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Sio-Iong Ao, "Transactions on Engineering Technologies: Proceedings of World Congress on Engineering 2021 "
English | ISBN: 9811935785 | 2023 | 121 pages | EPUB | 20 MB
This book contains a selection of revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the international conference on Advances in Engineering Technologies and Physical Science is held in London, UK, during July 7-9, 2021.
This book demonstrates revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the conference. Topics covered include mechanical engineering, bioengineering, Internet engineering, image engineering, wireless networks, knowledge engineering, manufacturing engineering, and industrial applications. The book offers the state of the art of tremendous advances in engineering technologies and physical science and applications and also serves as an excellent reference work for researchers and graduate students working with/on engineering technologies and physical science and applications.
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Delfín Ortega-Sánchez, "Transdisciplinarity in Citizenship Education: Challenges, Advances, and Research Proposals "
English | ISBN: 303169208X | 2024 | 155 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
This edited volume provides a thorough theoretical reflection and practical application of the concept of transdisciplinarity, crucial for understanding and effectively addressing contemporary complex socio-scientific issues, and in fostering robust social and civic competencies. From this viewpoint, its seven chapters reveal that such competencies can be developed through didactic-disciplinary areas that, at first glance, may seem removed from the traditional focuses of scientific education.
The volume not only presents evidence of the necessity for cross-disciplinarity and the importance of integrating various disciplines into the educational process but also details specific didactic approaches based on holistic and contextualized learning. These approaches, especially beneficial for pre-service and active teachers in primary and secondary education, enable a more effective response to current challenges, promoting an educational model that prepares students to act as informed, critical, and engaged citizens in an increasingly complex and globalized society.
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Heidi Flavian, "Transdisciplinary Teaching in Inclusive Schools: Promoting Transdisciplinary Education for Learners with Special Needs "
English | ISBN: 3031525086 | 2024 | 179 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book offers opportunities for better understanding teachers' unique challenges when planning teaching sessions for learners with special needs, based on the transdisciplinary approach. The work also presents some of the core learning strategies teachers may incorporate into their teaching processes in order to promote transdisciplinary learning among learners with special needs.
From a theoretical perspective, this book discusses a variety of advantages and disadvantages transdisciplinary educators may encounter, and promotes educators' development of their own vision of this area. Although the concept of special needs is often over-generalized, this book relates to the most common types of special needs among learners who study in inclusive schools: learners from different cultural background, learners with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disability (ADHD), learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and learners with sensory or motor challenges. A special chapter is dedicatedto each of those groups in order to closely examine how teachers can teach those learners according to the transdisciplinary approach in practice, in inclusive classrooms. While each chapter presents different perspectives of learners with special needs, the book's summary integrates them all and highlights the commonalities between the various needs.
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Irina Mützelburg, "Transferring Asylum Norms to EU Neighbours: Multi-Scalar Policies and Practices in Ukraine "
English | ISBN: 3031045270 | 2022 | 268 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book analyses why the Ukrainian state established asylum laws and policies in the thirty years since 1991, even though the number of asylum seekers was very low. International and non-governmental organisations transferred international asylum norms to Ukraine. Various state and non-state actors participated in this process, translating, spreading, and resisting those norms. In many cases, legislative adoption was driven by domestic politicians' pursuit of recognition by international organisations, such as the European Union and the Council of Europe, and by their desire to meet conditionality requirements. NGOs sought to influence administrative practices, alternating between confrontational and conciliatory, formal and informal approaches, and often relying on personal contacts. Actors used and shifted between scales in order to transfer norms or resist transfer. In the process, they produced, renegotiated, and confirmed those scales. For instance, NGOs resorting to the European Court of Human Rights to prevent refoulement placed the European scale above the national scale. This book offers a new multi-actor and multi-scalar analysis of policy transfer.
