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Perspectives and research on play for children with disabilities. Collected Papers. This book includes eight chapters reflecting various approaches towards the theme of play for children with disabilities that characterised the work of the members of the COST Action TD1309 “LUDI–Play for Children with Disabilities”: barriers and facilitators to play, guidelines on accessibility and usability of toys and technologies, literature reviews and parents'and studies on educators'perspectives on play are presented. Alongside these multifaceted points of view, some theoretical aspects emerged as a common background: the ICF-CY theoretical perspective, the vision of “play for the sake of play” and play as a fundamental right. ABSTRACTING & INDEXING Perspectives and research on play for children with disabilities is covered by the following services: Baidu Scholar CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) Dimensions ExLibris Google Books Google Scholar Naviga ReadCube Semantic Scholar TDOne (TDNet) WorldCat (OCLC) X-MOL

Kultna knjiga s prijelaza milenija sada i u e-izdanju! Na žalost, nije ni malo izgubila na aktualnosti... Na temelju znanstvenih spoznaja i vlastitog bogatog iskustva stečenog tijekom godina kada je kao savjetnik za nove medije surađivao s brojnim danas vodećim kompanijama, Douglas Rushkoff jednostavnim jezikom objašnjava koje se metode i na koji način primjenjuju u svrhu manipulacije ljudima u suvremenom društvu. Polazeći od postupaka koje u trgovinama primjenjuju kako bi kupce prinudili da kupe proizvod, Rushkoff razotkriva i djelovanje marketinga u politici i javnom životu te načine na koji mediji utječu na formiranje našeg mišljenja. Pitak jezik, te Rushkoffova jasna argumentacija potkrijepljena obiljem primjera, čini ovu knjigu veoma poželjnim štivom, osobito cijenjenim među mlađom publikom. Poruka knjige je pozitivna i u svakom slučaju usmjerena ljudima koji žele aktivno živjeti i sudjelovati, bez cinizma, u otvorenom globalnom društvu. Knjiga'Iznuđivanje'dobila je nagradu'Marshal McLuhan'2002. godine za najbolju knjigu o medijima. Knjigu su preveli Andrea Marić i Vlatko Broz. Douglas Rushkoff je američki teoretičar medija, pisac, kolumnist, predavač i autor dokumentaraca. Napisao je nekoliko vrlo uspješnih knjiga o novim medijima i pop-kulturi, uključujući najpoznatija djela: Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace (1994.), Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture (1996.), Playing the Future: What We Can Learn from Digital Kids (1999.), Coercion: Why We Listen To What They Say (2000.), Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out (2005.), Life, Inc.: How the World Became A Corporation and How To Take It Back (2009.), Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age (2010.) Rushkoff je također autor romanâ Ectasy Club (1998.), Bull (1999.) i Exit Strategy (2001.), grafičkih romana Club Zero-G (2004.) i Testament (2005.-2008.). Knjige su mu prevedene na tridesetak jezika.Za PBS-ov'Frontline'kreirao je nekoliko kultnih i nagrađivanih dokumentaraca: Merchants of Cool (2001.) o utjecaju korporacija na kulturu mladih, The Persuaders (2004.) o problemima marketinške industrije do kojih je došlo zbog otpora i zasićenosti potrošača, Life Inc. The Movie (2009.), Digital Nation, Life on the Virtual Frontier (2009.-2010.) i Generation Like (2014.); filmovi su dostupni na PBS-ovom Webu (www.pbs.org). Rushkoff,'veteran medijskih ratova', profesor je medijske kulture na New York University, savjetnik Komisije Ujedinjenih naroda za svjetsku kulturu, član upravnog vijeća udruge Media Ecology Association, te jedan od osnivača pravca Tehnorealizam. Redovito sudjeluje u TV emisijama kao što su NBC Nightly News i Frontline, ili Larry King Show i Politically Incorrect. Piše mjesečnu kolumnu o cyber-kulturi u New York Timesu, koja se objavljuje u preko 30 zemalja, te surađuje u časopisima, novinama i portalima kao što su Time, The Guardian, Esquire, Paper, Daily Beast i TheFeature.com. Redovito drži predavanja o medijima, društvu i promjenama na konferencijama i sveučilištima širom svijeta. Kao konzultant surađivao je s brojnim institucijama, vladama, neprofitnim udrugama te kompanijama kao što su Sony, TCI i druge tvrtke s popisa'Fortune 500'.Živi u New Yorku. Više o Douglasu Rushoffu dostupno je na njegovom Webu: www.rushkoff.com

This book examines India's public policies on cybersecurity and their evolution over the past few decades. It shows how threats and vulnerabilities in the domain have forced nation-states to introduce new policies to protect digital ecosystems. It charts the process of securitisation of cyberspace by the international system from the end of the 20th century to the present day. It also explores how the domain has become of strategic interest for many states and the international bodies which eventually developed norms and policies to secure the domain.Consequently, the book discusses the evolution of cybersecurity policy at global level by great powers, middle powers, and states of concern and compares them with the Indian context. It also highlights the requirement of introducing/improving new cybersecurity guidelines to efficiently deal with emerging technologies such as 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data (BD), Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), and cryptocurrency.The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of cybersecurity, public policy, politics, and South Asian studies.

