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  • OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY GROUPS FOR ADDRESSING MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES IN SCHOOL-AGED POPULATIONS
    BRAD EGAN / CINDY SEARS / ALLEN KEENER
    A new resource for school-based occupational therapists, Occupational Therapy Groups for Addressing Mental Health Challenges in School-Aged Populations: A Tier 2 Resource is a collection of occupation-based group interventions and tools that can be used to support students at risk for or with identified mental health challenges. School-wide mental health programs are increasing...

    $1,580.00

  • PHILANTHROPY IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION
    JESSE BRUNDAGE SEARS
    A work that can truly be described as an underground masterpiece, Sears' Philanthropy in the History of American Higher Education was written as a dissertation seventy years ago, and subsequently published as a "Bulletin" by the United States Bureau of Education in 1922. It has been much spoken of and little read since then. As Roger L. Geiger points out in his new opening essa...

    $1,380.00

  • PANCE/PANRE CHALLENGE: QUICK Q&A REVIEW
    EVE HOOVER / KIMBERLY A. CARTER / ROBYN A. SEARS / SARAH BOLANDER
    Test your PANCE or PANRE readiness challenge-bowl style with PANCE/PANRE Challenge: Quick Q&A Review. This book offers 1000 spontaneous recall and higher-level reasoning questions with short answers and quick explanations to test your clinical and professional knowledge WITHOUT using multiple answer choices as a crutch. One of the most essential high-stakes exam study tips you'...

    $1,064.00

  • SOCIAL POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION REVISITED
    DAVID DONNISON / VALERIE CHAPMAN / MICHAEL MEACHER / ANGELA SEARS / KENNETH URWIN
    Originally published in 1965, this standard work sets out to explore the questions: What is ‘social administration’, and how can people prepare themselves for this work? It shows the social services in continuous evolution in response to political, economic and social change, and it ends with a deeply thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of the processes and causes of this...

    $960.00

  • TEACHING LEGAL RESEARCH AND PROVIDING ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
    GARY HILL / DENNIS S SEARS / LOVISA LYMAN
    Teaching Legal Research and Providing Access to Electronic Resources is an essential guidebook to teaching lawyers and legal researchers how to find the information they need. Law librarians and reference librarians will welcome its timely, effective, and innovative techniques for facilitating their patrons’legal research. According to the MacCrate Report, legal research is one...

    $1,240.00

  • THE LOS ANGELES RIOTS
    MARK BALDASSARE / DAVID O SEARS / EDGAR W BUTLER / PETER A MORRISON
    The Los Angeles riots in the Spring of 1992 were among the most violent and destructive events in twentieth-century urban America. This collection of original essays by leading urban experts offers the first comprehensive analysis of the unrest that took place after a jury acquitted the police officers who were accused of using excessive force in t ...

    $1,040.00

  • GROUP THERAPY FOR VOICE HEARERS
    ANDREA LEFEBVRE / RICHARD W. SEARS / JENNIFER M. OSSEGE
    Based on extensive interviews with expert facilitators from around the world and grounded in empirical evidence, Group Therapy for Voice Hearers includes numerous tips, strategies, case examples, and reflection questions to bring the material to life in a practical way. Chapters address the need for practical, accessible training in how to facilitate sessions and identify six k...

    $840.00

  • LONELY HUNTERS
    JAMES T SEARS
    As in his highly acclaimed Growing Up Gay in the South, James Sears masterfully blends a symphony of Southern voices to chronicle the era from the baby boom to the dawn of gay rights and the Stonewall riot. Sears weaves a rich historical tapestry through the use of personal reminiscences, private letters, subpoenaed testimony and previously ...

    $1,200.00

  • UNDERSTANDING GREEK WARFARE
    MATTHEW A. SEARS
    Understanding Greek Warfare offers a wide-ranging survey of Greek warfare, from the Mycenaeans through to the Hellenistic kingdoms’ clashes with Rome. Each chapter provides an overview of a particular theme and historical period, and a detailed discussion of the relevant sources, both ancient and modern. This volume covers not only the development of equipment, tactics, strateg...

