Tag: Perspectives

Free Download Jonathan M. Gulbert, "Perspectives in Environmental Research "
English | ISBN: 1612094449 | 2013 | 342 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book presents and discusses current research in the study of the environment. Topics discussed include biomonitoring of aquatic ecosystems; agricultural land-use in forest frontier areas; resource-based integrated land-use planning; participatory forest regeneration; phenological modelling; the use of microarrays in the study of environmentally relevant organisms; geochemistry of acid mine drainage and thoughts for stream restoration.

Free Download M. Amato, "Money and Calculation: Economic and Sociological Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 0230277772 | 2010 | 230 pages | EPUB | 364 KB
Money is an important instrument of calculation: as a unit of account and means of payment, it serves the purpose of exchange. Yet, it is increasingly becoming itself an object of exchange and calculation on financial markets, which tend less to the production and exchange of real goods. The question therefore is: has the economy lost its measure?

Free Download K. Pelsmaekers, "Displaying Competence in Organizations: Discourse Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 0230282636 | 2011 | 223 pages | EPUB | 1457 KB
Competence encompasses or overlaps with notions of efficiency, success, accountability, excellence and self-justification. This collection explores ways in which individuals, teams or groups in organizations discursively present themselves as competent to perform tasks or functions, possibly at a superior level.

Free Download Alexander Bachmeier, "Curriculum Perspectives and Development"
English | ISBN: 1536183334 | 2020 | pages | PDF | 4 MB
"Curriculum Perspectives and Development considers how the school curriculum should be organised in terms of subjects, considering the relative merits of seeking to integrate different traditional areas of knowledge rather than organising the curriculum to reflect disciplinary structures. The authors propose an extended Kantian model of arts education, presenting its verification through a survey of the Hong Kong arts education curriculum as a case study. In order to maximize growth and facilitate evaluation, it is suggested that students strive to demonstrate higher-level reflective writing. As such, this compilation describes the portfolio-based evaluation system one program employs. Lastly, the authors explore the relationship between spirituality and transformational learning, examining what spirituality may look like in a classroom setting and how it may potentially facilitate transformational learning"-

Free Download Gabriele Biotti, "Uncanny Perspectives in Literature and Culture: Texts, Images, Experiences"
English | ISBN: 3031671643 | 2024 | 353 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 6 MB
This collection of essays aims to analyse the uncanny as a concept developed in the field of the arts, from a variety of perspectives axed in the literary field, in the media context, and in film studies, with references to contemporary thought. The book aims to provide readers with a methodological updating on this psychoanalytic concept, starting from its basic rethinking, under the light of the different cultural backgrounds of the authors whose essays are collected.

Free Download Kelly L. Tremblay, "Translational Perspectives in Aduitory Neuroscience: Special Topics"
English | ISBN: 1597564680 | 2012 | 216 pages | EPUB | 15 MB
Special Topics is the third of the three-book series.

Free Download Kelly Tremblay, "Translational Perspectives in Aduitory Neuroscience: Normal Aspects of Hearing"
English | ISBN: 1597562025 | 2012 | 576 pages | EPUB | 68 MB
Virtually anything related to hearing that has a scientific basis could be included in a book so labeled, but this book is part of a mission to improve dialogue between basic and applied scientists so that health-related science can translate in many directions: from bench to bedside and vice versa. The editors are clinical audiologists as well as classically trained hearing scientists, who, are committed to the advancement of translational research. To do this, colleagues who work along each step of the scientific continuum, from basic to applied, provided information that was theoretically deep, but contextually broad. In some instances this meant pairing authors (clinicians and scientists) who would not normally write together and asking them to co-author chapters. A diverse group of students, post-docs, and scientists also interacted with the authors by asking questions and infusing comments during the review process. This process ensured both basic and applied material would be integrated. One example is the final chapter in the third book in the series on Auditory Plasticity and Auditory Training. Rather than simply review evidence of experience-related physiological changes documented in animal models, the authors chose to address the functional significance of auditory plasticity as it pertains to auditory learning . By simply revisiting the concepts of plasticity in relation to learning there has been a resurgence of interest in the area as it pertains to auditory rehabilitation. The challenge was to present the literature in a way that allowed us to ask the tough questions like Does a statistically-significant change in perception (or biology) necessarily constitute a functionally relevant change in behavior? More importantly, do the observed changes impact a person s ability to communicate? And does it impact their quality of life?

Free Download Aleksandar Jokic, Quentin Smith, "Consciousness: New Philosophical Perspectives"
English | 2003 | pages: 544 | ISBN: 0199241295, 0199241287 | PDF | 5,1 mb
Consciousness is perhaps the most puzzling problem we humans face in trying to understand ourselves. Here, eighteen essays offer new angles on the subject. The contributors, who include many of the leading figures in philosophy of mind, discuss such central topics as intentionality, phenomenal content, and the relevance of quantum mechanics to the study of consciousness.

Free Download Wendy Knepper, "David Mitchell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 1474262104 | 2019 | 232 pages | PDF | 5 MB
David Mitchell is one of the most critically acclaimed authors in contemporary global writing. Novels such as Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks demonstrate the author’s dazzling literary technique in an oeuvre that crosses genres, genders and borders, moving effortlessly through time and space.

Free Download Federico Ferretti, "Comparative Perspectives of Consumer Over-Indebtedness: A View from the UK, Germany, Greece, and Italy (3) "
English | ISBN: 946236673X | 2016 | 406 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book explores the topic of over-indebtedness of consumers and their inability to repay their debts. With a large number of people having excessive debt levels across Europe, it not only impacts badly on the lives of those who are affected, but also carries great social and economic costs. Therefore, it has become a concern for both national and EU policymakers, and requires adequate legal responses for the prevention of the problem and the alleviation of its effects. Responsible credit and personal insolvency are the main solutions discussed in this book alongside other practical aspects. The volume combines a range of multidisciplinary articles by recognised national academic and non-academic experts representing a diversity of interests in the UK, Germany, Greece and Italy. Written by academics, representatives of consumer organisations, practitioners, debt advisors and industry representatives, it is an important resource not only for their equivalents but also for policymakers, the judiciary and everyone involved in the understanding of the problem of consumer over-indebtedness. (Series: European and International Insolvency Law Studies, Vol. 3) [Subject: Commercial Law, International Law]