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Private Risk and Public Dangers addresses a range of private risks and public dangers. Issues covered vary from the response to HIV and AIDS and 'foetal alcohol syndrome' to the nature of accidents.

Originally presented as papers in the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society, Locating Health offers reconceptualization of key theoretical terms, including work, income, and public/private domains as well as addressing the reciprocal influence of health and social location.

Technological developments in recent years have been tremendous. The evolution is visible in companies through increasing technological equipment, computerized procedures, and management practices. One of the visible management practices is related to employees' management.

Elementary Linear Algebra is written for the first undergraduate course. The book focuses on the importance of linear algebra in many disciplines such as engineering, economics, statistics, and computer science. The text reinforces critical ideas and lessons of traditional topics.

The new edition aims to simplify the math, emphasize the theory, and consolidate the information needed by electrical engineers and technicians who support operations, maintenance, protective relay systems, and betterment projects for generating stations and industrial facilities. All chapters have been updated, with the inclusion of a new chapter.

This book will focus on how engineers, architects, and construction practitioners can benefit from automating code checking in building design.

Decoding the Disciplines is a widely-used and proven methodology that prompts teachers to identify the bottlenecks - the places where students get stuck - that impede learners' paths to expert thinking in a discipline. This book presents a seven-step process for uncovering bottlenecks and determining the most effective way to enable students to surmount them.

Presents the evidence and rationale for breaking up lectures into shorter segments by using pauses to focus attention, reinforce key points, and review learning. It also provides 65 adaptable pause ideas to use at the opening of class, mid-way through, or as closers.

Introduces practitioners and researchers of student affairs to the use of images as a means to gaining new insights in researching and promoting student learning and development, and understanding the campus environment. The purpose of this book is to provide informative, rich examples of the use of visuals to understand and promote college student development research, pedagogy, and practice.

In this era of ""Big Data,"" institutions of higher education are challenged to make the most of the information they have to improve student learning outcomes, close equity gaps, keep costs down, and address the economic needs of the communities they serve at the local, regional, and national levels. This book helps readers understand and respond to this ""analytics revolution"".

Introduces practitioners and researchers of student affairs to the use of images as a means to gaining new insights in researching and promoting student learning and development, and understanding the campus environment. The purpose of this book is to provide informative, rich examples of the use of visuals to understand and promote college student development research, pedagogy, and practice.

Framed within the concept of ""inclusive excellence"", with the objective of promoting diversity, inclusion, and equity in higher education as foundational to educational excellence, the contributors to this volume present research and practices that have been proven successful in improving participation among groups of students traditionally underrepresented in education abroad.

Provides a detailed framework and guidance on how to plan and implement a faculty-led study abroad program. Seasoned faculty leaders and administrators describe an overall program development process, comprehensively identify the elements for designing the curriculum, and offer advice and solutions to unique challenges inherent in various types of programs.

Framed within the concept of ""inclusive excellence"", with the objective of promoting diversity, inclusion, and equity in higher education as foundational to educational excellence, the contributors to this volume present research and practices that have been proven successful in improving participation among groups of students traditionally underrepresented in education abroad.

In this era of ""Big Data,"" institutions of higher education are challenged to make the most of the information they have to improve student learning outcomes, close equity gaps, keep costs down, and address the economic needs of the communities they serve at the local, regional, and national levels. This book helps readers understand and respond to this ""analytics revolution"".

There is an increasing understanding that performance poetry and spoken word is much more than entertainment. This book - compiled by scholar artists, including internationally recognised spoken word performers - offers guidance to student affairs professionals on using spoken word as a tool for college student engagement, activism, and civic awareness.

Provides a detailed framework and guidance on how to plan and implement a faculty-led study abroad program. Seasoned faculty leaders and administrators describe an overall program development process, comprehensively identify the elements for designing the curriculum, and offer advice and solutions to unique challenges inherent in various types of programs.

While there is wide consensus in higher education that global learning is essential for all students' success, there are few models of how to achieve this goal. The authors of this book provide such a model and, in doing so, offer readers a broad definition of global learning that both encompasses a wide variety of modes and experiences and engages all students on campus.

Whether perfecting current skills, learning new ones, or studying for exams, Principles and Practice in Ophthalmic Assisting: A Comprehensive Textbook makes both a perfect learning tool for students and a complete reference tool for staff, whether they are new to the eye care industry or have years of experience.

Helps prepare students for what they will learn, study, encounter, and achieve during their educational and professional career in the field of athletic training.

This textbook will provide the fundamentals of optomechanics. Written by the two top scientists in the field, this stand-alone, student-friendly textbook has been course-tested and will include homework problems as well as a solutions manual for adopting professors.

The book aims to provide readers with the methods and algorithms to save the total cost in electricity generation and transmission, as well as electricity market operations. It begins with traditional power systems and builds into the fundamentals of power system operation, economic dispatch (ED), optimal power flow (OPF), and unit commitment (UC).

Stepfamilies in Europe 1400 to 1800 addresses a significant gap in literature on the history of the family and provides an in-depth study into the complex family structures created upon remarriage and the impact that these new relationships had on the life course and life cycle of the family across a range of European countries.

This book provides a broad-ranging exploration of key topics in contemporary gifted education. Emphasising Australian and New Zealand contexts leading experts in the field provide an analysis and synthesis of current theory, research and practice, and outline an agenda for future research in gifted education.

This book provides a broad-ranging exploration of key topics in contemporary gifted education. Emphasising Australian and New Zealand contexts leading experts in the field provide an analysis and synthesis of current theory, research and practice, and outline an agenda for future research in gifted education.

Taking seriously the rights to culture and to self-determination contained in the Treaty of Waitangi, in many comparable jurisdictions, and also in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, this book make the case for an Indigenous court founded on Indigenous conceptions of proper conduct, punishment, and behavior.