The importance of knowledge as a key source of competitive advantage is now well established in management studies, as suggested by the growing literature focusing on knowledge creation and transfer (Kogut and Zander, 1992: Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995: Strategic Management Journal Winter Special Issue, 1996). However, although concepts such as tacit knowledge and organizational knowledge unify mu…

People often ask me how long it takes to write my books. I answer that each book takes about a year to write, and about thirty years to gather the materials to write about. If I wanted to be even more accurate, I?d probably say sixty years, because getting the confidence to write a book took the love and unconditional support from my family of birth and the family I made: it took encouragement …

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We would like to thank our publishers and editors at Cambridge University Press, particularly Pauline Graham and Betty Fulford for their continued support, encouragement and feedback throughout the development of this book. We have valued our contact with the Acne Support Group and the UK Vitiligo Society and particularly with Ms Maxine Whitton, a patient and professional whose inspirational sp…

Preventing Crime: What Works for Children, OVenders, V ictims, and Places is the first book that details the role of the Campbell Collaboration in assessing outcomes in crime and justice. I first heard about the Campbell Collaboration in the summer of 1999 and immediately decided to be part of this valiant effort to change the way crime and justice, education, and social welfare were implemente…

The dynamics of addiction and the need to attribute causes for both addiction and recovery have important implications for clinicians and public policy makers alike. Sometimes treatment providers and public policy makers intervene with addictive behavior patterns when it is unnecessary, calling too much attention to issues that have limited adverse consequences. These patterns of drug misuse te…

Creative visualization is the technique of using your imagination to create what you want in your life. There is nothing at all new, strange, or unusual about creative visualization. You are already using it every day, every minute in fact. It is your natural power of imagination, the basic creative energy of the universe, which you use constantly, whether or not you are aware of it. In the pas…

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Psychology appeals strongly to those who consider entering the field for several compelling reasons. One is its basic focus on human behavior? a topic relevant to each of us as individuals and in our many different relationships. At all ages, the psychological aspects of our behavior and that of others are key in how we perceive and experience our worlds. Another of psychology?s appeals has to …

Psychiatry is the branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, and behavioural disorders. In psychiatry, as in other branches of medicine, classifi cation of disease is useful for the following: ? Informing clinical practice. By placing a given patient?s disorder into a recognized diagnostic category, the clinician is able to make an appropriate choice of treatment, and judge the proba…