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Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress: Skills for Sustaining a Career in the Helping Professions
by null Brian C. MillerThe second edition of Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress expands the five evidence-informed CE-CERT practices for supporting emotional well-being in workers exposed to the effects of secondary trauma. Adding new insights, additional research support, and fresh examples, the conversational tone makes this edition eminently readable and especially useful.Not only does the book provide helping professionals with a portfolio of skills that support emotion regulation and recovery from secondary trauma exposure, it also enhances the experience of the helping encounter. Each chapter presents evidence-informed skills that allow readers to regulate distressing emotions and foster increased empathy for those suffering from trauma. Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress goes beyond the usual discussion of burnout to talk in specific terms about what we do about the very real stress that is produced by this work.
Advances in Solid-State Welding and Processing of Metallic Materials
by R. Vaira Vignesh M. Govindaraju R. PadmanabanThis book covers the essential information needed to understand the latest developments of solid-state welding and processing of metallic materials, including physical metallurgy, production technologies, alloy development, compositing, post-processing, and joining methodologies.Advances in Solid-State Welding and Processing of Metallic Materials is the result of the collaborative efforts from expert researchers across various institutions around the globe. Harnessing this wealth of expertise and experience, the book enables the reader to comprehend both the theory behind microstructural evolution, as well as the practical elements of welding and processing. It also analyzes strengthening mechanisms, corrosion mechanisms, and wear mechanisms. Topics discussed in this book include friction stir welding, friction stir processing, modified friction stir clinching, hot-rolling and cold-rolling alongside diffusion bonding, and powder metallurgy processing. This book is a valuable companion to all students and researchers in metallurgy, materials science and engineering, manufacturing engineering, and production engineering.
Understanding End-of-Life Care: Psychological Approaches to Cancer Care
by null Suantak Demkhosei VaipheiThis book addresses the psychological, behavioural, emotional, and social issues that arise for cancer patients and their loved ones. It highlights how the existing stigma attached to cancer and associated mental illness constitutes major barriers to optimal psychosocial care of patients.This volume features scholarly entries designed to help clinicians review, anticipate, and respond to emotional issues that often arise in the context of treating cancer patients. Numerous cross-references and succinct tables and figures make it easy to use even for non-medical practitioners. It assists care providers in meeting challenges through the latest findings from wider Indian perspectives of psychological and social issues related to cancer. The relevance of psycho-oncology at different stages of disease (during treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative end-of-life care), along with various psycho-oncological intervention methods, are also illustrated.This book will be useful to students, researchers, and teachers from the fields of Oncology, Clinical Psychology, Medical Sciences, Sociology, Social Work, Psychiatry, Pathology, Bioethics, Palliative Care, Rehabilitation Medicine Anthropology, Biology, Law, and Religious Studies. It would also help in quality decision-making, pain symptom management, bereavement, and practical strategies in addressing psychological needs of cancer patients and their families, offered in an easy-to-use, quick reference format for general readers.
System Reliability, Risk, Longevity, Sustainability and Optimal Decision Making: Emphasis on Marine Structures
by null Dan M Frangopol null Sunyong KimThis book provides the concepts and methodologies of probabilistic structural performance assessments and predictions for deteriorating structures, with emphasis on marine structures and special consideration of system reliability, risk, longevity, sustainability, and optimal decision making. It introduces a comprehensive framework for time-dependent structural performance analysis, incorporating maintenance strategies to estimate and/or extend service life of infrastructure systems. The integration of structural health monitoring highlights the pivotal role of data analytics in addressing uncertainties and optimizing service life management. Progressing from foundational theories to advanced optimization strategies for inspection, monitoring, and maintenance planning. This book, which is a valuable resource for students, engineers, researchers, decision-makers, and policymakers, critically addresses economic considerations through cost-benefit utility and information analysis. Additionally, the exploration of multi-objective optimization and optimal decision-making processes presents the intricate trade-offs involved in the stewardship of marine and civil infrastructure.
