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CRC Press Investing for a Greener Planet
Book SynopsisThis title highlights the pertinent issue of climate change and its management using sustainable sources of finance. The book provides a comprehensive overview of sustainable development and its management using green finance, green energy, green transport, and green infrastructure, as well as the policies and innovations that can be implemented at both the micro and macro levels.Features: Covers theories, concepts, practices, regulations, case studies, and real-world applications related to sustainable finance. Introduces the concept of sustainable finance and climate risk management. Explains green finance, green infrastructure, green transport, and others to mitigate the climate risk. Provides a comprehensive view of various policies and innovations that can be done at micro and macro level to reduce carbon footprints. Reviews contemporary concept of climate-related disclosures and reporting by financial institutions. This book is aimed at graduate students, researchers and professionals in environmental sciences, sustainable finance, climate change and circular economy including policymakers.
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Taylor & Francis International Business Law and the Legal Environment
The fifth edition of International Business Law and the Legal Environment: A Transactional Approach gives business and law students a clear understanding of the legal principles that govern international business. This book goes beyond compliance by emphasizing how to use the law to create value and competitive advantage.DiMatteoâs transactional approach walks students through key business transactionsâfrom import and export, contracts, and finance to countertrade, dispute resolution, licensing, and moreâgiving them both context and providing real-world applications. This new edition also features:â Added coverage of new technologies, such as smart contracts, digital platforms, and blockchain technology, Artificial Intelligence, Market for Non-Fungible Tokens, and the Metaverseâ Discussion of businesses and sustainability, climate change, and creating a circular economyâ International perspective and use of a variety of national and international law mate
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Taylor & Francis Analyzing Ethics Questions from Behavior Analysts
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Taylor & Francis Social Processes of Online Hate
Book SynopsisThis book explores the social forces among and between online aggressors that affect the expression and perpetration of online hate. Its chapters illustrate how patterns of interactive social behavior reinforce, magnify, or modify this expression. It also considers the characteristics of social media that facilitate social interactions that promote hate and facilitate relationships among haters. Bringing together a range of international experts and covering an array of themes, including woman abuse, antisemitism, pornography, radicalization, and extreme political youth movements, this book examines the specific social factors and processes that facilitate these forms of hate and proposes new approaches for explaining them.Cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and authoritative, this book will be of interest to sociologists, criminologists, and scholars of media, communication, and computational social science alike, as well as those engaged with hate crime, hate speech, social me
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Taylor & Francis EU Environmental Governance
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Taylor & Francis An Ontology of Organized Crime
Book SynopsisOne of the most elusive pursuits in the study of organized crime is developing a definition, description, or conceptual model that captures its complexity, diversity, and ever-changing nature. This book takes a comprehensive approach to unraveling the intricacies and variations of organized crime, providing a detailed account of its many attributes. Based on a review of the theoretical literature, the author has created a holistic typology essential to understanding organized crime. The typology comprises 28 attributes divided into five thematic categories: associational (the relationship among the offenders that leads to some discernible structure), commercial (revenue-generating crimes), operational (support functions and expenditures), institutional (factors that sustain a criminal association and activities over time), and cultural/behavioral (the norms, values, and codes of organized crime and how they affect the actions of offenders). These categories are not simply used to classify the different attributes; each one represents a structural pillar of an organized criminal association. As a meta-analytical framework, the typology is the first to incorporate the foremost ways in which organized crime has been conceptualized in the literature: as an association of offenders, the crimes perpetrated, how organized crimes are carried out, and as a form of underworld governance. The book also adapts the static typology into a flexible and testable conceptual model that recognizes the many variations among organized criminal associations, and which can be used to determine when a group of offenders constitutes organized crime. Besides their theoretical and empirical purposes, the typology and conceptual model have been constructed as applied frameworks for informing strategic enforcement (setting priorities), tactical enforcement (targeting and denigrating the structural pillars of an organized criminal association), and policy purposes (as a basis for a comprehensive multi-sectoral control plan).This book is invaluable for students and scholars studying organized crime as well as criminal justice professionals looking for guidance on enforcement strategies and public policies.
