Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises Isolation Survival and #Covidchaos

Faith-Based ACT for Christian Clients balances empirical evidence with theology to give mental health professionals a deep understanding of both the why and how of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for Christians. The new edition includes updated discussions in each chapter more than 20 new and updated exercises and new chapters on couples and trauma. The book includes a detailed exploration of the overlap between ACT and the Christian faith case studies and techniques that are explicitly designed to be accessible to both non-Christian and Christian (including evangelical Christian) counselors and therapists. Chapters also present the established research on Buddhist-influenced mindfulness meditation and newer research on Christian-derived meditative and contemplative practices and lay a firm theological foundation through the use of engaging biblical stories and metaphors. | Faith-Based ACT for Christian Clients An Integrative Treatment Approach

Corporate Strategy and Sustainability is a substantially updated detailed overview of sustainability issues for business and economics students. Built to teach the evolution of the history of sustainability practices this edition has expanded coverage of social sustainability issues non-Western perspectives and sustainable supply chains. Rich in cases these too have been updated to demonstrate best practice and the practical application of theory. Extensive discussions of tools show how incorporate sustainability issues apply to strategic decision making. The book accentuates the value and importance of a strong sustainability approach in an age of climate change emergency. This textbook is an ideal companion to instructors and students of sustainability in business economics and management. | Corporate Strategy and Sustainability From Excellence to Fraud

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of key themes and agendas in contemporary Participatory Design across diverse disciplines continents communities and practices. Building on Participatory Design’s core values of empowerment and democracy the handbook explores how the field is developing and diversifying to address contemporary societal challenges in a global community. Participatory Design actively engages peoples groups and other actors in collaborative design processes to explore and co-create their everyday technologies practices and environments. In doing so Participatory Design aims to address social justice and agency by including diverse actors in the collective shaping of alternative futures. Participatory Design embraces a diverse collection of principles and practices aimed at making technologies environments organisations and institutions more responsive to human and planetary needs. In this volume a multidisciplinary and international group of highly experienced and recognised experts present an authoritative review of the contemporary field and discuss the diverse opportunities and challenges that arise from pivotal issues in Participatory Design including scaling collectives sustainability and more-than-human decolonisation emerging technologies and AI new approaches methods and engagement beyond academia. The handbook advances contemporary research theory and practice and highlights case studies that demonstrate how Participatory Design can bring about game-changing shifts in diverse contexts. The volume is an invaluable resource for students researchers scholars and professionals who seek to utilise Participatory Design research and practice to enrich support and transform complex contemporary conditions towards inclusive sustainable and transitional futures. | Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Participatory Design

With the climate crisis and its repercussions becoming more and more tangible games are increasingly participating in the production circulation and interrogation of environmental assumptions using both explicit and implicit ways of framing the crisis. Whether they are providing new spaces to imagine and practice alternative forms of living or reproducing ecomodernist fantasies games as well as player cultures are increasingly tuned in to the most pressing environmental concerns. This book brings together chapters by a diverse group of established and emerging authors to develop a growing body of scholarship that explores the shape impact and cultural context of ecogames. The book comprises four thematic sections Today's Challenges: Games for Change Future Worlds: New Imaginaries The Nonhuman Turn and Critical Metagaming Practices. Each section explores different aspects of ecocritical engagement in and through games. As a result the book's comprehensive scope covers a variety of angles methodologies and case studies significantly expanding the field of green media studies. | Ecogames Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis

This Handbook aims to provide a comprehensive international cartography of Queer Death Studies offering broad in-depth insights into the field and its emergence through tentacular transdisciplinary networking. Taking research and art-making on death dying mourning and afterlife into new directions it explores the multiple effects of contemporary necropolitics and the proliferation of death-worlds during the current period of Earth’s history ‘The Anthropocene’ or ‘the Age of Man’. Informed by queer critical posthumanist decolonial and feminist approaches the Handbook presents a unique variety of both critical and affirmative reflections upon the world’s intersecting necropowers and ethico-political potentials for social and environmental change. Contributors speculate on ways to reimagine life/ death-relations as vibrant entanglements. They also investigate modes of mourning differently resisting necropolitical regimes that deem human and non-human individuals and populations to be disposable and non-grievable when they differ too much from the normative modern subject Universal Man in terms of intersections of gender racialisation class sexuality embodiment embrainment geopolitical positioning or species. A thought provoking read this Handbook is intended for broad global audiences of researchers artists teachers students death-professionals (health)careworkers activists and NGOs interested in tools to rethink and reimagine death dying mourning and afterlife from intersections of queering decolonising posthumanising and feminist perspectives. | Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies

