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Bion in New York and Sao Paulo: And Three Tavistock Seminars

The Harris Meltzer Trust, 2018

These two talks given in 1977 and 1978 in New York and Sao Paulo respectively are an edited version of discussions and spontaneous contributions made by Bion, in the main without notes. This is a new 2019 edition, edited and introduced by Meg Harris Williams.

Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1897–1979) was born in India in the days...

Kundalini Yoga

Divine Life Society, 2005

Kundalini is the coiled up,dormant,cosmic power that underlies all organic and inorganic matter within us and any thesis that deals with it can avoid becoming too abstract,only with great difficulty.But within the pages of the book,the theory that undelies this cosmic power has been analysed to it's thinnest filaments,and practical methods have...

Handbook of Optics, Third Edition Volume III: Vision and Vision Optics(set)

McGraw-Hill, 2009

The most comprehensive and up-to-date optics resource available

Prepared under the auspices of the Optical Society of America, the five carefully architected and cross-referenced volumes of the Handbook of Optics, Third Edition, contain everything a student, scientist, or engineer requires to actively work in...

Advances in Databases and Information Systems: Third East European Conference, ADBIS'99, Maribor, Slovenia,

Springer, 1999

The 3rd Eastern European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS’99) took place on 13-16- September 1999, in Maribor, Slovenia. It was organized in cooperation with ACM SIGMOD, the Moscow chapter of ACM SIGMOD, Slovenian Society Informatika, and the Slovenian Ministry of Technology.

The aim...

Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal Plants: Asia and the Pacific

Humana Press, 2006

In 1860, Oliver Wendell Holmes pointedly expressed himself to the Massachusetts Medical Society: “I firmly believe that if the whole Material Medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worst for the fishes.” Should one think the same about the current approach...

The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying

The Johns Hopkins University, 2000

Society today, writes Stephen Post, is "hypercognitive": it places inordinate emphasis on people's powers of rational thinking and memory. Thus, Alzheimer disease and other dementias, which over an extended period incrementally rob patients of exactly those functions, raise many dilemmas. How are we to viewâand...

Inhabited Information Spaces: Living with your Data

Springer, 2004

In this book you will find some examples of work in particular from the Inhabited Information Spaces Grouping. It is interesting to see how some of these ideas are still “futuristic” and others have started to become part of mainstream thinking and made their way into products.

Some people say that you can find...

Hidden Unity in Nature's Laws

Cambridge University Press, 2001

One of the paradoxes of the physical sciences is that as our knowledge has progressed, more and more diverse physical phenomena can be explained in terms of fewer underlying laws, or principles. In Hidden Unity, eminent physicist John Taylor puts many of these findings into historical perspective and documents how progress is made when unexpected,...

Wireless Security: Know It All

Newnes, 2008

The latest technologies - the leading experts - proven real-world design solutions - together in one must-have volume!

The Newnes Know It All Series takes the best of what our authors have written to create hard-working desk references that will be an engineer's first port of call for key information, design techniques and...

Neurobiology of Aggression and Rage

CRC Press, 2004

While other books concentrate on the different facets of aggression, these publications tend to focus on a single aspect of the subject and do not make any attempt to integrate biology and behavior. This lack of integration in the literature has created a major gap in our current understanding of the factors that influence aggressive...

Healthcare-Associated Infections in Children: A Guide to Prevention and Management

Springer, 2018

With advances in technology and medical science, children with previously untreatable and often fatal conditions, such as congenital heart disease, extreme prematurity and pediatric malignancy, are living longer. While this is a tremendous achievement, pediatric providers are now more commonly facing challenges in these medical...

The Inside Text: Social, Cultural and Design Perspectives on SMS (The Computer Supported Cooperative Work Series)

Springer, 2005

Mobile phones and the short-text messaging service (SMS or “text”) in particular
are new social phenomena, much marvelled at and much commented upon (See
Brown et al, 2002; Katz & Aakhus, 2002; Ling, 2004). This success is said to be
because mobiles allow new levels of micromanagement in an age of fraught and...

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