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The Australia-Japan Defence and Security Relationship 1945-2021 Making a Friend of a Former Foe

The Australia-Japan Defence and Security Relationship 1945-2021 Making a Friend of a Former Foe

McDermott examines the origins development and prospects for the Australia and Japan Defence and Security Relationship. In 1945 Japan and Australia were foes; today they are partners in security defence and military matters each the other’s most important strategic ally after the United States. As the region faces threats from an increasingly assertive China there is a growing prospect of conflict particularly in Northeast Asia. McDermott discusses how Japan and Australia may cooperate in mil-itary action. Using previously classified government documents and interviews with those involved in the decisions as well as his own experiences McDermott examines how political imperatives have shaped the security side of the A-JDSR. He offers new insights into the history and future of the relationship. An essential read for students and scholars of Asia-Pacific and Indo-Pacific security. | The Australia-Japan Defence and Security Relationship 1945-2021 Making a Friend of a Former Foe

GBP 130.00
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Reading Rödl On Self-Consciousness and Objectivity

Reading Rödl On Self-Consciousness and Objectivity

Sebastian Rödl's Self-Consciousness and Objectivity is one of the most original and thought-provoking books in analytic philosophy for the last several years. An ambitious defence of absolute idealism Rödl rejects the idea that we as thinking beings can position ourselves within a given mind-independent reality and instead advances the position that the very idea of an ‘objective reality’ coincides with the self-consciousness of thought. In this outstanding collection a roster of international contributors critically examine the significance of Rödl's arguments and develop them in new directions. Their contributions are organised into the following six sections: Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and naturalism Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and formal idealism Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and quietism Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and absolute idealism Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and the power of judgment Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and the determinacy of the individual The volume concludes with an extensive response by Sebastian Rödl to his critics. This book constitutes essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary debates at ther intersection of analytic philosophy and philosophical idealism. | Reading Rödl On Self-Consciousness and Objectivity

GBP 130.00
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The Idea of New India Essays in Defence of Critical Thought

The Idea of New India Essays in Defence of Critical Thought

The idea of ‘New India’ has acquired a new currency. The dominant grammar of politics dilutes the critical impulse and deters the expression of alternate politics. The interpretive possibilities have been replaced by a reactive exchange. Technology is presented as a panacea rather than just a facilitator. Legitimacy and normative dignity for these ideas is acquired by redefining the role of the institutions and also through constitutional amendments. A major intellectual effort is required to reformulate public policy governance systems and social relations to balance the opposite claims of market efficiency and economic growth with social equity and justice. This book is co-published with Aakar Books New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print versions of this book in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | The Idea of New India Essays in Defence of Critical Thought

GBP 130.00
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Emotional Self-Knowledge

Emotional Self-Knowledge

This volume sheds light on the affective dimensions of self-knowledge and the roles that emotions and other affective states play in promoting or obstructing our knowledge of ourselves. It is the first book specifically devoted to the issue of affective self-knowledge. The relation between self-knowledge and human emotions is an often emphasized but poorly articulated one. While philosophers of emotion tend to give affectivity a central role in making us who we are the philosophical literature on self-knowledge focuses overwhelmingly on cognitive states and does not give a special place to the emotions. Currently there is little dialogue between both fields or with other philosophical traditions that have important contributions to make to this topic such as phenomenology and Asian philosophy. This volume brings together philosophers from the relevant fields to explore two related sets of questions: First do philosophers of emotion exaggerate the importance of our affective lives in making us who we are? Or is it philosophers of self-knowledge who misunderstand emotions? Second what is the role of emotions in self-knowledge? What sort of self-knowledge can be secured by paying attention to our emotions? Emotional Self-Knowledge is an essential resource for researchers and advanced students working on philosophy of emotion philosophy of mind epistemology philosophical psychology and phenomenology. Chapter 1 and Chapter 10 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license.

