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      Teaching of specific groups & persons with special educational needs

      ATTENTION AND CONCENTRATION | Intervention Strategies

      ATTENTION AND CONCENTRATION - Intervention Strategies is the latest improved and extended edition of the best-selling book that has sold 3,500 copies in 48 countries and 5 languages.

      by Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc

      Attention and Concentration Age Group: 6+ This new edition of Alice Kassotaki’s bestselling book is an essential handbook for professionals and parents looking to better understand and support children with attention and concentration difficulties. Key Features of the Book: Practical Methods for Enhancing Attention: Engaging activities and concentration techniques designed to make overcoming attention challenges more fun and effective. Designed for a Wide Audience: Supports special educators, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, teachers, and education centers. Parents can also use this guide at home under proper guidance. Proven Strategies for Coping with Attention Deficit: Goes beyond theory by offering real solutions and evidence-based approaches to improve focus and concentration. Why This Book is Essential: This book provides structured intervention strategies that can make a significant difference in the lives of children struggling with attention difficulties. By implementing these methods, children can experience better academic performance, improved daily functioning, and greater confidence in their abilities.

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      2023

      Drug Products in Nursing and Care Practice

      Safe handling of medication

      by Dr. Ulrich Räth and Friedhelm Kamann

      The assessment of nursing and care needs and the organisation and quality assurance of nursing care are key tasks performed by nursing staff. This also includes administering medication, something which requires sound organisation, control, implementation and documentation. Nurses observe whether medication is taken consistently, has the desired effect, and whether undesirable side effects occur. The drug product as a „special commodity“ – whether in inpatient long-term care, in outpatient care, or in hospital – requires special knowledge concerning - correct storage, - the pharmacological effect, and - appropriate application. This book is geared towards the diseases and symptoms of people requiring nursing or care. All the important facts concerning the use of medicines are presented here in an understandable manner, focusing on the essentials. Numerous illustrations and practical tips provide the link to everyday nursing care. It is the ideal textbook and reference work for nursing and care assistants as well as nursing professionals.

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      Children's & YA

      P.E.A.C.E. | A programme for the development of attention and psychosocial skills

      The book "P.E.A.C.E. | A programme for the development of attention and psychosocial skills" comprises forty cards that allow you to engage children and adolescents in brief sessions of attentive presence.

      by Candice E. Marro

      Age Group: 5+ 🧘 Helping Children Develop Attention & Emotional Intelligence! The P.E.A.C.E.® Cards are inspired by the P.E.A.C.E.® programme, a scientifically validated 10-week protocol designed to enhance attention and psychosocial skills in school and out-of-school settings. 🌟 What is P.E.A.C.E.? The activities in this book follow the five core principles of the programme: ✔ P – Presence en movement (Presence in movement) ✔ É – Écoute du corps (Listening to your body) ✔ A – Attention au souffle (Paying attention to breathing) ✔ C – Concentration & ancrage (Concentration & anchoring) ✔ É – Intelligence Émotionnelle (Emotional Intelligence) 📖 What’s Inside? 🔹 Vivid, colourful picture cards with easy-to-follow instructions. 🔹 Mindfulness-based activities to promote self-awareness and focus. 🔹 Engaging exercises that can be used in order or randomly picked. 🔹 Fun and interactive movement-based activities to encourage relaxation and emotional regulation. 🎯 Learning Outcomes: ✔ Improved focus and attention span. ✔ Better emotional regulation and self-awareness. ✔ Enhanced body awareness and mindfulness. ✔ A greater sense of calm and inner balance. 🌈 An excellent resource for educators, therapists, and parents looking to introduce mindfulness and emotional regulation skills in a fun, engaging way!

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      December 2023

      Animal Assisted Interventions

      Recognizing and mitigating potential welfare challenges

      by Lori Kogan

      This is a practical book exploring how to conduct animal assisted intervention (AAI) in ways that protect and prioritize animal and human welfare. This resource is for social scientists (e.g., psychology, social work, human development and family studies, etc.), as well as ethologists and animal behaviour and welfare students and practitioners. The book is a series of short chapters that depict a wide array of AAIs and their potential welfare concerns. The chapters include descriptions of the AAI offered, the welfare challenges, and ways to successfully mitigate these challenges. This book also covers critical topics including therapy animals' aging, retirement, and death as well as ethical issues including animal consent. Species include not only dogs, but horses, rabbits, and other small animals (e.g., guinea pigs, mice, etc.). Types of AAI involve individual interventions as well as crisis dogs (those who help after natural and man-made disasters), and residential animals. The book is designed to be a practical, engaging book with links to video and examples of real-life situations. It is evidence-based, yet user-friendly and directly applicable to students and practitioners. This highly practical and engaging book with examples of real life situations, videos and case studies, explores how to conduct animal assisted interventions in ways that protect and prioritize animal and human welfare. The book: · Explores how to conduct animal assisted intervention (AAI) in ways that protect and prioritize animal and human welfare. · Discusses potential welfare challenges including how to advocate for the animal, animal consent, and the animal's aging, retirement, or death. · Evidence based approach to mitigating welfare concerns for a wide range of therapy animals including dogs, horses, rabbits, rodents, and exotic animals - and their recipients. An invaluable resource for ethologists and animal behaviour and welfare students and practitioners, as well as social scientists (e.g., psychology, social work, human development and family studies).

