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Teachers College Press Culturally Responsive Teaching for Infants and
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Yale University Press How to Read Literature
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Part of the fun of the book is the way in which Eagleton prompts, provokes and at times infuriates. How to read How to Read Literature? . . . as an ideal introductory guide to critical analysis, and a thoroughly enjoyable reminder of Eagleton’s own skill and subtlety as a reader."—Felicity James, Times Higher Education Supplement"A pleasingly readable overview of what we talk about when we talk about books. . . . Incisive and honest."—Michael Washburn, Boston Globe"How to Read Literature is a lively and engaging primer on basic strategies for appreciating literature, a kind of English 101 in a book."—Washington Post"This is Eagleton at his most charming and an excellent guide for literature students early in their education or those seeking a refresher course."—Publishers Weekly"This book is seriously good fun. Teachers should pounce on it with glee, especially if they have tried for weary years to tell students, daunted by having to comment on great literary works, that poems and novels are not alarming, for they are composed only of words. Of course students themselves may not read the book, students being what they are, but those entrusted with their education should rejoice. It is, says Terry Eagleton in his preface, a guide for beginners. But it is much more than that. Like fireworks over Sydney harbour, it fizzes and explodes with ideas. You don’t have to be either teacher or beginner to relish it: Eagleton is so full of enthusiasm that you just need to be able to read. His canvas is broad. He is unafraid of tackling anything, from “Baa Baa Black Sheep” to “Lycidas”, and he is splendidly unpompous."—Sue Gaisford, Tablet"Eagleton is alive to the complexity of literature and to a commonsense clarity. . . . In a cheering way, Eagleton believes in literary value and thinks an inability to recognise it would be as absurd as someone who is into single-malt whisky not being willing to admit a great one when he tasted it. . . . This is as brilliant as an absolutely sensible book about literature could be. Anyone intrigued by the subject, as well as quite a few who have long been bemused by it, will read it with intense pleasure."—Peter Craven, The Sydney Morning Herald"This is not only an entertaining book, it's an important one. What Eagleton refers to as "slow reading", after Nietzsche, seems horribly endangered as a human activity. He draws us back to basics here, in a sequence of sharp analyses, taking into account the essential aspects of intelligent reading. I love his breezy style, so accessible and concrete; yet he never sacrifices nuance or subtlety. This is a book for every reader, not only beginners, yet it will prove immensely useful in the classroom."—Jay Parini, author of Why Poetry Matters
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Actively Dying The Creation of Muslim Identities through EndofLife Care in the United States Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
Book SynopsisThis book explores the experiences of Muslims in the United States as they interact with the health care system during serious illness and end-of-life care. It shifts actively dying from a medical phrase used to describe patients who are expected to pass away soon or who exhibit signs of impending death, to a theoretical framework to analyze how end-of-life care, particularly within a hospital, shapes the ways that patients, families, and providers understand Islam and think of themselves as Muslim. Using the dying body as the main object of analysis, the volume shows that religious identities of Muslim patients, loved ones, and caregivers are not only created when living, but also through the physical process of dying and through death.Based on ethnographic and qualitative research carried out mainly in the Washington, D.C. region, this volume will be of interest to scholars in anthropology, sociology, public health, gerontology, and religious studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction Actively Dying: A Medical Phrase and a Framework for Analyzing End-of-Life Care and Muslim Identities; PART I; 1. Death and Dying within the US Health Care System; 2. Islam and End-of-Life Care: Prevalent Approaches and Beliefs; PART II; 3. Muslim Health Care Providers: The Intersection of Medical Practice and Religion; 4. The Muslim Child: Adult Children Caring for Dying Parents; 5. Death: The Dead Muslim Body and Connections to Identity; Conclusion The Important Case of "a Bus": A Critique and Intervention
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Taylor & Francis The Virtual Representation of the Past Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
Book SynopsisThis unique book critically evaluates the virtual representation of the past through digital media. A distinguished team of leading experts in the field approach digital research in history and archaeology from contrasting viewpoints, including philosophical, methodological and technical. They illustrate the challenges involved in representing the past digitally by focusing on specific cases of a particular historical period, place or technical problem.Trade Review'In an age when the objects of scholarly analysis in the arts and humanities are rapidly moving from the physical world to the virtual realm, researchers from all disciplines need a better understanding of the possibilities and potential of computational theory and methods. The fascinating essays in 'The Virtual Representation of the Past' explore the cutting edge of new techniques enabled by the digital age - from data- and text-mining to search to spatial technology - while remaining firmly rooted in the humanistic tradition. The book is approachable and thought-provoking.' Daniel Cohen, George Mason University, USA 'This excellent volume, by established and younger scholars, offers a definitive overview of the current landscape from a multidisciplinary perspective. The transformative opportunities that technology has to offer humanities researchers are highlighted, together with the scale of the challenges in an age of where so little thought is given to interoperability and long-term issues such as sustainability.' Jane Ohlmeyer, Trinity College, Ireland '...plenty of food for thought for readers wishing to utilise technologies to analyse and represent meta-data visually....a valuable model worthy of emulation across other countries and professions.' Australian Academic & Research Libraries '...more than just a fascinating read about how historians and archaeologists are beginning to use digital technologies. It asks subtle questions about what happens to the past when it is represented digitally, about how digital technology can be used to reveal the layers of interpretation which have accumulated around surviving traces of past activity, and at the same time how it adds new layers of meaning which somehow must also be recognized and revealed...Librarians and archivists might well compare their own practices and values with those described here and think about the ways in which they are also creating virtual representations of the past.' The ElectroniTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Mark Greengrass; Part I The Virtual Representation of Text: The imaging of historical documents, Andrew Prescott; Virtual restoration and manuscript archaeology, Meg Twycross; Representations of sources and data: working with exceptions to hierarchy in historical documents, Donald Spaeth. Part II Virtual Histories and Pre-Histories: Finding Meanings: Finding needles in haystacks: data-mining in distributed historical datasets, Fabio Ciravegna, Mark Greengrass, Tim Hitchcock, Sam Chapman, Jamie McLaughlin and Ravish Bhagdev; Digital searching and the re-formulation of historical knowledge, Tim Hitchcock; Using computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software in collaborative historical research, Caroline Bowden; Stepping back from the trench edge: an archaeological perspective on the development of standards for recording and publication, Julian D. Richards and Catherine Hardman. Part III The Virtual Representation of Place and Time: Which? What? When? On the virtual representation of time, Manfred Thaller; In the kingdom of the blind: visualization and e-science in archaeology, the arts and humanities, Vincent Gaffney; Using geographical information systems to explore space and time in the humanities, Ian Gregory; Spatial technologies in archaeology in the 21st century, Paul Cripps. Part IV The Virtual Representation of Historical Objects and Events: Digital artefacts: possibilities and purpose, David Arnold; 'Oh, to make boards to speak! There's a task!' Towards a poetics of paradata, Richard Beacham; Electronic corpora of artefacts: the example of the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, Anna Bentkowska-Kafel; Conclusion: virtual representation of the past: new research methods, tools and communities of practice, Lorna Hughes; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Digitalrechner — Grundlagen und Anwendungen: Technische Informatik 1
Book SynopsisIm Studium der Elektrotechnik werden zunehmend Informatik-Kenntnisse benötigt. Diese sind gegliedert in Aufbau und Wirkungsweise eines Betriebssystems. Es werden die wichtigsten Grundlagen knapp, aber präzise dargestellt, so daß Studenten im Grundstudium dieses Buch sinnvoll benutzen können.Table of Contents1 Einleitung.- 2 Historischer Überblick.- 2.1 Die Codierung durch Zeichen.- 2.2 Mechanisierung der Operationen und Zeichen.- 2.3 Programmierbare Ablaufsteuerung von Operationen.- 2.4 Anfänge der Rechenautomaten.- 2.5 Wandel in der Philosophie der Rechner.- 2.6 Datenverarbeitungsanlagen im technologischen Wandel.- 3 Einsatzmöglichkeiten für Datenverarbeitungssysteme.- 3.1 Grundausstattung eines PC.- 3.2 Randbedingungen durch das Betriebssystem.- 3.3 Textverarbeitung.- 3.4 Informationssysteme.- 3.5 Bildung, Unterhaltung, Spiele.- 3.6 Rechnergestützter Entwurf (Computer Aided Design).- 3.7 Prozeßsteuerungen.- 3.8 Kommunikation.- 4 Prinzip analoger-, digitaler- und hybrider Arbeitsweise und Rechentechnik.- 4.1 Analoge Arbeitsweise und Analogrechner.- 4.2 Digitale Arbeitsweise und Digitalrechner.- 4.3 Hybride Arbeitsweise und Hybridrechner.- 5 Darstellung der Information.- 5.1 Zeichendarstellung in digitalen Systemen.- 5.2 Grundbegriffe der Informationstheorie.- 6 Darstellung der Zahlen und Operationen mit Zahlen.- 6.1 Darstellung der Zahlen.- 6.1.1 Das Dezimalsystem.- 6.1.2 Das Dualsystem.- 6.1.3 Das Oktalsystem.- 6.1.4 Das Hexadezimalsystem.- 6.2 Zahlenumwandlung in Zahlensysteme mit anderer Basis.- 6.2.1 Umwandlung von Dual, Oktal- und Hexadezimalzahlen in Dezimalzahlen.- 6.2.2 Umwandlung von Dezimalzahlen in Dualzahlen.- 6.3 Darstellung negativer Zahlen.- 6.3.1 Darstellung negativer Zahlen mit Hilfe des Vorzeichens.- 6.3.2 Negative Zahlen und ihre Komplementdarstellung.- 6.4 Arithmetische Operationen mit Dualzahlen.- 6.4.1 Die Addition zweier positiver Dualzahlen.- 6.4.2 Die Multiplikation zweier positiver Dualzahlen.- 6.4.3 Die Subtraktion zweier Dualzahlen.- 6.4.4 Die Division zweier Dualzahlen.- 6.5 Festkomma- und Gleitkommadarstellung.- 6.5.1 Festkommadarstellung.- 6.5.2 Gleitkommadarstellung.- 6.5.2.1 Addition und Subtraktion bei der Gleitkommadarstellung.- 6.5.2.2 Multiplikation und Division bei der Gleitkommadarstellung.- 7 Einführung in die Codierung.- 7.1 Zweck der Codierung.- 7.2 Wichtige Aspekte der Codierung.- 7.3 Gebräuchliche Codierungen mit fester Wortlänge.- 7.3.1 Darstellung von Zeichen.- 7.3.1.1 Reine Zifferncodierung.- 7.3.1.2 Alphanumerische Zeichen.- 7.4 Bekannte Codierungen mit variabler Wortlänge.- 7.4.1 Der Morse-Code.- 7.4.2 Optimalcodes.- 7.5 Binärcodes für Dezimalzahlen.- 7.5.1 Tetradencodes.- 7.5.1.1 Der BCD-Code.- 7.5.1.2 Der Aiken-Code.- 7.5.1.3 Der Drei-Exzeß-Code.- 7.5.2 Der Gray-Code.- 7.5.3 m-aus-n-Codes.- 7.5.3.1 Der Zwei-aus-fünf-Code.- 7.5.3.2 Der Eins-aus-zehn-Code.- 7.5.4 Der Biquinär-Code.- 7.6 Einfache Verfahren der Fehlererkennung und Fehlerkorrektur.- 8 Boolesche Algebra.- 8.1 Einleitung.- 8.1.1 Historie.- 8.1.2 Verbände, deduktive Theorie.- 8.2 Definition der Booleschen Algebra und Folgerungen.- 8.2.1 Grundbegriffe und Axiome der Booleschen Algebra und Interpretation.- 8.2.2 Folgerungen.- 8.2.3 Funktionstabellen und Wertetabellen.- 8.2.3.1 Funktionstabellen.- 8.2.3.2 Wertetabellen und spezielle Verknüpfungen.- 8.3 Einfache logische Schaltkreise.- 8.3.1 Überblick.- 8.3.2 Technische digitale Schaltkreise und Realisierung von logischen Grundfunktionen.- 8.3.2.1 Das elektromagnetische Relais.- 8.3.2.2 Die Diode als Schalter.- 8.3.2.3 Der Transistor als Schalter.- 8.3.2.4 Umsetzung der Postulate und Theoreme der Booleschen Algebra.- 8.3.3 Schaltungssymbole digitaler Grundschaltungen.- 8.4 Venn und Karnaugh-Veitch-Diagramme.- 9 Schaltnetze.- 9.1 Definitionen.- 9.2 Minimierung von Schaltnetzen.- 9.2.1 Minimierung durch direkte Anwendung der Booleschen Algebra.- 9.2.2 Minimierung mit Hilfe von Diagrammen.- 9.2.3 Unvollständig definierte Funktionen.- 9.2.4 Schaltketten.- 9.3 Beispiele von gebräuchlichen Standard-Schaltnetzen.- 9.3.1 Codeumsetzer.- 9.3.2 Multiplexer, Datenwähler.- 9.4 Übergang vom Schaltnetz zum Schaltwerk.- 10 Aufbau und Wirkungsweise eines Digitalrechners.- 10.1 Wirkungsweise eines einfachen Digitalrechners.- 10.1.1 Das Steuerwerk des Digitalrechners.- 10.1.1.1 Steuerwerk mit festverdrahteten logischen Schaltungen.- 10.1.1.2 Steuerwerk mit Mikroprogrammspeicher.- 10.1.2 Das Rechenwerk.- 10.1.3 Der Speicher des Rechners.- 10.1.4 Die Busse des Rechners.- 10.1.5 Ausführung eines Maschinenbefehls.- 10.2 Die Speicherhierarchie.- 10.2.1 Einteilung der Speicher nach physikalischen Phänomenen.- 10.2.2 Cache-Speicher.- 10.2.3 Arbeitsspeicher.