GBP 130.00
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Smart Computing and Self-Adaptive Systems

Smart Computing and Self-Adaptive Systems

The book intends to cover various problematic aspects of emerging smart computing and self-adapting technologies comprising of machine learning artificial intelligence deep learning robotics cloud computing fog computing data mining algorithms including emerging intelligent and smart applications related to these research areas. Further coverage includes implementation of self-adaptation architecture for smart devices self-adaptive models for smart cities and self-driven cars decentralized self-adaptive computing at the edge networks energy-aware AI-based systems M2M networks sensors data analytics algorithms and tools for engineering self-adaptive systems and so forth. Acts as guide to Self-healing and Self-adaptation based fully automatic future technologies Discusses about Smart Computational abilities and self-adaptive systems Illustrates tools and techniques for data management and explains the need to apply and data integration for improving efficiency of big data Exclusive chapter on the future of self-stabilizing and self-adaptive systems of systems Covers fields such as automation robotics medical sciences biomedical and agricultural sciences healthcare and so forth This book is aimed researchers and graduate students in machine learning information technology and artificial intelligence. | Smart Computing and Self-Adaptive Systems

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The Revolting Self Perspectives on the Psychological Social and Clinical Implications of Self-Directed Disgust

The Revolting Self Perspectives on the Psychological Social and Clinical Implications of Self-Directed Disgust

This book looks at the phenomenon of self-directed disgust and examines the role of self-disgust in relation to psychological experiences and potential ensuing psychopathology and to physical functioning such as disability chronic physical health and sexual dysfunction. | The Revolting Self Perspectives on the Psychological Social and Clinical Implications of Self-Directed Disgust

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The Military Balance 2013

The Military Balance 2013

The Military Balance 2013 is the annual assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 171 countries world-wide. New features of the 2013 edition include: reorganised and expanded analytical essays. New sections on trends in contemporary armed conflicts in Afghanistan and Syria as well as trends in defence capability areas with a focus on equipment technological or doctrinal developments. There is also an essay on trends in defence economics and procurement one on European defence industries and another on anti-access/area denial detailed analysis of regional and national defence policy and economic issues for selected states updated graphics feature on comparative defence statistics with focus on defence economics and major land sea and air capability concerns tables graphics and analysis of defence economics issues additional national capability summaries additional data on land forces: combat support and combat service support new graphics and maps on defence capability issues additional data on cyber capabilities.

GBP 145.00
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Enhancing Self Esteem

Enhancing Self Esteem

Providing comprehensive coverage of self esteem this text presents a four phase process - Identity Strengths and Weaknesses Nurturance and Maintenance - which is described along with the resistance on encounters and provides the basis for successfully enhancing self-esteem. Interventions are outlined to bring together theory and methods - cognitive emotional and behavioral. The strategies included are applicable to several populations (child teen and adult) and several settings (school business and community). For both children and adults this book is designed to be a textbook for courses workshops and seminars. It will also serve as an excellent resource for teachers and counselors and will be used by individuals for self-improvement. Some key features of the third edition are: It translates theory into practice; provides 107 activities with specific procedures and anticipated outcomes; relates each activity to one of four phase processes; utilizes a systematic approach to enhancing self esteem; incorporates cognitive emotional and behavioral aspects of individuals.

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Body Self and Melancholy The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)

Body Self and Melancholy The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)

This book addresses early modern concepts of the body and the self – focussing on three self-narratives authored by the nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634–1710) a body description from head to foot autobiographical writings and a brief chronicle of the House of Trapp-Caldonazzo. Approaching the complex theme of the question of the early modern self and the historical body this book intertwines consistent contextualisation and historicisation of self-interpretation and biography. This is done in three steps: first the content and function of these self-narratives are analysed with reference to current research on early modern self-narratives. In a second step the life and family history of Osvaldo Ercole Trapp are examined from a microhistorical perspective and placed within the context of the early modern history of Tyrol’s nobility. A third step then goes into detail on individual contexts and discourses that refine one’s comprehension of these self-narratives: noble masculinity; family house and line; theories of procreation and education; body experience and body images. It combines textual analysis historical anthropology with a strong gender-historical perspective microhistory and the history of the body as a history of experience and discourse. With this approach the study makes an innovative contribution to early modern studies on self-narratives social history of early modern nobility and the history of the body as the history of experience and discourse. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars alike interested in intellectual social and cultural history. | Body Self and Melancholy The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)

GBP 130.00
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Culture And Self Philosophical And Religious Perspectives East And West

Culture And Self Philosophical And Religious Perspectives East And West

Traditional scholars of philosophy and religion both East and West often place a major emphasis on analyzing the nature of ?the self. ? In recent decades there has been a renewed interest in analyzing self but most scholars have not claimed knowledge of an ahistorical objective essential self free from all cultural determinants. The contributo | Culture And Self Philosophical And Religious Perspectives East And West

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Self-Healing Cementitious Materials Technologies Evaluation Methods and Applications

Self-Healing Cementitious Materials Technologies Evaluation Methods and Applications

