Ciencias sociales

Evaluation in the Face of Uncertainty

de Jonathan Morell

Unexpected events during an evaluation all too often send evaluators into crisis mode. This insightful book provides a systematic framework for diagnosing, anticipating, accommodating, and reining in costs of...

Straight Talk about Psychiatric Medications for Kids, Third Edition

de Timothy Wilens & Thomas Brown

Deciding whether to give your child medication for an emotional or behavioral problem is one of the toughest choices a parent can face. Will medication really help? How long will it be needed? The doctor may...

Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents

de Alec Miller & Jill Rathus

Filling a tremendous need, this highly practical book adapts the proven techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to treatment of multiproblem adolescents at highest risk for suicidal behavior and self-injury....

Attachment Theory in Clinical Work with Children

de David Oppenheim & Douglas Goldsmith

Attachment research has tremendous potential for helping clinicians understand what happens when parent-child bonds are disrupted, and what can be done to help. Yet there remains a large gap between theory and...

Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking

de Samuel Weber

The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describethe American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war againstIraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as...

Helping Bereaved Children, Third Edition

de Nancy Webb

This acclaimed work presents a range of counseling and therapy approaches for children who have experienced loss. Practitioners and students are given practical strategies for helping preschoolers through adolescents...

Developing Mind

de Daniel Siegel

This book goes beyond the nature and nurture divisions that traditionally have constrained much of our thinking about development, exploring the role of interpersonal relationships in forging key connections...

Development of Shyness and Social Withdrawal

de Kenneth Rubin & Robert Coplan

While both positive and negative peer interactions have long been a focus of scientific interest, much less attention has been given to children who tend to refrain from interacting with peers. This volume brings...

Marital Conflict and Children

de E. Mark Cummings & Patrick Davies

From leading researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding how growing up in a discordant family affects child adjustment, the factors that make certain children more vulnerable than others,...

Handbook of Pediatric Psychology, Fourth Edition

de Michael Roberts & Ric Steele

Sponsored by the Society of Pediatric Psychology, this handbook is recognized as the definitive reference in the field. In concise, peer-reviewed chapters, leading authorities comprehensively examine links between...

Multisystemic Therapy for Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents

de Scott Henggeler & Sonja Schoenwald

Multisystemic therapy (MST) has grown dramatically since the initial publication of this comprehensive manual. Today, over 400 MST programs operate in more than 30 states and 10 countries, supported by a strong...

The Rhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror

de Marc Redfield

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. A trace of this cultural shock echoes in the American idiom "9/11": a bare name-date conveying both a trauma (the unspeakable...

A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways

de Brian Cudahy

?I declare the subway open,? said Mayor George B. McClelland at about 2 p.m. on October 27, 1904. His hand on the switch, McClelland drove the new electric-powered cars of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company...

The Onion Presents: Christmas Exposed

de The Onion Staff

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without impulse-priced holiday gift books—and now The Onion has unleashed its award-winning team of investigative journalists upon the genre. Christmas Exposed features more...

Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State

de Neni Panourgi

This book simultaneously tells a story--or rather, stories--and a history. The stories are those of Greek Leftists as paradigmatic figures of abjection, given that between 1929 and 1974 tens of thousands of...

How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County

de Brian Cudahy

How We Got to Coney Island is the definitive history of mass transportation in Brooklyn. Covering 150 years of extraordinary growth, Cudahy tells the complete story of the trolleys, street cars, steamboats,...

Another Man's Sombrero: A Conservative Broadcaster's Undercover Journey Across the Mexican Border

de Darrell Ankarlo

Not since the Civil War has America been so divided over such a seemingly unsolvable issue as U.S. immigration policy.

The president and congress are at an impasse, while vigilante groups patrol our nation's...

Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

de Tom Coburn

Tom A. Coburn, a congressional maverick who kept his promise to serve three terms and then leave Washington, offers a candid look at the inner workings of Congress-why the system changes politicians instead...

Big Fat Liars

de Morris Chafetz

These days, you can't turn on a television without hearing that you're probably fat, engaged in unhealthy behavior, failing to get sufficient exercise, destroying the environment through the use of practically...

A Nation of Sheep

de Andrew Napolitano

In A NATION OF SHEEP, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano frankly discusses how the federal government has circumvented the Constitution and is systematically dismantling the rights and freedoms that are the foundation...