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ESG impacts businesses globally, and today it is interconnected with all aspects of business, including, but not limited to, human…
resources, labor issues, risk management, regulatory compliance, establishing strategic direction, and areas impacted by climate change.Certifications currently available in the marketplace are sustainability-specific rather than an all-encompassing holistic approach. The authors have developed the most comprehensive ESG certification program on the market.This two‑tiered program is designed for professionals who possess a general understanding of ESG principles and concepts, however, desire to increase, solidify, and demonstrate that knowledge and understanding. This Study Guide will assist candidates with the overall Certification program process – from initial application to study materials and sample questions, this Guide is designed to prepare the candidate to take the ESGCertification™ examination.
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Short stories, Ghost and horror stories, Science fiction
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Feeling the rusty shears of eager anticipation as they coarsely cut away your tendons of dread? You&’ve come to the…
right place . . . because EC Comics is serving another tortuous session of frightful delights with the CATACOMB OF TORMENT! Prepare to be mortified—literally—as manacled writers Christopher Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz), Evan Dorkin (Beasts of Burden), and Paul Tobin (The Witcher) are forced to turn the crank and twist the tension-wracked fingertips of artists PJ Holden (2000 AD), Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), and Dan McDaid (Epitaphs from the Abyss) into blood-spattered spectacle! Sound like fun? Our beloved host, the Tormentor, sure thinks so!
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Environment, Science and technology
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This open access book sheds new light on the critical role of socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS) in ensuring…
and enhancing ecological connectivity. Through a compilation of diverse case studies, it presents how integrated landscape and seascape management can support biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and sustainable development. The chapters cover topics such as sustainable agricultural practices, forest protection, community involvement, and the preservation of traditional knowledge. It also includes the empowerment of communities to govern their natural resources, as seen in the Asunafo-Asutifi landscape of Ghana, and the integration of traditional wisdom with modern ecological practices in Nan&’an. The book also investigates the potential of community forests in Thailand and the management of biocultural heritage territories in Kenya to enhance ecological connectivity. Readers will discover how these approaches contribute to the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable management of natural resources. Expert contributors delve into the challenges and opportunities of maintaining ecological connectivity in various regions, from Ghana's cocoa landscapes to Colombia&’s tropical dry enclave. Readers will explore innovative approaches to balancing livelihoods with environmental sustainability, highlighting the importance of local and regional perspectives. This volume is essential for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in fields such as landscape ecology, environmental governance, and sustainable development. It provides valuable insights into effective strategies for operationalizing ecological connectivity in spatial planning and management. By showcasing practical examples from around the world, this book serves as a vital resource for anyone committed to fostering resilient social-ecological systems and thriving communities.
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Computers and internet, Philosophy, Science and technology
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Robotics and Artificial Intelligence hold the potential of significantly augmenting human cognitive and physical performance, giving light-speed and extreme accuracy…
to human systems and processes, contributing to overcome some of the most complex challenges that humankind faces nowadays. But intelligent technologies also pose high risks to human safety, autonomy and dignity and they can also negatively impact the environment affecting and even threatening the planet&’s sustainability and the life of other species. By questioning the ontological status of intelligent tools, this book analyzes their level of efficiency and ethical performance, across distinct domains and settings, highlighting the role of standardisation, certification and governance in the production and deployment of beneficial intelligent systems. The present book is a fundamental reading both to academia and industry, i.e. to all those involved in the design, production and safe and ethical deployment of intelligent technologies.
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Psychology
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This book presents a particular kind of environmental psychology that has emerged in Latin America: community environmental psychology. Different grom…
mainstream environmental psychology developed in the Global Norh – which usually focuses on individual differences, often disconnected from historical, social and political contexts – community environmental psychology is a situated approach aimed at social change and in articulation with community psychology, developed to study interactions between people and communities in relation to the natural and/or built space. This contributed volume is organized into two complementary parts. Chapters in the first part articulate conceptual frameworks that nourish community environmental psychology and methodological approaches that help to understand, analyze and transform dynamics between communities and their environments from a situated, critical perspective committed to socio-environmental justice. Chapters of the second part present studies of community resilience in environmental psychology based on case studies carried out in six Latin American countries. These works reveal the applicability of diverse conceptual and methodological frameworks for an empirical approach to community resilience in specific psycho-environmental contexts. Situated in territories marked by socio-natural disasters, unequal urbanization, extractive economies and environmental conflicts, the studies show how communities develop and deploy response, resistance and territorial transformation capacities when faced with contexts marked by social injustice and persistent exclusion. Community Environmental Psychology and Community Resilience aims to position community environmental psychology as a field of scientific and applied development committed to social transformation. Based on the theoretical and methodological approaches presented in the first part and the empirical studies included in the second, the book proposes an approach that situates community as the central axis of the analysis and allows expanding the traditional frameworks of environmental psychology by integrating structural vulnerability, collective agency and power, understood as procedural and contextual dynamics that configure our communal lives as constitutive dimensions of the person-environment relationship.
