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Steele, Patricia. Combined index to Tombstone hoppin', volumes I and II. [Brookville, PA] (10 Cherry St., Brookville 15825): P. Steele, 1997.
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Siedina, Giovanna, ed. Latinitas in the Polish Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-675-6.
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The volume contains articles concerning the influence of Latinitas in the territory now occupied by Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus’. The articles, all published in English, range from history to literature and to cultural history and the history of ideas. They analyze the issue of building an identity, either real or imagined, from different points of view. Among the most interesting topics are the classical origins of myths and ideas that have helped build the national identities of those that constituted the ethnic mosaic of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the role of Neo-Latin poetry, as a conveyor of Latinitas, in the development of national identities. Because of the significance of Latinitas for both common European cultural traditions and the national cultures, literatures and languages of Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine, it is to be hoped that the subject will continue to attract a good level of attention in the future.
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Bosco, Andrea, and Massimiliano Guderzo, eds. A Monetary Hope for Europe. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-966-5.
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A Monetary Hope for Europe. This book studies the euro in a global perspective and opens a new series edited by the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence of the University of Florence, Verso l’unificazione europea. Most of the chapters have been written by economists who met and discussed their diverse views at a multi-disciplinary conference organized by the Centre in May 2013 under the title The euro and the struggle for the creation of a new global currency: Problems and perspectives in the building of the political, financial and economic foundations of the European federal government. The list of contributors also includes historians as well as European and international law academics. Their essays have been revised on the basis and against the backdrop of an ongoing crisis of both the euro and the whole European project in the last years and months. The volume aims to provide useful data and interpretations to improve knowledge on the euro and the European Union in their economic, historical, juridical and political perspectives.
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Schneider, Jörg, and Ton Vrouwenvelder. Introduction to safety and reliability of structures. 3rd ed. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/sed005.
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<p>Society expects that buildings and other structures are safe for the people who use them or who are near them. The failure of a building or structure is expected to be an extremely rare event. Thus, society implicitly relies on the expertise of the professionals involved in the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of the structures it uses.<p>Structural engineers devote all their effort to meeting society’s expectations effi ciently. Engineers and scientists work together to develop solutions to structural problems. Given that nothing is absolutely and eternally safe, the goal is to attain an acceptably small probability of failure for a structure, a facility, or a situation. Reliability analysis is part of the science and practice of engineering today, not only with respect to the safety of structures, but also for questions of serviceability and other requirements of technical systems that might be impacted by some probability.<p>The present volume takes a rather broad approach to safety and reliability in Structural Engineering. It treats the underlying concepts of safety, reliability and risk and introduces the reader in a fi rst chapter to the main concepts and strategies for dealing with hazards. The next chapter is devoted to the processing of data into information that is relevant for applying reliability theory. Two following chapters deal with the modelling of structures and with methods of reliability analysis. Another chapter focuses on problems related to establishing target reliabilities, assessing existing structures, and on effective strategies against human error. The last chapter presents an outlook to more advanced applications. The Appendix supports the application of the methods proposed and refers readers to a number of related computer programs.<p>This book is aimed at both students and practicing engineers. It presents the concepts and procedures of reliability analysis in a straightforward, understandable way, making use of simple examples, rather than extended theoretical discussion. It is hoped that this approach serves to advance the application of safety and reliability analysis in engineering practice.<p>The book is amended with a free access to an educational version of a Variables Processor computer program. FreeVaP can be downloaded free of charge and supports the understanding of the subjects treated in this book.
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Hough, J. S., T. W. Young, D. E. Briggs, and Stevens R. Malting and Brewing Science: Volume II Hopped Wort and Beer. Springer, 2013.
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Maywald, Henry. Classic Freight Cars, the Series (Volume 11: High Capacity Covered Hoppers). H & M Productions, 1999.
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Misa, Tapu, and Gary Wilson, eds. The Best of e-Tangata, Volume Two. Bridget Williams Books, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7810/9781988587639.
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'Weary lies the heart that carries the hopes and dreams of their communities, villages, and families.' – Patrick Thomsen A thought-provoking set of leading Māori, Pasifika, and Tangata Tiriti writers combine in this stirring BWB Text from celebrated digital magazine e-Tangata. Traverse a landscape of contemporary and historical issues through the lens of a mother's loss, a man's hard-won expertise, a homesick student abroad, and with the knowing that all good things begin with ten guitars. These writings exemplify that grief and hope go hand-in-hand in the pursuit of justice and the reclaiming of identities in Aotearoa and the Pacific.
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Cointreau, Maya. The Girls Who Could - Inspirational Tales about Grace Hopper, Mae Jemison and Rachel Carson: Volumes 1 - 3. Earth Lodge, 2018.
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Hernandez, Jaime. The Girl from HOPPERS: The Second Volume of "Locas" Stories from Love & Rockets (Love and Rockets (Graphic Novels)). Fantagraphics, 2007.
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Dan, Joseph. The Narratives of Medieval Jewish History. Edited by Martin Goodman. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199280322.013.0007.