- 10.2.4 Massenspeicher.- 10.3 Der Befehlssatz.- 10.3.1 Transferbefehle.- 10.3.2 Arithmetische- und Logische Befehle.- 10.3.3 Schiebebefehle.- 10.3.4 Steuerbefehle.- 10.3.5 Unterschiedliche Befehle.- 10.3.6 Ein-/ Ausgabebefehle.- 10.4 Adressierungsarten.- 10.4.1 Die implizite Adressierung.- 10.4.2 Registeradressierung.- 10.4.3 Unmittelbare Adressierung.- 10.4.4 Absolute Adressierung.- 10.4.5 Relative Adressierung.- 10.4.6 Indirekte Adressierung.- 10.4.7 Indizierte Adressierung.- 10.4.8 Kombination der Adressierungsarten.- 11 Ein-/Ausgabeverarbeitung.- 11.1 Programmgesteuerte Ein-/Ausgabe.- 11.2 Unterbrechungsgesteuerte Ein-/Ausgabe.- 11.3 Direkter Datenkanal.- 11.4 Realisierungen mit E/A-Bausteinen.- 12 Schnittstellen und Busse.- 12.1 Schnittstellen.- 12.1.1 Bedeutung der Schnittstellen.- 12.1.2 Beispiele von Standardschnittstellen.- 12.1.2.1 Die RS-232-Schnittstelle.- 12.1.2.2 Die Centronics-Schnittstelle.- 12.2 Busse.- 12.2.1 Bedeutung der Busse.- 12.2.2 Beispiele von Standardbussen.- 12.2.2.1 Der IEC-Bus.- 12.2.2.2 Der VME-Bus.- 12.2.2.3 Der Multibus II.- 13 Bauelemente und Trends in der Hardwareentwicklung.- 13.1 Integrierte Schaltungen für die Entwicklung digitaler Systeme.- 13.1.1 Standardschaltungen.- 13.1.1.1 Fest vorgegebene Schaltungen.- 13.1.1.2 Anwenderprogrammierbare Schaltungen.- 13.1.1.2.1 Fest programmierbare Schaltungen.- 13.1.1.2.2 Reprogrammierbare Schaltungen.- 13.1.2 Anwenderspezifische Schaltungen.- 13.1.2.1 Teilentwicklung durch Anwender.- 13.1.2.1.1 Gate Arrays.- 13.1.2.1.2 Standardzellen.- 13.1.2.2 Voll anwenderspezifische integrierte Schaltungen.- 13.2 Hilfsmittel für den Entwurf von logischen Schaltungen.- 13.2.1 Hilfsmittel für die Bauteilentwicklung.- 13.2.1.1 Werkzeuge bei anwenderprogrammierbaren Bausteinen.- 13.2.1.2 Werkzeuge für die Entwicklung anwenderspezifischer Bausteine.- 13.2.2 Hilfsmittel für die Systementwicklung: CAE, CAD, CAM.- 14 Aufgaben und Funktionen eines einfachen Betriebssystems.- 14.1 Einleitung.- 14.2 Unterschiedliche Sichten eines Betriebssystems.- 14.3 Ein-/Ausgabe von Daten.- 14.4 Dateiverwaltung.- 14.4.1 Dateisystem.- 14.4.1.1 Datei, Verzeichnis, Datenträger.- 14.4.1.2 Zugriffsrechte.- 14.4.2 Datenbanksystem.- 14.5 Speicherverwaltung.- 14.6 Jobabwicklung und Prozeßverwaltung.- 14.6.1 Formen der Jobabwicklung.- 14.6.2 Prozeßverwaltung.- 14.7 Verfügbarmachen von Standarddienstleistungen.- 14.7.1 Kommandointerpreter.- 14.7.2 Systemprogramme.- 14.7.3 Netzwerkleistungen.- 14.7.4 Datenschutz und Datensicherung.- 14.7.5 Standard-Dialogschnittstellen.- 14.8 Betriebssystementwicklung im historischen Überblick.- 15 Tabellen.- 15.1 Potenzen von.- 15.2 ASCII-7bit-Code.- 15.3 ASCII-8bit-Code.- 15.4 EBCDIC-Code.- 15.5 Fernschreibcode.- Namen- und Sachregister.
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Kogan Page Strategic Sustainability A Pragmatic Blueprint for Responsible Business
Book SynopsisJohn Pabon is a globally recognised expert in sustainability and has consulted for businesses internationally. He frequently engages in keynote speaking to audiences around the world, is a regular contributor to major publications and speaks to global audiences on issues of sustainability, geopolitics, communications and societal change. He also serves as Chair of The Conference Board's Asia Sustainability Leaders Council, advises the United Nations and serves on the board of advisors to the U.S. Green Chamber of Commerce. He is based in Melbourne, Australia.
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Chronicle Books The Flavor Equation
Book SynopsisGo beyond recipes in this groundbreaking and bestselling guide to elevating elemental ingredients to make delicious dishes that hit all the right notes, every time. From Nik Sharma, superstar scientist, food blogger, and author of the buzz-generating Season cookbook. 'The Flavor Equation deserves space on the shelf right next to Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat as a titan of the how-and-why brigade.'—The New Yorker Aroma, texture, sound, emotion—these are just a few of the elements that play into our perceptions of flavor. In a completely unique and accessible way, Nik Sharma takes readers on an in-depth exploration into the science of taste and demonstrates how to convert approachable spices, herbs, and commonplace pantry items into tasty, simple dishes. With more than 100 recipes paired with illustrations, anecdotes, and Sharma's evocative, trademark food photography and styling, The Flavor Equation is
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age
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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Interoctave, Inc. The Responsible Entrepreneur Four GameChanging Archtypes for Founders Leaders and Impact Investors
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Biodiversity Erosion: Issues and Questions
Book SynopsisThe erosion of biodiversity is currently highly publicized. Militant movements accuse humans of destroying nature and being responsible for a sixth mass extinction. However, this anxiety-provoking message is sometimes based on misconceptions, false or partisan ideas, and media relays that favor and amplify alarmist information. If the situation of certain populations is worrying, it is not a general phenomenon because others are expanding. Rather than holding a globalizing discourse, it is necessary to recontextualize and relativize the debate to better define the necessary actions.Biodiversity Erosion analyzes numerous scientific publications, as well as alarming discussions, emphasizing the multiple biases present in the way information is presented. This book questions the relevance of the notion of species and the desire to compile an inventory of all living things. It argues for a less Manichean approach to our relationship with nature.Table of ContentsIntroduction xi Chapter 1 The Gradual Decline of Biodiversity: What Do We Mean? 1 1.1 The context of the debate 2 1.2 “Biodiversity”? A vague concept 3 1.3 The origins of a concept: creationist thinking 4 1.4 Decline: clarifying the meaning of the words 6 1.5 Are the indicators reliable? 8 1.6 Protecting what? 10 1.7 The evolution of the concept of decline: from a structural to a functional approach 11 1.8 Communication or misinformation? 13 1.9 At the roots of the sixth extinction 14 Chapter 2 The Promethean Dream: Taking Stock of Biodiversity 17 2.1 The notion of species is misleading! 17 2.2 Hidden biodiversity: cryptic or twin species 20 2.3 Species at the service of genes? 21 2.4 Species inventory: what do we know? 22 2.5 The geographical distribution of biological diversity 23 2.6 In summary 25 Chapter 3 What Can We Learn from the Great Extinctions of the Past? 27 3.1 A hundred times over, put your work back together 27 3.2 The great mass extinctions 28 3.3 The tree that hides the forest 31 3.4 Evolutionary consequences of extinctions 33 3.5 What is known about the post-extinction processes of the past? 35 3.6 In summary 35 Chapter 4 Biodiversity Decline: “The Worst Is Not Certain” 37 4.1 When scientists cross the yellow line! 37 4.2 The risk of extinction 40 4.2.1 Endemic species 40 4.2.2 Specialist species 42 4.2.3 Ubiquitous or opportunistic species 42 4.3 Vulnerability of species to risks 42 4.4 Species extinctions in the plant world 44 4.5 What do we know about species extinctions in animals? 46 4.6 Species extinctions in France 47 4.7 The false trails of globalization: contextualizing erosion! 51 4.8 In summary 53 Chapter 5 Let’s Talk about the Renewal Rate of Biological Diversity 55 5.1 Extinction debt and speciation credit 55 5.2 Speciation processes 57 5.3 The speed of appearance of new species 58 5.4 Is speciation more important in tropical environments? 62 5.5 Evolution and the role of chance 63 5.6 Is habitat fragmentation a threat to biodiversity? 64 5.7 In summary 66 Chapter 6 Controversies Surrounding the Extinction Rate 67 6.1 The laborious calculation of the extinction rate 68 6.2 The area/species relationship: a highly criticized prospective tool! 71 6.3 Text commentary on the extinction rate of species according to the Sagascience website 74 6.4 A debate confused by ideological concerns 76 6.5 In summary 78 Chapter 7 The Hidden Face of Methods for Assessing Biodiversity Decline 81 7.1 Who can be trusted to analyze the data? 82 7.2 Questions about the “species” metric 83 7.3 Amalgamation and false leads 84 7.4 Contingency and the problem of changes in scale: global versus local 85 7.5 Losers, but also winners? 86 7.6 Manipulating figures: communication or hijacking? 88 7.7 The health sector taken hostage 89 Chapter 8 Biodiversity and the Functioning of Ecosystems: A Multitude of Preconceived Ideas 91 8.1 The black box of ecological functioning 91 8.2 The balance of nature is fiction 92 8.3 Disruption does not mean disaster 94 8.4 Are all species needed? 95 8.5 Deterministic or stochastic ecological systems? 96 8.6 The more species there are, the more resilient the ecological system is 97 8.7 The threshold effect or the fall of a paradigm! 98 8.8 Species substitutions and the functioning of ecological systems 99 8.9 In summary 100 Chapter 9 Species Introductions: For Better or For Worse 101 9.1 The delicate issue of indigenousness 102 9.2 Species introductions: one of the main causes of biodiversity loss? 104 9.3 Species introductions and ecosystem functioning 106 9.4 Why are our trees sick? 107 9.5 Can introductions be controlled? 109 9.5.1 The case of climate migrants 110 9.5.2 Stowaways 110 9.5.3 Voluntary or accidental introductions 111 9.5.4 Lack of courtesy 112 9.6 Being pragmatic? 112 9.7 Strongly divergent opinions among scientists 114 9.8 In summary 115 Chapter 10 Global Warming: A Catastrophe for Biodiversity? 117 10.1 Climate uncertainties 119 10.2 The lessons of retrospective ecology 121 10.3 Likely consequences of reduced precipitation 123 10.4 Likely impacts of temperature increase on biodiversity 123 10.5 Rising sea levels 125 10.6 Undergoing or going along with change? 126 10.7 In summary 127 Chapter 11 Is Planning Destroying Biodiversity? 129 11.1 European nature: a reconstructed nature 130 11.2 “Degraded” ecological systems… really? 131 11.3 When you transform, you lose and you win… 132 11.4 Paradox: destroying biodiversity under the pretext of naturalness 134 11.5 A brief saga of French forests 136 11.6 In summary 139 Chapter 12 The Decline of Insects 141 12.1 The decline of insect populations creates the event 141 12.2 Is the apocalypse coming? 145 12.3 The difficulty of identifying the causes 146 12.4 Speculation on possible causes 147 12.4.1 Light pollution 148 12.4.2 Pesticides 148 12.4.3 Diseases 149 12.4.4 Changes in agricultural practices 150 12.5 What is the impact on agriculture? 150 12.6 The case of bees 151 12.7 The case of butterflies 153 12.8 Some remarks on our relationship with insects 156 12.9 In summary 157 Chapter 13 The Decline of Birds 159 13.1 The red list of threatened species 159 13.2 The decline of bird populations… as early as the 19th century 160 13.3 Monitoring of the STOC program 163 13.4 Focus on the farmland bird guild 164 13.4.1 Different trends for different species 164 13.4.2 Disparities between regions are a cause for concern 166 13.4.3 A general decline across Europe 169 13.5 The habitat trail 173 13.6 Many other causes 175 13.7 The role of reserves 177 13.8 On what basis can we talk about decline? 179 13.9 Let nature take its course? 179 13.10 In summary 182 Chapter 14 Reasons to be Positive 183 14.1 Highly resilient ecological systems 183 14.1.1 Oil spills 184 14.1.2 Fires 184 14.1.3 How long does it take for a tropical forest to regenerate? 186 14.1.4 Pollution of continental aquatic systems 186 14.2 Recovering populations! 187 14.3 Nature conquers the city 191 14.3.1 Reducing pollution 193 14.3.2 “Rewilding” the city? 193 14.4 Rehabilitation of “degraded” systems 194 14.4.1 Water quarries 194 14.4.2 Slag heaps 195 14.5 What is the future for anthropized nature, left to its own devices? 195 14.6 Let’s talk about the wolf 196 14.7 In summary 198 Chapter 15 From Facts to Extrapolations 199 15.1 Many inconsistencies and post-truths 201 15.2 Going beyond ecocentrism: what kinds of nature do we want? 203 15.3 Protected areas and the return of colonialism? 205 15.4 Nature, an inexhaustible source of problems 207 15.5 Single-mindedness and anxiety-provoking communication 208 15.6 The business of biodiversity 209 References 213 Index 235
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Communication and Community Engagement in Disease Outbreaks: Dealing with Rights, Culture, Complexity and Context
