John D : 1272 books
America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics
Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
All You Need Is Love and Other Lies About Marriage
How to Save Your Marriage Before It's Too Late
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Why is it so difficult to remain married in thetwenty-first century, and what can you do about it?
We all know that half of today's marriages end in divorce, but we tend to believe that our own marriages are safe. As psychiatrist John Jacobs explains in this fresh and impassioned book, marriages...
Refuel
A 24-Day Eating Plan to Shed Fat, Boost Testosterone, and Pump Up Strength and Stamina
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
LOW T? THE SAFE AND NATURAL WAY TO BOOST IT IN 24 DAYS.
Throughout much of their lives, men have a weight advantage over women, whose bodies are naturally designed to hold more fat. Fair or not, men’s hormonal make-up, muscle mass, and unique metabolic profile make it easier for them to stay...
by John B. Izzo , Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Stop *Seeking Happiness; Just Get Out of Its Way!
Happiness is our natural state, for each of us and for humanity as a whole, argues John Izzo. But that happiness is being stolen by insidious mental patterns that he depicts as thieves: the thief of control, the thief of conceit, the thief of...
by D. W. St.John
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
After suffering the greatest of personal Tragedies, Dai O’Connel is no longer willing to lie. A headstrong Welshman twenty years in an Oregon classroom, he refuses either to lower standards or to implement the feel-good nonsense of Outcome Based Curriculum, and as a result is targeted for dismissal....
by John F. Foard, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
This brief work presents a level-headed approach to quelling the social unrest that followed the cataclysmic fraternal strife of the War Between the States and the unfulfilled promises of Reconstruction. Written by North Carolinian educator and physician Dr. John Frederick Foard, this work also reprints an Arabic manuscript written by the hand of Hajj 'Umar ibn Said.
by John Friel, PhD, Linda D. Friel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Psychologists and best-selling authors John and Linda Friel have written an enormously readable and infinitely practical book that delves into what makes a relationship enduringly successful. Wherever readers are in their own relationships, this book can improve those relationships dramatically, bringing...
Prospects for Resilience
Insights from New York City's Jamaica Bay
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Given the realities of climate change and sea-level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, at its core, is about desirable states of the urban social-ecological system and understanding how to sustain those states in an uncertain and tumultuous...
by John Friel, PhD, Linda D. Friel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
You have begun to deal with the pain and trauma of being raised in a dysfunctional family and now you are ready to lead a healthy life. But:
Do you know what healthy people do?
Do you know what is “normal”?
Do you know how to ask unwanted guests to leave?
In An Adult...
From Defiance to Cooperation
Real Solutions for Transforming the Angry, Defiant, Discouraged Child
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Change Your Child's Life! Turn Negative Behavior into Positive Traits
How do you deal with a difficult and defiant child or teenager? What can you do if your child has been diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) or is resentful and constantly in trouble at school? Are there constructive...
A User's Guide to the Brain
Perception, Attention, and the Four Theatres of the Brain
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2001
John Ratey, bestselling author and clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, lucidly explains the human brain’s workings, and paves the way for a better understanding of how the brain affects who we are. Ratey provides insight into the basic structure and chemistry of the brain,...
by John Friel, PhD, Linda D. Friel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Psychologists John and Linda Friel have written an enormously readable and infinitely practical book that digs into some of the worst mistakes that parents make, with suggestions on how parents can change immediately. The Friels examine the seven most ineffective and self-defeating behaviors that...
by John M. Gottman, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1999
The Marriage Clinic presents a complete marital therapy program based on John Gottman's much heralded research on marital success and failure.
Here one will find not only a wide range of succinct and useful assessment procedures, but also a highly specific, research-based, and modularized treatment...