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Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture

by Jon Savage

From the author of the critically acclaimed England’s Dreaming , a landmark cultural history of youth Teenagers—as we have come to define them—were not, award-winning author Jon Savage tells us, born in the 1950s of rockers and Beatniks, when most histories would begin. Rather, the teenager as icon can be traced back to the 1890s, when the foundations for the new century were laid in urban youth... (more)

Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudi, Miro, Dali

Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudi, Miro, Dali

by William H. Robinson

During the years after the September Revolution of 1868, Barcelona experienced tremendous industrial growth and emerged as the most politically and culturally progressive city in Spain. Barcelona and Modernity examines this remarkable seventy-one-year period, when Barcelona also reigned as one of the most dynamic centers of modernist art and architecture in Europe. Focusing on the Catalan Renaixença, Modernisme,... (more)

Better

by Atul Gawande

The New York Times bestselling author of Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the... (more)

Parkinson's Disease: A Complete Guide for Patients and Families (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

Parkinson's Disease: A Complete Guide for Patients and Families (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

by William J. Weiner

Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore. Topics include symptoms of Parkinson's disease and related movement disorders, questions and answers addressing the commonly asked questions, drug treatments, diet and exercise, complementary therapies, surgical therapies, medical side effects, and other issues. Softcover.

Beg the Question (A Minimum Wage Collection)

Beg the Question (A Minimum Wage Collection)

by Bob Fingerman

A caustic and hilarious love story set in 1990s New York. Bob Fingerman's Beg the Question tells the story of Rob and Sylvia, two twentysomethings navigating the labyrinth of New York City life. Imagine a cross between Seinfeld and Caligula , set in New York, and you'll have an idea of Fingerman's caustic wit. Beg the Question follows Rob & Sylvia's relationship through all of its ups-and-downs, from... (more)

Technologies for Education: A Practical Guide Fifth Edition

Technologies for Education: A Practical Guide Fifth Edition

by Ann E. Barron, Karen S. Ivers, Nick Lilavois, Julie A. Wells

This fifth edition of a well-known and respected book provides the latest information on a variety of educational technology topics (with a new chapter featuring PDAs) and demonstrates how technologies can best be applied in educational settings. The book has been completely revised and updated to reflect today's technologies available to educators. Chapters include: Teaching With Technology; Digital Audio;... (more)

Violence in America's Schools: Understanding, Prevention, and Responses

Violence in America's Schools: Understanding, Prevention, and Responses

by R. Murray Thomas

The problem of violence in schools has not gone away despite radical reductions in violent crimes throughout the country over the last decade. Students continue to harrass, haze, and harm each other in a variety of ways, disrupting classrooms and whole schools. In the wake of the Columbine massacre, many focused on the worst kind of school violence: deadly assaults with dangerous weapons. But other forms of... (more)

Rabid: A Novel

by T. K. Kenyon

In a thrilling novel with clever twists and turns, four characters—a graduate student, her professor, his wife, and her priest—spin out of control in a world where science and religion are in constant conflict. A priest of the modern Roman Inquisition arrives in a New England college town to investigate allegations of child abuse by the local parish priests who have suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. The... (more)

40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin®, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania

40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin®, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania

by Matthew Chapman

In this fascinating story of evolution, religion, politics, and personalities, Matthew Chapman captures the story behind the headlines in the debate over God and science in America. Kitzmiller v. Dover Board of Education, decided in late 2005, pitted the teaching of intelligent design (sometimes known as "creationism in a lab coat") against the teaching of evolution. Matthew Chapman, the great-great-grandson... (more)

One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding

One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding

by Rebecca Mead

The 160-billion dollar behemoth that is the American wedding industry and the psychology behind the expense, stress, and folly associated with the typical American wedding Using the American wedding as a rosetta stone, in One Perfect Day writer Rebecca Mead poses a series of questions that cut to the heart of our national identity. Why, she asks, has the American wedding become an outlandishly extravagant,... (more)

Clinical Applications of Nursing Diagnosis: Adult, Child, Women's Psychiatric, Gerontic & Home Health Considerations

Clinical Applications of Nursing Diagnosis: Adult, Child, Women's Psychiatric, Gerontic & Home Health Considerations

by Mittie D. Hinz, Mary Ann Lubno, Donna Scott-Tilley, Susan A. Newfield, Mary McCarthy Slater, Kathryn L. Sridaromont, Helen C. Cox

