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Criticism
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The Borders of Empathy in Children’s Fiction centres the question of how reading fiction develops our moral imagination and our…
capacities to think and feel with others. The question is approached with a good dose of scepticism, revising tensions between ethical, aesthetical, and pedagogical dimensions when certain books, films, and other cultural materials are recommended for children. This volume examines how texts addressed to children are meant to assist socioemotional education and whether we put forward adultist assumptions around such conceptualisations of the emotional. The book is organised into nine chapters, with some of them focusing on "difficult" themes —such as violence, xenophobia, death, migration, as well as gender and social exclusions— and some others on more general relationships between emotions, media, and education. The chapters combine a textual analysis of recommended cultural materials for children with insights from empirical research and ethnographic approaches to children’s cultures. A common thread throughout the book is the open question about the epistemic injustices in knowing children and childhood and how this may be overcome by shifting our research practices with posthumanist philosophies.
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Music, Psychology
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Music in the Human Experience: An Introduction to Music Psychology, Third Edition, explores the ways in which we make sense…
of music and how we respond to it—cognitively, physically, and emotionally. Written by musicians, for musicians, while incorporating findings from biology, anthropology, sociology, physics, philosophy, and education, the text presents musical experiences as widely varied and hugely complex affairs. How did human beings come to be musical creatures? Why do people have emotional responses to music? In Music in the Human Experience, the authors seek to understand and explain these musical phenomena that lie at the core of what it means to be human.New to the Third Edition: New co-author, Gary E. McPherson Fresh discussions on in-demand topics: social justice in music, fitness for musicians, constructivism, and more Increased recognition of non-Western music and musical experiences A digital overhaul of the accompanying multimedia tutorials, now available via www.musicinthehumanexperience.com Refined and updated content throughout
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Business and economics
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The corporate landscape is rife with instances of leaders who have left a trail of sinister outcomes.In the last three…
decades, the research in leadership and organisational sciences has expanded in theoretical and typological breadth to include the dark side. These works have aimed at uncovering the complex interplay of personalities, power dynamics, and organisational cultures that can lead to destructive and unethical behaviours in the workplace. While there are volumes of literature on leadership, there is a dearth of research that integrates dark leadership and cross-cultural norms, perspectives, variances, and interventions. The Dark Side of Leadership: A Cross-Cultural Compendium is a collaborative and transdisciplinary venture that draws on the knowledge and experiences of practitioners and scholars across the globe to explore the contentious and evolving subject of dark leadership. The primary consideration of this book is to explore dark side leadership conceptualisations and manifestations across contexts and provide insights into traits, processes, and outcomes, as well as interventionist paradigms. Hofstede’s research demonstrates the fundamental role of national and organisational culture in shaping leadership behaviour. This book comprehensively documents cross-cultural cases, perspectives, and research on the dark side of leadership.
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Computers and internet
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Cyber Insecurity: Examining the Past, Defining the Future deals with the multifaceted world of cybersecurity, starting with the premise that…
while perfection in cybersecurity may be unattainable, significant improvements can be made through understanding history and fostering innovation. Vladas Leonas shares his journey from Moscow to Australia, highlighting his academic and professional milestones.This book covers the evolution of cybersecurity from the late 1960s to the present, detailing significant events and technological advancements. The author emphasises the importance of simplicity in technology projects, citing complexity as a major hindrance to success. The book also discusses the impact of the digital revolution, using the example of a global IT outage caused by a faulty software update.Project management methodologies are explored, tracing their origins from ancient civilisations to modern techniques such as CPM and PERT. The concept of cloud computing is examined, highlighting its benefits and potential security issues. The evolution and advantages of SaaS solutions are also discussed, noting their increased adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic.The author then addresses supply chain challenges, using real-world examples to illustrate vulnerabilities. He traces the history of communication methods leading up to TCP/IP and discusses the development and importance of DNS. The differences between compliance and conformance in cybersecurity are clarified, emphasising that compliance does not equate to security.Key cybersecurity standards such as the NIST CSF and ISO/IEC 27000 series are examined. The book also covers the Essential 8, a set of cybersecurity controls developed by the Australian Signals Directorate. The convergence of OT and IoT is discussed, highlighting the cybersecurity risks associated with this integration.Emerging threats from AI and quantum computing are explored, noting their potential to both advance and threaten cybersecurity. The evolving legal landscape of cybersecurity is also covered, emphasising the need for international cooperation and innovative legal solutions.In conclusion, the book stresses the importance of critical thinking and a holistic approach to cybersecurity, advocating for simplicity and foundational practices to enhance security.
