Saks: 12 books
The Center Cannot Hold
My Journey Through Madness
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
A much-praised memoir of living and surviving mental illness as well as "a stereotype-shattering look at a tenacious woman whose brain is her best friend and her worst enemy" (Time).
Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor...
Professions and the Public Interest
Medical Power, Altruism and Alternative Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
The importance and influence of professions in public life has grown increasingly over the twentieth century but the question of whether they subordinate their own self-interests to the public interest has yet to be adequately researched within a major sociological perspective. In Professions and...
by Diane Saks
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
OVERCOMING CELEBRITY OBSESSIONis a star-studded journey from celebrity obsession to fulfilling life in three easy phases.
When a fan is obsessed, a story character version of the celebrity is created. It is through the fans celebrity characterization that guides the fan through Phase 1.
Upon...
Un castello di sabbia.
Storie della mia vita e della mia schizofrenia
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 13, 2016
In una nuova edizione, una biografia toccante, che è stata in vetta alle classifiche di vendita negli Stati Uniti. La storia di una malattia mentale raccontata da una paziente d’eccellenza. Pagine cariche di dolore ma anche di coraggio e di speranza. “È il racconto più lucido e positivo sulla...
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
The Professions, State and the Market
Medicine in Britain, the United States and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This unique book enhances our understanding of the links between professions, the state and the market – and their implications for the public in terms of professional practice. In so doing, the book adopts a neo-Weberian perspective, in which professions are seen as a form of exclusionary social...
Informed Consent to Psychoanalysis
The Law, the Theory, and the Data
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The goal of this book is to shed psychoanalytic light on a concept—informed consent—that has transformed the delivery of health care in the United States.
Examining the concept of informed consent in the context of psychoanalysis, the book first summarizes the law and literature on this...
by Agnon, S.Y., Saks
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This collection of S.Y. Agnon’s short stories, published in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of his Nobel Prize in Literature, surveys the major theme in his writing: the epic transformations in the life of the Jewish people – both in Europe and in the Land of Israel. In new and revised translations,...
Death in Dyker Heights
A Hal Silver Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Hal Silver is back and hes crankier than ever. But who can blame him? Hes been hired by a mob kingpin who wants him to find out who murdered his son Vinny Viano and he doesnt have a clue where to start. And his only help is the dim witted gangsters assistant whose only concern is how many pieces he...
by Barbara A. Spellman, Michael J. Saks
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Evidence law is meant to facilitate trials that are fair, accurate, and efficient, and that encourage and protect important societal values and relationships. In pursuit of these often-conflicting goals, common law judges and modern drafting committees have had to perform as amateur applied psychologists....
by Mike Saks, Martin Williams, Beverley Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The rapid development of NHS trusts is making unprecendented demands on those responsible for strategic planning and management for which many are unprepared. This manual is based upon the experience of those who have faced the questions and found the answers. It is intended for all those involved...
by Diane Saks
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Diary of a victim was originally published in 2004 with Publish America. Now out of print, Diary of A victim, is going to be re-released by Author House, with a new cover, and a more polished text. Diary of a Victim is the story of a teenage girl living in 1980s Pennsylvania. Melissa has disability...