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As a doctor of the human psyche, author R. Duncan Wallace believes in not only offering good medicine and science, but also offering solutions and solace to those who are experiencing psychological pain, emotional distress, and difficulty making their way. In The Book of Psychological Truths, Wallace provides a useful guide on how to live a happier, more satisfying life. Over the course of his forty-eight-year career, Wallace has compiled a se...

This fifth installment of The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology continues this series' outstanding reviews in diverse topics in ecology and conservation science and policy.

Tra i molti meriti del quotidiano di Lodi "Il Cittadino" da sempre quello di aver contribuito alla crescita della cultura nel territorio sostenendo, e divulgandole con una puntuale opera di informazione, le diverse iniziative che negli anni si sono sviluppate dando spazio e vetrina a quanto - associazioni, organismi e operatori culturali, biblioteche e archivi - costituisce il fondamento della vitalità culturale lodigiana. In un felice periodo...

Information security is moving much higher up the agenda of corporate concerns. The potential pitfalls of corporate information are enormous. This volume offers a compilation of the work of researchers and practitioners addressing issues, trends and challenges facing the management of information security in the third millennium. The book focuses on aspects of information security planning, evaluation, design and implementation.

The Handbook of Electronics Formulas, Symbols and Definitions has been compiled for engineers, technicians, armed forces personnel, commercial operators, students, hobbyists, and all others who have some knowledge of electronic terms, symbols, and theory. The author's intention has been to provide a small, light reference book that may be easily carried in an attache case or kept in a desk drawer for easy access. A source for the majority of a...

Since its introduction into the armoury of the analytical chemist approximately two decades ago the technique of gas chroma­ tography has found very extensive applications in the analysis of most types of organic compounds. One of the few remaining limitations of the technique when applied to such compounds, namely the analysis of very highly boiling and or thermally unstable substances, has been overcome in many instances by the introduction ...

USA Today bestselling author Cat Adams delivers another page-turning Blood Singer novel with The Isis Collar. Celia Graves was once an ordinary human, but those days are long gone. Now she strives to maintain her sanity and her soul while juggling both vampire abilities and the powers of a Siren. Warned of a magical "bomb" at a local elementary school, Celia forces an evacuation. Oddly, the explosion seems to have no effect, puzzling both Celi...

This is a study about perceptions of well-being. Its purpose is to investigate how these perceptions are organized in the minds of different groups of American adults, to find valid and efficient ways of measuring these percep­ tions, to suggest ways these measurement methods could be implemented to yield a series of social indicators, and to provide some initial readings on these indicators, i.e., some information about the levels of well-bei...

Se recogen los resultados de las investigaciones realizadas sobre el tizón temprano en papa, Alternaria solani Sor. durante 20 campañas del cultivo. Estos estuvieron relacionados con la nocividad, aspectos epidemiológicos acerca de la sobrevivencia del hongo patógeno, la fertilización, la edad de las hojas y las plantas sobre el desarrollo de la enfermedad, determinación de especies hospedantes, número de generaciones del hongo, así como el co...

La disminución de las poblaciones de conejo Europeo en la Península Ibérica ha tenido y tiene serias consecuencias sobre los ecosistemas mediterráneos. Al menos 30 especies diferentes de predadores, incluyendo 17 rapaces y 9 carnívoros, han visto modificadas sus poblaciones y algunas de ellas se encuentran en serio peligro de extinción. Los sistemas dunares costeros, en el sur-oeste de la Península Ibérica, presentan una importante población d...

En el siguiente trabajo, se aborda el acto de narrar vinculado a la reconstrucción y reapropiación de la propia historia. El hilo conductor que nos guiará en el estudio de este problema es el concepto de tiempo y el psicoanálisis ofrece un espacio psíquico y real para que el acto de narrar ocurra, ya que al trabajar con la palabra facilita una reapropiación de la historia personal. En este sentido, es posible considerar que nuestras vivencias ...

Las instituciones universitarias, cumpliendo con su misión de educar e instruir a los futuros profesionales de las Ciencias Técnicas, tienen el compromiso ético de desarrollar en ellos los procesos de comprensión de la compleja relación existente entre el desarrollo científico-tecnológico y la sociedad que lo condiciona. El diagnóstico realizado en la Universidad de Oriente, Núcleo Sucre, reveló como problema científico: insuficiente comprensi...

The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is an international assessment of adult skills. The assessment framework provides an agreed definition of what should be measured and guide the construction and interpretation of

This title is suitable for absolute beginners looking to become confident woodworkers. It combines the best material from Taunton's Getting Started in Woodworking Series. It includes detailed step-by-step photos, illustrations, shop schematics and exploded drawings. For beginners looking to become confident woodworkers relatively quickly, this self-teaching guide will do the trick. Woodworking 101 combines the best material from the four books...

This collection of essays brings together leading experts in the study of exile and expatriation, whose historical and comparative perspectives enable readers to understand the phenomenon of forced displacement in the Americas. Political exile, a major political practice throughout most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is still an under-researched topic. While ubiquitous and fascinating, with some notable and important exceptions, un...

Not a Stage! is written for teachers, students, and scholars interested in the academic, social, and emotional needs of young adolescents. It is unique because it actively resists basing the practice, research, and theory of young adolescent education on developmentalism and the developmental stage of young adolescence. The purpose of this book is to begin to reorient the discourse on young adolescent growth and change and in turn reconceptual...

Urban education is an interdisciplinary field, characterized by introducing many perspectives to research pertaining to educational policy and to the practice of educating youth whose lives unfold in densely populated urban metropolitan areas. This book celebrates Constance Clayton's eleven-year tenure as superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia, ending in 1993, following which an endowed chair was established in Dr. Clayton's hon...

Improving Preaching by Listening to Listeners: Sunday Service Preaching in the Malagasy Lutheran Church explores the reaction of the congregation to Sunday preaching. Preaching has been a significant activity since the founding of the Lutheran Church in Madagascar in 1867. However, hardly any research has been carried out to explore this interesting field, particularly from the listeners' perspective. This book is an attempt to remedy this sit...

Beginning African Philosophy explores the nature and central features of African philosophy from the perspective of African philosophers, analyzing and assessing the importance of African philosophy, its subject matter, its major themes and concerns, and how those themes and concerns compare to those of Western philosophy. Beginning African Philosophy surveys the best-known responses to the questions: What is African philosophy? What are its c...

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