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Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context

Learning from the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church

by John P. Beal, Francis J. Butler, Patricia M. Y. Chang
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005

Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches...
Book cover of The Philosophy of Horror
by Phillip J. Nickel, Philip Tallon, Jeremy Morris
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010

Sitting on pins and needles, anxiously waiting to see what will happen next, horror audiences crave the fear and exhilaration generated by a terrifying story; their anticipation is palpable. But they also breathe a sigh of relief when the action is over, when they are able to close their books or...
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Wittgenstein at the Movies

Cinematic Investigations

by Steven Burns, Andrew Lugg, William Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011

Ludwig Wittgenstein loved movies, and based on his remarks on watching them, there is a strong connection between his experience of watching films and his thoughts on aesthetics. Furthermore, however, Wittgenstein himself has been invoked in recent cinema. Wittgenstein at the Movies is centered on...
Book cover of 22 Voces Vols. 1 y 2

22 Voces Vols. 1 y 2

Narrativa mexicana joven

by Luis Panini, Jaime Mesa, César Albarrán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 23, 2017

"Islas bañadas por el mismo mar y con corrientes comunicantes", así definía David Miklos los proyectos narrativos incluidos en el primer volumen de esta antología, que Malaletra difundió gratuitamente en 2015. Este libro completa aquel primer esfuerzo e incluye 22 relatos inéditos de escritoras...
Book cover of Terror in 16-bits
by Adrean Messmer, Sean M. Thompson, Julie K. Godard
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018

Now you're playing with… TERROR Demons stalk the circuit boards. Phantoms roam the arcade. Programmers embed occult secrets into the code. Madness spreads from player to player like a virus. Virtual and augmented reality are haunted by unspeakable forces. Doom-cursed warriors live and die...
Book cover of An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
by César Aira, Roberto Bolaño
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006

An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the...
Book cover of The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx
by Elizabeth Abele, Wes Berry, Paul Chafe
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010

This highly readable edited collection focuses on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. Each contributor to this volume explores a different facet of Proulx's striking attention to geography, place, landscape, regional environments, and local economies in her writing. Covering all...
Book cover of Equity and Full Participation for Individuals with Severe Disabilities
by Christine Bigby "B.A. (Hons), M.", Linda M. Bambara
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014

What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today's and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities...
Book cover of Invitational Education and Practice in Higher Education
by Omar Garrett Wray, Jasmine Majkowski, Ken Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016

This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance welcoming colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education. The contributors explain how they...
Book cover of Introduction to Housing
by Jorge Atiles, Mira Ahn, Akin S. Akinyemi
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018

This foundational text for understanding housing, housing design, homeownership, housing policy, special topics in housing, and housing in a global context has been comprehensively revised to reflect the changed housing situation in the United States during and after the Great Recession and its subsequent...
Book cover of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Simple
by John H. O'Neal, MD, John D. Preston
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Simple is the only resource parents and professionals need to consult for the most up-to-date information on medications for the treatment of children and teens suffering from psychological disorders. Fully revised and updated, this second...
Book cover of Assessment and Outcomes in the Arts Therapies
by Robin Barnaby, Mariana Torkington, Claire Molyneux
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013

There is increasing pressure on therapists to provide details of structured assessments and to report therapy outcomes to funders, employers and co-workers. This edited volume provides a series of case studies, with varied client groups, giving arts therapists an accessible introduction to assessment...
Book cover of Black LGBT Health in the United States

Black LGBT Health in the United States

The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation

by Roberto L. Abreu, Siobhan Brooks, Dante' D. Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016

Black LGBT Health in the United States: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation focuses on the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of health, and considers both risk and resiliency factors for the Black LGBT population. Contributors to this collection intimately understand the...
Book cover of Case Files Pathology, Second Edition
by Eugene C. Toy, Margaret O Uthman, Edward Uthman
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2008

More than 50 clinical cases help you ace pathology courses and the USMLE The Case Files series is an award-winning learning system proven to improve exam scores. This series helps you to learn in the context of real patients instead of simply memorizing. Case Files: Pathology: Second Edition...
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