    $920.00

  • A PARADOX OF HONOR
    TAYEBA SHAIKH / JENNIFER OSSEGE / RICHARD SEARS
    Based on original interviews of 22 Muslim-American women of South Asian descent on the topics of honor and honor killings, this book examines honor and culture, and their intersections with power, tradition, gender, family, and religion. Additionally, it incorporates an autoethnographic approach describing the author’s journey to Pakistan to create a personal narrative througho...

    $660.00

  • LINCOLN'S LIEUTENANTS
    STEPHEN W. SEARS
    A multilayered group biography of the Civil War commanders who led the Army of the Potomac: "a staggering work . . . by a masterly historian" ( Kirkus, starred review). The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. T...

    $346.49

  • INFLUENCING THE QUALITY, RISK AND SAFETY MOVEMENT IN HEALTHCARE
    KIM SEARS / DENISE STOCKLEY
    Influencing the Quality, Risk and Safety Movement in Healthcare explores the inner workings of some of the most influential minds in healthcare quality, risk and safety. The book was created in cooperation with the Master of Science in Healthcare Quality graduate program, developed and delivered by Queen’s University, Canada. This is the only standalone interdisciplinary Master...

    $4,700.00

  • THE RESILIENT MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE
    JENNIFER M. OSSEGE / RICHARD W. SEARS
    The Resilient Mental Health Practice: Nourishing Your Business, Your Clients, and Yourself is a fundamental resource for mental health professionals, designed to serve as a comprehensive yet parsimonious handbook to inspire and inform novice, developing, and experienced mental health professionals. Replete with case studies, The Resilient Mental Health Practice gives readers a ...

    $1,240.00

  • BUILDING COMPETENCE IN MINDFULNESS-BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY
    RICHARD W. SEARS
    Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is an evidence-based program that combines mindfulness and cognitive therapy techniques for working with stress, anxiety, depression, and other problems. Building Competence in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy provides the first transcript of an entire 8-week program. This intimate portrayal of the challenges and celebrations of act...

    $1,160.00

  • MINDFULNESS: LIVING THROUGH CHALLENGES AND ENRICHING YOUR LIFE IN THIS MOMENT
    RICHARD SEARS
    Mindfulness: Living Through Challenges and Enriching Your Life In This Moment shows how the ancient practice of mindfulness can help us live a fuller and more enriching life. Presents material through a balance of clinical case work with the author’s personal stories of the Dalai Lama, ninja, and Zen BuddhismReveals ways that mindfulness can be applied to modern prob...

    $317.00

  • THE NON-USER-FRIENDLY GUIDE FOR ASPIRING TV WRITERS
    STEVEN L. SEARS
    A veteran writer presents his personal account of being in the trenches of the television industry, offering advice and tactics for aspiring scriptwriters.   Steven L. Sears has had a successful career in film and television encompassing over thirty years of involvement at all levels. From his beginnings as a staff writer on the hit NBC show The A-Team, to Co-Executive Producer...

    $249.00

  • GROWING UP GAY IN THE SOUTH
    JAMES SEARS
    This groundbreaking new book weaves personal portraits of lesbian and gay Southerners with interdisciplinary commentary about the impact of culture, race, and gender on the development of sexual identity. Growing Up Gay in the South is an important book that focuses on the distinct features of Southern life. It will enrich your understanding of the unique pressures faced by gay...

    $800.00

  • LITERATURE AND THE INTERNET
    STEPHANIE BROWNER / STEPHEN PULSFORD / RICHARD SEARS
    Literature and the Internet: A Guide for Students,Teachers, and Scholars is the only Internet guide written for those who love and study literature. The book begins with a practical introduction for readers who want help finding, navigating, and using literary sites. Later chapters focus on educational issues such as plagiarism, citation, website evaluation, the use of Internet...

    $740.00

  • TRANSFORMING SCHOOL COUNSELING
    SUSAN JONES SEARS
    First Published in 2005. This is Volume 41 of the Theory Into Practice series, with focus on Transforming School Counseling, featuring guest editor Susan Jones Sears. This issue showcases a close examination of educational practices in schools serving low-income and minority students with disturbing trends. The articles discuss the findings that students in high-poverty and hig...

    $740.00

  • GROWING OLDER
    JAMES T. SEARS
    LGBT older adults experience issues and challenges that are unique, including institutional heteronormativity, heterosexism in organizations, and homophobia among caregivers and social service providers. This book presents a diverse group of scholars, activists, social service providers, and researchers from around the globe examining current research, practices, and policies o...

