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In the last few years, there have been myriad media reports regarding Federal Indian boarding schools and their grisly history of violence and cultural erasure against Native people in the United States. The US government recently acknowledged its role...

​Das Buch behandelt die Frage, wie Neurologen und Allgemeinmediziner der heterogenen und oftmals komplexen klinischen Symptomatik der Multiplen Sklerose begegnen können und beschäftigt sich mit dem Management des wechselnden klinischen...

Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise of more—more wealth, more enjoyment, more opportunity, without requiring any sacrifice—is the essence of...

The fourth edition of Health Promotion in Midwifery explores the principles of health promotion within the practical context of midwifery. It clearly outlines and discusses the midwife’s role in health promotion, linking theory and practice.This...

Now available in paperback! Move forward in your journey and learn how to heal your emotional wounds, get unstuck, and get into healthy, loving, intimate relationships with the help of this eye-opening book.At the core of most toxic relationships is a...

This book series, in three volumes, draws on the specialized insights and extensive clinical experience of phoniatric experts to offer a basis for the development of concerted European training standards, with the goal of guaranteeing a high quality of...

In The Habitation Society, leading economic and political sociologist Fred Block argues that we are at a time of “blocked transition” from one mode of economic and social organization to another. We now have a habitation economy because most people work...

Expanding Psychoanalysis explores the work of the acclaimed psychoanalyst, writer, and activist Susie Orbach.The book studies Orbach’s multifaceted career in five sections, examining her multitudinous contributions to the mental health profession, from...

This book discusses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the European Union’s climate and energy policy.By examining the positions of the various actors involved, the book analyses whether the Covid-19 pandemic and...

This advanced undergraduate textbook provides a thoroughly modern overview of plate tectonics and is the perfect resource for a capstone geology course. It presents plate tectonics as a multifaceted, interdisciplinary theory that unites many different...

Bottom-up voluntary associations, it is commonly thought, are among the fundamental building blocks of democracy, preparing people for engaged citizenship. A great deal of interest in Chinese civil society is premised on the idea that such groups might...

Gold Award Winner, 2024 Nonfiction Book AwardsFor much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart—not the brain—was believed to be the location of intelligence,...

Embryology Explained is an essential guide for medical students and junior doctors, enriched with original illustrations by Dr. Thomas Newman that navigate the complexities of embryonic development. Structured methodically, the textbook breaks down...

Dieses Buch untersucht, wie islamische Rechtsgelehrte im 20. Jahrhundert in ihren Rechtsgutachten (Fatwas) rhetorisch Autorität generieren und wie sich Traditionalismus und Reformdenken in den Argumentationsmustern, der Intertextualität sowie im Duktus...

Bottom-up voluntary associations, it is commonly thought, are among the fundamental building blocks of democracy, preparing people for engaged citizenship. A great deal of interest in Chinese civil society is premised on the idea that such groups might...

Excavation at Hereford Cathedral took place in 1993, prior to the construction of the Mappa Mundi Museum and new archive library. This revealed extensive remains, some potentially dating back to the 7th/8th century, including timber-built buildings and a...

In 2020-21, the classic HBO show The Sopranos (1999-2007) saw a rapid increase in viewership and was proclaimed to be one of the “hottest shows of lockdown” by outlets like The Guardian and GQ. This resurgent popularity of The Sopranos raises important...

Concept- and application-oriented - this textbook will set the international standard in coordination chemistryFits into a gap and complements ideally the textbook, written by J. Ribas Gispert, with a classical textbook conceptPeter Comba is a...

Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise of more—more wealth, more enjoyment, more opportunity, without requiring any sacrifice—is the essence of...

Climate change is triggered by a too high concentration of greenhouse gases in the air, carbon dioxide in particular, primarily originating from fossil fuel-burning. Since such burning will not stop any time soon, the concentration will undoubtedly rise...

Transactional Analysis Proper—and Improper: Selected and New Papers offers a critical reading of transactional analysis (TA), which analyses, deconstructs, and reconstructs its foundational theory.Keither Tudor’s work is detailed, informative and...

