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Book SynopsisEffective strategic management education and practice must focus on the whole team rather than the individual â this book guides readers towards collaborative excellence in strategizing and decision-making by taking such an approach.Organized into four interlinked parts, this book offers readers the conceptual resources to critically rethink how strategic leadership capability can and should be developed in top management teams, along with practical interventions to implement this vision. Each chapter begins with a clear justification of its importance, asserting alignment and relevance. By laying out the objectives and drawing connections between chapters, teams are better positioned to see both the individual trees and the overarching forest of strategic management. A myriad of field-based insights and team-focused examples serve as a launchpad for collaborative discussions grounded in real-world dynamics. Readers will learn how to implement strategic management principles effectively, maximizing both individual and collective potential.With chapters supporting a modular executive education program, this exciting new title will also be a valuable resource for MBA students, advanced undergraduates, future business leaders, consultants, and reflective practitioners.The work is fully supported by a variety of online resources including downloadable participant handouts and templates for key exercises, together with an adaptable core slide deck.
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Book SynopsisWhy have mass public shootings in the U.S. become more frequent and lethal over the last two decades? This question cannot be answered by looking exclusively at the biographies, personalities, or mental health problems of individual shooters. Instead, to paraphrase C. Wright Mills, human behavior is never self-contained and must be understood at the intersection between the personal and social realms. Employing a sociological perspective and drawing from various data sources and case studies, this book offers a theoretical analysis of mass public shootings and the structural factors that drive these incidents. Our analysis highlights how neoliberalismânot simply as a set of pro-market policies but as an ideology and governing rationalityâis linked to the mass shooting phenomenon in the United States.Since the late 20th century, neoliberalism has not only heightened economic precarity and feelings of despair, but also encouraged ruthlessness, ideological extremism, and the prioritization of personal aims over othersâ well-being. These tendencies have been amplified by digital technologies that encourage social isolation and egoistical forms of agency, all of which weaken social bonds, erode empathy, and drive some individuals to kill as an effort to seek respect and recognitionâwhat the classical Greeks called âœthymosââin a society that strips them of their dignity and makes them feel devalued and irrelevant.This book will be an appropriate and useful supplementary text for various types of courses within sociology, criminology, and other social sciences that look at the social dimension of violence. In addition, the book should be of interest to a wider, non-academic audience that seeks a data-driven, sociological analysis of this phenomenon that is written in clear, accessible language.
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Book SynopsisNow in a thoroughly revised sixth edition, An Introduction to the Policy Process provides students at all levels with an accessible, readable, and affordable introduction to the field of public policy. In keeping with prior editions, author Tom Birkland conveys the best current thinking on the policy process in a clear, conversational style. Designed to address new developments in both policy theory and policy making, the sixth edition includes: An all-new chapter exploring the philosophical and normative foundations of American governance, to connect principles such as liberty, equality, representation, and the rule of law to contemporary political debates and tensions; A thoughtful exploration of newer policy theory developments like the Multiple Streams Framework, Punctuated Equilibrium Theory, the Advocacy Coalition Framework, policy diffusion, the Narrative Policy Framework, and the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) and Social-Ecological Systems (SES) traditions, to help students understand policy change and stability, and to provide a set of analytical tools they can carry with them beyond the classroom; Fully updated chapter summaries, key terms and definitions, provocative review questions, recommended reading, visual aids and case studies, theoretical literature, and PowerPoint slides and Test Banks to make teaching from the book easier than ever. Firmly grounded in both social science and political science, An Introduction to the Policy Process provides the most up-to-date and thorough overview of the theory and practice of the policy process, ideal for upper-level undergraduate and introductory graduate courses in Public Policy, Public Administration, and Political Science programs.
