Month: December 2013

Book Review: Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Commons: A Comprehensive Approach for International Security

Editor: Scott Jasper Publisher: Georgetown University Press – 260 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Today several countries – both friendly and unfriendly to the United States – have gained economic power and military capabilities, and concern has arisen about whether there can be peace and harmony in the near and distant future. For example, China continues to increase its economic power by rapidly acquiring scarce assets around the world – resources such as agricultural land, access to water, oil-extracting and refining facilities, and precious metals such as gold and silver. North Korea continues to acquire greater military capability,...

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Book Review: Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective, 3rd edition

Authors: Katherine van Wormer and Diane Rae Davis Publisher: Cengage Learning – 684 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram In their dedication for this book, the authors express strongly that helping people fight their addiction to drugs takes much determination and dedication, a missionary zeal, and most important of all, cooperation from all those involved in the objective. This is what makes for effective teamwork. Nothing can better express the difficulty in helping people get off addictive drugs and get satisfaction from doing so, than what each author writes: Katherine van Wormer dedicates this book to the “frontline workers...

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Book Review: Religion and Politics in Europe and the United States

Editors: Volker Depkat and Jergen Martschukat Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar This book takes a look at how religion has played various roles in politics in Europe and the United States from the early modern era to today. Some 15 thinkers – historians, political scientists, and sociologists, from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Austria – have contributed their points of view on various related topics to this volume, and that material is presented in 14 chapters organized neatly around these main subjects in 5 Parts: I. State Formation II. Punishment III....

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Book Review: Cardiac Surgery, 4th edition

Book Review: Cardiac Surgery, 4th edition Authors: Nicholas T. Kouchokous, Eugene H. Blackstone, Frank L. Hanley, & James K. Kirklin. Contributors: Colleen Koch and Chandra Ramamoorthy Publisher: Elsevier Saunders, 1780 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book of two volumes discusses basic concepts of cardiac surgery in Volume 1. In Volume 2, the indications for operation in each chapter, and other matters are covered. Among the basic concepts are: anatomy, support techniques, myocardial management, anesthesia, postoperative care, and methodology for generating new knowledge from previous experience. The indications for operation are the derivatives of comparison of various outcomes...

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Book Review: Oxford Handbook of International Psychological Ethics

Book Review: Oxford Handbook of International Psychological Ethics Editors: Mark M. Leach, Michael J. Stevens, Geoff Lindsay, Andrea Ferrero, and Yesim Korkut Publisher: Oxford University Press, 490 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Work by 82 educators in 21 countries who contributed articles on international psychological ethics makes this book truly international in perspective. They hail from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, Hong Kong, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States. This book is an international review of current and emerging ethical issues in the...

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