Psychotherapy, Ethics, and Society
Drawing on psychoanalytic thinking from over a century and the author’s three decades of experience, this text asks whether psychotherapy can offer insight into a more inclusive kind of ethics, and, if so, whether it can glean any guidance on how such an ethics may be furthered.
Processes of Immigration in Rural Europe
This anthology sheds light on the diversity of in-migration, its specific implications for development and strategies for coping. The contributions encourage theoretical discussions, and provide stimuli for practitioners involved in migration and development issues.
Controllability of Dynamic Systems
This book explores the Green’s function method for controllability analysis in dynamic systems. Valid for both linear and nonlinear dynamics, the approach is shown with examples of sophisticated issues and extensive numerical analysis, revealing its advantages and drawbacks.
In-Between Fiction and Non-Fiction
This title invites the reader to participate in the recent emphasis on subjectivity and self-reflection as the means of understanding and engaging with current social changes through storytelling. It centres its attention on the symbiosis between anthropology and fiction.
From a Scientific Point of View
This monograph deals with the scientific viewpoint, illustrated here through a number of topical cases in modern science, from gravitational waves to mental disorders. It shows that this worldview underlies all current scientific and technological research projects.
Multicultural Narratives
Unpacking multiculturalism in literature, this interdisciplinary collection reveals how narratives subvert fixed notions of race, nation, and identity. A vital resource of theoretical and analytical essays for scholars, students, and researchers.
Perspectives in Project Management
The research perspectives presented here focus on four key themes of project management theory and practice: namely, people and organisations; methodologies and practice domains; issues in application; and continuous improvement and benchmarking.
This title demonstrates how intuition and psychological insights can be used to design relevant models and decision strategies, and describes how goals can be adequately formed and operationalised. It then integrates these processes in an analytical framework for decision-making.
Sound in Motion
This collection sheds light on the intimate relationship between music and audiovisual culture in contemporary society. It includes indispensable studies on music and cinema, as well as original research on music in videogames and television.
Dying to Eat
Trevan examines our oft emotional relationship with food, and challenges how the science and knowledge of food, health and nutrition are derived. He also investigates those foods that come ready loaded with poisonous compounds and carcinogens.
American Wind Music
The transitions that occurred in everyday life after the new “America” was created after the Revolutionary War are reflected in the type of wind music local groups were performing. Kolman traces the development of these new compositions found in available Instrumental Tutors.
The English Reformation Revisited
Salvato puts forward a comparative study of two Church Communities, specifically the Anglican Communion and the Universal Catholic Church. He investigates what caused the Church in England to break away from the Catholic Church, and focuses on the influence of English law.
Short Stories by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Novelist, short-story writer, and journalist Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947) was one of the most prolific writers of her day. This collection of short stories brings her most popular and culturally significant works of short fiction to modern audiences for the first time.
This anthology represents the work of theorists and practitioners from various Central and Eastern European countries who offer a multifaceted approach to security and safety issues which companies in international and domestic trade, as well as consumers, are facing nowadays.
The essays here focus on the relevance of the past to the present and future in terms of the shifting attitudes to personal and collective experiences that have shaped dominant Western critical discourses about history, memory, and nostalgia.
Between Regulation and Freedom
These studies re-frame the roles of guilds in medieval and early modern European cities. They focus on the ways in which we can understand the interfaces between regulatory frameworks, represented by guild and civic regulations, and the wider world of labour and production.
New Media and the Mediatisation of Religion
New media has transformed religious practice and expression. This book offers a unique, Africa-centred perspective on how technology influences religious engagement, shapes discourses, and enables beliefs to reach a broader audience.
Conflict Veterans
Returnees from violent conflicts belong to their societies as much as any other distinct social group. This volume brings together experts on veteran studies whose views present a variety of sociological, anthropological and military perspectives on contemporary veteran cultures.
The Inter-Processual Self
How should we understand the self, as well as personal, relational and systemic growth? This volume proposes a radical new way of answering this question, resting on a non-representational theory of knowledge on how to approach and comprehend the self and action more broadly.
While educational systems are culture-bound, our globalized world needs a shared understanding of teaching a language. This book offers a framework for a non-culture-bound theory of language education, providing a common core that goes beyond national standards and guidelines.
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