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This incisive Research Handbook addresses the growing recognition
within the international law community that natural resource
governance and environmental protection are crucial aspects of
peace processes, both as a security imperative and as an
opportunity for peacebuilding. Examining the impact of
international normative and institutional frameworks on
environmental peacebuilding, this Research Handbook features
contributions from distinguished experts and global case studies on
integrated legal approaches to the governance of natural resources.
Chapters examine the role of international legal obligations on
fair and equitable benefit-sharing in environmental protection, the
contribution of the UN and other international institutions to
environmental peacebuilding, and the nexus between access to
environmental services and peacebuilding efforts. The compelling
conclusion explores contemporary approaches for improving the
inclusivity of environmental peacebuilding, considering the role of
gender and indigenous peoplesā perspectives. The Research
Handbook on International Law and Environmental Peacebuilding will
be crucial reading for students and scholars in environmental law,
environmental politics and policy, peace and security studies and
public international law. Its comprehensive treatment will also be
beneficial to policymakers in international environmental and
peacebuilding organizations.
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Music and Murder (Main)
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This is the first book on language learner autonomy to combine
comprehensive accounts of classroom practice with empirical and
case-study research and a wide-ranging engagement with applied
linguistic and pedagogical theory. It provides a detailed
description of an autonomy classroom in action, focusing on Danish
mixed-ability learners of English at lower secondary level, and
reports the findings of a longitudinal research project that
explored the learning achievement over four years of one class in
the same Danish school. It also presents two learner case studies
to show that the autonomy classroom responds to the challenges of
differentiation and inclusion, and two institutional case studies
that illustrate the power of autonomous learning to support the
social inclusion of adult refugees and the educational inclusion of
immigrant children. The concluding chapter offers some reflections
on teacher education for language learner autonomy. Each chapter
ends with discussion points and suggestions for further reading.
This collection follows anthropological perspectives on peoples
(Canadian Inuit, Norwegian Sami, Yupiit from Alaska, and Inuit from
Greenland), places, and practices in the Circumpolar North from
colonial times to our post-modern era. This volume brings together
fresh perspectives on theoretical concepts, colonial/imperial
descriptions, collaborative work of non-Indigenous and Indigenous
researchers, as well as articles written by representatives of
Indigenous cultures from an inside perspective. The scope of the
book ranges from contributions based on unpublished primary
sources, missionary journals, and fairly unknown early Indigenous
sources and publications, to those based on more recent Indigenous
testimonies and anthropological fieldwork, museum exhibitions, and
(self)representations in the fields of fashion, marketing, and the
arts. The aim of this volume is to explore the making of
representations for and/or by Circumpolar North peoples. The
authors follow what representations have been created in the past
and in some cases continue to be created in the present, and the
Indigenous employment of representations that has continuity with
the past and also goes beyond "traditional" utilization. By
studying these representations, we gain a better understanding of
the dynamics of a society and its interaction with other cultures,
notably in the context of the dominant culture's efforts to
assimilate Indigenous people and erase their story. People's ideas
about themselves and of "the Other" are never static, not even if
they share the same cultural background. This is even more the case
in the contact zone of the intercultural arena. Images of "the
Other" vary according to time and place, and perceptions of
"others" are continuously readjusted from both sides in
intercultural encounters. This volume has been prepared by the
Research Group Circumpolar Cultures (RGCC) which is based in the
Netherlands. Its members conduct research on social and cultural
change focusing on topics that are of interest to the Indigenous
peoples of the Arctic. The RGCC builds on a long tradition in
Arctic studies in the Netherlands (Nico Tinbergen, Geert van den
Steenhoven, Gerti Nooter, and Jarich Oosten) and can rely on rich
Arctic collections of artefacts and photographs in anthropological
museums and extensive library collections. The expertise of the
RGCC in Arctic studies is internationally acknowledged by academics
as well as circumpolar peoples.
Key Features: Provides the taxonomy of the concepts and a
navigation tool for the field of DTx. Covers important strategic
aspects of the DTx industry, thereby helping investors, developers,
and regulators gain a better appreciation of the potential value of
DTx. Expounds on many existing and emerging state-of-the art
scientific and technological tools, as well as data privacy,
ethical and regulatory considerations for DTx product development.
Presents several case studies of successful development of some of
the most remarkable DTx products. Provides some perspectives and
forward-looking statements on the future of digital medicine.
"Technical" skills + "Soft" skills = Work and Career Success! This
book is for the young people who are beginning to dip their toes in
the professional world as well as current professionals. It
provides a proven roadmap to fast-track your career. In the
increasingly global workplace of today, being conversant with
international business culture is the key to success. Thriving At
Work is a smart and practical guide full of real-world examples and
expert advice. Here are skills that are not usually taught in
school and can otherwise take years to learn - often the hard way!