Many young children in the United States are thriving and have access to the conditions and resources they need to grow up healthy. However, a substantial number of young children face more challenging conditions such as: poverty; food insecurity; exposure to violence; and inadequate access to health care, well-funded quality schools, and mental health care. In many cases, the historical origins of unequal access to crucial supports for children's physical, emotional, and cognitive development are rooted in policies that intentionally segregated and limited various populations'access to resources and create opportunity gaps that intertwine and compound to affect academic, health, and economic outcomes over an individual's life course and across generations. Closing the Opportunity Gap for Young Children, identifies and describes the causes, costs, and effects of the opportunity gap in young children and explores how disparities in access to quality educational experiences, health care, and positive developmental experiences from birth through age eight intersect with key academic, health, and economic outcomes. The report identifies drivers of these gaps in three key domains—education, mental health, and physical health—and offers recommendations for policy makers for addressing these gaps so that all children in the United States have the opportunity to thrive. In addition, the report offers a detailed set of recommendations for policy makers, practitioners, community organizations, and philanthropic organizations to reduce opportunity gaps in education, health, and social-emotional development.

Obwohl Komik und Behinderung gerade in den Künsten immer wieder zusammentreffen, gibt es so gut wie keine theoretisch und methodisch fundierten Auseinandersetzungen mit dieser Thematik in den Literatur-, Kultur- oder Sozialwissenschaften. Gerade im Kontext von Inklusionsdiskussionen jedoch sind Fragen nach dem Potential des Lachens und der Komik, aber auch nach deren Ambivalenz im Zusammenhang mit Behinderung von weitreichender Bedeutung. Der vorliegende Band unternimmt eine Bestandsaufnahme möglicher Theorien und Analysekonzepte anhand konkreter Einzelanalysen. Die Autor:innen vertreten die Sozial-, Erziehungs-, Literatur-, Kultur-, Medien-, Theater- und Filmwissenschaften.

Au sommaire de ce numéro : L'identité et l'altérité à travers Agadir de Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine ; L'enseignement de la littérature amazighe : un parcours hybride oscillant entre les ambitions généreuses de la recherche et les à-peu-près forcés de la pratique ; Le glossaire sémiotique : Vers un métalangage amazigh ; La pertinence des anthroponymes amazighes dans l'oeuvre de Driss Chraïbi et de Rita EL KHAYAT; La poétique de l'espace dans le roman Faffa de Rachid ALLICHE » ; Quelques notes sur la proposition relative dans les variétés amazighes du Rif ; Le morphème « t...(t) » en amazigh : quelle valeur et quel emploi? ; La « tradition » dans le champ poétique amazigh (Le cas du Kabyle et du Rifain).

Ce numéro spécial lance un cycle de réflexion qui aspire à colmater une brèche liée à l'enseignement et la recherche en sciences humaines, à savoir l'aspect pratique, lié au principe de recherche action et de recherche intervention. Ainsi les articles de ce numéro posent des questions pratiques et essayent par l'application des techniques empiriques de proposer des solutions et des recommandations tangibles à certains problèmes psychosociologiques.

Globalization has not only changed our society, it has also had a profound effect on education. Many schools deal with student populations that due to migration have become increasingly multilingual. Politically, few would argue against the importance of multilingualism; rather, it is promoted to the fullest. However, in practical terms the challenges associated with teaching and educational policies have increased manifold as a result of the linguistic diversity among student bodies. Reading is certainly regarded as a key learning skill, however, the question arises as to how the students'life-world multilingualism is taken into consideration. Furthermore, being considered part of teachers'professional competence, teachers'mental processes and perceptions (beliefs) have been the focus in several different academic fields. Previous research suggests that there are significant links between teachers'beliefs and practices. This thesis explores the aforementioned aspects in greater detail, with the overall aim to gain a deeper understanding of teachers'beliefs and strategies when teaching reading in multilingual settings. Using a cross-disciplinary, qualitative research approach, the empirical inquiry is based on case studies within different, linguistically diverse settings. The case studies include classroom observations as well as teacher interviews in German, Swedish and Chilean grade 4 classrooms.

Es evidente que la justicia como aspiración máxima de la humanidad ha despertado, desde siempre, un gran interés social. En unos momentos en los que la actividad mediática ha alcanzado una de las cotas de mayor presencia en la vida pública, la justicia y su mundo se han convertido en un foco de atención muy relevante, como podemos comprobar casi a diario. La presente obra contiene la reflexión de un grupo de eminentes y prestigiosos juristas que polifónicamente aborda, desde sus respectivas disciplinas, la complicada función de juzgar conforme a derecho en nuestros días. La lectura de la obra que tenemos entre manos nos aboca a reflexionar seriamente sobre una tan delicada y necesaria función, adentrándose en la compleja realidad social de nuestros días y analizando con precisión los grandes retos a los que tiene que enfrentarse el juez, que está hoy, más que nunca, sometido al escrutinio público, de tal manera que podríamos decir que los jueces juzgan y a la vez son juzgados por la opinión pública a través de los medios de comunicación. «Pensar al juez» es una gran responsabilidad, y es algo que nos concierne directamente a los juristas. En este libro los autores reflexionan en profundidad y con acierto ofreciéndonos pistas del todo necesarias para preservar la justicia conforme a los postulados que tienen como base el reconocimiento de la dignidad de la persona y cuanto a ella le atañe.

Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us; the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs our spine at the mere thought of him or her. Yet, a culture that has so much to say about love is virtually silent on the no less mysterious moments when we avoid falling in love, where we fall out of love, when the one who kept us awake at night now leaves us indifferent, or when we hurry away from those who excited us a few months or even a few hours before. In The End of Love, Eva Illouz documents the multifarious ways in which relationships end. She argues that if modern love was once marked by the freedom to enter sexual and emotional bonds according to one's will and choice, contemporary love has now become characterized by practices of non-choice, the freedom to withdraw from relationships. Illouz dubs this process by which relationships fade, evaporate, dissolve, and break down'unloving.'While sociology has classically focused on the formation of social bonds, The End of Love makes a powerful case for studying why and how social bonds collapse and dissolve. Particularly striking is the role that capitalism plays in practices of non-choice and'unloving.'The unmaking of social bonds, she argues, is connected to contemporary capitalism that is characterized by practices of non-commitment and non-choice, practices that enable the quick withdrawal from a transaction and the quick realignment of prices and the breaking of loyalties. Unloving and non-choice have in turn a profound impact on society and economics as they explain why people may be having fewer children, increasingly living alone, and having less sex. The End of Love presents a profound and original analysis of the effects of capitalism and consumer culture on personal relationships and of what the dissolution of personal relationships means for capitalism.

The social and economic systems of any country are influenced by a range of factors. As the global population grows in developing nations, it has become essential to examine the effects of urbanization. Urbanization and Its Impact on Socio-Economic Growth in Developing Regions is a pivotal reference source for the latest research findings on the role of urban growth on the socio-economic infrastructures in developing regions. Featuring extensive coverage on relevant areas such as job creation, sustainability, and transportation planning, this publication is an ideal resource for city development planners, decision-makers, researchers, academics, and students interested in emerging perspectives on socio-economic development.

Professionalizing the Police is a timely reassessment of the development of British police training and its contribution to the furtherance of the police professionalism agenda. The police have long struggled with the concept of professionalism. The Victorians veered from regarding police as servants to sanctifying policing as a special calling, while the supposed Golden Age of Policing was riven by divisions of class as sharp as those of the social diversity that poses one of contemporary policing's harshest tests. Police training has reflected these ambiguities and uncertainties. The ground its curriculum covers, pedagogy it employs, and structures through which it operates have been contested, troublesome to manage, and blamed for policing's failures. Behind these frictions lie large issues of governance, policing's place in society and what it means to be professional. Late modernity is marked by uncertainty and scepticism. In'post-truth'times, professionalism must accommodate ambiguities of class, ethnicity and sexuality. The police languish as last believers in a monochrome vision of society while the norms that make for contemporary sociality have moved on to a multiplex of diversities that harbour new extremes both of tolerance and intolerance. True professionalism alerts practitioners to other ways of delivering social control and just societies: empowering citizens and encouraging autonomy; supporting new modes of social relationships and lifestyle; fitting provision to cases; pluralizing services. This yardstick is used to assess and challenge the recruit and in-service curriculum and to tease out the options around which professionalism can be configured and embedded such that it plays its part in a humane, coherent, and accountable framework of police governance. The book will appeal to academics and postgraduate students in police research (across criminology, sociology, psychology, socio-legal studies) and the professions (sociology, political science), as well as senior police managers and trainers in the police service and other applied government bodies.

The rapid evolution of technology continuously changes the way people interact, work, and learn. By examining these advances, researchers can further optimize the various opportunities that technology provides. The Handbook of Research on Human Development in the Digital Age is a pivotal reference source presenting the latest scholarly research on the impact of technology on the population through different theories and perspectives. Featuring extensive coverage on a broad range of topics such as cyberbullying, mobile technology, and social skills development, this publication is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, and practitioners seeking current research on new trends in technology that impact society.

In Captain Jack Helm, Chuck Parsons explores the life of John Jackson “Jack” Helm, whose main claim to fame has been that he was a victim of man-killer John Wesley Hardin. That he was, but he was much more in his violence-filled lifetime during Reconstruction Texas. First as a deputy sheriff, then county sheriff, and finally captain of the notorious Texas State Police, he developed a reputation as a violent and ruthless man-hunter. He arrested many suspected lawbreakers, but often his prisoner was killed before reaching a jail for “attempting to escape.” This horrific tendency ultimately brought about his downfall. Helm's aggressive enforcement of his version of “law and order” resulted in a deadly confrontation with two of his enemies in the midst of the Sutton-Taylor Feud. “Captain Jack Helm is more than a fine gunfighter biography: it is a vivid statement about the murderous violence of Reconstruction in Texas.”—Bill O'Neal, State Historian of Texas

Does the proliferation of post-atrocity remedies over the past 25-plus years—the human rights movement, reparations and other justice schemes, and memorials and counter-memorials—suggest promising alternatives to retributive criminal proceedings? Or does it mean that very little so far is working? This collection of essays, written by scholars with ties to Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, and the United States, argues that a new post-atrocity framework is taking root. In search for a more reliably favorable post-atrocity succession, the volume's contributors weigh the merits of practices circumventing the state, whose anemic performance has failed to manage large-scale violence and restore confidence in social stability and security. This ascendant phase includes citizen activism, historical dialogues, and witnesses'accounts. Into the breach where state actors prevailed, citizens “from below” are seizing opportunities for independent intervention. While all transitional frameworks are vulnerable, this volume provides a thoughtful, requisite evaluation of citizen activism for scholars, non-governmental organization practitioners, government and think-tank policymakers, and teachers at all levels.

