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Master modern investigative principles and practices using the
field-based approach strongly grounded in current research with
Hess/Hess Orthmann/Cho/Molan's CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, 12E. This
best-selling text introduces established tools, practices and
policies while detailing the latest innovations in investigative
technology and science today. The authors clearly demonstrate
techniques and practical applications using a captivating,
reader-friendly presentation. The latest discussions introduce
advancements in DNA evidence, incident review and solvability
factors, terrorism and homeland security, electronic data searches,
new case law, forensics and physical evidence, use of body cameras,
and ethics as well as increasing standards of proof for stop versus
search and arrest versus conviction. MindTap digital resources help
you refine your skills and strengthen your understanding with video
cases, career scenarios, chapter quizzes and interactive labs that
explore investigative techniques.
Working with children requires you to be an adaptable leader and
teacher, no matter the setting. Learning to Lead will help early
childhood professionals at any level cultivate leadership potential
and skills with an introduction to leadership theory and practice,
including definitions of the functions and styles of leadership.
The roles of empowerment, followership, and advocacy in the
leadership process are covered, as well as how to facilitate the
leadership development of others. Child care professionals will use
their knowledge of child development to understand how to transfer
their natural skills to a range of leadership situations. Each
chapter is built around a combination of theories, examples, and
reflection questions, concluding with a vignette and references for
further study. The third edition includes: Updated and expanded
material on working with children in a culturally diverse community
while addressing the racial and social injustice and inequity in
society. Updated and expanded material on how bias, prejudice,
discrimination, oppression, and inequity intersect with cultural
differences and diversity. Updated resources for further reading. A
new chapter on how to create a leadership and advocacy plan based
on topics, reflections, and questions in from the book, to help you
take on a leadership role in your program.
This book investigates in detail the emerging deep learning (DL)
technique in computational physics, assessing its promising
potential to substitute conventional numerical solvers for
calculating the fields in real-time. After good training, the
proposed architecture can resolve both the forward computing and
the inverse retrieve problems. Pursuing a holistic perspective, the
book includes the following areas. The first chapter discusses the
basic DL frameworks. Then, the steady heat conduction problem is
solved by the classical U-net in Chapter 2, involving both the
passive and active cases. Afterwards, the sophisticated heat flux
on a curved surface is reconstructed by the presented Conv-LSTM,
exhibiting high accuracy and efficiency. Besides, the
electromagnetic parameters of complex medium such as the
permittivity and conductivity are retrieved by a cascaded framework
in Chapter 4. Additionally, a physics-informed DL structure along
with a nonlinear mapping module are employed to obtain the
space/temperature/time-related thermal conductivity via the
transient temperature in Chapter 5. Finally, in Chapter 6, a series
of the latest advanced frameworks and the corresponding physics
applications are introduced. As deep learning techniques are
experiencing vigorous development in computational physics, more
people desire related reading materials. This book is intended for
graduate students, professional practitioners, and researchers who
are interested in DL for computational physics.
This new volume addresses the growing interest to understand
tourism and hospitality in Southeast and South Asia, two regions
that have seen tremendous growth in international tourists in
recent years. It explores the current development of hospitality
and tourism industry in the regions of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan
as well as other key countries in Southeast and South Asia. The
Hospitality and Tourism Industry in ASEAN and East Asian
Destinations: New Growth, Trends, and Developments provides updated
findings and case studies that highlight opportunities and issues
of tourism and hospitality development in ASEAN. Chapters cover
such diverse topics as: Online marketing strategies Sustainable
hospitality development Diversification efforts of the tourism
industry Innovations in independent hotels Wildlife tourism in
urban destinations The Vietnamese national park system Consumers’
positive and negative images of certain destinations Much more
While academicians will benefit from the updated research findings
summarized by the respected scholars, hospitality professionals
will also find the book a valuable source of information as the
chapters delve into the most recent topical and industry focused
issues.