South Asian Economic Development in the Era of Global Turbulence
by null Moazzem Hossain null Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan null Maneka Jaysinghe null Saroja Selvanathan null Rajat KathuriaSouth Asia’s developing nations have been enjoying moderate to high growth over the past decade before the global pandemic of 2020 began. This new edition provides an up-to-date guide to the growing markets in South Asia in the post-COVID-19 period. It offers an analysis of the changes and consequences of high sustainable growth, investigating what has been achieved in the region over the last 2001-2023 from a macroeconomic viewpoint, identifying new challenges to 2030, and the end of the UNSDGs period.Part I of the textbook presents an analysis of how South Asia is rated against Southeast and East Asia in recent decades in economic and social terms.Part II focuses on South Asia’s economic development over 2000 and the bearly 2020s. It demonstrates that globalization enhanced global trade and that trade further increased the region’s prosperity up to 2020. Part III identifies major governance issues that were responsible for South Asia’s social and economic underperformance due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This new edition includes a new chapter about AI and South Asia in the future. The textbook advocates for a shift in focus from policy reform per se to the more challenging task of implementing institutional reform that will invigorate the capability of the political leadership to bring about rapid, sustained and poverty-reducing growth in South Asia in post-Covid era. The book also considers climate change and the environment, and it analyses the impact of these changes and developments on the economic health and social conditions in South Asia. The concluding chapter demonstrates current political unrest in three South Asian nations, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, termed the South Asian Spring. TOffering an analysis of the changes and consequences of high sustainable growth in South Asia, this textbook will be useful for students and researchers in Development Economics, Business Economics, Development Studies, and Asian Studies.
Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2024: 18th Ibero-American Conference on AI, Montevideo, Uruguay, November 13–15, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15277)
by Luís Correia Aiala Rosá Francisco GarijoThis volume LNCS 15277 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Ibero-American Conference on AI, IBERAMIA 2024, held in Montevideo, Uruguay, during November 13–15, 2024. The 36 full papers presented together with 14 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. The conference focuses on AI engineering & applications; bio-inspired & soft computing; computer vision & robotics; knowledge representation & reasoning; machine learning; multi agent systems; natural language processing; and social AI.
Experimente für die Sinne: spannende Versuche zur Wahrnehmung für zu Hause
by Wolfgang SkrandiesHaben Sie sich auch schon einmal gefragt, warum Sie eine Gänsehaut bekommen, wenn Sie in ein zu heiß eingelassenes Entspannungsbad steigen? Oder warum Sie Ihre Nase oder den Rahmen Ihrer Brille normalerweise nicht wahrnehmen? Vielleicht möchten Sie aber auch selbst erleben, wie Ihre Nase scheinbar immer länger wird, ähnlich wie bei Pinocchio? Dieses Sachbuch bietet eine fesselnde Reise durch die verschiedenen Bereiche unserer Sinneswahrnehmung. Es widmet sich ausführlich den Bereichen Sehen, Hören, Fühlen, Riechen sowie Schmecken und zeigt, wie diese Sinne unser tägliches Leben beeinflussen. Das Buch beginnt mit einem einführenden Kapitel, das die Grundlagen der Sinnesphysiologie kurz umreißt. Von dort aus ist es in Kapitel unterteilt, die jeweils einem spezifischen Sinnessystem gewidmet sind. Der Autor präsentiert knapp, aber dennoch ausführlich genug, die physiologischen und anatomischen Fakten, die unsere Wahrnehmungen erklären. Das Herzstück des Buches sind jedoch die kleinen Experimente, die zu den verschiedenen Modalitäten passen und mit einfachen Haushaltsgegenständen durchgeführt werden können. Diese Experimente ermöglichen es den Lesern, die besprochenen Phänomene direkt zu erleben und sie in Staunen zu versetzen. Das Buch richtet sich an ein breites Publikum, von interessierten Laien bis hin zu Studierenden der Psychologie, Medizin oder Biologie. Durch die Vermeidung komplexer Beschreibungen kann es sogar im Schulunterricht eingesetzt werden, um den Unterricht in Biologie oder Physik zu bereichern.
