List 89 of books from editorial Abc Clio

Heart Disease

by Regis A. de Silva
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013

Written by a past president of the Boston Chapter of the American Heart Association, Heart Disease is a comprehensive account of the leading cause of death in the West. Sequential chapters describe the structure and function of the heart, the various disease states, and the treatments for each major...

School Choice: A Balanced Approach

by William H. Jeynes
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014

Are public charter schools more effective than traditional public schools? This book provides quantitative evidence to answer this question and considers a better way to undertake a policy of school choice. • Supplies a unique evaluation of the school choice issue that is based, in part,...

Personal Finance: An Encyclopedia of Modern Money Management

by Barbara Friedberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

The ideal roadmap to 21st-century financial literacy, this layman's encyclopedia discusses ideas, concepts, events, and people that inform money management and personal finance. It explains the intricacies of things like investing, saving, debt, credit, and mortgages, and it drills down into complexities...

The Real College Debt Crisis: How Student Borrowing Threatens Financial Well-Being and Erodes the American Dream

How Student Borrowing Threatens Financial Well-Being and Erodes the American Dream

by William Elliott III, Melinda K. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015

Is it still worth it for low-income students to attend college, given the debt incurred? This book provides a new framework for evaluating the financial aid system in America, positing that aid must not only allow access to higher education, but also help students succeed in college and facilitate...

Medieval Medicine: The Art of Healing, from Head to Toe

The Art of Healing, from Head to Toe

by Luke DeMaitre
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

This unique examination of medieval medicine as detailed in physician's manuals of the period reveals a more sophisticated approach to the medical arts than expected for the time. • Includes translations, available for the first time in English, of original comments and illustrations by physicians...

From the Brain to the Classroom: The Encyclopedia of Learning

The Encyclopedia of Learning

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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014

Comprising more than 100 entries, From the Brain to the Classroom: The Encyclopedia of Learning gathers experts in the fields of education, neuroscience, and psychology to examine how specific areas of the brain work in thought processes, and identifies how educators can apply what neuroscience has...

Teen Legal Rights

by David L. Hudson Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015

Widespread Internet use and evolving privacy concerns compromise the legal rights of teenagers. While smart phones, social networking, and online music downloading pose new legal complications for teens and their parents to navigate, the Supreme Court has grappled with rights concerning every aspect...

Protecting Our Kids? How Sex Offender Laws Are Failing Us

by Emily Horowitz Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Do sex offender laws protect children, or are they inherently unfair practices that, at their worst, promote vigilante justice? The latter, this book argues. By analyzing the social, political, historical, and cultural context surrounding the emergence of current sex offender policies and laws, the...

Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel [3 volumes]

Pop Goes the Gospel

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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013

Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel addresses the full spectrum of evangelical media and popular culture offerings, even delving into lesser-known forms of evangelical popular culture such as comic books, video games, and theme parks. The chapters in this 3-volume work...

Counting the Votes: A New Way to Analyze America's Presidential Elections

A New Way to Analyze America's Presidential Elections

by G. Scott Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015

Counting the Votes: A New Way to Analyze America's Presidential Elections isn't your typical history book about presidential elections. Nor is it like most statistical analyses of election results. What this unusual book does offer is an array of innovative statistics—campaign score (CS), potential...

Heaven, Hell, and the Afterlife: Eternity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam [3 volumes]

Eternity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013

Christianity, Islam, and Judaism all feature ideas about heaven, hell, and afterlife, and these concepts have evolved over time within these religions. This work supplies a detailed and coherent understanding of the broad scope of spiritual thinking in the last 3,000 years within the Abrahamic traditions. •...

The Nanny Time Bomb: Navigating the Crisis in Child Care

Navigating the Crisis in Child Care

by Jacalyn S. Burke
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015

Coming home to an abused, badly injured, or even deceased child is a parent's most horrific, unimaginable scenario. And yet it happens: In 2012, two small children died while in the care of a nanny. The Nanny Time Bomb is the most accurate and comprehensive analysis of the current crisis in child...

Human Rights and the World's Major Religions, 2nd Edition

Condensed and Updated Edition

by William H. Brackney
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Based on the celebrated five-volume set published in 2005, this updated one-volume edition offers readers a concise yet complete understanding of the interplay between the major religions and human rights.

Poverty and the Poor in the World's Religious Traditions: Religious Responses to the Problem of Poverty

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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018

This detailed book is a resource for students, practitioners, and leaders interested in how the major world religions have understood poverty and responded to the poor. • Addresses a topic of great importance: the intersection of religion, a universal cultural phenomenon; and the poor, a...

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