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Laws and statutes
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For the student who wishes to understand law as it is practised in a modern financial context, Finance Law offers…
the only up-to-date university-level textbook which explains legal principles as they are applied in today’s advanced financial transactions.Essential for any student or researcher seeking an introduction to this complex and fast-moving world, this text: is based on the author’s extensive teaching experience in finance law covers the modern form of credit facilities agreements, security, syndication, securities and securitization, derivatives, and payment and clearing systems is packed with interesting case studies, including the Mozambique Tuna Bond Scandal, the takeover of Manchester Utd plc, and the securitization of student loans motivates study with theoretical discussions and historical contextualisation explains key transaction structures, such as investment grade lending to groups, intercreditor agreements, interest rate swaps, and multilateral payment systems grants insight into key legal principles and structuring applicable to trillion dollar deals across the globe is written by a structured finance practitioner and academic with extensive post-qualification experience of advising lenders, corporate borrowers and sovereigns on international finance Designed for final-year undergraduates and LLM students, Finance Law is not only the perfect accompaniment to any finance module, but can support any advanced programme on insolvency law, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate governance, international economic law and more.
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Science and technology
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As the global push toward energy accelerates, NanoRevolution: Unveiling the Future of Energy through Advanced Materials and Digital Technologies brings…
forward a powerful vision of how advanced materials and digital technologies are redefining energy solutions. This comprehensive resource navigates the frontiers of nanotechnology, artificial intelligence (AI), and IoT applications within the renewable energy sector, presenting innovative strategies that address today’s most pressing energy challenges.Across 15 chapters, NanoRevolution covers transformative advancements in photovoltaic and energy storage technologies. It explores the application of density functional theory (DFT) in developing high-efficiency, lead-free solar cells, new methodologies for enhancing MXenes-based materials, and emerging AI-powered solutions for energy optimization and predictive maintenance. The book also examines IoT-driven innovations in photovoltaic systems and provides a high-level overview of blockchain's potential in secure energy transactions.This book is an invaluable guide for researchers, engineers, and industry professionals focused on next-generation energy solutions, offering both theoretical depth and practical applications to drive progress toward a sustainable energy future.
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Laws and statutes
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Understanding Company Law is a lively introduction to modern company law. It takes a unique approach to the subject, which…
also encompasses the important and growing fields of securities regulation, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility.This textbook covers all of the key topics that a student reader will encounter in any company law course. The discussion presents the key principles simply, before guiding the reader through the more complex issues that are often the focus of examinations in this subject. It also offers pathways into further reading, while injecting enjoyment back into the topic.Understanding Company Law provides a straightforward guide to the law, which is supported by context, detailed analyses of the leading cases, and humour. The third edition has been updated with key recent changes and developments in company law, both case law and statutory, including: the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, the UK Corporate Governance Code 2024, the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 and discussion of recent corporate scandals and case law. It will be essential reading for all courses on company law.
