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Managing Project Risks
by Michael Edwards Peter J. Edwards Paulo Vaz SerraA comprehensive and highly practical overview of project risk management emphasising pragmatic solutions and user-friendly methods without advanced mathematical techniques Managing Project Risks provides a comprehensive treatment of project risk management, offering a systematic but easy-to-follow approach. This book explores critical topics that influence how risks are managed, but which are rarely found in other books, including risk knowledge management, cultural risk-shaping, project complexity, political risks, and strategic risk management. The book commences with foundational concepts, providing an overview of risk, project definitions, project stakeholders, and risk management systems. Subsequent chapters explore the core processes of project risk management, including risk identification, analysis, evaluation, response strategies, and risk monitoring and control. Additional topics include risk knowledge management, the influence of culture on risk, political risks in projects, and relevant software applications. Experienced readers may choose to navigate directly to the later chapters, which focus on strategic risk management and offer recommendations for planning, building, and maturing a project risk management system. Throughout, the authors impart a practical approach that does not rely on high level expertise or advanced mathematical techniques; the emphasis remains on pragmatic solutions, user-friendly techniques, and reliable communication, enabling readers to seamlessly integrate theory into practice. Updates to the newly revised Second Edition of Managing Project Risks include: Additional tools and techniques for risk identification and an expanded treatment of risk communication A new tool for early-stage project complexity assessment—the stage where uncertainties, and thus threat and opportunity risks, are at their highest level A more substantial treatment of planning for crisis response and disaster recovery, taking into consideration climate change and the increasingly prevalent impacts of severe weather phenomena More information on strategic risk management, now including public and organizational policy development with respect to risks in projects Managing Project Risks is an essential resource for practitioners of project management across architecture, construction, engineering, and technology disciplines, for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for public and private sector stakeholders involved in decision-making and policy development. It is useful wherever project-driven activities are undertaken.
The ART of Trading: A 7-Step Approach for Traders and Investors in the Financial Markets
by Bennett A. McDowellA comprehensive, all-in-one resource for building a successful trading system In the newly revised second edition of The ART of Trading: A Complete Approach for Traders and Investors in the Financial Markets, veteran trader and bestselling author Bennett McDowell delivers an intuitive and comprehensive system for trading success. In the book, you'll learn the trading rules, risk management techniques, mindsets, and trade debriefing strategies you need to master the markets and enjoy market-beating returns. The author explains how to identify intelligent entry and exit opportunities, as well as trade management strategies, trading psychology insights, and more. He also outlines: How to design, test, and apply your own custom system of trading rules How to avoid the twin traps of fear and greed that poison the returns of so many unwary traders How to create a sound and effective risk control system that protects you against catastrophic losses without limiting your ability to find profitable opportunities An outstanding, all-in-one resource for day traders, retail investors, and fund managers, The ART of Trading walks you through every relevant aspect of building a winning trading strategy.
Blockchain-Enabled Solutions for the Pharmaceutical Industry
by Ritika Wason Vishal Jain Parul Arora Parma Nand Vinay KukrejaThe 25 chapters in this volume serve as a comprehensive guide to understanding and implementing blockchain-enabled solutions in the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical industry is undergoing a holistic transformation, where innovation is key to addressing complex challenges and enabling user-centric, customized services. This book explores the potential applications of blockchain technology in revolutionizing pharmaceutical processes. By integrating blockchain fundamentals, the pharmaceutical industry can enhance transparency, security, and efficiency in areas such as supply chain management, patient safety, and more. Blockchain can also improve regulatory compliance, streamline clinical trials, and protect data integrity. Furthermore, it enables secure transactions, reduces the prevalence of counterfeit drugs, and strengthens patient privacy and data management. Some of the subjects readers will find the volume covers include: How blockchain technology can revolutionize the healthcare sector by enabling a secure, decentralized, and tamper-proof system for handling patient data, and facilitating seamless information sharing across various healthcare providers • how blockchain transforms the pharmaceutical industry by enhancing drug traceability, ensuring product authenticity, and reducing counterfeit drugs • a comprehensive blockchain-based framework to improve the pharmaceutical supply chain from manufacturers to end consumers • how the Pharma-RBT solution utilizes blockchain technology to protect personally identifiable information (PII) during drug trials • the use of blockchain-based smart contracts to automate and streamline payment processes reducing transaction times and minimizing human errors • surveys how blockchain can ensure the validity of pharmaceutical products by providing an immutable and transparent ledger that tracks each phase of a drug’s lifecycle, from production to the end consumer • how blockchain can enhance the security of smart medicine vending machines • how blockchain can improve the kidney transplantation process by enhancing the security, traceability, and efficiency of donor-recipient matching, organ transportation, and post-operative care • how blockchain can contribute to the development of the metaverse by enabling decentralized ownership of virtual assets • how blockchain can improve clinical trials by enhancing transparency, efficiency, and ethical conduct in drug development • how blockchain technology can revolutionize the drug recall process • how integrating hybrid technologies with blockchain can enhance smart healthcare systems • how the metaverse can transform healthcare by offering immersive virtual environments for medical training, patient education, and remote consultations. Audience The book will appeal to researchers, scientists, and professionals in the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries, as well as computer scientists and experts in blockchain technology, cybersecurity, and logistics.
