Anti-Amyloid-Therapien gegen die Alzheimer-Krankheit markieren eine neue Ära in der Behandlung neurodegenerativer Erkrankungen. Bislang liegen jedoch im europäischen Raum - außerhalb von klinischen Studien - nur wenige diesbezügliche Anwendungserfahrungen vor. Ärztinnen und Ärzte sowie Betroffene stehen hinsichtlich der Anwendungsbereiche, der praktischen, technischen und instrumentellen Voraussetzungen und der Durchführung folglich vor zahlreichen Fragen und Herausforderungen. Dieses Buch...

The establishment of frank and honest communication is one of the most important early goals of psychotherapy. Indeed, the most prominent challenge in the early stages of treatment is to develop a comfortable relationship that allows disclosure. In this volume, the authors show that objectively interpreted personality measures can be applied in psychotherapeutic assessments to facilitate an understanding of the patient and a thriving treatment program. Successful psychotherapy depends upon...

In Crystals for the Mind, here is just a fraction of what you will discover:An alternative way to deal with negative feelings like stress, anxiety, and fatigue without harmful medicationsA detailed breakdown of 27 Crystals specifically chosen for people who are anxious and stressed out, based on thousands of years of ancient and modern wisdomThe beginner-friendly guide to clearing your energy field and unblocking ...

From parks and libraries to pubs and schools, social infrastructures are the everyday places that bring people together, support community life, and foster connection. As interest in the concept grows, this timely and accessible edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of social infrastructure—its origins, development, and practical impact.Packed with innovative case studies from the UK, Europe, Australia, and the US, it highlights how these shared spaces can shape urban l...

Julia Morgan was born into a world that doubted the ability of women, but her mother and grandmother taught her not to listen. Not only did she graduate college as the only woman in her class getting a degree in civil engineering, she went on to attend Beaux-Arts in Paris. As the best architecture school in the world, many were surprised when she passed the entrance exams, and even more so when she finished the five-year program in three years!After becoming the first woman to rece...

The COVID-19 pandemic was not a great ‘equaliser’, but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales. Nowhere is this more apparent than in housing.Written by an international group of experts, this book casts light on how the virus has impacted the experience of home and housing through the lens of wider urban processes around transportation, land use, planning policy, racism, and inequality. Case ...

Crystals!Crystals are more than just rocks—they have energy, like you and me. They react to the surrounding energy from nature and everything around them.In fact, our ancestors used crystal healing to cure ailments and protect against diseases and negative energy.Some even relied on gemstones to improve their concentration and creativity and to absorb good luck.If you want to take advantage of their powerful energies to ward off bad vibes,...

After years spent outrunning her past, Cecília reexamines the case of a close family friend killed by a colleague and rival: her father.In 1988, shortly after Brazil reestablishes democratic rule, a state congressman is shot and killed in Porto Alegre. The main suspect: a close friend and colleague in congress, Representative Raul Matzenbacher.Many years later, Cecília Matzenbacher, his daughter, migrates from Southern Brazil to California, where she finds ...

An engrossing, gritty and adrenalin-fueled coming of age novel, marked by displacement and never-closing family wounds.'There's much to admire in this layered work' Publishers WeeklyCecília Matzenbacher is a taxidermist working in Northern California. Her passion of restoring once-living things and constructing dioramas of enclosed immobilized worlds is all-encompassing. But when it comes to reconstructing her own history, Cecília'...

Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Critical Research and Perspectives employs an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to examine Black cisgender women’s social, cultural, economic, and political experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean. It presents critical empirical research emphasizing Black women’s innovative, theoretical, and methodological approaches to activism and class-based gendered racism and Black politics. While there are a few sing...

Brought to you by Penguin.Leah is in love. It should be the happiest summer of her life, but she can't help feeling lonely with Jake's attention divided between her, his ex-wife and his young son. As insomnia sets in, the walls of their new basement flat feel as if they're closing in around her.Until she meets her upstairs neighbour, Anton, who has recently moved back in after a long absence from the street. He's a sympathetic ear when Jake can't be, and eve...

In der Diskussion um den interreligiösen Dialog leistet auch die pluralistische Religionstheorie ihren Beitrag. Sie versucht den Nachweis zu erbringen, dass die großen Weltreligionen allesamt gleichberechtigte Heilswege zu Gott darstellen. In dieser gegenwärtig äußerst populären Theorie nimmt das Konzept der Unerkennbarkeit Gottes ein (Apophatik / negative Theologie) eine Schlüsselrolle ein: Weil Gott unerkennbar ist, kann keine Weltreligion für sich beanspruchen, dass sie der einzige Heil...