https://novapublishers.com Publisher of Books and Journals in Medicine and Health, Science and Technology and Social Sciences Thu, 02 Feb 2023 17:32:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://novapublishers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cropped-nova-favicon-32x32.jpg https://novapublishers.com 32 32 https://novapublishers.com/shop/an-outline-of-asbestos-related-health-effects/ Sun, 04 Dec 2022 15:51:47 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=14987 Series: Public Health in the 21st Century BISAC: MED078000 Asbestos have been used in many different environments, including industrial and home construction projects, vehicles, railroads and shipyards, to name a few. Asbestos have significantly affected many lives, particularly individuals and their families who have experienced substantial direct or indirect occupational exposure to asbestos as well as asbestos-containing products and equipment. Many diseases and conditions are reported to have a direct or indirect causal link to asbestos exposure. This book summarizes the historical background, current knowledge and advancements concerning asbestos and its related diseases in a simple, easy to understand and concise format. The first chapter covers asbestos mineralogy, industrial applications, occupational and environmental exposure as well as methods of fiber analysis. The second chapter focuses on asbestos pathogenesis, including asbestos levels in the environment and various worksites, the biological effects of asbestos fibers and factors determining its toxicity. The third chapter provides an overview of asbestos-related diseases such as asbestosis, pleural diseases, lung cancer and mesothelioma. Each section also includes a discussion of cause and causation, clinical presentation, pathology, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis and surveillance. The fourth chapter outlines the basic concepts of biostatistics and epidemiology, criteria in establishing the causal relationships, the occupational approach of environmental diseases and current standards and regulations. This book serves as an easy to read, quick reference presented in a bulleted format that allows readers to quickly and easily review the information. It is a useful resource for occupational medicine specialists, healthcare providers and environmental scientists who are interested in understanding asbestos and managing asbestos-related diseases. (Imprint: Novinka)  ]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/child-mortality-in-eritrea-an-overview-of-history-and-progress/ Sun, 30 Oct 2022 14:41:43 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=122119 Series: African Studies BISAC: SOC042000; SOC057000 DOI: https://doi.org/10.52305/CGAF1066 Across the world, today child mortality is far less common than it once was. Yet, huge disparities remain and improving child survival is still a matter of urgent global concern. However, an emerging success story is that of Eritrea, located in Northeast Africa. Despite limited resources, an extremely difficult regional geopolitical context, and an array of daunting challenges, the young country has achieved remarkable progress on reducing child deaths. Eritrea’s child mortality story has largely gone unrecognized; this book helps to fill the gap. It traces the history of child mortality in the country and unpacks the multifaceted factors that have helped to drive its success. Guided by high-quality research conducted on the ground, presenting a comprehensive review of a wide range of historical and current materials, and full of the latest, up-to-date data, this book contributes greatly to deepening understanding of child mortality and Eritrea. **Order both the printed version and the e-book together and SAVE!**]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/be-the-change-learning-and-teaching-for-the-creative-industries/ Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:27:49 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=122479 Anna McNamara - Professor, Director of Learning and Teaching, Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey, UK Series: Advances in the Arts BISAC: PER000000 DOI: https://doi.org/10.52305/WLRI5933 Across the world, higher education and the actor and performer training sector are undergoing significant changes in response to the creative, economic and social effects of the global pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and digital technologies. Be the Change: Learning and Teaching for the Creative Industries considers what change needs to look like within performance training and what we can do to create it. Each chapter captures insights from performing arts industry and educational experts, with reflections from high profile actors and practitioners. The focus is on action, not talk, seeking to provide those teaching, facilitating and leading performance training with ideas and practical steps to work differently. This book considers the training provider’s role in increasing representation and inclusivity, looking forward to a sustainable and resilient future. Whilst efforts to broaden access have had some success, for too long, people have felt excluded from audiences and from careers in the industry. Enabling future practitioners includes care of well-being, facilitating structured approaches to intimate scenes and adopting sustainable practices. International perspectives are captured to consider global systemic change, focussing on the core question: what next? **Order both the printed version and the e-book together and SAVE!