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Drum Sound and Drum Tuning Bridging Science and Creativity

Drum Sound and Drum Tuning Bridging Science and Creativity

Drum Sound and Drum Tuning assists drummers sound engineers and music students in learning critical skills related to drum sound and achieving an optimised and personalised drum kit set-up. The book covers the essential theories of percussion acoustics and develops this knowledge in order to facilitate creative approaches to drum tuning and professional-level recording and mixing of drums. All aspects of drumhead vibration drumhead equalisation and resonant drumhead coupling are de-mystified alongside discussions relating to drumhead types drum shell vibration and tuning to musical intervals for different performance genres. The book develops drum sound theory and creative analysis into a detailed dissection of recording and production techniques specifically for drums including discussions on studio technologies room acoustics microphone techniques phase coherence and mixing drums with advanced digital audio workstation (DAW) techniques and creative processing tools. Drum Sound and Drum Tuning includes many practical hands-on exercises that incorporate example tutorials with Logic Pro and iDrumTune Pro software encouraging the reader to put theory into immediate creative practice and to develop their own listening skills in an informed and reflective manner. The book also documents primary interviews and opinion from some of the world’s most celebrated drummers music producers and sound engineers enabling the reader to connect the relevant theories with real-world context whilst refining their own personalised approach to mastering drum sound. | Drum Sound and Drum Tuning Bridging Science and Creativity

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Validating a Best Practice A Tool for Improvement and Benchmarking

Validating a Best Practice A Tool for Improvement and Benchmarking

Sharing Best Practices across industries and functions is an accepted approach to continuous improvement. The Benchmarking trend of the 1990s has evolved with the help of competitive analysis performance excellence awards and other corporate recognition programs into an ongoing documentation of what works. Bob Camp introduced benchmarking against a Best Practice based on his work at Xerox in the 1980s. Case studies abound documenting Best Practice functions and processes. Some case studies use the words “Best Practice” without evidence that the process results or methods are indeed superior. What is missing is a comprehensive model for assessing and writing a Best Practice that provides sufficient information to use as an effective benchmark. This book provides that comprehensive model. Today’s consumers expect products and services to be of high quality reliable and user-friendly. This is the result of years of continuous improvement and innovation by producers. Although many organizations strive for excellent results there is still room for improvement. Unfortunately leaders don’t always have methods and tools to measure or assess that degree of excellence. If leaders could use a tool to discover how good their approaches and methods are and how excellent their achieved results are they could plan further improvements. The goal is to achieve excellent results. The tool described in this book guides leaders to achieve that excellence. | Validating a Best Practice A Tool for Improvement and Benchmarking

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Staging Sex Best Practices Tools and Techniques for Theatrical Intimacy

Staging Sex Best Practices Tools and Techniques for Theatrical Intimacy

Staging Sex lays out a comprehensive practical solution for staging intimacy nudity and sexual violence. This book takes theatre practitioners step-by-step through the best practices tools and techniques for crafting effective theatrical intimacy. After an overview of the challenges directors face when staging theatrical intimacy Staging Sex offers practical solutions and exercises provides a system for establishing and discussing boundaries and suggests efficient and effective language for staging intimacy and sexual violence. It also addresses production and classroom specific concerns and provides guidance for creating a culture of consent in any company or department. Written for directors choreographers movement coaches stage managers production managers professional actors and students of acting courses Staging Sex is an essential tool for theatre practitioners who encounter theatrical intimacy or instructional touch whether in rehearsal or in the classroom. | Staging Sex Best Practices Tools and Techniques for Theatrical Intimacy

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The Humachine Humankind Machines and the Future of Enterprise

