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This expansive Handbook guides readers through a multi-layered
landscape of the interpretations and uses of transdisciplinary
thinking and practices worldwide. It advances understanding of the
strengths and limits of transdisciplinary research in the context
of societal power relations, institutional structures and social
inequalities. Original chapters from 116 scholars and experts in 27
countries create a multi-cultural constellation of conceptual and
methodological approaches to transdisciplinary research, teaching,
training and community projects, showcasing the diversity and
plurality of transdisciplinary contributions. Framed through the
core themes of thinking, doing and being, this Handbook thoroughly
reviews key topics including philosophies and theories, research
and practice, education and training and financial and
institutional resources with examples from innovative
transdisciplinary global projects. Inclusive in its approach, this
Handbook will be an ideal resource for public and private domain
professionals wishing to explore collaborative working practices.
Scholars looking for a better understanding of transdisciplinarity
and how it differs from interdisciplinarity will find the case
studies illustrative and informative.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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This book examines the role of compassion in refiguring the
university. Plotting a reimagining of the university through care,
other-regard, and a commitment to act in response to the suffering
of others, the author draws on various humanities disciplines to
illuminate the potential of compassion in the campus. The book asks
how the sector can reclaim the university from the tides of
neoliberalism, inequalities and increased workloads, and which
moral principles and competencies would need to be championed and
instilled to build inclusive citizenship and positive connection
with others. A value that is too scarcely taught, experienced, or
advocated in contexts of higher education, compassion is reframed
as an essential pillar of the university and a means to an
epistemically just campus and curricula.
Bible and Bedlam first critically questions the exclusion and
stereotyping of certain biblical characters and scholars perceived
as 'mad', as such judgements illustrate the 'sanism' (prejudice
against individuals who are diagnosed or perceived as mentally ill)
perpetuated within the discipline of Western biblical studies.
Second, it seeks to highlight the widespread ideological
'gatekeeping' - 'protection' and 'policing' of madness in both
western history and scholarship - with regard to celebrated
biblical figures, including Jesus and Paul. Third, it initiates
creative exchanges between biblical texts, interpretations and
contemporary voices from 'mad' studies and sources
(autobiographies, memoirs etc.), which are designed to critically
disturb, disrupt and displace commonly projected (and often
pejorative) assumptions surrounding 'madness'. Voices of those
subject to diagnostic labelling such as autism, schizophrenia
and/or psychosis are among those juxtaposed here with selected
biblical interpretations and texts.
Many believe America is secure and we are safe because communism is
dead.That prevailing supposition is delusive. Marxism is
flourishing and no less venomous. Christianity and family are
predicted to collapse, our freedom replaced with its tyranny. Jesus
prophesied: "They will deliver you to tribulation and will kill
you." So did Lenin: "Destroy the family, you destroy the country."
Who are Marxism's covert operatives? Ministers influenced by
Marxist theology are helping create "Christian Socialism." A church
group supports Cuban spies in America and has financed communist
movements. The unwanted, the burdens on society, are eliminated by
euthanasia's hired killers as "death with dignity." Humanism, a
powerful weapon in Marxism's arsenal, promotes individualism and
marital infidelity, insisting God is a mass "sociopathic killer."
Marxism endorses drug trafficking to destroy our culture. Planned
Parenthood promotes youthful sex and disobedience to parental
authority, protects pedophiles and offers abortion. It has
advocated killing Christians. The Communist Party insists it is
tolerant of, and cooperative with, Christianity, but it is no less
atheistic. Jesus is being crucified with evil words and depictions
his crowns of thorns on Marxism's cross of decadence. Satanism is
prospering with its death rituals and immorality because Karl Marx
was a committed emissary of Satan.How can we rescue ourselves from
this threat and save America? God tells us in His Word. We must
confront the Marxist goliath, as David did, and annihilate
it.Ronald J. Lawrence is a retired criminal investigative reporter
for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He gained knowledge of Marxism
during the Vietnam War when he infiltrated the Young Socialist
Alliance, an influential communist organization, rose to
second-in-command and later testified before the U. S. House
Committee on Internal Security. He is a committed Christian and has
dedicated his life to God.
Through twelve probing essays from leading scholars in the field,
this book analyzes the consequences of the accession of James I in
1603 for English and British history, politics, literature and
culture. Questioning the extent to which 1603 marked a radical
break with the past, the book explores the Scottish and Welsh--as
well as the wider European and colonial--contexts to this crucial
date in history.