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Computers and internet, Psychology, Physics, Science and technology
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This book covers the latest advances in applying agent-based modelling in social sciences. The Social Simulation Conference is the major…
global conference devoted to this topic. It is aimed at promoting social simulation and computational social science. This year&’s special theme is &“Social Simulation—Crossroads Between Social Science and Computational Methods&”, focused on modelling of social phenomena, computational aspects and the theory linking these two scientific fields. The primary audience of this book are scholars and practitioners in computational social sciences including economics, business, sociology, politics, psychology and urban studies.
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Computers and internet, Science and technology
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This book features selected papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Innovations in Computing (ICRIC 2024) Volume 2, …
held on 16th to 17th September 2024 at the Asia Eastern University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. The book is divided into four volumes, and it includes the latest research in the areas of software engineering, cloud computing, computer networks and Internet technologies, artificial intelligence, information security, database and distributed computing, and digital India.
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Computers and internet, General non-fiction
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This second edition provides an overview of the principal problems, approaches, and challenges in modeling the narrative structure of stories.…
The book builds upon the prior edition by incorporating an additional focus on generative artificial intelligence and its applications for narratology. The author explains the computational representations of narrative elements, such as characters, events, causality, and time, proposing new methods for representing embedded narratives, fictional entities, tempo, and audience response. The book discusses the rise of generative AI systems, including large language models and transformers. The author explores the current applications of these systems and the extent to which they can be used to automate the cognitive aspects of narrative understanding and generation.
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Fantasy, LGBTQ+ fiction
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A geeky overachiever determined to save the world through science and a troublemaking chosen one lashing out against her destiny…
meet and fall in love in a magical coffeeshop as their two very different universes begin to collide in Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe, C.B. Lee's fun, sapphic, cozy fantasy YA romance.When Brenda’s internet goes out right before an important scholarship deadline, she stumbles right into Kat’s family’s coffeeshop. Brenda is swept away by cool, confident Kat, who actually cares about Brenda’s 19-step plan to save the world through science. Meanwhile, Kat can’t stop thinking about Brenda, who is smart, passionate, and doesn’t seem to care that Kat is the prophesized Chosen One.The only problem? Kat and Brenda are from different universes. Like need-to-find-a-portal-to-go-on-a-second-date different universes.As their universes collide and things spiral out of control, can a girl who is determined to save the world find love with a girl determined to outrun her destiny?
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Young children fall in love with poetry through songs, rhyming games and picture books, but this joy can often be…
lost when they reach school age and poetry is used in the classroom purely for purpose, and not with pleasure in mind.This book by educator and author/poet Sally Murphy is intended for primary teachers of the Australian Curriculum: English, to support planning to teach poetry specifically, and literature, literacy and writing more broadly. It offers ways to teach and share the reading and writing of poetry while showcasing a variety of poems that can be loved and used in the classroom. By demystifying the language of poetry - poetic forms, techniques and language devices - this book aims to enable teachers - and through them, students - to understand how poetry works, how to unlock its meaning and how to write it. Above all, the message is that poetry can be a pleasure to teach, read and write, for teachers and students alike.
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Business and economics, Computers and internet, Politics and government, Science and technology
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Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson overturn conventional wisdom about how economies work--revealing the untold…
story of who wins and who loses the rewards of prosperity--in a work that fundamentally transforms how we look at and understand the world. Throughout history, technological change — whether it takes the form of agricultural improvements in the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, or today&’s artificial intelligence — has been viewed as a main driver of prosperity, working in the public interest. The reality, though, is that technology is shaped by what powerful people want and believe, generating riches, social respect, cultural prominence, and further political voice for those already powerful. For most of the rest of us, there is the illusion of progress. Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson debunk modern techno-optimism through a dazzling, original account of how technological choices have changed the course of history. From vivid stories of how the economic surplus of the Middle Ages was appropriated by an ecclesiastical elite to build cathedrals while the peasants starved, to the making of vast fortunes from digital technologies today as millions are pushed towards poverty, we see how the path of technology is determined and who influences its trajectory. To achieve the true potential of innovation, we need to ensure technology is creating new jobs and opportunities rather than marginalizing most people, through automated work and political passivity. We need to use the tremendous digital advances of the last half century to create useful and empowering tools, and seize back control from a small elite of hubristic, messianic tech leaders pursuing their own interests. With their breakthrough economic theory and manifesto for building a better society, Acemoglu and Johnson provide the understanding and vision to reimagine and reshape the path of technology and create true shared prosperity.