**]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/textbook-on-evidence-based-holistic-mind-body-medicine-basic-principles-of-healing-in-traditional-hippocratic-medicine/ Fri, 12 Aug 2022 15:55:30 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=66777 Søren Ventegodt, MD Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark Scandinavian Foundation for Holistic Medicine, Sandvika, Norway Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel Division of Adolescent Medicine, KY Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Lexington, Kentucky, USA National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Series: Health and Human Development BISAC: HEA012000 Holistic medicine, or quality of life as medicine, as we often call it, is basically a strategy for improving the patients quality of life, through mobilizing of inner resources. This can never harm and will almost always benefit the patient’s wellbeing and often also help him or her to fight back the disease. The cure is very much the same for all patients: Help to know yourself better and to step into character and be more yourself, and more in tune with the universe. So it can be started right away, also without a specific diagnosis. Is modern, holistic medicine powerful? Oh yes, very much so. Holistic medicine is a truly powerful medicine, in spite of nobody really understanding the deepest structures of consciousness, the connection between mind and body, and the way holistic medicine works. But just because our scientific understanding admittedly still is limited we should not stop doing what we know works. In this book the authors cover the basic principles of healing and ethics of traditional Hippocratic medicine from a new and modern scientific approach. (Imprint: Nova Biomedical )]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/nosocomial-infection-in-abdominal-surgery/ Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:25:41 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=111202 Series: Surgery - Procedures, Complications, and Results BISAC: MED115000; MED022090 DOI: https://doi.org/10.52305/HQVC9383 Nosocomial infections are frequent complications after abdominal surgery. Most abdominal procedures are clean-contaminated, contaminated, or even dirty procedures since plenty of microorganisms are able to enter the gastrointestinal and the genitourinary tracts. Nosocomial infections are associated with morbidity and mortality and reduce patients’ quality of life after surgery. Moreover, they prolong hospital stay and altogether represent an economic burden for health services. Despite different guidelines endorsed by scientific societies describing recommendations for preventing and treating nosocomial infections, they still represent a challenge for healthcare staff. The aim of this book is to revise the actual evidence on the different aspects of nosocomial infections after abdominal surgery. **Order both the printed version and the e-book together and SAVE!**]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/students-attitudes-towards-learning-and-education/ Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:53:59 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=110986 Walter S. Rolph (Editor) Series: Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World BISAC: EDU038000 While factors including school budget and teacher competency undoubtedly impact outcomes in education, the success of students ultimately depends on their interest in, and enjoyment of, the experience of learning. In the same vein, this volume includes six chapters exploring the importance of students’ attitudes towards education from a variety of perspectives. Chapter One aims to unveil the attitudes of nineteen Greek state senior high school students toward the use of self-assessment as an alternative assessment method for learning. Chapter Two includes the first cross-national study of affective outcomes among middle-school mathematics students in the USA and Hong Kong. Chapter Three discusses the need for and strategies for incorporating critical thinking, student engagement, and assessment of competency and education in the context of students in healthcare. Chapter Four argues that the three Chinese Primary School elements of class group space, project-based learning, and student clubs make learning more enjoyable for students and help them form a community of practice. Chapter Five examines the role of growth mindset in student learning and engagement at community colleges. Finally, Chapter Six presents a critical review of the existing literature surrounding e-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. **Order both the printed version and the e-book together and SAVE!**]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/mast-cells-and-their-role-in-health-and-disease/ Mon, 11 Jul 2022 15:37:09 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=111536 Series: Immunology and Immune System Disorders BISAC:MED014000; MED018000 DOI: https://doi.org/10.52305/GPJW5150 This book presents a review concerning the role of mast cells in health and disease. Mast cells were first described by Paul Erlich in his PhD thesis and are considered the remaining cells of an ancient immune system. Indeed, they are placed in common portals of infection, like the urinary and respiratory tracts. The first chapter addresses the role of mast cells in cancer development and progression. Chapters II and III address the role of mast cells in periodontal disease and oral lichen planus, respectively. The role of brain mast cells in neuroinflammation and cognition was described in Chapter IV. Together, these chapters provide the readers an overview of the role of mast cells in different conditions. Since the information presented in this book was obtained from years of works of expertise in the field, we hope that it will be useful for those researchers aiming to better understand the role of mast cells in different conditions. **Order both the printed version and the e-book together and SAVE!