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This book examines the search for ¿occult¿ or hidden forces in the two centuries after Newton¿s theory of gravity. It investigates how history has simplified the work of some of the key figures of the age, presenting them as ¿legitimate¿ and removing their more complex motivations. This book is a scholarly but readable exploration of forces we rely upon (electricity) and ones we have abandoned (vital fluid, animal magnetism). Ranging across literature, drama, philosophy and science, it demonstrates how hopes, fears and anxieties around occult phenomena have been expressed over time.

This open access book examines the formation and sustainability of private credit networks in past societies, gathering a global range of case studies from Europe and the Americas. The book represents a fi rst attempt to coordinate the work of different scholars working on credit networks and aims to explore the possibilities offered by social network analysis for the study of past fi nancial markets and networks.Each contribution offers new perspectives for the comprehension of past fi nancial networks, with a broad chronological and geographical scope. The chapters are arranged thematically and study both rural and urban networks, each employing a network perspective to facilitate an increased understanding of the relational dynamics of preindustrial credit transactions. This book models the various ways that SNA can be utilized by economic and fi nancial historians, as well as discusses its limitations and ways in which it can be combined with qualitative archival research. The book is of interest to a broad audience of scholars in the fi elds of economic, fi nancial and social history.

This book presents current scholarship designed to decolonize, reform and confront the Euro-centric dominance in social work education and practice. This compact volume strings together new content from internationally recognised authors in the field of social work to address this need.Decolonising social work seeks to weaken the effect of colonialism and create opportunities to promote traditional practices in contemporary settings. Its focus is to draw attention to the effects of globalisation and the universalization of social work education, methods of practice and international development that fail to embrace and recognise local knowledges and methods by bringing new and fresh perspectives to social work. It can also be seen as a significant contribution to social work's more critical stance and long-standing struggle to challenge the hegemonic Euro-centric epistemology. With decoloniality becoming a global imperative, this collection brings together case studies from world scholars and decolonial voices in order to explore opportunities, challenges and trends to decolonize through culturally relevant curricula, including: Social Work and Decolonisation: Student Social Workers¿ Understanding of the Concepts of ¿Culture¿, ¿Cultural Identity¿ and ¿Decolonisation¿ Developing Curriculum for Criminal Justice Social Work from the Field New Directions in Trauma Work? Cultural Trauma Theory as an Instrument to Contextualise and Address Histories of Pain in Global Communities Analysing and Understanding Intersections: Using Nayak¿s ¿Intersectional Model of Reflection¿ in Social Work Teaching Decolonizing Social Work Education and Curriculum Utilizing Cultural Competemility and Professionalism ApproachExploring New Horizons for Decolonial Social Work Education is essential reading for practitioners, policy makers, instructors, researchers, and other social work professionals. The book may be used as a supplemental text for social work courses. The national and international focus of the volume will be highly relevant to all social work programmes across the globe.

Plastic and reconstructive surgery represents one of the broadest and most extensive medical specialties, where the pathologies studied can range from head to toe. The abundance of information generated from established or new concepts, knowledge, and techniques are difficult to assimilate and apply in daily medical practice, so the reader may get lost on the journey from time to time.This up-to-date book provides key elements of plastic and reconstructive surgery in a practical and useful approach. It enhances understanding through questions and answers, clinical cases, algorithms, and tips and tricks. The questions and answers reflect what is frequently asked in written or clinical examinations of all stripes, making this title a complement tool which allows the readers to check whether the content is being retaining.Divided in sixteen sections, this work encompasses fundamentals concepts, sutures and needles, flaps, grafts, tissue expansion, anesthesia and burns, among other various relevant topics. It also features illustrative pictures, clinical maneuvers, pathognomonic signs and trans operative and postoperative key events.Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Fundamentals - A Case-Based and Comprehensive Review is developed for plastic and reconstructive surgery residents and graduates, general surgeons, dermatologists and medical students interested in the area. It will also serve as a support guide for the initial and subsequent certification of any council of plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery.

This textbook proposes an informal access to the most important issues of multidimensional differential and integral calculus. The traditional style¿characterized by listing definitions, theorems, and proofs¿is replaced by a conversational approach, primarily oriented to applications. The topics covered, developing along the usual path of a textbook for undergraduate courses, are always introduced by thoroughly carried out examples. This drives the reader in building the capacity of properly use the theoretical tools to model and solve practical problems. To situate the contents within a historical perspective, the book is accompanied by a number of links to the biographies of all scientists mentioned as leading actors in the development of the theory.

The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective, Volume 1 offers a unique re-evaluation of the Victorian Age and presents a new historiography based on plants. It examines the use of gutta-percha in the development of electrical measurements; provides a detailed history of cocoa and the forced labor in the São Tomé and Príncipe Islands; explores the beauty, imagination, and order of William and May Morris¿ flowers; uncovers the world of Charles Darwin and the Victorian Botany Culture; highlights the crucial role of the Wardian Case in the global transport of plants; reveals the connection between Mid-Victorian Botany and Microscopy; offers glimpses of the colonial collections at the 1862 London Exhibition; explains how botany was connected with the development of photography; evokes the desire for a return to Nature and a simple life; and, finally, takes us on a journey through the history of violets.