In both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable cities. Simultaneously, the city continues to be ground zero for successive waves of public health emergency and intervention, including a recent and unprecedented drug overdose crisis driven by the proliferation of illicitly-manuf...(展开全部)

查尔斯·科尔（Charles A.Corr）博士自1975年开始便在南伊利诺伊大学教授死亡与临终、儿童与死亡等课程。1978年。他成为死亡教育与咨询协会成员，及美国国家临终关怀及姑息治疗组织成员。科尔博士还是死亡、临终和悲痛事务国际工作组前主席和常任理事。 目前，他还是佛罗里达阳光海岸安养协会的董事会成员。这个协会是美国国家安养与照护组织中儿童安养照护服务的首席咨询机构，同时还是国家捐献者家庭理事会执行委员会成员。他的著作包括36本书和手册，例如《帮助儿童应对死亡：指导和资料》、《儿童与死亡》、《青少年与死亡》、《青少年的死亡与悲痛手册》等。 科尔博士的工作得到了死亡教育与咨询协会的认可，并被授予杰出个人贡献奖（1988）；国际儿童安养组织授予他世界儿童安养工作杰出贡献奖（1989）；之后他还获得了创立查尔斯·科尔基金的终身成就奖（1995）等等。 ...(展开全部)

In this rugged account of a rugged profession, Matthew Desmond explores the heart and soul of the wildland firefighter. Having joined a firecrew in northern Arizona as a young man, Desmond relates his experiences with intimate knowledge and native ease, adroitly balancing emotion with analysis and action with insight. "On the Fireline" shows that these firefighters aren't adren...(展开全部)

In this rugged account of a rugged profession, Matthew Desmond explores the heart and soul of the wildland firefighter. Having joined a firecrew in northern Arizona as a young man, Desmond relates his experiences with intimate knowledge and native ease, adroitly balancing emotion with analysis and action with insight. "On the Fireline" shows that these firefighters aren't adren...(展开全部)

This 1973 classic is an unforgettable chronicle of John Kennedy's Camelot and its legacy--featuring remarkable portraits of the men who conceived and executed the Vietnam War, including Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, Dean Rusk, and Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

This 1973 classic is an unforgettable chronicle of John Kennedy's Camelot and its legacy--featuring remarkable portraits of the men who conceived and executed the Vietnam War, including Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, Dean Rusk, and Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

Internationally celebrated for her novels, Nadine Gordimer has devoted much of her life and fiction to the political struggles of the Third World, the New World, and her native South Africa. "Living in Hope and History" is an on-the-spot record of her years as a public figure--an observer of apartheid and its aftermath, a member of the ANC, and the champion of dissident writers...(展开全部)

The genogram is a graphic way of organising information gathered during a family assessment and identifying patterns in the family system. This popular text - updated and expanded to highlight new developments in genogram use - thoroughly explains how to draw, interpret and apply the genogram. Entertaining and instructive, "Genograms" is the ideal guide for introducing all thos...(展开全部)

Killing and Dying is a stunning showcase of the possibilities of the graphic novel medium and a wry exploration of loss, creative ambition, identity, and family dynamics. With this work, Adrian Tomine (Shortcomings, Scenes from an Impending Marriage) reaffirms his place not only as one of the most significant creators of contemporary comics but as one of the great voices of mod...(展开全部)

"[Adrian Tomine] has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime.” ―Zadie Smith After enjoying over six months on the New York Times Bestseller list and receiving a rave review from the same institution, acclaimed cartoonist Adrian Tomine’s Killing and Dying is now available in paperback, with an updated cover and French flaps. With this work, Tomine (Shortcom...(展开全部)