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The development of entrepreneurial abilities in people with
dyslexia is a subject of great interest. It has gained increasing
importance in economically difficult times because of its potential
for the development of new business opportunities. This book brings
together contributions from researchers, educators, and
entrepreneurs with dyslexia, investigating this subject from many
perspectives. Is there something different in the profile of a
person with dyslexia that supports the development of
entrepreneurship? This book aims to draw out key themes which can
be used in education to motivate, mentor, and create the business
leaders of tomorrow. It offers a fundamental text for this area of
study with a comprehensive, international examination of its topic.
It includes views by new and established international writers and
researchers, providing up-to-date perspectives on entrepreneurship,
dyslexia, and education. It is accessible to read, to understand,
and to learn from, and is suitable for recommended reading for
graduate and postgraduate students. The diverse views and
perspectives demonstrated in this book make it as relevant as
possible for a wide group of readers. It informs study in the
fields of business and dyslexia, and will be of interest to
educators, researchers, and to anyone interested in the overlap of
entrepreneurship and dyslexia.
The development of entrepreneurial abilities in people with
dyslexia is a subject of great interest. It has gained increasing
importance in economically difficult times because of its potential
for the development of new business opportunities. This book brings
together contributions from researchers, educators, and
entrepreneurs with dyslexia, investigating this subject from many
perspectives. Is there something different in the profile of a
person with dyslexia that supports the development of
entrepreneurship? This book aims to draw out key themes which can
be used in education to motivate, mentor, and create the business
leaders of tomorrow. It offers a fundamental text for this area of
study with a comprehensive, international examination of its topic.
It includes views by new and established international writers and
researchers, providing up-to-date perspectives on entrepreneurship,
dyslexia, and education. It is accessible to read, to understand,
and to learn from, and is suitable for recommended reading for
graduate and postgraduate students. The diverse views and
perspectives demonstrated in this book make it as relevant as
possible for a wide group of readers. It informs study in the
fields of business and dyslexia, and will be of interest to
educators, researchers, and to anyone interested in the overlap of
entrepreneurship and dyslexia.
A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description
of the Southern Pomo language, which lost its last fluent speaker
in 2014. Southern Pomo is one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken
in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of
California. Before European contact, a third of all Pomoan peoples
spoke Southern Pomo, and descendants of these speakers are
scattered across several present-day reservations. These
descendants have recently initiated efforts to revitalize the
language. The unique culture of Southern Pomo speakers is embedded
in the language in several ways. There are separate words for the
many different species of oak trees and their different acorns,
which were the people's staple cuisine. The kinship system is
unusually rich both semantically and morphologically, with terms
marked for possession, generation, number, and case. Verbs
similarly encode the ancient interactions of speakers with their
land with more than a dozen directional suffixes indicating
specific paths of movement. A Grammar of Southern Pomo sheds new
light on a relatively unknown Indigenous California speech
community. In many instances Neil Alexander Walker discusses
phenomena that are rare or entirely unattested outside the language
and challenges long-standing ideas about what human speech
communities can create and pass on to children and the degree to
which culture and place are inextricably woven into language.
Dyslexia is a complex condition that affects not only learning but
every part of life. Experience or fear of social stigma can lead
people with dyslexia to camouflage the difficulties they face, to
withdraw and to adopt negative coping strategies, particularly if
they lack adequate support, identification and intervention. This
can have lasting impact on their emotional health. Neil
Alexander-Passe is an experienced researcher and a special needs
teacher in secondary mainstream education. He also has dyslexia.
Neil uses his personal and professional experience to shed light on
the complexities surrounding dyslexia and examines psychological
theories such as ego-defence mechanisms and learned helplessness
that reveal how people deal with its emotional impact. He offers
guidelines and advice, illustrated with real life examples, about
how to help people with dyslexia avoid harmful coping strategies
and learn to deal with stress, anxiety and low self-esteem in more
effective and psychologically positive ways. This book will help
educational and clinical psychologists, teachers, mental health
specialists, counsellors and therapists understand the emotional
complexities of dyslexia.
