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    • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 69
      • September 8, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 69, the latest release in this classic resource on the field of developmental psychology, includes a variety of timely updates, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Chapters in this new release include Autonomic and Attentional Pathways in the Emergence of Autism: Bridging Mechanisms and Real-World Contexts in Infancy, The Sound-of-Words model: a developmental perspective of phonolexical acquisition, The Development of Children's Beliefs about Ability, and Assessing Children’s Spatial Thinking: Insights, Challenges, and Implications,

    • Practical Stress Management

      • 9th Edition
      • September 6, 2025
      • John A. Romas + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Practical Stress Management: A Comprehensive Workbook, Ninth Edition provides an accessible and actionable guide for individuals seeking to improve their ability to cope with stress effectively. Featuring engaging activities, insightful explanations, and evidence-based strategies, this workbook equips readers with the tools to identify stressors, understand their impact, and implement techniques to maintain mental and physical well-being. Its practical orientation ensures that users not only learn about stress management but also apply these principles directly to their lives, fostering resilience and balance.Packed with user-friendly exercises, case studies, and new features tailored for contemporary needs, the book supports both personal growth and professional development. Whether for individuals navigating daily pressures or professionals assisting others in stress management, this comprehensive workbook provides a valuable resource for building healthier habits and improving overall quality of life.

    • Meeting SDGs in Smart City Infrastructures

      • 1st Edition
      • September 3, 2025
      • Manas Pradhan
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Meeting SDGs in Smart City Infrastructures: Federation, Interoperability, and Discoverability explores the current state-of-the-art practices in smart city digitization and governance processes, aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It discusses the pros and cons of various methods, standards, and initiatives involved in the digital transformation of cities from policy-maker, implementer, and end-user perspectives. Utilizing real-world use cases from cities worldwide, the book highlights their goals, adopted measures, and their outcomes. It provides guidelines for achieving long-term service federation, interoperability, and discoverability while keeping the UN SDGs in perspective.This resource is invaluable for practitioners and researchers in the smart city domain and will help them better understand existing and evolving technologies and formulate their processes to provide sustainable models for urban development.

    • Spanish Terminology for the Dental Team

      • 3rd Edition
      • August 28, 2025
      • Elsevier Inc + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The only Spanish terminology book written specifically for dental professionals by dental professionals, Spanish Terminology for the Dental Team, Third Edition is an essential reference, providing a quick and affordable way to enhance communication with Spanish-speaking patients. Comprehensive coverage includes foundational information on the Spanish language, plus coverage of the full range of dental care — from patient greeting and office administration through assessment, evaluation, and general and specialty dental treatment. This edition includes new terminology related to COVID-19, an enhanced ebook featuring audio files for accurate pronunciation, and inclusion of various Spanish dialects to equip dental professionals with the essential language tools needed to effectively navigate today’s dental environment.

    • Reliable Decision-Making for Sustainable Transportation

      • 1st Edition
      • August 22, 2025
      • Gholamreza Haseli + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Reliable Decision-Making for Sustainable Transportation explores decision-making methods that incorporate expert and decision-maker opinions for improved reliability. The book examines fuzzy sets that capture ambiguity and enable a more comprehensive analysis of stakeholder perspectives, focusing on transportation case studies to demonstrate techniques for weighing criteria, ranking alternatives, and selecting optimal and reliable decisions. It seeks to advance transportation planning, traffic engineering, road safety, and sustainability by integrating state-of-the-art decision support systems that leverage AI and multiple stakeholder viewpoints.This approach will benefit researchers and professionals across transportation, decision sciences, supply chain management, and operations looking for innovative ways to model uncertainty and decision-maker reliability and providing methodologies and frameworks for more robust group decisions.

    • Advances in the Study of Behavior

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 57
      • August 21, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 57 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of interesting topics, including Thinking Through Change: The Role of Environmental Factors in Shaping Vertebrate Cognition, Cold-Blooded Cognition: Recent advances in reptile cognition and their implications, Building by animals: myths and misunderstandings, and The Behavioral Ecology of Rapid Color Change in Fishes: Context, Diversity, and Open Questions.

    • Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 6
      • August 18, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics covers new developments in theoretical techniques, new sources of geographic information systems (GIS) data, rapid advances in computing power, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and renewed public policy interest in transportation infrastructure. New and innovative chapters in this new release include New Data and Insights in Regional and Urban Economics, Quantitative Regional Economics, Spatial Environmental Economics, Housing Supply and Housing Affordability, Spatial Economics for Low- and Middle- Income Countries, Spatial Dynamics, Spatial Sorting and Inequality, Transportation, Optimal Spatial Policies, Local Labor Markets, and Quantitative Urban Economics.

    • Hormesis, Brain Aging and Metabolism

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 295
      • August 7, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Hormesis, Brain Aging and Metabolism, Volume 295 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Aging and brain metabolism, Calorie restriction: brain physiological and biological aspects, Intermittent fasting and ketone bodies, Physical exercise and brain health: running x sedentary lifestyle, Phytochemicals and brain health, Environmental enrichment and neuroplasticity, Hormesis and brain disease, Neuroinflammation and hormesis, and more.Additional chapters cover Glucocorticoids and Neuroinflammation and Hormesis and cancer.

    • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 72
      • July 31, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 72 is the latest update in this premier outlet for reviews of mature, high-impact research programs in social psychology. Contributions to the series provide defining pieces of established research programs, reviewing and integrating thematically related findings by individual scholars or research groups. Topics discussed in this update include effort, mindsets, social dominance orientation, economic mobility, and honesty.

    • Walking and Pedestrians

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 15
      • July 29, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Walking and pedrestrians series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

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