Market: Those interested in speech, especially speech production,
and graduate students studying the anatomy and physiology of
speech. Katherine Safford Harris is known throughout the speech
research community for her contributions to our understanding of
speech behaviors and her leadership at Haskins Laboratories. Her
research has shown how the study of speech disorders can provide a
window through which we can observe normal behaviors and learn much
about the control systems of speech production. In recognition of
this work, each section of this book contains chapters on normal
speech production as well as speech disorders. These original
contributed chapters cover a wide range of subjects, including
respiratory patterns in normal speech, speech breathing processes
in hearing-impaired persons, laryngeal adductory behaviors,
spasmodic dysphonia, tongue shaping and vowel articulation, speech
production in children with cochlear implants, and more.
In this book we undertake one of the first global-scale comparisons
of the relationships between tropical plants and frugivorous animal
communities, comparing sites within and across continents. In
total, 12 primary contributors, including noted plant and animal
ecologists, present newly-analyzed long-term datasets on the
floristics and phenological rhythms of their study sites,
identifying important seed dispersers and key plant taxa that
sustain animal communities in Africa, Madagascar, Australasia, and
the Neotropics.
Emphasizes building the most appropriate model possible from the available data. * Major focus is on analysis and communication of results to management. Teaches readers how to conduct a management science study, analyze different situations, break down the steps of problem-solving, write a business report, and effectively communicate study results to management. * A supporting CD-ROM is packaged with every book to include three complete additional chapters, additional cases and problems for every chapter, coverage of key algorithms and derivations, a review of statistics, the complete WINQSB package developed by Yih-Long Chang, and Excel files for every chapter. * Computer Integrated Approach: Use of Excel, WinQSB, and LINDO for windows integrated throughout text for use in solving models.
Sex sells, they say, but even today, it is considered forbidden,
wrong, or sinful by many in the Western world. This book is an
account of the strange ways sexual pleasure has been devalued, even
demonized, in the West by the forces of Christendom and its legacy
in the modern world. It tells the story of how sex came to be
regarded by societies throughout the ages as perverse, sinful, and
wrong, and how the motivations of a few have lasted centuries and
colored our view of sex and sexuality even today. Sex sells, they
say, but even today it is considered forbidden or sinful by many in
the Western world. This book is an account of the ways in which
sexual pleasure has been devalued and demonized in the West by the
historical forces of Christendom. It tells the story of how sex
came to be regarded by societies throughout the ages as perverse,
sinful, and wrong, and how the centuries-old motivations of a few
have persisted into modern times, coloring our view of sex and
sexuality to this day. For good or ill, Christianity has been,
since before the ebbing of the Roman Empire, the principal bearer
of public values in the western world. This book traces the changes
that have shaped and reshaped what is considered moral sexual
behavior (and immoral sexual behavior) by Christians and
non-Christians alike. Lawrence's account of the perversion of
sexual values begins with the intersection of the early Jesus
movement and the morality of the Greco-Roman culture and empire. He
goes on to point out the ways Christianity and its moral code were
reshaped under the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity
as the imperial religion, and how key figures of the Middle Ages
generally succeeded in promoting a religion whose chief goal was
the obliteration of sexual pleasure. The story continues on through
the ages until now. This controversial look at sex and Christianity
sheds new light on our views of pornography, homosexuality,
adultery, and other issues of sex and sexuality.
These two special issues of "Applied Developmental Science" include
eight major studies of the impacts of the September 11th, 2001,
terrorist attacks on children, youth, and their parents. Issue 1
includes a report of the impact of September 11th on New York City
youth in comparison with that of everyday violence, as well as
three studies which demonstrate the impact of the attacks on the
metal health and coping strategies of adolescents throughout the
country, despite being physically distant from the event.
Issue 2 includes a study of separation anxiety in school age
children in New York City following the attacks, the results from
two national surveys of parents' roles in helping children respond
to or process the attacks, and a study of the impact of such a
"distant trauma" on rural youth.