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An &“informative and highly readable&” (Foreign Affairs) breakdown of the history of electricity and the impact of global energy use…
on the world and the environment Global demand for power is doubling every two decades, but electricity remains one of the most difficult forms of energy to supply and do so reliably. Today, some three billion people live in places where per-capita electricity use is less than what's used by an average American refrigerator. How we close the colossal gap between the electricity rich and the electricity poor will determine our success in addressing issues like women's rights, inequality, and climate change. In A Question of Power, veteran journalist Robert Bryce tells the human story of electricity, the world's most important form of energy. Through onsite reporting from India, Iceland, Lebanon, Puerto Rico, New York, and Colorado, he shows how our cities, our money—our very lives—depend on reliable flows of electricity. He highlights the factors needed for successful electrification and explains why so many people are still stuck in the dark. With vivid writing and incisive analysis, he powerfully debunks the notion that our energy needs can be met solely with renewables and demonstrates why--if we are serious about addressing climate change--nuclear energy must play a much bigger role. Electricity has fueled a new epoch in the history of civilization. A Question of Power explains how that happened and what it means for our future.
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History, Medicine, Politics and government, General non-fiction
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Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize&“Randy Shilts and Laurie Garrett told the story of the HIV/AIDS epidemic through the late…
1980s and the early 1990s, respectively. Now journalist-historian-activist Emily Bass tells the story of US engagement in HIV/AIDS control in sub-Saharan Africa. There is far to go on the path, but Bass tells us how far we&’ve come.&” —Sten H. Vermund, professor and dean, Yale School of Public Health With his 2003 announcement of a program known as PEPFAR, George W. Bush launched an astonishingly successful American war against a global pandemic. PEPFAR played a key role in slashing HIV cases and AIDS deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, leading to the brink of epidemic control. Resilient in the face of flatlined funding and political headwinds, PEPFAR is America&’s singular example of how to fight long-term plague—and win. To End a Plague is not merely the definitive history of this extraordinary program; it traces the lives of the activists who first impelled President Bush to take action, and later sought to prevent AIDS deaths at the whims of American politics. Moving from raucous street protests to the marbled halls of Washington and the clinics and homes where Ugandan people living with HIV fight to survive, it reveals an America that was once capable of real and meaningful change—and illuminates imperatives for future pandemic wars. Exhaustively researched and vividly written, this is the true story of an American moonshot.
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A New Yorker Best Book of the YearThe next frontier in technology is inside our own bodies. The breakthrough science…
of synthetic biology has the potential to help solve humanity&’s existential challenges from climate change, to the health and feeding of millions, to fighting the next viral outbreak before it becomes a global pandemic. A promising and controversial science that combines biology and artificial intelligence, synthetic biology opens up the possibility of programming biological systems much as we program computers. Rather than life being &“a beautiful game of chance,&” synthetic biology can give us control over our genetic destiny, say no to bad genes, and add new capabilities into any cell, microbe, plant, or animal—enabling us not just to read and edit DNA, but write it. And herein lies the controversy. Whether we approve or disapprove, synthetic biology is coming. Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel give us the understanding we need to assess both the promise and peril of the science as well as the complex ethical, moral, political, and societal issues surrounding it.
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Fantasy, Romantic suspense
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The #1 New York Times bestselling romantasy series continues with more drama, higher stakes, and deadly consequences.Duty. Blood. Honor. Power. Saeris Fane…
doesn&’t want power. The very last thing she needs is her name whispered on an entire court&’s lips, but now that she&’s been crowned queen of the Blood Court, she&’s discovering that a queen&’s life is not her own. A heavy weight rests upon her shoulders. Her ward—and her brother—need her back in her homeland…but the changes that have strengthened Saeris have also made her weak. Born under blazing suns, Saeris will surely die if she makes her way home through the Quicksilver. Which means that, once again, she must send someone else in her stead... &“Keep your mouth shut. Stick to the shadows. And for the love of all seven Gods, do NOT crack any jokes.&” Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate has defeated armies and survived all manner of horrors, but traveling back to Zilvaren with Carrion Swift might just be the death of him. The male just will not shut up. Hidden dangers await them down the narrow alleyways of the Silver City. Unfolding secrets pose impossible threats. Fisher must wrangle the smuggler and accomplish his goals quickly if he wants to see his mate again. A darkness falls across Yvelia. The realm and their friends are in danger. Together, Saeris and Fisher will pass through fire and brimstone to save them.
