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The economy of medieval Hungary


Introduction: Hungarian medieval economic history : sources, research and methodology / Jozsef Laszlovszky, Balazs Nagy, Peter Szabo and Andras Vadas -- Structure -- Long-term environmental changes in medieval Hungary : changes in settlement areas and their potential drivers / Laszlo Ferenczi, Jozsef Laszlovszky, Zsolt Pinke, Peter Szabo and Andras Vadas -- Demographic issues in late medieval Hungary : population, ethnic groups, economic activity / Andras Kubinyi and Jozsef Laszlovszky -- Mobility, roads and bridges in medieval Hungary / Magdolna Szilagyi -- Human-nature interaction in production -- Agriculture in medieval Hungary / Jozsef Laszlovszky -- Animal exploitation in medieval Hungary / Laszlo Bartosiewicz, Anna Zsofia Biller, Peter Csippan, Laszlo Daroczi-Szabo, Marta Daroczi-Szabo, Erika Gal, Istvan Kovats, Kyra Lyublyanovics and Eva Agnes Nyerges -- Mining in medieval Hungary / Zoltan Batizi -- Salt mining and trade in Hungary before the Mongol invasion / Beatrix F. Romhanyi -- Salt mining and the salt trade in medieval Hungary from the mid-thirteenth century until the end of the middle ages / Istvan Draskoczy -- The extent and management of woodland in medieval Hungary / Peter Szabo -- Water management in medieval Hungary / Laszlo Ferenczi -- Money, incomes and management -- Royal revenues in the Arpadian age / Boglarka Weisz -- Seigneurial dues and taxation principles in late medieval Hungary / Arpad Nogrady -- Minting, financial administration and coin circulation in Hungary in the arpadian and Angevin periods (1000-1387) / Csaba Toth -- Coinage and financial administration in late medieval Hungary (1387-1526) / Marton Gyongyossy -- Spheres of production -- The ecclesiastic economy in medieval Hungary / Beatrix F. Romhanyi -- The urban economy in medieval Hungary / Katalin Szende -- The medieval market town and its economy / Istvan Petrovics -- Crafts in medieval Hungary / Laszlo Szende -- The economy of castle estates in the late medieval kingdom of Hungary / Istvan Kenyeres -- Trade relations -- Domestic trade in the arpadian age / Boglarka Weisz -- Professional merchants and the institutions of trade : domestic trade in late medieval Hungary / Andras Kubinyi -- Import objects as sources of the economic history of medieval Hungary / Istvan Feld -- Foreign trade of medieval Hungary / Balazs Nagy -- Foreign business interests in Hungary in the middle ages / Krisztina Arany -- Appendix -- List of references -- Index of geographic names -- Index of personal names.
Date Published:2018

Introduction: Hungarian medieval economic history : sources, research and methodology / Jozsef Laszlovszky, Balazs Nagy, Peter Szabo and Andras Vadas -- Structure -- Long-term environmental changes in medieval Hungary : changes in settlement areas and their potential drivers / Laszlo Ferenczi, Jozsef Laszlovszky, Zsolt Pinke, Peter Szabo and Andras Vadas -- Demographic issues in late medieval Hungary : population, ethnic groups, economic activity / Andras Kubinyi and Jozsef Laszlovszky -- Mobility, roads and bridges in medieval Hungary / Magdolna Szilagyi -- Human-nature interaction in production -- Agriculture in medieval Hungary / Jozsef Laszlovszky -- Animal exploitation in medieval Hungary / Laszlo Bartosiewicz, Anna Zsofia Biller, Peter Csippan, Laszlo Daroczi-Szabo, Marta Daroczi-Szabo, Erika Gal, Istvan Kovats, Kyra Lyublyanovics and Eva Agnes Nyerges -- Mining in medieval Hungary / Zoltan Batizi -- Salt mining and trade in Hungary before the Mongol invasion / Beatrix F. Romhanyi -- Salt mining and the salt trade in medieval Hungary from the mid-thirteenth century until the end of the middle ages / Istvan Draskoczy -- The extent and management of woodland in medieval Hungary / Peter Szabo -- Water management in medieval Hungary / Laszlo Ferenczi -- Money, incomes and management -- Royal revenues in the Arpadian age / Boglarka Weisz -- Seigneurial dues and taxation principles in late medieval Hungary / Arpad Nogrady -- Minting, financial administration and coin circulation in Hungary in the arpadian and Angevin periods (1000-1387) / Csaba Toth -- Coinage and financial administration in late medieval Hungary (1387-1526) / Marton Gyongyossy -- Spheres of production -- The ecclesiastic economy in medieval Hungary / Beatrix F. Romhanyi -- The urban economy in medieval Hungary / Katalin Szende -- The medieval market town and its economy / Istvan Petrovics -- Crafts in medieval Hungary / Laszlo Szende -- The economy of castle estates in the late medieval kingdom of Hungary / Istvan Kenyeres -- Trade relations -- Domestic trade in the arpadian age / Boglarka Weisz -- Professional merchants and the institutions of trade : domestic trade in late medieval Hungary / Andras Kubinyi -- Import objects as sources of the economic history of medieval Hungary / Istvan Feld -- Foreign trade of medieval Hungary / Balazs Nagy -- Foreign business interests in Hungary in the middle ages / Krisztina Arany -- Appendix -- List of references -- Index of geographic names -- Index of personal names.

Date Published:2018

The Early Modern Zagori of Northwest Greece : An Interdisciplinary Archaeological Inquiry into a Montane Cultural Landscape.

Moudopoulos-Athanasiou, Faidon.


Landscape-archaeology projects have had a significant impact on our understanding of the deep history of the Greek countryside, but have overwhelmingly been limited to the plains and have rarely placed the Ottoman period at their core. This investigation of Zagori in Northwest Greece explores the archaeology and cultural history of a mountainous area that famously thrived in the Ottoman period. This engagement with an upland region in the early modern period sheds light on previously neglected aspects of Greek landscape history. The inclusive methodology combines critical historiography, archival research, oral history and landscape-archaeological survey to achieve novel insights into this montane landscape and its distinctive history and cultural heritage.Contrary to the dominant nationalist historiography, it demonstrates the continuity of regional elites from the Byzantine to Ottoman period in Epirus and reveals how this shaped settlement patterns and elite/non-elite sedentary adaptations in this montane region. It also gives voice from within to the labour-intensive, engendered, cultural landscape of the Zagori peasantry and challenges the view of external scholarly observers that mountains support a predominantly pastoral way of life.
Date Published:2022

Landscape-archaeology projects have had a significant impact on our understanding of the deep history of the Greek countryside, but have overwhelmingly been limited to the plains and have rarely placed the Ottoman period at their core. This investigation of Zagori in Northwest Greece explores the archaeology and cultural history of a mountainous area that famously thrived in the Ottoman period. This engagement with an upland region in the early modern period sheds light on previously neglected aspects of Greek landscape history. The inclusive methodology combines critical historiography, archival research, oral history and landscape-archaeological survey to achieve novel insights into this montane landscape and its distinctive history and cultural heritage.Contrary to the dominant nationalist historiography, it demonstrates the continuity of regional elites from the Byzantine to Ottoman period in Epirus and reveals how this shaped settlement patterns and elite/non-elite sedentary adaptations in this montane region. It also gives voice from within to the labour-intensive, engendered, cultural landscape of the Zagori peasantry and challenges the view of external scholarly observers that mountains support a predominantly pastoral way of life.

Date Published:2022

Citizenship and higher education : the role of universities in communities and society


Introduction / James Arthur -- Student character in the British university / James Arthur -- Universities of character? / Charles L. Glenn -- Community, service learning and higher education in the UK / John Annette -- Searching for a moral north star during the college years / Arthur Schwartz -- Citizenship and higher education in the UK / John Annette and Terence McLaughlin -- Character education at the university: a worthy purpose / Karen E. Bohlin -- The character of higher education / Dennis Hayes -- Developing citizenship through international exchanges / Ian Davies, Mark Evans, Peter Cunningham, Gunilla Fredriksson, Graham Pike, Hanns-Fred Rathenow, Alan Sears, Felicitas Tesch and Pam Whitty -- Textual apologism or dissent? Ethical dilemmas for academics in managerialist times / Martin Thrupp.
Date Published:2005

Introduction / James Arthur -- Student character in the British university / James Arthur -- Universities of character? / Charles L. Glenn -- Community, service learning and higher education in the UK / John Annette -- Searching for a moral north star during the college years / Arthur Schwartz -- Citizenship and higher education in the UK / John Annette and Terence McLaughlin -- Character education at the university: a worthy purpose / Karen E. Bohlin -- The character of higher education / Dennis Hayes -- Developing citizenship through international exchanges / Ian Davies, Mark Evans, Peter Cunningham, Gunilla Fredriksson, Graham Pike, Hanns-Fred Rathenow, Alan Sears, Felicitas Tesch and Pam Whitty -- Textual apologism or dissent? Ethical dilemmas for academics in managerialist times / Martin Thrupp.

