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Air travel may be crazy on the ground, but what's it like at 35,000
feet? How safe are you when you fly? Is airport security as good as
they claim? How common is the Mile High Club? This revealing book
answers these and many other questions that expose all the warts
and blemishes of air travel.
Consisting of 70 short stories, the book includes everything from
bizarre inflight incidents to the monumental changes taking place
in the airline industry today. This hilarious and entertaining book
is the ideal companion for anyone flying or waiting for those
inevitable long airport delays!
In Psychoanalytic Participation: Action, Interaction, and
Integration, Kenneth Frank argues that the gulf between analysis
and what he terms "action-oriented" or cognitive-behavioral
techniques is anachronistic and has unnecessarily limited the
repertoire of analytically oriented clinicians. In point of fact,
action-oriented and even cognitive-behavioral techniques may be
employed in ways that are consistent with the analytic goal of
promoting profound personality change, and so may be profitably
incorporated into analytic treatments.
Anchoring his discussion in a contemporary two-person model of
psychoanalysis, Frank clarifies and extends the shift toward
analyst participation that has developed within recent relational
theorizing. On the basis of this orientation, which calls attention
to the therapeutic importance of the real qualities of the analyst
and of the analytic relationship, Frank sets forth a pragmatic
analytic approach that balances traditional "process" elements with
patients' problem-solving and outside progress in realizing life
goals. By letting themselves be known by their patients and by
participating intensively and actively in their treatment, analysts
as analysts can help patients shape new and adaptive behaviors in
their daily lives. It is the participatory possibilities growing
out of a contemporary relational perspective that provide the
ground for a rapprochement between psychoanalysis and
cognitive-behavior therapy. To this end, Frank presents numerous
examples of how action-oriented, cognitive-behavioral principles
and techniques can be used to potentiate and accelerate the
analytic process.
At once scholarly and exploratory, pragmatic and visionary,
Psychoanalytic Participation helps shepherd psychoanalysis into the
21st century while making psychoanalytic wisdom - both traditional
and contemporary - available to the broad community of
psychotherapists appreciative of the usefulness of
cognitive-behavioral treatment strategies.
Series Information: GISDATA Series
Symposium U, "Nuclear Radiation Detection Materials," held April 26
28 at the 2011 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California was
a continuation of the 2009 symposium and provided the latest
research in nuclear radiation detection materials. Types of
detector materials include semiconductors and scintillators, which
are represented by a variety of new scintillator materials; novel
semiconductors; and traditional detection materials. There is a
strong need for new materials and methods for a variety of
radiation detection applications in this rapidly growing field. The
symposium gave an overview of the crystal growth of radiation
detector materials and the characterization and technology issues
and moved on to discuss several important improvements for the
development of future radiation detectors.
A powerful framework for understanding how natural selection shapes
adaptation and biological design Design and diversity are the two
great challenges in the study of life. Microbial Life History draws
on the latest advances in microbiology to describe the fundamental
forces of biological design and apply these evolutionary processes
to a broad diversity of traits in microbial metabolism and
biochemistry. Emphasizing how to formulate and test hypotheses of
adaptation, Steven Frank provides a new foundation for exploring
the evolutionary forces of design. He discusses the economic
principles of marginal valuations, trade-offs, and payoffs in risky
and random environments; the social aspects of conflict and
cooperation; the demographic aspects of age and spatial
heterogeneity; and the engineering control theory principles by
which systems adjust to environments. Frank then applies these
evolutionary principles to the biochemistry of microbial
metabolism, providing the first comprehensive link between the
forces that shape biological design and cellular energetics.
Tracing how natural selection sculpts metabolism, Microbial Life
History provides new perspectives on the life histories of
organisms, from growth rate and survival to dispersal and defense
against attack. Along the way, this incisive book addresses the
conceptual and philosophical challenges confronting evolutionary
biologists and other practitioners who study biological design and
seek to apply its lessons.
The long-time editor of 'Golf Magazine' gives quick, clear, basic
advice for scores of golf's most common challenges, and tips and
tricks in abundance to give any golfer a better game. Includes tips
and tricks in abundance to give any golfer a better game -- finding
the sweetspot on the putter, hitting the flop shot, hitting the
"Texas wedge" and many more.
The only comprehensive theological treatment of Aquinas and
economic theory. / Drawing on the views of Thomas Aquinas, this
book challenges the modern economic tendency toward the
"proprietary self" and calls for a renewed and timely appreciation
of the virtues of trusting receptivity and humble awareness of our
membership in a larger order. Christopher Franks reveals how the
summons to become poor bestows a new intelligibility on formerly
obscure economic teachings. In the course of his discussion Franks
juxtaposes Aquinas with Aristotle, John Locke, and Alasdair
MacIntyre. / He Became Poor not only makes a provocative case for
taking Aquinas's thoughts on economics more seriously, but also
illustrates how the very market conditions of the modern world
cloud any attempt to fully understand Aquinas. Franks proffers a
convincing argument that questioning market-formed assumptions can
actually help us recover the evangelical character of Aquinas's
ethics. / Drawing deeply on the views of Thomas Aquinas, He Became
Poor challenges the modern economic tendency toward the proprietary
self and calls for a renewed appreciation of the virtues of
trusting receptivity and humble awareness of our membership in a
larger benevolent order. Christopher Franks reveals how the summons
to become poor bestows a new intelligibility on formerly obscure
economic teachings. In the course of his discussion Franks
juxtaposes Aquinas with Aristotle, John Locke, and Alasdair
MacIntyre. / This book makes a provocative case for taking Aquinass
thoughts on economics more seriously and illustrates how the very
market conditions of the modern world cloud any attempt to fully
understand Aquinas. Franks offers a convincing argument that
questioning market-formed assumptions can actually help us recover
the evangelical character of Aquinass ethics. / With a style as
lucid as it is engaging, Christopher Franks probes by way of an
astute interpretation of Aquinass economic teachings an old
revolutionary proposal Christian poverty. This Christ-configured
economics is surpassingly relevant as global capitalism is faced
with a cataclysmic collapse. The greatest praise I can give this
book is that its author has learned much from Dominicans past and
present not least from Thomas Aquinas so much indeed that He Became
Poor is suffused with the true spirit of Dominican poverty. We have
much to learn from this important work. Reinhard Htter / Duke
Divinity School
Most financial planning decisions faced by families are the result
of family life stages-entering into a committed relationship;
having and caring for children; working; taking care of parents;
securing retirement funds; and distributing wealth at the end of
life. All of these family life stages require planning, budgeting
and, more importantly, communicating in order to reach these
financial goals. Exploring the vital relationship between
communication and financial planning, Communicating Finances in the
Family: Talking and Taking Action helps students move from seeing
money as a "problem" to viewing money as the "path" to achieving
their financial goals. Readers learn about the role of money within
a family, the emotional controversy it can create, the importance
of honest communication in financial planning, and how to develop a
family financial mission statement, set financial goals, and
develop a budget. Included are case studies that demonstrate
communication strategies in action and self-check questions to help
students consider their own experiences and plans. Communicating
Finances in the Family is an ideal supplementary text for courses
in interpersonal communication, family communication, group
communication, community, finance, economics, and family studies.
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