Book SynopsisThis book provides readers with a critical, conceptual and applied understanding of the role of communication and community engagement for disease outbreak preparedness and response.Until the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, for several years public health authorities and influential voices in the international public health community have warned of a pandemic and therefore a need to strengthen governments and communities’ ability to prevent and respond to it effectively to minimize its impact on lives and economies. While investments have focused on clinical, diagnostic, and vaccine research, preventing and minimizing the impact of disease outbreaks requires a wider socio-ecological systems approach that places communities at the centre of the response. Such an approach is still rare in public health practice. One of the key lessons that the authors have learned, and on which they reflect in the chapters, is that technical inputs will be as effective as they are fully integrated within the broader architecture of disease outbreak preparedness and response. The ten chapters of this contributed volume are organized under three parts: a conceptual framework, case studies, and recommendations. Communication and Community Engagement in Disease Outbreaks is a timely and essential resource for public health managers, donors, implementers, organizations engaged in disease prevention and control and academics called on to support the response. These audiences should benefit from this approach as the book highlights dimensions that are often under-resourced.Table of ContentsDisclaimer Endorsements Preface List of Contributors About the Editors List of Abbreviations Part I: Conceptual Framework Chapter 1 - Communication and Engagement in Disease Outbreaks and Pandemic Responses: Key Concepts and Issues Chapter 2 - The Global Health Architecture of Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Comparing and Contrasting Experiences of Zika and COVID-19 in Brazil Chapter 3 - Community Engagement in Disease Outbreak Preparedness and Response – Lessons from Recent Outbreaks, Key Concepts, and Quality Standards for Practice Part II: Case Studies: Learning from Practice Chapter 4 - Reflections on Social Behavior Change: Lessons Learned from Polio Outbreak Response Chapter 5 - Complexity and Context of Ebola Virus Disease Preparedness and Response in Eastern and Southern Africa Chapter 6 - Ebola in Sierra Leone: Leveraging Community Assets to Strengthen Preparedness and Response Chapter 7 -The Invisible Threat: Communicating Risk and Engaging Communities to Respond to Zika Chapter 8 – An Experiential Account of the Risk Communication and Community Engagement Early Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile and Paraguay: Lessons and Recommendations Chapter 9 - Communication and Community Engagement to Contain Disease Outbreaks and Improve Wellbeing: Rohingya Refugee Response, Bangladesh Part III: Lessons Learned: Conclusions and Recommendations Chapter 10 - Reflections and Recommendations for Future Disease Outbreak and Pandemic Response
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United Nations Promoting sustainable and responsible business in
Book SynopsisThis policy-oriented paper identifies initiatives that policy-makers in the Asia Pacific region should duly consider for promoting CSR practices, at both the regional and national levels, and spanning domestic SMEs to large MNEs. The initiatives are diverse in focus and scope, although there is one common denominator: virtually none can be enacted by government alone. Any initiative to promote sustainable and responsible business needs to be sustainable in itself, and that in turn necessitates the active engagement and tangible inputs of the business community.
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Prufrock Press Culturally Responsive Teaching in Gifted
Book SynopsisCulturally Responsive Teaching in Gifted Education is a professional learning tool for practitioners who are working to create more culturally responsive school and classroom environments. This book: Focuses on gifted and talented students from special populations, including those who are culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse. Is presented as a collection of essays written by educational advocates. Aims to increase the cultural competence of teachers and school leaders. Is organized in three sections: Culturally Responsive Practices; Race, Ethnicity, and Culture; and Gender, Sex, and Sense of Self. Provides readers with personal insights into the implicit biases that exist within the educational system and gifted programs. Each chapter illustrates the lived experiences of students from special populations and includes reflection questions for continued conversations and planning. Finally, an Educator Inventory is provided that tasks educators with reflecting on their own personal implicit biases and classroom practices related to the diverse populations of gifted and talented students in our schools.
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Taylor & Francis Digital Nationalism and Affective Governance
Book SynopsisThis book examines how government propaganda and everyday online activity shaped Chinaâs digital nationalism in response to the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.With a focus on Weibo, it demonstrates how state media promoted nationalism and how the public responded by either supporting or quietly challenging official narratives, or reshaping them. Using a variety of methods, including large-scale social media analysis and focused case studies, the book shows how digital platforms became pivotal communication hubs during the pandemic. The book also examines state-led digital propaganda by outlets such as People's Daily, public reactions to China's vaccine policy, and the anger surrounding the Wuhan Red Cross scandal. Together, these cases reveal how emotion, visibility and participation interact to sustain 'soft authoritarianism', a form of governance based not only on censorship, but also on managing public sentiment and engagement. Accessible and timely, this book provides a new perspective on the relationship between propaganda, nationalism and digital media. It illustrates how nationalism and political authority are co-produced online and how governments and citizens negotiate power in an increasingly digital society.This book will be invaluable for scholars and students of political communication and digital media, as well as for those interested in the digital society of China.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Tourism and Responsibility Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the responsibility, or otherwise, of tourism activities in Latin America and the Caribbean. It considers issues such as the reduction of poverty through tourism and the conflict between increasing volumes of air travel spent in our continuing search for pleasure and the resulting contribution to global warming.The authors believe that tourism can only be adequately assessed through a consideration of how it fits into the structure of power. It is also argued that tourism cannot be analyzed without a consideration of its impacts on and links with development. This relationship between tourism, responsibility, power and development is explored in chapters covering both the macro and the micro level of responsibility. The authors look at methods of practising tourism responsibly or irresponsibly at the personal, company, national and international levels. The questions and dilemmas of placing responsibility in the tourism industry are examined throughoTrade Review"For anyone who wants to understand how tourism affects a country like Nicaragua, this is a useful book" Companer@s"Tourism and Responsibility raises some serious questions which go to the heart of globalisation, and the new wave of 'conquistadors' making landfall in Latin America" Companer@s Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Global Politics, Power and Play: The Macro Level of Responsibility 3. Local Politics, Poverty and Tourism: The Micro Level of Responsibility 4. Tourism and the Environment: Eco by Name, Eco by Nature? 5. Indigenous Peoples and Tourism in Latin America and the Caribbean 6. The Heart of Darkness?: Tourism in Cities 7. Sexual Exploitation through Tourism 8. Power and Responsibility in Tourism: Know your Place
£47.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Responsibility in Law and Morality
Book SynopsisLawyers who write about responsibility tend to focus on criminal law at the expense of civil and public law; while philosophers tend to treat responsibility as a moral concept,and either ignore the law or consider legal responsibility to be a more or less distorted reflection of its moral counterpart. This book aims to counteract both of these biases. By adopting a comparative institutional approach to the relationship between law and morality, it challenges the common view that morality stands to law as critical standard to conventional practice. It shows how law and morality interact symbiotically, and how careful study of legal concepts of responsibility can add significantly to our understanding of responsibility more generally. Central to this project is a distinction between two paradigms of responsibility -- the criminal law paradigm and the civil law paradigm. Whereas theoretical discussions of responsibility tend focus on conduct and agency, taking account of civil law reveals the importance of outcomes and the interests of victims and society to ideas of responsibility. The book examines from a distinctively legal point of view central philosophical questions about responsibility such as its relationship with culpability (challenging the common view that moral responsibility requires fault), causation and personality. It explores the relevance of sanctions and problems of proof and enforcement to ideas of responsibility, as well as the relationship between responsibility and distributive justice, and the role of concepts of responsibility in public law. At the heart of this book lie two questions: what does it mean to say we are responsible? and, what are our responsibilities? Its aim is not to answer these questions but to challenge some traditional approaches to answering them and more importantly, to suggest fruitful alternative approaches that take law seriously.Trade Review...an impressive and comprehensive discussion of the treatment of responsibility in the law-a discussion that ranges across nearly every field of law, and across jurisdictions, supported by detailed references to cases and supplemented by knowledgeable summaries of commentary by lawyers, legal philosophers, and moral philosophers. Brian H. Bix Ethics Oct 06 Peter Cane has written an impressively wide-ranging and illuminating booka truly commendable piece of work. Cane's book deserves a large audience among legal, moral, and political philosophers. Matthew H. Kramer, Cambridge University Philosophical Review May 2005 ...it offers a notably clear and robust formulation of a social approach towards responsibility... he has plenty of interesting and illuminating insights to offer...lawyers and philosphers alike will learn a great deal from this careful dissection of topics... Jeremy Watkins Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol 26, No 3 (2006), pp 593-608 This is a wide-ranging, highly sophisticated work which looks at concepts of responsibility in law across a range of areas. Alan Norrie Adelaide Law Review May 2002 'Responsibility in Law and Morality' is a challenging and valuable book. Although I have criticised Cane's account of responsibilty in this review, I do not wish to leave the reader with the impression that his book is anything but valuable and rewarding it is an illuminating study of responsibilty in law. It is my view that modern lawyers have a great deal to learn from its approach. Accordingly, apart from being essential reading for anyone interested in legal theory, the book has much to teach any lawyer with even the smallest interest in the justifications of legal liability. Allan Beever Melbourne University Law Review May 2002Table of Contents1. Moral and Legal Responsibility 2. The Nature and Functions of Responsibility 3. Responsibility and Culpability 4. Responsibility and Causation 5. Responsibility and Personality 6. Grounds and Bounds of Responsibility 7. Realising Responsibility 8. Responsibility in Public Law 9. Thinking about Responsibility References Index
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Springer International Publishing AG Cyber-Security Threats and Response Models in Nuclear Power Plants
Book SynopsisThis SpringerBrief presents a brief introduction to probabilistic risk assessment (PRA), followed by a discussion of abnormal event detection techniques in industrial control systems (ICS). It also provides an introduction to the use of game theory for the development of cyber-attack response models and a discussion on the experimental testbeds used for ICS cyber security research. The probabilistic risk assessment framework used by the nuclear industry provides a valid framework to understand the impacts of cyber-attacks in the physical world. An introduction to the PRA techniques such as fault trees, and event trees is provided along with a discussion on different levels of PRA and the application of PRA techniques in the context of cybersecurity. A discussion on machine learning based fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) methods and cyber-attack detection methods for industrial control systems are introduced in this book as well.A dynamic Bayesian networks based method that can be used to detect an abnormal event and classify it as either a component fault induced safety event or a cyber-attack is discussed. An introduction to the stochastic game formulation of the attacker-defender interaction in the context of cyber-attacks on industrial control systems to compute optimal response strategies is presented. Besides supporting cyber-attack response, the analysis based on the game model also supports the behavioral study of the defender and the attacker during a cyber-attack, and the results can then be used to analyze the risk to the system caused by a cyber-attack. A brief review of the current state of experimental testbeds used in ICS cybersecurity research and a comparison of the structures of various testbeds and the attack scenarios supported by those testbeds is included. A description of a testbed for nuclear power applications, followed by a discussion on the design of experiments that can be carried out on the testbed and the associated results is covered as well.This SpringerBrief is a useful resource tool for researchers working in the areas of cyber security for industrial control systems, energy systems and cyber physical systems. Advanced-level students that study these topics will also find this SpringerBrief useful as a study guide.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Probabilistic Risk Assessment: Nuclear Power Plants and Introduction to the Context of Cyber Security.- Machine Learning based Abnormal Event Detection and Classification.- Game-Theoretic Design of Response Systems.- Experimental Testbeds and Design of Experiments.- Conclusions.
