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Becoming Neolithic The Pivot of Human History

Becoming Neolithic The Pivot of Human History

Becoming Neolithic examines the revolutionary transformation of human life that was taking place around 12 000 years ago in parts of southwest Asia. Hunter-gatherer communities were building the first permanent settlements creating public monuments and symbolic imagery and beginning to cultivate crops and manage animals. These communities changed the tempo of cultural social technological and economic innovation. Trevor Watkins sets the story of becoming Neolithic in the context of contemporary cultural evolutionary theory. There have been 70 years of international inter-disciplinary research in the field and in the laboratory. Stage by stage he unfolds an up-to-date understanding of the archaeology the environmental and climatic evidence and the research on the slow domestication of plants and animals. Turning to the latest theoretical work on cultural evolution and cultural niche construction he shows why the transformation accomplished in the Neolithic began to accelerate the scale and tempo of human history. Everything that followed the Neolithic up to our own times has happened in a different way from the tens of thousands of years of human evolution that preceded it. This well-documented account offers a useful synthesis for students of prehistoric archaeology and anyone with an interest in our prehistoric roots. This new narrative of the first rapid transformation in human evolution is also informative to those interested in cultural evolutionary theory. | Becoming Neolithic The Pivot of Human History

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Words Together: Supporting Early Language Development in Young Children

Words Together: Supporting Early Language Development in Young Children

This set comprised of a guidebook and four colourful picture books has been designed for parents and practitioners supporting children to understand and use two-word sentences. Written in a friendly and reassuring tone the guidebook untangles questions and concerns that many parents and practitioners share around language development such as whether children are reaching important milestones whether they benefit from screen-time and dummies and what to do if there might be a problem. Bright and colourful illustrations in the storybooks provide rich opportunities for conversation and engagement using a serve and return structure and based around pivot words. The simple stories and repetition provide an opportunity for the child to hear and experience the sentence structure in new ways. The set includes: Helping Children Find Their Voices: A guide for parents and practitioners exploring questions and concerns that many parents and practitioners share around language development such as whether children are reaching important milestones whether they benefit from screen-time and dummies and what to do if there might be a problem. Down the Slide: A colourful picture book using the pivot word ‘down’ Hello!: A colourful picture book using the pivot word ‘hello’ Gone to the Park: A colourful picture book using the pivot word ‘gone’ Sleep Time: A colourful picture book using the pivot word ‘sleeping’ This is an exciting resource for early years practitioners parents and those working with children at an early stage of speech and language development. | Words Together: Supporting Early Language Development in Young Children

GBP 49.99
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Senior Leadership Teams and the Agile Organization

Senior Leadership Teams and the Agile Organization

Senior Leadership Teams and the Agile Organization builds on existing knowledge in the leadership teams and strategic management literatures to examine and explore how senior leadership teams drive the dynamic capabilities of organizations. Organizational agility is a key dimension of organizational performance. This volume focuses on senior leadership team processes and attributes that facilitate organizational agility and the organization’s capacity to perform and rapidly pivot in response to shifting strategic demands. Chapters summarize the current state of knowledge examine past research and theory define research and theoretical gaps and consider how to address these gaps. In so doing they offer an understanding of how senior leadership teams drive and enable organizational activity. The book is essential reading for researchers and professionals looking to understand the intersection of leadership team dynamics organizational psychology organizational psychology and strategic management particularly in relation to organizational agility and the senior leadership team.

GBP 46.99
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Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems

Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems

Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence: Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems offers a chapter-by-chapter introductory survey of all aspects of emotional development from infancy to adolescence from delight surprise and love to anger distress and fear. Taking a chronological approach each chapter focuses on a specific emotion and covers the theories and research relating to its development from infants’ emotional capabilities to the changes in self-understanding and self-conscious emotions of adolescence. Hay integrates the approaches of classic developmental differentiation and differential emotions theory to create a comprehensive textbook with a unique approach to the subject matter showcasing a range of research linking emotions to biological underpinnings and early experiences. This wide-ranging book also includes coverage of differences in temperament developmental psychopathology emotion regulation and development of emotional understanding and attachment. It is core reading for students of developmental psychology health psychology child welfare and social work as well as anyone taking a course on social and emotional development courses. It will also be of interest to practitioners working in educational and clinical psychology and child psychiatry. | Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems

GBP 39.99
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China and Eurasia Rethinking Cooperation and Contradictions in the Era of Changing World Order

China and Eurasia Rethinking Cooperation and Contradictions in the Era of Changing World Order

This book facilitates exchanges between scholars and researchers from around the world on China-Eurasia relations. Comparing perspectives and methodologies it promotes interdisciplinary dialogue on China’s pivot towards Eurasia the Belt and Road initiative the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Beijing’s cooperation and arguments with India the EU Western Balkans and South Caucasus states and the Sino-Russian struggle for multipolarity and multilateralism in Eurasia. It also researches digitalization processes in Eurasia notably it focuses on China's Silk Road and Digital Agenda of Eurasian Economic Union. Multipolarity without multilateralism is a dangerous mix. Great power competitions will remain. In the Asian regional system more multilateral cushions have to be developed. Scholars from different nations including China India Russia Austria Armenia Georgia United Arab Emirates and Montenegro introduce their own independent research making recommendations on the developments in China-Eurasia relations and demonstrating that through joint discussions it is possible to find ways for cooperation and for ensuring peaceful coexistence. The book will appeal to policymakers and scholars and students in Chinese Eurasian International and Oriental Studies. | China and Eurasia Rethinking Cooperation and Contradictions in the Era of Changing World Order

