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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
by Kent W. StaleyThis thoroughly updated second edition guides readers through the central concepts and debates in the philosophy of science. Using concrete examples from the history of science, Kent W. Staley addresses questions about what science is, why it is important, and the basis for trust in scientific results. The first part of the book introduces the central concepts of philosophy of science, with updated discussions of the problem of induction, underdetermination, rationality, scientific progress, and important movements such as falsificationism, logical empiricism, and postpositivism, together with a new chapter on social constructionism. The second part offers updated chapters on probability, scientific realism, explanation, and values in science, along with new discussions of the role of models in science, science in policy-making, and feminist philosophy of science. This broad yet detailed overview will give readers a strong grounding in philosophy of science whilst also providing opportunities for further exploration.
Advances in Psychology and Law: Volume 7 (Advances in Psychology and Law #7)
by Brian H. Bornstein Monica K. Miller David DeMatteoThis book delivers a comprehensive examination of contemporary issues at the intersection of psychology and law, reflecting the latest advancements and research in these critical fields. Authored by leading experts, it offers in-depth insights into key topics, including police use of force, hate crimes, and forensic assessments, making it an essential resource for practitioners, researchers, and policymakers. Key highlights include: The impact of psychological research on legal processes and decision-making. Current trends in understanding and addressing police use of force. Insights into the rising prevalence and complexity of hate crimes. This book's authoritative content, grounded in the latest empirical evidence, makes it indispensable for professionals in psychology, law, criminal justice, and public policy. It's also a valuable tool for educators and students aiming to stay abreast of the rapidly evolving landscape of forensic psychology.
American Journal of Sociology, volume 130 number 5 (March 2025)
by American Journal of SociologyThis is volume 130 issue 5 of American Journal of Sociology. American Journal of Sociology (AJS) presents pathbreaking work from all areas of sociology, with an emphasis on theory building and innovative methods. AJS strives to speak to the general sociology reader and is open to contributions from across the social sciences—sociology, political science, economics, history, anthropology, and statistics—that seriously engage the sociological literature to forge new ways of understanding the social. AJS offers a substantial book review section that identifies the most salient work of both emerging and enduring scholars of social science. Commissioned review essays appear occasionally, offering readers a comparative, in-depth examination of prominent titles.
Homeopathy: The Complete Guide to Natural Remedies
by Albert-Claude Quemoun Sophie PensaA comprehensive reference on the increasingly popular subject of homeopathy, written by two world-renowned experts and filled with natural cures for what ails you. Want to ease sickness and pain without drugs or invasive procedures? Homeopathy, which uses flowers and herbs to create natural remedies, could be the answer. People are turning to this form of alternative medicine to alleviate conditions ranging from insomnia to arthritis to poor digestion. This reference, the first in English from two important authorities on the subject, offers a wide variety of treatments that are easy and holistic, as well as practical tips for everyday healing.
Egg Marks the Spot: A Skunk and Badger Story (Skunk and Badger #2)
by Amy TimberlakeIndie Bestseller * Amazon Top 20 Children's Book * Amazon Best Children's Book * Shelf Awareness Best Children's Book * Chicago Public Library Best BookIn the follow-up to the acclaimed and bestselling best book of the year by Newbery Honoree Amy Timberlake with pictures from Caldecott medalist Jon Klassen, Skunk and Badger head out on a rock-finding expedition with surprises hiding behind every boulder. Buried in the heart of every animal is a secret treasure. For rock scientist Badger, it&’s the Spider Eye Agate he found as a cub, stolen years ago by his crafty cousin, Fisher. For Badger&’s roommate, Skunk, the treasure is Sundays with the New Yak Times Book Review. When an old acquaintance, Mr. G. Hedgehog, announces his plan to come for the Book Review as soon as it thumps on the doorstep, Skunk decides an adventure will solve Badger&’s problems as well as his own. Surprisingly, Badger agrees. Together they set off on an agate-finding expedition at Badger&’s favorite spot on Endless Lake. But all is not as it seems at Campsite #5. Fisher appears unexpectedly. Then a chicken arrives who seems intent on staying. Something is up! Secrets, betrayals, lies. . . and a luminous, late-Jurassic prize. Newbery Honor author Amy Timberlake spins the second tale in this series about two opposites who became friends, alongside the lush art of New York Times bestselling author-illustrator and Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen.Don't miss Skunk and Badger's other adventures in:Skunk and Badger Rock Paper Incisors (Coming October 2025)
