M Scott: 440 books
On New Shores
Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in North America. However, our understanding of...
by Elizabeth Milroy, Catharine Dann Roeber, Emily Mann
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention...
Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist
The Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
An invaluable tool for clinicians and students, Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook takes the reader on an adventure – the quest to become a competent, confident, and passionate couple and family therapist. In an accessible resource for training and supervision, seven expert...
Apocalyptic Chic
Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book deals with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world. It reflects an increasingly popular leitmotif in literature and visual arts of the 21st century: humanity’s...
by Claire Milgrom, Theresa Kestly, Evangeline Munns
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2010
Adolescents are often resistant, hostile, moody, and difficult, but they can also be fascinating, creative, spontaneous, and passionate. How do mental health professionals get past the facade? Play Therapy with Adolescents is the first book to offer a complete variety of play therapy approaches specifically...
Surviving with Dignity
Hausa Communities of Niamey, Niger
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Surviving with Dignity explores three key interconnected themes—structural violence, suffering, and surviving with dignity—through examining the lived experiences of first and second-generation migrant Hausa men in Niamey over the past two decadesin the current neoliberal moment. Colonialism,...
Theological and Ethical Perspectives on Climate Engineering
Calming the Storm
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Calming the Storm presents diverse perspectives on some of the most vital questions raised by climate engineering: Who has the right to make decisions about such global technological efforts? What have we learned from the decisions that caused the climate to change that might shed light on efforts...
Interventions in Education Systems
Reform and Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Interventions in Education Systems draws on research conducted in England, Mexico, Singapore and Finland to illuminate reform processes to education systems in a range of contexts, to develop a better understanding of intervention processes and to promote the development of more sophisticated models...
by Scott Gladstone, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
The purpose of this book is to help you expose and understand the root causes of your "false" mental pain and begin the process of healing. The information I have provided here will allow you to see that your longstanding psychological suffering has not been based on the truth about you, and...
by Scott M. DeVries
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the region’s literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth century to the most recent fiction. The book begins with a consideration of the way in which Argentine...
by Frances S. Adeney, Brian K. Blount, F E. Bonkovsky
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
Protestantism, at its best, grounds both its religious and its social critique in the faith of the prophets and the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as understood and lived by the church. Its teachings and desired practice stand in start contrast to complacent religion that seems to be at ease with...
by Sean D. Foreman, Robert Dewhirst, Sunil Ahuja
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
The 2010 Midterm Elections were momentous in the history of U.S. campaigns. Readers of this book will follow the path of seven House and six Senate races from inception to election postmortem. The chapters are both narrative and provide analysis of an array of interesting and diverse contests from...
by Scott M. Grundy, MD, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
The constellation of disorders now recognized as the metabolic syndrome–hypertension, obesity, lipid disorders, and diabetes–has emerged as a potent threat to the cardiovascular health of millions of Americans. An estimated 22% of American adults have the metabolic syndrome, and the incidence...
Indian Wars: The Fightings in West Virgina, North Carolina, Montana & Illinois
History of Conflicts Between European Colonists and the Indigenous Peoples of North America: Wars in West Virgina, North Carolina, Montana & Illinois
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This carefully edited historical collection of has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Indian Wars is the collective name for the various armed conflicts fought by European governments and colonists, and later the United States...