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Anthropology Islands and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene

Anthropology Islands and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene

Part ethnography part memoir and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary. Utilizing carefully considered anthropological perspectives drawn from over a decade of anthropological fieldwork the author employs islands as a complex set of lenses to examine the ways that we are intimately connected separated and divided from ourselves one another and the planet. Moving across time place and disciplinary boundaries this book traces a narrative route from the remote islands of Micronesia to the subarctic expanses of northern Iceland all in service of gaining a deeper understanding of the cultural resonance of islands. This book offers the reader a type of ideological travel guide one that exchanges restaurant reviews and hotel recommendations for pathways of reflection and new modes of seeing and being in the world. It will be of interest to scholars in the social sciences and humanities and readers from human geography cultural studies sociology philosophy and American studies. | Anthropology Islands and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene

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Euro-Mediterranean Security: A Search for Partnership A Search for Partnership

Euro-Mediterranean Security: A Search for Partnership A Search for Partnership

This title was first published in 2003. This work provides a clearer understanding of the EU's approach towards security in the Mediterranean. After examining the EU's interests and the potential threats to security in the region it analyzes EU security policy towards the region as a whole through the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and towards all disputes and conflicts in the area. It recommends opening up the European Security and Defence Policy to Mediterranean participation in order to establish a deep and equitable security partnership between both shores. The book argues that this way the EU could implement its innovative comprehensive and co-operative approach to security. Rather than focusing on the military aspect alone this approach takes into account all dimensions of security (political socio-economic cultural and ecological) and is based on partnership rather than confrontation. It therefore contrasts quite sharply with the policies advocated in the US National Security Strategy. | Euro-Mediterranean Security: A Search for Partnership A Search for Partnership

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Combinatorial Algorithms Generation Enumeration and Search

Combinatorial Algorithms Generation Enumeration and Search

This textbook thoroughly outlines combinatorial algorithms for generation enumeration and search. Topics include backtracking and heuristic search methods applied to various combinatorial structures such as:CombinationsPermutationsGraphsDesignsMany classical areas are covered as well as new research topics not included in most existing texts such as:Group algorithmsGraph isomorphismHill-climbingHeuristic search algorithmsThis work serves as an exceptional textbook for a modern course in combinatorial algorithms providing a unified and focused collection of recent topics of interest in the area. The authors synthesizing material that can only be found scattered through many different sources introduce the most important combinatorial algorithmic techniques - thus creating an accessible comprehensive text that students of mathematics electrical engineering and computer science can understand without needing a prior course on combinatorics. | Combinatorial Algorithms Generation Enumeration and Search

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Manual of Online Search Strategies Volumes I-III

Manual of Online Search Strategies Volumes I-III

This title was first published in 2001. Comprehensively updated this three-volume edition of the Manual of Online Search Strategies covers the whole range of Internet CD-ROM and dial-up online services and includes several new chapters. International experts on each subject area selected from the UK and North America describe in detail how to identify and exploit specialist bibliographic and non-bibliographic databases the best search methods and delivery modes and the relative merits of different services and online hosts in their different disciplines. Numerous examples of search results are used to illustrate different strategies and commands. Each volume includes the editors’ introductory chapter on search strategies which gives an overview of searching language platforms and vendors interfaces and search and database evaluation methods. The Manual can be used as a subject handbook a directory of recommended resources and as a textbook. This new edition provides extensive guidance for searchers of electronic information and is particularly useful for those working in a subject area other than their own. Readers will gain a professional 'edge' from the skill and wisdom that the specialist authors have passed on in their chapters and will be able to expand their searching techniques into new areas. | Manual of Online Search Strategies Volumes I-III

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Investigating Life in the Universe Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Investigating Life in the Universe Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

