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Radicalisation has become an important part of the
twenty-first-century security and political landscape. It is a
seemingly ubiquitous term, employed by academics, policymakers,
civil society actors, practitioners and media alike, in
ever-expanding ways--describing everything from changing domestic
social movements to the growth of international terrorism. This
volume provides a comprehensive treatment of 'radicalisation': the
processes during which individuals or groups adopt increasingly
extreme political, social or religious beliefs, positions or
aspirations, particularly in cases associated with the use of
violence. Adopting a multifaceted and comparative approach, the
contributors interrogate this phenomenon from wide-ranging social,
ideological, religious and historical angles. The first part of the
book explores how academia has engaged with the concept of
radicalisation, including the ontological and epistemological
concerns of Critical Terrorism Studies; theoretical models for
understanding radicalisation; and approaches to radicalisation
through the various lenses of identity, gender, youth and media.
The second part explores manifestations of radicalisation through a
range of diverse case studies, including the Falun Gong movement;
Aum Shinrikyo; Far-Right trans-nationalism; white nationalist lone
wolves and the 'Great Replacement' thesis; ISIS and Western
jihadists; deradicalisation programmes; hero myths; the Extreme
Right in Eastern Europe; and the dark side of globalisation.
Inspire a new generation of capable and curious scientists. This
book will help build pupils' understanding through clear
explanations, practicals and skills-based activities, ensuring that
they're ready for the next step in their learning and promoting a
sense of cynefin through examples and contexts from all around
Wales. - Improve working scientifically skills and prepare students
for future lab work with practical skills and suggested activities
highlighted throughout - Guide pupils through the trickier maths
and literacy skills with key term definitions and worked examples
with step-by-step solutions - Support a holistic approach with
links between the 'what matters' statements in the Science and
Technology Area of Learning and Experience (AoLE) - Boost progress
using summaries to recap prior knowledge, alongside 'Check your
understanding' questions to embed understanding - Develop pupils'
curiosity and interest in science with historical context and
examples, including many from across Wales
The county of Tripoli in what is now North Lebanon is arguably the
most neglected of the so-called 'crusader states' established in
the Middle East at the beginning of the twelfth century. The
present work is the first monograph on the county to be published
in English, and the first in any western language since 1945. What
little has been written on the subject previously has focused upon
the European ancestry of the counts of Tripoli: a specifically
Southern French heritage inherited from the famous crusader Raymond
IV of Saint-Gilles. Kevin Lewis argues that past historians have at
once exaggerated the political importance of the counts' French
descent and ignored the more compelling signs of its cultural
impact, highlighting poetry composed by troubadours in Occitan at
Tripoli's court. For Lewis, however, even this belies a deeper
understanding of the processes that shaped the county. What emerges
is an intriguing portrait of the county in which its rulers
struggled to exert their power over Lebanon in the face of this
region's insurmountable geographical forces and its sometimes
bewildering, always beguiling diversity of religions, languages and
cultures. The counts of Tripoli and contemporary Muslim onlookers
certainly viewed the dynasty as sons of Saint-Gilles, but the
county's administration relied upon Arabic, its stability upon the
mixed loyalties of its local inhabitants, and its very existence
upon the rugged mountains that cradled it. This book challenges
prevailing knowledge of this little-known crusader state and by
extension the medieval Middle East as a whole. .
The go-to guide for getting projects done on time and on
budget-revised and updated with a sophisticated image program and
contemporary examples For more than 30 years, Project Planning,
Scheduling and Control has been the benchmark guide for project
managers seeking to increase their skills or pass the PMP exam.
Providing an applications-oriented understanding of all the issues
you'll face throughout your career, this new edition offers more
strategies for dealing effectively with team members, clients,
senior managers, and other key stakeholders-a critically important
skill for project success. Written by one of today's leading
experts on the topic-James P. Lewis-Project Planning, Scheduling
and Control details the role of the project manager and includes
the Lewis model for achieving high-performance project management
using the whole-brain model of thinking. Updates include: Seven
brand new chapters on popular methods and technologies for project
management Thirteen fully revised chapters The technologies of
project management, including the digital project office The
imperative of leadership as a project management strategy
Selection, evaluation, and control of projects Dealing with diverse
stakeholders, such as investors, board members, and international
clients Project management for managing the entire enterprise The
daily practice of leading project teams Additional resources for
instructors and readers available at the Lewis Institute website
Lewis reinforces the Project Management Institute's recommended
success strategies, from planning, implementation, and scheduling
to communication, risk management, execution, and control stages.
