Alan D D : 234 books
Progressive Consumption Taxation
The X-Tax Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Alone among developed countries, the United States has no broad-based national consumption tax. Yet, economic analysis suggests that consumption taxation is superior to income taxation because it does not penalize saving and investment. The authors conclude that the U.S. income tax system should be...
Healing Grief at Work
100 Practical Ideas After Your Workplace Is Touched by Loss
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
With a gentle and considerate style, this handbook explores what happens when grief and the workplace meet, and the drastic effects of grieving on employees, their performance, and the overall workplace environment. Touching on the different kinds of grief workers can experience, such as death, divorce,...
Funeral Home Customer Service AZ
Creating Exceptional Experiences for Today's Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
From personalizing memorials and visitations to aftercare for the bereaved, this thoughtful manual helps owners and staff of funeral homes and cemeteries better understand their customers and the special needs in tending to the grieving and burial process. Explaining the evolution and prospects of...
Healing After Job Loss
100 Practical Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Full of practical, time-tested counsel, this handbook offers simple, useful tips and activities to counter the typically negative reactions to job loss, such as loss of self esteem, and explores thoughts and feelings with the goal of healing. Whether discussing situations when companies have been downsized...
Computational Statistics in the Earth Sciences
With Applications in MATLAB
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Based on a course taught by the author, this book combines the theoretical underpinnings of statistics with the practical analysis of Earth sciences data using MATLAB. The book is organized to introduce the underlying concepts, and then extends these to the data, covering methods that are most applicable...
The Wilderness of Grief
Finding Your Way
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2007
Based on the author's previous guides to a 10-touchstone method of grief therapy, this book takes an inspirational approach to the material, presenting the idea of wilderness as a sustained metaphor for grief-and likening the death of a loved one to the experience of being wrenched from normal...
Art Smart
The Intelligent Guide to Investing in the Canadian Art Market
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Art Smart is a comprehensive guide to the Canadian art market for both novice and experienced collectors. It is full of advice that can give anyone the tools to determine the value of a piece of art and to not be intimidated by the often mystifying world of art. This informative and helpful volume...
The Understanding Your Suicide Grief Support Group Guide
Meeting Plans for Facilitators
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one, coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance and is seeking information about coping with such a profound loss, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent to their grief. Using the metaphor of the wilderness, the book introduces...
by Albert Vexler, Alan D. Hutson, Xiwei Chen
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Statistical Testing Strategies in the Health Sciences provides a compendium of statistical approaches for decision making, ranging from graphical methods and classical procedures through computationally intensive bootstrap strategies to advanced empirical likelihood techniques. It bridges the gap...
The PTSD Solution
The Truth About Your Symptoms and How to Heal
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
A new approach to understanding PTSD as a form of grief rather than a medical disorder
Have you ever felt that something essential was missing from your post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment options? If you suffer from PTSD, you know the problem is complex, but what you probably don’t...
The Depression of Grief
Coping with Your Sadness and Knowing When to Get Help
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Recognizing that depression is a normal and natural component of grief, this compassionate guide helps mourners understand their depression, express it in healing ways, and know when they may be experiencing a more severe or clinical depression that would be eased by professional treatment. It proposes...
The Wilderness of Divorce
Finding Your Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Addressing a significant loss in life, this guidebook enables those who have experienced a divorce to mourn sufficiently and begin to heal. Delving into the 10 essential touchstones of the healing process, this resource encourages the exploration of feelings of loss, identifying the specific needs...
The Transcending Divorce Journal
Exploring the Ten Essential Touchstones
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
An aide for the challenging emotional process that follows a divorce, this companion journal to Transcending Divorce explores the 10 crucial touchstones for finding hope and healing the mourning heart, including dispelling misconceptions about divorce, seeking reconciliation, and appreciating the...
The Understanding Your Grief Support Group Guide
Starting and Leading a Bereavement Support Group
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
This guide to facilitating support groups offers bereavement caregivers practical strategies for creating and maintaining a productive environment for mourners. Logistical considerations such as setting up and publicizing a new group are discussed, as is the importance of prescreening new members....