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A Manifesto for Early Childhood
by Aaron Bradbury Ruth Swailes Philippa ThompsonThe Early Childhood Sector faces many challenges today. Sector-wide pressures and policy changes mean settings are struggling with many issues including funding, retention and recruitment of staff. As change looms, this new book takes the opportunity to explore what could be possible. It draws together expertise and experience from across many sectors, including education, health, and social work to explore what Early Childhood provision could look like, if we got it right. What do Early Childhood experts recommend? What is genuine, unconstrained good practice? What do we want for our children, families, and colleagues in the sector? This hopeful book looks forwards to what could be possible. It is A Manifesto for Early Childhood.
A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Entrepreneurship (Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books)
by Mike Zundel Christian Garmann JohnsenConceived by Chris Grey, the Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap series offers and antidote to conventional textbooks. Each book takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way. Mike Zundel and Christian G. Johnsen take inspiration from philosophy and art to consider possibilities and effects of entrepreneurship in a changing world. Reflecting on the themes of creativity, destruction, technology and flow, this book offers a theory-driven and critical take on entrepreneurship in an accessible and engaging style, generating new ways of thinking about what entrepreneurship means today and what it could be in the future. Mike Zundel is a Professor in Organization Studies at the University of Liverpool Management School. Christian Garmann Johnsen is an Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School.
A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Entrepreneurship (Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books)
by Mike Zundel Christian Garmann JohnsenConceived by Chris Grey, the Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap series offers and antidote to conventional textbooks. Each book takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way. Mike Zundel and Christian G. Johnsen take inspiration from philosophy and art to consider possibilities and effects of entrepreneurship in a changing world. Reflecting on the themes of creativity, destruction, technology and flow, this book offers a theory-driven and critical take on entrepreneurship in an accessible and engaging style, generating new ways of thinking about what entrepreneurship means today and what it could be in the future. Mike Zundel is a Professor in Organization Studies at the University of Liverpool Management School. Christian Garmann Johnsen is an Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School.
Difference and Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy
by Rose CameronThis book guides you through the complexities of difference and diversity in counselling and psychotherapy practice. It introduces contemporary thinking on the construction of difference, social justice and social identity and applies the theories to therapy practice. By exploring the therapist skills and competencies needed to work ethically and with sensitively, and with reflective exercises and case examples, it will help you to work more confidently and sensitively with your clients. Rose Cameron is a practitioner and a trainer in counselling and psychotherapy. She is currently a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Difference and Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy
by Rose CameronThis book guides you through the complexities of difference and diversity in counselling and psychotherapy practice. It introduces contemporary thinking on the construction of difference, social justice and social identity and applies the theories to therapy practice. By exploring the therapist skills and competencies needed to work ethically and with sensitively, and with reflective exercises and case examples, it will help you to work more confidently and sensitively with your clients. Rose Cameron is a practitioner and a trainer in counselling and psychotherapy. She is currently a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
The Great St Mary's Day Out
by Jodi TaylorA Chronicles of St Mary's short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. Astonishingly, Dr Bairstow has declared a holiday. Even more astonishingly - he's paying for it. Needless to say, there are strings attached. They have to record the 1601 performance of Hamlet, with Shakespeare himself in the role of the Ghost. It doesn't go well, of course. With Dr Bairstow and Mrs Mack turning a simple visit to a street market into a public brawl, Professor Rapson inadvertently stowing away on a vessel bound for the New World, and Shakespeare himself going up in flames, it would seem that Max, of all people, is the only one actually completing the assignment. Readers love Jodi Taylor: 'Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything... Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine "Max" Maxwell have seduced me' 'A great mix of British proper-ness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun' 'Addictive. I wish St Mary's was real and I was a part of it' 'Jodi Taylor has an imagination that gets me completely hooked' 'A tour de force'
The Garden Apothecary: Recipes, Remedies and Rituals
by Christine IversonFrom the best-selling author of The Hedgerow ApothecaryLearn how to make the most of your common garden plants like the herbalists of the pastUnlock the sustainable and ethical art of the apothecarist, and explore its rich folklore and history. Discover the hidden delights in your own garden and how to use them to make delicious edible treats, herbal cures and restorative beauty products. With photographs to help you safely identify edible plants and tips on how best to prepare and preserve your finds, this is the essential guide to enjoying the home-grown riches of your garden.- Enjoy the therapeutic delights of the plants to be found in your own garden with easy-to-follow recipes.- Heal dry hands with calendula balm- Encourage restful sleep with cherry moon milk- Get creative with a vivid blue ink made from cornflowers- Try a borage infusion for tired eyes- Soothe itchy skin with herbal bath tea- Bake a delicious nettle and lemon sponge cake- Freshen up with a rosemary mouthwash- Enjoy a cool glass of red clover lemonadeAnd much more!