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Taylor & Francis Healing Veteran Moral Injury
Book SynopsisHealing Veteran Moral Injury highlights the importance of story and metaphor in the change process and in trauma-related work.Grounded in evidence-based practice and replete with clear, down-to-earth examples that foster empathy and understanding, Healing Veteran Moral Injury illustrates the ways in which building a sense of community can help restore trust and meaning-making. Chapters illustrate the power of stories and metaphors and help Veterans identify strategies for healing moral injury and posttraumatic growth. Clinicians and Veterans will come away from this book with tools for building connections, accepting what they cannot change, and developing a more accurate perception of responsibility.Healing Veteran Moral Injury is intended both for mental health professionals and Veterans themselves as a tool for breaking the silence, pointing other Veterans toward hope and healing, and telling stories of moral pain with fortitude and courage.
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Routledge Women Defendants and International Law
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Taylor & Francis Citizenship and Genocide Cards
Book SynopsisThis book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar's genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness. By centring the narratives of survivors of state crimes, collected in the aftermath of the 2017 genocidal violence, this book examines the multiple uses of state issued ID cards and registration documents in producing statelessness and facilitating genocide. In doing so, it challenges some of the international solutions put forward to resolve statelessness.Rohingya narratives disrupt a simple linear understanding of documenting legal identity that marginalizes experiences of these processes. The richly layered accounts of the effects of citizenship laws and registration processes on the lives of Rohingya, problematise the ways in which international actors have endorsed state ID schemes and by-passed state-led persecution of the group.This book will be valuable for scholars studying global crim
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CRC Press Guardians of the Digital Age
Book SynopsisThe internet wasnât built for time travelers. But when ethical hacker and mother Elsa and her 14-year-old son, Aiden, uncover a hidden code buried deep within cyberspace, they are pulled into a high-stakes journey through cybersecurity historyâfrom the birth of ARPANET in 1969 to the AI-driven cyberwars of 2040. Their mission? Trace the origins of digital security before an unknown force alters history and reshapes the future of technology forever. As they jump across decades, they encounter internet pioneers, legendary hackers, and cyber-rebels who changed the digital world. But not everything in the past wants to stay in the past. Real dangers lurk in the timeline. Elsa and Aiden must navigate malware, mass surveillance, cyberwarfare, and a growing mystery that threatens the foundation of the internet itself. As they race against time, they also face their own fears and shifting trust in each other. A thrilling bridge between past and future, this book introduces parents and teens to the evolution of the internet and the most essential skill of our timeâdigital security. The future is written in codeâbut cybersecurity is about trust and humanity. Will they protect it, or rewrite it?
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Taylor & Francis Space Law
Book SynopsisAs space continues to attract substantial public and private investment and has become ever more active, the third edition of this book has been updated to cover recent developments. This includes the legal bases of UN Resolution 76/3, the Space3030 Agenda, which envisages âspace as a driver of sustainable developmentâ and sets out an extensive programme for the future. The work also takes account of adaptations and augmentations to basic space treaties. It examines the increasing commercialisation of space in areas such as space tourism and space mining, for which four states have already adopted relevant legislation. The impact of new technologies such as satellite constellations and micro-satellites are also scrutinised. At a time when space tourism is available to those who can afford it and when the moon will shortly be revisited with a prospect of permanent bases, this third edition provides a firm base for the next generation of space lawyers. As with previous editions, the work draws from governmental, international organisational and other authoritative sources as well as the relevant literature in the field. The book will be an essential and comprehensive resource for students, academics and researchers as well as space agencies, governments and space-active companies. It will also be of value to technical operatives and managers who need to know the legal context within which they work.
