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CODESIGN

SIMONE TAFFE / MEGHAN KELLY

CoDesign: People, Participation, Practice explores the past, present, trends, and future potential of codesign and participatory practices globally. Rooted in participatory design traditions, the book emphasizes the importance of inclusivity in the creation of systems, products, services, and technologies, offering a fresh perspective on codesign’s dynamic, multifaceted nature....

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RETURNING LEARNING

SIMONE M. BLOM

Returning Learning explores early school years teachers’ perceptions of nature and how this informs their pedagogy through a posthuman theoretical framework. The theoretical framework is purposefully designed to disrupt dichotomies and reject abuse to marginalised others. In doing so, this book offers a reconceptualisation of learning in environmental education, and education m...

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ECOLOGICAL AMBIVALENCE, COMPLEXITY, AND CHANGE

MÜLLER, EDITED BY SIMONE M.

This book provides a systematic, interdisciplinary analysis of the conflicts, issues, and tensions associated with today’s ecological transformation processes from an Environmental Humanities perspective. It explores the notion of ecological ambivalence, where conflicting reactions, beliefs, or feelings toward public policies or private practices for "saving planet Earth" threa...

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RESEARCHING THE CREATIVE AND CULTURAL INDUSTRIES

SIMONE WESNER

Research into creative and cultural organisations has proliferated, benefitting from insights from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Starting a research journey can be daunting in such a diverse field. This book provides expert insights into research process and practice, with a qualitative focus. The book helps readers to plan, execute, and analyse research, turning their ...

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MUSEUMS AND THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING

SIMONE NATALE

Museums and the History of Computing examines the critical role that cultural organizations, such as museums and galleries, play in shaping ‘digital heritage’: the cultural heritage surrounding computer technology. Focusing on digital technologies as objects and practices that museums collect, exhibit, and preserve for the future, this book highlights how and why museums play a...

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INEQUALITIES, YOUTH, DEMOCRACY AND THE PANDEMIC

SIMONE MADDANU, EMANUELE TOSCANO

This book brings together studies from various locations to examine the growing social problems that have been brought to the fore by the COVID-19 outbreak. Employing both qualitative, theoretical and quantitative methods, it presents the impact of the pandemic in different settings, shedding light on political and cultural realities around the world. With attention to inequali...

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SIMONE WEIL: BASIC WRITINGS

SIMONE WEIL

Simone Weil is one of the most profound and thought-provoking thinkers of the 20th century. A teacher, factory and farm labourer, a political activist at home and abroad, a loving friend, daughter and sister—all these manifest a life devoted to the good in its many forms. Her writings explore the good open to us and the various routes to it, spanning philosophy, politics, scien...

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INTIMATIONS OF CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE ANCIENT GREEKS

SIMONE WEIL

Simone Weil (1909–1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical minds of the twentieth century. She was also a political activist, worked in the Renault car factory in France in the 1930s and fought briefly as an anarchist in the Spanish Civil War, before her tragic early death in England at the age of thirty-four. Her work spans an astonishing v...

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HOW TO LIVE THROUGH A PANDEMIC

SIMONE ABRAM, HELEN LAMBERT AND JUDE ROBINSON

This book explores what anthropology can contribute to an understanding of how people live through pandemics. It reflects on how pandemics are experienced and what we can learn from Covid-19 as well as previous instances that might inform future responses and help to alleviate suffering. The chapters highlight current research and longer-term reflections from different countrie...

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BOUNDARY-BREAKING MISSION

SIMONE MULIERI TWIBELL

How should we bear witness to the gospel in a postmodern world? How do we navigate the turbulent waters of social, cultural, and religious difference in a pluralistic society? How can we minister effectively in multicultural contexts and swim against the unconscious currents of ethnocentrism? These questions compel the church to thoroughly reconsider its priorities and rethink ...

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BOUNDARY-BREAKING MISSION

SIMONE MULIERI TWIBELL

How should we bear witness to the gospel in a postmodern world? How do we navigate the turbulent waters of social, cultural, and religious difference in a pluralistic society? How can we minister effectively in multicultural contexts and swim against the unconscious currents of ethnocentrism? These questions compel the church to thoroughly reconsider its priorities and rethink ...

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ECO-RATIONAL EDUCATION

SIMONE THORNTON

Eco-Rational Education proposes an educational response to climate change, environmental degradation, and desctructive human relations to ecology through the delivery of critical land-responsive environmental education. The book argues that education is a powerful vehicle for both social change and cultural reproduction. It proposes that the prioritisation and integration of en...

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AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION FOR ALLIED HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PROFESSIONS

SIMONE C. BACCHINI

Bringing insights from linguistics to those without a background in this field, An Introduction to Language and Communication for Allied Health and Social Care Professions enables readers to better appreciate the ways in which language functions simultaneously as an instrument to encode and communicate meaning, build and sustain interpersonal relationships, and express identity...

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YOUR GOD IS A DEVOURING FIRE

MICHAEL SIMONE SJ

In the ancient Near East, the distinction between the divine realm and the material world was not always clear. In Mesopotamia, statues, kings, and even cultic utensils could become "gods" in their own right. Certain biblical traditions show this idea as well. Yhwh appears as a human during visitations to Abraham and Jacob (Gen 18:1-2 and 32:25-31). Yhwh also can act through ob...

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MUSIC, PLACE, AND IDENTITY IN ITALIAN URBAN SOUNDSCAPES CIRCA 1550-1860

SIMONE CAPUTO

Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters, contributors explore the complex connections between sound and space within these urban contexts, demonstrating how music a...