Life After Guns explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia's fourteen-year bloody civil war. Unlike others who study child soldiers, Abby Hardgrove's ethnography looks at both former combatants and also the youth who were not recruited to fight. She focuses on the structural constraints and household and family organizations that either helped or limited opportunities as these young men grew into adulthood. Whether young men fought or not, and whether they had cultural capital before the war or not, family relations mattered a great deal in how they fared after the war. Download open access ebook here.

Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, exposed the failings and incompetence of local, state, and federal officials, as well as the private sector and a host of other public and private agencies. This volume explores how inaction, lack of planning and undisguised greed insured that a category 3 hurricane would result in widespread destruction of both lives and property.It adopts a multifaceted approach to Hurricane Katrina, and includes studies from the fields of oral history, environmental science, physics, political science, sociology, and history. Part One provides first-hand accounts from people that lived through the hurricane and its aftermath. Part Two looks at how various entities responded, or failed to respond, to the disaster. Included in this section are articles on public health, tourism, environmental science, and the role of the Army Corp of Engineers. Part Three incorporates data from the aftermath of Katrina to suggest future responses to hurricanes and other natural/human made disasters. Finally, Harry Shearer, actor, radio host of Le Show, and director of The Big Uneasy, a documentary on Katrina and its aftermath, contributes an article on the various elements that went into the disaster that was Hurricane Katrina.

The scientific community today largely agrees that climate change is occurring, and that it could have devastating consequences. Still, many Americans are unsure as to what climate change is and what higher temperatures and rising sea levels could mean for them. This essential volume includes scientific data and experts'opinion, along with ordinary people's viewpoints, to examine this important issue. Students will evaluate the evidence to reach a conclusion to one of the most important issues of our time.

In diesem Sammelband berichten Akteurinnen und Akteure aus Migrantenorganisationen, Bildungsträgern, kommunaler Verwaltung, Kammern und Forschungseinrichtungen über ihre Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse bei der Fachkräfteentwicklung in Migrantenunternehmen. Die Impulse zur Entstehung dieses Buches gehen auf einen gleichnamigen Workshop zurück, der von der Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Migrantenökonomie Baden-Württemberg ausgerichtet wurde und unter bundesweiter Beteiligung stattfand. Der Sammelband umfasst die dort vorgestellten Beiträge von Expertinnen und Experten, die aus ihren jeweiligen beruflichen Kontexten und Perspektiven die Aus- und Weiterbildung in Migrantenunternehmen betrachten. Die Beiträge machen deutlich, dass die Förderung der Aus- und Weiterbildung in Migrantenunternehmen sowohl hinsichtlich der Grundlagen als auch der Zielsetzungen auf neue Füße gestellt werden muss. Denn insgesamt ist ein anderer Blick auf Migrantenunternehmen erforderlich, da die an Quantität ausgerichteten Fragen der Ausbildungsbeteiligung an Bedeutung verlieren, während nunmehr in den Betrieben Herausforderungen ersichtlich werden, die stärker auf eine qualitative Dimension verweisen.

The Values, World Society and Modelling Yearbook 2014 analyses contemporary world events, drawing on foundational ideas in various academic disciplines. The year 2014 was the centenary of the start of the First World War and the seventieth anniversary of the Normandy landings in the Second World War. The year saw violent conflict in Ukraine and the rise of the Islamic State in parts of Syria and Iraq. A referendum was held in Scotland to decide whether to stay in the UK. Centrist parties lost ground in the European Parliament elections and a general election was held in India, the biggest ever election in the world. Thomas Piketty sparked debate with his analysis of growing inequality in capitalist economies. Politicians in the UK talked about ‘British values'and debated ‘is Britain Christian?'The British Museum lent one of the Elgin Marbles to the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and Putin made overtures to China. In California, Elliot Rodger went on the rampage, killing six people. Malala Yousafzay won the Nobel Peace Prize, Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal and Judit Polgar retired from international chess. Germany won the World Cup in Brazil. Echoes of the Big Bang confirmed the theory of how the universe began. The 2014 Yearbook discusses these events alongside a variety of other specific events and general issues. In addition, this book includes the speech given by Kevin Avruch when he was joint recipient of the Conflict Research Society Book of the Year Prize 2014 for his book Context and Pretext in Conflict Resolution.

