“…Through reflections and case histories, this distinctive collection of essays by experienced mediators from across the globe provides a clearer understanding than we have had heretofore of what mediation is and what it can offer as a practical, accessible, and positive alternative in civil justice systems…”

“…The chapters in this book range across disciplines and time periods to present a vibrant understanding of the ever-changing interactions between Caribbean peoples and colonialism as they migrated within and between colonial contexts…”

“…Because its techniques allow you to deal with the process of developing applications across many areas of responsibility and across many different disciplines, its effects on your project can be wide ranging and pronounced. …”

“…The rapid expansion of globalization and multinational corporations means more and more managers work across the borders of multiple countries. Some of them are expatriates; most are not. …”

“…The chapters cover a range of work from authors across the globe and present both the state-of-the-art and emerging paradigms across a range of topics including sustainability planning, regulations and policy, estimation and situational awareness, energy forecasting, control and optimization and decentralisation. …”

“…The authors explore the concept of storying across different cultures, times and places, and discuss principles of storying and storying research, considering Indigenous, feminist and critical theory standpoints. …”

“…Data Scientists at Work is a collection of interviews with sixteen of the world's most influential and innovative data scientists from across the spectrum of this hot new profession. "Data scientist is the sexiest job in the 21st century," according to the Harvard Business Review. …”

“…Although workplace design and management are gaining more and more attention from modern organizations, workplace research is still very fragmented and spread across multiple disciplines in academia. There are several books on the market related to workplaces, facility management (FM), and corporate real estate management (CREM) disciplines, but few open up a theoretical and practical discussion across multiple theories from different disciplines. …”

“…This report assesses the current global health landscape and how challenges, actions, and players have evolved over the last decade across a wide range of issues, and provides recommendations on how to increase responsiveness, coordination, and efficiency - both within the U.S. government and across the global health field…”

“…The advent of scientific journals in the 17th century helped power the Scientific Revolution by allowing researchers to communicate across time and space, using the technologies of that era to generate reliable knowledge more quickly and efficiently. …”

“…Across the developing world the preceding decade or so has witnessed a profound reconfiguration of the political economy of urban policy. …”

“…Engaging Researchers with Data Management is an invaluable collection of 24 case studies, drawn from institutions across the globe, that demonstrate clearly and practically how to engage the research community with RDM. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…'Devolution as modality' for decentralisation in primary healthcare in Thailand -- Policy responses to working-age risks -- Integrating intersectionality into minimum income policy design: a systematic literature review -- The governance of youth labour market policies in Italy and Austria: opportunities and challenges across national and local levels -- Election battleground: a critical analysis of childcare policy problems and proposals in England -- Policy developments and transformations -- The theoretical importance of exceptional cases: social protection and its transformations in Japan and Australia in comparative welfare state research -- Countering dominant immigration trends: an evaluation of the implication of bespoke UK resettlement schemes -- Index…”

“…Drawing on a lifetime of writing about dictatorships and dissidents, Timothy Garton Ash argues that in this connected world that he calls cosmopolis, the way to combine freedom and diversity is to have more but also better free speech. Across all cultural divides we must strive to agree on how we disagree. …”

“…This volume brings together leading criminologists and sociologists from across the world in a much needed conversation about how to re-calibrate reason and emotion in crime and justice today. …”

“…Accordingly, this edited collection constitutes both a timely and critical intervention into secrecy debates, as they stretch across the various fields of law, politics and social inquiry"…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction ; The West and the rest: frames for world literature / Sarah Lawall ; The ethics of world literature: reading others, reading otherwise / Vilashini Cooppan ; Literary world systems / Emily Apter ; What is literature? Reading across cultures / Zhang Longki ; The place of difference in cross-cultural literacy / Anuradha Dingwaney Needham ; Teaching in translation / Lawrence Venuti -- Program strategies. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Beyond typology : the encoding of motion events across time and varieties / Juliana Goschler and Anatol Stefanowitsch -- Variation -- Typology as a continuum : intratypological evidence from English and Serbo-Croatian / Luna Filipovic -- Same family, different paths : intratypological differences in three Romance languages / Alberto Hijazo-Gascón and Iraide Ibarretxe-Antunano -- Disentangling manner and path : evidence from varieties of German and Romance / Raphael Berthele -- The encoding of motion events : building typology bottom-up from text data in many languages / Bernhard Wälchli and Arnd Sölling -- Motion events in Turkish-German contact varieties / Juliana Goschler -- Variation in the categorization of motion events by Danish, German, Turkish, and L2 Danish speakers / Moiken Jessen and Teresa Cadierno -- Change. …”

“…Jerrold Seigel's panoramic new history offers a magisterial and highly original account of the ties between modernity and bourgeois life, arguing that they can be best understood not in terms of the rise and fall of social classes, but as features of a common participation in expanding and thickening 'networks of means' that linked together distant energies and resources across economic, political and cultural life. Exploring the different configurations of these networks in England, France and Germany, he shows how their patterns gave rise to distinctive forms of modernity in each country and shaped the rhythm and nature of change across spheres as diverse as politics, money and finance, gender relations, morality, and literary, artistic and musical life"…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part 2: Core Concepts across the Curriculum. Chapter 5: The principles of dialogic education for conceptual understanding. …”