The Humachine Humankind Machines and the Future of Enterprise

There is a lot of hype hand-waving and ink being spilled about artificial intelligence (AI) in business. The amount of coverage of this topic in the trade press and on shareholder calls is evidence of a large change currently underway. It is awesome and terrifying. You might think of AI as a major environmental factor that is creating an evolutionary pressure that will force enterprise to evolve or perish. For those companies that do survive the silicon wave sweeping through the global economy the issue becomes how to keep their humanity amidst the tumult. What started as an inquiry into how executives can adopt AI to harness the best of human and machine capabilities turned into a much more profound rumination on the future of humanity and enterprise. This is a wake-up call for business leaders across all sectors of the economy. Not only should you implement AI regardless of your industry but once you do you should fight to stay true to your purpose your ethical convictions indeed your humanity even as our organizations continue to evolve. While not holding any punches about the dangers posed by overpowered AI this book uniquely surveys where technology is limited and gives reason for cautious optimism about the true opportunities that lie amidst all the disruptive change currently underway. As such it is distinctively more optimistic than many of the competing titles on Big Technology. This compelling book weaves together business strategy and philosophy of mind behavioral psychology and the limits of technology leadership and law. The authors set out to identify where humans and machines can best complement one another to create an enterprise greater than the sum total of its parts: the Humachine. Combining the global business and forecasting acumen of Professor Nada R. Sanders PhD with the legal and philosophical insight of John D. Wood Esq. the authors combine their strengths to bring us this profound yet accessible book. This is a must read for anyone interested in AI and the future of human enterprise. | The Humachine Humankind Machines and the Future of Enterprise

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Best Practices for Mentoring in Online Programs Supporting Faculty and Students in Higher Education

Best Practices for Mentoring in Online Programs Supporting Faculty and Students in Higher Education

Best Practices for Mentoring in Online Programs is a straightforward guide to creating meaningful lasting mentoring programs for faculty or students enrolled in fully or predominantly online programs. Faculty and student mentoring programs are proliferating in higher education including peer mentoring group/network mentoring and career mentoring making it all the more important that administrators and instructors incorporate research-based best practices for effective and successful implementation. Divided into two sections – the first on mentoring programs for faculty the second on programs for students – this volume engages a broad variety of mentoring models and contexts across disciplines paying special attention to the effective strategies and common problems associated with online mentoring. The book addresses the practical aspects of setting up running structuring and evaluating online mentoring programs along with the recruitment selection compensation and recognition of mentors. Case studies and interviews bring to life the challenges and opportunities of mentorship including how to resolve discussions pertaining to difficult or controversial issues while a wealth of resources templates and checklists will help administrators and faculty take concrete steps towards implementing or developing programs tailored to their needs and institutional contexts. | Best Practices for Mentoring in Online Programs Supporting Faculty and Students in Higher Education

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Feedback Fundamentals and Evidence-Based Best Practices Give It Ask for It Use It

Feedback Fundamentals and Evidence-Based Best Practices Give It Ask for It Use It

Feedback is an incredibly valuable source of information – it enables us to be more self-aware and understand what we are doing well and it tells us what we could be doing differently more of or less of to improve our performance and achieve our goals. Feedback Fundamentals and Evidence-Based Best Practices: Give It Ask for It Use It provides an essential overview of feedback fundamentals what gets in the way of effective feedback exchanges and the impact of technology on feedback interactions. The value of feedback is often unrealized because people dread giving it dread receiving it and may not know what to do with it once they get it. Feedback Fundamentals and Evidence-Based Best Practices balances research testimonials and practical tools to provide readers with a thorough understanding of feedback exchanges. Critical findings from decades of research in psychology business and other disciplines are distilled into tools and strategies that readers can easily adopt in their own lives regardless of who they are or what they do. Throughout the book are a wealth of examples from a variety of people and situations both within and outside traditional work contexts. Feedback Fundamentals and Evidence-Based Best Practices: Give It Ask for It Use It is a crucial resource for professionals leaders and anyone of any industry or stage in life looking to give better feedback proactively ask for feedback gracefully receive feedback and put that feedback to use. | Feedback Fundamentals and Evidence-Based Best Practices Give It Ask for It Use It

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An Anthropology of Robots and AI Annihilation Anxiety and Machines

An Anthropology of Robots and AI Annihilation Anxiety and Machines

This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the making of robots and the role of fiction in co-constructing the technological practices of the robotic scientists. The book engages with debates in anthropological theorizing regarding the way that robots are reimagined as intelligent autonomous and social and weaved into lived social realities. Richardson charts the move away from the “worker” robot of the 1920s to the “social” one of the 2000s as robots are reimagined as companions friends and therapeutic agents. | An Anthropology of Robots and AI Annihilation Anxiety and Machines

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Food and Agricultural Tourism Theory and Best Practice