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It is surprising to realize that no historian of Judaism wrote a history of the Middle Ages in Jewish history. Between 1923 and 1926 a Jewish historian, Shlomo Bernfeld, wrote a three-volume historical work, consisting mainly of an anthology of sources, entitled Sefer ha-Demaot, ‘The Book of Tears’. These volumes present a history of the Middle Ages up to the ‘Age of Reason’, which the author hoped would be the beginning of a new age in which the fate of the Jews would be different, yet this hope, he states in the end of his work, seems to have been unfounded. This article examines such narratives: the way narratives shape the chronological boundaries of the Middle Ages; their consequences concerning the examination of the relationships between Jews and non-Jews in the medieval world; and the place of history of ideas in the descriptions of the Middle Ages.
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God of Hope: A One-Volume Commentary on God's Promises. Nelson Incorporated, Thomas, 2013.
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Burchell, William John. Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa: Volume 2. University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, 2015.
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Hepler, Al. CSX transportation: Volume one : Freight equipment ; freight motive power and cars in color ; EMD General Motors diesel locomotives, road slugs and visitors, ... transfer cars, open and covered hoppers. Howell Publications, 2001.
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Vallerand, Robert J., and Nathalie Houlfort, eds. Passion for Work. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190648626.001.0001.
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Passion is a pervasive concept in the field of work. Workers aspire to be passionate in the hope of finding meaning and satisfaction from their professional lives, whereas employers dream of passionate employees to ensure organizational performance. Are these hopes and aspirations supported by scientific knowledge? Is there a darker side to passion for work that workers and organizations should be aware of? By reviewing the major theories of passion while focusing on the dominant theory, the dualistic model of passion, which distinguishes between two types of passion (harmonious and obsessive), this volume provides a comprehensive understanding of passion for work. In doing so, this book addresses the origin of the concept and its theoretical issues, how passion for work can be developed, what the consequences to be expected at the individual and organizational level are, and how passion for work can shed new light on contemporary issues in the workplace. Passion for Work: Theory, Research, and Applications synthesizes a vast body of existing research in the area, provides insights into new and exciting research avenues, and explores how current knowledge on passion for work can be applied in work settings to fulfill workers’ and employers’ hopes and aspirations about passion.
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Balmer, Josephine. Afterword: Let Go Fear. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810810.003.0030.
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This is a personal and fascinating chapter, which serves as a perfect conclusion to a multifaceted and complicated volume. While this volume is the first one to offer a detailed look at translations of Virgil’s poems across world cultures, the attempt is far from exhaustive and hopes to open the floodgates for further discussions along the lines presented here. Balmer’s essay looks precisely towards ‘future Virgils’ of this kind, reimagined and adapted to contemporary contexts where women translators will not be an oddity and where Virgil’s stories of victory and defeat will inspire a creativity readily understood by contemporary audiences.
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Lennon, John, and Magnus Nilsson, eds. Working-Class Literature(s) Volume II. Historical and International Perspectives. Stockholm University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.16993/bbf.
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The aim of this collection is to contribute to the forging of a more robust, politically useful, and theoretically elaborate understanding of working-class literature(s). These essays map a substantial terrain: the history of working-class literature(s) in Argentina, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Singapore, South Africa and Ireland. Together with the essays in a previous volume – which cover Russia/The Soviet Union, The USA, Finland, Sweden, The UK, and Mexico – they give a complex picture of working-class literature(s) from an international perspective, without losing sight of national specificities. By capturing a wide range of definitions and literatures, the two volumes give a broad and rich picture of the many-facetted phenomenon of working-class literature(s), disrupt narrow understandings of the concept and phenomenon, as well as identify and discuss some of the most important theoretical and historical questions brought to the fore by the study of this literature.If read as stand-alone chapters, each contribution gives an overview of the history and research of a particular nation’s working-class literature. If read as a whole (which we hope you do), they contribute toward a more complex understanding of the global phenomenon of working-class literature(s).
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Roper, R. S. Donnison. A treatise on the law of legacies / by the late R.S. Donnison Roper, and by Henry Hopley White ; with references to American cases. Volume 2 of 2. Gale, Making of Modern Law, 2010.
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Stolyarov, Andrey. Programming: an introduction to the profession. In three volumes. Vol.3: Paradigms. LLC MAKS Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m1984.978-5-317-06576-8.
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The book is aimed at people who learn programming on their own; it considers a wide range of issues, including introductory information, basic concepts and techniques of programming, the capabilities of the operating system kernel and the principles of its functioning, programming paradigms. It is supposed to use operating systems of the Unix family (including Linux) as an end-to-end working and training environment; a number of programming languages are considered: Pascal, assembly language (NASM), C, C++, Lisp, Scheme, Prolog, Hope and Tcl. The book includes information about the most important Unix system calls, including those for communication over computer networks; an introducton to the ncurses, FLTK and Tcl/Tk libraries is also given. The third volume ("Paradigms") contains general discussion on programming paradigms as a concept; object-oriented programming and abstract data types illustrated with C++; a part devoted to "immutable" computations, which introduces Lisp, Scheme, Prolog and illustrates lazy evaluations using the Hope language. The last part of the book discusses compiled and interpreted execution models as a special kind of programming paradigms; Tcl is used as an example of fully-interpreted language; Ousterhout's dichotomy is defined and explained.
