Perfect for stand-alone review or as preparation for the USMLE, PRITE in-service, ABPN Part I, and recertification examinations,Kaplan and Sadock’s Study Guide and Self-Examination Review in Psychiatry, 10th Edition, is a comprehensive, authoritative review of the entire field. Written by Drs. Eric R. Williams and Lindsay Moskowitz, this essential review tool contains more than 600 multiple-choice questions and answers, with explanatory discussions of correct and incorrect responses.

Global King Lear provides a kaleidoscopic view of multinational adaptations of King Lear with a focus on productions across Asia and Eastern Europe. By approaching Shakespeare's great tragedy as a global phenomenon its signature themes become context-dependent and culture-specific whilst avoiding simplistic appeals to the play's universality. International scholars of literature and theatre explore those culturally specific interpretations as new plays, films, and critica...

Given the realities of climate change and sea-level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, at its core, is about desirable states of the urban social-ecological system and understanding how to sustain those states in an uncertain and tumultuous future. How do physical conditions, ecological processes, social objectives, human politics, and history shape the prospects for resilience? Most books set out “the answer.” This book sets out ...

America’s Space Futures is an important contribution to the ongoing debate about space policy, the American space program, and the human destiny in space. It lays out alternative paradigms and frameworks for assessing America’s future in space and how different visions would require changes to America’s current approach to space development and exploration. Since the end of the Apollo program in the 1970s, the U.S. civil space program has accomplished a great number of things: from deployi...

Political scholars examine the dynamic evolution of laws over time in a volume that "pushes the frontiers of knowledge about lawmaking in the US" ( Choice).Politics is at its most dramatic during debates over important pieces of legislation. And while debates over legislative measures can rage for years or even decades before an item is enacted, they also endure long afterward, when the political legacy of a law eventually comes into focus. With a diverse ...

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success undoubtedly builds success and in literary terms we can more politely say that imi...

This collection provides a comprehensive vocabulary for defining the cultural manifestation of the term “Woodland”The Middle Ohio Valley is an archaeologically rich region that stretches from southeastern Indiana, across southern Ohio and northeastern Kentucky, and into northwestern West Virginia. In this area are some of the most spectacular and diverse Woodland Period archaeological sites in North America, but these sites and their rich cultural remains ...

This is a recollection of stories and events that happened to me as I remember them. I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease when I was in the seventh grade. Currently I am forty six and have not had a surgery ever for this illness. I believe I was able to shift my paradigm to cope for stress which everyone says is the cause for Crohn’s. I guess that is like saying, “We don’t what causes it, so let’s put it into the “unknown bucket” and call it stress.” Nice. Anyways, here it goes…..

Color Me Colorless does not only explore the life of the author but the nostalgic path of self-identity and growing up fast. If by chance you grew up with cousins who felt like joking all the time and played way too much, if youve watched all the nineties cartoon classics, lived with grandparents and siblings, or even just dove into the depths of your imagination, this book is for you! Color Me Colorless is the poetry book you can just vibe well with. It also identifies with social pattern...

This is the story of Eric William Absolon, a relentlessly enthusiastic Aviation champion, whose lifelong love of aircraft has never wavered throughout his long and varied career. From boyhood fascination to the adult realization of his ambitions, this first-hand account takes in some of the key events of the dynamic period of twentieth century history which the author lived and worked through. Working his way up the ranks of the Gloster Aircraft Company, Absolon was able to see all the com...

This is a journey from victim to victor. This is a true story about some of my experience. It is a story of restoration, resilience and complete recovery.

Pentecostalism is often characterized as an ecstatic movement—centrally involving spirited worship, speaking in tongues, prophecy, and healing—as well as an exclusivist one, primarily aligned with North American white evangelicalism. Yet there is a vibrant Black Pentecostal tradition stretching back more than a century that is both theologically complex and deeply grounded in an ethics of social justice.In More Than Tongues Can Tell, Eric Lewis Williams dismantles prevaili...