Chapters include: - How to Write a Compelling Resume - How to
Prepare for Interviews - How to Run and Facilitate Meetings - How
to Understand and Use Business Idioms - How to Handle Conflicts -
How to Ask for a Raise - How to Work with Your Managers - How to
Handle Workplace Politics "An absolute gem... A personal bootcamp
for invaluable soft skills. Every future-ready professional should
read this!" Ā¬- Kian Chong Lee, Board Director, BNF/Boston Business
School
When Dorothy Martin and her husband Alan meet the wealthy Ahmad
family, they are charmed by their courtesy, their perfect English,
their delightful children and their commitment to peace. So when Mr
and Mrs Ahmad disappear without trace, leaving their children
asleep in the local inn, Dorothy feels compelled to find out what's
happened to them.
American Anglophile Dorothy Martin tackles a tricky puzzle in the
historic university town of Cambridge Dorothy Martin isn't overly
enthusiastic when her husband, retired police detective Alan
Nesbitt, invites her to accompany him to a conference in Cambridge,
picturing cramped student accommodation. But St Stephen's turns out
to be recently renovated, and, bolstered by en suite facilities,
Dorothy is looking forward to exploring the historic and beautiful
city. It is not long, though, before disaster strikes: lost in the
maze of college buildings, Dorothy stumbles into a laboratory . . .
and is shocked to find what looks like a pool of blood on the
floor. She flees, to fetch help, but when Alan checks it out, there
is nothing to be found. Was she mistaken? Or has a terrible crime
been committed? Dorothy, who can never resist a puzzle, determines
to find out.
Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan
Nesbitt, go on a trip to Orkney in Scotland to visit an old friend
and see some intriguing Stone Age excavations. They realize there's
considerable dissension between the archaeologists and the
principal donor for the newest dig, a wealthy and abrasive
American. When a more recent corpse is found at the dig, various
suspects are named, but there's not enough evidence to bring a case
against anyone. Dorothy, always sensitive to atmosphere and the
undercurrent of tension pervading the project, has become
fascinated by the strong aura of the ancient past that pervades
Orkney, and she and Alan launch an unofficial investigation into
the murder.
When Dorothy Martin and her husband Alan meet the wealthy Ahmad
family, they are charmed by their courtesy, their perfect English,
their delightful children and their commitment to peace. So when Mr
and Mrs Ahmad disappear without trace, leaving their children
asleep in the local inn, Dorothy feels compelled to find out what's
happened to them.
Fans of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers will enjoy this very
traditional British cozy - Booklist A Dorothy Martin mystery
Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan
Nesbitt, have just visited Buckingham Palace, where Alan was
awarded the George Cross, when they and a friend, retired Chief
Inspector Jonathan Quinn, stumble across the body of a young girl
hidden in St James' Park. Wondering what led to the unfortunate
girl's demise, Dorothy can't help but get involved in the case when
Jonathan calls the next day and admits he knew who the victim was .
. .
This is the first book on language learner autonomy to combine
comprehensive accounts of classroom practice with empirical and
case-study research and a wide-ranging engagement with applied
linguistic and pedagogical theory. It provides a detailed
description of an autonomy classroom in action, focusing on Danish
mixed-ability learners of English at lower secondary level, and
reports the findings of a longitudinal research project that
explored the learning achievement over four years of one class in
the same Danish school. It also presents two learner case studies
to show that the autonomy classroom responds to the challenges of
differentiation and inclusion, and two institutional case studies
that illustrate the power of autonomous learning to support the
social inclusion of adult refugees and the educational inclusion of
immigrant children. The concluding chapter offers some reflections
on teacher education for language learner autonomy. Each chapter
ends with discussion points and suggestions for further reading.
"The new 'Dorothy Martin' mystery - "Dorothy Martin and her
husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are on holiday in
the idyllic English village of Broadway when they stumble across
the body of a man who appears to have fallen down a disused quarry.
When it is revealed that the man, a local farmer, was probably
pushed over the edge, and that the police have failed to find any
suspects or motives for the murder, Dorothy can't help but get
involved . . .
