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Social protection versus economic flexibility : is there a trade-off? / by Blank, Rebecca M.(CARDINAL)184955;

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Evaluating the connection between social protection and economic flexibility / Rebecca M. Blank and Richard B. Freeman -- Trends in social protection programs and expenditures in the 1980s / Peter Scherer -- Does employment protection inhibit labor market flexibility? Lessons from Germany, France and Belgium / Katharine G. Abraham and Susan N. Houseman -- Patterns in regional labor market adjustment : the United States versus Japan / Edward B. Montgomery -- Housing market regulations and housing market performance in the United States, Germany, and Japan / Axel Börsch-Supan -- Health insurance provision and labor market efficiency in the United States and Germany / Douglas Holtz-Eakin -- Social security and older workers' labor market responsiveness : the United States, Japan, and Sweden / Marcus E. Rebick -- Public sector growth and labor market flexibility : the United States versus the United Kingdom / Rebecca M. Blank -- Does public health insurance reduce labor market flexibility or encourage the underground economy? Evidence from Spain and the United States / Sara de la Rica and Thomas Lemieux -- Social welfare programs for women and children : the United States versus France / Maria J. Hanratty -- Three regimes of child care : the United States, the Netherlands, and Sweden / Siv Gustafsson and Frank P. Stafford.Do social protection programs limit the ability of the labor market to adjust to fast-growing segments of the economy, and thus inevitably lead to a decrease in economic growth? This volume compares how such programs as social security, income transfers, and job protection laws in Western Europe, the United States, and Japan have affected labor market flexibility. Does tying health insurance to employment limit job mobility? Do certain housing policies inhibit workers from moving to new jobs in different areas? What are the effects of daycare and maternity leave policies on working mothers? The authors explore these and many other questions in an effort to understand why European unemployment rates are so high compared with the U.S. rate.By examining diverse data sets across different countries, the authors find that while social protection programs do change economic behavior, there is little evidence that they create inflexibility with regard to economic adjustment. To achieve useful comparisons among diverse nations, the authors employ "difference-in-difference" estimators, through which economic changes in a country that has undergone policy changes can be compared to economic changes in a country in which policy has remained constant. An in-depth look at the impact of various welfare programs on labor market change, this book demonstrates how social protection policies have affected employment around the globe.

Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Social security; Labor market;

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Made to hear : cochlear implants and raising deaf children / by Mauldin, Laura,1977-author.(CARDINAL)412441;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: medicalization, deaf children, and cochlear implants -- A diagnosis of deafness: how mothers experience newborn hearing screening -- Early intervention: turning parents into trainers -- Candidates for implantation: class, cultural background, and compliance -- The neural project: the role of the brain -- Sound in school: linking the school and the clinic -- Conclusion: the power and limits of technology."A mother whose child has had a cochlear implant tells Laura Mauldin why enrollment in the sign language program at her daughter's school is plummeting: "The majority of parents want their kids to talk." Some parents, however, feel very differently, because "curing" deafness with cochlear implants is uncertain, difficult, and freighted with judgment about what is normal, acceptable, and right. Made to Hear sensitively and thoroughly considers the structure and culture of the systems we have built to make deaf children hear.Based on accounts of and interviews with families who adopt the cochlear implant for their deaf children, this book describes the experiences of mothers as they navigate the health care system, their interactions with the professionals who work with them, and the influence of neuroscience on the process. Though Mauldin explains the politics surrounding the issue, her focus is not on the controversy of whether to have a cochlear implant but on the long-term, multiyear undertaking of implantation. Her study provides a nuanced view of a social context in which science, technology, and medicine are trusted to vanquish disability--and in which mothers are expected to use these tools. Made to Hear reveals that implantation has the central goal of controlling the development of the deaf child's brain by boosting synapses for spoken language and inhibiting those for sign language, placing the politics of neuroscience front and center.Examining the consequences of cochlear implant technology for professionals and parents of deaf children, Made to Hear shows how certain neuroscientific claims about neuroplasticity, deafness, and language are deployed to encourage compliance with medical technology. "--

Subjects: Hard of hearing children; Deaf children; Hearing disorders in children; Cochlear implants;

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Mighty flower : how cannabis saved my son / by Manalo, Annabelle,author.;

When the most unimaginable tragedy occurred in her life, it was as though Dr. Annabelle had prepared for this very moment all along. Having son Macario, and being told that the removal of 40% of his brain at five weeks old would greatly inhibit develpmental processes both physically and mentally became the defining turn in Dr. Annabelle and her family's lives. This story of finding cannabis and taking risks to replace the medications that were initially given to Macario is compelling and inspirational. This book is the foundation for Dr. Annabelle's outside-the-box mentality, where she travels globally working to bridge the gap between natural alternatives, science, and the eventual implementation into medicine. Follow her journey as she educates worldwide, leads scientific initiatives, and most importantly, mothers five talented children.--

