Nina M: 60 books
Inside Out and Outside In
Psychodynamic Clinical Theory and Psychopathology in Contemporary Multicultural Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Inside Out and Outside In has established itself as a foundational book for mental health practitioners in a variety of disciplines who work with clients in complex social environments. It is unique in its focus on the forces that shape people from within and also from their social worlds, with sensitivity...
Spiritual Care in Practice
Case Studies in Healthcare Chaplaincy
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
These diverse case studies make a compelling case for the importance of effective spiritual care in healthcare and provide unprecedented insight into the essential role of the chaplain within the healthcare team. Presented alongside critical reflections and responses from professionals within chaplaincy,...
The Blood of Victoriano Lorenzo
An Ethnography of the Cholos of Northern Cocle Province, Panama
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
People living in northern Coclé province, Panama, are proud to be independent. Hereditary leaders make decisions in consensus, a practice understood as continuous from pre–Columbian times. The term cholo, derogatory in some contexts, is valid here to discuss self-determination. Victoriano Lorenzo...
Vampire Cocktail
Geschichten aus der Vampirwelt
Language: German
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Vielfältig und aufregend präsentiert sich die Welt der Cocktails, von Cosmopolitan bis Bloody Mary ist für jeden Geschmack etwas dabei. Um einige dieser Mix-Getränke ranken sich Legenden und Erzählungen, andere haben es sogar schon auf die große Leinwand geschafft. Ein Cocktail kann zu Begegnungen...
Absinth
Geschichten im Rausch der Grünen Fee
Language: German
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Absinth – Das Getränk der Künstler Gleichsam unverzichtbare Inspirationsquelle und verlockende Falle. Diese Anthologie entführt Sie ins Reich der Grünen Fee, durch einen Strudel von Farben und Gefühlen an den Rand des Wahnsinns und über die eigene Weltanschauung hinaus. In 12 Geschichten lernen...
The African American Experience in Vietnam
Brothers in Arms
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
In this book James E. Westheider explores the social and professional paradoxes facing African-American soldiers in Vietnam. Service in the military started as a demonstration of the merits of integration as blacks competed with whites on a near equal basis for the first time. Military service, especially...
Through the Storm, Through the Night
A History of African American Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Paul Harvey illustrates how black Christian traditions provided theological, institutional, and personal strategies for cultural survival during bondage and into an era of partial freedom. At the same time, he covers the ongoing tug-of-war between themes of "respectability" versus practices...
by Betty Wood, Jacqueline M. Moore, Nina Mjagkij
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
Slavery in Colonial America, 1619–1776 brings together original sources and recent scholarship to trace the origins and development of African slavery in the American colonies. Distinguished scholar Betty Wood clearly explains the evolution of the transatlantic slave trade and compares the regional...
More Than a Game
A History of the African American Experience in Sport
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United States more generally. Recognizing the complicated history of race in America and how sport can both divide and bring...
Caring for Equality
A History of African American Health and Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
African Americans today continue to suffer disproportionately from heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems. In Caring for Equality David McBride chronicles the struggle by African Americans and their white allies to improve poor black health conditions as well as inadequate medical care—caused...
Achieving sustainable production of pig meat Volume 3
Animal health and welfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
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Healthy Learners
A Whole Child Approach to Reducing Disparities in Early Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The early childhood field has long understood that targeting the intersection of health and learning is integral to serving children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Yet this developmentally informed educational philosophy has been jeopardized by an increased emphasis on standards-based...
Campaign Rules
A 50-State Guide to Campaigns and Elections in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
America may be the most election-crazed nation in the world, boasting roughly 500,000 elected positions nationwide. Not only do we rely heavily on elections to fill government positions, but the frequency of these events far outpaces what is found in other nations. Americans use elections not only...
by Paul Dempster, Dr. Trena M. Paulus, Jessica Nina Lester
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Digital Tools for Qualitative Research shows how the research process in its entirety can be supported by technology tools in ways that can save time and add robustness and depth to qualitative work. It addresses the use of a variety of tools (many of which may already be familiar to you) to support...