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Community-Based Monitoring Initiatives of Water and Environment: Evaluation of Establishment Dynamics and Results (IHE Delft PhD Thesis Series)
by Mohammad GharesifardCitizen participation in water and environmental management via community-based monitoring (CBM) has been praised for the potential to facilitate better informed, more inclusive, transparent, and representative decision making. However, methodological and empirical research trying to conceptualize and evaluate the dynamics at play that might enable or hinder these initiatives from delivering on their potential is limited. This research contributed to the conceptualization of CBMs through development of a conceptual framework that is suitable for Context analysis, Process evaluation and Impact assessment of CBMs – the CPI Framework. This conceptualization provides an interpretation of what 'community' means in the context of a CBM initiative. In addition, this research contributed to the existing empirical knowledge about the establishment, functioning and outcomes of CBMs by testing the CPI Framework for studying two real life CBMs throughout the lifetime of an EU-funded project - the Ground Truth 2.0. The first CBM is called Grip op Water Altena that focuses on the issue of pluvial floods in 'Land van Heusden en Altena' of the Netherlands. The second CBM is Maasai Mara Citizen Observatory and aims at contributing to a better balance between biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihood management in the Mara ecosystem in Kenya.
Community Based System Dynamics
by Peter S. HovmandCommunity Based System Dynamics introduces researchers and practitioners to the design and application of participatory systems modeling with diverse communities. The book bridges community- based participatory research methods and rigorous computational modeling approaches to understanding communities as complex systems. It emphasizes the importance of community involvement both to understand the underlying system and to aid in implementation. Comprehensive in its scope, the volume includes topics that span the entire process of participatory systems modeling, from the initial engagement and conceptualization of community issues to model building, analysis, and project evaluation. Community Based System Dynamics is a highly valuable resource for anyone interested in helping to advance social justice using system dynamics, community involvement, and group model building, and helping to make communities a better place.
Community, Culture, Commerce: The Intermediary in Design and Creative Industries
by Jock McQueenie Marcus Foth Greg HearnAs digital environments become increasingly individualised, instant, ubiquitous, and disintermediated, this book demonstrates the continuing relevance of intermediaries at the intersection of design, creativity, community engagement, and corporate social responsibility. The authors examine intermediaries as enablers of mutual benefit and offer a proactive, interventionist, and holistic approach to intermediation practice that steps beyond design thinking. By means of case studies that employ the 3C project design methodology—Community, Culture, Commerce—the authors provide an accessible introduction to intermediation at the nexus of theory and practice and signpost new opportunities for researchers and practitioners in the post-COVID environment.
Community Disaster Recovery and Resiliency: Exploring Global Opportunities and Challenges
by DeMond Shondell Miller Jason David RiveraOnce again nature‘s fury has taken a toll in pain, suffering, and lives lost. In recognition of the need for a rapid and appropriate response, CRC Press will donate $5 to the American Red Cross for every copy of Community Disaster Recovery and Resiliency: Exploring Global Opportunities and Challenges sold. In the past, societies would learn from di
Community Ecology: Processes, Models, And Applications (Coursesmart Ser.)
