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My father always said that a journey should change your life in
some way. Well, I suppose that when you have nothing, a journey
promises everything. As long as we arrived at a place better than
the one we had left, I would be happy ... When fifteen-year-o
Psychological hedonism - the idea that people tend to act in ways
that maximize pleasure and minimize displeasure - has a decidedly
poor reputation among academics who study human behavior. Opinions
range from outright rejection to those who believe it to be
intuitively obvious, but untestable and therefore unhelpful. In
this book, the author introduces an empirically testable and useful
theory of psychological hedonism based on contemporary theory and
research in the emerging field of affective neuroscience. He goes
on to argue that people are genetically endowed with a tendency
towards psychological hedonism as a function of Darwinian
processes. This view of psychological hedonism in light of its
Darwinian origins - thereinafter referred to as Darwinian hedonism
- is essential to address the growing global epidemic of unhealthy
behavior, such as poor diet, physical inactivity, and substance
use.
Pearson English Kids Readers bring the joy of reading to young
learners of English. Children will love discovering the range
stories and topics in this series - adventures, fairy tales,
popular characters, the world around us.  With more
than 70 titles across 6 language levels, there is a book to suit
every young reader. Â Find out more at english.com/readers
Originally published in 1968, this book set out to give a brief but
complete account of the French Parliament as it had worked in
practice since the advent of President de Gaulle. A number of
different aspects are discussed, from the social background of the
members to the debates on five sample bills, and from the strategy
of pressure groups to the organisation and character of the
Gaullist party (about which very little had been written). While
the legal framework within which the new parliament works is
comprehensively described, attention is mainly focused on a
political situation transformed by the end of the Algerian war and
by the speed of social change in France itself at the time. Earlier
books on the Fifth Republic naturally concentrated heavily on the
spectacular crises of its early years and on the exceptional
personality of its president. Remarkably little, therefore, had
been written on the recent development of its institutions and
politics in the peacetime conditions which France had enjoyed since
1962 for the first time for over twenty years. There was a Gaullist
myth that the new regime had reformed the system and, against the
obstructive opposition of an Opposition which had learned nothing
and forgotten nothing, had won the support of the French people for
a strong democratic government on British lines. There was a
corresponding Opposition myth that a ruler and party of
authoritarian temper had consolidated their power by reducing
parliamentary criticism to an impotent farce. Neither
interpretation was wholly unfounded; neither does justice to the
complex reality which this work tries to explain as fairly as
possible.
Large public projects represent major complex investment and whilst
there has been much written about how to develop, manage and
deliver such projects, practice still does not match up with
expectations. In this book, researchers from the Norwegian Concept
Research Programme explore the paradoxes between theory and
practice in collaboration with experts in the field of project
governance. This book delves into the reality of large public
projects, to show how they can be managed effectively and
efficiently, recognising the realities of their context. It offers
a range of practical conclusions as to the paradoxes of the
governance and management of public projects. The international
spectrum of authors draw their examples from the UK, Norway,
Canada, France, Australia and the Netherlands. Bridging the gap
between research, theory and practice, this book will benefit
academics and researchers in the field of project management and
corporate governance as well as those in the practice of public
project governance, civil servants and industry practitioners.
The 2020 deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor rekindled
decades old concerns about the legitimacy of policing. They ignited
the international recognition that Black people are subjected to
forms of police violence that exceed the boundaries of formal law
and human decency. This book confirms that the Floyd and Taylor
cases are not isolated incidents and provides suggestions toward
prevention. The contributors to the book have served on both sides
of the criminal legal system. They have been those who were tasked
with enforcing the law and those who have been subject to law
enforcement. Consequently, they are able to identify specific
failures of a system that focuses on race, specifically Blackness,
as a primary indicator of criminal propensity. Through these
chapters, the authors suggest academically, morally and practically
sound corrective measures for moving toward a goal of equal, rather
than discriminatory and excessively harmful, treatment under the
law. This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced
students of Criminology, Race and Ethnic Studies, Politics, Human
Rights, and Political Sociology. It was originally published as a
special issue in the Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice.
