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"Saberes Plurais, Conhecimentos Multidisciplinares: Educação, Sociedade e História" é uma coletânea de artigos científicos que abrangem temas diversos e interligados, relacionados à Educação, Sociedade e História. Os autores promovem reflexões e debates sobre questões cruciais da sociedade contemporânea, fornecendo análises críticas embasadas em pesquisas de mestrado. Os capítulos abordam desde a trajetória das mulheres no Brasil até questões de inclusão, educação de jovens e adultos, religiosidade popular, patrimônio histórico e abordagens teóricas da historiografia. Uma fonte valiosa de conhecimento e reflexão para estudiosos interessados em entender a sociedade sob diferentes lentes acadêmicas.
Bringing together a stellar array of contributors whose work has been directly influenced by Aaron T. Beck, this volume presents current advances in cognitive therapy science and practice. Described are new and effective ways of understanding and treating clients suffering from a wide range of affective, anxiety, and personality disorders. The status of basic cognitive therapy principles and models is discussed, and important theoretical and clinical refinements are elaborated. Other topics include innovative applications for children and adolescents, couples, and families, as well as progress that has been made in integrating cognitive therapy with other treatments, such as pharmacotherapy.
Measurement and Evaluation in Human Performance, Third Edition, offers unmatched, in-depth instruction in measurement and evaluation techniques. Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition features a new section on epidemiology and further develops international perspectives. This edition also features improved readability in measurement statistics and enhanced efficiency in solving measurement and evaluation problems through the use of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Additional features that are new to this edition: -Revised first chapter that lays the groundwork for improved learning throughout the text -Inclusion of a specific downloadable data set that is us...
Obesity is currently regarded as one of the major health challenges of the developed world. Excess body weight is an important risk factor for morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, musculoskeletal disorders and even psychiatric problems and is estimated to cause nearly 3 million deaths per year worldwide. Obesity is not necessarily associated with comorbidities: there are indeed metabolically healthy obese individuals. Thus, we need to consider individuals presenting simple with obesity separately from those at risk of developing or who have already developed complex clinical states potentially leading to disability. Comorbidities can tip the balance of inde...
The aim of this edited book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the opportunities and challenges related to innovation for sustainability. Combining work from both emerging and established scholars in different academic fields, this book provides an integrated understanding of the topic from four perspectives. First, the big picture: frameworks, types, and drivers; second, strategy and leadership; third, measurement and assessment and fourth, tools, methods and technologies. Chapter 11 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com. The editors donate their remuneration for this book to conservation organisation the WWF.
In today's global recession, strong management of firms and organizations are of the utmost importance. Best-selling Economics of Strategy focuses on the key economic concepts students must master in order to develop a sound business strategy. Bringing economic theory and strategic analysis to life in an engaging and uniquely modern way, Besanko et al. have collaborated for over 15 years to build an introductory business course that combines basic concepts from economic theory of the firm and industrial organization with ideas from modern strategy literature. The newly revised 5th edition offers more real-world applications to make materials studied in undergraduate Managerial Economics, Business Strategy, and Industrial Organization courses relevant. Armed with general principles, today's students—tomorrow's future managers—will be prepared to adjust their firms' business strategies to the demands of the ever-changing environment.
Clinical Manual of Eating Disorders provides sound therapeutic advice based on current research and clinical practice. It includes detailed discussions of various aspects of assessment and treatment, featuring up-to-date evidence- and consensus-based information. Ranging from the determination of initial treatment approaches to problems posed by unique groups of patients, it marks the first APPI volume specifically directed toward the clinical management of patients with eating disorders -- and the first book to focus squarely on what psychiatrists need to know about the clinical assessment and management of patients with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorders, and obesity...
Considers what aspiring and mature historians need to know about the discipline of history in the United States today.
"This book describes the process of analyzing data. The authors have extensive experience both managing data analysts and conducting their own data analyses, and this book is a distillation of their experience in a format that is applicable to both practitioners and managers in data science."--Leanpub.com.
Lao Tzu Called His Path The Watercourse Way For Many Reasons. First, Water Is Soft, Humble, Seeks The Lowest Place. It May Rain On Everest But The Water Doesn T Remain There; It Starts Running Towards The Valley. And The Valley, Too, It Will Reach The Deepest Part. It Is Non-Ambitious. It Has No Ambitions To Be The First. To Be Like Water Means To Be Utterly Happy In Being A Nobody. Second, Water Means Movement. It Is Always Moving, And Whenever It Is Not Moving It Becomes Dirty, Impure, Even Poisonous. It Dies. Its Life Is In Movement, In Dynamism, In Flow. The Whole Life Is A Flow, Nothing Is Static. Osho Tao Means Being. It Believes In This Moment; It Has No Idea Of Future. If You Can Live In This Moment In Purity, In Silence, In Spontaneity, Then Your Life Is Transformed. Not That You Transform It Tao Transforms It, The Whole Transforms It. You Simply Allow The River To Take You To The Ocean; You Need Not Push The River. Osho