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Intranets and Push Technology: Creating an Information-Sharing Environment

Intranets and Push Technology: Creating an Information-Sharing Environment

This guide examines the use of technology for sharing information both within an organisation and between companies and their clients and customers. It looks in particular at the use of push/ pull technologies for delivering current awareness services. The guide also discusses the pros and cons of the technology particularly information overload and suggests a number of ways of minimising the problems. The guide contains a useful list of books reports journals and other information sources. Contents: Introduction; Intranets; Extranets; Groupware; Case studies; Push/pull technologies; Information overload; Key players; Useful information sources; References; Further reading. | Intranets and Push Technology: Creating an Information-Sharing Environment

GBP 115.00
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Organizations and Organizing Rational Natural and Open Systems Perspectives

Organizations and Organizing Rational Natural and Open Systems Perspectives

This broad balanced introduction to organizational studies enables the reader to compare and contrast different approaches to the study of organizations. This book is a valuable tool for the reader as we are all intertwined with organizations in one form or another. Numerous other disciplines besides sociology are addressed in this book including economics political science strategy and management theory. Topic areas discussed in this book are the importance of organizations; defining organizations; organizations as rational natural and open systems; environments strategies and structures of organizations; and organizations and society. For those employed in fields where knowledge of organizational theory is necessary including sociology anthropology cognitive psychology industrial engineering managers in corporations and international business and business strategists. | Organizations and Organizing Rational Natural and Open Systems Perspectives

GBP 175.00
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The Open Church

The Open Church

Michael Novak's eyewitness report on the second and pivotal session of Vatican II in 1964 vividly inter weaves pageantry politics and theology. An unusually well-informed lay intellectual who had earned a theological degree just before the Council Novak applauded the purposes of Pope John XXIII and his successor Paul VI-to throw open the windows of the church. In this report he coined the classic description of the foes of the reforms at Vatican II as the party of nonhistorical orthodoxy emphasizing the eternal and unchanging neglecting history and contingency. The author recounts many moments of high drama-Pope Paul VI's opening speech the vote on the collegiality of bishops the plea of Cardinal Bea on behalf of the chapter on Jews and Bishop De Smedt's defense of religious freedom. His colorful chapter on the American bishops in 1964 serves as a fascinating benchmark as do his many insights into the new role of the laity. His final chapter is a moving tribute to the Open Church engaging the contemporary world and his new introduction brings this report up to date. This work will be of compelling interest to those interested in the post-conciliar fall of Communism under the great John Paul II-who took his name from his two predecessors at Vatican II. The winner of the million-dollar Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion (1994) Michael Novak is a theologian author and former U. S. ambassador. He currently holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D. C. where he is director of social and political studies. His writings have appeared in every major Western language and in Chinese Bengali Korean and Japanese. Also available from Transaction are his Catholic Social Thought and Liberal Institutions The Experience of Nothingness The Guns of Lattimer Unmeltable Ethnics Belief and Unbelief and Choosing Presidents.

GBP 130.00
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International Regulatory Rivalry in Open Economies: The Impact of Deregulation on the US and UK Financial Markets The Impact of Deregulation

International Regulatory Rivalry in Open Economies: The Impact of Deregulation on the US and UK Financial Markets The Impact of Deregulation

This title was first published in 2003. This text aims to fill a gap in the literature for a text on the theory and practice of international regulatory competition in the open financial markets of the US and UK. | International Regulatory Rivalry in Open Economies: The Impact of Deregulation on the US and UK Financial Markets The Impact of Deregulation

GBP 89.99
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The Philosopher's Habitat An Introduction to

The Philosopher's Habitat An Introduction to

First published in 1990 The Philosopher's Habitat introduces the subject by investigating a variety of the problems which are currently engaging philosophers and which can be made intelligible to an absolute beginner. Rather than introducing philosophy by examining in the traditional way the writings of great philosophers the author has inverted this procedure. The idea is that the reader will become absorbed in these dramas will thereby come to appreciate the ways in which the stage was set by the great writers of the past and will feel the urge to participate. Questions at the end of each chapter encourage the reader to push beyond the text. This book is a must read for students of philosophy. | The Philosopher's Habitat An Introduction to

GBP 90.00
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Perspectives on the Place of Creativity in Education Policy and Practice Limitations and Open Spaces

Perspectives on the Place of Creativity in Education Policy and Practice Limitations and Open Spaces

