Advice from Successful Students and Prominent Psychologists
Shares personal accounts from both peer and expert perspectives to illustrate the ins and outs of applying and preparing for the graduate school experience. This title offers familiarity and identification with those who have successfully enrolled in graduate programs across the country.
Heart disease is the leading cause of the death in the United States, and those who experience cardiac events suffer a range of psychological sequelae. This book provides an orientation to this specialization and, drawing on a variety of therapy models, describes empirically-supported intervention strategies.
Ninety-Three Cents and a Little 'Humpty Dumpty' - The Loving Rituals o
In this charming book, more than 50 couples show how they kept the romance and passion in their marriages, following the birth of their children. The authors then provide additional commentary on how these couples' playful rituals help form the enduring bond between two life partners.
A companion to "Beyond Capital", this work focuses on the "decapitation of historical time" in capitalism and the necessity of a new "socialist time accountancy" as a revolutionary response to the debilitating present. It defines the challenges and burdens facing all those who are committed to a more rational, more egalitarian future.
Materialism Versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present
Illuminates the historical evolution of the materialist critique - that is, explaining the world in terms of itself - from antiquity onwards through engaging the work of Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Stephen Jay Gould, among others. This book offers tools to understand and defend critical and scientific reasoning.
Around the world, ecotourism has been hailed as a panacea: a way to fund conservation and scientific research, protect fragile ecosystems, benefit communities, promote development in poor countries, instill environmental awareness and a social conscience in the travel industry, satisfy and educate discriminating tourists, and, some claim, ......
A growing body of evidence shows that agricultural landscapes can be managed not only to produce crops but also to support biodiversity and promote ecosystem health. Innovative farmers and scientists, as well as indigenous land managers, are developing diverse types of ecoagriculturea landscapes to generate cobenefits for production, ......
An accessible guide to this particular qigong exercise, which focuses on breath control. The routine strengthens the liver, heart, spleen, lungs and kidneys, and has also been shown to alleviate stress. Each routine is described step-by-step, is illustrated with photographs, and features an accompanying digital download.
''Public Services Inspection in the UK'' provides a detailed account of the changing role of inspection in public services management. It outlines the continuing debates about providing inspection that encourages not only accountability but also effective service provision and best practice.The contributors describe current inspection methods ......
