Authors:Robert F. Schoeni, James S. House, George A. Kaplan,
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Keywords: policy, poverty, center, series, public, national, health, healthier, social, economic, making, americans
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 2008-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0871547473
ISBN-13: 9780871547477

The United States spends billions of dollars annually on social and economic policies aimed at improving the lives of its citizens, but the health consequences associated with these policies are rarely considered. In Making Americans Healthier, a group of multidisciplinary experts shows how social and economic policies seemingly unrelated to medical well-being have dramatic consequences for the health of the American people. Most previous research concerning problems with health and healthcare in the United States has focused narrowly on issues of medical care and insurance coverage, but Ma

Authors:Rachel Kaplan, Stephen Kaplan, Robert Ryan,
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: everyday, nature, management, design, mind, people
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 1998-03-01
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 1559635940
ISBN-13: 9781559635943

Some parks, preserves, and other natural areas serve people well; others are disappointing. Successful design and management requires knowledge of both people and environments.With People in Mind explores how to design and manage areas of "everyday nature"-parks and open spaces, corporate grounds, vacant lots and backyard gardens, fields and forests-in ways that are beneficial to and appreciated by humans. Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan, leading researchers in the field of environmental psychology, along with Robert Ryan, a landscape architect and urban planner, provide a conceptual framewor

Authors:Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: free, mathematics, setting, labyrinth
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-01-22
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0195147448
ISBN-13: 9780195147445

Who hasn’t feared the math Minotaur in its labyrinth of abstractions? Now, in Out of the Labyrinth, Robert and Ellen Kaplan--the founders of The Math Circle, the popular learning program begun at Harvard in 1994--reveal the secrets behind their highly successful approach, leading readers out of the labyrinth and into the joyous embrace of mathematics. Written with the same wit and clarity that made Robert Kaplan’s The Nothing That Is an international bestseller, Out of the Labyrinth offers an engaging and practical guide for parents and educators, and a delight for anyone intereste

Authors:Rachel Kaplan, Stephen Kaplan,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: perspective, psychological, nature, experience
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1989-07-28
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0521341396
ISBN-13: 9780521341394

A study of the natural environment, people, and the relationship between them. The authors offer a research-based analysis of the vital psychological role that nature plays. They try to understand how people perceive nature and what kinds of natural environments they prefer.

Authors:Michael Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: probability, adventures, chances
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-02-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0143038346
ISBN-13: 9780143038344

A compelling journey through history, mathematics, and philosophy, charting humanity’s struggle against randomness Our lives are played out in the arena of chance. However little we recognize it in our day-to-day existence, we are always riding the odds, seeking out certainty but settling—reluctantly—for likelihood, building our beliefs on the shadowy props of probability. Chances Are is the story of man’s millennia-long search for the tools to manage the recurrent but unpredictable—to help us prevent, or at least mitigate, the seemingly random blows of disaster, disease, and injust

Authors:Peter W. Kaplan, Peter W. Kaplan, Frank W. Drislane,
Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing
Keywords: epilepticus, status, nonconvulsive
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-10-31
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 1933864109
ISBN-13: 9781933864105

An under-recognized condition that can potentially cause brain damage and even death, nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) is an important clinical problem, occurring in about 25% of status epilepsy cases. Despite this prevalence, Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus is the first comprehensive clinical text to cover its diagnosis and management. The book progresses logically, beginning with chapters discussing the history and classification of NCSE, reflecting a contemporary understanding of developmental, syndromic, and clinical aspects. Following chapters discuss relevant epidemiology, elect

Authors:Peter W. Kaplan (Editor), Peter W. Kaplan,
Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing
Keywords: women, disease, neurologic
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2005-08-30
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 1888799854
ISBN-13: 9781888799859

Although there appears to be a general understanding that the human brain functions similarly in women and in men, an increasing body of knowledge indicates that neuronal connectivity, recruitment, and disease patterns exhibit gender differences. There are clear gender differences in genetic expression, physiologic function, metabolism, hormonal makeup, and psychosocial profile, which often modify the clinical expression of neurologic and other diseases. In addition, ethnic, cultural, and economic factors are frequently overlooked in dealing with health problems of women, even though they undo