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The Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier

The Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier

Despite the existence of two barrier systems in the brain research over the last century has mostly focused on the blood-brain barrier rather than on the blood-CSF barrier. Today there is a greater understanding of the function of the blood-CSF barrier and of the choroid plexus a tissue that is the primary site of this barrier. With the growing number of studies that focus on the role of the blood-CSF barrier in CNS homeostasis and neurological disorders a modern overview of the blood-CSF barrier is long overdue. The Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier is exclusively devoted to the blood-CSF barrier. Internationally renowned experts discuss the most recent progress in the field of choroid plexus physiology and update our knowledge of the function of the blood-CSF barrier. The book begins with an overview of the development and morphology of the choroid plexus and then covers various aspects of its function such as the regulation of choroidal blood flow ion transport and the production and transport of polypeptides. Following an extensive section on the role of the choroid plexus in CNS disorders the final section discusses in vitro in vivo and in situ models of the blood-CSF barrier. This unique book analyzes a wealth of new research on the proven and potential roles of the choroid plexus/blood-CSF barrier in the brain. It is a valuable resource that will foster future studies in neuroscience pharmacology and toxicology.

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Bloody Brilliant: How to Develop Execute and Clean Up Blood Effects for Live Performance

Bloody Brilliant: How to Develop Execute and Clean Up Blood Effects for Live Performance

Bloody Brilliant: How to Develop Execute and Clean Up Blood Effects for Live Performance offers methods and techniques for delivering this special effect on the stage. The world of live theatre presents its own set of unique challenges when creating special effects particularly blood. There are no cropped-view frames multiple angles or reshoots – everything is live and in view of the audience. This book provides helpful insight information techniques and tricks for producing reliable and repeatable blood effects covering everything from design and budgeting to safety and clean-up. Filled with easy-to-follow descriptions and full-color artwork this text includes: Practical examples of blood effect budgets outlining not just money but also labor needs. A breakdown of the components for making an original blood recipe as well as reliable industry-tested recipes. Options for dispensing blood to create realistic effects for any budget size. A comprehensive wash-testing database of over 500 examples of fabrics and blood combinations. Prop managers and builders in professional educational and regional theatre are sure to benefit from the tips outlined in this book.

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A Theory of Group Structures Volume II: Empirical Tests

A Theory of Group Structures Volume II: Empirical Tests

First published in 1976 this A Theory of Group Structures is a study of the aggregation of individuals into groups which cuts across many different social sciences. Volume two examines a sequence of twelve experiments and reports empirical tests of the theory presented in volume one. The result is a major revision of existing research into problems of group structure and a case study in paradigm development. This book will be of interest to students of all social sciences. | A Theory of Group Structures Volume II: Empirical Tests

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An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment is the successor to Cooper’s prize-winning book Psychological Testing: Theory and Practice. This expanded and updated volume shows how psychological questionnaires and tests can be chosen administered scored interpreted and developed. In providing students researchers test users test developers and practitioners in the social sciences education and health with an evaluative guide to choosing using interpreting and developing tests it provides readers a thorough grasp of the principles (and limitations) of testing together with the necessary methodological detail. This book has three distinctive features. First it stresses the basic logic of psychological assessment without getting bogged down with mathematics; the spreadsheet simulations and utilities which are integrated into the text allow users to explore how numbers behave rather than reading equations. Readers will learn by doing. Second it covers both the theory behind psychological assessment and the practicalities of locating designing and using tests and interpreting their scores. Finally it is evaluative. Rather than just describing concepts such as test reliability or adaptive testing it stresses the underlying principles merits and drawbacks of each approach to assessment and methods of developing and evaluating questionnaires and tests. Unusually for an introductory text it includes coverage of several cutting-edge techniques and this new edition expands the discussion on measurement invariance methods of detecting/quantifying bias and hierarchical factor models and features added sections on: Best practices for translation of tests into other languages and problems of cultural bias Automatic item generation The advantages drawbacks and practicalities of internet-based testing Generalizability theory Network analysis Dangerous assumptions made when scoring tests The accuracy of tests used for assessing individuals The two-way relationship between psychometrics and psychological theory Aimed at non-mathematicians this friendly and engaging text will help you to understand the fundamental principles of psychometrics that underpin the measurement of any human characteristic using any psychological test. Written by a leading figure in the field and accompanied by additional resources including a set of spreadsheets which use simulated data and other techniques to illustrate important issues this is an essential introduction for all students of psychology and related disciplines. It assumes very little statistical background and is written for students studying psychological assessment or psychometrics and for researchers and practitioners who use questionnaires and tests to measure personality cognitive abilities educational attainment mood or motivation. | An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

