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Book SynopsisFrom Koreanness to K-ness: Contemporary Korean Culture and Society aims to conceptualise âK-nessâ as a new way of understanding the underlying characteristics that shape the semiotic, cultural, and sociological representations of contemporary Korean culture and society.The global popularity of Korean cultural content has sparked extensive interest in various facets of the Korean language, culture, and society. These recent changes present a unique opportunity to reassess and reshape our approach to the theorisation of âKoreannessâ as a strong national identity significantly influenced by Confucian values, patriarchy and patriotism. Indeed, a multitude of K-words â including the ever-popular domains of âK-popâ, âK-dramaâ and âK-foodâ â reflect the diverse but coherent manifestations of the new Koreanness, which often transcends the boundaries of tradition and history.In this interdisciplinary edited volume, the contributors provide fresh insights into the new Koreanness that has been reshaped by the current international popularity of Korean popular culture, the emergence of new media, and the cross-cultural encounters in the more globalised environment. By exploring themes, topics and theories linked to ongoing discussions and emerging trends, this book illuminates the multidimensional nature of âK-nessâ.
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Book SynopsisThis is a practical guide for clinicians to enhance their understanding of using a biopsychosocial approach to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in child and adolescent mental health.This book provides clinicians with a toolkit which aids and assists all the way from first referral through differential diagnosis to planning of evidence-based interventions and treatments. It also helps with efficient, clear, and concise communication between clinicians. The biopsychosocial multiaxial (BPS-MXL) system combines a biopsychosocial approach along with the clarity and rigor of the internationally developed system of classification of mental health disorders. This allows for clarity in diagnosis and for more coherent and comprehensive treatment approaches for busy healthcare professionals.Packed with background, theory, and illustrative cases, The Biopsychosocial Multiaxial Toolkit for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Clinicians is a must for clinicians striving for evidence-based, patient-centred interventions, from those clinicians starting out in this field to the experienced clinician, who will find the BPS-MXL system helpful in practice and in teaching, training, and supervision.
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Book SynopsisIn our hyper-connected world, where every interaction generates valuable data, artificial intelligence (AI) is having a profound impact on marketing, marketing research, and customer data analytics.This book sheds light on the untapped potential of AI-driven analytics in market research so that businesses can better understand and interact with their customers. The transformation of marketing and market research over recent decades has only accelerated thanks to breathtaking AI developments that are reshaping data analytics and insights generation while enabling more effective foresight and actionability.These technologies are moving the field beyond solicited customer opinion, traditionally gathered through surveys and focus groups, allowing marketers to leverage unstructured big data for a whole new type of customer feedback: the unsolicited opinion. Acting as a guide to whatâs possible, the book explores the redefinition of insight in the age of AI and stresses the need for every true insight to inspire action. It dives into techniques for analysis and the AI science behind the analytics, automated brand recommendations, and content creation, introducing AI-specific research and data analysis tools. The birth of synthetic data is discussed, with advantages including privacy compliance, cost-effectiveness, and the ability to generate diverse datasets on demand. The book also covers critical ethical issues, such as data privacy, algorithmic bias, transparency, and the potential for AI to be used manipulatively, and raises important questions around knowledge, creativity, and the future of the field of marketing research.This bookâs clear-eyed guidance and thoughtful reflections will benefit anyone involved in marketing, market research, digital advertising, and business strategy, including CX practitioners, business leaders tasked with delivering growth, data scientists, marketing agency executives and consultants, and advanced business and marketing students.
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Book SynopsisThe Ambiguity of Consent: Consent Puzzles in Film, Television, Public Discourse, and the Law explores the complex, often contradictory nature of consent in contemporary society.This collection examines how consent is expressed and debated across media, legal systems, and public discourse, particularly in the height of âœconsent cultureâ in the 2020s. It interrogates the assumptions behind familiar frameworks like affirmative consent and informed consent and raises critical questions about power, communication, and interpretation. Through case studies and cultural analysis, this book addresses issues such as the blurred lines between âœbad sexâ and assault, the instability of consent for minors, and how normative models often fail to account for structural inequalities. It invites readers to rethink consent not as a fixed standard, but as a site of ongoing negotiation and ambiguity. This book is ideal for students and researchers in Gender Studies, Media Studies, Law, and Politics, as well as anyone interested in the ethical, legal, and cultural dimensions of consent.
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Book SynopsisThe debate on the necessity of government interventions in economic activities has been well documented in the literature of developmental macroeconomics. This book examines whether fiscal and monetary policies combined with good governance result in better economic growth and price stabilization.Exploring critical themes like the dynamic relationships between money supply, government expenditure, and governance indicators in achieving economic stability and environmental sustainability, this volume addresses the longstanding debate between monetarist and Keynesian schools regarding the determinants of inflation. While incorporating modern considerations of political economics and governance quality, it examines how corruption control, institutional quality, and policy coordination impact economic performance across both developed and developing nations.The book will be useful to students and researchers of economics, development economics, political science, sociology, international relations and administrative sciences and to policy makers working in the fiscal and monetary sectors.
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Book SynopsisPublic spending is an important policy tool of the fiscal policy. This book empirically examines whether government expenditure - both capital and revenue - and governance indicators maintain any dynamic relationships with social sector developments.The book addresses critical themes in contemporary macroeconomics, including the ongoing debate between monetarist and Keynesian schools regarding inflation drivers, the role of government expenditure and money supply in promoting economic growth, social sustainability, and the emerging importance of environmental sustainability in policy formulation. It explores how good governance practices, particularly corruption control, influence the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policies, while examining the delicate balance between economic expansion and environmental conservation through green financing and sustainable development initiatives.The book will be useful to students and researchers of economics, political science, sociology, administrative sciences, international relations, and the policy makers in the fiscal and monetary sectors of a country.