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      Business, Economics & Law
      July 2025

      Medical care, humanitarianism and intimacy in the long Second World War, 1931-1953

      by Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Laure Humbert, Bertrand Taithe, Raphaële Balu

      This book offers a micro-global history of humanitarianism and medical care during the 'long' Second World War, which challenges the traditional and Eurocentric chronological boundaries of 1939/1945. It takes as its starting point the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, which led to the progressive dislocation of the League of Nations, with the Japanese, German and Soviet departures in the 1930s. It ends with the termination of the Korean War in 1953, and the subsequent dismantlement of the first United Coalition and UN Peace enforcement operation. It considers the slow, messy and ambivalent transformation of humanitarian actors' relations to the suffering of distant others through a study of humanitarian encounters, practices, spaces and affects. Paying close attention to a variety of actors, such as French colonial doctors, Swiss ICRC delegates, Egyptian relief workers, Chinese-style physicians, Peruvian and Ecuadorian nurses or American member of the Unitarian Service Committee, the book provides a more holistic story of humanitarianism.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      February 2026

      AIDS in Soviet Russia

      A story of deception, despair and hope

      by Rustam Alexander

      The first book to tell the shocking story of the AIDS crisis in Soviet Russia. Throughout the 1980s, as the world was grappling with the escalating crisis of AIDS, Soviet Russia continued to deny there was a problem. Arguing that the disease was limited to foreigners and 'immoral' groups, the government failed to take meaningful action, long past the point other countries had begun to recognise the full scale of the threat. In this ground-breaking book, Rustam Alexander tells the story of AIDS in Soviet Russia. Fixated on disinformation, censorship and the persecution of marginalised communities, the Soviet authorities wasted precious time, allowing the epidemic to strike at the very heart of the nation: its children. Yet, despite the government's failure, a number of brave journalists, doctors and nascent gay groups decided to take matters into their own hands and engage in full-fledged AIDS activism. Tracing the political and social response to AIDS in the final years of the Soviet era, Alexander sheds light on the devastating consequences of government inaction. He draws on personal stories, media reports and archival materials to provide a riveting account of the Russian people's fight against AIDS amid the tumultuous transformations of Gorbachev's perestroika.

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      Psychology
      April 2018

      What is “Good” Dementia Care?

      by Christoph Held

      People with dementia experience their condition as a big change in which, for example, new events are not linked to existing experiences and wishes, thoughts, and actions can no longer be connected to each other. This kind of experience of the self, due to the intergative function of the brainbeing temporarily or permanently lost, is called dissociative self-experience. Based on this understanding of dementia, the author develops an approach to effectively understand and support people with dementia in everyday activities. Typical everyday situations and behaviours are presented and reflected on in a practical context.

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      Medicine

      Humanitarian Aid

      Encounters with People in Need

      by Joachim Gardemann

      Joachim Gardemann outlines his encounters and experiences as a pediatrician in crisis zones while working for the Red Cross all over the world. He describes people in existential emergency situations, who have been traumatized but survived a genocide on the border with Rwanda. People who have fled from civil wars in Congo or escaped from the Kosovo war. He traces the suffering of people in Iran, China and Haiti after losing their relatives and all their possessions in severe earthquakes. At their moments of greatest vulnerability, in the shelters and dirt of a refugee camp in Jordan, he meets people who have fled from the turmoil of the civil wars in Sudan and Syria. He sketches poignant portraits of the victims of the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka. He gives a striking account of the devastation wrought by the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. He creates a worthy memorial to those who died of Ebola, who lost their lives as doctors and nurses in the fight against Ebola as well as to those who survived.

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      Teaching, Language & Reference
      October 2020

      Aid to Armenia

      by Joanne Laycock, Francesca Piana, Bertrand Taithe

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2025

      Humanitarian mobilisation in Central and Eastern Europe

      Local, national, and international perspectives

      by Doina Anca Cretu, Michal Frankl

      By focusing on aid Central and Eastern Europe, the volume adds to the existent scholarly explorations of modern humanitarianism, its actors and practices. In the twentieth century, aid workers assisted victims of war and earthquakes, delivered food, supported health care, provided childcare, or sheltered refugees. The contributors not only reconstruct these diverse histories and their protagonists, but also bring international, national, and local actors together: from grassroots activists to private associations to state-driven "socialist humanitarians" to large Western aid organizations. In doing so, they challenge the often unidirectional, from West-to-East, and asymmetrical perspective on donor-recipient relationships in humanitarian processes.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      June 2024

      Politicising and gendering care for older people

      Multidisciplinary perspectives from Europe

      by Anca Dohotariu, Ana Paula Gil, Lubica Volanská

      This book offers a new critical framework for understanding the processes of politicising and gendering care for older people and their manifestations in several European contexts. It interrogates how care for older adults varies across time and place while searching for an in-depth comprehension of how it becomes an arena of political struggle and the object of public policy in different countries and at various societal and political levels. It brings together multidisciplinary contributions that examine the issue of care for older people as a political concern from many angles, such as problematising care needs, long-term care policies, home care services, institutional services and family care. The contributions reveal the diversity of situations in which the processes of politicising and gendering care for older adults overlap, contradict or reinforce each other while leading to increased gender (in)equalities on different levels.

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      African history
      January 2017

      Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings

      Médecins Sans Frontières, the Rwandan experience, 1982–97

      by Jean-Hervé Bradol. Series edited by Bertrand Taithe

      Throughout the 1990s, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was forced to face the challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and its neighbouring countries. Humanitarian workers were confronted with the execution of almost one million people, tens of thousands of casualties pouring into health centres, the flight of millions of people who had sought refuge in camps and a series of deadly epidemics. Drawing on various hitherto unpublished private and public archives, this book recounts the experiences of the MSF teams working in the field. It is intended for humanitarian aid practitioners, students, journalists and researchers with an interest in genocide and humanitarian studies and the political sociology of international organisations.

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