Prop Trading Secrets: How Successful Traders are Living off the Markets
by Kathy Lien Etienne Crete13 revealing interviews with some of the world's best proprietary traders In Prop Trading Secrets of Successful Funded Traders: How Individual Traders are using Proprietary Trading to Achieve Financial Freedom, Kathy Lien, author and managing director of FX strategy at BK Asset Management, and Etienne Crete, full-time trader and founder of Desire to Trade, deliver a collection of 13 revealing interviews with proprietary traders successfully making a living off the markets. You'll explore insights from veteran traders with over 10 years' experience in the markets, winners of a variety of trading championships, and contemporary prop traders using methods like funded accounts to trade other people's money. You'll also find: A thorough introduction to the different kinds of prop trading, including funded trader programs Ways to get started with prop trading, trading methodologies, specific trading tips, and the most useful indicators of price movements What the world's best prop traders have in common and what sets them apart from the rest of the pack Perfect for new traders, Prop Trading Secrets of Successful Traders is an incisive look at the discipline that belongs in the libraries of anyone with an interest in proprietary trading.
Intelligent Spectrum Management: Towards 6G
by Sridhar Iyer Anshuman Kalla Onel Alcaraz López Chamitha De AlwisForward-thinking reference on spectrum sharing and resource management for 5G, B5G, and 6G wireless networks Intelligent Spectrum Management: Towards 6G explores various aspects of spectrum sharing and resource management in 5G, beyond 5G, and the envisaged 6G networks. The book offers an in-depth exploration of intelligent and secure sharing of spectrum and resource management in existing and future mobile networks. The book sets the stage by providing an insight to the evolution of mobile networks and highlights the importance of spectrum sharing and resource management in next-generation wireless networks. At the core, the book explores various promising technologies such as cognitive radio, reinforcement learning, deep learning, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and blockchain technology towards efficient, intelligent, and secure sharing of spectrum and resource management. Moreover, the book presents dynamic and decentralized resource management techniques, including network slicing, game theory, and blockchain-enabled approaches. Topics covered include: Spectrum, and why it must be utilized optimally and transparentlyFuture applications envisioned with 6G, such as digital twins, Industry 5.0, holographic telepresence, and Extended Reality (XR)Challenges when Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) is enabled through Machine Learning (ML) techniques, including the complexity of received signals and the difficulty in obtaining accurate network data such as channel state informationReinforcement learning and deep learning-assisted spectrum management Synergy between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology for spectrum managementPrivate networks, including their prospects, architecture, enabling concepts, and techniques for efficient operation In essence, various innovative technologies and approaches that can be leveraged to enhance spectrum utilization and efficiently manage network resources are discussed. The book is a potential reference for researchers, academics, and professionals in the wireless service provider industry, as well as regulators and officials.