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies Against Climate Change in Natural Systems (Environmental Earth Sciences)
by Rajiv Kumar Srivastava Arun ChakrabortyThis book addresses strategies for mitigating and adapting to climate change in natural systems. According to the IPCC (2021) report, human-induced climate change has widespread global effects, significantly impacting natural ecosystems. Extreme weather events linked to climate change harm terrestrial, freshwater, ocean, and coastal ecosystems, reduce food security, displace populations, damage livelihoods, health, and security, and exacerbate inequality. While the impacts of climate change are vast and varied, making it impossible to cover every sector, the authors have aimed to address key areas and offer strategies for combating climate change through mitigation and adaptation. The book is structured into five sections: • Land (agriculture, horticulture, soil, forest) • Water (rivers, lakes) • Atmosphere (hydrology, climate) • Technologies/Approaches (remote sensing, GIS, AI tools, ChatGPT) • Case Studies (crops, forests, soil glomalin application, eco-friendly fertilizers), with a focus on modelling approaches to assess these strategies. Additionally, the authors reviewed related works on climate change mitigation and adaptation, identifying a gap in using newer technologies and approaches. The book also covers topics such as water quality and the analysis of several greenhouse gases such ad NO2, O3, CO2 and CH4 in the environment. This book will be beneficial for students, educators, professionals, researchers, policymakers, and farmers. It provides content ranging from introductory to advanced levels, making it accessible to those working in environmental science.
Litigating the Politics of Human Rights: Contemporary U.S. Culture Wars on Trial (Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice #121)
by Sonja C. GroverThe cases analysed involve litigation concerning a disparate range of contemporary US culture wars including equity in access to public services unrestricted by religious bias, resistance to the teaching of historical facts relating to racial tensions in America including the so-called ‘critical race theory’ debate, the right of schoolchildren to exposure concerning a diversity of views, current USSC litigation about US university admissions policy that considers ‘race’ (ethnicity) as one factor amongst many in admission, contemporary cases concerning the constitutionality of US abortion law grounded on Roe v Wade and the scope of State and indigenous sovereign powers These contemporary culture war US landmark cases are then compared to similar cases in non-US jurisdictions and courts to consider in more depth the underlying core issues in these cases. The book highlights the risk to a democracy of recasting fundamental human rights litigation as essentially nothing more than the sorting out of political quagmires and cultural conflicts best left to the discretion of government rather than the courts. Then, the major risk is that constitutional controversies will increasingly not be decided by an independent judiciary but rather by self-interested politicians as the courts more often than not decline to weigh in on highly sensitive human rights controversies. A further risk is that instead such cases will be decided through a judicial majoritarian political lens rather than a largely apolitical consensus judicial opinion constructed by both philosophically left leaning (so-called liberal) and right leaning (so-called conservative) jurists.
Towards Rethinking Politics, Policy and Polity in the Anthropocene: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science #35)
by Hans Günter BrauchHumankind faces two anthropogenic threats to its survival that are closely linked. The first is the end of the Holocene and the start of the Anthropocene, which was marked by the test of a nuclear bomb on 16 July 1945. In the prevailing peace and security narrative, nuclear weapons and the ‘other’ (country, bloc or alliance) pose a perceived threat to humankind’s survival. In the Anthropocene narrative, ‘we are the threat’ through our way of life and the burning of fossil fuels. The start of the Anthropocene coincides with a change in the international order with the setting up of the UN and the Bretton Woods Institutions. Three stages of this order are distinguished: the Cold War (bipolarity), the post-Cold War era (unipolarity), and the end of the rule-based global liberal order (multipolarity) on 24 February 2022. In this book ten multidisciplinary perspectives discuss complexity, Anthropocene geopolitics, peace and security discourses and the debate on the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, complex crises and integrative geography in the Anthropocene, governance and politics, and the Patriacene and gender. Both existential threats for humankind are illustrated by cover photos of the first nuclear weapons test on 16 July 1945 and by Category 5 Hurricane Otis, an extreme weather event impacting on Acapulco in Mexico on 25 October 2023. The Anthropocene as a new epoch of Earth history coincides in 1945 with a change in the international order. In the security and peace narrative, the ‘other’ and nuclear weapons pose an existential threat; in the Anthropocene narrative. This dual existential change requires a rethinking of politics, policy and polity. In the social sciences, the Anthropocene is being discussed from multidisciplinary perspectives (geography, political science, and peace, security, and gender studies). This is an open access publication.
