Uniquely Human; THE EVOLUTION OF SPEECH, THOUGHT, AND SELFLESS BEHAVIOR

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0-674-92182-8

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222 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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573.2 Lie u

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AND THE STUDY OF CLASSROOM LANGUANGE AND LITERACY EVENTS: …

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1

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0-8058-5320-0

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xxii, 263 p. : tab, ; ill. ; 23 cm

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371.102 3 Dis d

ICT AND INTERNATIONAL LEARNING ECOLOGIES: Representation and Sustainability A…

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978-0-36-36367-3

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xii, 213 p. ; 23 cm

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371.33 Inc i

Sports Psychology in Performance

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-

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xxii, 266 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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796.01 But s

Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise, SECOND EDITION

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2nd

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0-7360-5101-5

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xii, 443 p. : ill, tab.; 28 cm.

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-

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612.7 McG b

Pidgin and Creole Linguistics

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0-253-34495-6

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xvi + 399 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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301.2 Val p

Social Efficiency and Instrumentalism in Education: Critical Essays in Ontolo…

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978-0-415-74400-3

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x, 183 p.; 23 cm.

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375.001 Mag s

sport, culture and society: a reader on the sociology of sport, SECOND AND RE…

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2nd

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0-8121-0781-0

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520 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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305.4 Loy s

Diversified Cropping Pattern and Agricultural Development

This book examines how crop diversification strategies can help to ensure sustainable agricultural development across different land-size categories, with a focus on Malda District in West Bengal, India. Using Malda as the study area, a region with nearly 4 million people, the book assesses the extent, pattern, factors and future of crop diversification and its contribution to the development o…

BRAIN-BASED Learning THE NEW PARADIGM OF TEACHING, SECOND EDITION

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2nd

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-4129-6255-1

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xvi, 288 p.; 23 cm.

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-

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370.1523 Jen b

Diabetes and Couples

This book shows how psychological aspects of individuals and of couple relationships can work as both protective or risk factors to the health of diabetes patients and their partners. Departing from a social psychologic perspective, it analyzes how individual attributes and personal relationships influence health, focusing on the impacts that diabetes as a chronic-degenerative disease has on th…

Finance 4.0 - Towards a Socio-Ecological Finance System: A Participatory Fram…

This Open Access book outlines ideas for a novel, scalable and, above all, sustainable financial system. We all know that today’s global markets are unsustainable and global governance is not effective enough. Given this situation, could one boost smart human coordination, sustainability and resilience by tweaking society at its core: the monetary system? A Computational Social Science tea…

Culture as Process

Jaan Valsiner has made numerous contributions to the development of psychology over the last 40 years. He is internationally recognized as a leader and innovator within both developmental psychology and cultural psychology, and has received numerous prizes for his work: the Alexander von Humboldt prize, the Hans Killian prize, and the Outstanding International Psychologist Award from the Americ…

Panic Buying

This brief provides a thorough overview of the history and underlying motivations for consumer panic buying, evaluating psychological perspectives on this behavior on both an individual and societal level. The first volume of its kind to focus specifically on the topic of panic buying, the book situates its analysis within the context of the modern COVID-19 pandemic as well as in a broader psyc…

Place and Post-Pandemic Flourishing

This book rekindles the well-known connection between people and place in the context of a global pandemic. The chapters are divided into two sections. In the first section, “Place Attachment During a Pandemic,” we review the nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and the extent of its impact on place attachment and human-environment interactions. We examine how restrictions in mobility and enviro…

COVID-19 and Psychology

Already, the COVID-19 pandemic has left a deep mark on all levels of human activity and sentiment. As far as the best possible management of the situation is concerned, it is not only up to governments and experts in health systems, but ultimately up to each individual to act appropriately. Understanding the psychological background and the societal context is essential. This essential is also …

Brain Plasticity and Learning

This book synthesizes the latest findings on neuroplasticity and learning, drawing on rich phenomenological research carried out with teachers, psychologists, parents and students from around the world to examine the implications for current teaching and for the advancement of learning methods. Building on the author’s previous work in this area, the volume considers in depth the function of …