This textbook gives a lively introduction to the search for extraterrestrial life. It is a guidebook to understanding the possibility of life elsewhere pointing out landmarks and providing background information to facilitate further exploration of those areas of most interest to the reader. We are a planet of winners – winners of a cosmic lottery that has been in play since the universe began approximately 13. 7 billion years ago. Our winnings include sentience and an underlying unease that has driven us to contemplate our place in the universe and the possibility of finding kindred spirits in the cosmos spreading out before us. To understand our origins and the possibility of life beyond Earth we must look back and retrace the steps that have brought us to this point in space and time. In doing so we will find the investigation of life to be a unifying theme in nature requiring us to touch on all branches of the tree of knowledge. Using the Drake Equation as a theme we begin with an overview of the topic and then go into the story of how we have acquired or plan to acquire the knowledge to solve it. As we make our journey we will encounter some very interesting people – some you will likely know while others may be new to you. Keep an open mind and allow this text to be your guide. Written in an engaging style this textbook provides a foundational understanding of the rapidly advancing fields associated with the search for life in the universe. Each chapter includes illustrative figures and review questions for self-study. It will appeal to professionals researchers instructors and undergraduate students as well as anyone with an interest in astrophysics or astrobiology. | Investigating Life in the Universe Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

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Writing in-Between Collaborative Meaning Making in Performative Writing

Writing in-Between Collaborative Meaning Making in Performative Writing

Writing in-Between lies at intersections: between theory and praxis; between fiction and non-fiction; between author and reader; between the personal and the political. Beginning with a conceptual glossary that prepares readers for their journey through the book Dinesh offers two central texts to invite readers to become co-creators. The first F for _____ is written as an “academic novella” and culminates with an interactive section that is composed of guided invitations for the reader/co-creator. The second text Julys takes the form of a “dramatic memoir” and intersperses invitations for readers/co-creators between each of its chapters. Dinesh brings these threads together in an entirely interactive concluding chapter where her hopes for collaborative meaning making take centre stage. In all of its unique invitations to engage Dinesh’s readers/co-creators can either choose to craft their creations in personal notebooks or blank spaces in this work’s physical copy or to engage more publicly via virtual forums that can be accessed via QR codes and accompanying links that are scattered throughout the book. Guided by questions about writing can “do” — questions that have shaped Dinesh’s work as an artist scholar and educator for almost two decades — Writing in Between embodies one central tenet: that the significance of performative writing might be most powerfully experienced through a collaborative process of meaning making between a text’s author and its readers turned co-creators. | Writing in-Between Collaborative Meaning Making in Performative Writing

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Positive Psychoanalysis Meaning Aesthetics and Subjective Well-Being

Positive Psychoanalysis Meaning Aesthetics and Subjective Well-Being

Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy have in one way or another focused on the amelioration of the negative. This has only done half the job; the other half being to actively bring Positive Experience into patients’ lives. Positive Psychoanalysis moves away from this traditional focus on negative experience and problems and instead looks at what makes for a positive life experience bringing a new clinical piece to what psychoanalysts do: Positive Psychoanalysis and the interdisciplinary theory and research behind it. The envelope of functions entailed in Positive Psychoanalysis is an area of Being described as Subjective Well-Being. This book identifies three particular areas of function encompassed by SWB: Personal Meaning Aesthetics and Desire. Mark Leffert looks at the importance of these factors in our positive experiences in everyday life and how they are manifested in clinical psychoanalytic work. These domains of Being form the basis of chapters each comprising an interdisciplinary discussion integrating many strands of research and argument. Leffert discusses how the areas interact with each other and how they come to bear on the care healing and cure that are the usual subjects of psychoanalytic treatment. He also explores how they can be represented in contemporary psychoanalytic theory. This novel work discusses and integrates research findings phenomenology and psychoanalytic thought that have not yet been considered together. It seeks to inform readers about these subjects and demonstrates with clinical examples how to incorporate them into their clinical work with the negative helping patients not just to heal the negative but also move into essential positive aspects of living: a sense of personal meaning aesthetic competence and becoming a desiring being that experiences Subjective Well-Being. Drawing on ideas from across neuroscience philosophy and social and culture studies this book sets out a new agenda for covering the positive in psychoanalysis. Positive Psychoanalysis will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists neuroscientists and philosophers as well as academics across these fields and in psychiatry comparative literature and literature and the mind. | Positive Psychoanalysis Meaning Aesthetics and Subjective Well-Being

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Validation of Score Meaning for the Next Generation of Assessments The Use of Response Processes

Validation of Score Meaning for the Next Generation of Assessments The Use of Response Processes

