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Cover of Social Justice and Increasing Global Destitution
by T. Y. Okosun
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009

Social justice has long been an aspect of the human experience. Communities sustain each other through its pursuit and practice, yet sometimes people require the assistance of a good government committed to a responsible public policy that supports every citizen's right to opportunities and required...
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Government, Policy, and Ideology

Higher Education's Changing Boundaries in Two Island Kingdoms-Japan and England

by Keiko Yokoyama
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009

Government, Policy, and Ideology analyzes the transformation of the university systems of England and Japan from the early 1980s, with particular reference to the changing modalities of university autonomy and the power relationships between central authorities, the universities, and the market. The...
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Terra Incognita

A Psychoanalyst Explores the Human Soul

by Joseph Isaac Abrahams
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014

Terra Incognita provides an autobiographical account of Joseph Abrahams’ 75-year career as a psychoanalyst, with extensive scientific data, life-altering discoveries, and insightful conclusions. Each chapter represents a different stage of Abrahams’ career, from its prescient wartime beginnings...
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by Irene S. Switankowsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015

A Patient-Centered Approach to the Chronically-Ill addresses the unique needs of chronically-ill patients and the challenges they present for medical doctors. This book features four principles of the patient-centered approach that can be used by physicians in treating chronically-ill patients. By...
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Jumping from the Ivory Tower

Weaving Environmental Leadership and Sustainable Communities

by Rosemarie Russo
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009

Jumping from the Ivory Tower demonstrates the positive results that occur when colleges work with communities to develop students with a sense of place. The book examines the role of colleges and communities in addressing today's environmental problems, including climate change and biodiversity loss,...
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Breaking the Adolescent Parent Cycle

Valuing Fatherhood and Motherhood

by Jack C. Westman
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009

This book addresses the dilemma created by the discrepancy between our efforts to prevent adolescent pregnancy and our support of adolescent parenthood, which the author argues is America's greatest unrecognized public health crisis. It is the most preventable cause of crime and welfare dependency,...
Cover of Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy
by John Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012

This book introduces readers to Thomistic philosophy through selected topics such as being, God, teleology, truth, persons and knowledge, ethics, and universals. John Peterson discusses metaphysics and the essence-existence distinction and presents what he believes is Aquinas’ strongest theistic...
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This Way Out

A Narrative of Therapy with Psychotic and Sexual Offenders

by Joseph Isaac Abrahams
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010

This Way Out, a report of work done six decades ago in Howard Hall, the maximum security section of St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., is immediately pertinent to today's forensic and mental health crises. The two volumes of this work help fill a need for specific data on what transpires...
Cover of Depression as a Psychoanalytic Problem
by Paolo Azzone
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012

Over the past few decades, psychoanalysis and dynamic psychiatry have been steadily stepping back from a key role in the understanding and treatment of depressive disorders. This book investigates the basis for such retreat by delving into the history of medicine, philosophy, religion, and literature....
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Shyness & Love

Causes, Consequences, and Treatment

by Brian G. Gilmartin
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012

Shyness & Love covers the only major study conducted to date on social anxiety disorder as it is manifested in informal, unstructured, male/female dating and courtship situations. It focuses on the causes—both biomedical as well as situational—of “love-shyness” and the consequences for those...
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Crime Policy in America

Laws, Institutions, and Programs

by Shahid M. Shahidullah
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015

The second edition of Crime Policy in America describes the process of policy-making and the substantive nature of policy directions in crime and justice in America, particularly from the beginning of the 1970s. This book examines the nature of presidential policy-making in crime and justice from...
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Choreographing Creativity

Teaching as Artistic and Technical within the Curriculum of Composition

by Jennifer Lynne Bird
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009

Choreographing Creativity: Teaching as Artistic and Technical within the Curriculum of Composition views teaching as a combination of artistic and technical elements, similar to a figure skating or dance routine. Dr. Jennifer Bird presents a fictional story founded in factual teaching methods to illustrate...
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A New, Objective, Pro-Objectivity Normative Theory

An Objective Basis for Morality, Society, Politics, Law, Education, Etc.-And for Liberty and Peace

by Frederick Farrand
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010

A New, Objective, Pro-Objectivity Normative Theory tries to solve fundamental normative moral, social, political, educational, legal, etc. problems. It defends a uniquely evidence-based, objective theory. The theory argues it has one objective, primary end, and plural a-objective, secondary ends irrelevant...
Cover of Select Legal Topics
by Andrew J. Schatkin
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015

The second volume of Select Legal Topics updates, analyses, and covers current developments in such areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, state civil procedure, civil rights matters, constitutional issues, and significant recent Supreme Court decisions. Select Legal Topics also covers issues...
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