This book offers a comprehensive overview of clinical, research and personal perspectives on Asperger Syndrome, including contributions from parents and experts in the fields of psychology, social work, psychiatry, genetics, sexology and vocational counselling.It includes first-hand accounts from adults with AS, highlighting their difficulties in areas such as social competence and education. Specialist perspectives on AS, including sexuality and relationships, finding and keeping ...

Building a legacy is not about your name on a building: in this book, authors Fleming and Jansen describe how to make a Legacy goal and discuss the value of difficult physical challenges like hiking the Camino de Santiago as a way to examine virtues, values and a code of ethics so that legacy oriented people can think through how they want to live out their legacy. The book includes interviews with several endurance athletes who discuss what they've learned from physical challenges and ref...

Leadership and Executive coaches Adam G. Fleming and Peter Jansen discuss a variety of aspects to think about how to build a legacy, using your energy to build something to outlast your own lifetime. While defining the aspects each person needs to think about, Fleming and Jansen also describe the immense value a person gets from an experience like a pilgrimage or walkabout, walking, hiking or running experiences that help a person clear enough space and time for thinking about their le...

Coulomb Interactions in Particle Beams, Volume 230, the latest release in the Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics series, merges two long-running serials, Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy. The series features articles on the physics of electron devices (especially semiconductor devices), particle optics at high and low energies, microlithography, image science, digital image processing, electromagnetic wave propagation, elect...

Now in paperback, Three Novellas is a passport to the absurd, dark, and uncommonly comic world of Thomas Bernhard.Thomas Bernhard is "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner); "one of the century's most gifted writers" (New York Newsday); "a virtuoso of rancor and rage" (Bookforum). And although he is favorably compared with Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, and Robert Musil, Thoma...

This book develops Marcuse’s critique of advanced industrial society and deploys it as a lens to critically analyze contemporary neoliberalism and its structural failures. In the chapters, Marcuse scholars explore three related topics: First, Marcuse’s theory as it applies to the relationship between neoliberalism and authoritarianism, including both the historical relationship between the two and the modern re-emergence of authoritarianism and nationalism in neoliberal states today. Secon...