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Ecclesiastes and the Riddle of Authorship

By: Thomas M. Bolin

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Ecclesiastes and the Riddle of Authorship

By: Thomas M. Bolin

In Ecclesiastes, the authorial voice of Qohelet presents an identity that has challenged readers for centuries. This book offers a reception history of the different ways readers have constructed Qohelet as an author. Previous reception histories of Ecclesiastes group readings into "premodern" and "critical," or separate Jewish from Christian readings. In deliberate contrast, this analysis arranges readings thematically according to the interpretive potential inherent in the text, a method of biblical reception history articulated by Brennan Breed. Doing so erases the artificial distinctions between so-called scholarly and confessional readings and highlights the fact that many modern academic readings of the authorship of Ecclesiastes travel in well-worn interpretive paths that long predate the rise of critical scholarship. Thus this book offers a reminder that, while critical biblical scholarship is an essential part of the interpretive task, academic readings are themselves indebted to the Bible’s reception history and a part of it.

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Taylor & Francis

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131729761X

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Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy

By: Thomas M. Twiss

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Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy

By: Thomas M. Twiss

During the twentieth century the problem of post-revolutionary bureaucracy emerged as the most pressing theoretical and political concern confronting Marxism. No one contributed more to the discussion of this question than Leon Trotsky. In Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy, Thomas M. Twiss traces the development of Trotsky’s thinking on this issue from the first years after the Bolshevik Revolution through the Moscow Trials of the 1930s. Throughout, he examines how Trotsky’s perception of events influenced his theoretical understanding of the problem, and how Trotsky’s theory reciprocally shaped his analysis of political developments. Additionally, Twiss notes both strengths and weaknesses of Trotsky’s theoretical perspective at each stage in its development.

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9004269533

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Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics within a Caribbean Context

By: Oral A. W. Thomas

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Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics within a Caribbean Context

By: Oral A. W. Thomas

The Bible is of central importance within Caribbean life but is rarely used as an agent for social change. Caribbean biblical hermeneutics focus more on the meaning of biblical texts for today and less on the context in which the texts themselves were written. 'Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics within a Caribbean Context' offers a biblical hermeneutic that acknowledges the importance of the socio-ideological interests, theological agendas, and social practices that produced the biblical texts, as well as the socio-cultural context of the contemporary reader. The book examines the social context of post-independence Caribbean and outlines the difficulties of biblical interpretation within Christian communities that descend from a history of slavery. Current hermeneutical practices in the Caribbean are critiqued and a biblical resistant reading offered that enables the Bible to be used as a cultural weapon of resistance.

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Routledge

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1134939841

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Thunder in the Heartland

A Chronicle of Outstanding Weather Events in Ohio

By: Thomas W. Schmidlin,Jeanne Appelhans Schmidlin

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Thunder in the Heartland

A Chronicle of Outstanding Weather Events in Ohio

By: Thomas W. Schmidlin,Jeanne Appelhans Schmidlin

Ohio can be a land of weather extremes. Bringing together data from government records, scientific studies, memoirs, diaries and newspapers, this study highlights 200 weather events from 1790 to the present which demonstrate extremes of rain, snow, storms and temperature.

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Kent State University Press

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0873385497

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History of Transnational Voluntary Associations

A Critical Multidisciplinary Review

By: Thomas R. Davies

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History of Transnational Voluntary Associations

A Critical Multidisciplinary Review

By: Thomas R. Davies

Davies’ review explores the history of transnational voluntary associations, commencing with general patterns before proceeding to cover the history of different sectors in turn, including humanitarianism, science, education, environment, feminism, race, health, human rights, labour, business, standards, professions, culture, peace, religion, and youth. Coverage extends from the late eighteenth century through to the early twenty-first century and spans histories of particular organizations and of particular campaigns in addition to the evolution of broader transnational social movements. Contrasting perspectives on historical evolution are considered, including both linear and cyclical interpretations. The factors underpinning historical changes are explored, including economic, environmental, political, scientific and social developments. Insights are drawn not only from a transnational historical perspective, but also the many other disciplines that shed light on the subject, such as world sociology. The review also incorporates perspectives from international relations, development studies, peace studies, voluntary sector studies, and women’s studies. It argues that the historical evolution of transnational voluntary associations is longer, less Western in origin and more cyclical than traditionally assumed.

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Opening the Books of Moses

By: Diana V. Edelman,Philip R. Davies,Christophe Nihan,Thomas Romer

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Opening the Books of Moses

By: Diana V. Edelman,Philip R. Davies,Christophe Nihan,Thomas Romer

Opening the Books of Moses presents an introduction to the first five books of the Bible. It is written for any student engaged in the scholarly study of these most central of biblical texts. The aim throughout is to examine the books with a view to illuminating the ideas, beliefs and experiences of the time. This broad overview provides: a survey of the current state of Pentateuchal research; an analysis of how the texts were shaped by their time and audience; an outline of Jewish areas in the Persian period; the study concludes with an analysis of key concerns in the study of the Pentateuch, notably the Torah, geography, ethnicity, the nature of Yahweh and other deities, theories of cult, treaties and oaths, and Moses himself.

