Concise yet comprehensive, it compiles the most essential facts on every aspect of mood disorders--epidemiology, etiology, physical treatments, psychosocial treatments, outcomes, and comorbidity. The information is organized for easy look-up and fast comprehension, with detailed indexes and many charts and tables.
Bal's focus for this book is the idea that interdisciplinarity in the humanities ? necessary, exciting, serious ? must seek its heuristic and methodological basis in concepts rather than its methods.
An examination of the growth and development of alternative schools in American society and their role in the public school environment.
In Alternative Schools: A Reference Handbook, educator Brenda Edgerton Conley surveys the emerging alternatives to our conventional educational system-a system that is not only costly, but ineffective for many children.
In a resource aimed at a broad audience-school administrators, politicians, and, most im...
In order to experience the naturalness and freedom of the parks, we must embrace the very forms of regulation that we closely associate with places we consider to be artificial, restrictive, and alienating.
Each volume in the widely-successful Working Americans series focuses on a particular type of American and illustrates what life was like for that group from the 1800s to the present time. The volumes are arranged into decade-long chapters, each introduci
Thirty-nine women and their strategies of survival are the central focus of this newest study on women who have left abusive situations. An indispensable new look and new hope to the issue of violence against women.
Thirty-nine women and their strategies of survival are the central focus of this newest study on women who have left abusive situations. An indispensable new look and new hope to the issue of violence against women.
According to best-selling self-help authors McKay and Fanning, four major core beliefs keep us from solving our problems: we tell ourselves that we just don't deserve to get what we want, we tell ourselves that the world is too dangerous for us to risk a change, we tell ourselves that we're too incompetent to fix our problem, or we tell ourselves that others are more important and that their needs should always come first. In How to Get There ...
Inspired by Arrival, Tomie Arai's 1996 mixed-media installation at the Lower East Side Printshop in New York City, Tomie's Chair is an allegory of outward and inward movement. The chair is a symbol of rest but also of decision -- to rise and move beyond signposts, to change and break bonds, to be independent and create new bonds within one's own static, open spaces, to go further than the signposts at the end of a half-open road.
This book indicates the place of painting in the culture of the Islamic word, both in relation to those theological circles which condemned the practice of it, and to those persons who, disregarding the prohibitions of religion, consulted their own tastes in encouraging it. Contains over 60 illustrations.
Volume 2 The journey of Lady Anne Blunt (d. 1917) to Arabia in 1875. Hunt was a talented artist, and the founder of the famouse Crabbet Stud of England.
A collection of seven pre-Islamic Arabic poems, the Mu`llaqat form the most celebrated forms of poetry, and "the place assigned to them by Arab literary men has not been without a certain overshadowing effect on western criticism in its turn.". A tool for students of Arabic literature, this book gives a literal translation of these poems with a commentary.
A compilation and translation of Arabic proverbs by the Swiss traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1817). In addition to visits to Cairo, Damascus, Lebanon and other points in the Middle East, he was one of the few European's to venture to Mecca.
It is not easy to discover how ancient peoples told time, and it is extremely difficult to translate one calendar date to another. Parise provides tables that convert dates from sixty calendars, ancient and modern, to the Julian and Gregorian Calendars.
