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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.