by Peter J. MorinAll life on earth occurs in natural assemblages called communities. Community ecology is the study of patterns and processes involving these collections of two or more species. Communities are typically studied using a diversity of techniques, including observations of natural history, statistical descriptions of natural patterns, laboratory and field experiments, and mathematical modelling. Community patterns arise from a complex assortment of processes including competition, predation, mutualism, indirect effects, habitat selection, which result in the most complex biological entities on earth – including iconic systems such as rain forests and coral reefs. This book introduces the reader to a balanced coverage of concepts and theories central to community ecology, using examples drawn from terrestrial, freshwater, and marine systems, and focusing on animal, plant, and microbial species. The historical development of key concepts is described using descriptions of classic studies, while examples of exciting new developments in recent studies are used to point toward future advances in our understanding of community organization. Throughout, there is an emphasis on the crucial interplay between observations, experiments, and mathematical models. This second updated edition is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and established scientists who seek a broad overview of community ecology. The book has developed from a course in community ecology that has been taught by the author since 1983. Figures and tables can be downloaded for free from www.wiley.com/go/morin/communityecology
Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions: Experiences from Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique
by Vanesa Castán BrotoThis open access book engages with the difficulties of delivering community energy in practice, building on practical experiences in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Mozambique. In these countries, where many people lack access to electricity, community energy is an alternative to advance universal energy access. This book argues that, besides providing access, community energy is essential for achieving justice and resilience in sustainable energy transitions. Community energy combines off-grid infrastructures with innovative forms of governance to incorporate the perspectives of beneficiaries in the generation and distribution of electricity. Community energy has multiple benefits for communities, such as facilitating the adoption of renewable technologies, providing energy access where it is lacking, and building resilience. They also offer societal benefits beyond beneficiary communities, such as providing additional capacity to existing grids, delivering off-grid services where the grid is absent, and bridging on-grid and off-grid systems. Despite its promises, however, the adoption of community energy has been slow. This book presents a feminist-informed perspective on community energy to advance energy justice that puts disadvantaged communities at the centre of sustainable energy transitions. It also explores the room for manoeuvre within existing regulatory systems, supply chains, and delivery systems to facilitate its development. By engaging with existing experiences in community energy, the book demonstrates the potential of communities to gain control over their energy needs and resources and argues for the need to develop a wide range of transdisciplinary skills among policymakers, technicians and communities to deliver a just energy transition.
Community Energy Networks With Storage: Modeling Frameworks for Distributed Generation (Green Energy and Technology)
by Kaveh Rajab Khalilpour Anthony VassalloThis book addresses the problem of building an optimal community energy network in a decentralized distributed energy context. The book introduces a few novel modeling frameworks to assist a single customer or a community of multiple end-user customers in building their optimal electricity system/network and operating their own local energy system. The content of the book is suitable for students, academics and industrial practitioners studying or working in the area of energy management and smart grid energy networks.
Community Engagement for Sustainable Practices in Higher Education: From Awareness to Action
by Prabhat Mittal Rachna BansalThis book provides a deeper understanding of the concept of community engagement in higher education, encompassing crucial aspects such as stakeholder involvement, collaboration, community organization, and mobilization. It highlights the pivotal role of student engagement in promoting sustainable practices within higher education. The book goes beyond theory by showcasing real-world case studies and best practices from various institutions on successful student-led sustainability projects, campaigns, and initiatives. Furthermore, it uniquely highlights students' efforts in digitalizing communities, reflecting the relevance of technology in modern sustainability practices. It offers actionable insights to effectively engage students and empower them to translate their passion for sustainability into tangible actions. In doing so, the book equips readers to bridge the awareness-action gap, empowering students to implement sustainability practices in real life.
Community, Environment and Local Governance in Indonesia: Locating the commonweal (Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series)
by Carol Warren John F. McCarthyThis book explores the forces reconfiguring local resource governance in Indonesia since 1998, drawing together original field research undertaken in a decade of dramatic political change. Case studies from across Indonesia’s diverse cultural and ecological landscapes focus on the most significant resource sectors – agriculture, fisheries, forestry, mining and tourism –providing a rare in-depth view of the dynamics shaping social and environmental outcomes in these varied contexts. Debates surrounding the ‘tragedy of the commons’ and environmental governance have focused on institutional considerations of how to craft resource management arrangements in order to further the policy objectives of economic efficiency, social equity and environmental sustainability. The studies in this volume reveal the complexity of resource security issues affecting local communities and user groups in Indonesia as they engage with wider institutional frameworks in a context driven simultaneously by decentralizing and globalizing forces. Through ground up investigations of how local groups with different cultural backgrounds and resource bases are responding to the greater autonomy afforded by Indonesia’s new political constellation, the authors appraise the prospects for rearticulating governance regimes toward a more equitable and sustainable ’commonweal’. This volume offers valuable insights into questions of import to scholars as well as policy-makers concerned with decentralized governance and sustainable resource management.