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Book SynopsisWith its groundbreaking approach to financial management under dynamic conditions, this book equips readers with a new perspective on financial systems, moving beyond classical models to embrace the inherent uncertainties of markets.Since they assume a static environment, many traditional financial models fall short of capturing market dynamics, leading to poor outcomes. This book draws parallels between quantum mechanics and financial management to explain the erratic behavior of the world of finance. It uses quantum concepts including uncertainty, superposition, and entanglement that have been nurtured over time by renowned physicists. But rather than a deep dive into quantum mechanics or computations, it presents simple principles and recent case studies to illustrate them. The bookâs fresh analogies and illuminating thought experiments explain complex financial phenomena and guide readers to the flexible, dynamic mindset required for modern-day financial decision-making.This book is a must-read for finance professionals, corporate leaders, investors, and policymakers looking to navigate the unpredictability of modern financial world.
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Book SynopsisDeveloped for emerging academic writers, this new edition offers a thoroughly updated approach for incorporating archival and primary materials into the writing process.Encouraging students to write about topics that resonate with their community memberships, personal interests, and positionality, this textbook emphasizes the importance of expanding writing and research skills and abilities to include material culture. The book includes a pedagogical approach that makes archival and primary research interesting, urgent, and relevant to emerging writers. Students assess multiple ways of analyzing their findings and presenting results to their intended readers. With in-text features to aid students in understanding primary research and its role in their writing, chapters include elements such as profiles of primary researchers, communities in context, and student writing examples. This new edition explores the impact of Artificial Intelligence, as well as multimodality, document design, visual elements and citation practices.Primary Research and Writing is an engaging textbook developed for undergraduate students in the beginning stages of their academic writing careers and prepares its readers for a lifetime of research and writing.Online resources, including sample syllabi and course designs, sample class projects/assignment descriptions, activities, and discussion questions are available at www.routledge.com/9781041025825.
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Book SynopsisArguing that all teachers are necessarily language teachers needing to traverse increasingly diverse educational settings, this book focuses on how language impacts learning in every subject, helping teachers of all disciplines to fully realise the skills and knowledge needed to teach inclusively. Featuring the voices of novice and expert teachers and teacher educators across a range of disciplines and contexts, the volume demonstrates the importance of social skills such as empathy, cultural awareness and open mindedness within these diverse educational settings. Chapters combine international perspectives with practical strategies and real-world case studies, as well as reflection points and opportunities for action planning; specifically designed âlanguage challengesâ, aimed at inspiring teachers to develop language curious classrooms, are interwoven through the book. Ultimately, the volume is designed to help recognise and unlock the full linguistic repertoire of teachers, students and mentors in order to develop high-quality and inclusive pedagogies that target linguistic and emotional barriers to closing existing attainment gaps.
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Book SynopsisIn its second edition, this book provides a comprehensive Indigenous perspective on Latin American political, social, and economic changes from pre-colonization to the present.Set within a postcolonial framework and enhanced by interdisciplinary insights from anthropology, economics, sociology, and religion, the book delivers a unique understanding of Indigenous histories, resistance movements, transculturation, labor, and political organizations. Its innovative organization into 50-year historical periods facilitates semester-long classroom discussion, while images, maps, textboxes, and linked documents in every chapter support active learning. A new final chapter brings the work up to the present. This approach enables readers to contextualize major historical events and cultural changes within manageable timeframes, providing fresh perspectives that broaden traditional Latin American historical narratives.This textbook is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Latin American history, Indigenous studies, postcolonial studies, and related fields. It provides an ideal introduction for students.
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Book SynopsisThis book delves into Scotland's evolving food system, uncovering the challenges of change, tracing food policy progress since devolution in 1999, and envisioning bold strategies for the next twenty-five years.Food system transformation is a key global challenge for this century. This challenge is evident in Scotland where plentiful food co-exists with food insecurity, where food waste appears intractable and farm animal welfare is compromised, and where the food system in its current form is incompatible with meeting national and global goals for climate and nature. Written by a food policy insider, this book discusses what a single country can do to tackle these problems and contribute to wider change. The book is grounded in a right-to-food perspective, and describes both the necessity of, and the opportunity for, a repurposing of the food system from a focus on commodity production and trade to a focus on nutrition equity and environmental restoration. It challenges some of the faulty maps still in use which are a poor guide to food system change, such as the idea that Scotlandâs priority is to feed the world, that food redistribution has a significant impact on either waste or poverty, or that educating people to make better choices is an effective strategy. It argues for more assertive governance of Scotlandâs food system, both by national and local governments using the new duties set out in Scotlandâs 2022 Good Food Nation Act. This should include active engagement of civil society, in keeping with the Scottish approach of collaborative policymaking. The book focuses on Scotlandâs food policy journey while recognising the transferability of this experience to other subnational contexts, drawing on the authorâs experience as a key participant in that journey over the last fifteen years.This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers interested in food and agricultural policy, as well as those interested in sustainable food systems, public health, and social policy more widely.
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Book SynopsisCompassionate Communities in Action: Global Stories of Care, Loss and Connection brings together practical examples of compassionate cities and communities from around the world. Together they provide a practical road map, highlighting what has worked and what has been challenging, alongside reflections from the communities profiled.Over the past twenty years, hundreds of areas globally have worked to develop compassionate cities and communities, in order to improve death, dying, loss and caregiving for their residents. This book, designed to support those beginning their journey and those who want to continue to develop existing initiatives, highlights: Different models of organisation or structure for a Compassionate Community. How projects have engaged with wider civic society, including schools and workplaces, and the arts. Suggestions for reorientating health and care services towards community and wellbeing focuses. The role of individual leaders in shaping grass roots activities. Demonstrating how research can be implemented in practice, this guide is an essential read for people working in the field of palliative and end of life care, as well as academics, students and policymakers with an interest in the area.
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Book SynopsisDesigned for middle and high school teachers, this resource enables secondary co-teaching teams to build, refine, and sustain effective collaborative practices that lead to meaningful outcomes for all students. Chapters provide step-by-step instructions for planning, implementing, and assessing co-taught lessons for all middle and high school educators, whether youâre a seasoned professional or new to the concept of co-teaching. Packed with templates, tools, and actionable strategies, this book empowers teachers to create inclusive classroom environments that foster student engagement, critical thinking, and problem-solving. Co-Teaching in the Middle and Secondary Classroom is the go-to guide for successful collaboration in 6-12 co-taught classrooms! Using these strategies, you too can inspire a new generation of innovators and problem-solvers.
