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  • The Influence of Campaign Contributions in State Legislatures

    The Effects of Institutions and Politics

    by Lynda W. Powell ...
    Series series Legislative Politics And Policy Making
    Campaign contributions are widely viewed as a corrupting influence but most scholarly research concludes that they have marginal impact on legislative behavior. Lynda W. Powell shows that contributions have considerable influence in some state legislatures but very little in others. Using a national survey of legislators, she develops an innovative measure of influence and delineates the factors ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Behavioral Clinical Trials for Chronic Diseases

    Scientific Foundations

    by Lynda H. Powell, Kenneth E. Freedland, Peter G. Kaufmann ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This is the first comprehensive guide to the design of behavioral randomized clinical trials (RCT) for chronic diseases. It includes the scientific foundations for behavioral trial methods, problems that have been encountered in past behavioral trials, advances in design that have evolved, and promising trends and opportunities for the future. The value of this book lies in its potential to foster ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • The Financiers of Congressional Elections

    Investors, Ideologues, and Intimates

    by Clyde Wilcox, Peter Francia, John Green, Paul Herrnson, Lynda Powell ...
    Series series Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 21st Century
    Individual donors play a critical role in financing congressional elections, accounting for more than half of all money raised in House campaigns. But significant donors (defined here as those contributing more than $200) are the least understood participants in the system. Defenders assert that contributing money to campaigns is part of a broader pattern of civic involvement and is free speech ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • An Exploration of the Health Benefits of Factors That Help Us to Thrive

    A Special Issue of the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine

    Edited by Gail Ironson, Lynda H. Powell ...
    First published in 2005. This special issue of the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Volume 12, number 2, is a collection of essays around the topic of positive psychology in Behavioral Medicine. Including topics of the psychobiology of emotion, health benefits that help us thrive, integrative therapy for depression and slower disease progression in HIV. ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Term Limits in State Legislatures

    by John M. Carey, Richard G. Niemi, Lynda W. Powell ...
    It has been predicted that term limits in state legislatures--soon to be in effect in eighteen states--will first affect the composition of the legislatures, next the behavior of legislators, and finally legislatures as institutions. The studies in Term Limits in State Legislatures demonstrate that term limits have had considerably less effect on state legislatures than proponents predicted.The ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Neuroscience of Human Relationships

    Attachment and the Developing Social Brain

    by Louis Cozolino ...
    Series series Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
    A revised edition of the best-selling text on how relationships build our brains.As human beings, we cherish our individuality yet we know that we live in constant relationship to others, and that other people play a significant part in regulating our emotional and social behavior. Although this interdependence is a reality of our existence, we are just beginning to understand that we have evolved ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • New York Politics: A Tale of Two States

    by Edward V. Schneier, John Brian Murtaugh, Antoinette Pole ...
    Completely revised and updated with extensive new material, this acclaimed book offers an inside look at how influence is wielded in Albany. The authors--an Albany-based political scientist and a former State Assembly member, now joined by an expert on both state politics and political blogging and networking--infuse their discussion of institutions and processes with the drama and significance of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5RG

    by Joel Paris ...
    The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5RG explores all revisions to the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual, and shows clinicians how they can best apply the strong points and shortcomings of psychiatry's most contentious resource. Written by a celebrated professor of psychiatry, this reader-friendly book uses evidence-based critiques and new research to point out where ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Republic, Lost

    How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It

    by Lawrence Lessig ...
    Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig investigates the most vexing problem in American democracy: how money corrupts our nation's politics, and the critical campaign to stop it.In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government-driven by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to new levels by the Supreme Court in *Citizens United v. Federal Election ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • The Social Neuroscience of Education: Optimizing Attachment and Learning in the Classroom

    Optimizing Attachment and Learning in the Classroom

    by Louis Cozolino ...
    Series series The Norton Series on the Social Neuroscience of Education
    Creating a healthy, social classroom environment.This book explains how the brain, as a social organism, learns best throughout the lifespan, from our early schooling through late life. Positioning the brain as distinctly social, Louis Cozolino helps teachers make connections to neurobiological principles, with the goal of creating classrooms that nurture healthy attachment patterns and resilient ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Social Phobia - Analysis and Cure

    by Massimo Polimeno ...
    Usually, the situations most feared by those suffering from social phobia are those that involve the need to do something before other people, such as exposing a relationship or just sign up, call or eat can sometimes create anxiety just walk into a room where there are people already seated, or talk with your friend. People who suffer from social phobia are afraid of appearing anxious and show ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let the People Rule

    How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge

    by John G. Matsusaka ...
    How referendums can diffuse populist tensions by putting power back into the hands of the peoplePropelled by the belief that government has slipped out of the hands of ordinary citizens, a surging wave of populism is destabilizing democracies around the world. As John Matsusaka reveals in Let the People Rule, this belief is based in fact. Over the past century, while democratic governments have ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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