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For those ready to participate in making transformative changes, Transforming Undergraduate Education provides evidence and case studies that suggest how steps can be taken and progress made. For those who are currently leading their campuses through a change in culture, this book offers support and...

Coaching refers to the activity of a coach in developing the abilities of a coachee. Coaching tends to focus on an existing issue from which to move away or a specific outcome that the individual wishes to achieve move towards.

Handbook in Environmental Economics, Volume 4, the latest in this ongoing series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting timely chapters on Modeling Ecosystems and Economic Systems, Framing Sustainability Policy Questions: Who Leads – Ecology or Economics?, Valuing...

Energy sustainability and climate change are two of the greatest challenges facing humankind. Unraveling these complex and interconnected issues demands careful and objective assessment. Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy aims to change the prevailing discourse by examining fifteen core energy...

This book is divided into four parts. The first part, Preliminaries, begins by introducing the basic theme of the book. It provides an overview of the current status of water resources utilization, the likely scenario of future demands, and advantages and disadvantages of systems techniques. An understanding...

‘Military Wisdom’ is almost half-a-century long indulgence comprising collection, collation and compilation of military wisdom and thoughts as experienced and articulated by famous warriors and thinkers from across the world and all ages.These pages in your hands encapsule almost all the facets...

Scribes Divided presents an anthology of fifty-three memorable flash fiction stories. Ranging from comedy to horror to romance and from the supernatural to the super-real, these ultra-short tales will stop you in your tracks. In this book, award-winning authors from around the world will terrorize, mesmerize, and tantalize you into forgetting for a moment your Existential Dread.

Extremophiles are known to thrive under harsh environmental conditions. Many extremophilic bio-products are already used as life-saving drugs. Recent technological advancements of systems biology have opened the door to explore these organisms anew as sources of products that might prove useful in clinical, environmental and drug development.

When a pro baseball player sails back to his seaside hometown for a business deal, memories of a passionate, romantic night come flooding back . . . and this time, he can't seem to resist. When Lily Doyle spots her high school crush Aiden Flynn on the inbound ferry, she knows trouble is about...

Dion believes in reincarnation and knows she has met her soulmate. The psychic told her. Hundreds of years ago they were together but fate ripped them apart. Fate brought them together again. The Tarot cards have confirmed this again and again. The Lovers. Feelings of love, possession and even jealousy...

Kool draws on recent research to illustrate that whilst the control of violence is a reaction to aggression, nonviolence is, by contrast, an active behaviour. The book explores a wide survey of theories and examples, spanning ideas in cognition, motivation and behaviour that will provide students with an engaging entry point to the subject.

This book contains the proceedings of a symposium held at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 16-20 June 1986. The seed for this symposium arose from a group of physiologists , soU scientists and biochemists that met in Leningrad, USSR in July 1975 at the 12th Botanical Conference...

Nowadays, any person using a personal computer benefits from the developments in computer graphics. Operating systems and application programs with Graphical User Interfaces (GUls) belong to the simplest applications of computer graphics. Visualizations techniques, ranging from simple histograms to...

This book is a collection of inspirational words, phrases, and expressive animal line-art images; to help relax the weary soul from those exhausting and arduous days. It is intended to create a smile and ultimately relax. At some point, we all have zany hectic days; it’s an inherent part...