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Binge Eating Disorder The Journey to Recovery and Beyond

Binge Eating Disorder The Journey to Recovery and Beyond

Binge Eating Disorder written by a clinician and an advocate who have personally struggled with Binge Eating Disorder (BED) illuminates the experience of BED from the patient perspective while also exploring the disorder’s etiological roots and addressing the components of treatment that are necessary for long-term recovery. Accessible for both treatment providers and patients alike this unique volume aims to explore BED treatment and recovery from both sides of the process while also providing a resource for structuring treatment and building effective interventions. This practical roadmap to understanding resilience and lasting change will be useful for anyone working clinically with or close to individuals suffering from BED as well as those on the recovery journey. | Binge Eating Disorder The Journey to Recovery and Beyond

GBP 28.99
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A Cultural History of Twin Beds

A Cultural History of Twin Beds

A Cultural History of Twin Beds challenges our most ingrained assumptions about intimacy sexuality domesticity and hygiene by tracing the rise and fall of twin beds as a popular sleeping arrangement for married couples between 1870 and 1970. Modern preconceptions of the twin bed revolve around their use by couples who have no desire to sleep in the same bed space. Yet for the best part of a century twin beds were not only seen as acceptable but were championed as the sign of a modern and forward-thinking couple. But what lay behind this innovation? And why did so many married couples ultimately abandon the twin bed?In this book Hilary Hinds presents a fascinating insight into the combination of beliefs and practices that made twin beds an ideal sleeping solution. Using nuanced close readings of marriage guidance and medical advice books furnishing catalogues novels films and newspapers this volume offers an accessible and rigorous account of the curious history of twin beds. This is vital reading for those with an interest in cultural history sociology anthropology and psychology.

GBP 38.99
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Death Ritual and Bereavement

Death Ritual and Bereavement

Originally published in 1989 Death Ritual and Bereavement examines the social history of death and dying from 1500 to the 1930s. This edited collection focuses on the death-bed funerals burials mourning customs and the expression of grief. The essays throw fresh light on developments which lie at the roots of present-day tendencies to minimize or conceal the most unpleasant aspects of death among them the growing participation of doctors in the management of death-beds in the eighteenth century and the creation of extra-mural cemeteries followed by the introduction of cremation in the nineteenth century. The volume also underlines the importance of religious belief in helping the bereaved in past times. The book will appeal to students and academics of family and social history as well as history of medicine religion and anthropology.

GBP 29.99
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Skype: Bodies Screens Space

Skype: Bodies Screens Space

Despite the popularity of Skype with video many of us are still figuring out how to ‘do’ it. Interviews reveal that we can now run the programme but we are less certain about how to ‘perform’ in front of the webcam. Seeing ourselves in the box on the side can feel strange. We are not quite sure which bits of our bodies to display on the screen how much to move around the room or move the device around the room. Is it acceptable to use Skype with video at a funeral in crowded spaces or while in bed? This book addresses how people are emotionally and affectually connecting with others audio-synchronously on the screen in a variety of different spatial contexts. Topics include Skype with video being used by grandparents to connect with grandchildren friends and family using it for special occasions and partners using it for romance and sex. Theories addressing bodies gender queerness phenomenology and orientation inform the research. It concludes that while Skype does not offer some kind of utopian future it does open up possibilities for existing power relations to be filtered through new lines of sight/site which are shaping what bodies can do and where. | Skype: Bodies Screens Space

GBP 42.99
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History and Material Culture A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

History and Material Culture A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

Sources are the raw material of History but whereas the written word has traditionally been seen as the principal source historians now recognize the value of sources beyond text. In this new edition of History and Material Culture contributors consider a range of objects – from an eighteenth-century bed curtain to a twenty-first-century shopping trolley – which can help historians develop new interpretations and new knowledge about the past. Containing two new chapters on healing objects in East Africa and the shopping trolley in the social world this book examines a variety of material sources from around the globe and across centuries to assess how such sources can be used to study the distant and the recent past. In a revised introduction Karen Harvey discusses some of the principal issues raised when historians use material culture particularly in the context of 'the material turn' and suggests some initial steps for those unfamiliar with these kinds of sources. While the sources are discussed from interdisciplinary perspectives the emphasis of the book is on what historians stand to gain from using material culture as well as what historians have to offer the broader study of material culture. Clearly written and accessible this book is the ideal introduction to the opportunities and challenges of researching material culture and is essential reading for all students of historical theory and method. | History and Material Culture A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