This book critically analyses how cultural and educational policies construct creativity through a range of concepts and compares this against the open and expansive idea of creativity as experienced by individuals in society more broadly. The book draws on empirical data case-study examples and ethnographic motifs to identify the discursive construction of creativity and the way in which discourses of creativity are enfolded into narratives of progress in cultural policy. Along with auto-ethnographical perspectives chapters apply a rich conceptualisation of Foucault and Agamben’s work to contemporary questions and issues in education alongside recent policies and lived experiences from teachers. Exploring ideas of both fixed and expansive creativity the volume argues that education policy and cultural policy are neoliberalised and that creativity is shaped in schools by regulative schooling systems but ultimately identifies how individuals enact creative practices that subvert and disrupt neoliberal narratives and limited appropriations. This book will be of great interest to researchers academics and postgraduate students in the fields of education policy creativity studies and education politics. Those interested in arts education or in intersections between education and the writings of Foucault and Agamben more broadly will also find the book of value. | Perspectives on the Place of Creativity in Education Policy and Practice Limitations and Open Spaces

GBP 130.00
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Military Integration during War-to-Peace Transitions South Sudan’s Attempt to Manage Armed Groups 2006-13

Military Integration during War-to-Peace Transitions South Sudan’s Attempt to Manage Armed Groups 2006-13

In the 1960s only 10% of peace agreements included some element of political-military accommodation – namely military integration. From Burundi to Bosnia to Zimbabwe that number had increased to over 50% by the 2000s. However relatively little is understood about this dimension of power-sharing often utilized during war-to-peace transitions. Through an examination of the case of South Sudan between 2006 and 2013 this book explores why countries undergoing transitions from war to peace decide to integrate armed groups into a statutory security framework. This book details how integration contributed to short-term stability in South Sudan allowing the government to overcome wartime factionalism and consolidate political-military power prior to the referendum on self-determination in 2011. It also examines how the integration process in South Sudan was flawed by its open-ended nature and lack of coordination with efforts to right-size the military and transform the broader defense sector and how this led the military to fragment during periods of heightened political competition. Furthermore the book explains why integration ultimately failed in South Sudan and identifies the wider lessons that could be applied to current or future war-to-peace transitions. This book will be of great interest to students of war and conflict studies peacebuilding post-conflict reconstruction African security issues and International Relations in general as well as to practitioners. | Military Integration during War-to-Peace Transitions South Sudan’s Attempt to Manage Armed Groups 2006-13

GBP 130.00
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Multilingualism from Manuscript to 3D Intersections of Modalities from Medieval to Modern Times

Multilingualism from Manuscript to 3D Intersections of Modalities from Medieval to Modern Times

This collection explores the links between multimodality and multilingualism charting the interplay between languages channels and forms of communication in multilingual written texts from historical manuscripts through to the new media of today and the non-verbal associations they evoke. The volume argues that features of written texts such as graphics layout boundary marking and typography are inseparable from verbal content. Taken together the chapters adopt a systematic historical perspective to investigate this interplay over time and highlight the ways in which the two disciplines might further inform one another in the future as new technologies emerge. The first half of the volume considers texts where semiotic resources are the sites of modes where multiple linguistic codes interact on the page and generate extralinguistic associations through visual features and spatial organizaisation. The second half of the book looks at texts where this interface occurs not in the text but rather in the cultural practices involved in social materiality and text transmission. Enhancing our understandings of multimodal resources in both historical and contemporary communication this book will be of interest to scholars in multimodality multilingualism historical communication discourse analysis and cultural studies. Chapters 1 4 and 5 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. Chapters 1 & 4 have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license with Chapter 5 being made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4. 0 license. | Multilingualism from Manuscript to 3D Intersections of Modalities from Medieval to Modern Times

GBP 120.00
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability From Values to Impact

Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability From Values to Impact

The aim of this book is to present selected theoretical and practical aspects of corporate social responsibility and sustainability with particular emphasis on the journey (transition) from values to impact. Values play an important role in business world and they shape the responsible approach of organizations. However pressing and still unresolved challenges of the present day show evidently that there exist significant discrepancies between organizations’ declarations on values and their real impact. COVID-19 pandemic Globalization 4. 0 climate catastrophe and challenges emphasized by SDGs constitute the new environment that contemporary organizations face. In effect business is part of the problem and a solution as well. It is necessary to quickly and effectively push for action taking into account the power of responsible business to co-create human live and environment. Both the theoretical considerations and the practice-based studies presented in this monograph make a significant contribution to the theory and practice of management. The book is an extension and enrichment of the existing knowledge in the field of socially responsible management in organizations. Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability will be of value to academics researchers and advanced students in the fields of business and management especially those interest in the intersection of management and CSR and sustainability and those focusing the impact that business activities have on the environment. | Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability From Values to Impact

