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Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World By Brian Walker, David Salt
2006 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1597260932 | PDF | 14 MB
Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency."Resilience thinking" offers a different way of understanding the world and a new approach to managing resources. It embraces human and natural systems as complex entities continually adapting through cycles of change, and seeks to understand the qualities of a system that must be maintained or enhanced in order to achieve sustainability. It explains why greater efficiency by itself cannot solve resource problems and offers a constructive alternative that opens up options rather than closing them down.In Resilience Thinking, scientist Brian Walker and science writer David Salt present an accessible introduction to the emerging paradigm of resilience. The book arose out of appeals from colleagues in science and industry for a plainly written account of what resilience is all about and how a resilience approach differs from current practices. Rather than complicated theory, the book offers a conceptual overview along with five case studies of resilience thinking in the real world. It is an engaging and important work for anyone interested in managing risk in a complex world.

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Residential Care Transformed: Revisiting 'The Last Refuge' By Julia Johnson, Sheena Rolph, Randall Smith
2010 | 302 Pages | ISBN: 023020242X | PDF | 3 MB
This book revisits Peter Townsend's classic study of residential care for older people in Britain conducted in the late 1950s.It provides not only a fascinating account of residential care for older people over the last 50 years but is also an important contribution to the literature on research methods.

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Reshape in 30: Your 30 Days No-Workout Weight Loss Plan by Dr. Eleanor Vance
English | February 27, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DYTX3TGG | 40 pages | EPUB | 1.52 Mb
Unlock the secrets to weight loss without exercise!

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Researching new religious movements: responses and redefinitions By Elisabeth Arweck
2005 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 041527754X | PDF | 3 MB
New religious movements such as the Moonies, Jehovah's Witnesses and Hare Krishnas are now well established in mainstream cultural consciousness. But responses to these "cult" groups still tend to be overwhelmingly negative, characterized by the furious reactions that they evoke from majority interests. Modern societies need to learn how best to respond to such movements, and how to interpret their benefits and dangers.Researching New Religious Movements provides a cutting-edge analysis of the controversy around new religions in America and Europe today. Drawing on original fieldwork, it explores the battles between the recruiting factions of groups like the Moonies, and the anti-cult movements and Church societies that have mobilized to oppose these. It considers academic and media interventions on both sides, placing special emphasis on the problems of objectivity inherent in the language of "sects", "abduction" and "brainwashing". Ideal for students, researchers and professionals, this provocative and much-needed book takes the debate over new religious movements to a newly sophisticated level.

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Researching Migration on Indigenous Lands: Challenges, Reflections, Pathways (IMISCOE Research Series) by Andonis Piperoglou, Francesco Ricatti
English | December 14, 2025 | ISBN: 3031993276 | 237 pages | True ePUB, PDF | 8.70 Mb
This open access edited collection provides an interdisciplinary assessment of research about migration on Indigenous lands. Via an assortment of critical reflections from settler colonial Australia, it identifies tensions between colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty as an increasingly salient topic of analysis within migration research. It poses challenges to migration research that takes place on Indigenous lands, reflects on the methodological and theoretical issues at play when studying migration in settler colonial Australia, and outlines potential pathways for ethical migration research agendas that genuinely engage with Indigenous knowledges and scholarship. The book also compares and synthesizes where studies of settler colonialism and migration have intersected and contributing authors profile how migration, colonialism and Indigenous sovereignties intersect in multicultural Australia's pasts and presents. At its core, the volume challenges migration studies, from Australian shores, to reimagine itself. In doing so, questions related to migration are altered and the basis of discussion around colonial legacies, multiculturalism, integration and diversity is recast. By providing nuanced theoretical, historical, and reflective case studies from a rage of disciplinary approaches, the volume will be a great resource to students, academics in migration and refugee studies, Indigenous scholars, activists, as well as policymakers in settler colonial societies.

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Researching Enterprise Development: Action Research on the Cooperation Between Management and Labour in Norway (Dialogues on Work & Innovation) By Morten L. Levin
2003 | 297 Pages | ISBN: 902721784X | PDF | 1 MB
"Researching Enterprise Development" is written by the key researchers of a large Norwegian Action Research programme on enterprise development (Enterprise Development 2000). This book tells the stories of how the seven participating modules were developed, created and sustained as Action Research activities. Based on these stories, reflection on a broader analysis of core issues of the programme are given on the following topics: the processes within the programme and changing models for leadership; how research groups become proficient as action researchers; local research as networking with the regional business community; enhancing the innovation capacity of participating companies; and participation and democratic processes in enterprise development. The reflections and stories provide detailed accounts of how this action research programme was developed and ample ideas on how action research modules can be implemented for other enterprise development projects.

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Sonja Marzi, "Researching Displacement Together"
English | ISBN: 1032998326 | 2025 | 158 pages | EPUB | 17 MB
This book showcases how to co-produce research when we are unable to meet in the same geographical space. It details a remote and hybrid audio-visual participatory methodology through which women share their experiences of displacement, gender, and the city.

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Research-Based International Student Involvement: The Research-Tandem Model by Maria Virginia Machado Dazzani, Kristine Stadskleiv, Min He
English | January 4, 2026 | ISBN: 3031788397 | 268 pages | True ePUB, PDF | 7.63 Mb
This collective volume presents an innovative pedagogical model of research-based international student mobility called "research-tandem". The research-tandem model and its pedagogical philosophy provide insights for the involvement of students in research from very early stages of the academic trajectory in higher education. The book also presents several interdisciplinary empirical studies (i.e., special needs education, cultural psychology, anthropology, etc.) produced by undergraduate students' teams from different countries who participated in the mobility. Finally, commentaries from invited scholars contribute to offer valuable feedback and future directions to the tandem model.

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Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, Volume 29 By Hui Liao
2010 | 380 Pages | ISBN: 0857241257 | PDF | 2 MB
This series publishes monograph length conceptual papers designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management. Volume 29 of "Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management (RPHRM)" contains seven papers on important issues in the field of human resources management, thus continuing the tradition of the series to develop a more informed understanding of the field. This collection of papers represents excellent scholarship and illustrates the truly interdisciplinary character of the field.

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Research and Developments in Holography by Oliver Ruiz-Palomo
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1682517462 | 320 pages | PDF | 7.51 Mb
Holography allows us to write different applications for people other than developers and engineers to understand user's needs. This technology can be an auxiliary to the fifth sense for differently able people. This technology will bring fundamental changes in the field of science and technology. No matter how much one is familiar with holography, a scientist or an ordinary person, he would soon engage with holography spontaneously. Increasing applications of holography will soon find their way through everyday life. But the technology still makes an impact today, although not with the same punch it had a quarter-century ago. Nowadays, holography has many growing applications in different sciences such as biology, medicine, IT, communication, architecture, security, and packing. There are optical applications existing for holography, and some of them are still developing. Making holographic three-dimensional displays providing realistic images without the need for special eyewear is one the most interesting application of holography. The 21 st century is said to be a photon century. People meet contemporary optics applications everywhere. It would be appropriate to increase the common education level in this field for people to be able to understand new surrounding technologies, entering our everyday lives. Optics serves as an important part of many scientific experimental methods. This way, such information could be useful also for researchers without a professional optical education. The most advantage of holographic 3D displays is the possibility to observe 3D images without using glasses. The quality of created images by this method has surprised everyone. This book is intended to covers the basic principles of holography and some current research and developments in the field. Advanced applications of holography including sensors, holographic gratings, and white-light viewable holographic stereograms are also covered.

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