This book represents an important voice in the scientific discourse on what constitutes a sustainable information society, and provides a new comprehensive and forward-looking approach to such a development. This approach is based on the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by the main stakeholders of society, including individuals, enterprises, and public administration, who should use ICTs in order to build the welfare of present and future generations, ensure economic growth and socio-cultural development, increase participation in public life, permit personal development, and build the wisdom of society. As such, the book mainly focuses on the role ICTs play in transforming business, public administration and everyday life in the context of the sustainable information society.This volume will appeal to both researchers and practitioners, as it provides significant areas and directions for research on the sustainable information society, and suggests important issues for programming, building and adopting such a society. The book will allow the reader to answer such critical contemporary questions as ‘What is the sustainable information society and what role is played by ICTs in this society?'; ‘What are the challenges and tasks of people, enterprises, and public administration that lead towards the sustainable information society?'; ‘How can ICTs support people, enterprises, and public administration in programming, building and adopting such a society?'; ‘What are the factors affecting ICT adoption by people, enterprises, and public administration in this context?'; ‘What are the areas that should require a primary focus in order to achieve the most satisfying results of ICT adoption by people, enterprises, and public administration?'; and ‘How can ICT adoption by people, enterprises, and public administration be measured here?'

Jelena Hahl-Fontaine : Welchen Einflüssen war Kandinsky in Russland ausgesetzt?. J. Hahl-Fontaine : Kandinskys Familie. Elena Preis : Mein Großonkel Kandinsky und unsere Familie. W. Kandinsky : Briefe an seinen Studienfreund Nikolaj Charuzin, 1889-1895. W. Kandinsky : Ein Kurzreferat und Rezensionen in „Etnografitscheskoje obozrenie“/Ethnografische Rundschau, 1889. J. Hahl-Fontaine : Ethnografie in der Praxis. J. Hahl-Fontaine : Kandinskys Studienzeit in Moskau...

This volume revisits the most important issues that Anglo-American studies are facing at the beginning of the twenty-first century, with regards to both research and teaching. Given the English language's status as a lingua franca, the culture that produced it, and that has been changing it, the literature written in English, and relevant linguistic and literary discourse have come to largely dominate critical theory globally. Therefore, the subjects of Anglo-American studies, and their traditional and modern concepts, must be approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, and must also be problematized in, and determined by, other spheres of the world, especially at the universities at which they are studied. This book, consequently, approaches both mainstream cultural, literary, linguistic and academic achievements and, often by way of comparison, those smaller, more distant, and marginalized fields, traditionally subordinate studies, as well as instances of cultural hybridization. Given its concern with a broad field of culture, literature, linguistics, and methodology of teaching English as a foreign language, this book consists of two main parts comprising the closest research and teaching fields; one attending to culture and literature, and the other approaching linguistics and methodology.

In this era of ever more complex policing issues and the changing nature of policing itself, senior police officers face a never-ending challenge to keep up not only with the latest reforms, but also with the latest research. Police Leadership: Rising to the Top looks at policing from the dual perspectives of academics and senior police practitioners, and creates a conversation between them about the issues, reforms, and research. It provides authoritative surveys of fields such as leadership, community engagement, change management, utilising policing research, and multi-agency working. Each leadership issue is allocated a chapter, with academic contributors presenting key ideas and concepts in their area of expertise, identifying leading contributions and research studies, and offering concise reviews of some of the most important literature in policing scholarship. This academic knowledge is juxtaposed with the views of senior police practitioners, who provide their own local knowledge and stories, reflecting on their achievements and challenges in leadership roles. Taken together, these discussions build bridges between the two worlds by encouraging'shared reflections'that consider the importance of theory and practice for future leaders.

Leadership for Sergeants and Inspectors offers an easily accessible and practical guide to leadership in routine and complex situations across all areas of police work. The need to demonstrate leadership can occur at any moment: in public order situations, community meetings and among colleagues at work. Enhancing your leadership skills is an effective way of ensuring that you inspire and motivate others, as well as improving interactions with the wide range of people you will meet over the course of your career, from members of the public to social services and partner agencies. This book discusses leadership and teamwork, as well as other leadership skills, through a series of questions that you might consider within the course of your everyday police work. With clear and concise explanations, the author draws on 30 years'experience as a police officer to bring you detailed theory and practice across a range of leadership areas, including team work, equality and diversity, delegation, misconduct and discipline, communication, and assertiveness. There are also helpful hints and tips along the way, providing context to leadership issues within policing, as well as offering examples of leadership skills in practice. The second part of the book amounts to a series of skills checklists, closely aligned to the coverage of the 21 chapters and which you can dip into when immediate help is required. The checklists act as'tool kit'for the busy police officer trying, with perhaps little time ahead, to deal with events efficiently and effectively. Whether you are just embarking on your police career, have been recently promoted, or simply want to refresh your leadership skills, Leadership for Sergeants and Inspectors will support and assist you, helping you to get the best out of your team, your colleagues, and your encounters with members of the public.

This book examines the trends, perspectives and changes witnessed in the previously undocumented communities of India's northeast, emphasising the continuity and transformations of these societies. Each chapter questions the nature of change, and highlights issues which are not a matter of choice but of conviction of the society. This volume will be informative to students and researchers in area studies programmes, anthropology, sociology, history, political science, law, public administration, and ethnology.

