Specification for tunnelling

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Specification for Tunnelling, is a standard industry document for tunnelling contracts and forms the basis of tunnelling specifications for projects throughout the world..

Age of inference

This book explores cultivating a scientific mindset for critical thinking and informed decision-making. It guides educators in shifting to student-centered, evidence-based STEM instruction, aligning with modern educational frameworks in the “Age of Inference.”

Transnational cinema solidarity

After the 1973 coup that put an end to the socialist government of Salvador Allende, most Chilean filmmakers went into exile. Dispersed all over the world, they made more than two hundred fiction films, documentaries, animations, videos, and works for television. José Miguel Palacios builds upon...

Family and community engagement in charter schools

This book, part of the series on Family, School and Community Partnerships, explores family and community engagement in charter schools. It includes seven chapters by various scholars, examining how charter schools and their policies impact engagement. It offers practical strategies and broadens ...

Curriculum windows redux

This book explores how curriculum texts and theorists can inform modern education. The authors examine key works, offering insights into curriculum, teaching, and leadership. This final book in the series provides a scholarly view of 33 books that should have been included in the previous volumes.

Winning through platforms

Every company needs a platform to thrive. How can you succeed when your markets get platform-crowded? This book – a how-to-win playbook – shows you the way.

The short guide to community development

The only up-to-date, accessibly written short guide to community development, this third edition offers an invaluable and authoritative introduction. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture, it will equip readers with an understanding of the history and theory ...

Affirming identity, advancing belonging, and amplifying voice in sororities and fraternities

This book explores identity development in fraternities and sororities amid calls for racial justice and inclusion. Centered on amplifying voice, affirming identity, and advancing belonging, it highlights diverse student experiences and challenges systemic oppression.

Real talk

This book provides a foundation for understanding and engaging in difficult dialogues, emphasizing their power to inspire transformative change. It covers the impact of power, belonging, motivation, and defensiveness on dialogues, and includes case studies and practical skills for engaging in aut...

Certificate of cloud security knowledge (ccsk v5) study guide

An estate planner's guide to buy-sell agreements for the closely held business, fourth edition

An Estate Planner's Guide to Buy-Sell Agreements for the Closely Held Business is a comprehensive guide to buy-sell agreements for estate planning attorneys and other professionals who advise closely held businesses and their owners. It includes a detailed discussion of the objectives of a buy-se...

Contemporary pioneers in teaching and learning

This volume traces the socialization, professional development, and career paths of contemporary pioneers in education and psychology through interviews. Scholars share how their childhood and mentors influenced their theoretical paths and research.

The spirit within / el espíritu inherente

This volume, coinciding with the opening of permanent Art of the Americas galleries at the Walters Art Museum in 2025, examines how, for people in the Indigenous Americas, materials had and continue to have a life of their own.Ancient and modern craftspeople shaped jade, gold, feathers, and clay ...

Real classrooms, real teachers

This book helps teachers adapt to new social studies standards, emphasizing critical thinking, inquiry, interaction, and expression. It provides examples and ideas for grades 3-8, including real-life lesson vignettes, sample lesson plans, and suggestions for texts and materials.

The early years of leadership

The Early Years of Leadership: The Journey Begins features stories and research from global scholars, offering practical strategies for aspiring and novice school principals. It includes reflective activities and discussion questions, making it a valuable resource for school administrators and ed...

Replumbing the city

Moving between shower drains, aqueducts, rain gardens, and even kitchen sinks, Replumbing the City traces the enormous urban waterscape of Los Angeles in a state of flux. For more than a century, the city of Los Angeles has relied on faraway water for the vast majority of its municipal supply, bu...

Contemporary pioneers in human learning and development

This volume traces the socialization, professional development, and career paths of contemporary pioneers in education and psychology through interviews. Scholars share how their childhood and mentors influenced their theoretical paths and research.

It’s not that radical

From a star of the climate justice movement, a fresh, radical perspective for real climate action and “an indispensable toolkit for a new generation of activists” (Naomi Klein).  For too long, representations of climate action in the mainstream media have been white-washed, green-washed and dilu...

George seferis

In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the poems published in Princeton's earlier bilingual edition, George Seferis: Collected Poems (expand...

Drama of multilingualism

This book synthesizes key topics in multilingualism, including translanguaging, language policy, and bilingual education. The author, an immigrant, integrates personal experiences and interviews with experts to highlight the impact of multilingualism on immigrants.

Pipeline cinema

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Pipeline Cinema explores the intertwined histories of documentary film and the oil industry in mid-twentieth century Iran and Ira...

Children and the climate migration crisis

Subverting eco-anxiety and establishing ways we can empower children around the globe, this book takes a holistic approach to bring together the relevancy and impact of forced migration and climate resilience, underpinned by a social emotional approach to overall wellbeing, adjustment, and adapta...

We still here

In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means—and how we take steps to get there.

Women, politics and the public sphere

Women, Politics and the Public Sphere is a socio-historical analysis of the relationship between women, politics and the public sphere. It looks at the fault-lines established in the eighteenth century for later developments in social and political discourse and considers the implications for the...

Diversity as strategic opportunity

This book explores the principle of equality, emphasizing both protection against discrimination and the promotion of diversity. It provides a multidisciplinary overview of methods and tools used by administrations to address practical diversity challenges.