Another Time, Another Place: Chronicles of St Mary's 12 (Chronicles of St. Mary's #12)
by Jodi Taylor'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History' C. K. MCDONNELL'A great mix of British properness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun' *****BOOK 12 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIESFor fans of Jasper Fforde, Doctor Who, Genevieve Cogman and Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club---'It's time, Max.' And so, a whole new chapter opens up...It's long been known that if a thing can go wrong, it will. With knobs on, usually. Disasters start to pile up. A new colleague with no respect for the past and a great deal to prove. Historians lost in time. And - worst of all - Rosie Lee on her very first jump. Then there's the small matter of Max's dishonourable discharge.From Tudor England to the Tower of Babel - it's all going horribly wrong.Jobless and homeless, Max receives an offer she can't refuse. Another time, another place. A refuge, perhaps.She's got that wrong, too. Readers love Jodi Taylor: 'Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything... Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine "Max" Maxwell have seduced me''Addictive. I wish St Mary's was real and I was a part of it''Jodi Taylor has an imagination that gets me completely hooked''A tour de force'
I Loved Him From The Day He Died: My Father, Forgiveness and a Final Pilgrimage
by Michael Harding'I wanted him to be someone he wasn't. I wanted me to be someone I wasn't.'A stunning new book from the number one bestselling, award-winning author of All the Things Left Unsaid and Staring at Lakes.To mark his 70th birthday Michael Harding travelled to Spain and walked the Camino de Santiago. Yet, as he set off on his pilgrimage, he found he wasn't alone. Accompanying him on his 126-kilometre walk in theheat of the Spanish sun was the ghost of his long-dead father, a distant and aloof figure whom he lost when he was only twenty-two years old.Here, with searing honesty and beautifully wrought prose, Harding examines how this man, who had diedalmost half a century ago, could have had such a profound effect on the writer's life.From the Ireland of his youth, to the time of his father's death, and to the holy wells and pubs he frequented in search of a connection with a man he never really knew, I Loved Him From The Day He Died is a heartfeltexamination of love, forgiveness and letting go - told with simple vulnerability and profound insight.
Plan for the Worst (Chronicles of St. Mary's #11)
by Jodi Taylor'A great mix of British properness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun' ***** BOOK 11 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIESFor fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club, Jasper Fforde and Doctor Who.I would have trusted this man with my life. Until a couple of days ago, anyway.You know what they say - hope for the best, but plan for the worst.Max is quite accustomed to everything going wrong. She's St Mary's, after all. Disaster is her default state. But with her family reunited and a jump to Bronze Age Crete in the works, life is getting back to normal. Well, normal for St Mary's. And then, following one fateful night at the Tower of London, everything Max thought she knew comes crashing down around her.Too late for plans. The worst has happened. And who can Max trust now? Readers love Jodi Taylor: 'Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything... Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine "Max" Maxwell have seduced me''A great mix of British proper-ness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun''Addictive. I wish St Mary's was real and I was a part of it''Jodi Taylor has an imagination that gets me completely hooked''A tour de force'
Undead: (Inter)(in)animation, Feminisms, and the Art of War (Feminist Media Histories)
by Karen RedrobeA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Undead examines the visual culture of war, broadly understood, through the lens of animation. Focusing on works in which relational, intermedial, and variably paced practices of "(inter)(in)animation" generate aesthetic tactics for thinking about, feeling, and reframing war, Karen Redrobe analyzes works by artists including Yael Bartana, Nancy Davenport, Kelly Dolak and Wazhmah Osman, Gesiye, David Hartt, Helen Hill, Onyeka Igwe, Maryam Mohajer, Ibrahim Nasrallah, and Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley. Deftly moving between cinema and media studies, peace and conflict studies, and art history, Undead is an interdisciplinary feminist meditation on the complex relationship between states of war and the discourses, infrastructures, and institutions through which memory, change, and understanding are made.