Both visitor attractions and events play pivotal roles in the
appeal of tourism destination regions to visitors by virtue of
being the main motivator of tourist trips and determining
consumers' choices. However, more recently visitor attractions have
become more multifaceted, have proliferated and fragmented in terms
of form, location, scale and style, and their role is undergoing
major changes in a post-modern world as a result of consumer
demands and competitive innovations. Visitor Attractions and Events
for the first time theoretically and empirically explores the
relations between events and attractions to offer new thinking of
the role of space and place in shaping development, management
practices and strategies in the sector as well as future
implications. The book reveals how location is pivotal in the
development, planning, and management of visitor attractions and
events. Whereas the location of natural attractions is relatively
fixed in space and their locations cannot be predetermined or
relocated, human-made or contrived attractions are more influenced
by the planning process in the context of the locational
decision-making process. Competition and cooperation between
visitor attractions and the aspects which shape these relations,
including complementarities, compatibility, knowledge spill overs
and diffusion of innovations, product similarities and spatial
proximity remain largely ignored in the visitor attraction sector
and thus are major elements in the focus of this book. Comparative
examples ranging from small to major attractions in a wide variety
of locations are included. This significant volume will appeal
widely to all those interested in the visitor sector, such as
tourism, events, leisure studies, destination management and
sociology.
Exploring plant genetic resources is crucial in a time when food
security has been a critical topic worldwide due to crop shortages
and the impact of climate change. This new book, Plant Genetic
Resources for the 21st Century: The OMICS Era, presents the
practical advancements in genomics, epigenetics, metabolomics, and
phenomics from the point of view of researchers and scientists
working in the field of genebanks, genetics resources, and
germplasm for enabling plant breeding and adaptation to a changing
climate. The book highlights the importance of genebanks as centers
of innovation for crop and forage improvement and discusses
database solutions for genebanks and germplasm collections. The
book first looks at plant genetic resources and their values and
goes on to investigate several genomic technologies for plant
improvement, conservation, and better adaptation to changing
climates. Major crops such as wheat and barley are discussed with
genomic approaches for diversity and resilience to drought and
other adverse conditions. Other omics techniques discussed include
phenomics for the improvement of crop adaptation, metabolomics
research for germplasm improvement and adaptation, and more. This
volume will be valuable for researchers who are presently working
in or with genebanks and genetic resources, primarily for trait or
allele discovery and germplasm improvement. Most chapters in the
book can also be used as teaching material at the undergraduate and
postgraduate levels.
As environmental management becomes of increasing concern to both
industrial and developing societies, it is instructive to look at
the fundamental relationship between man and environment as
exemplified by the hunter-gatherer cultures, in which resource
management was and is vital to the very existence of human life.
The authors of this book look at hunting and gathering societies in
Australia and North America, searching for the essential, as
distinct from local, manifestations of human-environment relations.
They examine the availability of resources in relation to the
requirements of stable and expanding human populations, explore the
ontological and structural principles of ecological relations in
these societies, and describe the rationale of geographic
boundaries and control of access to resources within and across
boundaries. A number of current theoretical issues are addressed:
the use of fire as a tool for environmental management; the
ecological consequences of seasonal mobility patterns; the
functional basis for differing forms of control over resources; the
social organization of production, including the symbolism of the
sexual division of labor; the tactical exercise of jural rights in
the use of resources; and the ecological consequences of religious
beliefs. The book concludes with a summary of the case materials in
terms of what they contribute to the understanding of
hunting/gathering as an "economic" category and to the conflict
over management of natural resources where societies of
hunter-gatherers are encapsulated within industrial societies.
This book uses the tools of analytic philosophy and close readings
of medieval Christian philosophical and theological texts in order
to survey what these thinkers said about what today we call
'disability.' The chapters also compare what these medieval authors
say with modern and contemporary philosophers and theologians of
disability. This dual approach enriches our understanding of the
history of disability in medieval Christian philosophy and theology
and opens up new avenues of research for contemporary scholars
working on disability. The volume is divided into three parts. Part
One addresses theoretical frameworks regarding disability,
particularly on questions about the definition(s) of 'disability'
and how disability relates to well-being. The chapters are then
divided into two further parts in order to reflect ways that
medieval philosophers and theologians theorized about disability.
