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Explains how cognitive therapy can be used to treat those suffering from bulimia nervosa. This book incorporates case examples offering explanations of the treatment process, questionnaires, worksheets and practical exercises for the client, which provides a framework and focus for therapy.
The unvarying essential meanings of around 1,000 symbols and symbolic themes commonly found in the art, literature and thought of all cultures through the ages are clarified.
Mary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the opposite of science, myth is a central part of it. A tour de force of clear thinking on why we are more than the sum of our molecules, The Myths We Live By is essential reading.
An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians which address the contradictions posed by museum and gallery staged exhibitions, and the challenge of staging art presentations and displays.
"The Language of Comics" provides a history of comics from the end of the nineteenth century to the present and explores the 'semiotics of comics'.
In this text the author explains and provides clinical examples of her psychogenealogical approach to psychotherapy. She shows how, as mere links in a chain of generations, we may have no choice in having the events and traumas experienced by our ancestors visited upon us in our own lifetime.
Provides an understanding of navigation systems and presents the developments in technology and the standardization of maritime navigation techniques. Suitable for students and professionals, this book contains a section on the standard Navstar GPS systems and the Integrated Nav. It includes a chapter on the application of electronic charts.
Rooted in multimodal conversation analysis and based on video recordings of naturally occurring social interactions, this book presents a novel analytical perspective for the study of touch. This is key reading for all researchers and scholars working in conversation analysis, multimodality and related areas.
This book describes how to use logic, reasoning, critical thinking, and the scientific method to conduct and improve criminal and civil investigations.
The award-winning VES Handbook of Visual Effects remains the most complete guide to visual effects techniques and best practices available today. This new edition has been updated to include the latest, industry-standard techniques, technologies, and workflows for the ever-evolving fast paced world of visual effects.
Conflicts of economic interest have social, political and moral causes and consequences. This book shows how economic and literary texts deal with similar subjects, and explores the ways in which economic ideas and metaphors shape literary texts, focusing on the analogies between economic theories and narrative structure in literature and drama.
While it is grounded in diverse theoretical frameworks and disciplines, the book coheres around a commitment to seeing people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities as equal citizens who belong in our classrooms, research projects and community lives.
First published in 2004, this volume recognises that there is much more to museums than the documenting, monumentalizing, or theme-parking of identity, history and heritage.
This book examines flexible working from a psychological perspective and presents empirical research evidence to address what forms of flexible working there are and how they are evolving.
Costume Design for Video Games: An Exploration of Historical and Fantastical Skins explores the rich and colorful history of fashion throughout the ages.
This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of the state of the art and science of urban forestry. It describes the multiple roles and benefits of urban green areas in general and the specific role of trees, including for issues such as air quality, human well-being and stormwater management.
Assessment in Health Professions Education, 2nd Edition, provides a comprehensive guide for educators in the health professions-medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and allied health fields-and addresses the essential concepts needed to understand, interpret, develop, and effectively implement assessment methods.
This book examines core thematic approaches to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and analyses case studies regarding the implementation of this important global norm.
This companion provides a state-of-the-art assessment of the influence of the foremost iconographers, as well as the methodologies employed and themes that underpin the discipline. The first section focuses on influential thinkers in the field, while the second covers some of the best known methodologies; the third, and largest section, looks at
What is Scientific Knowledge? is a much-needed collection of introductory-level chapters on the epistemology of science.
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