Questo manuale costituisce un aggiornamento e un ampliamento della precedente edizione ed è rivolto a quell'ampio pubblico di studenti di facoltà e corsi di studio che richiedono una preparazione e una conoscenza generale dei fondamenti sperimentali della psicologia. L'obiettivo è quello di fornire uno strumento a carattere introduttivo che permetta di comprendere le dinamiche dei processi cognitivi e dei comportamenti sulla base di evidenze scientifiche. Le aree prese in considerazione nel volume rappresentano i temi tradizionali dello studio del comportamento e della mente: la percezione, l'attenzione e la coscienza, l'apprendimento, la memoria, il linguaggio, il pensiero e le emozioni.

Written in 1964 as a manual for the Chinese cooks of the Blue Funnel Line's Centaur cargo liner, this book features recipes by Gray, who died in 2005 and was the author of other recipe books. Everything from appetizers to entrees and desserts are included with illustrations, as well as cooking instructions and necessary kitchen staples and cookware. Distributed in the US by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Following on from the incredible US success of her bestselling }Sacred Geometry{ Miranda Lundy here describes the secret qualities of quantities.

Età di lettura: da 12 anni.

Una pittrice scompare in circostanze misteriose. L'avvelenamento di uno scienziato permette di lanciare uno sguardo nel cuore della comunità scientifica. Il detective di Porto, Mário França, dal suo ufficio nella zona del Muro dos Bacalhoeiros, sarà incaricato di risolvere il caso, accolitato dai suoi strani aiutanti sul campo. Il caso dello scienziato morto e della pittrice sparita è una strana storia d'amore e di intrigo, in cui si mescolano le nebbie di Porto con la magia di Salvador de Bahia, i contrasti di Rio de Janeiro e l'immensità selvaggia del Nord-est brasiliano. L'incertezza della vita e della morte si ferma come l'ombra indecisa di un avvoltoio.

Invites families to share the experience of the examen--building a climate of trust and intimacy in which the most significant events of the day are shared--to help children heal their hurts and create a non-violent world in which everyone can give and receive love.

'Copiously illustrated well written, thoughtful, and thought-provoking.'Library Journal

In this authoritative account, Miranda Green unravels the truth about the Druids. Examining the archaeological evidence, Classical commentaries, and early Welsh and Irish myths, she shows that the Druids were fully integrated into Celtic society and fulfilled varied and necessary roles. The Roman writers reflected the double standards of an invading society: condemning the public sacrifice of enemies by the Druids while accepting their own practice of slaughter for sport as civilized. Yet the Classical sources can be used to help reveal the real Druids, and we learn of their multiple roles as judges, teachers, healers, magicians, philosophers, religious leaders, and fomenters of rebellion.

This book traces the history of the Druids from their beginnings to their resurrection during the Renaissance. Complete with timeline and gazetteer, the book will appeal to all thosescholar, general reader, or New Age enthusiastwho are fascinated by the Druids and their world. 291 illustrations, 51 in color.

This important resource investigates topics related to clinical education, professional supervision, and mentoring. Beyond student supervision, it discusses supervision of professionals in the work place and the emerging importance of professional mentoring for ongoing professional development. Its broad perspective is relevant to a wide range of health professions, including audiology, dietetics, nursing, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physiotherapy, podiatry, prosthetics and orthotics, radiography, and speech-language pathology. Complex theoretical material is presented in a straightforward, 'person-centered' approach that makes information easily accessible and applicable to practice.

• Written by multidisciplinary experts with academic and research backgrounds who also possess extensive practical experience in a variety of professional health fields.
• Reader-friendly, engaging material is grounded in current theory and evidence.
• Three distinct but interrelated fields - clinical education, professional supervision, and mentoring - are addressed together in one book for the first time.
• Supervision of professionals in their workplace is covered, as well as professional mentoring for ongoing professional development.
• Presents complex theoretical material in an engaging, 'person-centered' approach.
• Acknowledges the importance of psychological well-being with chapters on the self in supervision and finding meaning and preventing burnout.

Presents a collection of poetry by a Native American woman. This work complicates that indigenous identity with visceral explorations of gendered violence, sexual orientation and mothering in an unpredictable, chaotic world. The poems in this book seek to unravel the mysterious fascination we have with despair.

An informative and entertaining exploration of shamanism and ritual behavior in ancient Europe. As this book so ably demonstrates, archaeological remainsfrom cave paintings to bog bodies to Bronze-Age vesselsshow that shamanism was endemic among ancient European peoples from the Stone Age to the early post-Roman era. Most shamans occupied a marginal, dual position in their communities and functioned as liaisons with the spirit world through the medium of trance. The authors draw on the most recent archaeological research and support their conclusions with rich evidence, including the 30,000-year-old lion-human ivory figurines found in southwestern Germany that may represent monsters seen by shamans in altered states of consciousness; the spectacular Nebra sky-disc, also from Germany, which depicts the sun, moon, and the Pleiades, indicating that Bronze Age shamans were using highly sophisticated objects to explore the heavens; and the 'Doctor's Grave' from southeast England, which suggests that a Late Iron Age chieftain was sent to the Otherworld equipped with hallucinogenic drugs, medical kit, and divining tools. 140 illustrations, 25 in color.

La cultura del nostro tempo ha desacralizzato il corpo umano, riducendolo o ad un banale insieme di organi e funzioni o a 'idolo', da servire secondo il culto dell'immagine a tutti i costi. L'autore, riafferma la verità del corpo come segno del divino, e ridisegna, attingendo dalla tradizione biblica e dalla mistica ebraica, una vera e propria 'mappa corporea', nella quale ogni organo, ogni tessuto è riscoperto nel suo valore sacrale e simbolico, portatore del legame tra cuore e anima e Dio.

A young boy realizes that his vocation in life is to be a protector.

This book presents a variety of computational methods used to solve dynamic problems in economics and finance. It emphasizes practical numerical methods rather than mathematical proofs and focuses on techniques that apply directly to economic analyses. The examples are drawn from a wide range of subspecialties of economics and finance, with particular emphasis on problems in agricultural and resource economics, macroeconomics, and finance. The book also provides an extensive Web-site library of computer utilities and demonstration programs.The book is divided into two parts. The first part develops basic numerical methods, including linear and nonlinear equation methods, complementarity methods, finite-dimensional optimization, numerical integration and differentiation, and function approximation. The second part presents methods for solving dynamic stochastic models in economics and finance, including dynamic programming, rational expectations, and arbitrage pricing models in discrete and continuous time. The book uses MATLAB to illustrate the algorithms and includes a utilities toolbox to help readers develop their own computational economics applications.

Il volume può essere diviso in due parti, la prima è di interesse tecnico-giuridico poiché vi si analizzano i complessi fenomeni della comunione e del condominio mentre la seconda riveste invece un interesse di tipo più pratico in quanto esamina, una per una, le parti comuni che possono esistere in un condominio, ed in particolare: suolo, sottosuolo e fondazioni; muri; tetto e lastrico solare; volte e solai; scale; portoni d'ingresso, vestiboli ed anditi; scantinati; canne fumarie; fognature e canali di scarico; aree esterne al fabbricato (cortili, giardini, intercapedini, cavedii); aree per gli autoveicoli; facciata e suoi elementi; antenne; parti comuni destinate ai servizi.