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The Environmental Alarmist

A Political Satire

By: Michael Contarino

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If you are bothered by greenwashing, baffled by eco-denialism, and bewildered by our seemingly inexorable march toward global environmental catastrophe, this book is for you. In a not-so-distant future, in a world ravaged by climate change and invasive pests, humanity still chooses self-deception over sacrifice. Even the ubiquitous green flies buzzing around our heads don't concentrate our minds on what humanity's survival requires. When a sly US Senator and a jaded propagandist concoct a longshot and cynically opportunistic "environmentalist" campaign for the Presidency, it looks like just more of the old, phony politics. But then things start to get real. And hilarious. And hopeful. Because the politician and the propagandist start to care about the planet. As they begin telling voters the truth, they also stop lying to themselves. If you remain hopeful that maybe it's not too late, that against the odds humanity might still get it together and face reality – and especially if you haven't lost your sense of humor -- you will love The Environmental Alarmist.

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Histria Books

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1592113192

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Cervantes' Epic Novel

Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in Persiles

By: Michael Armstrong-Roche

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Cervantes' Epic Novel

Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in Persiles

By: Michael Armstrong-Roche

Miguel de Cervantes conceived his final work, The Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story (1617), as a great prose epic that would accomplish for its age what Homer and Virgil had done for theirs. And yet, by the eighteenth century Don Quixote had eclipsed Persiles in the favour of readers and writers alike and the later novel is now virtually forgotten except by specialists. This study sets out to help restore Persiles to pride of place within Cervantes's corpus by reading it as the author's summa, as a boldly new kind of prose epic that casts an original light on the major political, religious, social, and literary debates of its era. At the same time it seeks to illuminate how such a lofty and solemn ambition could coexist with Cervantes evident urge to delight. Grounded in the novel's multiple contexts - literature, history and politics, philosophy and theology - and in close reading of the text, Michael Armstrong-Roche aims to reshape our understanding of Persiles within the history of prose fiction and to take part in the ongoing conversation about the relationship between literary and non-literary cultural forms. Ultimately he reveals how Cervantes recast the prose epic, expanding it in new directions to accommodate the great epic themes - politics, love, and religion - to the most urgent concerns of his day.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442691158

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The Neurobiology of Parental Behavior

By: Michael Numan,Thomas R. Insel

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The Neurobiology of Parental Behavior

By: Michael Numan,Thomas R. Insel

In addition to filling a need within the field of parental behavior, this book contributes importantly to the growing area of emotional and motivational neuroscience. A major part of neuroscience research at the whole organism level has been focused on cognitive neuroscience, with an emphasis on the neurobiology of learning and memory, but there has been a recent upsurge in research which is attempting to define the neural basis of basic motivational and emotional systems which regulate such behaviors as food intake, aggression, reproduction, reward-seeking behaviors, and anxiety-related behaviors. In this book the emphasis is on the research findings obtained from rodents, sheep and primates. The authors' goal, of course, was to provide a foundation that may help us understand the neurobiology of human parental behavior. Indeed, the last chapter attempts to integrate the non-human research data with some human data in order to make some inroads toward an understanding of postpartum depression, child abuse, and child neglect. Clearly, motivational and emotional neuroscience has close ties to psychiatry, and this connection will be very evident in the final chapter. By understanding the neurobiology of parental behavior we are also delving into neurobiological factors which may have an impact on core human characteristics involved in sociality, social attachment, nurturing behavior, and love. In this very violent world, it is hard to conceive of a group of characteristics that are more worthy of study.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387217991

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Principles and Practice of Movement Disorders E-Book

By: Joseph Jankovic,Mark Hallett,Michael S Okun,Cynthia L. Comella,Stanley Fahn

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Principles and Practice of Movement Disorders E-Book

By: Joseph Jankovic,Mark Hallett,Michael S Okun,Cynthia L. Comella,Stanley Fahn

Offering a state-of-the-art, authoritative summary of the most relevant scientific and clinical advances in the field, Principles and Practice of Movement Disorders provides the expert guidance you need to diagnose and manage the full range of these challenging conditions. Superb summary tables, a large video library, and a new, easy-to-navigate format help you find information quickly and apply it in your practice. Based on the authors' popular Aspen Course of Movement Disorders in conjunction with the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society, this 3rd Edition is an indispensable resource for movement disorder specialists, general neurologists, and neurology residents. - Explores all facets of movement disorders, including the latest rating scales for clinical research, neurochemistry, clinical pharmacology, genetics, clinical trials, and experimental therapeutics. - Provides the essential information you need for a clinical approach to diagnosis and management, with minimal emphasis on basic science. - Reflects recent advances in areas such as the genetics of Parkinsonian and other movement disorders, diagnostic brain imaging, new surgical approaches to patients with movement disorders, and new treatment guidelines for conditions such as restless legs syndrome. - Features a reader-friendly, full-color format, with plentiful diagrams, photographs, and tables. - Includes access to several hundred updated, professional-quality video clips that illustrate the manifestations of all the movement disorders in the book along with their differential diagnoses.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323315984

