Books in Social sciences and humanities

Women’s Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Léo-Paul Dana + 1 more
English

Women’s Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals: An Opportunity Nexus is a compilation of state-of-the-art research articles and case studies on how women-owned businesses support one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Authored by experts from around the world, this book presents theoretical and empirical research to support sustainable development, especially studies of women’s entrepreneurship. This includes how sustainability is conceptualized in different contexts.The book covers topics and themes such as gender differences and how women become entrepreneurs while considering the green economy; the impact of the female workforce participating in entrepreneurial activities and its relevance regarding sustainability; the importance of female entrepreneurship and its link with sustainable development; intrapreneurial female leaders and corporate sustainability orientation; and more.Researchers, practitioners, and students of sustainability and entrepreneurship will find this a valuable source of up-to-date information on sustainable entrepreneurship issues and practical steps that can be taken to foster women in sustainable enterprises to advance the SDGs.

Mindful Self-Care for Clinicians and Caregivers

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Martin Lumpkin + 2 more
English
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Mindful Self-Care for Clinicians and Caregivers: A Group Facilitator’s Guide provides caregivers with a practical, scholarly resource to facilitate mindful self-care groups. Developed by experts in mental health, this guide includes session by session guides (visual aids, audios, and videos) to support facilitators. The book introduces readers to the theory and empirical foundations underlying mindfulness practices. The second section describes the development of the group intervention and presents a model for understanding the challenges of caregiving and emotional states related to this work. An online companion site containing audio and video files helps support facilitations in implementing this new model.

Improving Environmental and Human Health with Community Trees and Forests

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
David Nowak
English

Improving Environmental and Human Health with Community Trees and Forests provides the latest and most comprehensive information on community forests globally, how these trees improve human health and well-being, the value of community trees, and what local land managers, from the lot to regional scale, could do to improve the benefits provided by community trees. It offers a complete understanding of the benefits and costs associated with trees in cities and how these benefits occur. It will summarize, in simple terms, what we know about urban trees and forests, and how decision-makers can improve their local environment using trees. This book facilitates the creation of sustainable community forests that provide optimal benefits to individuals and society. It takes a systems approach, focusing on the forest population rather than the individual tree, and providing information on the best tree species and designs to produce optimal effects. It is divided into three major sections: 1) The Basics, 2) Urban Forest Benefits, and 3) Improving the Urban Environment with Trees. The first helps readers understand how cities affect our local environment, how urban forests vary across the world and within a city, the goals of urban forest management and forest sustainability, and more. The second section focuses on the benefits and costs of urban forests, including the monetary value of trees. The last section focuses on specific steps that land managers should follow to better understand, manage, and improve their local tree and forest population for current and future generations. Decisions made today can have profound impacts on forest and community health well into the future. Readers of a variety of backgrounds—from city forest and park managers, to policy makers, regional managers, non-profit groups, and more—will find this book a valuable resource for helping them make those decisions.

Railway Pantograph–Catenary System

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Zefeng Yang + 3 more
English

Railway Pantograph–Catenary System: Optimizing Dynamics, Materials, and Performance unlocks the theoretical and practical complexities of this key element in high-speed railway electrification. This authoritative volume offers a focused exploration of optimization approaches for the electrical contact process, ensuring consistent, reliable, and efficient performance by addressing the system’s underlying dynamics, the materials of its components, as well as critical issues such as current-carrying frictional wear, arc phenomena, and environmental impacts.Bridging multiple disciplines, the book presents recent research findings and introduces cutting-edge technologies, laying the foundation for future advancements. Its systematic analysis and inclusion of real-world case studies contribute to an in-depth understanding of how the system operates under varying conditions, equipping readers with guidance for effective implementation.This comprehensive book proves to be an invaluable resource for both academic learners and industry experts and fosters closer collaboration to benefit railway transport all over the world.

Advancing Equity and Empowerment

1st Edition
Volume 68
October 1, 2025
Kristina Rios + 2 more
English

International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities, Volume 68 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Designing Interventions Targeting Social Isolation and Loneliness in Teens/Adults with IDD: Lessons Learned from Feasibility Studies, Designing syndrome-informed anticipatory interventions with community-based participatory principles, Babble Boot Camp in Down syndrome, Reevaluating Independence and Community for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities, What is Down syndrome? The perspective of adults with Down syndrome, and more.Additional chapters cover Newly discovered causes of severe and profound Intellectual Disability: Developmental and behavioral outcomes associated with Tubulinopathy and The Impact of Cognitive Engagement on Alpha and Beta Wave Patterns in the Motor Cortex: Exploring Associations for Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Psychology of Learning and Motivation

1st Edition
Volume 83
October 1, 2025
Kara D. Federmeier
English

Intelligence in a Physical World, Volume 83 in The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series, the latest release in this ongoing series, features empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning, to complex learning and problem-solving. Chapters in this new release include The genetic and neuronal basis of animal architecture, Adopting whole-brain computational modeling to investigate neurophysiological features, Dynamical and robotic modeling of brain motivational and decision-making systems, Attention and consciousness are one and the same, Hierarchical processing in the brain: Insights from predictive coding and its neural signatures, and much more.Additional sections cover Scratching the itch of "not knowing": Non-instrumental information-seeking in humans, How do emotions move us? Emotional influence can occur by changing perceivers’ feelings, bodies, and inferences, Cultural bodybuilding: the embodied influence of culture on perception and action, and Beyond dyadic interaction and shared experience: rethinking social connections.

Applied Behavior Analysis for Business and Technology Applications

1st Edition
September 15, 2025
Jason C. Vladescu + 1 more
English

The rapid advancement in the field of applied behavior analysis (ABA) over the last several decades, is likely attributable to the success in application to supporting the needs of individuals with autism spectrum disorder/autistic individuals. Yet, the power and potential of ABA is not in application to a specific area, but to any area of social significance. Applied Behavior Analysis for Business and Technology Applications provides a comprehensive discussion of the industries that ABA professionals could apply their skill set to. This volume introduces each business and industry, reviews applicable conceptual and basic work, and discusses how this work can be adopted for practical application. Divided into four distant sections: Business and Industries, Sports & Physical Fitness, Large Scale Interventions and Technology, this book outlines skills and knowledge necessary for entering the relevant workforce.

Applied Behavior Analysis for Clinical, Educational, and Training Applications

1st Edition
September 15, 2025
Jason C. Vladescu + 1 more
English

The rapid advancement in the field of applied behavior analysis (ABA) over the last several decades, is likely attributable to the success in application to supporting the needs of individuals with autism spectrum disorder/autistic individuals. Yet, the power and potential of ABA is not in application to a specific area, but to any area of social significance. Applied Behavior Analysis for Clinical, Educational, and Training Applications provides a comprehensive discussion of the applications that ABA professionals could apply their skill set to. This volume introduces the three top areas of application for ABA skills: Clinical, Educational, and Training, including pediatric psychology, juvenile correction services and applied animal behavior. Each chapter will review how behavior analysts can use their conceptual, basic, and translational training and apply it to actual practice. The aim of this book is to not only provide readers with the skills, knowledge, and experience to enter any of these fields, bult ultimately succeed.

The Neuroscience of Deep Brain Stimulation

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Yasin Temel + 2 more
English
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Neuroscience of Deep Brain Stimulation: Research and Clinical Applications begins by introducing readers to the foundational research and historical background of DBS, including developmental experimental models for movement and psychiatric disorders. The second section reviews various clinical applications, including numerous and in-depth case studies. The final section identifies the mechanisms of action behind DBS, including cellular, metabolic, and neurochemical mechanisms. Internationally contributed, this book is an essential guide for anyone in the field of DBS.

Measuring and Managing Information Risk

2nd Edition
September 1, 2025
Jack Freund + 1 more
English
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Measuring and Managing Information Risk: A FAIR Approach, Second Edition provides a proven and credible framework for understanding, measuring, and analyzing information risk of any size or complexity using the Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) methodology developed over ten years and adopted by corporations worldwide. This new edition covers such key areas as risk theory, risk calculation, scenario modeling, and communicating risk within the organization, and also includes new chapters and essays from industry professionals. It provides a step-by-step guide to help managers make better business decisions by understanding their organizational risk.The field has advanced significantly in the past 10 years and this all-new edition reiterates the importance of the foundations of risk measurement but adds information about modern methods to integrate quantitative risk assessment methods into your security programs. This includes the integration of security telemetry data, outside data sources, approaches to automating FAIR assessments, and how to align methods and programs to security standards and regulations. Further discussed is how such approaches are being used by third-party agencies to provide CRQ data to the investors, underwriters, and regulators. This book is a valuable resource for all those who need the foundations, methods, and techniques for measuring, assessing, and communicating cyber risk to enable an organization to build an organizational IT risk management program. It serves as both a practical how-to guide for those new to the industry as well as tenured professionals that need a formalized guide for implementation.

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