Meanings of Manual Work in Radical Education: The Chore Curriculum (Palgrave Studies in Alternative Education)
by Emily CharkinThis book aims to challenge and inspire readers with lived examples of alternatives to current paradigms in education, childhood and community, through new research into two important and neglected schools in the history of progressive and radical education. Kilguhanity and Wennington schools were both founded in the UK in 1940, and at both schools pupils and staff were extensively involved in the manual work of looking after and shaping the physical fabric of the community. The author uses these case studies to challenge the tendency to equate pupil participation with ‘voice’ and ‘meetings’, and casts light on a fault line within the progressive and radical traditions. She then presents new challenges and perspectives to ongoing debates about education and childhood, unsettling the stalemate between liberal and traditional, and progressive and radical schools by uncovering a community-based alternative. The book offers a contribution to a growing body of contemporary research literature on progressive and radical education, alternative education, informal education and social pedagogy as well as across the disciplines of childhood studies, history, philosophy and geography.
Thermo-energetische Gestaltung von Werkzeugmaschinen: Praxishandbuch
by Christian BrecherThermo-energetische Gestaltung von Werkzeugmaschinen Dieses Buch beschreibt Maßnahmen zur Sicherstellung der Bearbeitungsgenauigkeit unter thermisch instationären Bedingungen bei gesteigerter Produktivität, ohne zusätzliche Energie für die Temperierung aufzuwenden. Es werden Forschungsergebnisse zu thermischen Einflüssen sowie deren Beeinflussung und Beherrschung vorgestellt. Die dargestellten Entwicklungsarbeiten wurden im Rahmen des Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 96 (SFB/TR 96) von der DFG gefördert und umfassen die Weiterentwicklung von Modellgrundlagen, Kompensationsmaßnahmen und steuerungsintegrierte Korrekturverfahren. Im Bereich der Modellgrundlagen werden die Modellierung von Baugruppen und Gesamtmaschinen, die Verhaltensanalyse, die Parametrierung und effizienzsteigernde Berechnungsmethoden behandelt. Die Kompensationsmaßnahmen umfassen Fluidkreisläufe und die aktive Steuerung von Wärmeflüssen. Die steuerungsintegrierten Korrekturverfahren beinhalten sowohl modellbasierte als auch messtechnisch basierte Ansätze. Zusätzlich werden die entwickelten Lösungsverfahren und Ergebnisse aus der praktischen Erprobung an Baugruppen und Gesamtmaschinen bewertet. Das Open-Access-Buch richtet sich an Praktiker aus dem Bereich des Werkzeugmaschinenbaus.
Alternative Approaches in Conflict Resolution (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies)
by Christine Schliesser Martin LeinerIn its second edition, this extended and revised volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution. With traditional military intervention repeatedly contributing to instability and violence, the study of alternative approaches has become imperative. Can forgiveness help heal relationships in post-apartheid South Africa? How can art assist dealing with ‘unrememberable’ events such as the genocide in Rwanda? What transformational resources do women offer in contexts of massive human rights violations? The aim of this edited volume is twofold: to provide and encourage critical reflection of the approaches presented here and to explore concrete improvements in conflict resolution strategies. In its interdisciplinary and international outlook, this work combines the tried-and-tested approaches from conflict resolution experts in academia, NGOs and civil society, making it an invaluable tool for academics and practitioners alike.
