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This book gathers together the experiences of leaders across sectors, organisations and client groups to help readers introduce, develop and maintain Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE) and Trauma Informed Care (TIC) within their workspaces...

Q&A Course ReviewNCLEX prep Assure your mastery of psychiatric mental health nursing knowledge while honing your critical-thinking, clinical judgment, and test-taking skills. 750 multiple-choice, alternate-format, and clinical judgment questions,...

This book analyzes the limitations in the Europeanization of Spanish security and defense policy. For various reasons, Spain has maintained an amalgamated security system based on agreements with NATO, the EU and the US. This combination has produced a...

Encountering the world with i-Docs argues for the values of interactive documentary as a social research method. Interactive documentaries, or i-docs, are web-based, nonlinear forms of multi-media documentary. There is a burgeoning commercial i-docs...

This book discusses the place of creative village policy in the revitalization of rural Japan, highlighting how rural Japan is moving from a state of regional extinction to regional rejuvenation.Using the case study of Tamba Sasayama in Hyōgo Prefecture...

Cooke’s important text, suitable for both graduate and undergraduate courses as well as current practitioners, outlines and examines the components of social justice that are most compelling and relevant for the library and information professions...

This book describes the latest progress in reliability analysis of microelectronic products. The content grows out of an EU project, named Intelligent Reliability 4.0 - iRel40 (see www.irel40.eu ). Different industrial sectors and topics are covered,...

Education is considered central to social mobility and, following a drive to raise learners’ aspirations, an ‘aspiration industry’ has emerged. However, the desire to leave school early should not be regarded as evidence of students lacking ambition...

The Evolution of Socialist Feminism from Eleanor Marx to AOC traces the intersection of feminism and socialism as it has played out in the socialist movements arising in Europe and North America in the 19th through early 21st centuries. From well-known...

Immense efforts are being made to develop efficient energy-storage devices to cater to the constantly increasing energy demand due to population growth. Research is being carried out to explore the various aspects of batteries to increase their energy...

Obsidian, a shiny volcanic glass, was first used to make vessels in the mid-sixth millennium BC in the Near East, although other stone had been exploited for vessel manufacture since the thirteenth millennium BC. Unlike the stone used to make the...

Animal-Assisted Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Clinician's Guide is an essential resource for clinical mental health professionals who are considering integrating animals into their work. This unique text provides in-depth information and examples of...

The Evolution of Socialist Feminism from Eleanor Marx to AOC traces the intersection of feminism and socialism as it has played out in the socialist movements arising in Europe and North America in the 19th through early 21st centuries. From well-known...

Photography, Photographic Arts and the Visual Research Process in Qualitative Inquiry is a book that introduces doctoral students and early career researchers to photography as a significant dimension of visual qualitative methods.It examines the...

The past, present and future are full of tantalizing mysteries: questions about our own and other people’s lives that we long to answer. Across history, human cultures have devised a wide range of methods to discover what might lie ahead or to understand...

Why Read Ogden? explores the importance of Thomas Ogden's work to contemporary psychoanalysis, both as an interpreter of classic psychoanalytic thinkers and as a new and original theorist and clinician in his own right.Ogden writes about the literary...

During the first half of the twentieth century, world politics was reshaped in pursuit of a new international order. The ideological foundations of the ‘new diplomacy’ (and its fate during the interwar period) are well known. This book instead examines...

Deep learning has significantly reshaped a variety of technologies, such as image processing, natural language processing, and audio processing. The excellent generalizability of deep learning is like a “cloud” to conventional complexity-based learning...

Providing you with a complete foundation of knowledge and understanding for each process, this step-by-step guide will introduce you to the four main aspects of social work practice - Assessment, Planning, Intervention and Review - and help you to apply...

This book presents a major research program investigating signal transduction processes utilizing small molecule compound probes. The program was launched by the National Natural Science Foundation of China during the 11th Five-Year Plan period, which...

This book explores the questions of What, Why, When, How and Where might we might find extra-Terrestrials (a.k.a. Aliens) and their habitats throughout the Universe– and Who might they be?Starting from ourselves and the Earth and eventually speculating...

Getting to Know Mobile GIS empowers readers to creatively use mobile GIS and drive innovation in this fast-advancing field.“Mobile first" and the "post-PC era" aren’t just buzzwords; they represent today's reality. Within the GIS industry, the mobile...

This book is an excellent critical introduction to modern political thought. From the first modern thinker Niccolo Machiavelli to the contemporary political philosopher Michel Foucault, it studies the ideas and contributions of sixteen major political...

The superior multi-functional properties of polymer composites have made it suitable for biomedical, defense, automobile, agriculture, and domestic applications. The growing demand for these composites calls for an extensive investigation of their...

This book discusses the making of a constitutional law for Europe, consisting of constitutional rules and principles which are complemented by those of national constitutions. But it is further multi-layered, informed as it is by international...

The book provides a multi-stage assessment of the changing housing opportunities of migrant workers in the three stages of Beijing’s urban village development (emergence, erasure and preservation). The volume re-theorizes Henry Lefebvre’s notion of the...

South Asia Migration Report 2024 documents key themes of remittances, resilience, and rehabilitation from the region.This volume: • Includes dedicated fieldwork to map migration within and outside South Asia;• Analyses the impact of Covid-19 on migrants...

Outer space might not seem obvious as a region where the ethics of war would be a significant issue, but there are in fact a number of dimensions that are relevant in this regard, and the imminence of such conflict means that it is an appropriate time to...

This book gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of architectural and design education, as presented at the 2022 annual conference of the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE AC), “Towards a New European Bauhaus -...

Illustrating the important aspects of tensor calculus, and highlighting its most practical features, Physical Components of Tensors presents an authoritative and complete explanation of tensor calculus that is based on transformations of bases of vector...

English for IT Communication provides a comprehensive introduction for students and professionals studying IT or Computer Science and covers all forms of technical communication from emails and memos through procedures to reports and design specs. In...

This book focuses on queer people and their encounters with international law.Traversing a wide range of topics, from trans discrimination and conversion therapy to sadomasochism and abolitionism, this book asks questions about the (im)possibility of...

Module theory is a fundamental area of algebra, taught in most universities at the graduate level. This textbook, written by two experienced teachers and researchers in the area, is based on courses given in their respective universities over the last...

This is a book about the dai, or traditional birth practitioner, and her place in the emerging therapeutic domain in colonial and contemporary India. The book employs a caste-informed feminist reading of the colonial archive against the grain, and...

This fully revised and updated seventh edition provides a thorough overview and induction to hearing science. Covering topics such as conductive and cochlear mechanisms, auditory pathways, and binaural and spatial hearing and including some new and...

“Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is, in 2024, one of the three main causes of death in the world, affecting around 12% of the world population and its incidence is estimated to increase in the coming decades due to continuous exposure to risk...

When the Supreme Court of Canada makes a decision that invalidates a statute, it creates a constitutional moment. But does that have a direct and observable impact on public policy? Constraining the Court explores what happens when a statute involving a...

Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominantly Western bourgeois institution. But art, not only as a Western institution, generated its own philistine...

This book is a ready reckoner of recent information regarding the impact of leachate landfills, leachate treatment, and heavy metals on a single platform. The amount of waste is constantly growing due to population growth and the evolution of...

The fifth edition of Canadian Parties in Transition continues and enriches the work of earlier editions in bringing together a highly respected group of scholars to offer a comprehensive account of the development of party politics in Canada. The book...