This practical guide helps disability services staff use data analytics to improve services for adult learners. With a statistics primer, practical tools, and 30 case studies, learn to identify targeted interventions, demonstrate your value, and practice continuous improvement.
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a popular management tool for measuring performance. This book is a collection of contributions from DEA experts, covering theoretical developments and applications in various sectors. It is useful for researchers and practitioners.
Showcasing the latest breakthroughs in data science, this volume brings together contributions from leading experts. It covers key areas like machine learning and AI, anticipating future trends and serving as a valuable resource for novices and researchers alike.
Data-Rich Linguistics
In recognition of Professor Yiwola Awoyale’s contributions to African linguistics, this collection presents current research on the syntax, semantics, phonology, and sociolinguistics of African languages—a state-of-the-art account of contemporary issues in the field today.
Data, New Technologies, and Global Imbalances
The idea that technology is neutral is untenable. Pervasive data shapes our world, creating innovation but also deep imbalances. This book explores these risks and asks: How can policymakers address this? Should data be public? Do we need a global data-governance structure?
Daughters of the Nile
Highlighting pioneering and ground-breaking Egyptian women that the media have overlooked and ignored, this collection shatters the monolithic and unflattering stereotype of contemporary Egyptian women as victims, uneducated and uncivilized, dominated by men.
David Hume’s thought inspired major modern philosophies. This collection of essays by leading researchers demonstrates the “vivacity” of his work for contemporary debates in epistemology, philosophy of science, political theory, and ethics.
David Malouf’s Partnership Narratives
This profound and poetic analysis of eminent Australian writer David Malouf’s work invites the reader into his lyrical exploration of life. A groundbreaking study, it highlights his essential contribution to Australian and world literatures.
This book shows that behavioural finance began not in the 1980s, but over 300 years ago. It offers the first comprehensive assessment of Joseph de la Vega’s Confusion of Confusions (1688), demonstrating it is the true precursor to modern behavioural finance.
Dawn of Discovery
This book focuses on three British travellers—‘lost pioneers’ who researched Bronze Age Crete before Sir Arthur Evans. By following their footsteps and comparing their journals to what is there today, the author uncovers their contributions with intriguing results.
Daydreams reveal a protagonist’s hopes, fears, and desires. But what do they truly mean for Hollywood cinema? This study investigates fantasy scenes to uncover the key functions daydreams serve from cinematic, thematic, psychological, and ideological perspectives.
This collection revises contemporary trauma theory. Moving beyond Western models, it adopts a cross-cultural approach to discuss trauma in Arab-Maghrebean, Afro-American, and Chinese contexts, and its artistic representation in poetry and drama.
This book is about musical canons and de-canonizing music history. Its main goal is to deconstruct these canons: to analyze and problematize them in their variety through artistic encounters where art meets popular, ethnic meets education, and avantgarde meets mainstream.
De-Centring Cultural Studies
This volume proves that cultural studies is blooming, even in Southern and Eastern Europe. These interdisciplinary essays explore the borders between popular and canonical culture, studying film, pop music, and literature from the perspectives of gender and age.
In the first single-authored monograph on Roald Dahl since 1994, Valle focuses on the critical context, texts and paratexts that make up the packaging of “Dahl”, and offers the first thorough overview of the criticism and the language employed to discuss Dahl since the 1970s.
This book deconstructs the ‘otherizing’ of the marginalized by offering an alternative reading of the body and desire. It investigates bodies with ‘unnatural’ desires to expose and subvert the subtle political ideologies behind stereotypes.
This collection highlights the divisive issue of the admission of women into the sacramental diaconal priesthood of the Christian Church from the Orthodox theological perspective, although the contributions also offer theological argumentation for the wider Christian community.
The most comprehensive review of deaf characters in literature available. Examining 300 years of examples in novels, comics, and film, this work identifies key trends through the lens of deaf education, the use of sign language, and the rise of deaf identity and communities.
Dealing with Authorship
This title examines the multiple ways in which the progressive (self-) fashioning of authors and filmmakers interacts with the public sphere, generating authorial postures and arousing attention. It analyses the works of both canonical and non-canonical authors and filmmakers.
Dealing with Econometrics
A practical guide to the fundamentals of econometrics. Learn the statistical tools to analyse cross-sectional data and evaluate socio-economic relationships. It features theoretical summaries, practical exercises with real-world data, and solutions using Excel or Gretl.
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