The biomaterials technology industry is already well established in
the western world and is growing rapidly within Asian Pacific
nations. It is often described as the 'next electronics industry',
whilst the laser is described as a 'solution looking for a
problem'. This book describes the use of the laser to solve a
troublesome and costly problem in a rapidly growing global
industry. The authors have spent many years conducting research
using laser materials processing and wettability characteristics
and have perfected a technique to improve the bio-compatibility of
various bone-implant materials using laser irradiation. They have
made pioneering discoveries on the subject and established some
generic theories and principals that will have a wide range of
applications in the biomaterials field.This book: introduces
inter-disciplinary research work covering laser materials
processing and surface modification of biomaterials for enhanced
compatibility; includes highly scientific and novel research
material; serves both as a practitioner guide and a reference book;
and, covers an exciting and rapidly developing area of technology
that is of keen interest to engineers and clinicians alike. "Laser
Surface Treatment of Bio-Implant Materials" is rare in providing a
reference source that describes specifically a mechanical
engineering solution to a biotechnology problem. It serves as both
a practitioner guide and a medium to high-level reference text
book, and as such is a reference source for the engineer practising
or looking to move into the biomaterials field, undergraduate and
post graduate students and those conducting bio-related research in
either academia or industry. It will prove useful to mechanical
engineers, biotechnologists, biomechanical engineers,
metallurgists, clinicians and even surgeons.
This book examines the role of compassion in refiguring the
university. Plotting a reimagining of the university through care,
other-regard, and a commitment to act in response to the suffering
of others, the author draws on various humanities disciplines to
illuminate the potential of compassion in the campus. The book asks
how the sector can reclaim the university from the tides of
neoliberalism, inequalities and increased workloads, and which
moral principles and competencies would need to be championed and
instilled to build inclusive citizenship and positive connection
with others. A value that is too scarcely taught, experienced, or
advocated in contexts of higher education, compassion is reframed
as an essential pillar of the university and a means to an
epistemically just campus and curricula.
This volume explores not only the close ties that link the cultures and musics of East and Northeast Asia, but also the distinctive features that separate them. The volume begins with a summary of the philosophical, religious and aesthetic systems that spread from China through Korea to Japan as well as concise overviews of the music, instruments, dance and theatre of the region. Succeeding sections cover the music cultures of China, Japan, Korea and the Northeast Asian subregions of Mongolia and Siberia. Special attention is given to vocal, instrumental, narrative, theatrical and religious musics.
If retirement is approaching or you've recently retired, Adventures
in Senior Living can help you prepare for the opportunities, needs,
problems, and challenges that retirement often brings. Through 31
lively and interesting interviews, you learn how other people have
found positive and rewarding ways to make their retirement years
meaningful and enjoyable. Opening windows into their own lives,
these inspiring retirees share with you a wide range of retirement
ideas that pertain to volunteer work, travel, selecting your living
arrangements, and getting involved in your community.Retirement
doesn't have to bring feelings of boredom or restlessness.
Adventures in Senior Living shows you that your retirement years
can be your most fulfilling, productive, and fun years. You'll have
more time to work in that garden you love, make quilts with your
friends, spend time with your loved ones, and get exercise. But,
possibly even more important than that, you'll have the ability to
participate in your community on an entirely new level and to make
a difference in other people's lives as well as your own. The
life-loving, generous people who come together in this wonderful
book are sure to inspire you as they speak about their
accomplishments that include: recording books on tape for blind
people conducting missionary work at home and abroad brightening
the lives of patients in nursing homes and hospitals teaching
Sunday school caring for a spouse with Alzheimer's delivering meals
on wheels to shut-in people establishing a battered women's shelter
rescuing prostitutes from the streetThis book presents retirees,
teachers of courses in aging and retirement, activity directors at
retirement and nursing homes, family members, and health and mental
health care providers with many stories of extraordinary
volunteerism, service, and kindness, but it also talks about the
needs of retirees and their daily, more personal experiences. To
this end, Adventures in Senior Living discusses the importance of
continuing study, discussion, meditation, prayer, and fitness in
the lives of seniors.
Louise Lawrence introduces you to contextual Bible reading, which
prioritizes the question 'what does the Bible mean to you in your
context?'. She provides a practical resource that will enable you
to initiate such readings within your own context. Examples of
readings from a range of contexts are given, including reading with
a group from an urban regeneration area, reading with a rural
village, reading with priests and reading with deaf people. Tips
and resources for how to run your own contextual Bible reading are
also given enabling you, and your community, to read the Bible in a
new light.
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