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Borthwick, Kate, and Alessia Plutino, eds. Education 4.0 revolution: transformative approaches to language teaching and learning, assessment and campus design. Research-publishing.net, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2020.42.9782490057665.
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This edited collection presents a selection of contributions made to the 13th eLearning Symposium, held at the University of Southampton, in January 2020. Our theme was ‘Education 4.0 revolution: transformative approaches to language teaching and learning, assessment, and campus design’, and attendees engaged in rich discussions around the challenges of fast-paced digital change. Contributors to this volume are educators from higher education across the world and topics include innovation in physical and digital space, effective blended language learning, and digital story-telling. We hope that this volume will inspire practitioners in the innovative use of technology for education.
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Featherstone, Kevin, and Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198825104.001.0001.
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This volume aims to provide an unprecedented breadth of analysis on the development of modern Greek politics, especially from the restoration of democracy in 1974 to the present day. Over forty-three chapters, contributors provide authoritative accounts of what is known about a particular area. Never before has such a volume been produced, in any language. This is not intended as a student textbook, but as a scholarly reference for all who are interested in contemporary Greece. As such, it provides a depth of analysis couched within comparative and conceptual frames, to link the case of Greece to a wider audience, especially those already familiar with a broader political science literature. In its authoritative and reflective essays, it is hoped that the volume may serve as a point of common reference for some time to come. Its essays are structured across a set of inter-connecting themes: conceptual frames by which to understand modern Greek politics; political institutions; party political traditions; political and social interests; public policy; external relations; and political leaders. With this breadth, the volume takes an eclectic approach in terms of historical, conceptual, and methodological interpretation. Its breadth offers analyses relevant not only to political science, but also economics, international relations, law, sociology, and social policy.
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Glick, David, George Darby, and Anna Marmodoro, eds. The Foundation of Reality. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198831501.001.0001.
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Are space and time fundamental features of our world or might they emerge from something else? This volume brings together metaphysicians and philosophers of physics working on space, time, and fundamentality to address this timely question. Recent developments in the interpretation of quantum mechanics and the understanding of certain approaches to quantum gravity have led philosophers of physics to propose that space and time might be emergent rather than fundamental. But such discussions are often conducted without engagement with those working on fundamentality and related issues in contemporary metaphysics. This volume aims to correct this oversight. The diverse contributions to this volume address topics including the nature of fundamentality, the relation of space and time to quantum entanglement, and space and time in theories of quantum gravity. Only through consideration of a range of different approaches to the topic can we hope to get clear on the status of space and time in our contemporary understanding of physical reality.
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Fisher, Maryanne L. Introduction. Edited by Maryanne L. Fisher. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199376377.013.4.
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The topic of women’s competition has gained recent momentum, as evidenced by the proliferation of articles in the scientific literature. There has been a considerable body of new research highlighting competition in several domains, including access to and retention of mates, access to resources related to mothering, interaction with virtual media, issues faced in the workplace, and engagement with sport and physical activity. The chapters in this volume provide a definitive view on the contemporary state of knowledge regarding women’s competition. The majority of chapters rely on an evolutionary framework; other chapters argue that sociocultural sources shape women’s competition. While the book is primarily about women, some contributors focus on issues faced by adolescent girls, or mention developmental trajectories for young girls through adulthood. It is hoped that the information within this volume will serve as a source of inspiration to help guide future directions for research.
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Wang, Kevin K. W. Neurotrauma. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190279431.001.0001.
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This new book volume, simply titled Neurotrauma, aims to bring together the latest clinical practice and research in the field of two forms of trauma to the central nervous system: namely, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury (SCI). Nationally, more 1.9 million Americans sustain a TBI annually. In parallel, there are an estimated 12,000 new cases of SCI in the United States annually. In addition, approximately 1.2 million people live with paralysis due to SCI. In recent years, dramatic advancements in the field have resulted in much improved outcomes for patients and higher standards of care. This volume brings together the latest research and clinical practice in the treatment of neurotrauma in a comprehensive but easy-to-follow format. Our target readership is intentionally broad. It includes clinicians who are involved in caring for TBI in the emergency room, hospital, or neurointensive care unit or during patient rehabilitation; clinical research professionals; research nurses; and nonclinical academic researchers, such as research professors, research scientists, medical students, graduate students, and nurse specialists, as well as biomedical industry R&D scientists and clinical associates. As editor of this volume, I want all readers to find a chapter or section on almost all aspects related to TBI or SCI. I also hope that they will encounter some areas they might be already familiar with. Yet, at the same time, I hope that they will also discover or rediscover other less familiar areas in neurotrauma that they have always wanted to learn more about. Last, I want to make this volume as layman-like and as easy to follow as possible so that it can also serve as a resource book for TBI or SCI patients or caregivers who want to better educate themselves about these conditions.