The “greatest psychologist of the spirit since St. Augustine”
(Gregory R. Beabout), Soren Kierkegaard is renowned for such richly
imagined philosophical works as Fear and Trembling and The Concept
of Anxiety. Yet only The Sickness unto Death condenses his most
essential ideas—on aesthetics, ethics, and religion—into a
single volume. First published in 1849 under the pseudonym
Anti-Climacus, The Sickness unto Death is as demanding as it is
concise, posing fundamental yet complicated questions about human
nature and the self. Beginning with the biblical story of Lazarus,
whom Jesus miraculously raised from the dead, The Sickness unto
Death identifies the titular “sickness” as “despair,” a
state worse than death because it is “unto” death. As
Kierkegaard demonstrates, despair—or, in Christian categories,
“sin”—is a sickness not of the body, but of the spirit, and
thus, of the self. A dramatic “medical history” of the course
of this sickness, The Sickness unto Death culminates, as all
medical histories do, in a crisis, a turning point at which the
self, the patient, either realizes or abandons itself. Given the
choice between eternal salvation and extinction, Kierkegaard calls
upon the self to become receptive in faith to God’s mercy,
“even today, even at this hour, even at this instant.” With his
“historian’s eye” (Vanessa Parks Rumble) and “lucid and
informative” (George Pattison) introduction, Bruce H. Kirmmse
deftly situates The Sickness unto Death in the historical context
of the European revolutions of 1848, reminding us that even
Kierkegaard was a product of his time and place. Yet as Kirmmse
ultimately shows, The Sickness unto Death is as apt for our times
as for mid-nineteenth-century Europe, speaking to the human soul
across generations and centuries.
“A nuanced portrayal of fire as a force to be
respected.”—Publishers Weekly Life as we know it evolved with
fire; there is no us without it. With lyrical text grounded
in the latest research, this picture book shares the primal
connection between all living things and fire. Children will
understand that everything they know in the world has evolved with
fire. There is comfort in understanding the natural processes
taking place all around. By learning the story of fire and
how it has changed this planet, this book also addresses the
question: Can we adapt to an increasingly fire-prone environment?
This answer is: Yes. Because we always have. FIRE SHAPES THE
WORLD is both a natural history and a child-friendly portrayal of
fire ecology. It is also an encouraging springboard for
conversation illuminated by breathtaking paintings, which will
allow children to explore their connection to this most elemental
agent of change.
The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the
geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western
vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field
was developed. The expanded volume continues to make available many
of the original and foundational works that underpin the research
field, while expanding coverage to familiarize students with new
theoretical and epistemological positions as well as emerging
research foci and horizons. It contains 38 new chapters, including
key writings on globalizing cities from leading thinkers such as
John Friedmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor,
Manuel Castells, Anthony King, Jennifer Robinson, Ananya Roy, and
Fulong Wu. The new Reader reflects the fact that world and global
city studies have evolved in exciting and wide-ranging ways, and
the very notion of a distinct "global" class of cities has recently
been called into question. The sections examine the foundations of
the field and processes of urban restructuring and global city
formation. A large number of new entries focus on the emerging
urban worlds of Asia, Latin America and Africa, including Beijing,
Bogota, Cairo, Cape Town, Delhi, Istanbul, Medellin, Mumbai, Phnom
Penh, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai. The book also
presents cases off the conventional map of global cities research,
such as smaller cities and less known urban regions that are
undergoing processes of globalization. The book is a key resource
for students and scholars alike who seek an accessible compendium
of the intellectual foundations of global urban studies as well as
an overview of the emergent patterns of early 21st century
urbanization and associated sociopolitical contestation around the
world.
This monograph is a translation of two seminal works on
corpus-based studies of Mandarin Chinese words and parts of speech.
The original books were published as two pioneering technical
reports by Chinese Knowledge and Information Processing group
(CKIP) at Academia Sinica in 1993 and 1996, respectively. Since
then, the standard and PoS tagset proposed in the CKIP report have
become the de facto standard in Chinese corpora and computational
linguistics, in particular in the context of traditional Chinese
texts. This new translation represents and develops the principles
and theories originating from these pioneering works. The results
can be applied to numerous fields; Chinese syntax and semantics,
lexicography, machine translation and other language engineering
bound applications. Suitable for graduate and scholars in the
fields of linguistics and Chinese, Mandarin Chinese Words and Parts
of Speech provides a comprehensive survey of the issues around
wordhood and PoS. Chapter 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and the
appendixes V-VII of this book is freely available as a downloadable
Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com
Artistic practices have long been disturbing the relationships
between art and space. They have challenged the boundaries of
performer/spectator, of public/private, introduced intervention and
installation, ephemerality and performance, and constantly sought
out new modes of distressing expectations about what is construed
as art. But when we expand the world in which we look at art, how
does this change our understanding of critical artistic practice?