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Book SynopsisWitches, ghosts, fairies. Late medieval and early modern Europe was seemingly filled with these and other threatening and disturbing figures. For many contemporary authors, the devil appeared to lurk behind them all. Were his powers real or mere trickery? What limits did God place on them? Could reports from this hidden demonic netherworld be trusted? Physicians, lawyers, and theologians, writing at different times and places, gave very different answers and often disagreed bitterly.This updated and enlarged second edition examines individual authors from across Europe and its colonies to reveal the many purposes to which the devil could be put â in the late medieval fight against heresy, the age of Reformations, and beyond. It follows the devilâs trajectory from his emergence in the 1300s and 1400s as a bodily figure who made pacts with humans, through the comprehensive surveys that coincided with the witch-huntsâ most deadly phase, to the end of the seventeenth century, when the science of demons met new challenges in both Old World and New.This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and anyone interested in the history of the supernatural, in medieval and early modern Europe, as well as those exploring the intersections of theology, science, and society during this transformative period.
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Book SynopsisThe Art and Science of Parenting and Grandparenting is an indispensable source of guidance and wisdom on the most critical challenges facing contemporary parents and grandparents. Award-winning psychologist Kenneth Barish shows how we can protect our children's emotional health, support their love of learning, have better conversations, and nurture children's empathy and kindness towards others. Dr Barish presents comprehensive, multi-step plans for solving many problems of daily family life. He offers insights from neuroscience, child development research, clinical and educational programs for children, and from his experience of more than forty years as a child psychologist, father, and grandfather.This book should be read by parents and grandparents, physicians, child and family therapists, teachers, child development specialists, and anyone committed to the well-being of children and families.
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Book SynopsisDerivatives: Mathematical Foundations for Finance Students is written for students of finance and actuarial science who want to understand derivatives not just as formulas but as ideas that make sense. The goal is to build the mathematical foundations up step by step â starting from the familiar territory of first-year undergraduate probability and statistics and moving all the way to stochastic calculus and the principles of risk-neutral pricing, which form the heart of modern financial mathematics.This text will enable the reader to:â understand models of asset price behaviour and apply stochastic calculusâ use stochastic simulations in R to investigate processes and price optionsâ price options with the binomial modelâ derive solutions to the Black-Scholes equation using risk-neutral pricingâ price interest-rate derivatives using Black's model, short-rate models and the HeathâJarrowâMorton (HJM) frameworkâ tackle quantitative finance exam questions.It incorporates a range of learning features to aid student understanding, including boxed examples, end-of-chapter summaries, selected questions from Society of Actuaries (US) Quantitative Finance examinations and further reading suggestions. The book is also supported by a suite of digital learning resources, including PowerPoint slides, multiple choice questions, instructor manual/advice document for lecturers, and a test bank.Derivatives: Mathematical Foundations for Finance Students will appeal to both undergraduate and postgraduate students who wish to understand the principles of stochastic calculus and option pricing.
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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1932, Studies in Sociology consists of essays that fall into three groups, the first concerned with the scope and method of sociology and its relation to history and social philosophy; the second devoted to an analysis of the theory of evolution as applied to society, and to a number of problems in social psychology, such as the nature of social purpose, the place of instinct in social science, the relation between instinct and emotion, and the inheritance of mental characters; while the third group deals with the claims of Eugenics, and social classes and social mobility. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, history and philosophy.
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Book SynopsisMarc Blecher presents a seminal analysis on development of the urban working class in China. Chinese workers have been the subjects of a great deal of analysis by scholars, documentation by journalists and activists, and portrayal by writers, filmmakers, and artists. The Making of Chinaâs Working Class: A World to Lose seeks the foundation for all this in three questions: what kind of class is the Chinese working class?; what are the historical forces and processes that have formed it?; and how does the pattern of class formation help explain the working classâs reactions historically, presently, and even prospectively?Blecher offers a contribution not just to scholarship on Chinese labor politics, but on the countryâs politics and the stateâs hegemony more widely as well as to comparative labor politics. Combining usefulness, thoroughness, and clarity, The Making of Chinaâs Working Class is an outstanding resource for educators and students, a bookshelf staple
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Book SynopsisThis book offers a compelling introduction to the groundbreaking work of one of Germanyâs most influential feminist and Marxist thinkers, Frigga Haug. For over five decades, Haugâs writings have shaped critical debates on gender, subjectivity, and social transformation, yet much of her work has remained inaccessible to English-speaking audiences - until now.This collection brings together a selection of her most thought-provoking essays, making her profound insights available to a wider readership. At the core of Haugâs intellectual and political practice is a radical insistence on the interplay between subjective experience and structural oppression. Her essays explore how the oppressed are often complicit in reproducing their own subjugation, while also offering a vision of transformation rooted in everyday life. Through her nuanced engagement with philosophy, sociology, psychoanalysis, and Marxism, Haug challenges readers to see theory and practice as inseparable, inviting them to rethink feminist politics and social change in the context of contemporary struggles.This volume is an essential resource for scholars, students, and critical thinkers in fields such as feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and social theory, and provides a rich and transformative perspective on the challenges of our time.
