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Book Synopsis The Brainstorms Village by : Steven C. Schachter
Download or read book The Brainstorms Village written by Steven C. Schachter and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth volume in a series of books that consist of original narratives about the personal impact and the interpersonal aspects of seizures and epilepsy. These narratives from people with epilepsy around the world offer unique perspectives on the personal and social aspects of seizure disorders.
Book Synopsis Epilepsy in Our World by : Steven C. Schachter
Download or read book Epilepsy in Our World written by Steven C. Schachter and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last 5 years, approximately 2.7 million people have been treated for epilepsy and between 0.5%-2% of people will develop epilepsy during their lifetime. Up to 5% of the worldwide population may have a single seizure in their lifetime. It is further estimated that 60 million people in the World have had at least one epileptic seizure in their lifetime. Most shockingly is that between 70-80K people each year in the US alone are diagnosed with epilepsy. Because of these figures, and Dr. Schachter's roll as Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Dr. Schachter sought to create a series of books written from the viewpoint of people with Epilepsy. This volume, Epilepsy in Our World, presents accounts of seizures by patients from 20 different countries. Not only are the patient stories presented with the series signature frankness and honesty, but the volume also discusses the different impressions and treatment of epilepsy around the world.
Book Synopsis Community Participation in China by : Janelle Plummer
Download or read book Community Participation in China written by Janelle Plummer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important volume provides a source of information on the key issues, including constraints and capacity building, necessary to implement participatory approaches in China today. A wealth of case studies are provided by principal Chinese academics and practitioners in forestry, natural resource management, rural development, irrigation and poverty alleviation. At the core, the book is about strengthening local government as a key player in the development of participatory initiatives. It is an invaluable text for development practitioners, donors, researchers and students seeking to understand the opportunities and constraints for participation in China, and for those working to institutionalize participatory processes in a complex rural context.
Book Synopsis From the Brain to the Classroom by : Sheryl Feinstein
Download or read book From the Brain to the Classroom written by Sheryl Feinstein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplying a foundation for understanding the development of the brain and the learning process, this text examines the physical and environmental factors that influence how we acquire and retain information throughout our lives. The book also lays out practical strategies that educators can take directly into the classroom. Comprising more than 100 entries, From the Brain to the Classroom: The Encyclopedia of Learning gathers experts in the fields of education, neuroscience, and psychology to examine how specific areas of the brain work in thought processes, and identifies how educators can apply what neuroscience has discovered to refine their teaching and instructional techniques. The wide range of subjects—organized within the main categories of student characteristics, classroom instructional topics, and learning challenges—include at-risk behaviors; cognitive neuroscience; autism; the lifespan of the brain, from prenatal brain development to the aging brain; technology-based learning tools; and addiction. Any reader who is interested in learning about how the brain works and how it relates to everyday life will find this work fascinating, while educators will find this book particularly helpful in validating or improving their teaching methods to increase academic achievement.
Book Synopsis Contesting Development by : Patrick Barron
Download or read book Contesting Development written by Patrick Barron and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pathbreaking book grapples with an established reality: well-intentioned international development programs often generate local conflict, some of which escalates to violence. To understand how such conflicts can be managed peacefully, the authors have undertaken a comprehensive mixed-methods analysis of one of the world's largest participatory development projects, the highly successful Kecamatan Development Program (KDP), which was launched by the World Bank and the Indonesian government in the late 1990s and now operates in every district across Indonesia. --
Book Synopsis Getting to the Bottom of Top by : Wayne
Download or read book Getting to the Bottom of Top written by Wayne and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People demand authentic participation in decisions that affect their lives. ToP methods answer that call because they reflect how humans think, growing out of reflective inquiry into what works in real life and the study of phenomenology and existentialism. This book explores the foundational understandings of this body of knowledge and its practice. Getting to the Bottom of ToP works at two levels: as a guide to processes that elicit participation to bring insights to the surface and ensure participants collaborate to bring the resulting plans to fruition and as a theoretical basis drawn from the field of phenomenology—an answer to any of us who have pondered what principles or theory about personal and group change underlie those processes. —Peter J. Taylor, Critical and Creative Thinking Graduate Program, UMass Boston I have longed for decades for this book, a profound and helpful exploration of the phenomenology of practice of ToP. In this breakthrough work, the Nelsons expose the philosophical foundations of the ICA’s ToP methods in ways that scholars and facilitators alike will find useful. By tracing ToP’s ancestry to the existentialist’s insights of Kierkegaard and Sartre and the phenomenological methods of Husserl and Heidegger, this book not only provides conceptual clarity but releases a deep wellspring of motivation and skillfulness for practitioners of ToP. I will definitely use this book in teaching my NYU Wagner grad courses on innovative leadership. —Robertson Work, author of A Compassionate Civilization, NYU Wagner professor, and UN consultant