Date Published:2005

Taking Care of Our Own : Dakota Ojibway and Family Services.

Heinrichs, Marj, 1956-


Co-published by Dakota Ojibway Child and Family Services. "Taking Care of Our Own" A history and celebration of Dakota Ojibway Child and Family Services, the first First Nations Agency mandated to deliver a full range of child and family services in Canada. From the injustices of colonialism, the ravages of residential school and the horrors of the Scoop of the 1960s and 70s, in which thousands of First Nations children were sent to the United States for adoption, a determination was born in the Dakota and Ojibway people of Southern Manitoba that they could and must take charge of their own families and children. The battle to do so was a long and difficult one, waged on every level of government and in both private and public venues for over a decade. It was ultimately successful. On July 1st, 1981, Dakota Ojibway Child and Family Services received its mandate to provide social services to the communities of the Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council. The decades that have passed since then have been marked by learning, hope and continued determination that colonial history will not repeat itself. Instead, the proud history and culture of the Dakota and Ojibway people is being renewed, providing the principles which govern DOCFS today.
Date Published:2009

Co-published by Dakota Ojibway Child and Family Services. "Taking Care of Our Own" A history and celebration of Dakota Ojibway Child and Family Services, the first First Nations Agency mandated to deliver a full range of child and family services in Canada. From the injustices of colonialism, the ravages of residential school and the horrors of the Scoop of the 1960s and 70s, in which thousands of First Nations children were sent to the United States for adoption, a determination was born in the Dakota and Ojibway people of Southern Manitoba that they could and must take charge of their own families and children. The battle to do so was a long and difficult one, waged on every level of government and in both private and public venues for over a decade. It was ultimately successful. On July 1st, 1981, Dakota Ojibway Child and Family Services received its mandate to provide social services to the communities of the Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council. The decades that have passed since then have been marked by learning, hope and continued determination that colonial history will not repeat itself. Instead, the proud history and culture of the Dakota and Ojibway people is being renewed, providing the principles which govern DOCFS today.

Date Published:2009

The grammatical realization of polarity contrast : theoretical, empirical, and typological approaches


The grammatical realization of polarity contrast: introductory remarks / Christine Dimroth and Stefan Sudhoff -- From polarity focus to salient polarity: from things to processes / Dejan Matic and Irina Nikolaeva -- Verum focus, sentence mood, and contrast / Horst Lohnstein -- Complementizers and negative polarity in German hypothetical comparatives / Julia Bacskai-Atkari -- Veridicality and sets of alternative worlds: on embedded interrogatives and the complementizers that and if / Peter Ohl -- Biased declarative questions in Swedish and German: negation meets modal particles (.al and doch wohl) / Heiko Seeliger -- Types of polar interrogatives in Hungarian and their interaction with inside and outside negation / Beata Gyuris -- Kinds of verum distinguished by aspect choice in Russian / Olav Mueller-Reichau -- Polarity focus and non-canonical syntax in Italian, French and Spanish: clitic left dislocation and si che/ si que-constructions / Davide Garassino and Daniel Jacob -- In search for polarity contrast marking in Italian: a contribution from echo replies / Cecilia Andorno and Claudia Crocco.
Date Published:2018

The grammatical realization of polarity contrast: introductory remarks / Christine Dimroth and Stefan Sudhoff -- From polarity focus to salient polarity: from things to processes / Dejan Matic and Irina Nikolaeva -- Verum focus, sentence mood, and contrast / Horst Lohnstein -- Complementizers and negative polarity in German hypothetical comparatives / Julia Bacskai-Atkari -- Veridicality and sets of alternative worlds: on embedded interrogatives and the complementizers that and if / Peter Ohl -- Biased declarative questions in Swedish and German: negation meets modal particles (.al and doch wohl) / Heiko Seeliger -- Types of polar interrogatives in Hungarian and their interaction with inside and outside negation / Beata Gyuris -- Kinds of verum distinguished by aspect choice in Russian / Olav Mueller-Reichau -- Polarity focus and non-canonical syntax in Italian, French and Spanish: clitic left dislocation and si che/ si que-constructions / Davide Garassino and Daniel Jacob -- In search for polarity contrast marking in Italian: a contribution from echo replies / Cecilia Andorno and Claudia Crocco.

Date Published:2018

New trends on grammaticalization and language change


Introduction: grammaticalization in the 2010s: a dialogue between the old and the new / Tine Breban and Sylvie Hancil -- Are there two different ways of approaching grammaticalization? / Bernd Heine -- Functional similarity despite geographical distance: On the grammaticalization of German mal and Chinese yixia / Ekkehard Koenig and Jingying Li -- Analogy: Its role in language learning, categorization, and in models of language change such as grammaticalization and constructionalization / Olga Fischer -- Central Southern Guangxi as a grammaticalization area / Yang Huang and Fuxiang Wu -- Grammaticalizing connectives in English and discourse information structure / Diana M. Lewis -- The grammaticalization of interrogative pronouns into relative pronouns in South-Caucasian languages: Internal development or replica? / Ophelie Gandon -- From time to surprise: The case of sera posible in Spanish / Susana Rodriguez Rosique -- C-gravitation and the grammaticalization degree of 'present progressives' in English, French, and Dutch / Naoaki Wada -- The avertive and proximative grams in Maltese using the auxiliary ghodd / Maris Camilleri -- Pragmatic uses of Nu in old Saxon and old English / Elise Louviot -- (Inter)subjectification and paradigmaticization: The case study of the final particle but / Sylvie Hancil -- The development of three classifiers into degree modifier constructions in Chinese / Yueh Hsin Kuo -- -- From the inside to the outside of the sentence: forming a larger discourse unit with jijitsu 'fact' in japanese / Reijirou Shibasaki -- The development of the Chinese scalar additive coordinators derived from prohibitives, a constructionist perspective / Bing Zhu and Kaoru Horie -- Cross-varietal diversity in constructional entrenchment: The final-tag construction in Irish and American English / Mitsuko Narita Izutsu and Katsunobu Izutsu.
Date Published:2018

Introduction: grammaticalization in the 2010s: a dialogue between the old and the new / Tine Breban and Sylvie Hancil -- Are there two different ways of approaching grammaticalization? / Bernd Heine -- Functional similarity despite geographical distance: On the grammaticalization of German mal and Chinese yixia / Ekkehard Koenig and Jingying Li -- Analogy: Its role in language learning, categorization, and in models of language change such as grammaticalization and constructionalization / Olga Fischer -- Central Southern Guangxi as a grammaticalization area / Yang Huang and Fuxiang Wu -- Grammaticalizing connectives in English and discourse information structure / Diana M. Lewis -- The grammaticalization of interrogative pronouns into relative pronouns in South-Caucasian languages: Internal development or replica? / Ophelie Gandon -- From time to surprise: The case of sera posible in Spanish / Susana Rodriguez Rosique -- C-gravitation and the grammaticalization degree of 'present progressives' in English, French, and Dutch / Naoaki Wada -- The avertive and proximative grams in Maltese using the auxiliary ghodd / Maris Camilleri -- Pragmatic uses of Nu in old Saxon and old English / Elise Louviot -- (Inter)subjectification and paradigmaticization: The case study of the final particle but / Sylvie Hancil -- The development of three classifiers into degree modifier constructions in Chinese / Yueh Hsin Kuo -- -- From the inside to the outside of the sentence: forming a larger discourse unit with jijitsu 'fact' in japanese / Reijirou Shibasaki -- The development of the Chinese scalar additive coordinators derived from prohibitives, a constructionist perspective / Bing Zhu and Kaoru Horie -- Cross-varietal diversity in constructional entrenchment: The final-tag construction in Irish and American English / Mitsuko Narita Izutsu and Katsunobu Izutsu.

