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This new edition of this bestselling handbook offers a comprehensive and scholarly overview of the latest research on prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.Now in its third edition, the book provides a full update of its highly successful...

The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond is an exploration of psychoanalysis’ often complicated and fraught history with thinking about queerness, as well as it’s multifaceted heritage.Throughout the chapters, the...

This book addresses the fraught relationship between women and aggression, one troubled by age-old patriarchal forces that disparage women’s ambition, assertion, and voice.Told from a psychoanalytic perspective, the book details the sociocultural forces...

The second edition of AutPlay Therapy Play and Social Groups provides a neurodiversity-affirming perspective to help children and parents build healthy relationships, gain positive identity, build relationship with peers in ways that are meaningful for...

Newborn babies are examined at around 6 to 72 hours after their birth to rule out major congenital abnormalities and reassure the parents that their baby is healthy. This practical text is a step-by-step guide for all practitioners who undertake this...

Virtual Reality for Serious Illness explores the important role virtual reality interventions can play in symptom management, anxiety control, and spiritual meaning. The book focuses on cutting-edge research and its effects on the seriously ill and those...

Assuming the voices of psychoanalyst, scholar, and postmodern polemicist, Julia Kristeva discusses both the conflicts and commonalities among the Greek, Christian, Roman, and contemporary discourses on love, desire, and self. Her analysis deals with the...

Developing robots to interact with humans is a complex interdisciplinary effort. While engineering and social science perspectives on designing human-robot interactions are readily available, the body of knowledge and practices related to design,...

This manual sets out an accessible model for assessing the emotional needs of traumatised children and young adults and using the outcomes of the assessment to develop individualised therapeutic programmes to support their needs and emotional development...

Since the creation of the Department for International Development, the purpose of UK development policy and aid has changed significantly. This book provides a comprehensive evaluation of these changes, their causes, and their implications. It argues...

Now in its fourth edition, this book allows for early career occupational hygienists and occupational health and safety professionals or students to develop their basic skills and knowledge to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and control workplace...

First Published in 1939 and reissued with a new preface in 1965, African Women presents a study of the Ibo women of Nigeria. The originality of the book lies in the fact that practically all the information is obtained from women and that throughout,...

Applications of Machine Learning in Hydroclimatology is a comprehensive exploration of the transformative potential of machine learning for addressing critical challenges in water resources management. The book explores how artificial intelligence can...

Sexual Violence, Dissociation, and Inequality is a book about traumatic memory—or how lived trauma is repeated by victims as if happening again.The author, internationally renowned psychiatrist Muriel Salmona, lays out a convincing argument for the ways...

Contemporary Issues in Music Therapy Training introduces approaches, practices and dilemmas in contemporary learning and teaching of music therapy with a focus on experiential learning, reflective practice and inclusion.The book starts by setting out the...

Following in the steps of the first edition, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Distinctive Features, 2nd Edition, provides a history, context, and building blocks for a behaviour therapist to incorporate Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) into...

First published in 1954, The Home Office presents a comprehensive overview of the structure and functions of the Home Office of the Government of the United Kingdom. Sir Frank Newsam describes the principles which underlie the part played by the Home...

The book explores how ethnic minority culture is integrated into school practices inside and outside classrooms in Southwest China.The author investigates challenges in teaching and administration teachers have encountered in Chinese ethnic minority...

The book covers the various cell signaling pathways responsible for prostate cancer progression, conventional therapies used for prostate cancer treatment, new emerging therapeutics, and challenges in the treatment of cancer patients. It describes the...

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Pathways to Sustainable Welfare critically examines how cities can address the dual challenges of climate change and sustainability while ensuring the welfare of their populations. Focused on...

Something must have changed in society. We weren’t always this worried. Not always caught up in disastrous scenarios in our minds. What is this nagging voice in our head? Why won’t it stop, and why are we so fixated on it?In Why We Worry, Roland Paulsen...

The book introduces a new form of mathematical logic called "Information Oriented Logic" (IOL). It demonstrates that IOL is capable of solving various classical and non-classical logic problems that cannot be solved by traditional methods of logic. In...

Following in the steps of the first edition, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Distinctive Features, 2nd Edition, provides a history, context, and building blocks for a behaviour therapist to incorporate Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) into...

Focusing on optimising the normal biological processes of reproduction and early life, and in line with the NMC Future Midwives Standards, this comprehensive textbook introduces the fundamental anatomy and physiology knowledge needed for midwifery...

Your mental health is as important as your physical health and, in times of stress, it's vital to have enhanced cognition and reserves of resilience. This book is packed with practical tips, based on scientific evidence, that will teach you how to...

Developing robots to interact with humans is a complex interdisciplinary effort. While engineering and social science perspectives on designing human-robot interactions are readily available, the body of knowledge and practices related to design,...

Effective Approaches to Global Health Issues is a comprehensive interdisciplinary book that explores diverse topics in global health. It serves as a valuable resource for understanding the complexities and challenges associated with global health from...

Why are some countries democratic while others are not? Why are some countries rules by a president and others by a prime minister? Do constitutions matter? These are some of the questions addressed by the fascinating and essential subject of...

This unique, collaborative book, featuring contributions from autistic and non-autistic experts, presents cutting-edge thinking on mental health and service transformation in relation to autistic children and young people (CYP) and their families...

This book examines the archaeological evidence for the ancient cultures of the Zagros, Tienshan, Arakan, Hazārajāt, and Gerizim mountains.Through the central questions, what are the most ancient roots of these cultures and why have they persisted in the...

The second edition of this handbook offers a thoroughly updated overview of the different approaches and perspectives in communication ethics today.Extending the path paved by its predecessor, this Handbook includes new issues and concerns that have...

Virtual Reality for Serious Illness explores the important role virtual reality interventions can play in symptom management, anxiety control, and spiritual meaning. The book focuses on cutting-edge research and its effects on the seriously ill and those...

Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences, Fourth Edition employs a problem-focused approach to present a clear and comprehensive introduction to research methods. Award-winning teacher and author Gregory J. Privitera fully integrates the research...

This book explores the genesis of armorial porcelain manufacture in Britain. While heraldic devices began appearing on Chinese porcelain from the sixteenth century onwards, armorials did not appear on British porcelain until the 1750s. It examines the...

Neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric disorders contribute to a substantial amount of global morbidity and, as such, the identification of their causes is paramount to understanding their underlying pathophysiology as well as treatment and prevention...

This book examines the role of European Union (EU) agencies in the EU’s external border control policy, looking at how the empowerment of particular bodies has shaped the management of their external borders and influenced EU governance more broadly...

In this major contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South – informal settlements, or “slums”. Informal settlements house more than a...

Keine Angst vor Formeln, Zahlen und Atomen Kann mir endlich mal jemand Mathe, Physik und Chemie so erklären, dass ich es verstehe? Dieses Buch stellt den gesamten Vorlesungsstoff der Chemie und der Physik für Mediziner klar und einfach dar. Dabei holt es...

Using a range of in-depth historical case studies, this timely work excavates the oft-forgotten tradition of progressive populism and highlights the relevance of such movements to our own tumultuous times.Populism in its twenty-first century guise is...

Raising a child with ADHD can be challenging, but with the right knowledge and tools, parents and professionals can use this tried and tested six-step programme to better understand their ADHD child and help them thrive in any environment.This simple,...