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Book SynopsisLearning and Teaching a Second Language: A Pragmatic Perspective provides an accessible research-based introduction to second language learning and teaching. Moving away from grammatically driven methodologies toward a linguistically anchored approach, it demonstrates the systematic study of languages through different units of everyday language use.Written by leading experts in the field, this book provides pragmatics-focused insights into the process of acquiring any language, as well as the complexities and challenges often experienced by learners of a second language. House and KÃdÃr propose a systematic model to describe, interpret and overcome such difficulties, illustrated with real case studies from several second languages such as English, Chinese, Japanese, German and Hungarian. The chapters are clearly structured around practical tasks, encouraging the reader to acquire competence in the field either in a classroom or independently.Cutting-edge and comprehensive, this is the ideal textbook for students of applied linguistics, pragmatics, intercultural communication, as well as pedagogy and communication studies. It is also an invaluable resource for practitioners and teachers seeking to develop their analytical skills and teaching competence.
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Book SynopsisThe second edition of this comprehensive introduction to politics remains an essential framework for assessing the health and workings of present-day democracy. The book explores how democratic processes bring public policy into line with popular, basically centrist, preferences. In helping explain its workings, it equips us to better defend democracy.Applying newly integrated theories of democratic processes to contemporary developments such as the use of right-wing populism across the world, it is the first textbook to help readers develop and apply predictive explanations for themselves. In doing so, it provides straightforward practical tools for evaluating how current events impact on democratic procedures and processes.Key features: provides answers to key questions such as how much contemporary democracies have lost direction under the impact of populist parties, big business and international threats. validated against statistical evidence and examples from across the world, it details more exactly when and how democracy goes wrong and how to put it right. shows how to develop predictive explanations as a basis for action, thus strengthening democracy by understanding it better. outlines â in easy-to-understand terms â the basic statistical approaches that drive empirically informed analysis. in-text features include chapter summaries, reviews, key points, illustrative briefings, key concepts and project and essay suggestions, further reading. Politics is an essential resource for students of political science hoping a rules-based global order, and of key interest to economics, public policy analysis and more broadly the social sciences.
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Book SynopsisNow celebrating its 50th anniversary, An Introduction to Theories of Learning has provided a uniquely sweeping review of the major learning theories from the 20th century that profoundly influenced the field of psychology. The four main goals of this text are to define learning, to show how the learning process is studied, to place learning theory in a historical perspective, and to present essential features of the major theories of learning with implications for educational practices.In this new edition, the authors have retained the best features of earlier additions while expanding and enhancing its application to modern scholarship. Key features of the eleventh edition include:â Enhanced neuroscience integration, including discussions on cortical waves, mirror neurons, memory consolidation, and brain-based evidence supporting classic learning theories.â The incorporation of new findings on species-specific behaviors and habituation, including insightful problem-solving in birds and the neurobiological basis of insight in humans. New sections on artificial intelligence applications in education, improved study techniques based on large-scale research, and the implementation of learning principles in public health.â Enhanced pedagogy to increase engagement, including interactive online self-testing questions.Bringing together contributions from throughout history through to the modern day, this is an essential resource for applied cognitive psychology courses and all those interested in the processes that underlie learning in human beings and animals.
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Book SynopsisAs a professional, understanding the foundations of drawing, how we process images, and how we interpret what we see are principal skills. Understanding linear perspective enables artists and architects to accurately communicate their ideas on paper. The Complete Guide to Perspective Drawing offers a step-by-step guide for the beginner as well as the advanced student on how to draw in one-point through six-point perspective and how to make scientifically accurate conceptual illustrations from simple to complex situations. This new edition has been updated to include:â Over 30 completed case images showing real applications of the processes and techniques discussedâ Expanded information on ellipsesâ Expanded information on three-point perspective shadowsâ Integrated video tutorials throughoutâ A new design for ease of navigation across chaptersWith over 400 simple, clear drawings, written explanations, video tutorials, exercises, as well as historical and theoretical background, this book is an essential visual guide for current and future architects, interior designers, landscape architects, graphic designers, video game designers, animators, and artists.