GBP 130.00
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Urbanizing the Regional Sector to Strengthen Economy and Business to Recover from Recession Proceedings of the 5th International Research Co

Urbanizing the Regional Sector to Strengthen Economy and Business to Recover from Recession Proceedings of the 5th International Research Co

This pandemic does not only affect health aspects but also economic aspects. The world today faces a recession resulting from the covid-19 pandemic. Indonesia's economy continues to lead to a recovery although not very significant. The current government continues to make various recovery efforts. One of the flagship programs includes encouraging and strengthening support for social protection and increasing the purchasing power of households as well as various business sectors including small and medium-sized micro enterprises (MSMEs). This condition urges the world to create new breakthroughs to rise from this adversity. Academicians and practitioners need to work together to find the necessary solutions and developments. Surely it will contribute to solve the problems in society by interdisciplinary cooperation. This collaboration will create innovations in science and technology especially business and economic field. This book includes in-depth discussions between academicians and practitioners especially on how to strengthen the regional sectors to be the strong pillars of the country’s economy. Interestingly various methods are used to observe the problems to explore the solutions and to develop the innovation. This book will be of interest to students scholars and practitioners of social empowerment governance and other related stakeholders. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. Funded by State University of Malang. | Urbanizing the Regional Sector to Strengthen Economy and Business to Recover from Recession Proceedings of the 5th International Research Co

GBP 130.00
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Style Bible What to Wear to Work

Style Bible What to Wear to Work

First impressions (and second ones!) count whether you are an intern or a CEO. Lauren A. Rothman addresses an age-old dilemma: how to be appropriate and stylish in the workplace. Based on a decade of experience in the fashion industry she addresses the basics of fashion and executive presence by offering advice anecdotes and style alerts that help readers avoid major fashion faux pas at the office. Style Bible: What to Wear to Work is the must-have resource for the modern professional male or female climbing the ladder of success. Lauren identifies the ultimate wardrobe essentials and reveals shopping strategies and destinations for the everyday person. Style Bible complete with helpful illustrations is the go-to manual on how to dress for every professional occasion and a valuable resource for understanding dress codes by industry city and gender so that your visual cues will make a strong impact. Make a commitment to being better dressed at work with Style Bible. | Style Bible What to Wear to Work

GBP 175.00
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Climate Change Action and the Responsibility to Protect A Common Cause

Climate Change Action and the Responsibility to Protect A Common Cause

This book brings together two important fields in the study of international politics and policy: climate change adaptation and mitigation (climate action) and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Both have attracted strong scholarly attention in each of their respective research silos but there is yet to be a strong research push that explores the relationship between the two. Filling this gap Ben L. Parr argues that the climate action and the R2P agendas share a common goal: to protect vulnerable human populations from large-scale harm. To substantiate this argument Parr reveals where the historical conceptual and operational parallels exist between the two agendas and where and when researchers and practitioners from both camps might work together in practice to achieve their common goal in the challenging years ahead. Notably the book builds on recent efforts by Western governments in the UK US and EU to integrate climate action policies into conflict prevention and response policies. To achieve this the volume situates a variety of climate action policies alongside the 46 policy options found in the R2P operational framework (commonly known as the R2P toolbox) across its prevention reaction and rebuilding phases. Climate Change Action and the Responsibility to Protect will be of significant interest to policy-orientated students and scholars those working at the academic-policy interface in the NGO community as well as those working in government and international organisations. | Climate Change Action and the Responsibility to Protect A Common Cause

GBP 130.00
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Native Americans of the Southwest The Serious Traveler's Introduction To Peoples and Places

Native Americans of the Southwest The Serious Traveler's Introduction To Peoples and Places

This guide to the Native Americans of the Southwest is a concise but comprehensive introduction that gives readers a sound anthropological and historical background to the area and fosters an appreciation of the Native American peoples who continue to make the Southwest their home. The authors offer individual sections on the main prehistoric and contemporary peoples of the region describing their ways of life their art and their cultural monuments. For those eager to see at least some of these cultural monuments and to learn about Native American cultures from the many museums that dot the region this book offers a guide to the most memorable sites in Arizona New Mexico Colorado and Utah. In addition the authors provide a comprehensive list of museums and a calendar of tribal events that are open to interested visitors: rodeos fairs dances and festivals. Maps are also included to assist the visitor in locating the sites discussed in the book. | Native Americans of the Southwest The Serious Traveler's Introduction To Peoples and Places