Transformation from Colonial Chemist to Global Health and Beauty Retailer: A S Watson
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811251525 | 331 Pages | PDF (True) | 118 MB
A S Watson Group (ASW), its health and beauty retail arm commonly known as 'Watsons' in Asia, traces its humble beginnings back to a matshed colonial apothecary shop called the Hong Kong Dispensary (the 'Dispensary') when it was set up back in 1841. This book unlocks the secrets and transformations of ASW from a colonial chemist to the number three global player in health and beauty retailing. How was ASW able to pull through each and every global or national crisis it faced in the 180 years to emerge more robust and vibrant?
Yuhao Jiang, "Transformation of Platform Governance in China: The Politics of Technology Routes "
English | ISBN: 9819964555 | 2023 | 282 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The admiration of science and technology and the emphasis on political stability are two sides of the same coin in China. Therefore, China is more likely to take aggressive measures to promote or inhibit platform development than the United States and the European Union. But the uncertainty in the decision-making process is worrisome and calls for a broader discussion of the multiple political consequences of technology.
Transformation: The Corporate Executive's Guide to Building a Thriving Consulting Practice by Tyler Mitchell
English | February 26, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DYNLVT4L | 325 pages | EPUB | 8.64 Mb
UNLOCK YOUR CONSULTING POTENTIAL AND LEAVE THE CORPORATE WORLD BEHIND
Are you a corporate executive dreaming of independence but struggling with the transition to consulting? Do you feel trapped by lingering employee mindsets or long for a way to package your expertise into premium offers clients eagerly buy? Imagine transforming your corporate knowledge into a thriving consulting practice in just 12 weeks-not with generic business advice, but with a structured metamorphosis approach that's rooted in the truth that consulting greatness emerges from solved identity tensions, not just applied expertise.Here's What You'll Discover:The Identity Crucible: Learn how to shed limiting corporate employee thinking and adopt the consultant authority psychology that positions you as an expert, not just another service provider.Expertise Gold Mining: Discover how to identify, isolate, and articulate your most valuable corporate knowledge-often expertise you take for granted-and transform it into consulting assets clients will pay premium rates for.Value-Based Economics: Master the psychological shift from salary mindset to value-based pricing that allows you to charge what your expertise is truly worth, not just what your hourly corporate rate might suggest.Client Magnetism: Develop precise targeting that identifies and attracts ideal clients who specifically value your expertise, creating natural demand without aggressive selling or constant marketing.The META Framework: Learn about the Corporate-to-Consultant Metamorphosis Method that's transforming careers by guiding corporate professionals through both the identity shift and practical implementation other consulting resources miss.Premium Offer Architecture: This book will guide you step by step from uncertainty about packaging your knowledge to confidently offering five tiered consulting services that address different client needs and commitment levels, offering you practical tools and frameworks to transform corporate expertise into market-ready consulting offers.Who Should Read This Book?
If you're a mid to senior-level professional leaving an established corporate role who's struggling with the psychological and practical challenges of starting a consulting business, TRANSFORMATION is written specifically for you. Whether you're facing identity dissonance, pricing anxiety, or uncertainty about how to package and market your knowledge without corporate infrastructure, this book offers a transformation-focused approach that will help you build a thriving practice aligned with your expertise and values.Here's What You'll Achieve:Authority Identity: Develop authentic confidence in your expertise without the validation of a corporate structure or titlePremium Positioning: Create consulting offers that command rates multiple times higher than your effective corporate hourly compensationClient Clarity: Identify and attract ideal clients who value your specific expertise and eagerly engage with your premium offersBusiness Architecture: Design a comprehensive suite of consulting services that provides multiple revenue streams and client entry pointsSustainable Freedom: Build a consulting practice that delivers both financial success and the lifestyle flexibility that drove you to leave corporate lifeImpact Amplification: Make a more meaningful contribution with your expertise than was possible within corporate constraints
John S. Lyons, "Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management: Managing the Business of Personal Change"
English | ISBN: 3031077806 | 2022 | 332 pages | EPUB | 16 MB
Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management (TCOM) is a comprehensive, multi-level conceptual framework for system management and improvement. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of TCOM by using person-centered, collaborative processes for decision making.