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Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading scholars and teacher educators to examine how constructivist learning theories can meaningfully guide teacher preparation for todayâs complex, evolving, and ever-changing educational landscapes. Moving beyond abstract ideals, contributors explore the theoretical foundations of constructivism alongside concrete examples of how teacher educators bring these principles to life in their teaching, mentoring, and community-based work. Chapters are organized into three parts: Theoretical Foundations, Constructivism in Action, and Beyond the Classroom. Each part offers rich frameworks, practical strategies, and reflective insights for designing transformative learning experiences. Through topics such as relational pedagogy, reflective practice, community engagement and hybrid learning, this volume illustrates how constructivist approaches foster agency, connection, and deep, authentic understanding. Ideal for teacher educators, graduate students, curriculum leaders, and professional development providers, this book thoughtfully connects theory with lived practice by showcasing research informed examples of constructivism at work in teacher education. It invites all who prepare teachers to reimagine teacher education as a space where curiosity is nurtured, reflection is central, and a lasting love of learning can thrive.
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Book SynopsisIn a world grappling with social challenges, School Leadership and Pedagogy for the Common Good offers a timely and inspiring exploration of how education can unite communities. This book demonstrates how Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and secular values can work together to create schools that serve the common good of teachers, students, and society. It is an essential read for educators and policymakers.Using real-life examples, the book highlights how religious and secular values have driven exceptional outcomes in three primary schools and a trust in the UK and the Netherlands. In Rotterdam, Aziem Jarmohamad, the first Muslim head teacher at a Catholic school, has successfully integrated secular and Christian values at Imelda and Emmaus schools, earning recognition from the Queen of the Netherlands and the US Secretary of State for Education. Meanwhile, in the East Midlands of England, Ramsden primary school led by Dr Chris Wilson, has pioneered innovative approaches to support children in socio-economically deprived areas Through rich case studies, such as the Flying High Trust, leadership and teacher voices, and practical examples, the book highlights how these schools have embraced diversity, fostered integration, and achieved remarkable success.This book illustrates the power of shared values in education, offering practical insights, inspiring stories, and actionable ideas to foster inclusion, celebrate diversity, and empower students. It is an essential resource for educators, school leaders, and anyone committed to the transformative potential of education.
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Book SynopsisThis new edition of Qualitative Marketing Research seamlessly integrates theoretical foundations with practical applications in qualitative marketing research, positioning methodologies within the broader landscape of marketing strategy, managerial decision-making, and contemporary consumer psychology.The book offers an extensive examination of qualitative research approaches, beginning with established techniques like focus group interviews (FGI) and individual in-depth interviews (IDI), before exploring innovative ethnographic methods that reveal authentic consumer motivations, needs, values, and attitudes. Readers will gain profound insights into the psychological underpinnings of consumer behaviour, including cutting-edge understanding of unconscious and automatic cognitive processes that drive purchasing decisions. This thoroughly revised 2nd edition features an expanded chapter dedicated to digital research methodologies, covering online and video-based focus groups, social media analytics, mobile ethnography, and the revolutionary integration of artificial intelligence in consumer research. Distinguished by its practical orientation, the text incorporates diverse international case studies from market-leading organizations including PepsiCo, Unilever, Danone, NestlÃ, Aviva, and Citibank, demonstrating how theoretical concepts translate into actionable insights across various industries and cultural contexts.This definitive work serves as indispensable reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students specializing in marketing research, consumer behaviour, and consumer psychology.This book offers complementary online resources including comprehensive chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint presentations.
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Book SynopsisWhy do we read literature? Literature enables us to develop our judgment through observation and reflection. We read literature for the many pleasures it offers. These pleasures range widely across genres, with those reading fiction and drama differing from what readers experience in their encounters with poems and essays.Reading Literature is a practical guide ranging across the literary genresâpoetry, fiction, drama, and essay. For each of these genres, Robert DiYanni outlines six âœways inâ to literary works. Each section closes with the technique of âœinterrupted readingâ. 'Reading Literature' helps readers experience the rich rewards literature provides; understand the complexities of human psychology; navigate the intricacies of social relationships; take pleasure in the ways language creates alternate worlds which echo the world in which we live. It also includes sections on literary elements and the basics of literary theory. Part five uses the familiar literary elements as the basis for sample analyses of poem, story, play, essay, and epic. The final part offers an overview of a dozen paired critical approaches, or theoretical perspectives, on literature.Helping readers read closely and critically, this is an essential guide to find âœways inâ to reading literature to result in valuable encounters and rewarding literary experiences for general readers or those beginning literary studies courses.
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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Parental Alienation offers a clear, accessible starting point for anyone trying to make sense of parental alienation (PA): what it is, how it develops, and why it causes such profound harm. Opening with a grounded, user-friendly explanation of the phenomenon, the book demystifies PA without minimising its seriousness, setting the stage for a deeper exploration of its emotional, psychological, and legal dimensions.From there, the book moves into a comprehensive examination of why parental alienation happens. Drawing on attachment theory to family-violence frameworks, it brings together leading theoretical insights to illuminate the mechanisms that drive bond-breaking between parents and children. This book expands beyond previous work to examine the wider ecosystem around PA, including the role of new partners, extended family members, complex sibling dynamics and the systems that enable the abuse to take place.The book then shifts to impact: analysing the short- and long-term consequences for every actor involved; children, targeted parents, alienating parents, siblings, and professionals encountering PA in practice. Finally, the book offers extensive practical guidance. It equips parents, practitioners, and policymakers with concrete, research-rooted strategies for recognising alienating behaviours and responding effectively. Alongside general principles for prevention and intervention, it includes tailored advice not only for affected parents but also for children and young people living through these dynamics.Accessible yet academically robust, Understanding Parental Alienation is a multi-purpose guide for mental-health professionals, legal practitioners, family-court personnel, and families navigating post-separation conflict. It delivers the foundational knowledge and practical tools needed to understand this complex issue, and to begin changing it.