GBP 35.99
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Fearless Leadership Overcoming Reticence Procrastination and the Voices of Doubt Inside Your Head

Fearless Leadership Overcoming Reticence Procrastination and the Voices of Doubt Inside Your Head

The intent of this book - the author's goal for you — is to understand the baseless underpinnings of almost all our fears. You read that correctly - almost all our fears - and therefore to discard them. The author has expertly coached leaders and managers in the discovery of examination of elimination of and sustained freedom from fears. We all know people who are charming and articulate but flounder on a stage addressing colleagues; musicians who master intricate scores but can’t play the basics when asked to solo; athletes who choke; business people who are strong until it comes time to ask for the business; people who consistently feel like imposters. We are far better at dealing with external tangible fears than our own imagined ones. We purchase insurance watch the safety demonstrations know how to use the Heimlich Maneuver. But those are responses to rare and often never-occurring emergencies. Our mythical and monstrous fears are daily dark clouds masking our talents no less than depression or guilt. It’s time to realize there is no monster under the bed never has been and never will be without having to check nightly and without needing a weapon on the night table. Picture yourself freed of restraints that you could never properly articulate and were loath to discuss but which you carried on your shoulders constantly a dead weight nonetheless. Essentially this book is for entrepreneurs business owners and those who seek a better position for themselves and their talents but who procrastinate delay and hang back. It’s about isolating and overcoming the internal fears that we generate every day like a geyser triggered by time events or shifts in the environment. We are our own worst enemies and we ignore the practical remedies to escape fear because we use our energies instead on blaming everyone else. | Fearless Leadership Overcoming Reticence Procrastination and the Voices of Doubt Inside Your Head

GBP 22.99
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Hospital Capacity Management Insights and Strategies

Hospital Capacity Management Insights and Strategies

Hospital Capacity Management: Insights and Strategies details many of the key processes procedures and administrative realities that make up the healthcare system we all encounter when we visit the ED or the hospital. It walks through in detail how these systems work how they came to be this way why they are set up as they are and then in many cases why and how they should be improved right now. Many examples pulled from the lifelong experiences of the authors published studies and well-documented case studies are provided both to illustrate and support arguments for change. First and foremost it is necessary to remember that the mission of our healthcare system is to take care of patients. This has been forgotten at times causing many of the issues the authors discuss in the book including hospital capacity management. This facet of healthcare management is absolutely central to the success or failure of a hospital both in terms of its delivery of care and its ability to survive as an institution. Poor hospital capacity management is a root cause of long wait times overcrowding higher error rates poor communication low satisfaction and a host of other commonly experienced problems. It is important enough that when it is done well it can completely transform an entire hospital system. Hospital capacity management can be described as optimizing a hospital’s bed availability to provide enough capacity for efficient error-free patient evaluation treatment and transfer to meet daily demand. A hospital that excels at capacity management is easy to spot: no lines of people waiting and no patients in hallways or sitting around in chairs. These hospitals don’t divert incoming ambulances to other hospitals; they have excellent patient safety records and efficiently move patients through their organization. They exist but are sadly in the minority of American hospitals. The vast majority are instead forced to constantly react to their own poor performance. This often results in the building of bigger and bigger institutions which instead of managing capacity simply create more space in which to mismanage it. These institutions are failing to resolve the true stumbling blocks to excellent patient care many of which you may have experienced firsthand in your own visit to your hospital. It is the hope of the authors that this book will provide a better understanding of the healthcare delivery system. | Hospital Capacity Management Insights and Strategies

GBP 39.99
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