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From SARS to Zika, and Ebola to COVID-19, epidemics and pandemics have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Each outbreak presents new challenges but the responses are often the same. This important book explores the dimensions, dynamics and...

This book investigates the politics of language in Hong Kong from a multidisciplinary perspective, showcasing original studies on language use in protest movements, written Cantonese, language attitudes, literary creation, mass media and popular music...

How the U.S. policy of competition with China is detrimental to democracy, peace, and prosperity—and how a saner approach is possible For close to a decade, the U.S. government has been preoccupied with the threat of China, fearing that the country will...

With 75% new material, the fully revised third edition of this clinical reference and text describes ways to integrate motivational interviewing (MI) into evidence-based psychotherapy and counseling. Readers learn how MI concepts and tools can enhance...

More than half a century ago, sociologist J. Milton Yinger remarked about religion, "There are few major subjects about which men know so little, yet feel so certain." Samuel L. Perry says that Yinger had it right. Americans--and Westerners more...

This book serves as a comprehensive guide for legal practitioners, providing a primer on digital forensic evidence and essential technological concepts. Through real-world examples, this book offers a systematic overview of methodologies and best...

The seven-volume set LNCS 14850-14856 constitutes the proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2024, held in Gifu, Japan, in July 2024. The total of 147 full papers, along with 85 short...

The seven-volume set LNCS 14850-14856 constitutes the proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2024, held in Gifu, Japan, in July 2024. The total of 147 full papers, along with 85 short...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765135914Author Max G. ManwaringFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Returning Learning explores early school years teachers’ perceptions of nature and how this informs their pedagogy through a posthuman theoretical framework. The theoretical framework is purposefully designed to disrupt dichotomies and reject abuse to...

Das vorliegende Buch ist mit der Untersuchung der Ziele berufstätiger Fernstudentinnen der Generation X bei der Entscheidung für ein Hochschulstudium einem Thema von hoher Relevanz gewidmet. Die Zielgruppe steht in vielen Fällen bereits unter der...

This book explores Cuba's fascinating political journey on the global stage, diving deeply into its complex political, economic, and ideological ties with major world powers and offering profound insights into the implications of these relationships...

Since the first edition of “Data Science and Analytics with Python” we have witnessed an unprecedented explosion in the interest and development within the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. This surge has led to the widespread...

This study explores the media education systems in South Asia, looking not just at the heavy disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also the long-standing digital inequalities and unequal socioeconomic opportunities that lead to reduced access to...

Using George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as a guide for interpreting the role of the American state in the 21st century – paying particular attention to how the government responded to the life and death issues of terrorism, Covid-19, and climate...

First published in 1948, Mental Abnormality: Facts and Theories was written when great changes were taking place in the handling of mental disorders and in the teaching of the subject in medical schools. Knowledge of this progress reached the public in a...

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the factors that impact physical, mental, and social well-being, offering a broad definition of health and healthcare that moves beyond the biomedical model.Stressing that health is not merely the...

Drawing from ethnographic research, this book presents children’s lived experience of poverty and vulnerability in Kenya. By taking the case of Siaya, Kenya, which has some of the lowest indicators of child well-being, the book presents children’s...

This Sage Handbook presents an interdisciplinary collection of chapters exploring how to assess the quality of collecting and analysing qualitative data, while maintaining a focus on diversity, digital and critical approaches. The Handbook considers...

Few topics generate as much controversy and debate as armed humanitarian intervention. Military force involves death and destruction, as well as interfering in other countries’ domestic affairs. But, crucially, non-intervention is also controversial...

This book describes some of the major psychological processes that underpin various biblical stories and some of the theological speculation to which they have given rise. Psychological biblical criticism, as described here, is suggested as an...

This treatment guide equips therapists with the necessary tools to implement the leading recommended treatment for eating disorders, 'enhanced' cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E), in a group format.Group CBT-E is a structured treatment designed to help...

This open access handbook combines multiple theoretical and practical approaches for enabling a nuanced understanding of the phenomenon of marriage in the Arab world. Adopting a holistic, interdisciplinary approach, it provides a framework for the...

How is fashion linked to our identity? How are we influenced to buy into fashion trends? How can we make the fashion industry more ethical and sustainable?The second edition of The Psychology of Fashion offers an up-to-date insightful introduction to the...

This book provides an in-depth, ethnography-based comparison of environmentalism in the global North and South through movement case studies situated in Australia and India.Environmentalism, consisting of a set of ideologies, politics and imperatives...

This best-selling textbook, now in its 7th edition, is the essential resource to foster the self-awareness and communication skills needed by health professionals in providing ethical, compassionate and professional care for their patients.The book...

Originally published in 1963, this account, based on a lifetime of first-hand experience of the growing child, covers all the situations and problems which a child – and its parents and educators – meet in the first twelve years of life, from the...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of Rational Behaviour Therapy (REBT), a significant cognitive-behavioural approach to counselling and psychotherapy originating from the pioneering work of Dr Albert Ellis. Within its pages, you will find a...

From world-class qualitative experts comes a practical, step-by-step introduction to doing dyadic interviews. Including the perspective of both the interviewer and the interviewee, this book shows how to use this innovative interview technique to gain...

An introductory critical internet studies text that builds upon media literacy and digital culture theory to offer a thorough examination of the intersection of online technology and culture.We are now collectively at a hinge point in the evolution of...

Simple. Comprehensive. Logical. This book is a companion guide for anyone completing a research project in the social sciences. It covers the whole research process, from planning, developing, collecting data, analysing data, and writing up. It will help...

Trauma, Pedagogy, and the College Mental Health Crisis argues that psychoanalytic theory and practice offers a solution to the large increase in students seeking mental health services.Robert Samuels returns to the roots of psychoanalysis, drawing from...

Donald Watson was a seminal figure in the wildlife art and ornithological world from the late 1950s onwards. Since his death in 2005, his work has lived on through active public demand for his outstanding paintings of birds and the continued reading of...

This book provides an accessible introduction to radioactivity. The second in a two-volume set, this volume is presented in two parts, covering its development and modern applications.It first explores the development and applications of technically...

This collection assembles a wide range of scholarship addressing the intersections, influences, and impacts of the horror genre’s proliferation across multiple forms of media.Covering film, television, web sites, video games, tabletop and role-playing...

Legal Issues in Quality for Healthcare Institutions provides the perspective of practicing physicians, lawyers, and academic legal scholars to comprehensively address the implications for quality of care and patient safety both from a legal, medical, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538173282Author Gregg BarakFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

This book first traces the evolution of Chinese culture, which has a triple structure. It traces back to the economic basis of the formation of Chinese culture and analyzes the pattern of the formation of Chinese civilization. The book goes deep into the...

A reflective, original invitation to recover and cultivate the human experiences that have atrophied in our virtual world.We embraced the mediated life — from Facetune and PayPal to meme culture and the Metaverse —because these technologies offer novelty...

Updated edition of a practical step-by-step guide to common procedures in emergency and critical care medicine for dogs and cats Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Procedures, Third Edition delivers a highly practical step-by-step guide to common...