This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural
and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and
German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century
interwar period. Drawing on a hitherto largely overlooked body of
travelers whose work ranges across what is now Germany and Austria,
the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium, the Dutch East Indies
and Suriname, the contributors highlight the interrelations between
the regional and the global and the role alterity plays in both
spheres. They therefore offer a transnational and transcultural
perspective on the ways in which the foreign was mediated to
audiences back home. By combining a narrative perspective on travel
writing with a socio-historically contextualized approach, essays
emphasize the importance of textuality in travel literature as well
as the self-positioning of such accounts in their individual
historical and political environments. The first sustained analysis
to focus specifically on these neighboring cultural and linguistic
areas, this collection demonstrates how topographies of knowledge
were forged across these regions by an astonishingly diverse range
of travelling individuals from professional scholars and writers to
art dealers, soldiers, (female) explorers, and scientific
collectors. The contributors address cultural, aesthetic,
political, and gendered aspects of travel writing, drawing
productively on other disciplines and areas of scholarly research
that encompass German Studies, Low Countries Studies, comparative
literature, aesthetics, the history of science, literary geography,
and the history of publishing.
This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural
and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and
German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century
interwar period. Drawing on a hitherto largely overlooked body of
travelers whose work ranges across what is now Germany and Austria,
the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium, the Dutch East Indies
and Suriname, the contributors highlight the interrelations between
the regional and the global and the role alterity plays in both
spheres. They therefore offer a transnational and transcultural
perspective on the ways in which the foreign was mediated to
audiences back home. By combining a narrative perspective on travel
writing with a socio-historically contextualized approach, essays
emphasize the importance of textuality in travel literature as well
as the self-positioning of such accounts in their individual
historical and political environments. The first sustained analysis
to focus specifically on these neighboring cultural and linguistic
areas, this collection demonstrates how topographies of knowledge
were forged across these regions by an astonishingly diverse range
of travelling individuals from professional scholars and writers to
art dealers, soldiers, (female) explorers, and scientific
collectors. The contributors address cultural, aesthetic,
political, and gendered aspects of travel writing, drawing
productively on other disciplines and areas of scholarly research
that encompass German Studies, Low Countries Studies, comparative
literature, aesthetics, the history of science, literary geography,
and the history of publishing.
When Dorothy Martin and her husband Alan meet the wealthy Ahmad
family, they are charmed by their courtesy, their perfect English,
their delightful children and their commitment to peace. So when Mr
and Mrs Ahmad disappear without trace, leaving their children
asleep in the local inn, Dorothy feels compelled to find out what's
happened to them.
Few institutions are warier of copies than museums. Few fields of
knowledge are more prone to denounce copies as fake than the
heritage field. Few discourses are as concerned with authenticity,
aura, originals and provenance as those concerning exhibiting and
collecting. So why is it that these are institutions, fields and
discourses where copies proliferate and copying techniques have
thrived for hundreds of years? Museums as Cultures of Copies aims
to make the copying practices of museums visible and to discuss,
from a range of interrelated perspectives, precisely what function
copies fulfil in the heritage field and in museums today. With
contributions from Europe and Canada, the book interrogates the
meaning of copies and presents copying as a fully integrated part
of museum work. Including chapters on ethnographic mannequins,
digitalized photos, death masks, museum documentation and
mechanical models, contributors consider how copying as a cultural
form changes according to time and place and how new forms of
copying and copy technologies challenge and expand museum work
today. Arguing that copying is at the basis of museum practice and
that new technologies and practices have been taken up and
developed in museums since their inception, the book presents both
heritage work and copies in a new light. Museums as Cultures of
Copies should be of great interest to academics, scholars and
postgraduate students working in the fields of museum and heritage
studies, as well as visual studies, cultural history and
archaeology. It should also be essential reading for museum
practitioners.
American Anglophile Dorothy Martin is celebrating her birthday in
the historic city of Bath, but the discovery of a number of stolen
artefacts throws her plans awry. Retired chief constable Alan
Nesbit and his wife Dorothy Martin are in the beautiful historic
city of Bath to celebrate Dorothy's birthday, enjoying the city's
elegant surroundings, sightseeing, shopping - and champagne. But
the celebrations are curtailed when they discover a curious
assortment of loot in their car boot during a trip to Stonehenge -
from precious artefacts to cheap jumble sale trinkets. The stolen
items are linked to various historic sites in Bath, but how did
they end up in the Martins' car? As Dorothy and Alan seek to prove
their innocence and catch a thief, they are soon swept into a
conspiracy that runs much deeper and darker . . .
A hands-on introduction to the fields of business and management,
this comprehensive text unveils the theories behind management and
organization via a practice-led, international approach. In this
fourth edition, the book expands with six new chapters on digital
business transformation, internationalization, corporate social
responsibility, the future of work, human resource management, and
culture. In addition, the book contains new, topical practical
examples, and features a fully modernized layout. This
comprehensive, practice-led text will be valuable for students of
business, management and organisation globally. A companion website
offers students multiple choice questions, practical cases, and
assignments, whilst instructors can assess exams, cases, and
college sheets.
