Product Description: Among recent developments in vascular surgical techniques is the use of surgical strategies in which different techniques are combined. Hybrid Vascular Procedures discusses those procedures including endovascular and open surgery, endovascular and laparoscopic surgery, robotic and laparoscopic surgery, and video-assisted procedures...read more

Product Description: A Bond Honoured, represented here by this highly-rated version by John Osborne, shows us a protagonist, of cruel and merciless passions, meeting Christ, who then encourages the man to hang himself. The Labyrinth of Desire, translated by Michael Jacobs, is a provocative and witty comment on the emotional labyrinth that was Lope de Vega’s own life...read more

Product Description: Michael Jacobs takes the reader through the history of this enigmatic and vivid city in seven witty and off-beat walks stopping not only at the great palaces and museums, but the parks, paintings, posetry, novels, and patisserie-making convents that make up the vibrant life of this great capital...read more

Product Description: Counsellors and therapists sometimes work with clients who present particular issues, in which the therapist has no specialist training. Issues may highlight the need for specialist advice, so that they can continue to work with the client, or can decide if specialist help is required...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Fifteen step-by-step projects--including letters, envelopes with photo inserts, booklets, and self-mailers--introduce readers to the joys of decorating envelopes and creating interesting correspondance. Original.

Product Description: Praise for the First Edition: `This is the Second Edition of a book first published in 1992 as part of the Key Figures in Counselling and Psychotherapy series edited by Windy Dryden. It has proved a successful introduction to the life and work of Sigmund Freud: in this present edition Michael Jacobs takes the opportunity of the new translation of Freud now appearing to offer more suggestions about reading, particularly the papers of technique available through Virago's 2001 publication of the Standard Edition' - The Journal of Analytical Psychology In refreshing contrast to most other books on Sigmund Freud, this is a highly accessible account of his life and ideas, which focuses on the relevance of Freud's work for contemporary approaches to counselling and psychotherapy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is part of the series Core Concepts in Therapy, which takes important concepts in psychotherapy and counselling (which we call collectively therapy), and asks how they are used in different orientations. For this purpose each volume is written by two authors from contrasting approaches...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Complications in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, written by leading international experts in their fields, closely examines possible complications following surgery of the cerebrovascular arteries, the thorax and upper limbs, and other commonly operated sites...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a fully-illustrated guide to the remarkable architecture along the main pilgrim route through Spain to Santiago de Compostela in the north-west. Established by the end of the 10th century, the route passes the churches, monasteries, cathedrals, hostels, and hospitals associated with the pilgrimage as well as fine examples of Romanesque, Mozarabic, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, and traditional folk architecture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: It is very difficult for the student or practitioner to find their way through the jungle of different personality typographies that has sprung up in the field of psychotherapy; and even harder for them to find a point of sufficient height above the forest canopy to get their bearings in order to compare one system with another...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Contained within The Innocent Child of La Guardia are two radically different plays: a simple devotional play that pits good against evil ans another play full of black humor, cynical observation and reversals of expectation. The Jewess of Toledo is not only a reflection of Toledo itself but also of Lope’s own character, which alternated between erotic obsessions and bouts of religiosity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Michael Jacobs explores Andalucia's local cuisine, varied natural scenery, the composers and writers who fueled the romantic myths of the region, and the legacy of Lorca and the Spanish War. The guide covers the region's Moorish past, prehistoric and classical heritage, and Renaissance and Baroque monuments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The ways we know, think and believe about a whole variety of key areas - different forms of discourse, psychotherapy as well as religion - have much more in common than is usually perceived. Through a series of fascinating parallels running across different disciplines, Jacobs demonstrates the possible analysis of modes of thinking and belief - from intuitive pre-thinking, through authoritative-driven thinking and belief, and personal and polymathic knowledge, to unknowing, the last concept being one that is shared by Bion, Winnicott and major mystical tradition...read more

Product Description: This first textbook of the 21st century on surgical and endovascular treatment of aortic aneurysms identifies the broad spectrum of issues involved, including epidemiology and natural history, quality of life and safety regulations with regards to new techniques...read more

Product Description: Basic listening skills are at the heart of communication, or any pastoral encounter. In this new and thoroughly updated edition of 'Swift to Hear', Michael Jacobs addresses these listening and responding skills, describing the process of communication, which is at the heart of the helping interview...read more

Product Description: The political complexion of the old Czechoslovakia has changed much since the first edition of this guide in 1992, and these changes are reflected in this revised and updated edition.The author tours through castles and spa towns, as well as old villages farther afield, and he covers all aspects of this fascinating country, including the glories of its art and architecture, but also its music, literature, and cinema...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book contains 28 chapters representing the opinion of key vascular specialists. It covers a wide spectrum of definition and criteria of critical limb ischemia (CLI), its pathophysiology, epidemiology, assessment, and therapy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Here is an insider's walking guide to this marvelous mid-European city. The author's deep knowledge of the history, politics, and art of Prague is expressed with flair and a light touch that will appeal to all, from the general reader to the art historian...read more

Product Description: "Everyone who works with clients will welcome Michael Jacobs eminently readable and stimulating new book. Drawing on the works of Erikson, Winnicott, and other relational theorists, Jacobs articulates the three major development themes that weave their way through both counselling and psychotherapy...read more

Product Description: Budapest, dramatically situated on the Danube, is a city that makes an immediate impression on a visitor. It exhibits all the scale, grandeur and excitement of a major capital, yet it is a city absorbed by nostalgia, and openly scarred by its history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of specially commissioned essays aims both to broaden understanding of environmental issues, and to explore their implications for politics. The book discusses the concepts of the a risk societya and a ecological modernisationa , examines the relationship between science, public policy and democratic renewal, and analyses green politics in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK...read more

Product Description: It is not generally known that there is a clear connection between Kabbalistic tradition and the magic cards known as the Tarot. Michael Jacobs has used Kabbalistic images to create a full color Tarot deck. He includes quotes from early Kabbalistic literature as well as his own observations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)