Dying is easy; it’s working off your sins that’s Hell.Michael Norfolk did not live a clean, wholesome life. At the age of 24, he was shot down and on his death sent to the Seventh Level of Hell for the crimes he committed in life--including the murder of three people. However, Michael has no memory of the events leading to his death and swears he would never kill anyone, especially his younger brother Danny who was among Michael's list of victims.The gods of Hell a...

When Alexa’s grandmother dies, the world as she knows it falls apart. Her only living relative is gone, and she is left to determine the course of her life on her own. In search of peace and clarity, Alexa moves to a cottage left to her by her grandmother in sleepy Bay City.Anticipating a year of solitude and slow recovery, Alexa is shocked to find herself swept up in Bay City’s dramas and mysteries almost immediately. With the support of five incredible women, she begins to unrave...

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the seven most extensively studied third-wave psychotherapies: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Emotion Regulation Therapy (ERT), Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and Schema Therapy. It also introduces two emerging modalities—Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TSY)—alongside Indig...

Truth and Social Reality: A Metaphysical Inquiry presents a new theory of social truth and social construction. The book weds truthmaker theory with recent work in social ontology, arguing that social truths are true in virtue of socially constructed portions of the world. It focuses on the construction of human social kinds like gender, race, class, and disability. The book offers novel accounts of social construction, realism, social kind pluralism, social context, the context-d...

**2017 PROSE Award Winner - Multivolume Reference/ScienceThe world's number 1 dermatology information resource**Universally respected, Rook's Textbook of Dermatology is the most comprehensive, definitive and best-illustrated reference work for dermatologists of all levels worldwide and has been at the forefront of international dermatology publishing since first appearing in 1968.The Ninth Edition has been radically re-engineered to match the modern day cha...

The latest edition of the world’s leading dermatology textbookRook’s Textbook of Dermatology, 10th Edition is the most definitive, comprehensive and illustrated reference work in dermatology worldwide. Fully updated by experts from around the world, the book highlights the latest key evidence-based developments in pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of skin disorders. A highly intuitive resource and invaluable clinical companion for both those training a...

This book highlights novel and pragmatic health promotion efforts being adopted with boys and young men of colour (BYMOC) globally that apply a strengths-based approach.Men's adoption of risky health practices and reluctance to seek help and engage in preventive health behaviours have frequently been used to explain their poorer health outcomes, particularly among adolescent boys and young men, and disproportionately affecting BYMOC. Emerging literature on equity and men's health h...

The reliable quick-reference guide to clinical dermatologyRook's Dermatology Handbook condenses a wealth of clinical expertise into its accessible, user-friendly guide to the diagnosis and management of dermatological disorders. With its contents carefully selected from the much-respected Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology, this invaluable resource combines precise explanations with visual aids and a concise, quick-reference format to create an everyd...

Essential Resources for Mindfulness Teachers offers the reader a wealth of knowledge about the explicit and implicit aspects of mindfulness-based teaching.The book focuses on how to develop the craft of teaching mindfulness-based courses and is divided into three parts. Part I addresses the explicit elements of mindfulness-based courses, such as how to offer meditation practices and inquiry. Part II investigates the subtle but powerful implicit qualities needed within the ...

Consumers demand quality milk with a reasonable shelf-life, a requirement that can be met more successfully by the milk industry through use of improved processes and technologies. Guaranteeing the production of safe milk also remains of paramount importance. Improving the safety and quality of milk provides a comprehensive and timely reference to best practice and research advances in these areas. Volume 1 focuses on milk production and processing. Volume 2 covers the sensory and nutritio...

Precise measurements of the calcium (Ca) isotopes have provided constraints on Ca cycling at global and local scales, and quantified rates of carbonate diagenesis in marine sedimentary systems. Key to applying Ca isotopes as a geochemical tracer of Ca cycling, carbonate (bio)mineralization, and diagenesis is an understanding of the impact of multiple factors potentially impacting Ca isotopes in the rock record. These factors include variations in stable isotopic fractionation factors, the ...

Global public health is of growing concern to most governments and populations, nowhere more so than in Asia, the world’s largest and most populous continent. Whilst major advances have been made in controlling infectious diseases through public health measures as well as clinical medical treatments, the world now faces other challenges including ageing populations and the epidemic crisis of obesity and non-communicable diseases. New emerging infections continue to develop and the growing ...