Telemedicine, Telehealth and Telepresence: Principles, Strategies, Applications, and New Directions
by Rifat Latifi
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030569160 | 778 Pages | EPUB | 39 MB

Carolin Kaltofen, Madeline Carr, Michele Acuto, "Technologies of International Relations: Continuity and Change"
English | 2018 | pages: 140 | ISBN: 3319974173 | PDF | 1,5 mb
This book examines the role of technology in the core voices for International Relations theory and how this has shaped the contemporary thinking of 'IR' across some of the discipline's major texts. Through an interview format between different generations of IR scholars, the conversations of the book analyse the relationship between technology and concepts like power, security and global order. They explore to what extent ideas about the role and implications of technology help to understand the way IR has been framed and world politics are conceived of today. This innovative text will appeal to scholars in Politics and International Relations as well as STS, Human Geography and Anthropology.

Martin J. Bayly, "Taming the Imperial Imagination: Colonial Knowledge, International Relations, and the Anglo-Afghan Encounter, 1808-1878"
English | ISBN: 1107118050 | 2016 | 352 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Taming the Imperial Imagination marks a novel intervention into the debate on empire and international relations, and offers a new perspective on nineteenth-century Anglo-Afghan relations. Martin J. Bayly shows how, throughout the nineteenth century, the British Empire in India sought to understand and control its peripheries through the use of colonial knowledge. Addressing the fundamental question of what Afghanistan itself meant to the British at the time, he draws on extensive archival research to show how knowledge of Afghanistan was built, refined and warped by an evolving colonial state. This knowledge informed policy choices and cast Afghanistan in a separate legal and normative universe. Beginning with the disorganised exploits of nineteenth-century explorers and ending with the cold strategic logic of the militarised 'scientific frontier', this book tracks the nineteenth-century origins of contemporary policy 'expertise' and the forms of knowledge that inform interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere today.

Shinichi Suzuki, "Suzuki Violin School, Vol 5"
English | 2009 | pages: 25 | ISBN: 0739060759 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Teach violin with the popular Suzuki Violin School. The Suzuki Method(R) of Talent Education is based on Shinichi Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability, and that people are the product of their environment. According to Shinichi Suzuki, a world-renowned violinist and teacher, the greatest joy an adult can know comes from developing a child's potential so he/she can express all that is harmonious and best in human beings. Students are taught using the "mother-tongue" approach. Each series of books for a particular instrument in the Suzuki Method is considered a Suzuki music school, such as the Suzuki Violin School. Suzuki lessons are generally given in a private studio setting with additional group lessons. The student listens to the recordings and works with their Suzuki violin teacher to develop their potential as a musician and as a person.

Peter A. Wilderer, Ortwin Renn, Martin Grambow, "Sustainable Risk Management"
English | 2018 | pages: 287 | ISBN: 3319662325 | PDF | 6,0 mb
Here, expert authors delineate approaches that can support both decision makers as well as their concerned populations in overcoming unwarranted fears and in elaborating policies based on scientific evidence. Four exemplary focus areas were chosen for in-depth review, namely:- The scientific basis of risk management- Risk management in the area of environmental and ecological policy- Risk management in radiation medicine- Risk management in context with digitalization and roboticsGeneral as well as specific recommendations are summarized in a memorandum. Fundamental thoughts on the topic are presented in the introductory part of the book. The idea for and contents of the book were developed at a workshop on "Sustainable Risk Management: How to manage risks in a sensible and responsible manner?" held in Feldafing at Lake Starnberg (Germany) on April 14 to 16, 2016. The book offers important information and advice for scientists, entrepreneurs, administrators and politicians.

Mieke T.A. Lopes Cardozo, Elizabeth J.T. Maber, "Sustainable Peacebuilding and Social Justice in Times of Transition: Findings on the Role of Education in Myanmar"
English | 2018 | pages: 270 | ISBN: 3030067254 | PDF | 3,0 mb
This book offers a unique insight into the ways in which education systems, governance, and actors at multiple scales interact in initial steps towards building peace. It presents a spectrum of recently conducted research in the context of Myanmar, a society in the midst of challenging transitions, politically, socio-culturally and economically. Divided in 3 thematical research areas, the first part on Myanmar's policy landscape aims to unravel the integration of peacebuilding into the education sector at macro and micro policy levels. The second part examines the role teachers play in processes of peacebuilding, and the third part examines ways in which formal and non-formal peacebuilding education programs address the agency of youth in Myanmar. This book is an essential guide for students embarking in the field of education, conflict and peacebuilding.

Annette Condello, Steffen Lehmann, "Sustainable Lina: Lina Bo Bardi's Adaptive Reuse Projects"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 3319329839 | PDF | pages: 190 | 34.0 mb
This essential book unravels the link between regional cultures, adaptive reuse of existing buildingsand sustainability. It concentrates on the social dimensions relating to Brazilian architect Lina BoBardi's late adaptive reuse projects and works from the 1960s to the early 1990s, interpreting herthemes, technical sources and design strategies of the creation of luxury as sustainability.The editedbook charts how Lina Bo Bardi "invented" her own version of sustainability, introduced this conceptthrough her landscape and adaptive reuse designs and through ideas about cross-cultures in Brazil.The book offers a critical reflection, exploration and demonstration of the importance of adaptivereuse in the landscape and related themes for researchers and provides researchers and students new material on sustainability for further study.

Jaan Valsiner, Anastasiia Lutsenko, Alexandra Antoniouk, "Sustainable Futures for Higher Education: The Making of Knowledge Makers (Cultural Psychology of Education"
English | 2018 | pages: 338 | ISBN: 3319960342 | PDF | 4,2 mb
​This volume addresses the current situation in higher education and what creative action needs to be taken for the future development of the various systems of higher education. Higher education in the 21st centuries is under immense pressure from various sides. First, there is dramatic limitation of funding from public sources and limited and selective funding support from private sources that is re-constructing the landscape of higher education in most societies around the World. Secondly there is the continuous stream of administrative re-organization efforts of political origins (e.g. "the Bologna process") that guide the advancement of higher education in our present time. Increasing privatization of all forms of higher education―from bachelor to doctoral levels―and its corresponding focus on the advancement of the kind of knowledge that has immediate applicability in various spheres of societies leads to the question- what kind of creativity is expected from the new cohorts of students―future makers of knowledge―once the current social re-organization of higher education systems becomes fully established. To address these questions the international, interdisciplinary cast of authors in this volume provides a multitude of possible scenarios for future development of the systems of higher education.

Jessica Fox, Morgan Scott, "Sustainable Electricity II: A Conversation on Tradeoffs"
English | 2018 | pages: 252 | ISBN: 3319956957 | PDF | 10,6 mb
- Realities of power company choices, regulatory boundaries, and stakeholder approvals.

Olivier Réchauchère, Antonio Bispo, Benoît Gabrielle, "Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 30: Environmental Impact of Land Use Change in Agricultural Systems"
English | 2018 | pages: 249 | ISBN: 3319962884 | PDF | 8,1 mb
The originality of this book is to review and characterize the current body of scientific publications that describe the complete causal sequence from reorganization of agricultural production to land use changes (LUC) and the resulting environmental impacts. The chapters examine both the range of territorial reorganizations leading to LUC and the range of associated environmental impacts considered in the literature, including GHG emissions, atmospheric pollution, biodiversity impacts, water resources, and soil quality.