Product Description: Starting your own business will change your life. This guide to starting a business will help you get it right. Written by an entrepreneur who has started various successful businesses, David Lester shares the wealth of his knowledge, the high and low points and what he got right and wrong! Many other books describe how to set up a business...read more

Product Description: We cannot explain why people kill themselves. There are no necessary or sufficient causes for suicide, so rather than explaining suicide (looking for causes), perhaps we can understand suicide, at least in one individual, a phenomenological approach...read more

Product Description: Intended for the general reader, this masterful compilation probes the psychology of suicide, revealing the latest research and spotlighting global efforts to reduce the million suicide deaths each year.• Breaks new ground in drawing together current research on the incidence of suicide, theories as to why suicide occurs, cultural differences, and efforts at prevention• Explains and analyzes the effectiveness of prevention programs from psychotherapy and suicide prevention centers/hotlines to programs in schools, restriction of lethal methods, and national and international campaigns and programs • Includes cultural, religious, philosophical, and medical/psychiatric/psychological views on suicide• Discusses the ever-controversial topic of assisted suicid...read more

Product Description: Suicide prevention is a major goal of the Public Health Service of the US government. This has been the case since the 1960s when the National Institute of Mental Health established a center for the study and prevention of suicide...read more

Product Description: It is slowly becoming accepted that people with terminal illnesses who are suffering physically and mentally from the illness have the moral and legal right to choose suicide and, in some jurisdictions, they have the ability to obtain assistance in accomplishing their suicide...read more

Product Description: Life in the Ghetto can be very strange at times, especially when that Ghetto is the oldest surviving neighborhood in St. Louis. Soulard they called it. A lot of people took a lot of time and effort to raise the neighborhood from the ashes like the Phoenix...read more

Product Description: Why understanding the role of culture can help prevent suicideThe increasing domination of biological approaches in suicide research and prevention, at the expense of social and cultural understanding, is severely harming our ability to stop people dying so run the clearly set out arguments and evidence in this lucid book by leading social scientists and suicide researchers...read more

Product Description: This is the fifth and final volume in a series of books examining the problem of suicide around the world and how suicide can be prevented. There are many groups of individuals that have been the focus of special interest.

Product Description: How do you turn a good idea into a great business?Lots of us have ideas we think would make great businesses. Most of us never do anything with those ideas. Maybe it's because we're really happy with our jobs, maybe it's because we're not confident that our idea would really work...read more

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Product Description: Suicide is currently the second leading cause of death among college students in the United States. This complex issue on college campuses is often overlooked, and this book combines the efforts from several leaders in the field of suicidology in an attempt to grasp a better understanding of college student suicide...read more

Product Description: 1933: In a small German state, the last democratic election is about to take place before a failed artist named Hitler seizes power. The election is Hitler's chance to manipulate events that will lead to the death of millions.2010: After a man dies during a political act inspired by a work of art, the artist flees to Europe to escape her guilt...read more

Product Description: This book explores several topics pertaining to suicide and deliberate self-harm in the corrections setting, including who tends to commit these acts; where, when, and how these incidents occur; screening mechanisms; the role of environmental stimuli in facilitating or preventing acts of self harm; interpersonal relations among inmates and between inmates and staff; the role of the courts in setting and ruling on suicide prevention policies; and diversion and re-entry plans for offenders...read more

Product Description: This book presents a new theory of personality. The use of the term 'personality' by psychologists is odd since it does not coincide with the dictionary definition of personality - 'the state or quality of being a person'.

Product Description: Book by Patricia Van Voorhis, Michael Braswell, David Lester

Product Description: A provocative look at research and practice in suicide prevention - a must read for all concerned. This provocative and erudite book highlights theoretical and methodological challenges that have plagued and continue to plague the field of suicidology...read more

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Product Description: Lots of us have ideas we think would make great businesses. Most of us never do anything with those ideas, perhaps because we're not confident that our ideas will really work or we simply do not know where to start. But for those that do, a world of opportunity awaits them...read more

Product Description: There have been thousands of scholarly articles written on the topic of suicide, including a few by the author, and the scientific method, combined with statistical analysis, has been applied to studies of the suicide rates of nations (over time and across regions) and to (sometimes large) samples of individuals...read more