Deborah: 3153 books
Reflections of Our Past
How Human History Is Revealed in Our Genes
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
The rise of the multi-billion dollar ancestry testing industry points to one immutable truth about us as human beings: we want to know where we come from and who our ancestors were. John H. Relethford and Deborah A. Bolnick explore this topic and many more in this second edition of Reflections of...
by Deborah A. Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
The First Seminole War shaped how the United States demarcated its spatial and legal boundaries. Rooted in exceptionalism, manifest destiny, and racism, the legal framework that emerged from Andrew Jackson’s invasion of Florida laid the groundwork for the Monroe Doctrine, the Dred Scott decision, and westward expansion, as Deborah Rosen shows.
by Deborah Wise
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Most of us are good at something. What if the thing you are good at - the thing that makes up your most marketable skills - isn't something you are innately wired to do? If that is the case, then the attributes that make the very best version of you never rise to the top and you set in motion a pattern...
Some of My Friends Are...
The Daunting Challenges and Untapped Benefits of Cross-Racial Friendships
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Examines why it’s difficult to form friendships with people of different races, how we can make those connections, and how they will encourage more meaningful conversations about race.
Surveys have shown that the majority of people believe cross-racial friendships are essential for improving...
Giving Yourself to Life
A journal of pain, hope and renewal
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
For twelve months Deborah Shepard kept a journal to help her with a chronic pain condition. Soon she found herself contemplating all of life’s pains and losses, including the devastating earthquakes that shattered her hometown of Christchurch. Searching for a way through, she began observing the...
Digital Health
Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response to the techno-utopian and entrepreneurial vision of the digital health phenomenon. Deborah Lupton, internationally...
by Deborah R. Simkin, MD, Charles W. Popper
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Patients in psychiatry, or their parents, experiment with alternative methods and practices; psychiatrists, in search of scientifically-based discussion and evidence of use for daily practice, find that information in this issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics. Readers will find clinically...
Starting With Their Strengths
Using the Project Approach in Early Childhood Special Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Starting with Their Strengths is the right book at the right time. . . . Lickey and Powers bring us back to developmental reality. They remind us of how young children learn, and draw on the work of masters past and present including Vygotsky, Paley, and the research on Reggio Emilia to invent...
The Diet Trap Solution
Train Your Brain to Lose Weight and Keep It Off for Good
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The New York Times bestselling author of The Beck Diet Solution teams up with her daughter and colleague at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior to teach readers how to think their way thin, offering practical, proven tools for escaping common diet traps for good.
Most diet programs work...
Sew Fun
20 Projects for the Whole Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Sew Fun: 20 Projects for the Whole Family is a thoughtful approach to crafting with and for children. Discover a variety of ways to get children involved in fun sewing projects, whatever their age or ability. Several projects are for adults to make and for children to enjoy. Others incorporate a child's...
by Deborah Lupton
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it. Despite the fact that in many western countries fat bodies outnumber those that are thin, fat people are still socially marginalized, and...
Feminism
A Brief Introduction to the Ideas, Debates, and Politics of the Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Beneath the nonstop cacophony of voices across social media, online forums, and news outlets lie the stubborn facts at the heart of the everyday struggles of women today: more than a third of single moms live in poverty; the United States sees more maternal deaths than anywhere else in the developed...
Unix and Linux
Visual QuickStart Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
In this updated edition, authors Deborah and Eric Ray use crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's Unix essentials. You’ll find the information you need to get started with the operating system and learn the most common Unix commands and concepts so that Unix...
Four Seasons in a Day
Travel, Transitions and Letting Go of the Place We Call Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Alternately humorous and poignant, this inspiring memoir chronicles the author's misadventures as she and her husband cook in quirky kitchens, struggle to speak French and shop like locals in outdoor markets. With candor and optimism, Deborah Jacobs transports readers from the grape harvest in the...