Embodying Intercultural Capacities: The Pedagogic Impact of Study Abroad
by Kate NaiduThis book examines the extent to which in-country education contributes to the development of intercultural capacities among students and investigates how this occurs. It examines the experiences of Australian university students participating in educational programs in Indonesia and critiques and extends notions of interculturality. The potential development of intercultural capacities is explored in relation to four key themes: pedagogy, temporality, home, and culture. The book demonstrates that interculturalisation is not an automatic or guaranteed result of simply being ‘immersed’ in-country, but rather involves an array of pedagogic processes (involving both human and non-human actors). It outlines the temporal dimensions of in-country education, examining the experience as part of a broader trajectory, involving significant moments, and a range of engagements with diverse temporal rhythms. The book concludes by exploring how students’ understandings of ‘culture’ and ‘cultural difference’ impact the way in which the study-abroad experience is navigated. Readers will gain a deepened understanding of how intercultural capacities develop, which can be applied to other educational contexts including schools, as well as corporate and not-for-profit settings. Those interested in sociology, particularly Bourdieusian analysis, will also benefit from this empirical application (and extension) of the notion of habitus in the context of student mobility. “This is a well conceptualized and beautifully written book that explores how study abroad programs can play an important role in equipping young people to navigate the super-diversity that has now become a critical feature of societies around the world. It shows how such programs have the potential to enhance intercultural capacities, especially when crafted in ways that are thoughtfully fashioned and carefully enacted.” — Fazal Rizvi, University of Melbourne Australia
The International Politics of Migration: Interstate Relations and the Peoples Who Cross Borders
by Masayuki TadokoroThis open access book discusses the impact of cross-border migration on the relationships between sovereign states. While there is already a vast amount of literature on immigration, it often focuses on issues such as human rights, citizenship, and social integration, reflecting the contemporary interests of Western countries. However, as long as the most fundamental norm of international politics remains the mutual recognition of exclusive jurisdictional rights over territory by sovereign states, people crossing borders pose various challenges to this system of sovereign states. It is this awareness of the issue that makes this book unique. This book examines the implications of the movement of people across national borders both for the state and for international politics. From the standpoint of international politics, the focus of the examination is the international political meaning of the transnational phenomenon of the movement of people. This is an interest that extends from the study of international political economy, which questions the significance for international politics of the transnational phenomena of international trade and international finance.
The Sealwoman's Gift: the Zoe Ball book club novel of 17th century Iceland
by Sally MagnussonSHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN | THE BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD | THE MCKITTERICK PRIZE | THE PAUL TORDAY MEMORIAL PRIZE | THE WAVERTON GOOD READ AWARD | A ZOE BALL ITV BOOK CLUB PICK'REMARKABLE' Sarah Perry'EXTRAORDINARILY IMMERSIVE' Guardian'A REALLY, REALLY GOOD READ' BBC R2 Book Club''LYRICAL' Stylist'POETIC' Daily Mail1627. In a notorious historical event, pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted 400 people into slavery in Algiers. Among them a pastor, his wife, and their children.In her acclaimed debut novel Sally Magnusson imagines what history does not record: the experience of Asta, the pastor's wife, as she faces her losses with the one thing left to her - the stories from home - and forges an ambiguous bond with the man who bought her. Uplifting, moving, and sharply witty, The Sealwoman's Gift speaks across centuries and oceans about loss, love, resilience and redemption.'Sally Magnusson has taken an amazing true event and created a brilliant first novel. It's an epic journey in every sense: although it's historical, it's incredibly relevant to our world today. We had to pick it' Zoe Ball Book Club'Richly imagined and energetically told' Sunday Times 'The best sort of historical novel' Scotsman 'Compelling ' Good Housekeeping'An accomplished and intelligent novel' Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, author of Why Did You Lie?'Vivid and compelling' Adam Nichols, co-translator of The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson
C'est Modnifique!: Adventures of an English Grump in Rural France
by Ian MooreAfter six years in the idyllic Loire Valley, comedian Ian Moore, his family and his growing menagerie feel like they’re on the cusp of the peace they hoped for. Their grand project, a writing school, is complete – only, nobody’s signed up. The Moores have their work cut out – but they’re determined to give it their best shot!
The Keeper of Lost Things: the perfect uplifting read - winner of the Richard & Judy Readers' Award and Sunday Times bestseller
by Ruth Hogan*THE PERFECT COSY UP-LIT READ, RECOMMENDED BY THOUSANDS OF READERS*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & WINNER OF THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB*'One of the most charming novels either of us has read. Don't lose it. Keep it' Richard & JudyMeet the 'Keeper of Lost Things'...Once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight years, Anthony Peardew has spent half his life collecting lost objects, trying to atone for a promise broken many years before.Realising he is running out of time, he leaves his house and all its lost treasures to his assistant Laura, the one person he can trust to fulfil his legacy and reunite the thousands of objects with their rightful owners.But the final wishes of the 'Keeper of Lost Things' have unforeseen repercussions which trigger a most serendipitous series of encounters...'Touching, funny and romantic' Daily Mail'A charming read, perfect for the holidays' The Lady'A warm and heartfelt debut' PrimaAnd if you loved The Keeper of Lost Things, don't miss Ruth Hogan's other novels, Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel, and The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes.*The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan was chosen by followers as the winner of the Richard and Judy Autumn 2017 Book Club. It charted in the top ten for Sunday Times Paperback Fiction in weeks 48, 49 and 50 of 2017.