Unruly penelopes and the ghosts

Studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada since the1970s. These contributors suggest that the artistic and cultural flowering Canada is experiencing at the beginning of the twenty-first century is based on the dismantlement of images constructed to r...

Understanding affordability

For many younger and lower-income people, housing affordability continues to worsen. Based on the academic research of two distinguished housing economists – and stimulated by working with governments across the world - this wide-ranging book sets out clear theoretical and empirical frameworks t...

The complete guide to college transfer

The Insider’s Guide That Takes the Confusion Out of Transferring “Jaime Smith turns what feels like a maze into a map.” — Jeffrey Selingo, NYT bestselling author of Who Gets In and Why Over a million students embark on the journey of transferring colleges each year — from community colleges to ...

Online anti-rape activism

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. This book examines the nature, use and scope of online spaces for anti-rape activism, offering a critical commentary on its limitations and potentials.

The tourism area life cycle

The Tourism Area Life Cycle model has been cited and used by academics and those in the industry for over 40 years. This book provides an overview of the contribution of the model, its strengths and weaknesses, and particularly its relevance in the 21st century. The final section considers revisi...

The creative phd

Doctorates awarded based on artefact and exegeses are a minority enrolment which suffer from wildly diverse examination expectations and assumptions about quality. Widening the disciplinary parameters and currency of this kind of doctorate The Creative PhD is the first book that challenges the st...

Artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence: Why and How it is Revolutionizing Healthcare Management identifies a roadmap for the appropriate introduction of artificial intelligence in healthcare organizations that responds to the need of decision-makers and managers to have a clear picture of how to move in the dev...

The philosophy of transhumanism

Transhumanism is an international movement which anticipates humans developing posthuman capacities in the near future.This work provides an introduction to transhumanism and the ethical and philosophical issues raised by radical human enhancement. The book investigates these questions in a way t...

The cybersecurity workforce of tomorrow

The Cybersecurity Workforce of Tomorrow discusses the current requirements of the cybersecurity worker and analyses the ways in which these roles may change in the future as attacks from hackers, criminals and enemy states become increasingly sophisticated.

Teacher development for content-based language education

This book brings together findings on content-based teacher education from international contexts to help prepare teachers for this challenging setting. It offers a solid grounding in theories and applications of content-based approaches, promoting further teacher-researcher collaboration and pro...

Second language pragmatics and young language learners

This book brings together L2 pragmatics research in the under-explored context of EFL primary classrooms. Presenting studies from across Europe, the chapters provide a rich exploration of young learners’ pragmatic performance, awareness and development, classroom practices and the views of teache...

The gate of memory

An anthology of poetry on Nikkei incarceration, written by descendants of the WWII prisons and camps A tribute to the 150,000 people incarcerated by the United States and Canada during WWII, this anthology is the first of its kind. The poetry expresses a range of experiences and perspectives fro...

A brief history of credit in uk higher education

This timely book is the first to address the role of credit in UK higher education. It provides an overview and history of the development of credit in the UK HE sector and highlights how credit can be a vehicle for widening access and student choice, for curricular flexibility and mobility of le...

Prisons of the world

How do governments and societies use prison to respond to underlying and fundamental social, economic and political issues? Using data on world imprisonment and numerous international examples from his personal experience, Coyle, a prison practitioner, academic and international expert, discusses...

Meeting the needs of reunited refugee families

This book explores the gap between policy, practice and academic literature within language learning for refugees and argues that a multilingual approach, which combines translanguaging principles, decolonising methodology and linguistic hospitality, provides a more accessible starting point than...

Transportation engineering

Transportation Engineering provides a cohesive exploration of the transports of people, goods and information throughout history, up to the present date. It undertakes the exploration of the economics of transport and the importance of considering price, convenience and safety of existing and new...

Social studies instruction, learning, and assessment in the contemporary world

The book reflects that social studies teaching should be recursive and fluid, allowing for movement forward, backward, inward, and outward, thus creating opportunities for students to examine events, not just through the rote memorization of dominant facts and figures, but through critical inquir...

Diversity and discrimination in research organizations

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Diversity and Discrimination in Research Organizations considers whether and to what extent the social identity of the academic workforce affects their individual integration in research organizations.

Rethinking hospitality and tourism education

This book offers research, case studies and examples of best practice that address cutting-edge higher education issues. It explores transformative learning practices in hospitality and tourism education and the focus on digital technology and innovative pedagogy provides a practical, engaging an...

Organizing for societal grand challenges

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges unpacks how diverse forms of organizing help tackle-or reinforce-grand challenges,while emphasizing the need for researchers to expand their methodological repertoire and r...

The ultimate guide to compact cases

Filled with annotated examples, checklists, and writing prompts, this practical guide takes readers through the research, writing, and teaching of short, Compact Cases. Tips are offered for managing student case writing projects, teaching with cases online, using data visualization to enhance stu...

Thermal insulation materials for building applications

This book presents the variations, technical details and capabilities of state-of-the-art of thermal insulation materials for building applications. As a single source of information on all aspects of insulation materials, the reader can make an informed choice and select the necessary insulation...

Rich crime, poor crime

An important and challenging book comprehensively spanning across the establishment of power systems, Rich Crime, Poor Crime is a vital read for academics, professionals and those interested in the fields of history, sociology, criminology, and politics.