Michael Mark: 240 books
Infantile Autism
The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior by Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
In 1964, the release of Dr. Bernard Rimland's book, Infantile Autism, revolutionized the autism field by providing the autism community with much-needed guidance on how to understand and treat individuals on the spectrum. He single-handedly realigned the field from a psychodynamic, parent-blaming...
The Criminalization of States
The Relationship between States and Organized Crime
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone.
From Children to Citizens
Volume I: The Mandate for Juvenile Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
From the preface: "History has dealt the juvenile court (and, more broadly, the juvenile justice system) a cruel blow. What began as a promising social experiment has disappointed nearly everyone... Inevitably, disillusionment has weakened the mandate of the juvenile justice system. Conflicts...
by Lee Ann Banaszak, Jeffrey M. Berry, Paul Burstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1998
Social movements in the United States are important political actors because of their scale and duration, their generation of new ideas and understandings of existing problems, their ability to mobilize those who were previously passive citizens, and the impetus they provide for restructuring and...
Distributive Politics in Developing Countries
Almost Pork
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This book explores the increasing use of Constituency Development Funds (CDFs) in emerging democratic governments in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Oceania. CDFs dedicate public money to benefit parliamentary constituencies through allocations and/or spending decisions influenced by Members of Parliament...
Transforming the Academy
Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In recent decades, American universities have begun to tout the “diversity” of their faculty and student bodies. But what kinds of diversity are being championed in their admissions and hiring practices, and what kinds are being neglected? Is diversity enough to solve the structural inequalities...
by Diana Nicoll, Michael Pignone, Chuanyi Mark Lu
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
A quick reference guide to the selection and interpretation of more than 450 commonly used diagnostic tests
COVERS:
Basic principles of diagnostic testing, common blood, urine and cerebrospinal fluid laboratory tests, therapeutic drug monitoring, microbiologic test selection and interpretation...
Faith and Fertility
Attitudes Towards Reproductive Practices in Different Religions from Ancient to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
When an individual or couple is considering a difficult choice such as IVF treatment or third party assisted conception, the moral and ethical basis for their decisions may often be informed by their particular faith traditions.
Faith and Fertility is a comprehensive collection of essays by...
by Desmond A. Schatz, Michael Haller, MD
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
This issue of Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America provides the endocrinologist with essential updates on treatment of type 1 diabetes, with an eye toward future trends and developments. The Guest Editors brought together a remarkable group of notable authors, such as Paul Robertson,...
by Michael Pinzur, MD, Mark S. Myerson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
“Bone and Wound Healing in the Diabetic Patient, “Surgery for Diabetic Foot Infection “Antibiotic Therapy for Diabetic Foot Infection, “Decision-Making in the Dysvascular Lower Extremity, “Hindfoot and Midfoot Amputation in the Diabetic with Infection, “Transmetatarsal, Ray and...
The Third Century
U.S.–Latin American Relations since 1889
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
This text focuses on U.S. relations with Latin America from the advent of the New Diplomacy late in the nineteenth century to the present. Providing a balanced perspective, it presents both the United States’ view that the Western Hemisphere needed to unite under a common democratic, capitalistic...
by Mark P.J Vanderpump, W. Michael G. Tunbridge
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
In the past decade, there has been increasing recognition of thyroid diseases as a common health problem. While there have been few major new advances in treatment, there is much greater understanding of why thyroid disorders occur and the long-term health effects of thyroid disease. As people with...
by Allan Aubrey Boesak, Mark G. Brett, Jacqueline M. Hidalgo
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Religion has power structures that require and justify its existence, spread its influence, and mask its collaboration with other power structures. Power, like religion, is in collaboration. Along this line, this book affirms that one could see and study the power structures and power relations of...
Values in Sex Education
From Principles to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Sex education is rarely out of the news. Despite this, there exist surprisingly few studies of the principles, policies and practice of sex education. This book provides such an examination, focusing on the values to which children are exposed in sex education.
Sex education inevitably involves the...