Forget Me Not: The most propulsive and thrilling read yet from Sunday Times bestseller M.J. Arlidge (Helen Grace Thrillers #12)
by M. J. Arlidge'Best book I have read this year' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Prepare for sleepless nights' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'WOW' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I need to have a lie down!' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Loved every bit of it' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I could not put this down' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Prepare to read the most exhilarating thriller from M.J. Arlidge yet....When local teenager Naomi goes missing, Detective Inspector Helen Grace is her only hope.But with the police force under fire from all sides as a gang war grips the city, Helen will have to defy direct orders to search for her.Helen's secret investigation follows a disturbing trail of missing girls disappearing from the streets. She's the only person looking for them. And with the clock still ticking, she's about to have more enemies than time working against her...PRAISE FOR THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER M.J. ARLIDGE:'Chilling'THE TIMES'Addictive'EXPRESS'Truly excellent'THE SUN'Nobody does chilling suspense quite like M.J. Arlidge'B.P. WALTER
Darkome
by Hannu RajaniemiBefore the bio-terror attack, Darkome was a place where DIY genetics enthusiasts could communicate in peace. After the attack, they were pushed deep underground by a brutal government response. The perpetrators were from Darkome, and the biohacker community was simply too dangerous to be allowed to exist.Inara was a member of Darkome, but was forced to leave when she realised she had a rare form of cancer which could only be controlled by accepting an Aspis medchip. It could monitor her health and pump her full of a cocktail of drugs to combat her illness, but it went against everything Darkome stood for. She had to choose between her community and her life.But now Inara's Aspis appears to have malfunctioned. She can edit her own DNA on the fly, make herself stronger, improve her eyesight, move faster. It could be the genetic breakthrough of the millenium, but only if she can figure out how it works. And manage to stay ahead of everyone else who wants this new secret, and don't care if she dies as a result. Chased by Aspis, Darkome and the government, her new skills may be the only way Inara has to survive... but they may cost her everything, including her humanity...
The Production of Gendered Knowledge of War: Women and Epistemic Power (Routledge Advances in Feminist Peace Research)
by Annika Björkdahl Johanna MannergrenThis edited volume critically investigates women’s knowledge about war and explores the epistemic agency of women in a range of contemporary settings across the globe.Women are deeply affected by war, participate in war and resist war. At the same time, knowledge production often ignores and marginalizes women’s experiences and gendered ways of knowing war. From Colombia to Israel and Palestine, Liberia, Mali, Myanmar, Nepal, North America, Northern Iraq and Ukraine, the chapters in this book illuminate gendered knowledge production in and about different conflict-affected sites. By taking the embodied and narrative epistemic agency of local ‘knowers’ seriously, new insights are thereby presented about the role women play in producing knowledge about war. This book proposes new theoretical vantage points in order to understand how epistemic power and epistemic violence are closely related. Bringing the topic of knowledge production into the so-called ‘Women, Peace and Security’ (WPS) agenda, it analyses how knowledge of the gendered nature of war and security is produced and circulated, and argues that the WPS agenda is a system of knowledge with its own omissions and silences. By theorizing gendered knowledge production and amplifying the voices of women as epistemic agents, this book advances scholarship on gender and war.This book will be of much interest to students of feminist studies, peace studies, war and conflict studies and International Relations.The Introduction, Chapter 3, and Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies (Routledge International Handbooks)
by Kevon Rhiney Ronald Cummings Patricia NoxoloThe Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies provides a critical collection of world-class scholarship about this fascinating, diverse and dynamic region.Bringing together new and established voices on the Anglophone, Francophone, Spanish-speaking and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, the handbook explores the cultural and historical shapes and reach of the region, as well as the environmental, climatic and (geo)political challenges that it faces in the 21st century. Each of its four parts – Environment, (Geo)politics, History and Culture – explores the region’s conceptual and material entanglements and disentanglements, its transnational and transregional connections and disconnections, and its historical wakes and posts.The Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies is essential reading for all who want to know more about this much-studied but often misrepresented and misunderstood region.