Food and Agricultural Tourism Theory and Best Practice

This book fills a gap in the growing academic discipline of food and agricultural tourism offering the first multidisciplinary approach to food tourism and the role it plays in economic development destination marketing and gastronomic exploration. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the discipline by considering food tourism in connection with both cultural values and important issues in agriculture food consumption and safety and rural heritage and sustainability. The book is divided into four Parts. Part I defines the elements of food tourism and explains its relationship with sustainability. Part II provides an overview of rural development and demonstrates the impact of industrialization and globalization on eating habits. Part III focuses on food tourism studies and market segmentation techniques to help students understand customer needs regarding food tourism products. Finally Part IV looks at the financial policy and legal requirements relating to food tourism development providing hands-on tools for students entering food tourism businesses or industries. Complemented by a wide range of international case studies key definitions and study questions Food and Agricultural Tourism is essential reading for students of tourism geography and economic development studies. | Food and Agricultural Tourism Theory and Best Practice

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Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools A Guide for School and Classroom Leaders

Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools A Guide for School and Classroom Leaders

Discover the teaching practices that make the biggest difference in student performance! The new edition of this practical research-based book gives leaders and teachers an even closer look at instructional practices from top award-winning urban schools. With refreshed examples from high-performing teachers and detailed analyses of these practices the authors demystify the achievement of these schools while offering a practical guide to help educators apply these practices in their contexts. Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools is a valuable tool for any educator in both urban and non urban schools that serve diverse student populations including English language learners and children from low-income families. What’s New: Additional What It Is/What It Isn’t boxes help educators distinguish the subtle differences in the implementation of practices that lead to impressive learning results Practice Guides and Practical Next Steps for each of the 8 Success Factors encourage self-assessment and collaboration Expansion of topics address current developments in education and additional examples from award-winning elementary middle and high schools provide new insights. | Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools A Guide for School and Classroom Leaders

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Coaching Skills for Academic Leaders Bringing Out the Best in Yourself and Others

Coaching Skills for Academic Leaders Bringing Out the Best in Yourself and Others

This practical evidence-based guide equips higher education leaders with the coaching skills they need to encourage and support faculty engagement productivity and satisfaction. Drawing from research in neuroscience faculty development and the scholarship of coaching this book focuses on three essential skill sets: assessment setting an agenda and keeping success going. This logical easy-to-follow process will improve how academic leaders engage with faculty thus resulting in more productive conversations and desired outcomes. Experienced seminar leader and academic coach Susan Robison imparts step-by-step guidance and provides plentiful exercises on how to listen deeply ask meaningful questions and co-create effective plans to set up faculty for success. A powerful tool for department chairs program directors deans provosts and more this book will become a well-used staple in any college leader’s library. | Coaching Skills for Academic Leaders Bringing Out the Best in Yourself and Others

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Strategies for Differentiating Instruction Best Practices for the Classroom

Strategies for Differentiating Instruction Best Practices for the Classroom

This updated edition of Strategies for Differentiating Instruction offers practical approaches that allow all students to make continuous progress and be appropriately challenged by focusing on their various levels of knowledge and readiness to learn. Written in an accessible teacher-friendly style chapters explore methods to tier learning experiences so that all students’ unique learning needs are met. The new edition updates the strategies complete with student examples and provides Developing and Assessing Products (DAP) tools for a variety of products as reproducible appendices. Full of research-supported examples and designed specifically for teachers who are new to differentiated instruction this book offers vetted practical advice for preassessing students implementing differentiation strategies and managing and assessing student learning. This new edition is a must read for teachers seeking to master the essentials on how to differentiate instruction and address all students' needs interests and abilities. | Strategies for Differentiating Instruction Best Practices for the Classroom

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Gendered Capitalism Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico 1850-1940

Gendered Capitalism Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico 1850-1940

Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico 1850–1940 is a history of the gendered corporation a study that examines how ideas and ideals about domesticity and the cultures of sewing and embroidery being gender-specific shaped the US-headquartered Singer Sewing Machine Company’s operations around the world. In contrast to production-driven and culture-neutral analyses of the multinational enterprise this book focuses on both the supply and the demand side to argue that consumers and the cultural worlds of those—mainly women—using the sewing machine for personal purposes or for the market shaped corporate organization. This book is a global history of Singer but it also focuses on the cases of Spain and Mexico to highlight nations where the sewing machine multinational never established manufacturing operations. Casa Singer was a mostly profitable and a long-term selling and marketing operation in both countries. Gendered Capitalism demonstrates that local Spanish and Mexican agents both men and women developed and expanded Singer’s selling system to the extent that the multinational company was seen as domestic both in the location sense and because of its focus on the private sphere of the home. By bringing the cases of Spain and Mexico and the cultural everyday realm of practices related to sewing and embroidery that the sewing machine was part of to the center of the study of international business Gendered Capitalism further reveals the layers of complexities and multitudes that conform the history of global capitalism. This book will be of interest to readers and scholars in the fields of business history economic cultural history management studies international business women’s history gender studies and the history of technology. | Gendered Capitalism Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico 1850-1940

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Play Therapy Supervision A Practical Guide to Models and Best Practices

Play Therapy Supervision A Practical Guide to Models and Best Practices

Play therapy is one of the fastest-growing specialty areas in mental health. Understanding the skills knowledge and strategies that make play therapy supervision effective is essential in supporting the integrity and needs of a thriving field. Play Therapy Supervision: A Practical Guide to Models and Best Practices is an all-encompassing play therapy supervision compendium. In these pages current and prospective play therapy professionals and supervisors will find effective strategies for engaging in supervision with literature that is firmly rooted in empirical research and practical examples. Useful for novice and experienced supervisors this book describes best practices in supervision and contemporary topics for building an effective play therapy supervision practice. This text also emphasizes the critical importance of cultural humility in play therapy supervision. Other important features include: Ethical and legal issues in play therapy supervision Building a play therapy supervision relationship Evaluation in play therapy supervision Technology in play therapy supervision including extended reality School-based play therapy supervision Techniques in play therapy supervision: mindfulness sand tray self-compassion art and movement and more! | Play Therapy Supervision A Practical Guide to Models and Best Practices

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Algorithms and Automation Governance over Rituals Machines and Prototypes from Sundial to Blockchain

Algorithms and Automation Governance over Rituals Machines and Prototypes from Sundial to Blockchain

To enact the book’s central theme of automation and human agency the author designed a Bot trained on her book to support dialogue with the content and facilitate discussions. If you like to compare what the author says and Bot ‘interprets’ or generates go here https://www. anonette. net/denisaBot/ Algorithms and Automation: Governance over Rituals Machines and Prototypes from Sundial to Blockchain is a critical examination of the history and impact of automation on society. It provides thought-provoking perspectives on the history of automation and its relationship with power emphasizing the importance of considering the social context in which automation is developed and used. The book argues that automation has always been a political and social force that shapes our lives and futures rather than a neutral tool. The author provides a genealogy of automation tracing its development from ancient rituals to modern-day prototypes and highlights the challenges posed by new technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence. The volume argues that we need more democratic and accountable governance over technological innovation to ensure that it respects human rights political pluralism legitimacy and other values we hold dear in our institutions and political processes. An engaging read on a fascinating topic this book will be indispensable for scholars students and researchers of science and technology studies digital humanities politics and governance public policy social policy system design and automation and history and philosophy of science and technology. It will also be of interest to readers interested in the interactions of the sciences and the social sciences and humanities. | Algorithms and Automation Governance over Rituals Machines and Prototypes from Sundial to Blockchain

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Emerging Technologies and International Security Machines the State and War

Emerging Technologies and International Security Machines the State and War

This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of emerging technologies and their impact on the new international security environment across three levels of analysis. While recent technological developments such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) robotics and automation have the potential to transform international relations in positive ways they also pose challenges to peace and security and raise new ethical legal and political questions about the use of power and the role of humans in war and conflict. This book makes a contribution to these debates by considering emerging technologies across three levels of analysis: (1) the international system (systemic level) including the balance of power; (2) the state and its role in international affairs and how these technologies are redefining and challenging the state’s traditional roles; and (3) the relationship between the state and society including how these technologies affect individuals and non-state actors. This provides specific insights at each of these levels and generates a better understanding of the connections between the international and the local when it comes to technological advance across time and space The chapters examine the implications of these technologies for the balance of power examining the strategies of the US Russia and China to harness AI robotics and automation (and how their militaries and private corporations are responding); how smaller and less powerful states and non-state actors are adjusting; the political ethical and legal implications of AI and automation; what these technologies mean for how war and power is understood and utilized in the 21st century; and how these technologies diffuse power away from the state to society individuals and non-state actors. This volume will be of much interest to students of international security science and technology studies law philosophy and international relations. | Emerging Technologies and International Security Machines the State and War

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Unaccompanied Children in European Migration and Asylum Practices In Whose Best Interests?

