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This concisely organized reference text provides vital information on many of the microbes one will regularly encounter and the most efficacious ways of addressing associated infections. Discussion of antimicrobial resistance mechanisms and measures to combat them are also one of the key features of this text.

BASICS OF PRECISION MACHINERY provides students and professionals a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field. The text reviews basic dynamics of machinery and kinematics concepts, and the design of mechanisms.

Locke and Leibniz on Substance gathers together papers by an international group of academic experts, examining the metaphysical concept of substance in the writings of these two towering philosophers of the early modern period. Each of these newly-commissioned essays considers important interpretative issues concerning the role that the notion of substance plays in the work of Locke and Leibniz, and its intersection with other key issues, such as personal identity. Contributors also consider the relationship between the two philosophers and contemporaries such as Descartes and Hume.

This volume identifies and develops how phenomenology and philosophy of mind interact in both conceptual and empirically-informed ways.

Philosophers working within the pragmatist tradition have pictured their relation to Kant and Kantianism in very diverse terms: some have presented their work as an appropriation and development of Kantian ideas, some have argued that pragmatism is an approach in complete opposition to Kant. This collection investigates the relationship between pragmatism, Kant, and current Kantian approaches to transcendental arguments in a detailed and original way. Chapters highlight pragmatist aspects of Kant¿s thought and trace the influence of Kant on the work of pragmatists and neo-pragmatists, engaging with the work of Peirce, James, Lewis, Sellars, Rorty, and Brandom, among others.

A study of US-North Korean interaction using the security dilemma as a conceptual frame of analysis is thus not only hugely topical, but also particularly relevant for the 21st century on theoretical as well as empirical grounds. Is there the prospect of a security dilemma contagion if North Korea acquire nuclear weapons capability leading to an Asia Pacific wide nuclear arms race? This book examines this contentious issue in-depth and explores the difficult choices policymakers face as a result of the uncertainty in international politics.

Migration has transformed Taiwanese society in the last 20 years. The main inflows have been temporary workers from Southeast Asian countries and female spouses from Southeast Asia and China marrying Taiwanese husbands. The main outflow has been migration to China, as a result of increased economic integration across the Taiwan Strait. These changes have significantly altered Taiwan¿s ethnic structure and have profound social and political implications for this new democracy. As large numbers of these migrants take Taiwanese citizenship and their offspring gain voting rights, the impact of these new Taiwanese will continue to increase.

This book takes a regional, multidisciplinary and multi-actor approach to improve understandings of how various actors respond to natural and human-induced disasters in the Asia Pacific region.The contributors draw their findings from a variety of countries in the region, including China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar and Samoa, and importantly, focus on the interconnection between vulnerability and resilience. The focus of this book on recent and on-going disasters makes it a topical and timely contribution to the growing field of disaster management, and will appeal to students and scholars of environmental studies, development studies and Asian politics.

For years the premier teaching text for the ecological approach to medical anthropology, this sixth edition has been updated to examine current major trends, topics, and the latest developments in the field.

This book explores the health-education interface and the complex nexus of discourses, principles and practices within which educators mobilize school based health education. The book provides an explicit interrogation of the ideas informing particular models and approaches to health education and provides insight into the principles and practices underpinning approaches to policy, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment.

This book explores the relationship between drama and social justice. Much has been written within the tradition of drama education and applied theatre based around the premise that drama can be a force for change within both individual lives and society more broadly. Despite this premise, and dramäs intrinsically entwined relationship with society, little has been written in terms of charting the nature of the relationship. This book seeks to unpack and understand this premise more comprehensively, purposefully and critically. Combining theoretical, historical and practical perspectives, Drama and Social Justice provides a wide-ranging exploration of the concept of social justice within the field of drama education and applied theatre.

This edited book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of the role that context plays in how and when individuals and groups remember the past. International contributors integrate research from numerous disciplines including social and cognitive psychology, neuroscience, discursive psychology, philosophical psychology and cognitive linguistics to provide a new awareness of the central role that cultural, social and technological contexts play in determining individual and collective recollections at multiple, yet interconnected, levels of human experience.

This book draws upon the author¿s first-hand clinical experience as an Expert Witness in child and family legal proceedings to explore the success of psychotherapy assessments and interventions. Focusing on families who are seeking to be re-united after the removal of their children into foster care, Mike Davies discusses critical aspects of therapy which can help to identify and engage those who will benefit from additional support.

