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Plates and Shells Theory and Analysis Fourth Edition

Plates and Shells Theory and Analysis Fourth Edition

Noted for its practical accessible approach to senior and graduate-level engineering mechanics Plates and Shells: Theory and Analysis is a long-time bestselling text on the subjects of elasticity and stress analysis. Many new examples and applications are included to review and support key foundational concepts. Advanced methods are discussed and analyzed accompanied by illustrations. Problems are carefully arranged from the basic to the more challenging level. Computer/numerical approaches (Finite Difference Finite Element MATLAB) are introduced and MATLAB code for selected illustrative problems and a case study is included. | Plates and Shells Theory and Analysis Fourth Edition

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Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

This book begins with the distinction between the so-called lived body or felt body (Leib) and the physical body (Körper) tracing the conceptual history of this distinction through key figures in philosophical and social thoughts and articulating a theory of the lived body that draws on the New Phenomenology developed by Hermann Schmitz. An explanation of our being-in-the-world in terms of a felt-bodily communication with all perceived forms and their affective-bodily resonance in us Being a Lived Body integrates and critically assesses the leading theories of embodiment while presenting a new approach to the body. It will therefore appeal to scholars of philosophy social theory and anthropology with interests in phenomenology and embodiment. | Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

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Nationalism and the Body Politic

Nationalism and the Body Politic

This volume aims to question the recent revival of neo-nationalist policies in the light of what unconscious fantasies are involved in these developments. It examines both recent movements of right-wing extremism and the way in which rearticulated neo-ethnic ideas have been adopted by mainstream politicians and in mainstream public discourse. Politicians from other than the right-wing populist parties have tended to resist specific ways of talking that are considered too extremist rather than their underlying frame of interpretation. Governments across Europe have adopted anti-immigrant and anti-Roma policies. Xenophobia and hostility towards 'others' is on the rise along with appeals to Tradition and Security. 'Cultures of fear' are linked with fantasies of fusion or 'imagined sameness'. Alongside the image of the nation as a mother and/or father Reich (1933) called attention to the fantasy of the nation as a body echoed in Money-Kyrle's (1939) characterization of 'group hypochondria' in connection with the burning of witches and heretics. | Nationalism and the Body Politic

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Soul Body and Gender in Late Antiquity Essays on Embodiment and Disembodiment

Soul Body and Gender in Late Antiquity Essays on Embodiment and Disembodiment

Including both traditional and underrepresented accounts and geographies of soul body gender and sexuality in late antique history philosophy and theology this volume offers substantial re-readings of these and related concepts through theories of dis/embodiment. Bringing together gender studies late antique philosophy patristics history of asceticism and history of Indian philosophy this interdisciplinary volume examines the notions of dis/embodiment and im/materiality in late antique and early Christian culture and thought. The book’s geographical scope extends beyond the ancient Mediterranean providing comparative perspectives from Late Antiquity in the Near East and South Asia. It offers critical interpretations of late antique scholarly objects of inquiry exploring close readings of soul body gender and sexuality in their historical context. These fascinating studies engage scholars from different fields and research traditions with one another and reveal both change and continuity in the perception and social role of gender sexuality body and soul in this period. Soul Body and Gender in Late Antiquity is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Classics Gender and Sexuality Studies as well as those working on late antique and early Christian history philosophy and theology. | Soul Body and Gender in Late Antiquity Essays on Embodiment and Disembodiment

GBP 140.00
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Body Self and Melancholy The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)

Body Self and Melancholy The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)

This book addresses early modern concepts of the body and the self – focussing on three self-narratives authored by the nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634–1710) a body description from head to foot autobiographical writings and a brief chronicle of the House of Trapp-Caldonazzo. Approaching the complex theme of the question of the early modern self and the historical body this book intertwines consistent contextualisation and historicisation of self-interpretation and biography. This is done in three steps: first the content and function of these self-narratives are analysed with reference to current research on early modern self-narratives. In a second step the life and family history of Osvaldo Ercole Trapp are examined from a microhistorical perspective and placed within the context of the early modern history of Tyrol’s nobility. A third step then goes into detail on individual contexts and discourses that refine one’s comprehension of these self-narratives: noble masculinity; family house and line; theories of procreation and education; body experience and body images. It combines textual analysis historical anthropology with a strong gender-historical perspective microhistory and the history of the body as a history of experience and discourse. With this approach the study makes an innovative contribution to early modern studies on self-narratives social history of early modern nobility and the history of the body as the history of experience and discourse. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars alike interested in intellectual social and cultural history. | Body Self and Melancholy The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)

