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Prenatal Genetic Counseling: Practical Support for Prenatal Diagnostics, Decision-Making, and Dealing with Uncertainty provides a foundation for new research and a one-stop source for physicians, genetic counselors, psychologists, social workers, general practitioners, grief workers, translational researchers, and administrators seeking to work in the field of clinical genomics ethically and in full consideration of patients' psychological wel...

Bezugssysteme und Bezugsrahmen spielen in der Physikalischen und Mathematischen Geodäsie eine fundamentale Rolle. Nach einigen einführenden Bemerkungen und Definitionen werden der Newtonsche Raum-Zeit-Begriff und die Unterschiede von Inertialsystem, Newton-System und Galilei-System erläutert. Es folgt eine kurze Einführung in das Einsteinsche Raum-Zeit-Konzept. Nach diesen mehr theoretisch interessierenden Themen werden die Begriffe Ekliptik- ...

The Winner of the Palestine Book Awards in 2017, Gaza under Hamas investigates what happened after Hamas's infamous victory in the 2006 elections. Bjorn Brenner lodged with Palestinian families and experienced their daily encounters with Hamas and secured interviews with a wide range of key political and security figures in the Hamas administration, as well as with military commanders and members of the feared Qassam Brigades. This paperback e...

Biofuels and Bioenergy: Opportunities and Challenges addresses the technological developments and challenges in the production of a broad range of biofuels and bioenergy products from renewable feedstock. The book emphasizes the opportunities and challenges involved in various processes including fermentation, transesterification, microbial fuels cells, liquefaction, gasification, and pyrolysis. These are also considered from a biorefinery per...

Für alle, die nicht reisen können: Balzacs Traumreisen sind eine Anleitung für die schönsten Reisen, die Reisen im Kopf. Balzac ist niemals nach China oder Java gereist. In seinen beiden hier vorgestellten Reiseerzählungen schildert er »voyages imaginaires« - Reisen in der Fantasie. Hintergrund waren dem Autor zugetragene Berichte von Bekannten, die tatsächlich Reisen in den Fernen Osten unternommen hatten. Balzacs darauf aufbauende geniale »...

River Restoration River restoration initiatives are now widespread across the world. The research efforts undertaken to support them are increasingly interdisciplinary, focusing on ecological, chemical, physical as well as societal issues. River Restoration: Political, Social, and Economic Perspectives provides a comprehensive overview of research in the field of river restoration in humanities and the social sciences. It illustrates how, in ...

This book focuses on the relations between social justice and higher education research. Jan McArthur and Paul Ashwin bring together chapters from international researchers that explore these relations in a range of national contexts and consider their implications for policies, pedagogy and our understanding of the roles of graduates in societies. As a whole, the book argues that social justice needs to be more than a topic of higher educatio...

In elegant and accessible prose, Julián Casanova tells the gripping story of the Spanish Civil War. Charting the most significant events and battles alongside the main players in the tragedy, Casanova provides answers to some of the pressing questions (such as the roots and extent of anticlerical violence) that have been asked in the 70 years that have passed since the painful defeat of the second republic. In a revised introduction, Casanova ...

Discover our new resources for the Cambridge International Primary and Lower Secondary Curriculum Frameworks

With varied activities - including sorting, matching and drawing - these workbooks help your learners practise what they have learnt. Focus, Practice and Challenge exercises provide clear progression through each topic, helping learners see what they've achieved. Ideal for use in the classroom or for homework. Links to 'Language focus' boxes in the learner's book provide more grammar practice.

Explore cutting edge techniques at the forefront of electroencephalogram research and artificial intelligence from leading voices in the field The newly revised Second Edition of EEG Signal Processing and Machine Learning delivers an inclusive and thorough exploration of new techniques and outcomes in electroencephalogram (EEG) research in the areas of analysis, processing, and decision making about a variety of brain states, abnormalities, a...

Brill Kid - The Big Number 2: Awesomeness - The Next Level is a no-holds barred instruction manual for life, death and the one billion heartbeats in between. It transitions children to teenage-hood, instilling habits to ensure they become grown-ups, not groan-ups. It's rock solid 'personal development' with a difference. A BIG difference! It's aimed at 7 to 11s, the exact age when mental habits are created. The book picks up where Diary of a ...

This book examines the relevance of futures and future studies to literary studies. It demonstrates how the growing interest in futures thinking is opening up multidisciplinary conversations and initiatives.

The difference between a DP approach and more traditional descriptive psychiatric approaches represented in Child Psychopathology textbooks is clear. The DP approach goes beyond the mere "what" of psychopathology (description of the phenomenology, etiology and epidemiology) to include the "how" of psychopathology. How does normal development go awry? What are the factors (mechanisms) that determine the multiple pathways that may lead to psycho...

Fashioning James Bond is the first book to study the costumes and fashions of the James Bond movie franchise, from Sean Connery in 1962's Dr No to Daniel Craig in Spectre (2015). Llewella Chapman draws on original archival research, close analysis of the costumes and fashion brands featured in the Bond films, interviews with families of tailors and shirt-makers who assisted in creating the 'look' of James Bond, and considers marketing strategi...

Children and horror are often thought to be an incompatible meeting of audience and genre, beset by concerns that children will be corrupted or harmed through exposure to horror media. Nowhere is this tension more clear than in horror films for adults, where the demonic child villain is one of the genre's most enduring tropes. However, horror for children is a unique category of contemporary Hollywood cinema in which children are addressed as ...

Since the 1970s, it has been argued that Abstract Expressionism was exhibited abroad by the post-war US establishment in an attempt to culturally match and reinforce its newfound economic and military dominance. The account of Abstract Expressionism developed by the American critic Clement Greenberg is often identified as central to these efforts. However, this book rereads Greenberg's account through Theodor Adorno and Maurice Merleau-Ponty i...

Gulf societies are often described as being intensely tribal. However, in discussions of state building and national identity, the role of tribalism and tribal identity is often overlooked. This book analyses the political role of tribes in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE aiming to understand the degree to which tribes hinder or advance popular participation in government and to what extent they exert domestic political power. The research traces t...

Paediatrics Lecture Notes covers the core aspects of caring for children in clinical practice, offering concise yet detailed information on examination, emergency care, nutrition, immunisation, infant and adolescent health, and more. Designed for medical students and junior doctors alike, this compact and easy-to-use textbook guides readers through each essential aspect of paediatric care, from normal and abnormal childhood development, to ca...

The essential guide to the greatest hits from the tomb of Tutankhamun, presented in a beautiful compact package.