One of the most troubling but least studied features of mass political violence is why violence often recurs in the same place over long periods of time. Douglas Kammen explores this pattern in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, studying that region's tragic past, focusing on the small district of Maubara. Once a small but powerful kingdom embedded in long-distance networks of trade, over the course of three centuries the people of Maubara experienced benevolent but precarious Dutch suzerainty, Portuguese colonialism punctuated by multiple uprisings and destructive campaigns of pacification, Japanese military rule, and years of brutal Indonesian occupation. In 1999 Maubara was the site of particularly severe violence before and after the UN-sponsored referendum that finally led to the restoration of East Timor's independence. Beginning with the mystery of paired murders during East Timor's failed decolonization in 1975 and the final flurry of state-sponsored violence in 1999, Kammen combines an archival trail and rich oral interviews to reconstruct the history of the leading families of Maubara from 1712 until 2012. Kammen illuminates how recurrent episodes of mass violence shaped alliances and enmities within Maubara as well as with supra-local actors, and how those legacies have influenced efforts to address human rights violations, post-conflict reconstruction, and the relationship between local experience and the identification with the East Timorese nation. The questions posed in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor about recurring violence and local narratives apply to many other places besides East Timor—from the Caucasus to central Africa, and from the Balkans to China—where mass violence keeps recurring. Download open access ebook here.

Multi-faced Social Transformations: Challenges and Studies brings together the proceedings of the 7th Slovenian Social Science Conference, “The Challenges of Social Transformations”, held in September 2014. It was organized by the School of Advanced Social Studies (SASS), the Slovenian National Committee of the Management of Social Transformations programme (MOST), and the Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO. The multidisciplinary contributions presented here analyse various aspects of the economic, social, and cultural transformations that accompany the contemporary globalized world.The book consists of four sections dealing with particular areas of transformations. These include a range of political, economic and cultural dimensions that are observed from the macro-level, in social systems and structural changes, to the micro-level, in aspects of individuals'lives. The book will be of interest for academics in the field of social sciences, as well as for civil society activists and policy makers. The frames of the transformations are not limited to the European space, and provide a more global perspective.

We live in a time of great social, political and economic crisis that many date to the collapse of the global banking system in 2008. Many are finding it difficult to contextualise the hardships that have taken place in the years following on from those events. It is difficult to find the answers in our present media landscape, or in a political and intellectual climate that continues to laud capitalism as the winning economic system coming out of both World War II and the end of the Cold War, which has become over the last century synonymous with democracy itself. The irony is that in our times the majority of the world's people feel disenfranchised by both capitalism and democracy. How did we come to this historical juncture? What can we learn not just from history, but from our cultural artefacts that might tell us how we first came to conduct ourselves within a system of global finance capitalism? This volume proposes that we reinterpret the writings of Charles Dickens to find the antecedents of our present situation with regards to capital, empire and subjectivity.

This handbook is intended to serve as a baseline of hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) knowledge for quality auditors. HACCP is more than just failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) for food: it is a product safety management system that evolved and matured in the commercial food processing industry allowing food processors to take a proactive approach to prevent foodborne diseases. Both the FDA and the USDA have embraced HACCP as the most effective method to ensure farm-to-table food safety in the United States.This handbook also assists the certification candidate preparing for the ASQ Certified HACCP Auditor (CHA) examination. It includes chapters covering the HACCP audit, the HACCP auditor, and quality assurance analytical tools.

'This book explores the role of cyberspace in modern communication and interaction, including considerations of ethics, crime, security, and education, with chapters on a variety of topics and concerns inherent to a contemporary networked society'--

A user-friendly, comprehensive, and current explanation of the process and politics of global environmental policy-making, perfect for students new to the topic

La cartografía cultural es un campo emergente de los estudios sociales y humanísticos. Reveladora de la cultura de la complejidad que preconiza Edgar Morin, constituye un magnífico instrumento de recogida de datos de las prácticas de lectura y escritura de un mismo entorno comunitario, sin dejar de ser además una herramienta esencial de planificación y gestión cultural. El cotejo en distintas escalas de los datos de las cartografías –desde un campus universitario concreto a ámbitos más amplios del tejido urbano– nos permite vislumbrar espacios de colaboración y de intercambio, tal y como sucede en los hubs culturales y en otros espacios físicos de encuentro entre profesionales. En este sentido, su capacidad heurística es de gran valor para el estudio de las nuevas corrientes culturales. Este libro analiza la teoría y la metodología subyacentes a las cartografías lectoras de las universidades públicas andaluzas (elaboradas en el marco del Proyecto Atalaya y disponibles en Internet). Constituye, por ello, un primer ensayo de sistematización en esta temática.

Genocide not only annihilates people but also destroys and reorganizes social relations, using terror as a method. In Genocide as Social Practice, social scientist Daniel Feierstein looks at the policies of state-sponsored repression pursued by the Argentine military dictatorship against political opponents between 1976 and 1983 and those pursued by the Third Reich between 1933 and 1945. He finds similarities, not in the extent of the horror but in terms of the goals of the perpetrators. The Nazis resorted to ruthless methods in part to stifle dissent but even more importantly to reorganize German society into a Volksgemeinschaft, or people's community, in which racial solidarity would supposedly replace class struggle. The situation in Argentina echoes this. After seizing power in 1976, the Argentine military described its own program of forced disappearances, torture, and murder as a “process of national reorganization” aimed at remodeling society on “Western and Christian” lines. For Feierstein, genocide can be considered a technology of power—a form of social engineering—that creates, destroys, or reorganizes relationships within a given society. It influences the ways in which different social groups construct their identity and the identity of others, thus shaping the way that groups interrelate. Feierstein establishes continuity between the “reorganizing genocide” first practiced by the Nazis in concentration camps and the more complex version—complex in terms of the symbolic and material closure of social relationships —later applied in Argentina. In conclusion, he speculates on how to construct a political culture capable of confronting and resisting these trends. First published in Argentina, in Spanish, Genocide as Social Practice has since been translated into many languages, now including this English edition. The book provides a distinctive and valuable look at genocide through the lens of Latin America as well as Europe. Download open access ebook here.

