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Bringing together the analysis of a diverse team of social
scientists, this book proposes a new approach to environmental
problems. Cutting through the fragmented perspectives on water
crises, it seeks to shift the analytic perspectives on water policy
by looking at the social logics behind environmental issues. Most
importantly, it analyzes the dynamic influences on water
management, as well as the social and institutional forces that
orient water and conservation policies. The first work of its kind,
The Field of Water Policy: Power and Scarcity in the American
Southwest brings the tools of Pierre Bourdieu's field sociology to
bear on a moment of environmental crisis, with a study of the
logics of water policy in the American Southwest, a region that
allows us to see the contest over the management of scarce
resources in a context of lasting drought. As such, it will appeal
to scholars in the social and political sciences with interests in
the environment and the management of natural resources.
Bringing together the analysis of a diverse team of social
scientists, this book proposes a new approach to environmental
problems. Cutting through the fragmented perspectives on water
crises, it seeks to shift the analytic perspectives on water policy
by looking at the social logics behind environmental issues. Most
importantly, it analyzes the dynamic influences on water
management, as well as the social and institutional forces that
orient water and conservation policies. The first work of its kind,
The Field of Water Policy: Power and Scarcity in the American
Southwest brings the tools of Pierre Bourdieu's field sociology to
bear on a moment of environmental crisis, with a study of the
logics of water policy in the American Southwest, a region that
allows us to see the contest over the management of scarce
resources in a context of lasting drought. As such, it will appeal
to scholars in the social and political sciences with interests in
the environment and the management of natural resources.
The revitalisation of audience studies is not only about new
approaches and methods; it entails a crossing of disciplines and a
bridging of long-established boundaries in the field. The aim of
this volume is to capture the boundary-crossing processes that have
begun to emerge across the discipline in the form of innovative,
interdisciplinary interventions in the audience research agenda.
Contributions to this volume seek to further this process though
innovative, audience-oriented perspectives that firmly anchor media
engagement within the diversity of contexts and purposes to which
people incorporate media in their daily lives, in ways often
unanticipated by industries and professionals.
Assistive technology for cognition is technology which can be used
to enable, enhance, or extend cognitive function. This book
systematically examines how cutting-edge digital technologies can
assist the cognitive function of people with cognitive impairments,
with the potential to revolutionize rehabilitation. Technologies
are reviewed which direct attention, remind, recognize, prompt, and
generally guide people through activities of daily living. Written
by experts in neuropsychology and technology development, Assistive
Technology for Cognition provides a comprehensive overview of the
efficacy of technologies to assist people with brain impairments.
Based on the list provided by the International Classification of
Function, each chapter covers a different cognitive function;
namely, attention, memory, affect, perception, executive function,
language, numeracy, sequencing, and navigation onto which existing
and future assistive technologies for cognition are mapped. This
structure provides in-depth research in an accessible way, and will
allow practitioners to move from an assessment of cognitive
deficits to the prescription of an appropriate assistive technology
for cognition. The chapters also make suggestions for future
developments. Assistive Technology for Cognition will be of great
interest to clinicians and researchers working in brain injury
rehabilitation, technology developers, and also to students in
clinical psychology, neuropsychology, and allied health
disciplines.
This volume focuses on processes and means to revitalise the
academic field of audience research. Ultimately, the revitalisation
of audience studies not only means developing new approaches and
methods; it also requires a 'Kuhnian discussion', in the sense of
discussing the need for the introduction of new paradigms or
conceptual developments into the field of audience research. This
requires that researchers transcend established boundaries in the
field, and entails both the need to cross disciplines (e.g.,
between the social sciences tradition and the critical/cultural
tradition, or the computational tradition) and the need to bridge
long-established boundaries in the field (e.g. between 'old media'
and 'new media'; between mass communication and group
communication; between content/production and audience/reception).
Contributors therefore aim to facilitate this process of boundary
crossing through a series of interdisciplinary debates across the
full range of audience consumption and reception studies.
This issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics, Guest Edited by
Dr. Brian O'Neill, will focus on Mechanical Circulatory Support.
