Product Description: Updated and expanded in this third edition, Principles of Community Psychology: Perspectives and Applications presents the most recent literature, empirical work, issues, and events in the field and the relevant policy debates surrounding them...read more

Product Description: This introductory text introduces a historical and systems perspective to the interaction between the social science community and the law by discussing history, due process, civil law, and much more. With unique chapters that introduce the reader to the American legal system and to the relationship between the law and the social sciences, the reader will come away from the text with an appreciation of the intimate interrelationships between the field of psychology and law...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Nathan, a Jew, ends up in a monastery at Weissenfels that is destroyed by a tornado. Nearly dead, he finds himself in the garb of a Papal delegate, and to avoid condemnation he takes on the role of his new garments. He performs what the local people consider to be miracles. He becomes a bishop, is eventually condemned by his nemesis, and sent to the flames. The false judgement is overturned and Nathan is finally consecrated as a local saint.

Product Description: Diane de Poitiers, young wife of old Count de Brezay, sacrifices herself to lecherous King Francois I to save her traitorous father from the axe. Widowed, she becomes the richest, most beautiful woman in France, the mistress of Henri II, nineteen years her junior, and the power behind the throne...read more

Product Description: In the early 21st century the United States is attacked by both North Korea and internal enemies. A cabal of China and a number of international megacompanies almost brings the US to its knees, but a clever computer program that enables a successful missile defense ultimately enables the US in its effort to create peace and eliminate wars to achieve hegemony over the entire planet...read more

Product Description: The introduction of mandated reporting laws of suspected child maltreatment in the United States was intended to solve a problem - it has, however, also created new ones. What began as an effort to ensure that physicians were reporting physical abuse of children has expanded: psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health practitioners are now included as mandated reporters...read more

Product Description: Considering the complex wave of problems with which children and young adults are now confronted, we often forget -- and have been poor at recording -- the events, conditions, and creative contributions that pioneered community awareness and advocacy on behalf of young people...read more

Product Description: "I recommend this book to all mental health professionals and students in this field; it provides the reader with a historical perspective that can add meaning, and perhaps even reassurance, to those who continue to care for the mentally ill in these uncertain times...read more

Product Description: Two accounts of the Gary System, an innovative attempt to reorganize school curriculum, method, and organization, begun in Gary, Indiana in 1906. This edition includes a 1970 introduction by Adeline and Murray Levine.