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Saklofske, Donald H., Cecil R. Reynolds, and Vicki Schwean, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Child Psychological Assessment. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199796304.001.0001.
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The psychological assessment of children and youth has undergone some of the greatest developments, and those developments are the focus of this Handbook. The volume is organized primarily, but not exclusively, around clinical and psychoeducational assessment issues. It revisits the foundations that underlie current psychological assessment practices. Linked with these foundations are chapters addressing some of the fundamental principles of child assessment that focus on ability, achievement, behavior, and personality. Theory offers guidance in practice when techniques change, new methods are introduced, and new data are presented, as well as when psychologists encounter new presenting issues and circumstances with patients, or when asked new questions by referral sources; some specific examples are provided in the fourth section of this volume. The book hopes to see theory integrated with research and practice to enable readers to view the articles in this book, as well as future publications, not just more profitably but critically as well.
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Fisher, Maryanne L., ed. The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199376377.001.0001.
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The topic of women’s competition has gained significant recent momentum. This book provides direct evidence of this growth and is the first scholarly volume to focus specifically on the topic. In general, the included chapters provide a definitive view of the current state of knowledge regarding women’s competition. Many of the chapters are theoretically grounded in an evolutionary framework, such that the authors investigate the adaptive nature of women’s competitive behavior, motivations, and cognitions. Other chapters rely on a different framework, with these authors instead arguing that sociocultural sources shape women's competition. In addition, while the book is primarily about women, some contributors focus their chapters on issues faced by adolescent girls, or mention developmental trajectories for young girls through to adulthood. Some authors focus on nonhuman females to provide a stronger background for understanding women. It is hoped that the information within this volume will serve as a source of inspiration to help guide future directions for research.
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Lee, Anthony W., ed. Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781942954668.001.0001.
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This book brings Johnson more sharply into focus by casting him amongst an unfamiliar milieu and company; likewise, it is hoped that by bringing Johnson to bear on the various authors and topics gathered, it manages to foreground some aspects of Modernism and its practitioners that would otherwise remain elusively hidden. If it is unlikely that the phrase “Modernity Johnson” will eclipse such better-known appellations as “Dictionary Johnson” and “the Rambler,” this volume suggests that it urges a rethinking of both Johnson and Modernism in ways that are at once compelling, illuminating, and critically productive.
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Papadima-Sophocleous, Salomi, Elis Kakoulli Constantinou, and Christina Nicole Giannikas, eds. Tertiary education language learning: a collection of research. Research-publishing.net, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2021.51.9782490057894.
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Despite the contributions language centres across the globe have made to language education and higher education in general, few publications have a specific focus on research work produced by language centre faculty. The purpose of this reviewed, edited volume entitled Tertiary education language learning: a collection of research, consisting of eight chapters, is to fill some of this gap by giving insights into the type of research conducted in various fields of applied linguistics in a university language centre context. The volume may be of interest to university language centre practitioners and researchers, university policymakers and administrators, general language practitioners, teacher trainers, and university curriculum academic bodies. The editors hope that the present publication will be viewed as a valuable contribution to the literature and a worthy scholarly achievement.
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North, Jill. Time in Thermodynamics. Edited by Craig Callender. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199298204.003.0011.
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It is often claimed, or hoped, that some temporal asymmetries are explained by the thermodynamic asymmetry in time. Thermodynamics, the macroscopic physics of pressure, temperature, volume, and so on, describes many temporally asymmetric processes. Heat flows spontaneously from hot objects to cold objects (in closed systems), never the reverse. More generally, systems spontaneously move from non-equilibrium states to equilibrium states, never the reverse. Delving into the foundations of statistical mechanics, this chapter reviews the many open questions in that field as they relate to temporal asymmetry. Taking a stand on many of them, it tackles questions about the nature of probabilities, the role of boundary conditions, and even the nature and scope of statistical mechanics.
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Frederiksen, Karen-Margrete, Sanne Larsen, Linda Bradley, and Sylvie Thouësny, eds. CALL for widening participation: short papers from EUROCALL 2020. Research-publishing.net, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2020.48.9782490057818.
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Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the EUROCALL society succeeded in holding the 28th EUROCALL conference, EUROCALL2020, on 20-21 August as an online, two-day gathering. The transition process required to make this happen was demanding and insightful for everyone involved, and, in many ways, a logical consequence of the core content and purpose of EUROCALL. Who would be better suited to transform an onsite conference into an online event than EUROCALL? CALL for widening participation was this year’s theme. We welcomed contributions from both theoretical and practical perspectives in relation to the many forms and contexts of CALL. We particularly welcomed longitudinal studies or studies that revisited earlier studies. The academic committee accepted 300 abstracts for paper presentations, symposia, workshops, and posters under this theme; 57 short papers are published in this volume. We hope you will enjoy reading this volume, the first one to reflect a one hundred percent online EUROCALL conference/Online Gathering.
