Altman: 156 books
by Dennis Altman, Jonathan Symons
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
The claim that 'LGBT rights are human rights' encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used resistance to 'LGBT rights' to cast themselves as defenders of traditional values against neo-colonial interference and western decadence.
Queer...
The Battle for Social Security
From FDR's Vision To Bush's Gamble
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
This book illuminates the politics and policy of the current struggle over Social Security in light of the program's compelling history and ingenious structure. After a brief introduction describing the dramatic response of the Social Security Administration to the 9/11 terrorist attack, the book...
Be Nice to the Recruiter
Care and Feeding Tips for Working With Recruiters, Search Professionals, Employment Agents and Other People You Want to Help You Find Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Is your blood starting to boil when recruiters don't return your calls or respond to your emails? Jeff A;tman, The Big Game Hunter, is a veteran search professional who has been recruiting and coaching people for almost 40 years. In this report, The Big Game Hunter offers 10 easy to follow suggestions...
How to Become a Awning Hanger
How to Become a Awning Hanger
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This publication will teach you the basics of how to become a Awning Hanger. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only have a better understanding, but gain valuable knowledge of how to become a Awning Hanger
Regenerating Urban Land
A Practitioner's Guide to Leveraging Private Investment
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in urban regeneration of underutilized and unutilized areas and the requisite infrastructure improvements....
Sold!
101 Tips For Selling Your Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
So….you’d like to sell your house? Great! Everyone’s doing it. But this is your first time and you’ll be doing the sale yourself. Nervous? Of course!
The fact is, it’s only unnerving because you haven’t got a clue about the dynamics of selling a house – your house. It’s the...
Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics
Foundations and Developments
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
At a time when both scholars and the public demand explanations and answers to key economic problems that conventional approaches have failed to resolve, this groundbreaking handbook of original works by leading behavioral economists offers the first comprehensive articulation of behavioral economics...
A Practical Guide to the Thematic Apperception Test
The TAT in Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This valuable book provides the student with a short, manageable, comprehensive guide to the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), a major psychological measuring instrument. The TAT is effective in telling the clinician how the subject views the self and the world in his or her unique way. This sweeping...
by Andrew Altman, Christopher Heath Wellman
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
A Liberal Theory of International Justice advances a novel theory of international justice that combines the orthodox liberal notion that the lives of individuals are what ultimately matter morally with the putatively antiliberal idea of an irreducibly collective right of self-governance. The individual...
Ascent to the Good
The Reading Order of Plato’s Dialogues from Symposium to Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
At the crisis of his Republic, Plato asks us to imagine what could possibly motivate a philosopher to return to the Cave voluntarily for the benefit of others and at the expense of her own personal happiness. This book shows how Plato has prepared us, his students, to recognize that the sun-like Idea...
The German Stranger
Leo Strauss and National Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Leo Strauss's connection with Martin Heidegger and Carl Schmitt suggests a troubling proximity to National Socialism but a serious critique of Strauss must begin with F. H. Jacobi. While writing his dissertation on this apparently Christian opponent of the Enlightenment, Strauss discovered the tactical...
by Neil Altman, Richard Briggs, Jay Frankel
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
"The relational and the developmental point of view have never been brought together in an adequate way. This up-to-date scholarly, yet practical, integration opens a new vista within relational psychoanalysis and pioneers a fresh approach in the psychoanalytic treatment of children and adolescents. It is a work of great and lasting value to the field."
–Peter Fonagy
by Kenneth W. Altman, MD, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
Both acute and chronic cough are responsible for a significant number of ambulatory medical visits annually. The recent comprehensive understanding that “cough is a reflection of underlying disease pays tribute to the multifactorial causes, as well recognition of the respiratory and upper digestive...
by David Altman
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Challenging the common assumption that models of direct democracy and representative democracy are necessarily at odds, Direct Democracy Worldwide demonstrates how practices of direct and representative democracy interact under different institutional settings and uncovers the conditions that allow...