New Paths for Acceptance

New Paths for Acceptance

Author: Márcia Machado

Publisher: Universal-Publishers

Published: 2015-07-31

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1627345566

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New Paths for Acceptance: Opening Awareness in Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection gathers global data from recent studies on interpersonal relationships. The book focuses specifically on the influence of perceived acceptance and rejection by significant others on children's, adolescents', and adults' well-being and development. In doing this, it offers valuable insight for academics, researchers, practitioners, teachers, and service agencies to better understand the importance of including the issue of "quality of interpersonal relationships" in their research, teaching, and clinical practice. Based primarily on interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory (IPARTheory), the book broadens and advances scientific knowledge about fundamental issues such as psychological adjustment, masculinity, school and academic-related issues, family functioning, parental alienation, intimate adult relationships, and other such topics. With contributions from researchers from three continents, the volume helps raise awareness about the crucial role that interpersonal acceptance plays across cultures on key issues such as these. The uncommon cultural diversity and multi-context nature of studies included in the book give readers the opportunity to learn about some of the most recent studies in this field, and at the same time to have a privileged view of the broad scope and application of IPARTheory and research.


Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection

Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection

Author: Elias Kourkoutas

Publisher: Universal-Publishers

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1599425696

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Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection: Social, Emotional, and Educational Contexts draws on research to offer a global perspective on issues of fundamental importance to family functioning, childhood development, and adult intimate relationships, as well as to policy and practice for children, adolescents, couples, and families at risk. It draws on the perspectives of major social science disciplines such as clinical and educational psychology, anthropology, psychology, special education, and sociology, thus ensuring topics are discussed within broad theoretical frameworks. The authors cover a wide spectrum of questions and topics in relation to perceived acceptance and rejection by significant others. Chapters are set in the context of worldwide trends in the area of interpersonal acceptance-rejection. They considerably advance our knowledge of interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory and practice by tackling issues in major life contexts such as family, education, intimate relationships, and clinical-therapeutic practice. The book presents these important issues within the context of up-to-date research on interpersonal relationships that helps strengthen family and couple relationships and enhance the quality of attachment relationships in families. As such, it constitutes a useful reference source for academic researchers, clinicians, teachers, special educators, school counsellors, psychologists, and service agencies. Contributors to this edited book come from many parts of the world, including the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East.


Radical Acceptance

Radical Acceptance

Author: Tara Brach

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2004-11-23

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0553380990

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The life-changing guide to finding freedom from our self-doubt through the revolutionary practice of Radical Acceptance from the renowned meditation teacher, psychologist, and author—now revised and updated with a new introduction and an in-depth guide to the author’s signature mindfulness techniques. “Radical Acceptance offers us an invitation to embrace ourselves with all our pain, fear, and anxieties, and to step lightly yet firmly on the path of understanding and compassion.”—Thich Nhat Hanh “Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering,” says Tara Brach at the start of this illuminating book. This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments and conflicts in our relationships, in addictions and perfectionism, in loneliness and overwork—all the forces that keep our lives constricted and unfulfilled. Radical Acceptance offers a path to freedom, including the day-to-day practical guidance developed over Dr. Brach’s forty years of work with therapy clients and Buddhist students. Writing with great warmth and clarity, Tara Brach brings her teachings alive through personal stories and case histories, fresh interpretations of Buddhist tales, and guided meditations. Step by step, she shows us how we can stop being at war with ourselves and begin to live fully every precious moment of our lives.


New Directions in Statistical Physics

New Directions in Statistical Physics

Author: Luc T. Wille

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 3662089688

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This book provides a unique insight into the latest breakthroughs in a consistent manner, at a level accessible to undergraduates, yet with enough attention to the theory and computation to satisfy the professional researcher Statistical physics addresses the study and understanding of systems with many degrees of freedom. As such it has a rich and varied history, with applications to thermodynamics, magnetic phase transitions, and order/disorder transformations, to name just a few. However, the tools of statistical physics can be profitably used to investigate any system with a large number of components. Thus, recent years have seen these methods applied in many unexpected directions, three of which are the main focus of this volume. These applications have been remarkably successful and have enriched the financial, biological, and engineering literature. Although reported in the physics literature, the results tend to be scattered and the underlying unity of the field overlooked.


New Paths Toward the Sacred

New Paths Toward the Sacred

Author: Catherine McCann

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0809145510

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"Using Bernard Lonergan's categories of experience, New Paths Toward the Sacred highlights the intimate connection between human experience and an awareness of the Sacred, analyzed by the author's practical research based on studying people's reactions and experiences in a sculpture garden. A movement from "ah" to "awe" in everyday living is emphasized. This is presented by the author's reliance upon the reflective insights into the thoughts of the best theological scholars."--BOOK JACKET.