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Taylor & Francis Beyond Autoethnography
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Taylor & Francis Intimate Politics
Book SynopsisThis book places the intimate experience of fertility control at the heart of political and social approaches toward women's bodies.Across the globe, women have always controlled their fertility through intimate efforts ultimately tied to larger political processes and gendered power dynamics. Women's biological reproductive capabilities have been contested sites of power struggles, shaping the formation, rule, and dissolution of political regimes throughout history. Yet these intersections between the intimate and the political remain understudied in the historical literature. This book explores these questions from the perspective of multiple time periods, geographic locations, actors, and methods. Chapters analyze how women's individual practices of fertility control, including contraception, abortion, and infanticide, alongside methods for achieving conception and birth, intersected with larger political, economic, and cultural trends. Others problematize the ideas of con
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Taylor & Francis Social Work with Young People in Care
Book SynopsisThis introduction to social work with children and young people who are looked after (in care or accommodated) by statutory or voluntary agencies is the only textbook on the subject which addresses this area of work across all four nations of the UK.Providing a clear theoretical and ethical basis, it introduces and develops a set of core themes, reflective of contemporary developments including: â the influence of, and tensions between, dominant discourses that shape the social work service (relationship-based practice, early intervention and prevention, social innovation, evidence-based practice and outcomes); â the use and abuse of concepts of âchildrenâs needsâ and âbest interestsâ; â ideas of parenting and parental responsibility, and the relationships between children, families, communities and the state; â the importance of recognising that children and young people have rights and considering their views; â trauma, trauma-informed practice, transitions and resilience.With chapters addressing a sequence of topics â assessment and planning, residential and foster care, leaving care, and permanence â there is a specific focus on working with disabled children, children from minority ethnic communities, and marginalised groups of children and young people, including refugees and asylum seekers, LGBTQIA+ children and those who have been trafficked.Packed full of useful pedagogical features, including material on the legal and policy context, summaries of research evidence, notes for good practice, group teaching exercises, references to legislation and guidance, and guides to further reading, it will be core reading on any child and family care modules, general preparation for practice courses, Frontline, Step Up, as well as for all social work practitioners.
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Taylor & Francis The Regulation of Cannabis in Europe
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Taylor & Francis The European Health Data Space
This timely volume provides a comprehensive examination of how the proposed new European Health Data Space (EHDS) legislation will impact upon health and genetic data, individual privacy, and providers of health services. Including contributions from some of the leading scholars in this area, this ground-breaking book will be key reading for students and researchers across Law and Public Health.
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CRC Press Spies in the Bits and Bytes
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Taylor & Francis Architects Legal Handbook
Book SynopsisCelebrating 50 years since it was first published, the Architect's Legal Handbook has been the most widely used reference on the law for practicing architects, and the established textbook on law for architectural students.Since the last edition of this book in 2021, unprecedented change has occurred in the construction sector. The withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union has ushered in changes to legislation in a wide range of areas. The tragic fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, and the deficiencies in design, construction and regulation within the sector that were revealed as a result, have given rise to major changes in the way projects are now carried out. An overhaul of the Building Regulations and the creation of a new Building Safety Regulator are only some of the ways in which the landscape has changed.This eleventh edition features all the latest developments in the law which affect an architect's work, as well as providing comprehensi
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Taylor & Francis Human Rights Law and Corporate Regulation
Book SynopsisThis book argues for an intensely humanist engagement with the company and presents a model of company regulation that is compatible with the protection, respect for and fulfilment of human rights.Dr Barrett provides a theoretical framing for corporate regulation in the context of human rights states. He argues that states which have ratified the fundamental human rights instruments should, on principle, exclude bodies corporate from the human rights ecosystem, except to the degree necessary to respect property rights of humans and human rights in business. He therefore develops a neo-concession' account of the corporation as the basis for a model of corporate regulation to protect human rights. The book outlines and recommends principal features of a company under a neo-concession model, and the role of regulators in furthering the state's human right obligations. It also delves into the potential issues of technological developments, including decentralized autonomous organ
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CRC Press The CISO 3.0
Book SynopsisThe CISO 3.0 isn't just a book; it's a roadmap for the next generation of cybersecurity leadership. In an era where cyber threats are more sophisticated and the stakes are higher than ever, CISOs can no longer rely solely on technical expertise. They must evolve into strategic business leaders who can seamlessly integrate cybersecurity into the very fabric of their organizations.This book challenges the traditional perception of the CISO as a technical leader, advocating for a strategic shift towards business alignment, quantitative risk management, and the embrace of emerging technologies like AI and machine learning. It empowers CISOs to transcend their technical expertise and evolve into business-savvy leaders, fully equipped to meet the rising expectations from boards, executives, and regulators. The book directly addresses the increasing demands from boards and regulators in the wake of recent high-profile cyber events, providing CISOs with the necessary skills and knowledge to navigate this new landscape.The CISO 3.0 isn't about theory; it's about action. It delves into the practicalities of business-aligned cybersecurity through real-life stories and illustrative examples that showcase the triumphs and tribulations of CISOs in the field. The book offers unparalleled insights gleaned from the author's extensive experience advising hundreds of successful programs, including in-depth discussions on risk quantification, cyber insurance strategies, and defining materiality for risks and incidents. It fills the gap left by other resources, providing clear guidance on translating business alignment concepts into practice.If you're a cybersecurity professional aspiring to a CISO role or an existing CISO seeking to enhance your strategic leadership skills and business acumen, this book is your roadmap. It's designed to bridge the gap between the technical and business worlds, empowering you to become a strategic leader who drives value and protects your organization's most critical assets.
