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Toward New Horizons for Women in Distance Education International Perspectives

Toward New Horizons for Women in Distance Education International Perspectives

Originally published in 1988. This book provides an overview of women’s experience access and needs in distance education. It includes contributions on distance learning programmes in Holland Canada the South Pacific West Germany Australia New Zealand Israel Kenta Great Britain India Papua New Guinea Sweden and Turkey. Within this diversity are common international themes on the nature of the educational process for women in distance learning whether the subject is building construction or art teaching. The incorporation of a historical perspective and an evaluation of the prospects for the future contextualises the descriptions of the ways in which women are currently re-defining themselves through distance education around the world. | Toward New Horizons for Women in Distance Education International Perspectives

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Seemings New Arguments New Angles

Seemings New Arguments New Angles

This volume presents new research on the epistemology of seemings. It features original essays by leading epistemologists on the nature and epistemic import of seemings and intuitions. Seemings and intuitions are often appealed to in philosophical theorizing. In fact epistemological theories such as phenomenal conservatism and dogmatism give pride of place to seemings. Such views insist that seemings are of central importance to theories of epistemic justification. However there are many questions about seemings that have yet to be answered satisfactorily. What kinds of seemings are there? How do seemings justify? Are seemings connected to truth? Do they play a significant role in inquiry? The chapters in this volume offer a range of useful arguments and fresh ideas about seemings the nature of justification and evidential support intuitions inquiry and the nature of inference. Seemings: New Arguments New Angles will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in epistemology and philosophy of mind. | Seemings New Arguments New Angles

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Rural Tourism New Concepts New Research New Practice

Rural Tourism New Concepts New Research New Practice

This book describes analyses celebrates and interrogates the rise of rural tourism in the developed world over the last thirty years while explaining its need to enter a new second generation of development if it is to remain sustainable in all senses of that word. Contributors include 29 leading researchers practitioners and commentators from ten countries around the world. Subjects covered include the ongoing evolution of rural tourism as a genre; its numerous niche markets and market trends; community involvement and its impacts on rural landscape conservation and society. Special attention is paid to product development in rural tourism including food and beverage tourism avitourism and landscape appreciation. Management Issues are also dealt with as is the impact of internet booking systems on both commercial performance and regional and national rural tourism governance. There is a review of trends in academic research in rural tourism with an analysis of 1848 refereed and published research papers since 2000. This book is a worthy successor to Bramwell & Lane’s pioneering 1994 publication Rural Tourism and Sustainable Rural Development. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. | Rural Tourism New Concepts New Research New Practice

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Late Ruskin: New Contexts New Contexts

Late Ruskin: New Contexts New Contexts

This title was first published in 2001. Ruskin said that 1860 marked the beginning of his 'proper work'. This study presents new historicized readings of important texts and themes from that late period 1860-1889 discussing in detail works including Unto this Last (1860) the Lectures on Art (1870) Fors Clavigera (1871-1884) and The Bible of Amiens (1880-85) and considering key themes such as Ruskin's politicized regard for Pre-Raphaelitism in the 1870s and the complex topic of Ruskin and manliness. Claiming new and distinctive importance for this period of Ruskin's work both in terms of Ruskin's development as a writer and his place in Victorian culture as it moved toward modernity this book is the first solely devoted to the prolific later years and draws on much unpublished material. | Late Ruskin: New Contexts New Contexts

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Nuclear France New Questions New Sources New Findings

Nuclear France New Questions New Sources New Findings

This book offers the first non-official history of French nuclear policies which goes beyond the divide between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy policies. It addresses the sizing of France’s nuclear forces technological assistance to countries with nuclear weapons programs uranium prospection nuclear testing its health effects and protests against it as well as plans to prevent and manage accidents in nuclear power plants. It is based on new questions and new sources from France and abroad. The chapters in this volume show how independent and interdisciplinary scholarship free from conflicts of interests can uniquely advance our understanding of nuclear history and politics. This is the case because it does not treat the categories and judgments of official discourse as neutral starting points of the analysis. This volume is based on untapped primary sources from France the UK the US India South Africa and Iran on a new assessment of the health consequences of French nuclear testing in Polynesia thanks to a modern atmospheric particle transport code coupled with historical weather data open-source information about radioactive debris (“mushroom”) clouds as well as data on the composition and particle sizes of the fallout; and on new survey data about French knowledge of and attitudes towards nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. They show notably that the first generation of French nuclear forces lacked technical credibility despite reliance on outside help. Several French officials knew this as did France's allies and adversaries. Moreover French strategic collaborations associated to nuclear programs extended to India and South Africa; nuclear safety regulations changed fundamentally after the Cold War and approximately 110 000 people i. e. 90% of the French Polynesian population in the 1970s could have received doses that would qualify them for compensation according to French law. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of history politics international relations military history war studies conflict and global governance. Most of the chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in Cold War History. A few chapters were first published in the Nonproliferation Review Diplomacy & Statecraft and Science & Global Security. | Nuclear France New Questions New Sources New Findings