Community Food Initiatives: A Critical Reparative Approach (Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment)
by Oona Morrow Esther Veen Stefan WahlenThis book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations, and contestations. While community food initiatives aim to tackle issues like food security, food waste, or food poverty, it is a cause for concern for many when they are framed as the next big "solution" to the problems of the current industrialised food system. They have been critiqued for being too neoliberal, elitist, and localist; for not challenging structural inequalities (e.g. racism, privilege, exclusion, colonialism, capitalism); and for reproducing these inequalities within their own contexts. This edited volume examines the everyday realities of community food initiatives, focusing on both their hopes and their troubles, their limitations and failures, but also their best intentions, missions, and models, alongside their capacity to create hope in difficult times. The stories presented in this book are grounded in contemporary theoretical debates on neoliberalism, diverse economies, food justice, community and inclusion, and social innovation, and help to sharpen these as conceptual tools for interrogating community food initiatives as sites of both hope and trouble. The novelty of this volume is its focus on the everyday doings of these initiatives in particular places and contexts, with different constraints and opportunities. This grounded, relational, and place-based approach allows us to move beyond more traditional framings in which community food initiatives are either applauded for their potential or criticized for their limitations. It enables researchers and practitioners to explore how community food initiatives can realize their potential for creating alternative food futures and generates innovative pathways for theorising the mutual interplay of food production and consumption. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical food studies, food security, public health, and nutrition as well as human geographers, sociologists, and anthropologists with an interest in food.
Community, Food Insecurity, and a Global Perspective on Campus Food Pantries
by Sonya SharififardThis book explores food accessibility and its relationship to food security in communities representing high populations of college and university students. Each chapter offers readers a vivid and multifaceted perspective on food practices' cultural and social complexities and the current food system. Using insights from the multidisciplinary fields of food studies, educational leadership, and human geography, this book engages the global paradoxes of food. Food is individual and community-based, and students participating in school activities and extracurriculars must often choose between affording books or food. Each chapter begins with a case study and ends with suggested resources and activities. Chapter topics include academic success, identity and belonging, groceries, food media, public health, marketing, surplus and scarcity, and social impact. The book further blends concepts and empirical accounts to address the central issues of culture, structure, and accessibility within and among the food retail environment.
The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes
by Bray David Barton Merino-Pérez Leticia Deborah BarryThe contributors to this book are established researchers in the field, as well as many of the important actors in Mexico's nongovernmental organization sector. Some articles are case studies of community forest management programs in the states of Michoacán, Oaxaca, Durango, Quintana Roo, and Guerrero. Others provide broader historical and contemporary overviews of various aspects of community forest management. As a whole, this volume clearly establishes that the community forest sector in Mexico is large, diverse, and has achieved unusual maturity in doing what communities in the rest of the world are only beginning to explore: how to balance community income with forest conservation. In this process, Mexican communities are also managing for sustainable landscapes and livelihoods.
Community Pest Management in Practice: A Narrative Approach
by Tanya M. Howard Theodore R. Alter Paloma Z. Frumento Lyndal J. ThompsonThis book presents a collection of practitioner and community stories that reveal how invasive species management is a community issue that can spark community formation and collective action. It combines the unique first-person narratives of practitioners on the frontline of invasive species management in Australia with three case studies of community action for wild dog management across a range of geographical landscapes. The book offers readers a new understanding of how communities are formed in the context of managing different species, and how fundamental social and political processes can make or break landholders’ ability to manage invasive species. Using narrative analysis of practitioner profiles and community groups, drawing lessons from real-world practices, and employing theories from community development, rural sociology and collective action, this book serves multiple functions: it offers a teaching tool, a valuable research contribution, and a practitioner’s field guide to pursuing effective community development work in connection with natural resource management, wildlife management and environmental governance.