Vorliegendes Buch ist für Landwirte und die Bevölkerung des ländlichen Raumes konzipiert. Die Landwirte bekommen derzeit für die landwirtschaftlichen Produkte nicht den preislichen Gegenwert für ihre geleistete Arbeit. Die Bevölkerung im ländlichen Raum...

Health and Healing in World Religions is a comprehensive introduction to the field that explores the research that links spirituality and well-being, including work with addiction and trauma. Each chapter includes an introduction to and summary of each...

The book is about the development of the theory of epistemic fields with the corresponding relational and information fields as a framework for the understanding of strategies and tactics of the theory of knowing as the production of intellectual...

A global energy revolution is unfolding before our eyes: ever-growing numbers of electric vehicles on our roads, laptops that last all day on a single charge and solar panels on our roofs, all reliant on lithium-ion batteries. This revolution is...

The text provides a comprehensive study of the application of advanced artificial intelligence in next-generation wireless communications with a focus on theory, standardization, and core development. It further highlights artificial intelligence-enabled...

This book intends to initiate a fresh articulation of need-based infrastructure provisions in rural contexts. Departing from the conventional theories and practices of infrastructure planning and development applied in urban settings, the book presents a...

The confusing way in which sustainable agriculture has been defined and measured is clarified in this comprehensive volume, which provides an inventory of the metrics for sustainable agriculture from cradle to the farm gate, organized by media and scale...

Learn everything about the latest machine learning techniques and create search engines that drive more domain-aware and intelligent search. AI-Powered Search teaches you the latest machine-learning techniques to create search engines that continuously...

Researchers, healthcare providers and policy makers working in the fields of HIV prevention. Professional/activist/academic organisations.Book InformationISBN 9781447372493Author Morten SkovdalFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Policy PressPublisher...

Steel Informatics aims to review the application of data-driven computing techniques related to design of steel including phase transformation, composition-process-property correlation, and different processing techniques, particularly deformation and...

Mark Catesby was an eighteenth-century naturalist and artist whose work on the natural history of North America and the Caribbean still has resonance today. During the course of several perilous trips he collected specimens and made extensive...

This is a final report on the surface surveys carried out in the Kahramanmaraş region of southeastern Turkey between 1993 and 2000 that several thousand years ago was removed from the centers of political power, pulled between Antioch to the south and...

In this compilation of expert articles, internationally recognized homicide investigators, most of them pioneers in developing the science and the art of profiling, share their insights gained from years of experience tracking the perpetrators of some of...

The book Philosophy of Law, Theories, Examples and Human Rights presents relevant theories, puts emphasis on the analysis of the branches of law and of basic human rights, and proposes the holistic analysis of law. In the first part the author analyses...

This book is a socio-historical analysis of rationalism as a worldview — that guides many of our actions in concrete everyday life — and as a philosophy — that guides our epistemological understanding of the reality around us. It explores the...

Um das mechanische Verhalten von Werkstoffen einerseits besser zu verstehen und andererseits gezielt verbessern zu können, müssen die Prozesse und Mechanismen, die bei mechanischer Belastung im Material in Abhängigkeit von den Materialstrukturen ablaufen...

The need for paid care workers to provide professional, good quality care for those needing daily support continues to grow throughout the world. This book explores the recent experiences of diverse paid care workers in four very different national...

Making Research Relevant is the ideal core textbook for master’s-level introduction to research methods courses in any mental health field.Accessible and user friendly, it is designed to help trainees and practitioners understand, connect, and apply...

Diese fünfte Auflage ist aktualisiert worden. Sie entspricht dem Stand des aktuellen Eurocode 5 (Holzbau) für die „kalte“ Bemessung der DIN EN 1995-1-1: 2010-12 einschließlich seinem nationalem Anhang DIN EN 1995-1-1/NA: 2013-08. Des Weiteren beinhaltet...