The Psychology of Global Crises and Crisis Politics

This edited volume brings together some of the most prominent scholars in the fields of theoretical, critical, and political psychology to examine crisis phenomena. The book investigates the role of psychology as a science in times of crisis, discusses how socio-political change affects the discipline and profession, and renders psychological interventions as forms of political action. The a…

Augmented Humanity

This open access book will examine the implications of digitalization for the understanding of humanity, conceived as a community of intelligent agency. It addresses important topics across a range of social and behavioral theories and identifies a range of novel mechanisms and their social behavioral effects. Across the book, the author highlights the expansion of intelligent processing capabi…

Robotics, AI, and Humanity

This open access book examines recent advances in how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have elicited widespread debate over their benefits and drawbacks for humanity. The emergent technologies have for instance implications within medicine and health care, employment, transport, manufacturing, agriculture, and armed conflict. While there has been considerable attention devoted to robot…

Cyber-Physical Systems: A Model-Based Approach

In this concise yet comprehensive Open Access textbook, future inventors are introduced to the key concepts of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Using modeling as a way to develop deeper understanding of the computational and physical components of these systems, one can express new designs in a way that facilitates their simulation, visualization, and analysis. Concepts are introduced in a cross-d…

Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices

This edited volume consists of chapters celebrating the career of scholar Sjaak Kroon, who has produced ground-breaking work in the field of ethnography of education, immigrant minority language teaching and language politics. The chapters cover the use of immigrant minority languages in education and the development of policies at all levels and across the globe in this sometimes over-policed …

Empowerment for Teaching Excellence Through Virtuous Agency

This books offers new ways to think about teaching excellence in higher education and presents a definition of the concept of teaching excellence. It offers a fresh interpretation of Boyer’s famous account of scholarship as the foundation of university teaching. To fully understand the nature of teaching excellence in higher education, the book gives an account of the various dimensions of th…

Researching Virtual Play Experiences

This book illuminates the lived experience of a group of primary school children engaged in virtual world play during a year-long after-school club. Shaped by post-structuralist theory and New Literacy Studies, it outlines a playful, participatory and emergent methodological approach, referred to as ‘rhizomic ethnography’. This ‘hybrid’ text uses both words and images to describe the fi…

Care in Mathematics Education

This book investigates the process of care in mathematics teaching. The author proposes transformative educational spaces in which learning mathematics, rather than consisting of a repetitive grind of exercises and facts, can become a part of learner identity. This book describes examples of mathematics teachings in a wide range of contexts and pedagogies, coordinated to identify common feature…

Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future: An Ecosystem Perspective on the …

This open access book proposes a novel approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics. AI offers many advantages: better and faster medical diagnoses, improved business processes and efficiency, and the automation of boring work. But undesirable and ethically problematic consequences are possible too: biases and discrimination, breaches of privacy and security, and societal distortions such as…

Human-Centric Decision-Making Models for Social Sciences

The volume delivers a wealth of effective methods to deal with various types of uncertainty inherently existing in human-centric decision problems. It elaborates on comprehensive decision frameworks to handle different decision scenarios, which help use effectively the explicit and tacit knowledge and intuition, model perceptions and preferences in a more human-oriented style. The book pres…

Teachers as Professional Learners

Drawing upon data from an Australian study, this book gives voice to beginning teachers navigating their way through their first year of teaching and discovering what it means to be professional learners. The chapters within provide rich insights into the ways in which beginning teachers make sense of the new and challenging experiences they face during the first year of teaching, and how these…

Stephens' Detection and Evaluation of Adverse Drug Reactions; Principles and …

Edition

6

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-470-98634-9

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xvi, 732p.; ill.; 24cm

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-

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615.7 Ste s

Abiotic and Biotic Stress Management in Plants Volume II : Biotic Stress

This book deals with an array of topics in the broad area of biotic stress responses in plants, focusing on “problems and their management” by selecting some of the widely investigated themes. Such as: major insect-pest of cereal crops in India and their management, biotic stresses of major pulse crops and their management strategies, insect pests of oilseed crops and their management, biot…