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Routledge

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1134945868

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9781134945863

Rewriting the Newspaper

The Storytelling Movement in American Print Journalism

By: Thomas R. Schmidt

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Rewriting the Newspaper

The Storytelling Movement in American Print Journalism

By: Thomas R. Schmidt

Between the 1970s and the 1990s American journalists began telling the news by telling stories. They borrowed narrative techniques, transforming sources into characters, events into plots, and their own work from stenography to anthropology. This was more than a change in style. It was a change in substance, a paradigmatic shift in terms of what constituted news and how it was being told. It was a turn toward narrative journalism and a new culture of news, propelled by the storytelling movement. Thomas Schmidt analyzes the expansion of narrative journalism and the corresponding institutional changes in the American newspaper industry in the last quarter of the twentieth century. In doing so, he offers the first institutionally situated history of narrative journalism’s evolution from the New Journalism of the 1960s to long-form literary journalism in the 1990s. Based on the analysis of primary sources, industry publications, and oral history interviews, this study traces how narrative techniques developed and spread through newsrooms, advanced by institutional initiatives and a growing network of practitioners, proponents, and writing coaches who mainstreamed the use of storytelling. Challenging the popular belief that it was only a few talented New York reporters (Tome Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Joan Didion, and others) who revolutionized journalism by deciding to employ storytelling techniques in their writing, Schmidt shows that the evolution of narrative in late twentieth century American Journalism was more nuanced, more purposeful, and more institutionally based than the New Journalism myth suggests.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826274315

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Coal Geology

By: Larry Thomas

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Coal Geology

By: Larry Thomas

A global exploration of coal geology, from production and use to chemical properties and coal petrology Coal Geology, 3rd Edition, offers a revised and updated edition of this popular book which provides a comprehensive overview of the field of coal geology including coal geophysics, hydrogeology and mining. Also covered in this volume are fully revised coverage of resource and reserve definitions, equipment and recording techniques together with the use of coal as an alternative energy source as well as environmental implications. This third edition provides a textbook ideally suited to anyone studying, researching or working in the field of coal geology, geotechnical engineering and environmental science. Fills the gap between academic aspects of coal geology and the practical role of geology in the coal industry Examines sedimentological and stratigraphical geology, together with mining, geophysics, hydrogeology, environmental issues and coal marketing Defines global coal resource classifications and methods of calculation Addresses the alternative uses of coal as a source of energy Covers a global approach to coal producers and consumers

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119424127

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Innovative Internet Community Systems

Third International Workshop, IICS 2003, Leipzig, Germany, June 19-21, 2003, Revised Papers

By: Thomas Böhme

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Innovative Internet Community Systems

Third International Workshop, IICS 2003, Leipzig, Germany, June 19-21, 2003, Revised Papers

By: Thomas Böhme

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the Third International Workshop on Innovative Internet Community Systems, IICS 2003, held in Leipzig, Germany in June 2003. The 19 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers have gone through two rounds of reviewing and improvement and were selected from more than 30 submissions. Among the topics addressed are semantic search, network communities, e-learning, message-oriented middleware, networked information spaces, mobile business processes, distributed communication systems, distributed Web applications, semantic Web environments, file-sharing systems, network intrusion detection, protocols, self-organizing networks, XML, and linguistic knowledge services.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540204369

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Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History

Changing Perspectives 2

By: Thomas L. Thompson

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Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History

Changing Perspectives 2

By: Thomas L. Thompson

Modern biblical scholarship's commitment to the historical-critical method in its efforts to write a history of Israel has created the central and unavoidable problem of writing an objective and critical history of Palestine through the biblical literature with the methods of Biblical Archaeology. 'Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History' brings together key essays on historical method and the archaeology and history of Palestine. The essays employ comparative and formalistic techniques to illuminate the allegorical and mythical in Old Testament narrative traditions from Genesis to Nehemiah. In so doing, the volume presents a detailed review of central and radical changes in both our understanding of biblical traditions and the archaeology and history of Palestine. The study offers an analysis of Biblical narrative as rooted in ancient Near Eastern literature since the Bronze Age.