I. A. Richards (1893-1979) was a founder of modern literary critical theory. Seeking a more exacting approach, he analyzed literary texts as syntactical structures that could be broken down into smaller interacting verbal units of meaning. Practical Criticism, first published in 1929, is a landmark volume in demonstrating this method.

Educational institutions are undergoing complex and sensitive changes in the context of immigration, international mobility, globalisation, and shifting economic scenarios, making highly challenging demands on educational leaders. Leadership is increasingly being perceived and theorised as pivotal to students¿ achievement and institutional performance. In this book, Saeeda Shah considers educational leadership from an Islamic perspective, examining the role of education and educational leadership to debate theoretical positions underpinned by Islamic texts and teachings, and the resulting conceptualisations and interpretations.

Recent research suggests that Black and minority ethnic (BME) academics remain underrepresented, particularly at senior levels in higher education and tend to be concentrated in new, post-1992 universities. This book provides an original comparative study of BME academics in both the UK and the USA, considering issues of inequality, difference and identity in the Academy.

Dealing with the subject of microeconomics, this book argues that economic analysis is essential to understand much of the behavior traditionally studied by sociologists, anthropologists, and other social scientists. It places mathematical discussions in footnotes and appendixes.

This book provides a critical appraisal of Chinäs deepening socialist rule of law and looks ahead to the implications of domestic reforms on the legal domain. With contributions from leading law specialists, it draws on specific illustrations from judicial reform, constitutional law, anti-corruption, urban development and Chinese economics.

The Routledge International Handbook of Outdoor Studies is the first book to attempt to define and survey the multi-disciplinary set of approaches that constitute the broad field of outdoor studies, including outdoor recreation, outdoor education, adventure education, environmental studies, physical culture studies and leisure studies.

This book conceptualizes and measures the cognitive and affective aspects of subjective wellbeing from multiple different perspectives, and relates these to important factors such as values, trust, democratic rights, views about politics, and the role of the government. It examines how happiness and subjective wellbeing have evolved in Singapore.

This book highlights classroom-based research in an Australian context by exploring evidence-based learning and teaching practices. Marrying theory and practice, it draws examples from early childhood, primary and secondary settings to provide a thorough overview of the key issues surrounding current learning and teaching practices.

Based on four years anthropological research within prisons and Muslim communities in the UK, this book offers a unique discussion of the relationship between the experience of prison among Muslims and the formation of religious identity.

This volume represents the work of the National Latino/a Education Research Agenda Project (NLERAP) It conceptualizes and illustrates the theoretical framework for the NLERAP agenda and its projects.

This book focuses on management strategies that respect human life and the environment and secure safe food production. Providing new insights in weed science, agronomy, horticulture and viticulture, agroecologists, environmental scientists and landscape managers.

This book unravels the mystery of Enterprise Process Management Systems (EPMS) environments and applications, and their power and potential to transform the operating contexts of business enterprises. Like the functionality of Staffware, Salesforce etc., EPMS solutions, training new personnel, or licensing new software.

Presents research on, and deepens understanding of, teaching strategies that foster the knowledge, skills and dispositions of college graduates to be actively engaged in their communities as citizens and civic-minded professionals. Chapters also address implications for practice and future research agendas for scholars.

Originally published in 1963, this classic book is a rethinking of the history of Western political philosophy. Charles N. R. McCoy contrasts classical-medieval principles against the "hypotheses" at the root of modern liberalism and modern conservativism.

Making a game can be an intensive process, and if not planned accurately can easily run over budget. The use of procedural generation in game design can help with the intricate and multifarious aspects of game development; thus facilitating cost reduction. This form of development enables games to create their play areas, objects and stories based on a set of rules, rather than relying on the developer to handcraft each element individually. Readers will learn to create randomized maps, weave accidental plotlines, and manage complex systems that are prone to unpredictable behavior. Tanya Short's and Tarn Adams' Procedural Generation in Game Design offers a wide collection of chapters from various experts that cover the implementation and enactment of procedural generation in games. Designers from a variety of studios provide concrete examples from their games to illustrate the many facets of this emerging sub-discipline. Key Features: Introduces the differences between static/traditional game design and procedural game design Demonstrates how to solve or avoid common problems with procedural game design in a variety of concrete ways Includes industry leaders' experiences and lessons from award-winning games World's finest guide for how to begin thinking about procedural design

Offers important insights and tangible examples of how higher education leaders may work directly with communities and in policy settings to understand the deeper meanings often lost in conversations about educational opportunity. Each chapter addresses the ways in which faculty, community and administrative leaders may connect research and practice through unique research projects.