Bøker av Massachusetts

Covers topics in physics as they apply to the life sciences, specifically medicine, physiology, nursing and other applied health fields. This title surveys and relates basic physics to living systems, encompassing solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, sound, electricity, optics, and atomic and nuclear physics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Clinicians recognize trauma & loss as a prominent source of clients' problems. Progressive counting represents a significant advance in trauma treatment, because it is about as efficient, effective, and well-tolerated as EMDR while being far simpler for therapists to master and do well"--

Samuel Coale examines the works of four American mystery writers who have contributed new dimensions to the mystery form: Tony Hillerman's Navajos; Amanda Cross's (Carolyn Heilbrun's) feminist academics; James Lee Burke's Southern Louisiana Cajuns; and Walter Mosley's urban blacks.

Designed for mental health professionals, this title teaches a trauma-informed treatment approach as an organizing framework for a series of empirically supported interventions including motivational interviewing, cognitive-behavioral skills training, trauma resolution, and relapse prevention.

Contains conversation, listening, reading and writing exercises along with vocabulary in Japanese. This title enables students to practice the grammatical structures they have learnt. It includes detailed explanation of vocabulary items, and exercises including sentence as well as discourse practices.

Despite the overwhelming opposition on the left to the war in Iraq, many prominent liberals supported the war on humanitarian grounds. This book traces this undeniable drift in mainstream liberal thinking toward a more militant posture in world affairs with respect to human rights and democracy promotion.

Articulating a radical agenda for the rethinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book explores the shift that is underway in various aspects of architectural praxis. It is suitable for architectural professionals, academics and students.

Incorporates the relevant information of technologies available to architects and designers. This book presents materials by describing their fundamental characteristics, and identifies and suggests how these same characteristics can be exploited by professionals to achieve their design goals.

As well as providing a theoretical basis to museum education, this volume serves as a practical guide for all museum professionals on how to adapt their museums to maximise the educational experience of every visitor.

This work describes the developmental challenges involved in building nourishing, reliable relationships within the newly married couple, between stepparents and stepchildren, and between the different family groups who must learn to live together in a remarried family.

Covering system architecture, implementation and testing, this work provides an overview of the GSM specifications and surveys competing cellular systems such as NADC and CDMA. Practical testing applications are explored and compared with similar techniques used with analogue cellular systems.