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The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck

By: Michael Rose

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The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck

By: Michael Rose

The Birth of an Opera offers illuminating insight into how operas are written and the personalities, incidents, and musical circumstances that have shaped their composition. Through a deft compilation of primary sources—letters, memoirs, and personal accounts from composers, librettists, and performers—Michael Rose re-creates for his readers the circumstances that gave rise to fifteen operatic milestones. From Monteverdi and Mozart to Puccini and Berg, each chapter focuses on a well-known opera and tells the story that lies behind its creation. Rather than retreading familiar ground with pages of historical and musical analysis, Rose places each opera firmly in the context of the composer’s life and provides an engaging text in which the varied and colorful personalities involved are seen to discuss, comment, and contribute in one way or another to the progress of its composition. The reader will find Mozart with a new and flamboyant librettist tackling the risky enterprise of Le Nozze di Figaro; Wagner confessing his hidden love for the woman who inspires him as he creates the passionate drama of Tristan und Isolde; Verdi deep in Shakespearian discussion with Boito as they remodel the tragedy of Otello; and Debussy coming almost literally to blows with Maeterlinck over the soprano to take the leading role in Pelléas et Mélisande. Throughout, Rose offers his readers the most direct possible link to events that have often become twisted or obscured by operatic myth, and in so doing he captures the bizarre interactions of chance, genius, practical necessity, and dogged determination that accompanied the making of some of opera’s most enduring masterpieces.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393089657

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9780393089653

Essential Neuropharmacology

The Prescriber's Guide

By: Stephen D. Silberstein,Michael J. Marmura

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Essential Neuropharmacology

The Prescriber's Guide

By: Stephen D. Silberstein,Michael J. Marmura

Essential Neuropharmacology: The Prescriber's Guide reviews the most important medications used by neurologists. Each drug listing contains the range of indications, tips for dosing and avoiding adverse events, and lists the advantages and disadvantages of every medication. This is a 'must-read' for all neurologists at all stages of their careers.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521136725

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The Dystonia Patient

A Guide to Practical Management

By: Michael S. Okun, MD

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The Dystonia Patient

A Guide to Practical Management

By: Michael S. Okun, MD

Written by the dystonia team at the University of Florida Movement Disorders Center, this book is designed as a practical and complete guide to the integrated management of the dystonia patient. It provides a current understanding of this common but often poorly appreciated condition and a framework for delivering comprehensive multi and intra-disciplinary care. Individual chapters review medical and surgical strategies, botulinum toxin therapy, and programming issues for deep brain stimulators. The remainder of the book is devoted to the important role of health professionals from various disciplines and what the physician needs to know to direct a successful long-term care team for dystonia patients. Features include: Emphasis on a multi-disciplinary team approach to long-term management Coverage of both adult and pediatric patients Pearls and practical points within each chapter to guide the practitioner Lists of resources and referral information for patients, families, and medical teams

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Demos Medical Publishing

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1935281151

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9781935281153

Opioids

By: George F. Koob,Michael A. Arends,Mandy L McCracken,Michel Le Moal

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Opioids

By: George F. Koob,Michael A. Arends,Mandy L McCracken,Michel Le Moal

A current survey and synthesis of the most important findings in our understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms of addiction is detailed in our Neurobiology of Addiction series, each volume addressing a specific area of addiction. Opioids, Volume 4 in the series, explores the molecular, cellular and systems in the brain responsible for opioid addiction using the heuristic three-stage cycle framework of binge/intoxication, withdrawal/negative affect, and preoccupation/anticipation. - Highlights recent advances in opioid addiction - Includes Neurocircuitry, Cellular and Molecular neurobiological mechanisms of opioid addiction - Defines opioid abuse and addiction potential, including biological tolerance

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Academic Press

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0128169893

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Parkinson's Disease

Clinican's Desk Reference

By: Donald Grosset,Hubert Fernandez,Katherine Grosset,Michael Okun

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Parkinson's Disease

Clinican's Desk Reference

By: Donald Grosset,Hubert Fernandez,Katherine Grosset,Michael Okun

This books’ coverage ranges from incidence, diagnosis, investigation, drug treatments, non-motor features of Parkinson’s Disease, assessment scales and surgical intervention, to the role of nurses, physio– and occupational therapists, speech/language pathologists, dieticians, and to the use of complementary medicine.

