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Funology 2: From Usability to Enjoyment (Human–Computer Interaction Series)
by Mark Blythe Andrew MonkHow should we understand and design for fun as a User Experience? This new edition of a classic book is for students, designers and researchers who want to deepen their understanding of fun in the context of HCI. The 2003 edition was the first book to do this and has been influential in broadening the field. It is the most downloaded book in the Springer HCI Series. This edition adds 14 new chapters that go well beyond the topics considered in 2003. New chapter topics include: online dating, interactive rides, wellbeing, somaesthetics, design fiction, critical design and participatory design methods. The first edition chapters are also reprinted, with new notes by their authors setting the context in which the 2003 chapter was written and explaining the developments since then. Taken with the new chapters this adds up to a total of 35 theoretical and practical chapters written by the most influential thinkers from academia and industry in this field.
Fur-ever Yours, Booker Jones
by Betsy DuffeyTwelve-year-old Booker Jones turns to his writing once again to deal with the stress of his parents' decision to vacation together, leaving family and laundry behind.
Furman University (The Campus History Series)
by Courtney L. TollisonFounded in 1826 by a group of South Carolina Baptist Convention leaders, Furman Academy and Theological Institution was named after Richard Furman, the first president of the first national gathering of Baptists in the United States. Furman currently resides several miles north of Greenville, as it has since the 1950s, though it has changed locations and names several times since its founding and disaffiliated from the Baptist Convention in 1992. Well known for its beautiful campus, impressive academics, and successful alums, Furman is one of the top 50 liberal arts colleges in the country and was ranked fourth in the country in U.S. News and World Report's "Undergraduate Research" category.
Furniture Design, second edition: An Introduction to Development, Materials and Manufacturing
by Stuart LawsonA unique and comprehensive resource for student and professional furniture designers, providing in-depth answers to their questions about aesthetics, function, materials, manufacturing and sustainability. In this second edition Stuart Lawson emphasizes the principles of a circular economy and what this means for furnituredesign and consumption. He considers the latest technological developments such as 3-D printing and the use of innovative materials such as bioplastics. He also examines the capabilities and potential of CAD-based design optimization, AI and machine learning-driven generative design processes.The book features case studies on pioneering, contemporary and historical designers and includes an illustrated directory of materials and manufacturing processes.
Furniture Design, second edition: An Introduction to Development, Materials and Manufacturing
by Stuart LawsonA unique and comprehensive resource for student and professional furniture designers, providing in-depth answers to their questions about aesthetics, function, materials, manufacturing and sustainability. In this second edition Stuart Lawson emphasizes the principles of a circular economy and what this means for furnituredesign and consumption. He considers the latest technological developments such as 3-D printing and the use of innovative materials such as bioplastics. He also examines the capabilities and potential of CAD-based design optimization, AI and machine learning-driven generative design processes.The book features case studies on pioneering, contemporary and historical designers and includes an illustrated directory of materials and manufacturing processes.
Furniture Maintainer's Helper: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series)
by National Learning CorporationThe Furniture Maintainer's Helper Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam.
Furniture Maintainer: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series)
by National Learning CorporationThe Furniture Maintainer Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam.