An increasingly popular view holds that institutions-in particular,
the rule of law-are the keys to unlocking the developing world's
full growth potential. But what exactly does this mean? Which legal
institutions matter and why? How can policymakers use this
knowledge to promote growth? In The Law-Growth Nexus, Kenneth Dam
brings five decades of experience as a legal scholar and
policymaker to bear upon these questions. After reviewing the
burgeoning literature on legal institutions and economic
development, Dam unpacks the ""rule of law"" concept. Successive
chapters analyze enforcement, contracts, and property rights the
three concepts that collectively define rule of law and examine
their roles in the real estate and financial sectors. Dam uses an
extended analysis of China to assess the importance of the rule of
law. This case study illustrates several of the book's central
themes, including the difficulty of building a strong, independent
judiciary and firstclass financial sector. The stark fact is that
many parts of what we call the developing world have stopped
developing, while other regions have seen a slowdown in
once-promising growth. Could new or better legal institutions help
jumpstart these economies? In exploring this question, The
Law-Growth Nexus goes beyond regression results to examine the
underlying mechanisms through which the law, the judiciary, and the
legal profession influence the economy. The result is essential
reading for analysts and policymakers facing the challenges of
legal and economic reform.
Know what signs indicate a child molester! Revealing the secret but
successful strategies used by child molesters allows adults to
intervene long before children are abused. The Socially Skilled
Child Molester: Differentiating the Guilty from the Falsely Accused
identifies how socially proficient molesters successfully
ingratiate themselves into families and communities. The book
closely examines their techniques and strategies while detailing
the tools for prevention. The difficult issue of false accusation
is tackled by learning the distinctions that clearly differentiate
the actions of the guilty from those who are innocent. Practical
recommendations for accurately assessing danger and managing safety
are provided. The Socially Skilled Child Molester focuses on the
sexual deviants who 'groom' family, friends, and their community to
allow their activities, though arousing suspicion, to go on without
restriction. This essential source reveals their tactics. Using
composite representations of various types of child molesters, the
author illustrates through case history and detailed research how
these offenders succeed, while providing recommendations on how
communities can stop enabling and protecting such individuals. The
Socially Skilled Child Molester discusses in depth: 'groomers'
versus 'grabbers' common misperceptions about child molesters the
groomer profile-the different types groomer strategies for
manipulation correctly differentiating between pedophiles and the
falsely accused predicting risk the key concerns when interviewing
child molesters the three levels of child molesters recidivism for
the sexual deviant. The Socially Skilled Child Molester
comprehensively brings together helpful strategies and vital
information essential for parents, lawmakers, police, teachers, and
therapists.
By the year 2000, the world had built more than 45,000 large dams
to irrigate crops, generate power, control floods in wet times and
store water in dry times. Yet, in the last century, large dams also
disrupted the ecology of half the world's rivers, displaced tens of
millions of people from their homes and left nations burdened with
debt. Their impacts have inevitably generated growing controversy
and conflicts. Resolving their role in meeting water and energy
needs is vital for the future and illustrates the complex
development challenges that face our societies. The Report of the
World Commission on Dams: - is the product of an unprecedented
global public policy effort to bring governments, the private
sector and civil society together in one process - provides the
first comprehensive global and independent review of the
performance and impacts of dams - presents a new framework for
water and energy resources development - develops an agenda of
seven strategic priorities with corresponding criteria and
guidelines for future decision-making. Challenging our assumptions,
the Commission sets before us the hard, rigorous and clear-eyed
evidence of exactly why nations decide to build dams and how dams
can affect human, plant and animal life, for better or for worse.
Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making is vital
reading on the future of dams as well as the changing development
context where new voices, choices and options leave little room for
a business-as-usual scenario.
Data-intensive science has the potential to transform scientific
research and quickly translate scientific progress into complete
solutions, policies, and economic success. But this collaborative
science is still lacking the effective access and exchange of
knowledge among scientists, researchers, and policy makers across a
range of disciplines. Bringing together leaders from multiple
scientific disciplines, Data-Intensive Science shows how a
comprehensive integration of various techniques and technological
advances can effectively harness the vast amount of data being
generated and significantly accelerate scientific progress to
address some of the world's most challenging problems. In the book,
a diverse cross-section of application, computer, and data
scientists explores the impact of data-intensive science on current
research and describes emerging technologies that will enable
future scientific breakthroughs. The book identifies best practices
used to tackle challenges facing data-intensive science as well as
gaps in these approaches. It also focuses on the integration of
data-intensive science into standard research practice, explaining
how components in the data-intensive science environment need to
work together to provide the necessary infrastructure for
community-scale scientific collaborations. Organizing the material
based on a high-level, data-intensive science workflow, this book
provides an understanding of the scientific problems that would
benefit from collaborative research, the current capabilities of
data-intensive science, and the solutions to enable the next round
of scientific advancements.
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