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The aims pursued in this book are quite modest. The text is not an introduction in the traditional sense to any psychological subdiscipline or field of application, nor does it present anything essentially new. Rather, it shows ‘work in progress’, as it attempts to contribute to an integration...

What medicine lacks in an increasingly specialised world is the medical polymath (or should it be medical bimath?) - the man who is an acknowledged expert in more than one field of medicine. Super§pecialisation in the professional sense is an attempt to know more and more about less and less. It...

In the last couple of decades, research in the area of tissue engineering has witnessed tremendous progress. The focus has been on replacing or facilitating the regeneration of damaged or diseased cell, tissue or organs by applying a biomaterial support system, and a combination of cells and bioactive...

This book provides an introduction to Quantum Field Theory (QFT) at an elementary level—with only special relativity, electromagnetism and quantum mechanics as prerequisites. For this fresh approach to teaching QFT, based on numerous lectures and courses given by the authors, a representative sample...

This book reflects on recent advances in the understanding of percolation systems to present a wide range of transport phenomena in inhomogeneous disordered systems. Further developments in the theory of macroscopically inhomogeneous media are also addressed. These developments include galvano-electric,...

This books attempts to provide a comprehensive survey of various aspects of "Emotional Intelligence" in terms of its measurement, relationship, applicability and effects among individuals, businesses and community. The book will address the issue related to emotional intelligence past and...

Heterocyclic compounds play a vital role in the metabolism of living cells. Their practical applications range from extensive clinical use to fields as diverse as agriculture, photography, biocide formulation and polymer science. Written by leading scholars and industry experts, the Handbook...

In our ever-more-globalized world, how better to connect than with food, and who better to connect than a chowhound communications professor? Crofts concocts a multimedia feast of photos, “sketchnotes,” and vignettes, inviting us to everything from Thanksgiving in Germany to a Lunar New Year dumpling party in Seattle. The result is a truly beautiful meditation on how food nourishes community.

This manual presents the operations most often performed by surgeons at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic (Inglewood, California, 90301) in treating sports injuries. These operations constitute a complete series of basic surgical procedures for the orthopaedist. In its step-by-step drawings, the...

Is there hope for peace on the Korean peninsula? These deeply personal stories of two Western women reveal the almost unimaginable transformation of Korea from a culturally and politically united peninsula at the end of the nineteenth century into todays dangerously divided land. These two womens...

This work was written under the impression that emerged in recent years a number of books on the revision of history. Definitely in a series of such books occupy a significant place books A.T.Fomenko. With the entire ambiguous attitude to his work, especially in terms of linguistic calculations, unconditional...

Although neonatal screening was begun only 20 years ago, and is consequently still in its early stages, it is already a classic example of efficient preventive pediatrics. At present, routine neonatal screening covering a satisfactory percentage of newborn babies is carried out in only a small part...

LECCIONES BÁSICAS PARA EL APRENDIZAJE DEL DERECHO CIVIL es un manual que facilita el estudio de toda Introducción al Derecho civil, asignatura que se imparte en un cuatrimestre o incluso menos en diferentes grados de nuestras Universidades, donde la escasez de tiempo para que el alumno adquiera...

In this episode from the Indian epic, the Mahabharata, a prince placed in a perilous life-or-death situation must answer a series of riddles. His responses lay out the core Hindu values which will be explored in depth later in the Bhagavad Gita (Song of God).