**]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/urban-regeneration-methods-implementation-and-management/ Sun, 10 Jul 2022 15:39:46 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=110606 Ray Perrault (Editor) Series: Urban Development and Infrastructure BISAC: POL002000 Urban regeneration refers to projects that are designed to revitalize and improve the quality of areas in cities, involving an investment of private or public funds, based upon an understanding of the shortcomings of particular cities and what makes cities great. This volume includes five chapters that explore the concept of urban regeneration from a variety of perspectives. Chapter One includes a review of the scientific literature regarding the origin of the concept of urban regeneration, discusses the assumptions and defining traits associated with urban regeneration, and addresses business districts and the challenges they pose to the retail revitalization of urban environments. Chapter Two examines how it is possible to produce urban regeneration while preserving the identity of historic centers and minimizing the negative impacts of gentrification. Chapter Three presents reflections on the lessons learned from urban regeneration processes in the context of Southern European countries, with a special focus on the case of Barcelona. Chapter Four presents a case study of the Knocknaheeny estate in Cork city, Ireland, where a multi-annual regeneration masterplan has been implemented since 2013. Lastly, Chapter Five focuses on the different continental backgrounds for expropriation in Germany and South Korea and includes specific case studies for residential redevelopment projects based on three categories: effectiveness, justice, and legitimacy. **Order both the printed version and the e-book together and SAVE!**]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/the-power-to-care-effects-of-power-in-intimate-relationships/ Tue, 10 May 2022 13:29:02 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=30252 Erez Zverling, PhD Department of Psychology, The College for Academic Studies, Israel School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Israel Series: The World of Psychology: Therapeutic, Relational, Teaching BISAC: PSY017000 "Written with wit and elegance, Erez Zverling provides an impressive scholarly overview of the effects power can have on people in various domains, from intimate relationships to society at large. This book will give the reader a truly deep understanding of what it means to have power, and what it means to lack power. " - Johan Karremans, Professor, Radboud University, Behavioral Science Institute, Netherlands What happens when men and women feel powerful in intimate relationships? When does power corrupt and when does it lead to positive consequences, such as increased sensitivity to others’ needs, personal growth, and social responsibility? This book offers anyone interested in such questions a clear and accessible depiction of the effects of social power, based on cutting-edge theory and research. The book starts with a general discussion on the ways power influences individuals. The role of one’s personality, goals, and culture seem to play a decisive role in whether power leads to benevolent or malevolent consequences. Some effects of power are more intuitively understood (e.g., taking from or contributing to a common resource, or aggressive responses in parents who feel powerless), while other effects regard much more surprising phenomena (e.g., self-fulfilling prophecies, stopping an annoying fan, or forgiveness for a transgression). Following the description of this social-psychological mechanism, The Power to Care discusses the cultural and developmental circumstances in which power is experienced. Culturally acquired gender-roles, experienced racism, egoistic vs. altruistic motivations, and defensive tendencies – all influence what men and women want in intimate relationships, and the way power can motivate them to attain their goals. These circumstances may explain the gender differences found in the results of three experiments, described in Chapter 4. In these experiments, men and women in long-term, intimate relationships reacted differently to a temporary sense of power, in terms of their tendency to self-focus, take the perspective of others, and objectify their relationship partners. In the last section, The Power to Care discusses the seemingly contradictory beliefs of professionals and laymen alike, that power corrupts, but that empowerment processes yield positive results. In this section, the role of power and empowerment processes is discussed, mainly in macro-level interventions, in intimate partner violence (for both victims and perpetrators), overcoming addiction, and in policy practice (e.g., in court verdicts regarding cases of post-divorce relocation of custodial parents). 