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Written by an experienced practitioner and academic, this book aims to promote an understanding of groupwork and group processes, particularly in social work and social care settings. Skills-based in approach, it includes: group examples, quotes from groupworkers, learning points based on research, activities to develop practice, and more.

Relationships and alignments among the nations of the world's most populous and productive region, the Asia Pacific, are in flux. Current global political, economic and security uncertainty, heightened by 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror, has fueled a reassessment by many Asia Pacific nations about the structure and form of future economic and political cooperation and development. This book, featuring contributions from some of the most ...

This volume is groundbreaking in examining Plutarch¿s views not only in the context of ancient philosophical and ethical thought, but also in its generally overlooked place in the history of speculation on human-animal relations

Traces how rural society and farming evolved, and surveys the world of landowners and of the marginalized, of wealthy merchants and the teeming masses of the towns. This study sets the more familiar landmarks of the nineteenth century - agrarian conflict, structural poverty, and the collapse of food supply - in a complex historical framework.

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Warfare has shaped the modern history of China more than any other single factor. This book brings together the best recent English language scholarship on warfare in China over the last four centuries and situates warfare within the broader sweep of China's modern historical development.

Brings together two important issues in organisation and management studies: the concept and related theory of organisational identity, and autopoietic organisation theory. This book is twofold: it provides an introduction to autopoietic organisation theory and it provides a fresh perspective on organisational identity and self-transformation.

Structured around readings of "critical moments" in the literary history of the Anglophone Caribbean, this book examines: *what it is that we read when we approach Caribbean Literature*how it is that we read it and*what critical, ideological and historical pressures may have shaped our choices and approaches.It is, then, in part a historiography of Caribbean literary history and criticism, and in part a supplement to that history. The author e...

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Consequence is at the heart of logic, an account of consequence, of what follows from what, offers a vital tool in the evaluation of arguments. Since philosophy itself proceeds by way of argument and inference, a clear view of what logical consequence amounts to is of central importance to the whole discipline. In this book JC Beall and Greg Restall present and defend what thay call logical pluralism, the view that there is more than one genui...

Microfluidics is a young discipline which enables scientists and engineers to handle fluids in the biochips of the future.The book is an introduction to this discipline. It presents in simple terms the most important notions of the domain: how fluids move on the chip, conveying materials, molecules, electrical charges, and heat.

The Palliative Care Consultations series is primarily aimed at those individuals working in an acute hospital cancer center and/or tertiary referral center. Books are designed to give the busy clinician advice on clinical problems, both those rarely encountered and those that are very common, but difficult. The volumes are site specific and each volume encompasses a review of the current oncological or haemato-oncological management of advance...

Dyspnoea is a common symptom in people with advanced cancer, cardiac, respiratory, and some neurological diseases. This book is concerned with the palliation of breathlessness associated with advanced disease. It includes chapters from an international group of experts on the best ways to help patients and families live as fully as possible with this distressing symptom and, when it is inevitable, to die as comfortably and peacefully as possible.

This book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks how they should be classified in the future. It tests current theories and hypotheses, shows how new ideas can be formulated, and offers a series of demonstrations that the new techniques applied to old data can produce convincing results. It will be of great practical interest to all those concerned with the classification and diffusion of languages in f...

This Casebook is a collection of interpretations of Crime and Punishment. The selection not only reflects earlier work by major critics in the field, but also more recent studies. At the same time the choice of critical approaches has been made on the basis of covering the novel's various aspects: Dostoevsky's debt to other novelists in the European tradition, his roots as a writer in the so-called "Natural School" of the 1840s with its emphas...

In books such as Mystics and Messiahs, Hidden Gospels, and The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins has established himself as a leading commentator on religion and society. Now, in Dream Catchers, Jenkins offers a brilliant account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native Americanspirituality, once seen as degraded spectacle, now hailed as New Age salvation.Jenkins charts this remarkable change by highlighting the complex history of wh...

This timely volume by one of the very best authorities on the EU offers an innovative analysis of the impact of the EU on welfare states at both the national and regional level. Given the EU's increasing influence on welfare states, this major new statement is poised to make an exciting and important contribution to current policy debates.

These twenty essays examine continuity and change in the language of Latin prose, from its emergence to the twelfth century AD. Issues debated include traditional distinctions between primitive archaic and sophisticated classical Latin, and between superior classical and inferior Silver Latin. A broad range of Latin authors are covered, including Caesar and Cicero, Bede and William of Malmesbury. An extensive introduction traces the volume's r...