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CRC Press Compulsory Purchase and Compensation
Book SynopsisCompulsory Purchase and Compensation remains the essential guide to this complex and increasingly relevant area of the law. Now in its 12th edition, no other book presents the same level of information on the law relating to compulsory purchase and compensation in England and Wales in such an accessible way.The book is also especially suited to those coming to this complex subject without a specific background in the law and is ideal reading for those students taking planning and built environment modules. Surveyors in particular will find this book invaluable.Whilst this new edition picks up the very many decisions of the Upper Tribunal and the higher courts since the 11th edition, the principal piece of new legislation is the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023. One of the controversial provisions in the 2023 Act is the power to include in a compulsory purchase order a direction, the effect of which is that in relation to certain limited purposes, compensation sha
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Taylor & Francis WellBeing in the Legal Profession
Book SynopsisThis book provides a critical psychosocial analysis of legal practice, documenting a mental health crisis among lawyers and judges and linking this crisis to a dysfunctional legal system they continue to control.Tracing studies of lawyers and judges over 40 years, this book demonstrates that decades of mental distress and social detachment in the legal profession have seriously damaged the legal system. Focusing largely on conditions in the United States but also drawing on studies from the UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia, the book depicts how this system is jeopardized by lawyers' egocentrism, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance abuse. To improve the legal system and lawyers' mental healthintegrating law, psychology, sociology, and policy makingthe book advocates a renewed commitment to justice, compassion, respect, and fairness through an ethic of regenerative altruism.This book will appeal to legal academics concerned with the sociology of legal
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Taylor & Francis Consumer Collective Redress in EU Law
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Taylor & Francis Criminal Justice Policy and Planning
Book SynopsisUnlike other textbooks on the subject, this book presents a comprehensive and structured account of the process of administering planned change in the criminal justice system. The authors detail a simple yet sophisticated seven-stage model, which offers students and practitioners a full account of program and policy development from beginning to end. Within these stages, students focus on performing essential procedures, such as conducting a systems analysis, specifying an impact model, identifying target populations, making cost projections, collecting monitoring data, and performing evaluations. In reviewing these steps and procedures, students can develop a full appreciation for the challenges inherent in the process and understand the tools they require to meet those challenges. To provide for a greater understanding of the material, the text uses a wide array of real-life case studies and examples of programs and policies. By examining the successes and failures of various innovations, the authors demonstrate both the ability of rational planning to make successful improvements and the tendency of unplanned change to result in undesirable outcomes. The result is a powerful argument for the use of logic, deliberation, and collaboration in criminal justice innovations.This readable volume is ideal as a primary or supplemental text in criminal justice policy-related courses, and also serves as a useful reference for practitioners in the field tasked with strategic planning for policy change.
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Taylor & Francis Unraveling the Wrongful Conviction
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Taylor & Francis The Diary of Dudley Ryder 17151716
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Taylor & Francis The Carriage Of Goods By Sea Under The Rotterdam
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Taylor & Francis Women Crime and Forgiveness in Early Modern
Book SynopsisLooking at the experiences of women in early modern Portugal in the context of crime and forgiveness, this study demonstrates the extent to which judicial and quasi-judicial records can be used to examine the implications of crime in womenâs lives, whether as victims or culprits. The foundational basis for this study is two sets of manuscript sources that highlight two distinct yet connected experiences of women as participants in the criminal process. One consists of a collection of archival documents from the first half of the seventeenth century, a corpus called 'querelas,' in which formal accusations of criminal acts were registered. This is a rich source of information not only about the types of crimes reported, but also the process that plaintiffs had to follow to deal with their cases. The second primary source consists of a sampling of documents known as the âperdà o de parte.â The term refers to the victimâs pardon, unique to the Iberian Peninsula, which allowed individuals
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Taylor & Francis Legal Pluralism and Sharia Law
Book SynopsisLegal pluralism has often been associated with post-colonial legal developments especially where common law survived alongside tribal and customary laws. Focusing on Shariâa, this book examines the legal policies and experiences of various societies with different traditions of citizenship, secularism and common law. Where large diasporic communities of migrants develop, there will be some demand for the institutionalization of Shariâa at least in the resolution of domestic disputes. This book tests the limits of multiculturalism by exploring the issue that any recognition of cultural differences might imply similar recognition of legal differences. It also explores the debate about post-secular societies specifically to the presentation and justification of beliefs and institutions by both religious and secular citizens.This book was published as a special issue of Democracy and Security.
