The authors show how their ego-psychological object relations theory integrates drive theory and object relations theory and does justice to recent findings regarding the vicissitudes of transference and countertransference interactions in the psycho-analytic situation.[...]
The timeless guide to sales success has been revised to help you supercharge personal and team performance in a new economy "People make buying decisions emotionally and justify them logically." That shrewd insight from the first edition of this bestselling book has become a no-brainer among sales [...]
The industrial chemist is frequently required to prepare a variety of compounds. This manual serves as a convenient guide to choose a synthetic route. It offers detailed directions for the synthesis of various functional groups and includes references to the journal literature and patents (foreign a[...]
Highlights typical preparative methods for a range of polymer types. This book presents practical laboratory procedures for a selection of syntheses that are representative of a given class of starting materials and polymerization techniques. It aims to save on tedious literature searching when plan[...]
A captivating account of how photography evolved from labor-intensive daguerreotypes in the mid-1800s to one of the most popular hobbies and respected art forms in the world today documents technological developments and its effect on journalism, science, medicine, the military, and beyond.[...]
Virtue ethics is now widely recognized as an alternative to Kantian and consequentialist ethical theories. However, moral philosophers have been slow to bring virtue ethics to bear on topics in applied ethics. Moreover, environmental virtue ethics is an underdeveloped area of environmental ethics. A[...]
From the authors of "Barefoot Running," the essential guide to the life-changing benefits of barefoot walking
As the thousands of people who have fallen in love with barefoot running already know, shedding your shoes is good for the body and the soul. "Barefoot Walking" shows all readers, no mat[...]
How could something we have for free--our bare feet--be better for running than $150 shoes? The truth is that running in shoes is high-impact, unstable, and inflexible. Shoes promote a heel-centric ground strike, which weakens your feet, knees, and hips, and leads to common running injuries. In cont[...]
"Executive Coaching is a thought-provoking and valuable book that should stimulate coaches to evaluate, and perhaps modify, their own approach." HR Zone, 25th January 2012 "This is a thought-provoking and sophisticated book ...Coaches should find it easy to use and a welcome addition to their tool-k[...]
A helpful, hands-on handbook for aspiring television writers offers expert guidelines for writers looking at how to raise their scripts to the professional level, using effective techniques and exercises designed to help writers bring together their creative ideas with the practical process of craft[...]
Provides fundamental information to all clinicians interested in incorporating PET into their clinical practice and who are involved in the diagnosis, initial staging, and restaging of malignancy. Covers basic principles such as patient preparation, imaging interpretation, and reimbursement, to spec[...]
This book presents a theoretical treatment of externalities (i.e. uncompensated interdependencies), public goods, and club goods. The new edition updates and expands the discussion of externalities and their implications, coverage of asymmetric information, underlying game-theoretic formulations, an[...]
Models as Mediators discusses the ways in which models function in modern science, particularly in the fields of physics and economics. Models play a variety of roles in the sciences: they are used in the development, exploration and application of theories and in measurement methods. They also prov[...]