Furries Furever: Draw and Color Anthro Characters in a Variety of Styles
by Jared Hodges Lindsay CibosDraw Fascinating Furries! There's so much to explore in the world of furries, from flamboyant costumes to spectacular hair styles to unforgettable expressions and poses--it's all here! The authors of Draw Furries and Draw More Furries have taken drawing these fantastical creatures to a whole other level--covering all of the bases. Immerse yourself in multiple easy-to-draw lessons and discover different coloring techniques, learn how to create realistic fur and scales and develop the skills to go about creating your own personal fursona! The possibilities are limitless when making these amazing anthropomorphic characters, so join Lindsay and Jared as they take you to the next level of your furtastic journey! Jam-packed with 25 step-by-step demonstrations to help you create a wide array of furries, ranging from slinky scalies to a modern day sphinx Loaded with a variety of different styles and techniques from contributing artists as they take you on a journey through their artistic processes Learn how to create a furry from start to finish, delving deeper into designing a personal wardrobe, exploring the perfect background for your characters and so much more
Further Education Re-formed
by Alan Smithers Pamela RobinsonAfter more than a century of being undervalued, further education has been thrust into the limelight. How have the colleges fared? How have they been shaped by the new arrangements for funding, governance, inspection and the new qualifications framework? What do those running the colleges and working in them make of the changes? What are their prospects for the new millennium? Further Education Reformed is the definitive account of where further education has got to and where it might be heading. Containing specifically commissioned papers by some of the most respected academics currently working in the field of further education, this book draws the situation as it is now and looks forward to the developments of the coming years. It will be vital reading for anyone concerned with further education in particular, and education in general, whether as a policy-maker, governor, manager, teacher, employer or student.
Further Education in England and Wales (Routledge Revivals)
by Leonard M. Cantor I. F. RobertsFirst published in 1972, this second edition of Further Education in England and Wales was written to provide a comprehensive account of the character and extent of further education in England and Wales. The book critically analyses the major features of further education at the time of publication, and suggests ways in which it might profitably develop in the years ahead. It provides an important account of the post-war historical background to further education, and examines in detail topics such as the role of polytechnics and the work of the Council for National Academic Awards; the educational implications of the Industrial Training Act; developments in education for business and management; and, the changing pattern of education for art and design. The book also considers the training of teachers for further education, and further education in Wales.
Further Education, Professional and Occupational Pedagogy: Knowledge and Experiences (Routledge Research in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education)
by Sai LooThe further education (and skills) sector in England has been viewed as a backwater of educational research compared to the other sectors. This comparative lack of research and related publications may be due in part to the huge diversity of the sector. Further Education, Professional and Occupational Pedagogy addresses some of the gaps by bringing together empirical research and theoretical frameworks to give a coherent understanding of the sector, emphasising the occupational experiences of deliverers, alongside their pedagogic and life experiences. This book also includes investigations on the education of professionals in the higher education sector. The overall theme of this book relates to the teaching and learning of work-related provisions in further and higher education. The book covers topics such as FE teachers' emotional ecology, their professional identities, a systematic literature review of FE teachers' professional identities, a reconceptualisation of widening participation from a teaching perspective, pedagogic implications of teachers in professional education, and curriculum formation of creative professionals in higher education. This book will be vital reading for researchers and academics in the fields of professional learning, teacher training and education, and vocational and occupational education. It will also appeal to policy-makers, teacher educators and education professionals.
Further Language Learning in Linguistic and Cultural Diverse Contexts: A Mixed Methods Research in a European Border Region (Routledge Research in Language Education)
by Barbara GrossFurther Language Learning in Linguistic and Cultural Diverse Contexts deals with the interdisciplinary area of multilingual and intercultural education and the increasing interest in sociolinguistic and sociocultural aspects of further language learning. It presents the individual, family, scholastic, and extra-scholastic circumstances that promote or limit language learning and its outcomes among young learners of a further language. The intertwined, dynamic interrelationship between intercultural and language learning at primary school is shown by means of the European border region South Tyrol that is characteristic for its linguistic and cultural diversity and serves to demonstrate authentic benefits, challenges, and difficulties in hyper complex and super-diverse contexts. The book analyzes experiences and perceptions as reported by primary school teachers, children, and parents, considering the impact of many factors on further language learning, including school organization, extra curricular activities, and self-initiated encounter pedagogy. Further Language Learning in Linguistic and Cultural Diverse Contexts will be vital reading for academics, researchers, and post-graduate students in the fields of education, language learning, sociolinguistics, interculturalism, and super-diversity.
