Relations, Locations, Positions

Relations, Locations, Positions
Author: Peter Vandenberg
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This anthology for beginning teachers and graduate students in composition studies and other related fields begins with the premise that writing is always social, a dialogue between self and other. This "social turn" not only underscores the value of the writing process by encouraging students to prewrite, draft, and revise together, but, more important, it also focuses on postprocess by foregrounding approaches to teaching writing that highlight the importance of context. Thus, this anthology seeks to move "beyond process" by building on the valuable lessons from process pedagogy and by promoting the idea that writing stands for a radically complex network of phenomena. -- From publisher's description.

The Role, Position and Agency of Cusp States in International Relations

The Role, Position and Agency of Cusp States in International Relations
Author: Marc Herzog
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2014-06-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317666550

This work seeks to develop a new concept with which to analyse the actions and activities of states that tend to be relatively ignored by the discipline of International Relations (IR). As a discipline, IR has a tendency to lean towards the analytically safe. Given the current and recent dynamism of the international system that is both surprising and undesirable. Arranged around the concept of the idea of the Cusp State (and cuspness more generally), the book consists of empirical analysis of eight different countries Brazil, Iran, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan, Turkey and Ukraine, defined as ‘states that lie uneasily on the political and/or normative edge of what is widely believed to be an established region’. By focusing on the importance of comparing groups of states, like states with high degrees of ‘cuspness’, this book argues that it is possible to categorise the world in a fresher and more original way, and one which covers more of the globe than either a systemic or regionalist approach would do. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of Geopolitics, International Security and Regionalism.

Social Stratification

Social Stratification
Author: David B. Grusky
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1196
Release: 2018-05-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 042996319X

The book covers the research on economic inequality, including the social construction of racial categories, the uneven and stalled gender revolution, and the role of new educational forms and institutions in generating both equality and inequality.

Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing

Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
Author: Leszek Rutkowski
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 758
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 331959060X

The two-volume set LNAI 10245 and LNAI 10246 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2017, held in Zakopane, Poland in June 2017. The 133 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 274 submissions. The papers included in the second volume are organized in the following five parts: data mining; artificial intelligence in modeling, simulation and control; various problems of artificial intelligence; special session: advances in single-objective continuous parameter optimization with nature-inspired algorithms; special session: stream data mining.

Physiotherapy for Adult Neurological Conditions

Physiotherapy for Adult Neurological Conditions
Author: Abraham M. Joshua
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 909
Release: 2022-06-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9811902097

This is a comprehensive book on physiotherapy for adult neurological disorders with chapters describing physiotherapy assessment and management for those adult patients in the acute care and rehabilitation units of hospitals or centers. Each chapter additionally provides brief introduction, historical background, etiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, medical and surgical management. The aim is to help build a theoretical foundation on which principles of management are laid, and to improve and update the readers' clinical and therapeutic skills. Improving the overall care and management of patients suffering from adult neurological conditions such as stroke, Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injury, and multiple sclerosis, is the key objective. Supported with ample practical contents (exercise training and therapeutic strategies) and pictures it prepares the readers to effectively manage patients with neurological conditions. The contents of this book will serve as a guide and source of knowledge of both contemporary and advanced treatment techniques for undergraduate and post-graduate students and therapists practicing worldwide in adult neurological physiotherapy.

Employment Location in Regional Economic Planning

Employment Location in Regional Economic Planning
Author: G. M. Lomas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351594354

Originally published in 1970. During the times of planned population movements and new towns, with a growing interest in specifically regional policies by government, this book considers the problems of development within regions. It presents research on the facts and trends of employment generated by the regional economy and its relationship with the size and socio-economic character of local workforce, using the example of the West Midlands as testing ground for policy. The authors come from the viewpoint of needing to develop understanding of population, housing, employment and communications – the way our regional economy and society worked, before organised de-centralisation could be planned appropriately. Within the field of economic planning they ask what analysis of the information available tell us about development possibilities within a region. The book looks at trends in employment growth, the character and distribution of manufacturing industries and service industries and the locational consequences, to build a picture of the regional economic system. It then considers supply and demand and measures the ways towns vary in detailed case studies.

The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader

The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader
Author: Sandra G. Harding
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2004
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780415945011

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations

Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2021-01-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004448047

This edited volume provides a collection of historical and contemporary commodity chain studies placing labor at the centre of their analysis. It represents an important contribution to commodity chain research, but also to the fields of social-economic and global labour history.