A Poisonous Palate (A Key West Food Critic Mystery #14)
by Lucy BurdetteThe heat is turned up for Hayley Snow and her friends in the next installment of the Key West Food Critic mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Lucy Burdette.When food critic Hayley Snow receives an intriguing email about a mysterious, decades-old disappearance, her curiosity is piqued. Writer Catherine Davitt has returned to the Keys to research a book about Hemingway&’s wives, but she&’s also on the hunt for the truth about her missing friend. Hayley quickly agrees to help investigate and they hit the road to see what clues they might find.Back in the late 1970s, Catherine and her friend Veronica were part of a group of lost souls camping in the mangroves of Big Pine Key, until Veronica vanished, and the sheriff&’s office cleared out the camp. Catherine and Hayley begin interviewing Big Pine Key residents who were around at the time of Veronica&’s disappearance, but uncover more questions than answers. Catherine and Hayley stop to speak with a motel owner who frequented the fringes of the commune, but they find him stabbed to death. Then Catherine also goes missing, and signs point to a connection between the old case and the new murder. It&’s up to Hayley to unravel the knot of secrets and lies before time runs out.
Vertrauen in Künstliche Intelligenz: Eine multi-perspektivische Betrachtung
by Rainer Hofmann Peter Rötzel Ines Langemeyer Franz-Josef Schmitt Daniel Glinz Janne Mesenhöller Derya Gür-Seker Katharina Weitz Johannes Schrumpf Johannes Schleiß Gergana Baeva Benjamin Paaßen Janine Strotherm Katrin Böhme Anders Madsen Johanna Gröpler Magret MundorfDer vorliegende Band markiert einen initialen Schritt zur umfassenden Erörterung des Themenfelds ‚Vertrauen in KI‘ aus vielfältigen Blickwinkeln. Dabei wird eine Herangehensweise sowohl aus wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlicher als auch aus informationstechnischer Perspektive gewählt, die zudem interdisziplinäre Aspekte einbezieht. Insgesamt präsentiert der Band fünfzehn Beiträge von 25 renommierten Autorinnen und Autoren, die ihre Expertise aus vierzehn unterschiedlichen Einrichtungen einbringen. Ziel dieser Debatten ist es, Lernende, Lehrende, Forschende sowie Entscheidungsträgerinnen und -träger aus Politik und Wirtschaft dazu zu befähigen, auf Basis von Fakten eine fundierte Meinung zu bilden. Auf dieser Grundlage sollen sie in der Lage sein, gut durchdachte persönliche Entscheidungen im Umgang mit KI zu treffen.
Advances in Materials and Processing: Proceedings of MET and HTS 2022 (Springer Proceedings in Materials #63)
by Supratik Roychowdhury Raghvendra Tewari Sandeep Rege V. S. RajaThis book contains papers by experts from academia, R&D and industry on the state-of-the-art information on materials and processing, materials characterisation and testing, failure analysis, and advances in heat treatment. This book includes papers on advanced manufacturing processes in addition to advances in conventional processes, such as casting and welding. The book includes papers on state-of-the-art characterization techniques and mechanical testing, etc., for advanced materials, such as high entropy alloys and Al and Zr alloys to name a few. Papers on failure analysis case studies from nuclear, automobile, aviation, and oil and gas industry and on ageing management, residual life assessment, and failure mechanisms have relevance to industry. It also includes details on the current challenges, industry standards, and safety aspects for the heat treatment industry. The information provided is a valuable addition to the existing literature and will serve as a reference for R&D, academia, and industry.
