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Nature's Matrix Linking Agriculture Biodiversity Conservation and Food Sovereignty

Nature's Matrix Linking Agriculture Biodiversity Conservation and Food Sovereignty

When first published in 2009 Nature’s Matrix set out a radical new approach to the conservation of biodiversity. This new edition pushes the frontier of the biodiversity/agriculture debate further making an even stronger case for the need to transform agriculture and support small- and medium-scale agroecology and food sovereignty. In the first edition the authors set out a radical new approach to the conservation of biodiversity. This is based on the concept of a landscape as a matrix of diverse small-scale agricultural ecosystems providing opportunities to enhance conservation under the stewardship of local farmers. This contrasts with the alternative view of industrial-scale farms and large protected areas which exclude local people. However since then the debate around conservation and agriculture has developed significantly and this is reflected in this updated second edition. The text is thoroughly revised including: a reorganization of chapters with new and timely topics introduced updates to the discussion of agroecology and food sovereignty bringing it in line with the current debates greater coverage of the role of agroecology in particular agroforestry as an important component of climate change adaptation and mitigation highlighting recent studies on the role of intensive agriculture in climate change and loss of biodiversity and more attention given to the discussion of land sparing versus land sharing. By integrating the ecological aspects of agriculture and conservation biology with a political and social analysis as well as historical perspective the book continues to set a progressive agenda and appeals to a wide range of students and professionals. | Nature's Matrix Linking Agriculture Biodiversity Conservation and Food Sovereignty

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The Matrix of Stem Cell Research An Approach to Rethinking Science in Society

The Matrix of Stem Cell Research An Approach to Rethinking Science in Society

Stem cell research has been a problematic endeavour. For the past twenty years it has attracted moral controversies in both the public and the professional sphere. The research involves not only laboratories clinics and people but ethics industries jurisprudence and markets. Today it contributes to the development of new therapies and affects increasingly many social arenas. The matrix approach introduced in this book offers a new understanding of this science in its relation to society. The contributions are multidisciplinary and intersectional illustrating how agency and influence between science and society go both ways. Conceptually this volume presents a situated and reflexive approach for philosophy and sociology of the life sciences. The practices that are part of stem cell research are dispersed and the concepts that tie them together are tenuous; there are persistent problems with the validation of findings and the ontology of the stem cell is elusive. The array of applications shapes a growing bioeconomy that is dependent on patient donations of tissues and embryos consumers and industrial support. In this volume it is argued that this research now denotes not a specific field but a flexible web of intersecting practices discourses and agencies. To capture significant parts of this complex reality this book presents recent findings from researchers who have studied in-depth aspects of this matrix of stem cell research. This volume presents state-of-the-art examinations from senior and junior scholars in disciplines from humanities and laboratory research to various social sciences highlighting particular normative and epistemological intersections. The book will appeal to scholars as well as wider audiences interested in developments in life science and society interactions. The novel matrix approach and the accessible case studies make this an excellent resource for science and society courses. | The Matrix of Stem Cell Research An Approach to Rethinking Science in Society

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The Pixelated Prisoner Prison Video Links Court ‘Appearance’ and the Justice Matrix

The Pixelated Prisoner Prison Video Links Court ‘Appearance’ and the Justice Matrix

Technological linkages between justice and law enforcement agencies are radically altering criminal process and access to justice for prisoners. Video links integral to an increasingly networked justice matrix enable the custodial appearance of prisoners in remote courts and are becoming the dominant form of court appearance for incarcerated defendants. This book argues that the incorporation of such technologies into prisons is not without consequence: technologies make a critical difference to prisoners’ experiences of criminal justice. By focusing on the prison endpoint and engaging with the population most affected by video links – the prisoners themselves – this book interrogates the legal and conceptual shifts brought about by the technology’s displacement of physical court appearance. The central argument is that custodial appearance has created a heightened zone of demarcation between prisoners and courtroom participants. This demarcation is explored through the transformed spatial corporeal and visual relationships. The cumulative demarcations challenge procedural justice and profoundly recompose prisoners’ legal experiences in ways not necessarily recognised by policy-makers. | The Pixelated Prisoner Prison Video Links Court ‘Appearance’ and the Justice Matrix

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Revival: Connective Tissue in Health and Disease (1990)

Revival: Connective Tissue in Health and Disease (1990)

