Health Policy category: 748 books
Altered State?
Assessing How Marijuana Legalization in California Could Influence Marijuana Consumption and Public Budgets
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Legalizing marijuana in California would lead to a major decline in the pretax price, but the price for consumers will depend heavily on taxes, the regulatory regime structure, and how taxes and regulations are enforced. The lower price and nonprice effects will increase consumption, but it is unclear...
Corruption and Norms
Why Informal Rules Matter
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
This book focuses on the role of norms in the description, explanation, prediction and combat of corruption. It conceives corruption as a ubiquitous problem, constructed by specific traditions, values, norms and institutions. The chapters concentrate on the relationship between corruption and social...
by Paul Honeywill
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
In this digital age, are there cultural lessons for us in looking to the earliest kinds of communications? The icons used in ancient Mayan and Sumerian language systems are presented here as direct cultural links to the visual presentation of World Wide Web pages on the Internet. The book shows how...
Children’s Views on Their Lives and Well-being
Findings from the Children’s Worlds Project
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This book presents a comprehensive overview of findings from the Children’s Worlds project – the most extensive and diverse study to have been conducted globally on children’s own views of their lives. It provides a unique comparative insight into the similarities and differences in children’s...
Hairy Hippies and Bloody Butchers
The Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Campaign in Norway
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In the popular imagination, no issue has been more closely linked with the environmental group Greenpeace than whaling. Opposition to commercial whaling has inspired many of the organization’s most dramatic and high-profile “direct actions”—as well as some of its most notable failures. This...
by Karen R. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Just what is a generation? And why, if at all, does it matter? This book asks what generation means to ordinary people, arguing that generation is real and it matters, but not in the ways that we think. Generations are not groups of people who can be categorized and attributed with static, immutable...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
The Handbook of Traffic Psychology covers all key areas of research in this field including theory, applications, methodology and analyses, variables that affect traffic, driver problem behaviors, and countermeasures to reduce risk on roadways. Comprehensive in scope, the methodology section includes...
Negotiating Reconciliation in Peacemaking
Quandaries of Relationship Building
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This book offers a unique approach to reconciliation as a matter for negotiation, bringing together two bodies of theory in order to offer insights into resolving conflicts and achieving lasting peace. It argues that reconciliation should not be simply accepted as an ‘agreed-upon norm’ within...
Political Mind Games
How the 1% Manipulate Our Understanding of What's Happening, What's Right, and What's Possible
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
In Political Mind Games, psychologist Roy Eidelson presents a unique and illuminating framework for understanding and combating the manipulative ploys of the 1%. He explains exactly how the rich and powerful mislead the American people—about what’s happening, what’s right, and what’s possible—by...
Citizen Voices
Performing Public Participation in Science and Environment Communication
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
This book concentrates exclusively on the dialogic turn in the governance of science and the environment. The starting point for this book is the dialogic turn in the production and communication of knowledge in which practices claiming to be based on principles of dialogue and participation have...
Worthy - Mente Milionaria
Aumenta l'autostima per avere più ricchezza
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Se sentiamo di non essere abbastanza o che non siamo abbastanza bravi, abbiamo anche paura che non avremo mai abbastanza I soldi. Li amiamo. Se non ne abbiamo abbastanza, ci diamo da fare per averne di più. Se li abbiamo, lottiamo per tenerceli. Ma perché i soldi devono creare così tanta ansia?...
by Oscar -Oz Benson
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Dogs and men do have a lot in common. They both need sex a lot and are willing to fight to get some unless they are bound by political correctness! Whether people believe it or not the world works on needs more than on wants. Men's basic instinctual needs are not exactly like most people think...
Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver
Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Leon R. Kass has been helping Americans better understand the human condition for over four decades_as a teacher, writer, scholar, public champion of the humanities, and defender of human dignity. From bioethics to civic education, from interpreting the Bible to weighing the moral implications of...
Recess
Its Role in Education and Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Writing a book about recess could be a very questionable endeavor for a serious academic psychologist. At first blush it seems to be a pretty trivial topic. It's the time during the school day where there's a break from what's typically considered the most serious work of the day--reading, writing,...