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Culturally adaptive counseling skills Culturally adaptive counseling skills Miguel E. Gallardo "A key supplement for courses on multicultural counseling, this book is a practical volume that will help faculty and students see demonstrations of multicultural counseling in practice. The text cov… OL15921088W
Traditional medicine Traditional medicine Steven B. Kayne This is a contributed text on traditional medicines throughout the world. Over one-third of the population in developing countries lack access to essential medicines. The provision of safe and effect… OL16945405W
Bastardy and its comparative history Bastardy and its comparative history Richard Michael Smith,Peter Laslett "This is the first historical and sociological examination of bastardy ... during a four hundred year span ... the authors find: (1) distinct temporal and regional patterns in illegitimacy, as regula… OL18303606W
Disgust and its disorders Disgust and its disorders Dean McKay "Disgust and Its Disorders: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment Implications thoughtfully examines the role of disgust in psychopathology by highlighting important theoretical and methodological develo… OL18615351W
Mental health, race, and culture Mental health, race, and culture Suman Fernando "This is the third, significantly expanded and revised, edition of this seminal text. Incorporating additional contemporary topics, including mental health of refugees, trauma and psychosocial approa… OL18727199W
Multicultural manners Multicultural manners Norine Dresser Both highly informative and entertaining, Multicultural Manners gives readers the understanding they need, the perfect words to say, and the correct behavior to use in a wide range of cross-cultural … OL1925256W
Aging Asia Aging Asia Karen Eggleston,Shripad Tuljapurkar Demographic shift. Whatever you call it, Asia is aging, and this development will radically alter the region--and the globe--for decades to come. In the Past Fifty Years, two factors have led to glo… OL19666164W
Brotherhood Brotherhood Deepak Chopra Traces the lives of the Chopra brothers from India to America, where they both excelled in healing, one as a world-renowned spiritual teacher, the other as a professor at Harvard Medical School. OL19964138W
Interpersonal violent behaviors Interpersonal violent behaviors Neil Alan Weiner,R. Barry Ruback "This expanded book version of a special issue of the journal Violence and Victims analyzes the social and cultural factors that influence violent behaviors. The editors and contributors discuss the … OL20542537W
Challenging inequities in health Challenging inequities in health Timothy Evans This text provides a unique view of global inequities in health status and health sytems. Emphasizing socioeconomic conditions, it combines chapters on conceptual and measurement issues with case stu… OL20798354W
The obesity epidemic in North America The obesity epidemic in North America Anna W. Bellisari Obesity prevalence in the U.S. is the highest among developed countries, a situation that calls for a nationwide understanding of this complex phenomenon. Brief yet comprehensive, The Obesity Epidemi… OL23360351W
A Mind of Its Own A Mind of Its Own David M. Friedman,Isabel Murillo Fort "Whether enemy or ally, demon or god, the source of satisfaction or the root of all earthly troubles, the penis has forced humanity to wrestle with its enduring mysteries. Here, in an enlightening an… OL2407227W
Comparative and international education Comparative and international education Karen E. Mundy This comprehensive book explores major issues in education today through international and intercultural research. The contributors draw on comparative research from North America, Africa, Asia, Lati… OL26201564W
Medicine & culture Medicine & culture Lynn Payer Ein sehr lehrreiches und amüsant zu lesendes Buch über die Einflüsse der jeweiligen Volkskultur auf die jeweilige Sicht von Medizin und auf ihre Anwendung in den einzelnen Ländern. OL3283141W
Caring for patients from different cultures Caring for patients from different cultures Geri-Ann Galanti What happens when a Cherokee patient summons a medicine man to the hospital, or when an Anglo nurse refuses to take orders from a Japanese doctor? Why do Asian patients rarely ask for pain medication… OL3297325W
Culture in clinical care Culture in clinical care Laura Martin,Bette Bonder,Andrew W. Miracle "Culture in Clinical Care: Strategies for Competence explores theory and practice to define and describe the multidimensional nature of culture and its interaction with an individual's experience in … OL3751936W
World hunger World hunger Patricia L. Kutzner Gives a broad overview of the many dimensions of world hunger, focusing specifically on the context of economic, social, political, and scientific contraints that affect global food security. OL3988455W
Mythologies, histoires, actualités des drogues Mythologies, histoires, actualités des drogues Claude Meyers Les drogues étaient bien connues des Anciens, les opiacés dans le monde gréco-romain, le cannabis chez le Vieux de la montagne dans le Caucase, la coca chez lez Incas, les champignons hallucinogènes … OL4870351W
Cross-cultural approaches to the study of alcohol Cross-cultural approaches to the study of alcohol Conference on Alcohol Studies and Anthropology University of Chicago 1973. Examines the relationship between alcohol studies and the cross-cultural perspective of anthropology. OL6954854W
Evolution's Rainbow Evolution's Rainbow Joan Roughgarden In this book, the author challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. She takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science--and even Darwin himself. She leads… OL8304028W
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