Praeger imprint: 619 books
How Consumer Culture Controls Our Kids: Cashing in on Conformity
Cashing in on Conformity
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
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...
by Rudy Nydegger
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
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.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
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...
The Spiritualist Movement: Speaking with the Dead in America and around the World [3 volumes]
Speaking with the Dead in America and around the World
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...
by Robert W. Buckingham, Peggy A. Howard Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
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...
by William H. Jeynes
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
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,...
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
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
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...
by Emily Horowitz Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
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
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
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
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.
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The Nanny Time Bomb: Navigating the Crisis in Child Care
Navigating the Crisis in Child Care
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...