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This book critically examines the circumstances surrounding the failure of rites of passage in U.S. society and its relationship with the mental health crisis overtaking youth in America today.The book develops a Freudian understanding of rites of...

The Relational Dimensions of Weight Management is a book for nonspecialist psychotherapists of any theoretical orientation to help patients concerned with weight management. Psychotherapy patients use their therapists as sounding boards to help them...

This book explores the importance of Lacan’s role as an irritant within psychoanalysis, and how Freud and Lacan saw that as key to ensuring that psychoanalysis remained fresh and vital rather than becoming obsolescent.Drawing on Freud’s thinking as well...

This book is a comprehensive overview of advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and how it can be applied in the field of air quality management. It explains the linkage between conventional approaches used in air quality monitoring with AI...

Immigration crises faced by the United States today show the interplay between areas of global law and policy that might at first glance seem quite disparate--economic law, human rights and refugee law, and criminal law relating to the trafficking and...

Dieses Buch schlägt eine proportionale integrale Gleitfunktion vor, die keine endliche Erreichung ermöglicht und daher zu einer exponentiellen stationären Spannungsantwort führt. Um eine endliche Erreichung zu ermöglichen, präsentiert es auch die neue...

This book delves into total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH), covering a range of intricate situations like multiple previous surgeries, severe endometriosis, frozen pelvis, large masses, and multidisciplinary surgeries. It specifically emphasizes on the...

This book critically examines the circumstances surrounding the failure of rites of passage in U.S. society and its relationship with the mental health crisis overtaking youth in America today.The book develops a Freudian understanding of rites of...

Departing from conventional narratives centered on economic stagnation and social secularism, this book offers a fresh perspective on Mediterranean urbanities. It posits their correlation with housing and welfare regimes, societal transformations, local...

The National Mind argues that understanding the power of nationalism requires probing into its cognitive and emotional influence on our everyday perceptions, feelings, beliefs, and behavior. Focusing particularly on the impact of canonical national...

This book offers an in-depth explanation of the concepts of Self Psychology and pragmatic steps for recognizing and using these concepts in clinical work, helping clinicians move from theory to practice.Both early and contemporary concepts in self...

This book offers an analysis of values in Hungary. Following the proposition that civic values are crucial to liberal democracy and conducive to international peace, this book examines the extent to which these values are respected and practised in a...

Dieses Buch stellt eine neue Theorie über die erhebliche Komorbidität vor, die zwischen vielen Krankheiten und Störungen und gleichzeitigen Symptomen wie Schmerzen, Schlafstörungen und Müdigkeit besteht. Zu den besprochenen Krankheiten und Störungen...

This book examines the phenomenon of colourism in India and the Global South and critically analyses the obsession with fair skin and its association with social capital or mobility.Exploring the prevalence of colourism in India, China, Japan, Vietnam,...

Konflikte im Bereich Migration nehmen zu: Brennende Asylbewerberheime, Anschläge auf Migant:innen, rassistische Hassrede im Internet, ein Anwachsen rechtspopulistischer xenophobischer Demonstrationen und Parteien. Gerade in solch beunruhigenden...

The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche will publish in its entirety, for the first time, an English translation of the full contents of the Kritische Studienausgabe. This volume of the Complete Works provides the first English translation of...

This manual provides expert knowledge on theory and practice for conducting a motivational brief intervention with adolescents after alcohol intoxication, with the aim of promoting low-risk use of alcohol. Enriched with examples and tips on how to...

This open access book presents the most recent advances in the novel, interdisciplinary field of magnetic microhydrodynamics. This emerging area of advanced research combines magnetism with the knowledge of bioinspired local flow control to create novel...

This book introduces the reader to methods of mathematical modeling and solving non-stationary (dynamic) problems of the theory of magnetoelasticity, as well as to give an idea of the wealth of physical effects caused by the interaction of...

American men began an earnest search for the meaning of manhood in the latter half of the 20th century and enlisted in such groups as Promise Keepers, Million Man March, National Congress of Men, and fathers' rights groups. This study chronicles those...

