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New Tales Told While Trimming the Wick by the talented scholar and poet of the Ming dynasty, Qu You (1347-1433), was the first work of fiction officially banned in China, but also the first internationally acclaimed collection of Chinese short stories. These tales often seem quite modern in their character development and plot intricacies, with characters facing ethical and moral challenges that are just as difficult to navigate today as they were over six hundred years ago.

In Emotionally Charged, Dina Denham Smith and Alicia A. Grandey offer an easier and more effective way for leaders to manage the heightened pressures and emotionally charged landscape they face at work: emotional upskilling. Anchored in the science of emotions, emotional upskilling allows for the development of more advanced emotional capabilities to successfully navigate and perform in the new age of work. Denham Smith and Grandey not only replace misconceptions with facts, but they equip leaders to handle the many emotionally loaded events at work. This book will help leaders navigate today's workplace more smoothly, achieving high performance and fulfillment without compromising their well-being.

The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a monetary measure of the lasting harm caused by emitting one additional ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. By examining the foundations and limitations of the concept, the book evaluates the role and usefulness of the SCC in climate policy discussions.

The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome charts the significance of the sublime in first-century debates about how and why we investigate the natural world. By connecting Manilius' Astronomica, Seneca's Natural Questions, Lucan's Civil War, and the anonymous Aetna for the first time, it tells a new story about the study of nature at Rome, locates the sublimity of that study at the center of early imperial Latin literature, and thereby renders the classical sublime more expansive, dynamic, and contested.

Foster Parent Collaboration: A Guide for Social Workers and Other Professionals presents information about the crises in the foster care system and identified a strategy for meaningful change--social workers and other professionals collaborating with foster parents. The book details how this collaboration can occur through providing practice recommendations. Throughout the book are real life examples and checklists to help social workers master the content. The book serves as a toolkit to help social workers and other professionals working in the foster care system improve their skills and better collaborate with foster parents.

Objects and Attitudes develops a radically novel semantics of attitude reports, modal sentences, and quotation based on an ontology of attitudinal, modal, and phatic objects, entities such as claims, thoughts, intentions, desires, requests, utterances, as well as needs, obligations, permissions, offers, and abilities. It systematically pursues a methodology of descriptive metaphysics-specifically, natural language ontology-and argues that natural language reflects an ontology of attitudinal and modal objects rather than an ontology of abstract propositions.

English Diatonic Music 1887-1955 provides a study of a modern tradition in English art music of the early twentieth century based on the era's focus on diatonicism and its ability to convey metaphysical and mystical feelings. Matthew Riley remaps traditional understandings of this era, emphasizing the importance of convention and craft in its development.

In The Influence Economy, Maxim Sytch explores the external influences that nudge buyers toward questionable decisions and consumption, revealing how professional services--consulting, marketing, banking, and legal firms--create demand for unnecessary and potentially harmful products and services. Sytch finds that such supplier-induced demand can take many forms, from superfluous reorganizations and frivolous lawsuits to ill-conceived acquisitions, which lead to wasted resources, demotivated workforces, and operational setbacks. Based on empirical analyses and interviews, Sytch identifies the conditions under which supplier-induced demand is likely to occur and offers insights into mitigating its effects in today's economy.

In Perfect Storm, Russia analyst Thane Gustafson reinterprets the broader story of Russia's failed opening to the West, focusing on its economic, technological, and social aspects, and the role these played in its ultimate failure. Walking through the longer history of Russia's failure to integrate long before the invasion of Ukraine, Gustafson helps to put in context the more dramatic events of 2022-2024, when vast swathes of the Russian economy found themselves cut off from the West. Perfect Storm tells the story of Russia's opening to the West, from its achievements and disappointments to the complexity of the post-invasion sanctions regime and Russia's possible futures under a new generation of leaders.

The Sleep Parent Training (SLePT) Program was developed for young children with autism spectrum disorder and co-occurring sleep disturbances and tested in clinical trials.

Immunology, Second Edition, offers the most contemporary perspective on the science available, providing a clear, easy-to-follow introduction to the discipline suitable for undergraduate students. In a course where students often get lost in vast amounts of detail and the sheer complexity of the immune response, Immunology helps students see "the big picture" with an approachable narrative and exceptional illustrations that present the exquisite details of immunology while emphasizing the connections between key themes that students so often lose sight of when learning the material. Available with Oxford Insight.

