Books published by Baywood Publishing Company Inc

Locates workers' health and safety problems in the broad political economy. This title argues that without a deep understanding of the social/political/economic context of particular industries or workplaces, we cannot fully grasp the process of recognition and control of industrial hazards.

A collection of essays that focuses on both how and why assessment serves as a key element in the teaching and practice of technical and professional communication. It offers teachers, students, scholars, and practitioners evidence of the increasingly valuable role of assessment in the field, as it supports and enriches our thinking and practice.

A collection of articles that delves into the world of content management systems.

Explores five areas where technology affects society, and suggests ways in which human communication can facilitate the use of that technology.

Provides the instructors of introductory technical communication courses with a set of resources for their classrooms.

A set of essays on the relationship between discourse and the many institutions within which people act.

Describes fresh approaches to aesthetics, creativity and psychology of the arts, approaching these topics from a point of view that is biological or related to biology. This book begins with a consideration of ten theories on the evolutionary function of specific arts such as music and literature.

When Diane Sher Lutovich set out to attain closure of her mother's death she simultaneously discovered how other women address their losses. This book tells the big and little stories of women who, having come of age during the feminist revolution, lived very different lives than their mothers.

A guide for clinicians to operationally define, understand, and responsibly treat complex post-traumatic stress and grief syndromes in the context of the unique varieties of police personality styles.

Work, so fundamental to well-being, has its darker and more costly side. Work can adversely affect our health, well beyond the usual counts of injuries that we think of as 'occupational health'. This book advances a social environmental understanding of the workplace and health.

Within the framework of New Literacy Studies, Dirk Remley presents a historical study of how technical communication practices at a World War II arsenal sponsored literacy within the community in which it operated from 1940 to 1960 and contemporary implications of similar forms of sponsorship.

Says that a decision to commit suicide is highly personal and not to be enforced by others, whether psychiatrist, psychologist, law-maker, clergy, friend, or relative. This book contends that the choice of suicide can be both rational and morally sound.

The workplace is not immune to the problems, pressures, and challenges presented by experiences of loss and trauma and the grief reactions they produce. This book offers insights and understanding to help us appreciate the difficulties involved and prepare ourselves for dealing with such demanding situations when they arise.

Examines the impact of outsourcing on the field of technical communication. This title addresses the needs of graduate students, faculty, and technical communicators who want to teach, practice, or conduct research in this area. It explores issues of curriculum, project management, legal considerations, and intercultural communication problems.

Reflects on some major themes - death and after-life, religion and spirituality, rites and rituals, secularist approaches, cultural variations, suicide, and other issues. This book includes which chapters describe progress in end-of-life care, including some tools to evaluate hospice care.

Features papers directed to fire protection in various environments other than building structures including fuel transporting vehicles, spacecraft, a sports arena, an offshore oil rig and propane fueling bus facilities.

Highlights the diversity of approaches that are underway under the banner of neuroaesthetics. This book presents a possible framework for neuroaesthetics by highlighting what the contributors consider to be its defining features and offering a working definition of neuroaesthetics that captures these features.

Based on the hypothesis that the new dynamics of old age is best observed in a range of everyday aging contexts that have been undergoing major change since the second half of the 20th century. This book is aimed at scholarly community of gerontology in a variety of disciplines; sociology, psychology, demography, epidemiology, and others.

Includes articles that question each of the tenets of neoliberal doctrine, showing how the policies guided by this ideology have adversely affected human development in the countries where they have been implemented. This book assembles a series of articles that challenge this ideology.

Based on research and projects in the field, the perspective of this book is that long-term, sustainable social and economic development requires strategies geared to the scientific, technical, cultural, and environmental aspects of development. The chapters illustrate the different ways in which universities pursue education for sustainability.

Says that the federal National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) have betrayed us. This book alleges that these institutions have spent tens of billions of taxpayer primarily targeting silver-bullet cures, strategies that have largely failed, while virtually ignoring strategies for preventing cancer in the first place.

In an overcrowded world, catastrophes, natural as well as man-made, have left a wake of tormented people, ranging from political prisoners to humiliated UN peace-keepers. This book focuses on the effects of traumatic stress which accompany personal and collective disasters.

Focuses on the variety of ways in which age and ageing are socially constructed, and the extent to which growing old is being transformed through processes associated with globalisation. This book provides the basis for a modern type of critical gerontology relevant to the twenty-first century.

Illuminates the many facets that link grief, counseling, and creativity. This book suggests multiple strategies that will help practitioners enlarge their repertoire of hands-on skills and foster introspection and empathy in reader.