Volume 24 entitled Targeted Metallo-Drugs: Design Development and Modes of Action of the series Metal Ions in Life Sciences (MILS) fosters inter-disciplinary research in the vibrant field of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. Inspired by the clinical success of as a leading anticancer drug but mindful of the shortcomings associated with its use including dose-limiting toxic side effects and acquired or intrinsic drug resistance scientists across the globe have been endeavoring to identify new metallo-drugs for therapeutic exploitation. This has led to innovative metallo-drug candidates that (i) enhance cancer cell selectivity thus reducing toxic side effects and/or (ii) possess new modes of action to improve efficacy and also target resistance pathways. This and more are captured in MILS- 24 which consists of 12 comprehensive well-illustrated and up to date chapters with over 1600 citations 100 figures and 10 tables with key contributions from 32 international experts from Europe Asia and North and South America. MILS- 24 not only keeps the scientific community abreast of latest developments it also serves as an invaluable resource to stimulate further research on targeted metallo-drug design and development. It covers anticancer antimicrobial antiviral and other agents such as those targeting tropical diseases and cyanide poisoning and radiometals in molecular imaging and therapy It highlights recent metallo-drug developments targeting COVID-19 It features advanced spectroscopic methods and metallomics as important tools to elucidate the modes of actions of metallo-drugs | Targeted Metallo-Drugs Design Development and Modes of Action

From a local ballot initiative in Massachusetts the nuclear weapons freeze movement has grown during the last three years into an important national issue. By 1983 Congress had been asked to consider more than two dozen freeze resolutions and more than 25% of the voters in the U. S. had the opportunity to vote on state-wide and regional freeze initiatives. This book explores the issues behind the current debate over nuclear weapons and the freeze movement from a wide range of perspectives. The contributors assess the goals and implications of the freeze movement examine its origins in religious and secular pacifism explain the amendments to the original freeze proposal introduced in Congress and discuss the reaction and policies of the Reagan administration. The nuclear freeze movement is placed in an international context with discussions of recent arms negotiations European views of U. S. policies and the possible effects of a freeze on NATO allies and on U. S. national security. The book includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography. | The Nuclear Freeze Debate Arms Control Issues For The 1980s

This book covers Munchausen and Munchausen by Proxy (MBP) though the terms have recently changed. The 2013 DSM-V—the update to the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) diagnostic and classification tool—has classified both Munchausen and MBP as Factitious Systematic Abuse. While thought to have occurred primarily with children and their caregivers recent research shows a more widespread problem: such medical abuse to spouses the disabled the elderly—even pets. Many involve repeat and long-term instances of hospital and medical fraud. This book covers the syndrome itself interviewing and investigative aspects victimology as well indicators in the event of homicide and death. | Munchausen by Proxy and Other Factitious Abuse Practical and Forensic Investigative Techniques

This book describes a systems approach for fostering the mental health of athletes coaches and staff in sport organizations at professional collegiate and secondary school levels. Through this approach readers can collaborate effectively with a range of professionals in sport organizations helping to create a mentally healthy entity. Fostering the Mental Health of Athletes Coaches and Staff includes a set of sequential interrelated chapters that detail precise steps along with practitioner exercises. Following an introductory chapter about the evolution of mental health in sport organizations the systems approach is overviewed in terms of its constituent dimensions. Chapter-by-chapter guidance then is provided about the following activities: Creating a vision and direction for mental health in a sport organization Assessing the readiness of a sport organization for mental health initiatives Identifying and involving people as key contributors to mental health Assessing the mental and emotional development of athletes coaches and staff Designing and implementing mental health programs and services Educating and training coaches staff and administrators about mental health Establishing a team environment conducive to mental health Formulating and enacting mental health policies plans and procedures Coordinating mental skills life skills and mental health Evaluating mental health programs and services Making decisions about improving mental health initiatives Through its unique and important nature and scope as well as being the first of its kind to discuss athlete mental health through this specific lens this book is essential for licensed sport clinical and counseling psychologists as well as other professionals who communicate and collaborate regarding mental health including mental performance consultants athletic trainers and administrators. | Fostering the Mental Health of Athletes Coaches and Staff A Systems Approach to Developing a Mentally Healthy Sport Organization