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Book SynopsisThis book explores the global impact of the Syrian conflict, and the roles of Russia, Iran and the US in its wake. This second edition examines the future of the region post the fall of the Assad regime and what it means for the various actors in the region, principally Russia, Iran, Israel and the US. The book: challenges the conventional scholarship to show how non-democratic states such as Russia, Iran and China exhibit a consistent strategic intent in their foreign-policy-making; underlines the convergence of Syrian foreign policy with Russiaâs (the USSR before 1989) and Iranâs regional outlook post-1979; takes stock of the shifts in the US foreign policy in MENA in light of new realities. Drawing on detailed fieldwork and archival material, including National Security Archival documents, this book is a tour de force in understanding global politics and contemporary history. It will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations, political theory, foreign policy, Middle East studies, and peace and conflict studies.
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Book SynopsisIn view of recent criticisms of the environmentalist movement for centring middle-class whiteness, this book examines the discourses, strategies, and theories of environmentalism in modern Britain through the Black feminist lens of intersectionality.The author proposes a framework of 'intersectional absences and presences' to argue that how environmentalists understandâor ignoreâintersectionality shapes their social movements in important ways. It affects how they build and communicate their political demands as environmentalists, as well as the literal spaces in which they organize. Drawing on interviews, ethnography, and archival research, it demonstrates the importance of intersectionality for analysing the structural relationships between discrete structures of oppression such as racism, sexism, and classism, and how political demands are built and communicated.This book will appeal to scholars, postgraduate students, and researchers of gender studies, social movements, political sociology, environmental sociology, and race and ethnicity.
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Book SynopsisA Methodology of Languaging Self examines the role of critical methodology in literacy and language practices.Employing globally diverse autoethnographic approaches, it highlights varying perspectives and lived experiences from marginalised authors. Through a decolonial lens, this book offers fresh insights into the complexities of literacy and language practices. Drawing together marginalised voices and experiences through creativity and authentic (re)presentation, this book considers how autoethnography and qualitative methods can work within literacy and language studies. Focusing on educational studies, chapters include research on the experience of Latinx students in a Florida classroom, developing teacher identity in Indonesia, and autoethnographic genealogical writing. Readers will benefit from the engagement with decolonial critical theory threaded throughout the book's multiple sections, in addition to the exploration into reflective and narrative methods in particular chapters.This book will be essential reading not only for qualitative researchers interested in ethnography and autoethnography, but also students and teachers in literacy and language related fields.
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Book SynopsisThis fully updated second edition of Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age invites readers to consider how cutting-edge approaches in phototherapy and therapeutic photography could be integrated into their own practice. Contributing authors provide guidance on different techniques for using photography in work with clients, including theory and context behind when each approach should be used. Readers will benefit from updates to the current edition, including: â Updates to the preface and introduction, exploring the importance of self-representation and expression against the backdrop of the ever-growing popularity of mobile phones and social media. â A new chapter on the integration of AI into phototherapy and therapeutic photography, including future-oriented practice and considering the use of AI for facial emotional recognition and creation of augmented realities. â A new chapter on PhotoVoiceâs methodologies and approaches to community engagement in delivering ethical photography projects for social change. â A new chapter on how phototherapy can provide safety, security and structure for exploration of self-identity, relationships and narratives. â An updated conclusion, drawing together developments in phototherapy and therapeutic photography, and renewing ideas about how practitioners look to the future of photography in therapeutic practice. This book will be of vital importance to counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists and photographers looking to learn more about the intersection of photography and therapeutic practice. It will also be essential reading for art therapists using photography within their work with clients.
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Book SynopsisIn todayâs data-driven world, the ability to make sense of complex, high-dimensional datasets is crucial for economists and data scientists. Traditional quantitative methods, while powerful, often struggle to keep up with the complexities of modern economic challenges. This book bridges this gap, integrating cutting-edge machine learning techniques with established economic analysis to provide new, more accurate insights.The book offers a comprehensive approach to understanding and applying neural networks and deep learning models in the context of conducting economic research. It starts by laying the groundwork with essential quantitative methods such as cluster analysis, regression, and factor analysis, then demonstrates how these can be enhanced with deep learning techniques like recurrent neural networks (RNNs), convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and transformers. By guiding readers through real-world examples, complete with Python code and access to datasets, it showcases the practical benefits of neural networks in solving complex economic problems, such as fraud detection, sentiment analysis, stock price forecasting, and inflation factor analysis. Importantly, the book also addresses critical concerns about the black box nature of deep learning, offering interpretability techniques like LIME and SHAP to demystify model predictions.The book is essential reading for economists, data scientists, and professionals looking to deepen their understanding of AIâs role in economic modelling. It is also an accessible resource for non-experts interested in how machine learning is transforming economic analysis.
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Book SynopsisLa adquisiciÃn del lenguaje desde un enfoque funcionalista introduce a una audiencia de habla hispana el enfoque funcionalista de la adquisiciÃn temprana del lenguaje, un marco que explora cÃmo los mecanismos cognitivos, lingÃÃsticos y ambientales entretejen el desarrollo de la lengua materna. Con un estilo accesible, el volumen llena un vacÃo crÃtico en la literatura al proporcionar el primer recurso en espaÃol dedicado a esta perspectiva teÃrica. Los lectores comprenderÃn las teorÃas funcionalistas, su contexto histÃrico y cÃmo este enfoque explica el desarrollo de la lengua materna desde la percepciÃn temprana de sus sonidos hasta la producciÃn del habla. El libro integra ejemplos del mundo real, recursos de la web, cuadros explicativos y un glosario bilingÃe que permite una fÃcil comprensiÃn de conceptos complejos. Con base en evidencias, incorpora investigaciones y metodologÃas recientes, ofreciendo herramientas tanto para la exploraciÃn teÃrica como para la aplicaciÃn prÃctica a lectores no especializados. La adquisiciÃn del lenguaje desde un enfoque funcionalista constituye un recurso valioso para estudiantes de licenciatura y posgrado en lingÃÃstica hispÃnica, psicolingÃÃstica, lingÃÃstica clÃnica y ramas afines. __________________________________________________________________________________________La adquisiciÃn del lenguaje desde un enfoque funcionalista introduces a Spanish-speaking audience to the functionalist approach to early language acquisition, a framework that explores how cognitive, linguistic and environmental mechanisms intertwine with the development of a first language.With an emphasis on accessibility, the volume fills a critical gap by providing the first Spanish-language resource dedicated to this theoretical perspective. Readers will gain an understanding of functionalist theories, their historical background, and how this approach explains early language development, from the perception of sounds to the production of speech. The book integrates real-world examples, web resources, explanatory boxes, and a bilingual glossary, enabling easy comprehension of complex concepts. Based on evidence, it incorporates recent research and methodologies, offering tools for both theoretical exploration and practical application to non-specialized readers.La adquisiciÃn del lenguaje desde un enfoque funcionalista forms a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Spanish linguistics, psycholinguistics, clinical linguistics and related fields.