This volume provides reviews covering the latest advances in particular areas of connective tissue research. This comprehensive work also includes areas of the medical field in which the basic aspects could be applied. It explains that both cells and matrix are altered in disease states because of the strong interactions established between cells and the extracellular matrix. The aim of this book is to close the existing gap between basic scientists and clinical investigators. This reference is an absolute must for all biological chemists clinical investigators and pathologists. Students of these professions will find this reading both informative and useful as well. | Revival: Connective Tissue in Health and Disease (1990)

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Mechanical Engineering Principles

Mechanical Engineering Principles

A student-friendly introduction to core mechanical engineering topics. This book introduces mechanical principles and technology through examples and applications enabling students to develop a sound understanding of both engineering principles and their use in practice. These theoretical concepts are supported by 400 fully worked problems 700 further problems with answers and 300 multiple-choice questions all of which add up to give the reader a firm grounding on each topic. Two new chapters are included covering the basic principles of matrix algebra and the matrix displacement method. The latter will also include guidance on software that can be used via SmartPhones tablets or laptops. The new edition is up to date with the latest BTEC National specifications and can also be used on undergraduate courses in mechanical civil structural aeronautical and marine engineering and naval architecture. A companion website contains the fully worked solutions to the problems and revision tests practical demonstration videos as well as a glossary and information on the famous engineers mentioned in the text. | Mechanical Engineering Principles

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Historical Research in Marketing Management

Historical Research in Marketing Management

This collection of articles deal with marketing history and the history of marketing thought placing these subjects within a marketing management context. Despite the crucial role that historical research can play in expanding our understanding of marketing studies of the history of marketing are thin on the ground. This volume aims to address this gap. Topics include the history of the Boston Consulting Group’s growth-share matrix branding the emergence of marketing schools of thought managerialism the marketing concept relationship marketing scientific management and marketing and critical marketing studies. The introduction discusses the three themes that run through the collection: historical method marketing history and the history of marketing thought. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Marketing Management. | Historical Research in Marketing Management

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Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation A Cognitive Approach

Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation A Cognitive Approach

Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation is an examination of musical interplay and the ways implicit (sub-conscious) and explicit (conscious) knowledge appear during improvisation. The practice-based research inquiry includes: interviews and interplay with five world-class jazz guitarists Lage Lund Jack Wilkins Ben Monder Rez Abbasi and Adam Rogers; a modal matrix for analyzing structure time and form in jazz guitar improvisation and musical analysis based on cognitive theories. By explaining the cognitive and musical foundations for expertise in jazz guitar improvisation this book illuminates how jazz guitarists' strategies are crucially dependent on context style and type of interplay. With accompanying video provided as an e-resource this material will be of interest to anyone fascinated by Jazz and Psychology of Music. | Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation A Cognitive Approach

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Children & the Law Shaping the Modern Welfare Principle in the British Isles

Children & the Law Shaping the Modern Welfare Principle in the British Isles

Balancing a child’s welfare interests and rights so as to ensure recognition and respect for his or her autonomous identity while facilitating family unity has become a major challenge for modern family law. This book following on from The Principle of the Welfare of the Child: A History examines contrasts and compares the response of England and Wales and Ireland to that challenge. It does so by applying the same matrix of indicators to explore in each country the distinction between welfare interests and rights and to trace changes in the balance between them. By profiling the nations in accordance with the same indicators it reveals important jurisdictional differences in the extent to which welfare interests or rights determine how the law is currently applied to children. | Children & the Law Shaping the Modern Welfare Principle in the British Isles

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A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Social Trauma The Inner Worlds of Outer Realities

A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Social Trauma The Inner Worlds of Outer Realities

A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Social Trauma presents a thorough introduction to social trauma from a range of perspectives exploring several key themes specific causes and symptoms and clinical interventions. With chapters from a diverse range of authors the book considers social trauma as it relates to stories and history group identity the consulting room migration and post-traumatic conditions. These topics are explored via a range of frames including individual therapy group analysis social dream matrix large groups case studies narrative recollections and cinematographic expression. The book also considers the implications of new technology in causing and treating social trauma. A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Social Trauma will be of great interest to psychoanalytic psychotherapists in practice and in training psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically informed professionals working with trauma. | A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Social Trauma The Inner Worlds of Outer Realities