Integrated Dog Training: The Commonsense Visual Guide to Training Any Dog
by Michael WombacherA Comprehensive Dog Training Course in a Book, with Step-by-Step Photos and Guidance Designed for quick reference while working with your dog, this large-format guidebook features the full gamut of training exercises — each illustrated with photos and clear instructions. It offers a wealth of ways to approach various dogs and scenarios, whether you&’re training a puppy to sit or correcting training issues in a mature dog. Michael Wombacher, a trainer with decades of experience, knows all the competing dog training theories but also knows that in reality, it is a range of methods that gets dogs and their humans where they need to be. His Integrated Dog Training is a much-needed commonsense approach that avoids cookie-cutter dictates and recognizes the individuality of each dog. He includes straightforward discussions of situation-specific equipment, treats, and commands, as well as a variety of age- and environment-variable approaches. Easy-to-use, image-driven, and immediately applicable, this is a truly unique, invaluable resource that gets people and dogs in sync and happy lifelong.
Healing Breath: A Guided Meditation through Nature for Kids
by William MeyerA gorgeously illustrated guided meditation to calm and soothe as well as inspire and empower us to act on behalf of the natural world Join the award-winning team of writer and teacher Bill Meyer and illustrator Brittany R. Jacobs on a guided meditation journey through rich, colorful landscapes spanning the globe. Breathe into the experience of waves on the ocean, trees in a forest, and the warmth of a desert, and feel your connection to all of life, from barnacles to baboons to falcons to farmers. This magical meditation-in-a-book is ideal for anyone who wants to simultaneously calm down and rise up to the world in all its wonders.
First Corinthians-Teach Yourself the Bible Series: Order in the Church (Teach Yourself the Bible)
by Keith L. BrooksThe Teach Yourself the Bible Series is one of the best New Testament studies you will find anywhere. Each book in the series is packed full of valuable questions on individual chapters of the Bible, check-ups to test your grasp of scriptural truths, and usable suggestions for group study.Grow in your knowledge of God through each New Testament book, then go on to study six aspects of Christianity essential for all believers: doctrine, prayer, eternal life, prophecy, Christian character, and Bible study.The Corinthian church was predominately Gentile, its members both rich and poor, educated and ignorant. Loose habits of paganism clung to many. Paul in 1 Corinthians appeals to them to remember their high position in Christ and the reality of their union with Him. His exhortation to bring their spiritual state into conformity with their standing in Christ is relevant to all generations.Strengthen your relationship with the living God with all twenty-five books of the Teach Yourself the Bible Series. Each volume is a timeless, yet practical, study of the Word of God.
Your Difference Is Your Strength: A Guide to Accepting Yourself—for Anyone Who Has Ever Felt Out of Place
by Kris FerraroYou were made to be extraordinary, so get going! Your Difference is Your Strength is a book for anyone and everyone who has ever felt out of place, misunderstood, or just...different. It’s the book for the kid who was too creative or too shy or too “weird” and who grew up into an adult who still isn’t quite sure where they fit in or if they even want to. It’s a book for you.In Your Difference is Your Strength, Kris Ferraro, author of Manifesting, invites the oddballs and underdogs of the world to stop hiding, minimizing, or disguising their differences and instead embrace them in a powerful new way. It’s a fearless, joyful call to finally be who you actually are in a world that seems to demand uniformity. Filled with real life examples, personal stories, journal prompts, and practical wisdom, Your Difference is Your Strength will help you identify your own genre-defying brand of “weird” and harness that power in your outlook, your relationships, your work, and your life.
Owlish: A Novel
by Dorothy Tse* FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE * A professor falls in love with a mechanical ballerina in a mordant and uncanny fable of contemporary Hong Kong With your face covered, sneaking into a city you thought you knew, are you still yourself? Or have you crossed to another world, where the streets are unpredictable and the people strangers, where you might at any moment run into some unknown dream version of yourself? In a city called Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and a lackluster career, but also a scrumptious collection of antique dolls locked away in his cupboard. And soon Q lands his crowning acquisition: a music box ballerina named Aliss who has tantalizingly sprung to life. Guided by his mysterious friend Owlish and inspired by an inexplicably familiar painting, Q embarks on an all-consuming love affair with Aliss, oblivious to the protests spreading across the university that have left his classrooms all but empty. The mountainous city of Nevers is itself a mercurial character with concrete flesh, glimmering new construction, and “colonial flair.” Having fled there as a child refugee, Q thought he knew the faces of the city and its people, but Nevers is alive with secrets and shape-shifting geographies. The winner of a 2021 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant, Owlish is a fantastically eerie debut novel that is also a bold exploration of life under oppressive regimes.