This issue is one of four selected each year by the series
Consulting Editor, Dr. Marvin H. Eng. Mechanical circulatory
support (MCS) plays an important role in the management of a
variety of patients with a range of conditions in interventional
cardiology. As many times the question of MCS arises in the most
critical of patients, an understanding of each of the devices along
with which patients may potentially benefit is vital. This issue
aims to provide a review of the various options of MCS, as well as
a variety of scenarios in which MCS may play a beneficial role in
the management of patients.
Assistive technology for cognition is technology which can be used
to enable, enhance, or extend cognitive function. This book
systematically examines how cutting-edge digital technologies can
assist the cognitive function of people with cognitive impairments,
with the potential to revolutionize rehabilitation. Technologies
are reviewed which direct attention, remind, recognize, prompt, and
generally guide people through activities of daily living. Written
by experts in neuropsychology and technology development, Assistive
Technology for Cognition provides a comprehensive overview of the
efficacy of technologies to assist people with brain impairments.
Based on the list provided by the International Classification of
Function, each chapter covers a different cognitive function;
namely, attention, memory, affect, perception, executive function,
language, numeracy, sequencing, and navigation onto which existing
and future assistive technologies for cognition are mapped. This
structure provides in-depth research in an accessible way, and will
allow practitioners to move from an assessment of cognitive
deficits to the prescription of an appropriate assistive technology
for cognition. The chapters also make suggestions for future
developments. Assistive Technology for Cognition will be of great
interest to clinicians and researchers working in brain injury
rehabilitation, technology developers, and also to students in
clinical psychology, neuropsychology, and allied health
disciplines.
In 1943, when the outcome of World War II hung in the balance, B-17 crews of the Eighth Air Force flew harrowing, unescorted daylight bombing missions deep into Occupied Europe and Germany. These devastating raids have long been storied in film and fiction, but here is a firsthand, blow-by-blow account of these perilous missions as they really happened. In these pages, youll see the events unfold as they were recorded and recalled by one crews officers and enlisted men (pilot, copilot, navigator, radioman, and gunners), corroborated by other crews they flew with, and painstakingly correlated with the official records of the mens 303rd Hells Angels Bomb Group. The publication of Half a Wing, Three Engines, and a Prayer in 1989 prompted a flood of fresh recollections, correspondence, and personal records from other veterans of the 303rd. This Special Revised Edition incorporates that wealth of new material into a vivid, thorough recreation -- complete with actual combat photographs -- of one of the most dramatic chapters in military aviation history. New in this Special Revised Edition: * New veteran interviews * Expanded coverage * Revised data * 90 photographs & illustrations * Epilogue: crewmens post-war careers
A well-researched, highly readable account of a B-17 combat crews experience...excellent. -- Roger A. Freeman, author of The Mighty Eighth
The best collection of stories about a B-17 Bomb Group that has ever been published. -- Harry D. Gobrecht, President, 303rd Bomb Group Association and author of Might in Flight: Daily Diary of the Eighth Air Forces Hells Angels Bomb Group
This is a collection of writings by members of the New York
Institute for Gestalt Therapy previously published from 2000 to
2014. Here you will find essays with much in common and with
important differences. These papers reflect the authors'
relationship to the institute and offer what they believe is
representative of their work. This collection exemplifies the
institute: our membership, our mission our sense of history-and
marks our place in contemporary gestalt therapy.
This book accentuates poetry creativity and the spirituality of the
Tao as aspects of the organism/environment field in general and
Gestalt therapy in particular. This is in accord with the early
founders of gestalt therapy who seek to further the recollection of
childhood as "some of the most beautiful powers of adult life that
must be recovered: spontaneity, imagination, directness of
awareness and manipulation." and embrace a "unitary approach." By
being present to the emergent creation of the field with the
recovered faculties of children and artists we work and live
creatively and authentically in the present moment.
Since the beginning of time people have developed knowledge to make
sense of who we are and the world we live in. The ancient forms of
psychology (as in the original meaning of the study of the 'psyche'
or soul) included the visible and invisible aspects of reality -
unlike the current split today between secular and spiritual,
between the visible and the invisible which proliferates in Western
culture. Most modern psychologies, by attending mainly to the
visible world, have focused on that which will fade and die - the
visible. The ancient psychologies began in the visible realm and
included the invisible beyond external appearance. These approaches
are seen by modern psychologists as religions or spiritual
practices. Yet ancient psychologies were simply broader and more
holistic, discovering the source of the visible world in the
invisible world. They discovered the Holy and for many this Holy is
God. This is the aim of this book. To tell the story of the loss of
the Holy in psychology and regain this experience, as it is
happening today. To make whole the visible and invisible realities
currently divided. It offers a journey of exploration to discover a
golden thread of the wider reality that makes us essentially human.
