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A church's liturgy is its ritualized system of worship, the services and patterns in which believers regularly participate. While the term often refers to a specific formal ritual like the Roman Catholic Mass, events surrounding major life events-birth, coming of age, marriage, death-are often celebrated through church liturgies. By documenting and analyzing Mormon liturgical history, Jonathan Stapley is able to explore the nuances of Mormon belief and practice.More important, he can demonstrate that the Mormon ordering of heaven and earth is not a mere philosophical or theological exercise. The Power of Godliness is the first work to establish histories for these unique liturgies and to provide interpretive frameworks for them.

In this book, Joseph Millum explains how parental rights and responsibilities are acquired, what they consist in, and how parents should go about making decisions on behalf of their children. In doing so, he provides a set of frameworks to help solve pressing ethical dilemmas relating to parents and children.

In Honor Bound, social psychologist Ryan Brown tells the story of how the ideology of honor underlies behaviors from spontaneous bar fights to organized acts of terrorism, and is at work in romantic relationships, suicide, foreign policy decisions by political leaders, and even how parents name their babies.

An edited volume featuring chapters on multidisciplinary aspects of the Periodic Table, particularly focusing on the history and philosophy of chemistry

The Gerontological Imagination provides an integrative paradigm of aging that makes it the first book to identify intellectual common ground among scholars studying aging. Ferraro identifies an underlying set of principles that constitute a paradigm for the study of aging: causality, life course analysis, multifaceted change, heterogeneity, accumulation processes, and ageism.

Young Muslim America is an ethnographic study explores the perspectives and identities of the American descendants of both immigrant Muslims and converts to Islam.

The lyricist behind such enduring classics as Brigadoon, Camelot, and My Fair Lady, Alan Jay Lerner (1918-86) was a consummate craftsman, refining his work over and over. In this book, editors Dominic McHugh and Amy Asch bring to life the stories behind Lerner's oeuvre while also providing alternative or draft versions of his work. For the theater lover and scholar alike, the book sheds new light on one of musical theater's defining figures.

Fully revised to reflect the DSM-5, the second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Eating Disorders features the latest research findings, applications, and approaches to understanding eating disorders. Including foundational topics alongside practical specifics, like literature reviews and clinical applications, this handbook is essential for scientists, clinicians, and students alike.

Politics at Work documents how and why U.S. employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics-and what such recruitment means for American democracy and public policy.

Finding the Truth in the Courtroom combines the science behind deception and memory and their relation in court. Testimonies are oftentimes the most important piece of evidence in legal cases. Hence, this book shows how such testimonies can be riddled with deception and/or memory errors, how to detect them, and what you can against them.

What are the landmarks of the cognitive revolution? What are the core topics of modern cognitive science? Where is cognitive science heading to? Leading cognitive scientists-Chomsky, Pylyshyn, Gallistel, and others-examine their own work in relation to one of cognitive science's most influential and polemical figures: Jerry Fodor.

Diary research methods are distinct in the qualitative canon for their mode of data collection. This book discusses diary research history, design, data collection, data analysis, composing the final report, evaluation, and ethics.

Focusing on the slaveholding border state of Missouri, Houses Divided shows that congregational and local denominational schisms, which arose initially over the moral question of African-American bondage, played a central role in sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction.

Stigma leads to poorer health. In The Oxford Handbook of Stigma, Discrimination, and Health, leading scholars identify stigma mechanisms that operate at multiple levels to erode the health of stigmatized individuals and, collectively, produce health disparities. This book provides unique insights concerning the link between stigma and health across various types of stigma and groups.

This Handbook charts the new and emerging contexts, practices, pedagogies, and research approaches which will define the field of community music in coming decades.

The Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents suggest that there may a simple and efficient method of utilizing effective treatment strategies, such as those commonly included in CBT, in a manner that addresses the broad array of emotional disorder symptoms in children and adolescents. The Unified Protocol for children and adolescents comprises a Therapist Guide, as well as two Workbooks, one for children, and one for adolescents.

The Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents suggest that there may a simple and efficient method of utilizing effective treatment strategies, such as those commonly included in CBT, in a manner that addresses the broad array of emotional disorder symptoms in children and adolescents. The Unified Protocol for children and adolescents comprises a Therapist Guide, as well as two Workbooks, one for children, and one for adolescents.

Twice Exceptional: Supporting and Educating Bright and Creative Students with Learning Difficulties provides cutting-edge, evidence-based approaches to creating an environment where twice-exceptional students can thrive. Viewing the 2e student as neither exclusively disabled nor exclusively gifted, but, rather, as a dynamic interaction of both, leading experts offer holistic insight into identification, social-emotional development, advocacy, and support for2e students.

The Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents suggest that there may a simple and efficient method of utilizing effective treatment strategies, such as those commonly included in CBT, in a manner that addresses the broad array of emotional disorder symptoms in children and adolescents. The Unified Protocol for children and adolescents comprises a Therapist Guide, as well as two Workbooks, one forchildren, and one for adolescents.

The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology provides an in-depth source for understanding how and why physical setting can influence the emergence of crime, affect the environment, and impact individual or group behavior.

Long before the network era, radio writers and programmers developed methods and performance styles that were grounded in emerging audio technologies. Making Radio reveals radio as the missing link in the history of modern sound culture.

This book offers a collection of critical studies of major texts used to reconstruct the founding era of Mormonism. The book will help scholars gain a more solid footing in the period's documentary record and enable them to use these and other sources more critically in their own work.

This practical "how to" guide integrates a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review of literature, alongside a wealth of the authors' combined research experience, into a framework for behavioral health and other investigators to successfully plan, budget, assess, engage in, analyze, and report participant recruitment and retention in intervention and evaluation research studies.

This book will heighten the public's awareness about counterfeit drugs, critically examine possible solutions, and help people protect themselves.

The first new addition to the "Harvard Servius" to appear in over fifty years, this edition of the Servian commentaries on Aeneid 9-12 is superior to all previous editions of Servius in the constitution and layout of its text, its accurate and thorough critical apparatuses, and its rich collection of testimonia.

This book explores the ethical dimension of the interface between psychiatry and religion, illustrating core principles with practical examples in a variety of contexts. These include subspecialties such as child, geriatric, forensic, inpatient, and community psychiatry, and settings such as ethics committees, religious organizations, and international conflicts, psychiatric education, and research.

The European pursuit for legal integration and language diversity poses a puzzling question: how can the EU create uniform laws in 24 official languages successfully? This book argues that the answer lies in elevating the English language version, and seeking literalism over fluency in allying the other language versions.