Community Policing: International Patterns and Comparative Perspectives (Advances in Police Theory and Practice)
by Dominique Wisler Ihekwoaba D. OnwudiweCommunity-oriented policing (COP) is the ideology and policy model espoused in the mission statements of nearly all policing forces throughout the world. However, the COP philosophy is interpreted differently by different countries and police forces, resulting in practices that may in fact run far afield of the community-based themes of partnership
Community Policing and Peacekeeping (Advances in Police Theory and Practice)
by Peter GraboskyIn modern industrial societies, the demand for policing services frequently exceeds the current and foreseeable availability of public policing resources. Conversely, developing nations often suffer from an inability to provide a basic level of security for their citizens. Community Policing and Peacekeeping offers a fresh overview of the challenge
Community Policing in Indigenous Communities
by Mahesh K. Nalla Graeme R. NewmanIndigenous communities are typically those that challenge the laws of the nation states of which they have become often very reluctantly a part. Around the world, community policing has emerged in many of these regions as a product of their physical environments and cultures. Through a series of case studies, Community Policing in Indigenous Commun
Community Science in Ecology: Case Studies of Public Participation in Ecological Research in Japan (Ecological Research Monographs)
by Yukari Suzuki-OhnoThis book introduces community science (or citizen science) projects in Japan with a focus on ecology. Environments and ecosystems that have been slowly built up over time are changing and collapsing dramatically. In this rapidly changing environment, ecologists need to collaborate with volunteers in their research and activities to investigate and conserve a vast area. This book aims to guide ecologists in the practice of community science. The authors, who are leading ecologists and practitioners of community science projects, share their methods and lessons learned from practice. The book begins with the definition of community science and the following chapters introduce monitoring in ecological community science, using various methods such as observation, specimens, photographs, videos, sounds, and environmental DNA. Readers can learn about the advantages and disadvantages of these methods in ecological community science monitoring. The book also coverstopics such as scientific communication, data obtained from ecological community science monitoring, the rights of participants, decision-making in community science, and conservation activities with volunteers such as invasive alien species extermination and nature restoration. This book serves as a valuable resource for readers interested in ecological community science and its practice. The book is suitable for both undergraduate students and researchers as well as practitioners.
Como a lagarta curiosa se tornou uma bela borboleta
by Linda HendersonEsta história ensina crianças sobre a incrível transformação que ocorre quando uma lagarta se torna numa borboleta. Explica passo a passo num nível que as crianças podem entender como acontece. Se gostaria de explicar aos seus filhos de onde vêm as borboletas, esse recurso útil ajudará a fazê-lo. Também relaciona aspectos espirituais de como uma nova vida e transformação estão disponíveis para os crentes em Cristo.
Cómo cambiar tu mente: Lo que la nueva ciencia de la psicodelia nos enseña sobre la conciencia, la muerte, la adicción, la depresión y la transcendencia
by Michael PollanUna brillante y valiente investigación de Michael Pollan, autor de cinco best sellers de The New York Times, sobre la revolución médica y científica en torno a las drogas psicodélicas, y la fascinante historia de sus propias experiencias psicodélicas que le cambiaron la vida. Cuando Michael Pollan se propuso investigar por qué el LSD y la psilocibina (el ingrediente activo de las setas mágicas) brindaban un enorme alivio a las personas que padecían condiciones difíciles de tratar como el TEPT (trastorno por estrés postraumático), la depresión o la adicción, no tenía la intención de escribir lo que es indudablemente su libro más personal. Pero al descubrir cómo estas notables sustancias estaban mejorando la vida no solo de los pacientes con problemas de salud mental sino también de las personas que simplemente se enfrentaban a los altibajos de la vida cotidiana, decidió explorar los límites de la mente en primera y tercera persona. Así comenzó una singular aventura entorno a la experiencia de la conciencia alterada, así como una profunda inmersión en el estudio de la neurociencia más pionera y la toma de contacto con una prodigiosa comunidad subterránea de expertos psicodélicos. En esta ejemplar investigación periodística, Pollan revisa archivos históricos y documentos científicos para separar la verdad sobre estas misteriosas drogas de los mitos, la propaganda y el pánico moral que se ha ido acumulando desde los años sesenta, cuando un puñado de personajes rebeldes catalizaron una poderosa reacción contra lo que entonces era un prometedor campo de investigación. Sugerente, polémico y deslumbrante este libro es el resultado de un viaje a una nueva, emocionante e inesperada frontera de la percepción, de nuestra comprensión de la mente, del yo y de nuestro lugar en el mundo.