This wider reality helps in understanding and healing the
unavoidable sufferings of being human.
A blueprints book with 10 different projects built in 10 different
chapters which demonstrate the various use cases of storm for both
beginner and intermediate users, grounded in realworld example
applications. Although the book focuses primarily on Java
development with Storm, the patterns are more broadly applicable
and the tips, techniques, and approaches described in the book
apply to architects, developers, and operations. Additionally, the
book should provoke and inspire applications of distributed
computing to other industries and domains. Hadoop enthusiasts will
also find this book a good introduction to Storm, providing a
potential migration path from batch processing to the world of
realtime analytics.
This book presents an anthology of the history, theory and practice
of living in community by gestalt psychotherapists and
practitioners around the world.
This current book offers such a continuing contribution to this
field along with our ability as a therapy to integrate the
diversity of fields such as ancient spirituality with advances in
the physical sciences, in this case neurobiology and Buddhism. What
is an additional benefit is the author, Declan Brady, offers
specific mindfulness based techniques and practices that you can
use in your clinical practice and personal life. He also draws on
his personal experience of many years of practice in Buddhist based
meditation as well as his interest in neuroscience and
neurobiology, linked to his personal therapy experience and
clinical work with clients.
Gestalt therapy, of all the therapies, might be expected to have
developed a literature in this area due to its significant focus on
organisational management, both through the Gestalt Institute of
Cleveland (GIC) and the Gestalt International Study Centre (GISC)
and the body of literature and training they have developed. The
theory and practice of Gestalt OSD (Organisation and Systems
Dynamics) or GIO (Gestalt in Organisations) is a field or
application of Gestalt therapy which has developed for a range of
people around the world.
"Being open to physics and spirituality as aspects of Gestalt
therapy is in harmony with the founders of gestalt therapy who
embrace a "unitary approach." This book encourages appreciation of
each each of these fields in an expansion of how we view ourselves
and the potential of the Gestalt Approach."
This is not a book geared to one branch of activity - like gestalt
group therapy, or organization development, or applications to
management. The papers assembled here embrace a whole variety of
practice settings and areas of professional endeavour:
organisations, training groups, communities, national groupings,
life - focus groups, as well as (of course) the special case of two
people working together, in the relational fields of group
facilitator-participant, or of consultant-consultee, or of
teacher-student, all or which are fields within fields.
This book brings together the overlapping paths of psychology,
spirituality and gestalt therapy. It considers the life of pioneers
who have gone before on this journey and left a well marked trail
for others to follow - those who have contributed to the bridging
of the psychological and spiritual, such as Carl Jung, Evelyn
Underhill, William James, Emanuel Swedenborg, Roberto Assagioli,
Viktor Frankl and Wilson Van Dusen. It begins with a series of
essays on spirituality and psychology and moves to the specific
relationship between spirituality and gestalt therapy. This book
attends to what many people can relate to today - the common
threads which bring understanding to our life through these
interrelated streams - spirituality, psychotherapy and our search
for meaning.
Step into ABAP with this beginner's guide. First understand ABAP
syntax and find out how to add data and logic to your applications.
Then delve into backend programming: learn to work with the ABAP
data dictionary, create database objects, and process and store
data. Round out your skill set by practicing error handling,
modularization, string manipulation, and more. With guided
examples, step-by-step instructions, and detailed code you'll
become an ABAP developer in no time. In this book, you'll learn
about: A. ABAP Language Basics - Learn the ABAP language, from
formatting code to using variables and constants. Understand how to
add binary logic to applications, create simple user interfaces,
and more. B: Working with Data - Create data dictionary objects and
program ABAP applications to process and read data from a database.
Use working memory to store retrieved data and display it to users.
C: Manipulating Programs - Modularize ABAP programs, handle errors,
and work with strings, texts, dates, times, and currencies. D:
Preparing for an ABAP Career - Understand the SAP system landscape,
prepare your development environment, and explore the official ABAP
development guidelines.
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