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A Novel Idea: Researching Transformative Learning in Fiction
Lawrence and Cranton present a unique research methodology involving fictional characters as research participants. Transformative learning themes are identified through a content analysis of six contemporary novels. The characters from these novels are invited to come to a virtual space, the Butterfly Café where they engage in a series of dialogues on the research themes related to their tran…
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- 978-94-6300-037-6
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A New Research Agenda for Improvements in Quality of Life
This book presents a new research agenda for improvements in Quality of Life research. It includes topics such as: -Studying QoL in particular subpopulations and selected subgroups -Disentangling the difficult task of identifying determinants of QoL -Perfectionating the measurement of conceptual dimensions -Defining new indicators able to measure and monitor particular social condit…
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- 978-3-319-15904-1
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- Social Indicators Research Series
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- 342.041 NEW n
A New Paradigm for International Business: Proceedings of the Conference on F…
This book offers a collection of studies on regional integration and the dynamic business environment in East Asia. The papers included, originally presented at the 2014 Asia Pacific Business Conference on "Free Trade Agreements and Regional Integration in East Asia," examine the challenges and dynamics in the increasingly integrated East Asian markets and outline a new paradigm for doing inter…
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- 978-981-287-499-3
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- Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics
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- 338.9 NEW n
A New Growth Model for the Greek Economy: Requirements for Long-Term Sustaina…
On June 3, 2015, the Greek Parliamentary Budget Office, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Democritus University of Thrace, and the University of Peloponnese sponsored an international conference to address medium- and long-term growth in Greece. This collection presents the strongest papers on the conditions required to revive and maintain economic growth. Leading experts …
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A New Direction in Mathematics for Materials Science
This book is the first volume of the SpringerBriefs in the Mathematics of Materials and provides a comprehensive guide to the interaction of mathematics with materials science. The anterior part of the book describes a selected history of materials science as well as the interaction between mathematics and materials in history. The emergence of materials science was itself a result of an interd…
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- 978-4-431-55864-4
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- SpringerBriefs in the Mathematics of Materials
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A Multimodal End-2-End Approach to Accessible Computing
This book illustrates how Interactive Systems can help elderly and disabled populations engage with the world around them by finding methods of overcoming the difficulties these communities face when using such systems by presenting the latest in state-of-the-art technology and providing a vision for accessibility for the near future. The challenges faced by accessibility practitioners are d…
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- 978-1-4471-6708-2
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- Human–Computer Interaction Series
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- 005.642 MUL m
A Modern Course in Aeroelasticity: Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition
This book covers the basics of aeroelasticity or the dynamics of fluid-structure interaction. While the field began in response to the rapid development of aviation, it has now expanded into many branches of engineering and scientific disciplines and treat physical phenomena from aerospace engineering, bioengineering, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering in addition to drawing the atte…
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- 978-3-319-09453-3
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- Solid Mechanics and Its Applications
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A Mindfulness Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: New D…
This book presents emerging research on the effectiveness of mindfulness methods in reducing behavior problems associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in children. The volume synthesizes current research and theories on the therapeutic uses of mindfulness, specifically for people living with developmental disabilities. In addition, it examines a promising new study in which mothers of c…
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- 978-3-319-18962-8
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- Mindfulness in Behavioral Health
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Generative Mechanisms Transforming the Social Order
Margaret Archer heads the project at EPFL 'From Modernity to Morphogenesis'. She was elected as the first woman President of the International Sociological Association at the 12th World Congress of Sociology. She is a founder member of both the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences and is a trustee of the Centre for Critical Realism. S…
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- VIII, 248
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A Man Comes from Someplace: Stories, History, Memory from a Lost Time
A Man Comes from Someplace: Stories, History, Memory from a Lost Timeis a cultural study of a multi-generational Jewish family from a shtetl in southwestern Ukraine before World War I to their international lives in the 21st century.The narrative, told from multiple perspectives, becomes a transformative space for re-presenting family stories as cultural performance. The studydraws from many so…
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- 978-94-6300-190-8
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- Transgressions
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