Steven J Taylor: 9 books

Book cover of Acts of Conscience

Acts of Conscience

World War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors

by Steven J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009

In the mid- to late 1940s, a group of young men rattled the psychiatric establishment by beaming a public spotlight on the squalid conditions and brutality in our nation’s mental hospitals and training schools for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities. Bringing the abuses to the...
Book cover of Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods
by Steven J. Taylor, Robert Bogdan, Marjorie DeVault
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015

An informative real-world guide to studying the "why" of human behavior Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods is a practical, comprehensive guide to the collection and presentation of qualitative data. Unique in the market, this book describes the entire research process — from design...
Book cover of Secrets of Economics Editors
by Michael Watts, Zvi Eckstein, Esther Gal-Or
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014

Experienced economics editors discuss navigating the world of scholarly journals, with details on submission, reviews, acceptance, rejection, and editorial policy. Editors of academic journals are often the top scholars in their fields. They are charged with managing the flow of hundreds of...
Book cover of History of American Political Thought
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
Book cover of It's Not All in Your Head

It's Not All in Your Head

How Worrying about Your Health Could Be Making You Sick--and What You Can Do about It

by Gordon J. G. Asmundson, PhD, Steven Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2005

Where do you go for help when no one believes you're really sick? The doctors can’t explain your symptoms, but you know there’s something wrong because you can sense it in your body. Living with the specter of an unresolved health issue isn't just painful, it's isolating. The preoccupation and...
Book cover of Kissing in the Chapel, Praying in the Frat House

Kissing in the Chapel, Praying in the Frat House

Wrestling with Faith and College

by Taylor Brorby, Mary Ellen Jebbia, Brandan J. Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014

College is a time to learn, explore, and grow, but what does faith have to do with it? In this collection of essays, gifted writers in their twenties and early thirties reflect on their college years by telling stories—some hilarious, some heart-wrenching—on the intersection of faith and college. At...
Book cover of Keywords for Southern Studies
by Erich Nunn, Keith Cartwright, Thomas Haddox
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016

In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the...
Book cover of Play Therapy with Adolescents
by Claire Milgrom, Theresa Kestly, Evangeline Munns
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...
Book cover of Quoth the Raven
by Lyn Worthen, A.A. Azariah-Kribbs, Amber Fallon
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2018

The works of Poe were dark and often disturbing. From dismembered corpses, rivals bricked behind cellar walls, murders in back alleys, laments for lost loves, obsessions that drive men - and women! - to madness, his stories have had a profound impact on both the horror and mystery genres to this day. In...
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