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Béliardis, Yann, and Neville Kirk, eds. Workers of the Empire, Unite. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800859685.001.0001.
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In most studies of British decolonisation, the world of labour is neglected, the key roles being allocated to metropolitan statesmen and native elites. Instead this volume focuses on the role played by working people, their experiences, initiatives and organisations, in the dissolution of the British Empire, both in the metropole and in the colonies. How central was the intervention of the metropolitan Left in the liquidation of the British Empire? Were labour mobilisations in the colonies only stepping stones for bourgeois nationalists? To what extent were British labour activists willing and able to form connections with colonial workers, and vice versa? Here are some of the complex questions on which this volume sheds new light. Though convergences were fragile and temporary, this book recapture the sense of uncertainty that accompanied the final decades of the British Empire, a period when radical minorities hoped that coordinated efforts across borders might lead not only to the destruction of the British Empire but to that of capitalism and imperialism in general. Exploiting rare primary sources and adopting a resolutely transnational approach, our collection makes an original contribution to both labour history and imperial studies.
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Dobreva, Vania, Sarah Hack-Leoni, Andreas Holenstein, Petra Koller, and Rahel Aina Nedi, eds. Neue Arbeitsformen und ihre Herausforderungen im Arbeits- und Sozialversicherungsrecht. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845294643.
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Legislation is lagging behind technical and social developments in the labour market, which is posing new problems in both labour law and social security law. To work full time for only one employer is no longer the norm. However, social security schemes and worker protection regulations are often designed for this model. Furthermore, the change in the world of work towards digitalisation, flexibility and a number of employers or contract providers being on platforms such as Uber, Mechanical Turk etc. means that the existing legal foundations no longer do justice to all employment relationships. The new forms of employment are a challenge for both scholars and practitioners of law. The contributions in this volume, complied from the proceedings at the 8th Research Assistants’ Conference on the Labour and Social Security Laws, which took place in Zurich from 26th to 28th July 2018, are dedicated to these topics. With contributions by Thomas Dullinger, Antje G. I. Tölle, Mathis Böttcher, Michael E. Meier, Christian Haidn, Pauline Kuhn, Katja Chandna-Hoppe, Daniela Krömer, Jan Armin Gärtner, Daniel Holler.
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Guénaël, Mettraux. International Crimes: Law and Practice. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198860099.001.0001.
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The law of international crimes has become increasingly dense over the years, which has rendered the law of international crimes more sophisticated and more complex. This is perhaps most apparent in relation to the law of crimes against humanity. From a single paragraph in Article 6 of the Nuremberg Charter, the law of crimes against humanity has grown into dozens of interacting definitional elements and an extensive body of practice. As part of this development, crimes against humanity have established their own normative identity with a distinctive chapeau or contextual element and a broad range of underlying offences, including discrimination-based crimes, penal translations of what are in effect serious human rights violations, a series of gender-based crimes and a residual offence of ‘other inhuman acts’. The combined effect of a sophisticated body of criminal law, international obligations directed at ensuring accountability and a multiplication of judicial venues competent to adjudicate upon such crimes, carries with it the hope that crimes against humanity could become an effective enforcer of international justice. However, resistance to full and universal accountability for such crimes is still a powerful political reality that undermines the possibility of justice and the institutions that are devoted to it. The present volume hopes to contribute to achieving that goal as the law of crimes against humanity is as important and relevant today as it was when first enforced. As it stands today, that law is a testimony to the efforts of many who have strived to ensure that atrocities should not remain unpunished.
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Stolyarov, Andrey. Programming: an introduction to the profession. In three volumes. Vol.2: Systems and Networks. LLC MAKS Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m1983.978-5-317-06575-1.
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The book is aimed at people who learn programming on their own; it considers a wide range of issues, including introductory information, basic concepts and techniques of programming, the capabilities of the operating system kernel and the principles of its functioning, programming paradigms. It is supposed to use operating systems of the Unix family (including Linux) as an end-to-end working and training environment; a number of programming languages are considered: Pascal, assembly language (NASM), C, C++, Lisp, Scheme, Prolog, Hope and Tcl. The book includes information about the most important Unix system calls, including those for communication over computer networks; an introducton to the ncurses, FLTK and Tcl/Tk libraries is also given. The second volume ("Systems and Networks") starts with the fourth part, devoted to the C programming language; it also includes parts about basic Unix programming (input/output, process manipulation etc.); computer networking; parallel programming and dealing with shared data; basics of kernel internals.
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Pelser, Adam C., and W. Scott Cleveland, eds. Faith and Virtue Formation. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192895349.001.0001.