Subjects: Manalo, Annabelle; Brain damage; Cannabis; Brain damage;

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Spontaneous activity in education. Translated from the Italian by Florence Simmonds. by Montessori, Maria,1870-1952.(CARDINAL)142750;

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages xxvi-xxviii).A survey of the child's life : Laws of the child's physical life paralleled by those of its physical : Current objections to a system of education based upon ''liberty'' ; Hygiene has freed the infant from straps and swaddling clothes and left it free to develop ; Education must leave the soul free to develop ; Principle of liberty in education not a principle of abandonment. The liberty accorded the child of to-day is purely physical. Civil rights of the child in the twentieth century : Removal of perils of disease a step toward physical liberation ; Supplying the child's physical needs is not sufficient ; Child's social rights overlooked in the administration of orphan asylums ; Poor child's health and property confiscated in the custom of wet nursing ; We recognize justice only for those who can defend themselves. How we receive the infants that come into the world : Home has no furnishings adapted to their small size ; Society prepares a mockery for their reception in the shape of useless toys ; Child not allowed to act for himself ; Constant interruption of his activities prevents physical growth ; Bodily health suffers from spiritual neglect. With man the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit : Reflex action of the emotions on the body functions ; Child's body requires joy as much as food and air -- A survey of modern education : The precepts which govern moral education and instruction : Child expected to acquire virtues by imitation, instead of development ; Domination of the child's will the basis of education. It is the teacher who forms the child's mind. How he teaches : Teacher's path beset with difficulties under the present system ; Advanced experts prepare the schemata of instruction ; Some outlines of ''model lessons'' used in the schools ; Comparison of a ''model lesson'' for sense development with the Montessori method ; Experimental psychology, not speculative psychology, the basis of Montessori teaching ; False conceptions of the ''art of the teacher'' illustrated by model lessons. Positive science makes its appearance in the schools ; Discoveries of medicine: distortions and diseases ; Science has not fulfilled its mission in its dealings with children : Diseases of school children treated, causes left undisturbed. Discoveries of experimental psychology: overwork; nervous exhaustion ; Science is confronted by a mass of unsolved problems : Laws governing fatigue still unknown ; Toxines produced by fatigue and their antitoxins ; Joy in work the only preventative of fatigue ; Real experimental science, which shall liberate the child, not yet born -- My Contribution to experimental science : The organization of the physical life begins with the characteristic phenomenon of attention : Incident which led Dr. Montessori to define her method. Physical development is organized by the aid of external stimuli, which may be determined experimentally : Tendency to develop his latent powers exists in the child's nature ; Environment should contain the means of auto-education. External stimuli may be determined in quality and quantity : Educative material used should contain in itself the control of error ; Quantity of material determined by the advent of abstraction in pupil ; Relation of stimuli to the age of the pupil. Material of development is necessary only as a starting point : Corresponds to the terra firma from which the aero plane takes flight and to which it returns to rest ; Establishing of internal order, or ''discipline'' ; Physical growth requires constantly new and more complex material ; Difference between materials of auto-education and the didactic material of the schools. Physical truths : "Discipline" the first external sign of a physical reaction to the material ; Initial disorder in Montessori schools ; Physical progress not systematic but ''explosive in nature'' ; Birth of individuality ; Intellectual crises are accompanied by emotion ; Older child beginning in system, chooses materials in inverse order ; Course of physical phenomena explained by diagrams ; Tests of Binet and Simon arbitrary and superficial ; Problems of physical measurement ; Observing the child's moral nature ; Transformation of a ''violent'' child and of a ''spying'' child in Montessori school ; Polarization of the internal personality. Guide to psychological observation : Work ; Conduct ; Obedience -- The preparation of the teacher : The school is the laboratory of experimental psychology ; Qualities the new type of teacher must possess -- Environment : Physical hygiene in school ; The requirements of physical hygiene. Free movement : Misconceptions of physical freedom ; Action without an aim fatigues ; Work of ''preservation'' rather than ''production'' suitable to children -- Attention : Awakens in answer to an impulse of ''spiritual hunger'' ; Attention cannot be artificially maintained by teacher ; Liberty the experimental condition necessary for studying the phenomena of attention ; Child's perception of an internal development makes the exercise pleasant and induces him to prolong it ; External stimuli powerless without an answering internal force ; A natural internal force directs physical formation ; New pedagogy provides nourishment for