Whether the project is river engineering soil mapping for landuse planning or control of landslides this volume first published in 1976 illustrates that the professional partnership between geomorphology and engineering can significantly minimize environmental damage. The papers here were presented at the 7th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium and using the broad viewpoint of the planner much new ground is covered: landfill design prediction of geomorphic processes and their effects and minimization of streamflow distortion. | Geomorphology and Engineering Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium 7

Health Disparities Disasters and Crises: Approaches for a Culture of Preparedness presents a roadmap to help guide the actions needed to address health disparities introduced as part of the pre-planning planning and mitigation phases of natural and technological disasters. With contributions from 30 scholars in disaster management in public health this text explores how the intersectionality of health disparities of different socioeconomic and racial/ethnic groups and how social determinants help shape exposure and vulnerability to pandemic disasters and crises. Supported by examples from across the world chapters are supplemented with case studies of best practices graphs and tables. Each of the seven parts address different topics including how disasters affect the poor medically underserved and racial/ethnic groups the impact of health disparities and the growing link between global health disaster planning/mitigation and global security. Written for the benefit of undergraduate and graduate students working professionals and academics in the US and abroad Health Disparities Disasters and Crises: Approaches for a Culture of Preparedness provides the best overall understanding of professional disaster management and safety for all citizens. It is also an ideal text for graduate and undergraduate courses in public health public policy medicine and nursing healthcare administration emergency management emergency preparedness homeland security epidemiology sociology and medical sociology. | Health Disparities Disasters and Crises Approaches for a Culture of Preparedness

Rising Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here explores how rising fascism has infiltrated U. S. politics—and how the media and academia failed to spot its earlier rise. Anthony R. DiMaggio spotlights the development of rightwing polarization of the media Trump’s political ascendance and the prominence of extremist activists including in Congress. Fascism has long bubbled under the surface until the coup attempt of January 6th 2021. This book offers tactics to combat fascism exploring social movements such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter in mobilizing the public. When so little scholarship engages the question of fascism Anthony R. DiMaggio combines the rigor of academic analysis with an accessible style that appeals to student and general readers. | Rising Fascism in America It Can Happen Here

What guidance can Buddhism provide to those involved in armed conflict and to belligerents who must perhaps kill or be killed or defend their families communities or countries from attack? How moreover does Buddhism compare with international humanitarian law (IHL) – otherwise known as the law of armed conflict – which protects non-combatants and restricts the means and methods of warfare to limit the suffering it causes? Despite the prevalence of armed conflict in parts of the Buddhist world few contemporary studies have addressed these questions. While there is a wealth of material on Buddhist conflict prevention and resolution remarkably little attention has been paid to what Buddhism says about the actual conduct of war. IHL is also still relatively little known in the Buddhist world and might not therefore influence the behaviour of belligerents who self-identify as Buddhists and are perhaps more likely to be guided by Buddhist principles. This ground-breaking volume is part of an International Committee of the Red Cross project which seeks to fill this gap by exploring correspondences between Buddhist and IHL principles and by identifying Buddhist resources to improve compliance with IHL and equivalent Buddhist or humanitarian norms. This book will be of much interest to students and researchers of International Law Buddhism Ethics as well as War and Conflict studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Buddhism. The Open Access version of this book available at https://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/oa-edit/10. 4324/9781003439820/buddhism-international-humanitarian-law-andrew-bartles-smith-kate-crosby-peter-harvey-asanga-tilakaratne-daniel-ratheiser-noel-maurer-trew-stefania-travagnin-elizabeth-harris-mahinda-deegalle-christina-kilby has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. A version of the open access title is also available on the OAPEN platform https://library. oapen. org/handle/20. 500. 12657/75921 | Buddhism and International Humanitarian Law