Date Published:2018

Leadership communication : how leaders communicate and how communicators lead in today's global enterprise

Harrison, E. Bruce.,


Part of: 2014 digital library. Part I. The new model CCO: grasping the opportunity -- 1. What's in it for you? -- 2. Leadership is communication -- 3. Leadership traits -- 4. How communicators lead in the C-suite -- 5. Influence: replacing and reasserting "control" -- Part II. The influential CCO: skills and competence -- 6. Listening: where communication begins -- 7. Culture: understanding and influencing -- 8. CEO letter: leadership's cardinal communication -- 9. Language and presentation -- 10. Limits: corporate governance -- Part III. The working CCO: leadership in context -- 11. Crisis basics: "Topic A bad news" and the CCO -- 12. Crisis communication strategies and execution -- 13. Pre-crisis intelligence: SEC risk factors -- 14. Sustainable business communication: financial, social, and civic -- 15. Continuing the trustworthy deal -- References -- Index. The quality of leadership in any organization--business, social, military, and government--is enhanced or limited by the quality of its leadership communication. The authors of this book, both of whom are experienced in the practice and study of enterprise communication, assert that leadership is given force by strategic communication that produces results required in competitive conditions. For the professional in enterprise communication, this brings into focus two questions: (1) What is the relevance of communication in the leadership process of reaching best achievable outcomes (BAOs)? and (2) How does the primary communication professional attain expert influence and success in a leadership position? This book provides insights and guidance on functioning at the highest levels of the corporate communications profession. This function by an individual identified in many companies as the chief communication officer (CCO) has risen in importance in free-enterprise economies, coincident with the evolution of social media, journalism, data analytics, government engagement, change management, and other factors shaping enterprise strategies and success. The book examines the enterprise CCO at three levels: the communicator rising toward, or newly positioned in responsibility for, enterprise communication; the CCO as a collaborator in leadership with others (chief executive and chief financial officer are examples of those with whom leadership communication is structured and driven); and the developed, influential communication chief dealing with missions, strategies, and the execution of enterprise vision. A detailed guidance is given on information flow that takes advantage of stakeholder perception management and the productive, enabled employee culture. Crisis communication in modern contexts is explained, with emphasis on precrisis intelligence gathering through social conversation analysis, and procedures for crisis communication management are drawn from cases provided by CCOs in author interviews and lectures in the authors' graduate classes at Georgetown University.
Date Published:2014

Part of: 2014 digital library. Part I. The new model CCO: grasping the opportunity -- 1. What's in it for you? -- 2. Leadership is communication -- 3. Leadership traits -- 4. How communicators lead in the C-suite -- 5. Influence: replacing and reasserting "control" -- Part II. The influential CCO: skills and competence -- 6. Listening: where communication begins -- 7. Culture: understanding and influencing -- 8. CEO letter: leadership's cardinal communication -- 9. Language and presentation -- 10. Limits: corporate governance -- Part III. The working CCO: leadership in context -- 11. Crisis basics: "Topic A bad news" and the CCO -- 12. Crisis communication strategies and execution -- 13. Pre-crisis intelligence: SEC risk factors -- 14. Sustainable business communication: financial, social, and civic -- 15. Continuing the trustworthy deal -- References -- Index. The quality of leadership in any organization--business, social, military, and government--is enhanced or limited by the quality of its leadership communication. The authors of this book, both of whom are experienced in the practice and study of enterprise communication, assert that leadership is given force by strategic communication that produces results required in competitive conditions. For the professional in enterprise communication, this brings into focus two questions: (1) What is the relevance of communication in the leadership process of reaching best achievable outcomes (BAOs)? and (2) How does the primary communication professional attain expert influence and success in a leadership position? This book provides insights and guidance on functioning at the highest levels of the corporate communications profession. This function by an individual identified in many companies as the chief communication officer (CCO) has risen in importance in free-enterprise economies, coincident with the evolution of social media, journalism, data analytics, government engagement, change management, and other factors shaping enterprise strategies and success. The book examines the enterprise CCO at three levels: the communicator rising toward, or newly positioned in responsibility for, enterprise communication; the CCO as a collaborator in leadership with others (chief executive and chief financial officer are examples of those with whom leadership communication is structured and driven); and the developed, influential communication chief dealing with missions, strategies, and the execution of enterprise vision. A detailed guidance is given on information flow that takes advantage of stakeholder perception management and the productive, enabled employee culture. Crisis communication in modern contexts is explained, with emphasis on precrisis intelligence gathering through social conversation analysis, and procedures for crisis communication management are drawn from cases provided by CCOs in author interviews and lectures in the authors' graduate classes at Georgetown University.

Date Published:2014

Automobile Wheel Alignment and Wheel Balancing

R, Mananathan.


Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword by Gurmeet Singh -- Foreword by R. Sivanesan -- Foreword by S. Punnaivanam -- CHAPTER 1 Wheel Alignment and Wheel Balancing -- Overview -- Vehicles and Wheels -- Causes of Tire Wear -- Wheel Alignment and Wheel Balancing -- CHAPTER 2 Wheel Balancing -- What Is Wheel Balancing? -- Reasons for Unbalance in Wheels -- Single Plane Balancing -- Two Plane Balancing -- Wheel Balancing Machine-Description -- Wheel Balancing Machine-Installation -- Wheel Balancing-Procedure -- Wheel Balancing-HCVs -- Wheel Balancing-Two Wheelers -- Wheel Balancing-Important Points -- CHAPTER 3 Wheel Alignment of Light Vehicles -- Light Vehicles-Definition -- Wheel Alignment Angles and Parameters -- Parameters affecting Wheel Alignment -- Wheel Alignment angles measuring technology and Its advancement -- Charge Coupled Device (CCD) Technology -- 3D Technology -- 3D Wheel Alignment Computer and Its Accessories -- 3D Wheel Aligner-Installation -- 3D Wheel Aligner-Calibration -- 3D Wheel Alignment Procedure -- CHAPTER 4 Wheel Alignment Correction Methods -- Wheel Alignment-Types of Axles -- Wheel Alignment-Correction Methods -- Cam Type Adjustment for Toe -- CHAPTER 5 Wheel Alignment of Heavy Vehicles and Trailers -- Heavy Commercial Vehicles-An Overview -- Axle Configurations in HCVs -- Types of Axles in HCVs -- Wheel Alignment Parameters in HCVs -- HCV Aligner Description -- Infrastructure Required for HCV Alignment -- HCV Aligner-Field Calibration -- HCV Alignment-Procedure -- HCV Angle Corrections -- Chassis or Frame Alignment -- Trailer Alignment -- CHAPTER 6 Wheel Alignment-Points to Observe -- Wheel Alignment-Precautions -- Wheel Alignment-Troubleshooting -- When to Carry Out Wheel Alignment -- CHAPTER 7 Types of Tire Wears and the Causes -- Tire Wear in the Middle of the Tire. Tire Wear in the Inner and Outer Edges -- Tapered Wear at the Outer Edge -- Tapered Wear at the Inner Edge -- Feathered Wear in the Inner Edge of the Tire -- Feathered Wear on the Outer Edge of the Tire -- Tapered Intermittent Wear on the Inner Side of the Tire -- Patch Type of Wear on the Tire Surface -- CHAPTER 8 Tire Safety -- Tire Pressure -- Tire Rotation -- Driver's Ability -- CHAPTER 9 Conclusion -- About the Author -- Index -- BackCover.
Date Published:2021