Cómo evitar la próxima pandemia
by Bill GatesLa pandemia de la COVID-19 aún no ha terminado, pero mientras los gobiernos del mundo entero tratan de dejarla atrás, ya se plantean qué pasará a continuación. ¿Cómo podemos evitar que una próxima pandemia les arrebate la vida a millones de personas y hunda la economía global? ¿Podemos siquiera albergar la esperanza de alcanzar esta meta? Bill Gates cree que la respuesta es sí, y en este libro explica de un modo claro y convincente qué deberíamos haber aprendido de la COVID-19 y qué podemos hacer cada uno de nosotros para evitar un desastre parecido. Basándose en los conocimientos de los principales expertos mundiales y en su propia experiencia combatiendo enfermedades mortales a través de la Fundación Gates, logra, en primer lugar, ayudarnos a entender, desde un punto de vista científico, cómo funcionan las enfermedades infecciosas. Después, nos enseña que, si las naciones del mundo aúnan esfuerzos y al mismo tiempo trabajan codo con codo con el sector privado, no solo podrán prevenir otra catástrofe como la de la COVID, sino también eliminar todas las afecciones respiratorias, incluso la gripe. Este es un llamamiento intenso, exhaustivo y de suma importancia realizado por uno de nuestros más grandes y más eficaces pensadores y activistas. «En este libro, conciso a la par que coherente, Gates reflexiona sobre la COVID-19, considera futuras pandemias y propone recomendaciones sensatas para su prevención. Apasionado por el tema pero sin sentar cátedra, Gates hace un llamamiento razonado y consistente al mundo para que se una a fin de evitar próximas pandemias».Booklist «Gates aporta un análisis exhaustivo sobre cómo lo aprendido de la COVID-19 puede ayudar a desarrollar políticas globales de salud pública. Con una prosa accesible, detalla los pasos necesarios para evitar pandemias futuras, destacando la creación de un equipo internacional dedicado a ello».Publishers Weekly
Cómo evitar un desastre climático: Las soluciones que ya tenemos y los avances que aún necesitamos
by Bill GatesEn este libro tan necesario y riguroso, Bill Gates expone un plan amplio, funcional y, sobre todo, asequible, para reducir a cero las emisiones de los gases causantes del efecto invernadero y evitar a tiempo una catástrofe medioambiental. Bill Gates ha dedicado una década a investigar el cambio climático. Con la orientación de expertos en física, química, biología, ingeniería, ciencias políticas y finanzas, se ha centrado en determinar qué medidas debemos tomar para detener la carrera del planeta hacia un desastre ambiental irreversible. En este libro, el autor no solo reúne la información básica para que tomemos conciencia de la necesidad de eliminar las emisiones de los gases causantes del efecto invernadero, sino que también explica qué debemos hacer para alcanzar este objetivo tan importante. Gates nos ofrece una descripción lúcida de los desafíos a los que nos enfrentamos. Aprovechando sus conocimientos en innovación y en lo que supone introducir nuevos conceptos en el mercado, nos detalla cuáles son los campos en los que la tecnología ya está ayudando a reducir las emisiones, cómo y cuándo se logrará que la tecnología actual sea más eficaz, dónde necesitamos dichos avances y quiénes están trabajando en estas mejoras tan necesarias. Por último, traza un plan práctico y específico para llegar a las cero emisiones, tanto con políticas gubernamentales como a título personal, implicando así a gobiernos, a empresas y a nosotros mismos en esta crucial misión. Como advierte Bill Gates, cumplir el objetivo de las cero emisiones no será una tarea sencilla, pero sí está a nuestro alcance si seguimos sus pautas.
Cómo explicar física cuántica con un gato zombi: La ciencia mas loca explicada de forma sencilla
by Big Van Científicos Sobre RuedasSi eres de los que piensa que saber que el tiempo y el espacio son en realidad lo mismo no sirve para nada, o que lo único que le puede decir un protón a un electrón es que deje de ser tan negativo..., ¡has dado con la lectura que necesitabas! ¿Sabías que el teletransporte es real? ¿Que a veces un electrón tiene probabilidades de atravesar una pared? ¿Que dos partículas pueden influenciarse mutuamente aunque estén a años luz de distancia? ¿Y que las partículas cuánticas son como Clark Kent y disimulan sus poderes cuando los científicos las están observando? En Cómo explicar la física cuántica con un gato zombi descubrirás que, aunque no lo parezca, la física cuántica está por todas partes en nuestra vida cotidiana. Y además aprenderás... ...¡los principios más locos y flipantes de la física cuántica! ...¡experimentos low cost que puedes hacer en tu casa! ...que los científicos están un poco pallá, ¿lo sabías? ...y que los gatos tampoco son muy normales que digamos... Los lectores dicen...«Un libro de lo más instructivo a la par que divertido. Hace que la ciencia o la física sea divertida y comprensible para los mundanos. En serio, apto para jóvenes y adultos. Un libro que te hace pensar y si quieres aprender, lo harás.»
