The emerging field of neuroeducation, concerned with the interaction between mind, brain and education, has proved revolutionary in educational research, introducing concepts, methods, and technologies into many advanced institutions around the world. The Educated Brain presents a broad overview of [...]
This anthology presents, for the first time, full texts of the twenty most important works of American legal thought since 1890. Drawing on a course the editors teach at Harvard Law School, the book traces the rise and evolution of a distinctly American form of legal reasoning. These are the article[...]
This edition of Response to Disaster provides an updated and more thorough version of the well-received 1994 first edition. The author adds new research and expands on areas only briefly developed in the first edition, which disseminated the original research findings from several disaster research [...]
Response to Disaster combines the original research of author Henry W. Fischer with the literature used today to describe behavioral and organizational challenges commonly experienced before, during, and after disasters. Actual problems are presented and compared to those often misperceived to occur[...]
The definitive guide to purchasing and utilizing cheese for professional chefs, foodservice personnel, and food enthusiasts. This full-color resource discusses the basic history of cheese, its manufacture, and its incorporation into different cuisines across the dining spectrum.[...]
In few places in American society are adults so dependent on others as in nursing homes. Minimizing this dependency and promoting autonomy has become a major focus of policy and ethics in gerontology. Yet most of these discussions are divorced from the day-to-day reality of long-term care and are im[...]
Designed for students, scholars and marketing research practitioners by three qualitative marketing research pioneers, this book takes readers through the basics to an advanced understanding of the state of the art in qualitative marketing and consumer research. With hands-on exercises that research[...]
Includes the bryophytes and ferns to be found within Europe, extending from Iceland in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east and including the northern Macaronesian Islands. This work provides users with the means of making at least a preliminary identification of any bryophyte or fern which th[...]
Where is the place of architecture? Closer to the arts or to the sciences? And has there been a shift of this position over the past years due to technological evolution? The term precision serves as a starting point for observing the influence of scientific methods on architecture and art. Well-kno[...]