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Reconfiguring Nature (2004) Issues and Debates in the New Genetics

Reconfiguring Nature (2004) Issues and Debates in the New Genetics

Published in 2004 this collection will encourage and foster informed discussion of key issues as society comes to grips with the implications of genetic engineering the mapping and sequencing of the human genome and the advent of the post-genomic era. The contributors are prominent social scientists health specialists journalists bioethicists and commercial representatives from the UK Finland Germany Holland and Norway who are at the leading edge of current research. the book will therefore appeal to the interested public health and other professionals teachers and students. This book was originally published as part of the Cardiff Papers in Qualitative Research series edited by Paul Atkinson Sara Delamont and Amanda Coffey. The series publishes original sociological research that reflects the tradition of qualitative and ethnographic inquiry developed at Cardiff. The series includes monographs reporting on empirical research edited collections focussing on particular themes and texts discussing methodological developments and issues. | Reconfiguring Nature (2004) Issues and Debates in the New Genetics

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New Regionalism in Australia

New Regionalism in Australia

New Regionalism promoted as a new paradigm of development by the OECD suggests that globalization is bringing together new technologies management employees and communities to form new patterns of local governance. However despite the growing influence of New Regionalism in regional development policy in the West and increasingly in Australia there has been little debate about the relevance and application of these ideas in Australia. Bringing together contributions from academics practitioners and policy makers this book redresses this imbalance by examining the theoretical and empirical foundations of this powerful and growing school of thought locating the debate firmly in the Australian context. With an opening chapter by Kevin Morgan (Cardiff University) who has been at the heart of the New Regionalism debate the book provides important insights into the theory and practice of New Regionalism in this vibrant region. | New Regionalism in Australia

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New Economic Spaces: New Economic Geographies

New Economic Spaces: New Economic Geographies

As a core volume in the Dynamics of Economic Space series contributors from North America Australasia Europe and the Middle East each address the constitutive processes of new economic and institutional spaces and the theoretical methodological and policy-engaging practices of emerging economic geographies. Together they provide a timely and important overview of the current debates about the geographies of economic change. As national and regional economies change rapidly so the frameworks concepts and methods used to describe and analyse those processes also need to evolve. This volume puts forward a comprehensive analysis of a range of different and innovative means currently available through which to view regional economic activities and interactions. | New Economic Spaces: New Economic Geographies

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Investigating Local Knowledge New Directions New Approaches

Investigating Local Knowledge New Directions New Approaches

Originally published in 2004. Local knowledge reflects many generations of experience and problem solving by people around the world increasingly affected by globalizing forces. Such knowledge is far more sophisticated than development professionals previously assumed and as such represents an immensely valuable resource. A growing number of governments and international development agencies are recognizing that local-level knowledge and organizations offer the foundation for new participatory models of development that are both cost-effective and sustainable and ecologically and socially sound. This book provides a timely overview of new directions and new approaches to investigating the role of rural communities in generating knowledge founded on their sophisticated understandings of their environments devising mechanisms to conserve and sustain their natural resources and establishing community-based organizations that serve as forums for identifying problems and dealing with them through local-level experimentation innovation and exchange of information with other societies. These studies show that development activities that work with and through local knowledge and organizations have several important advantages over projects that operate outside them. Local knowledge informs grassroots decision-making much of which takes place through indigenous organizations and associations at the community level as people seek to identify and determine solutions to their problems. | Investigating Local Knowledge New Directions New Approaches

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Epistemic Duties New Arguments New Angles

