidency would be marked not just by some of the tensest...
Developing Destinies
A Mayan Midwife and Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Born with the destiny of becoming a Mayan sacred midwife, Chona Pérez has carried on centuries-old traditional Indigenous American birth and healing practices over her 85 years. At the same time, Chona developed new approaches to the care of pregnancy, newborns, and mothers based on her own experience...
If the Walls Could Speak
Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The specter of a prison punishment for even slight political offenses became an element of daily life in post-war Poland. In interwar Poland, imprisonment, especially for communists, had served as a rite of passage, endurance training, and a university teaching life skills. The post-war order brought...
A Pearl in Peril
Heritage and Diplomacy in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Known as "the Pearl of the Mediterranean," Izmir invokes a city and countryside blessed with good fortune; it is known to many as the homeland of Ephesus, Bergama, and Sardis. Yet, Turkey's third largest city has an especially vexed past. The Greek pursuit of the Megali Idea leveraged Classical history...
English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550
Marriage and Family, Property and Careers
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2002
Portraits of aristocratic women from the Yorkist and Tudor periods reveal elaborately clothed and bejeweled nobility, exemplars of their families' wealth. Unlike their male counterparts, their sitters have not been judged for their professional accomplishments. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
In Neurology of Autism, Mary Coleman, Catalina Betancur, G. Robert DeLong, Christopher Gillberg, Yoshiko Nomura, Lorenzo Pavone, Martin Ruggieri, and Michele Zappella use the tools of neurological analysis to address a number of the major questions that have arisen in the study of autism. The answers...
What Animals Want
Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Larry Carbone, a veterinarian who is in charge of the lab animal welfare assurance program at a major research university, presents this scholarly history of animal rights. Biomedical researchers, and the less fanatical among the animal rights activists will find this book reasonable, humane, and...
A Catholic Modernity?
Charles Taylor's Marianist Award Lecture, with responses by William M. Shea, Rosemary Luling Haughton, George Marsden, and Jean Bethke Elshtain
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1999
This book offers a series of reflections on the state of Christianity, and especially Catholicism, in the world today. The centerpiece of the volume is a lecture by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor, from which the title of the book is taken. The lecture, delivered at Dayton University in January...
by Geoffrey Huck
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Though we all think we know what good writing is when we see it, it's difficult to define it precisely; and without a satisfactory definition, it becomes problematical to assess as well as to teach. In What Is Good Writing?, Geoffrey J. Huck advances the contemporary debate on writing achievement...