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Book SynopsisThis perceptive book explores the relationship between event design and multiple visitor experiences, offering an invaluable insight into how to create and deliver unique and memorable events.Structured around the key phases of event experience and design, this book details the changing events industry, the nature and psychology of event experiences, the importance of event design, and how these experiences can drive personal growth and reflect changing values. It looks at a wide variety of cutting-edge topics in the field of events, including digitalisation, sustainability, and inclusivity, offering a holistic approach that combines theory with practice. These important topics are explored with reference to timely international event case studies, such as the Olympic Games, Tomorrowland, and Taylor Swiftâs The Eras Tour.This contemporary and accessible textbook provides essential reading for students, academics and practitioners within the fields of events management, hospitality, tourism and marketing, in order to foster a deeper understanding of meaningful event experiences.
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Book SynopsisThis book presents trauma-focused psychodrama as an effective treatment for trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and complex PTSD.Chapters focus on common themes and psychodrama enactments related to trauma, including strengths-based scenes, working with defenses, parts of self, traumatic loss, inner child work, perpetrator work, embodying posttraumatic growth, and vicarious trauma. Psychodramaâs interventions, history, theory, and research for the treatment of trauma and trauma-related conditions in group therapy settings are outlined. Trauma-informed principles, risks of retraumatization, sociometry, and psychodrama-like interventions will be covered. Each chapter contains various examples and depictions of interventions and experiences from the authorâs practice in both inpatient and outpatient settings.Trauma-Focused Psychodrama provides psychodramatists and other group practitioners with essential teaching related to trauma-informed practice and trauma-focused psychodrama. Psychotherapists and psychodrama trainees will find this book useful to guide and support their learning and clinical practice.
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Book SynopsisThis book highlights various service-learning experiences that incorporate creative techniques such as art making and other expressive therapy practices. Utilizing service-learning provides students, faculty and volunteers a chance to create an ethnorelativist world view, with the understanding that human beings are contextual in relationship to their culture. The use of expressive arts therapies is highlighted as a complimentary way to build relationships with those who differ from one another and to increase students/volunteers cultural understanding and awareness. Chapters cover concepts such as cultural immersion, cultural exchange, transformational learning, and cultural competency in working with others. The focus of service within various cultures such as Nepal, South Africa and the Cheyenne River Lakota Reservation in South Dakota are presented using anecdotal, narrative and case vignettes.Ideal for art therapists and art therapy students interested in engaging and/or providing service-learning experiences for others, this book is full of several anecdotes from the authorâs personal experience, as well as cases that reflect cultural learning using various expressive arts techniques.
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Book SynopsisAI Applications in Business: Beyond Silicon Valley and Western FrameworksThe Silicon Valley playbook for AI is broken. Itâs time for a better way.While tech giants race to deploy faster and bigger AI models, businesses worldwide are discovering that speed without strategy leads to expensive failures. The real winners arenât those who adopt AI first, but those who adopt it wisely.This book offers a unique perspective on how ancient philosophies hold the key to AI success. From Chinese wu wei (effortless action) to Japanese kaizen (continuous improvement) to South African ubuntu (interconnectedness), time-tested wisdom offers powerful frameworks for navigating AIâs promises and pitfalls.Discover why:â Ancient philosophies outperform Silicon Valley thinkingâ Cultural wisdom beats venture capital hypeâ Strategic patience trumps technological urgencyâ Ethical deployment creates a lasting competitive advantageWhether youâre a CEO, manager, or entrepreneur, this book provides cultural insights and practical frameworks you need to deploy AI thoughtfully, strategically, and successfully.The future belongs not to those who move quickly, but to those who move wisely.
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Book SynopsisPublished shortly after the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe and the dissolution of the Soviet regime, Specters of Marx is one of Derrida's most interesting and prophetic books. Whilst many in the West heralded the triumph of liberal democracy and âœthe end of historyâ, Derrida takes several steps back to argue that whilst Communism may have disappeared in much of the world, the questions posed by Marx continue to haunt us.In his customary provocative style, he asks some uncomfortable questions: after the fall of Communism, can we preserve Marx's legacy of radicalism? How do we continue his philosophy of responsibility? Uncannily anticipating many of the challenges facing us today, Derrida argues that the capitalist system is plagued by a multitude of ills, including aggression, trade wars, debt, the exploitation of migrant labour and ethnic conflict.This Routledge Classics edition is a translation of the revised French edition and includes a debate between Derrida and Ãtienne Balibar on Marx and Marxism, published here in English for the first time. It also includes new corrections and additions to the text and footnotes made by Derrida after the book's initial publication in French.Translated by Peggy Kamuf and with a new Foreword by Peter Salmon, this Routledge Classics edition retains the original Editorsâ Introduction by Bernd Magnus and Stephen Cullenberg.
