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This book helps psychiatrists understand more fully a biological approach to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of schizophrenia. It begins with the discussion of current diagnostic criteria and elaborates on other treatable pathologies often present with schizophrenia. The authors present a medical model of treatment designed to ensure that every person diagnosed with schizophrenia receives a full medical evaluation to help eliminate diseases that...

This powerful film follows the recovery of people who have suffered a traumatic brain injury. With access to a specialist brain injury rehabilitation unit, Louis looks at the impact on individuals and their families. Focusing particularly on neurobehavioral and cognitive issues like speech problems, aggressiveness and lack of inhibition, the program raises the question - how do you keep loving and supporting a person who has changed so drastically?...

"Since her arrest and five-day jail stay during the Seattle anti-WTO protests in November 1999, Starhawk has poured her energy into the global justice movement, participating in direct actions, leading nonviolence training workshops, and writing, always writing. Webs of Power is the outcome: an account from the front lines of that movement as it migrated from Seattle to Prague, then Brazil, Quebec City, and Genoa. As well as reporting the actions...

The Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West (or Pegida) feel threatened by what they consider Muslim attacks on the Christian culture of Germany. They believe that immigrants, and particularly Muslim immigrants, are a menace to German culture and national identity. In Dresden, Germany, where Pegida started, demonstrations occur every Monday. This documentary explains Pegida's beginnings, why it is growing so fast, and what its motives...

"Fences and Windows collects Naomi Klein's most notable articles and speeches, many of them never before published, on such issues as NAFTA, genetically modified organisms and economic fundamentalism. This book also reflects on the nature of resistance: the street protests that have shocked and energized millions, the purpose of carnival-style subversion, and the apparent disorganization that is the movement's great strength."--Jacket.

Highlights some of the rallying causes for organized marches throughout history. Sometimes people march to resist injustice, to stand in solidarity ,to inspire hope. Throughout American history, one thing remains true: no matter how or why people march, they are powerful because they march together. -- Provided by publisher.

"In this highly provocative book, Stephen Ray Flora maintains that we have been deceived into believing that whatever one's psychological problem from anxiety, anorexia, bulimia, depression, phobias, sleeping and sexual difficulties to schizophrenia - there is a drug to cure us. In contrast, he argues that these problems are behavioral, not chemical, and he advocates behavioral therapy as an antidote. He makes the controversial claim that for virtually...

With unique access inside the battle for Hong Kong, FRONTLINE follows five protesters through the most intense clashes over several months of pro-democracy protests. The film examines their struggle against growing influence from the communist government of China.

Based on interviews with representatives of all the groups involved in the dispute regarding the request of the National Socialist Party of America, led by Frank Collin, to march in Skokie in 1977 - the Holocaust survivors, the Nazi Party, and the American Civil Liberties Union. Questions the decision of the court to permit the march. Opposes the protection of free speech as enshrined in the First Amendment when that speech is intended to assault...

"Law and Order offers a valuable new study of the political and social history of the 1960s. It presents a sophisticated account of how the issues of street crime and civil unrest enhanced the popularity of conservatives, eroded the credibility of liberals, and transformed the landscape of American politics. Ultimately, the legacy of law and order was a political world in which the grand ambitions of the Great Society gave way to grim expectations."--Jacket....