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Alchemy and Psychotherapy: Post-Jungian Perspectives

Routledge, 2014

Alchemical symbols are part of popular culture, most recently popularised in the Harry Potter books. Alchemy intrigued Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology. It inspired him as he wrote ‘the Red Book’ - the journal of his voyage of internal discovery. He devoted much of his life to it, using alchemical symbols as...

When Law and Medicine Meet: A Cultural View (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)

Springer, 2008

What happens when two systems, law and medicine, are joined in the arena of the court? This work deals with the structure and the premises of two diverse discourse models; the approach is anthropological.

Several chapters are preponderantly based on legal research, addressing cases requiring testimony by expert witnesses on recent...

Knockout Job Interview Presentations: How to Present with Confidence, Beat the Competition and Impress Your Way into a Top Job (Career Success)

Kogan Page, 2010

Interview presentations can be incredibly daunting. Candidates often lack the confidence and skills so they fail to do themselves justice and impress the panel. Careers expert Rebecca Corfield covers the entire process of planning and making an interview presentation and helps them understand what employers...

Parochialism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Foundations of International Law (ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory)

Cambridge University Press, 2011

This book examines the boundary between parochial and cosmopolitan justice. To what extent should international law recognize or support the political, historical, cultural, and economic differences among nations? Ten lawyers and philosophers from five continents consider whether certain states or persons deserve special treatment,...

Sustainable Peacebuilding and Social Justice in Times of Transition: Findings on the Role of Education in Myanmar

Springer, 2018

This book offers a unique insight into the ways in which education systems, governance, and actors at multiple scales interact in initial steps towards building peace. It presents a spectrum of recently conducted research in the context of Myanmar, a society in the midst of challenging transitions, politically, socio-culturally and...

Bint Al-Huda Collection: All Novels and Short Stories

Jerrmein Abu Shahba, 2019

Bint al-Huda Collection includes all the 4 novels and 24 short stories written by Martyr Aminah Haider Al-Sadr, the famous Muslim author popularly known as Bint Al-Huda. She played a significant role in creating Islamic awareness among the Muslim women of Iraq from the late 1950s to 1980. She was the sister of the great Islamic scholar,...

Pimped: The Shocking True Story of the Girl Sold for Sex by Her Best Friend

John Blake, 2019

By the age of thirteen, vulnerable Sheffield teenager Samantha Owens had fallen through the cracks in the care system. Bounced around numerous foster carers after her home life became too chaotic, Samantha thought she had found a friend in the streetwise Amanda Spencer. The older girl bought her clothes, styled her hair and found her places to...

Media Ethics: Issues and Cases

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018

Media Ethics, Ninth Edition is a diverse, classroom tested compilation of 60 diverse cases that will help students prepare for the ethical situations they will confront in their media careers. Ninety percent of the cases are based on actual events, and authors from many institutions and...

Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State

Citadel, 2019

The Prison Break, the Manhunt, the Inside Story

In June 2015, two vicious convicted murderers broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, in New York’s North Country, launching the most extensive manhunt in state history. Aided by prison employee Joyce Mitchell, double murderer Richard...

Greening China’s Urban Governance: Tackling Environmental and Sustainability Challenges (ARI - Springer Asia Series (7))

Springer, 2018

This volume examines how urban stakeholders in China – particularly city governments and social actors – tackle China’s urban environmental crisis. The volume’s case studies speak to important interdisciplinary themes such as new tools and instruments of urban green governance, climate change and urban carbon...

Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines

University of California Press, 2019

Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines’ research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W. E....

St. Louis School Desegregation: Patterns of Progress and Peril (Historical Studies in Education)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book examines the history of the school desegregation movement in St. Louis, Missouri. Underlining the 2014 killing of Michael Brown as a catalyst for re-examination of school desegregation, Rias delves into the connection between contemporary school segregation and social justice, probing the ways that “soft...

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