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Book SynopsisThis A-Z guide provides readers with a comprehensive overview of fifty core concepts in the global field of science communication. It explains the origins and research foundations of each essential concept, analyses how they have been applied in different scholarly and professional contexts and demonstrates their use as guides to action.When governments proclaim they want to improve scientific literacy and enhance public trust in science, when universities promise to promote public engagement with research and when funders require scientists to demonstrate the impact of their research on society, they are all using core concepts from the field of science communication. Essential Concepts of Science Communication defines and explains these key concepts and terms in an accessible and easy-to-navigate overview. It illustrates how these concepts relate to each other and connect more broadly to other ideas and disciplines, as well as including extensive references recommendations for further reading. The entries are written by a range of experts from around the world, ranging from eminent scholars who were instrumental in the foundation and development of the field, to early-career researchers advancing knowledge in the discipline, along with scholar-practitioners who bridge the divide between the university and the world of practice.Edited by two scholars who also have substantial experience of practical science communication, this book will be an invaluable resource for students studying degrees and modules on the subject, practitioners entering professional practice, and new entrants to the field - including scientists, who seek a grounding in the conceptual basis of science communication.
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Book SynopsisThis accessible and informative guide introduces educational practices for the classroom to inspire and innovate the education of students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). Combining practical strategies with insights from psychology and neuroscience, the book enables teachers to better understand SEND learners and to improve their confidence in the classroom.With the theme of inclusivity present throughout, the book initially explores theoretical underpinnings, then introduces a range of practical approaches to enhance curriculum development, pupil wellbeing and outcomes of school communities. Chapters equip the reader with tools, case studies, and discussion points to develop a clear pedagogy for SEND teaching and learning, igniting potential and ultimately improving the teaching and learning experience for all. These resources empower educators to reimagine their practices and drive meaningful, systemic shifts in education.Igniting Potential is about fanning a flame of professional discovery for the ultimate benefit of your SEND pupils. It will be essential reading for SENCOs and school leaders, as well as trainee and practising mainstream teachers.
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Book SynopsisExploring Semi-Speaking as a Communication Identity is a reflective practice companion which takes an expansive approach to supporting autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people who do not always have access to speech. Written for speech and language therapists, and relevant to other interested people, the book challenges traditional ideas about communication. It offers practical insights grounded in the neurodiversity paradigm, and amplifies neurodivergent voices alongside contributions from people with lived and professional experience of semi-speaking, situational mutism and AAC.Readers are invited on a journey of reflection through their own practice, reconsidering assumptions, deepening thinking, and expanding their understanding in this area. Topics include communication identity, communication capacity, AAC, multi-modal communication and shared understanding to support collaborative discussion. Encouraging curiosity, this comprehensive resource is essential reading for anyone interested in semi-speaking and communication identity.
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Book SynopsisThe new edition of the bestselling Grotesque offers an accessible introduction to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film.The book presents a history of the literary grotesque from Classical writing to the present, examining theoretical debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts and introduces readers to key writers, artists and film makers of the grotesque, including Homer, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Carson McCullers, David Cronenberg, Ottessa Moshfegh and Bong Joon Ho. It analyses key terms such as discord and transgression, deformed and distorted bodies, misfits and freaks, and explores the grotesque in relation to queer theory, post-colonialism and the carnivalesque. Updated and expanded throughout, the second edition reveals how grotesque is always on the move, pushing against the boundaries of shifting standards of what is and is not normal. It includes insightful new chapters on the absurd and ecocriticism. It also features fresh insight into fat studies, sophistication and the grotesque, decolonial grotesque, planetary grotesque, the New Weird and Ecogothic.This invaluable guide offers an original and distinctive overview of this vital genre. It is essential reading for students of literature, art history and film studies.