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Taylor & Francis Therapeutic Community for Women Prisoners
Book SynopsisBased upon an extensive empirical study of a democratic therapeutic community (DTC) for women serving long and medium sentences, this book explores the opportunities it provided for reparative and restorative rehabilitation. In so doing it identifies some of the interconnected ways in which these ambitions are undermined by pervasive, yet often tacit, assumptions that underly penal policies and practices. Drawing on a wealth of data gathered from a study spanning a period of 18 years at the only DTC for women prisoners in the UK, the book highlights how feminist criminology has revealed an invidious history of womenâs treatment in prison, demonstrating how reformist and rehabilitative interventions have reproduced and exacerbated existing states of inequality and oppression. Consequently, the question explored in this book is whether a proportionate sentence that imposes a loss of liberty is inevitably destined to this fate, or whether it can be constructed in ways that are progressive and transformative. By identifying and understanding some of the interconnected ways in which progressive efforts have typically been undermined, it opens a debate about the insinuation of certain, often unspoken, assumptions that underly penal policies and practices and the need for their deconstruction. It opens an axiomatic debate about how women imprisoned for serious offences, might have that loss of liberty interpreted to facilitate a restorative, reparative and reintegrative process of rehabilitation, informed by principles of social justice.Therapeutic Community for Women Prisoners: Re-imagining Rehabilitation and the Loss of Liberty will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology, feminist studies, public policy, and human rights. It will also be of value to policy-makers and practitioners in womenâs prisons, and psychologists and psychiatrists interested in therapeutic communities.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Law and Justice in Small Island Developing States
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Taylor & Francis AI and Legal Education
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of the sustainable and ethical integration of artificial intelligence (AI) within legal education, offering practical strategies for balancing innovation with ethical responsibility. Discussing the intersection of legal studies, technology and ethics, the book focuses on AI's role in reshaping professional education.With the rising demand for digital transformation in legal education and the increasing scrutiny of AI's ethical impact, this book explores the potential of AI to enhance legal learning and practice, while critically examining the challenges of data privacy, algorithmic bias and equitable access to technology. Outlining a framework for incorporating AI into the law curriculum, the book equips the readers with both cutting-edge technological skills and a deep understanding of AIâs ethical and societal implications. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including industry data and academic research, the book offers grounded, actionable guidance on implementing AI in a way that promotes inclusivity, sustainability and long-term relevance. It addresses the needs of legal education institutions, faculty and students, providing them with the tools to navigate the evolving legal landscape while maintaining ethical standards.The book will also be of interest to researchers in the fields of law, education and AI ethics.
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Austin Macauley Publishers Diosas Goddesses
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Taylor & Francis Legal and Financial Aspects of Project Finance in Africa
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Taylor & Francis Liabilities and Modern Artificial Intelligence
Book SynopsisThis book addresses how private law liability should be assigned in contexts where modern forms of AI are deployed.AI as a technology holds the potential to radically improve global society, yet the pace of its advancement far outstrips the pace at which legal systems are responding. This book explores legal approaches to AI, how AI should be legally characterised, and proposes an overarching theoretical liability framework termed the Tri-Phase AI Liability Model. This framework is flexible in nature and considers the type of AI, the context in which it is deployed, who has the most control over the AI system and the capacity of a deployed AI. In response, this book brings greatly needed clarity to the evolving landscape of AI governance, aiding in resolving existing and emerging private law challenges.This book is a timely response to the urgent need to resolve private law liabilities and will appeal to legal professionals, policymakers, and scholars looking to understand or contribute to the current and future governance of AI within private law.