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Lesbians and White Privilege

Lesbians and White Privilege

There are three overarching themes that connect the chapters: interdisciplinarity intersectionality and identity. This interdisciplinary compilation includes contributions from scholars in cultural studies social work English psychology anthropology and education. Essays include empirical research making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods as well as personal reflections and interpretation. Each chapter makes central the critical significance of intersectionality locating privilege and oppression within larger social systems and institutional structures as an ‘interlocking matrix of relationships. ’ These chapters challenge recognize and question whiteness with the intention that they encourage us to do the same in our own lives practices behaviors and disciplines. By taking whiteness seriously we might begin to move toward explicit antiracist efforts dismantling those structures and hierarchies that enable only some to speak as ‘just humans. ’ The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies. | Lesbians and White Privilege

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Revival: Social Accounting and Economic Modelling for Developing Countries (2002) Analysis Policy and Planning Applications

Revival: Social Accounting and Economic Modelling for Developing Countries (2002) Analysis Policy and Planning Applications

This title was first published in 2002. Providing the first comprehensive systematic assessment of the social accounting matrix (SAM) in twenty developing countries Solomon Cohen introduces key research in the area and looks at its practical applications. Divided into two parts the first part of each chapter: -Deals with the construction and structural analysis of the SAM -Examines refinements of the SAM as a self-contained model of the economy; study of SAM multipliers of growth and distribution -Explores decompositions of multiplier effects and cross-country and inter-temporal comparative analysis of changing economic structures. The second part looks at the SAM as a modular framework and a database which can be flexibly used in economic policy modelling. This valuable reference and the accompanying volume Social Accounting or Industrial and Transition Economies will be an essential addition to the bookshelves of researchers instructors policy makers scholars and libraries. | Revival: Social Accounting and Economic Modelling for Developing Countries (2002) Analysis Policy and Planning Applications

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Relationality From Attachment to Intersubjectivity

Relationality From Attachment to Intersubjectivity

This book first published in the year of the author’s death expresses Mitchell’s vision for the theory of relational psychoanalysis and provides his most-developed expression of its foundations. Now republished in this Classic Edition Mitchell’s ideas are brought back to the psychoanalytic readership complete with a new introduction by Donnel Stern. In his final contribution to the psychoanalytic literature the late Stephen A. Mitchell provided a brilliant synthesis of the interrelated ideas that describe the relational matrix of human experience. Relationality charts the emergence of the relational perspective in psychoanalysis by reviewing the contributions of Loewald Fairbairn Bowlby and Sullivan whose voices converge in apprehending the fundamental relationality of the human mind. Mitchell draws on the multiple dimensions of attachment intersubjectivity and systems theory in espousing a clinical approach equally notable for its responsiveness and responsible restraint. This remains a canonical text for all relational psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. | Relationality From Attachment to Intersubjectivity

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The Ideal of Total Environmental Control Knud Lönberg-Holm Buckminster Fuller and the SSA

The Ideal of Total Environmental Control Knud Lönberg-Holm Buckminster Fuller and the SSA

This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lönberg- Holm a forgotten Danish architect who promoted a unique systemic cybernetic and ecological vision of architecture in the 1930s. A pioneering figure of the new objectivity and international constructivism in Germany in 1922 and a celebrated peer of radical figures in De Stijl the Bauhaus and Russian constructivism when he emigrated to Detroit in 1923 he introduced the vanguard theory of productivism through his photography essays designs and pedagogy. By following Lönberg- Holm’s ongoing matrix of relations until the postwar era with the European vanguards in CIAM and former members of the Structural Study Associates (SSA) especially Fuller Frederick Kiesler and C. Theodore Larson this study shows how their definition of building as a form of environmental control anticipated the contemporary disciplines of industrial ecology industrial metabolism and energy accounting. | The Ideal of Total Environmental Control Knud Lönberg-Holm Buckminster Fuller and the SSA

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Television and the Embodied Viewer Affect and Meaning in the Digital Age