Pale Fire: A Poem In Four Cantos By John Shade (Vintage International #940)
by Vladimir NabokovA darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita."Half-poem, half-prose...a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. One of the great works of art of this century." —Mary McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author of The Group An ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, Pale Fire offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written by the literary genius John Shade just before his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreword and commentary by the demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of Zembla in pursuit of a deposed king. Brilliantly constructed and wildly inventive, Vladimir Nabokov's witty novel achieves that rarest of things in literature—perfect tragicomic balance.
Social Media and Crisis Communication in the Cruise Industry: Analysing the Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic (International Series in Advanced Management Studies)
by Ginevra TestaThis academic monograph examines the crisis communication response strategies employed by the cruise industry on social media following the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on social media platform X, the author conducted a content analysis of the top three cruise lines' strategies using NVivo software and assessed public sentiment and emotions through comments using KNIME and R software. The findings identify the most effective strategies for generating positive public sentiment and favourable emotions, contributing to faster business recovery. The book enhances Situational Crisis Communication Theory and offers practical guidance for managers to improve crisis resilience in the face of crises of such magnitude and duration. This work uniquely combines corporate and consumer perspectives to assess the effectiveness of crisis communication.
Uniting Europe through Football: The Interplay between Fandom, Identity and Social Cohesion (Football Research in an Enlarged Europe)
by Jonas Biel Tobias Finger Arne Niemann Vincent ReinkeThe book explores how football fandom as a leisure and lifeworld activity can contribute to strengthening identification with and social cohesion in Europe. Based on the three-year research project &“FANZinE&” (Football as the basis for social cohesion in Europe), financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the book allows readers to understand the intersection and causal interaction between football fandom, European identities, and social cohesion in Europe, using four European countries Germany, Norway, Poland, and Spain. This book is aimed at those engaged in football and broader sport research, European Studies, as well as identity and social cohesion research. It will also be of interest to advanced students in the fields of Political Science, International Relations, European Studies, Sports Studies, and Sociology.
Asia Pacific Advanced Network: Second International Conference, APANConf 2024, Islamabad, Pakistan, August 26–30, 2024, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2412)
by Damayanthi Herath Upul Jayasinghe Ihtesham Ul Islam Jamil Ahmad Roshan Ragel Asitha BandaranayakeThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Asia Pacific Advanced Network, APANConf 2024, held in Islamabad, Pakistan, during August 26–30, 2024. The 14 full papers and 1 short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. These papers focus on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Wireless Communications and Networks.
Investigating Attention to Form and Individual Differences:Research with EFL Children (Second Language Learning and Teaching)
by María del Pilar García MayoThe teaching of the grammar of a second/foreign language has always been an issue that different teaching methods have considered. Studies in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) have shown that mere exposure to meaningful second language input is not enough for learners to reach proficiency in the target language. At beginner proficiency levels, learners tend to rely on lexical items instead of grammatical form to obtain meaning. Recent research has pointed out the need for effective grammar pedagogy in foreign language environments, in which the exposure to the language being learned is limited.The present book presents a selection of eleven empirical papers dealing with children's attention to formal aspects of the language they are learning, and some of them consider the impact of individual differences on the learning process. Each of the studies reported in the individual chapters is based on a solid theoretical background and an overview of studies in the corresponding research area.
The Aspect-Sensitive Agent Omission in Mandarin (SpringerBriefs in Linguistics)
by Yan ZhangThis open access book aims to provide an explanatory account for the phenomenon of absent external arguments in Mandarin Chinese. It starts from the observation that although expletivizing an agent is considered impossible cross-linguistically, it is possible in Mandarin. To account for this exceptional behavior, it proposes the M parameter, which suggests that English and Chinese differ in whether the agentive entailments of the root are grammatically codified in selection for the feature [+m]. While the M parameter provides a grammatical basis for when omission of the external argument is possible in a given language, this book argues that expletivization in general is subject to a variant of the Proper Containment Condition (Rappaport Hovav and Levin, 2012), which is dubbed the Aspectual Proper Containment Condition (APCC). The APCC is concerned with the relation between the interval yielded by aspect and the situation in the speaker/hearer’s mental model that obtains during that interval. It requires that the external argument be eliminated if and only if its referent does not participate in the situation in the mental model during that interval. This open access book demonstrates that in the vast majority of cases the APCC correctly predicts agent omission in Mandarin sentences containing one of the four aspectual markers (-zai, -zhe, -le, and -guo), with a few exceptions where additional restrictions are at play.