The issue with current human services systems is that there is a lack of access to care and that the system is focused on providing services as cheaply as possible. TCOM focuses on helping the greatest number of people while maximizing effectiveness.
By fully understanding the nature of the business of helping, the author seeks to offer ways to create and sustain effective and positively evolving helping systems. He lays out a series of goal-directed social change processes which allow people at every level of a system to begin a shift towards transformational practice and the emergence of transformational systems.
Building on three decades of work in a large community of scholars and practitioners, this book will represent the first full description of the conceptual framework and will appeal to an interdisciplinary group of scholars across nonprofit management, healthcare management, and social work.
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Heather Burns, "Transformative Sustainability Pedagogy: Designing and Facilitating Eco-Spiritual Learning"
English | ISBN: 303156751X | 2024 | 197 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
This book offers stories and tools for designing and facilitating transformative sustainability pedagogy and explores how educators can intentionally design and facilitate eco-spiritual learning that promotes healing and wholeness. In these times of accelerating climate change and systemic injustice, we need learning spaces that both challenge our unsustainable dominant paradigms and support us in re-learning how to live in relational and regenerative ways. Rooted in the paradigm of interconnection and relationality, this book offers practical ways to design and facilitate learning toward more just, ecological, and spiritual ways of being. The author weaves together a variety of personal stories of teaching and learning, an exploration of how new science can be applied to transformative sustainability pedagogy, and eco-spiritual practices to help educators nurture wholeness and connection in themselves and in learning spaces.
Robert Muharremi, "Transforming a Guerilla into a Regular Army: From the Kosovo Liberation Army to the Army of the Republic of Kosovo"
English | ISBN: 3031628160 | 2024 | 131 pages | EPUB | 423 KB
This book sheds light on a particularly complex aspect of post-conflict security reform: the transformation of the Kosovo Liberation Army into the Kosovo Security Force, a unique political and legal process. The authors demonstrate how different international and domestic actors played a role in this process and navigated a complex web of international law, political interests and the requirements to maintain peace and security in Kosovo and the region. It makes a special contribution to ongoing discussions on state development and peacebuilding, while acting as a case study for upcoming post-conflict scenarios.
Transition to Sustainable Energy Technologies: Pathways, Sources, Mobility
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1041050461 | 388 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 147 MB
This book explains the challenges related to global energy transition, focusing on decarbonization, renewable technologies, and sustainable mobility. It offers a comprehensive exploration of integrated socio-economic, environmental, and technological perspectives and provides actionable solutions and practical pathways for transitioning to sustainable energy systems. Designed to be used in short academic courses, this textbook is an excellent foundational text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and environmental sciences taking specialized courses in energy systems, renewable technologies, climate change mitigation, and environmental impacts. It is also a great resource for professionals and policy makers involved in energy projects.
Sarah M. Hart, "Transition with Dignity: School Leaving from the Perspectives of Young Adults with Significant Disabilities"
English | ISBN: 9819723507 | 2024 | 136 pages | EPUB | 1519 KB
This book analyzes the process of leaving school, commonly referred to as 'transition' for young adults with severe, complex, and multiple disabilities. It seeks to challenge prevailing assumptions and offer practical steps towards reversing customary accepted theories, methods, practices, and outcomes. Despite extensive research, policies, and procedures of transition, the reality is that post-school outcomes are worrying for those with significant special needs. Community inclusion depends as much upon in-school procedures and support systems as it does the inclusivity of society itself. This book directly addresses these concerns by examining the experiences of young adults living through their transitions in two countries, Aotearoa New Zealand and the USA.