Television and the Embodied Viewer Affect and Meaning in the Digital Age

Television and the Embodied Viewer appraises the medium’s capacity to evoke sensations and bodily feelings in the viewer. Presenting a fresh approach to television studies the book examines the sensate force of onscreen bodies and illustrates how TV’s multisensory appeal builds viewer empathy and animates meaning. The book draws extensively upon interpretive viewpoints in the humanities to shed light on a range of provocative television works notably The Americans Mad Men Little Women: LA and Six Feet Under with emphasis on the dramatization of gender disability sex childbearing and death. Advocating a biocultural approach that takes into account the mind sciences Cassidy argues that interpretive meanings shaped within today’s dynamic cultural matrix are amplified by somatic experience. At a time when questions of embodiment and affect are crossing disciplines this book will appeal to scholars and students working in the fields of television film and media studies both in the humanities and cognitive traditions. | Television and the Embodied Viewer Affect and Meaning in the Digital Age

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India and Global Governance A Rising Power and Its Discontents

India and Global Governance A Rising Power and Its Discontents

This volume explores India’s role in the global governance architecture post–Cold War. It shows how with a rise in India’s capabilities there is an expectation from its external interlocutors that New Delhi ought to play a larger global role. As Indian policymakers redefine their engagements in the global policy matrix the chapters in the volume analyse India’s role as a challenger and a stakeholder in world politics; its uneasy relationship with Western liberal democracies; and its role in shaping new structures of global governance. The volume focuses on a host of critical issues including nuclear policy climate action politics India’s bid for a permanent seat at the UN Security Council humanitarian interventions trade governance democracy promotion India’s engagement with other emerging powers in platforms such as the BRICS the changing dynamics with its neighbours and maritime governance. A timely reimagining of global politics this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations climate change military and strategic studies economics and South Asian studies. | India and Global Governance A Rising Power and Its Discontents

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Group Therapy for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse A Practical Guide for Mental Health Professionals

Group Therapy for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse A Practical Guide for Mental Health Professionals

This book presents the therapist with a reflective and robust framework for group treatment that promotes an end to the shame and secrecy so frequently experienced by survivors. Through a series of tools such as visualisations and art exercises the practitioner is guided through the process of establishing and running a group in this modality. The synthesis of both an educational and a process-based model is imbued with a sense of warmth and a deep understanding of this client group. Themes such as self-soothing strengthening boundaries inner-child work making meaning of endings and ways forward drive this therapeutic approach. Taking group work as the optimum matrix for change for this client population this model provides a convincing rationale for the establishment of said work as best practice in the institutions that provide for their care. Practicing therapists and mental health nurses will find this new model of therapy an instrumental resource in their approach to treatment for survivors of trauma and abuse. | Group Therapy for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse A Practical Guide for Mental Health Professionals

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Adoption Law and Human Rights International Perspectives

Adoption Law and Human Rights International Perspectives

In recent decades there have been many changes to adoption law and practice such as a sharp decline in the voluntary relinquishment of children an increase in the number consigned to public care and an abrupt decrease in those made available on an intercountry basis. Additionally human rights are becoming more prominent particularly in relation to issues such as: non-consensual adoption; the ethics of intercountry adoption; the eligibility of LGBT adopters; the impact of commercial surrogacy; and the sometimes conflicting rights of birth parents and adoptees when accessing agency birth records. In this book O’Halloran presents a comparative analysis of the interaction between adoption law and human rights in common law (England and the US) civil law (France and Germany) and Asiatic traditions (Japan and China) while also developing a matrix of legal functions to assist in identifying and analysing areas of tension between human rights and adoption. This book is intended for a lawyer readership whether professional student or academic: researchers and postgraduate students in subjects such as social work social policy and politics may also find it helpful. | Adoption Law and Human Rights International Perspectives

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Masculinities and Desire A Deleuzian Encounter

Masculinities and Desire A Deleuzian Encounter

Masculinities and Desire considers the question of male subjectivity in relation to Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of desire. Western tradition has thought of desire from the vantage point of masculine subjectivity; what happens when the order is reversed and desire speaks through masculinity? Can masculinity be conceived beyond the gender binary and thus affirm its potential to transcend the patriarchal order? In answer Masculinities and Desire calls for a radically new approach to traditional cultural criticism. Contributing a critical male perspective the book sheds new light on the conceptual and ethical limits of established representational (gender) criticism. Reflecting on masculinity with Deleuze the book explores what happens to the masculine subject in his becoming-minoritarian and thus emerging as a work of desire. Wojtaszek examines the confining representations of masculinity in realms long associated with men such as violence virulent psychosis metaphysical cannibalism and virtualization. Inspired by Deleuze’s appeal for immanence Wojtaszek argues that films including American Psycho Fight Club Becoming John Malkovich and The Matrix are adventures of deterritorialization that imaginatively tackle various masculinities affirming their creative resistance and reinvention of subjectivity. Desire is revealed to be a powerful catalyst for escaping the regime of patriarchal representation. | Masculinities and Desire A Deleuzian Encounter