A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description
of the Southern Pomo language, which lost its last fluent speaker
in 2014. Southern Pomo is one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken
in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of
California. Before European contact, a third of all Pomoan peoples
spoke Southern Pomo, and descendants of these speakers are
scattered across several present-day reservations. These
descendants have recently initiated efforts to revitalize the
language. The unique culture of Southern Pomo speakers is embedded
in the language in several ways. There are separate words for the
many different species of oak trees and their different acorns,
which were the people's staple cuisine. The kinship system is
unusually rich both semantically and morphologically, with terms
marked for possession, generation, number, and case. Verbs
similarly encode the ancient interactions of speakers with their
land with more than a dozen directional suffixes indicating
specific paths of movement. A Grammar of Southern Pomo sheds new
light on a relatively unknown Indigenous California speech
community. In many instances Neil Alexander Walker discusses
phenomena that are rare or entirely unattested outside the language
and challenges long-standing ideas about what human speech
communities can create and pass on to children and the degree to
which culture and place are inextricably woven into language.
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Climate, Ticks and Disease (Hardcover)
Pat Nuttall; Contributions by Saeed Alasmari, Neil Alexander, Abdelghafar Alkishe, Reiko Arai, …
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This book brings together expert opinions from scientists to
consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks
and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate
change', how effective climate models are in relation to
ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes in climate at
global, regional and local scales relevant for ticks and tick-borne
infections. It examines changes to tick distribution and the
evidence that climate change is responsible. The effect of climate
on the physiology and behaviour of ticks is stressed, including
potentially critical impacts on the tick microbiome. Given that the
notoriety of ticks derives from pathogens they transmit, the book
considers whether changes in climate affect vector capacity. Ticks
transmit a remarkable range of micro- and macro-parasites many of
which are pathogens of humans and domesticated animals. The
intimacy between a tick-borne agent and a tick vector means that
any impacts of climate on a tick vector will impact tick-borne
pathogens. Most obviously, such impacts will be apparent as changes
in disease incidence and prevalence. The evidence that climate
change is affecting diseases caused by tick-borne pathogens is
considered, along with the potential to make robust predictions of
future events. This book contains: Expert opinions and predictions.
Global coverage of trends in ticks and disease. In-depth
examination of climate change and tick distribution links. This
book is suitable for researchers and students studying zoology,
biological sciences, medical entomology, animal health, veterinary
medicine, epidemiology, parasitology, and climate change impacts;
and for those concerned with public health planning or livestock
management where ticks and tick-borne pathogens pose a threat.
The first-ever book to cover the history of the renegade Outlaw
country music movement from its beginnings in the 1970s to its
resurgence today, "Outlaws Still At Large " draws from the author's
interviews with current artists to reveal a rich, vibrant music
scene beneath the mainstream Nashville gloss, while it shows the
trials and adventures of life on the road. Hamilton traveled more
than 20,000 miles with the Outlaws to get his story, and in the
end, the music changed his life. One of the Outlaws, Shooter
Jennings, who is the son of 1970s Outlaws Waylon Jennings and Jessi
Colter, says about Hamilton and this book: "Besides his insanely
neurotic attention to detail, or his relentless obsession with
perfection, Neil is someone who cares very deeply for music and
art. He cares so deeply that he's willing to spend as much time as
he finds necessary to do this right, to do it true, and do justice
to the thing he loves and protects with such grace and dignity. He
is, like us, a warrior." Hamilton begins with a historical
background to the rise of country music and the Outlaw movement,
before offering five chapter profiles on prominent Outlaws from the
1970s: Waylon, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, Johnny Paycheck,
and David Allan Coe. He then shows how the 1970s Outlaw movement
faded, how Nashville pop regained its crown, and how the current
Outlaw movement has emerged. From there he presents chapter
profiles on 15 current artists, including Shooter, Blackberry
Smoke, Elizabeth Cook, Dallas Moore, Jackson Taylor, Jason Boland,
Lydia Loveless, Whitey Morgan, Wayne Mills, Joey Allcorn, and
Hellbound Glory. The book concludes with a look at the promoters
behind the Outlaw scene and the emergence of Outlaw music on
SiriusXM radio. Hamilton found that there's really no one Outlaw
musical form. Some of the artists are most heavily influenced by
Hank Williams, others by Elvis Presley, or by the 1970s Outlaws, or
by Southern rock, or even punk rock. Yet, beneath this diversity
and creativity, there remains a central attachment to country's
roots and to the belief that music should be created primarily for
the heart and not the wallet-even if it means many a hungry night
in a low-pay honky tonk. If readers bathed in music history get a
feeling that Hamilton formatted the book in word similar to the way
that Willie Nelson formatted his path breaking album "Red Headed
Stanger" in music, they will be right on the mark. That structure
is meant to convey the continuing link between country roots past
and present and the continuing belief that country music based on
sincerity still has something to say in a society awash with
shallow forms and fleeting moments.
