Product Description: This book includes a wide range of interested observers and practitioners in the field of children in care and adoption, focusing on a core aspect of their emotional well-being and mental health. It focuses in particular on psychoanalytic, systemic and attachment theory approaches to the question of "belonging": can these children allow themselves to belong to their new families, and also can these new families allow themselves to belong to these children? Highly innovative clinical work with these children in various settings is discussed alongside chapters that provide thought-provoking commentaries from practitioners surveying the often extremely disturbing societal and systemic landscape for the emotional lives of these children...read more

Product Description: We’ve all tried sudoku with numbers. But what about sudoku with words?Now you can boost your word power and test your skills of logic, with these tricky teasers designed to stretch your brain to the limit. Solve the crossword-style clues to find the hidden word or short phrase, then use the letters to complete the sudoku grid...read more

Product Description: In 1992 Acoustic Microscopy was published by Oxford University Press, in the series of Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials. Reviews appeared in the Journal of Microscopy [169 (1), 91] and in Contemporary Physics [33 (4), 296]...read more

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Product Description: This book is about children in State care and its title – Waiting to be Found – is derived from an observation about such children by the child psychotherapist Hamish Canham. In one of his early papers Canham wrote that children’s homes often reminded him of "station waiting rooms with children waiting to move on to their next placement and staff waiting for the next shift, or working as a residential social worker in order to get experience before moving on to do something else or further training...read more

Product Description: Do you like Sudoku? Or perhaps you think you might but you've never given it a try. Or perhaps somebody has given you this book as a present and you've no idea what to expect! Don't worry - these 80 Bible-based Sudoku puzzles are pitched at a relatively mild level and come complete with a helpful introduction on how to do Sudoku (as well as the solutions at the back of the book...read more

Product Description: As part of the prestigious Tavistock Clinic Series, this is an essential addition to this highly-valued and innovative series. Infant observation is crucial to most psychotherapy training, and this work would be of obvious value to those commencing their training, as well as valuable insights for all psychotherapists...read more

Product Description: Acoustic microscopy offers the possibility of examining the elastic properties of a specimen with spatial resolution comparable with that obtained using a conventional light microscope. This book provides an account of the techniques for both of those who are new to it and wish to find out what they can reasonably expect from it, and for those who are already using it and wish to understand their results better and go on to more advanced work...read more

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Product Description: This up-to-date handbook provides a lucid introduction to acoustic microscopes with submicron resolution. The first half of the handbook shows how to operate the instrument, offering a description of a typical acoustic microscope, some detailed guidance for use, and a helpful discussion of the elements of contrast theory...read more