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Book SynopsisStates of Mind critiques the traditional paradigms that shape our mental health and school systems, from diagnostic labels to high-stakes assessment, unravelling what they are, how they came into being, and why they need to evolve to better serve young people.The book reconceptualises these systems and shows that, by embracing a different worldview, we can work with young people in a way that fosters belonging, personal growth and collective action. With a focus on meaningful change, it introduces approaches which place young people at the centre as active participants, working alongside adults on complex problems, generating outcomes and co-constructing solutions. These include critiquing and re-imagining school evaluation; designing whole-school policies to promote staff and student wellbeing; and developing programmes to explore our states of mind to support individuals and communities to flourish. Case studies, provocations and examples of inspirational people and organisations are included to empower the reader to rethink their own practices.Education should support us, both individually and collectively, to co-construct ways of being, thinking and acting authentically. States of Mind is essential reading for teachers, educational psychologists, advocacy organisations, thinktanks, and all those wishing to create more hopeful, humane mental health and education systems.
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Book SynopsisThis second edition of TALL has been updated with new information about the construction of high-rise architecture. A lot has happened in the world since 2019 when the first edition was published and so the updates respond to these changes.There has been a strong uptake in the purchase of electric cars and hybrid vehicles, so the book has been strengthened with discussion of car park planning. Site safety, site planning, project planning and health and safety have all been revised, and the latest on base isolation methods and fluid dampers for seismic control have been included. There has been a substantial increase in interest in engineered timber as a construction material, as well as an uptake in hybrid buildings joining concrete cores and timber flooring, so more is included on this.The chapter on designing for deconstruction has had a major revision with the inclusion of extensive details about a new demountable construction system, which tackles the construction waste problem with innovation and success. While the final chapter on facade detailing has had a major rewrite as well, aiming to assist young architects understanding of facade planning and incorporating advances in facade design over the last decade, including solar shading.In addition to the existing illustrations, there are 34 new illustrations in clear black and white, to assist further understanding of the revised material. Overall, this new edition continues to provide a practical guide and desk-reference to any architect or architecture student embarking on a tall building project.
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Book SynopsisArchitecting for Velocity, Trust, and Continuous TransformationDigital disruption isnât a storm to ride out; itâs the atmosphere we breathe. Business models are fundamentally shifting, moving from product-centric to service-dominant. Technologies outpace systems before theyâve even rebooted. The pace of innovation outstrips the capacity of yesterdayâs systems to keep up.Digital Momentum is your new playbook for thriving in this world of constant acceleration. Brice Ominski, a globally recognized enterprise architecture leader, draws on decades of hands-on innovation and insights from a worldwide community of executives and practitioners. The result is a practical yet visionary guide to building enterprises that evolve continuously, orchestrate intelligently, and scale trust across ecosystems.Inside, youâll learn how to: Shift from episodic change to continuous reinvention Embed trust, ethics, and explainability into intelligent systems Harness semantic integration and governance fabrics for real-time adaptability Apply composability blueprints that flex with changing environments Align the C-suite around actionable, step-by-step guides Navigate emerging frontiersâquantum, neuromorphic, and agentic systemsâwith confidenceKey Features Momentum that lasts â A maturity model for continuous evolution Governance that empowers â Oversight that builds trust in the AI era Ethics by design â Fair, transparent, and accountable systems from the start Blueprints you can use â Ten proven patterns with real-world examples Leadership clarity â An executive compass that connects vision to outcomesThis is more than strategyâitâs a toolkit for CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, and technology practitioners navigating relentless disruption. Whether setting vision at the top or engineering solutions on the ground, Digital Momentum equips you to thriveâand leadâwith clarity, speed, and confidence.
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Book SynopsisBased on extensive in-depth interview research with young Europeans, this book reveals the root causes of radicalization among European youth with different ethno-cultural and religious backgrounds.Drawing on interdisciplinary research and the voices of young people themselves, the book demonstrates that both nativist and Islamist trajectories emerge from overlapping experiences of inequality, insecurity, spatial marginalisation, and fractured futures. It explores the dynamics of radicalization within European societies by examining the intersecting forces of globalization, socio-economic deprivation, political deprivation, and spatial deprivation.It will appeal to scholars and students working on radicalization, de-radicalization, emotions, democracy and diversity management, minority and migration studies, globalization, socio-economic deprivation, youth studies, and religious, nationalist and culturalist ideologies. It will also be useful to policymakers and practitioners who work in the field of radicalization and de-radicalization.
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Book SynopsisThe twelfth volume in the Routledge-TIRF series Global Research on Teaching and Learning English presents research on teaching English as an additional language (EAL) in various global digital spaces. Here, digital spaces refer to any environment where technology and digital tools are used to facilitate and advance language learning. These spaces include web-based applications, social media, and video-editing software, to name just a few.The use of digital tools and spaces has become a prominent topic in TESOL and language education in general. Chapters written by TESOL scholars, including TIRF Doctoral Dissertation Grant (DDG) awardees, highlight the importance of digital literacy and multiliteracies development among language learners. They additionally demonstrate how learner engagement with digital spaces and tools can facilitate productive, collaborative, and ultimately more successful language learning at various levels.Readers of this volume â language educators and researchers â will benefit from up-to-date research findings on various approaches to language learning and teaching shaped by digital spaces.
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Book SynopsisGender: A Contemporary Introduction offers a sophisticated exploration of gender through a psychoanalytic lens, moving beyond binary frameworks to present gender as a fluid, kaleidoscopic state of mind shaped by cultural narratives, unconscious fantasies, and libidinal attachments.Oren Gozlan presents a critical re-examination of psychoanalytic theories of gender and its relation to sexuality, examining how and why we are invested in it through a comprehensive psychoanalytic approach. The volume provides novel conceptualizations of gender and transitioning, offering original metaphors for new ways of listening to gender in clinical practice. Each chapter considers multiple vantage points including social, cultural, therapeutic, experiential, and theoretical perspectives on gender, exploring the interplay between cultural, political, and conceptual shifts. The book places in tension the concept of gender as a social identity, subject position, emotional situation, and state of mind, engaging the contradictions between these differing viewpoints. By redefining gender as a psychoanalytic object that can only be approached indirectly through fantasy, relation, and the unconscious, Gozlan provides clinicians with fresh conceptual tools to navigate these complex territories.This book is an ideal guide for psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and social workers seeking enhanced clinical understanding of gender diversity. It is also an essential resource for training institutes and graduate programmes in psychology, gender studies, and related fields.
