Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers | ISBN: 9004135774 | edition 2004 | PDF | 333 pages | 17,3 mb
The condemnation of memory inexorably altered the visual landscape of imperial Rome. Representations of 'bad' emperors, such as Caligula, Nero, Domitian, Commodus, or Elagabalus were routinely reconfigured into likenesses of victorious successors or revered predecessors. Alternatively, portraits could be physically attacked and mutilated or even executed in effigy. From the late first century B.C. until the fourth century A.D., the recycling and destruction of images of emperors, empresses, and other members of the imperial family occurred on a vast scale and often marked periods of violent political transition

418 pages | The Guilford Press (2009-05-08) | ISBN: 1606232517 | PDF | 277 MB

This rigorous yet reader-friendly book reviews the state of the science on a broad range of psychological issues commonly encountered in the forensic context. The goal is to help professionals and students differentiate between supported and unsupported psychological techniques--and steer clear of those that may be misleading or legally inadmissible.
Leading contributors focus on controversial issues surrounding recovered memories, projective techniques, lie detection, child witnesses, offender rehabilitation, psychopathy, violence risk assessment, and more. With a focus on real-world legal situations, the book offers guidelines for presenting scientific evidence accurately and effectively in courtroom testimony and written reports.

401 Pages | May 2001 | 0125331711 | PDF | 2.1 Mb

Bryan Pfaffenberger and Michael Jang bring their focused, step-by-step approach which made Linux Clearly Explained a success to the task of networking with Linux. Linux Netowrking Clearly Explained walks you through the creation of a TCP/IP-based Linux-driven local area netowrk, beginning with a "sandbox" installation involving just two or three computers.

368 pages | Princeton University Press (2007-01-02) | ISBN: 0691128359 | PDF | 4 Mb

Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows,

324 pages | The Guilford Press; April 21, 2008) | 1593857098 | PDF | 1 Mb

This book provides the first comprehensive guide to the practice of "enhanced" cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E), the latest version of the leading empirically supported treatment for eating disorders. Written with the practitioner in mind, the book demonstrates how this transdiagnostic approach can be used with the full range of eating disorders seen in clinical practice.
Christopher Fairburn and colleagues describe in detail how to tailor CBT-E to the needs of individual patients, and how to adapt it for adolescents and patients who require hospitalization. Also addressed are frequently encountered co-occurring disorders and how to manage them. Reproducible appendices feature the Eating Disorder Examination interview and questionnaire.

Why are women biologically driven to find Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome?
Can more sex help ensure a safe pregnancy?
What effect does pornography have on a man's fertility?

University of Wisconsin Press | 1999 | ISBN: 0299166600 | 177 pages | PDF | 5,5 MB
At one level this is a chronicle of brilliant achievement, at another the story of descent from the "world stage" to privacy. Tuan's story progresses from a childhood in which his father hobnobbed with such Chinese leaders as Chou En-lai to an adulthood spent in a number of U.S. universities. His success in writing on themes of great interest to the general public curiously isolated him from his scholarly base in geography.

IFIS Dictionary of Food Science and Technology
By International Food Information Service
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell ( 2005-07-11 ) | 424 pages | ISBN : 1405125055 | PDF | 6 MB