Bears are iconic animals, playing a variety of roles in human culture. They have been portrayed as gods, monsters, kings, fools, brothers, lovers, and dancers; they are seen as protectors of the forest; symbols of masculinity; a comfort for children; and act as symbols for conservation and environmental issues. They also symbolise wilderness, reinforcing and maintaining our connection to the natural world. And stories abound of cultures that gathered berries in the same fields as bears and...

The word "visceral fat" refers to abdominal fat that accumulates around abdominal organs. Visceral fat is a kind of fat that is stored deep within the belly, behind the abdominal wall, and between our internal organs. This belly fat is easy to gain, tough to lose, and harmful to one's health.Unlike another form of fat that lurks beneath the skin as "love handles" or padding on the thighs, buttocks, or upper arms, which is called subcutaneous fat, which is where the ...

This is the first book that examines Ghana's compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Ghana being the first country to ratify the Convention, it thus fills an important gap in the literature on Ghana. The book throws a searchlight on a wide range of rights issues including children's identity, violence against children and women, child exploitation and children in conflict with the law plus a host of other CRC related issues and further identifies and...

Im Angesicht der COVID-19-Pandemie hat die Pflege viel Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Als systemrelevante Berufsgruppe war und ist die Versorgung von COVID-19-Patienten wesentlich von dieser abhängig. Berufspolitische Erfolge, welche die Pflege in den letzten Jahren errungen hatte, die nicht nur den Berufsstand, sondern auch die Versorgung der Bevölkerung verbessern sollten, wurden per Notstandsgesetze bzw. Pandemieverordnungen vorübergehend ausgesetzt. Personalmangel und Versorgungslücken besta...

The Origins of Attachment: Infant Research and Adult Treatment addresses the origins of attachment in mother-infant face-to-face communication. New patterns of relational disturbance in infancy are described. These aspects of communication are out of conscious awareness. They provide clinicians with new ways of thinking about infancy, and about nonverbal communication in adult treatment.Utilizing an extraordinarily detailed microanalysis of videotaped mother-infant interac...

Infant Research and Adult Treatment is the first synoptic rendering of Beatrice Beebe’s and Frank Lachmann’s impressive body of work. Therapists unfamiliar with current research findings will find here a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of infant competencies. These competencies give rise to presymbolic representations that are best understood from the standpoint of a systems view of interaction. It is through this conceptual window that the underpinnings of the psychoanalyti...

In Deutschland erteilen jedes Jahr ca. 30.000 öffentliche Auftraggeber mehr als eine Million Aufträge über Bau-, Dienst- und Lieferleistungen in einer Gesamthöhe von rund 250 Milliarden Euro. Die Autoren führen in die Grundlagen und die Praxis des Vergaberechts von der Bekanntmachung über die Angebotsphase bis hin zur Zuschlagserteilung sowie den möglichen Rechtsschutz ein. Mit vielen Beispielen aus der Praxis zeigen sie auf, welche Spielregeln Unternehmen beachten müssen, wenn sie sich er...

In der Gerontologie wird die Notwendigkeit hochwertiger Interventionen samt Prävention mit dem Erreichen des Renteneintritts der Babyboomer-Generation, dem stetigen Anstieg der Lebenserwartung und dem künftigen Fachkräftemangel drängender denn je. Vor diesem Hintergrund zeigt die neue "Interventionsgerontologie" wie ihre Vorgänger in den Jahren 2000 und 2012 prägnant das breite Spektrum an verhaltensbezogenen Interventionen in 100 Beiträgen. Neu an der "Interventionsgerontologie" ist eine ...

Many people dream, often from childhood, of a future in the arts, as a famous musician or author, or nowadays merely famous for being famous. But roll back the decades and the pursuit of a successful career in the arts was both lauded by their audience and many times frowned upon by friends and family, who thought they might have better ways to enhance the family’s reputation.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

"The Vicar had almost seen her entire body through the nightgown, which was so thin and worn as to be almost transparent, and now it felt as if the girl was standing naked in front of him. So wonderful and enticing, yet so completely out of reach." – The Vicar's New MaidFrom the Roaring Twenties to the turn of the millennium, traverse through the passions and pleasures of historical erotica. 'Lust in Different Eras: Short Stories About Erotic Encounters Throughout History' is the p...

Human-wildlife conflict (HWC) is one of the most complex and urgent issues facing wildlife management and conservation today. Originally focused on the ecology and economics of wildlife damage, the study and mitigation of HWC has gradually expanded its scope to incorporate the human dimensions of the whole spectrum of human-wildlife relationships, from conflict to coexistence. Having the conflict-to-coexistence continuum as its leitmotiv, this book explores a variety of theories and method...