Book Synopsis Neurology in Tropics (e-Book) by : Jagjit Chopra
Download or read book Neurology in Tropics (e-Book) written by Jagjit Chopra and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Empowerment Evaluation in the Digital Villages by : David Fetterman
Download or read book Empowerment Evaluation in the Digital Villages written by David Fetterman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowerment Evaluation in the Digital Villages analyzes a $15 million community change initiative designed to bridge the digital divide in East Palo Alto, East Baltimore, and San Diego. Involving a partnership between Hewlett-Packard, Stanford University, and three ethnically diverse communities, this initiative enabled its constituencies to build their own technology-oriented businesses, improve their education systems, and improve their economic health. While examining this large-scale, multi-site case, Fetterman highlights the potential for empowerment evaluation to build local capacity and sustain improvements within communities. He provides deep insights into key steps in empowerment evaluation by exploring the way that each of these phases took place in the digital villages. Additionally, the text provides evaluators with real-world stories and practical advice from the front lines. The Digital Village case also demonstrates the social value of combining corporate philanthropy, academic prowess, and community empowerment—highlighting the role of evaluation in this process.
Book Synopsis Turning a Warehouse into a Community by : N. Jean Dobay
Download or read book Turning a Warehouse into a Community written by N. Jean Dobay and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Campbell was a healthcare administrator, a county commissioner, and a senator. He never envisioned himself as a nursing home resident. Withering away in a large nursing home, Joe thought that he no longer had societal value. Chambers Village more closely resembled a geriatric warehouse. Residents with vacant stares lined up along the hallways. Strict schedules and a sterile medical environment became their lives. But using his strategic planning skills and the help of the nursing home administrator and other residents, they created a vision to make a home for the four hundred fifty people who resided in Chambers Village. A home that provided the residents who lived there with the opportunity to live as a family""making their own decisions and helping to care for one another. This is a book of hope for anyone who has felt that they are incapable of making changes to their living situation. This story provides insight into our fears of aging and our hope for humanity.
Book Synopsis Learning Together by : Susan Stewart
Download or read book Learning Together written by Susan Stewart and published by Christian Veterinary Mission. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brain Storms written by Jon Palfreman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A star science journalist with Parkinson's reveals the inner workings of this perplexing disease Seven million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's--with sixty thousand new cases diagnosed each year in the U.S. alone--and it remains an enigma, with doctors, researchers, and patients hunting for a cure. InBrain Storms, award-winning journalist Jon Palfreman tells their story, a story that takes on urgency when he is diagnosed with the debilitating illness. Palfreman chronicles how scientists have labored to crack the mystery of what was once called "the shaking palsy," from the earliest clinical descriptions to the cutting edge of molecular neuroscience. He charts the victories and setbacks of a massive international effort to best the disease, referred to as one of the best windows into the brain itself. Brain Storms is also a profoundly personal investigation into Palfreman's own struggles and those of others living with Parkinson's. From a professional ballet dancer who "tricks" her body to move freely again, to a "frozen" patient who cannot walk but astounds doctors when he is able to ride a bicycle, Palfreman shines a light on the varied and ingenious ways patients cope with having their bodies steadily taken away from them. The race is on to discover a means to stop or reverse neurodegenerative conditions like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.Brain Storms is the long-overdue, riveting detective story of that race, and a passionate, insightful account into the lives of those affected.
Book Synopsis Poverty and Small-scale Fisheries in West Africa by : Arthur E. Neiland
Download or read book Poverty and Small-scale Fisheries in West Africa written by Arthur E. Neiland and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new perspectives on poverty in small-scale fisheries, introducing innovative concepts and ideas and drawing upon recent knowledge generated by in-depth case studies. The text makes explicit connections with the Sustainable Livelihood Approach and the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries - two prominent frameworks which are recognized, applied and promoted internationally by scholars, practitioners and donor agencies in their work on fisheries development.
