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The Antidepressant Solution
A Step-by-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming Antidepressant Withdrawal, Dependence, and "Addiction"
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2006
With the FDA's warning that antidepressants may cause agitation, anxiety, hostility, and even violent or suicidal tendencies, these medications are at the forefront of national legal news. Harvard physician Joseph Glenmullen has led the charge to warn the public that antidepressants are overprescribed,...
by Noel T. Boaz
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A leading anthropologist's twenty-year quest in northern and eastern Africa shows how findings from a variety of fields contribute to a holistic picture of human evolution and provide a context for understanding today's problems.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Presenting authoritative, up-to-date information in convenient handbook form, this premier reference covers an extensive range of current topics on the causes, symptoms, and treatments of stress. In this second edition, new chapters have been added on crime victimization, sexual abuse, multiple roles,...
Family Healing
Strategies for Hope and Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
At the center of people’s lives is the family, which can be and should be a haven from the harshness of the outside world. Unfortunately, the source of people’s greatest hope for happiness often turns out to be the source of their worst disappointments. Now, the family therapist, Salvador Minuchin...
by Barry Nurcombe
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The legal aspects of child mental health have changed in recent years, yet many who deal professionally with disturbed children are ill informed about the rights and responsibilities of minors. Child Mental Health and the Law addresses the need for a comprehensive, up-to-date text that describes the...
To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World
A Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2002
In this marvelously researched and moving biography closely grounded in Frieda Fromm-Reichmann's work, Gail Hornstein brings back to life the maverick psychiatrist who accomplished what Freud and almost everyone else thought impossible: successfully treating schizophrenics and other seriously disturbed...
Iodine
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Haven Kimmel, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, has long attracted legions of fans for her insightful, humane portraits of outsiders struggling to find their place in the world. In Iodine, her fourth novel, Kimmel once again draws on her exceptional powers of observation and empathy, but this...
Something Rising
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In her first two books, Haven Kimmel claimed her spot on the literary scene- surprising readers with her memoir, A Girl Named Zippy, and winning an outpouring of critical acclaim for her first novel, The Solace of Leaving Early. Now, in her second novel, she brings to the page a heroine's tireless...
Lost Paradise
From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Pitcairn Island -- remote and wild in the South Pacific, a place of towering cliffs and lashing surf -- is home to descendants of Fletcher Christian and the Mutiny on the Bounty crew, who fled there with a group of Tahitian maidens after deposing their captain, William Bligh, and seizing his ship...
by Ronald Bayer
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
In this timely, penetrating analysis, Ronald Bayer examines the legal and political implications of creating and implementing an effective and rational nationwide health policy that balances public safety with private freedom.
Learning From the Links
Mastering Management Using Lessons from Golf
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
For the first time, a seasoned business executive and avid golfer combines these two passions to explore what makes for top performance in each field. Management consultant David K. Hurst explores compelling links relating the two activities to explain clearly what every manager who plays golf may...
by Robert Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Eisner argues that the federal deficit as currently measured is inaccurate and misleading. When inflation is properly accounted for, he points out, a dramatically different picture of the deficit occurs. In light of these new deficit figures, Eisner challenges current eco nomic theory and interpretations...
by Steven M. Sheffrin
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
America's government intervenes in almost every aspect of its citizens' daily lives. From the air we breathe, to our health, wealth, and security, Americans wade through a vast political ocean. Unfortunately, we do so blindly; few Americans understand how or why our government regulates the market...
by Kenneth Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
An introduction for undergraduates to every stage of sociological research, showing how to deal effectively with typical problems they might encounter. The book is fully updated to include examples from the LA riots and the 1992 presidential elections.