This book presents a global perspective on the relationship between
art and the city. International and leading scholars and artists
themselves present critical theory and practice of contemporary art
as a politicised force. It extends thinking on contemporary arts
practices in the urban and political context of protest and social
resilience and offers the prism of a 'critical artscape' in which
to view the urgent interaction of arts and the urban politic. The
global appeal of the book is established through the general topic
as well as the specific chapters, which are geographically,
socially, politically and professionally varied. Contributing
authors come from many different institutional and
anti-institutional perspectives from across the world. This will be
valuable reading for those interested in cultural geography, urban
geography and urban culture, as well as contemporary art theorists,
practitioners and policymakers.
Fifty-two readings on living in intentional Christian community to
spark group discussion. Gold Medal Winner, 2017 Illumination Book
Awards, Christian Living Silver Medal Winner, 2017 Benjamin
Franklin Award in Religion, Independent Book Publishers Association
Why, in an age of connectivity, are our lives more isolated and
fragmented than ever? And what can be done about it? The answer
lies in the hands of God’s people. Increasingly, today’s
Christians want to be the church, to follow Christ together in
daily life. From every corner of society, they are daring to step
away from the status quo and respond to Christ’s call to share
their lives more fully with one another and with others. As they
take the plunge, they are discovering the rich, meaningful life
that Jesus has in mind for all people, and pointing the church back
to its original calling: to be a gathered, united community that
demonstrates the transforming love of God. Of course, such a life
together with others isn’t easy. The selections in this volume
are, by and large, written by practitioners—people who have
pioneered life in intentional community and have discovered in the
nitty-gritty of daily life what it takes to establish, nurture, and
sustain a Christian community over the long haul. Whether you have
just begun thinking about communal living, are already embarking on
sharing life with others, or have been part of a community for many
years, the pieces in this collection will encourage, challenge, and
strengthen you. The book’s fifty-two chapters can be read one a
week to ignite meaningful group discussion. Contributors
include: John F. Alexander, Eberhard Arnold, J. Heinrich
Arnold, Johann Christoph Arnold, Alden Bass, Benedict of Nursia,
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, Leonardo Boff, Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
Joan Chittister, Stephen B. Clark, Andy Crouch, Dorothy Day,
Anthony de Mello, Elizabeth Dede, Catherine de Hueck Doherty,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jenny Duckworth, Friedrich Foerster, Richard J.
Foster, Jodi Garbison, Arthur G. Gish, Helmut Gollwitzer, Adele J
Gonzalez, Stanley Hauerwas, Joseph H. Hellerman, Roy Hession, David
Janzen, Rufus Jones, Emmanuel Katongole, Arthur Katz, Søren
Kierkegaard, C. Norman Kraus, C.S. Lewis, Gerhard Lohfink, Ed
Loring, Chiara Lubich, George MacDonald, Thomas Merton, Hal Miller,
José P. Miranda, Jürgen Moltmann, Charles E. Moore, Henri J. M.
Nouwen, Elizabeth O’Connor, John M. Perkins, Eugene H.Peterson,
Christine D. Pohl, Chris Rice, Basilea Schlink, Howard A. Snyder,
Mother Teresa, Thomas Kempis, Elton Trueblood, and Jonathan
Wilson-Hartgrove.
First published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio
(“John of Silence”), Soren Kierkegaard’s richly resonant Fear
and Trembling has for generations stood as a pivotal text in the
history of moral philosophy, inspiring such artistic and
philosophical luminaries as Edvard Munch, W. H. Auden, Walter
Benjamin, and existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. Now, in our era of
immense uncertainty, renowned Kierkegaard scholar Bruce H. Kirmmse
eloquently brings this classic work to a new generation of readers.
Retelling the biblical story of the binding of Isaac, Fear and
Trembling expounds on the ordeal of Abraham, who was commanded by
God to sacrifice his own son in an exceptional test of faith.