New Paths in Biology

New Paths in Biology

Author: Adolf Portmann

Publisher:

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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The author discusses the cell and cellular formation and development; stimulus and perception and how these relate to the particular biological entity and its environment; the problems of biological ranking; and the mechanistic theory of evolution, which he considers an oversimplification of the evolutionary process. He closes with a discussion of two tendencies in modern biology: the attempt to formulate universal laws at a time when there are too many unanswered questions within the field; and the attempt to relate biological discoveries to a framework of ethics and behavior problems.--


Our New Path of Self-Discovery

Our New Path of Self-Discovery

Author: Terry Sands

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-10-31

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1479733652

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‘Who am I, and Why am I here?’ This question is perhaps the only thought that occurs to every one of us at some time during our life. For some, this question is merely a passing thought; for others, the question is answered by religious teachings; for still others, the question is so serious that it prompts a search of paramount importance. We are calling for a way to help us understand the nature of our identity and the meaning of our life. If you have asked this question with more than a passing interest, you have probably explored various avenues that appeared to off er an answer. You may have looked at various religions; you may have read the odd treatise or book, you may have journeyed to far off lands and you may have been attracted to various forms of so called “new-age” philosophies. Most of us have read a book or an article or seen a program about some of the modern gurus and cults that claim to give an answer to those who will follow their teachings. Some of us have even followed one or two of them. Many of us have all but exhausted the various avenues and attractions that off er an answer and have found the answers wanting. Many of those paths contain some truth and many of them are genuine. That is not the question that remains when they have been explored. The emptiness that hangs in the mind seems to ask for something to fill the void that makes that truth apply to “me”. It may say, “This path may be fine for you, but what about me? Where is the answer that makes my heart sing?” If you relate to what I have described, you may relate to the Material in this book.


Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism

Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism

Author: Helen Hester

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-09

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1317136365

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While fat sexual bodies are highly visible as vehicles for stigma, there has been a lack of scholarly research addressing this facet of contemporary body politics. Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism seeks to rectify this, bringing debates about fat sex into the academic arena and providing a much-needed critical space for voices from across the spectrum of theory and activism. It examines the intersection of fat, sex and sexuality within a contemporary cultural landscape that is openly hostile towards fat people and their perceived social and aesthetic transgressions. Acknowledging and engaging with some of the innovative work being done by artists, activists, and academics around the issue of fat sex, this collection both challenges preconceptions regarding fatness and sexuality, but also critiques and debates various aspects of the fat activist approach. It draws on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, bringing together work from the UK, US, Europe, and Australia to offer a wide-ranging examination of the issues of size, sex, and sexuality. A cutting-edge exploration not only of fat sex, but of identity politics, neoliberalism and contemporary body activism in general, Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism will be of interest to scholars of sociology, cultural studies, geography, porn studies and literary studies working on questions of gender, sexuality and the body.


New Directions in Private Law Theory

New Directions in Private Law Theory

Author: Fabiana Bettini

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2023-10-16

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1800085621

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New Directions in Private Law Theory brings together some of the best new work on private law theory, reflecting the breadth of this increasingly important field. The contributions interrogate a wide range of topics including aspects of private law doctrine, its development, ordering and application. The authors adopt a variety of different approaches and contribute to ongoing and important debates about the moral foundations of private law, the individuation of areas of private law and the connections between private law and everyday moral experience. Questions addressed include: Does the diversity identified amongst claims in unjust enrichment mean that the category is incoherent? Are claims in tort law always about compensating for wrongs? How should we understand parties’ agreement in contract? The contributions shed new light on these and other topics, and the ways in which they intersect and open up new lines of scholarly enquiry. The book will be of interest to researchers working in private law and legal theory, but it will also appeal to those outside of law, most notably researchers with an interest in moral and political philosophy, economics and history.


Monte Carlo Simulation in Statistical Physics

Monte Carlo Simulation in Statistical Physics

Author: Kurt Binder

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-08-17

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 3642031633

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Monte Carlo Simulation in Statistical Physics deals with the computer simulation of many-body systems in condensed-matter physics and related fields of physics, chemistry and beyond, to traffic flows, stock market fluctuations, etc.). Using random numbers generated by a computer, probability distributions are calculated, allowing the estimation of the thermodynamic properties of various systems. This book describes the theoretical background to several variants of these Monte Carlo methodsand gives a systematic presentation from which newcomers can learn to perform such simulations and to analyze their results. The fifth edition covers Classical as well as Quantum Monte Carlo methods. Furthermore a new chapter on the sampling of free energy landscapes has been added. To help students in their work a special web server has been installed to host programs and discussion groups (http://wwwcp.tphys.uni-heidelberg.de). Prof. Binder was the winner of the Berni J. Alder CECAM Award for Computational Physics 2001 as well as the Boltzmann Medal in 2007.