Epistemic Duties New Arguments New Angles

There are arguably moral legal and prudential constraints on behavior. But are there epistemic constraints on belief? Are there any requirements arising from intellectual considerations alone? This volume includes original essays written by top epistemologists that address this and closely related questions from a variety of new sometimes unexpected angles. It features a wide variety of positions ranging from arguments for and against the existence of purely epistemic requirements reductions of epistemic requirements to moral or prudential requirements the biological foundations of epistemic requirements extensions of the scope of epistemic requirements to include such things as open-mindedness eradication of implicit bias and interpersonal duties to object to new applications such as epistemic requirements pertaining to storytelling testimony and fundamentalist beliefs. Anyone interested in the nature of responsibility belief or epistemic normativity will find a range of useful arguments and fresh ideas in this cutting-edge anthology. Chapter 14 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 license. | Epistemic Duties New Arguments New Angles

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New Media Users in China

New Media Users in China

Seeking to better understand the interaction between users and new media and among individuals within the ambit of new media this two-volume set systematically investigates the new media user both as an integral individual in networks and as an individual in mediatized time and space. The first volume revisits the multiple ways in which new media users have mutated from a passive audience to basic units within networks acting as both nodes in communication networks social networks and service networks and a link between the three. The author unravels new landscapes of communication in the new media era profound changes in social relationship and the productive roles that users play in the network economy. The second volume elucidates the mediatized human lives and self-expressions embodied in key new media phenomena and explicates how reality and virtual life converge and interact. It also touches upon new forms of mediatization in the digital age and the approaching age of artificial intelligence. This title will be a must-read for scholars students and media professionals interested in the topics of internet communication new media usage and media and society as a whole. | New Media Users in China

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Contemporary New Confucianism

Contemporary New Confucianism

This two-volume set is a seminal work on contemporary New Confucianism in China focusing on ten leading thinkers of this intellectual movement in the 20th century discussing their divergences in thought and contemporary relevance. Contemporary New Confucianism refers to the Confucianism or Confucian thought that has emerged in China since the 1920s which aims to revive the spirituality of Confucianism in a changing society. The first volume reviews the development of this intellectual trend and analyzes the cultural context logical approach major themes and problems of New Confucianism before delving into individual thinkers. It then examines and compares the philosophical thoughts of four key figures of contemporary New Confucianism including Liang Shumin Xiong Shili Ma Yifu Qian Mu. The second volume focuses on six other representative philosophers of New Confucianism including Zhang Junmai Feng Youlan He Lin Fang Dongmei Tang Junyi and Mou Zongsan. This set will appeal to scholars and students of modern and contemporary Confucianism intellectual history philosophy and thought of contemporary China and comparative philosophy.

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The Politics of New Atheism

The Politics of New Atheism

New atheism is best known as a literary and media phenomenon which has resulted in the widespread discussion of the anti-religious arguments of authors such as Richard Dawkins Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens yet it also has strongly political dimensions. This book analyses the political aspects of new atheism and offers an analysis that is informed by insights from political science and political theory. The authors locate new atheism within a diverse history of politically-oriented atheisms. It is argued the new atheist movement itself contains a considerable variety of political viewpoints despite coalescing around forms of secularist campaigning and identity politics. New atheist views on monotheism public life morality and religious violence are examined to highlight both limitations and strengths in such perspectives. Conservative feminist and Marxist responses to new atheism are also evaluated within this critical analysis. The book rejects claims that new atheism is itself a form of fundamentalism and argues that the issues it grapples with often reflect wider dilemmas in liberal-left thought which have ongoing relevance in the era of Trump and Brexit. It will be of great interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of new atheism political atheism secularism non-religion and secular-religious tensions. | The Politics of New Atheism

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New Directions in Public Opinion

New Directions in Public Opinion

The 2016 elections called into question the accuracy of public opinion polling while tapping into new streams of public opinion more widely. The third edition of this well-established text addresses these questions and adds new perspectives to its authoritative line-up. The hallmark of this book is making cutting-edge research accessible and understandable to students and general readers. Here we see a variety of disciplinary approaches to public opinion reflected including psychology economics sociology and biology in addition to political science. An emphasis on race gender and new media puts the elections of 2016 into context and prepares students to look ahead to 2020 and beyond. New to the third edition: • Includes 2016 election results and their implications for public opinion polling going forward. • Three new chapters have been added on racializing politics worldview politics and the modern information environment. • New authors include Shanto Iyengar Michael Tesler Vladimir E. Medenica Erin Cikanek Danna Young Jennifer Jerit and Jake Haselswerdt. | New Directions in Public Opinion

