As noted psychiatrists, authors, and lecturers, Baars and Terruwe excitingly blend medieval and classical notions of the human psyche together with modern clinical discoveries as they probe the topic of psychic wholeness and healing. The authors explore the entire human psyche, including man's spiritual dimension, which is an area totally ignored by most modern psychiatrists--creating in modern man an ever-deepening sense of frustration in searching for effective psychiatric treatment for ...

100 Masterpieces of Murder Mystery & Detective Fiction maps the extraordinary breadth of crime writing from Gothic terror and sensation fiction to the classical puzzle, espionage thriller, psychological suspense tale, and hard-edged urban narrative. Its hundred selections place locked rooms, poisoned inheritances, disappearances, criminal investigations, and uncanny intrusions in conversation with one another. The volume's range illuminates how murder mystery became a capacious literary fo...

100 Mystery Classics of World Literature maps the extraordinary breadth of mystery writing, from Gothic menace and sensation fiction to detective puzzles, espionage, psychological suspense, adventure, and tales of the uncanny. Its hundred selections place celebrated investigations beside narratives of crime, disguise, inheritance, urban danger, and moral ambiguity. The volume's range reveals mystery not as a narrow formula but as a capacious literary mode, encompassing the locked-room prob...

The Restless Feminine Mind – 3 Classic Psychological Novels is a compelling anthology that navigates the intricate intersections of gender, psychology, and narrative form. This collection showcases a variegated landscape of literary styles, from the intricate thriller to the immersive psychological journey, embodying the turning tides of societal changes as interpreted by astute literary minds of the 19th and early 20th centuries. With each work, the reader is drawn into the complexity of ...

Anatomy of a Criminal Psyche – 3 Classic Dark Psychological Tales is a compelling anthology that explores the depths of the human mind through the lens of crime and anticipation. This collection delves into the shadows of human psychology, offering readers insight into the myriad motivations and impulses that push individuals to the brink of moral disintegration. The anthology's expertly curated selection highlights varied literary styles, from gothic horror and detective fiction to modern...

Anatomy of a Criminal Psyche – 3 Classic Dark Psychological Tales deftly delves into the labyrinthine corridors of the human mind through a triptych of extraordinary narratives. This anthology weaves an intricate tapestry of brooding atmospheres and existential quandaries, featuring a richly diverse range of literary styles that oscillate between Gothic horror, early detective fiction, and literary modernism. Each tale stands out as a testament to the darkened corners of human consciousnes...

The Restless Feminine Mind – 3 Classic Psychological Novels is a profound anthology that traverses the intricate landscapes of psychological introspection and feminine agency. Encompassing a diverse array of narratives, this collection captures the delicate interplay between societal roles and inner consciousness. The stories collectively unravel the tensions and freedoms found within the intellectual journeys of their female protagonists. Skillfully curated, the book showcases a spectrum ...

More than a quarter of a million LGBTQ-identified migrants in the United States lack documentation and constantly risk detention and deportation. LGBTQ migrants around the world endure similarly precarious situations. Eithne Luibhéid's and Karma R. Chávez’s edited collection provides a first-of-its-kind look at LGBTQ migrants and communities. The academics, activists, and artists in the volume center illegalization, detention, and deportation in national and transnational contexts, and exa...

Scale is an overlooked issue in the research on interactive governance. This book takes up the important task of investigating the scalar dimensions of collaborative governance in networks, partnerships, and other interactive arenas and explores the challenges of operating at a single scale, across or at multiple scales and of moving between scales.First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, the volume explores the role of scale and scaling in a wide range of policy ar...

Anna Seghers’s Transit is an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight.Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old German narrator of Seghers’s multilayered masterpiece ends up in the dusty seaport of Marseille. Along the way he is asked to deliver a lett...

This volume addresses the crucial role of knowledge and innovation in coping with and adapting to socio-economic and political transformation processes in post-Soviet societies. Unique are the bottom up or micro-sociological and ethnographic perspectives offered by the book on the processes of post-Soviet transformations in Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus. Three thematic fields form the structuring frame: cultures of knowledge production and sharing in agriculture; local governance ...

This book is the first of its kind – a global overview of extant research on ethics in small and medium sized enterprises. While vast amounts of corporate money, government policy and media time are directed at the social and ethical activities of large corporations, small businesses don’t generally attract the spotlight. This is wildly inappropriate, however, since upward of 90% of private businesses are small or medium sized. This book goes some way to helping us understand the social an...