Further Perspectives on Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective: Process, Playfulness, Rights-based and Critical Reflection (Advances in Playwork Research)
by Pete KingBuilding on the success of the first volume of Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective, this book further develops the crucial research of playwork as an emerging and unique discipline. The first volume explored how an understanding of playwork theory and practice can inform research into children’s play. From the seven contributors, four common themes to researching play from a playwork perspective were identified: rights-based; process, critical reflection and playfulness. This second volume aims to explore these four factors from two angles. The first considers how four more playworkers have researched play in four different contexts: prison, gender and toys, in Dutch play provision, and in the area of autism. In the second part of the book, the four pillars of playwork research are explored by academics from other disciplines with an interest in playwork research. This will be of great interest to researchers and upper-level students in the fields of playwork, childcare, early years, education, psychology and children’s rights. It will also appeal to practitioners in a wide variety of professional contexts, including childcare and therapy.
Further Techniques for Coaching and Mentoring
by David Clutterbuck David MegginsonBuilding on the success of companion volume Techniques for Coaching and Mentoring, this new volume from coaching gurus David Clutterbuck and David Megginson is a practical, pragmatic guide to the knowledge and techniques you need for successful coaching and mentoring.Rather than adopting a particular school of coaching or mentoring, the authors pick the best from a range of models and frameworks that have developed since the first book published to help you enrich your practice. Further Techniques also features a new structure to make it more reader-friendly, with Part 1 putting the techniques into context, Part 2 covering the frameworks in eight contributed chapters and Part 3 including broader chapters that focus in on techniques for the client, techniques for the coach/mentor and techniques for working on the relationship between coach/mentor and client.A selection of leading figures in the field contribute their techniques and models to the framework chapters in Part 2, taking you through the necessary principles and offering practical advice for newcomers and seasoned professionals alike.Offering a wide portfolio of approaches for helping and developing others, this book is an invaluable resource for all coaches and mentors and a must read for anyone wanting to learn more about one-to-one coaching and mentoring.Edited by David Megginson and David Clutterbuck. Contributors: Gladeana McMahon, Marion Gillie, Daniel Doherty, Megan Reitz, Alan Sieler, John Groom and Vivien Whitaker.
Further Wellness Issues for Higher Education: How to Promote Student Health During and After College
by David S. AndersonThis essential resource addresses a range of student wellness issues confronting professionals in college and university settings. Building on Wellness Issues for Higher Education, this latest volume comprehensively covers key topics that not only contribute to students’ success in college, but also help students maintain wellness after graduation. Taking a holistic perspective of wellness, coverage includes numerous issues, including body image, time management, financial wellness, dependence and recovery issues, career planning, and civic engagement. It also addresses ways of organizing campus efforts on wellness. Each topical chapter includes proactive wellness advice and prepares the reader to better understand the facts, issues, controversies, misconceptions, and strategies for addressing the issue. This practical guide prepares higher education and student affairs professionals to understand the wellness and health issues contributing to their students’ overall well-being both during and after college.
Future 2 Student Book With App
by Sarah LynnSince it was first published, Future has helped over half a million students learn English and achieve their personal, career, and educational goals. Now in its second edition, this effective six-level program continues to address the diverse needs of adult learners, equipping them with transferrable academic, workplace, and English communication skills. Future, Second Edition supports the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) goals and helps students develop the skills outlined in the College and Career Readiness Standards and the English Language Proficiency Standards. New to this edition - Updated content exposes students to language and concepts used in workplace, school, and community settings. - More workplace vocabulary and skills, and functional language prepare learners for career success. - New content-rich readings with level-appropriate text complexity build content knowledge, introduce academic vocabulary, and require learners to analyze text and cite evidence to extend their learning. - New writing lessons focus on analyzing models, brainstorming, organizing ideas, and synthesizing unit learning into well-organized writing outcomes. - New Soft Skills at Work lessons help learners develop essential social and cultural skills, critical to career advancement and success. - Increased rigor built into all lessons at every level challenges learners to analyze, evaluate, predict, infer, and problem-solve. - Enhanced unit goals and lesson objectives ensure learners track and reflect on their own progress. Other highlights - Latest digital tools help develop students’ digital skills. - Research-based teaching strategies provide creative solutions for all stages of lesson planning and implementation. - Comprehensive digital and print resources for teachers enhance classroom instruction and simplify lesson planning. - Correlations to standards guide and support teachers in aligning their instruction with current standards. - Mapped to the Global Scale of English.