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Liverpool University Press Daring Adaptations, Creative Failures and
Book SynopsisIn this volume, we are particularly interested in approaching theatre and performance as a dynamic and evolving practice of continuous change, regeneration and cultural mobility. Neither the dramatic texts nor their stage versions should be viewed as finished products but as creative processes in the making. Their richness lies in their unfinished and never-ending potential energy and their openness to constant revision, rehearsal, revival, and collective enterprise. This edited collection aims to create a dialogue on the artistic processes implicated in the various ways of working with the play text, the staging practices, the way audiences and critical reception can impact a production, and the many lives of Iberian theatre beyond the page or the stage. That is, its cultural and social legacies.Trade Review"This book highlights the theater production of the Iberian Peninsula in a very broad spectrum, which is a perspective that is rarely found."Elena Cueto Asín, Bowdoin CollegeTable of ContentsIntroductionMaría del Pilar Chouza-Calo, Esther Fernández, Jonathan ThackerPart I. Playing Upon GenderChapter 1: Snares of Safety: Guillén de Castro’s La fuerza de la costumbre (1610-1615), The Force of Habit (2019) in ProductionKathleen JeffsChapter 2: Unruly Mujeres: Adapting Women’s Rebellious Voices on the Modern StageSarah GrunnahChapter 3: Electra (1910): Daring Memories of Galdós’s Most Polemic SuccessEsther Fernández and Cristina Martínez-CarazoChapter 4: The “Pleasure” of Wife-Murder Drama: The Aesthetics of Gender-Based Violence in Palabras encadenadasSonia Pérez VillanuevaPart II. Daring ActsChapter 5: Theatricality in a “sacred drama, not to be represented”: the Spanish 1700s’ OratorioRosa Sanz HermidaChapter 6: On Action and Discovery and What to Do with Them in Translation and PerformanceCatherine BoyleChapter 7: Habit, Suggestion, and Imitation in fin-de-siècle Spanish TheatreJuan MencheroChapter 8: Fuegoártico: A Beautiful Defeat. Jeremy James and the Creation of an Ensemble Methodology in Madrid, 2014Simon BredenChapter 9: Adapting Bolaño’s 2666 for the Stage: Rigola (2007), Falls (2016), and Gosselin (2016)Anton PujolPart III. Transcultural NegotiationsChapter 10: Translating Marginalities: Staging Linguistic Diversity in the ComediaLaura MuñozChapter 11: The Merry Valencian Widow: Negotiating the Russian Lopean Canon in the Late Twentieth CenturyVeronika RyjikChapter 12: From Golden Age to Civil War: Stages of Spain in YugoslaviaAlma PrelecChapter 13: From the Warsaw Ghetto to Messianic Time: Polis and Memory in Juan Mayorga’s El cartógrafo. Varsovia, 1: 400.000Juan CaamañoChapter 14: Rewriting Race: The Angels in America Scandal and New Representations of Blackness in Contemporary Catalan DramaIsaias FanloChapter 15: Testing the Audience’s Judgement: Please, Continue (Hamlet) by Roger Bernat and Yan DuyvendakDavid Rodríguez-SolásBiographies
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Springer Developing MATLAB Comprehensive Simulation for 5G6G Wireless Communications
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Theoretical Background on 5G Physical Layer.- Develop a Wireless Network Simulation Tool for 5G/6G Technologies.- 4 Modulation Waveforms for 5G Networks.- Multiple Access Schemes for 5G/6G Networks.- Massive MIMO.- Energy Saving Solutions in 5G/6G Networks.- Physical Layer Security.- Cognitive Radio Communications.- Artificial Intelligence in 6G Wireless Communications.- Experimental Results and Evaluation.- Conclusion.
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CRC Press The Game Designers Guide to Creating Licensed Tabletop Games
Book SynopsisThis book explains the steps in creating a licensed tabletop game and the factors which influence its design using examples, including the designerâs first-hand experience of converting the Fallout videogames into Fallout: Wasteland Warfare.Converting an existing property such as a videogame or film into a tabletop game provides all the challenges of tabletop design whilst adding many more challenges, restrictions, limitations and pressures. This book covers all the necessary topics, such as: Gaining a license and working with a licensor Identifying boundaries the license creates which defines the design space in which the game must exist Studying the IPâs setting to understand what the tabletop game can be, how to extract principles and details from that setting, and the important challenges which must be resolved Addressing the inevitable changes to the source material which must occur when adapting to the tabletop medium Creating the game mechanics â the most fundamental building blocks of all â and imbuing them with the license to portray the IPâs characters, action and atmosphere. The book takes the reader through the process of designing a licensed tabletop game and how a license adds opportunities to be embraced and challenges to be overcome. Using behind-the-scenes knowledge of creating licensed games, the experience, insights and lessons learned from a career in games will assist and inspire readers to bring a licensed world to life.This book will be ideal reading for games professionals looking to learn best practice for designing games based on existing properties.
£49.39
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Emergency Ambulance Response Driver Handbook Roadcraft Emergency Drivers Handbook
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Taylor & Francis Responsible Finance and Accounting
Book SynopsisThe UN Sustainable Development Goals, an increasing interest in Environmental, Social, and Governance factors, the climate crisis, stakeholder pressure, the lessons of corporate scandals, and the COVID-19 pandemic have triggered a massive change in how companies approach finance and accounting practices. From being a nice-to-have' to becoming a must-have', Responsible Finance and Accounting positions itself as a key pillar in tomorrow's better world for business, society, and planet. In this book, leading researchers and practitioners in the field of corporate social responsibility, from the schools and corporate partners of the Council on Business & Society, give you key insights into green finance and social and environmental reporting, national, international and corporate stakes in green taxonomy and carbon tax, and triple capital accounting. It also details how to model effective and low-cost social impact reporting, ethics in finance and accounting, and strategie
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Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd Understanding and Responding to Behaviour that
Book SynopsisUnderstanding and Responding to Behaviour that Challenges in Intellectual Disabilities addresses the need for an up-to-date handbook which, while well-grounded in research and latest clinical practice, is essentially non-academic and accessible for staff occupying many roles, for example, support workers and managers in learning disability service settings, community learning disability teams, psychologists, psychiatrists and other professionals who may find themselves supporting a person with an intellectual disability from time to time, as well as family members and students of both mental health and intellectual disability. The new edition is a complete revision and updating of content, aiming to address key knowledge requirements and concerns of people working in the field, with opportunities for reflection and professional development. The content is illustrated by case studies to help the reader explore how to best to address issues in practice.Table of ContentsPart 1: Clearer Values Foreword: Responding to a changing world Peter Baker & Tony Osgood What is behaviour that challenges? Edwin Jones Behaviour that challenges: how big is the problem? Jon Mason Positive behavioural support Anne McDonald Legal considerations Rachel Forrester-Jones Listening to people using services Tony Osgood Part 2: Gaining a Better Understanding Assessing behaviour that challenges Laurence Patterson & Jenna Szymanski Communication and behaviour that challenges Jill Bradshaw Conceptualising quality of life Julie Beadle-Brown Part 3: Delivering Support Practice leadership and behaviour that challenges Roy Deveaux Building a good rapport Maria Hurman Getting the environment right Sandy Toogood Keeping people safe - reactive strategies John Shephard Learning new ways of behaving Ciara Padden & Shelley Brady Cognitive approaches to behaviour that challenges Stephen C. Oathamshaw The use of medication for the management of behaviours that challenge in people with intellectual disabilities Shoumitro Deb Part 4: Lessons Learned We're in this together: supported staff Peter Baker & Nick Gore Working together with families Isabelle Garnett and Holly Young Working for change: policy and practice contexts Viv Cooper Afterword Tony Osgood and Peter Baker
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Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Culturally Responsive Lessons & Activities, Grade
Book SynopsisBuild a sense of community and inclusiveness in the classroom with culturally responsive teaching units that connect studentsâ cultures, languages, and life experiences with their learning. The creative lessons for fourth grade include inspirational stories, hands-on activities, creative writing and drawing, interactive games, and art projects.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook on Responsibility in International Relations
Book SynopsisWhat does responsibility mean in International Relations (IR)? This handbook brings together cutting-edge research on the critical debates about responsibility that are currently being undertaken in IR theory.This handbook both reflects upon an emerging field based on an engagement in the most crucial theoretical debates and serves as a foundational text by showing how deeply a discussion of responsibility is embedded in broader questions of IR theory and practice. Contributions cover the way in which responsibility is theorized across different approaches in IR and relevant neighboring disciplines and demonstrate how responsibility matters in different policy fields of global governance. Chapters with an empirical focus zoom in on particular actor constellations of (emerging) states, international organizations, political movements, or corporations, or address how responsibility matters in structuring the politics of global commons, such as oceans, resources, or thTable of ContentsChapter 1 – Responsibility in International Relations Theory and Practice: Introducing the Handbook Part I – The Concept of Responsibility in International Relations Theory Chapter 2 – A Plural Theory of Responsibility Chapter 3 – The Emergence of Responsibility as a Global Scheme of Governance Chapter 4 – Human Rights Approach(es) to Responsibility Chapter 5 – Political Responsibility in a Globalized but Fractured Age Chapter 6 – Moral IRresponsibility in World Politics Chapter 7 – Rationalization, Reticence, and the Demands of Global Social and Economic Justice Chapter 8 – Responsibility and Authority in Global Governance Chapter 9 – Responsibility and the English School Part II – Mapping Responsibility Relations Across Policy Fields Chapter 10 – The Assigning and Erosion of Responsibility for the Global Environment Chapter 11 – Moral Geographies of Responsibility in the Global Agrifood System Chapter 12 – State