Filter by
Engagement in Medical Research Discourse
ABSTRACT This book integrates insights from dialogic theory and systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to extend our understandings of engagement in medical research articles, going beyond notions of the role of verbal dialogue to encompass mathematical and visual semiotics and consider text not just as language but as multisemiosis. The volume begins by outlining the engagement framework an…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003041146
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Gender-Sensitive University
The Gender-Sensitive University explores the prevailing forces that pose obstacles to driving a gender-sensitive university, which include the emergence of far-right movements that seek to subvert advances towards gender equality and managerialism that promotes creeping corporatism. This book demonstrates that awareness of gender equality and gender sensitivity are essential for pulling cont…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003001348
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370
Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century
Scientists Debate Gaia is a multidisciplinary reexamination of the Gaia hypothesis, which was introduced by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the early 1970s. The Gaia hypothesis holds that Earth's physical and biological processes are linked to form a complex, self-regulating system and that life has affected this system over time. Until a few decades ago, most of the earth sciences viewed t…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262283182
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations,…
Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the culmination of over twenty years of research and development by the authors. The Simplified Sign System has been developed and tested for ease of sign comprehension, memorization, and formation by limiting the complexity…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783749232
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Digital Lifeline?: ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of new information technologies, including mobile phones, wireless networks, and biometric identification, in the global refugee crisis. Today's global refugee crisis has mobilized humanitarian efforts to help those fleeing persecution and armed conflict at all stages of their journey. Aid organizations are increasingly employing new information techno…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262346191
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Successful Research Projects
ABSTRACT Comprehensive and accessible, Successful Research Projects provides a practical, research-based framework to help examine practice, solve problems and plan research effectively. With key practical tips throughout, it draws on examples from across disciplines and across the world ensuring best practice for those completing projects in the fields of science, health care, social sciences…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781351236188
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
How to Read a Folktale : The ‘Ibonia’ Epic From Madagascar
How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a series of tests and duels, he and his lover are joyfully united with a marriage that affirms the royal lineage. These fairytal…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781909254077
- Collation
- 163 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 800 HAR h
Images of Canadianness: Images of Canadianness
Author D'Haenens, Leen Language English Perlihat publikasi penuh Images of Canadianness offers backgrounds and explanations for a series of relevant--if relatively new--features of Canada, from political, cultural, and economic angles. Each of its four sections contains articles written by Canadian and European experts that offer original perspectives on a variety of issues: voting pattern…
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780776616124
- Collation
- 255
- Series Title
- International Canadian Studies Series
- Call Number
- 301 DHA i
Making & Doing: Activating STS through Knowledge Expression and Travel
How ten making & doing projects expand STS scholarship through a focus on knowledge expression and knowledge travel in addition to knowledge production. Making & doing projects expand STS scholarship to include the trajectories of STS knowledge flow beyond the boundaries of the field by actively interweaving knowledge expression and travel with knowledge production. In this edited volume, co…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262366052
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 507.2
African Archaeology Without Frontiers: Papers from the 2014 PanAfrican Archae…
Confronting national, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries, contributors to African Archaeology Without Frontiers argue against artificial limits and divisions created through the study of ‘ages’ that in reality overlap and cannot and should not be understood in isolation. Papers are drawn from the proceedings of the landmark 14th PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress, held in Jo…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781776140350
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography