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This practical book provides teachers with techniques and suggestions to help dyslexic pupils. Written by a team of experienced practitioners who work in a specialist school, it offers clear guidance and tried and tested strategies to help those who need support in this area. The book addresses ... More

First published in 1998, Reproducing Narrative sets out to interrogate a number of medico-legal reproductive discourses. Recognizing that these dialogues are heavily imprecated in broader social, political and economic discourses it is contended that responses to reproductive issues are influenced a... More

Feminist legal scholars and health care lawyers have long engaged with law’s responses to the female reproductive body, especially on what the legal regulation of women’s reproductive lives can tell us about the broader relationship between law and gender. Acknowledging this work and building upon i... More

While masculinities theory has had much to say on relationships of subordination, few feminist legal scholars have examined the implications of masculinities theory for feminist legal theory. This volume investigates the ways in which emerging masculinities theory in law could inform feminist legal ... More

This book brings together a range of theoretical perspectives to consider fundamental questions of health law and the place of the body within it. Health, and more recently health law, has long been animated by discussions of particular bodies - whether they are disordered, diseased, or disabled - b... More

Recent progress in biotechnology and genomics has expanded the plant breeders' horizon providing a molecular platform on the traditional plant breeding, which is now known as 'plant molecular breeding'. Although diverse technologies for molecular breeding have been developed and applied individuall... More

Das Buch widmet sich im theoretischen Teil den Erkenntnissen namhafter Vertreter unterschiedlicher Demenzpflegetheorien und diskutiert dabei praxisnah die Kernaussagen im Einklang mit den Botschaften des neuen Expertenstandards „Beziehungsgestaltung in der Pflege von Menschen mit Demenz“. Im praktis... More

Die Tätigkeit als Steuerberater oder Rechtsanwalt stellt hohe Anforderungen an den Berater und bringt erhebliche Pflichten mit sich. Daher ist das damit einhergehende Haftungspotenzial nicht zu unterschätzen, sowohl in der täglichen Beratung, als insbesondere auch im Krisenmandat. Dieser Leitfaden... More

Freiheitsentziehende Maßnahmen sind mit einer eklatanten Einschränkung der Lebensqualität verbunden, in erster Linie natürlich für jene Personen, denen die Freiheit entzogen wird aber auch für das Fachpersonal, das die entsprechenden Entscheidungen trifft bzw. durchführen muss. Das Buch beschreibt p... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Reversible Computation, RC 2019, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in June 2019.The 12 full papers and two short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. One invited ta... More

This book examines the impact of the digital deluge on employees and organizations and sets out the leadership actions needed to create a corporate culture fit for the digital age. In the digital world executives are presented with exponentially more information than their predecessors were a gener... More

The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne is a leading clinical and training centre in paediatrics. This Handbook is a highly popular, succinct guide to managing common and serious disorders in childhood. It is used far beyond the hospital by medical, nursing, and allied health professionals caring f... More

A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More

This book brings together biologists and statisticians in an interdisciplinary synthesis to develop new methods to overcome the most significant challenges and constraints faced by quantitative biologists seeking to model demographic rates. The book is centered on the ten key areas in the field whe... More

First published in 1993. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, in June 1992, was a unique event in the annals of international affairs. The ‘Earth Summit’ brought more heads of state and government together than any previous meeting, and five separat... More

This book provides the reader with an introduction to the physics of complex plasmas, a discussion of the specific scientific and technical challenges they present and an overview of their potential technological applications. Complex plasmas differ from conventional high-temperature plasmas in sev... More

Business and Development Studies: Issues and Perspectives provides a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge theoretical and empirical contributions to the emerging field of business and development studies. Compared to more traditional business-school accounts of business in developing countries w... More

Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), Diaphorina citri, is an insect pest which transmits a bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), primarily through feeding in newly emergent foliage of citrus trees. This pathogen causes a disease known as Huanglongbing (HLB), or citrus greening, which has becom... More