Despite developments in research and practice on using examinee response process data in assessment design the use of such data in test validation is rare. Validation of Score Meaning in the Next Generation of Assessments Using Response Processes highlights the importance of validity evidence based on response processes and provides guidance to measurement researchers and practitioners in creating and using such evidence as a regular part of the assessment validation process. Response processes refer to approaches and behaviors of examinees when they interpret assessment situations and formulate and generate solutions as revealed through verbalizations eye movements response times or computer clicks. Such response process data can provide information about the extent to which items and tasks engage examinees in the intended ways. With contributions from the top researchers in the field of assessment this volume includes chapters that focus on methodological issues and on applications across multiple contexts of assessment interpretation and use. In Part I of this book contributors discuss the framing of validity as an evidence-based argument for the interpretation of the meaning of test scores the specifics of different methods of response process data collection and analysis and the use of response process data relative to issues of validation as highlighted in the joint standards on testing. In Part II chapter authors offer examples that illustrate the use of response process data in assessment validation. These cases are provided specifically to address issues related to the analysis and interpretation of performance on assessments of complex cognition assessments designed to inform classroom learning and instruction and assessments intended for students with varying cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Validation of Score Meaning for the Next Generation of Assessments The Use of Response Processes

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Phenomenology as Qualitative Research A Critical Analysis of Meaning Attribution

Phenomenology as Qualitative Research A Critical Analysis of Meaning Attribution

Phenomenology originated as a novel way of doing philosophy early in the twentieth century. In the writings of Husserl and Heidegger regarded as its founders it was a non-empirical kind of philosophical enquiry. Although this tradition has continued in a variety of forms ‘phenomenology’ is now also used to denote an empirical form of qualitative research (PQR) especially in health psychology and education. However the methods adopted by researchers in these disciplines have never been subject to detailed critical analysis; nor have the methods advocated by methodological writers who are regularly cited in the research literature. This book examines these methods closely offering a detailed analysis of worked-through examples in three influential textbooks by Giorgi van Manen and Smith Flowers and Larkin. Paley argues that the methods described in these texts are radically under-specified and suggests alternatives to PQR as an approach to qualitative research particularly the use of interview data in the construction of models designed to explain phenomena rather than merely describe or interpret them. This book also analyses and aims to develop the implicit theory of ‘meaning’ found in PQR writings. The author establishes an account of ‘meaning’ as an inference marker and explores the methodological implications of this view. This book evaluates the methods used in phenomenology-as-qualitative-research and formulates a more fully theorised alternative. It will appeal to researchers and students in the areas of health nursing psychology education public health sociology anthropology political science philosophy and logic. | Phenomenology as Qualitative Research A Critical Analysis of Meaning Attribution

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The Meaning of Movement Embodied Developmental Clinical and Cultural Perspectives of the Kestenberg Movement Profile

The Meaning of Movement Embodied Developmental Clinical and Cultural Perspectives of the Kestenberg Movement Profile

The new edition of The Meaning of Movement serves as a guide to instruction in the Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP) and as the system’s foremost reference book sourcebook and authoritative compendium. This thoroughly updated volume interweaves current developmental science cultural perspectives and KMP-derived theory and methods for research and techniques for clinical practice. Through the well-established KMP clinicians and researchers in the realms of nonverbal behavior and body movement can inform and enrich their psychological interpretations of movement. Interdisciplinary specialists gain a way to study the embodiment of cognition affects learning styles and interpersonal relations based on observation and analysis of basic qualities of movement. | The Meaning of Movement Embodied Developmental Clinical and Cultural Perspectives of the Kestenberg Movement Profile

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Ancient Egypt and Modern Psychotherapy Sacred Science and the Search for Soul

Ancient Egypt and Modern Psychotherapy Sacred Science and the Search for Soul

In Ancient Egypt and Modern Psychotherapy Todd Hayen explores what the spiritual concepts of the enigmatic ancient Egyptians can teach us about our own modern psyches and the pursuit of a meaningful life. Hayen examines the ancient Egyptians’ possession of a concept contemporary academics have labeled consciousness of the heart: an innate knowledge of the entirety of the universe. While all human beings possess this consciousness of the heart our modern culture has largely lost the ability to tap into this inborn knowledge. By examining the material accomplishments of ancient Egypt and how their seemingly deeper awareness of their inner world created a harmonious outer world we can begin to understand how modern psychotherapy through a Jungian perspective could be instrumental in achieving a more profound and meaningful personal experience of life. Ancient Egypt and Modern Psychotherapy will be insightful reading for analytical psychologists in practice and in training Jungian psychotherapists and psychologists and academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies and ancient spirituality. | Ancient Egypt and Modern Psychotherapy Sacred Science and the Search for Soul