Wittgenstein on Colour, 1916–1950 (Elements in the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein)
by Andrew LuggA study of Wittgenstein on the logic of colour concepts. His remarks on the subject in the Tractatus are considered first, then the remarks he drafted when he returned to philosophy after a decade away fromit, then his treatment of colour concepts during the next two decades followed by the remarks in Remarks on Colour. The emphasis is on the problems he examines and the solutions he proposes. His discussion of colour incompatibility is defended, his examination of colour concepts in the 1930s and 1940s detailed and explained, and the remarks he composed at the end of his life considered with an eye to why they were written and what they add to remarks previously composed. It is argued that his aims are different from those normally attributed to him and, while he achieves a great deal, he does not resolve all the problems he tackles.
The Concept Design of a Twenty-First Century Preferential Trade Agreement: Trends and Future Innovations
by Manfred Elsig Rodrigo Polanco Kathleen ClaussenThe Concept Design of a 21st Century Preferential Trade Agreement describes the current status and possible future evolution of trade agreements. The individual contributions provide fine-grained analyses of the various challenges trade agreements face and how these differ across countries. The book brings together leading researchers from international law and international relations to provide conceptual and empirical insights to inform the ongoing reform debates. By taking stock of scholarly advances, the book further aims at stimulating cross-fertilization in the study of trade agreements in the field of international economic law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care
by Diana Guzys Elizabeth HalcombAn Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care provides a comprehensive and practical explanation of the fundamentals of the social model of health care approach, preparing learners for professional practice in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. The fourth edition has been restructured into four parts covering theory, key skills for practice, working with diverse communities and the professional roles that nurses can enter as they transition to primary care and community health practice. Each chapter has been thoroughly revised to reflect the latest research and includes up-to-date case studies, reflection questions and critical thinking activities to strengthen students' knowledge and analytical skills. Written by an expert team of nurse authors with experience across a broad spectrum of professional roles, An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care remains an indispensable resource for nursing students and health professionals engaging in community and primary health care.
The Impasse of Constitutional Rights (Elements in Philosophy of Law)
by Jacob WeinribConstitutional rights are often seen as invitations to engage in all things considered moral reasoning about how public authorities should act. The Impasse of Constitutional Rights challenges this widely accepted view by showing that it generates an irresolvable deadlock between rival theories of constitutional rights that share the same defects. This Element develops the alternative idea that rights-based constitutional order has its own distinctive moral project, which consists in rendering public authority accountable to the inherent rights of each legal subject. Taking this project seriously requires reconceiving the basic building blocks of rights-based constitutional order: justification, purposive interpretation, and proportionality. The resulting account both escapes the impasse to which the leading contemporary theories of constitutional rights succumb and expounds the normative connection between rights-based constitutional order and its most fundamental doctrines.
The Weierstrass Sigma Function in Higher Genus and Applications to Integrable Equations (Springer Monographs in Mathematics)
by Shigeki MatsutaniThis book’s area is special functions of one or several complex variables. Special functions have been applied to dynamics and physics. Special functions such as elliptic or automorphic functions have an algebro-geometric nature. These attributes permeate the book. The “Kleinian sigma function”, or “higher-genus Weierstrass sigma function” generalizes the elliptic sigma function. It appears for the first time in the work of Weierstrass. Klein gave an explicit definition for hyperelliptic or genus-three curves, as a modular invariant analogue of the Riemann theta function on the Jacobian (the two functions are equivalent). H.F. Baker later used generalized Legendre relations for meromorphic differentials, and brought out the two principles of the theory: on the one hand, sigma uniformizes the Jacobian so that its (logarithmic) derivatives in one direction generate the field of meromorphic functions on the Jacobian, therefore algebraic relations among them generate the ideal of the Jacobian as a projective variety; on the other hand, a set of nonlinear PDEs (which turns out to include the “integrable hierarchies” of KdV type), characterize sigma. We follow Baker’s approach. There is no book where the theory of the sigma function is taken from its origins up to the latest most general results achieved, which cover large classes of curves. The authors propose to produce such a book, and cover applications to integrable PDEs, and the inclusion of related al functions, which have not yet received comparable attention but have applications to defining specific subvarieties of the degenerating family of curves. One reason for the attention given to sigma is its relationship to Sato's tau function and the heat equations for deformation from monomial curves. The book is based on classical literature and contemporary research, in particular our contribution which covers a class of curves whose sigma had not been found explicitly before.