Engaging and highly readable case narratives bring fresh insights on the diversity of disability experiences, portraying the under-explored opportunities involved in a transition with dignity. Disability is an often overlooked aspect of one's intersectional identity. Post-school transition is therefore positioned less as a procedural function of leaving school and more so an urgent matter of social justice. Readers will benefit from the transformative framing of post-school transition based on the capability approach. Genuine opportunities within the transition of young adults with significant disabilities and those who support them may promote a thriving life for all.
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Angel Urbina-García, "Transitions to School: Perspectives and Experiences from Latin America: Research, Policy, and Practice "
English | ISBN: 3030989348 | 2022 | 186 pages | EPUB | 396 KB
This book showcases the quality work that Latin American researchers have done on transition to school in Latin American countries by offering the English-speaking world, first-hand access to some Latin American transitions research, practices, and policies. This book shows the work carried out in countries such as Brazil, Chile, Cuba, and Mexico with regards to the way in which the transition to primary school is experienced from different stakeholders' perspectives, and how Latin American educational policies and cultural practices shape such an important process for stakeholders. This book was importantly framed by the COVID-19 pandemic which placed the world in a global health emergency, and it is our hope that this book will trigger future international collaborations between researchers, policy makers, and practitioners interested in transitions which could help produce a wealth of empirical evidence to inform educational policies and transitions practices across the world. Building networks where diverse experiences are valued and respected, as well as analysed, can help provide a platform that supports educators and researchers as they continue their work and branch out in new and challenging directions.
Christopher Rundle, "Translation Under Communism"
English | ISBN: 3030796639 | 2022 | 502 pages | EPUB | 720 KB
This book examines the history of translation under European communism, bringing together studies on the Soviet Union, including Russia and Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Poland. In any totalitarian regime maintaining control over cultural exchange is strategically important, so studying these regimes from the perspective of translation can provide a unique insight into their history and into the nature of their power. This book is intended as a sister volume to Translation Under Fascism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and adopts a similar approach of using translation as a lens through which to examine history. With a strong interdisciplinary focus, it will appeal to students and scholars of translation studies, translation history, censorship, translation and ideology, and public policy, as well as cultural and literary historians of Eastern Europe, Soviet communism, and the Cold War period.
Michael Hornsby, "Transmitting Minority Languages: Complementary Reversing Language Shift Strategies "
English | ISBN: 3030879097 | 2022 | 389 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
This book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the transmission of minority and heritage languages is carried out in a range of sociolinguistic contexts. When traditional modes of intergenerational transmission begin to break down, minority language and diaspora communities resort to other modes of transmission, out of necessity, to complement traditional mechanisms and secure language maintenance. This volume brings together a broad range of studies of these alternative modes of transmission, examining the complex and diverse practical, ideological and personal challenges that arise in different settings. Beyond addressing the dynamics of language use within the home and family, the book also emphasises the importance of the participation of the minority community itself in language and cultural transmission. These mechanisms and initiatives, sometimes overlooked or dismissed in the academic literature, will prove to be essential in maintaining and ensuring the survival of minority and heritage languages into the 21st century and beyond. The twelve chapters in the book are divided into four sections (intergenerational transmission; transmission in post-traditional families; alternatives to 'traditional' transmission; and transmission in diasporic contexts), and the language contexts, both minoritised and diasporic, which are discussed include Basque, Breton, Galician, Guernesais, Irish, Māori, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Sorbian and Spanish. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language acquisition, heritage language maintenance and revitalization, and language policy and planning.
