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A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, WorkbookIt is estimated that one in ten U.S. adults suffers from chronic insomnia. If left untreated, chronic insomnia reduces quality of life and increases risk for psychiatric and medical disease, especially depression and anxiety.  The Overcoming Insomnia treatment program uses evidence-based...

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Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American UrbanismMore than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "e;Cars Choking Cities as &'Urban Sprawl&' Takes Over."e; Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for...

The idea of multi-culturalism has had a significant impact across many areas of law. This book explores how it has shaped the recent development of international human rights law. Custodians of human rights, especially international monitoring bodies, try to advance the effectiveness of human rights standards by interpreting these standards...

Poses the question: to what extent did it make a difference to those living in the colonies that made up British North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that they were part of an empire and that the empire in question was British?...

The Social Foundations of Peripheral Conquest in International PoliticsIn the nineteenth century, European states conquered vast stretches of territory across the periphery of the international system. Much of Asia and Africa fell to the armies of the European great powers, and by World War I, those armies controlled 40 percent of the world&'s...