This book is the culmination of fifteen years of the author's
research into dyslexia. As a dyslexic himself, the author grew up
with many difficulties in dealing with both family and school life.
As an adult he wanted to understand more about dyslexia, how it
affects individuals and be better prepared if dyslexia affected his
own children. So he began an academic study of the emotional
effects, rather than educational interventions, based on the
collection of the neurological deficit symptoms defined as
dyslexia. The book begins by reviewing the cause and effects of
depression, starting from anxiety and leading through defensive
mechanisms to depression. Parallels were made to other learning
disability groups who also suffer from depression, suggesting that
groups that experience exclusion from mainstream society are at
higher risk of depression. The book also investigates dyslexia, by
reviewing past empirical research into its symptoms and diagnosis,
into how it affects individuals at school, at home and lastly in
the workplace. Such a review was felt to be needed to enlighten the
reader to the historical aspect of dyslexia, which many believe to
be medical in cause, but educational in treatment'. Whilst dyslexia
may have been recognised by many medical minds for over a century,
it has only been fully recognised by educationalists for less than
a decade, thus the study of secondary manifestations due to a lack
of recognition by teachers is the basis for this book. A review is
also given of several of the authors own published works, of which
two form pilot studies for this book. The main study of N=29 adult
dyslexics used both qualitative (Interpretative Phenomenological
Analysis-IPA) and quantitative methodologies. IPA was found to be
beneficial in understanding the life experiences and secondary
manifestations in participants. The majority of participants were
only diagnosed as dyslexic after leaving school and this the author
finds typical of the many dyslexics he has encountered. Whilst the
study set out to investigate depression as a sub-factor, it turned
out to be the main focus of the study, as the majority of those who
took part were depressed at some points in their child and/or adult
lives. Gender also turned out to be an important variable in
understanding how male and female dyslexics cope with the
educational experiences they encountered. In the discussion
chapter, three hypothetical models of how dyslexics cope are
suggested based on parenting type and style, through an
investigation of cause and effect, leading to proposed
interventions to tackle helplessness developing from mainstream
education. This book is a suitable reference book for a range of
individuals, beginning with researchers in the field; to
educationalists looking to understand the secondary and long-term
effects of the condition; to parents of dyslexics looking to
understand their children; and finally to dyslexics themselves, who
are looking to understand their condition better. It is hoped that
dyslexics who read this book will realise that their feelings of
being an outsider are typical of those living with a hidden'
disability or disorder that touches every part of their lives. This
book has been an emotional journey for both the author and those
who took part in the study. Many participants noted that they knew
very few, if any, dyslexics and their interview was the first time
they had taken time to understand and discuss their dyslexia and
how the effects of their childhood and school experiences had
manifested themselves into lifelong secondary psychological and
emotional affects.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This is the first in a series to investigate under-researched areas
of dyslexia. It has come from a need to investigate a much quoted
but little researched and substantiated area of dyslexia, namely
positive attributes or talents that have come out of having a
learning disability. Whilst traditional understanding of creativity
is solely concerned with the arts, wider investigation suggests it
includes many other careers, from cooking to sport, business to
politics. Thus creativity can be seen is all areas of society.