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The analysis of this context leads to questioning the basic composition of civilizations, their compatibility, and radical differences, leading to a dimension of awareness that has not been addressed by scholars studying civilizations. What is at issue is the inevitable “anarchistic terror,” which includes most unpredictable acts by “unsuspected” individuals, not only from Islam, but also by those emboldened by a specific mode of awareness. This level “dissolves” the various claims that the fundamental clash is among civilizations and points to two, modern, Western levels of this dissolution: literature and theory. The former calls for the collapse of anything resembling features of the world that are accessible to human awareness. The second level places the world at an arbitrary service for human “needs.” The result is made manifest by the claims from anarchistic terrorists that the modern West is “Satanic” and destructive of the created order of all things, which is a totally anarchistic point of view, while the answer from the modern West points to the fundamental anarchism of those who terrorize “Western” ways. The analysis of this context shows that both sides are anarchistic and face an inevitable collision without any possible justification. The collision is designed to unfold into a final domain that requires an “ontological” account of how such a collision in human life is possible, without relying on previously inadequate explanations. The text includes contemporary “turmoil” in global relationships, the various trends toward “autocracy” and “strong man” solutions to our predicaments. Such tendencies appear in the phenomenon of the conjunction of state and religion, so well pronounced in Russia, in Confucian China, the Middle East, the United States, and in European nations. It is to be noted that such solutions do not depend only on personality cults, but above all, on “legitimating” their stories. The point is that such stories are equally anarchistic. (Imprint: Nova)]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/adolescent-dating-violence-outcomes-challenges-and-digital-tools/ Mon, 09 May 2022 13:15:25 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=68732 Series: Safety and Risk in Society BISAC: FAM001030 Adolescent Dating Violence: Outcomes, Challenges and Digital Tools summarizes the latest discussion about challenges in adolescent dating violence (DV) and digital dating abuse (DDA), emphasizing the influence of digital tools and seeking to identify similarities and differences between online and offline types of abuse. The first introductory chapter presents an overview of outcomes and future challenges of dating abuse in adolescents, focusing on the recent studies and examining prevalence, risk and protective factors and consequences of DV. Chapter two addresses a research involving quantitative and qualitative complementary studies with participants involved in same-sex relationships, aiming to give a more complete portrait of another aspect involved in the dating violence problem. The third chapter discusses the psychological traits of the adolescents perpetrating dating violence in order to identify the problematic characteristics that are related to the abuse and provide the most accurate intervention in terms of prevention. Chapter four introduces the problematic use of digital tools, explaining how they can foster abuse in the context of dating relationships, focusing on the prevalence and impacts of this emergent important phenomenon. Chapter five discusses sexting, an emerging phenomenon in dating relationships, associated with new psychosocial and digital risks. This new form of online sexual violence may increase the vulnerability of adolescent at a crucial stage in their sexual-affective development. Accordingly, the practices of sexting and its meaning in the dating relationship are characterized. Cyberbullying is another abusive typology that has been related to DDA, which is given special focus and attention in chapter six. Finally, the last chapter intends to review evidence-based DDA intervention and prevention, considering the different variables related to them, specifically the sociodemographic, risk and protective factors. (Imprint: Nova)]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/handbook-of-the-psychology-of-narcissism-diverse-perspectives/ Mon, 09 May 2022 13:04:19 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=40697 Avi Besser, PhD (Editor) Center for Research in Personality, Life Transitions, and Stressful Life Events, Sapir Academic College, Israel Series: Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions This is an edited collection of work by a distinguished set of international experts that presents a broad overview of psychological research on narcissism from diverse perspectives, including the clinical, social and personality, industrial/organizational, cognitive/social cognition, and biological/physiological point of views. The chapters are clustered into three sections focusing on intrapersonal (Chapters 1–10), interpersonal (Chapters 11–18), and clinical (Chapters 19–23) aspects of narcissism. Together, the chapters provide a comprehensive overview of one of the most popular topics in psychology. The individual chapters present in-depth reviews of particular issues such as the role of narcissism in individual responses to exposure to traumatic events, interpersonal romantic rejection, and achievement failure. A number of further topics are covered in this book, including: • How narcissistic individuals react to threatening situations • Whether narcissism is a personality disorder or a cultural phenomenon • The relationships between narcissism and self-worth, perfectionism, humor, empathy, and identity • The role of narcissism in parenting • The relationship between narcissism and eating disorders • The role of narcissism in the workplace • Cognitive, clinical, industrial-organizational (I-O), social and personality, psychological, and behavioral correlates of narcissism. This collection will be of great interest to researchers and practitioners, as well as graduate and advanced undergraduate students of social psychology. (Imprint: Nova)]]>