GBP 38.99
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The Social Consequences And Challenges Of New Agricultural Technologies

The Social Consequences And Challenges Of New Agricultural Technologies

Although formal social impact assessment of changing technologies in U. S. agriculture is still in its infancy scholars have been documenting the effects of new technology throughout the twentieth century. In this collection Prcfessors Berardi and Geisler bring together historically relevant research and a carefully chosen cross section of contemporary work. Their review of the literature is followed by an evaluation of the effects of mechanization on labor and production written in 1904 which provides a backdrop for papers from the 1940s and 1950s examining the mechanization of agriculture in the South in the Midwest and in rural areas in general. Subsequent chapters offer present-day insights on such topics as the socioeconomic consequences of automated vegetable and tobacco harvesting center-pivot irrigation and organic and no-till cultivation. The authors also look at compensation and adjustment programs for displaced labor the relationship between technology and agribusiness growth and the effectiveness of university programs that prepare students to perform social impact assessments in agriculture. The edited proceedings of a spirited roundtable discussion on new directions for the study of the social impacts of farm technology and the political economy of agriculture provide the thought-provoking conclusion to this overview of the field. | The Social Consequences And Challenges Of New Agricultural Technologies

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India in the Second Space Age of Interplanetary Connectivity

India in the Second Space Age of Interplanetary Connectivity

This volume discusses the emergence of space exploration as a new pivot of the global space economy in the decade of 2020s. Space exploration and human spaceflight will soon become vital strategic initiatives in the imminent second space age evolving from scientific pursuits to mega-economic projects. As the scope of international cooperation in space forays into soft science diplomacy the second space age opens opportunities for India to mount its space program as an ambitious yet conscientious proficient and cordial player in the global space economy. This book — Explores imminent trends in space exploration and interplanetary connectivity plans their returns to the global economy of the future and impact on the global astropolitical order; — Analyses the techno-economic significance of India’s space exploration by reviewing the legal ethical and philosophical challenges; the limits of global space exploration policies; and the economic lacunae for the astropolitical gains; — Examines the transformational trio of Chandrayaan Mangalyaan and Gaganyaan; dawn of the second space age; interplanetary connectivity projects; besides discussing the viability of humans becoming an interplanetary species. Part of The Gateway House Guide to India in the 2020s series this topical volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of international relations geopolitics foreign policy space policy South Asian studies strategic studies and international trade. | India in the Second Space Age of Interplanetary Connectivity

GBP 18.99
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Innovating Assessment and Feedback Design in Teacher Education Transforming Practice

Innovating Assessment and Feedback Design in Teacher Education Transforming Practice

Assessment and feedback are central to the question of how teacher educators can enhance and transform teaching and learning. This edited volume details case studies and empirical research presenting alternative innovative designs for assessment and feedback across a range of programmes mediums and jurisdictions. While the swift and unexpected digital pivot during the pandemic emphasised how teacher education adopted and facilitated online teaching supervision and practice there is now a need for increased attention to support alternative approaches. Innovating Assessment and Feedback Design in Teacher Education considers the perspectives and experiences of teachers educators and students while also exploring discipline-specific practices and outcomes professional competencies as well as issues pertaining to quality equity inclusion accountability academic integrity and success. Carefully chosen international contributors provide cutting-edge research findings and discuss its practical implications covering the development deployment and evaluation of classroom-based hybrid and remote approaches. This book elaborates upon the transformative assessment and feedback approaches taken by teacher educators to inform the future landscape of teaching and learning in a digital age. Illustrating key developments in the field examples of best practice dialogues integrating the student perspective worked examples and international perspectives this key book is an invaluable resource for teacher educators striving to improve their practice. | Innovating Assessment and Feedback Design in Teacher Education Transforming Practice

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Multinational Enterprise Political Risk and Organisational Change From Total War to Cold War

Multinational Enterprise Political Risk and Organisational Change From Total War to Cold War

Hitherto the organization of international business has been studied mostly from a managerial point of view or by examining the relationship between firms and the economy. Yet the development of the modern multinational firm - the most important type of business organisation - has been strongly influenced by the conflicts that bedeviled the twentieth century. The volatile macroeconomic and political environments experienced by international business point to how important it is to study political risk. Consequently Multinational Enterprise Political Risk and Organisational Change: From Total War to Cold War breaks new ground: it argues that non-market elements and historical context are key to understanding the way international business has been organised. This edited volume offers an historical approach to analysing how multinational enterprise has developed over time and around the world through a series of well-crafted chapters on important topics in international economic and business history written by authorities in their respective fields of study and research. The study is based on the underlying premise that the coming of the two World Wars the devastating and long-term consequences of such total wars and the ideological challenge of the Cold War acted as a pivot points in shaping the nature and character of multinational firms. By examining such phenomena this study offers insights to anyone who has an interest in business economic or political history management and business studies or international relations. | Multinational Enterprise Political Risk and Organisational Change From Total War to Cold War