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Ethics in Criminal Justice In Search of the Truth

Ethics in Criminal Justice In Search of the Truth

Introducing the fundamentals of ethical theory Ethics in Criminal Justice: In Search of the Truth Seventh Edition exposes the reader to the ways and means of making moral judgments by exploring the teachings of the great philosophers sources of criminal justice ethics and ethical issues in the criminal justice system. It is presented from two perspectives: a thematic perspective that addresses ethical principles common to all components of the discipline and an area-specific perspective that addresses the state of ethics in criminal justice in the fields of policing corrections and probation and parole. The seventh edition features discussion of current critical issues in criminal justice: accusations of racism police shootings stop and frisk policy marijuana laws mass incarceration life sentences prison privatization the swift and certain deterrence model of probation excessive probation fees and the Good Lives Model in corrections. The seventh edition also offers completely revised coverage of capital punishment and the rehabilitation debate and a discussion of how juvenile justice often fails to live up to its ideals. Finally the book features new case studies of recent ethical dilemmas in criminal justice to enhance students’ understanding of real-life ethics decision-making. Suitable for advanced undergraduates or graduate students in criminal justice programs in the US and globally this text offers a classical view of ethical decision-making and is well-grounded in specific case examples. | Ethics in Criminal Justice In Search of the Truth

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Family Storytelling Negotiating Identities Teaching Lessons and Making Meaning

Family Storytelling Negotiating Identities Teaching Lessons and Making Meaning

Stories and storytelling are one of the primary ways that families and family members make sense of both everyday and difficult events create a sense of individual and group identity remember connect generations and establish guidelines for family behavior. With so many important functions storytelling is a significant but still understudied communicative process for the family. Family Storytelling focuses on the ways in which stories are told in and about family in order to provide insight into the processes functions and consequences of family storytelling. This collection of empirical articles illuminates various ways in which family storytelling affects and reflects the negotiation of individual and relational identity in the family teaches important family lessons and helps members make sense of and cope with difficulty. Each of these functions is explored through both scientific and interpretive investigations thus showcasing the contributions that research on family storytelling from different paradigms make to our understanding of the family. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Family Communication. | Family Storytelling Negotiating Identities Teaching Lessons and Making Meaning

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A Poetics of Jesus The Search for Christ Through Writing in the Nineteenth Century

A Poetics of Jesus The Search for Christ Through Writing in the Nineteenth Century

This title was first published in 2002: A Poetics of Jesus explores the act of writing within and between the boundaries of 19th century biblical criticism and fiction. Reflecting on the work of Christian poetics after Augustine to Baur Feuerbach Friedrich Strauss and Victorian novelists of the eighteenth and nineteenth century this book breaks new ground in juxtaposing the evoked image of Christ arising from Victorian biblical criticism against the image of Christ within fiction letting both these images and the words that figured them interact. This book offers a highly accessible introduction to 19th century literature and theology through comparisons made to contemporary post-modern theorists. Demonstrating how literature can inform theology without itself becoming 'theology' this book constitutes an important contribution to the literature/theology debate and a much needed contribution to contemporary Christology through its introduction to the literature and the writers central to the beginnings of the historical quest for Jesus. | A Poetics of Jesus The Search for Christ Through Writing in the Nineteenth Century

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Patients Making Meaning Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health

Patients Making Meaning Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health

This book explores how women make meaning at various health flashpoints in their lives overcoming fear anxiety and anger to draw upon self-advocacy research and crucial decision-making. Combining focus group research content analysis autoethnography and textual inquiry the book argues that the making and remaking of what we call “patient epistemologies” is a continual process wherein a health flashpoint—sometimes a new diagnosis sometimes a reoccurrence or worsening of an existing condition or the progression of a natural process—can cause an individual to be thrust into a discourse community that was not of their own choosing. This study will interest students and scholars of health communication rhetoric of health and medicine women’s studies public health healthcare policy philosophy of medicine medical sociology and medical humanities. | Patients Making Meaning Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health

