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Comprehensive descriptive account of the tribe Vanguerieae native and naturalised in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and the Caprivi Strip.

This work asks if society can place a monetary value on human life? How could society arrive at a figure that would represent human life? The author shows that society allows people to die when it costs too much in areas like road safety, workplace safety and in health care.

Man of Bone has the power of a thriller, but Alan Cumyn delivers something more: a complex portrait of an ordinary man jerked into the horrors of terrorism. Bill Burridge, his wife, and their son move to the "island paradise" of Santa Irene on Bill's first posting as a Canadian diplomat. At the short-staffed embassy, he struggles with work he scarcely understands. Ten days later, driving alone on a supposedly safe highway, he is kidnapped by r...

This book presents the work of leading researchers in social and cognitive psychology who are applying connectionist models to central topics in social psychology. For professionals and graduate students in social & cognitive psych. & cognitive science.

Women have shaped immigrant families, reared new generations, and pioneered significant changes in their communities. These essays illuminate the complex and changing roles of Asian American women, examing such diverse subjects as war brides, international marriages, split households, stereotyping, women-centered kin networks, employment, immigrant prostitution, conflict with patriarchal attitudes, feminism, and lesbianism.

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This book eloquently explores how the search for a perfect place is driving growth, development, and resource exploitation in Big Sky country.

ICRP Publication 77 reaffirms the Commission's current policy of radiological protection, in particular its policy on public exposure, and aims to clarify the practical application of that policy to the disposal of radioactive waste. It discusses the justification of a practice, the optimisation of protection, the use of collective dose assessed over long distances and times, the implications of potential exposure, and the distinction between ...

Psychic Protection is a down-to-earth manual of psychic principles and common-sense practices. It is a handbook for psychic self-defense that everyone can use. This book contains over 20 effective tools and techniques for spiritual cleansing, protection, and overall balance. It offers effective tools to enhance your ethics, professionalism, and presence when working in the metaphysical and holistic fields.

This fifth volume of the Appalachian Conference discusses how the brain processes information, the role of memory and value, and models of creativity. It examines aspects of cognitive neuroscience and behavioral neurodynamics.

Provides a comprehensive overview of behavioural interventions to prevent HIV-AIDS risk-related behaviours. The book synthesizes empirical literature on individual, group and community-level interventions and provides a detailed assessment of intervention outcomes.

The use of social stereotypes as a basis for judgements and behavioural decisions is a major focus of social psychology theory and research. This work's main article accounts for the processes that underlie both the activation of stereotypes and attempts to surpress their influence.

The health of children and adolescents is considered in this book. The topics include: evaluation and conceptual foundations of health-related quality of life assessment, population-based applications of measures, and methods and applications.

This volume provides a step-by-step model for conducting career counseling, as well as key questions and various tools and materials to assist in the process of career counseling.

Yosef Govrin was formerly Israeli ambassador to Romania (1985-89) and ambassador to Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia and to the UN in Vienna (1993-95). Since retirement in 1996 he has been a research fellow at the L. Davies Institute of International Relations at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Govrin has based his research on a comprehensive selection of foreign policy documents, diplomatic reports, official statements and commentaries, interv...

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