M Daniel: 512 books
by Richard T. Callaghan, Michael P. Pateman, Daniel Torres Etayo
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Heritage preservation is a broad term that can include the protection of a wide range of human-mediated material and cultural processes ranging from specific artifacts, ancient rock art, and features of the built environment and modified landscapes. As a region of multiple independent nations and...
The Encultured Brain
An Introduction to Neuroanthropology
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Basic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection of brain and culture.
The brain and the nervous system are our most cultural organs. Our nervous system is especially immature at birth, our brain disproportionately...
National Security and Arms Control in the Age of Biotechnology
The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
This book accessibly and expertly details the history and implications of the BWC—the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention—a controversial arms control agreement drafted in the 1970’s meant to supplement the Geneva protocol for warfare from decades earlier. That treaty banned the use of biological...
by Marion Solomon, Ph.D., Daniel J. Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience to understand psychotherapeutic change.
Growth and change are at the heart of all successful psychotherapy. Regardless of one's clinical orientation or style, psychotherapy is an emerging process that s created moment by moment, between client and therapist.
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Was ist Glück?
Eine Orientierung
Language: German
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Glücklich sein will jeder – keine Frage. Doch was ist ein so flüchtiges Phänomen wie Glück überhaupt? Kann man es allgemein definieren? Ist es nicht immer subjektiv? Oder können wir seinen Wert objektiv bestimmen? Ist Glück also messbar? Wie können wir noch glücklicher werden? Oder geht...
Righteous Indignation
A Jewish Call for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Can the teachings of Judaism provide a sacred framework for repairing the world?
In this groundbreaking volume, leading rabbis, intellectuals, and activists explore the relationship between Judaism and social justice, drawing on ancient and modern sources of wisdom. The contributors argue that...
The Meaning of My Neighbor’s Faith
Interreligious Reflections on Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
The Meaning of My Neighbor’s Faith addresses two of the most critical challenges of our time: immigration and religious diversity. The diverse group of contributors, representing a variety of religious traditions, disciplines, and methodologies, explore “the meaning of my neighbor’s faith”...
Rivalry and Reform
Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Few relationships have proved more pivotal in changing the course of American politics than those between presidents and social movements. For all their differences, both presidents and social movements are driven by a desire to recast the political system, often pursuing rival agendas that set them...
Decolonizing Ethnography
Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
In August 2011, ethnographers Carolina Alonso Bejarano and Daniel M. Goldstein began a research project on undocumented immigration in the United States by volunteering at a center for migrant workers in New Jersey. Two years later, Lucia López Juárez and Mirian A. Mijangos García—two local...
Alive at Work
The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Poll after poll has confirmed that an astonishing number of workers are disengaged from their work. Why is this happening? And how can we fix the problem?
In this bold, enlightening book, social psychologist and professor Daniel M. Cable takes leaders into the minds of workers and reveals the...
Ocular Disease: Mechanisms and Management E-Book
Expert Consult - Online and Print
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Ocular Disease—a newly introduced companion volume to the classic Adler’s Physiology of the Eye—correlates basic science and clinical management to describe the how and why of eye disease processes and the related best management protocols. Editors Leonard A. Levin and Daniel M. Albert—two...
Dynasties and Democracy
The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Although democracy is, in principle, the antithesis of dynastic rule, families with multiple members in elective office continue to be common around the world. In most democracies, the proportion of such "democratic dynasties" declines over time, and rarely exceeds ten percent of all legislators....
Uncomfortable Situations
Emotion between Science and the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
What is a hostile environment? How exactly can feelings be mixed? What on earth might it mean when someone writes that he was “happily situated” as a slave? The answers, of course, depend upon whom you ask.
Science and the humanities typically offer two different paradigms for thinking...
An Unexpected Journal: Courage, Strength, & Hope
Volume 1, #3
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Where would a culture be without its heroes and their acts of courage? How can a society survive without strength and hope?
It is in the dark times and in moments of weakness that stories of courage and strength, those which promise hope, have the most value. This issue explores the redemptive...