Climate change is anticipated to have a major impact on concrete structures through increasing rates of deterioration and the impact of extreme weather events. The repair of any damage will be highly labor-intensive and expensive. Self-healing cementitious materials can enable the construction industry to mitigate these effects and move toward greater sustainability safety and increased cost savings and efficiency. This book: Examines concrete structures based on various materials with self-repair capability and their implications for future use in sustainable projects. Discusses advantages and design strategies of self-healing concretes. Covers several effective and detailed self-repair methods with comparative analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of each method. Examines the use of various materials including polymers and nanomaterials. Reviews factors affecting performance properties and applications. Delves into future directions and opportunities. Written for researchers advanced students and industry professionals Self-Healing Cementitious Materials: Technologies Evaluation Methods and Applications offers a detailed view of an important emerging technology in materials science civil engineering and related fields. | Self-Healing Cementitious Materials Technologies Evaluation Methods and Applications

GBP 99.99
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The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography

The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography

By carefully conceptualising the domestic in relation to the self and the photographic this book offers a unique contribution to both photography theory and criticism and life-narrative studies. Jane Simon brings together two critical practices into a new conversation arguing that artists who harness domestic photography can advance a more expansive understanding of the autobiographical. Exploring the idea that self-representation need not equate to self-portraiture or involve the human form artists from around the globe are examined including Rinko Kawauchi Catherine Opie Dayanita Singh Moyra Davey and Elina Brotherus who maintain a personal gaze at domestic detail. By treating the representation of interiors domestic objects and the very practice of photographic seeing and framing as autobiographical gestures this book reframes the relationship between interiors and exteriors public and private and insists on the importance of domestic interiors to understandings of the self and photography. The book will be of interest to scholars working in photographic history and theory art history and visual studies. | The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography

GBP 130.00
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Contributions of Self Psychology to Group Psychotherapy Selected Papers

Contributions of Self Psychology to Group Psychotherapy Selected Papers

Stone's central interests include the development of the self empathy narcissism shame envy rage and the group-self. He is concerned with several aspects of clinical technique and is especially sensitive to our co-creation of so-called difficult patients. His understanding of dreams as both personal and group products which manifest visual narratives will be of particular interest to students of the social and collective unconscious. Stone's work with narcissistic and borderline patients developed in parallel with his work with the chronically mentally ill who are often institutionalised. He demonstrates that group therapy for such patients is not only a matter of containment and holding in the service of administrative control but also involves interpretative work based on an understanding of the primary need for a good enough self-object. | Contributions of Self Psychology to Group Psychotherapy Selected Papers

GBP 130.00
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Self-Regulated Design Learning A Foundation and Framework for Teaching and Learning Design

Self-Regulated Design Learning A Foundation and Framework for Teaching and Learning Design

Self-Regulated Design Learning: A Foundation and Framework for Teaching and Learning Design reframes how educators in architecture landscape architecture and other design disciplines think about teaching and learning design. The book weaves together concepts of constructivism social cognitive theory and self-regulated learning into a solid theoretical foundation for innovative teaching that emphasizes meaning memory problem solving and mastery. The central goal of self-regulated design learning is making design learnable so that students are encouraged to become active engaged participants in the design learning process. Key features of the book include: examining the issues values and challenges of teaching and learning in design exploring select educational theories and concepts relevant to design pedagogy illustrating the pivotal relationships between design learning and self-regulation and discussing pedagogic techniques that support self-regulated design learning and lead to greater student achievement and performance. Self-Regulated Design Learning: A Foundation and Framework for Teaching and Learning Design provides numerous examples and applications to help design educators understand how to implement the self-regulated design learning methodology in their studios. Through this book design educators will discover new ways of encouraging meaningful design learning through an advanced approach that is empowering inspiring and vital. | Self-Regulated Design Learning A Foundation and Framework for Teaching and Learning Design

GBP 170.00
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The Search for the Self Volume 4: Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut 1978-1981

The Search for the Self Volume 4: Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut 1978-1981

The re-issuing of the four volumes of the author's writings is a major publishing event for psychoanalysts who are interested in both the theoretical and the therapeutic aspects of psychoanalysis. These volumes contain the author's pre-self psychology essays as well as those he wrote in order to continue to expand on his groundbreaking ideas which he presented in The Analysis of the Self; the Restoration of the Self; and in How Does Analysis Cure? These volumes of The Search for the Self permit the reader to understand not only the above three basic texts of psychoanalytic self psychology more profoundly but also to appreciate Kohut's sustained openness to further changes - to dare to present his self psychology as in continued flux influenced by newly emerging empirical data of actual clinical practice. The current re-issue of the four volumes of The Search for the Self would assure that the younger generation of psychoanalysts would be exposed to a clinical theory that could contribute greatly to solving the therapeutic dilemmas facing psychoanalysis today. This is volume four. | The Search for the Self Volume 4: Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut 1978-1981

