N Martin: 111 books
Misfit Children
An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Misfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This volume is interested in this slipperiness of misfits and explores the blockages and the promises of such movements, as well as the processes and conditions that produce...
Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts
A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
You are not your thoughts! In this powerful book, two anxiety experts offer proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to help you get unstuck from disturbing thoughts, overcome the shame these thoughts can bring, and reduce your anxiety.
If you suffer from unwanted, intrusive,...
by Aarthi Ramlaul, MA, B.Tech. Rad.
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Health investigation and treatment have moved from a clinician-centred approach to a patient-centred approach during the past few decades. Patients are now rightly regarded as empowered and informed users of health services, not passive recipients.
Motivated by this philosophical shift, this...
by Martin Budd, N.D., D.O.
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
An essential guide to how an underactive thyroid could be the root of your health problems. Why am I so Tired? questions the problems associated with an underactive thyroid. Mild hypothyroidism affects about 7 – 10 % of the population, but is frequently misdiagnosed because the symptoms are similar...
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...
Death Songs Volume 1
Death Songs, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Some poems expressing pain and the battles that come from living with a mental illness.
*A few pieces are explicit.
Warning: If you can easily become depressed by reading sad poems or darker litearture, please DO NOT download this book. Your safety is more important. I completely understand and there will be no hard feelings at all.
Contemporary Piracy and Maritime Terrorism
The Threat to International Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Do piracy and maritime terrorism, individually or together, present a threat to international security, and what relationship if any exists between them?
Piracy may be a marginal problem in itself, but the connections between organised piracy and wider criminal networks and corruption on land...
by Martin N. Kwaning
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
During the Arab Spring, a series of demonstrations and riots engulfed some Arab countries such as Libya, Egypt, etc. In those demonstrations, some Arabs were found burning the American flag. In the same context, there were also some Arabs who were overwhelmingly calling on Americans for their help....
Interdisciplinary Essays on Environment and Culture
One Planet, One Humanity, and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This is a collection of essays about the media, the environment, and the whole of humanity at the brink of extinction. As the demands of overpopulation and of an unsustainable consumer economy dry up existing natural resources and destroy vital ecosystems that we need to survive, the corporate-controlled...
Human Rights of Older People
Universal and Regional Legal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
This book focuses on descriptions of the developments in legal frameworks and policies regarding the human rights of older persons. First, it covers the policies adopted and practices developed at the universal system, particularly within the sphere of the United Nations. Second, it includes a side-by-side...
Rethinking Financial Deepening
Stability and Growth in Emerging Markets
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
The global financial crisis experience shone a spotlight on the dangers of financial systems that have grown too big too fast. This note reexamines financial deepening, focusing on what emerging markets can learn from the advanced economy experience. It finds that gains for growth and stability from...
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era
Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
For decades, North American cities racked by deindustrialization and population loss have followed one primary path in their attempts at revitalization: a focus on economic growth in downtown and business areas. Neighborhoods, meanwhile, have often been left severely underserved. There are, however,...
Young Sun, Early Earth and the Origins of Life
Lessons for Astrobiology
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
- How did the Sun come into existence?
- How was the Earth formed?
- How long has Earth been the way it is now, with its combination of oceans and continents?
- How do you define “life”?
- How did the first life forms emerge?
- What conditions made it possible for living things to evolve?
All...
Suspect Families
DNA Analysis, Family Reunification and Immigration Policies
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Suspect Families is the first book to investigate the social, political, and ethical implications of parental testing for family reunification in immigration cases. Drawing on policy documents, legal frameworks, case study material and interviews with representatives of governmental and non-governmental...