Category: Encyclopedias

By David Coghlan, Mary Brydon-Miller

Motion study is a time period used to explain a relatives of comparable techniques that combine concept and motion with a aim of addressing vital organizational, neighborhood, and social matters including those that event them. It specializes in the construction of parts for collaborative studying and the layout, enactment and evaluate of freeing activities via combining motion and study, mirrored image and motion in an ongoing cycle of cogenerative wisdom. whereas the roots of those methodologies return to the Nineteen Forties, there was a dramatic raise in learn output and adoption in collage curricula over the last decade. this is often now a space of excessive recognition between teachers and researchers from a number of fields — specifically enterprise and association reports, schooling, well-being care, nursing, improvement experiences, and social and group paintings. This encyclopedia brings jointly the numerous strands of motion learn and addresses the interaction among those disciplines by way of featuring a state of the art evaluation and accomplished breakdown of the main tenets and strategies of motion examine in addition to detailing the paintings of key theorists and participants to motion learn.

By David J. Leonard

Latinos are the quickest transforming into inhabitants in the US this present day. This two-volume encyclopedia strains the background of Latinos within the usa from colonial occasions to the current, concentrating on their impression at the country in its ancient improvement and present tradition. "Latino background and tradition" covers the myriad ethnic teams that make up the Latino inhabitants. It explores matters comparable to exertions, felony and unlawful immigration, conventional and immigrant tradition, health and wellbeing, schooling, political activism, artwork, literature, and kin, in addition to historic occasions and advancements. A-Z entries disguise eras, members, businesses and associations, severe occasions in U.S. background and the effect of the Latino inhabitants, groups and ethnic teams, and key towns and areas. each one access comprises pass references and bibliographic citations, and a accomplished index and illustrations increase the textual content.

By Michael M. Woolfson

This booklet lines the heritage of principles in regards to the nature of subject and likewise the way in which that mankind has used fabric assets that the realm deals. beginning with the information of historic civilizations that air, earth, fireplace and water have been the fundamental components of all subject, it strains the improvement of the technology of chemistry starting in the ranks of the alchemists. First, the assumption of components grew after which the atomic nature of topic used to be demonstrated. Physicists had entered the scene, displaying the character of atoms when it comes to primary debris after which introducing the idea that of wave-particle duality that altered the elemental techniques of what subject used to be. ultimately the physicists found a panoply of primary debris, a few saw inside of atom-smashing machines and the lifestyles of others basically postulated. In parallel with the above there's a description of assorted different types of topic because it impacts lifestyle - together with the character of subject linked to lifestyles itself. the best way that early guy used the fabrics without delay given by way of nature, corresponding to stone, wooden and animal skins, is by means of fabrics requiring a few procedure to be hired - e.g. metals which come with bronze and in addition concrete. a few vital sleek fabrics are mentioned, resembling artificial fibres and plastics and semiconductors, and in all probability very important destiny items from new advancements in nanotechnology.

By Prigogine I.

The matter of time in physics and chemistry is heavily with regards to the formula of the second one legislations of thermodynamics. for that reason one other attainable identify of this lecture might have been: "the macroscopic and microscopic facets of the second one legislations of thermodynamics".

By Thomas Riggs

By Atul Tiwari

''This concise encyclopedia comprises severe details on silicones (i.e., polysiloxanes) which are commercially to be had for top functionality functions. even if, voluminous literature is obtainable to readers, notwithstanding; very important info is tough to discover because it continues to be scattered. This booklet has been compiled for a huge readership and comprises conscientiously screened chapters on leading edge applied sciences to be had in the sector of silicones. The e-book includes 3 sections: advancements, characterization and functions of silicones.In the 1st part, chapters are integrated that specify a variety of leading edge options followed through chemists for the synthesis of novel silicone fabrics. within the moment part, chapters describe the fashionable analytical options which are handy for the characterization of silicones and allied fabrics. This part offers one-stop answer for scientists, who're trying to find the great details and information extracted from NMR, FTIR, Raman, XPS and thermal research on a variety of silicones. the ultimate part explores present program components of silicones. quite a few makes use of of silicones similar to in tender electronics, touch lens, membranes, maxillofacial prosthetics, fiber optics, tissue engineering, microfluidic and biopharmaceuticals are defined intensive and element. ''-- Read more...

By Edward D English

Having already released Encyclopedia of the center Ages,by Matthew Bunson, in 1995 (now out of print), evidence On dossier bargains this new paintings via a professor of medieval background on the collage of California-Santa Barbara. It covers the period of time from the overdue old international to approximately 1500 C.E and comprises occasions, humans, associations, and tradition in western and jap Europe, Scandinavia, North Africa, Byzantium, and the close to East. The 2,000 entries speak about major humans, paintings, politics, literature, faith, economics, legislation, technology, and battle in an A-Z layout. The articles diversity in size from a number of sentences to at least one web page. All have quite a few cross-references and an inventory of additional studying that incorporates either present and vintage articles and books. There also are 122 black-and-white illustrations, 19 maps, and 33 genealogical charts of the ruling homes of Europe. The volumes finish with designated lists of the entire rulers of a number of the kingdoms, a 50-page bibliography, and a complete index.

By Heidi Burgess

In the earlier twenty years, clash resolution—which comprises such negotiation concepts as mediation and arbitration—has grown speedily as a scholarly box. progressively more everyone is discovering that those suggestions supply a good and competitively priced technique of settling own, organizational, enterprise, neighborhood, and overseas disputes. Encyclopedia of clash answer is the 1st of its type and provides the entire strategies, ideas, info, and assets important to this crucial box.

Topics coated contain occasions, humans, corporations, and coaching and educational courses. it is a invaluable reference paintings for college students, mom and dad, academics, and company humans, in addition to mediators and different clash answer professionals.

By Teresa (Teri) L. Thompson

From the dynamics of interpersonal verbal exchange among overall healthiness pros and clients to worldwide command-and-control in the course of public wellbeing and fitness emergencies that pass foreign borders, the sphere of future health verbal exchange bridges many disciplines and consists of efforts from the micro to the macro. It comprises navigating own, cultural, and political complexities and a capability to distill complicated technical technological know-how into speedy and simply understood phrases for prepared distribution by means of the mass media--or to anyone sufferer or to the mum or dad of an unwell child. 

Despite an abundance of textbooks, really good monographs, and educational handbooks, this is the first encyclopedic reference paintings during this zone, masking the breadth of concept and study on well-being verbal exchange, in addition to their useful application.

Features:

• Nearly six hundred unique articles are geared up A-to-Z within a three-volume set to supply finished insurance of this interesting box, together with such themes as theories and learn traditions; overview and overview; cultural complexities; excessive danger and certain populations; message layout and campaigns; provider/patient interplay concerns; media concerns; and more.
• All articles have been in particular commissioned for this paintings, signed and authored by means of key figures within the box, and finish with go reference hyperlinks and recommendations for extra examining.
• Appendices contain a source advisor with annotated lists of vintage books and articles, journals, institutions, and sites; a thesaurus of specialised phrases; and a Chronology delivering an summary and background of the sector.
• A thematic Reader’s consultant teams comparable articles via wide subject parts as one convenient seek characteristic at the e-Reference platform, which additionally incorporates a finished index of seek phrases.

This A-to-Z three-volume reference comes in either print and on-line codecs and is a must have for libraries and researchers who search complete insurance of the speculation, examine, and purposes of overall healthiness communication.

By Arie Y. Lewin and Melvin F. Shakun (Auth.)