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Multimodality and Social Semiosis Communication Meaning-Making and Learning in the Work of Gunther Kress

Multimodality and Social Semiosis Communication Meaning-Making and Learning in the Work of Gunther Kress

Gunther Kress one of the founders of social semiotics and multimodality has made lasting contributions to these fields through his work in semiotics and meaning-making; power and identity; agency design production; and pedagogy and learning; in varied sites of transformation. This book brings together leading scholars in a variety of disciplines including social semiotics pedagogy linguistics media and communication studies new literacy studies ethnography academic literacy literary criticism and more recently medical/clinical education to examine and build upon his work. This disciplinary diversity is evidence of the ways in which Kress' work has influenced and been influenced by a wide range of academic work and intellectual endeavors and how it has been used to lay foundations for theory-building and concept development in a varied yet connected range of areas. The individual contributions to the book pick up the threads of the often collaborative work of the authors with Kress; they show how these approaches were subsequently developed and discuss what future trajectories the authors see for them. | Multimodality and Social Semiosis Communication Meaning-Making and Learning in the Work of Gunther Kress

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The Meaning of Rehabilitation and its Impact on Parole There and Back Again in California

The Meaning of Rehabilitation and its Impact on Parole There and Back Again in California

This book queries the concept of rehabilitation to determine how on a legislative and policy level the term is defined as a goal of correctional systems. The book explores what rehabilitation is by investigating how at different moments in time its conceptualization has shaped and been shaped by shifting norms practices and institutions of corrections in California. The author calls for a rethinking of theoretical understandings of the corrections system generally and parole system specifically and calls for an expansion in the questions asked in reintegration studies. The book is designed for scholars seeking to better understand the relationship between correctional systems and rehabilitation and the full scope of rehabilitation as a legislative goal and is also suitable for use as teaching tool for historical textual and interviewing methods. | The Meaning of Rehabilitation and its Impact on Parole There and Back Again in California

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Agnes's Jacket A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness.Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue by the Author

Agnes's Jacket A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness.Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue by the Author

In a Victorian-era German asylum seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform. Despite every attempt to silence them hundreds of other psychiatric patients have managed to get their stories out or to publish them on their own. Today in a vibrant network of peer-advocacy groups all over the world those with firsthand experience of emotional distress are working together to unravel the mysteries of madness and to help one another recover. Agnes’s Jacket tells their story focusing especially on the Hearing Voices Network (HVN) an international collaboration of professionals people with lived experience and their families and friends who have been working to develop an alternative approach to coping with voices visions and other extreme states that is empowering and useful and does not start from the assumption that such people have a chronic illness. A vast gulf exists between the way medicine explains psychiatric conditions and the experiences of those who suffer. Hornstein’s work helps us to bridge that gulf guiding us through the inner lives of those diagnosed with schizophrenia bipolar illness depression and paranoia and emerging with nothing less than a new model for understanding one another and ourselves. | Agnes's Jacket A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness. Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue by the Author

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Apologies from Death Row The Meaning and Consequences of Offender Remorse

Apologies from Death Row The Meaning and Consequences of Offender Remorse

Apologies from Death Row explores the notion of remorse apologies and forgiveness within the context of capital punishment in the United States through the final words of offenders on death row and the covictims’ responses to them in their statements to the press after witnessing the execution. The book demonstrates that there is evidence that some offenders on death row are truly remorseful and that some of the family members of their victims could benefit from this remorse but that this is unlikely in the current system of capital punishment. Drawing from the fields of criminology psychology and sociology the book begins with a theoretically informed introduction to the concepts of remorse and forgiveness followed by an exploration of apology and forgiveness specifically in the context of capital punishment. It discusses how some initiatives within the criminal justice system such as apology laws and restorative justice programmes are being used to make it easier for offenders to apologize to their victims. Offenders on death row are considered addressing why they might or might not apologize and whether they are even capable of showing true remorse. The book then considers the family members of their victims (covictims) addressing whether they benefit from hearing the offender express remorse and witnessing the execution and whether forgiveness is possible in this context. Evidence to support the arguments presented in the book come from the offenders’ final words and the covictims’ responses to them in their statements to the press. The book dispels two common myths about the death penalty. First it shows that offenders on death row are not simply monsters who are incapable of understanding the severity of their crimes. Second it provides evidence that despite the popular belief that the death penalty is necessary in order to provide closure for the victims’ family members it may actually have the opposite effect. The family members’ statements to the press after witnessing the execution contain more negative themes like anger and disappointment than positive themes like closure and peace. The book concludes with a discussion of the implications this has for systems of justice in general and how a better understanding of the emotional state of offenders can help both victims and offenders. Apologies from Death Row will be of great interest to students and scholars of Criminology Psychology and Sociology. | Apologies from Death Row The Meaning and Consequences of Offender Remorse

