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View book details for Vulnerability and Incarceration
Evaluating Protections for Prisoners in Research
In light of a history of exploitation by researchers, most of the limited scholarship on prisoners in medical ethics is focused on precaution and protections. Vulnerability and Incarceration: Evaluating Protections for Prisoners in Research explores the best ways for researchers …
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Reconfiguring Democratic Education
Lexington Books
The authors have spent their lives in South Africa, are writing this book from and within a very particular context of compounded oppression, marginalisation and otherness. In many ways, apartheid has both damaged and provided us with the emotions and …
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Labor Relations in Uncertain Times
Teachers and Their Unions: Labor Relations in Uncertain Times explores the decade of uncertainty in public education following the Great Recession by first laying a foundation that describes the development of teachers and public education and the rise of teacher …
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The Study Skills Revolution
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The problem with higher education today is that colleges are not transparent about their students academic lives, so families dont know what their students should experience or accomplish in college. This book is part on-the-ground college insider tell-all memoir and …
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Major Advances in Childrens Learning and Intelligence
Brain Changers: The Most Important Advances in Childrens Learning and Intelligence represents my second book of The Brain Smart Trilogy. This book presents an in-depth look at successful learning techniques and current brain research about how to increase childrens learning …
View book details for Sounding the Alarm in the Schoolhouse
Safety, Security, and Student Well-Being
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Sounding the Alarm in the Schoolhouse: Safety, Security, and Student Well-Being was written as a resource guide for educational and mental health professionals and policymakers, as well as families and communities seeking to develop programming to reduce school violence and …
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Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse
Lexington Books
Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied …
This volume presents the most recent archaeological, historical, and ethnographic research that challenges simplistic perceptions of Native smoking and explores a wide variety of questions regarding smoking plants and pipe forms from throughout North America and parts of South America. …
View book details for Einweiser- und Patientenbeziehungsmanagement im Krankenhaus
Die Option der direkten Patientenakquisition und -bindung
Katrin Burghardt stellt den state of the art des Einweisermanagements in deutschen Akutkliniken dar und zeigt, in welcher Art und Weise und in welchem Umfang Kliniken gezielte Manahmen eines Einweisermanagements bereits einsetzen. Sie untersucht, welche moglichen zukunftigen Einsatzfelder und Perspektiven …
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Forging a Stronger Economic Alliance between the United States and Japan
Center for Strategic & International Studies
To explore opportunities for greater economic cooperation between the United States and Japan in third countries, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington and the Asia Pacific Initiative (API) in Tokyo embarked on a joint research project …
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A Reference Guide to His Life and Works
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Charles Darwin: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works provides an important new compendium presenting a detailed chronology of all aspects Darwins life. The extensive encyclopedia section includes many hundreds of entries of various kinds related to Darwin people, …
View book details for Narrative Journeys of Young Black Women with Eating Disorders
A Hidden Community among Us
Narrative Journeys of Young Black Women with Eating Disorders: A Hidden Community among Us explores how the realities of three young black women who have experienced eating disorders since childhood were transformed, discussing the larger implications of disordered eating in …
View book details for Building a High-Impact Board-Superintendent Partnership
11 Critical Questions You Need to Answer
Building a High-Impact Board-Superintendent Partnership will consist of 11 brief chapters, each covering a critical question that practitioners need to answer in building the board-superintendent partnership
The fluidized-bed reactor is the centerpiece of industrial fluidization processes. This book focuses on the design and operation of fluidized beds in many different industrial processes, emphasizing the rationale for choosing fluidized beds for each particular process. The book starts …
Few professions have experienced change to the same extent as has intelligence. Since the 9/11 attacks, the role of intelligence has continued to grow, and its mission remains complex. Government and private security agencies are recruiting intelligence analysts in ever …
View book details for The Brand Strategist's Guide to Desire
How to give consumers what they actually want
This is a guide to help brand strategists consider what people really want in order to enhance their lives, and think about the role of their brand in responding to these desires. It offers a new framework for understanding desire, …
View book details for Advanced Lasers
Laser Physics and Technology for Applied and Fundamental Science
Presenting a blend of applied and fundamental research in highly interdisciplinary subjects of rapidly developing areas, this book contains contributions on the frontiers and hot topics of laser physics, laser technology and laser engineering, and covers a wide range of …
In jedem Unternehmen steckt enormes, ungenutztes Potenzial. Potenzial, das Unternehmen brauchen, um in stets anspruchsvolleren Markten zu uberleben. Was fehlt, so Michael Kres, ist vor allem eines: Mut. Sein Buch befasst sich mit mutigen Ansatzen, die es ermoglichen, dieses Potenzial …
View book details for Mechatronics by Bond Graphs
An Object-Oriented Approach to Modelling and Simulation
This book presents a computer-aided approach to the design of mechatronic systems. Its subject is an integrated modeling and simulation in a visual computer environment. Since the first edition, the simulation software changed enormously, became more user-friendly and easier to …
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Besser und produktiver arbeiten durch den motivierenden Einsatz von Angst
Angst gilt allgemein als unerwunscht und wird oft totgeschwiegen. Das ist gerade im Arbeitsumfeld und in der BWL der Fall. Dabei kann Angst starke Auswirkungen auf Mitarbeiter, Unternehmenskultur und wirtschaftlichen Erfolg haben allerdings nicht nur negative, sondern gerade auch motivierende …
This thesis presents profound insights into the origins and dynamics of beam instabilities using both experimental observations and numerical simulations. When the Recycler Ring, a high-intensity proton beam accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, was commissioned, it became evident that …
This book mainly focuses on ecological approaches for preventing and controlling non-point source (NPS) pollution on the basis of forestry measures. In addition to the effects of ecological control, it introduces readers to the characteristics of NPS pollution in Taihu …
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International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World brings together a collection of essays from scholars and cultural critics working on the meanings of monuments and memorials in the second decade of the twenty-first century, …
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Homeland Insecurity
Lexington Books
Ayad Akhtar, the American Nation, and Its Others After 9/11: Homeland Insecurity examines playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtars contributions to multiple genres including film and theatre. This book situates Akhtars oeuvre within the social and political context of post-9/11 American …
This book contains the contributions presented at the ninth international KES conference on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia: Systems and Services, which took place in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, June 15-17, 2016. It contains 65 peer-reviewed book chapters that focus …
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