The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved by Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson

By Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson

Knowledgeable exam of the main confusing and nonetheless unexplained mysteries in additional than thousand years of human background. From Atlantis, the Bermuda Triangle, and Bigfoot to Tunguska, vampires, and zombies, the main attention-grabbing matters formerly featured in Colin Wilson's renowned Unsolved Mysteries previous and current, The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries, and The Unexplained now seem in addition to new, both mystifying fabric in a single super revised and up-to-date quantity.

In it, Wilson stocks his specialist learn and research into seventy-five of the world's such a lot enduring mysteries, between them crop circles and crystal skulls, monsters and meteors, pyramids and poltergeists, the wish Diamond and the Holy Shroud of Turin.

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Outsourcing: Design, Process and Performance by Michael J. Mol

By Michael J. Mol

Outsourcing has turn into one of many key restructuring instruments for firms trying to enhance their development and enterprise functionality. because the outsourcing phenomenon has mushroomed, so a variety of educational reviews have sought to outline and describe a unifying theoretical version. Outsourcing: layout, strategy and function attracts upon managerial, fiscal, sociological, ancient and mental views to lead to a brand new knowing of the way outsourcing layout and the outsourcing method feed into the functionality of agencies. mixing empirical insights from more than a few foreign circumstances and large-scale statistical exams with current theoretical views, the writer argues detrimental curvilinear dating exists among outsourcing and enterprise functionality. A severe research of present outsourcing ideas, including a dialogue of destiny traits, deals a brand new schedule for tutorial researchers and company managers alike.

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Countertransference and the Therapist's Inner Experience: by Charles J. Gelso

By Charles J. Gelso

Countertransference and the Therapist’s internal adventure explores the interior global of the psychotherapist and its affects at the courting among psychotherapist and sufferer. This dating is an incredible point deciding upon the good fortune of psychotherapy, as well as settling on how and to what quantity psychotherapy works with each one person sufferer. Authors Charles J. Gelso and Jeffrey A. Hayes current the heritage and present prestige of countertransference, supply a theoretically integrative belief, and concentrate on how psychotherapists can deal with countertransference in a fashion that merits the healing technique. The booklet includes thoroughly up to date information from present study findings, and illuminates the universality of countertransference throughout all psychotherapies and psychotherapists. Contents comprise: *the operation of countertransference throughout 3 fundamental concept clusters in psychotherapy; *leading components concerned with the administration of countertransference; and *valuable strategies for psychotherapy practitioners and researchers. execs in scientific and counseling psychology, psychiatry, social paintings, and counseling will reap the benefits of this quantity. The booklet can also be applicable for graduate scholars in those fields.

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The Bite Before Christmas by Lynsay Sands

By Lynsay Sands

In Lynsay Sands' "The Gift," Katricia Argeneau is aware grey-eyed cop Teddy Brunswick is her lifestyles mate. She simply must persuade him they belong jointly, and being snowbound in a secluded cabin will make this a Christmas neither will put out of your mind. it really is "Home for the vacations" in Jeaniene Frost's evening Huntress sequence. Cat and Bones may possibly lengthy to wrap offers and arrange a tree, yet this Christmas, an evil vampire and long-buried kin secrets and techniques will threaten to take a chunk out in their vacation cheer.

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Dead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 11) by Charlaine Harris

By Charlaine Harris

Along with her knack for being in trouble's method, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar the place she works. considering the fact that Sam Merlotte is referred to now to be two-natured, suspicion falls instantly at the anti-shifters within the quarter. Sookie suspects differently, yet her consciousness is split while she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who's now their grasp. progressively, Sookie is drawn into the plot-which is way extra advanced than she knows... New within the number one manhattan instances bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series--the foundation for HBO's precise Blood!

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New Dimensions in Body Psychotherapy by Nick Totton

By Nick Totton

There's at present an explosion of curiosity within the box of physique psychotherapy. this can be feeding again into psychotherapy and counselling normally, with many practitioners and trainees turning into attracted to the function of the physique in retaining and liberating anxious styles. This selection of ground-breaking paintings through practitioners on the vanguard of up to date physique psychotherapy enriches the full treatment international. It explores the forefront of idea and perform, together with: Neuroscientific contributions Embodied countertransference circulate styles and boy or girl improvement Freudian and Jungian ways Continuum flow Embodied-Relational remedy procedure paintings Body-Mind Centering® Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy Trauma paintings New Dimensions in physique Psychotherapy is a necessary contribution to the ‘turn to the physique’ in sleek psychotherapy. members: Jean-Claude Audergon, Katya Bloom, Roz Carroll, Emilie Conrad, Ruella Frank, Linda Hartley, Gottfried Heuer, Peter Levine, Yorai Sella, Michael Soth, Nick Totton, David track.

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Electrochemotherapy, Electrogenetherapy, and Transdermal by Mark J. Jaroszeski

By Mark J. Jaroszeski

Best specialists comprehensively evaluate all features of the supply of healing molecules to cells utilizing electric impulses-i.e., the terribly promising new parts of electrogenetherapy, electrochemotherapy, and transdermal drug supply. Their survey levels from outlines of the fundamental actual rules that govern telephone permeabilization via pulsed electrical fields, to descriptions of the present cutting-edge in instrumentation and electrodes, to summaries of preclinical and medical trial effects. The authors concentrate on drug, gene, and transdermal supply options, offering specific examples of drug supply utilizing electrical fields from quite a few pulse turbines and electrodes. finished and authoritative, Electrochemotherapy, Electrogenetherapy, and Transdermal Drug supply: Electrically Mediated supply of Molecules to Cells presents entré to an immensely useful set of in vivo electroporation ideas, together with electrogenetherapy, electrochemotherapy, and transdermal drug delivery-techniques conserving nice promise for all these operating towards higher treatments for melanoma, metabolic ailments, and vaccination.

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Cell Activation and Apoptosis in HIV Infection: Implications by Jeffrey Laurence (auth.), Jean-Marie Andrieu, Wei Lu (eds.)

By Jeffrey Laurence (auth.), Jean-Marie Andrieu, Wei Lu (eds.)

In the prior decade, the worldwide efforts within the keep an eye on of HIV ailment have been primarily focused on the hunt for anti-retroviral brokers. up to now, anti-HIV remedies were proven to be disappointing due to quick improvement of drug-resistant mutant versions. regardless of this hindrance within the healing struggle opposed to HIV an infection, antiviral learn could be actively pursued. although, failure of antiviral remedy exhibits that different avenues of analysis might be speedily explored with an analogous strength. during this environment, extraordinary advances were lately made within the dissection and realizing of the viro-immunological procedures governing the revolutionary destruction of lymphoid organs linked to AIDS enhance­ ment, and HIV-induced activation and apoptosis were pointed out as key phenomena of the immune process destruction. This ebook assembles the newest advances on uncomplicated and scientific facets ofT-cell activationiapoptosis in HIV an infection and their implications for immunotherapy. those facts have been offered at a world symposium hung on July 11-12, 1994, in Paris. The booklet is partitioned into 21 chapters masking 4 finished fields: 1) T-celllmacrophage activation and HIV an infection; 2) Apoptosis and viropathogenesis of hello V affliction; three) Apop­ tosis and immunopathogenesis ofHIV disorder; four) Mediators ofT-cell activationiapoptosis and healing functions. we are hoping that this publication will support the readers in realizing contemporary advances within the viro-immunopathogenesis of hello V illness in addition to the rationales for power immune­ cell-targeted healing interventions.

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