Depression ist eines der qualvollsten Probleme, weil sie ungeheuer starke Gefhle der Scham, der Wertlosigkeit, der Hoffnungslosigkeit und der Demoralisierung erzeugt. Das vorliegende Buch wird sich fr alle, die sich selbst helfen wollen, als ungemein ntzliche Schritt-fr-Schritt-Anleitung erweisen. David Burns beschreibt hochwirksame Methoden zur Vernderung depressiver Stimmungen und zur Verringerung von Angst, die auf der kognitiven Verhaltenstherapie basieren. Die grundlegenden Ideen dieser Therapieform sind praxisbezogen und konnten durch zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Studien besttigt werden.

In this cultural and intellectual history, David Burns contends that the influence of biblical criticism in America was more widespread than has been thought. Burns proves this point by uncovering the hidden history of the radical historical Jesus, a construct created and sustained by freethinkers, feminists, socialists, and anarchists during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. The result of this exploration is a new narrative revealing that Cyrenus Ward, Caroline Bartlett, George Herron, Bouck White, and other radical religionists had an impact on the history of religion in America rivaling...

The Columbine tragedy on April 20, 1999 began a new era in law enforcement as it became apparent that the police response to such mass shootings must be drastically altered. By the time the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, outdated police response strategies had been replaced with new, aggressive tactics used by the first officers on the scene. The frequency with which these events occur remind us time and again about the importance of training and preparing for these critical situations before they occur in our own backyards.

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This volume collects the texts of five courses given in the Arithmetic Geometry Research Programme 2009-2010 at the CRM Barcelona. All of them deal with characteristic p global fields; the common theme around which they are centered is the arithmetic of L-functions (and other special functions), investigated in various aspects. Three courses examine some of the most important recent ideas in the positive characteristic theory discovered by Goss (a field in tumultuous development, which is seeing a number of spectacular advances): they cover respectively crystals over function fields (with a...