Unaccompanied Children in European Migration and Asylum Practices In Whose Best Interests?

Unaccompanied minor migrants are underage migrants who for various reasons leave their country and are separated from their parents or legal/customary guardians. Some of them live entirely by themselves while others join their relatives or other adults in a foreign country. The concept of the best interests of a child is widely applied in international national legal documents and several guidelines and often pertains to unaccompanied minor migrants given that they are separated from parents who are not able to exercise their basic parental responsibilities. This book takes an in-depth look at the issues surrounding the best interests of the child in relation to unaccompanied minor migrants drawing on social legal and political sciences in order to understand children’s rights not only as a matter of positive law but mainly as a social practice depending on personal biographies community histories and social relations of power. The book tackles the interpretation of the rights of the child and the best interests principle in the case of unaccompanied minor migrants in Europe at political legal and practical levels. In its first part the book considers theoretical aspects of children’s rights and the best interests of the child in relation to unaccompanied minor migrants. Adopting a critical approach to the implementation of the Convention of Rights of a Child authors nevertheless confirm its relevance for protecting minor migrants’ rights in practice. Authors deconstruct power relations residing within the discourses of children’s rights and best interests demonstrating that these rights are constructed and decided upon by those in power who make decisions on behalf of those who do not possess authority. Authors further on explore normative and methodological aspects of Article 3 of the Convention on the Rights of a Child and its relevance for asylum and migration legislation. The second part of the book goes on to examine the actual legal framework related to unaccompanied minor migrants and implementation of children’s’ rights and their best interests in the reception protection asylum and return procedures. The case studies are based on from the empirical research on interviews with key experts and unaccompanied minor migrants in Austria France Slovenia and United Kingdom. Examining age assessment procedures unaccompanied minors’ survivals strategies and their everyday life in reception centres the contributors point to the discrepancy between the states’ obligations to take the best interest of the child into account when dealing with unaccompanied minor migrants and the lack of formal procedures of best interest determination in practice. The chapters expose weaknesses and failures of institutionalized systems in selected European countries in dealing with unaccompanied children and young people on the move. | Unaccompanied Children in European Migration and Asylum Practices In Whose Best Interests?

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Remote Teaching and Learning in the Middle and High ELA Classroom Instructional Strategies and Best Practices

Remote Teaching and Learning in the Middle and High ELA Classroom Instructional Strategies and Best Practices

Teaching in remote distance and hybrid environments can be overwhelming and confusing and poses many challenges for novice and veteran teachers alike. This book guides teachers through the best practices of English language arts (ELA) instruction and helps them reflect on ways to apply those practices in remote learning and envision future instruction that draws from the most useful aspects of educational innovations. Understanding that remote teaching looks different in each subject Ruday and Cassidy identify methods specifically designed for middle and high school ELA classrooms. Designed for use in remote hybrid and hyflex environments with synchronous or asynchronous learning this resource gives teachers a toolbox of research-backed recommendations ideas examples and practices for teaching in unpredictable and new environments. Ruday and Cassidy address essential topics including writing grammar and reading instruction; assessment; differentiation; culturally relevant teaching; family engagement and communication; technology; professional self-care; and more. Teachers will come away with ready-to-implement strategies and insights for high-quality instruction that can be adapted to any kind of remote learning environment. | Remote Teaching and Learning in the Middle and High ELA Classroom Instructional Strategies and Best Practices

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Best Practices in English Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Lessons from Hong Kong for Global Practice

Best Practices in English Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Lessons from Hong Kong for Global Practice