Cecilia Lwiindi Nedziwe, "Transnational Activities of Women-Focused Civil Society Actors in Southern Africa"
English | ISBN: 3031295366 | 2023 | 292 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book focuses on southern Africa by engaging with 'norms' from various perspectives and how they have proliferated within a neo-liberalising context since the 1990s. It particularly examines gender norms in relation to agency, influence and their impact. Despite growing transnational activities, regional studies analyses have so far maintained a primarily linear logic not incorporative of the increasing interface between state and non-state regionalism in a transnational context since the advent of liberalisation and democratisation. Increasing non-state activities, and their connection to state processes involved in norm creation, adaptation, diffusion and implementation around broad questions of security (including gender security), amount to regional thickening. The book's analytical approach is informed by alternatives to mainstream approaches, emphasising processes rather than linearity inherent in regional international relations studies. The research reveals that transnational activities and regionalisation of gender and women-focused civil society actors are critical for advocacy and diverse representation within intergovernmental policymaking structures at the regional scale.
Marcel Erlinghagen, "Transnational Family Relations of German Emigrants "
English | ISBN: 3658445424 | 2024 | 184 pages | EPUB | 629 KB
Drawing on unique data from the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS), the present book comprises empirical studies on various aspects of recent German emigrants' transnational relationships to core family members, specifically intimate partners, parents, and children. Moreover, we reflect on conceptual and empirical challenges in previous work on transnational family relations, suggesting avenues for future research. We thereby aim to strengthen the integration of two closely related strands of social research - the sociologies of migration and families - and add an important new facet to the study of transnational families more generally.
Zhe Wang, "Transnational Student Return Migration and Megacities in China: Practices of Cityzenship"
English | ISBN: 9819920825 | 2023 | 168 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book is a study of the return migration of overseas Chinese students. By 2018, over 3.5 million Chinese students had returned from overseas universities to China, with the megacities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen representing by far their main destinations. In other words, when overseas students return to China, many do not return to their hometown but usually land, work and settle down in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Their return migration is thus not only transnational, but also internal-urban. This book adopts a multi-level geographical analysis to explore this important phenomenon, exploring why and how returnees choose these three cities and how they experience and interpret their everyday lives in these megacities after their return. In doing so, it highlights the importance of cultural logics and multiscalar thinking of transnational Chinese students' return migration and illuminates how their transnational migration reproduces domestic socio-spatial inequalities. This book brings an important contribution to the fields of Cultural Geography, Urban Geography, Transnationalism, Migration Studies and Citizenship Studies.
David Pendery, "Transnational Taiwan: Crossing Borders into the 21st Century"
English | ISBN: 9811943672 | 2022 | 160 pages | EPUB | 718 KB
This book is a study of transnationalism, focusing on experience of migrants, immigrants, travelers, expatriates, aliens, evacuees, refugees, and nomads in the world, broadly, and Taiwan, particularly. Offering an entirely new framework for what Taiwan as a contested transnational space means for Asia―a heterotopia, in which multiple visions of politics and society can flourish―Dr. Pendery's refreshing vision offers insights for scholars of greater China, international relations, and the economics of the region. Pendery establishes a dialog and debate in the book pitting Samuel P. Huntington, Stephen Toulmin, and Edward W. Said, broadly examining their views of these ideas and issues.
M. R. Dileep, "Transportation Systems for Tourism "
English | ISBN: 3031221265 | 2023 | 374 pages | EPUB | 16 MB
This textbook provides a comprehensive learning resource material for tourism transportation. Exploring the interrelationship between transport and tourism, it demonstrates how different types of transportation systems interact and are combined within the tourism destination framework. It addresses topics such as the geographical aspects of tourism transportation, technological advances in transportation, public transportation in tourism, drive tourism, recreational transportation, and various forms of tourism, including car, rail, coach, water, cycling, and space tourism. Readers will also learn about sustainability aspects, consumer behavior, and tourist behavior modelling. The book offers a valuable asset for graduate as well as master degree students in regional and spatial science, transportation engineering, and tourism and transportation economics, as well as for professionals in the travel, tourism, transport, and hospitality industries who are interested in the link between tourism and transportation, its benefits and impacts. Tourist destinations can strategically use this learning resource to gain a better understanding of the leisure and recreational aspects of the transportation system and consequently boost their appeal to tourists.
