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Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders
Guilford Publications 2008; US$ 46.00This book provides the first comprehensive guide to the practice of "enhanced" cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E), the latest version of the leading empirically supported treatment for eating disorders. Written with the practitioner in mind, the book demonstrates how this transdiagnostic approach can be used with the full range of eating disorders... more...
The Imagined Island
The University of North Carolina Press 2005; US$ 26.95In a landmark study of history, power, and identity in the Caribbean, Pedro L. San Miguel examines the historiography of Hispaniola, the West Indian island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He argues that the national identities of (and often the tense relations between) citizens of these two nations are the result of imaginary contrasts... more...
Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916
The University of North Carolina Press 2005; US$ 28.95Combining intellectual and social history, Teresita Martinez-Vergne explores the processes by which people in the Dominican Republic began to hammer out a common sense of purpose and a modern national identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Hoping to build a nation of hardworking, peaceful, voting citizens,... more...
Facing Racial Revolution
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 18.00The only truly successful slave uprising in the Atlantic world, the Haitian Revolution gave birth to the first independent black republic of the modern era. Inspired by the revolution that had recently roiled their French rulers, black slaves and people of mixed race alike rose up against their oppressors in a bloody insurrection that led to the... more...
Dominican Republic Travel Complete Profile
World Trade Press 2010; US$ 15.20Whether planning your own trip to Dominican Republic, or planning someone elses, youll be equipped with the all-inclusive travel reportboth of our Travel and Points of Interest reports rolled into one. more...
Haiti
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 16.99Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philippe Girard answers these and other questions, examining how colonialism and slavery have left a legacy of racial tension, both within Haiti and internationally; Haitians remain deeply suspicious of white foriegners'... more...
Washington Information Directory 2011-2012
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2011; US$ 232.50Washington Information Directory (WID) is the essential one-stop source for information on U.S. governmental and nongovernmental agencies and organizations. WID provides capsule descriptions that help users quickly and easily find the right person at the right organization. more...
A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution
Wiley 2011; US$ 93.95This book offers students a concise and clearly written overview of the events of the Haitian Revolution, from the slave uprising in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1791 to the declaration of Haiti’s independence in 1804. Draws on the latest scholarship in the field as well as the author’s original research Offers a valuable resource... more...
The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon
University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 45.00To a contemporary audience, Haiti brings to mind Voodoo spells, Tontons Macoutes, and boat people--nothing worth fighting over. Two centuries ago, however, Haiti, then known as Saint-Domingue, was the “Pearl of the Antilles,” France's most valuable overseas colony, the largest exporter of tropical products in the world, and the United... more...
Washington DC's Most Wanted
Potomac Books Inc. 2010; US$ 6.95America's capital gets the Most Wanted treatment more...