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Computers and internet, Science and technology
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This conference proceedings is a collection of papers accepted for CENet2024 - the 14th International Conference on Computer Engineering and…
Networks, held in Kashi, China, 18-21 October 2024. The topics covered include Internet of Things and Smart Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Detection, Analysis and Application of Communication Systems, Cloud Computing and Security, and Medical Engineering and Information Systems. Each section of this book can serve as an excellent reference for industry practitioners, university faculty, research fellows, undergraduate and graduate students who wish to build a knowledge base of the latest advances and state-of-the-art practices in the topics covered. Using this knowledge, they will be able to design, implement and manage systems that are both complex and trustworthy. We would like to thank the authors for their hard work and dedication, and the reviewers for their efforts in ensuring that only the highest quality papers were selected. Without their contributions, the proceedings would not have been possible.
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Computers and internet, General non-fiction
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The two-volume set LNBIP 547 and LNBIP 548 constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Research Challenges in…
Information Sciences, RCIS 2025, which took place in Seville, Spain, in May 2025. It focused on the special theme: Advancing Information Science and Information Systems Quality in the Era of Complexity. The scope of RCIS is summarized by the thematic areas of information systems and their engineering; user-oriented approaches; data and information management; business process management; domain-specific information systems engineering; data science; information infrastructures, and reflective research and practice. The 33 full papers and 13 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Information systems quality; security, risk and strategy; conceptual modeling and ontologies; modeling methods and requiremments engineering; databases informaiton management; human factors in information systems; business process engineering and management; Part II: Machine-learning and generative AI applications; RCIS Forum; and RCIS Doctoral Consortium.
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Computers and internet, General non-fiction
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This book investigates the relationship between empirical reality and theoretical modelling in Earth sciences, focusing on how empirical experiments and…
theoretical models interact. It explores the connection between statistics and probability theory, emphasizing the importance of these tools in understanding the physical world. The first chapter addresses the frequency-probability antinomy, while the second chapter discusses the sources of randomness in modelling. Chapters 3 and 4 delve into statistical inference, covering estimation theory and testing theory. Chapter 5 examines the relationship between discrete-finite models and continuous-infinite dimensional models, particularly random fields, making the concepts accessible to geodesists and geophysicists. Chapter 6 explores modern machine learning and deep learning, highlighting their roots in traditional statistical methods and neural networks. The book concludes with a caution against relying solely on empirical evidence and "black box" algorithms, advocating for the integration of physical laws with empirical models to advance understanding of the physical world. The book is primarily intended for graduate students and researchers in the field of earth sciences with a basic background in probability theory and statistics.
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Science and technology
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This book reports on the latest research and developments in Biomedical Engineering, with a special emphasis on technologies transforming health in…
Latin America. This first volume of a 2-volume set covers advances in biosciences, robotics, biosensors and clinical engineering. Throughout the book, a special emphasis is given to low-cost affordable technologies and to their development for and applications in clinical settings. Based on the X Latin American Conference on Biomedical Engineering (CLAIB 2024) held on October 2-5, 2024, in Panama City, Panama, this book provides researchers and professionals in the biomedical engineering field with extensive information on new technologies and current challenges for their clinical applications.
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Computers and internet, General non-fiction
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The two-volume set LNBIP 547 + LNBIP 548 constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Research Challenges in…
Information Sciences, RCIS 2025, which took place in Seville, Spain, in May 2025. It focused on the special theme: Advancing Information Science and Information Systems Quality in the Era of Complexity. The scope of RCIS is summarized by the thematic areas of information systems and their engineering; user-oriented approaches; data and information management; business process management; domain-specific information systems engineering; data science; information infrastructures, and reflective research and practice. The 33 full papers and 13 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Information systems quality; security, risk and strategy; conceptual modeling and ontologies; modeling methods and requiremments engineering; databases informaiton management; human factors in information systems; business process engineering and management; Part II: Machine-learning and generative AI applications; RCIS Forum; and RCIS Doctoral Consortium.