Disgusted at the self-certainty of his own age, Kierkegaard
investigates the paradox underlying Abraham’s decision to allow
his duty to God to take precedence over his duties to his family.
As Kierkegaard’s narrator explains, the story presents a
difficulty that is not often considered—namely, that after the
ordeal is over and Isaac has been spared at the last moment,
Abraham is capable of receiving him again and living normally, even
joyfully, for the rest of his days. Almost inexplicably, “Abraham
had faith and did not doubt.” Deftly tracing the autobiographical
threads that run throughout the work, Kirmmse initially, in his
lucid and engaging introduction, demystifies Kierkegaard’s
fictive narrator, Johannes de silentio, drawing parallels between
Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son and the author’s
personal “sacrifices.” Ultimately, however, Kirmmse reveals
Fear and Trembling as a fiercely polemical volume, designed to
provoke the reader into considering what is actually meant by the
word “faith”, and whether those who consider themselves “true
believers” actually are. With a vibrancy almost never before seen
in English, and “a matchless grasp of the intricacies of
Kierkegaard’s writing process” (Gordon Marino), Kirmmse here
definitively demonstrates Kierkegaard’s enduring power to
illuminate the terrible wonder of faith.
The recent surfacing of actor-network theory (ANT) in tourism
studies correlates to a rising interest in understanding tourism as
emergent thorough relational practice connecting cultures, natures
and technologies in multifarious ways. Despite the widespread
application of ANT across the social sciences, no book has dealt
with the practical and theoretical implications of using ANT in
Tourism research.
This is the first book to critically engage with the use of ANT in
tourism studies. By doing so, it challenges approaches that have
dominated the literature for the last twenty years and casts new
light on issues of materiality, ordering and networks in tourism.
The book describes the approach, its possibilities and limitations
as an ontology and research methodology, and advances its use and
research in the field of tourism.
The first three chapters of the book introduce ANT and its key
conceptual premises, the book itself and the relation between ANT
and tourism studies. Using illustrative cases and examples, the
subsequent chapters deal with specific subject areas like
materiality, risk, mobilities and ordering and show how ANT
contributes to tourism studies. This part presents examples and
cases which illustrate the use of the approach in a critical way.
Inherently, the study of tourism is a multi-disciplinary field of
research and that is reflected in the diverse academic backgrounds
of the contributing authors to provide a broad post-disciplinary
context of ANT in tourism studies.
This unique book, focusing on emerging approaches in tourism
research, will be of value to students, researchers and academics
in tourism as well as the wider Social Sciences.
This book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of
governing future events ? such as terrorism, climate change or
pandemics ? which we cannot predict but which may strike suddenly,
without warning, and cause irreversible damage.
At a time where catastrophe increasingly functions as a
signifier of our future, imaginaries of pending doom have fostered
new modes of anticipatory knowledge and redeployed existing ones.
Although it shares many similarities with crises, disasters, risks
and other disruptive incidents, this book claims that catastrophes
also bring out the very limits of knowledge and management. The
politics of catastrophe is turned towards an unknown future, which
must be imagined and inhabited in order to be made palpable,
knowable and actionable. Politics of Catastrophe critically
assesses the effects of these new practices of knowing and
governing catastrophes to come and challenges the reader to think
about the possibility of an alternative politics of
catastrophe.
This book will be of interest to students of critical security
studies, risk theory, political theory and International Relations
in general.
What do China’s scholars make of the nature of China’s global
rise? And what is the significance of academic debates for Chinese
policy goals and preferences? In this book, leading Chinese
specialists outline how their colleagues are studying and
interpreting different dimensions of China’s evolving global
role, opening these Chinese language debates to a new audience.
Collectively they show that while some ideas and ways of thinking
are more prominent than others, there is no homogeneity of
scholarship and no single conception of what China thinks and
wants. Not only has the range of issue areas under discussion
actually increased as China’s global role and impact has changed,
but there also remains considerable diversity when it comes to
thinking on what China can, might, and should try to do as a global
power, and how China’s global role should be studied and
theorized. The chapters in this book were originally published in
the journal, The Pacific Review.