Guillaume Caoursin the Vice-chancellor of the Order of the Hospital wrote the Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio (Description of the Siege of Rhodes) as the official record of the Ottoman siege of the Knights in Rhodes in 1480. The Descriptio was the first authorized account of the Order’s activities to appear in printed form and it became one of the best sellers of the 15th century. The publication of the Descriptio not only fed Western Europe’s hunger for news about an important Christian victory in the ongoing war with the Turks it also served to shape public perceptions of the Hospitallers. Caoursin wrote in a humanistic style sacrificing military terminology to appeal to an educated audience; within a few years however his Latin text became the basis for vernacular versions which also circulated widely. Modern historians recognize the contributions that the Ottoman siege of Rhodes in 1480 made in the development of military technology particularly the science of fortifications. This book is the first complete modern Latin edition with an English translation of the Descriptio obsidionis Rhodiae. Two other published eyewitness accounts Pierre D’Aubusson’s Relatio obsidionis Rhodie and Jacomo Curte’s De urbis Rhodiae obsidione a. 1480 a Turcis tentata also appear in modern Latin edition and English translation. This book also includes John Kay’s Description of the Siege of Rhodes and an English translation of Ademar Dupuis’ Le siège de Rhodes. The lengthy introductory chapters by Theresa Vann place the Ottoman siege of Rhodes in 1480 within the context of Mehmed II’s expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean after he captured Constantinople in 1453. They then examine the development of an official message or propaganda as an essential tool for the Hospitallers to raise money in Europe to defend Rhodes a process that is traced through the chancery’s official communications describing the aftermath of Constantinople and the Ottoman | Hospitaller Piety and Crusader Propaganda Guillaume Caoursin's Description of the Ottoman Siege of Rhodes 1480

This handbook is a detailed reference source comprising original articles covering the origins history theory and practice of Islamic law. The handbook starts out by dealing with the question of what type of law is Islamic law and includes a critical analysis of the pedagogical approaches to studying and analysing Islamic law as a discipline. The handbook covers a broad range of issues including the role of ethics in Islamic jurisprudence the mechanics and processes of interpretation the purposes and objectives of Islamic law constitutional law and secularism gender bioethics Muslim minorities in the West jihad and terrorism. Previous publications on this topic have approached Islamic law from a variety of disciplinary and pedagogical perspectives. One of the original features of this handbook is that it treats Islamic law as a legal discipline by taking into account the historical functions and processes of legal cultures and the patterns of legal thought. With contributions from a selection of highly regarded and leading scholars in this field the Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law is an essential resource for students and scholars who are interested in the field of Islamic Law.

HPC Big Data AI Convergence Towards Exascale provides an updated vision on the most advanced computing storage and interconnection technologies that are at basis of convergence among the HPC Cloud Big Data and artificial intelligence (AI) domains. Through the presentation of the solutions devised within recently founded H2020 European projects this book provides an insight on challenges faced by integrating such technologies and in achieving performance and energy efficiency targets towards the exascale level. Emphasis is given to innovative ways of provisioning and managing resources as well as monitoring their usage. Industrial and scientific use cases give to the reader practical examples of the needs for a cross-domain convergence. 　 All the chapters in this book pave the road to new generation of technologies support their development and in addition verify them on real-world problems. The readers will find this book useful because it provides an overview of currently available technologies that fit with the concept of unified Cloud-HPC-Big Data-AI applications and presents examples of their actual use in scientific and industrial applications. | HPC Big Data and AI Convergence Towards Exascale Challenge and Vision

The essays collected in The Selfless Ego propose an innovative approach to one of the most fascinating aspects of Tibetan literature: life writing. Departing from past schemes of interpretation this book addresses issues of literary theory and identity construction eluding the strictures imposed by the adoption of the hagiographical master narrative as synonymous with the genre. The book is divided into two parts. Ideally conceived as an 'introduction' to traditional forms of life writing as expressed in Buddhist milieus Part I. Memory and Imagination in Tibetan Hagiographical Writing centres on the inner tensions between literary convention and self-expression that permeate indigenous hagiographies mystical songs records of teachings and autobiographies. Part II: Conjuring Tibetan Lives explores the most unconventional traits of the genre sifting through the narrative configuration of Tibetan biographical writings as 'liberation stories' to unearth those fragments of life that compose an individual’s multifaceted existence. This volume is the first to approach Tibetan life writing from a literary and narratological perspective encompassing a wide range of disciplines themes media and historical periods and thus opening new and vibrant areas of research to future scholarship across the Humanities. The chapters in this book were originally published as two special issues of Life Writing. | The Selfless Ego Configurations of Identity in Tibetan Life Writing

