This book addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated urban development strategy based on a 10-year global interdisciplinary research programme created by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and sponsored by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the United Nations University (UNU). The unique feature of this book is its “systems approach” to urban health and wellbeing: solution-oriented for science and society and not ...

Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from musicology, literary studies, and gender studies challenges the conventional historical categories that marginalize women’s experience from Austen’s time. Contesting the distinctions between professional and amateur musicia...

Psychische Störungen verstehen – die Brücke von der Diagnose zur TherapieDie Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) markiert mit der ICD-11 einen Meilenstein in der Klassifikation psychischer, Verhaltens- und neuromentaler Entwicklungsstörungen. Dieses Buch bietet als optimale Ergänzung erstmals eine umfassende psychologische Perspektive auf die ICD-11 und schlägt eine Brücke zwischen Diagnose und Therapie.Das Buch richtet sich an alle klinisch Tätigen – von Psy...

Much of the psychological research in the last century has been conducted in the global North West; hence, many prevailing theories and methodologies reflect the philosophical framework and shared cultural knowledge of this region. Other world views and cultural contexts have, as yet, not had the same opportunity to develop scientific insights that come to the attention of global audiences. Psychology Education and Training is the first truly international effort to generate a fra...