Books in Social sciences and humanities

Human Factors in Traffic Safety for Highway and Traffic Engineers

1st Edition
April 1, 2025
Alexei Tsyganov
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Human Factors in Traffic Safety for Highway and Traffic Engineers provides human factors principles and findings to allow nonexperts to consider the road user’s capabilities and limitations more effectively into the practice of design, operations, and safety. It provides data and insights on the needs, capabilities, and limitations of road users, including perception and effects of visual demands, cognition, and influence of expectations on driving behavior. It bridges the gap between human factors research and practical application, presenting complex psychological insights in an accessible manner.This book begins with Part 1 explaining the significance of the traffic safety problem and giving an overview of the importance of human factors in highway design and traffic engineering. Part 2 focuses on driver information perception and processing, including perception of depth and speed, driver’s visual search, how road users search for information, and how mental and information load affects drivers’ performance. Part 3 provides results of investigations of traffic crash causation and reviews major driver errors. Part 4 then describes key principles of road users’ considerations during highway design and traffic operation. Finally, Part 5 focuses on safety analysis and assessment and describes in detail the existing methods to evaluate human factors during safety assessments.This is a valuable resource for professionals in highway and traffic engineering, researchers, policymakers, urban planners, and students to understand how human factors contribute to traffic incidents and how to mitigate these through design and operational strategies.

Leadership and Management Practices in Human Services Organizations

1st Edition
March 1, 2025
Rita M. Gardner + 4 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Management, Operation, and Program Development in Human Services Organizations: EnvisionSMART™: A Melmark Model of Administration and Operation is the fourth guidebook in the EnvisionSMART™ series addressing leadership and management practices in human services organizations for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The authors describe a model of administration and operation formed from the disciplines of applied behavior analysis (ABA) and organizational behavior management (OBM). Critical components of organizational design and responsiveness are presented, with chapters devoted to behavior, clinical, and health safety, diversity-equity-inclusion (DEI), assessment and evaluation, and practice-research dissemination. The guidebook illustrates systems-wide implementation of assessment, measurement, intervention and evaluation procedures, includes many practice protocols, and details the evidence-support for programmatic recommendations.

Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training

1st Edition
March 1, 2025
Peter Sturmey + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training is a method consisting of multiple treatment components that is effective for training a wide variety of skills, both simple and complex, in people in a wide variety of populations, including children and adults with disabilities. This book is the first comprehensive research-based guide on behavior skills training for practitioners and human service organizations. Behavioral skills training includes instructions, modelling, rehearsal, and feedback, leading to improvement in social and language skills, reduced problem behavior, independence, and autonomy.This book provides a detailed roadmap from beginning (identifying training needs) to end (large scale application across entire organizations).

The Visual Identity of the Book

1st Edition
March 1, 2025
Christina Banou
English
Paperback
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The Visual Identity of the Book: From the Renaissance to the Digital Age provides a framework that considers the ‘materiality’ of the book (from printed to digital/electronic), the aspects of the stakeholders in the publishing chain, the traditional and ongoing promotion strategies, reader engagement, and personalized publishing services. The aim of the book is to interpret current issues in the publishing industry and to provide an overview of the evolution of the visual appearance/identity of the book in order to approach and explain current issues and to discuss aspects of visual information and aesthetics of the book.Other sections introduce promotion strategies, publish policies, and provide a methodological framework that can also be used in the book business.

Blockchain and Supply Chain Management

2nd Edition
March 1, 2025
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Blockchain and Supply Chain Management, Second Edition combines discussions of blockchain and supply chains, linking technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, satellite imagery, and machine vision. The book examines blockchain’s basic concepts, relevant theories, and its roles in meeting key supply chain objectives. The book addresses problems related to inefficiency, opacity, and fraud, helping the digitization process, simplifying the value creation process, and facilitating collaboration. The book is balanced between blockchain and supply chain application and theory, covering the latest technological, organizational and regulatory developments in blockchain from a supply chain perspective.The book discusses the opportunities, barriers, and enablers of blockchain in supply chain policy, along with legal and ethical implications. The second edition has been thoroughly updated with a new chapter on the luxury good industry supply chains, as well as updated data and statistics; new examples, case studies, and In-Focus boxes; and added regularly updates throughout the book.As supply chain management faces massive disruption with the dynamic changes in global trade, the impact of Covid-19, and technological innovation, scholars, students, and researchers, as well as practitioners such as analysts, consultants, executives, engineers, and managers, will find this a valuable resource for addressing problems related to inefficiency, opacity, and fraud, helping the digitization process, simplifying the value creation process, and facilitating collaboration.

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

1st Edition
Volume 71
March 1, 2025
Bertram Gawronski
English
Hardback
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eBook
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The Advances in Experimental Social Psychology series is the 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 Volume 71 include social inclusion and identity safety; ideological beliefs and behavior; conspiracy theories; science rejection; and intellectual humility.

From Crops and Wastes to Bioenergy

1st Edition
February 1, 2025
Electo silva lora + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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From Crops and Wastes to Bioenergy: Current Status and Challenges is a comprehensive volume on all aspects of biomass utilization for bioenergy, from the fundamentals to the latest commercial and regulatory issues. The book examines all aspects of biomass utilization, from technologies and processes to products. Sections examine the role of biomass in the energy transition, land availability for bioenergy projects, biomass logistics and supply chain, and assesses the lifecycle of bioenergy systems. Chapters are dedicated to each energy conversion route, including thermochemical, biochemical, and chemical, biofuels synthesis, hydrogen from biomass, biorefineries, electricity generation, and waste-to energy.Policy and regulatory issues are also considered. Each chapter reviews the state-of-the-art, discusses disruptive technological approaches, and concludes with specific recommendations on how to achieve commercial competitiveness. Case studies provide examples of real-world applications in each chapter.

Intermediate Financial Theory

4th Edition
February 1, 2025
Jean-Pierre Danthine + 2 more
English
eBook
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International Financial Theory, Fourth Edition delivers an updated and thorough explanation, accessible to those new to the subject and without a deep background in advanced mathematics. The book is ideal for those with a background in economics, and for those looking for an accessible, yet rigorous introduction beyond basic MBA-level textbooks, but not as dense as highly technical Ph.D. presentations. This valuable text combines academic expertise and real-world experience from leading experts in the field, and has been fully updated, including supplemental, useful online resources.

Walking and Pedestrians

1st Edition
Volume 15
February 1, 2025
Winnie Daamen + 3 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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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.

Psychological Processes in Social Media

1st Edition
January 31, 2025
Rosanna E. Guadagno
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Incorporating relevant theory and research from psychology (social, cognitive, clinical, developmental, and personality), mass communication, and media studies, Psychological Processes in Social Media examines both the positive and negative psychological impacts of social media use. This book covers a broad range of topics such as research methods, social influence, the viral spread of information, the use of social media in political movements, prosocial behavior, trolling and cyberbullying, and friendship and romantic relationships. Emphasizing the integration of theory and application throughout, this book offers an illuminating look at the psychological implications and processes around the use of social media.

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