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword by Gurmeet Singh -- Foreword by R. Sivanesan -- Foreword by S. Punnaivanam -- CHAPTER 1 Wheel Alignment and Wheel Balancing -- Overview -- Vehicles and Wheels -- Causes of Tire Wear -- Wheel Alignment and Wheel Balancing -- CHAPTER 2 Wheel Balancing -- What Is Wheel Balancing? -- Reasons for Unbalance in Wheels -- Single Plane Balancing -- Two Plane Balancing -- Wheel Balancing Machine-Description -- Wheel Balancing Machine-Installation -- Wheel Balancing-Procedure -- Wheel Balancing-HCVs -- Wheel Balancing-Two Wheelers -- Wheel Balancing-Important Points -- CHAPTER 3 Wheel Alignment of Light Vehicles -- Light Vehicles-Definition -- Wheel Alignment Angles and Parameters -- Parameters affecting Wheel Alignment -- Wheel Alignment angles measuring technology and Its advancement -- Charge Coupled Device (CCD) Technology -- 3D Technology -- 3D Wheel Alignment Computer and Its Accessories -- 3D Wheel Aligner-Installation -- 3D Wheel Aligner-Calibration -- 3D Wheel Alignment Procedure -- CHAPTER 4 Wheel Alignment Correction Methods -- Wheel Alignment-Types of Axles -- Wheel Alignment-Correction Methods -- Cam Type Adjustment for Toe -- CHAPTER 5 Wheel Alignment of Heavy Vehicles and Trailers -- Heavy Commercial Vehicles-An Overview -- Axle Configurations in HCVs -- Types of Axles in HCVs -- Wheel Alignment Parameters in HCVs -- HCV Aligner Description -- Infrastructure Required for HCV Alignment -- HCV Aligner-Field Calibration -- HCV Alignment-Procedure -- HCV Angle Corrections -- Chassis or Frame Alignment -- Trailer Alignment -- CHAPTER 6 Wheel Alignment-Points to Observe -- Wheel Alignment-Precautions -- Wheel Alignment-Troubleshooting -- When to Carry Out Wheel Alignment -- CHAPTER 7 Types of Tire Wears and the Causes -- Tire Wear in the Middle of the Tire. Tire Wear in the Inner and Outer Edges -- Tapered Wear at the Outer Edge -- Tapered Wear at the Inner Edge -- Feathered Wear in the Inner Edge of the Tire -- Feathered Wear on the Outer Edge of the Tire -- Tapered Intermittent Wear on the Inner Side of the Tire -- Patch Type of Wear on the Tire Surface -- CHAPTER 8 Tire Safety -- Tire Pressure -- Tire Rotation -- Driver's Ability -- CHAPTER 9 Conclusion -- About the Author -- Index -- BackCover.

Date Published:2021

The Foundations of Flourishing and Our Responsibility to Infants : An Ethical and Evidence-Based Case to Challenge the Societal Acceptance of Childcare.

Joiner, Gillian.


Intro -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Evidence -- Attachment Theory -- Neuroscientific Evidence -- Chapter 2 Childcare, and Mothers and Fathers -- Childcare -- Mothers and Fathers -- Chapter 3 Obligations to Children and Ourselves -- Obligations to Children -- Autonomy -- Chapter 4 Love -- What Love Confers -- Duty to Love -- The Components of Love -- Expansiveness of Love -- Chapter 5 Flourishing -- Flourishing -- Attributes of Flourishers -- Chapter 6 Liberalism -- The Liberal State and its Role Regarding Children -- Public and Private Spheres -- Nozick's Liberalism -- Kant -- Mill -- Capitalism -- Chapter 7 Feminism and Motherhood -- Feminism -- Difference Feminism -- Motherhood -- Background -- Motherhood Today -- Chapter 8 An Ethics of Social, Emotional, and Moral Wellbeing -- Ethics of Care -- Slote's Ethics of Care and Empathy -- Gilligan's Reframing of the Ethics of Care -- An Alternative Autonomy -- The Ethics of Social, Emotional, and Moral Wellbeing -- Families -- Chapter 9 Policy Issues -- The State -- Practical Problems -- Career -- Remuneration -- Superannuation -- Education -- Lack of Status and Respect -- Developing Solutions Through Policy -- Career -- Remuneration -- Family -- Value of Motherhood -- Superannuation -- Education -- Supporting Families -- Communities -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. Neuroscientific evidence reveals that childcare centres are high stress environments which can disrupt the brain's emotional developmental circuitry during critical phases, impacting a child's later ability to flourish. At the same time evidence also reveals that some parenting practices are sub-optimal. Exploring what it is infants really need to grow emotionally well, represents a largely unexplored issue. If the state wants to be populated by flourishing individuals, then this topic must be addressed. Using an ethical framework to tease out the wide ranging, complex, and sometimes controversial issues that this dilemma presents, The Foundations of Flourishing and Our Responsibility to Infants follows a cross-disciplinary journey. The author pieces together pertinent issues in a synthesised critique of political, feminist, and moral philosophy, as well as psychological and neuroscientific findings, and offers some possible solutions. It will be of interest to researchers and teachers in areas including philosophy, psychology, education, social care, as well as educators and policy-makers in early childhood development.
Date Published:2022

Intro -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Evidence -- Attachment Theory -- Neuroscientific Evidence -- Chapter 2 Childcare, and Mothers and Fathers -- Childcare -- Mothers and Fathers -- Chapter 3 Obligations to Children and Ourselves -- Obligations to Children -- Autonomy -- Chapter 4 Love -- What Love Confers -- Duty to Love -- The Components of Love -- Expansiveness of Love -- Chapter 5 Flourishing -- Flourishing -- Attributes of Flourishers -- Chapter 6 Liberalism -- The Liberal State and its Role Regarding Children -- Public and Private Spheres -- Nozick's Liberalism -- Kant -- Mill -- Capitalism -- Chapter 7 Feminism and Motherhood -- Feminism -- Difference Feminism -- Motherhood -- Background -- Motherhood Today -- Chapter 8 An Ethics of Social, Emotional, and Moral Wellbeing -- Ethics of Care -- Slote's Ethics of Care and Empathy -- Gilligan's Reframing of the Ethics of Care -- An Alternative Autonomy -- The Ethics of Social, Emotional, and Moral Wellbeing -- Families -- Chapter 9 Policy Issues -- The State -- Practical Problems -- Career -- Remuneration -- Superannuation -- Education -- Lack of Status and Respect -- Developing Solutions Through Policy -- Career -- Remuneration -- Family -- Value of Motherhood -- Superannuation -- Education -- Supporting Families -- Communities -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. Neuroscientific evidence reveals that childcare centres are high stress environments which can disrupt the brain's emotional developmental circuitry during critical phases, impacting a child's later ability to flourish. At the same time evidence also reveals that some parenting practices are sub-optimal. Exploring what it is infants really need to grow emotionally well, represents a largely unexplored issue. If the state wants to be populated by flourishing individuals, then this topic must be addressed. Using an ethical framework to tease out the wide ranging, complex, and sometimes controversial issues that this dilemma presents, The Foundations of Flourishing and Our Responsibility to Infants follows a cross-disciplinary journey. The author pieces together pertinent issues in a synthesised critique of political, feminist, and moral philosophy, as well as psychological and neuroscientific findings, and offers some possible solutions. It will be of interest to researchers and teachers in areas including philosophy, psychology, education, social care, as well as educators and policy-makers in early childhood development.

Date Published:2022

Equipment Qualification for Nuclear Installations

IAEA.


Intro -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- Background (1.1-1.4) -- Objective (1.5, 1.6) -- Scope (1.7-1.14) -- Structure (1.15, 1.16) -- 2. CONCEPTS AND PROCESS OF EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION -- Basic concept of equipment qualification (2.1-2.12) -- Overview of the equipment qualification process (2.13) -- Qualified life (2.14-2.17) -- Qualification methods (2.18) -- Preservation of equipment qualification (2.19, 2.20) -- Management system (2.21-2.25) -- Documentation (2.26-2.33) -- Training for equipment qualification (2.34-2.36) -- 3. DESIGN INPUTS FOR EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION -- General (3.1) -- Identification of equipment performance requirements (3.2-3.5) -- Identification of service conditions (3.6-3.30) -- Preliminary suitability assessment (3.31-3.34) -- 4. ESTABLISHING EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION (4.1, 4.2) -- Qualification by type testing (4.3-4.44) -- Qualification by analysis (4.45-4.49) -- Qualification by operating experience (4.50-4.53) -- Combined methods (4.54-4.56) -- Assessment of equipment capability for design extension conditions with core melting (4.57-4.62) -- 5. PRESERVATION OF EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION -- General (5.1-5.12) -- Ageing effects and qualified life (5.13-5.17) -- Monitoring of environmental conditions (5.18-5.21) -- Monitoring the condition of qualified equipment (5.22-5.27) -- Periodic surveillance of qualified equipment (5.28, 5.29) -- Maintenance relating to qualified equipment (5.30-5.32) -- Protective barriers for qualified equipment (5.33, 5.34) -- Procurement and storage of qualified equipment (5.35-5.42) -- Reassessment of the qualified life of equipment (5.43-5.48) -- 6. EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION programme (6.1-6.5) -- 7. INTEGRATION OF EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION INTO SAFETY PROGRAMMES AND PROCESSES -- Interfaces between the equipment qualification programme and other programmes (7.1). Safety analysis report (7.2) -- Modifications to nuclear installations (7.3-7.6) -- REFERENCES -- Annex INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS RELATING TO EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION -- DEFINITIONS -- CONTRIBUTORS TO DRAFTING AND REVIEW.
Date Published:2021

