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Computers and Networks in the Age of Globalization
IFIP TC9 Fifth World Conference on Human Choice and Computers August 25–28, 1998, Geneva, Switzerland
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
In modernity, an individual identity was constituted from civil society, while in a globalized network society, human identity, if it develops at all, must grow from communal resistance. A communal resistance to an abstract conceptualised world, where there is no possibility for perception and experience...
Rediscovering Nursing
A guide for the returning nurse
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Learning to nurse is a little like learning to swim, ride a bike or speak a foreign language. It takes a long time to become a skilled practitioner, confident in your ability and assured that you understand what you are doing and know that you are doing it competently and safely. But, as everyone...
Coercion and Aggressive Community Treatment
A New Frontier in Mental Health Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Forced hospitalization of people with mental disorders has long been a critical issue in the mental health services. Coercion and Aggressive Community Treatment is the first sustained description and analysis of what happens when `aggressive' treatment becomes `coerced' treatment. Mental health professionals...
Adjudicative Competence
The MacArthur Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2012
Adjudicative competence remains an important topic of research and practice in psychology and law. In the five sections of Adjudicative Competence: The MacArthur Studies, the authors present not only a summary of the research of the MacArthur studies on competence but also an examination of the underlying...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Horseshoe crabs, those mysterious ancient mariners, lured me into the sea as a child along the beaches of New Jersey. Drawn to their shiny domed shells and spiked tails, I could not resist picking them up, turning them over and watching the wondrous mechanical movement of their glistening legs, articulating...
Self-Esteem
The Puzzle of Low Self-Regard
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Summarizing and integrating the major empirical research of the past twenty years, this volume presents a thorough review of the subject, with a special focus on what sets people with low self-esteem apart from others. As the subject is central to the understanding of personality, mental health, and...
Perspectives in Ethology
Evolution, Culture, and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The relations between behavior, evolution, and culture have been a subject of vigorous debate since the publication of Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871). The latest volume of Perspectives in Ethology brings anthropologists, ethologists, psychologists, and evolutionary theorists together to reexamine...
The Identities of Membrane Steroid Receptors
...And Other Proteins Mediating Nongenomic Steroid Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Cheryl S. Watson University o/Texas Medical Branch Cellular steroid action has been thoroughly studied in the nuclear compartment. However, nuclear steroid receptor mechanisms have been unable to explain some of the rapid activities of steroids, partiCUlarly those which occur in a time frame of seconds...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
All being done, we went to Mrs Shipmans, who is a great butter-woman; and I did see there the most of milke and cream, and the cleanest, that I ever saw in my life (29 May 1661). Among others, Sir Wm. Petty did tell me that in good earnest, he hath in his will left such parts of his estate to him...
by Herbert H. Srebnik
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Anatomy, to be sure, is the essential foundation of clinical practice, but it is much more than that. First and foremost, anatomy is a biological science. There is order and logic to the organization of the human body and the arrangement of its parts. And, as all sciences, anatomy offers challenge...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Over the course of the past decade, there has been an enormous augmentation in the amount of information available on the lemurs of Madagascar. These advances are closely coupled with an increase in the number of national and international researchers working on these animals. As a result, Madagascar...
History and Climate
Memories of the Future?
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Most studies of the impacts of climate change consider impacts in the future from anthropogenic climate change. Very few consider what the impacts of past climate change have been. History and Climate: Memories of the Future? contains 13 interdisciplinary chapters which consider impacts of change...
by Adrian Wallwork
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
English for Academic Correspondence and Socializing is the first ever book of its kind specifically written for researchers of all disciplines whose first language is not English. With easy-to-follow rules and tips, and with authentic examples taken from real emails, referee's reports and cover letters,...