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Language Practices of Migrant Youth From School to Home

Language Practices of Migrant Youth From School to Home

This ground breaking research explores language maintenance and shift focusing on a school community. Following students’ language practice inside and outside of school the author offers a full picture of students’ multilingual practices and their role in shaping identity. Using case studies of eight girls from Vietnamese and Cambodian backgrounds the book draws on data from questionnaires interviews and ethnographic observation to bring these language practices to life. It explores the place of heritage languages English and other languages in the girls’ repertoires and investigates the role they see for these languages in their lives. A key focus of the book is the role of the school environment in shaping students’ repertoires and unfolding sense of ethnic identity; both directly through formal instruction and indirectly through its ethos and social composition. It provides practical suggestions on the basis of extensive research for how schools can negotiate some of the challenges of catering to a multiethnic population. Essential reading for anyone researching migrant language practice sociolinguistics or multicultural education. | Language Practices of Migrant Youth From School to Home

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Social Policy Reform in China Views from Home and Abroad

Social Policy Reform in China Views from Home and Abroad

This title was first published in 2003. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a timely example of social policy reform in a socialist market economy. This important and topical edited collection brings together leading Chinese and Western experts to introduce and integrate policy issues of the PRC into the mainstream of cross-national social policy debate. Drawing upon comparativist expertise in relevant aspects of social policy the book explores the ways in which the PRC has or has not taken lessons from abroad in key social policy respects and illustrates policy-relevant relations between Chinese and Western perspectives. The contributors identify those aspects of China’s recent social policy reforms that seem the most and least likely to appeal to Western societies. The collection therefore represents a substantial advance in two-way East-West lesson learning in social and public policy. | Social Policy Reform in China Views from Home and Abroad

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Prostitution Pornography and Trafficking in Women Israel's Blood Money

Prostitution Pornography and Trafficking in Women Israel's Blood Money

This book critically analyzes the sex industry in Israel using feminist concepts and scholarship to elaborate on the power of prostitution to shape a world in which women are objects for fulfilling men's desires. A comprehensive collection of research-based articles that examine prostitution trafficking in women and pornography from divergent disciplinary angles it reveals the interconnectedness of these three aspects of the sex trade which objectifies commercializes and exploits human – and in particular women’s – sexuality. Showing these practices to be embedded in a capitalist and patriarchal oppressive context that is accommodated by state institutions this volume rejects the argument that it is possible to choose prostitution and that feminist pornography is possible. With case studies including the conspicuous context of migration that attracts sex traffickers the liberal discourse introduced by cinema the media and the arts that serve to legitimate prostitution and pornography the chauvinist-macho culture that perceives and treats women as sex objects and the issues of male prostitution and men as clients Prostitution Pornography and Trafficking in Women: Israel’s Blood Money constitutes a study of Israel as a unique context in which the sex trade can prosper in spite of geographical religious and institutional constraints. As such it will be of interest to scholars of sociology anthropology history cultural studies and gender and women’s studies. | Prostitution Pornography and Trafficking in Women Israel's Blood Money

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Historicising Heritage and Emotions The Affective Histories of Blood Stone and Land

Historicising Heritage and Emotions The Affective Histories of Blood Stone and Land

Historicising Heritage and Emotions examines how heritage is connected to and between people and places through emotion both in the past and today. Discussion is focused on the overlapping categories of blood (families and bloodlines) stone (monuments and memorials) and land (landscape and places imbued with memories) with the contributing authors exploring the ways in which emotions invest heritage with affective power and the transformative effects of this power in individual community and cultural contexts. The 13 chapters that make up the volume take examples from the premodern and modern eras and from two connected geographical regions the United Kingdom and Australia and the Pacific. Each chapter seeks to identify historicise and contextualise the processes of heritage and the emotional regimes at play locating the processes within longer historical and transnational genealogies and critically appraising them as part of broader cultural currents. Theoretically grounded in new approaches to the history of emotions and critical heritage studies the analysis challenges the traditional scholarly focus on heritage in its modern forms offering multifaceted premodern and modern case studies that demonstrate heritage and emotion to have complex and vibrant histories. Offering transhistorical and multidisciplinary discussion around the ways in which we can talk about discuss categorise and theorise heritage and emotion in different historical contexts Historicising Heritage and Emotions is a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in heritage emotions and history. | Historicising Heritage and Emotions The Affective Histories of Blood Stone and Land