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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive guide explores the critical role of ethical principles in contemporary academic research, addressing the evolving challenges researchers face in maintaining transparency, honesty, and accountability. As research methodologies advance and digital transformations reshape the academic landscape, this book provides essential guidance for upholding integrity across all disciplines.Ethical Considerations and Academic Integrity in Research examines key ethical challenges including plagiarism, data fabrication, authorship disputes, AI integration, and the ethical treatment of research participants. Through illustrative case studies and real-world examples, readers discover how ethical dilemmas emerge in research contexts and learn effective strategies for resolution. Expert insights and established best practices provide a framework for understanding fundamental ethical principles and navigating complex decision-making scenarios. Beyond theoretical foundations, the book offers practical guidance for implementing ethical standards in modern research environments. It addresses the unique challenges posed by digital technologies and artificial intelligence while maintaining focus on timeless principles of academic integrity.Essential for researchers, educators, and students committed to ethical scholarship, this resource also serves institutional leaders seeking to develop educational programs and policies that foster academic integrity. Whether improving individual research practice or building institutional frameworks, this book provides the tools necessary for maintaining the highest ethical standards in academic research.
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Book SynopsisProviding a fresh approach to thinking about the big questions around political economy, culture, and power, this book offers a synthetic view of political economic and cultural explanations of how institutions, organizations, and groups operate, cohere, and influence each other, as well as how power works within and across these networks. The New Political Sociology rethinks the ways societies are built and function in two parts. After delineating a theory of the bargaining process, the first part undertakes a reconstruction of the state, the inordinate influence of business, the weakened position of labor, the variable role of social movements, and the active role of the media. The second part delineates how exploitation and humiliation lead to social movements that reverse values and create new social forces, and the author uses empire in global theory to delineate how globalization affects politics within the now multi-nation-state. Both parts involve structures of power through class (business and labor) and status (race, gender, and religion), and each section discusses how new alternatives emerge for each bargaining group.Connecting sociology and sociological theory to issues of social and democratic movements, this book shows how political economy and culture need each other as the opposite sides of the same coin. The New Political Sociology redirects theoretical approaches of researchers in political sociology and provides teachers with a classroom resource on theories and practices in political sociology, cultural sociology, social movements, and the media.
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Book SynopsisThis book challenges the simplicity, predestination, and self-evident nature of the contemporary narratives of transitional justice. Transitional justice is the field of study that examines how states should reckon with massive human rights abuses. The book upends these assumptive narratives on three crucial fronts. The first front is that of innovations. Here, the book questions the ability of transitional justice to deliver tangible successes in an era of rapid and overwhelming technological change and contestation over what constitutes human memory, communicative dialogue, and reliable evidence. The second front involves boundaries. Here the book confronts the professed superpower of transitional justice to do more and more, in an endless concatenation of additives. While there is cause for optimism, this book also suggests that transitional justice remains awkward in how it copes with the existential pressures of environmental, health, and cultural crises. On its third front, refractions, this book identifies how transitional justice addresses racism, misogyny, and democratic backsliding. Throughout, the book asks readers to imagine where the field and practice of transitional justice could go from here â what new innovations are required, what boundaries must be stretched or retrenched, and what perspectives need to be considered due to new ways of seeing current and past atrocities.Accordingly, this book will be of considerable interest to academics, practitioners working on post-conflict reconstruction, ranging from undergraduate to post-doctoral studies in the areas of law, politics, cultural property, criminology, human rights, international relations, and technology studies.
£43.69
Book SynopsisWriting Archaeology, third edition, provides a concise and engaging guide to writing about archaeology in many formats from Americaâs best-known author of popular and academic archaeology books.Utilizing decades of experience, Brian Fagan provides a straightforward introduction to writing archaeology for all kinds of audiences, from undergraduates and professional archaeologists to the interested public. This third edition is attentive to the recent focus on public and community archaeology, the burgeoning of digital publications and the emergence of artificial intelligence. It sets out how to get started, how to use the tools of skilled writers to make archaeology come alive for readers, and how to get your work revised and finished. It shows how to get your work accepted by publishers and what to expect from this experience. Dealing with several genres of popular publication, articles, columns, blogs, trade books and textbooks, it highlights the differences and similarities in the writing and the publication processes for each type.For beginning writers and people who have been writing for years, this book speaks directly to those interested in penning for a broad public and is an indispensable aid for the writing careers of all archaeologists and their students.
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Book SynopsisReiland Rabaka provides an alternative history of funk since the mid-1960s, that uncovers the epoch that funk women influenced and were influenced by while wrestling with issues revolving around race, gender, sexuality, and class simultaneously in the American music industry and in American society.Rabaka explores the long line of artistically adventurous African American women whose music made groundbreaking contributions to funk, but whose subtle forms of alternative feminism and intoxicating eroticism led to their marginalization in both historical and contemporary discussions of the musical genre. Their gender identities and intense sexual expressions fly in the face of longstanding narratives about funk, which almost invariably focus on male figures. The book focuses primarily on the most acclaimed female funk group and artists of the classic era: Labelle, Chaka Khan and Betty Davis, who created an uncompromising anti-commercial, unclassifiable form of ultra-erotic funk rock that directly challenged patriarchy, the politics of respectability, and conservative conceptions of Black womenâs sexuality.The book will be of significant interest for those interested in Race and Ethnicity in Popular Music, Gender and Sexuality in Popular Music, the Cultural Study of Popular Music, Black Studies, Womenâs Studies, Gender Studies, and Music and Politics.
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Book SynopsisThis book critically examines an increasingly popular and unique tourism form, dark tourism and how it relates to sustainability, ethics, and cultural heritage.By doing so it explores the effects of dark tourism and associated historical background on local people, landscapes, and economies, emphasizing both positive and negative outcomes. Itâs also provides us the insightfulness to analyse successful sustainable dark tourism activities and regulations from various worldwide contexts, looking for transferable lessons and best practices.This book informs sustainable dark tourism development, management that incorporates social and environmental factors and is valuable reading for postgraduate, advanced undergraduate students, researchers and academics interested in dark tourism.