GBP 130.00
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Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self The Production of Dwellspace

Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self The Production of Dwellspace

In Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self Les Roberts extends his earlier work on spatial anthropology to consider questions of time spaciousness and the phenomenology of self. Across the book’s four main chapters – which range from David Bowie’s long-standing interest in Buddhism to street photography of 1980s Liverpool to the ambient soundscapes of Derek Jarman’s Blue or to the slow contemplative cinema of Tsai Ming-Liang – Roberts lays the groundwork for the concept of ‘dwellspace’ as a means by which to unpick the shifting spatial temporal and experiential modalities of everyday mediascapes. Understood as a particular disposition towards time Roberts’s foray into dwellspace proceeds from a Pascalian reflection on the self/non-self in which being content in an empty room vies with the demands of having content in an empty room. Taking the idea of posthuman Buddhism as a heuristic lens Roberts sets in motion a number of interrelated lines of enquiry that prompt renewed focus on questions of boredom distraction and reverie and cast into sharper relief the psychosocial and creative affordances of ambience spaciousness and slowness. The book argues that the colonisation of ‘empty time’ by 24/7 digital capitalism has gone hand-in-hand with the growth of the corporate mindfulness industry and with it the co-option commodification and digitisation of dwellspace. Posthuman Buddhism is thus in part an exploration of the dialectics of dwellspace that orbits around a creative self-praxis rooted in the negation and dissolution of the self one of the foundational cornerstones of Buddhist theory and practice. | Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self The Production of Dwellspace

GBP 130.00
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The Political Self Understanding the Social Context for Mental Illness

The Political Self Understanding the Social Context for Mental Illness

This book explores how our social and economic contexts profoundly affect our mental health and wellbeing and how modern neuroscientific and psychodynamic research can both contribute to and enrich our understanding of these wider discussions. It therefore looks both inside and outside - indeed one of the main themes of The Political Self is th | The Political Self Understanding the Social Context for Mental Illness

GBP 130.00
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Towards an Independent Kurdistan: Self-Determination in International Law

Towards an Independent Kurdistan: Self-Determination in International Law

Kurdistan is among the world’s most notorious cases of self-determination denied and the reasons why this outcome remains unachieved reveal as much about the biases of international law as they do about the merits of the case for Kurdistan. On the centenary of the Treaty of Lausanne 24 July 1923 the last of the international instruments establishing the new international order after World War I this book explores the potential blind spots of international law regarding its differential application in the Middle East. Tracing self-determination over the past century the work explores how the law applies to Kurdish aspirations and to what extent the Kurds can rely upon the current law of self-determination to achieve internationally recognised statehood. The book offers an exhaustive historico-legal analysis of changing international legal concepts and geopolitical upheaval providing a blueprint for Kurdish self-determination in international law. Shedding light on the law’s structural biases it represents a comprehensive historico-legal account of Kurdish aspirations for territorial independence within international law literature offering a guide to relevant legal problems. It will be of interest to students and academics focused on international law specifically peoplehood statehood secession human rights law political science and anthropology. Moreover policymakers government officials working in peace and conflict research and advocacy institutes think tanks as well as scholars of international relations historians political scientists regional specialists diplomats and non-governmental organisation activists will find it a useful reference. The book also illuminates the human rights status of the Kurds in their host states making it relevant to scholars and activists. Its findings have implications extending beyond Kurdistan to self-determination struggles in Scotland Catalonia Ukraine and elsewhere. | Towards an Independent Kurdistan: Self-Determination in International Law

GBP 130.00
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Understanding the Self-Ego Relationship in Clinical Practice Towards Individuation

Understanding the Self-Ego Relationship in Clinical Practice Towards Individuation

Understanding the Self-Ego Relationship in Clinical Practice: Towards Individuation is a volume in the clinical practice monograph series from The Society of Analytical Psychology. This series is intended primarily for trainees on psychotherapy and psychodynamic counselling courses and for those who are newly qualified. These compact editions will be invaluable to all who wish to learn the basics of major theories derived from the work of Freud and Jung from an integrated viewpoint. The authors are Jungian analysts trained at the SAP highly experienced in both theory and practice. The author argues for the profound importance of trusting the unconscious psyche in therapeutic work with adults. She considers various analytical meanings of the term the self with reference to a wide range of theorists and various ways of thinking about the development of the ego. She uses primarily a Jungian model of the psyche from a developmental perspective based on the assumption that the ego evolves in infancy and childhood out of a primary psychosomatic self. | Understanding the Self-Ego Relationship in Clinical Practice Towards Individuation