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Public Relations and Communications From Theory to Practice

Public Relations and Communications From Theory to Practice

This book provides an introduction to public relations (PR) that employs pedagogical experiential learning models to assist students in developing the skills and competencies required by the PR industry. The book takes the reader on a journey from the theory and origins of PR through to the structure of the PR profession and the more practical elements of how PR is practiced today. It devotes attention to the common competencies necessary for success as a communications professional such as communication skills critical thinking skills and business acumen while giving due focus to the rapidly evolving new technologies and media that impact how organisations communicate. Featuring example cases from around the world each chapter includes discussion topics and scenario-based questionnaires to encourage learning and assist students in developing key competencies. This book is ideal for undergraduate PR modules particularly those with experiential and/or blended learning pedagogical approaches. It will also be useful to those in business seeking to gain a deeper understanding of communications. Situational Judgement Tests and sample press releases presented as online resources also accompany the book. Please visit www. routledge. com/9781032170435. | Public Relations and Communications From Theory to Practice

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Tragic Plots A New Reading from Aeschylus to Lorca

Tragic Plots A New Reading from Aeschylus to Lorca

This title was first published in 2000. This book offers a wide-ranging account of tragic drama from the Greeks to Arthur Miller. It puts forward a bold and vigorously developed argument about the recurrent concerns of tragedy and proposes to uncover the archetypal tragic plot that emerges at key points of historical transition. It traces this plot through fascinatingly diverse formations on Athens Renaissance England and the modern world and offers detailed analysis of over twenty plays. The needs of the first-time reader are not forgotten while challenging new light is thrown on each period. There is substantial discussion of Aeschylus Sophocles Euripedes Marlowe Shakespeare Ibsen Strindberg Chekhov Lorca and Miller along with briefer consideration of the Senecan tradition Yeats Synge O’Neill and T. S. Eliot. Felicity Rosslyn asks why tragic plays get written when they do and why they so often dramatise the struggle to break the ties of blood for the bonds of law. | Tragic Plots A New Reading from Aeschylus to Lorca

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Life at Home for People with a Dementia

Life at Home for People with a Dementia

Life at Home for People with a Dementia provides an evidence-based and readable account of improving life at home for people with a dementia and their families. There are estimated to be 47 million people with a dementia worldwide the majority of whom will live or want to live in their own home. Yet there is a major shortcoming in available knowledge on what life is like for people with a dementia living at home. Most research focuses on care in hospitals or care homes and takes a medical perspective. This book bridges this gap in knowledge by providing a comprehensive and critical overview of the best available evidence on enabling people with a dementia to live well at home from the viewpoint of those living with the condition and in the context of global policy drivers on ageing and health as well as technological advances. The book includes chapters on citizenships – that is the diversity of people living with a dementia – enabling life at home rethinking self-management the ethics and care of people with a dementia at home technological care and citizenship and sharing responsibilities. It concludes with a care manifesto in which we set out a vision for improving life at home for people with a dementia that covers the areas of professional practice education and care research. By covering a wide range of interrelated topics to advance understanding and practice as to how people with a dementia from diverse backgrounds can be supported to live well at home this book provides a synthesised critical and readable understanding of the complexities and risks involved.

