Richard Weiss: 9 books

Book cover of Weiss Cracks
by Richard Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014

Weiss Cracks, how it began: Upon moving to Palm Springs in the summer of 2012, standup comedian Richard Weiss hooked up with the talents of wacky artist Bart E. Slyp. The two immediately hit it off and launched their hilarious comic strip, Weiss Cracks, which was picked up and published by the CV WEEKLY...
Book cover of Greyhound Handicapping
by Richard Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

In a book that has stood the test of time, Weiss includes almost two dozen sections for the somewhat advanced player looking to sharpen his or her skills. He discusses areas like the importance of box position; when greyhounds drop in class; the importance of the corner call; the break; the time factor;...
Book cover of Recipes for Immortality

Recipes for Immortality

Healing, Religion, and Community in South India

by Richard S Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009

Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immortality, Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in which siddha medical practitioners in Tamil South India win the trust and patronage of...
Book cover of Quadrangular Algebras. (MN-46)
by Richard M. Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009

This book introduces a new class of non-associative algebras related to certain exceptional algebraic groups and their associated buildings. Richard Weiss develops a theory of these "quadrangular algebras" that opens the first purely algebraic approach to the exceptional Moufang quadrangles. These...
Book cover of Descent in Buildings (AM-190)
by Bernhard Mühlherr, Holger P. Petersson, Richard M. Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015

Descent in Buildings begins with the resolution of a major open question about the local structure of Bruhat-Tits buildings. The authors then put their algebraic solution into a geometric context by developing a general fixed point theory for groups acting on buildings of arbitrary type, giving necessary...
Book cover of Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care

Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care

An Interdisciplinary Reader

by Charles E Rosenberg, Ralph B Little, Edward A Strecker
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013

Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries. This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient...
Book cover of The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Book cover of Competency in Combining Pharmacotherapy and Psychotherapy
by Michelle B. Riba, MD MS, Richard Balon
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017

Most clinicians endorse the combination of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy as more effective and beneficial than each modality alone, but combining these treatments can be a complicated and highly variable process. Competency in Combining Pharmacotherapy and Psychotherapy: Integrated and...
Book cover of International Handbook of Psychiatry

International Handbook of Psychiatry

A Concise Guide for Medical Students, Residents, and Medical Practitioners

by Laura Weiss Roberts, Joseph B Layde, Richard Balon
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013

This handbook will be a concise guide to important topics in psychiatry with an international focus. It constitutes a précis of the field of psychiatry with emphases on the therapeutic approach to the patient and on the proper diagnosis of major psychiatric disorders. All psychiatric diagnoses...
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