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The Psychology of Negotiations in the 21st Century Workplace New Challenges and New Solutions

The Psychology of Negotiations in the 21st Century Workplace New Challenges and New Solutions

The litigation explosion in the 21st century workplace means increasing costs and risks of lawsuits. Negotiation appears the attractive alternative to litigation. This new volume with contributions from experts in psychology management and other disciplines bridges the gap between management and negotiation research. Managers students and researchers interested in the field of negotiation will find this new book in SIOP’s Organizational Frontiers series of interest. | The Psychology of Negotiations in the 21st Century Workplace New Challenges and New Solutions

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The New Soviet Theatre

The New Soviet Theatre

First Published in 1943 The New Soviet Theatre presents Joseph Macleod’s take on the development and rapid changes in the Soviet Theatre since late 1930s. Through scattered articles and reports books and bulletins and his own visits to the USSR Macleod showcases what we know as ‘Socialist Realism’. He brings themes like the shortcomings of the old theatre; the audience beyond the Caucasus; new socialist audiences; Alexey Popov of the Central Theatre of the Red Army; new writers and new plays; and popularity of Shakespeare both in the central theatres and in remoter and unexpected places. Written graphically but founded on scholarship this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of history of theatre European theatre theatre and performance studies.

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New Perspectives on Sport Volunteerism

New Perspectives on Sport Volunteerism

The book highlights ‘new perspectives’ on volunteerism in sport covering frameworks methods context and variables on several levels from community sport clubs to international events. In analysing the processes of control within voluntary sport clubs a new theoretical framework – critical realism (CR) – challenges how we think about theory and how scientific inquiry should proceed. Further themes raised are: Should sports clubs be viewed as a crossing between a traditional volunteer culture dominated by collective solidarity and a modern volunteer culture focused on the individual benefits? Are former athletes a new group of possible volunteers? Can personal narratives of experiences of being a volunteer in a big international event provide us with new insight that has not previously been considered? Identity is suggested as a motive for understanding volunteers at sporting events. Two new theoretical models are presented one on the development of volunteer commitment and the other on a framework that incorporates both individual- and institutional-level variables. All chapters have recommendations for future research. The testing of these theories and influencing factors will provide new directions in the research of sport volunteerism. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Sport Management Quarterly. | New Perspectives on Sport Volunteerism

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The New Examination System - GCSE

The New Examination System - GCSE

Reform of the public examination system for sixteen-year-olds presented a considerable challenge to secondary schools. The new General Certification of Secondary Education introduced in 1988 was more than a continuation of the G. C. E. ‘O’ level and C. S. E. examinations at the time. The introduction of national criteria by the Department of Education the part played by the Secondary Schools Examination Council the emergence of new examining bodies were new dimensions faced by schools accustomed to exercising considerable autonomy in designing a curriculum. How far would the new examination reflect what was actually taught in our classrooms? What were its new features? Which pupils would be entered and with what prospect of success? Above all how would schools meet a tight time schedule which required study of new syllabuses to be ready by 1986 for the first examinations held in 1988? Originally published in 1986 this book was intended to answer some of these questions and provide an up-to-date picture of the present state of the examination world with indications of future developments in the vital years ahead. It aimed to assist those immediately and urgently concerned with implementing this far-reaching educational reform. Today it can be considered in its historical context. | The New Examination System - GCSE

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Neurobiology and Mental Health Clinical Practice New Directions New Challenges

Neurobiology and Mental Health Clinical Practice New Directions New Challenges

This book illustrates the current findings of interpersonal neurobiology from leading mental health clinician-scholars that inform knowledge building and clinical practice. Representing the fields of social work psychology and psychiatry these authors creatively apply research findings from the ongoing revolution in social and behaviour neuroscience to a diverse array of clinical issues. Contributions include elaborations of theory (the evolving social brain; new directions in attachment affect regulation and trauma studies); practice (neurobiologically informed work with children adults couples and in the conduct of supervision); and emerging neuroscientific perspectives on broader mental health issues and concerns (substance abuse; psychotropic medications; secondary traumatic stress in clinicians; the neurodynamics of racial prejudice; the dangers of forfeiting humanism to our current romance with the biological). Together these chapters equip readers with state-of-the-art knowledge of the manner in which new understandings of the brain inform and shape today’s professional efforts to heal the troubled mind. This book was originally published as a special issue of Smith College Studies in Social Work. | Neurobiology and Mental Health Clinical Practice New Directions New Challenges