The Luzhin Defense (Vintage International)
by Vladimir NabokovNabokov's third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality. His own world falls apart during a crucial championship match, when the intricate defense he has devised withers under his opponent's unexpected and unpredictabke lines of assault.
Alles ist Ökologie
by Mark MaraunDie Idee des Buches ist es zu zeigen, dass Ökologie keine Teildisziplin innerhalb der Naturwissenschaften ist, sondern große Bedeutung für alle Bereiche unseres Lebens hat. Überall wo Organismen interagieren (und das ist ja quasi überall der Fall) gelten die Prinzipien der Ökologie - nur welche sind das überhaupt?
Automated and Autonomous Navigation Powered by GNSS: Navigation Techniques and Applications, Future Automated Navigation
by Mauro CardoneThis book is the result of one-year investigation in all the available technologies necessary to build an efficient navigation system usable on rovers moving on the ground and at the sea, centered on GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System). It is used as instruction note for the calls for tender in the Italian Space Agency. It targets the applications of automated and autonomous navigation for the following types of rover: trains at level 2 of ERTMS/ETCS—autonomous cars, starting from level 3 of SAE -MASS (Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships) at level 4 of IMO. The material is already edited for the using of professionals and engineers who need to build a navigation system on top of COTS hardware. The topics cover in a thorough view all the necessary subjects to build an efficient positioning system for the rover enabling coping with all kind of environments and all interferences and always warranting a minimum level of the positioning KPIs (reliability, availability, integrity, and accuracy). The localization system built according to these guidelines will be ready to be certified and the product will be at TRL 6 (i.e., technology demonstrated in the relevant environment).
Emerging Research in Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of the CIT 2024 - Volume 1 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1347)
by Gonzalo Fernando Olmedo Cifuentes Diego Gustavo Arcos Avilés Hernán Vinicio Lara PadillaThis book presents the proceedings of the XIX International Multidisciplinary Congress on Science and Technology (CIT 2024), held virtually from October 21 to 25, 2024. It showcases cutting-edge research and innovative solutions across various disciplines, including Artificial Intelligence, Computational Modeling, Software Engineering, and Security. Additionally, it covers broader scientific domains such as Computer Science, Earth and Construction Sciences, Basic Sciences, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications, and Energy and Mechanical Sciences. It is designed for researchers, postgraduate students, and educators, serving as a fundamental reference for advancing knowledge, a valuable academic resource, and a practical guide for industry professionals; by fostering collaboration between academia and industry, it promotes innovation, facilitates interdisciplinary exchange, and contributes to solving global challenges in science and technology.
New Kind of Machine Learning–Cellular Automata Model
by Parimal Pal Chaudhuri Adip Dutta Somshubhro Pal Choudhury Dipanwita Roy Chowdhury Raju HazariThis book introduces the CAML model, a novel integration of Cellular Automata (CA) and Machine Learning (ML), designed to deliver efficient computation with minimal training data and low computing resources. CAML operates through two key perspectives: one where CA is enhanced by ML to handle complex non-linear evolution, and another where CA strengthens ML by leveraging linear CA evolution to process linear functions effectively. The book focuses on real-world applications of CA, such as in Computational Biology, where CAML models protein chains to predict mutations linked to human diseases, using carefully designed CA rule sequences for each amino acid. Another significant application is in multi-language Sentiment Analysis, where the model analyzes text in five languages (Hindi, Arabic, English, Greek, and Georgian), without relying on pre-trained language models. CAML uses CA rules for Unicode character modeling, offering a transparent, interpretable prediction algorithm. Overall, CAML aims to drive industrial and societal applications of CA, with an emphasis on transparent results and efficient hardware design through CA’s regular, modular, and scalable structure.