Intro -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- Background (1.1-1.4) -- Objective (1.5, 1.6) -- Scope (1.7-1.14) -- Structure (1.15, 1.16) -- 2. CONCEPTS AND PROCESS OF EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION -- Basic concept of equipment qualification (2.1-2.12) -- Overview of the equipment qualification process (2.13) -- Qualified life (2.14-2.17) -- Qualification methods (2.18) -- Preservation of equipment qualification (2.19, 2.20) -- Management system (2.21-2.25) -- Documentation (2.26-2.33) -- Training for equipment qualification (2.34-2.36) -- 3. DESIGN INPUTS FOR EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION -- General (3.1) -- Identification of equipment performance requirements (3.2-3.5) -- Identification of service conditions (3.6-3.30) -- Preliminary suitability assessment (3.31-3.34) -- 4. ESTABLISHING EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION (4.1, 4.2) -- Qualification by type testing (4.3-4.44) -- Qualification by analysis (4.45-4.49) -- Qualification by operating experience (4.50-4.53) -- Combined methods (4.54-4.56) -- Assessment of equipment capability for design extension conditions with core melting (4.57-4.62) -- 5. PRESERVATION OF EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION -- General (5.1-5.12) -- Ageing effects and qualified life (5.13-5.17) -- Monitoring of environmental conditions (5.18-5.21) -- Monitoring the condition of qualified equipment (5.22-5.27) -- Periodic surveillance of qualified equipment (5.28, 5.29) -- Maintenance relating to qualified equipment (5.30-5.32) -- Protective barriers for qualified equipment (5.33, 5.34) -- Procurement and storage of qualified equipment (5.35-5.42) -- Reassessment of the qualified life of equipment (5.43-5.48) -- 6. EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION programme (6.1-6.5) -- 7. INTEGRATION OF EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION INTO SAFETY PROGRAMMES AND PROCESSES -- Interfaces between the equipment qualification programme and other programmes (7.1). Safety analysis report (7.2) -- Modifications to nuclear installations (7.3-7.6) -- REFERENCES -- Annex INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS RELATING TO EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION -- DEFINITIONS -- CONTRIBUTORS TO DRAFTING AND REVIEW.

Date Published:2021

Endovascular Management of Ischemic Stroke : A Case-Based Approach.

Mendes Pereira, Vitor.


Endovascular Management of Ischemic Stroke: A Case-Based Approach -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- I Evolution of Endovascular Management -- 1 Intra-arterial Tissue Plasminogen Activator: The First Step -- 2 Transcatheter MERCI Clot Retrieval: The Early Generation -- 3 Penumbra Clot Aspiration Technique: The Dark Days -- 4 Trevo Stent-Retriever Thrombectomy: Light on the Horizon -- 5 Solitaire Stent-Retriever Thrombectomy: Building the Evidence -- II Case Selection -- 6 Timing in Stroke and the Tissue Clock -- 7 Role of Leptomeningeal Collaterals -- 8 Importance of Clot Burden and Clot Location -- 9 ASPECTS: When Not to Treat -- 10 Microbleeds Are Not a Contraindication to Thrombolysis in Acute Stroke -- 11 Stroke Etiologies: Hemodynamic, Embolic, and Perforator Stroke -- 12 Endovascular Therapy in a Patient with a Proximal MCA Occlusion and No Neurological Deficits -- 13 MRI in Stroke (Core Size, Mismatch, and New Advances) -- III Fundamentals and Standard Approaches -- 14 The Classical Setup: Carotid-T with Balloon -- 15 M1 Anatomy and Role of Perforators in Outcome -- 16 Basilar Artery Occlusion -- 17 ADAPT Technique for Acute Ischemic Stroke Thrombectomy -- 18 General Anesthesia in Thrombectomy -- 19 Conscious Sedation in Thrombectomy -- 20 Endovascular Therapy for Patients with an Isolated M2 Occlusion -- IV Advanced Techniques -- 21 Percutaneous Radial Arterial Access for Thrombectomy -- 22 Percutaneous Transcarotid Endovascular Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke -- 23 Distal Access Catheter Technique without Balloon Assistance -- V Complex Cases -- 24 Tandem Lesions -- 25 Pseudo-occlusion -- 26 Underlying Intracranial Stenosis -- 27 Intracranial Dissection -- 28 Hyperacute Extracranial Angioplasty and Stenting: When and How. 29 Failed Mechanical Thrombectomy: What to Do Next -- 30 Rescue Permanent Stenting -- 31 Acute Dissection with Hemodynamic Infarctions -- 32 The SAVE Technique -- 33 Aspiration-Retriever Technique for Stroke (ARTS) -- VI Complications -- 34 Clot Migration with Emboli to Distal Territories -- 35 Endothelial Damage -- 36 Management of Vessel Perforation during Stroke Intervention -- 37 Arterial Access Complications -- 38 Intraprocedural Vasospasm during Thrombectomy -- 39 Hemorrhagic Transformation after Endovascular Stroke Therapy -- 40 Endovascular Treatment of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis -- 41 Endovascular Thrombectomy for Pediatric AcuteIschemic Stroke -- VII Stroke Mimics and Rare Causes -- 42 Hemiplegic Migraine -- 43 Intra-arterial Contrast Injection during Computed Tomography Angiography -- 44 Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-Like Episodes (MELAS) -- 45 Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome -- 46 Acute Ischemic Stroke Secondary to Cardiac Myxoma Embolus -- 47 Seizure -- 48 Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy -- 49 Contrast Staining Masquerading as Hemorrhage -- 50 HaNDL -- 51 Appendix: Essential Terms, Trials, and Tools -- Index.
Date Published:2021

Endovascular Management of Ischemic Stroke: A Case-Based Approach -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- I Evolution of Endovascular Management -- 1 Intra-arterial Tissue Plasminogen Activator: The First Step -- 2 Transcatheter MERCI Clot Retrieval: The Early Generation -- 3 Penumbra Clot Aspiration Technique: The Dark Days -- 4 Trevo Stent-Retriever Thrombectomy: Light on the Horizon -- 5 Solitaire Stent-Retriever Thrombectomy: Building the Evidence -- II Case Selection -- 6 Timing in Stroke and the Tissue Clock -- 7 Role of Leptomeningeal Collaterals -- 8 Importance of Clot Burden and Clot Location -- 9 ASPECTS: When Not to Treat -- 10 Microbleeds Are Not a Contraindication to Thrombolysis in Acute Stroke -- 11 Stroke Etiologies: Hemodynamic, Embolic, and Perforator Stroke -- 12 Endovascular Therapy in a Patient with a Proximal MCA Occlusion and No Neurological Deficits -- 13 MRI in Stroke (Core Size, Mismatch, and New Advances) -- III Fundamentals and Standard Approaches -- 14 The Classical Setup: Carotid-T with Balloon -- 15 M1 Anatomy and Role of Perforators in Outcome -- 16 Basilar Artery Occlusion -- 17 ADAPT Technique for Acute Ischemic Stroke Thrombectomy -- 18 General Anesthesia in Thrombectomy -- 19 Conscious Sedation in Thrombectomy -- 20 Endovascular Therapy for Patients with an Isolated M2 Occlusion -- IV Advanced Techniques -- 21 Percutaneous Radial Arterial Access for Thrombectomy -- 22 Percutaneous Transcarotid Endovascular Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke -- 23 Distal Access Catheter Technique without Balloon Assistance -- V Complex Cases -- 24 Tandem Lesions -- 25 Pseudo-occlusion -- 26 Underlying Intracranial Stenosis -- 27 Intracranial Dissection -- 28 Hyperacute Extracranial Angioplasty and Stenting: When and How. 29 Failed Mechanical Thrombectomy: What to Do Next -- 30 Rescue Permanent Stenting -- 31 Acute Dissection with Hemodynamic Infarctions -- 32 The SAVE Technique -- 33 Aspiration-Retriever Technique for Stroke (ARTS) -- VI Complications -- 34 Clot Migration with Emboli to Distal Territories -- 35 Endothelial Damage -- 36 Management of Vessel Perforation during Stroke Intervention -- 37 Arterial Access Complications -- 38 Intraprocedural Vasospasm during Thrombectomy -- 39 Hemorrhagic Transformation after Endovascular Stroke Therapy -- 40 Endovascular Treatment of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis -- 41 Endovascular Thrombectomy for Pediatric AcuteIschemic Stroke -- VII Stroke Mimics and Rare Causes -- 42 Hemiplegic Migraine -- 43 Intra-arterial Contrast Injection during Computed Tomography Angiography -- 44 Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-Like Episodes (MELAS) -- 45 Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome -- 46 Acute Ischemic Stroke Secondary to Cardiac Myxoma Embolus -- 47 Seizure -- 48 Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy -- 49 Contrast Staining Masquerading as Hemorrhage -- 50 HaNDL -- 51 Appendix: Essential Terms, Trials, and Tools -- Index.

