Reference works Books

Practicing Counseling and Psychotherapy: Insights From Trainees, Supervisors, and Clients offers a framework for understanding the counseling and psychotherapy process that can be used in any training program.  Clinical examples and discussion...

"Masterworks of 20th-Century Music" introduces more than one hundred of the greatest compositions by world-renowned composer that have entered the standard orchestral repertory. The author surveyed dozens of major American orchestras to focus on those...

The late Alec Nove explores the relationship between Marxist ideas and the Soviet reality and presents a methodology for understanding Soviet type societies.

Lance Taylor uses structuralist models to examine the issues of short-term fluctuations and long-term growth in developing economies.

Traditionally, architecture has been preoccupied with the resolution of form. That concern helps to make photogenic buildings, which have received a great deal of attention. This book looks instead at the idea of the flows, which connects things together...

Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased brings together cutting-edge empirical and theoretical contributions from scholars in fields including psychology, theology, ethics, neuroscience, medicine, and philosophy, to examine how...

The existing literature on rural China characterizes socioeconomic diversity as a uniquely regional phenomenon: north versus south, coastal versus inland, urban versus rural. Unlike most work done at the village level, this book shows the large...

This study aims to fill the gap in the existing literature on China's Democratic development, by presenting a comprehensive and detailed examination of the key factors that have created and sustained state domination over society in China.

This fully updated second edition is a selective annotated bibliography of all relevant published resources relating to church and worship music in the United States. Over the past decade, there has been a growth of literature covering everything from...

This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics and prospects of democratization in East Asia. A team of leading experts in the field offers discussion at both the country and regional level, including analysis of democratic attitudes and...

This volume explores the mutually transformative relations between migrants and port cities. Throughout the ages of sail and steam, port cities served as nodes of long-distance transmissions and exchanges. Commercial goods, people, animals, seeds,...

“This book showcases the breadth and value of online pedagogy for applied linguistics. The chapters offer informative, practical and inspirational insights into teaching and learning used at the Open University, and how these approaches extend to...

This book presents a mathematically and logically sophisticated analysis of the many, or the more than one. Covering issues of natural numbers, facts and their proper analysis, properties and their instantiation, as well as the logic of sets, this book...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication's 40 chapters are organized within three sections to provide a broad and comprehensive overview of the role that linguistics plays within health communication research and its...

Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well-recognised but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works. The Adam Smith Review is a refereed annual review that provides a unique forum for...

All the cost data you need to keep your estimating accurate, competitive and profitable.Do you work on jobs between £50 and £50,000? Then this book is for you.Specially written for contractors, quantity surveyors and clients carrying out small works,...

The Age of Discovery explores one of the most dramatic features of the late medieval and early modern period: when voyagers from Western Europe led by Spain and Portugal set out across the world and established links with Africa, Asia and the Americas...

This guide has been designed to help undergraduates develop an understanding of practical research methods, and their application in the undergraduate dissertation. Written in an accessible and engaging style, it offers advice on all aspects of...

MICHIGAN ENCYCLOPEDIA is the definitive reference work on Michigan. The noted Michigan historian Dr. Matthew Lawrence Daly, Assistant Professor of History at Grand Valley State University, has authored articles on Introduction to Michigan History, Early...

A collection of poems of advice on empowerment and confidence especially for girls. About how to live and not just survive. How to live well with self-love, hope, kindness, love, the freedom of the self, joy, and positivity. How to be both silk and steel...

Performance-Based Optimization of Structures introduces a method to bridge the gap between structural optimization theory and its practical application to structural engineering. The Performance-Based Optimization (PBO) method combines modern structural...

Confused by cases? Stuck on statutes? Or just unsure where to start with writing, research or revision? The Insider's Guide to Legal Skills will show you what you need to succeed, applying skills in their real-world context and helping you get to grips...

The Handbook of International Psychology Ethics discusses the most central, guiding principles of practice for mental health professionals around the world. For researchers, practicing mental health professionals, and students alike, the book provides a...

What if there was an easy-to-follow roadmap for beginner filmmakers to realize their best film school experience? 21st Century Film Student PRIMER is thoughtfully geared towards helping students ensure that their investment in post-secondary film...

The classic irreverent look at the past--now updated with even more appalling facts!Fourteen billion or so years ago, the Big Bang exploded--and it's been downhill from there. For every spectacular discovery throughout history, there have been hundreds...

Learn how to soothe sunburns, dry-clean your dog, and perform other household miracles with baking sodaWant to relieve your stuffy nose? Make your musty old books smell better? Kill roaches without pesticide? You can do it all with baking soda, and this...

The Meaning of the Nag Hammadi, now in paperback opens the with the thrilling adventure story of the discovery of the ancient Papyrii at Nag Hammadi. Muhammad Ali, the fellahin, discovered the sealed jar, he feared that it might contain a jinni, or...

The Cheese Lover's Companion is a concise, yet comprehensive A-to-Z guide to more than 500 international cheeses from the bestselling authors of The New Food Lover's Companion.Once expensive delicacies, cheeses from all over the world--France, Italy,...

Covers the present laws, explanation of provisions and effective dates. Attorneys, especially tax attorneys, certified public accountants (CPAs), and students enrolling in law school and MBA programs, plus special libraries and law school libraries may...

Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500 explores the role of women as agents of diplomacy in the trans-Atlantic world since the early modern age. Despite increasing evidence of their involvement in political life across the centuries, the...

Researching Education from the Inside focuses on research projects that are undertaken by people who already have an attachment to the institutions or social groups on which their investigations are based. They can, therefore, be considered to be...

Nihilism is the logic of unmaking of things. This text re-reads Western history in the light of nihilistic logic, which pervades two millennia of Western thought.

A practical, step-by-step guide to interviewing techniques for a range of professionals. The book pays particular attention to the sensitive issue of sexual abuse and the problems created by multiple interviews.

This book supports teacher trainees as they help students develop maths reasoning skills. It uses the Causal Connectivity Framework and enhances the knowledge and skills of trainees in sequencing teaching content with cumulative knowledge and...

This book offers a holistic evidence-based approach to special educational needs and inclusive practice. Psychology has an important role within the inclusive process, but it can be misused and so must be understood and adopted critically and...

Central Canada is composed of the most beautiful provinces in the entire country. Both Quebec and Ontario have notable French influences. They also have picturesque scenery and a vibrant Native American culture. This book provides key information that...

Winner of three Oscars and the highest-grossing film of its time, Jaws was a phenomenon, and this is the only book on how twenty-six-year-old Steven Spielberg transformed Peter Benchley's number-one bestselling novel into the classic film it became.Hired...