“…Employment is an important part of a healthy, balanced and fulfilling life but less than 20 per cent of people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) are in work at any one time. …”

“…While the demand for counseling and psychotherapy is increasing in this ever-growing and ever-complicating world, traditional theories and methods are becoming less useful because of the rapid change in people's lifestyles due to technological developments and because of an increase in clients with various ethnic and cultural backgrounds. …”

“…Engaging with celebrated cases of vanished species such as the quagga and the thylacine as well as less well-known examples of animals and plants, these essays explore how representations of recent and ancient extinctions help advance scientific understanding and speak to contemporary ecological and environmental concerns"--…”

“…The global push for more sustainable and less-carbon intensive economic models has increased the salience of Kazakhstan's long-standing diversification agenda. …”

“…Through adopting a practice of self-compassion, we can begin to develop greater self-awareness, self-management, and personal accountability so that leaders can foster the cultures of compassion, flourishing, and productivity they desire. They'll see less attrition, more employee engagement, and greater markers of success"--…”

“…"Association Football did no less than reshape British and indeed global society in its fast development as an organised sport over the course of the second half of the nineteenth century and leading up to the First World War. …”

“…What if you could master the entire framework - with solid foundations - in less time without beating your head against a wall? …”

“…The book aims at presenting less known or completly unknown family archives. …”

“…It also reviews international experience in co-ordinating transport planning with land-use development and in allocating space to walking and cycling in order to make transport more efficient and streets less congested…”

“…In 2019 global energy demand increased by less than half the rate of growth in 2018, well below the average rate since 2010. …”

“…The IEA projects that the power sector will deliver up to two-thirds of cumulative emissions reductions under the climate-stabilizing 450 ppm scenario, by switching to less carbon-intensive generation, improving operational efficiency, and reducing demand (IEA 2011a). …”

“…But the average absolute error in GNP over the entire 1982/87 period was less than 1 percentage point. The biggest errors were made in the first half of the period and were more important for the smaller countries. …”

“…Reducing class size is not, on its own, a sufficient policy lever to improve the performance of education systems, and is a less efficient measure than increasing the quality of teaching…”

“…However, innovative firms seem to be less susceptible to cyclical pressures than non-innovative firms. …”

“…Information and communication technology (ICT) use has been identified as one of the more active teaching practices, which promote skills students need for success. And yet, less than 40% of teachers across Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) countries report using ICT as a regular part of their teaching practice. …”

“…Practices supporting teacher professionalism are less common in schools with higher proportions of socio-economically disadvantaged students. …”

“…The close investigation of the texts suggests a special link with the thought of Arthur Schopenhauer, revealing in particular the contiguity between the concept of <i>Noluntas</i> and the search, by many of Beckett's characters, for “will-lessness”, a peculiar state of quiet and abstraction from reality. …”

“…Novel, cost-effective strategies are needed to reverse the global epidemic of obesity which is driving the increased occurrence of type 2 diabetes and to less the burden of diabetic vascular complications. …”

“…The new Dartmouth Atlas series on variation in the care of surgical conditions, including this report on the surgical treatment of cerebral aneurysms, raises new questions regarding surgical management of both common and less frequently occurring medical conditions. This report carefully details the prevalence of cerebral aneurysms and, as in previous Atlas analyses, emphasizes geographic practice variation in surgical treatment rates. …”

“…The book also takes the reader to areas such as the Russian Far East or sedimentary basins in China which are very remote and generally less known for the global community. This book demonstrates the dynamic evolution of volcanology in the past decades…”