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This unique textbook considers the role of basic pharmaceutics in determining or modifying clinical outcomes and in explaining the behaviour of medicines in the body, including adverse reactions due to formulations and excipients. An Introduction to Clinical Pharmaceutics covers recent developments such as personalised therapies and nanotechnology. All of the principles underpinning clinical pharmaceutics are supported using relevant examples ...

This book explores the interaction of rituals and ritualised practices utilising a cross-cultural approach. It discusses whether and why rituals are important today, and why they are possibly even more relevant than before.

Presents an analysis of the "Amar Chitra Katha" genre, historical comic-books that capture and promote a middle class masculine identity, as culture became the new site for right-wing hegemonic politics in India over the years.

An ethnographic study that examines the complexities of lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the new millennium. It reveals an original theory on cosmopolitan Indianness and urbanisation in the age of globalisation.

Jaime, who knows a thing or two about showbiz, is on a television shoot in Los Angeles when weird things start to happen. As a woman whose special talent is raising the dead, her threshold for weirdness is pretty high: she's used to not only seeing dead people but hearing them speak to her in very emphatic terms. But for the first time in her life-as invisible hands brush her skin, unintelligible fragments of words are whispered into her ears,...

This lucid and engaging volume provides an essential framework for introducing students to the fundamentals of world politics by clarifying the complexities of its rapidly changing context.

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RCMP Superintendent "Scotty" Gardiner's captivating memoir reveals what truly goes on behind the scenes in local and international criminal and civil investigations - from solving small-town break-ins to busting multi-national drug operations, and from foiling historical coin counterfeiting to making a controversial money-for-bodies deal with serial killer Clifford Olson. IN THE MIND OF A MOUNTIE provides deep insight into the thought proce...

Suitable for both economist and non-economist audiences, this book describes ways in which economic analysis can be an important tool to inform and improve ecosystem-based management (EBM). It elucidates the different kinds of insights which can be gained from the use of different economic tools.

Today the United States has little leverage to promote change in Cuba. Indeed, Cuba enjoys normal relations with virtually every country in the world, and American attempts to isolate the Cuban government have served only to elevate its symbolic predicament as an "underdog" in the international arena.

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Breaking the silence, removing the shame In this highly acclaimed recovery guide, renowned sex and relationship therapists Wendy and Larry Maltz shed new light on the compelling nature and destructive power of today's instantly available pornography. Weaving together poignant real-life stories with innovative exercises, checklists, and expert advice, this groundbreaking resource provides a comprehensive program for understanding and healing po...

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At a time when wars are fought over scriptural interpretation, when the influence of religion on American politics has never been greater, when many Americans still believe in the Bible's literal truth, it has never been more important to get to know the Bible. "Good Book" is what happens when a regular guy--an average Job--actually "reads" the book on which his religion, his culture, and his world are based. Along the way, he grapples with th...

This concise practice-oriented manual effectively shows how psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, supervisors, and counselors can quickly identify and put to therapeutic use an individual's own talents and resources. Written in an easy and relaxed style using everyday language, this manual illustrates how to actively take a person's resources into consideration during therapy and counseling sessions, and how to integrate them into ex...

A witty and irreverent dating guide, "Hunting Season" adapts the rules of deer hunting to help women land their perfect mate.

Louise Erdrich’s first major work of nonfiction, The Blue Jay’s Dance, brilliantly and poignantly examines the joys and frustrations, the compromises and insights, and the difficult struggles and profound emotional satisfactions the acclaimed author experienced in the course of one twelve–month period—from a winter pregnancy through a spring and summer of new motherhood to her return to writing in the fall. In exquisitely lyrical prose, Erdric...

How to disseminate effective, evidence-based interventions for couple therapy more widely. The field of couple therapy and prevention has made great strides over the past decades, and innovations continue as researchers, trainers, and clinicians employ recent findings to benefit couples and families. The most important questions now are: Are we ready to disseminate our effective interventions to the public and how do we do this? In this volu...

Im Sommer 1981 stürzt die Frau des niederländischen Komponisten Lucas Loos auf einer griechischen Insel in einen vierzig Meter tiefen Abgrund. Die turbulente Beziehung zwischen dem homosexuellen Loos und der sprühenden Clara Wevers ist Auslöser für eine Flut von Gerüchten um diesen unglücklichen Sturz. Fünfundzwanzig Jahre nach dem Tod Claras wird die Autorin mit der Geschichte erneut konfrontiert und beschließt, einen Roman darüber zu schreib...

»Der Zweck des Lebens ist das Leben selbst«, so Goethe - wirklich hilfreich ist das jedoch nicht. Mrozek lässt uns dagegen nicht im Stich. In diesem Buch werden alle lebenswichtigen Themen abgehandelt, von A wie Abwechslung, Anarchie und Angst über Fortschritt, Frauen, Freiheit, Rente und Revolution bis Tod, Tourismus, Ungerechtigkeit und Wahrheit. Mrozek weiß immer Rat.