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As education, entertainment, or "edutainment" (as Walt called it), Disney offers its consumers and guests a wealth of opportunities for learning. In Why the Magic Matters, top Disney scholars and teachers unpack what, why, and how Disney maintains its...

There is no end in sight to the frequency with which health care providers become lawsuit targets in our litigious society.

Tips & Tricks in Endovascular Surgery is a practical, experience-driven guide to mastering both the fundamentals and the most advanced aspects of endovascular procedures.From basic interventions to complex cases, this book walks readers through the...

In this groundbreaking second edition of Learning as Development, Daniel A. Wagner transforms our understanding of international development by positioning learning at its core. Through a compelling global lens, Wagner demonstrates how education shapes...

A panoramic view of the cosmos must begin with the tension of a single political moment. In Quantum History, Slavoj Zizek brings together Hegelian dialectics, Lacan psychoanalysis and quantum mechanics to rethink history, reality and political...

Havana Syndrome is most likely caused by unknown types of directed energy weapons, either of the acoustic or electromagnetic variety. The technology for such weapons has been under development since at least the 1960s. The first covert attacks on U.S...

Using the concept of musical effervescence, a collective state of synchronized and focused intersubjectivity through music, Gavin Robert Walker reveals how and why songs have become such a ubiquitous and formidable force within the AIDS epidemic in...

This book provides cutting edge research into railway vehicle dynamics and the condition monitoring of railway vehicles and track. Using real world global examples, the book focuses on safety and maintenance from a global perspective. Beginning with an...

Anyone who has looked through binoculars, a telescope or microscope has used an eyepiece. Telescope Eyepieces: Optical Theory and Design explores the wide range of eyepiece designs. It introduces optics theory progressively to build understanding of how...

Anyone who has looked through binoculars, a telescope or microscope has used an eyepiece. Telescope Eyepieces: Optical Theory and Design explores the wide range of eyepiece designs. It introduces optics theory progressively to build understanding of how...

The full and untold story of Israeli politics penned by one of Israel's most distinguished political journalists."The phones had been installed in every corner of the apartment, and all started ringing at once. Golda Meir knew exactly what the sound...

The Red Sea is rapidly becoming a highly contested zone, where traditional and emerging global powers are vying for influence and control. In this book, Federico Donelli explores the dynamics of this new scramble for Africa, analyzing the interests,...

Welcome to the fifth volume of Game Audio Programming: Principles and Practices – the first series of its kind dedicated to the art, science, and craft of game audio programming. In this volume, some of the top game audio programmers in the industry...

This practical guide to nonhuman primate (NHP) anesthesia and analgesia in research facilities is the first NHP-specific anesthesia resource. It offers an easy-to-navigate manual with diagrams, bullet points, color photos, and quick reference tables.With...

Newcomers to the field of structural biology, which aims to understand life at the molecular level, see a vast number of existing results and are faced with a diverse range of experimental methods. These are used singly or in various combinations,...

The Essentials of Composite Materials: A Guide for Engineering and Beyond combines the theory of composite materials and their applications, with a focus on the main industries where they are used. Using the author's experience as a naval architect, boat...

Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis in Times of Crisis: War, Pandemic and the Climate Crisis gathers a global cohort of psychoanalytic thinkers to consider the most pressing issues currently faced by young people worldwide.Each chapter provides a...

Within this fascinating new volume, a group of prominent Jungian writers seek to explore the apparent contradiction between two aspects of Jungian thinking: one that points in the direction of a genuinely radical relational psychology, and another which...

In the petroleum industry, harsh working environments can cause premature equipment failure due to mechanical wear, corrosion, erosion-corrosion, and other factors. Directly replacing the key parts of equipment is expensive. Laser additive manufacturing...

Many 21st-century operations are characterized by teams of workers dealing with significant risks and complex technology, in competitive, commercially driven environments. Informed managers have realized the necessity of understanding the human dimension...

In this thought-provoking book, Celine Maroudas presents an intriguing psychoanalytic reappraisal of middle childhood. She re-examines both developmental theory and psychodynamic approaches to psychotherapy with this age group, exploring in particular...

Bion, Dreamwork and the Oneiric Dimensions of the Mind allows readers to examine one of the most significant areas of clinical psychoanalytic thinking, focusing on Bion's idiom that dreaming is the central aspect of all emotional functioning and it is a...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. A wide range of...

Artificial Humanities explores how literature, history, and art can deepen our understanding of artificial intelligence and its development. By examining fictional representations of AI in parallel with actual technological developments, Nina Begus...

The process of food inspection relies on an inspector's understanding of the intrinsic hazards associated with individual foods. Whereas spoilage can usually be determined through a simple organoleptic assessment, the judgment of whether a food is fit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593850725Author Sarah GoodyearFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint ThesisPublisher Random House USA Inc

Michigan's CON-CON 11 highlights the contributions of the eleven female delegates to the 1961-1962 Michigan Constitutional Convention. As the first female delegates to a state of Michigan constitutional convention, these pioneers demonstrated that women...

With contributions selected from the last fifteen years of his life, this second volume of Jean-Francois Lyotard's interviews and debates includes hard-to-find and previously untranslated material. Taking place between 1984 and 1997 they follow in the...

Statistics are part of our everyday life: from polling and elections to advertising claims, we confront numerical claims all the time. Rather than being swayed by bad arguments and questionable correlations, this book introduces you to the most common...

If your focus is real world research, this book will provide you with an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to planning, delivering, and communicating it successfully. Allowing you to see research in action, this book uses real-world case studies from a...

Imagine an ADHD toolkit filled with tried-and-true skills that empower you to be more focused and productive--and to "hack" daily life so your strengths can shine. That's exactly what expert therapist Laura E. Knouse and preeminent authority Russell A...

How do millions of Americans navigate today's demanding and unpredictable work terrain without the protection of strong labor laws, unions, or a reliable social safety net? They turn to trusted colleagues and supervisors to help find a way through the...

Renowned feminist development scholar Wendy Harcourt offers the first incisive open access overview of how the lively feminist debates on care, in both minority and majority worlds, are crucial for critical development studies.Adopting an intentionally...

Daily Management (DM) is a structured method that empowers managers and employees to establish a team-based, continuous improvement process. DM focuses on transparency by setting standards and key performance indicators, facilitating performance...

'Brimming with fascinating historical details' MELISSA FEBOS, MARIE CLAIRE'Profoundly useful and pleasure seeking' EILEEN MYLES'A fizzy joy to read' BETSY CORNWELLAn infectiously edifying manual that mines the lives of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century...

Fostering a Civil Workplace: Strategies for Personal and Organizational Success provides research-based solutions to promote a positive work environment. Focusing on internal dynamics, it explores aspects of communication, interpersonal interactions,...

A gripping first-hand expose of the coordinated legal and political attacks against Donald Trump and his allies, revealing the deep-state efforts to undermine democracy.The 2024 election was a miracle comeback--Donald Trump, against all odds, reclaimed...

Early Christianity on the Margins (?) is the final result of a five-year project divided into multiple phases, in which the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana (Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology - PIAC) of Rome took a leading role in...

This updated edition of Mechanism Design: Visual and Programmable Approaches using MATLAB (R) and Simscape Multibody (TM) offers a comprehensive introduction to kinematic synthesis, covering motion, path, and function generation techniques for a wide...

When will the next pandemic arrive? For wildlife, it’s already here. The Nature of Pandemics explores an unspoken truth: how our actions are driving wildlife pandemics across the world. Highlighting the interconnectedness of human, (non-human) animal and...