Abc Clio: 1719 books

Cover of Privacy in the Digital Age: 21st-Century Challenges to the Fourth Amendment [2 volumes]
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015

A collection of expert essays examines the privacy rights that have been lost in the post-9/11 era—giving students and others the knowledge they need to take back their constitutional protections. • Traces the historical development of the Fourth Amendment through recent Supreme Court decisions •...
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by Janice Arenofsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018

Infertility affects about five million individuals of childbearing age in the United States, yet infertility is a subject about which many people are reluctant to talk. This book discusses extensively many options available to individuals struggling with infertility. • Explores the many forms...
Cover of The Praeger Handbook on Women's Cancers: Personal and Psychosocial Insights
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014

Each year, hundreds of thousands of women are diagnosed with cancer in the United States alone. The total number affected is larger still, comprising siblings, parents, partners, and children of these women. In this single-volume work, an international team of experts address the physical, medical,...
Cover of The Praeger Handbook of Chiropractic Health Care: Evidence-Based Practices
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017

What does scientific research show about the effectiveness of chiropractic care? How are chiropractors trained and what do they do? When should one turn to chiropractic care, and how does one select a practitioner? This book answers all of these questions and more. • Provides an easy-to-read...
Cover of A Smarter, Greener Grid: Forging Environmental Progress through Smart Energy Policies and Technologies

A Smarter, Greener Grid: Forging Environmental Progress through Smart Energy Policies and Technologies

Forging Environmental Progress through Smart Energy Policies and Technologies

by Kevin B. Jones, David Zoppo
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014

The United States' electrical grid is an antique. It was built to serve a 20th-century economy and designed in an era when the negative environmental impacts of electricity production were poorly understood. It must be upgraded and modernized. The proposed solution is a "smart grid"—a...
Cover of What You Need to Know About Privacy Law: A Guide for Librarians and Educators
by Gretchen McCord
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013

U.S. privacy laws are confusing and hard to interpret. This book provides clear, substantive guidance to educators who work with minors in these rapidly changing, technological times. • Addresses the complicated topic of privacy law and specific issues for pre-K–12 educators in an easy-to-read,...
Cover of The War on Women in the United States: Beliefs, Tactics, and the Best Defenses
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018

The book examines gender roles, gender inequity, and the real-world impacts of both unintentional and purposeful efforts to undermine women's equal treatment in the United States, documenting what women have faced in the past and still face living in America today. • Demonstrates how existing...
Cover of Toward a Positive Psychology of Relationships: New Directions in Theory and Research
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

Nearly universally, relationships are a key source of what we all seek in life: happiness, fulfillment, and well-being. The experts who contributed to this novel volume apply the framework of positive psychology to the findings of relationships research across a variety of practical contexts. What...
Cover of How Consumer Culture Controls Our Kids: Cashing in on Conformity
by Jennifer Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015

In this critique of America's consumption-based society, author Jennifer Hill chronicles the impact of consumer culture on children—from the evolution of childhood play to a child's self-perception as a consumer to the consequences of this generation's repeated media exposure to violence. Hill proposes...
Cover of Restoring Trust In Higher Education: Making the Investment Worthwhile Again
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017

Where is the value in higher education? How can higher education restore its relevance and trust with students and parents? Are there really any meaningful differences between public and private higher education? This volume probes those questions and more, exploring the myriad issues that have led...
Cover of Understanding Depression
by Rudy Nydegger
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016

Straightforward and easy to read yet thorough and accurate, this book provides a complete overview of depression that describes the historical background of clinical depression, the various types of mood disorders, and their impact on the health and well-being of people and society. • Explains...
Cover of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Global Views on Choosing to End Life
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017

This book addresses key historical, scientific, legal, and philosophical issues surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide in the United States as well as in other countries and cultures. • Addresses the extended history of debates regarding the ethical justifiability of assisted suicide...
Cover of The Spiritualist Movement: Speaking with the Dead in America and around the World [3 volumes]
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013

Based on the belief that the dead can communicate with the living through mediums, Spiritualism touches concepts as timelessly fascinating as human mortality and the continuing existence of the soul beyond bodily death. This comprehensive work will help readers parse the mysteries of this uniquely...
Cover of Understanding Loss and Grief for Women: A New Perspective on Their Pain and Healing
by Robert W. Buckingham, Peggy A. Howard Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017

This book can enhance everyone's understanding of how women experience loss and grief, and how they transition to resolution. It is an invaluable resource to women and everyone who supports them—spouses, partners, and family members as well as community and government. • Explicates the...
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