Future Alternatives for Educational Leadership: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Democracy
by Deborah M. NetolickyThis book offers provocations for what’s now and what’s next in educational leadership, simultaneously bringing the field both back to its basics—of equity, democracy, humanity, and education for all—and forward to productive, innovative, and necessary possibilities. Written during the pandemic reality of 2020, this collection shares the global voices and expertise of prominent and emerging leaders, scholars, and practitioners in education from the UK, the United States, South America, Canada, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East. The authors engage with the complexities and uncertainties of leading in education. They examine research, reflections, and real stories from which school leaders, education system leaders, policymakers, and researchers in the field of educational leadership, can learn, and in which they will find honesty, authority, and inspiration to guide the future of the field. The new perspectives and hopeful alternatives presented in this outstanding book are essential to researchers, school leaders, and policymakers, and are key to advancing education into positive and democratic futures.
Future Data and Security Engineering. Big Data, Security and Privacy, Smart City and Industry 4.0 Applications: 10th International Conference, FDSE 2023, Da Nang, Vietnam, November 22–24, 2023, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1925)
by Josef Küng Tran Khanh Dang Tai M. ChungThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering. Big Data, Security and Privacy, Smart City and Industry 4.0 Applications, FDSE 2023, held in Da Nang, Vietnam, during November 22–24, 2023.The 38 full papers and 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: big data analytics and distributed systems; security and privacy engineering; machine learning and artificial intelligence for security and privacy; smart city and industry 4.0 applications; data analytics and healthcare systems; and short papers: security and data engineering.
Future Data and Security Engineering. Big Data, Security and Privacy, Smart City and Industry 4.0 Applications: 11th International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering, FDSE 2024, Binh Duong, Vietnam, November 27–29, 2024, Proceedings, Part I (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2309)
by Josef Küng Tran Khanh Dang Tai M. ChungThis two-volume set CCIS 2309-2310 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering. Big Data, Security and Privacy, Smart City and Industry 4.0 Applications, FDSE 2024, held in Binh Duong, Vietnam, during November 27–29, 2024. The 44 full papers, 12 short papers and 1 keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 189 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: advances in machine learning for big data analytics; security and privacy engineering; data analytics and healthcare systems; smart city and industry 4.0 applications; big data query processing and optimization; and short papers; security and data engineering.
Future Data and Security Engineering. Big Data, Security and Privacy, Smart City and Industry 4.0 Applications: 11th International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering, FDSE 2024, Binh Duong, Vietnam, November 27–29, 2024, Proceedings, Part II (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2310)
by Josef Küng Tran Khanh Dang Tai M. ChungThis two-volume set CCIS 2309-2310 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering. Big Data, Security and Privacy, Smart City and Industry 4.0 Applications, FDSE 2024, held in Binh Duong, Vietnam, during November 27–29, 2024. The 44 full papers, 12 short papers and 1 keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 189 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: advances in machine learning for big data analytics; security and privacy engineering; data analytics and healthcare systems; smart city and industry 4.0 applications; big data query processing and optimization; and short papers; security and data engineering.