The Other Lola: A Novel
by Ripley JonesThe sequel to Ripley Jones's unforgettable YA thriller Missing Clarissa, The Other Lola is about what happens when the people you love the most are the people you can trust the least. In the months after Cam and Blair broke their small hometown’s legendary missing-girl story and catapulted to accidental fame, they vowed never to do it again. No more mysteries, no more podcasts, and no more sticking their heads where they don’t belong.Until Mattie Brosillard, a freshman at their high school, shows up on their doorstep, begging Cam and Blair for help. Mattie's sister Lola disappeared mysteriously five years ago. No trace of her was ever found. Now, she's back--but Mattie is convinced the girl who returned is an impostor. Nobody believes Mattie's wild story--not Mattie's brother, not Mattie's mother, and not even Cam and Blair. But something is definitely wrong in the Brosillard family. And Blair has her own reasons for wanting to know what really happened to Lola while she was gone.With Cam and Blair still struggling with the aftermath of their first mystery—and with new secrets swirling between them—the stakes are higher than ever in this can’t-miss sequel to Missing Clarissa.
Missing Clarissa: A Novel
by Ripley JonesPerfect for fans of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Ripley Jones's Missing Clarissa is a gripping novel about two friends who start a true crime podcast—with dangerous consequences.In August of 1999, dazzlingly popular cheerleader Clarissa Campbell disappears from a party in the woods outside the rural town of Oreville, Washington and is never seen again. The police question her friends, teachers, and the adults who knew her—who all have something to hide. And thanks to Clarissa’s beauty, the mystery captures the attention of the nation. But with no leads and no body, the case soon grows cold. Despite the efforts of internet sleuths and true-crime aficionados, Clarissa is never found—dead or alive.Over twenty years later, Oreville high-school juniors and best friends Blair and Cameron start a true crime podcast, determined to unravel the story of what—or who—happened to this rural urban legend. In the process they uncover a nest of dirty small-town secrets, the sordid truth of Clarissa’s relationship with her charismatic boyfriend, and a high school art teacher turned small-town figurehead who had a very good reason for wanting Clarissa dead. Such a good reason, in fact, that they might have to make him the highlight of their next episode…But does an ugly history with a missing girl make him guilty of murder? Or are two teenage girls about to destroy the life of an innocent man—and help the true killer walk free?
Happiness: The Only True Prosperity (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)
by Osho“Happiness is not an achievement. It is your nature.” - OshoHappiness is the twelfth title in the Osho bestselling Insights for a New Way of Living series, and the first new title in the series since 2017.The popular Insights for a New Way of Living challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and the prejudices that limit their capacity to live life in all its richness. The books shine light on beliefs and attitudes that prevent individuals from being their true selves. The text is an artful mix of compassion and humor, and readers are encouraged to confront what they would most like to avoid, which in turn provides the key to true insight and power.
Forgiveness: The Strength Lies in Anger (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)
by Osho"Forgiveness simply means you accept the person as he is, you still love him the way he is." - OshoForgiveness is the thirteenth title in the Osho bestselling Insights for a New Way of Living series.The popular Insights for a New Way of Living challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and the prejudices that limit their capacity to live life in all its richness. The books shine light on beliefs and attitudes that prevent individuals from being their true selves. The text is an artful mix of compassion and humor, and readers are encouraged to confront what they would most like to avoid, which in turn provides the key to true insight and power.
Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time
by Kapka KassabovaA search for a cure to what ails us in the Anthropocene by the award-winning author of Border In Elixir, in a wild river valley and amid the three mountains that define it, Kapka Kassabova seeks out the deep connection between people, plants, and place. The Mesta is one of the oldest rivers in Europe and the surrounding forests and mountains of the southern Balkans are an extraordinarily rich nexus for plant gatherers. Over several seasons, Kassabova spends time with the people of this magical region. She meets women and men who work in a long lineage of foragers, healers, and mystics. She learns about wild plants and the ancient practice of herbalism that makes use of them, and she experiences a symbiotic system where nature and culture have blended for thousands of years. Through her captivating encounters we come to feel the devastating weight of the ecological and cultural disinheritance that the people of this valley have suffered. And Kassabova reflects on what being disconnected from place can do to our souls and our bodies. Yet, in her search for elixir, she also finds reasons for hope. The people of the valley are keepers of a rare knowledge, not only of mountain plants and their properties, but also of how to transform collective suffering into healing. Immersive and enthralling, Elixir is an urgent and unforgettable call to rethink how we live—in relation to one another, to Earth, and to the cosmos.
Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games
by J. Robert Lennon Carmen Maria MachadoFrom the earliest computers to the smartphones in our pockets, video games have been on our screens and part of our lives for over fifty years. Critical Hits celebrates this sophisticated medium and considers its lasting impact on our culture and ourselves. This collection of stylish, passionate, and searching essays opens with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado, who edited the anthology alongside J. Robert Lennon. In these pages, writer-gamers find solace from illness and grief, test ideas about language, bodies, power, race, and technology, and see their experiences and identities reflected in―or complicated by―the interactive virtual worlds they inhabit. Elissa Washuta immerses herself in The Last of Us during the first summer of the pandemic. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah describes his last goodbye to his father with the help of Disco Elysium. Jamil Jan Kochai remembers being an Afghan American teenager killing Afghan insurgents in Call of Duty. Also included are a comic by MariNaomi about her time as a video game producer; a deep dive into “portal fantasy” movies about video games by Charlie Jane Anders; and new work by Alexander Chee, Hanif Abdurraqib, Larissa Pham, and many more.
Integrative Theraplay® Approach for Children on the Autism Spectrum: Practical Guidelines for Professionals (Theraplay® Books & Resources)
by Rana Hong A. Rand ColemanCommunication and social skills are a key challenge for children on the autism spectrum, and a fundamental priority for care professionals to support their clients' progress. Using case studies and evidence-based advice, this book guides readers through an integrated Theraplay® approach to helping young people on the autism spectrum. The interventions emphasise interactivity and fun to help children build social and emotional skills through play. From using balloons to encourage eye contact to turn-taking play for fostering social awareness, each Theraplay® activity is tailored to support children on the autism spectrum and includes suggestions for further adaptations to suit each child's unique needs. Parents' and guardians' needs are also addressed in the context of Theraplay®, examining common sources of frustration and providing advice on effective treatment plans. Officially supported by the Theraplay® Institute, this handbook guides readers towards a thoughtful, focused application of Theraplay® to support children on the autism spectrum.
In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations
by Merilee Grindle"What a woman! And what a fabulous life to unearth. Zelia Nuttall was incredibly smart, determined, a divorced single mother in a man’s world, a great scholar, and an original thinker—yet today she’s completely forgotten. Merilee Grindle has dug deep into the archives and uncovered her fascinating story."—Andrea Wulf, author of The Invention of Nature"Zelia Nuttall comes alive in all her fascinating contradictions in Merilee Grindle’s capable hands...[This] biography challenges our modern smugness and reminds us that our roots as scholars are more complex than we often acknowledge."—Camilla Townsend, author of Fifth Sun: A New History of the AztecsThe gripping story of a pioneering anthropologist whose exploration of Aztec cosmology, rediscovery of ancient texts, and passion for collecting helped shape our understanding of pre-Columbian Mexico.Where do human societies come from? The drive to answer this question took on a new urgency in the nineteenth century, when a generation of archaeologists began to look beyond the bible for the origins of different cultures and civilizations. A child of the San Francisco Gold Rush whose mother was born in Mexico City, Zelia Nuttall threw herself into the study of Aztec customs and cosmology, eager to use the tools of the emerging science of anthropology to prove that modern Mexico was built over the ruins of ancient civilizations.Proud, disciplined, as prickly as she was independent, Zelia Nuttall was the first person to accurately decode the Aztec calendar stone. An intrepid researcher, she found pre-Columbian texts lost in European archives and was skilled at making sense of their pictographic histories. Her work on the terra-cotta heads of Teotihuacán captured the attention of Frederic Putnam, who offered her a job at Harvard’s Peabody Museum.Divorced and juggling motherhood and career, Nuttall chose to follow her own star, publishing her discoveries and collecting artifacts for US museums to make ends meet. From her beloved Casa Alvarado in Coyoacán, she became a vital bridge between Mexican and US anthropologists, connecting them against the backdrop of war and revolution.The first biography of Zelia Nuttall, In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl captures the appeal and contradictions that riddled the life of this trailblazing woman, who contributed so much to the new field of anthropology until a newly professionalized generation overshadowed her remarkable achievements and she became, in the end, an artifact in her own museum.
Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
by Emily DickinsonWidely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson’s poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time “as she preserved them,” and in the order in which she wished them to appear. It is the only edition of Dickinson’s complete poems to distinguish clearly those she took pains to copy carefully onto folded sheets in fair hand—presumably to preserve them for posterity—from the ones she kept in rougher form. It is also unique among complete editions in presenting the alternate words and phrases Dickinson chose to use on the copies of the poems she kept, so that we can peer over her shoulder and see her composing and reworking her own poems.The world’s foremost scholar of Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller, guides us through these stunning poems with her deft and unobtrusive notes, helping us understand the poet’s quotations and allusions, and explaining how she composed, copied, and circulated her poems. Miller’s brilliant reordering of the poems transforms our experience of them.A true delight, this award-winning collection brings us closer than we have ever been to the writing practice of one of America’s greatest poets. With its clear, uncluttered page and beautiful production values, it is a gift for students of Emily Dickinson and for anyone who loves her poems.
Auguste Bébian: Paving the Way for Deaf Emancipation
by Fabrice BertinPublished in French and English by INSEI Editions, Suresnes, France. English edition distributed throughout the world by Gallaudet University Press. To some, he is a mythical figure; to others, he is unknown. Auguste Bébian (1789-1839) reflects society’s ambivalence toward Deaf history: sometimes recognized, often ignored. In the wake of Abbé de l’Épée, whose name is remembered in posterity and who demonstrated that the large-scale education of Deaf people was possible, Auguste Bébian was nonetheless a key player in an unprecedented upheaval, which in many ways went beyond the educational sphere. The goal of this research on Auguste Bébian, combining biographical elements and analysis of his thinking in unprecedented ways, is not to deconstruct the myth, but rather to decipher the messages it conveys, and to understand what it tells us, indirectly, about the Deaf experience. Born in 1789 in Guadeloupe, part of the French West Indies, it was on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, in France, that Auguste Bébian fulfilled most of his destiny. While living at the National Institution for the Deaf in Paris at the beginning of the 19th century, his daily contact with the young students made him the first known hearing person in France to achieve true mastery of sign language, the natural language of Deaf people, and a deep understanding of its inherent culture. On becoming a teacher, he constantly defended the use of sign language as a linguistic system in its own right in order to awaken the intelligence of Deaf children, to whom “we pay no more attention than to the sunlight that shines on us every day.” His numerous publications display a level of modernity rarely seen before or since. This biographical and historical study shows how the passion evinced by Auguste Bébian was a crucial link in the chain of events that led to the emancipation of Deaf people.
The Politics of Coercion: State and Regime Making in Cambodia
by Neil LoughlinIn The Politics of Coercion, Neil Loughlin explains the persistence of Cambodia's authoritarian regime for more than four decades. It provides a historically grounded investigation of the country's ruling coalition: political elites, many drawn from within the state's coercive apparatus, who, in coordination with state-dependent tycoons, have come to control Cambodia's politics and its economy. Loughlin presents new empirical data foregrounding the coercive underpinnings of the modern Cambodian state and its party, the Cambodian People's Party (CPP).The focus on coercion reflects the regime's conflict and postconflict evolution and extractive political economy as the ruling coalition failed to channel popular interests through its political institutions, thus resorting either to low-intensity forms of coercion such as intimidation and surveillance or to high-intensity coercion such as violent crackdowns and extrajudicial killings.Through a critical reevaluation of the regime's origins and evolution in its relationship with citizens, The Politics of Coercion reconceptualizes the CPP to emphasize the obstacles—structural, institutional, and distributional—to building a mass-based clientelist or developmentally legitimate authoritarian party.
