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    Bestselling titles now available in paperback

    Paperbacks Direct are topical books that represent the best of our cutting-edge hardback publishing in a paperback format and price. Check out which of our Paperbacks Direct are publishing this month.

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    CBT for Those at Risk of a First Episode Psychosis

    Can severe mental illness be prevented by early intervention?

    Mental illness is highly prevalent in the general population and has its onset mostly in adolescence and young adulthood. Early intervention usually leads to improved prognosis. This book describes a newly developed, evidence based cognitive behavioural intervention that can be used by clinicians to treat the precursor symptoms of psychosis and other severe mental illness. CBT for those at risk of a First Episode Psychosis offers a detailed new psychotherapy that has been shown to reduce the chance of transition to a first psychotic episode and to improve the chance for recovery.

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    Dictionary of Shipping Terms, 6th Edition

    Shipping has many hundreds of terms and phrases whose meaning is not always obvious, even for experienced practitioners. This comprehensive dictionary contains concise definitions of maritime terms and phrases, including those used in liner, tramp and bulk shipping.

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    EU Competition Law and the Financial Services Sector

    Competition law is a complex and constantly evolving area of law which affects every aspect of the market economy, including the financial services sector.  This book is a comprehensive and practical guide to the application of the EU competition rules to banking and insurance industries.

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    Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation: Current Applications and New Directions

    This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook reviews the latest methods and technologies used in Automated Essay Evaluation (AEE) methods and technologies. Highlights include the latest in the evaluation of performance-based writing assessments and recent advances in the teaching of writing, language testing, cognitive psychology, and computational linguistics.

46. Earthscan from Routledge May Highlights

    With so many great titles publishing this month it has been impossible to give them all the justice they deserve in our May newsletter, so to be sure you don't miss out you can find them all here.

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    Paediatrics, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis

    How do children and parents shape clinical practice? How can clinicians learn from the impact of their patients upon them? How do we recognize if health care practices are adversely affecting health care?

    Paediatrics, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis is an exploration of the central importance of the patient-doctor relationship and how the psychodynamics of this relationship are crucial in providing information that can aid treatment.

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    Semantic Polarities and Psychopathologies in the Family

    The gap between psychotherapeutic practice and clinical theory is ever widening. Therapists still don’t know what role interpersonal relations play in the development of the most common psychopathologies. Valeria Ugazio bridges this gap by examining phobias, obsessive-compulsions, eating disorders, and depression in the context of the family, using an intersubjective approach to personality. 

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    The Scientific Study of Social Behaviour (Psychology Revivals)

    Originally published in 1957, this book presented an up-to-date account of psychological research into human social behavior of the time. There are chapters on interaction between pairs of people, behavior in small social groups, and human relations in industry.

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    Psychology and Social Problems (Psychology Revivals)

    First published in 1964, Psychology and Social Problems looks at a changing society and research into problems of the time. Many of the themes in the book, such as delinquency, mental health and racial conflict, are still familiar and current topics of discussion today.