This exciting new text presents personal health in the context of a changing social and cultural environment. Going beyond behavior change and individual responsibility, it offers a broadened view of health that includes the impact of family, community, and society. It's a new way of looking at health: "It's not just personal..." "Choice" is ...
For your classes in Personal Health McGraw-Hill introduces the latest in its acclaimed M Series. The M Series started with your students. McGraw-Hill conducted extensive market research with over 4,000 students to gain insight into their studying and buying behavior. Students told us they wanted more portable texts with innovative visual appeal ...
This exciting new brief text presents personal health in the context of a changing social and cultural environment. Going beyond behavior change and individual responsibility, it offers a broadened view of health that includes the impact of family, community, and society. It's a new way of looking at health: "It's not just personal..." "Choice" is ...
This anthology brings together readings mainly from contemporary philosophers, but also from writers of the past two centuries, on the philosophy of mind. Some of the main questions addressed are: is a human being really a mind in relation to a body; if so, what exactly is this mind and how it is related to the body; and are there any grounds for ...
Mr. Rally and his faithful dog, Lightning, have a busy day ahead of them, using a big yellow backhoe to build a pool at the school and a drain for the rain. Follow Mr. Rally through his day as he travels around town, counting from one to five in an irresistible refrain. Full color.
In 1969, as Camden, New Jersey, was burning, the nearby village of Mount Laurel was booming with fancy new housing developments and manicured industrial parks. But there was no place in Mount Laurel for the handful of low-income garden apartments proposed by a grass-roots group who wished to provide for the town's African-American families, some ...
This exciting new text presents personal health in the context of a changing social and cultural environment. Going beyond behavior change and individual responsibility, it offers a broadened view of health that includes the impact of family, community, and society. It's a new way of looking at health: Personal health is not only the choices we ...
Gould's piano recordings are among the bestselling classical albums of all time. This is the first comprehensive and authoritative biography of the controversial and enigmatic musician. 8-page photo insert.
Highlights an era of musical experimentation which expanded on the modern bebop movement, but also infused it with blues and gospel to produce a style that reflected life in the American ghettos. The book considers the work of Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, John Coltraine, Charlie Mingus and others.
A fascinating tour through the world of evangelical Christianity by an agnostic who enrolls at a prominent Baptist Bible college. Mike Bryan explores the reality behind the stereotypes of contemporary evangelical Christians as he journeys to a Florida revival meeting starring Jerry Falwell, mingles at a Southern Baptist convention in Las Vegas, ...
Consciousness and Mind presents David Rosenthal's influential work on the nature of consciousness. Central to that work is Rosenthal's higher-order-thought theory of consciousness, according to which a sensation, thought, or other mental state is conscious if one has a higher-order thought (HOT) that one is in that state. The first four essays ...
Written by a leading expert on macular degeneration, this guide offers advice and support to those with age-related vision loss, and includes the latest information on research and medical treatments, lists of organizations and resources, and more.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Ron Powers' White Town Drowsing, which detailed the history of Mark Twain's Hannibal, Missouri, was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "a work of surpassing eloquence". Now Powers tells the contrasting stories of Cairo, Illinois, and Kent, Connecticut.
CO[subscript 2] is a gas found in the air. It is also a nutrient essential for plant growth. Indoor and greenhouse gardeners can enrich the atmosphere with it and increase plant growth by up to 200%! CO[subscript 2] should be used by every serious indoor gardener since it is easy to supply, inexpensive, non-combustible, safe to use and produces ...
Though many books exist to help teachers of school-age children with ADHD, not much has been written with the early childhood educator in mind. This unique book is specifically written for preschool and early elementary educators. Its focus is not to discuss guidelines for diagnosing ADHD in young children, but to provide PreKu3 teachers with a ...
Ordinal data can be rank ordered but not assumed to have equal distances between categories. Using support by judges for civil rights measures and bussing as the primary example, this paper indicates how such data can best be analyzed.
For undergraduate and MBA Marketing Strategy and Marketing Management courses. This casebook offers a collection of 39 real cases that are pedagogically sound, appealing to students, stimulating to teach, and on target with respect to the leading problems and issues in strategic marketing. Decision focused, peer-reviewed, and classroom tested, ...
In the tradition of Tom Clancy, here is the stunning tale of an Israeli plot to spring a dangerous spy from an impenetrable American jail. Little Boy Blue is a riveting thriller, a tale of suspicion, betrayal, and surprise, distinguished by fascinating insights into the real world of modern espionage.
Drawing on research from a variety of domains - clinical studies of trauma, developmental psychopathology, interpersonal psychobiology, epidemiology, and social policy - September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds addresses especially the fundamental relatiobship of human bonds to trauma and underscores the manner in which developments in all these ...
The American Cancer Society's Guide to Complementary and Alternative Cancer Methods was written to help the public, the consumer, and patients, and their families understand what works, what's dangerous, and how best to evaluate the hundreds of claims that can be found on the Internet and in the popular press. Each entry is researched and based on ...
The former Mr. Alabama and candidate for Mr. America, Alvin Lee Fuqua is now content with mussel diving--until his mentor dies of the bends and he must come to terms with the people and events in his life.
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