Sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility, this book provides an annotated collection of primary documents on the issues related to the profliferation of nuclear weapons as they affect health professionals.

Nuclear Weapons And Nuclear War

Henry Abraham

Christine Cassel

Michael McCally

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James A.Banks

James Lynch

Video Collection Development In Multi-type Libraries

Gary Handman

Higher Education In The Digital Age

JAMES J. DUDERSTADT

Daniel E. Atkins

Douglas E. Van Houweling

Five-year-old Tommy killed himself at home, where he lived with parents who said he was unwanted and deficient. College student Jennifer committed suicide by swallowing a huge mixture of pills at a motel, miles from the house where she lived with an imposing, unemotional mother who'd long thought the girl a burden. Bob, a father of two and computer company manager, might have survived his attempt at suicide, but his wife did not call 911 for 10 minutes after she found him in his running car in the garage, so he died on the way to the hospital. All of these cases described in detail by author Mecke share a factor aside from the fatality. Each person was clearly motivated by an instigator: someone who provoked the suicide. Instigators create a crushing relationship with a potentially suicidal person that, as Mecke puts it, becomes a fatal attachment. Mecke, with more than 40 years experience as clinical psychologist, believes instigators are responsible in a significant number of the more than 30,000 suicides that occur in the United States each year. Through vivid and compelling text, we understand the minds of suicide victims and their instigators, and also learn how early trauma associated with death or abandonment can make one become an instigator. Finally, Mecke shows us how we can intervene to try and break the instigator's grip, to foil the attachment. As she explains one of her primary points, relating to both the suicidal and their instigators, is that children require careful nurturing especially during their early lives. And the bent their personalities take following a trauma places responsibility upon us all to watch, to explain, to care for them.In addition to tragic stories drawn from her practice, Mecke also describes the instigators in larger scale suicides and those of historical figures―from the cult suicide of hundreds moved by Jim Jones at Jamestown, and the suicide bombings motivated by Osama bin Laden, to the suicide of poet Sylvia Plath and the person who precipitated her death. Classical literature and Greek mythology is also used extensively to address the issue of what triggers suicide. The insights apply universally. This is a must-read for clinicians, counselors, and anyone interested in knowing about suicide and its causes.

Fatal Attachments

Viola Mecke

International Terrorism in the Contemporary World (Contributions in Political Science)

International Terrorism In The Contemporary World

Marius H. Livingston

<p>"No fight for civil liberties ever stays won," wrote Roger Baldwin (1884-1981) in 1971. He should know. After working hard to preserve our right to free expression during World War I, in 1920 he founded the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU quickly became, and remains to this day, the staunchest defender of our civil liberties. Woody Klein has selected from the vast writings of Baldwin those essays that are most pertinent to the civil liberties debate today. In each chapter these writings focus on a particular theme, such as national security or invasion of privacy, and they are followed by commentary commissioned specifically for this book.</p>

Liberties Lost

Anthony Lewis

SCHLESINGER, Arthur M., Jr.

Senator Robert C. Byrd

Woody Klein

Gender, Race, And Ethnicity In The Workplace

Margaret Foegen Karsten

Anthropologist and author Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) is one of the most significant African American writers of the 20th century. Born in Alabama, she grew up in a small town in Florida, where she developed an interest in African American folklore. In 1925 she moved to New York and became part of the Harlem Renaissance, meeting such figures as Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten. She continued her anthropological research at Barnard under Franz Boas, and African American folklore became central to her fiction. She is best remembered as the author of ^IJonah's Gourd Vine,^R ^ITheir Eyes Were Watching God,^R and ^IMules and Men,^R her study of African American folklore of the South.This reference is a convenient and thorough guide to her life and writings. A chronology outlines the major events in her life and her most significant accomplishments, while a short biography offers a narrative assessment of her career. The heart of the book is a collection of hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries. These cover her works, characters, themes, motifs, family members, and acquaintances. Entries for the most important topics include suggestions for further reading, and the volume closes with extensive primary and secondary bibliographies.

Zora Neale Hurston Companion

Robert W. Croft

Article 1, Section 10 contains the most significant limits on state power found in the main text of the U.S. Constitution. Chief Justice John Marshall, perhaps the most important Justice in U.S. history, used this provision a number of times in a number of significant decisions to limit state power. These decisions effectively enhanced the power of our new federalist form of government. This book delves into the modern issues pertaining to state limitations by tracing its history and looking at today's most important factors.This work makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of the U.S. Constitution by detailing the most significant limits on state power. The many provisions studied in the book provide insights into the various aspects of constitutional interpretation.

Limits On States

Kenneth Starr

McGoldrick, James M., Jr.

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