The new edition of this classic guide is a must-have for project
management practitioner.
Children's exposure to violence (CEV) in their home, their
community, and our society has finally been recognized as a serious
mental health, social, and public health problem. This book
highlights a summary of relevant current research, practice, and
policy issues. It is the third in a series to help provide current
state-of-the-science information to stimulate awareness, research,
and best practices in the field. This book provides chapters
concerning the physiological effects of violence on children, its
effects on behavioral and emotional functioning, and differences
between boys and girls. Current interventions for children and
families, such as innovative programs that are both home based as
well as community based, are described. Promising and
evidence-based practices are presented to provide the most recent
approaches to helping children recover from the trauma of the
abuse. The chapters in this book provide greater awareness of the
issues involved with CEV, stimulate additional research, improve
practice techniques, lead to more evidence-based programs for both
intervention as well as prevention, and help initiate a national
priority to eliminate violence in the home and community. This book
was published as a special issue of the Journal of Emotional Abuse.
The need to improve the mathematical proficiency of elementary
teachers is well recognized, and it has long been of interest to
educators and researchers in the U.S. and many other countries. But
the specific proficiencies that elementary teachers need and the
process of developing and improving them remain only partially
conceptualized and not well validated empirically. To improve this
situation, national workshops were organized at Texas A&M
University to generate focused discussions about this important
topic, with participation of mathematicians, mathematics educators
and teachers. Developing Mathematical Proficiency for Elementary
Instruction is a collection of articles that grew out of those
exciting cross-disciplinary exchanges. Developing Mathematical
Proficiency for Elementary Instruction is organized to probe the
specifics of mathematical proficiency that are important to
elementary teachers during two separate but inter-connected
professional stages: as pre-service teachers in a preparation
program, and as in-service teachers teaching mathematics in
elementary classrooms. From this rich and inspiring collection,
readers may better understand, and possibly rethink, their own
practices and research in empowering elementary teachers
mathematically and pedagogically, as educators or researchers.
The need to improve the mathematical proficiency of elementary
teachers is well recognized, and it has long been of interest to
educators and researchers in the U.S. and many other countries. But
the specific proficiencies that elementary teachers need and the
process of developing and improving them remain only partially
conceptualized and not well validated empirically. To improve this
situation, national workshops were organized at Texas A&M
University to generate focused discussions about this important
topic, with participation of mathematicians, mathematics educators
and teachers. Developing Mathematical Proficiency for Elementary
Instruction is a collection of articles that grew out of those
exciting cross-disciplinary exchanges. Developing Mathematical
Proficiency for Elementary Instruction is organized to probe the
specifics of mathematical proficiency that are important to
elementary teachers during two separate but inter-connected
professional stages: as pre-service teachers in a preparation
program, and as in-service teachers teaching mathematics in
elementary classrooms. From this rich and inspiring collection,
readers may better understand, and possibly rethink, their own
practices and research in empowering elementary teachers
mathematically and pedagogically, as educators or researchers.
This book is inspired by Roger E. Howe's contributions to the
international communities of mathematics and mathematics education.
Renowned for his research contributions in the fields of
representation theory, automorphic forms, harmonic analysis, and
invariant theory, Dr. Howe has also fundamentally deepened our
understanding of the mathematics taught in the early school grades
and has challenged and stimulated mathematicians and mathematics
educators to work together to examine this part of the mathematical
universe more critically and in imaginative new ways. This volume
will help summarize and highlight Howe's contributions to several
topic areas in mathematics education, demonstrating the possibility
and importance of engaging mathematicians in high-impact research
in mathematics education, and showcasing the importance of
cross-disciplinary collaboration and exchange.
