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This book offers critical insights into the thriving international
field of community indicators, incorporating the experiences of
government leaders, philanthropic professionals, community planners
and a wide range of academic disciplines. It illuminates the
important role of community indicators in diverse settings and the
rationale for the development and implementation of these
innovative projects. This book details many of the practical "how
to" aspects of the field as well as lessons learned from
implementing indicators in practice. The case studies included here
also demonstrate how, using a variety of data applications, leaders
of today are monitoring and measuring progress and communities are
empowered to make sustainable improvements in their wellbeing. With
examples related to the environment, economy, planning, community
engagement and health, among others, this book epitomizes the
constant innovation, collaborative partnerships and the consummate
interdisciplinarity of the community indicators field of today.
This is the only book entirely devoted to the sensory circumventricular organs. It reviews research into their detailed anatomy, neurochemistry, neural connections, and functions, and provides the reader with many illustrations previously unpublished.
This book offers critical insights into the thriving international
field of community indicators, incorporating the experiences of
government leaders, philanthropic professionals, community planners
and a wide range of academic disciplines. It illuminates the
important role of community indicators in diverse settings and the
rationale for the development and implementation of these
innovative projects. This book details many of the practical "how
to" aspects of the field as well as lessons learned from
implementing indicators in practice. The case studies included here
also demonstrate how, using a variety of data applications, leaders
of today are monitoring and measuring progress and communities are
empowered to make sustainable improvements in their wellbeing. With
examples related to the environment, economy, planning, community
engagement and health, among others, this book epitomizes the
constant innovation, collaborative partnerships and the consummate
interdisciplinarity of the community indicators field of today.
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Rebecca J Davern, Carla Fernández Garrido
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The world today is in need of dire reflection. Amongst the many
problems that plague our planet, is the inability to effectively
handle our own species. For centuries we have been gaining further
independence from nature, and it seemed like we were making
progress. But now, with increasing exploitation of limited
resources, burgeoning human population, and ever-increasing
polluting of our environment, our species is in danger (or
endangered?) of becoming out of our ability to control.
This book will shed light on the possibility of finishing our
job on this planet as a success rather than a failure. We must
remember where we come from, who we are, what our true purpose here
really is. All of these questions will attempt to be answered in
this book.
The shocking true crime story of a beloved Hollywood star gone too
soon—told by the captain of the boat on which Natalie Wood
spent her last night.  Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye
Splendour is the long‑awaited, detailed account of events that
led to the mysterious death of Hollywood legend Natalie Wood off
the coast of Catalina Island on November 28, 1981. It is a story
told by a haunted witness to that fateful evening: Dennis Davern,
the young captain of Splendour, the yacht belonging to Wood and
husband Robert Wagner. Davern initially backed up Wagner’s
version of that evening’s events through a signed statement
prepared by attorneys. But Davern’s guilt over failing Natalie
tormented him. Â Davern reached out to his old friend Marti
Rulli, and little by little, at his own emotional pace, he revealed
the details of his years in Wood’s employ, of the fateful weekend
that Natalie died, and of the events following her death that
prevented him from telling the whole story—until now.
This book is a methodological guide intended for those who wish to
better understand how to conduct research in the education and
training sciences. It is organized into three main parts. The first
part deals with postures, emphasizing the idea that engaging in a
research process involves taking a different stance from that of a
social or professional actor. For example, this may require
converting a professional or social question into a research
question or reflecting on the use of a social vocabulary in
research. The second part concerns practices, that is, how research
is conducted: the definition of a research question based on
findings, theoretical exploration and problematization, the
production of empirical information and its analysis and
restitution. The third and final part concludes by focusing on the
diversity of research forms; not only research cultures specific to
disciplinary fields and approaches, such as action research,
collaborative research or research training, but also the design
choices in terms of multi-, inter- or trans-disciplinarily.
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