Book Synopsis Transformational Strategy by : Bill Staples
Download or read book Transformational Strategy written by Bill Staples and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tried and tested practical wisdom about participatory, long range and strategic planning. In rapidly changing, complex landscapes organization leaders need concrete plans not simplistic advice. Reactive plans often entrench the problem. But when many minds focus together a new array of ideas and options can generate profound insight, creative strategy and high resolve in the whole group. What can leaders, consultants and facilitators do to ensure this happens? As a master practitioner of ICAs Technology of Participation (ToPTM) Bill Staples fully illustrates the breadth and depth of the transformation that comes from fully engaging people in the decisions that affect their work and lives. This book pulls back the veil on todays most powerful facilitation and reveals transformational philosophy, methods and tools used around the world. ToP practitioners will especially benefit from the case studies and detailed procedures that launch organizational transformation. There are few organizations that have contributed so much to the improvement of group problem solving and decision-making as the Institute of Cultural Affairs. Over the past 25 years, its Technology of Participation has become known the world over and is applied in every sector of society. This book provides a thorough introduction to ToP including its background, purpose, methods, and applications. Bill Staples integrates and presents this information in a way that makes it accessible to anyone concerned with engaging people in effective problem solving and decision-making. Sandy Schuman, author of Creating a Culture of Collaboration: The International Association of Facilitators Handbook and The Handbook for Working with Difficult Groups: How They Are Difficult, Why They Are Difficult and What You Can Do About It ICA is truly one of the pioneers of the participatory approach to planning and deliberation. Its commitment to participatory, democratic values is authentic and trustworthy. Sam Kaner, author
Book Synopsis Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts, 2nd Edition by : Keith Knight
Download or read book Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts, 2nd Edition written by Keith Knight and published by New Village Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ten graphic stories about artists, educators & activists across the U.S."--Cover.
Book Synopsis Women's Mental Health by : Sarah E. Romans
Download or read book Women's Mental Health written by Sarah E. Romans and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2006 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Mental Health: A Life-Cycle Approach brings together the latest research and clinical information on the wide variety of psychiatric problems that affect women in unique ways. The book is organized around the female life cycle—childhood, adolescence, adulthood, reproduction, and aging—and addresses specific disorders as they present at each stage. Chapters examine the biological, hormonal, and psychosocial foundations of female psychiatric disorders at each life-cycle stage and offer a framework for thinking about clinical problems. Expert commentaries are included to expand on key issues and provide an insightful overview of each life-cycle stage. The international group of contributors ensures complete coverage of cross-cultural issues. Concluding chapters discuss mental health services for women worldwide.
Book Synopsis International Encyclopedia of Public Health by : William C Cockerham
Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Public Health written by William C Cockerham and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 4477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Second Edition, Seven Volume Set is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the major issues, challenges, methods, and approaches of global public health. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this new edition combines complementary scientific fields of inquiry, linking biomedical research with the social and life sciences to address the three major themes of public health research, disease, health processes, and disciplines. This book helps readers solve real-world problems in global and local health through a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach. Covering all dimensions of the field, from the details of specific diseases, to the organization of social insurance agencies, the articles included cover the fundamental research areas of health promotion, economics, and epidemiology, as well as specific diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and reproductive health. Additional articles on the history of public health, global issues, research priorities, and health and human rights make this work an indispensable resource for students, health researchers, and practitioners alike. Provides the most comprehensive, high-level, internationally focused reference work available on public health Presents an invaluable resource for both researchers familiar with the field and non-experts requiring easy-to-find, relevant, global information and a greater understanding of the wider issues Contains interdisciplinary coverage across all aspects of public health Incorporates biomedical and health social science issues and perspectives Includes an international focus with contributions from global domain experts, providing a complete picture of public health issues
Book Synopsis Terrestrial Transformations by : Thomas K. Park
Download or read book Terrestrial Transformations written by Thomas K. Park and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity’s future may rest on how we deal with climate change, environmental problems, and their impacts on society. Terrestrial Transformations: A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature recognizes that such problems have social, political, and cultural contexts, and that politics, money, and power have physical impacts on nature and society that cannot be ignored. This book brings together a set of chapters that provide an overview of the political ecology approach, illustrating its theoretical underpinnings, central concepts, methods, and major interests. The authors examine the political contexts of a broad range of environmental and social problems, drawing attention to the political and economic forces driving environmental and ecological problems, how societies are transformed as they attempt to cope and adapt to a changing nature, and who pays the price.
