When Alec Stern arrives in Japan, he discovers a land of opportunity. For only in Tokyo could an impressionable young man fresh out of college find, in one stroke, a new job, a new family, and a society that lavishes attention on Japanese-speaking "gaijin." Yet, even as Alec claims a place in this n[...]

Electron backscatter diffraction is a very powerful and relatively new materials characterization technique aimed at the determination of crystallographic texture, grain boundary character distributions, lattice strain, phase identification, and much more. The purpose of this book is to provide the [...]

Barry Schwartz, Steven Robbins, and new coauthor Edward Wasserman offer students an engaging introduction to the basic principles of Pavlovian conditioning, operant conditioning, and comparative cognition. The text's critical approach exposes students to the unresolved problems and controversies sur[...]

Jung was one of the first modern thinkers to realize the importance of alchemical symbolism to men and women today. This volume presents a selection of Jung's writing on alchemy, a concise introduction to its principles and the importance of alchemy in the context of Jung's psychology.[...]

"The literature on psychological trauma and traumatic attachment has progressed over the past few decades, however issues of coerced and internalized perpetration have not been fully explored and deconstructed. This book presents a synthesis of relational and archetypal psychology, trauma and dissoc[...]

Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of research from the positivist-centered training the[...]

A hormone specialist with more than 20 years of experience, Erika Schwartz subscribed to conventional methods of treating menopausal women-until she became one. When she realized that available treatment options were ineffective for her-and for millions of women-she started looking for an alternativ[...]

A remarkable series of lectures on the art of creating effective nonfiction by one of the 20th century's most profound writers and thinkers--now available for the first time in print. Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable wo[...]