Metacognition is “thinking about thinking.” In this book, 33 scholars offer techniques and strategies to develop it. Eighteen chapters explore its role in children’s learning, diverse students, the arts, obsessive-compulsive disorders, and as a bridge to the deaf.
This volume explores Utopia from diverse, contemporary perspectives. From literature to media and philosophy, its interdisciplinary character is a main asset. As leading authority Lyman Towers Sargent states, “Utopia has universal relevance, but the way it is applied… varies.”
This hands-on guide shows HR practitioners and researchers how to measure organizational diversity. It details the application of diversity indices and regression methods to assess how workplace factors influence age, gender, and ethnic diversity, with examples throughout.
This book explores the role of musicians calling for peace in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Artists worldwide join talents in concerts to voice protest, show solidarity with the Ukrainian people, and raise funds to assist those affected by the humanitarian crisis.
A Critical Review of Contemporary Romanian Literature
This book offers insight into Romanian culture through literary criticism of its post-1989 writers. In reading these interpretations, audiences gain access to the heart of the people and understand what this enduring nation can offer the world.
Entropy, Seismology and the View of Cosmology
To understand the universe, we must look not to space, but to what is hidden under our feet. Regularities in Earth’s seismicity, revealed by new seismic parameters, lead to a theory of entropy seismology with applications in earthquake prediction and even modern physics.
The teaching of architecture and urbanism is in crisis, unable to respond to current problems like the human right to housing. This book of essays by international experts presents historical analyses, manifestos, and new objectives to address the challenge.
Reflections on the World of Human Inspirations
Inspiration defines who we are. But what are its sources and can we control them? This book analyzes the historical, cultural, and political moments that ignite our passions, questioning the status quo and challenging us to find inspirations for a truly advanced world.
In India, individuals cannot escape the inequalities of gender, ethnic, and social hierarchies, a struggle for survival and status. This volume highlights these realities through four decades of empirical anthropological research across India, considering their historical roots.
This book provides concise coverage of all key topics in gynaecology for students and trainees. It contains the information required to excel in specialist examinations, with questions to reinforce knowledge. It also serves as a useful reference for practicing doctors.
Learn to diagnose the Florida landscape. A physician and Master Naturalist shows how to identify past events that have influenced today’s environments. With photos, maps, and case studies, you’ll understand the health of Florida’s ecosystems like never before.
Blindsight, Traumatic Brain Injuries, and the Brain
Advances in neuroscience are revolutionizing society. This book provides insight into the wonders of sensory experience, traumatic brain injuries, and diseases like Alzheimer’s, exploring the field from individual cells to the majestic organ now contemplating itself.
The Importance of Media Literacy
This book explores the effects of media, from video games and social media to fake news and screen addiction. It emphasizes the need for a healthy media diet and media literacy for all, providing empirically based approaches and sample lesson plans.
This book explores presidential inaugurations from Washington to Biden, offering a summary of each ceremony and an analysis of each speech. While many are forgotten, others by Lincoln, JFK, and Reagan are rhetorical masterpieces providing snapshots of American ideals.
This essential guide to the youth transgender crisis argues social contagion is a key factor in the upsurge. It exposes the perils of medicalization—from puberty blockers to hormones—and offers a vital psychotherapeutic path for families.
A practical guide to lipid and protein metabolism, blood analysis, anaemia, kidney function, and urine culture. Featuring many picture examples, this book is essential for doctors, medical students, and staff in clinical laboratories.
This book describes how the liver coordinates metabolism, immunity, and more. It places these functions in clinical contexts, from alcohol-related and metabolic liver disease to cancer and sepsis, and shows how diet and activity affect health via the liver’s regulation.
This book analyzes philosophy, culture, and value from Eastern and Western perspectives. Despite divergent views, it finds a common emphasis on harmony, peace, and unity, showing how both traditions value cultural dialogue.
This book shows how theatre and media can negotiate the contradictions threatening Nigeria’s unity. It provides statesmen and policy makers with alternative methods for nation-building, offering models from the global South applicable to similar global settings.
Process-Philosophical Perspectives on Biology
Traditional reductionistic metaphysics fails to explain the complexity of life. This book explores process metaphysics to advance our understanding of biological concepts, ascribing subjective interiority and intrinsic value to all living beings, from microbes to animals.