GBP 130.00
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Invention Pedagogy – The Finnish Approach to Maker Education

Invention Pedagogy – The Finnish Approach to Maker Education

This collection edited and written by the leading scholars and experts of innovation and maker education in Finland introduces invention pedagogy a research-based Finnish approach for teaching and learning through multidisciplinary creative design and making processes in formal school settings. The book outlines the background of and need for invention pedagogy providing various perspectives for designing and orchestrating the invention process while discussing what can be learned and how learning happens through inventing. In addition the book introduces the transformative school-level innovator agency needed for developing whole schools as innovative communities. Featuring informative case study examples the volume explores the theoretical pedagogical and methodological implications for the research and practice of invention pedagogy in order to further the field and bring new perspectives providing a new vision for schools for decades to come. Intermixing the results of cutting-edge research and best practice within STEAM-education and invention pedagogy this book will be essential reading for researchers students and scholars of design and technology education STEM education teacher education and learning sciences more broadly. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Invention Pedagogy – The Finnish Approach to Maker Education

GBP 120.00
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Animate to Harmony The Independent Animator's Guide to Toon Boom

Animate to Harmony The Independent Animator's Guide to Toon Boom

Want to create studio-quality work and get noticed? Just coming off Flash and looking for a Toon Boom intro? Are you a traditional pencil-and-paper animator? From scene setup to the final render learn how to navigate the Toon Boom interface to create animation that can be published on a variety of platforms and formats. Animate to Harmony guides you through Toon Boom‘s Animate Animate Pro and Harmony programs teaching you how to create high-quality 2D animation of all complexities. The main text focuses onfeatures that are common across all three programs while Advanced Techniques boxes throughout the book elaborate on Pro and Harmony features appealing to all levels of experience with any of the three main Toon Boom products. | Animate to Harmony The Independent Animator's Guide to Toon Boom

GBP 175.00
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Social Cohesion and Welfare States From Fragmentation to Social Peace

Social Cohesion and Welfare States From Fragmentation to Social Peace

Aiming to go beyond reiterating the stereotypical narrative of the rise of welfare states this interdisciplinary book examines the long-run historical processes of the development of the welfare state. It focuses on the complex political social economic and institutional transformations which give rise to these peaceful and cohesive societies. Welfare is crucial to the story of peaceful social integration and this book explores and explains this vital connection taking a non-linear view of the history of moving from fragmentation to peace with comprehensive welfare institutions. Chapters collectively focus on three central areas: (a) types of socio-political fragmentation (b) the interconnection of social political and economic forces that led to the institutionalisation of integrationist processes and policies (including re-distributional welfare systems) and (c) how this new institutional development helped achieve or failed to achieve social peace and welfare. The international panel of expert contributors provide case studies from a rich variety of country contexts including Germany South Africa the Netherlands Austria and the Nordic Countries. This thought-provoking collection of essays is well suited for advanced students and researchers in social history economic history political economy and social policy. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. | Social Cohesion and Welfare States From Fragmentation to Social Peace

GBP 130.00
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Return to the Scene of the Crime The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Crime Fiction

Return to the Scene of the Crime The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Crime Fiction

A crime novel at once disturbing and perversely comforting factually has been known to curtail social anxieties through the ‘open and shut case’ of its narrative form. But what happens to that form in a world where guilt and innocence are not easily assigned? Return to the Scene of the Crime takes place on the trope of an investigator returning to the post-colony on a quest for knowledge. In tandem with solving the case they must also grapple with the complexities of their origins. Kamil Naicker shows how five authors defy generic expectations to illustrate the complexities of personal identity transitional justice and civil violence in the post-colonial world. Congregating novels set in South Africa China Guatemala Sri Lanka and Somalia this book intervenes in literary studies by bringing the trend of the returnee figure and exploring the possibilities of world-making through the explosion of a familiar form. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa. | Return to the Scene of the Crime The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Crime Fiction

GBP 130.00
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Coming to Know

Coming to Know

First published in 1980 Coming to Know offers an account which runs counter to orthodox educational psychology in which learning and knowledge are reified emotional aspects are excluded the personal-social situation of the learner is ignored and the created character of knowledge with all its social and political ramifications is denied. This collection of work explores personal knowing in a wide range of activities from children’s classroom adjustment through student learning as a social practice to women’s perceptions of themselves. It argues that the processes of learning and knowing are not divorced from the learner as a person. Broadly humanistic in its approach Coming to Know provides a welcome counterbalance to the scientific theory of learning. This book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of educational psychology and also for teachers and educationists.

