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Systematic Reviews and Evidence-Based PracticeThis pocket guide is an excellent introduction to evidence-based practice,        systematic reviews, and meta-analysis for social work students, practitioners, and        scholars. It provides a concise overview of how to complete a systematic review and        criteria for assessing the quality of...

Essays from the cutting edgeFrom 19 talented young scientists comes an exciting volume of essays about the        future of science. Including cutting edge research across a wide range of fields, we        make exciting new discoveries about some of the most interesting scientific problems        today, from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology...

This is an ambitious investigation into paradoxes of truth and related issues, with occasional forays into notions such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the Goedel incompleteness theorems. Hartry Field presents a new approach to the paradoxes and provides a systematic and detailed account of the main competing approaches....

In 1945 Germany's cities lay in ruins, destroyed by Allied bombers `hat left major        architectural monuments badly damaged and much of the housing stock reduced to        rubble. At the war's end, observers thought that it would take forty years to        rebuild, but by the late 1950s West Germany's cities had risen anew. The...

Was the British empire given away in a fit of collective indifference as many have        claimed? Englishness and Empire looks at connections between stories of nation and        empire told in the media - the Second World War, the Coronation and Everest,        colonial wars of the 1950s, immigration, Winston Churchill's funeral - and makes...

Quantum optics: an introduction is a modern textbook written primarily for advanced undergraduate and masters level students in physics. In addition to standard topics, the text includes a broad range of topics in applied quantum optics such as laser cooling, Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum information processing....