Reflecting recent changes in the way and the brain are studied this thoroughly updated fifth edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive and student-friendly guide to cognitive neuroscience. Jamie Ward provides an easy-to-follow introduction to neural structure and function as well as all the key methods and procedures of cognitive neuroscience with a view to helping students understand how they can be used to shed light on the neural basis of . The book presents a comprehensive overview of the latest theories and findings in all the key topics in cognitive neuroscience including vision hearing attention memory speech and language executive function social and emotional behavior and developmental neuroscience. Throughout case studies newspaper reports everyday examples and student-friendly pedagogy are used to help students understand the more challenging ideas that underpin the subject. This edition features expanded coverage of consciousness a combined chapter on literacy and numeracy and increased coverage of brain networks and computational approaches. Written in an engaging style by a leading researcher in the field and presented in full color including numerous illustrative materials this book will be invaluable as a core text for undergraduate modules in cognitive neuroscience. It can also be used as a key text on courses in cognitive neuropsychology biopsychology or brain and behavior. Those embarking on research will find it an invaluable starting point and reference. This textbook is supported by an extensive collection of free digital resources for students and instructors including lectures by leading researchers links to key studies and interviews multiple-choice questions and interactive flashcards to test your knowledge. Visit the Instructor & Student Resources website at routledgelearning. com/wardcognitiveneuroscience. | The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience

A must-have text for social work students and practitioners which draws on the extensive years of experience of Principal Social Workers to shed light on contemporary issues. Principal Social Workers are highly skilled and experienced professionals who lead and support social work practice and develop new social workers and social care practitioners. They are senior managers but also remain actively involved with frontline practice so they can report on the views and experiences of practitioners at all levels. Their experience and knowledge is a hitherto untapped goldmine. This book draws upon the years of experience that are represented within the role and gives a voice to the experience of PSWs. Accessible and accurate these chapters discuss contemporary practice issues such as sustainability poverty and racism. Common to all the chapters is the central position of the relationship in social work practice. This book will give food for thought to any social worker or social work care practitioner. This book offers a refreshing and accessible take on contemporary practice issues. Presented in an accessible style each chapter displays an area of practice that has personal resonance for the author. It encourage critical thinking by taking a broader concept and asking the reader 'what does this mean for social work practice?' | Principles of Practice by Principal Social Workers

Climate change biodiversity loss pollution of land and water land-use changes lack of equality and other problems at local national and global levels represent a challenge for economics as a social science. Mainstream neoclassical economics may be able to contribute to a more sustainable society but it has also played a dominant role in a period where problems have been aggravated. A pluralist and democratic view of economics is therefore very much warranted. This book presents a multidimensional and ideologically more open view of economics: understanding economics in multidimensional terms is in accordance with the 17 sustainable development goals recognized by nations at the UN-level in 2015. Accordingly approaches to decision making and accounting at the national- and business levels have to be reconsidered. Neoclassical Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) with focus on the monetary dimension and an assumed consensus about a specific market ideology to be applied is not compatible with democratic societies where citizen and actors in other roles normally differ with respect to ideological orientation. Environmental Impact Statements and Multi-Criteria methods are used to some extent to broaden approaches to decision-making. In this book Positional Analysis is advocated as a multidimensional and ideologically open approach. Positional Analysis is based on a political economic conceptual framework (as part of ecological economics) that differs from neoclassical ideas of individuals firms and markets. And since approaches to decision-making and to accounting are closely connected a new theoretical perspective in economics similarly raises issues of how national and business accounting can be opened up to meet present demands among various actors in society. This perspective raises also numerous ethical questions at the science and policy interface that need to be properly addressed for sustainability decision making. | Positional Analysis for Sustainable Development Reconsidering Policy Economics and Accounting

This book offers a global history of the Indian Ocean and focuses on a holistic perspective of the worlds of water. It builds on maritime historian Michael Naylor Pearson’s works his unorthodox approach and strong influence on the study of the Indian Ocean in viewing the oceanic space as replete with human experiences and not as an artefact of empire or as the theatre of European commercial and imperial transits focused only on trade. This interdisciplinary volume presents several ways of writing the history of the Indian Ocean. The chapters explore the changing nature of Indian Ocean history through diverse themes including state and capital regional identities maritime networking South Asian immigrants Bay of Bengal linkages the East India Company Indian seamen formal and informal collaboration in imperial networking scientific transfers pearling the issues of colonial copyright customs excise and port cities. The volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of global history modern history maritime history medieval history Indian history colonial history and world history. | Indian Ocean Histories The Many Worlds of Michael Naylor Pearson