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1317543416

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Plant Virus and Viroid Diseases in the Tropics

Volume 2: Epidemiology and Management

By: K. Subramanya Sastry,Thomas A. Zitter

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Plant Virus and Viroid Diseases in the Tropics

Volume 2: Epidemiology and Management

By: K. Subramanya Sastry,Thomas A. Zitter

Around the globe, besides fungal and bacterial diseases, both virus and viroid diseases have acquired greater importance in the realm of plant pathology and call for effective management measures as they are responsible for heavy yield losses and are a matter of vital importance and concern to farmers, horticulturists, gardeners and foresters. Understanding disease epidemiology is of vital importance for formulating viable disease management practices in a given agro-ecosystem. The development and progress of plant disease epidemics are variable from region to region. Epidemiology is not a static process, but rather a dynamic course that varies with a change in the ecology, host, vector and virus systems.

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9400778201

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Kinanthropometry and Exercise Physiology Laboratory Manual: Tests, Procedures and Data

Volume Two: Physiology

By: Roger Eston,Thomas Reilly

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Kinanthropometry and Exercise Physiology Laboratory Manual: Tests, Procedures and Data

Volume Two: Physiology

By: Roger Eston,Thomas Reilly

Kinanthropometry is the study of human body size, shape and form and how those characteristics relate to human movement and sporting performance. In this fully updated and revised edition of the classic guide to kinanthropometric theory and practice, leading international sport and exercise scientists offer a clear and comprehensive introduction to essential principles and techniques. Each chapter guides the reader through the planning and conduct of practical and laboratory sessions and includes a survey of current theory and contemporary literature relating to that topic. The book is fully illustrated and includes worked examples, exercises, research data, chapter summaries and guides to further reading throughout. Volume Two: Exercise Physiology covers key topics such as: neuromuscular aspects of movement skeletal muscle function oxygen transport, including haemotology, pulmonary and cardiovascular functions metabolism and thermoregulation VO2 kinetics physiological economy, efficiency and 'fitness' physiological limitations to performance assessment of energy expenditure, perceived exertion and maximal intensity. The Kinanthropometry and Exercise Physiology Laboratory Manual is essential reading for all serious students and researchers of sport and exercise science, kinesiology and human movement. Roger Eston is Professor of Human Physiology and Head of the School of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Exeter. Thomas Reilly is Professor of Sports Science and Director of the Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University.

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1135252645

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Implementing an Electronic Medical Record System

Successes, Failures, Lessons

By: Tim Scott,Thomas Rundall,Thomas Vogt,John Hsu

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Implementing an Electronic Medical Record System

Successes, Failures, Lessons

By: Tim Scott,Thomas Rundall,Thomas Vogt,John Hsu

Clinicians and managers are increasingly required to participate in or manage new initiatives which depend heavily on co-operation collaboration and a multidisciplinary approach where effective interpersonal and group skills are of vital importance. This practical guide encourages the reader to determine how their organisations work and the impact they have on their members. It draws on the experiences of primary care research and development projects and contains numerous case studies tips and techniques to manage change. It is an essential guide for healthcare professionals in primary care and will equip those working in practice and facilitators working with practices with a clear understanding of how to achieve successful acceptance and management of change.

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CRC Press

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1138030295

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A Treatise on the Discovery of Evidence

By: Thomas Hare,Sherlock Hare

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A Treatise on the Discovery of Evidence

By: Thomas Hare,Sherlock Hare

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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3385534046

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Nathan and Oski's Hematology of Infancy and Childhood E-Book

By: Stuart H. Orkin,David G. Nathan,David Ginsburg,A. Thomas Look,David E. Fisher,Samuel Lux

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Nathan and Oski's Hematology of Infancy and Childhood E-Book

By: Stuart H. Orkin,David G. Nathan,David Ginsburg,A. Thomas Look,David E. Fisher,Samuel Lux

To address the exponential growth in the fields of pediatric hematology and oncology, this classic reference has been separated into two distinct volumes. With this volume, devoted strictly to pediatric hematology, and another to pediatric oncology, you’ll keep you on the cutting-edge of these two specialties. The completely revised 7th edition of Nathan and Oski’s Hematology of Infancy and Childhood is now in full color, and provides you with the most comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date information for diagnosing and treating children with hematologic disorders. It brings together the pathophysiology of disease with detailed clinical guidance on diagnosis and management for the full range of blood diseases that you encounter in everyday practice. Written by the leading names in pediatric hematology, this resource is an essential tool for anyone involved in caring for children with hematologic disorders. Balances summaries of relevant pathophysiology with clear, practical clinical guidance to help you thoroughly understand the underlying science of diseases. Offers comprehensive coverage of all hematologic disorders, including newly recognized ones, along with the latest breakthroughs in diagnosis and management. Uses many boxes, graphs, and tables to highlight complex clinical diagnostic and management guidelines at a glance. Presents an all-new full-color design that includes clear illustrative examples of relevant science and clinical problems for quick access to the answers you need.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437721303

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Advances in Anesthesia , E-Book 2021

By: Thomas M. McLoughlin

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Advances in Anesthesia , E-Book 2021

By: Thomas M. McLoughlin

Advances in Anesthesia reviews the year's most important questions in anesthesiology. A distinguished editorial board identifies key areas of major progress and controversy and invites preeminent specialists to contribute original articles devoted to these topics. These insightful overviews in anesthesiology bring concepts to a clinical level and explore their everyday impact on patient care. - Provides in-depth, clinical reviews in anesthesiology, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information in the field under the leadership of an experienced editorial team; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.