The Ninth Child: The new novel from the author of The Sealwoman's Gift
by Sally Magnusson'WONDERFUL. ONE NEVER MESSES WITH THE FAERIES' Melanie Reid, The Times'AN ABSOLUTE TRIUMPH' Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus'EXTRAORDINARILY VIVID' Michelle Gallen, author of Big Girl Small TownA spellbinding novel combining Scottish folklore with hidden history, by the Sunday Times bestselling author Sally Magnusson.Loch Katrine waterworks, 1856. A Highland wilderness fast becoming an industrial wasteland. No place for a lady. Isabel Aird is aghast when her husband is appointed doctor to an extraordinary waterworks being built miles from the city. But Isabel, denied the motherhood role that is expected of her by a succession of miscarriages, finds unexpected consolations in a place where she can feel the presence of her unborn children and begin to work out what her life in Victorian society is for. The hills echo with the gunpowder blasts of hundreds of navvies tunnelling day and night to bring clean water to diseased Glasgow thirty miles away - digging so deep that there are those who worry they are disturbing the land of faery itself. Here, just inside the Highland line, the membrane between the modern world and the ancient unseen places is very thin. With new life quickening within her again, Isabel can only wait. But a darker presence has also emerged from the gunpowder smoke. And he is waiting too. Inspired by the mysterious death of the seventeenth-century minister Robert Kirke and set in a pivotal era two centuries later when engineering innovation flourished but women did not, The Ninth Child blends folklore with historical realism in a spellbinding narrative.*PRAISE FOR THE SEALWOMAN'S GIFT*'I enjoyed and admired it in equal measure' Sarah Perry'An extraordinarily immersive read' Guardian'Richly imagined and energetically told' Sunday Times'An epic journey' Zoe Ball Book Club
Pepsi & Shirlie - It's All in Black and White: Wham! Life and Friendship
by Pepsi Demacque-Crockett Shirlie KempLondon. Wham! Pop, glitz and glamour. And two girls with stars in their eyes.Our friendship began one windy day in 1982, outside Finsbury Park tube. It was an instant like at first sight. We were on our way to a Wham! rehearsal. Pepsi was the new girl in the band and over a car stereo, a cassette tape and that journey to Bushey we bonded. We had no idea that we were on the first of many journeys together and that soon we'd be travelling all over Europe, Australia, America, China and Japan. Or that no matter where we went, together, we'd find a way to make every exotic destination feel like home.We'd both been teenagers during the seventies – a dreary and difficult decade, especially if you were young in London and you didn't have much money.So, in 1982, anything was possible for us – a pair of twentysomethings who hadn't been to university, who didn't have any money, who dreamt of singing and dancing, but ultimately lived for fun. Everything felt new and life was a question mark. We had no idea what was lying ahead, but we wanted to say yes.What we didn't know was that we were saying yes to a lifetime of connection that has endured whatever we've done, wherever we've been. From the side of the stage to its centre – we have many stories to tell.And it's all here, it's all in black and white.
The Knowledge of Inclusive Education: An Ecological Approach
by null Elizabeth WaltonThe Knowledge of Inclusive Education is a paradigm-shifting exploration of inclusive education as a dynamic knowledge practice. The knowledge that underpins the practice is understood through the metaphor of an ecology, with valuable contributions from educators, researchers, parents, students, policymakers, and international organisations.By examining the knowledge of policy, research, teacher education, and activism, Elizabeth Walton constructs a future for inclusive education that affirms different material-discursive places, inquiry, and possibility and replaces traditional research hierarchies with a life-affirming ecology. Readers will gain a novel perspective on the knowledge/s of inclusive education across multiple interacting domains.With theoretical resources ranging from the work of Lorraine Code and Basil Bernstein to concepts from Legitimation Code Theory, Decolonial theory, and Posthumanism, this book offers a unique and innovative approach to the multiple perspectives and knowledges that inform inclusive education policy and practice. Its conceptual and empirical research draws from several international contexts, ensuring that The Knowledge of Inclusive Education will be of interest to educators, scholars, and advocates of inclusive education worldwide and valued by those willing to embrace collaborative new directions in inclusive teaching, learning, and research.
