Feelings Allowed: Embracing Emotions, Finding Freedom In Feelings Allowed, Dr Carlos Raimundo blends neuroscience, storytelling, and decades of experience in psychodrama and psychotherapy to offer a powerful guide to embracing the full range of human emotions—without fear or judgment. Each feeling, from joy and love to sadness and resentment, is a messenger guiding you toward deeper truths about yourself and your relationships. With gentle insights and practical exercises, Feelings Allowed...

Transitional Justice after Clean Breaks: The Case of Portugal offers a nuanced exploration of how national political actors shape transitional justice in the aftermath of authoritarian regimes. The book tackles two primary objectives: understanding the mechanisms linking the opening of a window of opportunity with transitional justice choices and unraveling the lasting effects of early decisions on justice after democracy consolidates.Filipa Raimundo and Joana Rebelo Morais...

The fifteen chapters of Engaging Coloniality tell a complex and multifaceted story of Latin American Christianity. Latin America was the first region of the colonized world to be Christianized. As no form of Christianity preexisted the colonial invasion of Latin America, no Latin American Christian story can be told without reference to colonialism. Throughout its five-hundred-year history in Latin America, Christianity has taken multiple forms. This history is presented as in no other vol...

The book focuses on both historical and theological developments in world Christianity and social ethics, especially ethical challenges and opportunities that face minorities, oppressed, marginalized, and discriminated groups in any country or region of the world as we look to the future. It addresses the issues of methods and practices in social ethics, culture, and morality in Christian communities and theological discourse, and the virtues of Christian friendship in philosophical and pr...

Plan. Do. Check. Act. Four simple words that together form a powerful management technique for improving processes, activities, and organisations. We wrote this book to help readers understand and apply the PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) method. It is a model that we have used successfully with clients around the world, helping deliver sustainable performance improvement and shareholder value. The concepts and theory behind the method appear simple and straightforward, but we found that most ...

3000 Leagues Under the EarthThe cure for humanity's deadliest disease lies 3,000 leagues away—beneath the surface of the Earth.In a near future where science has pushed the boundaries of survival, four desperate travelers embark on the most dangerous journey ever attempted. Their vessel is the Leviathan, a colossal tunneling machine designed to carve a path through solid rock, molten geological layers, and the unexplored depths of the plane...

Unlike other books on the Arab uprisings of 2010–2011 which focus on why they occurred, this book looks instead towards the future of three countries—Syria, Libya, and Yemen—where the violence and instability initiated by the uprisings persist. It additionally examines the case of Iraq which continues to suffer from a precarious political situation introduced by the US-led invasion of 2003. The book investigates what should be done to achieve inclusive political and economic development an...

This book provides clinical and electrovectorcardiographic evidence of the existence of left septal fascicular blocks and demonstrates the clinical importance of these blocks in the clinical scenario of acute coronary syndrome.There are currently no standard criteria for detecting conduction defects involving the third left fascicle, the septal or median fascicle, and the very existence of such defects is still a matter of controversy. This book provides acceptable and consistent t...

In a context of globalization, socioeconomic disparity, environmental concerns, mass migration, and multiplying political and social upheavals, Christians from different parts of the world are forced to ask complex questions about poverty, migration, race, gender, sexuality, and land-related conflicts. Scholars have gradually become aware that world Christianity has a public face, voice, and reason. This volume stresses world Christianity as a form of public religion, identifying areas for...

Although humans have always migrated, the present phenomenon of mass migration is unprecedented in scale and global in reach. Understanding migration and migrants has become increasingly relevant for world Christianity. This volume identifies and addresses several key topics in the discourse of world Christianity and migration. Senior and emerging scholars and researchers of migration from all regions of the world contribute chapters on central issues, including the feminization of interna...

Due to shifting demographic trends and the increased need for workers, immigration continues to grow in many parts of the world. However, the increased diversity that immigration creates within societies is also associated with intergroup friction, perceived threat, and the rise of extremist right-wing nationalist movements, making it a central political issue that impacts societies globally. This book presents a psychological explanation of the immigration challenge in the 21st century an...

As dams age, they are subject to a series of external agents and processes which tend to deteriorate the qualities with which they were originally conceived to stand against these actions. At the same time, it is often necessary to respond to increased safety standards, either in the structural or hydrological fields. Reservoir sedimentation or wat