GBP 89.99
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From Mesopotamia To Modernity Ten Introductions To Jewish History And Literature

From Mesopotamia To Modernity Ten Introductions To Jewish History And Literature

From Mesopotamia to Modernity is a one volume introduction to both Jewish history and literature from its earliest times up to the present. Leading experts in each field of Jewish history and literature contribute original and comprehensive essays introducing their subjects. Beginning readers will learn the rudiments for further study and scholars | From Mesopotamia To Modernity Ten Introductions To Jewish History And Literature

GBP 130.00
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Introduction to Gifted Education

Introduction to Gifted Education

Now in its Second Edition Introduction to Gifted Education presents a well-researched yet accessible introduction to gifted education focusing on equity and supporting diverse learners. Inclusive in nature this essential text is filled with varied perspectives and approaches to the critical topics and issues affecting gifted education. Chapters cover topics such as gifted education standards social-emotional needs cognitive development diverse learners identification programming options creativity professional development and curriculum. The book provides a comprehensive look at each topic including an overview of big ideas its history and a thorough discussion to help those new to the field gain a better understanding of gifted students and strategies to address their needs. Filled with rich resources to engage readers in their own learning Introduction to Gifted Education Second Edition is the definitive textbook for courses introducing teachers to gifted education.

GBP 99.99
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Vulnerability and Resilience to Violent Extremism An Actor-Centric Approach

Vulnerability and Resilience to Violent Extremism An Actor-Centric Approach

This book examines the actors that shape societal dynamics leading to or preventing violent extremism from taking roots in their communities including state representatives religious institutions and civil society actors. The volume contributes to an emerging stream of research focusing on intra- and inter-group dynamics to explain the emergence and persistence of or resilience against violent extremism. It utilises an actor-centric approach uncovering the landscape of actors that play relevant roles in shaping societal dynamics leading to or preventing violent extremism affecting their communities. The analysis builds on new empirical evidence collected in Bosnia and Herzegovina Kosovo North Macedonia Serbia Iraq Lebanon and Tunisia. This allows for an innovative comparative perspective on two regions in the European neighbourhood that are rarely studied together even though they seem to share common patterns of (de-)radicalisation and violent extremism despite their distinct historical political and cultural trajectories and relations with the EU. In both regions the book analyses the roles of and interactions between state political religious and civil society actors in shaping community vulnerability to and/or resilience against violent extremism. Different types of community leaders are equipped with varying levels of authority trust legitimacy and influence over community members. As such the categories of actors analysed can play either detrimental or beneficial roles which makes vulnerability and resilience to violent extremism two sides of the same coin. This volume will be of much interest to students of countering violent extremism terrorism political violence security studies and International Relations generally. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4. 0 International license. | Vulnerability and Resilience to Violent Extremism An Actor-Centric Approach

GBP 130.00
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Introduction to Christian Ethics

Introduction to Christian Ethics

An Introduction to Christian Ethics uses a Christian approach while encouraging students to consider a variety of current ethical issues and apply relevant biblical and theological concepts to these issues. The main goal of the text is to acquaint students with both the field of ethics in general and varieties of Christian ethical systems in particular. Learning Goals Upon completing this book readers will be able to use a Christian method of making moral decisions and view issues from a Christian perspective.

GBP 175.00
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Addictions From an Attachment Perspective Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours?

Addictions From an Attachment Perspective Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours?

This outstanding book is an important collection of papers from the 2013 John Bowlby Memorial Conference by accomplished clinicians from different modalities who share their experience of working with people with different kinds of addiction. The papers bring together an in-depth understanding that addictions are a response to and hold the pain of broken attachments and are best treated within healthy interpersonal relationships. For a long time the person with an addiction has been seen as the problem with society being able to live in denial of the causes. These papers open up innovative and effective ways of working with people troubled by addiction from an attachment-informed perspective. Contributors: Cara Crossan Richard Gill Lynn Greenwood Bob Johnson Liz Karter Edward Khantzian Arlene Vetere Kate White Jason Wright | Addictions From an Attachment Perspective Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours?

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