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Provides an invaluable resource for professionals, policy makers and researchers and an informed basis on which to take action to prevent the sexual abuse of children.

By bringing together leading industrial and organisational psychologists, this book helps explore the relationship between the theory of industrial and organizational psychology and the principles applied in 'real' organizations.

Caution! This book contains profanity, and vulgar offensive language! However if your divorce was a long drawn out, or dismantling as the divorce this author has gone through, there is probably not enough room in a million books for the words you would like to use, or enough bad words to say.Divorce can be a nasty burden to bear and sometimes profanity is the only remedy you can use to ease the pain. Violence is NOT the way!If you are going th...

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The articles in this volume are the results of discussions among biophysicists, neurobiologists and mathematicians with research interests in auditory mechanics and signal processing. Topics covered include: mechanics of hearing organs, auditory periphery and its models, and electromotility.

A breathtaking narrative of military action anchored by a historian's objectivity. A story of raw courage, desperate measures, and ultimate triumph.

This unique book by Stewart Shapiro looks at a range of philosophical issues and positions concerning mathematics in four comprehensive sections. Part I describes questions and issues about mathematics that have motivated philosophers since the beginning of intellectual history. Part II is anhistorical survey, discussing the role of mathematics in the thought of such philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Mill. Part III covers the three m...

Examination of key texts - Chaucer to Wyclif - sheds new light on medieval spirituality.

A Focuses on and develops the cross-cultural skills that are needed by the modern manager. A The cases engage students by focussing on real-life issues that typically arise in international management situations.

The book is unique in blending together aspects of different disciplines to address the problem of sulfur contaminants in a wide range of feedstocks.

Robert Phillips is a prominent figure in what has been called America's neglected "transition generation"--poets born in the late 1930s and early 1940s. "Spinach Days" is his sixth full-length collection, following his critically acclaimed "Breakdown Lane" (Johns Hopkins, 1994), named a Notable Book of the Year by the "New York Times." In content and in its various use of forms, "Spinach Days" is Phillips' most innovative book yet. There are l...

If cultures are always in the making, this book catches one kind of culture on the make. Academics will be familiar with audit in the form of research and teaching assessments - they may not be aware how pervasive practices of 'accountability' are or of the diversity of political regimes under which they flourish. Twelve social anthropologists from across Europe and the Commonwealth chart an influential and controversial cultural phenomenon.

Gerald Hawting's book has long been acknowledged as the standard introductory survey of this complex period in Arab and Islamic history. Now it is once more made available, with the addition of a new introduction by the author which examines recent significant contributions to scholarship in the field. It is certain to be welcomed by students and academics alike.

This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the "public intellectual" in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been dominated by the generation of Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, and John Kenneth Galbraith, no younger group has arisen to succeed them. Unlike earlier intellectuals who lived in urban bohemias and wrote for the educated public, today's thinkers have flocked to the universities, where the politics of tenur...