Cómo explicar genética con un dragón mutante
by Big Van Científicos Sobre RuedasSi crees que ADN son las siglas de un país muy muy lejano y que el bruto de la clase es el único que desciende del mono, ¡has dado con la lectura que necesitabas! Este divertido libro ilustrado explica la genética y la evolución... ¡de manera que lo entienda todo el mundo! ¿Sabías que existen los mutantes? ¿Que cualquier célula de tu cuerpo sabe más de ti que tus padres? ¿Y que algo llamado gen ha hecho que heredes la barbilla de tu bisabuelo (el guapo, claro)? En las páginas de Cómo explicar genética con un dragón mutante descubrirás... ...¡las leyes más extrañas y alucinantes de la genética! ...¡experimentos low cost que puedes hacer en tu casa! ...que los científicos están un poco pallá, ¿lo sabías? ...y que los pollos no son tan diferentes a los dragones...
Cómo fabricar un gas y otros experimentos raros que hago a veces
by GABRIEL LEONUn nuevo formato para la serie middle grade de ciencia más divertida. Pachi y su papá científico vuelven con una serie de aventuras que surgen a partir de preguntas raras. ¿Es posible fabricar un gas desde cero?, ¿el agua salada pesa más que el agua dulce? Descubre las respuestas a estas superinterrogantes de la manera más divertida: ¡con experimentos! Y la mejor parte es que puedes convertir tu casa en un laboratorio con cosas que de seguro tienes en la despensa.
Cómo funciona el cerebro (DK How Stuff Works)
by DKDescubre el funcionamiento de la estructura más compleja y enigmática que se conoce: el cerebro humano.¿Existen diferencias entre el cerebro de un hombre y de una mujer? ¿Por qué los adolescentes son impulsivos y rebeldes? ¿Cuándo podremos conectar nuestros cerebros a la nube? Encuentra las respuestas a estas y otras preguntas en el interior de este libro sobre el cerebro basado en las últimas investigaciones en neurociencia.¡Pasa las páginas para encontrar increíbles contenidos!-Texto simple y gráficos paso a paso con los que entenderás más fácilmente cómo funciona el cerebro.-Capítulos que abordan temas como la memoria, el aprendizaje, la conciencia, la personalidad, las emociones y la comunicación. -Datos curiosos y llamativas imágenes que te ayudarán a visualizar su estructura interior y su conexión con el resto del cuerpo.-Respuestas a las preguntas más frecuentes: cómo mejorar la memoria, la concentración o cómo dormir mejor. -Incluye una guía sobre los trastornos del cerebro, que incluye tanto problemas físicos, como tumores y accidentes cerebrovasculares, como trastornos psicológicos y funcionales, como el autismo o la esquizofrenia. Aprende cómo el cerebro regula la respiración y los latidos del corazón, cómo recopila información y se la envía a los órganos de los sentidos para generar una respuesta, y mucho más. ¡Descúbrelo todo sobre el órgano más misterioso del cuerpo humano y amplía tu conocimiento sobre anatomía! La colección de DK How it Works en español explica temas complejos de forma clara y visual a través de infografías, textos sencillos e información fácil de entender tanto para estudiantes como para lectores generales que quieran ampliar sus conocimientos.Are men's and women's brains really different? Why are teenagers impulsive and rebellious? And will it soon be possible to link our brains together via the Cloud?Drawing on the latest neuroscience research, this visual guide makes the hidden workings of the human brain simple to understand. How the Brain Works begins with an introduction to the brain's anatomy, showing you how to tell your motor cortex from your mirror neurons. Moving on to function, it explains how the brain works constantly and unnoticed to regulate heartbeat and breathing, and how it collects information to produce the experiences of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. The chapters that follow cover memory and learning, consciousness and personality, and emotions and communication.There's also a guide to the brain's disorders, including physical problems, such as tumors and strokes, and psychological and functional disorders, ranging from autism to schizophrenia. Illustrated with bold graphics and step-by-step artworks, and sprinkled with bite-sized factoids and question-and-answer features, this is the perfect introduction to the fascinating world of the human brain.