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Children Recovering from Complex Trauma From Wound to Scar

Children Recovering from Complex Trauma From Wound to Scar

Children Recovering from Complex Trauma: From Wound to Scar draws on the latest knowledge and research on complex trauma in children as well as the authors’ expertise in order to outline a trauma-sensitive approach to these children and their parents. The first part of the book describes the emotional and relational dynamics underlying these children’s behaviour. The second part of the book offers a glimpse behind the scenes of the authors' psychotherapy practice elaborating the processes of change and growth that can enable developmental recovery ‘from wound to scar’ in children who have experienced complex trauma. As such the book aims to ‘demystify’ what psychotherapy with a traumatised child may look like as well as offer insights and tools which can support carers in their daily interactions with these children. This book will be of great use to the adoptive parents and foster carers of children who have experienced complex trauma and the care professionals (e. g. teachers foster care workers) who work with them. | Children Recovering from Complex Trauma From Wound to Scar

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A Nation of Home Owners

A Nation of Home Owners

Originally published in 1990 and re-issued in 2020 with an updated Preface this book shows how the UK has become a nation of home owners and the effect it has had on people’s lives the impact which it has had on British society and the implications for those who have hitherto been excluded. The book briefly charts the history of the growth of owner-occupation in Britain and considers the evidence on the popularity of owning as opposed to renting. The question of whether and how owner occupiers accumulate wealth from their housing is discussed and the evidence on the political implications of the growth of owner-occupation examined. The influence of buying a house on the way that home is experienced is analysed and the sociological implications in regard to the analysis of social inequalities in Britain discussed. The research for the book was based on in-depth interviews with home-owners and tenants in Burnley Derby and Slough.

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Coming Home Your Way Understanding University Student Intercultural Reentry

Coming Home Your Way Understanding University Student Intercultural Reentry

Coming Home Your Way offers college and university students returning from an education-abroad experience a wealth of pertinent information opportunities for meaningful reflection and practical guidance on making the most of their time abroad. Grounded in research and addressing an array of aspects of education abroad – including intercultural communication changing relationships and career impact – Coming Home Your Way will be an invaluable tool for any student planning experiencing or returning from a stay abroad. Drawing from theory and research from multiple disciplines and real-world experiences of students who have studied abroad the volume addresses key themes critical to understanding reentry including individual differences in taking in experience communication patterns and approaches the reentry transition the nature of relationships in reentry bridging reentry and career and more. Within each chapter are opportunities for self-reflection that allow readers to integrate the ideas presented into their own experience. Compelling short fictional accounts add flavor and detail that bring theory to life. Coming Home Your Way provides a window into the complex experience of intercultural reentry. Reentry from an education-abroad experience can be a period of intense growth and can feel disruptive and confusing while it’s happening. The authors explain and explore these complexities in a conversational style that will engage students and with the rigor expected by their instructors. Like no other book currently on the market Coming Home Your Way will give college and university students insight into the challenges and intercultural opportunities that reentry offers. | Coming Home Your Way Understanding University Student Intercultural Reentry

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Providing Home Care for Older Adults A Professional Guide for Mental Health Practitioners

Providing Home Care for Older Adults A Professional Guide for Mental Health Practitioners

A practical guide to providing home-based mental health services Providing Home Care for Older Adults teaches readers how to handle the unique aspects of home-based care and apply and adapt evidence-based assessment and treatment within the home-based setting. Featuring contributions from experienced board-certified home care psychologists social workers and psychiatrists the book explains the multifaceted role of a home-based provider offers concrete and practical considerations for working within the home and highlights adaptations to specific evidence-based methods used in treating homebound older adults. Also covered are special topics related to hoarding safety capacity evaluations caregivers case management and use of technology. Each chapter includes engaging case examples with practical tips that illustrate what it is like to work in this new and exciting frontier. Psychologists counselors and other mental health practitioners in home settings will be able to use this guide to provide effective home-based care to older adults. | Providing Home Care for Older Adults A Professional Guide for Mental Health Practitioners

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Learning from Arnstein's Ladder From Citizen Participation to Public Engagement

Learning from Arnstein's Ladder From Citizen Participation to Public Engagement

Sherry Arnstein writing in 1969 about citizen involvement in planning processes in the United States described a “ladder of citizen participation” that showed participation ranging from low to high. Arnstein depicted the failings of typical participation processes at the time and characterized aspirations toward engagement that have now been elevated to core values in planning practice. But since that time the political economic and social context has evolved greatly and planners organizers and residents have been involved in planning and community development practice in ways previously unforeseen. Learning from Arnstein’s Ladder draws on contemporary theory expertise empirical analysis and practical applications in what is now more commonly termed public engagement in planning to examine the enduring impacts of Arnstein’s work and the pervasive challenges that planners face in advancing meaningful public engagement. This book presents research from throughout the world including Australia Brazil India Indonesia Portugal Serbia and the United States among others that utilizes critiques revises and expands upon Arnstein’s aspirational vision. It is essential reading for educators and students of planning. | Learning from Arnstein's Ladder From Citizen Participation to Public Engagement