Persecuted, outlawed, imprisoned, shunned. You might think this refers only to the LGBTQ+ community, but their experience is remarkably closely aligned to the experience of the Disabled community. This book examines the histories of these two movements...

A ground-breaking account of the scientists and architects who pioneered acoustics in twentieth-century Britain.On a winter’s night in 1951, shortly after Evensong, the interior of St Paul’s Cathedral echoed with gunfire. This was no act of violence but...

Kenntnisse des Chemikalien- und Gefahrstoffrechtes sind für eine verantwortungsvolle Verwendung von jeder Art von Stoffen, Gemischen, Erzeugnissen Grundvoraussetzung. Die Festlegung der notwendigen Schutzmaßnahmen muss neben den gesetzlichen Vorschriften...

Why, and to what extent, are states more or less likely to comply with international law? No overarching state compels compliance, and the international institutional context is thin, yet states seem largely to comply. How do we explain this behaviour?...

The STOP Program for Women addresses the rapidly increasing awareness of domestic violence perpetrated by women and the need for quality treatment services. These updated worksheets and exercises, fully integrated with the group leader’s manual, keep...

This book presents the author’s view of how the global semiconductor industry will evolve, based on recent megatrends not only in the industry but also in society, including the rapid proliferation of AI, the global semiconductor shortage, the rising...

Through two Colombian case studies, Sanne Weber identifies the ways in which conflict experiences are defined by structures of gender inequality, and how these could be transformed in the post-conflict context. The author reveals that current, apparently...

'Vivid, personal, upbeat - makes you feel her happiness' Maggie Gee Joanne Bourne has been in awe of flint as long as she can remember.It was all around her where she grew up in Kent: used for garden walls, to edge drives and weight dustbin lids, as well...

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Welfare Rights Movement organized at both local and national levels, advocating for poor people’s inclusion, dignity, and autonomy. We Are Each Other’s Business examines Black women’s leadership within the Chicago Welfare...

This book is a compendium of the worldwide ocular stem cell, gene therapy, and other studies treating Optic Nerve Disease that are registered with Clinicaltrials.gov. The study and the Clinical Trial number is provided in order to make it easier for the...

New Directions in Sex Therapy: Innovations and Alternatives, 3rd Edition focuses on new and cutting-edge therapy paradigms as alternatives to conventional clinical strategies, challenging practitioners to expand our thinking about how to deal with sexual...

The decade of 1980s was one of crisis for Africa. Neither African governments nor development agencies made a significant impact on the quality of life of rural people. The enormous range of contexts in Africa — social, economic, political, cultural, and...

This reference text helps understand how the concepts of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) are used in the medical and healthcare sectors. The text discusses medical robotic systems using XAI and physical devices having autonomous behaviours for...

Aimed at researchers in mathematics, philosophy and logic, this book provides the first organic exposition of dynamic constructivism and the mathematics ensuing in practice, including discussion of the technical development of the field and outlining the...

AI-Generated Content (AIGC) is a revolutionary engine for digital content generation. In the area of art, AI has achieved most remarkable advancements. AI is capable of not only creating paintings or music comparable to human masterpieces, but also...

This book provides a practical perspective of all the processes involved in estimating mineral resources and reserves, including mine-to-mill reconciliation. It provides an integrated step-by-step explanation of processes for performing each step,...

Now in its fourth edition, Occupational Hearing Loss delivers a complete overview of the hazards of occupational noise exposure, causes of hearing loss, testing of hearing, criteria to distinguish occupational hearing loss, and more. The book emphasizes...

A deadly secret lurks within our kitchens, medicine cabinets and gardens... Digitalis purpurea. The common foxglove. Vision blurs as blood pressure drops precipitously. The heartbeat slows until, finally, it stops. Atropa belladonna. Deadly nightshade...

This textbook presents an overview of the field of demography from a contemporary perspective. Designed as an introductory text for undergraduates and graduates, it lays out the basic concepts, methods, and applications of the field of demography. It...

Effective eating disorder treatment modalities for adults continue to elude practitioners and the rates of eating disorder relapse remain staggeringly high. Meanwhile, a vital resource for people with eating disorders remains unexplored: their romantic...