Kevin J : 569 books
Love Unites Us
Winning the Freedom to Marry in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Firsthand accounts from the attorneys and advocates who brought the historic cases and fought to secure the freedom to marry for same-sex couples.
The June 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges was a sweeping victory for the freedom to marry, but it was one step in a long process. Love Unites...
American Nation-Building
Case Studies from Reconstruction to Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Nation-building efforts by the United States and the international community have led to both success and failure, overwhelming support and debilitating controversy. Some are motivated by national security interests; others by humanitarian concerns. They seem to have exploded since the end of the...
by Ghulam Haider Aasi, Asma Afsaruddin, Osman Bakar
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
This timely work addresses sensitive issues and relations between Muslims and Christians around the world. The book uniquely captures the opportunity for Christians and Muslims to come together and discuss pertinent issues such as pluralism, governance, preaching, Christian missionary efforts, and...
Psychological Injuries
Forensic Assessment, Treatment, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2005
Human emotional suffering has been studied for centuries, but the significance of psychological injuries within legal contexts has only recently been recognized. As the public becomes increasingly aware of the ways in which mental health affects physical - and financial - well-being, psychological...
Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy
Innovative Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy brings together some of the world's most influential contemporary psychotherapists in the field to look at the future of Focusing-oriented approaches.
Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy - a form of therapy that involves listening to the innate...
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality
Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers...
The Challenge of Pluralism
Church and State in Six Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In a thoroughly revised and expanded edition that now includes France, this essential text offers a rigorous, systematic comparison of church-state relations in six Western nations: the United States, France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Australia. As successful and stable political democracies,...
by John C. Graser, Daniel Blum, Kevin Brancato
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
The Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) currently runs three in-theater hospitals for severely injured or wounded personnel. Part of the practioners' preparation was treating DoD beneficiaries for a broad range of injuries and illnesses. Opportunities for this preparation are not as numerous "in house"...
by Robert J. Weil, Amir H. Hamrahian, Kevin M. Pantalone
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
MRI Atlas of Pituitary Imaging focuses on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the imaging modality of choice for the evaluation of pituitary disorders, since it provides a detailed anatomy of the pituitary gland and surrounding structures, particularly the soft tissues. A basic understanding and interpretation...
Creating Effective Transitions
Moving from the Elementary Grades to Middle School
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
This book focuses primarily on elementary to middle school transitions. This book was developed with a two-fold premise: one, that educators and parents understand the role they play in meeting the basic developmental needs of individual students during times of transition; and two, that school leaders...
Removing the Stain of Racism from the Southern Baptist Convention
Diverse African American and White Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has a historical stain. The SBC once affirmed slavery and openly opposed and condemned abolitionists. Even though the convention repented of this sin publicly, a profound divide between the white majority and the black and brown minority still exists for many...
Seeing the Past with Computers
Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Recent developments in computer technology are providing historians with new ways to see—and seek to hear, touch, or smell—traces of the past. Place-based augmented reality applications are an increasingly common feature at heritage sites and museums, allowing historians to create immersive, multifaceted...
by Talmadge E. King, Margaret B. Wheeler, Alicia Fernandez
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The leading reference and text on the increasingly relevant and important topic of caring for underserved patients and those with highly unique health requirements
A Doody’s Core Title for 2019!
The timely publication of Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles,...
Defining Sport
Conceptions and Borderlines
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Defining Sport: Conceptions and Borderlines is not about the variations of usage of the term “sport.” It is about the concept, the range of activities in the world that we unite into one idea—sport. It is through the project of defining sport that we can come to understand these activities better,...