In this book, author Drew Edward Davies explores musical works from colonial Mexico as complex artifacts of religious culture. Reframing past understanding of New Spanish music, he explores how European aesthetics and local circumstances formed a New Spanish musical repertory differentiated by topicality rather than style, in addition to how that repertory is revived today.

Why God Needs War and War Needs God explores the dark attraction between religion and warfare. Virtually every religious tradition leaves behind it a bloody trail of stories, legends, and images of war, and most wars call upon the divine for blessings in battle. This book finds the connection between religion and warfare in the alternative realities created in the human imagination in response to crises both personal and social. Based on the author's thirty years of field work interviewing activists involved in religious-related terrorist movements around the world, this book explains why desperate social conflict leads to images of war, and why invariably God is thought to be engaged in battle.

Principles of Scientific Writing and Biomedical Publication is a practical, comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide designed to enhance understanding of the principles of scientific publication, promote improved writing and manuscript preparation skills, and help navigate the seemingly complex pathway from manuscript submission, through peer review and revision, to successful publication.

In this book, Samuel Bennett looks at the British national myths regarding the UK's relationship with other countries and its former colonies. He argues that the construction of these myths to legitimise Britain's self-image has racialized, silenced, and erased the migrant "Other"--and, by extension, British ethnic minorities. Drawing upon critical discourse studies and integrating decolonial and postcolonial theories, Bennett offers an in-depth, methodologically rigourous analysis of five central myths of UK immigration discourse. Further, he shows how the myths the UK tells itself are at once stable, deployed in different contexts, and historically rooted.

Despite untold human suffering, widespread destruction, and far-reaching destabilization, the fires of many of the world's most violent civil wars continue to burn. How can we explain costly and stalemated, yet seemingly endless, conflicts? Wars Without End provides an answer. Bringing together battlefield bargaining dynamics, the escalatory pressures of interstate competition, and the systemic dimensions of geopolitical rivalry in civil wars, the book challenges traditional conceptions of "proxy war" by deriving new propositions about the strategic logics that motivate it. Combining statistics with detailed case studies, it explains how protracted fighting within states is linked to enduring competition between them.

The therapist guide is designed to provide session by session guidance and to lead therapists from various backgrounds to help parents to improve their autistic child's sleep concerns.

Civic Solitude explores the importance of intentional solitary political reflection as a civic duty. Robert B. Talisse argues that overemphasis on political collaboration can lead to hostility to outgroups and an erosion of the civic capacities that are necessary for democratic progress. He calls for democratic citizens to prioritize individual reflection alongside collective action as a means of negating the effects of polarization.

In How Stories Change Us, Elaine Reese integrates the latest scientific research on stories from fiction (books, TV shows and movies, videogames) with stories from real life (our personal experiences, including on social media) across the lifespan. The book offers an authoritative yet accessible overview of the new interdisciplinary science of stories, told by a developmental psychologist and autobiographical memory expert with over thirty years of experience conducting research on stories. Reese synthesizes cutting-edge research for an interdisciplinary audience, offers practical tips for parents, teachers, librarians, and policymakers, and she advocates for a more integrated science of stories to allow us to better choose the stories we consume and tell.

Colin J. Lewis and Jennifer Kling apply classical Chinese thought to a series of current sociopolitical issues, including politics, robot legal standing, environmental issues, police funding, private militias, and justified revolutions, demonstrating that despite the dominance of western thought in political philosophy, Chinese philosophy provides a powerful lens through which to understand contemporary challenges.

What Do I Do Now? Anxiety Disorders is a compelling exploration of anxiety disorders, intricately weaving together real-life cases into a narrative that transcends traditional mental health literature. This book goes beyond symptomatology, delving into medical causes, the interplay between anxiety and various life stages, and comprehensive treatment approaches. Accessible yet profound, it transforms clinical insights into relatable stories, providing hope and understanding for anyone navigating the labyrinth of anxiety.

The Big Steal uncovers the unusual confluence of ideological views and business interests behind the dilution of legal protections for inventors and artists under U.S. patent and copyright law. Concurrent with the rise of the digital economy, policymakers significantly weakened legal protections against the unauthorized use of technological inventions and creative works. Through an evidence-based analysis informed by the economics and politics of digital markets, Jonathan Barnett shows that this policy shift has advantaged digital intermediaries at the expense of the innovators and artists that drive the knowledge economy