The definitive translation of the world's oldest known epic, now updated with newly discovered materialMiraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as far as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, predates Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh's adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. Alongside its themes of family, friendship and the duties ...

Developing Person-Centred Counselling,Second Edition is designed to help counsellors improve their skills within the person-centred approach. With chapters on growth and transference, the book covers the subjects which are central to person-centred training. The book is supported by case material and examples from practice.

`Along with the "how" and "why" of psychotherapy, Bonnie Meekums provides realistic examples of people whose lives have benefited from dance movement therapy. It is my honour to recommend this book' - Dianne Dulicai, President of the American Dance Therapy Association

This book is a study of the interaction of the Western societies of Europe and America with others around the world in the past two centuries - the age of European empire. It deals with the European threat and the non-Western response, but the focus is on the ways in which people in Asia, Africa, and Indian America have tried to adapt their ways of life to the overwhelming European power that existed in this period. The challenge and the response are presented through a series of selected and...

In the mid 1920s Lukacs wrote a sustained and passionate response to Stalin's onslaught on his earlier seminal work History and Class Consciousness. Unpublished at the time, Lukacs himself thought that the text had been destroyed. However, a group of researchers recently found the manuscript gathering dust in the newly opened archives of the CPSU in Moscow.

Now for the first time, this fascinating, polemical and intense text is available in English. It is a crucial part of a hidden intellectu...

Het Leerboek sportmassage is verdeeld in drie delen: Anatomie van het menselijk lichaam, Fysiologie en Sportmassage. Het eerste deel gaat in detail in op de systematische anatomie (bouw van de orgaansystemen) en de topografische anatomie (ligging van de verschillende systemen). Deze kennis is onmisbaar voor een goed begrip van de functionele anatomie (bewegingsleer). Het tweede deel van het boek behandelt de fysiologie. Kennis hiervan is wezenlijk bij het beantwoorden van de vele vragen die e...

Kinderen en kanker geeft informatie over diverse vormen van kanker bij kinderen en wat dit voor de kinderen en hun ouders betekent.

Het gaat in op wat kanker is en hoe de diagnose wordt gesteld, waarbij pathologie, erfelijkheid en radiodiagnostiek worden besproken. Behandelingswijzen als chemotherapie, chirurgie, radiotherapie, beenmergtransplantatie komen aan bod, evenals ondersteunende behandelingen zoals voeding, antibiotica, pijnbeleid. Vervolgens wordt ingegaan op verschillende typen ka...