This collection of previously unpublished essays addresses a wide range of topics relevant to the on-going debates regarding dying and death and the subtleties, nuances, and complexities accompanying
Train Your Brain was written to provide older adults, and the people who work with them, with practical and scientifically based suggestions and interventions on how to maintain and even improve memo
This is one of the most innovative and original books I have read on the subject of death and dying, one that will both stimulate and challenge the reader with compelling insights and perceptive under
Kauffman, a licensed clinical social worker and certified thanatologist, assists readers in recognizing and understanding the behavioral language of grief among persons with mental retardation and in
Focusing on developmental psychology, this work features 12 essays exploring contemporary views and developments in research and theory in the relationship between imagination and cognition in childho
Re-orients medical anthropology by means of a political economic contextualization of its field of study and application, and by way of a re-focus on power and inequality as central explanatory factor
While Aristotle acknowledges the connection between rhetoric, biology, and cognitive abilities, scholarship continues to struggle to integrate the fields of rhetoric and neurobiology. Drawing on recen
At the Point of Production, a compilation of contributions to New Solutions Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Policy, locates workers' health and safety problems in the broad political
This book examines the complex roles that texts serve as parts of an organizational cognitive infrastructure. Texts make knowledge and experience tangible and durable. They help shape interactions bet
Co-founders of the Montreal-based Centre for Reproductive Loss, Gray (a counselor) and Lassance (a nurse), draw from stories of their clients and colleagues to help people deal with miscarriage, still
In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14 years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills and cotton mills. Thus begins the federal government's Report on Strike
A theory of information design and ethics, based on the semiotics of C. S. Peirce, is used to explain the major properties of visual communication in all its forms and provides a unifying description
These 22 contributions extol the increasingly recognized as legitimate therapeutic uses of mental imagery. Sheikh (psychology, Marquette U.; psychiatry and behavioral medicine, Medical College of Wisc
Designing Texts is an edited collection dedicated to teaching visual communication in non-visual disciplines, with a particular focus on the fields of technical and professional communication, rhetori
In the field of technical communication, academics and industry practitioners alike regularly encounter the same question: “What exactly is it you do?” Their responses often reveal a fundamental diffe
This book explores five important areas where technology affects society, and suggests ways in which human communication can facilitate the use of that technology. Usability has become a foundational
ABOUT THE BOOK In Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers, 24 college educators focus on the most important questions to be addressed by all scholar-teachers and administrators committed to
Designing Web-Based Applications for 21st Century Writing Classrooms brings together, for the first time, a group of scholars and teachers who have been developing, on their own initiative, web-based
The cemetery is a highly social environment, according to a PhD-level researcher and the head of one of the world's largest cemeteries (in Melbourne, Australia). Bachelor traces the evolution of the "
Lukens Steel was an extraordinary business that spanned two centuries of American history. The firm rolled the first boiler plate in 1818 and operated the largest rolling mills in America in 1890, 190
This collection of 13 articles focuses on case studies of how Australia, Israel and the US are preparing to care for a higher population of elders. The articles describe the interactive nature of the
A guide for those who know or work with parents whose child has been murdered, and for parents themselves. After a general discussion of types of grief, specifics of murdered-child grief are discussed
Fifteen essays explore the desire of people 60 and over who wish to remain in their own homes rather than move to retirement communities, senior citizen housing, or purpose-built residences for the ha
ABOUT THE BOOK Work, so fundamental to well-being, has its darker and more costly side. Work can adversely affect our health, well beyond the usual counts of injuries that we think of as "occupational
This book examines what we know about the phenomenon of suicide by cop and places this behavior in a broader context. For example, some murder victims (perhaps as many as a quarter) provoke the murder
An insider perspective from a "cop doc on the job," this book is the first of its kind written in response to a need for a specialized guide for clinicians that operationally defines and responsibly t
ABOUT THE BOOK Not since the great military suicide epidemic of the American Civil War have we seen so many of our heroes, our soldiers and veterans, die by suicide. Why? War is violence. There is int
ABOUT THE BOOK Every day, workers are injured, made ill, or killed on the job. Most often, workers experience these harms individually and in isolation. Particular occurrences rarely attract much publ
A Cop Doc's Guide to Understanding Terrorism as Human Evil: Healing from Complex Trauma Syndromes for Military, Police, and Public Safety Officers and Their Families is a groundbreaking guide that sha
The Disenfranchised: Stories of Life and Grief When an Ex-Spouse Dies offers an unprecedented anthology of never-before-published, first-person life histories by ex-spouses whose grief has endured as
This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rathe
The analogy of the torn fabric was first used by the author in response to a bereaved mother's cry: "I know what grief feels like; I don't know what it looks like." In "Mending the Torn Fabric: For Th
"The Cotton Dust Papers" is the story of the 50-year struggle for recognition in the U.S. of this pernicious occupational disease. The authors contend that byssinosis could have and should have been r
Brockmann (business and technical writing, U. of Delaware) traces the evolution of accident investigation rhetoric. He examines reports generated by seven different accidents on railroads and steamboa
The increasingly global nature of the World Wide Web presents new challenges and opportunities for technical communicators who must develop content for clients or colleagues from other cultures and in
Invitation to the Life Course: Toward New Understandings of Later Life discusses in depth the challenges of age, time, and social contexts for the study of aging and later life. Understanding aging (a
Drawing on articles from the International Journal of Health Services, editor Krieger (Harvard School of Public Health) offers an epidemiological analysis of social inequalities in health and how popu
Details the rise and development of printed how-to books during the period from Caxton's establishment of the printing press to the English Revolution, showing how early writers created effective book
In his latest and perhaps most adventuresome book, Robert Kastenbaum offers a fresh view of the quest for perpetual youth. The focus is on the "pretty monster" that Oscar Wilde created a century ago i