Handbook of Insurance: Volume II
by Georges DionneThe Handbook of Insurance reviews the last fifty years of research developments in insurance economics and its related fields. A single reference source for professors, researchers, graduate students, regulators, consultants, and practitioners, the book starts with the history and foundations of risk and insurance theory, followed by a review of prevention and precaution, asymmetric information, insurance fraud, risk management, insurance pricing, new financial innovations, reinsurance, corporate governance, capital allocation, securitization, systemic risk, insurance regulation, the industrial organization of insurance markets, and other insurance market applications. The new edition covers many topics that have risen in importance since the 2nd edition, such as climate risk, pandemic risk, insurtech, digital insurance, cyber risk, behavioral economics, Solvency II, corporate governance, enterprise risk management, and machine learning. This edition of the Handbook contains 20 new chapters. Each of the chapters is written by leading international authorities in risk and insurance research. All contributions are peer reviewed, and each chapter can be read independently of the others. It is a tour de force to provide to the insurance industry and its stakeholders a structured, complete, intelligent and critical synthesis of insurance economics in the twenty-first century. This is what you have in your hands. This third edition of the Handbook of Insurance should be the bible to anyone who wants to have a deep understanding of the complex challenges faced by insurance and reinsurance markets to create the large social value of risk sharing and risk diversification. Christian Gollier, Director of the Toulouse School of Economics This collective work not only offers a remarkable synthesis of cutting-edge research in insurance economics but also provides a rare resource, both comprehensive and authoritative, for professionals seeking a deeper understanding of insurance industry fundamentals and emerging trends. The content of the Handbook reflects the richness and dynamics of the field and underlines the many facets involved in better understanding how insurance works and contributes to society. Jad Ariss, Managing director, The Geneva Association
International Society and Europeanism: The Countries of Eastern Europe (Contributions to Political Science)
by Tanel Kerikmäe David Ramiro Troitiño Ricardo Martín de la Guardia Guillermo A. Pérez SánchezThis pioneering volume examines Europeanism in the new international society that emerged after the First World War through the League of Nations, with a focus on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the Baltic countries, and the Balkans. The book analyzes how Europeanism was consolidated as an argument for the future, especially after the Second World War, when the three strong ideas of Europeanism came to fruition: peace among Europeans, good democratic government, and the socioeconomic welfare of peoples. By doing so, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of Europeanism and its positive influence in the countries of Eastern Europe, from the interwar period to the present day. The book will appeal to researchers, students, and scholars of political science, international relations, European studies, and history, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of Europeanism and the European integration process of the CEE, Baltic, and Balkan countries.
Developments in Information and Knowledge Management Systems for Business Applications: Volume 8 (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control #578)
by Solomiia Fedushko Peter Štarchoň Katarína GubíniovaIn this series, we delve into the challenges and opportunities of managing business information efficiently. We explore various aspects of information processing for effective enterprise management, including methods, techniques, and strategies. Our goal is to provide solutions for competent information management that increases business usage, while also analyzing strategies to reduce data loss and improve customer satisfaction and maintenance levels. Our book offers practical knowledge on different facets of information and knowledge management in businesses, such as information processing theory and models, the benefits and implementation challenges of information/knowledge business, and information management methods for creating a global information society. We also cover topics such as collecting and analyzing data for enterprise management, modern business intelligence solutions and data management, information marketing, and innovative development of the enterprise information system. Our focus is on applications, benefits, and encounters within the field of efficient business information processing, and we offer solutions to increase performance using the latest IT technologies.