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DESIGNING THE ONLINE LEARNING EXPERIENCE

SIMONE C. O. CONCEIÇÃO / LES HOWLES

This book provides instructors with a holistic way of thinking about learners, learning, and online course design. The distinctive strategies derived from an integrated framework for designing the online learning experience help create an experience that is more personalized, engaging, and meaningful for online learners.The focus of this book is on the learners and the design o...

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HOW TO BE AN EDUCATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGIST

KELLY-ANN ALLEN / CHELSEA HYDE / EMILY BERGER / JOE COYNE / SIMONE GINDIDIS / CAMELIA WILKINSON / ZOE A. M

Written in a clear and accessible style, this book presents a wealth of practical information to guide the next generation of educational and developmental psychologists in Australia and New Zealand in pursuing a career in the field. There are over 800 educational and developmental psychologists in Australia, and over 200 educational psychologists in New Zealand, who represent ...

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SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LIFELONG LEARNING

SIMONE E. PFENNINGER / JULIA FESTMAN / DAVID SINGLETON

Language fundamentally defines and distinguishes us as humans, as members of society, and as individuals. As we go through life, our relationship with language and with learning shifts and changes, but it remains significant. This book is an up-to-date resource for graduate students and researchers in second language (L2) acquisition who are interested in language learning acro...

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THE POLITICS OF PRISON CROWDING

SIMONE SANTORSO

The Politics of Prison Crowding investigates recent transformations in Italy’s penal system to make the key analytical observation that conditions of overcrowding have become the ‘new normal’ under which the modern prison system continues to operate and deliver punishment. Engaging with the politics of crowding thus entails a direct and pertinent engagement with the modern stat...

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CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTION

SIMONE BELLI

This fascinating book explores the different methodologies, resources and strategies that have been used to study emotion, and identifies emerging trends and research perspectives in the field. Emotion is a subject that has been thoroughly investigated in all fields of social and behavioural sciences. And yet the more we have attempted to individualize emotions and set limits t...

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DOING ANTHROPOLOGY

SIMONE DENNIS / ANDREW DAWSON

This textbook is written by well-established anthropology professors for, and with, their undergraduate students. It explores what anthropological thinking is, what anthropological approaches are, and how these are applied in real-world settings. It provides a thorough introduction to key methods, theories and the disciplinary value of contemporary anthropology. This book delib...

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FOOD LOSS AND WASTE POLICY

SIMONE BUSETTI

This book examines policy responses to food waste and loss, an issue of significant, global concern, with one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted. Investigating food waste and loss under an interdisciplinary lens, the contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches, including quantitative and qualitative techniques, drawing on in-depth case st...

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DANTE ALIVE

FRANCESCO CIABATTONI AND SIMONE MARCHESI

The essays collected here join in, and contribute to, the current reflection on Dante’s vitality today in a critical, multidisciplinary vein. Their intervention comes at a particularly sensitive juncture in the history of Dante’s global reception and cultural reuse. Dante today is as alive as ever. A cultural icon no less than a cultural product, Dante’s imaginative universe en...

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LEGAL FEMINISM

ANNA SIMONE

The volume offers an overview of the theories and practices of Italian legal feminism, presenting both the main themes addressed and the main protagonists of Italian feminist legal theory. The book is divided into two parts. The first is dedicated to deepening crucial issues that directly concern women’s knowledge and lives from a feminist perspective, such as the interconnecti...

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THE POWER OF OPPOSITION

SIMONE WEGMANN

Proposing a novel way to look at the consolidation of democratic regimes, this book presents important theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of democratic consolidation, legislative organization, and public opinion. Theoretically, Simone Wegmann brings legislatures into focus as the main body representing both winners and losers of democratic elections. Empirical...

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WHERE IS ART?

SIMONE DOUGLAS

Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly characterized by the problem of where and when it is situated. While much advanced artistic speculation of the twentieth-century was aligned with the question “what is art?,” a key question for many artists and thinkers in the twenty-fir...

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ECOLOGIES OF INCEPTION

SIMONE FERRACINA

Responding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Ecologies of Inception re-thinks potentiality—an object’s ability to change—in architecture and design. The book problematizes the still-prevailing modern paradigm of design practice: the technical tabula rasa, a tendency to begin from scratch and use ra...

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TEACHING DEMOCRACY IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY

GILBERT BURGH / SIMONE THORNTON

The strength of democracy lies in its ability to self-correct, to solve problems and adapt to new challenges. However, increased volatility, resulting from multiple crises on multiple fronts – humanitarian, financial, and environmental – is testing this ability. By offering a new framework for democratic education, Teaching Democracy in an Age of Uncertainty begins a dialogue w...

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EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHERS‘ PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE IN MATHEMATICS

SIMONE DUNEKACKE

This edited volume presents cutting-edge research on the professional competence of early childhood mathematics teachers. It considers professional knowledge, motivational-affective dispositions, skills and performance in early childhood mathematics and outlines future fields of research in this area. The book argues that it is essential for early childhood teachers to prepare ...

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LANGUAGES AND SOCIAL COHESION

GABRIELA MEIER / SIMONE SMALA

A critical and systematic review of existing research located at the crossroads of sociology, social psychology and applied linguistics, Languages and Social Cohesion offers valuable insights for social contexts in which decision makers and researchers grapple with questions of social cohesion in the presence of linguistic diversity. Based on a thematic analysis of 285 studies ...

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