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032389707X

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Safety Culture

Building and Sustaining a Cultural Change in Aviation and Healthcare

By: Edward J. Sabin,Thomas G. Bigda-Peyton,Mr Jeffrey P Brown,Professor Manoj S Patankar

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Safety Culture

Building and Sustaining a Cultural Change in Aviation and Healthcare

By: Edward J. Sabin,Thomas G. Bigda-Peyton,Mr Jeffrey P Brown,Professor Manoj S Patankar

In Safety Culture: Building and Sustaining a Cultural Change in Aviation and Healthcare, the four authors draw upon their extensive teaching, research and field experience from multiple industries to describe the dynamic nature of a culture-change process, particularly in safety-critical domains. They use a "stories to numbers" approach that starts with felt experiences and stories of certain change programs that they have documented, then proceed to describe the use of key measurement tools that can be used to analyze the state of a change program. The book concludes with a description of empirical models that illustrate the dynamic nature of change programs.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409486915

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Migraine Surgery

A Clinical Guide to Theory and Practice

By: Thomas Muehlberger

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Migraine Surgery

A Clinical Guide to Theory and Practice

By: Thomas Muehlberger

Migraine surgery is the only existing treatment option that can lead to a permanent symptomatic improvement. Surgical techniques and advances in the understanding of the underlying mechanisms are evolving rapidly. This book intends to familiarise surgeons with the concept of migraine headaches and explains the surgical deactivation of trigger sites, which consists of much more than the decompression of pericranial nerves. The traditional notion of the brain as the sole origin of migraine is supplanted by a concept where the alteration of afferent signals in conjunction with peripheral and central sensitization can trigger a migraine attack. Migraine surgery targets the crucial role of extracranial tissues in the genesis of migraine which is corroborated by substantial clinical, anatomical and pathophysiological evidence.

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Springer

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3319781170

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Horizontal Gene Pool

Bacterial Plasmids and Gene Spread

By: Christopher M. Thomas

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Horizontal Gene Pool

Bacterial Plasmids and Gene Spread

By: Christopher M. Thomas

Bacteria are the most ubiquitous of all organisms. Responsible for a number of diseases and for many of the chemical cycles on which life depends, they are genetically adaptable. Vital to this adaptability is the existence of autonomous genetic elements-plasmids-which promote genetic exchange and recombination. The genes carried by any particular plasmid may be found in only a few individuals of any species but can also be shared with other species and thus constitute a horizontal gene pool. This book explains the various contributions that plasmids make to this pool: the replication, stable inheritance and transfer modules, the phenotypic markers they carry, the way they evolve, the ways they contribute to their host population and the approaches that we use to study and classify them. It also looks at what we know about their activity in natural communities and the way that they interact with other mobile elements to promote bacterial evolution.

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CRC Press

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0203304330

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9780203304334

Handbook of Clinical Interviewing With Adults

By: Michel Hersen,Jay C. Thomas

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Handbook of Clinical Interviewing With Adults

By: Michel Hersen,Jay C. Thomas

Clinical interviewing with adults is both an art and a science. This handbook will appeal to a wide range of clinical researchers, therapists, interns, and graduate students new to the complexities of the clinical interview and diagnostic process. The comprehensive range of topics and coverage that includes case illustrations with dialogue and differential diagnosis and co morbidity will be highly attractive features to researchers, professional therapists, and graduate students. The Hersen and Thomas team is highly qualified to succeed in this ambitious set of three projects." —Carolyn Brodbeck, Chapman University The Handbook of Clinical Interviewing with Adults is one of three interrelated handbooks on the topic of interviewing for specific populations. It presents a combination of theory and practice plus concern with diagnostic entities for readers who work, or one day will work, with adults in clinical settings.The volume begins with general issues (structured versus unstructured interview strategies, mental status examinations, selection of treatment targets and referrals, writing up the intake interview, etc.), moves to a section on major disorders most relevant to adult clients (depression, bipolar disorder, agoraphobia, posttraumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, alcohol and drug abuse, sexual dysfunction, etc.), and concludes with a chapter on special populations and issues (neurologically impaired patients, older adults, behavioral health consultation, etc.).

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1452261784

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