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This book is a comprehensive guide to the psychological processes and empirically supported mechanisms of change that are relevant across diverse presentations of clinical anxiety.

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Sets out to show how Richard Nixon's passion for sports, more than policy positions or partisan politics, engaged the American people - and how Nixon used this passion to his political advantage. Fan in Chief takes place in the realm of political theatre, a theatre in which the president's role was perfectly genuine.

The politics of division and distraction, conservatives' claims of liberalism's dangers, the wisdom of amoral foreign policy: however of the moment these matters might seem, they are clearly presaged in events chronicled by Joshua Kastenberg in this in-depth account of a campaign to impeach Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas.

If you have heard of Charles A. Dana, it was probably from his classic Recollections of the Civil War (1898), which was ghostwritten by muckraker Ida Tarbell and riddled with errors. Lincoln's Informer at long last sets the record straight, giving Charles A. Dana his due in a story that rivals the best historical fiction.

Over the course of the twentieth century, the United States emerged as a global leader in conservation policy. And yet, this is a country famously committed to the ideals of limited government. How these contradictory values have been reconciled is what Kimberly Smith sets out to explain in The Conservation Constitution.

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In 1990, NASA began developing Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE), an initiative aimed at using satellites to study the planet's environment from space. MTPE's main goal was to better understand fundamental processes such as climate change. This book tells the remarkable story of this unprecedented convergence of science, technology, and policy.

Patrick J. Buchananwas one of President Richard Nixon's most important and trusted advisors, particularly on public matters. The copious memos he produced provide a remarkable behind-the-scenes look into the workings of the Nixon White House - and a uniquely informed perspective on the development and deployment of their ideas and practices.

Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) hat sich einen Namen als klassischer Dichter von höchster Verfeinerung, Raffinesse und Eleganz gemacht, Sein 1897 publiziertes Gedicht «Un Coup de Dés jamals n'abolira le Hasard» stieß eine Türe zu freieren Lyrikformen auf und setzte dafür gleichzeitig einen Maßstab, der bis heute nur von wenigen Dichtern und Dichterinnen erreicht worden ist. «Mallarmés Würfelwurf, Versuch einer Übersetzung» unterscheidet sich von...

In order to win a game of chess you very often have to sacrifice material. Gathering the courage to do so while accurately assessing the potential benefits is a real challenge. The big question is always: what's my compensation? Generations of chess players grew up with the idea that a sacrifice was correct if the material was swiftly returned, with interest. Almost by reflex, they spent lots of time counting, quantifying the static value o...

Wie hätten moderne Naturwissenschaftler auf den Weihnachtsstern reagiert? Was hat ein verschwundenes Kind in Japan mit Weihnachten zu tun? Und was lösen die Adventstage bei einem Computerfreak des NSA-Geheimdiensts aus? - Die zeitgenössischen Weihnachtsgeschichten von prominenten Schweizer «Frauen und Männern des Wortes» geben einen Einblick in das, was ihnen das Weihnachtsfest sagt und wie sie es zur Sprache bringen. Manchmal hinterfragen die...

Drawing on a cognitive poetics approach to reception studies, this volume examines the use of spatial metaphors - palimpsest, map, and fractal - to organize the classical past for preteen and adolescent readers, arguing that these reflect different modes in children's literature and encourage different cognitive effects in readers.

Linking disease processes to pharmacological interventions, Clinical Pharmacology for Prescribing gives a sound basis for evidence based prescribing.