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Book SynopsisThis book brings together everything you need to know about data science within healthcare systems, with a primary focus on showing how to advance automated and non-automated analytical methods for extracting valuable insights from healthcare data. It draws upon a range of interconnected disciplines, including machine learning, big data analytics, statistics, pattern recognition, computer vision, and Semantic Web Technologies. The book emphasizes the practical application of these disciplines in the healthcare domain inclusive of quality assurance, governance and regulatory overview. It includes instructional chapters on data science in healthcare as a foundation, then progresses to showcase real world, successful examples of data science and AI applications in healthcare, highlighting their range of usefulness and potential. Intended primarily for healthcare professionals, including clinical academics, academics and trainees working in the healthcare or medical sectors, this book offers crucial insights into cutting-edge data science technologies, essential for driving innovation in both healthcare businesses and patient care.
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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1928, The Child in Primitive Society examines the place of the child in the history of the less developed societies reaching back as close to social âœoriginsâ as is possible. The purpose here is not to enquire into the inner processes of learning, habit formation and acculturation in the child himself, but our aim is rather to examine the social milieu as it impinges upon the child- in other words, the customs and institutions which emerge as the educational systems of society later in the course of development. The purpose is to delineate the gradual trimming or fashioning of a childâs social existence by these social forces.The book discusses various important themes such as primitive notions of the child, the burden of children, the desire for children, infancy and childhood, primitive education, and inheritance and succession. This book is an important historical reference for scholars and researchers of sociology and education.
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Book SynopsisRevising and Editing for Translators has long been the go-guide for both translation students learning how to revise the work of others or edit original writing, and professional translators wishing to improve their self-revision ability. Revising and editing are vital reading skills aimed at spotting problematic passages. Changes are then made to meet some standard of quality that varies with the text and to tailor the text to its readership. In a world of AI translation tools, the skills of revising and editing are more important than ever before.Mossop offers in-depth coverage of a wide range of topics, including copyediting, stylistic editing, checking for consistency, revising procedures and principles, and translation quality assessmentâall related to the professional situations in which revisers and editors work.This fully revised fifth edition provides new chapters on Generative AI, revision of legal translations, and revision of literary translations, along with updated and expanded coverage of revising machine outputs. The inclusion of suggested activities and exercises, numerous real-world examples, and a reference glossary make this an indispensable coursebook for professional translation programmes.
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Book SynopsisThis outstanding new edition offers a comprehensive introduction to occupational therapy in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, framing the professionâs role within health systems as well as the breadth of its practice.The book is divided into three sections: the first explores historical and contemporary contexts, including regulatory and professional frameworks, while the second addresses professional issues such as diverse client groups, collaborative partnerships, and core principles shaping practice. The final section focuses on practical issues, including assessment, assistive technology, primary health care, sustainability, health promotion, leadership, and practice management. Each chapter includes case studies, key concept explanations, and review questions, while an overarching theme is the building of respectful relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and Pacific and MÄori communities, guided by principles of truth, recognition, and reconciliation.Including a companion site with adaptable PowerPoint slides for lecturers and educators who adopt the edited text for education purposes, this is the complete resource for students beginning their journey toward becoming occupational therapists in Australia or Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Book SynopsisStrategies for Sustainability brings together authors and perspectives from different industries, practice areas and geographies within a unifying story thread to inform communication efforts and critical discussion of contemporary ecological strategies relevant to business and marketing needs.Anchored in diverse areas of study such as communication, technology, innovation, diplomacy, policy making, operations management, financial inclusion, and organizational research, it features a range of sectors including energy, transportation, finance, auto manufacturing, construction, retail, urban planning, policy-making and the blue economy, bringing unique insights from across the world from academia and practice alike. It aims to take a balanced approach, exploring the positive as well as the less flattering aspects of sustainability efforts. Each chapter starts with a thought-provoking key question, prompting the reader to revisit their current notions of ecological sustainability and critically assess the gaps between sustainability strategy and actual sustainability efforts. Chapter objectives, themes, case studies and discussion questions throughout the book support student learning.Written in a simple, concise manner, this book is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of business strategy, marketing, international business and sustainability-related fields, as well as practitioners from a range of different industries.
