|
Showing 1 - 25 of
255 matches in All Departments
This book highlights those rare, difficult to diagnose or
controversial cases in contemporary clinical neuropsychology. The
evidence base relevant to this type of work is almost by definition
insufficient to guide practice, but most clinicians will encounter
such cases at some point in their careers. By documenting the
experiences and learning of clinicians who have worked with cases
that are ‘out of the ordinary’, the book addresses an important
gap in the literature. The book discusses 23 challenging and
fascinating cases that fall outside what can be considered routine
practice. Divided into three sections, the text begins by
addressing rare and unusual conditions, defined as either
conditions with a low incidence, or cases with an atypical
presentation of a condition. It goes on to examine circumstances
where an accurate diagnosis and/or coherent case formulation has
been difficult to reach. The final section addresses controversial
conditions in neuropsychology, including those where there is
ongoing scientific debate, disagreement between important
stakeholders, or an associated high-stakes decision. This text
covers practice across lifespan and offers crucial information on
specific conditions as well as implications for practice in rare
disorders. This book will be beneficial for clinical
neuropsychologists and applied psychologists working with people
with complex neurological conditions, along with individuals from
medical, nursing, allied health and social work backgrounds. It
will further be of appeal to educators, researchers and students of
these professions and disciplines.
This book uses the figure of the Victorian heroine as a lens
through which to examine Jane Austen's presence in Victorian
critical and popular writings. Aimed at Victorianist readers and
scholars, the book focuses on the ways in which Austen was
constructed in fiction, criticism, and biography over the course of
the nineteenth century. For the Victorians, Austen became a kind of
cultural shorthand, representing a distant, yet not too-distant,
historical past that the Victorians both drew on and defined
themselves against with regard to such topics as gender,
literature, and national identity. Austen influenced the
development of the Victorian literary heroine, and when cast as a
heroine herself, was deployed in debates about the responsibilities
of the novelist and the ability of fiction to shape social and
cultural norms. Thus, the study is as much, if not more, about the
Victorians than it is about Jane Austen.
Global climate change will alter the environmental forces of today
and increasingly affect weather patterns, rises in temperature, and
government policies for decades to come. To provide future
generations with the knowledge and resources needed to develop
solutions for these ongoing issues, current shortcomings in
environmental education need to be addressed. Building
Sustainability Through Environmental Education is a collection of
innovative research on methods and applications for creating
comprehensive environmental education programs that support
sustainability practices and instruct students on a variety of
topics including water resource management, disaster risks and
mitigation, and issues surrounding climate change. Targeting an
audience of educators, conservationists, instructional designers,
administrators, academicians, researchers, policymakers, and
students, this publications provides practical applications and
examples of integrating best environmental sustainability practices
into education.
Informal folk narrative genres such as gossip, advice, rumor, and
urban legends provide a unique lens through which to discern
popular formations of gender conflict and AIDS beliefs. This is the
first book on AIDS and gender in Africa to draw primarily on such
narratives. By exploring tales of love medicine, gossip about
romantic rivalries, rumors of mysterious new diseases, marital
advice, and stories of rape, among others, it provides rich,
personally grounded insights into the everyday struggles of people
living in an era marked by social upheaval.
This book highlights those rare, difficult to diagnose or
controversial cases in contemporary clinical neuropsychology. The
evidence base relevant to this type of work is almost by definition
insufficient to guide practice, but most clinicians will encounter
such cases at some point in their careers. By documenting the
experiences and learning of clinicians who have worked with cases
that are ‘out of the ordinary’, the book addresses an important
gap in the literature. The book discusses 23 challenging and
fascinating cases that fall outside what can be considered routine
practice. Divided into three sections, the text begins by
addressing rare and unusual conditions, defined as either
conditions with a low incidence, or cases with an atypical
presentation of a condition. It goes on to examine circumstances
where an accurate diagnosis and/or coherent case formulation has
been difficult to reach. The final section addresses controversial
conditions in neuropsychology, including those where there is
ongoing scientific debate, disagreement between important
stakeholders, or an associated high-stakes decision. This text
covers practice across lifespan and offers crucial information on
specific conditions as well as implications for practice in rare
disorders. This book will be beneficial for clinical
neuropsychologists and applied psychologists working with people
with complex neurological conditions, along with individuals from
medical, nursing, allied health and social work backgrounds. It
will further be of appeal to educators, researchers and students of
these professions and disciplines.
|
Final Exam (Hardcover)
David A. Wilson
bundle available
|
R853
Discovery Miles 8 530
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
Final Exam A Memoir is a fascinating and witty story of an active
and observant pilgrim in the middle of the Twentieth Century. The
author, David Wilson, Professor Emeritus, at the University of
California Los Angeles, reveals in detail his memories throughout
his life. Peripatetic from the start he was born in Rockford, IL.,
grew up to ten in La Grange; then lived a few years in upstate New
York and Toledo, OH. He served in the US Navy in WW II. In the
subsequent years he traveled widely and was swept into the struggle
against McCarthyism and the turbulence on campuses in the 1960's.
The memoir also throws light on the growth of foreign area studies,
particularly Southeast Asia, where he lived for many years. As a
professor he was not only active in teaching and research but also
in university politics and administration. Professor Wilson is the
author of books and articles about Thailand and also about higher
education. The story will be interesting to the author's
contemporaries as well as younger readers.
Although the Ten Commandments has been the center of much recent
controversy in American politics, scripture contains many laws
about which Christians are perplexed. If the Bible contains laws,
shouldn't those laws be followed? What does the law that prohibits
reaping a harvest to the very edges of your field mean in modern
times? Or, what about God's prohibition, in Leviticus, not to round
off the hair on your temples or to mar the edges of your beard? The
Decalogue and the Holiness Code in Leviticus contain guidelines to
ethical behavior that originally helped to shape a covenant
community and still have meaning for us today.
In the newest addition to the Conversations with Scripture
series, Kevin Wilson offers fresh insights into the meaning of the
Law for today. In chapters that explore the Law in Exodus and
Leviticus, Wilson examines the historical and cultural contexts of
these legal codes. He discusses rituals such as sacrifice and
rituals related to purification from defilement. Wilson
demonstrates the ways in which the temple priests used many of
these laws as their own code of purity and their own method of
enforcing purity in the covenant community.
As with other books in the series, Wilson's book features
definitions and sidebars in each chapter on particular topics, as
well as study questions.
This book, first published in 1990, evaluates what future policy
adjustments the US will have to make in order to successfully
navigate through a national security environment radically altered
from that of the past and one determined more than at any point in
the post-war period by the economic performance of both
superpowers. The structure of the book centres around two issues
that will determine the future national security environment facing
the US. Discussed are stakes of the threat, the response of the
Soviet Union to the challenge of economic and related
social/political decline and its implications for the Soviet
national defence effort. Also studied are the resources available
to the US to meet the threat, the status of the US economic
performance and the magnitude of resource stress it is likely to
face in the future and its probable impact on the US national
defence effort.
|
|