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Social Support and Physical Health
Understanding the Health Consequences of Relationships
This state-of-the-art book examines the effect of social relationships on physical health. It surveys and assesses the research that shows not only that supportive relationships protect us from a multitude of mental health...
Ambition, A History
From Vice to Virtue
How ambition, once considered a pernicious vice, became a celebrated virtue that defines American character From rags to riches, log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to CEO, ambition...
Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink
Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology, 1928–1938
Eugen Fink was Edmund Husserl’s research assistant during the last decade of the renowned phenomenologist’s life, a period in which Husserl’s philosophical ideas were radically recast. In this landmark book, Ronald Bruzina...
Ethics in Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine
A New Framework
Advances in reproductive and perinatal medicine have given rise to difficult ethical issues. Do all women have the right to choose whether to reproduce? What is the moral status of the fetus during various stages of gestation...
Relapse and Recovery in Addictions
In this book leading experts in the field of addictions report on key aspects of addictive disorders. They focus particularly on relapse, the long-term course of addiction to drugs or alcohol, and interventions to prevent...
Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education
Kindergarten kissing games...four-year-olds playing doctor...a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these—spontaneous and pleasurable—are no longer encouraged in American early...
Analysis of the Under-Five Child
Emotional problems in children age five to six or younger are too often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or simply neglected. Even for those children who do receive attention, it is frequently inadequate. To assume, however, that...
Virtual Justice
The Flawed Prosecution of Crime in America
Sensational trials obsessively televised and reported by news media have led many Americans to question the effectiveness of their criminal justice system. Do police have the laws they need—or the competence—to do their job?...
School Choice and the Question of Accountability
The Milwaukee Experience
This timely book refocuses the debate about school choice programs with a nonpartisan assessment of the nation’s largest and longest-running private school voucher program—the high profile Milwaukee experiment—and finds...
Aleksander Wat
Life and Art of an Iconoclast
Aleksander Wat was, in many ways, the archetypal Central European intellectual of the mid-twentieth century, a man who experienced and influenced all the tumultuous political and artistic movements of his time. Yet, little...