Part Two is on disability in this life, and Part Three is on
disability in the afterlife. Taken as a whole, these chapters
support two general observations. First, these philosophical
theologians sometimes resist Greco-Roman ableist views by means of
theological and philosophical anti-ableist arguments and
counterexamples. Here we find some surprising disability-positive
perspectives that are built into different accounts of a happy
human life. We also find equal dignity of all human beings no
matter ability or disability. Second, some of the seeds for modern
and contemporary ableist views were developed in medieval Christian
philosophy and theology, especially with regard to personhood and
rationality, an intellectualist interpretation of the imago Dei,
and the identification of human dignity with the use of reason.
This volume surveys disability across a wide range of medieval
Christian writers from the time of Augustine up to Francisco
Suarez. It will be of interest to scholars and graduate students
working in medieval philosophy and theology, or disability studies.
Originally published in 1968, this book set out to give a brief but
complete account of the French Parliament as it had worked in
practice since the advent of President de Gaulle. A number of
different aspects are discussed, from the social background of the
members to the debates on five sample bills, and from the strategy
of pressure groups to the organisation and character of the
Gaullist party (about which very little had been written). While
the legal framework within which the new parliament works is
comprehensively described, attention is mainly focused on a
political situation transformed by the end of the Algerian war and
by the speed of social change in France itself at the time. Earlier
books on the Fifth Republic naturally concentrated heavily on the
spectacular crises of its early years and on the exceptional
personality of its president. Remarkably little, therefore, had
been written on the recent development of its institutions and
politics in the peacetime conditions which France had enjoyed since
1962 for the first time for over twenty years. There was a Gaullist
myth that the new regime had reformed the system and, against the
obstructive opposition of an Opposition which had learned nothing
and forgotten nothing, had won the support of the French people for
a strong democratic government on British lines. There was a
corresponding Opposition myth that a ruler and party of
authoritarian temper had consolidated their power by reducing
parliamentary criticism to an impotent farce. Neither
interpretation was wholly unfounded; neither does justice to the
complex reality which this work tries to explain as fairly as
possible.
In this rapidly changing teaching and learning environment, one of
the most promising ways for faculty at institutions of higher
education to improve their teaching is to capitalize upon their
skills as researchers. This book is a step-by-step guide for doing
research to inform and improve teaching and learning. With
background and instruction about how to engage in these
methodologies-including historical analyses, qualitative,
quantitative and mixed methods-the second edition of Doing Research
to Improve Teaching and Learning discusses a process of working
collaboratively and reflectively to improve one's teaching craft.
Full of updated, authentic examples from research studies, student
work and instructor reflections, this valuable resource equips
faculty with the skills to collect and use data and evidence-based
instructional methods in any college and university classroom.
In this rapidly changing teaching and learning environment, one of
the most promising ways for faculty at institutions of higher
education to improve their teaching is to capitalize upon their
skills as researchers. This book is a step-by-step guide for doing
research to inform and improve teaching and learning. With
background and instruction about how to engage in these
methodologies-including historical analyses, qualitative,
quantitative and mixed methods-the second edition of Doing Research
to Improve Teaching and Learning discusses a process of working
collaboratively and reflectively to improve one's teaching craft.
Full of updated, authentic examples from research studies, student
work and instructor reflections, this valuable resource equips
faculty with the skills to collect and use data and evidence-based
instructional methods in any college and university classroom.
District Six and other plays, a collection of short, modern South
African drama, will engage learners everywhere. From a one-woman
play to physical theatre, it meets teachers needs for plays that
have literary value and can be studied in-depth, as well as for
those that can be easily performed. Featuring successfully staged
works by acclaimed playwrights David Kramer, Fatima Dike, Nadia
Davids, Fiona Coyne, Michael Williams, and Roy Sargeant.
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First published in 1997, Imagining Cities gives students access to
the most exciting recent work on the city from within sociology,
cultural studies and cultural geography. Contributions are grouped
around four major themes: The theoretical imagination Ethnic
diversity and the politics of difference Memory and nostalgia The
city as narrative The book considers the interplay of past and
present, imagined and substantive, and links present and future in
examining the idea of the virtual city. Here, the world of
cyberspace not only recasts views of space and communication, but
has a profound impact on the sociological imagination itself.