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Stranger in My Own Body Atypical Gender Identity Development and Mental Health

Stranger in My Own Body Atypical Gender Identity Development and Mental Health

This book brings together the thinking of an international group of clinicians researchers and professionals from different disciplines and is based primarily on a selection of papers presented at a conference on the same topic held at the Tavistock Centre London in November 1996 but with additional original contributions. It presents a dia | Stranger in My Own Body Atypical Gender Identity Development and Mental Health

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The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance

The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance

This book evaluates the widespread preference in philosophy of mind for varieties of property dualism over other alternatives to physicalism. It takes the standard motivations for property dualism as a starting point and argues that these lead directly to nonphysical substances resembling the soul of traditional metaphysics. In the first half of the book the author clarifies what is at issue in the choice between theories that posit nonphysical properties only and those that posit nonphysical substances. The crucial question he argues is whether one posits nonphysical things that satisfy an Aristotelian-Cartesian independence definition of substance: nonphysical things that could exist in the absence of anything else. In the second half the author argues that standard and Russellian monist forms of property dualism are far less plausible than we usually suppose. Most significantly the presuppositions of one of the leading arguments for property dualism the conceivability argument lead by parity of reasoning to the view that conscious subjects are nonphysical substances. He concludes that if you posit nonphysical properties in response to the mind-body problem then you should be prepared to posit nonphysical substances as well. Mainstream philosophy of mind must take nonphysical substances far more seriously than it has done for the best part of a century. The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of mind metaphysics and the history of philosophy. | The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance

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The Thermal Human Body A Practical Guide to Thermal Imaging

The Thermal Human Body A Practical Guide to Thermal Imaging

This book is a guide for the constantly growing community of the users of medical thermal imaging. It describes where and how an infrared equipment can be used in a strictly standardised way and how one can ultimately comprehensively report the findings. Due to their insight into the complex mechanisms behind the distribution of surface temperature future users of medical thermal imaging should be able to provide careful and cautious interpretations of infrared thermograms thus avoiding the pitfalls of the past. The authors are well-known pioneers of the technique of infrared imaging in medicine who have combined strict standard-based evaluation of medical thermal images with their expertise in clinical medicine and related fields of health management. | The Thermal Human Body A Practical Guide to Thermal Imaging

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The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls Traces of the Body Gender and History

The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls Traces of the Body Gender and History

In this book Vera Dika rewrites the story of the Pictures Generation from the perspective of the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo NY. Her work is based on interviews with living artists archival research and personal collections including films videotapes and sound recordings. At once aesthetic cultural and political this renewed perspective asks new questions and rewrites past assumptions about the artists’ work. The legendary members of the East Coast Pictures Generation emerged at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo in the mid-1970s. These young people had started Hallwalls an artist-run organization that invited artists from a variety of mediums to show their work. It also featured productions by the founding members themselves: Robert Longo Charles Clough Cindy Sherman Nancy Dwyer and Michael Zwack. The works discussed in the volume include performance video films painting music and literature and have been chosen because of the way they foreground states of the body in relationship to conditions of their medium. As a distinguishing feature of Hallwalls artists’ work the practice uses these traces to make metaphors on the process of mechanical reproduction itself. The Hallwalls artists’ work also gives testament to Buffalo and to New York City the cities that formed their historical contexts. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history performance studies film studies and gender studies. | The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls Traces of the Body Gender and History

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Bodies of Information Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop

Bodies of Information Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop

Bodies of Information initiates the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by encompassing interdisciplinary Bioethical discussions on a wide range of descriptions of bodies in relation to their contexts from varying perspectives: including literary analysis sociology criminology anthropology osteology and cultural studies to read a variety of types of artefacts from the Romano-British period to Hip Hop. Van Rensselaer Potter coined the phrase Global Bioethics to define human relationships with their contexts. This and subsequent volumes return to Potter’s founding vision from historical perspectives and asks how did we get here from then? | Bodies of Information Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop

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The Musician's Body A Maintenance Manual for Peak Performance