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Taylor & Francis The Public Policy Theory Primer
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CRC Press Philosophy.exe
Book SynopsisWe live in an age of unprecedented complexity, where technology, cognitive biases, and societal systems shape our decisions in ways we barely notice. The world is changing faster than our ability to make sense of it. Philosophy.exe is designed to bridge this gap, offering a mental toolkit to help navigate uncertainty, rethink assumptions, and make better decisions in a tech-driven world.Blending classical philosophy, cognitive science, AI ethics, and behavioral psychology, this book provides an adaptive framework for understanding the world. It challenges over-simplified models and rigid ideologies, encouraging readers to embrace complexity as a strategic advantage rather than a threat.What This Book Explores Complexity Thinking â Why linear logic fails and how to develop a mindset that thrives in uncertainty. Cognitive Biases & Decision-Making â How hidden mental shortcuts shape our beliefs, and how to counteract them. Resilience & Mental Adaptability â Tools for maintaining clarity, focus, and critical thinking in a rapidly evolving landscape. Technology & Human Autonomy â The philosophical and ethical challenges of AI, digital identity, and algorithmic decision-making. Ethics Beyond Intentions â A pragmatic approach to decision-making that accounts for unintended consequences.Philosophy.exe is for those who seek to go beyond conventional wisdomâwhether philosophers, strategists, leaders, or curious minds who question the narratives shaping modern life. It provides the tools to think deeply, adapt quickly, and engage critically in an era dominated by complexity and rapid technological evolution.In a world of misinformation, automation, and uncertainty, this book isnât just about philosophyâitâs about survival.
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Taylor & Francis Disability Psychotherapy
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Taylor & Francis Law Technology and Governance
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Taylor & Francis Law Technology and Governance
Book SynopsisThis book argues that law, regulation, and technology can be understood as particular kinds of governance projects, and their credentials assessed according to an overarching concept of good governance. The book introduces the ideas of âgovernance by lawâ and âgovernance by regulationâ as particular types of projects within a constellation of governance projects â some normative, some non-normative, and some hybrid. As such, legal and regulatory projects can be differentiated from each other as well as from other normative governance projects, such as ethics; they can also be contrasted with various kinds of non-normative technological projects; and, importantly, they can be compared with governance projects that are hybrids, such as rule-and-tool projects. Based on this account of governance, the limitations and imperfections of legal and regulatory governance â relative to an overarching concept of good governance â become readily apparent. Focusing on governance projects, governance problems, and governance prospects, the book thereby offers an insightful and original analysis of the current â and future â intersection of law, technology and governance. This book will be of interest to legal researchers and postgraduates in the burgeoning field of law, regulation and technology; as well as others with more general interests in issues of law and governance.
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Taylor & Francis Alternatives to Incarceration
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SAGE Publications Inc A Practical Approach to Special Education
Book SynopsisYour guide to excelling in the complex role of a special education administrator The job of the administrator of special education is arguably one of the most difficult in a school districtand that complexity can be overwhelming. It requires an aspect of every administrative job in the district, including budgets, human resources, student advocacy, and curriculum and assessment. Written by two veteran special education administrators with more than 100 years of combined experience, this book shows current and aspiring special education administrators how to excel in the many demanding areas of their position, allowing them to be effective administrators and educational leaders. Among the many topics included in the book are The importance of visibility in the form of face-to-face interactions to assist staff, students, and building principals The importance of parents in the process The significance of confidentiality, due process, program development, and working with advocates Insight into decision-making and relationship-building A critical tool in any special education administrator's box, as well as building administrators, central office administrators and school committee members,this book provides practical and friendly advice for a difficult but critical job.Trade Review"The role of the administrator of special education in any school district might be the most challenging position in the neighborhood. With constrained budgets and burgeoning needs for students who require special services, the typical administrator often struggles with complex if not agonizing life-altering decisions. Layered upon this reality is a massive number of regulations, codes, laws, standards, and paperwork that must be followed and attended to. Fortunately, two retired administrators of special education have written a book on the administrator’s role that reads like an encyclopedia but exudes warmth and passion on most every page. This impressive book brings the reader inside the important and mercurial world of special education, presenting a wealth of critical information while simultaneously speaking to the reader with unabashed candor and humility. I particularly enjoyed reading the anecdotes that speak to the struggles and triumphs each encountered along the way. Students who require special education services often need strong voices advocating for their needs. The world is a better place because of the voices of the authors. I highly recommend this book to anyone who works in or is