Comprehensive review of medical, legal, and social aspects of bone age assessment. In-depth discussion of MRI as an alternative to the traditional ionizing radiation-based radiographic techniques for the assessment of bone age. Provides complete guidelines for clinical application of these MRI-based[...]

The events and processes taken place in the last decade in South America has given way to one of the most interesting regional phenomena under a global crisis and within a changing world order. From the traditional status of Washington's backyard and reign of economic and political stability, South [...]

Existential psychotherapy has emerged as an approach that is distinctively different to that of the other models and systems within psychotherapy. It provides a set of significant challenges to, and critiques of, contemporary Western psychotherapy both at the level of theory and of practice. Althoug[...]

Drawn from the author's experience as an internationally-recognised theorist, lecturer and practitioner, this practical book elucidates the notoriously difficult and distinctly different therapeutic approach, existential therapy. Balancing theory and practice, the book provides trainees with an acce[...]

Under contemporary capitalism the extraction of value from the built environment has escalated, working in tandem with other urban processes to lay the foundations for the exploitative processes of gentrification world-wide. Global gentrifications: Uneven development and displacement critically asse[...]

This volume provides an overview of RNA bioinformatics methodologies, including basic strategies to predict secondary and tertiary structures, and novel algorithms based on massive RNA sequencing. Interest in RNA bioinformatics has rapidly increased thanks to the recent high-throughput sequencing te[...]

The hedonistic late 1970s is the perfect backdrop for the next evolution in the classic Night of the Living Dead series! David Hine continues a horrifyingly original take on the zombie menace as the virus spreads through Las Vegas leaving it a city of the dead. As a group of unlikely survivors flee [...]

"The Akashic Records" is equal parts practical and profound, the culmination of nearly two decades of immersion by Ernesto, personally and professionally, into the Akashic Records for individual healing, growth, and self-realization. This book provides a thorough map of the energetic territory you w[...]

Augmented Lagrangian techniques for the solution of practical constrained optimization problems are the focus of this book, which gives a thorough account of both theory and applications. The authors rigorously delineate mathematical convergence theory based on sequential optimality conditions and n[...]