Durian: King of Tropical Fruit
by Suranant Subhadrabandhu Saichol KetsaDurian is extensively grown in tropical regions, the major producers being Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines. The tree is also grown in northern Australia, some South American countries and in Africa. Although to many its smell is notoriously offensive, its taste can become a passion and it is one of the most popular fruits in South-East Asia. This book is the first comprehensive, scientific volume to be published in English on this “king of tropical fruit”. It provides information on the biology, propagation and use of the fruit, and descriptions of the scientific basis of production practices and orchard management, as well as post-harvest processing. It will be a unique resource for horticulture and botanical libraries and for students of tropical horticulture worldwide.
Introduction to Sport Law: With Case Studies in Sport Law
by Et Al. John O. SpenglerWith an accessible approach free of legal jargon, Introduction to Sport Law With Case Studies in Sport Law, Third Edition, provides a comprehensive examination of the fundamental legal issues commonly found in sport and sport management. Even students with little to no legal background will understand law topics relevant to the sport industry through the text’s straightforward examples and case studies that demonstrate sport law theory through real-world applications. Organized to cover all law categories that are most critical to the management of sport, the text first presents an overview of the United States legal system, including the court system, the various types of law, and legal resources. Students will then explore important topics such as risk management, employment law, gender equity, intellectual property, and constitutional law, examining the relevance of the law at hand to real-world applications across the field of sport management. This updated third edition allows students to increase their comprehension by looking at laws and issues through timely, modern points of view. New content reflects important topics and current legal issues, including the Equal Pay Act; the Sports Broadcasting Act; athlete safety and equipment concerns; name, image, and likeness (NIL) laws; antitrust litigation, unionization, and collective bargaining; and transgender athlete participation in sport. The updated content addresses contemporary challenges to constitutional law, including the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment, and it examines how budget problems related to COVID-19 resulted in cutting sports and raised Title IX issues. End-of-chapter discussion questions and In the Courtroom sidebars have been updated with current examples to better demonstrate modern applied perspectives. Moot Court Case sidebars now have accompanying questions on hypothetical scenarios, allowing students to understand the technicalities of sport law in practical application. Each chapter of Introduction to Sport Law, Third Edition, also directs students to relevant cases in the included ebook, Case Studies in Sport Law, Third Edition, by Andrew T. Pittman, John O. Spengler, and Sarah J. Young. Featuring abridged versions of 93 court cases, all carefully curated to provide real-life applications representing many of the multifaceted aspects of sport law, the ebook also includes review questions for each case to test comprehension and prompt in-class discussion. Through its focus on legal concepts with direct application to the world of sport, Introduction to Sport Law, Third Edition, provides students with the information they need to feel confident with the fundamentals of sport law. Note: This ebook includes both Introduction to Sport Law, Third Edition, and Case Studies in Sport Law, Third Edition.
Pathophysiology: A Practical Approach
by Lachel StoryPathophysiology: A Practical Approach, Fifth Edition provides an innovative, practice-ready, approach to foundational pathophysiology for pre-licensure nursing students. The text is organized by body system and is presented in an easy-to-read format with vibrant graphics and practice tools. Dr. Story takes a student-focused approach to the challenging subject. She organized the content into topical chapters that walk students through their base knowledge of A&P, what can go wrong with the human body, how to identify it, and what to do about it. This st-udent-friendly approach empowers readers to take a more active role in learning pathophysiology. Students and faculty praise Pathophysiology: A Practical Approach for its innovative presentation, helpful Next Generation NCLEX-style questions, approachable reading style, dynamic images, and coverage of current research.
Bliss English Textbook (Second Language) class 9 - West Bengal Board
by West Bengal Board of Secondary EducationThe textbook BLISS for Class IX, designed by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, is an English language resource aimed at secondary students studying English as a second language. This book aligns with modern educational practices, incorporating a child-centric and activity-based approach. It features an eclectic mix of stories, poems, and exercises curated from prominent authors and poets like Manoj Das, Ray Bradbury, and Emily Brontë, exposing students to diverse literary styles and themes. Topics range from personal anecdotes to fictional accounts of human and environmental interactions. The book emphasizes the development of language skills through reading comprehension, grammar exercises, and composition writing. Designed to inspire curiosity and creativity, BLISS also incorporates interactive tasks and assessments to foster a love for the English language while improving communicative competence.