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Careers and job hunting, General non-fiction
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Dieses Buch erklärt, wie Sie erfolgreich starke Managementpräsentationen vorbereiten und durchführen. Führungskräfte und M&A-Teams stehen vor der Herausforderung, Investoren in…
kurzer Zeit zu begeistern, Vertrauen aufzubauen und ihre Botschaften nachhaltig zu verankern. Eine Managementpräsentation kann über den Erfolg eines Unternehmensverkaufs oder eines Investments entscheiden. Doch wie gelingt es, komplexe Inhalte klar, überzeugend und wirkungsvoll zu vermitteln? Dieses Buch bietet praxisnahe Lösungen an. Entscheidend ist die richtige Balance aus Fakten, Storytelling, visueller Gestaltung und einem überzeugenden Auftreten – sowohl in Präsenz als auch in virtuellen Meetings. Carola Kamuff führt Sie Schritt für Schritt durch den gesamten Prozess – von der Konzeption und strukturierten Vorbereitung des Präsentationsmaterials bis zur souveränen Beantwortung kritischer Fragen in der Q&A-Runde. Zum Inhalt Vom Konzept zur überzeugenden Präsentation Inhalte klar und überzeugend vermitteln Präsenz und Ausstrahlung gezielt einsetzen Souveränität in herausfordernden Situationen bewahren
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History, Science and technology
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This book, written by renowned historians of philosophy, literature, and science, provides a distinctively interdisciplinary work on matter and life…
in early-modern Germany and Britain (1600–1850). It interrelates key theories of matter and the life sciences from Jakob Böhme, Ralph Cudworth, G. W. Leibniz, Anthony Cooper (Shaftesbury), Immanuel Kant, J. W. Goethe, Novalis, Friedrich Schelling, G. W. F. Hegel, S. T. Coleridge, and Arthur Schopenhauer. Schelling’s centrality in the philosophy of nature is highlighted but also Coleridge’s role in importing and adapting German philosophical and scientific insights into the domain of British science runs through the book. At the core of this original project is an interrelated and interdependent analysis of Cambridge Platonism, German idealism, and British romanticism. Under the umbrella term of ‘dynamical idealists’, the editor of the volume refers to investigators of the vital energy of nature who characteristically combined the tradition of early-modern speculative idealism with enquiries into an experiential study of nature involving mysticism, chemistry, and empirical accounts of physical matter. Significantly, several chapters concentrate on the relationships between human will, agency, freedom, and God, shedding light on modern conceptions of subjectivity and selfhood. All of the above makes this book of great value to historians of philosophy, literature, and science.
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Animals and wildlife, Environment, Science and technology
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The captive breeding and reintroduction of highly threatened species are among the most challenging conservation interventions and often represent the…
final tool in a comparatively small toolbox to conserve rapidly declining species. This book details the species recovery program that was designed and implemented over two decades to conserve the Kihansi Spray Toad (Nectophrynoides asperginis), an extinct-in-the-wild tropical amphibian. More than 20 international and national institutions were involved in the design and implementation of the species recovery program. This complex two-decade effort highlights the challenges of conserving highly threatened tropical amphibians and integrating conservation with development in the 21st century. This volume will appeal to biologists, conservation and development practitioners, and institutions and individuals concerned about the conservation of biodiversity.
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History, Laws and statutes, Criticism
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This collection of essays presents recent research on the Inns of Court and their place in the literature and culture…
of the early modern world. The volume is structured in three sections. Section One looks at the institutional spaces of the Inns themselves. The chapters consider how the Innsmen&’s identities and writings were shaped by their participation in the communal life of the legal Societies. Section Two looks at the Inns in the context of early modern London. The chapters attend to the intellectual and cultural traffic between the Inns and the city in which they were located by examining the role of Innsmen in the book trade, the circulation of manuscripts, playhouses, and musical culture. Finally, Section Three sets a wider international context. The chapters focus on the role of Innsmen in translation, nation-building, and early colonisation. Together these sections attend to the Innsmen not only as writing communities in themselves, but as participants in a complex of intersecting networks reaching out into London and beyond.
