This book makes three radically different types of hypnosis easy to use in daily hypnosis work, exploring methods that employ Direct Authoritarian approaches, Indirect Permissive approaches, and techniques that place responsibility for hypnosis on the client. An invaluable resource for all trainers and therapists, it includes a range of powerful scripts.
English for the Oil Industry is part of the Pearson Longman Vocational English series. It is designed for students in vocational education and for company employees in training at work. Level 1 is designed for students with a basic knowledge of general English who now require an elementary (CEF level A1-A2) English course in […]
Flash’s evolution is unique, even for the fast-changing computer software world. First released in 1996 under the name FutureSplash, it was a tool for creating web-based animations. It’s still the go-to application for that job; however, along the way it’s acquired new capabilities. Today, Flash powers video websites like YouTube and Hulu (Figure I-1). It’s […]
Drug therapy is an increasingly important element in the treatment of patients, and understanding how a drug works is essential for all nurses. Illustrated Pharmacology for Nurses is a fully comprehensive and beautifully illustrated textbook covering both the basic principles and the clinical aspects of pharmacology. The book provides clear and simple explanations of the […]
The foundations of this book lie in several earlier texts by Alan Morris: Principles of Measurement and Instrumentation (Prentice-Hall, 1988, 1993), Essence of Measurement (Prentice Hall, 1996) and, Measurement and Instrumentation Principles (Butterworth- Heinemann, 2001). Since the most recent of these was published in 2001, there have been significant developments in the field of measurement, […]
The behavior and characteristics of therapeutic drugs vary enormously. For example, doses differ more than a thousandfold. Some drugs must be taken three times a day, others once daily, and some every month. The response to some therapies occurs immediately, whereas for others it may take days or even weeks for the response to be […]
The worldwide consumption of energy is still largely dependent on conventional fossil resources – the main reason for global warming and climate change. The new energy policy paradigm in Germany (Energiewende: from fossil fuels to renewable energy) foresees the utilization of renewable resources to produce 50% of the German electrical power demand by 2030 and […]
This insightful book explores the most important established and emerging qualitative and quantitative research methods in tourism. The authors provide a detailed overview of the nature of the research method, its use in tourism, the advantages and limitations, and future directions for research. Each chapter is structured to provide information on: the nature of the […]
This textbook offers the first unified treatment of wave propagation in electronic and electromagnetic systems and introduces readers to the essentials of the transfer matrix method, a powerful analytical tool that can be used to model and study an array of problems pertaining to wave propagation in electrons and photons. It is aimed at graduate […]
The first textbook to cowl this thrilling compound class, this introduction to the sector of carbon nanotechnology discusses the whole lot from nanowires to nanodiamonds, and from synthesis to purposes. From the contents: * Carbon * Fullerenes * Carbon nanotubes * Carbon onions and associated buildings * Nanodiamonds * Diamond movies Of curiosity not just […]
The fundamental algorithms in data mining and analysis form the basis for the emerging field of data science, which includes automated methods to analyze patterns and models for all kinds of data, with applications ranging from scientific discovery to business intelligence and analytics. This textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate data mining courses provides a […]
C++ feels like a new language. That is, I can express my ideas more clearly, more simply, and more directly in C++11 than I could in C++98. Furthermore, the resulting programs are better checked by the compiler and run faster. In this book, I aim for completeness. I describe every language feature and standard library […]