The intersections of aging, media, and culture are under-explored given trends in population aging, rapid increases in the mediation of everyday life, and the growing cultural significance of media consumption at the global level. This book brings together an international collection of critical scholars, both well-established and up-and-coming, from the various academic disciplines that share a common interest in the future study of aging and media. This anthology of original articles int...

En mi casa existían dos normas inquebrantables: no acercarnos a la casa de los Barone y no ser amiga de los hermanos Barone.Cumplir la primera norma era sencillo, pues esa casa daba bastante miedo. ¿Drogas, tráfico de armas, prostitución? Todo era posible. Por eso no me costó nada cumplirla. Respecto a la segunda… la quebranté. Ginevra Barone era mi mejor amiga y no fijarse en su hermano Angelo era como pedirle al sol que no calentara en pleno verano.Por suerte o por desgra...

Heiß, heißer, Bayou Heat – die große neue Paranormal Romance der Bestsellerautorinnen Alexandra Ivy und Laura WrightDie Bayous sind ein Ort voller Magie und Geheimnisse. Dort leben die Pantera, ein Clan atemberaubend schöner und mächtiger Gestaltwandler. Da jedoch auf den Pantera ein dunkler Fluch liegt, der ihre ganze Art bedroht, werden zwei von ihnen auf eine gefährliche Mission in die Welt der Menschen geschickt: Raphael und Parish, der Diplomat und der Krieger...

Psychotherapy in the Wake of War presents the ways in which differing views of various psychoanalytic schools and traditions—spanning developments for more than one hundred years—may affect theoretical and technical issues in psychoanalytic treatments. Colleagues representing different traditions of psychoanalytic thinking comment on a selection of nine cases and suggest ways of managing these both technically and theoretically. They have a variety of theoretical structures and axioms in t...

Forest fragmentation will inevitably continue over the coming years, especially in developing economies. This book provides a cutting edge review of the multi-disciplinary sciences related to studies of global forest fragmentation. It specifically addresses cross-cutting themes from both an ecological and a social sciences perspective. The ultimate goal of Global Forest Fragmentation is to provide a detailed scientific base to support future forest landscape management and planning to meet...

Neue Erkenntnisse in der Neuro- und Molekularbiologie, der Epigenetik und Entwicklungspsychologie sowie der Psychotherapie- und der Stressforschung haben zu einem weitreichenden Paradigmenwechsel in der Psychosomatischen Medizin geführt. Dieses Lehr- und Handbuch bietet in 100 Kapiteln zunächst eine aktuelle Bestandsaufnahme der wissenschaftlich gesicherten bio-psycho-sozialen Grundlagen dieser neuen Psychosomatik, um darauf aufbauend die Diagnostik und Therapie der wichtigsten psychosomat...

This book provides a decolonial critique of dominant global agendas concerning teacher professionalism and proposes a new understanding based on UNESCO-funded research with teachers based in Colombia, Ethiopia (Tigray), India, Rwanda and Tanzania.Outlining from a teacher’s perspective how teacher professionalism may be conceptualized, this book critiques dominant global narratives and conceptions based on deficit discourses. The authors argue that a decolonial lens can help to cont...

El presente libro resultado de investigación es un estudio teórico, documental y experencial que indaga relaciones entre algunas experiencias artísticas y la perspectiva filosofía e infancia ¿Qué hay de infancia en el arte y la filosofía? ¿Qué hay de artístico en la infancia y la filosofía?¿Qué hay de filosófico en el arte y la infancia? Es un estudio sistemático de discursos y experiencias para configurar el encuentro de las artes plásticas, la literatura, el cine, el teatro y las artesan...

"Já se disse que o século XIX foi o século dos impérios, o século XX, das nações e o século XXI será o século das cidades. Essa previsão estava certa: o grande motor do desenvolvimento econômico, social e cultural, na contemporaneidade, são as metrópoles. Nesses assim chamados centros urbanos globais nascem ideias inovadoras e disruptivas, empreendimentos arrojados, oportunidades de trabalho diversificadas, novas tendências de comportamento são fomentadas com influência nas relações afetiv...

Immigration has been a contested issue for decades. This distinctive volume of essays on Southern Californian immigration is inspired by Michael Burawoy’s call for academic consideration to be more open and accessible to people in what he calls “public sociology.” The essays in Scholars and Southern Californian Immigrants in Dialogue: New Conversations in Public Sociology bridge the gap between scholars and undocumented persons themselves in an interdisciplinary and vibrant dialogue. The c...

Os vinte e cinco textos que compõem esta coletânea trouxeram autores com sua escrita sobre os tempos do isolamento, causados pela pandemia da Covid-19, que modificaram os parâmetros de liberdade e obrigaram a população, em um contexto de ficção científica, a guardar distanciamento social e quarentenas obrigatórias dentro de casas, hotéis e até mesmo em seus próprios quartos. Os textos, incentivados pela Editora organizadora como forma de trazer lucidez e o entusiasmo de um projeto novo aos...

This book describes critically reviewed key aspects of organic farming and provides a unique and timely science-based resource for researchers, teachers and extension workers, undergraduates, postgraduate students, primary producers and others interested in organic farming. The first section of the book provides an overview of organic farming: a general introduction followed by the origins of organic farming, the principles of organic farming, challenges for organic farming, crop protectio...