Children's exposure to violence (CEV) in their home, their
community, and our society has finally been recognized as a serious
mental health, social, and public health problem. This book
highlights a summary of relevant current research, practice, and
policy issues. It is the third in a series to help provide current
state-of-the-science information to stimulate awareness, research,
and best practices in the field. This book provides chapters
concerning the physiological effects of violence on children, its
effects on behavioral and emotional functioning, and differences
between boys and girls. Current interventions for children and
families, such as innovative programs that are both home based as
well as community based, are described. Promising and
evidence-based practices are presented to provide the most recent
approaches to helping children recover from the trauma of the
abuse. The chapters in this book provide greater awareness of the
issues involved with CEV, stimulate additional research, improve
practice techniques, lead to more evidence-based programs for both
intervention as well as prevention, and help initiate a national
priority to eliminate violence in the home and community. This book
was published as a special issue of the Journal of Emotional Abuse.
The county of Tripoli in what is now North Lebanon is arguably the
most neglected of the so-called 'crusader states' established in
the Middle East at the beginning of the twelfth century. The
present work is the first monograph on the county to be published
in English, and the first in any western language since 1945. What
little has been written on the subject previously has focused upon
the European ancestry of the counts of Tripoli: a specifically
Southern French heritage inherited from the famous crusader Raymond
IV of Saint-Gilles. Kevin Lewis argues that past historians have at
once exaggerated the political importance of the counts' French
descent and ignored the more compelling signs of its cultural
impact, highlighting poetry composed by troubadours in Occitan at
Tripoli's court. For Lewis, however, even this belies a deeper
understanding of the processes that shaped the county. What emerges
is an intriguing portrait of the county in which its rulers
struggled to exert their power over Lebanon in the face of this
region's insurmountable geographical forces and its sometimes
bewildering, always beguiling diversity of religions, languages and
cultures. The counts of Tripoli and contemporary Muslim onlookers
certainly viewed the dynasty as sons of Saint-Gilles, but the
county's administration relied upon Arabic, its stability upon the
mixed loyalties of its local inhabitants, and its very existence
upon the rugged mountains that cradled it. This book challenges
prevailing knowledge of this little-known crusader state and by
extension the medieval Middle East as a whole. .
From the time of the earliest tribal religions, high priests,
self-proclaimed prophets, and purveyors of doom have been
predicting the end of time.
This encyclopedic survey of endtime predictions looks at the
history of these prophets and the religious sects that forecast the
exact dates that civilization would take its final bow. Author
James R. Lewis eloquently remarks that all of these doomsday fear-
mongers have one thing in common: they have all been wrong.
As the year 2000 ushers in a new millennium, widespread interest
in the end of the world, judgment day, and the "return" of a
"savior," as predicted by many old and new groups, has spread like
wildfire across the planet. Encompassing the truly bizarre, the
suicidal, the homicidal, and the almost believable, Doomsday
Prophecies touches on apocalyptic strains in each religion,
revealing that endtime predictions reach all the way back to Old
Testament writings. They have thrived for centuries, and today they
find new life with New Age religions and televangelists.
Included are "prophecies" from the Hindu scriptures, the Ghost
Dance, Iroquois tradition, the Shawnee prophet, the Turner Diaries,
Aum Shinrikyo, the Branch Davidians, the Children of God, Rael,
Dorothy Martin, Edgar Cayce, Marshall Applewhite, the Covenant, the
Sword and the Arm of the Lord, and more.
Lewis includes everything, from the longtime belief in a final
battle between good and evil to the space-age belief that heaven's
gate can be reached through travel with alien beings. Sometimes
humorous, often tragic, this enduring book examines the questions
raised by the mass appeal of prophetic movements as a theme in
popular culture.
This work addresses the long-overdue imbalance in disaster
management: an over-emphasis on post-disaster assistance and a lack
of attention to vulnerability reduction. It seeks to answer the
fundamental question in this debate: how can we mould pre-disaster
development initiatives to become the most appropriate means for
vulnerability reduction?;The book reasserts and reapplies some of
the basic concepts and issues which emerged in the 1960s and 1970s,
with the message that development is a prime medium both of
vulnerability and its reduction.;The author examines requirements
for long-term change so that conditions which have become the
context for catastrophe can be modified. Bu focusing on longer-term
policies and activities now, emergency relief efforts will have a
positive context within which to contribute to development and the
likelihood of recurrence will be reduced.;The volume contains case
studies from Sri Lanka, the Caribbean and the South Pacific and
focuses on hazards of all kinds, setting out to redress the balance
between large-scale disasters of global significance and
small-scale disasters that are a matter of everyday existence.
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