Lillian Wong brings together evidence- informed studies which are at the forefront of higher education developments in English language teaching and learning and shares expertise from prominent academics in Hong Kong. Written by experienced practitioners who are active in the evolving field of scholarship of teaching and learning it provides accessible and engaging insights into best practices in new and innovative areas such as communities of practice scholarship big data analytics digital literacies blended learning small private online courses dialogic use of exemplars students as tutors and critical thinking. The book covers best practices in three interrelated key areas in university English language education including curriculum design and pedagogy use of technologies and the teaching and learning of English in the disciplines. Linking theory and practice the chapters discuss the emphasis on EAP/ ESP in university English language education how technological developments are impacting the field and the implications for further research and the teaching of English in higher education. This resourceful collection is essential reading for teachers in- service and intraining or those working in language education at the tertiary level where English is being used as an academic lingua franca a medium of instruction or where EAP/ ESP plays an important role. Researchers in TESOL and applied linguistics curriculum designers and leaders teacher educators and policymakers as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students will also find it valuable. | Best Practices in English Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Lessons from Hong Kong for Global Practice

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High-Impact Practices in Online Education Research and Best Practices

High-Impact Practices in Online Education Research and Best Practices

This volume offers the first comprehensive guide to how high-impact practices (HIPs) are being implemented in online environments and how they can be adjusted to meet the needs of online learners. This multi-disciplinary approach will assist faculty and administrators to effectively implement HIPs in distance education courses and online programs. With a chapter devoted to each of the eleven HIPs this collection offers guidance that takes into account the differences between e-learners and traditional on-campus students. A primary goal of High-Impact Practices Online is to share the ways in which HIPs may need to be amended to meet the needs of online learners. Through specific examples and practical suggestions in each chapter readers are introduced to concrete strategies for transitioning HIPs to the online environment that can be utilized across a range of disciplines and institution types. Each chapter of High-Impact Practices Online also references the most recent and relevant literature on each HIP so that readers are brought up to date on what makes online HIPs successful. The book provides guidance on how best to implement HIPs to increase retention and completion for online learners. | High-Impact Practices in Online Education Research and Best Practices

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Radical Sex Between Men Assembling Desiring-Machines

Radical Sex Between Men Assembling Desiring-Machines

Bringing together theory and public health practice this interdisciplinary collection analyses three forms of nonconventional or radical sexualities: bareback sex BDSM practices and public sex. Drawing together the latest empirical research from Brazil Canada Spain and the USA it mobilizes queer theory and poststructuralism engaging the work of theorists such as Bataille Butler Deleuze and Guattari and Foucault among others. While the collection contributes to current research in gender and sexuality studies it does so distinctly in the context of empirical investigations and discourses on critical public health. Radical Sex Between Men: Assembling Desiring-Machines will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students postgraduate students and researchers in gender and sexuality studies sexology social work anthropology and sociology as well as practitioners in nursing medicine allied health professions and psychology. | Radical Sex Between Men Assembling Desiring-Machines

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Invest in Your Best 9 Strategies to Grow Support and Celebrate Your Most Valuable Teachers

Invest in Your Best 9 Strategies to Grow Support and Celebrate Your Most Valuable Teachers

Support celebrate and grow your best teachers so that they stay in your school and continue to have maximum impact. Burnout and teacher turnover are on the rise yet we often spend more of our energy on the underperformers. In this powerful book from bestselling authors Todd Whitaker Connie Hamilton Joseph Jones and T. J. Vari you'll learn why it’s crucial to recognize your best teachers going beyond superficial gestures of appreciation and investing in them in deeper ways. The authors show school leaders how to identify their best teachers and then reveal strategies for supporting them including recognizing the value-cost of teachers’ time; prioritizing appreciation; controlling the narrative; tailoring professional learning; helping teachers grow through peer observations as well as beyond the school; applying data informed feedback; and nurturing self- and collective-efficacy. Each chapter begins with a powerful story an overview of our blind spots strategies on what we should invest in and how to ensure that the whole school profits from your efforts. There’s also an Initial Deposits feature that provides a quick tangible way to get started with each idea. With the helpful models tips and tricks in this book you won’t just be inspired to make a change but will be well equipped to take action. As your best teachers get better-and-better your students and the entire school culture will benefit! | Invest in Your Best 9 Strategies to Grow Support and Celebrate Your Most Valuable Teachers

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Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs America’s Best Investment

Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs America’s Best Investment

This book provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of U. S. National Parks (including monuments seashores lakeshores recreation areas and historic sites) and National Park Service (NPS) programs. The book develops a comprehensive framework to calculate the economic value of protected areas with particular application to the U. S. National Park Service. The framework covers many benefits provided by NPS units and programs including on-site visitation carbon sequestration and intellectual property such as in education curricula and filming of movies/ TV shows with case studies of each included. Examples are drawn from studies in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Golden Gate National Recreation Area Everglades National Park and Chesapeake Bay. The editors conclude with a chapter on innovative approaches for sustainable funding of the NPS in its second century. The framework serves as a blueprint of methodologies for conservationists government agencies land trusts economists and others to value public lands historical sites and related programs such as education. The methodologies are relevant to local and state parks wildlife refuges and protected areas in developed and developing countries as well as to national parks around the world. Containing a series of unique case studies this book will be of great interest to professionals and students in environmental economics land management and nature conservation as well as the more general reader interested in National Parks. | Valuing U. S. National Parks and Programs America’s Best Investment

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Modern Management and Leadership Best Practice Essentials with CISO/CSO Applications

Modern Management and Leadership Best Practice Essentials with CISO/CSO Applications

In one modest-sized volume this book offers three valuable sets of knowledge. First it provides best practice guidance on virtually every large-scale task a modern manager may be involved in—from recruiting and hiring to onboarding and leading teams and from employee engagement and retention to performance management and working with difficult employees. Second it explains the essential concepts and practice of a range of effective leadership styles—including (but not limited to) servant leadership crisis leadership change agent leadership and diversity and inclusion leadership. Third it offers brief case studies from select CISOs and CSOs on how these management and leadership principles and practices play out in real-life workplace situations. The best practice essentials provided throughout this volume will empower aspiring leaders and also enable experienced managers to take their leadership to the next level. Many if not most CISOs and other leaders have had very little if any formal training in management and leadership. The select few that have such training usually obtained it through academic courses that take a theoretical broad brush approach. In contrast this book provides much actionable guidance in the nitty-gritty tasks that managers must do every day. Lack of management practical knowledge puts CISOs and CSOs at a disadvantage vis-a-vis other executives in the C-suite. They risk being pigeonholed as “security cops” rather than respected business leaders. Many articles on these subjects published in the press are too incomplete and filled with bad information. And combing through the few high-quality sources that are out there such as Harvard Business Publishing can take hundreds of dollars in magazine subscription and book purchase fees and weeks or months of reading time. This book puts all the essential information into your hands through a series of concise chapters authored by an award-winning writer. | Modern Management and Leadership Best Practice Essentials with CISO/CSO Applications

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Best Practice in Inventory Management

Best Practice in Inventory Management

Best Practice in Inventory Management 3E offers a simple entirely jargon-free and yet comprehensive introduction to key aspects of inventory management. Good management of inventory enables companies to improve their customer service cash flow and profitability. This text outlines the basic techniques how and where to apply them and provides advice to ensure they work to provide the desired effect in practice. With an unrivalled balance between qualitative and quantitative aspects of inventory control experienced consultant Tony Wild portrays the many ways in which stock management is more nuanced than simple number crunching and mathematical modelling. This long-awaited new edition has been substantially and thoroughly updated. The product of decades of experience and expertise in the field Best Practice in Inventory Management 3E provides students and professionals even those with no prior experience in the area an unbiased and honest picture of what it takes to effectively manage stocks in a firm.

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Contemporary Technologies and the Morality of Warfare The War of the Machines

Contemporary Technologies and the Morality of Warfare The War of the Machines

Supported by genuine historical cases this book argues that certain new technologies in warfare can not only be justified within the current framework of the just war theory but that their use is mandatory from a moral perspective. Technological developments raise questions about the manner in which wars ought to be fought. The growing use of drones capacity-increasing technologies and cyberattacks are perceived by many as posing great challenges to Just War Theory. Instead of seeing these technologies as inherently unethical this book adopts a different perspective by arguing that they are morally necessary since they can limit the potential violations of the moral rules of war and ensure that militaries better respect their obligation to protect their members. Caron’s research offers insights into how and under what conditions autonomous or semi-autonomous robots artificial intelligence cyberwarfare and capacityincreasing technologies can be considered as legitimate weapons. This book will be of interest to students members of the armed forces and scholars studying Politics International Relations Security Studies Ethics and Just War Theory. | Contemporary Technologies and the Morality of Warfare The War of the Machines

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