The Musician's Body A Maintenance Manual for Peak Performance

Musicians suffer greatly from industry-related injury and illness and many of these problems are established during student days or even before. This affects all forms of music-making from classical through jazz and rock to traditional folk. Hearing damage is of serious concern in most forms of music-making but the most stressful situations and the most physical damage is recorded in the practice of classical music. The long hours of practice at the beginning of a musician's career are the main source of problems that sometimes only reveal themselves in later life. This book is aimed equally at student musicians practising musicians and instrumental and vocal teachers and it aims to help them to begin to understand how and why their bodies function as they do when they perform and also how they may avoid professionally related illness or injury and achieve the highest standards of performance. The principal author Dr Jaume Rosset i Llobet is a medical expert and an internationally acclaimed researcher on the subject. He is the Director of a Centre for the Physiology of The Arts in Terrassa Catalonia one of the few clinics in the world to which musicians dancers and performing artists can go for assessment and treatment. The book provides examples and references to the health of musicians covering a wide range of musical genres based on current research practice and treatment. As well as physiological exposition copiously illustrated with medical and humorous diagrams the book covers ergonomics risk factors posture breathing matters of diet and accommodation of professional needs in daily life. | The Musician's Body A Maintenance Manual for Peak Performance

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Understanding Chemistry through Cars

Understanding Chemistry through Cars

As the car anticipates its dance around the racetrack the engine growls and pops and all senses become immersed in the smell of exhaust vapors and the sounds of raw speed and excitement. As it turns out these also are the sights sounds and smells of chemistry! The car is a great example of an everyday device with an abundance of chemistry hiding in plain sight. In fact almost everything in a car can be described from a chemical perspective. Understanding Chemistry through Cars guides novice chemists and car enthusiasts in learning basic chemical principles in an engaging context. It also supports upper-level chemists in synthesizing knowledge gained over a chemistry curriculum and seeing how it can manifest in the real world. This book provides an overview of chemistry in relation to cars. Various topics are discussed including the ideal gas law materials chemistry thermochemistry solution chemistry mass transport polymerization light/matter interactions and oxidation and reduction. The book incorporates expected learning outcomes at the beginning of each section detailed and easy-to-follow example problems appendices reviewing basic chemical topics suggestions on how to use the resource in upper-level courses. Ancillary materials such as a Twitter account and an associated blog allow readers to explore the latest in the world of car chemistry ask questions and interact directly with the authors and other experts.

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Men Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra 9-10

Men Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra 9-10

Offering a reading of the intermarriage debate and expulsion of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10 this book engages with the production and performance of masculinities in this biblical text shifting the focus away from the 'foreign women' to the men who are the primary actors in this work. This approach addresses the diversity of masculinities and the ways in which they are implicated in the production of power relations in the text. It explores the ‘feminized’ masculinity of the peoples-of-the-lands the unstable masculinity of the golah Ezra’s performance of penitential masculinity and the rehabilitation of divine masculinity. The rejection of the marriages and the call for the expulsion of the women and children are addressed as sites on which masculinities and power relations are configured. In doing so this book sheds light on how women and the traits and performances culturally ascribed to women femininity and inferior masculinities are appropriated to produce masculinities and negotiate power relations between men. It posits that the debate in Ezra 9-10 is not ultimately about the women themselves but about bringing the masculinities bodies and practices of dissenting men under the ‘management’ of those who wield the Torah in the narrative world of the text. Men Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra-9-10 is of interest for scholars and students working on the Book of Ezra specifically as well as the Hebrew Bible and its world more broadly. It is also a valuable study for those working on masculinities and gender in the biblical world and ancient Near East. | Men Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra 9-10

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Mollusks and Marine Environments of the Ten Thousand Islands

Mollusks and Marine Environments of the Ten Thousand Islands

Mollusks and Marine Environments of the Ten Thousand Islands provides the first comprehensive overview of the shells and habitats that are present in the last unexplored coastal area of southwestern Florida. The mysterious and primordial Ten Thousand Islands where the rivers and marshlands of the Everglades empty into the Gulf of Mexico house a number of remarkable marine ecosystems many shown here in detail for the first time. Primary among these are unique worm shell “reef systems ” composed entirely of immense masses of vermetid gastropod mollusks. These previously unexplored and unstudied gastropod reefs which are often many acres in size are shown here to mimic coral reefs in their growth structure and represent the only large-scale molluscan reefs found anywhere on Earth. Living in association with the zonated gastropod reefs are a number of rare and unusual mollusks some of which represent endemic species that are unique to the Ten Thousand Islands. These and many other southwestern Florida shells are illustrated throughout this book along with detailed illustrations and descriptions of the marine and estuarine environments that dominate the archipelago and its adjacent lagoon systems.