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Book SynopsisExamining how media industries actively shape, and are shaped by, attachments to place and movements across geographical spaces, this volume illuminates the many spatial dimensions of âglobalisedâ media.In an era where music, video and games can be streamed instantly around the world on numerous digital devices, and films and television series are produced across numerous countries often featuring globetrotting characters in an array of exotic settings, it is easy to forget that media industries retain any attachments to space or place. While globalised production, distribution and consumption systems structure contemporary media industries, this collection seeks to document and analyse the many ways in which questions of space and place still matter to those industries.Written by leading scholars in the field, this international collection explores how media industries both occupy and generate spaces and places. Here, spatial dynamics are represented by the formation of global production networks, the impacts of virtual production technologies, media engagements with local communities, questions of accessible participation in film festivals, and the franchising of space at media-themed leisure attractions. Several of the bookâs chapters reflect the increasing dominance of streaming media, which also have complex relationships to place and space, even as they actively seek to obscure and even erase these aspects of the media they distribute and, in some cases, produce.Locating Media Industries is essential reading for students and scholars of film, media and/or creative industries.
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Book SynopsisThis book explores how the digital face has become a vital medium of expression, emotion, and identity in contemporary visual culture. Integrating artistic practice, anatomical understanding, and technological innovation, the book charts the evolution of facial animation from traditional rigging and motion capture to the new frontiers of real-time performance and immersive environments.Through close examination of modelling, rigging, capture, and design processes, it reveals how the animated face functions as both an expressive surface and a communicative interface within digital media. Each chapter connects aesthetic analysis with technical insight, connecting creative experimentation to scientific perspectives on motion and expression.Combining creative analysis with production-based case studies, this book provides animators, researchers, and creative technologists with a framework for designing and interpreting digital faces. It demonstrates how facial performance continues to evolve across 3D cinema, interactive games, and extended realities, transforming how we perceive, perform, and connect within virtual worlds.
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Book SynopsisThrough labelling theory, Crime and Marginalisation: Young People in World Cinema examines how stigma affects marginalized youth across global societies by analyzing key films that reflect broader social trends.Moving beyond Anglophone perspectives, it explores diverse contexts including First Nations dispossession, Global South dynamics, and China's displaced youth. The analysis reveals how cinema reflects racial disparities, colonial legacies, and neo-liberal inequities while demonstrating that delinquency perceptions are reductive and universal characteristics elusive. It explores themes of alienation, survival, and resistance in hostile environments.Challenging notions of traditional juvenile justice, Crime and Marginalisation: Young People in World Cinema will appeal to students and scholars of crime and popular culture, crime and media, and youth crime and justice.
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Book SynopsisThis is a book about music, more specifically about the experience of music. It is about the physical experience of expressing sounds through an instrument, the cognitive experience of reading a written score as opposed to playing by ear, and also about the more passive experience of listening to music, and the way it affects our body in different ways. But it is also a book about translation, more precisely, about the translational processes involved in all the above. For if we consider that music is a fleeting artform, one that is auditory in nature and unfolds in time, it becomes clear that the process of communicating it to others, whether live or via manuscripts or recordings, implies multiple acts of translation involving different codes and media. Drawing on a range of musics from western art and popular music to Amerindian dance-songs and computer-generated compositions, it discusses issues such as musical interpretation, manuscript editing, improvisation, covers and remixes, and arrangements and adaptations, all from a translational perspective.As such, this book will be of interest not only to translation scholars, musicologists and students, but also to anyone with a love of music, whether from a performerâs or a listenerâs perspective.