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The Christian tradition offers a robust and compelling vision of what it is for human life to be lived well. The essays in this volume articulate various aspects of that vision in ways that will deepen understanding of the virtues and virtue formation. These essays will also inspire and guide readers, Christian and non-Christian alike, in their efforts to grow in virtue. Topics addressed include the value of studying the vices for moral formation; the importance of emotion and agency in virtue formation; the connections between certain disabilities and virtue; the roles of divine grace, liturgy, worship, and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit in Christian virtue formation; the formation of infused virtues, including the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love; the roles of friendship and the communal life of the Church in cultivating virtue; and new philosophical and theological reflections on some largely neglected virtues. Exemplifying an interdisciplinary approach, the contributors to this volume draw on philosophical, theological, and biblical wisdom, along with insights from contemporary psychology and rich narrative examples, in aid of becoming good. By providing deeply insightful and edifying reflections on the prospects, processes, and practices of moral and spiritual formation, this volume demonstrates that when it is at its best moral philosophy not only can illuminate, but also can practically guide and inspire the formation of virtue.
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Venzke, Ingo, and Kevin Jon Heller, eds. Contingency in International Law. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898036.001.0001.
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This volume asks a question that is deceptive in its simplicity: Could international law have been otherwise? In other words, what were the past possibilities, if any, for a different law? The search for contingency in international law is often motivated, including in the present volume, by the refusal to accept the present state of affairs and by the hope that recovering possibilities of the past will facilitate a different future. The volume situates the search for contingency theoretically and within many fields of international law, such as human rights and armed conflict, migrants and refugees, the sea and natural resources, and foreign investment and trade. Today there is hardly a serious account that would consider the path of international law to be necessary and that would deny the possibility of a different law altogether. At the same time, however, behind every possibility of the past stands a reason – or reasons – why the law developed as it did. Those who embark in search of contingency soon encounter tensions when they want to recover past possibilities without downplaying patterns of determination and domination. Nevertheless, while warring critical sensibilities may point in different directions, only a keen sense of why things turned out the way they did makes it possible to argue about how they could plausibly have turned out differently.
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Stolyarov, Andrey. Programming: an introduction to the profession. In three volumes. Vol.1: Basics of programming. LLC MAKS Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m1982.978-5-317-06574-4.
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The book is aimed at people who learn programming on their own; it considers a wide range of issues, including introductory information, basic concepts and techniques of programming, the capabilities of the operating system kernel and the principles of its functioning, programming paradigms. It is supposed to use operating systems of the Unix family (including Linux) as an end-to-end working and training environment; a number of programming languages are considered: Pascal, assembly language (NASM), C, C++, Lisp, Scheme, Prolog, Hope and Tcl. The book includes information about the most important Unix system calls, including those for communication over computer networks; an introducton to the ncurses, FLTK and Tcl/Tk libraries is also given. The first volume ("Basics of Programming") includes the introductory part, which contains some historical stuff, basics of the general computer architecture and some mathematics closely related to computer science; the second part, in which the very basics of computer program creation are explained using the Pascal language; and the third part devoted to assembly language programming.
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Stafford, Pauline. Gender and the Gift. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777601.003.0008.
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This chapter responds to Chris’s interest in gifts and giving—and to his recent half-turn linguistically. It aims to fill—or to begin to fill—one of the acknowledged gaps in a recent volume with which he was associated, The Languages of Gift, by looking at marriage and the giving and receiving of women. It underlines some of the things which that volume stressed—notably that gifts are multivocal—and can and do change in meaning contextually, but also that the contextual and changing meaning of the gift is rooted in and constrained by structures—which set that general framework of meaning. This chapter is also concerned with those structures and thus, I hope, responds to Chris’s lifelong concern with the bigger models and heuristic devices which are necessary to our understanding of the past. It will be especially concerned with England—in particular late Anglo-Saxon England. But it will draw on wider material in an attempt to understand that—inspired, once again, by Chris’s constant interest in comparative history.
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Cederlöf, Gunnel, and Mahesh Rangarajan, eds. At Nature's Edge. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199489077.001.0001.
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In an epoch when environmental issues make the headlines, this is a work that goes beyond the everyday. Ecologies as diverse as the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean coast, the Negev desert and the former military bases of Vietnam, or the Namib desert and the east African savannah all have in common a long-time human presence and the many ways people have modified nature. With research in six Asian and African countries, the authors come together to ask how and why human impacts on nature have grown in scale and pace from a long pre-history. The chapters in this volume illumine specific patterns and responses across time, going beyond an overt centring of the European experience. The tapestry of life and the human reshaping of environments evoke both concern and hope, making it vital to understand when, why, and how we came to this particular turn in the road. Eschewing easy labels and questioning eurocentrism in today’s climate vocabulary, this is a volume that will stimulate rethinking among scholars and citizens alike.
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Meunier, Fanny, Julie Van de Vyver, Linda Bradley, and Sylvie Thouësny. CALL and complexity – short papers from EUROCALL 2019. Research-publishing.net, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2019.38.9782490057542.
