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Six contemporary historians trace the development of distinctive cultural, political, and social institutions in Southeast Asia
Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Meg Jay takes us into the world of the supernormal: those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity. Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness in a parent or a sibling; neglect; emotional, physical or sexual abuse; having a parent in jail; or growing up alongside domestic violence, nearly 75% of us experience adversity by the age of 20. But these experiences are often kept secret, as are our courageous battles to overcome them. Drawing on nearly two decades of work with clients and students, Jay tells the tale of ordinary people made extraordina...
Produced under the auspices of the Association of British Theatre Technicians, and based on a series of articles originally published in the Architects' journal.
Control Applications for Biomedical Engineering Systems presents different control engineering and modeling applications in the biomedical field. It is intended for senior undergraduate or graduate students in both control engineering and biomedical engineering programs. For control engineering students, it presents the application of various techniques already learned in theoretical lectures in the biomedical arena. For biomedical engineering students, it presents solutions to various problems in the field using methods commonly used by control engineers. - Points out theoretical and practical issues to biomedical control systems - Brings together solutions developed under different settings with specific attention to the validation of these tools in biomedical settings using real-life datasets and experiments - Presents significant case studies on devices and applications
This text is appropriate for college courses in Management Skills. Management is an applied topic. Conceptual frameworks can provide business school graduates with needed information and ideas to understand management situations, but to become effective managers they need practice in behaving as a manager and they need to receive feedback on their performance. This text focuses on how to develop the skills one needs to manage, rather than what managers do. It is organized around the four functions of management (planning, organizing, leading and controlling).
This multi-ethnic volume of five plays looks at the many problems facing South Africa. The stories include Anthony Akerman's Somewhere on the Border, an anti-war play dealing with the invasion of Angola; The Hungry Earth by Maishe Maponya, which dramatises black disabilities and the will to liberation; Susan Pam's Curl Up and Dye, a story about five women in a hair salon who find the divisions of apartheid stronger than their common interests; Paul Slabolepsky's Over the Hill which uses sporting metaphor to anatomize the white middle class and Just Like Home, a mediation on exile.