Todos filosofamos, pero no siempre sabemos que lo hacemos. Los libros de filosofía suelen desanimar a muchos lectores por su carácter abstracto e incomprensible. Sin embargo, sus temas centrales apenas han cambiado desde los tiempos de Platón y Aristóteles. La colaboración entre Katherine C. Evans y Jenny Teichman para explicar cuáles son esos temas básicos a quienes nunca han leído nada de filosofía ha dado como resultado la presente obra. Filosofía: Una guía para principiantes e...

The authoritative guide to understanding and helping a teenager with depression.While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any circumstances, it can be especially challenging if a teenager has a serious mood disorder. This concise book is the definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with depression, designed for parents and other adults in contact with afflicted teens. It combines the most current scientific exper...

The authoritative guide to understanding and helping a teenager with depression. While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any circumstances, it can be especially challenging if a teenager has a serious mood disorder. This concise, readable book is the definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with depression, designed for parents and other adults in contact with afflicted teens. It combines the most current scientific ex...

This book provides a detailed account of the intricate mechanisms and regulation of epithelial chloride transport, offering valuable insights into the regulation of salt balance in various vertebrate epithelial tissues. Over sixty years ago, J. Wendell Burger discovered that the rectal gland of elasmobranchs was the extrarenal organ responsible for excreting the salt gained by the animals. Since then, the rectal gland of elasmobranchs has been the only organ enabling whole organ, tissue, c...

While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any circumstances, it can be especially challenging if a teenager has a serious mood disorder. This concise book is the definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with bipolar disorder, designed for parents and other adults in contact with afflicted teens. It combines the most current scientific expertise available today—including the newest treatments and medications and the latest research findin...

Much more than a response to harm, restorative justice nurtures relational, interconnected school cultures. The wisdom embedded within its principles and practices is being welcomed at a time when exclusionary discipline and zero-tolerance policies are recognized as perpetuating student apathy, disproportionality, and the school-to-prison pipeline.Relying on the wisdom of early proponents of restorative justice, the daily experiences of educators, and the authors’ extensive experie...

Extracting rare earth minerals from extreme depths creates immense, unstable voids within the lithosphere. Traditional steel and concrete support beams are rigid and highly susceptible to catastrophic failure when subjected to unpredictable seismic shifts and the constant, crushing pressure of the surrounding bedrock. Seeking a more resilient infrastructure, geotechnical engineers are increasingly abandoning inert metals and looking toward the biological brilliance of subterranean fungi. B...

Welcome to the first year’s worth of stories from the new online magazine ZNB Presents published by the small press Zombies Need Brains. In these pages, you will find original science fiction and fantasy stories of awe and wonder, darkness and light, ranging through all of the subgenres, including urban fantasy, alternate history, space opera, fairy tales, and more. They come from the most talented authors in the field today—new voices as well as trusted and familiar names. Join us as we e...

The role of the professional support lawyer (PSL) first emerged in the early- to mid-1990s amongst London's Magic Circle, and quickly became essential for mid-size and even smaller firms. However, this golden period for the PSL came to an abrupt end with the global financial crisis and the subsequent recession, which rocked the legal landscape; the greatest shockwaves were inevitably felt by legal support teams, as many firms sought to maintain profitability by shifting their focus to fee-...

For students with disabilities from historically marginalized backgrounds, inequities in education and support services often lead to negative post-school outcomes. Promote successful adult lives for all students with disabilities—including historically marginalized culturally and linguistically diverse learners—with the new edition of this guide to the universal design for transition (UDT) framework.Like the popular first edition, this important text prepares teachers, transition ...

This book presents an overview of the ministry of women associated with Princeton Theological Seminary over the last two hundred years. Beginning with a historical overview of early pioneering women at the seminary and a chapter highlighting selected trailblazers in ministry, it goes on to showcase twenty-eight first-person narratives by women from diverse racial-ethnic, geographical, and denominational backgrounds in a variety of ministry settings. It concludes by developing new understan...

A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace. It examines – through the prism of naval affairs – issues of nationhood and imperialism; the legacy of Nelson; the socio-cultural realities of life in ships and naval bases; and the pro...