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The theme selected for the 2019 EuroCALL conference held in Louvain-la-Neuve was ‘CALL and complexity’. As languages are known to be intrinsically and linguistically complex, as are the many determinants of learning (additional) languages, complexity is viewed as a challenge to be embraced collectively. The 2019 conference allowed us to pay tribute to providers of CALL solutions and to recognize the complexity of their task. We hope you will enjoy reading this volume as it offers a rich glimpse into the numerous debates that took place during EuroCALL 2019. We look forward to continuing those debates and discussions with you at the next EuroCALL conferences!
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Destrée, Pierre, and Franco V. Trivigno, eds. Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190460549.001.0001.
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Ancient philosophers were very interested in the themes of laughter, humor, and comedy. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the appropriate uses of humor and what it is appropriate to laugh at, and wrote treatises on comedic composition. Further, they were often merciless in ridiculing their opponents’ positions, often borrowing comedic devices and techniques from comic poetry and drama to do so. The volume is organized around three themes or sets of questions. The first set concerns the psychology of laughter. What is going on in our minds when we laugh? What background conditions must be in place for laughter to occur? Is laughter necessarily hostile or derisive? The second set of questions concerns the ethical and social norms governing laughter and humor. When is it appropriate or inappropriate to laugh? Does laughter have a positive social function? Is there a virtue, or excellence, connected to laugher and humor? The third set of questions concerns the philosophical uses of humor and comedic technique. Do philosophers use humor exclusively in criticizing other rivals, or can it play a positive educational role as well? If it can, how does philosophical humor communicate its philosophical content? This volume aims not to settle these fascinating questions but more modestly to start a conversation about them, in the hope that the volume will be both a reference point for discussions of laughter, humor, and comedy in ancient philosophy and an engine for future research about them.
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Babar, Zahra, ed. Mobility and Forced Displacement in the Middle East. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197531365.001.0001.
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The Middle East is currently facing one of its most critical migration challenges, as the region has become the simultaneous producer of and host to the world’s largest population of displaced people. As a result of ongoing conflicts, particularly in Syria, Libya, Iraq, and Yemen, there have been sharp increases in the numbers of the internally displaced, forced migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers. Despite the burgeoning degree of policy interest and heated public discourse on the impact of these refugees on European states, most of these dislocated populations are living within the borders of the Middle East.This volume is the outcome of a grants-based project to support in-depth, empirically based examinations of mobility and displacement within the Middle East and to gain a fuller understanding of the forms, causes, dimensions, patterns, and effects of migration, both voluntary and forced. As the following chapters in this volume will demonstrate, through this series of case studies we are seeking to broaden our understanding of the population movements that are seen in the Middle East and hope to emphasize that regional migration is a complex, widespread, and persistent phenomenon in the region, best studied from a multidisciplinary perspective. This volume explores the conditions, causes, and consequences of ongoing population displacements in the Middle East. In doing so, it also serves as a lens to better understand some of the profound social, economic, and political dynamics at work across the region.
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Logue, Heather, and Louise Richardson, eds. Purpose and Procedure in Philosophy of Perception. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198853534.001.0001.
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Contemporary philosophy of perception is dominated by extremely polarized debates. The polarization is particularly acute in the debate between naïve realist disjunctivists and their opponents, but divisions seem almost as stark in other areas of dispute (for example, the debate over whether we experience so-called ‘high-level’ properties, and the debate concerning individuation of the senses). The guiding hypothesis underlying this volume is that such polarization stems from insufficient attention to how we should go about settling these debates. In general, there is widespread, largely implicit disagreement concerning what philosophical theories of perception are supposed to explain, the claims that we should hold fixed in the course of theorizing, and the methods that such theorizing should employ. The goal of this volume is to move such methodological questions from the background to the fore, in the hope of facilitating progress. The contributions constitute an initial effort to spur more explicit, systematic discussion of methodology in philosophy of perception. They cover a wide range of relevant topics, from the relation between scientific and philosophical theorizing about perception, to lessons we can learn from the history of philosophy of perception.
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Hagley, Eric, and Yi’an Wang, eds. Virtual exchange in the Asia-Pacific: research and practice. Research-publishing.net, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2020.47.9782490057788.
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Virtual Exchange (VE) is of great import to language and culture teachers and researchers but is also gaining popularity in other fields. However, around the world and in the Asia-Pacific region in particular, the number of exchanges is not high and the quality of those that exist needs to continue to improve. It is essential that the latest research and best practice can be disseminated to ensure VE develops further. In this edited volume, various researchers and practitioners provide firsthand perspectives, well-researched accounts of current situations, ideas for future exchanges, and areas in need of further development. We hope it will be of use to the VE practitioner and researcher alike.
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Brooks, Thom, and Sebastian Stein. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198778165.003.0001.