Date Published:2021

Heat stress tolerance in plants : physiological, molecular and genetic perspectives


Heat Tolerance in Cotton: Morphological, Physiological and Genetic Perspectives -- Seed Priming as a Method to Generate Heat Stress Tolerance in Plants: A Minireview -- Stress-Associated Proteins-How Much Effective in Augmenting Thermotolerance -- Biochemical and Molecular Markers - Unraveling Their Potential Role in Screening Germplasm for Thermotolerance -- Alteration in Carbohydrate Metabolism Modulate Thermotolerance of Plant under Heat Stress -- Transcriptomics to Dissect Plant Responses to Heat Stress -- Proteomics as a Tool for Characterizing the Alteration in Pathways Associated with Defense and Metabolite Synthesis -- RNA World and Heat Stress Tolerance in Plants -- Heat Shock Proteins: Master Players for Heat Stress Tolerance in Plants During Climate Change -- The contribution of phytohormones in plant thermotolerance -- Exploring in-Built Defence Mechanism in Plants Under Heat Stress.
Date Published:2020

Heat Tolerance in Cotton: Morphological, Physiological and Genetic Perspectives -- Seed Priming as a Method to Generate Heat Stress Tolerance in Plants: A Minireview -- Stress-Associated Proteins-How Much Effective in Augmenting Thermotolerance -- Biochemical and Molecular Markers - Unraveling Their Potential Role in Screening Germplasm for Thermotolerance -- Alteration in Carbohydrate Metabolism Modulate Thermotolerance of Plant under Heat Stress -- Transcriptomics to Dissect Plant Responses to Heat Stress -- Proteomics as a Tool for Characterizing the Alteration in Pathways Associated with Defense and Metabolite Synthesis -- RNA World and Heat Stress Tolerance in Plants -- Heat Shock Proteins: Master Players for Heat Stress Tolerance in Plants During Climate Change -- The contribution of phytohormones in plant thermotolerance -- Exploring in-Built Defence Mechanism in Plants Under Heat Stress.

Date Published:2020

Leak detection : technology and implementation

Hamilton, Stuart, (Writer on water),


Ageing infrastructure and declining water resources are major concerns with a growing global population. Controlling water loss has therefore become a priority for water utilities around the world. In order to improve efficiencies, water utilities need to apply good practices in leak detection. Leak Detection: Technology and Implementation assists water utilities with the development and implementation of leak detection programs. Leak detection and repair is one of the components of controlling water loss. In addition, techniques are discussed within this book and relevant case studies are presented. This book provides useful and practical information on leakage issues.
Date Published:2020

Ageing infrastructure and declining water resources are major concerns with a growing global population. Controlling water loss has therefore become a priority for water utilities around the world. In order to improve efficiencies, water utilities need to apply good practices in leak detection. Leak Detection: Technology and Implementation assists water utilities with the development and implementation of leak detection programs. Leak detection and repair is one of the components of controlling water loss. In addition, techniques are discussed within this book and relevant case studies are presented. This book provides useful and practical information on leakage issues.

Date Published:2020

Metaphorical Landscapes and the Theology of the Book of Job : An Analysis of Job's Spatial Metaphors.

de Joode, Johan.


Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Spatial Metaphors in the Prologue -- 1.2 Hypothesis and Background -- 1.3 Structure -- Chapter 2 Conceptual Metaphor Theory: A Pragmatic Synthesis -- 2.1 Metaphor: An Introduction -- 2.1.1 Source and Target Domain -- 2.1.2 Mapping -- 2.1.3 Unidirectionality -- 2.1.4 Conceptual Metaphor -- 2.2 What is One 'Thing' and What is 'Another'? -- 2.2.1 Categorization -- 2.2.2 Framing -- 2.2.3 Embodied Cognition -- 2.2.4 Gestalt Theory -- 2.3 What is 'Understanding' One Thing in Terms of Another? -- 2.4 The Competitive Edge of Metaphors We Live By -- 2.5 Critiques of Metaphors We Live By -- 2.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Spatial Metaphor in Language and Cognition -- 3.1 Definition -- 3.2 Spatial Semantics -- 3.2.1 Location and Motion -- 3.2.2 Spatial Configurations -- 3.3 Spatial Metaphors -- 3.3.1 Structural, Ontological, and Orientational Metaphors -- 3.3.2 Image Schemata -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 3.5 Application -- Chapter 4 Boundaries and Containment -- 4.1 The Body is a Container -- 4.2 The Boundaries of the Body -- 4.3 The Boundaries around the Body -- 4.4 Boundaries in the Prologue -- 4.4.1 Protective Boundaries -- 4.4.2 Wholeness -- 4.5 The Rationale behind These Metaphors -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Place and Placelessness -- 5.1 Retribution is the Attribution of a Place -- 5.1.1 The Place of Those Who Do Not Know God -- 5.1.2 Agency -- 5.1.3 Job's Place -- 5.2 Rootedness and Rootlessness -- 5.2.1 Places and Rootedness -- 5.2.2 Rootlessness and the Fate of the Wicked -- 5.3 Metaphorical Objects and their Place -- 5.3.1 Holding on to One's Integrity -- 5.3.2 Possessions and Collocation -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Direction and Distance -- 6.1 Ethics is a Journey -- 6.2 Ethics is Distance -- 6.2.1 Collocation with Evil -- 6.2.2 Contact with Evil. 6.2.3 A Taste of Evil -- 6.3 Ill-being is a Moving Object -- 6.3.1 Ill-being Approaches the Individual -- 6.3.2 Ill-being Touches the Individual -- 6.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Job's Post-Traumatic Spatial Metaphors as Theological Challenges -- 7.1 Spatial Metaphors in the Prologue and Dialogue -- 7.2 Job's Lack of Control and God's Agency -- 7.3 Spatial Causality as a Challenge to Retribution Theology -- 7.3.1 Two Models for Retribution -- 7.3.2 The Theological Challenge -- 7.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Spatial Configurations in the Divine Speech -- 8.1 Interpreting the Divine Speech -- 8.1.1 Implicit Responses -- 8.1.2 Explicit Responses -- 8.1.3 The Dilemma of the Prologue -- 8.2 An Alternative Geography -- 8.2.1 Creative and Protective Containment -- 8.2.2 Impenetrable Boundaries -- 8.2.3 Wisdom and Navigation -- 8.2.4 A Vertical Hierarchy -- 8.3 A Different Landscape -- 8.3.1 Literal Spatial Language -- 8.3.2 A New Frame of Reference -- 8.3.3 Allusions to Job's Metaphorical Landscapes -- 8.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Biblical Citations. In Metaphorical Landscapes and the Theology of the Book of Job Johan de Joode demonstrates how crucial spatial metaphors are for the theology of the book of Job.
Date Published:2018

