by Richard Rothstein, Rebecca Jacobsen, Tamara Wilder (2008)
" ... Instead of just grading progress in one or two narrow subjects, we should hold schools accountable for the broad outcomes we expect from public education -- basic knowledge and skills, critical thinking, an appreciation of the arts, physical and emotional health, and preparation for skilled employment -- and then develop the means to measure and ensure schools' success in achieving them. Grading Education describes a new kind of accountability plan for public education, one that relies on higher-quality testing, focuses on professional evaluation, and builds on capacities we already possess ..."
Ann O. Squir
"Autism affects millions of people around the world by limiting their ability to communicate and interact socially with other people. Some face minor difficulties, while others are so severely affected that they require special assistance throughout their lives. Readers will find out what it is like to live with autism, what causes this condition, how it is treated, and more."--Publisher's website.
David B. Resnik
"Environmental Health Ethics illuminates the conflicts between protecting the environment and promoting human health. In this study, David B. Resnik develops a method for making ethical decisions on environmental health issues. He applies this method to various issues, including pesticide use, antibiotic resistance, nutrition policy, vegetarianism, urban development, occupational safety, disaster preparedness, and global climate change. Resnik provides readers with the scientific and technical background necessary to understand these issues. He explains that environmental health controversies cannot simply be reduced to humanity versus environment and explores the ways in which human values and concerns, health, economic development, rights, and justice interact with environmental protection"--Provided by publisher.
Barbara Ann Brennan
In this book the author presents an in depth study of the human energy field for people who seek happiness, health and their full potential. Our physical bodies exist within a larger "body," a human energy field or aura, which is the vehicle through which we create our experience of reality, including health and illness. It is through this energy field that we have the power to heal ourselves. This energy body, only recently verified by scientists but long known to healers and mystics, is the starting point of all illness. Here, our most powerful and profound human interactions take place, the precursor and healer of all physiological and emotional disturbances. This book is a guide to a new wholeness. It offers: A new paradigm for the human, in health, relationship, and disease ; An understanding of how the human energy field looks, functions, is disturbed, healed, and interacts with friends and lovers ; Training in the ability to see and interpret auras ; Medically verified case studies of healing people from all walks of life with a variety of illnesses ; Guidelines for healing the self and others ; The author's personal life adventure which gives us a model for growth, courage and possibilities for expanded consciousness.
Alan Melnick
This work helps primary care physicians understand their roles in preparing for and responding to terrorist events. Proactive measures are outlined, and there is information on the diagnosis and treatment of conditions caused by biological, chemical and radiological agents.