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This collection is dedicated to questions surrounding Hegel’s philosophical method and its relationship to the conclusions of his political philosophy. It contributes to the debate about the importance of a systematic context for political philosophy, and the relationship between theoretical and practical philosophy. It also engages with contemporary discussions about the shape of a rational social order and gauges the timeliness of Hegel’s way of thinking. The chapters do not approach the topic of the relationship between Hegel’s method and system with his political philosophy from the same perspective—nor do they reach the same conclusions. But they suggest that greater attention can and should be paid to how Hegel’s political philosophy relates to his larger philosophical enterprise. It is hoped that this volume will enliven a wider debate about the importance of Hegel’s system for understanding his philosophy as a fruitful site for future research.
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Stratigakos, Despina, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Katherine L. French, Amanda Flather, Clive Edwards, Jane Hamlett, Despina Stratigakos, and Joanne Berry, eds. A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474207188.
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In the last century, our understandings of home have changed profoundly in the wake of revolutionary new technologies and communications, medical advances, global wars and migration, celebrity and consumer cultures, liberation movements, and redefinitions of marriage and family. The rapidity of social transformation in this era has evoked feelings of possibility in the disruption of norms, but also of unease in the dissolution of traditions. These changes have also challenged dominant ideologies of private and public spheres and revealed the porous boundaries between home and the world beyond. The essays in this volume explore the home’s centrality in debates since the end of the First World War about our identities, resources, hopes, and anxieties as individuals and communities. In their analyses of the complexity and elusiveness of meanings of home, the physical materiality of the home – its objects, spaces, and layout – comes under close scrutiny.
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Barrow, John. Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, in the Years 1797 and 1798 2 Volume Set: Including Cursory Observations on the Geology and Geography of the Southern Part of that Continent. University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, 2011.
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Croson, Rachel, and Gary E. Bolton, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Economic Conflict Resolution. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199730858.001.0001.
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Individuals, groups, and societies all experience conflict, and attempt to resolve it in numerous ways. The Oxford Handbook of Economic Conflict Resolution brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to offer perspectives on the current state and future challenges in negotiation and conflict resolution. It aims to act as an aid in identifying new research topics. It hopes also to provide a guide to current debates and identify complementarities between approaches taken by different disciplines and the insights which those approaches generate. Leading researchers from the fields of economics, psychology, organizational behavior, policy, and other fields have contributed articles. The volume is organized to juxtapose purposefully contributions from different fields to enable cross-fertilization between the disciplines and to generate new and creative approaches to studying the topic. These articles provide a lens into current scholarship, and a window into the potential future of this field. The confluence of research perspectives represented here aims to identify further synergies and advances in the understanding of conflict resolution.
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Steketee, Gail, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Obsessive Compulsive and Spectrum Disorders. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195376210.001.0001.
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The Oxford Handbook of Obsessive Compulsive and Spectrum Disorders reviews current literature on obsessive compulsive disorder and its associated spectrum conditions—body dysmorphic disorder, hoarding, trichotillomania, tic disorders, and Tourette’s Syndrome. Articles summarize and synthesize current findings, providing an authoritative guide for practice and research in this unique subject area. With sections dedicated to phenomenology and epidemiology, biological features, genetic factors, neurological features, and cognitive processing models for understanding how people with OCD and spectrum conditions respond to information. Articles then examine family and social relationships and personality features, and how these factors can affect an individual with an OC spectrum disorder, especially older adults, children, and adolescents. Theoretical models for understanding these disorders and newer experimental therapies for treating them are also presented. A final article examines some of the most challenging research issues and understudied aspects of these psychiatric problems, especially hoarding, with hopes that this volume will encourage original research.
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Benedek, David M., and Gary H. Wynn. Toward a More Comprehensive Approach to the Management of PTSD. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190205959.003.0016.
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In this volume, after a brief discussion of the phenomenology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the current guidelines and clinical consensus surrounding treatment, and the limitations of available treatment supported by sufficient evidence necessary to receive endorsement in practice guidelines, emerging treatments were described that demonstrate varying degrees of promise for relieving the suffering associated with PTSD. Both clinical experience and the most current practice guidelines support the notion that successful treatment requires a partnership between patient and provider, and a concerted effort by the clinician to “meet the patient where he or she is at” in terms of treatment approaches. Therefore, we hope the modalities described in this book encourage creative treatment approaches tailored to individual patient needs and desires based on a mutual understanding of the potential benefits and limitations of available alternatives.
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Garling, Tommy, and Gary W. Evans, eds. Environment, Cognition, and Action. Oxford University Press, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195062205.001.0001.
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How do human beings comprehend, evaluate, and utilize the physical environments they inhabit? In this edited volume, a distinguished group of international contributors examines in detail the interconnections between what we know about, feel, and hope to accomplish in real world environments. Psychologists, planners, architects, and geographers discuss the state of knowledge in environmental cognition, building and landscape assessment, aesthetics, and decision-making. Gaps in our thinking about environmental issues are also discussed. The authors present an analysis of how our knowledge can be utilized in the design and planning of settings better suited to human needs. Of interest to psychologists, geographers, and environmental designers, Environment, Cognition, and Action examines the dynamic interplay of assessment, knowledge, and action of people in all settings relevant to daily life -- home, school, office and industry.