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Why is it so hard to extend the same kindness to ourselves
that many of us gladly offer to others? Maybe it’s because
in our conventional way of thinking in the West we tend
to view compassion as a gift, and bestowing it on ourselves seems…

“Semiotic” or “semiotics” are terms not frequently found in the HCI literature.
Search results can be taken as a rough indication of the relative scarcity of semiotic
approaches to HCI. In December 2003 a search for semiotic in the HCI…

From a sociointeractional perspective of discourse, this research aims at investigating
the written narrative of a student of English and Portuguese Teaching Practicum from
a Letters undergraduate Course at UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de…

The research reported in this book was supported in part by an Overseas Research
Students Award and a Clarendon Fund bursary, from Oxford University, as well as
by a Senior Scholarship from Somerville College, Oxford University to Cristy Ho.
We…

he Dutchman Roggeveen discovered Easter Island, a wink of
land far from all the major island groups of the Pacific, on Easter
Day 1722. Along with the island, he discovered a mystery. Scattered across the terrain were enormous stone faces with…

According to WHO, about 16.7 million people in the world die every year from
cardiovascular diseases, including coronary heart disease (CHD). CHD is a leading
disease in incidence and mortality in the general population [1,2]. One of the…

The intricacies of anxiety have continued to capture the attention of some of the world’s greatest scientists, scholars, and critical thinkers. In 1953 Rollo May stated in Man’s Search for Himself that the “middle of the twentieth century is…

One way and another, this book has been more than 30 years in the making. Even if I were to try to remember all of those people who have contributed to it, and to record what they have done, I do not think that I would come close to acknowledging all…