GBP 150.00
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Grand European Expresses The Story of the Wagons-Lits

Grand European Expresses The Story of the Wagons-Lits

Grand European Expresses (1962) examines the trains de luxe of the International Sleeping Car and European Express Trains Company from the Orient Express of the 1880s to the car-sleepers of the 1960s. As modern-day sleeper services are being resurrected across European rail networks this book looks at the complex organisation that was required to run their forbears with sleeping cars with clean bedding and conductors and dining cars with food and drink were in the right place at the right time across many different nations systems and time-zones. | Grand European Expresses The Story of the Wagons-Lits

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Translating Transgressive Texts Gender Sexuality and the Body in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French

Translating Transgressive Texts Gender Sexuality and the Body in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French

Through close examination of references to gender identity female sexuality and corporeality this book is the first of its kind to shed light on the complexities of translating the recent transgressive turn in contemporary women’s writing in French. Via four case studies namely the translations into English of Nelly Arcan’s Putain (2001) Catherine Millet’s La Vie sexuelle de Catherine M. (2001) Nancy Huston’s Infrarouge (2010) and Nina Bouraoui’s Garçon manqué (2000) this book explores how transgressive topoi such as prostitution anorexia matrophobia rape female desire and transgenderism are translated. The book considers how (auto)fictional female selves portrayed are dis/placed by translation at both a textual and paratextual level. Combining feminist phenomenological perspectives on female lived experience with feminist translation theory this interdisciplinary study offers an insight into how the experiential is brought into language how it journeys via language into new cultural contexts via translation and creates a dialogical space in which the subjectivities of those involved (author narrator protagonist translator) become open to the porosity of encounters with alterity. The volume will appeal to scholars in translation studies French Studies and gender and sexuality studies particularly those interested in feminist translation and literary translation. | Translating Transgressive Texts Gender Sexuality and the Body in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French

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Environmental Investigation and Remediation 1 4-Dioxane and other Solvent Stabilizers Second Edition

Environmental Investigation and Remediation 1 4-Dioxane and other Solvent Stabilizers Second Edition

Filled with updated information equations tables figures and citations Environmental Investigation and Remediation: 1 4-Dioxane and Other Solvent Stabilizers Second Edition provides the full range of information on 1 4-dioxane. It offers passive and active remediation strategies and treatment technologies for 1 4-dioxane in groundwater and provides the technical resources to help readers choose the best methods for their particular situation. This new edition includes all new information on remediation costs and reflects the latest research in the field. It includes new practical case studies to illustrate the concepts presented including 1 4-dioxane occurrence in Long Island and the Cape Fear watershed in North Carolina. Features: Fully updated throughout to reflect the most recent research on 1 4-dioxane Describes the nature and extent of 1 4-dioxane releases their regulation and their remediation in a variety of geologic settings Examines 1 4-dioxane analytical chemistry its many industrial uses and 1 4-dioxane occurrence as a byproduct in production of many products Provides ample site data for recent and relevant remediation case studies and a review of the widely varying regulatory landscape for 1 4-dioxane cleanup levels and drinking water limits Discusses the importance of accounting for contaminant archeology in investigating contaminated sites and leveraging solvent stabilizers in forensic investigations While written primarily for practicing professionals such as environmental consultants and attorneys water utility engineers and laboratory managers the book will also appeal to researchers and academics as well. This new edition serves as a highly useful reference on the occurrence sampling and analysis and remedial investigation and design for 1 4-dioxane and related contaminants. | Environmental Investigation and Remediation 1 4-Dioxane and other Solvent Stabilizers Second Edition

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Metabolism and Medicine The Physics of Biological Engines (Volume 1)

Metabolism and Medicine The Physics of Biological Engines (Volume 1)