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A Psychotherapist Paints Insights from the Border of Art and Psychotherapy

A Psychotherapist Paints Insights from the Border of Art and Psychotherapy

A Psychotherapist Paints is a unique account of an internationally known psychotherapist and group analyst’s struggle to bring together his psychological experience and his interests and talent as an artist. This book describes a body of painting that was responsive to a major existential challenge the COVID-19 pandemic but which also comes from deeply personal experience; the paintings are a mirror of life through the decades. These paintings fifty of which are included here in full colour were mainly presented online to groups both small and large who were invited to participate in a dialogue that became a vital part of the developing project. The value of this dialogue is reflected in the author’s concept of the artist's matrix describing the social context in which an artist produces and presents their work. The paintings together with the autobiographical narrative and the groups’ generativity combine to produce a moving testament to our times. Intrinsic to A Psychotherapist Paints is a question about what makes us creative and how creativity transforms our lives. The result is a work of both artistic and psychological power that will inspire psychotherapists art psychotherapists and artists themselves and will point to exciting new possibilities in all these fields. | A Psychotherapist Paints Insights from the Border of Art and Psychotherapy

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The Surviving Object Psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival-of-the-object

The Surviving Object Psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival-of-the-object

In this book Abram proposes and elaborates the dual concept of an intrapsychic surviving and non surviving object and examines how psychic survival-of-the-object places the early m/Other at the centre of the nascent psyche before innate factors are relevant. Abram’s clinical-theoretical elaborations advance several of Winnicott’s key concepts. Moreover the clinical illustrations show how her advances arise out of the transference-countertransference matrix of the analyzing situation. Chapter by chapter the reader witnesses the evolution of her proposals that not only enhance an appreciation of Winnicott’s original clinical paradigm but also demonstrate how much more there is to glean from his texts especially in the contemporary consulting room. The Surviving Object comprises 8 chapters covering themes such as: the incommunicado self; violation of the self; the paradox of communication; terror at the roots of non survival; an implicit theory of desire; the fear of WOMAN underlying misogyny; the meaning of infantile sexuality; the ‘father in the nursing mother’s mind’ as an ‘integrate’ in the nascent psyche; formlessness preceding integration; a theory of madness. The volume will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically-informed psychotherapists of all levels who are inspired by clinical psychoanalysis and the study of human nature. | The Surviving Object Psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival-of-the-object

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Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field

Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field

Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field centers on the mutually reinforcing relationship between erotic and creative energies. Erotic embodiment is given context within a contemporary model of clinical process based in analytic field theory and highlighting Winnicott. Dianne Elise uses clinical material to bring theory alive giving clinicians an explicit picture of how they might utilize the ideas presented. In a fascinating return to Freud’s emphasis on libido and Eros a creative mind is seen as located within a libidinal connection to the erotic body. The erotic is underscored as an important ingredient of the clinical situation—a lively spontaneity that partakes of the analyst’s as well as the patient’s creative self vitalizing the field of clinical engagement. A full formulation of the analytic field must include awareness of the centrality of the erotic in the maternal matrix in ongoing development and in the clinical setting. The erotic-aesthetic dimension of the mind potentiates the creative interplay of the analytic process. Written in an engaging and accessible style this original contribution makes complex theory available to psychoanalytic clinicians at all levels and to a wide range of readers while offering sophisticated theoretical and clinical innovations. Elise addresses the need to engage multiple aspects of erotic life while maintaining a reliable professional boundary.