GBP 130.00
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Self-Aware Robots On the Path to Machine Consciousness

Self-Aware Robots On the Path to Machine Consciousness

This book focuses on the research and development in the field of self-aware robots. Its theme is artificial consciousness a field that covers both artificial intelligence and robotics and includes philosophy psychology the study of biological evolution physiology and medicine especially brain neuroscience and neuropsychiatry. Building on the first edition Creation of a Conscious Robot: Mirror Image Cognition and Self-Awareness this new edition discusses artificial neural networks and functions of human consciousness. It proposes a structure for a neural network with consciousness functions explains the construction of a conscious system and discusses the results of progressive research in designing and developing small robots with conscious systems capable of recognizing their own images in mirrors. Emphasizing the contributions of conscious robots to society and their potential future impact the book also describes the robots that know the unknown Pavlovian robots and the development of a consciousness model possessing the well-known multiple personality disorder. | Self-Aware Robots On the Path to Machine Consciousness

GBP 100.00
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Handbook of Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance

Handbook of Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance

The second edition of the popular Handbook of Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance responds to and incorporates the wealth of new research that the first edition inspired on the subject. At the same time it advances meaningful perspectives on the scholarship and history that originally shaped the field. Divided into five major sections—basic domains context technology methodology and assessment and individual and group differences—this thoroughly updated handbook addresses recent theoretical refinements and advances in instruction and intervention that have changed approaches to developing learners’ capabilities to self-regulate in educational settings. Chapters written by leading experts in the field include discussions of methodological advances and expansions into new technologies and the role of learner differences in such areas as contexts and cultures. As a comprehensive guide to a rapidly evolving and increasingly influential subject area this volume represents contemporary and future thinking in self-regulation theory research and applications. Chapter Structure – To ensure uniformity and coherence across chapters each chapter author addresses the theoretical ideas underlying their topic research evidence bearing on these ideas future research directions and implications for educational practice. Global – A significant number of international contributors are included to reflect the increasingly international research on self-regulation. Readable – In order to make the book accessible to students chapters have been carefully edited for clarity conciseness and organizational consistency. Expertise – All chapters are written by leading researchers who are highly regarded experts on their particular topics and are active contributors to the field.

GBP 110.00
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The Self-Monitoring Primary School

The Self-Monitoring Primary School

This book is a practical guide to help primary school staff initiate or further develop monitoring procedures for both the school curriculum and management. It shows how all members of staff can be involved in monitoring so that it becomes an integral feature of school development and improvement. Specific areas focused on include: developing a quality control framework the importance of a whole-school approach to policy making developing a school-wide system to monitor plans observing and promoting differentiation in the classroom the role LEAs must play in monitoring school effectiveness | The Self-Monitoring Primary School

GBP 160.00
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Meditation Self-regulation Strategy and Altered State of Consciousness

Meditation Self-regulation Strategy and Altered State of Consciousness

Despite the increase in meditation studies the quality remains variable; many of them are trivial and most remain unreplicated. Research on meditation has been plagued by insubstantial theorizing global claims and the substitution of belief systems for grounded hypotheses. Meditation punctures some of the myths about meditation while retaining a place of value for mediation as a normal human function. In each chapter includes discussion of the major questions addressed followed by a detailed critique of important theoretical clinical and research issues. In several instances the reader may find that questions seem to beget questions: research bearing upon certain issues may be contradictory or not yet of sufficient thoroughness. In these cases the author suggests the specific future research necessary to resolve the questions posed so that claims about meditation are justified and which are not. The profession of psychology itself is and has been in a polarized debate between the practitioners and the experimentalists. The latter accuse the former of being soft non-empirical non-scientific while practitioners accuse the experimentalists of conducting research which is essentially irrelevant to human concerns. This approach provides a bridge between research and clinical practice. Meditation provides an encompassing survey of the topic-nearly forty tables and figures; sample questionnaires evaluations and programs and a detailed overview of a controversial field. Shapiro separates self-regulation with self-delusion to outline questions and possible answers. | Meditation Self-regulation Strategy and Altered State of Consciousness

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