    $1,260.00

  • GLOBALIZATION, THE NATION-STATE AND THE CITIZEN
    REID, ALAN / GILL, JUDITH / SEARS, ALAN
    The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in civics and citizenship education. There have been unprecedented developments in citizenship education taking place in schools, adult education centers, or in the less formally structured spaces of media images and commentary around the world. This book provides an overview of the development of civics and citizenship educatio...

    $680.00

  • BEHIND THE MASK OF THE MATTACHINE
    JAMES T. SEARS
    Take a revealing look at gay sex and gay history - and the man who helped kick-start gay activism in today's society. The Mattachine is the origin of the contemporary American gay movement. One of the major players in this movement was Hal Call, America’s first openly gay journalist and the man most responsible for the end of government censorship of frontal male nude photograp...

    $1,340.00

  • GAY, LESBIAN, AND TRANSGENDER ISSUES IN EDUCATION
    JAMES SEARS
    Understand the challenges from the voices involvedtoday’s LGBT youth AND the leading educators and scholars in the field! Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Issues in Education presents LGBT youth issues through the words of the adolescents themselves, along with clear up-to-date essays about LGBT youth programs, policies, and practices around the world. Leading international educat...

    $1,360.00

  • THE PORTABLE PEDIATRICIAN
    MARTHA SEARS / PETER SEARS
    The next time you're worried about your child’s health, experience the comfort of easily accessible advice from the experts with this comprehensive A-Z guide. Imagine you are up at three o’clock in the morning with a sick child. Wouldn’t it be nice to have expert advice readily at hand to help you through the night? Encyclopedic in scope, The Portable Pediatrician features time...

    $274.00

  • EDUCATION, POLITICS AND RELIGION
    JAMES ARTHUR / LIAM GEARON / ALAN SEARS
    In recent years a number of popular books have savaged religion arguing it is a dangerous delusion that poisons human societies and relationships. This is but the most recent manifestation of a secularising agenda that has been sweeping contemporary democratic societies since the Enlightenment. This book pushes back against that agenda, examining its key assumptions and arguing...

    $1,200.00

  • SUCCEEDING IN BUSINESS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
    WOODROW H. SEARS / AUDRONE TAMULIONYTE-LENTZ
    In Central and Eastern Europe, the 'Old Europe' of cobblestones co-exists with mobile phones, horse carts fight for road space with cars, and farmers' markets compete with mega-stores.Western business professionals hoping to expand or start up new ventures in this complex environment must possess knowledge that is both comprehensive and subtle. What is it like to live and work ...

    $2,520.00

  • THE ANTI-INFLAMMATION ZONE
    BARRY SEARS
    A 30-day plan for combating the serious health threat of silent inflammation from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Zone. Heart disease is the #1 killer of Americans. Cancer is the #1 fear of Americans. Dementia is the #1 concern of Americans. What do these devastating illnesses have in common? All three have been linked to silent inflammation, a condition that oc...

    $314.00

  • HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION FUNDAMENTALS
    ANDREW SEARS
    Hailed on first publication as a compendium of foundational principles and cutting-edge research, The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook has become the gold standard reference in this field. Derived from select chapters of this groundbreaking and authoritative resource, Human-Computer Interaction Fundamentals emphasizes emerging topics such as sen ...

    $2,120.00

  • ISSUES IN SCIENCE TEACHING
    JOHN SEARS
    Issues in Science Teaching covers a wide range of important issues which will interest teachers at all phases in the education system. The issues discussed include: the nature and purposes of science education in a multicultural society, including the idea of science for all the role and purposes of investigational work in science education assessment, curriculum progression an...

    $1,540.00

  • THE ATTACHMENT PARENTING BOOK
    WILLIAM SEARS / MARTHA SEARS
    America's foremost baby and childcare experts explain the benefits—for both you and your child—of connecting with your baby early. Would you and your baby both sleep better if you shared a bed? How old is too old for breastfeeding? What is a father’s role in nurturing a newborn? How does early attachment foster a child’s eventual independence? Dr. Bill and Martha Sears—the doct...

    $200.00


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