Responsibilities and International Nuclear Politics Chapter 13 – Delegating Moral Responsibility in War: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Responsibility Gap Chapter 14 – Negotiating Protection through Responsibility Chapter 15 – From Lisbon to Sendai: Responsibilities in International Disaster Management Part III – Responsibility Relations: Subjects, Objects and Speakers of Responsibility Chapter 16 – Responsible Diplomacy: Judgments, Wider National Interests and Diplomatic Peace Chapter 17 – Rising Powers and Responsibility Chapter 18 – Responsibility as an Opportunity: China’s Water Governance in the Mekong Region Chapter 19 – Responsibility as practice: Implications of UN Security Council Responsibilization Chapter 20 – Rebel with a Cause: Rebel Responsibility in Intrastate Conflict Situations Chapter 21 – What Responsibility for International Organisations? The Independent Accountability Mechanisms of the Multilateral Development Banks Chapter 22 – The International Labour Organization's Role to ensure decent Work in a globalized Economy: a contested Responsibility? Chapter 23 – Business and Responsibility for Human Rights in Global Governance Chapter 24 – Social Media Actors: Shared Responsibility 3.0? Part IV – Global Commons as Responsibility Objects Chapter 25 – Responsibility on the High Seas Chapter 26 – The Role of Humanity's Responsibility towards Biodiversity: the BBNJ Treaty Chapter 27 – A Responsibility to freeze? The Arctic as a complex Object of Responsibility Chapter 28 – Responsibility for Global Finance: Shareholders, Supervisors, and Stakeholders Chapter 29 – Diplomacy and Responsibilities in the Transnational Governance of the Cyber Domain Part V – Critical Reflections & Theoretical Debates Chapter 30 – Framing Responsibility Research in International Relations Chapter 31 – Academic Responsibility in the Face of Climate Change Chapter 32 – Derrida’s Ethics of Decision and the Politics of responding to Others Chapter 33 – On Potential and Limits of the Concept of Responsibility as a Reference Point for the Use of Practical Reason
£175.75
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Software Process Improvement: Results and
Book SynopsisFor over a decade, software process improvement (SPI) has been promoted as an approach to improve systematically the way software is developed and managed. Mostly this research and the relevant experience reports have focused on large software companies. This book collects the main results from four Norwegian industrial research and development projects on SPI carried out between 1996 and 2005. It concentrates on small and medium-sized companies, typically characterized by fast-changing environments.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: "The continuous improvement of software processes has been a managerial focus for several decades. This book, written by Norwegian academics, ‘mainly targets researchers and graduate students in empirical software engineering.’ … The papers are varied and well written … . Academics in both information technology and software engineering will find a basis for further research projects in this title." (David Bellin, Computing Reviews, December, 2006)Table of ContentsSoftware Process Improvement – General Principles and Methods.- Lessons Learned and Recommendations from Two Large Norwegian SPI Programmes.- Improvisation in Small Software Organizations.- An Empirical Investigation of the Key Factors for Success in Software Process Improvement.- Evidence-Based Software Engineering for Practitioners.- Challenges and Recommendations when Increasing the Realism of Controlled Software Engineering Experiments.- Knowledge Management for SPI.- Postmortem Reviews: Purpose and Approaches in Software Engineering.- Value-Based Knowledge Management – the Contribution of Postmortem Reviews and Process Workshops.- A Dynamic Model of Software Engineering Knowledge Creation.- An Empirical Study of an Informal Knowledge Repository in a Medium-Sized Software Consulting Company.- An Empirical Study on the Utility of Formal Routines to Transfer Knowledge and Experience.- Process Modelling and Electronic Process Guides.- Tailoring RUP to a Defined Project Type: A Case Study.- A Workshop-Oriented Approach for Defining Electronic Process Guides – A Case Study.- Empirical Investigation on Factors Affecting Software Developer Acceptance and Utilization of Electronic Process Guides.- Six Theses on Software Process Research.- Estimation Methods.- A Review of Studies on Expert Estimation of Software Development Effort.- Reuse of Software Development Experiences – A Case Study.- Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development.- Empirical Studies in OO and Component-based Systems.- Experiences from Introducing UML-based Development in a Large Safety-Critical Project.- An Empirical Study on Off-the-Shelf Component Usage in Industrial Projects.- Evaluating the Effect of a Delegated versus Centralized Control Style on the Maintainability of Object-Oriented Software.
£118.35
Body Mind and Brain The Migraine Revolution We Can End the Tyranny Scientific Guide to Effective Treatment and Permanent Headache Relief Monochrome Edition
£39.00
Emerald Publishing Limited The Responsive Global Organization: New Insights
Book SynopsisThe responsive global organization can adapt business operations across multinational markets in response to unpredictable changes in the turbulent global marketplace. This book deals with different aspects of the effective multinational corporation (MNC) pointing to new ways in which the MNC can enhance responsiveness faced with increasing market turbulence. Drawing on contemporary research in strategy and international business, the book considers relevant aspects including subsidiary autonomy, individual and team engagement, local knowledge, knowledge-based innovation, dynamic integrative processes, cross-cultural management, crisis handling, and the impact of abrupt events.The diversity of multinational business provides many opportunities, but also distinct challenges that must be managed effectively. Here an interactive dynamic between headquarters and local business units is driving responsiveness and adaptive behaviors. Corporate headquarters must structure a multinational organization so adaptive initiatives exploit local market insights where opportunities evolve from autonomous responses around the world. This can entail crisis responses involving both local and corporate efforts as a robust way to handle unexpected incidents. Such interactive approaches constitute a combination of central integration and decentralized local responses as the basis for a dynamic adaptive system. To make this work in a multinational context, we must consider the intricate interplay between corporate values and local cultures, and understand how leadership philosophies influence how diverse employees act as team players and global corporate citizens. The book provides relevant insights on all these important issues.Trade ReviewThis work offers suggestions for global organizations and multinational corporations to adapt to change in the global marketplace. International contributors in business, economics, and management explore issues such as local market knowledge, cross-cultural teams, response to crises, and the relationship between corporate values and local cultures. Some specific topics covered include the impact of terrorism and the interactions between headquarters and autonomous subsidiaries. One chapter is devoted to a study of multinational pharmaceutical companies; another chapter provides a case study of the Haier Group. B&w charts and maps are included. -- Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Adaptive Corporate Strategies in a Turbulent WorldMultinational Corporate Strategy-Making: Integrating International Business and Strategic Management The Implications of Subsidiary Autonomy for Multinational Flexibility Democratizing the Multinational Corporation (MNC): Interaction Between Intent at Headquarters and Autonomous Subsidiary Initiatives Internationalization Effects in a Global Knowledge-Based Industry: A Study of Multinational Pharmaceutical Companies Navigating a Global Corporate Culture: On the Notion of Organizational Culture in a Multinational Corporation Building a Global Responsive Organization: The Case of the Haier Group Effective Crisis and Emergency Responses in the Multinational Corporation Global Catastrophe Effects - the Impact of Terrorism
£76.94
Springer International Publishing AG The Language of Creative AI: Practices, Aesthetics and Structures
Book SynopsisCreative AI defines art and media practices that have AI embedded into the process of creation, but also encompass novel AI approaches in the realisation and experience of such work, e.g. robotic art, distributed AI artworks across locations, AI performers, artificial musicians, synthetic images generated by neural networks, AI authors and journalist bots.This book builds on the discourse of AI and creativity and extends the notion of embedded and co-operative creativity with intelligent software. It does so through a human-centred approach in which AI is empowered to make the human experience more creative. It presents ways-of-thinking and doing by the creators themselves so as to add to the ongoing discussion of AI and creativity at a time when the field needs to expand its thinking. This will avoid over-academization of this emerging field, and help counter engrained prejudice and bias. The Language of Creative AI contains technical descriptions, theoretical frameworks, philosophical concepts and practice-based case studies. It is a compendium of thinking around creative AI for technologists, human-computer interaction researchers and artists who are wishing to explore the creative potential of AI.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part I: Aesthetics and contexts.- On purpose: An enquiry into the possible roles of the computer in art.- Towards a symbiotic future: Art and creative AI.- Artificial intelligence and creativity under interrogation.- AI, creativity and art.- The ethics of creative AI.- Part II: Structures and frameworks.- Ecosystemic thinking: Beyond human narcissism in AI.- Embodied AI and musicking robotics.- Latent spaces: A creative approach.- Intersections of living and machine agencies: Possibilities for creative AI.- Conformed thoughts, representational systems, and creative procedures.- Part III: Practices.- Creative AI, embodiment, and performance.- Musebots and I: Collaborating with creative systems.- Composition with computer models of the brain: An alternative approach to music with artificial intelligence.- Tuning topological morphologies: Creative processes of natural and artificial cognitive systems.- Sketching symbiosis: Towards the development of relational systems.
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Kogan Page Supply Chain 5.0 Driving HumanCentric Technology in Supply Chain Operations
Book SynopsisDaniel Stanton is a leading author, educator and speaker in supply chain management. Stanton is renowned for his expertise and has been featured in media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and CNBC. He is based in Charlotte, NC.Janeth Gabaldon is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas's Sam M. Walton College of Business, specializing in logistics and supply chain management. She is a widely published researcher, with her work appearing in top industry journals. She is based in Fayetteville, AR.
