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by J.L. O'Faolain
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Twice each year, during the solstice, the Holly King battles the Oak King as Nature takes its course. This year, however, Holly concedes defeat far too easily. Curious about his brother's haste, Oak nags his brother into revealing his secret: a new relationship with a human. While loving a mortal...
by Nancy L Kelker, Karen O Bruhns
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Crystal skulls, imaginative codices, dubious Olmec heads and cute Colima dogs. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Mesoamerican art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Nancy Kelker and Karen Bruhns examine the phenomenon in this eye-opening volume. They discuss...
by Matthew Gaertner, Laure Ms. Redifer, Pedro Conceição
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
The pace of progress toward achievement of the Millenium Development Goals (MDG) in many sub-Saharan African countries remains too slow to reach targets by 2015, despite significant progress in the late 1990s. The MDG Africa Steering Group, convened in September 2007 by the UN Secretary-General, designated...
by Michael O'Loughlin, Ana Archangelo, Derek Bunyard
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
With the push toward accountability and test performance in schools there has been a decline in emphasis on creativity, imagination, and feelings in schools. Psychodynamic Perspectives on Working with Children, Families, and Schools is designed for students and professionals who are interested in...
Black LGBT Health in the United States
The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Black LGBT Health in the United States: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation focuses on the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of health, and considers both risk and resiliency factors for the Black LGBT population. Contributors to this collection intimately understand the...
The Hepatitis C Help Book
A Groundbreaking Treatment Program Combining Western and Eastern Medicine for Maximum Wellness and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
A fully updated and revised edition of an important health guide, including the latest information on optimum interferon protocol.
Hepatitis C has been called "the emergent and preeminent public-health problem of the twenty-first century--surpassing HIV." It has also been dubbed "The Shadow...
by L.A.M.O.U.R.
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
SILICIUM, chemical symbol Si, is an element whose atomic number is 14, situating it between aluminum and phosphorus in Mendeleevs list:- concerning the human body, it is the 3rd constituent element of all connective tissue,- concerning our planet, it is the 2nd constituent element of the earth's...
Assessing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2005
This is the first book to present a practical, problem-solving approach and hands-on tools and techniques for assessing English language learners and culturally diverse students in K-12 settings. It meets a crucial need among practitioners and special educators working in today's schools. Provided...
50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology
Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience.
Uses common myths as a vehicle for exploring how to distinguish factual from fictional claims in popular psychology
Explores topics that readers...
by José Ramón Cossío Díaz, Raúl M. Mejía Garza, Laura Patricia Rojas Zamudio
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 14, 2012
El análisis que la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación realizó en la consulta Varios 912/2010, en cumplimiento a la sentencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CoIDH) que condenó al Estado mexicano en el llamado "caso Radilla" marca una serie de cambios trascendentes...
by Dawn Beichner, Spencer E. Cahill, Martin Daly
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Research and advocacy aimed at understanding and ending violence against women had its beginning in the early 1970s, emerging as a central concern of the feminist movement. This work has expanded exponentially over the past three decades to influence practice and policy at the local, state, and federal...
Cheating in College
Why Students Do It and What Educators Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders, and the college years are a critical period for their development of ethical standards. Cheating in College explores how and why students cheat and what policies, practices, and participation may be useful in promoting academic integrity and reducing cheating.
The...
The Practical Practice of Marriage and Family Therapy
Things My Training Supervisor Never Told Me
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
It is a truism among therapists in most mental health disciplines that the most important aspects of clinical practice are learned only after one has left graduate school and entered “the real world.” While many of the basics could be covered in graduate school, supervisors of new therapists often...
by José Ramón Cossío Díaz, Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor, Raúl Manuel Mejía Garza
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 12, 2015
El juicio de amparo, garante de los derechos humanos frente al poder de la autoridad, es la mejor institución jurídica en México. Sin embargo, a pesar de sus alcances, tuvo que lidiar y sobrevivir a varias formas de gobierno y a una revolución, lo que significó que transitara no sólo por distintos...