Libraries and the organizations that provide services to them are devoting more attention to system-wide organization of collections—whether the "system" is a consortium, a region or a count
Assessments by psychologists, educators, and other human-service professionals too often end with the client being reported in terms of scores, bell-shaped curves, traits, psychodynamic forces, or dia
This book reports the results of a three-year research program funded by the National Science Foundation which targeted students and teachers from four Detroit high schools in order for them to learn,
Bringing together a range of international academics and practitioners in the field, this book examines the role and practical dynamics of governmental environmental law enforcement agencies and indiv
When research is so connected to personal interest, experience, and familiarity that objectivity becomes a moveable feast, the line between documentation and invention blurs to near-invisibility. John
Transcendental Train Yard is a collection of color serigraphs accompanied by bilingual poems, in Spanish and English, inspired by the artwork.Transcendental Train Yard provides the reader a glimpse of
China's transformation from a planned regime to a marketized and liberalized society has created unprecedented socioeconomic changes and challenges as well as new resources, capacities, and solutions.
"We are living in a hinge time when the way that we think, interact, and innovate at work is rapidly changing. In the past, "Marketshare" companies dominated, ruled by hierarchy and top-down leadershi
With the development of the aging society and the increased importance of emergency risk management in recent years, a large number of medical care challenges - advancing medical treatments, care &
?Limited potential of financial, organizational, human and technology resources doesn't provide SMEs sufficient opportunities to access information and knowledge necessary in competition. Observing th
The object of CO LAB: is to promote the ideals and methods of contemporary design collaboration by informing on cultural context, surveying some unexpected practitioners, and highlighting techniques a
Large projects, especially in the construction and infrastructure sectors, involve collaborations of many different types, such as built-own-operate, public-private partnership, or competitive dialogu
The process of patient education allows for patients to think about their health in new ways and for educators and professionals to propose new ways to heal, with the ultimate goal of patients having
Processes of fighting unequal citizenship have historically prioritized literacy education, through which people envision universal first-class citizenship and devise practical methods for enacting th
The notion of the individual creator, a product in part of the Western romantic ideal, is now troubled by accounts and explanations of creativity as a social construct. While in collectivist cultures
Written by two expert teachers and based on astronomy education research, this workbook guides students through concepts, promotes quantitative literacy, and increases student confidence in their unde
This brief presents a peer-to-peer (P2P) web-hosting infrastructure (named pWeb) that can transform networked, home-entertainment devices into lightweight collaborating Web servers for persistently st
This book provides a novel approach to governance relating to biodiversity and human well-being in complex tropical landscapes, including forests and protected areas. It focuses attention at the inter
"This book brings together best practices and innovative technological approaches in establishing the media specialist-teacher partnership, highlighting theoretical concepts of case-based learning, kn
This book presents the intrusion detection network (IDN) concept and examines the problems underlying the design of IDNs. It supplies an overview of existing ION designs and elaborates on the underlyi
With many new forms of digital media--including such popular social media asFacebook, Twitter, and Flickr -- the people formerly known as the audience no longer only consumebut also produce and even d
Edited by renowned Shakespeare scholars and published in coordination with the Royal Shakespeare Company, this first edition in over 100 years of the body of plays known as The Shakespeare Apocrypha f
Today, textile artists want to stitch together a community as well as a project. Cas Holmes and Anne Kelly, who formed their own productive partnership, explain the art of creative collaboration, in s
"This book focuses on the role of technology in organizational decision-making processes and activities, providing academics and management teams with current research in the field of virtual teams in
Lead your team to inclusion success—with quantifiable results! Use Karten’s hands-on guide to establishing coaching baselines, introducing research-based inclusion strategies, and promoting inclusion
The design process has always been central to construction, but recent years have seen its significance increase, and the ways of approaching it multiply. To an increasing degree, other stakeholders s
The design process has always been central to construction, but recent years have seen its significance increase, and the ways of approaching it multiply. To an increasing degree, other stakeholders s
Almost twenty years ago, some of the most revered chefs in the world—including John Ash, Rick Bayless, Susan Feniger, Nobu Matsuhita, Nora Pouillon, Michael Romano, and Alice Waters—looked at the way
In this volume, which is part of the SEMPRE (Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research) series in the psychology of music, Gaunt (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK) and Westerlund (mu
Since launching in 2003, Transforming Social Work Practice has become the market-leading series for student social workers. Now the books have been updated to include the Professional Capabilities Fra
Decision-making has evolved recently thanks to the introduction of information and communication technologies in many organizations, which has led to new kinds of decision-making processes, called “co
"This book successfully combines scholarly work with practical, easy-to-understand advice that has appeal even beyond nursing and healthcare. It provides a view of mentoring that is much deeper than m