£110.25
Wiley Health and Safety at Hazardous Waste Sites
Book SynopsisThis manual provides basic background information necessary to perform investigative and remedial activities at hazardous waste sites within a safe and efficient framework. It is the basic text for the standard 40-hour HAZWOPER course. While the topics and structure focus toward OSHA training courses, it could serve as the basic text for a similar course in Canada and for any related safety and hazardous materials courses. The organization and thoroughness of the information along with the many illustrations make it a stand-alone reference as well as a text. It provides the best available current information from various federal agencies including the EPA, OSHA, NIOSH, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Coast Guard, and the Department of Transportation.Table of ContentsHazard Recognition. Properties of Hazardous Materials. Toxicology and Chemical Exposure. Sources of Information. Respiratory Protection. Air Monitoring. Personal Protective Clothing and Equipment. Levels of Protection. Site Control. Decontamination. Health and Safety Programs and Plans. Contingency Planning. Special Operations. Appendices. Select Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development
Book SynopsisAn annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, volume 23 of To Improve the Academy is a collection of articles that explore the emerging climate of change is providing a backdrop for the concerns and constituents of higher education. In particular, the authors focus on promoting excellence in teaching and learning through faculty renewal. To Improve the Academy, Volume 23, describes the ways in which faculty development is changing and offers insight on how to manage these changes. It is divided into three sections Section I, Faculty Development in a Climate of Change: addresses the environment for scholarship and learning, how to lead change in the culture of assessment, and explains the role of teaching and learning centers Section II, Quality of Work Life for Faculty and Faculty Developers: investigates strategies for creating vital and equitable work environments for faculty Section III, Best Practices for Faculty Development: explores various approaches to faculty development, including the use of data, cultivating community, service-learning, and integrating junior faculty, graduate students, and part-time faculty into the institution This book offers an essential resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants.Table of ContentsAbout the Authors. Preface. Introduction. Section I: faculty development in a Climate of Change. 1. Transforming the Environment for Learning: A Crisis of Quality (Lion F. Gardiner). 2. The Institutional Change Agency: The Expanding Role of Academic Support Centers (Robert M. Diamond). 3. Leading Change: Creating a Culture of Assessment (Patricia M. Dwyer). 4. Evidence of the Transformational Dimensions of the Schlorship of Teaching and Learning: Faculty Development Through the Eyes SoTL Scholars (Connie M. Schroeder). 5. The Roles of Teaching and Learning Centers (Alan C. Frantz, Steven A. Beebe, Virginia S. Horvath, JoAnn Canales, and David E. Swee). Section II. Quality of Work Life for Faculty and faculty developers. 6. The Quality of Life of Faculty Development Professionals (Kathleen T. Brinko, Sally S. Atkins, and Marian E. Miller). 7. The Hue and Cry of campus Climate: Faculty Strategies for Creating Equitable Work Environments (Christine M. Cress and Jennifer L. Hart). 8. Exploring the Inner landscape of teaching: A Program for faculty Renewal (Libby Falk Jones). 9. Is the Thrill Gone? An investigation of faculty Vitality Within the Context of the Community College (Cathie J. Peterson). Section III: Best Practices for Faculty development. 10. Using Data to Enhance Colege teaching: Course and Departmental Assessment Results as a faculty Development Tool (Catherine M. Wehlburg). 11. A Vision Beyond Measurement: Creating an Integrated data System for Teaching Centers (Katheryn M. Plank, Alan Kalish, Stephanie V. Rohdieck, and Kathleen A. Harper). 12. Achieving a Campus Consensus on Learning-Centered teaching: Process and Outcomes (Phyllis Blumberg and Justin Everett). 13. Teaching Partners: Improving Teaching and Learning by Cultivating a Community of Practice (Richard A. Holgren). 14. A Faculty development Program to Promote Engaged Classroom Dialogue: The Oral Communication institute (Kim M. Mooney, Traci Fordham, and Valerie D. Lehr). 15. Whispers and Sighs: The Unwritten Challenges of Service-Learning (Rona J. Karasik). 16. Junior faculty Participation in Curricular Change (Judi Hetrick). 17. Assessing the Academic and Professional Development Needs of Graduate Students (Laurie Bellows and Ellen Weissinger). 18. Faculty Development in Community Colleges: A Model for Part-Time Faculty (Patricia Hanrahan Valley). 19. Entertaining Strangers: Providing for the Development Needs of Part-Time Faculty (Patricia Hanrahan Valley). 20. Promoting a Sound Process for Teaching Awards Programs: Appropriate Work for Faculty Development Centers (Nancy Van Note Chism). Bibliography.
£29.44
Crossway Books Using Illustrations to Preach with Power
Book SynopsisBryan Chapell demonstrates why illustrations should be used in biblical preaching and how they can deepen and expand applications to the heart and mind.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Creative Writing
Book SynopsisA Companion to Creative Writing comprehensively considers key aspects of the practice, profession and culture of creative writing in the contemporary world.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Foreword by Sir Andrew Motion xiii Introduction 1Graeme Harper Part I Creative Writing 7 1 The Architecture of Story 9Lorraine M. López 2 Writing Creative Nonfi ction 24Bronwyn T. Williams 3 Writing Poetry 40Nigel McLoughlin 4 Writing for Children and Young Adults 56Kathleen Ahrens 5 Write on! Practical Strategies for Developing Playwriting 71Peter Billingham 6 Writing for Sound/Radio 86Steve May 7 Writing the Screenplay 98Craig Batty 8 New Media Writing 115Carolyn Handler Miller 9 How to Make a Pocket Watch: The British Ph.D. in Creative Writing 129Simon Holloway 10 Creative Writing and the Other Arts 144Harriet Edwards and Julia Lockheart Part II The Creative Writer’s Profession 161 11 Agents, Publishers, and Booksellers: A Historical Perspective 163John Feather 12 The Changing Role of the Editor: Editors Past, Present, and Future 179Frania Hall 13 Translation as Creative Writing 195Manuela Perteghella 14 Creative Writing and “the lash of criticism” 213Steven Earnshaw 15 But What’s Really at Stake for the Barbarian Warrior? Developing a Pedagogy for Paraliterature 229Jeffrey S. Chapman 16 Creative Writing and Education 245Jeri Kroll 17 The Rise and Rise of Writers’ Festivals 263Cori Stewart 18 Creative Writing Research 278Graeme Harper 19 Literary Prizes and Awards 291Claire Squires Part III Creative Writing in the World 305 20 D.H. Lawrence, Forever on the Move: Creative Writers and Place 307Louise DeSalvo 21 The Psychology of Creative Writing 320Marie J.C. Forgeard, Scott Barry Kaufman, and James C. Kaufman 22 Creative Writing around the World 334Matthew McCool 23 Creative Hauntings: Creative Writing and Literary Heritage at the British Library 348Jamie Andrews 24 Politics 357Jon Cook25 Creative Writing and the Cold War University 377Eric Bennett 26 “To the imagination, the sacred is self-evident”: Thoughts on Spirituality and the Vocation of Creative Writing 393J. Matthew Boyleston 27 The Writer-Teacher in the United States: The Place of Teachers in the Community of Writers 405Patrick Bizzaro 28 Creative Writing to the Future 421Graeme Harper Index 433
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Blackwells FiveMinute Veterinary Consult Clinical
Book SynopsisThe newly revised Third Edition of Blackwell''s Five-Minute Veterinary Consult Clinical Companion: Small Animal Dentistry delivers an expertly edited quick-reference guide to all aspects of small animal dentistry. The book comprehensively describes new technologies and techniques as well as updated classifications and terminology. Readers willenjoy fast access to basic knowledge and detailed instructions for a wide variety of techniques in small animal dentistry. Newer technologies, like digital radiographs and advanced images, and newer techniques, like regional blocks, are combined with the latest in treatment information to provide readers with the most logically organized reference manual in the industry. The book's companion website offers video clips and client education handouts perfect for use in a busy veterinary practice. General practitioners will find this book to be a practical and indispensable resource. Readers will also enjoy: A thorTable of ContentsContributors Preface Acknowledgments Section I – Diagnostics Chapter 1 – Oral Examination and Charting Chapter 2 – Periodontal Probing Chapter 3 – Intraoral Radiology and Advanced Imaging Section II – Techniques Chapter 4 – Complete Dental Cleaning Chapter 5 – Periodontal Therapy Chapter 6 – Gingival Flaps Chapter 7 – Extraction Techniques Chapter 8 – Oral Pain Management Chapter 9 – Equipment, Instruments and Maintenance Section III - Oral/Dental Diseases – Developmental Oral/Dental Problems Chapter 10 – Persistent Deciduous Teeth Chapter 11 – Craniomandibular Osteopathy Chapter 12 – Enamel Hypocalcification Chapter 13 – Eruption Disruption Chapter 14 – Abnormal Tooth Number – Decreased Chapter 15 – Abnormal Tooth Number – Increased Chapter 16 – Abnormal Tooth Development and Structure Chapter 17 – Dentigerous Cysts Chapter 18 – Palatal Defects Chapter 19 – Malocclusions and Orthodontics Section IV – Acquired Oral/Dental Diseases – Periodontal Problems Chapter 20 – Periodontal Disease Chapter 21 – Gingival Enlargement Chapter 22 – Oronasal Fistula Chapter 23 – Stomatitis and Oral Ulceration Section V – Acquired Oral/Dental Diseases – Enamel and Dentin Problems Chapter 24 – Discolored Teeth Chapter 25 – Caries Chapter 26 – Attrition – Abrasion Section VI – Acquired Oral/Dental Diseases – Endodontic Problems Chapter 27 – Tooth Root Abscess Chapter 28 – Pulpitis Section VII – Acquired Oral/Dental Diseases – Neoplasia Chapter 29 – Odontogenic Tumors Chapter 30 – Odontoma Chapter 31 – Papillomatosis Chapter 32 – Melanocytic Tumors – Oral Chapter 33 – Fibrosarcoma Chapter 34 – Squamous Cell Carcinoma Chapter 35 – Malignant Tumors – Others Chapter 36 – Benign Masses and Lesions Section VIII – Acquired Oral/Dental Diseases – Trauma Chapter 37 – Tooth-Dentoalveolar Injuries Chapter 38 – Maxillary and Mandibular Fractures Chapter 39 – Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Disorders Section IX – Feline Oral/Dental Disease Chapter 40 – Tooth Resorption Chapter 41 – FCGS – Feline Chronic Gingivostomatitis Chapter 42 – Chronic Osteitis – Alveolitis Chapter 43 – Feline Infectious Diseases - Oral Involvement Section X – Special Categories Chapter 44 – Salivary Gland Disorders Chapter 45 – Other Soft Tissue Disorders Appendices Appendix A – The Use of Antibiotics in Veterinary Dentistry (AVDC Position Statement, accessed September 7, 2020) Appendix B - Companion Animal Dental Scaling Without Anesthesia (AVDC Position Statement, accessed September 7, 2020) Appendix C – American Veterinary Dental College Nomenclature Appendix D – Internet Resources Appendix E – Dental Home Care
£116.96
Taylor & Francis Inc Adaptations and Responses of Woody Plants to
Book SynopsisDiscover what improves stress resistance to cold in woody plants used in horticulture! Adaptations and Responses of Woody Plants to Environmental Stresses covers the latest and most significant advances in woody plant stress research. Few books focus on the low-temperature stress biology of woody plants that are of horticultural importance. This book will appeal to graduate students, instructors, and researchers who specialize in plant stress physiology in botany, agriculture, horticulture, landscape design, or forestry. The authors of this book, led by Dr. Rajeev Arora, are world-renowned researchers who have made significant contributions to the knowledge of woody plant stress physiology and molecular biology. Adaptations and Responses of Woody Plants to Environmental Stresses will keep you up-to-date on current findings in the fundamental understanding of the various aspects of woody plants’ responses to environmental stresses. With figures, tables, graphs, illustrations, and black-and-white and color photos documenting the studies of these researchers and scientists, this book offers a new awareness of the physiology and molecular biology of cold acclimation in woody plants. The book will provide you with innovative research on: the freezing processice nucleation, propagation, and deep supercooling in woody plants the biology of dormancy induction and release in woody plantsphysiologic, molecular, and cellular mechanisms the physiology and regulation of seasonal nitrogen cycling in woody plants the importance of dehydrinsa unique class of stress proteinsin cold hardening of certain woody plants nitrogen-fixation as a stress-avoidance strategy in certain woody plants Adaptations and Responses of Woody Plants to Environmental Stresses provides groundbreaking analysis and scientific research to facilitate future efforts in increasing tolerance and protection from various biotic and abiotic stresses, especially freeze injuries. This book paves the way for researchers and scientists to develop tougher plants with improved resistance to environmental stress and better strategies to protect plants from stressful conditions.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Rajeev Arora) Ice Nucleation, Propagation, and Deep Supercoiling in Woody Plants (M. Wisniewski, M. Fuller, J. Palta, J. Carter, and R. Arora) Characterization of a Novel YnSKn Class of Dehydrin-Like cDNAs from Cold Acclimated Red-Osier Dogwood (Cornus sericea L.) Xylem (E. Sarnighausen, D. T. Karlson, Y. Zeng, P. B. Goldsbrough, K. G. Raghothama, and E. N. Ashworth) Inheritance of Cold Hardiness and Dehydrin Genes in Diploid Mapping Populations of Blueberry (Ganesh R. Panta, Lisa J. Rowland, Rajeev Arora, Elizabeth L. Ogden, and Chon-Chong Lim) Molecular Genetic and Physiological Analysis of the Cold-Responsive Dehydrins of Blueberry (L. J. Rowland, G. R. Panta, S. Mehra, and C. Parmentier-Line) Photoperiodic Regulation of Apical Growth Cessation in Northern Tree Species: The Role of Phytochrome and Gibberellin (Jorunn E. Olsen, John B. Jensen, Joergen A. Moelmann, Arild Ernstsen, and Olavi Junttila) Cell-Cell Communication as a Key Factor in Dormancy Cycling (Paivi L. H. Rinne and Christiaan van der Schoot) Hormones and Endodormancy Induction in Woody Plants (Karen K. Tanino) Freezing Tolerance and Injury in Grapevines (Anne Fennell) Physiology and Regulation of Seasonal Nitrogen Cycling in Woody Plants (Gary D. Coleman) Physiology and Molecular Biology of a Family of Pathogenesis-Related PR-10 Proteins in Conifers (Abul K. M. Ekramoddoullah) Nitrogen Fixations as a Stress-Avoidance Strategy Among Actinorhizal (Non-Legume) Trees and Shrubs (Heidi A. Kratsch and William R. Graves) Index Reference Notes Included