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Psychoanalysis Society and the Inner World Embedded Meaning in Politics and Social Conflict

Psychoanalysis Society and the Inner World Embedded Meaning in Politics and Social Conflict

Psychoanalysis Society and the Inner World explores ideas from psychoanalysis that can be valuable in understanding social processes and institutions and in particular how psychoanalytic ideas and methods can help us understand the nature and roots of social and political conflict in the contemporary world. Among the ideas explored in this book of special importance are the ideas of a core self (Heinz Kohut and Donald Winnicott) and of an internal object world (Melanie Klein Ronald Fairbairn). David Levine shows how these ideas and others related to them offer a framework for understanding how social processes and institutions establish themselves as part of the individual’s inner world and how imperatives of the inner world influence the shape of those processes and institutions. In exploring the contribution psychoanalytic ideas can make to the study of society emphasis is placed on post-Freudian trends that emphasize the role of the internalization of relationships as an essential part of the process of shaping the inner world. The book’s main theme is that the roots of social conflict will be found in ambivalence about the value of the self. The individual is driven to ambivalence by factors that exist simultaneously as part of the inner world and the world outside. Social institutions may foster ambivalence about the self or they may not. Importantly this book distinguishes between institutions on the basis of whether they do or do not foster ambivalence about the self shedding light on the nature and sources of social conflict. Institutions that foster ambivalence also foster conflict at a societal level that mirrors and is mirrored by conflict over the standing of the self in the inner world. Levine makes extensive use of case material to illuminate and develop his core ideas. Psychoanalysis Society and the Inner World will appeal to psychoanalysts and to social scientists interested in psychoanalytic ideas and methods as well as students studying across these fields who are keen to explore social and political issues. | Psychoanalysis Society and the Inner World Embedded Meaning in Politics and Social Conflict

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Detector Dogs and Scent Movement How Weather Terrain and Vegetation Influence Search Strategies

Detector Dogs and Scent Movement How Weather Terrain and Vegetation Influence Search Strategies

Dogs detect scent from a source that is carried to them in a plume by the wind. The most important tool for a detector dog handler to have on searches is a knowledge of scent plume movement or scent dynamics (the science of scent movement). Such knowledge resides primarily in scientific journals that are largely inaccessible to detector dog handlers and written in language that is difficult to understand. Detector Dogs and the Science of Scent Movement: A Handler’s Guide to Environments and Procedures retrieves reviews and interprets the results of pertinent scientific research on scent dynamics and presents these results in terms that are easier for handlers to understand. Information on the physiology of the dog’s nose their sense of smell and the properties of scent provide the essential information on the process of scenting. The composition of training aids for explosives narcotics human remains and other sources is discussed. Recommendations are made on the use of training aids their placement during training and the resulting availability of scent. Potential problems and handler errors in the use of training aids are also examined. The characteristics of scent plumes and how wind influences their movement are a key focus of the book. The primary task for the handler is to get the dog into the scent plume so that the dog can detect the scent and follow it to the source the handler seeks. As such a knowledge of scent and scent plume movement will vastly improve the ability of the handler to accomplish this task. The influence of weather and physical settings such as terrain vegetation ground cover soil and water on scent movement are examined in detail. Strategies for searching detecting and locating sources in all physical settings are presented. Specific effects associated with hills and mountains fields and forests bare soils and soils covered by vegetation different soil types and lakes and rivers are examined in detail. This includes specific recommendations are made about weather and physical settings that result in higher probability of success on searches. Detector Dogs and the Science of Scent Movement will be a vital resource for K9 handles in the private and public sectors—including in Homeland Security law enforcement and military settings—as well as a useful guide for lawyers forensic and investigative professionals who need to better understand K9 operations. | Detector Dogs and Scent Movement How Weather Terrain and Vegetation Influence Search Strategies

