Robert Booth: 33 books
by Robert Booth Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The Greening of Protestant Thought traces the increasing influence of environmentalism on American Protestantism since the first Earth Day, which took place in 1970. Robert Booth Fowler explores the extent to which ecological concerns permeate Protestant thought and examines contemporary controversies...
by Robert Booth
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
What if a naval captain went rogue with an American battleship?
In October, 1812, as the 32-gun U.S. frigate Essex ventured out against the British enemy, only one man had any idea that this cruise would turn into the longest, strangest naval adventure in American history. That man was Captain...
Religion and Politics in America
Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
this book focuses on religion and politics and the dynamic interactions between them. It helps to understand the politics of religion in the United States and to appreciate the strategic choices that politicians and religious participants make when they participate in politics.
Rights and Responsibilities in Behavioral Healthcare
For Clinical Social Workers, Consumers, and Third Parties
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
This publication describes the elements of effective behavioral healthcare and the rights and responsibilities of the participants involved in its delivery: the client as consumer, the practitioner, and the third-party entity. After a thorough review of three-party interactions, the Center for Clinical...
Death of an Empire
The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
SALEM has long been notorious for the witch trials of 1692. But a hundred years later it was renowned for very different pursuits: vast wealth and worldwide trade. Now Death of an Empire tells the story of Salem's glory days in the age of sailing, and the murder that hastened its descent.
When...
by Robert Booth
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
As the bridge connecting new practitioners to the mastery of competent practice, clinical supervision is essential to continuity within clinical social work and to the overall health of the profession. This publication is intended to be definitive in describing clinical supervision in clinical social...
Good People/Bad Credit
Understanding Personality and the Credit Process to Avoid Financial Ruin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
To our financial peril, most of us fail to realize how easily we can jeopardize our credit and how influential our personality is in doing so or not. Good People/Bad Credit, co-authored by a behavioral scientist, a banker and a journalist, and bottom-line to the core, clarifies: • What we need to know...
by Robert Booth
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Millions of helpless children are being abused and neglected at any moment in the United States. As the nation’s largest provider of behavioral health services, clinical social workers must be able to conduct effective interventions with these children and their families and caregivers. The characteristics...
Religion and Politics in America
Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Religion and politics are never far from the headlines, but their relationship remains complex and often confusing. This book offers an engaging, accessible, and balanced treatment of religion in American politics. It explores the historical, cultural, and legal contexts that motivate religious political...
by Anthony Robert Booth
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
This book is an introduction to Islamic Philosophy, beginning with its Medieval inception, right through to its more contemporary incarnations. Using the language and conceptual apparatus of contemporary Anglo-American ‘Analytic’ philosophy, this book represents a novel and creative attempt to...
by Anthony Robert Booth
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
In this book the author argues that the Falasifa, the Philosophers of the Islamic Golden Age, are usefully interpreted through the prism of the contemporary, western ethics of belief. He contends that their position amounts to what he calls ‘Moderate Evidentialism’ – that only for the epistemic...
by Robert Booth
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Clinical social work, with more than 200,000 clinical-level licensees, is the major provider of behavioral healthcare in the United States. This publication is intended to be comprehensive and definitive in describing the knowledge, skills, and behaviors that constitute the competent practice of clinical...
Who's on the Menu
The people on your plate
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Who's on the Menu presents the famous and infamous behind hundreds of dishes. As Laurie Colwin once said: "People who like to cook like to talk about food...without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago." Who's on the Menu presents those...
Confidentiality In Clinical Social Work
An Opinion of the United States Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Late in 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case of Jaffee v. Redmond, over the issue of psychotherapy-patient confidentiality and specifically whether a clinical social worker and her client had the right to withhold case notes in a federal court proceeding. In early 1996 the Supreme Court ruled...