While paediatric healthcare professionals view play as the treatment tool of choice for children under school age, the theory and practice underpinning play-based therapeutic approaches often remain less clear to individual practitioners. Paediatric intervention approaches are increasingly being questioned, and individual practitioners constantly asked to provide evidence-based practice. In response, a more coherent understanding and fresh discussion on children's play and utilisation of p...

Evidence-based education is an attempt to find, critique and implement the highest quality research evidence that underpins the education provided to students.This comprehensive book presents concepts key to evidence-based education, learning and teaching, analysing a wide range of allied health professions in depth. It introduces unique, inspirati

Underground Excavations in Rock deals with the geotechnical aspects of the design of underground openings for mining and civil engineering processes.

In 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an autism alarm, estimating that one in 150 children may be affected by autism spectrum disorder. Autism has been treated mainly with technical approaches: principally applied behavior analysis and psychopharmacology. The findings in this book implicate oxidative stress as a common feat

In the tradition of bestselling legal memoirs from Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, Gerry Spence, and Alan Dershowitz, John Henry Browne’s The Devil’s Defender recounts his tortuous education in what it means to be an advocate—and a human being.For the last four decades, Browne has defended the indefensible. From Facebook folk hero the “Barefoot Bandit” Colton Moore, to Benjamin Ng of the Wah Mee massacre and Kandahar massacre culprit Sergeant Robert Bales, Browne’s unceasi...

In the tradition of bestselling legal memoirs from Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, Gerry Spence, and Alan Dershowitz, John Henry Browne's memoir, The Devil's Defender, recounts his tortuous education in what it means to be an advocate—and a human being. For the last four decades, Browne has defended the indefensible. From Facebook folk hero "the Barefoot Bandit" Colton Moore, to Benjamin Ng of the Wah Mee massacre, to Kandahar massacre culprit Sgt. Robert Bales, Browne's unceasing...

¿Has escuchado o leído el nombre miles de veces sin saber toda su historia? ¿Te gustaría conocer todo lo que se esconde detrás de este psicópata? ¿Hay manera de evitar a otros individuos como Ted Bundy de acuerdo a la psicología? ¿Te has preguntado de donde viene la imagen del payaso asesino que se ha usado en incontables películas, series y libros? Sigue leyendo…“El mal está sólo en tu mente y no en lo externo. La mente pura siempre ve solamente lo bueno en cada cosa, pero la mala...

Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view, drawing on Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and others to trace the ways that seemingly secular politics produce their own forms of violence without limit. He brings this argument to life—and dig...

A chilling reenactment of the federal government’s anti-Communist investigationsThe testimony that Eric Bentley has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC’s treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly dramatic and compelling collection of significant excerpts from the hearings shows with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel that investigated possible subversive activities in a “digni...

《學界藥品開發實用指南：SPARK方法論》並非是一本教讀者「如何製藥」的操作手冊，而是集結「史丹佛大學SPARK計畫」十餘年來的轉譯研究產學實務，試圖闢出一條「扭轉學界思維、活用業界實務」的藥品研發之路。「SPARK計畫」的特色在於匯集化學、生物學、藥理學、毒理學、醫學、法規科學、統計學、創投、商業等各領域專家擔任業師群，讓學界研究人員與業界專家得以在研發過程持續交流學習，進而提高轉譯成功率。關於SPARK Taiwan計畫臺灣自2012年導入美國史丹佛大學「Stanford SPARK計畫」，並由科技部生命科學發展司與國家實驗研究院科技政策研究與資訊中心共同成立「SPARK Taiwan 計畫」並推動「生醫與醫材轉譯加值人才培訓計畫」。此計畫希望借鏡史丹佛大學的成功經驗，協助臺灣學術研究機構建立校內輔導轉譯商品化機制、同時培育生醫產業人才，以期縮短學術研發成果與業界商品開發之間的落差，並彌補生醫產業人才的缺口。SPARK Taiwan計畫至今已培訓超過300個學術研究團隊、直接／間接輔導新創公司成立約50件、技術移轉30件、...

Agile Project Management: Daily Scrum: 21 Tips to Co-Ordinate Your Team with Stand-Up Meetings and Create a Daily PlanThank you and congratulations for taking this class, Agile Project Management: Daily Scrum: 21 Tips to Co-Ordinate Your Team with Stand-Up Meetings and Create a Daily Plan.This class contains proven steps and strategies on how to improve your daily scrum (stand-up) meeting as part of an agile scrum team.I am sure you will get value from this, because...

From acclaimed journalist Ben Bradlee Jr. comes the epic biography of Boston Red Sox legend Ted Williams that baseball fans have been waiting for.Williams was the best hitter in baseball history. His batting average of .406 in 1941 has not been topped since, and no player who has hit more than 500 home runs has a higher career batting average. Those totals would have been even higher if Williams had not left baseball for nearly five years in the prime of his career ...