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Home Schooling in China Culture Religion Politics and Gender

Home Schooling in China Culture Religion Politics and Gender

Home Schooling in China seeks to provide a better understanding of the social movement of home schooling in China. In this book the author addresses several major themes of home education including marketization social stratification culture religion Confucianism gender policy gender and home schooling. This book draws a broad attention to the in-depth information to the relationship of marketisation social stratification and home education in China. It offers an implication for a better understanding not only for influences of religion (e. g. Christianity) but also the effects of Confucianism on the growth of home education in China. With a strong theoretical foundation the book comprehensively untangles the key possible factors that shape China’s social movement of home education. The book offers a background on theories and research methodology as well as reports on empirical studies that analyse the influences of marketisation on home schooling social stratification and the development of home schooling. This book is ideal reading for academics researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of Confucianism social class gender and education in China. | Home Schooling in China Culture Religion Politics and Gender

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Kosovo: From Crisis to Crisis From Crisis to Crisis

Kosovo: From Crisis to Crisis From Crisis to Crisis

This title was first published in 2001. This text adresses the Kosovo conflict. The authors analyze the conflict using a number of different themes: the impact on current events the attempts to find a solution the need for military intervention why airstrikes were made the effectiveness of air power and its limitations the political breakthrough the structure of peace and its implementation and the results so far. The aim of the book is to provide a deeper understanding of this conflict. | Kosovo: From Crisis to Crisis From Crisis to Crisis

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Poems from Korea From the Earliest Era to the Present

Poems from Korea From the Earliest Era to the Present

The Koreans according to the Chinese chronicles are ‘the people who enjoy singing and dancing’ and who regaled their gods with dance and song. Since then poetry has been an essential part of Korean life and has been regarded as the highest of the arts. In this first comprehensive anthology of Korean poetry in English first published in 1974 Peter Lee has selected and translated a wide variety of poems ranging from the Silla Dynasty in 57 BC to the middle of the twentieth century. The poems chosen reflect not only the native Korean tradition but also the great tradition of Chinese poetry. They often possess a deep lyrical quality many are rich in religious overtones or derive their beauty from contemplation of nature and through many of the poems runs the feeling of the closeness of Korean life to the earth. | Poems from Korea From the Earliest Era to the Present

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House and Home Cultural Contexts Ontological Roles

House and Home Cultural Contexts Ontological Roles

House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges predominant definitions and argues that domesticity fundamentally satisfies the human need to create and inhabit a defined place in the world. Consequently house and home have performed numerous cultural and ontological roles and have been assiduously represented in scripture literature art and philosophy. This book presents how the search for home in an unpredictable world led people to create myths about the origins of architecture houses for their gods and house tombs for eternal life. Turning to more recent topics it discusses how writers often used simple huts as a means to address the essentials of existence; modernist architects envisioned the capacity of house and home to improve society; and the suburban house was positioned as a superior setting for culture and family. Throughout the book house and home are critically examined to illustrate the perennial role and capacity of architecture to articulate the human condition position it more meaningfully in the world and assist in our collective homecoming. | House and Home Cultural Contexts Ontological Roles

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Émile Durkheim and the Birth of the Gods Clans Incest Totems Phratries Hordes Mana Taboos Corroborees Sodalities Menstrual Blood A

Émile Durkheim and the Birth of the Gods Clans Incest Totems Phratries Hordes Mana Taboos Corroborees Sodalities Menstrual Blood A

