W A Thomas: 120 books
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal.
Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway...
by Scott Schang, Leila B. Azari, Nicholas Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...
Signs of Power
The Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Traces the sources of power and large-scale organization of prehistoric peoples among Archaic societies.
By focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as well as specialized chipped stone, artifacts, and their widespread exchange, this...
by Bing Guan, Taihui Guo, Zhonghua Guo
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This volume theorizes the concept of citizenship in contemporary China by probing into the formation of Chinese citizenship and synthesizing the practices of citizenship by different social groups. The first section, “Imagining Chinese Citizenship,” analyses how Chinese citizenship was first imagined...
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota
Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated...
Understanding Central America
Global Forces, Rebellion, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Understanding Central America explains how domestic, global, political and economic forces have shaped rebellion and regime change in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras throughout their histories, during the often-turbulent 1970s and since. The text provides students a comprehensive...
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...
by David I. Backer, Chris Balaschak, Makeda Best
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Truth in the Public Sphere seeks to understand the significance of truth for the everyday world of human communication. To this end, this book explores the place of truth in several facets of the public sphere: language, ethics, journalism, politics, media, and art. Featuring an international group...
You Can't Padlock an Idea
Rhetorical Education at the Highlander Folk School, 1932-1961
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
You Can’t Padlock an Idea examines the educational programs undertaken at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and looks specifically at how these programs functioned rhetorically to promote democratic social change. Founded in 1932 by educator Myles Horton, the Highlander Folk School sought...
Improving Dementia Long-Term Care
A Policy Blueprint
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
In 2010, 15 percent of Americans older than age 70 had dementia. By 2050, the number of new dementia cases among those 65 and older is expected to double. This blueprint outlines policy options to help decisionmakers improve dementia long-term services and supports (LTSS) by promoting earlier detection,...
by John A. Kershaw Jr., Mark J. Ducey, Thomas W. Beers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Forest mensuration – the science of measurement applied to forest vegetation and forest products – holds value for basic ecology as well as sustainable forest management. As demands on the world’s forests have grown, scientists and professionals are increasingly called on to quantify forest...
Cranial Meningiomas
Diagnosis — Biology — Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The aim of the book is to describe the current approach to meningiomas on the basis of experience gained in the fields of histopathology, biology, radiology and surgery. The first section of the book deals with general diagnostic aspects. The typical histopathological features of meningiomas and the...
Reimagining Rural
Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Reimagining Rural: Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life examines the ways in which rural people and places are being portrayed by popular television, reality television, film, literature, and news media in the United States. It is also an examination of the social processes that reinforce urbanormative...
by Mark W. Onaitis, MD, Thomas A. D’Amico
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
This issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics of North America focuses on Pulmonary Metastasectomy. Articles will include: Biology of Pulmonary Metastases; Preoperative Evaluations and Indications for Metastasectomy; Open Approaches to Pulmonary Metastases: Thoracotomy and Sternotomy; Ablative Approaches...