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New Thinking for a New Millennium The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies

New Thinking for a New Millennium The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies

In this book Richard Slaughter draws on the relatively new but rapidly developing field of futures studies to illustrate how our thinking must change in order to deal with the challenges presented by the new millennium. In doing so he brings together the latest work from some of the leading international names in futures thinking. Part One considers the foundations of futures thinking in history literature and ideas. Part Two explores some of the ways that futures studies have been and are being applied in different educational contexts around the world from pre-school to postgraduate levels. Part Three takes the crucial step from institutional learning to social learning and explores how futures provides us with insights which can help guide our society into the new millennium together with suggestions for the development of the field itself. This book is essential reading for teachers students and anyone interested in the perils and promise of the twenty-first century. | New Thinking for a New Millennium The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies

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New Chinese Migrations Mobility Home and Inspirations

New Chinese Migrations Mobility Home and Inspirations

With the rapid economic development of China and the overall shift in the global political economy there is now the emergence of new Chinese on the move. These new Chinese migrants and diasporas are pioneers in the establishment of multiple homes in new geographical locations the development of new (global and hybrid) Chinese identities and the creation of new (political economic and social) inspirations through their mobile lives. This book identifies and examines new forms and paths of Chinese migration since the 1980s. It provides updated trends of migration movements of the Chinese including their emergent geographies. With chapters highlighting the diversities and complexities of these new waves of Chinese migration this volume offers novel insights to enrich our understanding of Asian mobility in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The book will be of interest to academics examining migration mobility diaspora Chinese identity overseas Chinese studies and Asian diaspora studies. | New Chinese Migrations Mobility Home and Inspirations

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New Drugs Fair Prices Managing the Pharmaceutical Innovation Ecosystem for Sustainable and Affordable New Medicines

New Drugs Fair Prices Managing the Pharmaceutical Innovation Ecosystem for Sustainable and Affordable New Medicines

New Drugs Fair Prices addresses the important question of how we might get the innovative new medicines we need at prices we can afford. Today this debate is impassioned but sterile. One side calls for price controls discounting their impact on investment in innovation. The other points to miraculous new therapies disregarding their affordability and social inequity. This polarized argument creates more heat than light threatening the social contract between the industry and society on which pharmaceutical innovation depends. This ground-breaking book takes a wholly new perspective on the issue and raises the debate to a more informed and productive level. Drawing on interviews with more than 70 experts across the pharmaceutical innovation world and combining a diverse literature from scientific political economic and business domains it describes how a sustainable and affordable supply of new medicines is possible only by balancing pharmaceutical innovation’s complex adaptive ecosystem. By considering how each of the ecosystem’s seven habitats work and interact with the others it makes a comprehensive set of recommendations for achieving that ecosystem balance. The core message of New Drugs Fair Prices is important to anyone who ever has needed or will ever need a medicine: we can have a sustainable supply of new medicines that are both innovative and affordable if we manage the pharmaceutical innovation ecosystem intelligently. | New Drugs Fair Prices Managing the Pharmaceutical Innovation Ecosystem for Sustainable and Affordable New Medicines

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Alcoholism New Knowledge and New Responses

Alcoholism New Knowledge and New Responses

Originally published in 1977 alcoholism was acknowledged to be a seriously growing problem in many parts of the world. It is a complex disorder with psychiatric physical psychological and social aspects having far reaching harmful effects on the family and society as well as on physical and mental health of the alcoholic themself. At the time of original publication it had been estimated that in England and Wales 11 out of every 1 000 in the adult population had a serious drink problem and alcoholism was a major cause of admission to psychiatric and general hospitals. Alcoholism was a medico-social problem of such magnitude that this comprehensive volume embodying advances in knowledge of causation treatment and prevention filled an urgent need at the time. Still a major concern today this reissue can be read in its historical context. | Alcoholism New Knowledge and New Responses

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