Steven Schwartz: 14 books
by Steven Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
From the winner of the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction comes this indispensable collection spanning nearly four decades of artistic mastery. In these compelling, deftly crafted narratives about fathers and sons, loss and separation, sorrow, comic happenstance, and the vagaries of romantic and...
Flaws and Ceilings
Price Controls and the Damage They Cause
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Price controls across many sectors are currently being hotly debated. New controls in the housing market, more onerous minimum wages, minimum prices for alcohol, and freezes on energy prices are very high up the agenda of most politicians at the moment. Even without any further controls, wages, university...
Medical Thinking
The Psychology of Medical Judgment and Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Decision making is the physician's major activity. Every day, in doctors' offices throughout the world, patients describe their symptoms and com plaints while doctors perform examinations, order tests, and, on the basis of these data, decide what is wrong and what should be done. Although the process...
by Steven H. Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
A COMPREHENSIVE, LEARNER-FRIENDLY INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL OPTICS
Geometrical and Visual Optics, Second Edition is a rigorous, yet highly accessible text that expertly combines basic optics with clinical applications in a way that brings key optometry topics to life. It emphasizes a vergence approach...
Zen Odyssey
The Story of Sokei-an, Ruth Fuller Sasaki, and the Birth of Zen in
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Explore two lives—and a relationship—that profoundly shaped American Zen.
Ruth Fuller Sasaki and Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki: two pioneers of Zen in the West. Ruth was an American with a privileged life, even during the height of the Great Depression, before she went to Japan and met D. T....
Judaism and Health
A Handbook of Practical, Professional and Scholarly Resources
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The first state-of-the-art, comprehensive resource to encompass the wide breadth of the rapidly growing field of Judaism and health.
"For Jews, religion and medicine (and science) are not inherently in conflict, even within the Torah-observant community, but rather can be friendly partners...
US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy
Candidates, Campaigns, and Global Politics from FDR to Bill Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
While domestic issues loom large in voters' minds during American presidential elections, matters of foreign policy have consistently shaped candidates and their campaigns. From the start of World War II through the collapse of the Soviet Union, presidential hopefuls needed to be perceived as credible...
by Steven C. Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
For lawyers and insurance professionals, understanding the special vocabulary and methods of reinsurance law is essential. Reinsurance Law: An Analytic Approach covers all aspects of the field, large and small, from the varieties and uses of reinsurance to complex matters of law, markets and regulation....
by Steven H. Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The cornerstone text on visual science – now more clinically relevant than ever
SELF-ASSESSMENT QUIZ IN EACH CHAPTER
A Doody’s Core Title for 2019!
Through five acclaimed editions, this trusted text has bridged the gap between basic visual science and clinical application....
by Steven H. Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2009
The text that bridges the gap between basic visual science and clinical application – now in full color
Includes 3 complete practice exams!
A Doody's Core Title for 2011!
This comprehensive text on visual science is unique in that it highlights the fundamental aspects of monocular...
by Glenn van Zutphen, Ana Mims, Faith Chanda
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Written by expats for everyone! The Living in Singapore Fourteenth Edition Reference Guide will help newcomers settle in and long-timers get more out of their Singapore experience. The guide gives essential information for a seamless move to the Lion City and is the perfect tool for making...
Military Intervention
Cases in Context for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2004
Internal conflict continues to be the most common form of organized violence, most often occurring in a so-called 'arc of instability' comprised of Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. The misery and death caused by these conflicts, with helpless civilians often victims, has...
by Donald Ray Schwartz, Steven Evans
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2019
This mystery, intrigue, and adventure story may be only a year or two away from real-life events. Two women scientists intend to capture DNA samples of discovered remarkable life forms within vents existing in the deepest ocean depths.
The older and brilliant scientist reflects only on the...
Inland Waterway Transportation
Studies in Public and Private Management and Investment Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Inland Waterway Transportation explores how tools of economic analysis can improve the efficiency of both public and private investment in inland waterway transportation. Originally published in 1969, this study investigates how waterway transportation has been affected by public operating policy,...