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors. Over the following weeks, the world watched in horror as a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe: fail-safes failed, cooling systems shut down, nuclear rods melted. In the first definitive account of the Fukushima disaster, two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists, David Lochbaum and Edwin Lyman, team up with journalist Susan Q. Stranahan, the lead reporter of the Philadelphia Inquirer's Pulitzer Prize–winning coverage of the Three Mile Island accident, to tell this harrowing story. Fukushima combines a fast-paced, riveting account of the tsunami and the nuclear emergency it created with an explanation of the science and technology behind the meltdown as it unfolded in real time. Bolstered by photographs, explanatory diagrams, and a comprehensive glossary, the narrative also extends to other severe nuclear accidents to address both the terrifying question of whether it could happen elsewhere and how such a crisis can be averted in the future.

Exercise 3: Health and safety inspection of the centre kitchen

A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology. For more than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from mobile hunters and gatherers to rulers and residents of colossal cities. In the process, native South American societies made advancements in agriculture and economic systems and created great works of art—in pottery, textiles, precious metals, and stone—that still awe the modern eye. Organized in broad chronological periods, A Prehistory of South America explores these diverse human achievements, emphasizing the many adaptations of peoples from a continent-wide perspective. Moore examines the archaeologies of societies across South America, from the arid deserts of the Pacific coast and the frigid Andean highlands to the humid lowlands of the Amazon Basin and the fjords of Patagonia and beyond. Illustrated in full color and suitable for an educated general reader interested in the Precolumbian peoples of South America, A Prehistory of South America is a long overdue addition to the literature on South American archaeology.

Scientists have shown that the environment is changing at a very fast pace. Most of the changes are due to natural events which we cannot modify, but some of the most recent serious changes have been attributed to man's activities. Energy generation is a major part of these activities and this book will examine them and their effects on the environment. Starting with the conventional energy generations—coal, oil, gas and nuclear—this book will analyze and calculate their impact on the environment and human life in general. The renewable energies—hydro, bio-fuels, solar and wind—will also be discussed and will include lesser know aspects of their “cradle-to-grave” life cycle such as the irreversible environmental damage done during the manufacturing of solar and wind equipment and during the installation, operation and decommissioning of large scale hydro, solar and wind power plants. Natural and man-made changes in the environment create a very complex picture and this book will attempt to analyze it in order to provide “snapshots” of different areas of interest and to make suggestions for future work on cleaning and stabilizing the Earth's environment.

This report looks at findings from the Independent Evaluation of ADB's Response to Natural Disasters and Disaster Risks. The 2012 evaluation highlights some of the successes and shortcomings of disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific—particularly through case studies of Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Pakistan—and identifies areas for improvement.

Leadership is much more than a management technique: it is possessing the insight to see where it is possible to make a difference, and also having the tools to make that difference. Leadership for the 21st Century defines leadership, explains how it is practiced, and provides a rich portrait of what it is to be a leader, covering relevant and timely topics such as the importance of diversity, the role of social media in 21st-century leadership, and how to pass a leadership role on to another. It provides priceless information not only on what constitutes successful leadership but also illuminates why leadership falters.Based primarily upon research, this book assembles leadership lessons from more than 100 biographies and autobiographies of a diverse group of leaders, including individuals from the worlds of science, economics, business, and human rights, and also includes thought on leadership derived from of many other individuals representing both leaders and those who follow the leaders. As a result, the author presents not only a clear'how-to'guidebook for those wishing to lead, but also a comprehensive, multifaceted examination of leadership from several relevant perspectives.

In 2007, Dr Harald Winkler, an internationally renowned expert on climate change, was asked by South Africa's Department of the Environment to develop scenarios for reducing greenhouse gas emission that would form the basis for a national, long-term climate policy. This book is based on his report, which gives options that would enable South Africa to turn climate change mitiagation into a pro-growth, pro-job and pro-development strategy for the future.