Future Data and Security Engineering. Big Data, Security and Privacy, Smart City and Industry 4.0 Applications: 8th International Conference, FDSE 2021, Virtual Event, November 24–26, 2021, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1500)
by Josef Küng Tran Khanh Dang Makoto Takizawa Tai M. ChungThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering, FDSE 2021, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in November 2021.*The 28 full papers and 8 short were carefully reviewed and selected from 168 submissions. The selected papers are organized into the following topical headings: big data analytics and distributed systems; security and privacy engineering; industry 4.0 and smart city: data analytics and security; blockchain and access control; data analytics and healthcare systems; and short papers: security and data engineering.* The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Future Data and Security Engineering. Big Data, Security and Privacy, Smart City and Industry 4.0 Applications: 9th International Conference, FDSE 2022, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, November 23–25, 2022, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1688)
by Josef Küng Tran Khanh Dang Tai M. ChungThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering, FDSE 2022, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, during November 23–25, 2022. The 41 full papers(including 4 invited keynotes) and 12 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 170 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: invited keynotes; big data analytics and distributed systems; security and privacy engineering; machine learning and artificial intelligence for security and privacy; smart city and industry 4.0 applications; data analytics and healthcare systems; and security and data engineering.
Future Directions for Inclusive Teacher Education: An International Perspective
by Chris ForlinAre teachers ready for inclusion? What is appropriate teacher education? Traditional approaches to inclusive education focused on learners with disabilities. Modern approaches, however, conceptualise inclusion in terms of providing educational equity and equality of access for all students within the same regular school system. Future Directions for Inclusive Teacher Education provides a wealth of ideas about how to support teachers to become inclusive through the application of positive training approaches. Written by some of the most influential internationally acknowledged experts in teacher education for inclusion and highly experienced researchers, together the authors provide a plethora of ideas for teacher educators to ensure that their training is pertinent, accessible, and futures-orientated. This up to date and accessible book combines three key areas related to teacher education for inclusion, which provide: A review of what is happening across the globe by offering examples from different regions; Preparation for teachers to support learners with a range of diverse needs including disability, poverty, ethnicity, gender, cultural diversity, learning disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder, sensory impairments and those who are considered gifted and talented; A consideration of systemic approaches, policy, and partnerships, and how these can be better employed in the future. This highly topical text will support all teaching professionals, educational systems, and schools in their transformation of inclusive teacher education.
Future Directions of Educational Change: Social Justice, Professional Capital, and Systems Change
by Helen Janc Malone Santiago Rincón-Gallardo Kristin KewFuture Directions of Educational Change brings together timely discussions on social justice, professional capital, and systems change from some of the leading scholars in the field of education. Engaging in theory and evidence-based debates covering issues such as literacy education, whole system reform, and teacher leadership, this volume argues that quality and equity are equally important in reshaping existing education systems both within the United States and globally. The authors offer contextual analyses of current educational research and practice while looking toward the future and offering thought-provoking arguments for challenging and rectifying the systemic inequalities within education today.
Future Drivers of Growth in Rwanda: Innovation, Integration, Agglomeration, and Competition
by The World Bank;Government of RwandaA strong and widely acknowledged record of economic success-including a three-and-a-half-fold increase in per capita income since 1994--places Rwanda among the world’s fastest--growing economies. Traumatic memories of the 1994 genocide are gradually fading, as associations begin to take a more positive form--of a nation on the rise, powered by human resilience, a sense of common purpose, and a purposeful government. Past successes and a sense of frailty have fueled aspirations for a secure, prosperous, and modern future. Sustaining high rates of economic growth is at the heart of these ambitions. Recent formulations of the nation’s Vision 2050 set a target of achieving upper-middle-income status by 2035 and high-income status by 2050. Future Drivers of Growth in Rwanda: Innovation, Integration, Agglomeration, and Competition, a joint undertaking by experts from Rwanda and the World Bank Group, evaluates the country’s possibilities and options in this endeavor. The report identifies four essential drivers of growth--innovation, integration, agglomeration, and competition--and reforms in six priority areas: human capital development, export dynamism and regional integration, well-managed urbanization, competitive domestic enterprises, agricultural modernization, and capable and accountable public institutions.