Pamela Thomas: 21 books

The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind mental health law and policy for centuries. Legislatures, courts, and the public have come to expect that mental health professionals will protect them from violent acts by persons with mental disorders. Yet for...

A companion to History of Oral History, Thinking about Oral History presents parts III and IV of Handbook of Oral History, an essential resource for scholars and students. Guided by Charlton, Myers, and Sharpless, the prominent authors capture the current state-of-the-art in oral history and predict key directions for future growth in theory and application.

Mindfulness and Critical Friendship: A New Perspective on Professional Development for Educators assembles an international community of scholar-practitioners from multiple disciplines who utilize different methodologies and ideological perspectives to reflect on and interrogate contexts that situate...

A provocative call for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than accommodating them, accompanied by case studies from Ecuador to Appalachia and from Germany to Norway. Not so long ago, people North and South had little reason to believe that wealth from oil, gas, and coal brought anything but...

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and...

Was wäre, wenn Sie ihre Augen schließen und versuchen sich ihre Heimat vorzustellen. Was würden Sie sehen? Das Haus ihrer Kindheit? Ihre Familie? Eine Landschaft? Oder erinnern Sie sich vielmehr an ganz bestimmte Gerüche, an Farben, an den Geschmack ihres Lieblingskuchens? Autorinnen und Autoren,...

"Wenn ich an Nordrhein-Westfalen denke, sehe ich mein Elternhaus vor mir: ein freistehendes Eigen-heim ...", sagt Susanne Konrad und stellt so bildlich die Gründungsphase des Landes dar: zunächst ohne Nachbarn und ohne gewachsene Struktur. Mit den drei Landesteilen Westfa-len, Lippe und...