£130.06
Royal Society of Chemistry Stimuli-Responsive Materials: From Molecules to
Book SynopsisThe ability for a material to change properties in response to external stimuli is an attractive feature for numerous applications and as such stimuli responsive materials are gaining attention across many different fields. This book introduces the concepts of stimuli-responsiveness, including the fundamental materials properties required for design. It provides readers with comprehensive scientific principles and developments of stimuli responsive materials, as well as the recent technological advances. Written by a renowned expert in the field, this book is suitable for anyone interested in stimuli responsive materials working in polymers, biochemistry, biotechnology and materials science.Trade ReviewMost of the illustrations are appropriate and enable a deeper understanding of the scientific arguments. Chapters are on topics such as tissue engineering, microfluidics, biosensors, molecular electronics, and photochromic devices. Each chapter starts with short definitions of terms or phenomena and provides clear explanations based on physicochemical proofs, combining structural characteristics given by molecular interactions with adequate thermodynamic and kinetics approaches. Each chapter ends with a reference list. The book is accessible to senior undergraduate and graduate students in materials chemistry and physics. -- Aurelia Meghea * MRS Bulletin *The book is accessible to senior undergraduate and graduate students in materials chemistry and physics. At the same time, this monograph is also useful for specialists in materials science and engineering, providing stimulating ideas for further advances in materials design mostly needed in nanofabrication. -- Aurelia Meghea * MRS Bulletin *This book focuses on designing stimuli-responsive materials by mimicking nature—an excellent source of inspiration for conceiving new products with tailored properties and desired functions. The book is structured into 12 chapters and covers a wide range of topics, from controlled synthesis of polymers to various aspects of stimuli responsiveness in macromolecular blocks, polymer brushes, surfaces, and interfaces, to nanoand micro-materials, and photochromic and photorefractive polymers. The common essence of these stimuli- responsive materials resides in their heterogeneity at the nanoscale—the origin of energy excess able to be converted into other energy forms as a result of various external stimuli: temperature, solvent polarity, pH, ultraviolet/visible light, electrical potential, magnetic field, or combinations of these. Starting from biologically responsive polymers, special attention is paid to stimuli-responsive materials applied in medical therapy, nanomedicine, enhancing imaging and target delivery, and selfhealing and shape-memory materials, with a perspective for these materials to shape the future of human existence. Most of the illustrations are appropriate and enable a deeper understanding of the scientific arguments. Chapters are on topics such as tissue engineering, microfluidics, biosensors, molecular electronics, and photochromic devices. Each chapter starts with short definitions of terms or phenomena and provides clear explanations based on physicochemical proofs, combining structural characteristics given by molecular interactions with adequate thermodynamic and kinetics approaches. Each chapter ends with a reference list. The book is accessible to senior undergraduate and graduate students in materials chemistry and physics. At the same time, this monograph is also useful for specialists in materials science and engineering, providing stimulating ideas for further advances in materials design mostly needed in nanofabrication. -- Aurelia Meghea * MRS Bulletin *Table of ContentsWhat is Stimuli Responsiveness?; Design of Stimuli-responsive Macromolecular Blocks; Thermally Responsive Materials; Stimuli-responsive Surfaces and Interfaces; Stimuli-responsive Polymer Brushes; Stimuli Responsiveness in Nano and Micro Materials; Biologically Responsive Polymers; Stimuli-responsive Materials in Medical Therapy; Photochromic Materials; Photorefractive Polymers; Self-healing Materials; Shape Memory Materials
£82.64
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Frictionlessness
Book SynopsisJakko Kemper is Assistant Professor in Digital Aesthetics and Platforms Vernaculars at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research focuses on critical theory, media aesthetics, and the environmental implications of digital technology. He previously published the edited volume, Imperfections: Studies in Mistakes, Flaws, and Failures (Bloomsbury, 2021).
£28.99
Edward Elgar How to Read and Interpret University Rankings
Book SynopsisThis informative book provides an accessible guide to understanding higher education rankings and the data informing them. Highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, Ellen Boeren illustrates the methodologies behind a variety of leading university league tables including QS, Times Higher Education and ShanghaiRanking.
£85.00
DK Restorative Yoga
Book SynopsisRejuvenate your mind, body, and soul through restorative yoga.Are you seeking balance, healing, and a calmer mind? Unlike active styles of yoga that focus on stretching and movement, restorative yoga emphasizes mindful rest by using props to support your body in complete comfort and relaxation-no flexibility required! Whether you already practice yoga or are just getting started, Restorative Yoga is your step-by-step guide to deepening the connection between your body and mind. Here''s what you''ll find in this highly visual guide: Practical information on the amazing benefits of restorative yoga 39 restorative yoga poses, each featuring beautiful photography and detailed, step-by-step instructions to take you from start to finish, with simple modifications to suit any body type, including for pregnant yoga practitioners 17 healing sequences for a variety of physical, mental, and emotional conditions including anxiety, Trade Review"These turbulent times call for more ease in our lives. Whether you’re rolling out a mat for the first time or have practiced yoga for decades, Baginski’s Restorative Yoga will ease you into your day and help you sleep better at night. The soothing practices are beautifully photographed and clearly explained with detailed instructions on entering and transitioning out of each pose. The author’s guidance cues your awareness to the sensations you are experiencing, keeping you in the present moment of the posture and out of whatever worries may have been present when you began. The photos and stunning layout and design offer serenity before you even roll out your mat. Caren Baginski is the best kind of yoga teacher. Her soothing narrative voice prompts us to breathe and to feel and to let go of whatever we don’t need to carry off the mat. If you’re like me, this book won’t stay on your shelf for long. It will be your companion as you practice."—Amy Weintraub, Yoga Therapist and founder, LifeForce Yoga. Author of Yoga for Depression, Yoga Skills for Therapists and the forthcoming Temple Dancer"I love this book! It is so well organized and presented that—just like the practice of Restorative Yoga itself—it puts the reader at ease. With beautiful photos and great instruction, it provides the reader all they need to know in order to prepare the body, calm the mind and experience the wonders of Restorative Yoga. I highly recommend this comprehensive yet simple and practical handbook."—Michele Lawrence, C-IAYT, Yoga Therapist and Founder/Director of Inner Peace Yoga Therapy
£17.88
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Virtual Futures for Design Construction and
Book Synopsis'Architects and other designers inhabit a curious borderland between the virtual and the physical. They have always been concerned with conjuring up things that don't exist but might, imagining them in detail, and eventually finding ways to translate these visions into physical reality.Trade Review"For the knowledgeable reader in ICT research it is a must to confirm where technology is now and moreover to see where it is going in the future." Building EngineerTable of ContentsNote on editors page vii List of contributors viii Note on Think Lab xii Acknowledgements xiii Foreword – Virtual worlds, virtual prototypes, and design xivWilliam J. Mitchell Introduction – Virtually there. . . ? xxiPeter Brandon PART 1 DESIGN, ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING CHALLENGES 1 1 Emerging paradigms and models in digital design – Performance-based architectural design 3Rivka Oxman 2 Algorithmic design optimization 21Manfred Grohmann and Oliver Tessmann 3 VR or PR: Virtual or physical reality? 35Anthony Thorpe, Richard A. Buswell, Rupert C. Soar and Alistair G. F. Gibb 4 Digital affordances: Emerging knowledge and cognition in design 47Tuba Kocatürk PART 2 CHALLENGES FOR IMPLEMENTATION: FROM VIRTUAL THROUGH TO CONSTRUCTION 57 5 One Island East, Hong Kong: A case study in construction virtual prototyping 59Martin Riese 6 The virtual building: A designer’s perspective 72Martin Simpson PART 3 CHALLENGES FOR VISUALIZATION AND SIMULATION 87 7 Planning and scheduling in a virtual prototyping environment 89Andrew Baldwin, C. W. Kong, T. Huang, H. L. Guo, K. D. Wong and Heng Li 8 Reshaping the life cycle process with virtual design and construction methods 104Martin Fischer 9 Virtual prototyping from need to pre-construction 113Robin Drogemuller 10 The need for creativity enhancing design tools 131Souheil Soubra PART 4 CHALLENGES FOR INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MODELLING 145 11 Context-aware virtual prototyping 147Chimay J. Anumba and Zeeshan Aziz 12 nD modelling, present and future 158Ghassan Aouad, Song Wu and Angela Lee 13 Interoperable knowledge: Achievements and future challenges 171Yacine Rezgui and Simona Barresi 14 Knowledge management systems in the future 192Matthew Bacon PART 5 OTHER CHALLENGES: AGENT TECHNOLOGIES, SECURITY, REGULATIONS AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL 211 15 Future agent-driven virtual prototyping environments in construction 213Joseph H. M. Tah 16 The nature of virtuality and the need for enhanced security in the virtual world 230Grahame S. Cooper 17 The future of virtual construction and regulation checking 241Nicholas Nisbet, Jeffrey Wix and David Conover 18 Virtual prototyping of financial flows as a form of management control 251Richard J. Boland, Jr, Fred Collopy, Julia Grant and Lin Zhao PART 6 VISIONS, ROADMAPS AND FUTURE SCENARIOS 259 19 VR – Roadmap: A vision for 2030 in the built environment 261Nashwan Dawood, R. Marasini and John Dean 20 Future collaborative workspaces for the construction industry 278Terrence Fernando 21 The future organization: Sustainable competitiveness through virtual prototyping 290Mustafa Alshawi Index 305
£107.06
LEGARE STREET PR A First Latin Book or Progressive Lessons in Reading and Writing Latin
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£17.95
Springer Nanocomposites for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment
Book SynopsisIntroduction to Nanocomposites in Wastewater Treatment.- Synthesis of Eco-friendly Nanocomposites.- Mechanisms of Pollutant Removal by Nanocomposites.- Biodegradable Nanocomposites for Organic Pollutant Removal.- Advanced Adsorption Techniques Using Nanocomposites.- Nanocomposites-Enabled Membrane Technologies for Water Purification.- Nanocomposites for Heavy Metal Removal and Recovery.- Environmental Impact and Sustainability of Nanocomposites.- Comparative Analysis: Bio-based Nanocomposites vs. Traditional Materials.- Emerging Trends in Nanocomposite Synthesis and Contaminants Removal Technology.- Applications, Challenges and Future Perspectives in Nanocomposites-Based Wastewater.