internal needs ; Organization of knowledge in the child's mind ; teacher directs, but does not interrupt phenomena of attention ; Material offered should correspond to physical needs -- Will : Its relation to attention ; Manifested in action and inhibition ; Opposite activities of the will must combine to form the personality.Powers of the will established by exercise, not by subjection ; Persistence in effort the true foundation of will ; Decision the highest function of the will ; Development of will depends on order and clarity of ideas ; Power of choice, which precedes decision, should be strengthened ; Need of exercise for the will paralleled with need of muscular exercise ; Fallacy of educating the child's will by ''breaking it'' ; ''Character'' the result of established will, not of emulation -- Intelligence : Liberating the child means leaving him to ''his own intelligence'' ; How the intelligence of the child differs from the instincts of animals ; Intelligence the actual means of formation to the inner life ; Hygiene of intelligence ; Intelligence awakens and sets in motion the central nervous mechanisms ; In an age of speed, man has not accelerated himself ; Swift reactions to an external manifestation of intelligence ; Ability to distinguish and arrange the characteristic sign of intelligence ; Montessori ''sensory exercises'' make it possible for the child to distinguish and classify ; The Montessori child is sensitive to the objects of his environment ; Educational methods in use do not help the child to distinguish ; Power of association depends on ability to distinguish dominant characteristics ; Individuality revealed in association by similarity ; by means of attention and internal will the intelligence accomplishes the work of association ; Judgement and reasoning depend on ability to distinguish ; Activities of association and selection lead to individual habits of thought ; Importance of acquiring ability to reason for oneself ; Genius the possession of maximum powers of association by similarity ; Genius of errors in association and reasoning which have impeded science ; The consciousness can only accept truths for which it is ''expectant'' ; The intelligence has its peculiar perils, from which it should be guarded -- Imagination : The creative imagination of science is based upon truth : Imagination based on reality differs from that based on speculation ; Speculative imagination akin to original sin ; Education should direct imagination into creative channels. Truth is also the basis of artistic imagination : All imagination based on sense impressions ; Non-sensorial impressions--Spiritual truths ; Education in sense perception strengthens imagination ; Perfection in art dependent on approximation to truth ; Exercise of the intelligence aids imagination. Imagination in children : Immature and therefore concerned with unrealities ; Should be helped to overcome immaturity of thought ; False methods develop credulity, akin to insanity ; Period of credulity in the child prolonged for the amusement of the adult ; ''Living among real possessions'' the cure for illusion. Fable and religion : Religion not the product of fantasy ; Fable in schools does not prepare for religious teaching. The education of the imagination in schools for older children : Environment and method oppressive ; ''Composition'' introduced to foster imagination ; How composition is ''taught'' ; Imagination cannot be forced. The moral question : Contributions of positive science to morality ; Science raises society to level of Christian standards ; Parents' failure to teach sex morality ; Probable effects of experimental psychology in field of morals ; Experimental psychology should be directed to the schools ; Progress of medicine and its relation to new psychology ; Childish naughtiness a parental misconception ; Infant life different from the adult ; Hindering the child's development a moral question for the adult ; Need of the child ''to touch and to act'' ; How the adult prevents him from learning by doing ; Conceptions of good and bad conduct in the school ; Mutual aid a high crime in the school ; Surveillance for vicious habits originating in the school ; Developing a ''social sentiment'' in the school ; ''A moral with every lesson'' the teacher's aim ; Injurious system of prizes and punishments the school's mainstay ; The fallacy of ''emulation'' ; Necessity of reforming the school ; Good conduct dependent on satisfaction of intellectual needs ; Mere sensory education inadequate ; Love, the preservative force of life ; Christianity teaches the necessity of mutual love. The education of the moral sense : Moral education must have basis of feeling ; Adult the stimulus by which child's feeling is exercised ; How and when the adult should offer affection. The essence of moral education : Importance of perfecting spiritual sensibility ; Necessity of properly organized environment ; Helping the child distinguish between right and wrong ; ''Internal sense'' of right and wrong ; Moral conscience capable of development. Our insensibility : Virtuous person and criminal not detected by contact ; The war as an example of moral insensibility ; Insensibility distinguished from death of the soul ; Spiritually, man must either ascend or die. Morality and religion : Conversion, the sudden establishing of moral order ; The Spirit enslaved by sentiments hostile to love. The religious sentiment in children : Crises of conscience and spontaneous religious feeling ; Some original observations by Dr. Montessori.

