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Patients enter psychotherapy because they suffer from distressing symptoms or relationship problems and want to change something about them. At the same time, change is frightening: on the one hand, it calls into question an often painstakingly achieved...

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A bold inquiry into media imaginaries and imaginaries-work as tools of decolonial resistance, worldmaking, and collective futurity. Decolonial Media Imaginaries (DMI) begins from the basic premise that imaginaries play a crucial role in articulating...

This book defends the relational approach to law from the perspective of human action.The book begins by exploring how what we take to be law is constituted through the lens of either rational or reasonable conduct. Having examined reasonableness as the...

Originally published in 1977, Physiological Variation and its Genetic Basis. The editor of this volume, and organizer of the symposium on which it is based, was well aware that the enterprise represented an excursion into difficult, and at the time,...

Social interaction is of prime importance in daily life, especially so at work and for the interpersonal professions. Originally published in 1994, Group Performance is an invaluable account of the theory, research and practice of work in groups. The...

Everything You Want to Know About Medicare: A Q&A Guide 100 Questions & Answers About Medicare For Dummies is a focused and accurate collection of easy-to-read answers to your most pressing Medicare questions. The book empowers you to make the best...

Shrink your services, not your ambitions. Traditional backends often feel heavy, costly, and slow to adapt. Server-Side WebAssembly shows you how to build lightning-fast, portable backends that run anywhere, giving you the power of Wasm without the pain...

Bridges and Sustainability: Best practice for design, maintenance, and replacement provides a comprehensive evaluation of sustainability topics related to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of bridges. It addresses critical challenges...

This volume comprises forty-five philosophical texts about slavery that were composed in Europe and America between 1765 and 1800. The texts, selected and in some cases newly translated by Julia Jorati, discuss various aspects of slavery, and from many...

Gravitational Psyche draws on ideas from physics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, to propose a radical reframing of how subjectivity is structured and sustained.What if the psyche, like the cosmos, is governed by invisible curves and recursive loops?...

In an increasingly interconnected world, the movement of people across borders has become a common and dynamic part of our global society. This book explores the lives of women expatriates in America, particularly in the technology and innovation...

Juggling multiple databases slows every project and drains precious developer mental bandwidth. Imagine serving analytics, AI, and search from the same Postgres engine. Modern Postgres already solves these challenges, you only need the roadmap. Skip...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMalika Bahovadinova is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Humanities.Book InformationISBN 9781512829044Author Malika...

The Gloria Wekker Reader compiles articles, essays, interviews, poems, and letters by the Afro-Surinamese Dutch theorist and activist, Gloria Wekker. Wekker is a preeminent scholar in feminist Black diaspora studies, especially known for her developments...

As the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris stood to make history as the first Black and South Asian American woman president. Between 2008 and 2024, Americans saw multiracial candidates-Barack Obama and Harris-on four presidential tickets...

Originally published in 1948 this classic book by the feminist critic and poet Ruth Herschberger was one of an early wave of mid-century texts (along with Simon de Beauvoir's Second Sex) that reframed the supposedly neutral world of science into a...

This book provides researchers, faculty, and students with a comprehensive resource for applying qualitative methods in Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) research among underrepresented communities.Addressing a significant gap in existing literature,...

Among the most common features of the modern US Congress is its partisanship, a deeply felt political divide that sometimes seems to be each side's primary motivator. In Congress we have seen heated disagreements, a tendency to blame the opposing party...

This book provides comprehensive coverage of silk fibre research including mulberry and non-mulberry varieties. It examines chemical treatments, processing variables, and advanced characterization techniques such as SEM, XRD, FTIR, and TGA. Topics...

This book examines polyester filter fabric technology focusing on virgin and recycled materials in needle-punched construction. It analyzes mechanical properties including tensile strength, bursting behavior, and air permeability and includes:Systematic...

The Sociology of the Stranger examines estrangement as a pervasive human experience, arguing that the figure of the stranger has been insufficiently theorized as a central social type.By drawing on phenomenology, ethnomethodology, dramaturgical analysis,...

Leaders as Architects of Change provides new approaches, frames and tools for leaders and their teams to design, drive, and support cultures of workplace inquiry which create collective capacity and adaptivity, and which ground and connect people in...

This book uses the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a compelling and dramatic case study to engage with ten key concepts of International Relations (IR). By focusing on enduring concepts, rather than fleeting events, it provides students and experts alike...

The Road to Neofeudalism anchors its enquiry on the novel concept of neofeudalism that has surfaced to center stage across the fields of media and communication, Internet studies, critical policy studies and political theory. Through an in-depth analysis...

This book is about how twenty-first century capitalism is re-making the roles of customer and customer service provider, shedding light on why consumer capitalism has come to feel so punishing for so many. In call centers, banks, airports, universities,...

Developmental dyslexia is a disorder which affects the acquisition of basic reading and spelling skills in childhood. Originally published in 1986 and reissued here with a new preface, adopting a cognitive approach to the problem, the author bases his...

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent mass displacement of black neighborhoods in New Orleans, black queer performers redefined notions of belonging throughout the city. These unlikely figures, such as artists Big Freedia and Vockah Redu,...

Blending decades of global intelligence and security experience with time-tested principles, this book delivers a powerful, practical framework for personal safety and risk awareness. It equips readers - especially those traveling or operating in...

Anna Irene Baka challenges dominant liberal and legalist paradigms in international law by reinterpreting the right of peoples to self-determination through the lenses of Aristotelian philosophy, phenomenology, social psychology, and corrective justice...

This book examines the relationship between democracy and extremism through Germany's political party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), focusing on how its members tested assumptions about democracy and redefined its norms. Through extensive ethnographic...

Authored by a leading scholar, this new edition of Russian Foreign Policy provides a comprehensive and updated exploration of Russian policy in the 21st century. Integrating both domestic and international perspectives, the text explores the historical...

Other Diplomacies and Canada: Representations and Connections Beyond the State offers a comprehensive exploration of the diverse diplomatic roles played by Canadian-linked non-state actors. Moving beyond traditional, state-centric views of diplomacy,...

In the wake of the Taliban's military defeat in 2001, foreign fighters played a critical role in assisting the Taliban to launch an insurgency against Coalition forces. Ten years later, by al-Qaida's own admission, the Taliban "almost didn't need"...

Why are humans the most feared predator in the world? Over three million years ago, a group of primates discovered tools. Perhaps it was a large rock, ideal for cracking nuts, or a stick to extract honey from a beehive. Regardless, the future of our...

Just Language revisits the Weimar period and its representation in the postwar years to explore narratives of linguistic resistance in the works of Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan. How did this generation of exile...

This book examines the diverse roles of Supreme Administrative Courts (SACs) across Europe, including the Councils of State. Contributors demonstrate how the courts operate within national legal orders, focusing on how their additional (non-judicial)...

Autoethnography: A Case for the Defence presents a thoughtful and compelling exploration of autoethnography as a research methodology, addressing the growing wave of academic, analytical, and ethical critiques that accompany its rising prominence. Rather...

Other Diplomacies and Canada: Representations and Connections Beyond the State offers a comprehensive exploration of the diverse diplomatic roles played by Canadian-linked non-state actors. Moving beyond traditional, state-centric views of diplomacy,...

Empowering veterinary professionals with the leadership and business skills to grow, lead, and thrive at every stage of their journey Leadership and Business for Veterinary Professionals is a practical, empowering guide designed to elevate veterinary...