Building Seismic Monitoring and Detection Technology focuses on the
research of seismic resistance and monitoring technology. The book
gathers cutting-edge research and achievements, and includes
contributions on the following subjects: 1. New concepts and key
technologies of structural regulation and disaster prevention 2.
Test and monitoring study of thermal insulation in tunnels 3.
Protection of steel and concrete structures using arc thermal spray
4. Research progress of mechanical metamaterials This book is
aiming at scholars and engineers involved or interested in
structural engineering and seismic detection technology.
Civil Engineering and Disaster Prevention focuses on the research
of civil engineering, architecture and disaster prevention and
control. These proceedings gather the most cutting-edge research
and achievements, aiming to provide scholars and engineers with
valuable research direction and engineering solutions. Subjects
covered in the proceedings include: Civil Engineering Engineering
Structure Architectural Materials Disaster Prevention and Control
Building Electrical Engineering The works of these proceedings aim
to promote the development of civil engineering and environment
engineering. Thereby, fostering scientific information interchange
between scholars from the top universities, research centers and
high-tech enterprises working all around the world.
The text comprehensively discusses the fundamental aspects of
human–computer interaction, and applications of artificial
intelligence in diverse areas including disaster management, smart
infrastructures, and healthcare. It employs a solution-based
approach in which recent methods and algorithms are used for
identifying solutions to real-life problems. This book: Discusses
the application of artificial intelligence in the areas of user
interface development, computing power analysis, and data
management Uses recent methods/algorithms to present solution-based
approaches to real-life problems in different sectors Showcases the
applications of artificial intelligence and automation techniques
to respond to disaster situations Covers important topics such as
smart intelligence learning, interactive multimedia systems, and
modern communication systems Highlights the importance of
artificial intelligence for smart industrial automation and systems
intelligence The book elaborates on the application of artificial
intelligence in user interface development, computing power
analysis, and data management. It explores the use of
human–computer interaction for intelligence signal and image
processing techniques. The text covers important concepts such as
modern communication systems, smart industrial automation,
interactive multimedia systems, and machine learning interface for
the internet of things. It will serve as an ideal text for senior
undergraduates, and graduate students in the fields of electrical
engineering, electronics and communication engineering, computer
engineering, and information technology.
Provides a clear and structured guide to how psychology affects
circus performance and how it can be managed effectively. Written
for professional circus performers and their trainers, either in
professional settings or circus schools. No other book on this
topic exists, with Circus Psychology being the first and only to
cover the subject comprehensively.
Everything you need to crush chemistry with confidence Chemistry
All-in-One For Dummies arms you with all the no-nonsense, how-to
content you'll need to pass your chemistry class with flying
colors. You'll find tons of practical examples and practice
problems, and you'll get access to an online quiz for every
chapter. Reinforce the concepts you learn in the classroom and beef
up your understanding of all the chemistry topics covered in the
standard curriculum. Prepping for the AP Chemistry exam? Dummies
has your back, with plenty of review before test day. With clear
definitions, concise explanations, and plenty of helpful
information on everything from matter and molecules to moles and
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of college chemistry Understand atoms, molecules, and the periodic
table of elements Master chemical equations, solutions, and states
of matter Complete practice problems and end-of-chapter quizzes
(online!) Chemistry All-In-One For Dummies is perfect for students
who need help with coursework or want to cram extra hard to ace
that chem test.
Transformation of the University imagines preferable futures for
the University, building hope for the institution’s necessary
transformation. It transcends old criticism and presents fresh
ideas on how the institution might be conceived, organized, and put
into practice while safeguarding that which makes it a university
– the pursuit of knowledge. This book is divided into three main
parts: Part One – ‘Knowledge’ assumes the role of the
University in generating knowledge for the benefit of society; Part
Two – ‘Cultural Growth’ expands on how the University might
contribute to and benefit from the cultural growth of society, with
both explicit and implicit connections to social justice; and Part
Three – ‘Institutions’ focuses on imaginative processes for
enacting a University as an institution that meets the unforeseen
challenges facing society. With contributions from scholars across
the world, Transformation of the University is an essential read
for all academics, practitioners, and broad social thinkers who are
concerned with the future of the University and its contributions
to society.
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