This volume is an authoritative description of a little-recognized element of modern governance: associations of public officials in state and local government. These associations, whose membership consists of elected and appointed officials such as mayors, legislators, council members, city and county managers, and planners, play an often overlooked role in public administration and governmental policy on state and local levels. This work provides an incisive analysis of their role using ...

David Sinclair Arnold, M.D., was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. He is a Psychiatrist and serves as the Medical Director of the Acute Care Inpatient Psychiatry Unit for the Veterans Administration Hospital located in Baltimore. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland, College of Medicine, and teaches medical students and residents. He completed his psychiatric residency training at the Albert Einstein Medical Center located in Philadelphia. He re...

About the Book One's search for a sense of stability in this world can be difficult. Have you ever wondered what controls your life? Is it your thoughts, your feelings, or your desires? Is it other people that control your life? If you were able to find a path to self-enlightenment and inner change that would transform your life, would it be of value to you? Using a simple unified model this book attempts to explain the behavior and interactions of individuals, groups, and systems. It pres...

One’s search for a sense of stability in this world can be quite daunting. Have you ever wondered what controls your life? Is it your thoughts, your feelings, or your desires? Is it other people that control your life? If you were able to find a path to self-enlightenment and inner change that would transform your life, what would it be worth to you? Through the use of a simple unified model, this book attempts to explain the behavior and interactions of individuals, groups, and systems. I...

The synagogue remains a central institution in Jewish life as a place of study, worship, and assembly, but each day brings word of a new challenging development within each of the larger movements to which synagogues belong—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist. Jewish religious communities today share a number of challenges, from the increase in secular or unaffiliated Jews to emerging Jewish spiritual communities forming outside the synagogue. There has never been a more ...

This timely book presents a multifaceted look at war, media, and propaganda from international perspectives. Focusing on the media's role in global conflicts, prominent authors, journalists, scholars, and researchers provide an insightful overview of the impact of globalization on media practices. They examine the processes behind media coverage of war, sophisticated propaganda techniques, the dynamics of public opinion, and the effects on human affairs and communication. As the book moves...

I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.After the sudden collapse of her family, Mim Malone is dragged from her home in northern Ohio to the “wastelands” of Mississippi, where she lives in a medicated milieu with her dad and new stepmom. Before the dust has a chance to settle, she learns her moth...

**From the New York Times bestselling author of Kids of Appetite comes a “top-notch” (USA Today) story of a spirited teenager who musters the courage to embark on an unforgettable road trip after learning about her mother’s illness.“Illuminating.”—The Washington Post“Equal parts sharp, sad, and surreal. This book is genius, war paint and all.”—John Corey Whaley, Printz Award–winning author of Where Things Come Back**After...

"A gorgeously rendered adventure that captures the ache and joy of adolescence in a mad world."--Tillie Walden, award-winning author of On a SunbeamTy and Burger have known each other since before they could walk. But this shared history is nothing compared to their plans for the future: step one, make a killer documentary about humanity’s recent brush with extinction; step two, apply to film school together; step three, achieve legendary status as the nex...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A poignant love story about two teens whose souls come together time and time again through the ages.“Will have your soul soaring . . . A timeless saga for the ages.”—Adam Silvera, #1 New York Times bestselling author of They Both Die at the End“Achingly human . . . love, it claims, will outlive sorrow.”—Booklist, starred review**Evan Taft has plans. Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure his little b...

The Age of Discovery explores one of the most dramatic features of the late medieval and early modern period: when voyagers from Western Europe led by Spain and Portugal set out across the world and established links with Africa, Asia and the Americas. This book examines the main motivations behind the voyages and discusses the developments in navigation expertise and technology that made them possible.This second edition brings the scholarship up to date and includes two n...

“An epic wonder”* from the bestselling author of MosquitolandThis is Noah Oakman → sixteen, Bowie believer, concise historian, disillusioned swimmer, son, brother, friend.Then Noah → gets hypnotized.Now Noah → sees changes—inexplicable scars, odd behaviors, rewritten histories—in all those around him. All except his Strange Fascinations . . .A stunning surrealist portrait, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik is a stor...