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CRC Press

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1840765178

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Patterns of Child Abuse

How Dysfunctional Transactions Are Replicated in Individuals, Families, and the Child Welfare System

By: Michael Karson,Elizabeth Sparks

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Patterns of Child Abuse

How Dysfunctional Transactions Are Replicated in Individuals, Families, and the Child Welfare System

By: Michael Karson,Elizabeth Sparks

Interpret the hidden meaning of family roles to help children at risk! Because dysfunctional patterns are closed systems that serve a secret purpose, they are almost impossible to change from the outside. Patterns of Child Abuse helps you recognize the purpose behind the patterns and offers successful strategies for entering the pattern in order to help family members without joining it and becoming part of the dysfunction. Patterns of Child Abuse identifies the most common, most problematic patterns and explores their hidden meanings. Case studies and theoretical discussions demonstrate the ways family patterns are replicated in a child's psyche and the ways the grown-up child replicates the familiar family pattern, forcing the world to bend to the story within. Synthesizing systems theory, behaviorism, and psychoanalysis, Patterns of Child Abuse offers powerful insights as well as practical strategies for dealing with such complex issues as: how to comfort an abused child who cannot bear to be touched why abused children idealize their battering or neglectful parent how borderline personality organization affects individuals and their families handling the sexually powerful teenage girl, the disruptive boy, and the mother of the sexual abuse victim how family patterns operate in therapeutic context why therapists and social workers may encounter conflicts in child welfare cases when and how paradoxical interventions can work Well-written and insightful, Patterns of Child Abuse conveys a sound theoretical model and a sophisticated approach to the psychology of individuals and families for the child welfare professional.

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Routledge

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1135187274

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Biological Psychology

By: Stephen B. Klein,B. Michael Thorne

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Biological Psychology

By: Stephen B. Klein,B. Michael Thorne

This is a comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of the processes by which biological systems, most notably the nervous system, affect behaviour. A fantastic art program, an applauded accessible writing style and a host of pedagogical features make the text relevant to the lives of the students taking biological psychology.

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Macmillan

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0716799227

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Melancholia

The Diagnosis, Pathophysiology and Treatment of Depressive Illness

By: Michael Alan Taylor,Max Fink

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Melancholia

The Diagnosis, Pathophysiology and Treatment of Depressive Illness

By: Michael Alan Taylor,Max Fink

This book provides a comprehensive review of melancholia as a severe disorder of mood, associated with suicide, psychosis, and catatonia. The syndrome is defined with a clear diagnosis, prognosis, and range of management strategies. It challenges accepted doctrines and describes melancholia as a treatable and preventable mental illness.

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1139456504

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The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays

By: Bandy X. Lee

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The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays

By: Bandy X. Lee

As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal. Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway bestseller. Alarmed Americans and international onlookers wanted to know: What is wrong with him? That question still plagues us. The Trump administration has proven as chaotic and destructive as its opponents feared, and the man at the center of it all remains a cipher. Constrained by the APA’s “Goldwater rule,” which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, many of those qualified to weigh in on the issue have shied away from discussing it at all. The public has thus been left to wonder whether he is mad, bad, or both. The prestigious mental health experts who have contributed to the revised and updated version of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump argue that their moral and civic "duty to warn" supersedes professional neutrality. Whatever affects him, affects the nation: From the trauma people have experienced under the Trump administration to the cult-like characteristics of his followers, he has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond. With eight new essays (about one hundred pages of new material), this edition will cover the dangerous ramifications of Trump's unnatural state. It’s not all in our heads. It’s in his.

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1250256283

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Edge of LIght

By: Michael J Melton

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Edge of LIght

By: Michael J Melton

Edge of Light" is a deeply introspective and spiritual journey of a man named Michael, who has lived a life marked by hardship, mistakes, and inner turmoil. After years of running from his past and battling his inner demons, Michael finds himself at the edge of despair, contemplating the meaning of his life and the darkness that constantly surrounds him. As the story unfolds, Michael encounters a mysterious man who appears at pivotal moments, offering him comfort and guidance. This man, who Michael begins to believe is Jesus, helps him navigate his battles with depression, guilt, and the haunting memories of his past. Through vivid dreams and real-life experiences, Michael learns to confront his fears and failures, gradually understanding that he is not alone in his struggles. The narrative explores themes of redemption, faith, and the transformative power of spiritual awakening. Michael's journey is one of repentance and renewal, as he begins to embrace the teachings of the Bible and strives to align his life with God's will. Along the way, he reconnects with his children, attempts to mend broken relationships, and finds love and support in Laurie, a woman who becomes his anchor in times of trouble. As Michael delves deeper into his faith, he realizes that the battles he faces are not just personal but part of a larger spiritual warfare. With the support of his newfound faith, he begins to see the world differently, recognizing the pervasive corruption and moral decay in society. Yet, he also sees glimmers of hope, such as revivals and the possibility of redemption for those who turn to Jesus. In the end, Michael finds peace in the knowledge that he is loved and protected by a higher power. He understands that his journey is ongoing, and though the road ahead may be challenging, he is now equipped with the strength and wisdom to face whatever comes his way. "Edge of Light" is a story of hope, resilience, and the enduring power of faith, showing that even in the darkest of times, there is always a path toward the light.

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The Environmental Alarmist

The Environmental Alarmist

Cervantes' Epic Novel

Cervantes' Epic Novel

The Neurobiology of Parental Behavior

The Neurobiology of Parental Behavior

Principles and Practice of Movement Disorders E-Book

Principles and Practice of Movement Disorders E-Book

The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck

The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck

Essential Neuropharmacology

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The Dystonia Patient

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Patterns of Child Abuse

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Biological Psychology

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The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

Edge of LIght

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