Drawing from experience and analysis of TED talks, Ran Fan presents a groundbreaking approach to turning presentations into career-launching showcases. This guide offers educators practical strategies to foster confident speakers ready to captivate any audience.
This volume is for Language Teacher Trainers (LTTs), lecturers, and experienced teachers aspiring to the role. It offers the main issues, tools, and research for their daily practice and professional development, with suggestions for academic students.
This book summarizes 75 years of developments in blood banking, from post-WWII to the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines the evolving science, medical practice, and policy debates through a unique social lens that distinguishes this work from other writings.
How Uruguay Became a Religious Ghetto
Why is Uruguay an intensely secular society in a highly religious continent? This deviant case study argues that secularization is not an inevitable process, but is carried out by people and groups who manifestly want to laicize society and its sub-structures.
How We Are Governed
How We Are Governed explores relations between communication and politics, from formal policy to the informal negotiation of power. It examines how communicative practices and technologies shape our world, asking whether these arrangements are truly democratic.
How Writing Touches
Five scholars began an experiment in autoethnography, exploring intimacy and connection through collaborative writing. This book offers stories of how writing touches and writes bodies into being—an affecting, radical work on love as a messy, complex methodology.
Human Adaptations to the Last Glacial Maximum
This book assembles new insights into humanity’s developments during the Last Glacial Maximum in Western Europe. It gathers up-to-date research on the Solutrean techno-complex, exploring excavations, lithic analysis, human-environmental interactions, and artistic expressions.
Human Characteristics
What special behaviours, social practices, and psychological structures make us human? Uniting evolution, psychology, and cognitive science, these studies explore cognition, sociality, and sexuality to provoke debate and stimulate new research.
Human Communication through a Social Psychology Lens
This book dives into the complexities of human interaction, exploring communication from face-to-face to digital contexts. It dissects persuasive techniques, group dynamics, and nonverbal cues, providing invaluable guidance for navigating our evolving social landscape.
This book studies how hidden and malicious intent in business decisions led to collapses like the 2008 Great Recession. It proposes a conceptual AI-augmented model, based on a cancer analogy, to detect and correct these destructive decisions before they harm the economy.
Human Development II
This title offers an overview of a wide range of contemporary issues in education and society, including emotional intelligence, family, and personal development, and represents a useful manual for students and the general public interested in the social sciences.
This collection presents perspectives from the social sciences and humanities on the journey to build and redefine identity. It explores the human needs required to foster respect and allow individuals to develop the potential they contain.
Authored by a group of experts, these essays provide fresh research on key topics such as leadership, arts, education, psychology, and sports. The contributors consider social issues and challenges pertinent to contemporary life, for both students and the public.
What makes a life worth living? This book argues that autonomy is the foundation of dignity and the source of the meaning we crave. A life poor in this meaning, regardless of its wealth or success, is a life lived in the cellar of human existence.
Human Impacts at a Planetary Scale
Our global infrastructure has exceeded planetary boundaries. To protect Earth and ensure our survival, we must transition to lifestyles that restore natural ecosystems. This book explores the systems contributing to species loss and documents the solutions being offered.
Human Resource Management at the Crossroads
This book contains studies on the challenges of Human Resource Management. It analyzes how technology impacts the future of work, employee well-being, the management of careers and diversity, employee commitment, and other key topics facing HRM managers today.
This book takes a step-by-step, data-driven approach to HR analytics. Learn to use visualization and machine learning tools to solve issues like controlling attrition and improving performance, deriving valuable insights to support your HR strategies and make better decisions.
Human Rights and Citizenship Education
This volume examines different conceptualizations of human rights, citizenship and interculturalism, as well as their inter-relationships in various national contexts. It also explores the theoretical and practical bases on which teaching of these concepts should be grounded.
Human Rights and Diverse Societies
In a world of increasing diversity, how can universal human rights be practically realized? This book explores the tensions between group identities and individual freedoms, identifying new frameworks to empower marginalized groups in diverse societies.
This book explores Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer’s fictional world as a lifetime battle against apartheid. A crusader for human rights, Gordimer fictionalized her activism to fight the regime’s censorship and depict the denial of basic rights to Black people.
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