Halpern: 111 books
Innovations in Child and Family Policy
Multidisciplinary Research and Perspectives on Strengthening Children and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. Innovations begins by defining child and family policy and discussing...
Empathy
From Bench to Bedside
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Recent work on empathy theory, research, and applications, by scholars from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to psychoanalysis.
There are many reasons for scholars to investigate empathy. Empathy plays a crucial role in human social interaction at all stages of life; it is thought to help...
by Neyla Graciela Pardo Abril, Marta Casaús Arzú, Carlos Belvedere
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Racism and Discourse in Latin America investigates how public discourse is involved in the daily reproduction of racism in Latin America. The essays examine political discourse, mass media discourse, textbooks and other forms of text, and talk by the white symbolic elites, looking at the ways these...
by Komives Kristin; M. Johnson Todd; Halpern Jonathan; Luis Aburto Jose; R. Scott John
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2009
Large and growing subsidies to residential consumers in Mexico have become a major policy concern. This report explains the growth of subsidies, the current distribution of subsidies across income classes, and uses utility and household survey data to simulate how alternative subsidy mechanisms could...
by Paul Halpern
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Following the end of the First World War the Mediterranean Fleet found itself heavily involved in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Sea of Marmora, the Black Sea and to a lesser extent, the Adriatic. Naval commanders were faced with complex problems in a situation of neither war nor peace. The collapse...
by Elizabeth Arndt, Jake Dailey, George Dibley
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
What can you remember of your childhood? This was the question put to a number of ‘seniors’ asked to start from as far back as they could get, and go as far as the onset of adolescence. Their answers are in this unusual book.
Topics naturally include their physical self; their parents, siblings,...
Disaster Mental Health Interventions
Core Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Disaster Mental Health Interventions uses DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and the latest research to help build disaster mental health intervention skills that will last a lifetime. Students and emerging professionals across the fields of mental health counseling, social work, school counseling, spiritual...
by Paul G. Halpern
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Mediterranean Fleet entered the 1930s looking back to the lessons of Jutland and the First World War but also seeking to incorporate new technologies, notably air power. Unfortunately in the depression years of the early 1930s there was a lack of funds to remedy deficiencies. The problem became...
It's Not Like I'm Poor
How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
The world of welfare has changed radically. As the poor trade welfare checks for low-wage jobs, their low earnings qualify them for a hefty check come tax time—a combination of the earned income tax credit and other refunds. For many working parents this one check is like hitting the lottery, offering...
Medicinal Mushrooms
Ancient Remedies for Modern Ailments
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2002
This book explores mushroom history, as well as their possible uses in the future. Chapters are dedicated to mushrooms that are promising for medicinal uses.
by Leslie R. Halpern, MD, DDS
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
This issue of Dental Clinics features expert clinical reviews on Evidence-Based Women's Oral Health which includes current information on topics such as strategic planning for prioritizing oral health gender disparities, oral health gender disparities and systemic health, oral health gender disparities...
Clinical Cardiac CT
Anatomy and Function
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Praise for the First Edition:*Well written, well organized [and] easy to read...provides everything that a physician would need to know in order to include cardiac CT in his or her practice...this book was a pleasure to read.--Radiology*With a special emphasis on the complementary nature of anatomic...
Mental Health and The Built Environment
More Than Bricks And Mortar?
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This text explores the relationship between the planned or built environment and the occurrence of mental ill-health. It begins by providing a broad overview of what is known about the causes of psychopathic behaviour. It then goes on to discuss the issues that arise when attempting to identify: the...
Healing Mushrooms
Effective Treatments for Today's Illnesses
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
This easy-to-use guide begins by describing how ancient cultures utilized mushrooms to combat disease. It then explains how modern science has refocused its attention on the healing properties of mushrooms and, along the way, discovered wonderful new properties. Included are chapters that examine...