Scholars have often drawn attention to William Blake's unusual sensitivity to his social context. In this book, Nicholas Williams situates Blake's thought historically by showing how through the decades of a long and productive career, Blake consistently responded to the ideas, writing, and art of contemporaries. Williams presents detailed readings of several of Blake's major poems alongside Rousseau's Emile, Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women, Paine's Rights of Man, Burke's Reflections of the Revolution in France, and Robert Owen's Utopian experiments. In doing so, he offers revealing new insights into key Blake texts and draws attention to their inclusion of notions of social determinism, theories of ideology-critique and utopian traditions. Williams argues that if we are truly to understand ideology as it relates to Blake, we must understand the practical situation in which the ideological Blake found himself. His study is a revealing commentary on the work of one of our most challenging poets.
This ground-breaking volume on the relationships between tourism
and innovation provides an overview of relevant innovation theories
and related literatures on entrepreneurship, productivity, regional
development and competitiveness, and their significance to
contemporary tourism practices. Innovation is a key concept in
business and entrepreneurial studies and the broader social
sciences. Yet, despite its policy and academic importance,
historically little attention has been given to the role of
innovation in tourism and the corresponding contribution of
tourism-related human mobility to regional, firm, and product
innovation. This book emphasises that innovation in tourism is much
more than a series of technological innovations, as important as
they are, and instead needs to be understood in an economic,
social, and political context, with particular stress being placed
on the extent to which innovations are shaped by the framework of
governance and regulation, as well as by institutional factors and
activities of individual actors and entrepreneurs. It is structured
so as to introduce the reader to the overall significance of
innovation at various levels and the role that innovation plays in
firm and place competition. Supported with case studies throughout,
this book is essential reading for all tourism students.
"Presenting a historical analysis of the evolution of systematics
during the last one hundred years, Milestones in Systematics
reviews many of the major issues in systematic theory and practice
that have driven the working methods of systematics during the 20th
century and looks at the issues most likely to preoccupy
systematists in the immediate future. The book highlights:
First published in 1997, Imagining Cities gives students access to
the most exciting recent work on the city from within sociology,
cultural studies and cultural geography. Contributions are grouped
around four major themes: The theoretical imagination Ethnic
diversity and the politics of difference Memory and nostalgia The
city as narrative The book considers the interplay of past and
present, imagined and substantive, and links present and future in
examining the idea of the virtual city. Here, the world of
cyberspace not only recasts views of space and communication, but
has a profound impact on the sociological imagination itself.
Migration is one of the driving forces of economic and social
change in the modern world. It is both informed by risk and a
generator of risk, whether for individuals, households, communities
or societies. Although the relationship between migration and risk
is widely acknowledged, it has long been neglected in academic
research, with a few exceptions such as household diversification
strategies. Instead, risk is assumed to be implicit in economic or
social models, rather than being explicitly theorised or analysed.
This book represents the first major review of these key
relationships. It draws on a wide range of theories - from
economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology and geography - and
an equally broad range of empirical material, to provide a highly
original overview.
Many science, engineering, technology, and math (STEM) faculty wish
to make an academic change at the course, department, college, or
university level, but they lack the specific tools and training
that can help them achieve the changes they desire. Making Changes
in STEM Education: The Change Maker’s Toolkit is a practical
guide based on academic change research and designed to equip STEM
faculty and administrators with the skills necessary to accomplish
their academic change goals. Each tool is categorized by a dominant
theme in change work, such as opportunities for change, strategic
vision, communication, teamwork, stakeholders, and partnerships,
and is presented in context by the author, herself a change leader
in STEM. In addition, the author provides interviews with STEM
faculty and leaders who are engaged in their own change projects,
offering additional insight into how the tools can be applied to a
variety of educational contexts. The book is ideal for STEM faculty
who are working to change their courses, curricula, departments,
and campuses and STEM administrators who lead such change work to
support their faculties, as well as graduate students in STEM who
plan to enter an academic position upon graduation and expect to
work on academic change projects.
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