How can social media help transform a student’s learning experience and promote active engagement with learning content and peers? Social Media for Active Learning helps instructors achieve this goal.
How can social media help transform a student’s learning experience and promote active engagement with learning content and peers? Social Media for Active Learning helps instructors achieve this goal.
This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13–15 October 2016. The overall confere
An increasing number of educational policies, academic studies, and university courses today propagate ‘interculturality’ as a method for approaching ‘the Other’ and reconciling universal values and c
The historical materialism of the classical Marxist tradition envisions human history as a developmental sequence, with each stage defined by the level of technology and the corresponding mode of prod
This book is a compendium of pragmatism in the social sciences. While addressing several distinct spheres, it carries a common message: the future of the social sciences depends on a shared understand
This book discusses the development of a theory of info-statics as a sub-theory of the general theory of information. It describes the factors required to establish a definition of the concept of info
Involving Parents in their Children's Learning is the story of the pioneering work of the Pen Green Centre for children and families. Showing how early years practitioners can collaborate effectively
Involving Parents in their Children's Learning is the story of the pioneering work of the Pen Green Centre for children and families. Showing how early years practitioners can collaborate effectively
Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse is a groundbreaking study into gender, sexuality and victimhood. It examines the cultural conditions of possibility for FSA victimhood as a means to advance contemporary c
This book examines how neo-institutional statebuilding undercuts international policy agency.Post-Cold War interventions are marked by a peculiar paradox. From peace and statebuilding projects in war-
This is the first comprehensive review of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Intergovernmental Committee (IGC) process, which began in 2000. In 2009 the IGC received a mandate from WI
Scholars have developed increasingly complex theorisations of the social construction of gender and the state’s role in it. Whilst existing research provides a nuanced picture of the multiple dynamics
This groundbreaking volume documents a comprehensive peacebuilding initiative in addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and reviews the broad theoretical base underlying these efforts. Theory cha
While the areas conventionally studied in Area Studies or Comparative Area Studies are demarcated primarily by geographical boundaries, areas serving the idea of ‘the good life’ in an emotional sense
Introduction by Ronald Malfi From Brett J. Talley, the master of Lovecraftian terror, comes thirteen tales of the dark forces that lurk just beyond man’s understanding.A scientist who opens a door bet
In early modern Europe, discernment emerged as a key notion at the intersection of various domains in both learned and artisanal cultures. Often used synonymously with judgment, ingenuity, and taste,
Human agency has four irreducibly different dimensions - psychological, ethical, intellectual, and physical - which the traditional idea of a will tended to conflate. Twentieth-century philosophers cr
Continuing his pioneering theoretical explorations into the relationships among biosciences, the market, and political economy, Kaushik Sunder Rajan introduces the concept of pharmocracy to explain th
Though the causes and effects of climate change pervade our everyday lives—the air we breathe, the food we eat, the objects we use—the way the discourse of climate change influences how we make meanin
Bored of academia? Sick of publish-or-perish and the grant-chasing treadmill? You’ve probably thought about building a career in the pharmaceutical industry, only to find a confusing world of unfamili
A new non-fiction series from Emmy Award winning host of Survivor andNew York Times bestselling author Jeff Probst! New from Emmy-Award winning host of Survivor and New York Times bestselling aut
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This book is an ethnographic study of the cultural and racial politics of an activist UK hip hop culture that uses hip hop "off-street" in the civic spheres of education, spoken word poetry
This book reconceives virtue epistemology in light of the conviction that we are essentially social creatures. Virtue is normally thought of as something that allows individuals to accomplish things o
The Inspection Authorization Test Prep provides Aviation Maintenance Technicians (AMTs) with all the information needed to pass the FAA's exam for inspection authorization, and helps candidates become
Drawing on diverse theoretical and textual sources, The Gender of Suicide presents a critical study of the ways in which contemporary society understands suicide, exploring suicide across a range of k
Novel and diverse logic-based applications are becoming more available to systematists. This book provides an updated, open-minded characterization of the "boundaries of logic" in systematic
Traditionally, the study of entrepreneurial behavior focuses on such factors as (i) the personality characteristics that distinguish the entrepreneur from non-entrepreneur and (ii) demographic charact
In this book, author Maria Rosaria Della Peruta presents readers with a comprehensive examination of emerging pervasive models of innovation and how their nature, effects, and origins have been ch
Business are increasingly finding themselves in a world characterized by globalization, turbulence and complexity, paralleled with an exponential advancement in information technology (IT). As this te