Constrained Opportunities: A Comparative Study on the Impact of Immigrant Political Incorporation on Political Transnationalism
by Efe C. ÖzekThis study aims to understand political transnationalism through the political incorporation of migrants in the receiving country. With a qualitative analysis of the perceptions of transnational second-generation Turks towards the political opportunity structures in Germany and the Netherlands, it seeks an answer to the question &‘How do political opportunity structures in the receiving country shape political transnationalism among Turkish migrants in Western Europe?&’ It suggests a causal explanation for the impact of political opportunity structures on political transnationalism through a model called &‘constrained opportunities&’. The empirical results reveal &‘constraints&’ on political opportunity structures that lead to deficient immigrant political incorporation in the country of residence and reinforce political attachment with the country of origin.
The 18th International Conference Interdisciplinarity in Engineering: Inter-Eng 2024 Conference Proceedings, Volume 1 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1249)
by Liviu Moldovan Adrian GligorThis book contains research papers that were accepted for presentation at the 18th International Conference on Interdisciplinarity in Engineering—INTER-ENG 2024, which was held on 3–4 October 2024, in the city of Targu Mures, Romania. The general scope of the conference “An effective digital-green transition for a more competitive European industry” is proposing a new approach related to the development of a new generation of smart factories grounded on the manufacturing and assembly process digitalization. It is related to advance manufacturing technology, lean manufacturing, sustainable manufacturing, additive manufacturing, manufacturing tools and equipment. It is a leading international professional and scientific forum of great interest for engineers and scientists who can read in this book research works contributions and recent developments as well as current practices in advanced fields of engineering.
Atlantic Circulations: Literature, Reception and Imperial Identities, 1650-1750 (Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge)
by Edward HolbertonAtlantic Circulations investigates literary conversations about empire in the British Atlantic world, c. 1650–1750. Reading texts by Anne Bradstreet, John Milton, Daniel Defoe, and Benjamin Franklin, as well as writing by overlooked authors who deserve more attention, such as the Quaker anti-slavery activist Benjamin Lay and the Black classicist Francis Williams, it asks how literary culture interacted with transatlantic debates about law, enslavement, economics, and religious freedom.This study explores the relationship between literature and empire by joining up disciplinary areas – Early Modern English Literature and Early American Literature – which are often considered apart. It develops insights and analytical frameworks from recent British and ‘Atlantic World’ history to argue that the transatlantic reception of literary texts was often shaped by ‘archipelagic’ dynamics: political and religious tensions between and within England and Wales, and Scotland and Ireland. Atlantic Circulations examines several previously unknown manuscripts and archives which throw new light on the circulation of literary texts in colonial culture and reconstructs key Anglophone transatlantic cultural debates during a crucial phase of European expansion in the Atlantic world.This book will appeal to advanced students and academic researchers of early modern and eighteenth-century English literature and British cultural history, especially readers with an interest in literature’s relationships with empire, colonialism, and travel, and scholars of early American literature and history.
Back to Statistics: Tail-Aware Control Performance Assessment
by Paweł D. DomańskiDue to the popularity of artificial intelligence today, scientists and practitioners tend to ignore the achievements of statistical methods. This book aims to re-establish statistical methods, especially for control practitioners, for whom the task of assessing control performance is important.The author introduces the elements of statistical theory, including basic statistical concepts and the description of distributions. Extending the most common observations toward the tails and extreme statistics, he demonstrates the robust statistics approach that deals with the tails, followed by the description of methods that can visualize and bring forward statistical properties as long as the derivative issues. By addressing statistical issues of sustainability, extreme statistics, non-Gaussianity, L-moments, tail index and index ratio diagrams, the author aims to change traditional concepts and broaden the scope of available methods. Simulation case studies and real industrial cases are also presented. The book will be of interest to site control engineers and scholars assessing control systems and process performance.
