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The GEO handbook on biodiversity observation networks
Biodiversity observation systems are almost everywhere inadequate to meet local, national and international (treaty) obligations. As a result of alarmingly rapid declines in biodiversity in the modern era, there is a strong, worldwide desire to upgrade our monitoring systems, but little clarity on what is actually needed and how it can be assembled from the elements which are already present. T…
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- 9783319272887
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- xii, 326p. : ill.
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- 577 GEO g
Wellbeing in educational contexts
Wellbeing has been identified as a serious issue for principals, teachers and students within educational contexts. The problem of principal health and wellbeing has also been recognised at both national and state levels in Australia for the at least a decade and has been acknowledged as an issue of concern by the state, private, and independent school sectors. The first full scale independent …
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- 155p. : ill.
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- 370.15 CAR w
Trauma-informed school practices : building expertise to transform schools
This textbook represents the combined insight and experience of Morton, a k12 educator, and Berardi, a psychotherapist, both of whom are also university educators with extensive work experience serving districts and their teachers seeking to incorporate trauma-informed principles into their school culture and classroom. The authors identify that the field of education is now ready to deepen its…
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- 9780999829226
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- 318p. : ill.
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- 371.7 BER t
A demographic perspective on gender, family and health in Europe
This open access book examines the triangle between family, gender, and health in Europe from a demographic perspective. It helps to understand patterns and trends in each of the three components separately, as well as their interdependencies. It overcomes the widely observable specialization in demographic research, which usually involves researchers studying either family or fertility process…
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- 9783319723563
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- viii, 303p. : ill.
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- 304.6 DEM d
Martial arts and well-being: connecting communities and promoting health
This book draws on data from over 500 people, across all age ranges, and powerfully demonstrates that participating in martial arts can have a profound influence on the construction of behaviour patterns that are directly linked to lifestyle and health. Making individual connections regarding the benefits of practice, improvements to health and well-being – regardless of whether these imp…
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- 9781315448084
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- xiv, 116p.: ill.
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- 796.8 FUL m
Understanding developmental dyslexia: linking perceptual and cognitive defici…
Understanding the mechanisms responsible for developmental dyslexia (DD) is a key challenge for researchers. A large literature, mostly concerned with learning to read in opaque orthographies, emphasizes phono-logical interpretations of the disturbance. Other approaches focused on the visual-per-ceptual aspects of orthographic coding. Recently, this perspective was supported by imaging data sho…
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- 9782889198641
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- 309 p.; 22 cm.
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- Frontiers Research Topics
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- 517 UND u
Aural history
Aural History is an anti-memoir memoir of encountering devastating grief that uses experimental storytelling to recreate the winding, fractured path of loss and transformation.Written by a thirty-something psychotherapist and queer theorist, Aural History is structured as a sequence of three sections that each use different narrative styles to represent a distinctive stage in the protagonist’…
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- 9781950192670
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- 324 p.; 22 cm.
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- 155.413 ASh a
Safety cultures, safety models : taking stock and moving forward
The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the “safety cloud”, and to position themselves in terms of operational decisions and improvement strategies in safety, considering the path already travelled, their context, objectives and constraints. What link can be established between safety culture and safety models in order to increase safety within companies carr…
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- 9783319951294
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- viii, 166p. : ill.
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- 363.11 SAF s
Context in communication: a cognitive view
Context is what contributes to interpret a communicative act beyond the spoken words. It provides information essential to clarify the intentions of a speaker, and thus to identify the actual meaning of an utterance. A large amount of research in Pragmatics has shown how wide-ranging and multifaceted this concept can be. Context spans from the preceding words in a conversation to the general kn…
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- 9782889451425
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- 242 p.; 22 cm.
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- Frontiers Research Topics
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- 302 AIR c
Psychological assessment in South Africa
This book provides an overview of the research related to psychological assessment across South Africa. The thirty-six chapters provide a combination of psychometric theory and practical assessment applications in order to combine the currently disparate research that has been conducted locally in this field. Existing South African texts on psychological assessment are predominantly academic te…
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- 9781776143580
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- 592 p.; 22 cm.
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- 310 PSY p
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