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Book cover of The Olympics and Philosophy
by Michael W. Austin, Raymond Angelo Belliotti, Scott F. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012

It is said the champions of the ancient Olympic Games received a crown of olive leaves, symbolizing a divine blessing from Nike, the winged goddess of victory. While the mythology of the ancient games has come to exemplify the highest political, religious, community, and individual ideals of the time,...
Book cover of The Roads to Congress 2008
by Sunil Ahuja, Margaret E. Banyan, Peter Bergerson
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010

The Roads to Congress 2008 offers readers straightfoward and detailed case studies of the campaigns, candidates, key issues, and outcomes of over one dozen of the most important and interesting races of 2008. This includes both House and Senate campaigns, contests from all regions of the country,...
Book cover of Cognitive Behavioural Interviewing for Adult Disorders
by Peter H. Wilson, Susan H Spence, David J. Kavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018

Originally published in 1989, the primary aim of this text was to provide a guide to the interview assessment of a wide range of common adult psychological problems. Emphasis is placed on the kinds of problems that were frequently encountered in outpatient centres at the time. The authors provide...
Book cover of Back to Life, Back to Normality

Back to Life, Back to Normality

Cognitive Therapy, Recovery and Psychosis

by Douglas Turkington, David Kingdon, Shanaya Rathod
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009

• Written specifically with sufferers and carers in mind, to help them understand and apply the basic concepts of cognitive therapy for psychosis. • Illustrates what it is like to have common psychosis and how people's lives can be restored using therapy. • Increases understanding of how the...
Book cover of New Developments in Expressive Arts Therapy
by Sally Atkins, Shara Claire, Kelly Clark/Keefe
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017

This collection reflects on the theory and application of expressive arts today in therapy, education, research and social and ecological change. Bringing the understanding of expressive arts into its contemporary theoretical framework, the book reveals the expansion of the field from its initial...
Book cover of Communication and Conflict Transformation through Local, Regional, and Global Engagement
by Ali Askerov, Benjamin J. Broome, Luke Brenneman
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016

Central to a transformational approach to conflict is the idea that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns, and social and discursive structures—and must be addressed as such. This implies the need for systemic change at generative levels, in order to create genuine...
Book cover of Commonplace Commitments

Commonplace Commitments

Thinking through the Legacy of Joseph P. Fell

by Kenneth L. Anderson, Scott D. Churchill, Vincent M. Colapietro
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016

Joseph P. Fell proposes that the solution to the problem of nihilism is found in the common experience of persons and the everyday commitments that one makes to people, practices, and institutions. In his landmark 1979 book Heidegger and Sartre, and in his subsequent essays, Fell describes a quiet...
Book cover of Free-Electron Lasers in the Ultraviolet and X-Ray Regime

Free-Electron Lasers in the Ultraviolet and X-Ray Regime

Physical Principles, Experimental Results, Technical Realization

by Jörg Rossbach, Martin Dohlus, Peter Schmüser
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014

The main goal of the book is to provide a systematic and didactic approach to the physics and technology of free-electron lasers. Numerous figures are used for illustrating the underlying ideas and concepts and links to other fields of physics are provided. After an introduction to undulator radiation...
Book cover of The Forgotten Front

The Forgotten Front

The Eastern Theater of World War I, 1914 - 1915

by Gerhard P. Gross, Hew Strachan, Stig Förster
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018

Although much has been written about the Western Front in World War I, little attention has been given to developments in the east, especially during the crucial period of 1914--1915. Not only did these events have a significant impact on the fighting and outcome of the battles in the west, but all...
Book cover of American Constitutionalism, Marriage, and the Family

American Constitutionalism, Marriage, and the Family

Obergefell v. Hodges and U.S. v. Windsor in Context

by Stephen A. Block, Patrick N. Cain, William C. Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016

This edited volume in American constitutionalism places the Supreme Court’s declaration of same-sex marriage rights in U.S. v. Windsor (2013) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) within the context of the Court’s developing understanding of the legal and social status of marriage and the family. Leading...
Book cover of Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism
by Logan Paul Gage, Bruce L. Gordon, Shawn E. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013

Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism canvasses an array of thinkers from the past to the present as it examines fundamental political, philosophical, ethical, economic, anthropological, and scientific aspects of the ferment between Darwinian biology and classical liberalism. Early chapters...
Book cover of Latin American and Caribbean Foreign Policy
by JoAnn Fagot Aviel, Lincoln Bizzozero, Elsa Cardozo da Silva
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003

This comprehensive text analyzes the foreign policies of eighteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. First assessing the state of the discipline, the introduction develops a common framework that compares the relevant explanatory weight of foreign policy determinants at the individual,...
Book cover of Crime, Regulation and Control During the Blitz

Crime, Regulation and Control During the Blitz

Protecting the Population of Bombed Cities

by Prof. Peter Adey, Dr. David J. Cox, Prof. Barry Godfrey
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016

Crime, Regulation and Control during the Blitz looks at the social effect of bombing on urban centres like Liverpool, Coventry and London, critically examining how the wartime authorities struggled to regulate and control crime and offending during the Blitz. Focusing predominantly on Liverpool, it...
Book cover of Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith
by Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels, Jeffrey Bogaczyk, Devin Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016

In light of more recent conversations about religion and its import as a factor in the global geopolitical and cultural spheres, augmented by the "contracting" of relationship among people and nations, Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith highlights geographical, architectural,...
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