Subjects: Montessori method of education.;

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Changing the course of autism : a scientific approach for parents and physicians / by Jepson, Bryan,1967-(CARDINAL)483189;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-339) and index.

Subjects: Autism in children; Autistic children;

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Breaking through depression : a guide to the next generation of promising research and revolutionary new treatments / by Gold, Philip W.,1944-author.(CARDINAL)871942;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-244) and index.William's anguish -- when psychiatry met biology -- stressed and depressed -- the brave new world of first-generation antidepressants (1960-2010) -- the art of therapy -- genetics, destiny, and depression -- darkness visible -- hormones and depression -- depression's true toll -- when children suffer -- bipolar disorder -- the power and promise of lithium shock therapy -- psychedelics and connection -- a newer understanding of older antidepressants -- the promise and power of ketamine -- breaking through depression -- building resiliency."BREAKING THROUGH DEPRESSION explores how the anatomy of the brain and the biochemistry of nerve impulses play a major role in how we view ourselves and the world. Drawing from his long-term research, Dr. Philip Gold makes the case for depression arisingat the intersection of genetic vulnerability with stressful, disturbing life experiences that get encoded in our emotional memory. BREAKING THROUGH DEPRESSION will delve into the interplay between our anatomy and our lived experiences as the key to understanding why there are such individual differences in how we make connections with others, deal with adversity, or recover from trauma. More importantly, Dr. Gold reveals the latest breakthroughs that can heal people struggling with depression, including:-The FDA has fast-tracked Psilocybin and Ketamine as an anti-depressant treatments, which cause immediate improvement in depressive symptoms. -Low-energy lasers have been developed that can stimulate these areas directly and painlessly to relieve symptomsin treatment-resistant patients suffering from major depression. -Scientists are developing genetically 'thumbprinted' antidepressants that can be individually tailored to match a person's DNA increasing their effectiveness. -Inflammation in the body andthe brain is a prominent component of depressive illness, to the point that anti-inflammatory agents are useful in the treatment of depression. -Incredible progress with gene therapy including a treatment overcoming the BDNF gene mutation that interfereswith resiliency, promotes vulnerability to depression, and inhibits the capacity of antidepressants to work effectively. These are just a few of the fascinating new developments explored in BREAKING THROUGH DEPRESSION and the many reasons for hope that Dr. Gold shares in this groundbreaking book"--

Subjects: Depression, Mental; Depression, Mental;

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Shooting Down Heaven / by Franco, Jorge.(CARDINAL)557830;

Expertly told by one of Latin America's most exciting voices, Shooting Down Heaven follows the children raised by 1990s Colombia's most dangerous drug cartels and the consequences that shape their adulthood. After twelve years away, Larry comes home to his native country of Colombia after his father, an old associate of Pablo Escobar, is murdered. Larry returns to collect his remains from a mass grave and give him a proper burial...but not before a reunion with his childhood friend, Pedro. Pedro picks him up at the airport to take him directly to the Alborada celebration-a popular festival where fireworks explode over Medellín, and the entire city loses its inhibitions. This is where Larry's story really begins. His long-awaited homecoming quickly becomes a rude awakening. The years of luxury living in bodyguard-surrounded mansions are now firmly in the past, as Larry watches his family-including his ex-beauty queen mother and troubled brother-fall deeper into depression, drug addiction, and the traps of the family business. Faced by an uncertain reality, Larry is forced to confront his family's turbulent history and reclaim himself from the dark remnants of a city still trying to rediscover itself. Unflinching and remarkably controlled, Jorge Franco creates a stunning portrait of a generation wounded by their parents' mistakes

Subjects: Fiction.; Young adult literature.;

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The end / by Torres, Fernanda,1965-author.(CARDINAL)539217; Entrekin, Alison,translator.(CARDINAL)466814;

"With uncanny insight into the less virtuous corners of the male psyche, Fernanda Torres brings us five friends who once milked the high life of Rio's Bossa Nova age and are now left with memories--parties, marriages, divorces, fixations, inhibitions, bad decisions--and the grim realities of getting old. Álvaro lives alone and bemoans the evils of his ex-wife. Sílvio can't give up the excesses of sex and drugs. Ribeiro is a vain, Viagra-abusing beach bum. Neto is the square, a faithful husband until the end. Ciro is the Don Juan envied by all--but the first to die. Cutting in on these swan songs are the testimonies of those the men seduced, cheated, loved, and abandoned: their wives and children. Edgy, funny, and wise, The End is a candid tropical tragicomedy and an epitaph for a lost generation of machos."--Amazon.com.

Subjects: Novels.; Death; Friendship; Friendships.;

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