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Book SynopsisThis book aims to familiarize its readers with the current state of supervision in social work, provide them a common platform for reflection and action and thereby promote excellence in their respective learning, research and professional practice areas. Designed for social work students, social workers, human service professionals, researchers, community practitioners and academics, the underpinning value base and philosophy of this book is social justice, professional integrity, respect for persons and human rights with a focus on nurturing compassionate human service professionals in the sector.Offering a contemporary approach, the book focuses on recent developments in supervision and professional development. Presenting an interface between academics and practice, the authors provide reflections, practice questions and activities related to the examples from the voices from the field, besides presenting different practice contexts and cultural lenses and considerations for cross cultural practice, including Indigenous supervision and practice issues.The book could be used as a text or handbook for effective supervision sessions across the helping professions.This book will prove indispensable for academics, practitioners, supervisors and supervisees as well as postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students of social work, counselling, psychology and education.
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Book SynopsisThis book delves into the infantâs natural multiplicity as the foundation of the adult, to rediscover the impact of first year, unremembered trauma.Advancing interdisciplinary inquiry into psychologyâs neurobiology, infant research, developmental research, Jungian analytical psychology, and psychoanalysis, Kelly Polanski unveils adult unconscious dissociation at the heart of traumaâs wound. She re-engages nascent part-self-state experience to unlock early psyche-somatic Selving under adverse conditions and to emancipate the spark of vitality trapped inside the gap of trauma, patiently awaiting recovery and renewalâto live. A clinical case of crib trauma vividly demonstrates how Jungian dream analysis uncovers pivotal distinctions in lifeâs first unconscious psychifying processes to reveal traumaâs chthonic impact and restoration. Changeling mythology illuminates the pathway of this shocking initiation into the dual destiny of the empirical and archetypal child and their epic transformational fate into whole Self experience.This unique contribution offers adult survivors of infant trauma rediscovery and renewal to live again their precious instinctual spirit of aliveness, and will be of interest to Jungian analysts, as well as psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, body-oriented somatic therapists, social workers, and individuals suffering from trauma.
£31.99
Book SynopsisThis unique collection promotes and develops 'drama-in-Englishâ, a hybrid pedagogy combining reader response theory with literacy research and educational drama. Drawing on experienced practitioners' classroom insights, the authors show how embedded drama approaches can be used to revitalise the English/Language Arts curriculum and motivate young people to make personal and critical connections with their learning.Readers will find eight reader-friendly accounts exploring how drama-inflected approaches support diverse learners across all aspects of English teaching. Contributors discuss engaging with literary texts through spoken, written and multimodal responses; digital storytelling; embodied approaches to creative and informative writing; developing language competency; and preparation for formal examinations. The research-informed content, rooted in real classroom practice, demonstrates sustainable and fully integrated creative approaches applicable to UK and international contexts.This essential resource benefits all those working in English/Language Arts education: secondary teachers, teacher educators, trainee teachers, and teachers of English as an additional language.
£45.44
Book SynopsisPython for Accounting and Finance: A Mind-Mapping Approach is an innovative textbook written for accounting and finance students and professionals with no prior coding experience. It introduces Python programming through a mind mapping approach that presents complex concepts in a clear and structured way to support understanding and retention.The book is organised into four parts: Python Basics, Data Analysis and Visualisation, Automation, and Machine Learning. It places programming within practical accounting and finance contexts so that learners can see the direct application of coding in their field. The textbook uses mind maps as a core instructional method. These visual diagrams show programming concepts and their connections, helping learners to understand, organise and recall information, particularly those who learn through visual representation.Enhanced with Google Colab notebooks, this book creates a highly supportive learning experience, equipping students of accounting and finance with essential programming skills for their speciality.
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Book SynopsisThis book explores how ancient disability and its reception in Classics, Ancient Mediterranean Studies and related disciplines are relevant to disabled people today. Written by disabled and neurodivergent scholars, this book outlines the multifaceted contributions studies of the ancient world can have on contemporary Disability Studies, pedagogy, research and activism. It addresses how ableism has impacted the disability rights movement, pedagogy and research in Classics, as well as misconceptions about disability in the ancient world, which remain pervasive across modern scholarship. The volume highlights what Ancient Disability Studies has to offer towards modern disability activism, with studies of disability in the past posing fascinating questions for educators and disability community members today. This book is suitable for students and scholars in Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Disability Studies, and Museum Studies, as well as teachers and university educators. It will also appeal to disabled people and those interested in pedagogy and disability history.
£55.99
Book SynopsisMethods for Systems Thinking is a practical workbook with more than 65 methods you can apply right away. It helps you explore complex systems, involve the right people, and respond effectively to change.The QuickStart Guide shows you where to begin. You can start with the short theory section, use the 5M Methods Matrix to choose an approach, or jump straight to a method. Methods are organised by the 5M structure (Motivate, Meet, Map, Make and Manage) so you can quickly find what fits your purpose, whether clarifying goals, engaging stakeholders, mapping connections, shaping responses, or adapting over time.Each method spans three pages and gives you a description, purpose, application, illustration, and step-by-step guidance. You also get tips for facilitation, debriefing, and variations. The focus is on action, turning reflection into results.
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Book SynopsisPhysical Activity, Health and Emerging Technologies explores how technology is reshaping the way we approach fitness and health. Regular physical activity is essential for preventing chronic diseases, improving mental health, and enhancing overall well-being, yet many individuals remain inactive. Traditional interventions often fall short, prompting a shift toward integrating emerging technologies into public health initiatives.This new book examines how tools like fitness trackers, smartwatches, mobile health apps, and AI- driven platforms provide personalized exercise plans, real-time activity tracking, and sustainable behavior change. It delves into how virtual and augmented reality merge entertainment with movement, while digital health hubs offer comprehensive platforms for tracking progress and engaging users. By leveraging theoretical frameworks such as the Social Ecological Model and Social Cognitive Theory, the book provides evidence-based insights for promoting lifelong physical activity and behavior change.Blending academic depth with practical applications, Physical Activity, Health and Emerging Technologies offers a comprehensive guide for health professionals, scholars, and college students in the fields of Physical Activity, Assessment and Measurement, Health Promotion and Physical Education.
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