Infants, children and adolescents with congenital heart disease (CHD) are a challenge to manage and an ever-increasing number are reaching adulthood.

CHD is one of the most important topics in cardiology today, yet this book is the only clinically-orientated monograph devoted exclusively to ventricular function and blood flow as it relates to CHD.

Written by a distinguished panel of cardiologists, bioengineers, physiologists, and clinical investigators, Ventricular Function and Blood Flow in Congenital Heart Disease is an extensive...

Israeli Jewish and Arab intergroup relations experts within Israel have developed innovative coexistence programs. These programs consist of educational efforts designed to improve relations between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs. This issue presents theory, methods, and data from these coexistence programs.

• Studies the diverse Israeli coexistence programs, which attempt to improve relations between Israeli Jews and Arabs


• Addresses conceptual and theoretical issues involved in establishing conditions for positive coexistence in Israel.
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This monograph concerns the psychological processes underlying the development of executive function, or the conscious control of thought and action. It has long been clear that these processes change considerably in early childhood, transforming a relatively stimulus--driven toddler into a child capable of flexible, goal--directed problem solving.

This book represents the first collection of research on health social movements.

• Demonstrates that health social movements are an innovative and powerful form of political action.
  
• Brings together the study of health and illness with social movement theory in order to establish a basis for the study of health social movements.
  
• Covers disease-based movements focused on diseases such as Alzheimer's and breast cancer.
  
• Also addresses issue-based movements such as the pro-choice movement, the movement for complementary and alternative...

This book demonstrates the need for a new food policy to address the challenges for the global food system posed by globalisation, urbanisation, technical change and industrialisation.

• A collection of papers demonstrating the need for a new food policy.
  
• Looks at the challenges for the global food system posed by globalisation, urbanisation, technical change, and industrialisation.
  
• Suggests that food policy now needs to encompass issues such as obesity, food safety, and competition policy in the retail sector.
  
• Warns that meeting...

Bringing together contributions from the eight men who have held the post of British Permanent Representative to the EC/EU, this book provides an authoritative insight into the way Britain's relationship with its EC/EU partners has developed since accession in 1973.

• A unique and authoritative insight into the way Britain's relationship with its EC/EU partners has developed since accession in 1973.
  
• Presents overviews of this relationship written by the eight men who have held the post of British Permanent Representative to the EC/EU.
  
• Provides a...

The market for credit derivatives--financial instruments designed to transfer credit risk from one party to another--has grown exponentially in recent years, with volume expected to reach more than $4.8 trillion by 2004. With demand increasing from the private sector for finance professionals trained in the opportunities--and dangers--inherent in this fast-changing market, finance courses are already springing up to meet this need.

Credit Derivatives:

• Explains the field of credit derivatives to business students with a background in...

This volume provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary and multinational view of attachment theory as it applies to family systems, and family systems theory as it extends attachment theory.

• Explores if and how attachment theory can be truly systemic, and what a systemic attachment theory would entail


• Addresses potential clinical implications and applications of attachment and family systems theories


• Raises cultural challenges to integrative theoretical development


• Challenges developmental and...

The extended second edition of this inspiring introduction to Shakespeare offers readers more insights into what makes Shakespeare great, and why we still read and perform his works.

• A highly innovative introduction to the extraordinary phenomenon of Shakespeare


• Explores Shakespeares works through the -Seven Ages of Man-, from childhood to -second childishness and mere oblivion-


• Now includes more material on fathers and sons, the perils of courtship, the circumstances of Shakespeares own life, the performance history of...

Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach is a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the key figures and philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

• Includes chapters on Hegel; Marx and Western Marxism; Schopenhauer, Freud, and Bergson; Nietzsche; hermeneutics; phenomenology; existentialism; structuralism; poststructuralism; French feminism; and postmodernism.
  
• Provides an ideal text or background resource for many different introductory and advanced courses on modern European philosophy.