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Book SynopsisChristopher Barneyâs Pattern Language for Game Design builds on the revolutionary work of architect Christopher Alexander to show students, teachers, and game development professionals how to derive best practices in all aspects of game design. Using a series of practical, rigorous exercises, designers can observe and analyze the failures and successes of the games they know and love to find the deep patterns that underlie good design. From an in-depth look at Alexanderâs work to a critique of pattern theory in various fields, to a new approach that challenges your knowledge and puts it to work, this book seeks to transform how we view building interactive experiences that shape us.Key Features: Background on the architectural concepts of patterns and a Pattern Language as defined in the work of Christopher Alexander, including his later work on the Fifteen Properties of Wholeness and Generative Codes. Analysis of other uses of Alexanderâs work in computer science and game design, and the limitations of those efforts. A comprehensive set of example exercises to help the reader develop their own patterns that can be used in practical day-to-day game design tasks. Exercises that are useful to designers at all levels of experience and can be completed in any order, allowing students to select exercises that match their coursework and allowing professionals to choose exercises that address their real-world challenges. Discussion of common pitfalls and difficulties with the pattern derivation process. A guide for game design teachers, studio leaders, and university departments for curating and maintaining institutional Pattern Languages. Interactive Pattern Language website where you can share patterns with developers throughout the world (patternlanguageforgamedesign.com). This website also contains a comprehensive reference to all games referenced in this book. This fully updated new edition includes: Revised Pattern Template enhanced to record additional aspects of patterns. A robust set of twenty new mechanics-focused pattern exercises. New example patterns for each new exercise. QR codes and links to the Pattern Library website showing the detailed work used to produce each example pattern. A framework for decomposing game mechanics for the application of design patterns. (Atomic Mechanics Theory) A system for diagramming related sets of patterns and the design problems they address. The application of Playable Concepts as rhetorical proofs for Design Patterns. New advice for applying patterns to level design. Visit the Pattern Library Website at patternlanguageforgamedesign.com
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Book SynopsisGovernment and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa: Development, Democracy, and Dictatorship (10th Edition) offers a definitive and timely guide to the political landscapes of one of the worldâs most dynamic regions.Bringing together fully revised chapters from leading scholars, this landmark volume examines the historical trajectories, political institutions, economic development, and foreign policies of nearly two dozen countries across the Middle East and North Africa. Covering events and transformations from the twentieth century until the current day, it provides clear, comparative insights into the Arab world, Israel, Turkey, and Iran. Each country chapter follows a consistent structure, allowing readers to navigate complex domestic politics and foreign relations with ease, while data tables, maps, fact boxes, and annotated bibliographies enrich understanding and facilitate further study.An essential resource for students, researchers, and anyone seeking a deeper grasp of the region, this edition - used alone or alongside its companion volume, The Societies of the Middle East and North Africa - offers a comprehensive and accessible foundation for exploring the interplay of development, democracy, and dictatorship in the Middle East.
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Book SynopsisThis book explores phonics within the wider landscape of literacy instruction and emphasises the importance of responding to diverse student needs through linguistically informed pedagogy. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book provides pre- and in-service teachers with the essential tools they need to navigate the world of phonics-based reading.The authors offer a balanced perspective that moves beyond the âreading warsâ framing, in which phonics and whole-language approaches are often positioned in opposition.Instead, it outlines the latest evidence-based phonics instruction methods and draws on the insights of both educators and researchers. It blends practical guidance with strong research foundations. It also introduces differentiation strategies in phonics instruction and provides support for working with varied English pronunciation models, reflecting the rich linguistic diversity found among children around the world.This highly practical and academically rigorous resource is an essential read for educators guiding young children on the journey toward becoming skilled readers.
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Book SynopsisStudents love math games and puzzles, but how much are they really learning from the experience? Too often, math games are thought of as just a fun activity or enrichment opportunity. Well Played, Grades 6â8: Building Mathematical Thinking Through Number and Algebraic Games and Puzzles shows you how to make games and puzzles an integral and engaging part of the math classroom. Now in its second edition, Well Played, Grades 6â8 offers twenty-five engaging games and puzzles which have all been field tested in diverse classrooms. Additionally the materials for each game and puzzle have been streamlined, making preparing for and managing game and puzzle play even easier. Each game or puzzle contains:â Short explanations of the mathematical importance of each game or puzzle and how it supports student learningâ Variations for each game or puzzle to address a range of learning levels â Classroom vignettes and tips that model how to introduce the featured game or puzzleâ Exit card choices and student work examples that make real-time assessment a meaningful part of teaching with games and puzzlesNew full-sized appendices of all game boards, puzzles, and other materials make preparing for play an easy task. A built-in study guide at the end of each chapter makes this book an ideal choice for book studies and collaborative teacher learning. Well Played, Grades 6â8 will help you tap the power of games and puzzles to engage students in sustained and productive mathematical thinking.
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