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Spatial Metaphors in the Prologue -- 1.2 Hypothesis and Background -- 1.3 Structure -- Chapter 2 Conceptual Metaphor Theory: A Pragmatic Synthesis -- 2.1 Metaphor: An Introduction -- 2.1.1 Source and Target Domain -- 2.1.2 Mapping -- 2.1.3 Unidirectionality -- 2.1.4 Conceptual Metaphor -- 2.2 What is One 'Thing' and What is 'Another'? -- 2.2.1 Categorization -- 2.2.2 Framing -- 2.2.3 Embodied Cognition -- 2.2.4 Gestalt Theory -- 2.3 What is 'Understanding' One Thing in Terms of Another? -- 2.4 The Competitive Edge of Metaphors We Live By -- 2.5 Critiques of Metaphors We Live By -- 2.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Spatial Metaphor in Language and Cognition -- 3.1 Definition -- 3.2 Spatial Semantics -- 3.2.1 Location and Motion -- 3.2.2 Spatial Configurations -- 3.3 Spatial Metaphors -- 3.3.1 Structural, Ontological, and Orientational Metaphors -- 3.3.2 Image Schemata -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 3.5 Application -- Chapter 4 Boundaries and Containment -- 4.1 The Body is a Container -- 4.2 The Boundaries of the Body -- 4.3 The Boundaries around the Body -- 4.4 Boundaries in the Prologue -- 4.4.1 Protective Boundaries -- 4.4.2 Wholeness -- 4.5 The Rationale behind These Metaphors -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Place and Placelessness -- 5.1 Retribution is the Attribution of a Place -- 5.1.1 The Place of Those Who Do Not Know God -- 5.1.2 Agency -- 5.1.3 Job's Place -- 5.2 Rootedness and Rootlessness -- 5.2.1 Places and Rootedness -- 5.2.2 Rootlessness and the Fate of the Wicked -- 5.3 Metaphorical Objects and their Place -- 5.3.1 Holding on to One's Integrity -- 5.3.2 Possessions and Collocation -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Direction and Distance -- 6.1 Ethics is a Journey -- 6.2 Ethics is Distance -- 6.2.1 Collocation with Evil -- 6.2.2 Contact with Evil. 6.2.3 A Taste of Evil -- 6.3 Ill-being is a Moving Object -- 6.3.1 Ill-being Approaches the Individual -- 6.3.2 Ill-being Touches the Individual -- 6.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Job's Post-Traumatic Spatial Metaphors as Theological Challenges -- 7.1 Spatial Metaphors in the Prologue and Dialogue -- 7.2 Job's Lack of Control and God's Agency -- 7.3 Spatial Causality as a Challenge to Retribution Theology -- 7.3.1 Two Models for Retribution -- 7.3.2 The Theological Challenge -- 7.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Spatial Configurations in the Divine Speech -- 8.1 Interpreting the Divine Speech -- 8.1.1 Implicit Responses -- 8.1.2 Explicit Responses -- 8.1.3 The Dilemma of the Prologue -- 8.2 An Alternative Geography -- 8.2.1 Creative and Protective Containment -- 8.2.2 Impenetrable Boundaries -- 8.2.3 Wisdom and Navigation -- 8.2.4 A Vertical Hierarchy -- 8.3 A Different Landscape -- 8.3.1 Literal Spatial Language -- 8.3.2 A New Frame of Reference -- 8.3.3 Allusions to Job's Metaphorical Landscapes -- 8.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Biblical Citations. In Metaphorical Landscapes and the Theology of the Book of Job Johan de Joode demonstrates how crucial spatial metaphors are for the theology of the book of Job.

Date Published:2018

Inside the World of a Football Agent

Tedeschi, Gennaro Giulio.


Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Description -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: From the "FIFA regulation on working with intermediaries" to the New FIFA Agents Regulation Reform of 2021 -- Chapter 2: Comparative Examination of the Figure of the Football Agent in the European "Big Five Sisters" and Its Historical Excursus -- Chapter 3: The Peculiar Regulation of the Football Agents in the USA -- Chapter 4: How to Become a Football Agent: Practical Examples -- Chapter 5: Manage Relationships with the Players' Families, Medias, and Colleagues -- About the Author -- Index -- Adpage -- Backcover. Inside the World of a Football Agent provides a series of practical cases, experienced first-hand by the author, that will help the readers to immerse themselves in the reality of a football agent that interacts with presidents, CEO, sports directors, supporters, footballers, and their families. The audience for the book is represented by all the current or aspiring professionals involved in the football industry: from football agents who want to keep up to date with the latest legislation, to aspiring agents, sports directors or media, who want to understand what is often behind a yes or no in a complicated transfer negotiation.
Date Published:2021

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Description -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: From the "FIFA regulation on working with intermediaries" to the New FIFA Agents Regulation Reform of 2021 -- Chapter 2: Comparative Examination of the Figure of the Football Agent in the European "Big Five Sisters" and Its Historical Excursus -- Chapter 3: The Peculiar Regulation of the Football Agents in the USA -- Chapter 4: How to Become a Football Agent: Practical Examples -- Chapter 5: Manage Relationships with the Players' Families, Medias, and Colleagues -- About the Author -- Index -- Adpage -- Backcover. Inside the World of a Football Agent provides a series of practical cases, experienced first-hand by the author, that will help the readers to immerse themselves in the reality of a football agent that interacts with presidents, CEO, sports directors, supporters, footballers, and their families. The audience for the book is represented by all the current or aspiring professionals involved in the football industry: from football agents who want to keep up to date with the latest legislation, to aspiring agents, sports directors or media, who want to understand what is often behind a yes or no in a complicated transfer negotiation.

Date Published:2021

Direct Selling : A Global and Social Business Model.

Cochran, Sara L.


Cover -- Halftitle -- Title -- Copyright -- Description -- Contents -- Testimonials -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Entrepreneurial Underpinnings of Direct Selling -- Chapter 2: Direct Selling-From Camels to Cyberspace -- Chapter 3: Direct Selling Distributor Compensation Plans -- Chapter 4: Ethics and Compliance in Direct Selling -- Chapter 5: Direct Selling in the Global Marketplace -- Chapter 6: On the Benefits of Direct Selling -- Chapter 7: Opportunities and Challenges in Direct Selling -- About the Authors -- Index -- Adpage -- Backcover. Direct Selling: A Global and Social Business Model is a collective project from eight academics and practitioners who have dedicated much of their careers to understanding direct selling as both a go-to-market strategy and a channel of distribution and to capturing the people who are the foundation of direct selling. The pages of this book bring together a wealth of research and knowledge that can inform a broad spectrum of constituents about the economic and social benefits of direct selling, while also providing detail and clarity on key issues related to direct selling as a sustainable business model.
Date Published:2021

Cover -- Halftitle -- Title -- Copyright -- Description -- Contents -- Testimonials -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Entrepreneurial Underpinnings of Direct Selling -- Chapter 2: Direct Selling-From Camels to Cyberspace -- Chapter 3: Direct Selling Distributor Compensation Plans -- Chapter 4: Ethics and Compliance in Direct Selling -- Chapter 5: Direct Selling in the Global Marketplace -- Chapter 6: On the Benefits of Direct Selling -- Chapter 7: Opportunities and Challenges in Direct Selling -- About the Authors -- Index -- Adpage -- Backcover. Direct Selling: A Global and Social Business Model is a collective project from eight academics and practitioners who have dedicated much of their careers to understanding direct selling as both a go-to-market strategy and a channel of distribution and to capturing the people who are the foundation of direct selling. The pages of this book bring together a wealth of research and knowledge that can inform a broad spectrum of constituents about the economic and social benefits of direct selling, while also providing detail and clarity on key issues related to direct selling as a sustainable business model.

Date Published:2021

The Dispossessed : Life and Death in Native Canada.

York, Geoffrey


The Dispossessed is an examination of the modern day stirrings of rebellion in a people physically and culturally dislocated by North American settlers. Geoffrey York's acclaimed work spent 48 weeks on the Globe and Mail's best-sellers list as the country awoke to its astute observations and opinions. With a new chapter examining more recent events involving Canada's native population, The Dispossessed is still as relevant as ever. Renowned and respected Aboriginal Canadian Tomson Highway provides the foreword to this contemporary Canadian classic.
Date Published:2012

The Dispossessed is an examination of the modern day stirrings of rebellion in a people physically and culturally dislocated by North American settlers. Geoffrey York's acclaimed work spent 48 weeks on the Globe and Mail's best-sellers list as the country awoke to its astute observations and opinions. With a new chapter examining more recent events involving Canada's native population, The Dispossessed is still as relevant as ever. Renowned and respected Aboriginal Canadian Tomson Highway provides the foreword to this contemporary Canadian classic.

Date Published:2012

Energetic Kinesiology : Principles and Practice.

McGowan, Tania.


Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Section I Understanding kinesiology -- Chapter 1 Understanding kinesiology -- Chapter 2 The historical development of kinesiology -- Section II The energetic structures of Man -- Chapter 3 A historical perspective -- Chapter 4 The layers of the aura and our multidimensional body -- Chapter 5 The chakra-nadi system -- Chapter 6 The acupuncture meridian system -- Chapter 7 Tibetan figure 8 energies -- Section III Understanding and applying muscle monitoring -- Chapter 8 The physiology of muscle monitoring -- Chapter 9 Proprioception: the control of muscle function -- Chapter 10 States of muscle imbalance -- Chapter 11 Emotional control of muscular response -- Chapter 12 Does muscle monitoring work? -- Section IV Core kinesiology tools -- Chapter 13 Pause lock -- Chapter 14 Powers of stress -- Chapter 15 Hand modes -- Chapter 16 Specific indicator points -- Chapter 17 Acupressure formatting -- Chapter 18 Methods of gathering information -- Section V Client assessment -- Chapter 19 Working with clients -- Chapter 20 Taking a client history -- Chapter 21 Assessing the client -- Chapter 22 Conducting pre-checks -- Chapter 23 Setting the context -- Chapter 24 Assessing pain -- Section VI Set-up: information gathering -- Chapter 25 Using hand modes to gather information -- Chapter 26 Finding emotions -- Chapter 27 Age recession -- Chapter 28 Identifying ancillary factors involved -- Chapter 29 Accessing the amygdala and subconscious survival emotions -- Section VII Core correction techniques -- Chapter 30 Applying correction techniques -- Chapter 31 Neurolymphatic reflexes -- Chapter 32 Neurovascular reflexes -- Chapter 33 Muscle balancing -- Chapter 34 Reactivity -- Chapter 35 Centering -- Chapter 36 Emotional Stress Defusion -- Chapter 37 Essences -- Chapter 38 Acupressure. Chapter 39 Figure 8 energies -- Chapter 40 Holograms -- Chapter 41 Chakras -- Chapter 42 Sound -- Chapter 43 Light and color -- Section VIII Concluding sessions -- Chapter 44 Completing balances -- Chapter 45 Client support -- Section IX A model for energetic healing -- Chapter 46 The standard model of quantum mechanics -- Chapter 47 The science of metaphysics: a new model of physics -- Chapter 48 Chaos theory and balancing biological systems -- Recommended Reading -- Index. Energetic Kinesiology is an emerging field internationally in the Complementary Health Sciences, gaining more and more scientific support and recognition. This fully referenced textbook describes the field and explains the techniques upon which it is built.
Date Published:2013

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Section I Understanding kinesiology -- Chapter 1 Understanding kinesiology -- Chapter 2 The historical development of kinesiology -- Section II The energetic structures of Man -- Chapter 3 A historical perspective -- Chapter 4 The layers of the aura and our multidimensional body -- Chapter 5 The chakra-nadi system -- Chapter 6 The acupuncture meridian system -- Chapter 7 Tibetan figure 8 energies -- Section III Understanding and applying muscle monitoring -- Chapter 8 The physiology of muscle monitoring -- Chapter 9 Proprioception: the control of muscle function -- Chapter 10 States of muscle imbalance -- Chapter 11 Emotional control of muscular response -- Chapter 12 Does muscle monitoring work? -- Section IV Core kinesiology tools -- Chapter 13 Pause lock -- Chapter 14 Powers of stress -- Chapter 15 Hand modes -- Chapter 16 Specific indicator points -- Chapter 17 Acupressure formatting -- Chapter 18 Methods of gathering information -- Section V Client assessment -- Chapter 19 Working with clients -- Chapter 20 Taking a client history -- Chapter 21 Assessing the client -- Chapter 22 Conducting pre-checks -- Chapter 23 Setting the context -- Chapter 24 Assessing pain -- Section VI Set-up: information gathering -- Chapter 25 Using hand modes to gather information -- Chapter 26 Finding emotions -- Chapter 27 Age recession -- Chapter 28 Identifying ancillary factors involved -- Chapter 29 Accessing the amygdala and subconscious survival emotions -- Section VII Core correction techniques -- Chapter 30 Applying correction techniques -- Chapter 31 Neurolymphatic reflexes -- Chapter 32 Neurovascular reflexes -- Chapter 33 Muscle balancing -- Chapter 34 Reactivity -- Chapter 35 Centering -- Chapter 36 Emotional Stress Defusion -- Chapter 37 Essences -- Chapter 38 Acupressure. Chapter 39 Figure 8 energies -- Chapter 40 Holograms -- Chapter 41 Chakras -- Chapter 42 Sound -- Chapter 43 Light and color -- Section VIII Concluding sessions -- Chapter 44 Completing balances -- Chapter 45 Client support -- Section IX A model for energetic healing -- Chapter 46 The standard model of quantum mechanics -- Chapter 47 The science of metaphysics: a new model of physics -- Chapter 48 Chaos theory and balancing biological systems -- Recommended Reading -- Index. Energetic Kinesiology is an emerging field internationally in the Complementary Health Sciences, gaining more and more scientific support and recognition. This fully referenced textbook describes the field and explains the techniques upon which it is built.

Date Published:2013

Dispositions in Teacher Education : A Global Perspective.

Welch, Anita G.


This book is designed as a text for teacher education graduate programs, as well as a resource for school administrators and researchers and provides a global perspective to the current issues related to teacher dispositions, their place in teacher education programs, and impact on education reform around the world. Drawing from researchers around the globe, the text provides a comprehensive examination of the theoretical aspects of dispositions in education, including discussions on the social-cognitive perspectives in dispositional development and the pedagogical practices used in conjunction with teacher dispositions.
Date Published:2016

This book is designed as a text for teacher education graduate programs, as well as a resource for school administrators and researchers and provides a global perspective to the current issues related to teacher dispositions, their place in teacher education programs, and impact on education reform around the world. Drawing from researchers around the globe, the text provides a comprehensive examination of the theoretical aspects of dispositions in education, including discussions on the social-cognitive perspectives in dispositional development and the pedagogical practices used in conjunction with teacher dispositions.

Date Published:2016

Envisioning Our Environmental Future : Stockholm+50 and Beyond.

Desai, B. H.


Intro -- Title Page -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Contents -- Part I: Testing Times -- Depleting Time Itself: The Plight of Today's "Human" Environment -- A Look Ahead in International Environmental Politics -- The United Nations and the Environment: Some Personal Reflections -- Looking Through Indira Gandhi's Vision: Some Recollections -- Future of UNEP -- Part II: Global Ideas -- On the Concept of Global Common Interest: Some Reflections -- The Repurposed UN Trusteeship Council for the Future -- Moving beyond State-Centrism in International Environmental Law -- Convergence in International Environmental and Natural Resources Law -- Beyond Sustainability: Challenges for Environmental Law in the Era of Uncertainty -- Human Rights and Responsibilities Towards the Earth System -- Our Shared Future: Common Security 2022 and Beyond -- Envisioning the Future of the Third Pole: A Look Ahead -- Getting it Right: Advances of Human Rights and the Environment -- Part III: Sectoral Ideas -- From "Do Trees Have Rights?" to Wondering About Ecocide: Some Legal Reflections -- Factoring Climate Risks in the Wetlands Governance: A Policy Look Ahead -- A Question of Trust: A Reparative Legal Regime for Climate-induced Migration -- The Regulation of Planetary Health Challenges: A Co-Benefits Approach for AMR and WASH -- Envisioning Future of the Circular Economy: A Legal Perspective -- Legal Lamination to Transboundary Movement of Plastic Pollutants -- Greening Trade Law for Global Climate Governance? -- Environmental Terrorism: Not Yet a Crime in International Law -- Subject Index -- Author Index.
Date Published:2022

Intro -- Title Page -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Contents -- Part I: Testing Times -- Depleting Time Itself: The Plight of Today's "Human" Environment -- A Look Ahead in International Environmental Politics -- The United Nations and the Environment: Some Personal Reflections -- Looking Through Indira Gandhi's Vision: Some Recollections -- Future of UNEP -- Part II: Global Ideas -- On the Concept of Global Common Interest: Some Reflections -- The Repurposed UN Trusteeship Council for the Future -- Moving beyond State-Centrism in International Environmental Law -- Convergence in International Environmental and Natural Resources Law -- Beyond Sustainability: Challenges for Environmental Law in the Era of Uncertainty -- Human Rights and Responsibilities Towards the Earth System -- Our Shared Future: Common Security 2022 and Beyond -- Envisioning the Future of the Third Pole: A Look Ahead -- Getting it Right: Advances of Human Rights and the Environment -- Part III: Sectoral Ideas -- From "Do Trees Have Rights?" to Wondering About Ecocide: Some Legal Reflections -- Factoring Climate Risks in the Wetlands Governance: A Policy Look Ahead -- A Question of Trust: A Reparative Legal Regime for Climate-induced Migration -- The Regulation of Planetary Health Challenges: A Co-Benefits Approach for AMR and WASH -- Envisioning Future of the Circular Economy: A Legal Perspective -- Legal Lamination to Transboundary Movement of Plastic Pollutants -- Greening Trade Law for Global Climate Governance? -- Environmental Terrorism: Not Yet a Crime in International Law -- Subject Index -- Author Index.

Date Published:2022