With the retirement of Helen Cox (author of four previous editions), the baton has been passed to Susan Newfield. Susan and her team remain loyal to the previous books by focusing on the "nursing model" over the "medical model." This edition carries on the great features of the previous while updating and improving the content. "The Gordon's Functional Health Patterns" organizes the framework, helping students... (more)

Old Dog, New Tricks: Understanding and Retraining Older and Rescued Dogs

Old Dog, New Tricks: Understanding and Retraining Older and Rescued Dogs

by David Taylor

It's never too late to train an older dog to respond promptly and correctly to commands. Every year thousands of families adopt adult dogs, whether from friends, relatives or the pound or rescue society. These new owners need to understand and deal with the specific problems an older dog may have, especially if its history is unknown. Old Dog, New Tricks provides expert insights into basic adult dog... (more)

Professional Guide to Signs and Symptoms (Professional Guide Series)

Professional Guide to Signs and Symptoms (Professional Guide Series)

by Springhouse

Brandon/Hill Nursing List selection (#228). Guide to more than 550 signs and symptoms with nursing implications in a concise format. For nurses. More than 500 illustrations, flowcharts, tables, and reproducible patient teaching aids are also included. A-to-Z organization for quick access. Previous edition: c1997. DNLM: Nursing Assessment--methods--Handbooks.

Behavior Problems in Preschool Children, Second Edition: Clinical and Developmental Issues

Behavior Problems in Preschool Children, Second Edition: Clinical and Developmental Issues

by Susan B. Campbell

This volume provides a comprehensive clinical-developmental framework for understanding and treating behavior problems in early childhood. Susan B. Campbell offers a highly readable account of the developmental tasks and transitions that young children face in cognitive, social, and family domains, and examines why and what happens when development goes awry. Particular attention is given to the critical question... (more)

Reading Comics

by Douglas Wolk

The first serious, readable, provocative, canon-smashing book of comics criticism by the leading critic in the field. Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant, innovative work and shaping the ideas and images of the rest of contemporary culture. In Reading Comics , critic Douglas Wolk shows us why this is and how it came to be. Wolk illuminates... (more)

Under Pressure and Overwhelmed: Coping with Anxiety in College

Under Pressure and Overwhelmed: Coping with Anxiety in College

by Christopher Vye

Several recent studies have found that anxiety is increasing among college students. In today's competitive college environment, students frequently find themselves overwhelmed with worry and anxiety as they struggle to make the grade academically, fit in socially, discover who they are, and ponder their futures. This book helps students (and their parents and counselors) deal effectively with predictable... (more)

Death and Dying Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information for the Layperson About End-Of-Life Care and Related Ethical and Legal Issues (Health Reference Series)

Death and Dying Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information for the Layperson About End-Of-Life Care and Related Ethical and Legal Issues (Health Reference Series)

Although Americans are living longer than ever before, there is concern about the quality of life as it draws to a close. Options regarding nursing care, living wills, pain management, and counseling present a bewildering array of options from which choices must be made, often under difficult circumstances. Death and Dying Sourcebook provides up-to-date information on these issues so that the layperson can... (more)

Behavioral Dentistry

Behavioral Dentistry surveys the vast and absorbing topic of the role of behavioral science in the study and clinical practice of dentistry. An understanding of social sciences has long been a central part of dental education, and essential for developing a clinician’s appreciation of human behavior as it affects efficient dental treatment. This book gathers together contributions from leading experts in each of... (more)

Silenced!: Academic Freedom, Scientific Inquiry, and the First Amendment under Siege in America

Silenced!: Academic Freedom, Scientific Inquiry, and the First Amendment under Siege in America

by Bruce E. Johansen

This book is about people whose beliefs and affiliations have opposed powerful interests in the present-day United States. This eclectic group of people and controversial issues, from climate-change scientists who have been censored by the Bush administration to Muslims accused of terrorism, have one thing in common. All of them straddle the limits of what Noam Chomsky has called permissible debate as defined by... (more)

Alcoholism Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information about Alcohol Use, Abuse,...... (Health Reference Series) (Health Reference Series)

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