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Traumatic Stress and Long-Term Recovery
This evidence-rich collection takes on the broad diversity of traumatic stress, in both its causes and outcomes, as well as the wide variety of resources available for recovery. Its accessible coverage shows varied presentations of post-traumatic stress affected by individual, family, and group contexts, including age, previous trauma exposure, and presence or lack of social resources, as well …
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- 978-3-319-18865-2
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- XV, 443
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Educating desire : autobiographical impressions of addiction in alcoholics an…
This impressionistic autobiographical inquiry is an attempt to connect the personal with the socio-historical--addiction with Addiction; it is also an attempt to demonstrate that knowledge production can be generated through radically non-traditional means. Narrative serves as method and methodology in a mostly first person account of a fictional open AA meeting. A suspicious hermeneutics is ap…
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- 9789463001458
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- xviii, 81 pages
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- 362.292
Education, equity, economy : crafting a new intersection
This volume will introduce the readers to an alternative nexus of education, equity and economy, pointing to economies and educations that promote a less stratified and exploitive world, and as the chapter authors demonstrate, this view has a wide range of applications, from technology, mathematics, to environmental catastrophes and indigenous cultures. This first volume in the new book series …
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- 9783319216430
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- xi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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- 306.43
Ethics, Economics and Social Institutions
The book highlights the ethical aspects and issues that are inherent to economics in the context of today’s prominent social institutions. It reviews a range of problems concerning dominant social institutions, namely markets, government agencies, corporate entities, financial networks, and religious systems. Further, in each case, the book takes a detailed look at the economic problems as th…
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- 978-981-10-0899-3
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- 4 illustrations in colour
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Ethical Issues in Sandplay Therapy Practice and Research
This book is a reference for mental health professionals who utilize sandplay therapy with their child and/or adult clients. The Brief consists of case studies that are drawn from composite situations occurring in actual practice. Although some of the ethical issues raised and addressed are specific to sandplay therapy, others are generalizable to other modalities of mental health practice. Eac…
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- 978-3-319-14118-3
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- 4 illustrations in colour
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Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans : The Lure of the Local Film Economy
Early in the twenty-first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected millions in tax dollars from the public coffers in an effort to become the top location site globally for the production of Hollywood films and television series. Why would lawmakers support such a policy? Why would citizens accept the policy’s uncomfortable effects on their economy and cu…
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- 9780520967175
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- 791.43 MAY a
Estimation and Inferential Statistics
This book focuses on the meaning of statistical inference and estimation. Statistical inference is concerned with the problems of estimation of population parameters and testing hypotheses. Primarily aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students of statistics, the book is also useful to professionals and researchers in statistical, medical, social and other disciplines. It discusses current …
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- 978-81-322-2514-0
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- 23 b/w illustrations
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Educational technology and pedagogic encounters : democratic education in pot…
This book looks at some of the underlying theories of educational technology (means), and ways in which this technology is guided in practice (ends). The authors are intent on producing ends that prepare students to undertake new analyses and evaluations that can result in new possibilities for democratic action. Emphasis is on their understanding of and position within educational technology -…
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- 9789463005456
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- ix, 132 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- 371.3342
Educator to educator : unpacking and repacking generative concepts in social …
Thinking and learning are based on powerful concepts -- ideas that identify, but also provoke and challenge. This collection is designed to ignite discussions among educators and learners at all levels about social studies concepts that generate curiosity, passion, and a sense of who we are and could be in this world. Contributors to this book, drawn from across the educational field, have focu…
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- 9789462099869
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- xiv, 227 pages
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- 300.71
Israel’s Invisible Negev Bedouin : Issues of Land and Spatial Planning
This Brief provides a contextual framework for exploring the settlement rights of Israel's Bedouin population of the Negev desert, a traditionally pastoral nomadic Arab population. In 1948, the Israeli government relocated this population from the Negev region to settlements in Siyag. The explicit aim was to control the Negev area for security purposes, sedentarize a nomadic people, and to imp…
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- 978-3-319-16820-3
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