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Campus Crisis Management A Comprehensive Guide for Practitioners

Campus Crisis Management A Comprehensive Guide for Practitioners

Campus Crisis Management is a practical resource that helps campus administrators evaluate revise or establish a comprehensive crisis management plan appropriate for their college or university. Filled with examples assessment tools and checklists this book describes the individuals who should be involved in developing a campus plan what a plan should include as well as a variety of crisis events and issues that should be addressed in a comprehensive crisis management plan. Including contributions from renowned practitioners at all levels this fully revised new edition contains the must-have information on crisis management such as: How to develop a comprehensive crisis management system The different types of crises using the crisis matrix The structure operation and training of a crisis team Strategies for working with the media New chapters addressing behavioral intervention teams active shooter situations Title IX guidance campus demonstrations outbreaks of infectious and contagious diseases and special event management. From a senior administrator working with an institution-wide emergency operations team to a new professional looking to develop plans and protocols to respond to critical incidents Campus Crisis Management is a comprehensive guide to planning and preparing for campus emergencies of any scale. | Campus Crisis Management A Comprehensive Guide for Practitioners

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Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis Freud Ferenczi and the Challenge of Thought Transference

Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis Freud Ferenczi and the Challenge of Thought Transference

Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis traces the origins of key psychoanalytic ideas back to their roots in hypnosis and the occult. Maria Pierri follows Freud’s early interest in thought-transmission now known as telepathy. Freud’s private investigations led to discussions with other leading figures like Carl Jung and Sándor Ferenczi with whom he held a dialogue of the unconsciouses. Freud’s and Ferenczi’s work assessed how fortune tellers could read the past from a client inspiring their investigations into countertransference the analytic relationship unconscious communication and mother-infant relationality. Both Freud and Ferenczi tried in different ways to come close to understanding the infant’s occult link with the mother and their secret primal language: their research on thought transference may be identified as a matrix of the developments of current psychoanalysis. Pierri clearly links modern psychoanalytic practice with Freud’s interests in the occult using primary sources some of which have never previously been published in English. Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training as well as academics and scholars of Freudian ideas psychoanalytic theory the history of psychology and the occult. It is complemented by Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case: Coincidences and Thought-Transmission in Psychoanalysis. | Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis Freud Ferenczi and the Challenge of Thought Transference

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Decolonization Development and Knowledge in Africa Turning Over a New Leaf

Decolonization Development and Knowledge in Africa Turning Over a New Leaf

This provocative book is anchored on the insurgent and resurgent spirit of decolonization of the twenty-first century. The author calls upon Africa to turn over a new leaf in the domains of politics economy and knowledge as it frees itself from imperial global designs and global coloniality. With a focus on Africa and its Diaspora the author calls for a radical turning over of a new leaf predicated on decolonial turn and epistemic freedom. The key themes subjected to decolonial analysis include: (1) decolonization/decoloniality – articulating the meaning and contribution of the decolonial turn; (2) subjectivity/identity – examining the problem of Blackness (identity) as external and internal invention; (3) the Bandung spirit of decolonization as an embodiment of resistance and possibilities development and self-improvement; (4) development and self-improvement – of African political economy as entangled in the colonial matrix of power and the African Renaissance as weakened by undecolonized political and economic thought; and (5) knowledge – the role of African humanities in the struggle for epistemic freedom. This groundbreaking volume opens the intellectual canvas on the challenges and possibilities of African futures. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of Politics and International Relations Development Sociology African Studies Black Studies Education History Postcolonial Studies and the emerging field of Decolonial Studies. | Decolonization Development and Knowledge in Africa Turning Over a New Leaf

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Design of Experiments for Generalized Linear Models

Design of Experiments for Generalized Linear Models

Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) allow many statistical analyses to be extended to important statistical distributions other than the Normal distribution. While numerous books exist on how to analyse data using a GLM little information is available on how to collect the data that are to be analysed in this way. This is the first book focusing specifically on the design of experiments for GLMs. Much of the research literature on this topic is at a high mathematical level and without any information on computation. This book explains the motivation behind various techniques reduces the difficulty of the mathematics or moves it to one side if it cannot be avoided and gives examples of how to write and run computer programs using R. FeaturesThe generalisation of the linear model to GLMsBackground mathematics and the use of constrained optimisation in RCoverage of the theory behind the optimality of a designIndividual chapters on designs for data that have Binomial or Poisson distributionsBayesian experimental designAn online resource contains R programs used in the bookThis book is aimed at readers who have done elementary differentiation and understand minimal matrix algebra and have familiarity with R. It equips professional statisticians to read the research literature. Nonstatisticians will be able to design their own experiments by following the examples and using the programs provided. | Design of Experiments for Generalized Linear Models

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