involved in special education. It should be mandatory reading for all new administrators of special education." -- Charles Appelstein, MSW"For a novice special education administrator, this book is a professional gem. Grounded in integrity, and keeping students at the forefront of their work, the authors have created a practical guide for how to approach and manage the all-encompassing role of administrator of special education. Starting with a refresher on special education law and moving into a myriad of topics which fall under the responsibility of director, this resource is invaluable to all those working in the field of special education." -- Tamara Barrera, M.Ed."I have the good fortune to have been mentored by Bob McArdle in my career as an administrator of special education and have worked with Jim over the last 11 years as a senior district leader. What a benefit to the larger community of special education administrators that they can now access the collective knowledge and experience that the authors have in the field through this book! The role of the administrator of special education can be a lonely one and singular in its nature: The knowledge and skills required to do this job well are not often shared by anyone else in the district—not principals, curriculum directors, or many superintendents. This book offers insight into everything the role entails and how to lead the work." -- Alison Elmer, MEd"It does not take long for the reader to realize that these seasoned special educators have the knowledge, skills, experience, and dispositions to provide a treasure trove of useful information for the novice or veteran educator, whether they are a general education teacher, special education teacher, principal, superintendent, or special education administrator. Ealey and McArdle leave no stone unturned and thoroughly address such topics as programs and services, discipline, budget development, professional development, supervision, and evaluation. This book is a must and one you will want to keep close at hand." -- Stephen Gould, EdD"The special education administrator position is the most difficult job in public education. Challenges abound—conflicts with parents, teachers, and other administrators; changes to department of education regulations and guidance; litigation looming behind every decision—and these are just a few. Perhaps the biggest, ever-present challenge is balancing advocacy for students with disabilities and the fiduciary responsibility to the school district. But help is on the way: Earley and McArdle have written a book that provides aid to both new and veteran special education administrators. Based on their extensive 100+ years of experience as special education directors, they offer guidance in how to navigate the passage between the Scylla and Charybdis of conflicting demands. From compliance to best practice, they offer tips and strategies for dealing with both the long-term and day-to-day challenges for special education directors. There is a dearth of similar literature, and I would highly recommend their book as a text in higher education courses, an item in the library of special education organizations, and most important, as a resource on the desk of every special education administrator." -- Edward McCaul, EdD"This is a succinct guidebook that distills many years of practical experience and provides the reader with concrete guidance on the various aspects of the role of administrator of special education. The authors address not only the anticipated issues associated with the position, but also nicely weave in helpful advice on other potentially overlooked yet essential skills and actions necessary to be a successful administrator in public education. This book is an excellent resource that will be of great benefit to anyone contemplating or beginning their career as an administrator, and it will greatly assist them and even experienced administrators of special education in confidently navigating the myriad issues to be addressed in that role." -- Thomas Nuttall, Esquire"The provision of special education services is essential to ensure that all school-age students receive a free and appropriate public education. This book presents effective procedures to implement the mandates of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and its many complexities. While the administering of special education can be a daunting task, authors Earley and McArdle, with their experience and expansive knowledge in special education administration, offer recommendations to work proactively with school administrators, special and general education teachers and related services staff, parents, advocates, and other stakeholders. They share strategies that result in services that are responsive to student needs and the ever-present decision on placement in the educational setting in which the students can make effective educational progress. I enthusiastically recommend this book for school administrators and principals, directors of special education, and as a text for undergraduate and graduate students in special education courses." -- Don Ricciato, PhD"There are no better Administrators of Special Education (ASEs) than Jim Earley and Bob McArdle, and now their wisdom is available to any educator who reads their book. Drawing on their decades of experience in special education leadership, they have created a thorough and practical guide that provides a wealth of information, useful advice, and most importantly, ways to assess difficult situations and arrive at reasonable and equitable solutions. The book is a master class in identifying core issues and applying useful approaches to think about and solve many seemingly intractable problems. Any professional involved in special education will benefit from its clear and well-formulated approach to meeting the needs of students with special needs while also addressing the needs of the numerous stake holders in special education. A Practical Approach to Special Education Administration is long overdue in the field and will have significant impact." -- Joe Ristuccia"I read [A Practical Approach to Special Education Administration] almost immediately, from cover to cover, with a pencil in my hand, underlining and making notes as I went. 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