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  • Political Communication

    The Manship School Guide

    by Robert Mann, Monica Ancu, Robert H. Binstock, Charlie Cook, Louis Day, Thomas Edmonds, Malcom P. Ehrhardt, William B. Fletcher, John Franzen0, Ronald Garay1, Kirby Goidel2, Paul Harang3, Bud Jackson4, Lynda L. Kaid5, Katie Knobloch6, David D. Kurpius7, Lisa Lundy8, Melissa Michelson9, Trevor Parry-Giles0, Sean Reilly1, David Schultz2, Dane Strother3, Gerry Tyson4, Darrell West5, Michael Xenos6, Wayne Parent7 ...
    Series series Media and Public Affairs
    A new era of political power has arrived, one in which the social media forces of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter indisputably play a larger role in the political process. In this revised and expanded edition of Political Communication: The Manship School Guide, edited by Robert Mann and David D. Perlmutter, contributors discuss technological changes in the context of studies and techniques that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Lost Art of Caring

    A Challenge to Health Professionals, Families, Communities, and Society

    Edited by Leighton E. Cluff, MD, Robert H. Binstock, PhD ...
    In The Lost Art of Caring, Leighton E. Cluff, M.D., and Robert H. Binstock, Ph.D., bring together experts to address the importance of caring, the reasons why it has eroded, and measures that can strengthen caring as provided by health professionals, families, communities, and society. ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Public Health for an Aging Society

    Edited by Thomas R. Prohaska, Lynda A. Anderson, Robert H. Binstock ...
    2012 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazinePublic Health and Aging was published to critical acclaim almost fifteen years ago. Much has changed in public health since then. Thomas R. Prohaska, Lynda A. Anderson, and Robert H. Binstock now offer a completely new and updated overview of the field in Public Health for an Aging Society.This comprehensive survey discusses research, policy, and ... Read more

    $37.69 USD

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  • The Bell Curve

    Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

    by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray ...
    The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count

    Why Schools and Cultures Count

    by Richard E. Nisbett ...
    “[Nisbett] weighs in forcefully and articulately . . . [using] a thoroughly appealing style to engage . . . throughout.”—Publishers WeeklyWho are smarter, Asians or Westerners? Are there genetic explanations for group differences in test scores? From the damning research of The Bell Curve to the more recent controversy surrounding geneticist James Watson’s statements, one factor has been ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • In the Know

    Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence

    by Russell T. Warne ...
    Emotional intelligence is an important trait for success at work. IQ tests are biased against minorities. Every child is gifted. Preschool makes children smarter. Western understandings of intelligence are inappropriate for other cultures. These are some of the statements about intelligence that are common in the media and in popular culture. But none of them are true. In the Know is a tour of the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Just Medicine

    A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care

    by Dayna Bowen Matthew ...
    An innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in American health care—and save the lives they endanger: "Highly engaging and worthwhile reading." ― Health AffairsOver 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unjust and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Irrationality in Health Care

    What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why

    by Douglas E. Hough ...
    The health care industry in the U.S. is peculiar. We spend close to 18% of our GDP on health care, yet other countries get better results—and we don't know why. To date, we still lack widely accepted answers to simple questions, such as "Would requiring everyone to buy health insurance make us better off?" Drawing on behavioral economics as an alternative to the standard tools of health economics, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Within Our Reach

    by Lisbeth Schorr ...
    In this solidly researched book, the authors demonstrate that the knowledge and techniques exist to decrease the incidence of welfare dependency, poor single-parent families and alienated, uneducated youth. In addition to providing a detailed account of the problem, they describe twenty-four programs that have proved successful in changing the lives of seriously disadvantaged children. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Divorce

    Causes and Consequences

    by Professor Alison Clarke-Stewart, Professor Cornelia Brentano ...
    Series series Current Perspectives in Psychology
    This comprehensive book provides a balanced overview of the current research on divorce. The authors examine the scientific evidence to uncover what can be said with certainty about divorce and what remains to be learned about this socially and politically charged issue. Accessible to parents and teachers as well as clinicians and researchers, the volume examines the impact of marital breakup on ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Understanding Families

    Supportive Approaches to Diversity, Disability, and Risk, Second Edition

    by Marie Poulsen, Marci J. Hanson Ph.D., Eleanor W. Lynch Ph.D. ...
    Today’s American families are more complex and diverse than ever before—and today’s child and family professionals must be fully prepared to meet their needs. Interventionists educators, health care professionals, therapists, and social workers will get the strong foundation they need with the NEW edition of this trusted textbook, a comprehensive guide to working effectively and respectfully ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes

    The Social Work Role

    Edited by Mercedes Bern-Klug, PhD, MSW, MA ...
    Series series End-of-Life Care: A Series
    The teacher and gerontological social work scholar Mercedes Bern-Klug joins experts on nursing, law, medicine, sociology, and social work to provide a thorough understanding of nursing home palliative care. Their broad definition of palliative care treats comfort care as appropriate across the illness experience, not just at the end of life.Because a majority of nursing home residents are older ... Read more

    $49.49 USD