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Computers and internet, General non-fiction
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This three-volume set LNAI 15708-15709-15110 constitutes the proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Rough Sets, IJCRS 2025, held in…
Chongqing, China, during May 11–13, 2025.The 90 full papers included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 187 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Rough Set Models and Foundations; Fuzzy Rough Sets and Rough Fuzzy Sets; and Granular Computing.Part II: Rough Set Applications; Feature Selection and Knowledge Discovery; and Cognitive Computing.Part III: Three-way Data Analytics and Decision; Medicine and Health Data Mining; and Applications of Deep Learning and Soft Computing.
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Medicine, Health and medicine, General non-fiction, Social issues
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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Stigma has long been a central concern for social scientists studying health and…
illness. Yet, in existing work, stigma often escapes definition and clarification, is treated as universal and constant, and becomes a vague catch-all term for a range of conditions and situations. This book initiates a process of recalibrating the conceptualisation of stigma. The book features original analyses from early- and mid-career scholars focusing on diverse issues, including mental health, racism, sex, HIV, reproduction, obesity, eating disorders, self-harm, exercise, drug use, COVID-19, and disability. This ambitious book offers new perspectives to stimulate and intensify conversations around stigma, and highlights the valuable contributions of sociological approaches to understanding health and illness.
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General fiction, Romance, Contemporary romance
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Revisit this feel-good millionaire romance from New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery.Three years ago, millionaire Stone Ward lost his…
wife in a car accident. Since then, he&’s turned to a life of solitude and reclusion. Cathy Eldridge has become Stone&’s only company, and although they have never met in person, their long, honest conversations have evolved into an intimate friendship. But after a twist of fate brings Cathy and Stone face-to-face, she realizes her fantasy man is out of reach for her—he is rich, good-looking and mysteriously sexy.Both Cathy and Stone have a past to overcome. But could their friendship transcend all limitations and turn into love?Previously published.
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History, General non-fiction
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Change the history that pupils learn at Key Stage 3. Reframe familiar topics, discover forgotten stories and amplify unheard voices.Through…
an evocative, story-based approach, this ground-breaking course brings together historical scholarship and enquiry, presenting a truly diverse, inclusive and ambitious history curriculum.This is the history we owe to our pupils. This is the past for today and tomorrow.> Establish a strong foundation of British history. A clear, chronological spine underpins each book, empowering pupils with the knowledge they need to understand, question or disrupt national narratives.> Journey far beyond Britain. Move between local and global, between small details and wider developments, as the books blend depth and overview, expanding pupils' knowledge of people, places and events around the world and the links between them.> Use the power of story to transform your teaching. Captivated by vivid, intriguing narratives, pupils will remember more than they ever have before. See their literacy improve as they encounter a wide vocabulary in context, become immersed in rich, quality texts, and enjoy hearing the book read aloud or reading it themselves.> Teach a diverse curriculum with confidence. Gender, class, race and religion are treated with sensitivity and sophistication, intrinsically woven into the content to create perspective on social, economic, religious and political history.> Stay up to date with historical scholarship. The authors have undertaken extensive reading, so every chapter is informed by current research from historians such as Helen Castor, Ruby Lal and Toby Green.> Deliver the aspirational curriculum that Ofsted expects. The course embodies the requirements for scope, coherence, rigour and sequencing. The Changing Histories curriculum is a progression model. Skills and knowledge are built systematically across each lesson sequence and new material makes sense to pupils because of the content covered earlier.> Trust a meticulously planned approach. Each 'enquiry' chapter helps pupils to shape an extended answer to the overarching question, with carefully paced 'steps' that support pupils in processing substantive knowledge. Shorter 'story summary' chapters keep narratives moving in between the enquiries.> Benefit from some of the best minds in history education. Leaders in history curriculum, practice, research and debate, the authors have poured their expertise into every page, making quality history accessible to all.