Humanitarian Medicine and Disaster Relief (Trauma Care Focus)
by null Tony RedmondFocusing on emergency medical humanitarian assistance, this accessible new text provides practical clinical guidance for those working in emergency medicine, critical care, and military medicine. There has been great progress over the last 30 years in establishing standards and training programmes to ensure that those who respond to major emergencies are appropriately trained, adequately equipped, qualified to do this work, and accountable for the work that they do. These developments together with insights into current requirements for healthcare and emergency responses are reflected in this book.
Biochemistry of Non-Shivering Thermogenesis in Vertebrates: Evolutionary Perspectives
by Naresh Chandra Bal Punyadhara PaniThis comprehensive reference book covers non-shivering thermogenesis, metabolic rates, and associated diseases. It emphasizes the phylogenetic relations of vertebrate non-shivering thermogenesis (NST) and its evolutionary significance. The book describes how the incidence of metabolic syndromes has reached epidemic levels worldwide due to dysregulation in energy balance. Chapters include the evolution and regulatory mechanisms of NSTs. It covers the role of NST in birds and wild animals, and muscle adaptation during hibernation. The book is meant for researchers and students of biochemistry, molecular medicine, and physiology. It is also useful to physicians and health care professionals.Key Features: Provides in-depth insights on topics related to metabolic rate regulation and thermogenesis Covers the evolution of tachymetabolism and endothermy among vertebrates Analyzes the evolutionary perspectives of non-shivering thermogenesis in different organisms Discusses the evolution of brown adipose tissue and non-shivering thermogenesis in mammals Provides graphs, flowcharts, and descriptive figures for easy understanding of concepts
Trauma-Informed Pedagogy and the Post-Secondary Music Class (Modern Musicology and the College Classroom)
by Kimber Andrews Kristy SwiftTrauma-Informed Pedagogy and the Post-Secondary Music Class explores the theory and practice of teaching and learning in a traumatized world and aims to support instructors in guiding students and walking with them through challenges that impact learning. With analysis contextualized within definitions of trauma, critical theoretical trauma studies, and clinical understandings of the causes and effects of trauma on the brain and nervous system, the book offers ways to empower faculty and students to build classrooms where it is safe enough to address the stress and trauma of learning. Bringing together a unique multidisciplinary group of contributors, this book includes perspectives from both music faculty and mental health counseling specialists.The volume engages music scholars and educators in higher education with scholarship on trauma-informed pedagogy, provides examples of how to introduce trauma-informed practices into music courses, explores how trauma-informed practices can increase both faculty and student well-being, and offers practical materials such as syllabi and assignments that instructors can implement in their classes. Reaching across disciplinary boundaries to contribute to an emerging body of research, teaching, and learning, this is a vital collection for educators across music higher education.
Strength-Based Pedagogy for Smart Students with Disabilities: Using Interest-based Strategies for Academic and Personal Success
by null Sally M. Reis null Joseph Madaus null Nicholas Gelbar null Susan BaumUsing the approach to teaching and developing strengths and talents known as the Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) this book provides a blueprint on how to expand your repertoire of evidence-based practices and pedagogical strategies to better challenge and engage twice exceptional students. Covering topics such as how to provide various types of enrichment for the classroom, how to assess individual interests, how to use strength-based learning to promote socioemotional wellbeing, post-secondary transition, and more, this book offers practical advice, easily implemented strategies and real-life examples from evidence-based research to support educators in helping their students achieve both academic and personal success.Featuring various methods for providing various types of enrichment in the classroom as well as reproducible materials for immediate implementation, Strength-Based Pedagogy for Smart Students with Disabilities offers comprehensive assistance and support to educators and parents in their efforts to guide students and children toward academic and personal success.