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Primary educators teach all subjects across the Australian Curriculum, and subject-specific literacies are at the heart of primary learning and…
teaching. In Teaching the texts and language of HASS, authors Bronwyn Custance and Tony Hole provide an explicit and systematic guide for teaching the specific literacies of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) sub-strands of History, Geography, and Civics and Citizenship.With special attention paid to literacy as the capacity to make meaning from texts (comprehending) and through texts (composing), and the core interests and values of the HASS learning area, this book is every primary teacher’s ultimate guide to HASS instruction. The first part of the book establishes the core genres and language demands in HASS. In the second part, in chapters devoted to each primary year group, the authors provide year appropriate model texts, discuss their key language features and provide guidance on how to explicitly teach the Discourse of HASS. This book gives teachers practical, clear and accessible classroom strategies for building a shared metalanguage for making and sharing meaning, from the introduction of new concepts through to assessment.The authors make clear connections between the key concepts of HASS and the texts and language required to achieve curriculum outcomes. They guide teachers through the process of making meaning in a curriculum area that connects students with the world, their place in it and, one day, their capacity to change it.
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European history, History
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In a world where physical labour seems to disappear from dominant public narratives, Embodied Labour offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis…
of the bodily experiences of work and their significance as elements of European cultural heritage.This collection examines the physical dimension of labour across various European locations – from Estonian oil shale mines, through Norwegian ironworks, to State Agricultural Farms in Poland. Together, the chapters explore how the rhythms of physical labour shaped landscapes, identities, and communities, whilst also addressing issues of representation in museums, literature, and art, and the challenges of conveying bodily experiences to contemporary audiences. The authors challenge linear narratives about the development of work, showing that physical labour has not disappeared but rather changed its character – becoming less visible, more fragmented, and marginalised in public narratives. The volume restores dignity and significance to these experiences, treating the working body not merely as a tool of production but also as a carrier of memory, identity, and knowledge.Embodied Labour is of interest to students and scholars from various disciplines – from history and anthropology, through heritage studies, to philosophy – as well as anyone interested in the cultural, social, and historical dimensions of labour in Europe.Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.
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General non-fiction
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Principles of Technology Integration and Learning explores the fundamental relationship between learning and technology across a variety of integrative and…
symbiotic areas. Today’s digital tools hold great potential to define and improve educational experiences and outcomes, but the teachers, learners, designers, and educational leaders responsible for their implementation need coherent, evidence-based guidance before the benefits and rewards are fully attainable. This book’s holistic, sustainability-oriented approach offers comprehensive descriptions of and competencies for integrating technology into the kinds of teaching, learning, and assessment initiatives that are common in educational institutions all over the world. Each chapter of the book delivers actionable insights that adapt to the evolving learning landscape, varied learner needs, diverse pedagogical practices, outcome-focused strategies, and a variety of digital tools and learning environments. Teaching faculty and graduate students in learning design, educational technology, educational leadership, and teacher training programs will find detailed, legible demonstrations of the mutually beneficial dynamics between ubiquitous digital technologies and high-quality, needs-based learning.
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History, World War II
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In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and…
the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far, but espionage can stop them—if Washington wakes up to the danger.As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942, he led his Axis army swiftly and terrifyingly toward Alexandria, with the goal of overrunning the entire Middle East. Each step was informed by detailed updates on British positions. The Nazis, somehow, had a source for the Allies' greatest secrets.Yet the Axis powers were not the only ones with intelligence. Brilliant Allied cryptographers worked relentlessly at Bletchley Park, breaking down the extraordinarily complex Nazi code Enigma. From decoded German messages, they discovered that the enemy had a wealth of inside information. On the brink of disaster, a fevered and high-stakes search for the source began.War of Shadows is the cinematic story of the race for information in the North African theater of World War II, set against intrigues that spanned the Middle East. Years in the making, this book is a feat of historical research and storytelling, and a rethinking of the popular narrative of the war. It portrays the conflict not as an inevitable clash of heroes and villains but a spiraling series of failures, accidents, and desperate triumphs that decided the fate of the Middle East and quite possibly the outcome of the war.
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General non-fiction
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This collection showcases original research highlighting innovations in the application of corpus linguistic methods to the study of English historical…
medical discourse.The volume builds on recent work expanding the contours of health communication research to extend to medical texts of the past, whose preservation allows for a clearer understanding of changes to medical knowledge and practices over time through their production, reception, and use. Chapters explore how corpus linguistic methods allow for a critical examination of how this past medical knowledge is mediated through language across a diverse range of health issues, time periods, textual genres, and sociocultural contexts. While focusing on the English language, the collection demonstrates a point of entry for future work applying corpus linguistic methodologies to historical medical texts more broadly across other languages, periods, and texts to continue growing this burgeoning area of research.This book will be of interest to scholars in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, medical humanities, and historical linguistics.