£134.99
ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Signals and Control Systems: Application for Home
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is the study of signals and deterministic systems, linear, time-invariant, finite dimensions and causal. A set of useful tools is selected for the automatic and signal processing and methods of representation of dynamic linear systems are exposed, and analysis of their behavior. Finally we discuss the estimation, identification and synthesis of control laws for the purpose of stabilization and regulation.Table of ContentsPreface ix Chapter 1 Control, Servo-mechanisms and System Regulation 1 1.1. Introduction 1 1.1.1. Generalities and definitions 1 1.1.2. Control law synthesis 5 1.1.3. Comprehension and application exercises 7 1.2. Process control 11 1.2.1. Correction in the frequency domain 11 1.2.2. Phase advance controller and PD controller 12 1.2.3. Phase delay controller and integrator compensator 14 1.2.4. Proportional, integral and derivative (PID) control 17 1.3. Some application exercises 23 1.3.1. Identification of the transfer function and control 23 1.3.2. PI control 30 1.3.3. Phase advance control 33 1.4. Some application exercises 36 1.5. Application 1: stabilization of a rigid robot with pneumatic actuator 39 1.5.1. Conventional approach 41 1.6. Application 2: temperature control of an oven 51 1.6.1. Modeling and identification study 51 Chapter 2 System Process Control 55 2.1. Introduction 55 2.2. Modeling 55 2.2.1. Introduction 55 2.3. Governability, controllability and observability 56 2.3.1. Characteristic polynomial, minimal polynomial and Cayley–Hamilton theorem 56 2.3.2. Governability or controllability 56 2.3.3. Observability 63 2.3.4. Observer 68 2.3.5. Observer for state reconstruction 69 2.3.6. Minimal state–space representation 76 2.4. State feedback, control by poles placement and stability 79 2.4.1. State feedback control 79 2.4.2. Poles placement and stabilizability 80 2.4.3. Finite-time response for a discrete system, deadbeat response 83 2.4.4. Use of observers in control: separation principle 85 2.5. Linear quadratic (LQ) control 86 2.5.1. Linear quadratic regulator 89 2.6. Optimal control (LQ) 90 2.7. Comprehension and application exercises 94 Chapter 3 Actuators: Modeling and Analysis 117 3.1. Introduction: electric, hydraulic and pneumatic actuators 117 3.1.1. Representation methods for physical systems 118 3.1.2. Modeling of a few constituents of physical systems 120 3.2. Transmission chains, actuators and sensors 126 3.2.1. Electric actuators in robotics 126 3.2.2. Motor speed torque characteristic 131 3.2.3. Dynamic behavior or transient behavior 131 3.2.4. Electric systems motor load 134 3.3. Pneumatic actuators 137 3.3.1. Pneumatic system modeling 137 3.3.2. Frictions model 145 3.4. Hydraulic actuators 149 3.4.1. System description 149 3.4.2. Mechanical model 151 3.4.3. Hydraulic actuator model 152 3.5. Application exercises 155 Chapter 4 Digital Control and Polynomial Approach 161 4.1. Introduction to digital control 161 4.1.1. Digital controller synthesis by transposition 162 4.1.2. Euler’s transposition 164 4.1.3. Choice of the sampling period (Shannon’s theorem) 170 4.2. PID controller synthesis and its equivalent digital RST 171 4.2.1. Standard controllers 171 4.2.2. Study of digital PIDs 172 4.2.3. Digital RST controller synthesis 178 4.2.4. Choice of poles and zeros to compensate 179 4.2.5 Computation of polynomials R, S and T 180 4.2.6. Additional objectives for synthesis 181 4.3. Digital control by poles placement 182 4.3.1. Choice of the sampling period 183 4.4. Diophantine, Bézout, greatest common divisor, least common multiple and division 183 4.4.1. Polynomial arithmetic 183 4.4.2. Diophantine equation ax + by = c and Bachet–Bézout theorem 184 4.4.3. Bézout’s identity 185 4.4.4. Greatest common divisor 185 4.4.5. Least common multiple 185 4.5. A few comprehension and application exercises 186 Chapter 5 NAO Robot 193 5.1. Introduction 193 5.2. Home care project 194 5.2.1. Choregraphe software 194 5.2.2. Nao Matlab SDK research 199 5.2.3. Nao and home care 206 5.2.4. The actions to be made 207 5.3. Details of the various programs 208 5.3.1. Ask for news 208 5.3.2. CallFirefighters box 212 5.3.3. CallNeighbor box 213 5.3.4. CallFamily box 215 5.3.5. Collision detection 215 5.3.6. Special actions: waking-up 216 5.3.7. Morning hygiene 220 5.3.8. Gymnastics 221 5.3.9. Nurse call 225 5.3.10. Memory game 227 5.3.11. Drugs reminder 232 5.3.12. Reading 233 5.3.13. Listening to music 235 5.3.14. Multiplication game 239 5.3.15. Nao’s dance 243 5.3.16. Memory game 245 5.3.17. Detect person on the ground 247 5.3.18. At any time 251 5.4. Conclusion 253 5.4.1. Nao’s limitations and possible improvements 253 Chapter 6 Application Problems with Solutions 255 6.1. Exercise 6.1: car suspension 255 6.1.1. Modeling 256 6.1.2. Analysis 257 6.2. Exercise 6.2: electromechanical system 259 6.2.1. Modeling 260 6.2.2. Analysis 262 6.3. Exercises: identification and state–space representation 263 6.3.1. Exercise 6.3 263 6.3.2. Exercise 6.4 265 6.3.3. Exercise 6.5 268 6.3.4. Exercise 6.6 270 6.3.5. Exercise 6.7 276 6.4. Exercises: observation and control of nonlinear systems 278 6.4.1. Exercise 6.8 278 6.4.2. Exercise 6.9 280 6.4.3. Exercise 6.10 288 6.4.4. Exercise 6.11 291 6.4.5. Exercise 6.12 293 6.4.6. Exercise 6.13 296 6.4.7. Exercise 6.14 300 6.4.8. Exercise 6.15 300 Bibliography 307 Index 313
£125.96
Taylor & Francis The Structured Literacy Handbook
Book SynopsisThis essential guide provides everything you need to teach spelling, reading, and word structure effectivelyâwithout requiring extensive training or multiple resources. From tackling tricky letter reversals to mastering advanced affixes, this ready-to-use resource delivers explicit, systematic instruction that works. Inside you'll discover: All six syllable types explained simply Ready-to-use word lists from basic to advanced Decodable stories for immediate classroom use Proven tricks for teaching difficult red words Targeted support for students with dyslexia Reproducible charts and classroom materials Affixes from beginning to advanced Whether you're a classroom teacher, interventionist, tutor, or parent, this all-in-one resource empowers you to implement structured literacy instruction immediately.
£147.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd Moral Responsibility and Alternative
Book SynopsisThis book explores an important issue within the free will debate: the relation between free will and moral responsibility. In his seminal article ''Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility'', Harry Frankfurt launched a vigorous attack on the standard conception of that relation, questioning the claim that a person is morally responsible for what she has done only if she could have done otherwise. Since then, Frankfurt''s thesis has been at the center of philosophical discussions on free will and moral responsibility. Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities, edited by David Widerker and Michael McKenna, draws together the most recent work on Frankfurt''s thesis by leading theorists in the area of free will and responsibility. As the majority of the essays appear here for the first time, Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities offers the newest developments in this important debate.Trade Review'This is a fascinating collection of articles, by some of the leading figures in contemporary moral philosophy, exploring a topic that has generated considerable interest in recent years. The work here is of the highest quality.' Metapsychology Online '...no-one seriously interested in moral responsibility and free will can afford to ignore this book.' Journal of Moral Philosophy 'This book collects the best recent literature on the philosophical debate on PAP... a very useful book, perfectly suitable to introduce newcomers to a fascinating debate.' Ethical PerspectivesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Michael McKenna and David Widerker; Alternate possibilities and moral responsibility, Harry Frankfurt; Responsibility and alternative possibilities, John Martin Fischer; Blameworthiness and Frankfurt's argument against the principle of alternative possiblities, David Widerker; In defense of alternative possibilities: why I don't find Frankfurt's argument convincing, Carl Ginet; Responsibility, indeterminism and Frankfurt-style cases: a reply to Mele and Robb, Robert Kane; Classical compatibilism: not dead yet, Bernard Berofksy; BBs, magnets, and seesaws: the metaphysics of Frankfurt-style cases, Alfred R. Mele and David Robb; Moral responsibility without alternative possibilities, Eleonore Stump; Freedom, foreknowledge, and Frankfurt, David Hunt; Source incompatibilism and alternative possibilities, Derk Pereboom; Robustness, control, and the demand for morally significant alternatives: Frankfurt examples with oodles and oodles of alternatives, Michael McKenna; Alternate possiblities and Reid's theory of agent causation, William Rowe; Responsibility and agent causation, John Martin Fischer; Soft libertarianism and flickers of freedom, Alfred Mele; 'Ought' implies 'can', blameworthiness, and the principle of alternate possibilities, David Copp; The moral significance of alternate possiblities, Michael Zimmerman; The selling of Joseph - a Frankfurtian interpretation, Charlotte Katzoff; Some thoughts concerning PAP, Harry Frankfurt; Index.
£43.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance
Book SynopsisCorporate social responsibility (CSR) has developed into a crucial corporate and organizational issue around the world. It has been incorporated into various sectors and countries, and includes many types of activities and dimensions. It is a common notion that organizations are more inclined today to broaden and shift their performance focus from short-term goals towards long-term social, environmental, and value-added perspectives.Under the framework of corporate governance, organizations and companies are motivated to promote fairness, transparency, ethics, and accountability in their transactions, while concurrently maintaining enhanced standards of governance. This means that organizations and corporations must align their activities with community aspirations which is an issue falling within the sphere of CSR. Increased attention has been placed on the organizations regarding their approach towards the needs of various stakeholders. However, a crucial issue thTable of Contents1. A Conceptual Orientation of Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance Panagiotis Dimitropoulos and Efthalia Chatzigianni PART I - Theoretical and Legal Framework of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Governance 2. CSR: Stakeholder theory and conceptual framework Panagiotis Dimitropoulos 3. Definitions and Theoretical Frameworks of Governance Efthalia Chatzigianni and Cheryl Mallen 4. Governance and CSR regulations and policies in the EU Efthalia Chatzigianni and Panagiotis Dimitropoulos PART II - Corporate Governance and CSR in the EU: An Empirical Examination 5. The role of the board of directors in corporate philanthropy: an empirical study of UK insurance firms Zafeira Kastrinaki 6. CSR, Corporate Sustainability and Executive Compensation in the EU: the role of CSR committees Panagiotis Dimitropoulos 7. Corporate governance and company leadership during a time of crisis: Duties, responsibilities and liabilities of directors in the UK Niki Alexandrou 8. Corporate governance and business ethics Anna Kourtesopoulou 9. CSR and Corporate Financial Performance in the EU Panagiotis Dimitropoulos PART III - Managerial aspects of CSR and Governance in the EU 10. Corporate Social Responsibility, governance and gender diversity Oana – Antonia Colibășanu 11. CSR, Media, and Communication Panagiota Antonopoulou 12. Corporate Social Responsibility Governance and Sport Marketing: An International Review John Douvis and Vaios Kyriakis 13. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Volunteering Christina Tsagdi and Ethan Strigas 14. Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability: The Development of Corporate Environmental Sustainability Framework Stavros Triantafyllidis
£135.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd A Circle Approach to Boosting Emotional Wellbeing and Relationships in the Secondary School
Book SynopsisThis timely resource presents Jenny Mosley's acclaimed Circle Time model specifically adapted for secondary education, offering a structured, powerful and compassionate approach to rebuilding human connection among teenagers. In an era of increasing digital isolation and mental health challenges, Mosley provides educators with practical tools to create spaces where students feel truly seen, heard and valued. Building on decades of pioneering work in both primary and secondary schools, inside this book you will find: â A complete framework for implementing Circle Time in secondary settings â from Year 7 through to Year 11. â Practical, age-appropriate activities, games and discussion prompts that engage even the most reluctant teenagers. â Behaviour strategies rooted in restorative practice â helping students take responsibility and rebuild relationships. â Tools to build a positive school ethos, improve classroom climate, and boost mental health and motivation. â Real-life examples and success stories that show the power of Circle Time in action â from disengaged teens becoming peer mentors to entire year groups forming tighter bonds. Endorsed by empirical research which links social-emotional learning to academic success, the approach balances emotional literacy with practical skill development. Jenny Mosley doesnât just offer a programme â she offers a philosophy: one where students are not just taught but truly seen, where emotional literacy is not a luxury but a necessity, and where schools become safe spaces for teenagers to grow into capable, compassionate adults. This essential guide is invaluable for heads of year, form tutors, PSHE leads and classroom teachers committed to nurturing both academic achievement and emotional development. School counselors, educational psychologists and wellbeing coordinators will also find practical strategies they can immediately implement to support teenagers in developing the communication skills and emotional resilience needed to thrive in today's complex world.
£31.36