The book begins by reviewing past empirical research into dyslexia,
its symptoms and diagnosis into how it affects individuals at
school, at home and lastly in the workplace. Such a review was felt
to be needed to enlighten the reader to the historical aspect of a
condition which many believe to be 'medical in cause, but
educational in treatment'. Whilst dyslexia may have been recognised
by many medical minds for over a century, it has only been fully
recognised by educationalists for less than a decade, thus the
study of secondary manifestations due to a lack of recognition by
teachers is the basis for this book. A review is also given of four
of the authors own published works, of which two form pilot studies
for this book. The main study of N=29 adult dyslexics used both
qualitative (Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis-IPA) and
quantitative methodologies. IPA was found to be beneficial in
understanding the life experiences and secondary manifestations of
participants. The majority of participants were only diagnosed as
dyslexic after leaving school and this the author finds typical of
the many dyslexics he has encountered. Whilst the study set out to
investigate depression as a sub-factor, it turned out to be a main
focus of the study as the majority of those who took part were
depressed at some points in their child and adult lives. Gender
also turned out to be an important variable in understanding how
male and female dyslexics cope with the educational experiences
they encountered.
This is the second book of this series, the first being 'Dyslexia
and Creativity'. This format has been found to be advantageous to
inform readers that looking at issues from a singular angle can
cause distortion, so several points of reference are used to better
understand complex problems. Enclosed you will find the work of
nine professors and other researchers in the field, some taking
highly academic perspectives, whilst others prefer a more
down-to-earth style. Chapters are also included from neurologists,
educational psychologists and employment specialists, who give
alternative ways to understand the topic. No one continent has the
whole picture, thus a world-wide span is required to do the subject
justice, with the authors reflecting this concept.
* 2nd installment in the "Celebrating" series - an overview of
liturgical theology and praxis * Written by a well-known liturgical
scholar * Includes history, theology, and practical information
Celebrating Liturgical Time continues the standard of scholarship
set by Patrick Malloy's Celebrating the Eucharist. It is ideal for
students, clergy, and church members who seek to strengthen their
knowledge-and parochial practice-of liturgical time- keeping and
the Daily Office.
Dyslexia is still seen as a mysterious disorder, and the layman's
concept of dyslexia is that it only affects reading and writing -
which is in fact misleading and vague. This book discusses the
secondary effects of having such a difficulty with communication.
This book aims to study long-term partners/spouses of dyslexics and
it investigates young dyslexics who are dating. Lastly, how
parenting is affected by dyslexics returning to school for their
own children, into the traumatic environment they suffered in as
children is analysed in this book.
In this thoughtful and timely book, Bishop Alexander explores his
journey through the theological, scriptural, and pastoral aspects
of the questions surrounding homosexuality and the Christian faith.
Writing in the weeks after the General Convention of the Episcopal
Church approved the appointment of the church's first openly gay
bishop, Bishop Alexander offers a personal view of his changing
outlook from exclusion to acceptance on this important issue. He
also offers thought-provoking perspectives on scripture and
tradition. This Far by Grace will prove a vital resource for
discussion and reflection by individuals, parishes, and dioceses.
In the past few years pilgrimage-going to ancient holy sites in
search of God-has become increasingly popular for people seeking to
deepen their relationship with the Holy. Sister Cintra Pemberton
seeks to enrich the experiences of today's pilgrims by helping them
draw on the history of pilgrimage itself, as well as by suggesting
particularly rich sites to visit. Part One of Soulfaring explores
the history of pilgrimage, beginning in Celtic times, and moving
through the early Christian period, the Middle Ages, and even the
revival of pilgrimage today. Part Two explores fifteen sites in
Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. Each of the
descriptions of the various sites includes not only suggestions of
what may be seen there, but the author's personal meditations on
the experience of the Holy in each place.
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