Geographic Profiling
by D. Kim RossmoGeographic Profiling explores this cutting‑edge investigative methodology for determining the most probable area of an offender’s residence by analyzing the locations of a series of connected crimes. Geoprofiling allows police detectives and law enforcement officers to prioritize suspects, focus their investigations, and manage information overload. This extensive and exhaustive work explains the underlying theories and operational principles of the methodology. To provide context, extensive reviews of the research on serial murder, rape, and arson, stranger child murder, behavioral/psychological profiling, linkage analysis, and the geography of crime are included.As any police officer who has walked a beat or worked a crime scene knows, streets have hot spots, patterns, and rhythms. Understanding the varied geographic information in a crime series can be challenging. Renowned expert Kim Rossmo explains the concepts and applications of geographic profiling, and in this second edition updates his groundbreaking book with informative and engaging figures, tables, and examples. A range of applications are discussed including suspect prioritization, database searches, tactical response plans, missing person investigations, clandestine grave identification, and the role of geography in wrongful conviction reviews. Dr. Rossmo discusses the nature of police inquiries, criminal evidence, investigative challenges and failures, and more. The book explores the application of geographic profiling to violent and property crime, single offenses, epidemiology, counterterrorism/insurgency, and even earthquake epicenter and pirate base prediction. Fascinating new case studies include the Golden State Killer, Operation Lynx, the Zodiac Killer, the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the DC Snipers, and the Austin Midnight Assassin.Geographic Profiling is a must‑have reference for detectives, crime analysts, and law enforcement officers who want to follow the geographic clues in their cases. Its clear presentation makes it ideal for college courses, police training, university scholars, and students of true crime.
Workforce Analytics: A Global Perspective (Global HRM)
by Martin R. Edwards, Dana Minbaeva, Alec Levenson, and Mark A. HuselidWorkforce Analytics: A Global Perspective provides a comprehensive sweep of key issues facing the evolving discipline of workforce analytics. The editors, all globally recognized in this field, have curated a collection of unique pieces that introduce workforce analytics, discuss its place in the HR sphere, and systematically address the key practical challenges faced by analytics experts working in and with organizations. Drawing on the combined expertise of the editors and a range of practicing expert contributors, the book provides a current, cutting-edge, and multi-perspective survey of workforce analytics. The contributions examine why workforce analytics is important, how it can help contribute to business success, and the considerations businesses need to address to maximize the benefit of this important HR expertise. A breakthrough text in a game-changing emerging discipline, the book is an essential resource for practitioners, students, and researchers in workforce analytics, people analytics, and human resource management more broadly.
The United States and the Luso-Brazilian Empires: Beyond Coffee, Plow, and Bible
by Earl Richard DownesThis volume highlights factors that led to the onset of the U.S. presence within colonial Brazil’s mercantilist economy and then the independent Brazilian empire’s agricultural, scientific, religious and educational institutions.The book examines the interaction of U.S. businessmen, explorers, scientists, immigrants, missionaries, and educators with the dominant institutions of the Luso-Brazilian empires. Employing an institutionalist framework to describe the interplay between forces of change versus forces of inertia that conditioned the economic and sociocultural development of the two empires, the book explains how Portuguese and Brazilian technical innovators employed contacts with the United States for more than a century to attempt to alter Brazil’s economy and society.This book will be of interest to students and scholars of U.S.-Brazil relations and Latin American history more generally.
Children, Media, and Technology: Access, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
by Erica ScharrerAn accessible introduction to children, media, and technology that centers questions of access, diversity, equity, and inclusion to provide a timely and much-needed text for communication and media studies students and scholars.This book covers several long-standing as well as contemporary issues and controversies pertaining to media and youth, such as violence, cyberbullying and online harassment; body image disturbances and beauty norms; and responses to increasingly sophisticated marketing strategies. It also fully explores the ways in which media and technology use enriches the lives of children and teens and empowers them, with positive implications for their sense of self; learning and education; sociality, friendships, and respect for others; and knowledge of and action in the world around them. In each of these lines of inquiry, up-to-date theory and research findings relevant to diverse young media users and questions of access, equity, representation, and inclusion make this a distinct approach to enhance students' understanding of children, media, and technology.This is an essential text for students of Media and Communication Studies taking courses such as Children and Media; Children, Teens, and Media; and Children, Adolescents, and Media, as well as similar classes being taught in related departments.