“…The regime that is currently in place has consequently lost its original structure and consistency. In particular, it is no longer a normative continuum, and as a result, the international protection of refugees is no longer secure but dependent on contingencies. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Osama bin Laden as subject -- Education, 1957-1979 -- Apprenticeship, 1979-1989 -- Nomad, 1989-1996 -- Organizer, 1996-2001 -- Survivor and planner, 2001-2010 -- The bin Laden era -- Epilogue…”

“…Amira Mittermaier guides the reader through landscapes of the imagination that feature Muslim dream interpreters who draw on Freud, reformists who dismiss all forms of divination as superstition, a Sufi devotional group that keeps a diary of dreams related to its shaykh, and ordinary believers who speak of moving encounters with the Prophet Muhammad. …”

“…Physicians training in pain medicine may originate from different disciplines and approach the field with varying backgrounds and experience. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Disorganized Attachment Caregiving System : Dysregulation of Adaptive Processes at Multiple Levels / Judith Solomon & Carol George -- Disorganization of Maternal Caregiving across Two Generations : The Origins of Caregiving Helplessness / Judith Solomon & Carol George -- Understanding Disorganized Attachment at Preschool and School Age : Examining Divergent Pathways of Disorganized and Controlling Children / Ellen Moss, Jean-Francois Bureau, Diane St-Laurent, & George M. …”

“…From the child taunted by her playmates to the office worker who feels stifled in his daily routine, people frequently take out their pain and anger on others, even those who had nothing to do with the original stress. The bullied child may kick her puppy, the stifled worker yells at his children: Payback can be directed anywhere, sometimes at inanimate things, animals, or other people. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…At the intersections of HIV/AIDS : power, disease, others, and China's media -- China's media : telling and knowing HIV/AIDS -- Differentiating understandings : hei black and blackness, race, and place -- Hei : Africa, Africans, and HIV/AIDS -- Yuanshi : presenting the origin and primitive circumstances of HIV/AIDS in Africa -- Kexue : scientism and HIV/AIDS…”

“…Exploring the various communication and intervention options available, this book clearly explains everything families, teachers, therapists and other professionals need to know in order to improve a child's communication, behaviour, social and academic skills. …”

“…In the last decade of the twentieth century, one of the most fundamental changes in urban China has been the expansion and privatization of housing, with per capita housing space increasing by more than 50 percent. As a result, ordinary citizens in urban China have started to cultivate personal space and have a new incentive to make more money, and wealth is being stratified. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…9 Varieties of positioning10 Social sources of mental content and order; Part III Persons as discursive realizations; 11 Persons as discursive realizations: Introduction to Part III; 12 On being a person: Problems of self; 13 Agency and personality; 14 Discursive transformations of the body; 15 Individual lives as social trajectories; Part IV The discursive dimension of societies; 16 The discursive dimension of societies: Introduction to Part IV; 17 Cultural stereotypes and positioning theory; 18 Crews, clubs, crowds, and classes: 'The social' as a discursive category…”

“… This compelling book argues that all people with schizophrenia share a personality organization known as schizotypy. Presented is a novel framework for understanding schizophrenia through the study of individuals who may never develop the disorder, but who nonetheless harbor a liability for it. …”

“…Yet his private correspondence and his writings on culture and history reveal that he never forsook his original philosophical ambitions. Indeed, while Freud remained firmly committed to positivist ideals, his thought was permeated with other aspects of German philosophy. …”

“… This state-of-the-art book presents research-based practice guidelines that clinicians of any orientation can use to optimize the therapeutic alliance. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 7 Dorothy, Oodgeroo and Blackfella Ageing: The Role of Spirituality When You're Short on Culture and Can't Find Your Red Shoes Chapter 8 An Islamic Perspective on Ageing and Spirituality; Chapter 9 The Spiritual Needs of the Aged and Dying: A Buddhist Perspective; Chapter 10 Dying: An Approach to Care from Hindu and Buddhist Perspectives; Chapter 11 Orthodox Faith: A Lively Spirit for Older People; Chapter 12 Cultural Diversity in Aged Care: A Showcase of Services Tailored to Meet the Physical, Cultural and Spiritual Needs of People of Greek Origin…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Planned Environment: An Organizational Representation of a Secure BaseWhere change begins; Planning for recovery; A transactional process; Beliefs and assumptions; The holding environment; The planned environment - a circle of security; A secure base - levers of arousal; The physical environment; Four phases of placement; Organizational values and ethos; Therapeutic risk; Smoothing transitions; Ways of caregiving; Chapter Three; Ways of Caregiving: Working Within the Therapeutic Frame; Good enough parenting; Hopefulness; The engaged self: why doing is better than talking; Mind-mindedness…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6 Cultural production, intimacy and identity: Paradigms of resistance and Islamic orthodoxy in AsiaConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Prospects for a 'relational sociology'; 1 The relational paradigm: Its implications for the understanding and organization of society; 2 Society as a relation; 3 Critical realism as viewed by relational sociology; 4 Observing and thinking relationally: The premises of the relational theory of society; 5 Social change in the light of relational sociology; 6 Reflexivity after modernity: From the viewpoint of relational sociology; 7 Doing sociology in the age of globalization; Bibliography…”

“…This volume contains 14 original chapters focusing on various aspects of economic organization and behaviour, mostly based on empirical fieldwork conducted by the authors themselves. …”