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Duty and Healing" positions ethical issues commonly encountered in clinical situations within Jewish law. The concept of duty is significant in exploring bioethical issues, and this book presents an authentic and non-parochial Jewish approach to bioethics, while it includes critiques of both current secular and Jewish literatures. Among the issues the book explores are the role of family in medical decision-making, the question of informed con...

This series of ten books covers specific organisms of concern to public health

Based on a National Magazine Award-winning article, this masterful biography of Hungarian-born Paul Erdos is both a vivid portrait of an eccentric genius and a layman's guide to some of this century's most startling mathematical discoveries. photos.

Feminist Perspectives on the Body provides an accessible introduction to this extremely popular new area and is aimed at students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in gaining an understanding of the key issues involved. The author explores many important topics including: the Western world's construction of the body as a theoretical, philosophical and political concept, the body and reproduction, medicalisation, cosmetic surgery...

This work offers a consideration of the nature of intelligence, cultural disadvantage, educational programs for culturally different people. In this longitudinal study, profiles of development and expression of competencies are presented.

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Organizations are spending billions of dollars every year training employees. Why are organizations sending their employees to training? They often don't know. Many managers don't believe that training really works. But training is a quick fix. And even if training isn't the appropriate solution to a problem, many organizations automatically implement training for lack of a more reasoned, thoughtful approach. Here's the approach you've waited ...

Ibsen's Drama: Right Action and Tragic Joy argues that in his late plays Ibsen struggled with, and finally repudiated the Aristotelian ideas of reality and change that held sway over the earlier part of his career, and more generally over nineteenth century drama and culture. The first chapter analyzes Aristotle's Poetics, which centers on the classical relation of catharsis, rational agency, and intelligible change in human affairs. The secon...

Offers basics in the philosophy of American pragmatism by examining the views of four principal thinkers - Charles S Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead - on issues of central and enduring importance to life in human society.

Provides comprehensive, alphabetical definitions of terms and colloquial expressions used in animal agriculture, animal science, and veterinary medicine.

This concise guidebook offers a process for understanding training needs for any audience by outlining the needs assessment process for you, step-by-step.

As more and more people compete for ever-less water on our shrinking planet, the problem of soil evaporation becomes increasingly urgent. In this book two of the world's most distinguished specialists in the field offer an expert yet highly readable account of both the problem and potential solutions.Drawing on the work of agronomists, soil scientists, and meteorologists, the authors provide a clear overview of the theories and data that expla...

In 1998, the city of The Hague commemorated its 750th anniversary. To emphasize that The Hague has been an international judicial center of activities for several decades, a special International Law Conference was organized by T.M.C. Asser Instituut in co-operation with the 'Stichting 750 jaar Den Haag'. The programme of The Hague's 750th Anniversary International Law Conference concentrated on the following themes: international criminal law...

An exploration of new organizational designs, such as the network and virtual organization from the information perspective. The book also proposes a model of the non-traditional organization in which information work evolves around teams that directly serve customers.

When it comes to creating value for shareholders, customers, employees-for most everyone concerned-no company does it better than the company that grows. Now, in "Value-Creating Growth, " two acclaimed growth consultants distill twenty years of expertise into a practice-driven program any change leader can use to ensure sustained, dynamic growth for his or her organization. Packed with real-world examples, proven strategies, and a host of acti...

A sophisticated theoretical consideration of the related aesthetics and histories of ethnographic and experimental non-fiction films.

The label "professional development schools" seems to be applied to any number of relationships between teacher education programs and schools. Through case studies, this book investigates what professional development schools really are, why they are needed, what policies and financial arrangements must be in place to sustain them, and how they may be evaluated.

As the ranks of the elderly continue to swell and their social welfare becomes a complex and contentious policy issue, how will the United States balance the conflicting demographic and economic demands of providing for its older citizens -- especially in light of the anticipated economic burden of the baby boom generation's impending retirement? These problems place the destiny of Social Security and health care at the epicenter of political ...

Supplies information on the pathogenesis and morphology of equine diseases organised by major body systems, with diseases discussed by pathologic process and supplemental chapters on related aspects. More than 200 photographs and illustrations enhance descriptions.

Utilizes basic concepts of economics and finance to explain the relationship of the economy to the ecosystem, seeing the ecosystem as imposing biophysical constraints on economic growth. Means of sustainable economic development and sustainable resource use are stressed. Background material and alternative, more efficient, problem-solving approaches are included.