GBP 44.99
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Architecture from Public to Commons

Architecture from Public to Commons

This book provides an urgent framework and collective reflection on understanding ways to reconsider and recast architecture within ideas and politics of the commons and practices of commoning. Architecture from Public to Commons opens with Institutions the dialogue with the scales of the commons the limits of language for fluid identities the practices and challenges of architecture as an institution the design of objects with apparent shared value in Chile land protocols that explore alternatives to profit-seeking of property in New York and spirited conversations about revolting against architectural labor from Latin America. Continuing chapters explore under Territories the boundaries of Blackness across the Atlantic between Ethiopia and Atlanta the underground woven network with conflicting grounds of ipê wood between Brazil and the US water cycles in depleted territories in Chile indigenous women-led territorial and human rights struggles in Guatemala climate change accidental commons in California and the active search for racial justice between design and place in New Orleans. Contributions range from theoretical and historical essays to current case studies of on-the-ground practices in the US the Middle East Europe and Central and South America. Bringing together architects scholars artists historians sociologists curators and activists this book instils an urgent framework and renewed set of tools to pivot from architecture’s traditional public to a politicized commons. It will greatly interest students academics and researchers in architecture urban design architectural theory landscape architecture political economy and sociology.

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The Law of the United States An Introduction

The Law of the United States An Introduction

The Law of the United States offers an introduction and overview of the American legal system. With an emphasis throughout on up-to-date case law and current literature it is an ideal first point of entry for students and practitioners alike and a starting point for further independent research. Professor Hay provides a concise and straightforward explanation of the law and legal vocabulary as well as an introduction to the different types of law and legal techniques. He explains the role of Congress the Executive and the Courts and clarifies the mechanisms behind the branches of public and private law in the United States. He introduces the reader to the complexities of federal and state law emphasizing that the many areas of public law and virtually all areas of private law are the separate law of the 50 States the District of Columbia and the (U. S. dependent) Territories in which common language legal tradition and culture have served to bring about a basic legal unity. Several private law areas (contract law torts family law succession) receive detailed treatment as do criminal law and procedure. The book provides detailed references to legislation case law and the literature up-to-date through early 2016. Four appendices present a detailed case study with commentary to aid the civil law reader in understanding of the case law system; the text of the U. S. Constitution (referred to in several contexts throughout the book); a geographic map of the U. S. federal court system; and information on the Legal Profession in the United States. | The Law of the United States An Introduction

GBP 36.99
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Student-Centered Pedagogy and Course Transformation at Scale Facilitating Faculty Agency to IMPACT Institutional Change

Student-Centered Pedagogy and Course Transformation at Scale Facilitating Faculty Agency to IMPACT Institutional Change

In response to national concerns a decade ago driven by research that showed that higher education was making little impact on students’ development of broad competencies and critical thinking the provost and president of Purdue University a research university instituted a program whose goals were to build on the accumulated knowledge on effective teaching to facilitate student learning improve outcomes and change the institutional culture around teaching and learning – objectives to which many institutions aspire but which few consistently attain or attain at scale. This book describes the development of Purdue’s IMPACT program (Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation) from its tentative beginning when it struggled to recruit 35 faculty fellows to the present when 350 have been enrolled and the university has more applications than it can currently handle. Overall more than 600 courses have been impacted many of which have seen significantly reduced DFW rates. Chantal Levesque-Bristol whose Center for Instructional Excellence is part of an institutional team that comprises the Provost’s Office Teaching and Learning Technologies Unit Institutional Assessment the Purdue University Library and School of Information Studies and the Evaluation and Learning Research Center describes the evolution of IMPACT lessons learned and the central tenets that have led to its success. The purpose of this book is notonly to describe the program but also to highlight the importance and implications of the underlying motivational theoretical framework guiding the initiative. Having started as a course redesign program that faltered in achieving its objectives the breakthrough came with the introduction of the fundamental motivational principles of self determination theory (SDT) followed by the applications of these principles to the research in higher education leadership and pedagogy. Giving faculty fellows the autonomy to build on their disciplinary expertise pursue their interests and predilections within a guided framework and leveraging interactions with colleagues through FLCs stimulated faculty fellows’ motivation and creativity. This book describes the core and structure of the IMPACT program presents details of faculty learning curriculum explains how the focus on SDT principles shaped the program’s evolution and transformation from a course redesign to a professional faculty development program and covers the considerations behind the formation of faculty fellow IMPACT teams A concluding chapter addresses how the IMPACT program having helped faculty pivot to emergency remote teaching when the campus closed owing to the COVID-19 pandemic is being modified so it can be successfully sustained online if circumstances require or as a means to expand its reach in the future. While the principles behind this initiative will be of compelling interest to its primary audience of faculty developers several chapters will have appeal to instructors and administrators. | Student-Centered Pedagogy and Course Transformation at Scale Facilitating Faculty Agency to IMPACT Institutional Change

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