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Numerical Calculations for Process Engineering Using Excel VBA

Numerical Calculations for Process Engineering Using Excel VBA

Numerical Calculations for Process Engineering Using Excel VBA provides numerical treatment of process engineering problems with VBA programming and Excel spreadsheets. The problems are solving material and energy balances optimising reactors and modelling multiple-factor processes. The book includes both basic and advanced codes for numerical calculations. The basic methods are presented in different variations tailored to particular applications. Some macros are combined with each other to solve engineering problems. Examples include combining the bisection method and binary search to optimise an implicit correlation combining golden section search with Euler’s method to optimise a reactor and combining bisection code and Euler’s method to solve steady-state heat distribution. The text also includes nonconventional examples such as harmony search and network analysis. The examples include solutions to common engineering problems such as adiabatic flame temperature plug flow reactor conversion batch reactor heat diffusion and pinch analysis of heat exchanger networks. The VBA code is presented with mathematical equations and flowcharts enabling the audience to adopt the solutions to different problems. The book contains many demonstrations of numerical techniques to guide users. It also includes useful summaries of VBA commands/functions and Excel-predefined functions accessible in VBA. While the book is developed primarily for undergraduate students the book is a helpful resource for postgraduate students and engineers.

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Cadaver Dog Handbook Forensic Training and Tactics for the Recovery of Human Remains

Cadaver Dog Handbook Forensic Training and Tactics for the Recovery of Human Remains

Intended for those who train and handle cadaver dogs this book also encompasses information for those who work closely with them such as police death investigators and anthropologists. Its interdisciplinary approach is useful to any member of a forensic team who regularly participates in or evaluates the results of the human remains search effort. Cadaver Dog Handbook sets out the principles and procedures for the training and handling of dogs for the location of human remains. It explains scent theory and its applications introduces basic training and searching strategies/tactics and covers the legal and taphonomic issues associated with dog searches. Intended for those who train and handle cadaver dogs this book also encompasses information for those who work closely with them such as police death investigators and anthropologists. Its interdisciplinary approach is useful to any member of a forensic team who regularly participates in or evaluates the results of the human remains search effort. | Cadaver Dog Handbook Forensic Training and Tactics for the Recovery of Human Remains

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Architecture of Resistance Cultivating Moments of Possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict

Architecture of Resistance Cultivating Moments of Possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict

Architecture of Resistance investigates the relationship between architecture politics and power and how these factors interplay in light of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. It takes Palestine as the key ground of spatial exploration looking at the spaces between people boundary lines documents and maps in a search for the meaning of architecture of resistance. Stemming from the need for an alternative discourse that can nourish the Palestinian spaces of imagination the author reinterprets the land from a new perspective by stripping it of the dominant power of lines to expose the hidden dynamic topography born out of everyday Palestine. It applies a hybrid approach of research through design and visual documentary through text illustrations mapping techniques and collages to capture the absent local narrative as an essential component of spatial investigation. | Architecture of Resistance Cultivating Moments of Possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict

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Applied Genetic Programming and Machine Learning

Applied Genetic Programming and Machine Learning

What do financial data prediction day-trading rule development and bio-marker selection have in common? They are just a few of the tasks that could potentially be resolved with genetic programming and machine learning techniques. Written by leaders in this field Applied Genetic Programming and Machine Learning delineates the extension of Genetic Programming (GP) for practical applications. Reflecting rapidly developing concepts and emerging paradigms this book outlines how to use machine learning techniques make learning operators that efficiently sample a search space navigate the search process through the design of objective fitness functions and examine the search performance of the evolutionary system. It provides a methodology for integrating GP and machine learning techniques establishing a robust evolutionary framework for addressing tasks from areas such as chaotic time-series prediction system identification financial forecasting classification and data mining. The book provides a starting point for the research of extended GP frameworks with the integration of several machine learning schemes. Drawing on empirical studies taken from fields such as system identification finanical engineering and bio-informatics it demonstrates how the proposed methodology can be useful in practical inductive problem solving.

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