The Birth of the Gods is dedicated to Durkheim's effort to understand the basis of social integration. Unlike most social scientists then and now Durkheim concluded that humans are naturally more individualistic than collectivistic that the primal social unit for humans is the macro-level unit ('the horde') rather than the family and that social cohesion is easily disrupted by human self-interest. Hence for Durkheim one of the gravest problems facing sociology is how to mold these human proclivities to serve the collective good. The analysis of elementary religions Durkheim believed would allow social scientists to see the fundamental basis of solidarity in human societies built around collective representations totems marking sacred forces and emotion-arousing rituals directed at these totems. The first half of the book traces the key influences and events that led Durkheim to embrace such novel generalizations. The second part makes a significant contribution to sociological theory with an analysis that essentially tests Durkheim's core assumptions using cladistic analysis social network tools and theory and data on humans closest living relatives—the great apes. Maryanski marshals hard data from primatology paleontology archaeology genetics and neuroscience that enlightens and surprisingly confirms many of Durkheim’s speculations. These data show that integration among both humans and great apes is not so much group or kin oriented per se but orientation to a community standing outside each individual that includes a sense of self but also encompassing a cognitive awareness of a sense of community or a connectedness that transcends sensory reality and concrete social relations. This community complex as Maryanski terms it is what Durkheim was beginning to see although he did not have the data to buttress his arguments as Maryanski is able to do. | Émile Durkheim and the Birth of the Gods Clans Incest Totems Phratries Hordes Mana Taboos Corroborees Sodalities Menstrual Blood A

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Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home Critical Perspectives

Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home Critical Perspectives

This cross-disciplinary volume brings together diverse perspectives on children’s food occasions inside and outside of the home across different geographical locations. By unpacking mundane food occasions - from school dinners to domestic meals and from breakfast to snacks - Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home shows the role of food in the everyday lives of children and adults around them. Investigating food occasions at home schools and in nurseries during weekdays and holidays this book reveals how children mothers fathers teachers and other adults involved in feeding children understand make sense of and navigate ideological discourses of parenting health imperatives and policy interventions. Revealing the material and symbolic complexity of feeding children and the role that parenting and healthy discourses play in shaping perpetuating and transforming both feeding and eating this volume shows how micro and macro aspects are at play in mundane and everyday practices of family life and education. This volume will be of great interested to a wide range of students and researchers interested in the sociology of family life education food studies and everyday consumption. | Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home Critical Perspectives

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Secessionism and Terrorism Bombs Blood and Independence in Europe and Eurasia

Secessionism and Terrorism Bombs Blood and Independence in Europe and Eurasia

This book examines secessionist terrorism in a comparative context across Europe and Eurasia. The volume seeks to uncover comparative linkages between terrorism and secessionism; specifically examining terrorist organizations that also have a political goal of independence. It examines a wide range of case studies including the IRA in Northern Ireland ETA in the Basque Country FLNC in Corsica and ARD in Brittany KLA in Kosovo PKK and TAK in Turkish Kurdistan and IK in Chechnya. In doing so the book shows the linkages in terrorist tactics and demands as well as when and how ceasefires come into place. Ultimately none of the terrorist organizations studied here has obtained their maximalist goal of gaining independence but each has caused significant bloodshed and has contributed to the debate on the future of governance in Europe and Eurasia. The major strength of this format is to glean wider lessons on ethno-nationalism as well as the causes and outcomes of terrorist actions. Each case study also updates the literature on the individual cases to provide the most recent account of events in these countries. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and political violence ethnic conflict nationalism European politics and International Relations in general. | Secessionism and Terrorism Bombs Blood and Independence in Europe and Eurasia

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Future Home Trends Innovations and Disruptors in Housing Design

Future Home Trends Innovations and Disruptors in Housing Design

Global pandemics smart technologies demographics and climate change are just some of the external disruptors that may impact the home’s evolution over the next ten years. Future Home provides a comprehensive ‘horizon scan’ of what our homes may be like approximately ten years from now by looking for early signs of potentially important developments through a systematic examination of trends innovations and disruptors. The authors consider what aspects of the home are likely to remain constant and what aspects may change beyond all recognition and if changes are predicted what form they may take and most importantly what this means for design professionals. Exploring areas of buildings and technology people and delivery each chapter addresses the catalysts natures and responses to these changes. This book provides an overview of the future home that will be essential reading for designers policy-makers and homeowners alike. | Future Home Trends Innovations and Disruptors in Housing Design

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From Models to Simulations

From Models to Simulations

This book analyses the impact computerization has had on contemporary science and explains the origins technical nature and epistemological consequences of the current decisive interplay between technology and science: an intertwining of formalism computation data acquisition data and visualization and how these factors have led to the spread of simulation models since the 1950s. Using historical comparative and interpretative case studies from a range of disciplines with a particular emphasis on the case of plant studies the author shows how and why computers data treatment devices and programming languages have occasioned a gradual but irresistible and massive shift from mathematical models to computer simulations. | From Models to Simulations

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