Follows the trade winds, the trade routes, and the port cities across the East Indies and the Orient uncovering the high finance, piracy, greed, ambition, double dealing, and exploitation. Driven by the search for spices, silks, gold, silver, porcelains and other oriental goods the Portuguese trading monopoly was challenged by the Dutch East India Company and then the English East India Company, the world's first joint stock and multi-national trading companies. The struggle for supremacy between the Portuguese, the Dutch and the English ranged across the Eastern Seas and in the settlements of Goa, Malacca, Ambon, Macao, Canton, Nagasaki, Solor, Batavia, Macassar, Johor and Singapore for 250 years. The story is told by the history of these port cities, beginning with Malacca – one of the world's largest trading ports in 16th century – and ending with the founding of Singapore and Hong Kong.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has adopted an ambitious strategy to make Nigeria the world's 20th largest economy by 2020. Sustaining such a pace of growth will entail rapid expansion of activity in key carbon-emitting sectors of the economy. In the absence of policies to accompany economic growth with a reduced carbon footprint, emission of greenhouse gases would more than double in the next two decades. By consolidating and synthesizing the results of the sector-specific, in-depth analyses, volume 1 of this effort found options for Nigeria to achieve the development objectives of Vision 20:2020 and beyond, but stabilizing emissions at 2010 levels, and with domestic benefits in the order of 2 percent of GDP. The present study, volume 2, is a collection of the technical reports on the four sectors of inquiry—agriculture and land use, oil and gas, power, and transport—that informed the preparation of the first volume. For agriculture and land use, the Government has set ambitious targets for increasing the domestic agricultural production six-fold by 2020. The study analyzes the mitigation potential of the agricultural sector within the constraint of meeting these growth targets. Benefits include more productive and climate-resilient agriculture. For the oil and gas sector, the analysis evaluates how the country can continue to grow the oil and gas industry, making better use of Nigeria's gas resources, at the same time reducing the sector's carbon footprint. The analysis of the power sector shows how the country can expand power generation and broaden access to electricity while reducing the associated emissions. This low-carbon scenario would enable Nigeria to achieve the same long-term development objectives, at lower overall cost through a more diversified mix of generation sources with a more balanced supply across regions. Finally, this analysis assesses the expected growth in CO2 emissions from on-road transport under a normal business development scenario up to the year 2035 and identifies policy and other mitigation actions at national and local levels that would reduce this growth, resulting in fuel economies, better air quality, and reduced congestion. Each sectoral analysis outlines several actions that the Nigerian Government could undertake to facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy.

The UK is increasingly multicultural and diverse. In this context ideas about race, ethnicity, cultural difference and multiculture are central to both political debates and policy formation. Taking a theoretically informed approach and using an empirically focused analysis of key policy areas, Race, Multiculture and Social Policy treats the reader to a sophisticated and wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between policy interventions and race, ethnicity and multiculture in British society. Organised into three parts, this book:• Begins by exploring the changes in political, policy and academic debates around race and multiculture.• Investigates social policy sites such as housing, education, policing and health, examining how they differentiate within and across ethnic categorisations.• Concludes with a critical analysis of the future of policy trends in a multicultural society. This is a timely and essential source for academics, policy makers and students of race and ethnicity in Social Policy, Sociology, Geography and Politics.

Despite the evident advantages that being prepared for natural life-threatening events confers on people and communities, research has consistently found that individual, community, and business preparedness levels are low. This book examines why this is so and identifies what can be done to expedite the development of sustained preparedness, at household, community, and societal levels. The text emphasizes the need for this aspect of social risk management to be based on engagement principles: how people engage with their natural environment, how they engage with each other, and how people and agencies and businesses engage with each other. Following a discussion of how people relate to the environmental hazards they need to prepare for, the book introduces the areas of comprehensive preparedness. Major topics include: Coexisting with a Hazardous Environment; People, Hazards, and Hazard Mitigation; Hazard Readiness and Preparedness; People's Beliefs and Hazard Preparedness; Predicting Hazard Preparedness and Social Cognitive Influences; Social Influences on Hazard Beliefs; Hazard Preparedness and Community Engagement and Empowerment; Cross-cultural Perspectives; Business Preparedness; and Future Issues with Engaging People, Science, and Practice. This unique text will provide practitioners and academics with a comprehensive account of what can currently be done to increase the capacity of people, communities, societies, and businesses to anticipate what hazard consequences they may have to contend with, cope with, adapt to, and recover from, and also to learn from experiences in ways that contribute to the development of future societal resilience and adaptive capacity.

'How will we live in the future? And what will the human race become? Will we nurture designer babies, be served by intelligent robots, have personal 3D printers, and grow products on the vine using synthetic biology? Or will shortages of oil, fresh water and other natural resources constrain our lifestyles and lead to industrial decline? In this fascinating guide, futurist Christopher Barnatt examines 25 known challenges and technologies that will help shape the next few decades. From Peak Water to vertical farms, nanotechnology to augmented reality, and electric cars to space travel, a startling picture is painted of future possibilities that no individual or business will be able to ignore. Highlighting life-changing research and innovation from over 250 companies, universities and non-profit organizations around the globe, 25 Things You Need to Know About the Future is a startling, frightening and powerful blueprint for anybody who wants to future gaze or future shape.'--Book description.

Sellafield Stories is the largest Oral History Project conducted in the UK. It was started by Jenni Lister, of Cumbria Record Office & Local Studies Library, and was funded by the BNFL. Through the personal life stories of 30 people who lived, worked and built the complex SELLAFIELDS STORIES tells the true story of the Sellafields Nuclear Plant that has been at the heart of the Nation's story for the last 60 years. First set up in the aftermath of World War II to develop Britain's nuclear weapons, it was not until 1957 that it was given over to nuclear power, kick starting a revolution in po.