Chronic disease states of aging should be viewed through the prism of metabolism and biophysical processes at all levels of physiological organization present in the human body. This book describes the building blocks of understanding from a reasonable but not high-level technical language viewpoint employing the perspective of a clinical physician. It brings together concepts from five specific branches of physics relevant to biology and medicine namely biophysics classical electromagnetism thermodynamics systems biology and quantum mechanics. Key Features: Broad and up-to-date overview of the field of metabolism especially connecting the spectrum of topics that range from modern physical underpinnings with cell biology to clinical practice. Provides a deeper basic science and interdisciplinary understanding of biological systems that broaden the perspectives and therapeutic problem solving. Introduces the concept of the Physiological Fitness Landscape which is inspired by the physics of phase transitions This first volume in a two-volume set primarily targets an audience of clinical and science students biomedical researchers and physicians who would benefit from understanding each other’s language. | Metabolism and Medicine The Physics of Biological Engines (Volume 1)

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Hairdressing: Level 1 The Interactive Textbook

Hairdressing: Level 1 The Interactive Textbook

For Level 1 Hairdressing students on NVQ SVQ and VRQ courses. A genuinely new and innovative way for students to study hairdressing this new textbook is supported with extensive multimedia material and activities at no extra cost. Some books include a few videos and basic materials but this title comes with over 100 free online resources and activity screens with which to improve learning. Online questions are also included as well as links to other resources such as images animations and videos. The elearning resources are included in every chapter to complement the textbook content and will help students from the start of their qualification until they pass their final exams. | Hairdressing: Level 1 The Interactive Textbook

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Computational Intelligence in Analytics and Information Systems Volume 1: Data Science and AI​ ​Selected Papers from CIAIS-2021

Computational Intelligence in Analytics and Information Systems Volume 1: Data Science and AI​ ​Selected Papers from CIAIS-2021

The new book presents a valuable selection of state-of-the-art technological advancements using the concepts of AI and machine learning highlighting the use of predictive analytics of data to find timely solutions to real-time problems. It helps to identify applicable approaches in order to enhance automate and develop effective solutions to challenges in data science and artificial intelligence. The various novel approaches include applications in healthcare natural language processing and smart cities. As such the book is divided into sections that address: Computational Intelligence in Image Processing Computational Intelligence in Healthcare Techniques for Natural Language Processing Computational Intelligence in Smart Cities The very diverse range of topics include AI and machine learning applications for In security: For using digital image processing for image fusion (face recognition feature extraction object detection as well tracking moving object identification) for person re-identification for security purposes. In healthcare and medicine: For diagnosis and prediction of breast cancer other cancers diabetes heart disease; for predicting susceptibility to COVID-19; for prediction of mood and anxiety disorders. In agriculture: For prediction of crop profit; for prediction of cropping patterns and recommendation for crop cultivation. In traffic science/smart cities: For understanding road scene images for detection of traffic signs for devising a fog-based intelligent traffic phase timing regulation system In language/speech/text: For automatic text summarization for document indexing for unstructured data for speech/accent recognition for sound separation for American Sign Language interpretation for nonsigners for emotional recognition and analysis through speech body postures with facial expressions and other body movements (to improve the performance of virtual personal assistants / emotion recognition using speech body postures with facial expressions and other body movements. This volume offers valuable information for researchers working in interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary areas of healthcare image analysis natural language processing and smart cities. This includes academicians people in industry and students with engineering background with research interest in these areas. These peer-review chapters were selected from the International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Analytics and Information Systems (CIAIS- 2021) held in April 2021 at Manav Rachna University India. Together with Volume 2: Advances in Digital Transformation this 2-volume set offers an abundacne of valuable information on emerging technologies in computational intelligence in information systems focusing on data science and artificial intelliegence. | Computational Intelligence in Analytics and Information Systems Volume 1: Data Science and AI​ ​Selected Papers from CIAIS-2021

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Learning as Interactivity Movement Growth and Becoming Volume 1 Ecologies of Learning in Higher Education

Learning as Interactivity Movement Growth and Becoming Volume 1 Ecologies of Learning in Higher Education

The two inter-linked volumes in this series are dedicated to the development of analysis and theorisation of learning and teaching in higher education. The two volumes focus on the multi-scalar ecological inter-connectedness of learners with teachers with artefacts with cultural patterns and resources with places with social activities and practices with social institutions with time and temporality and with technologies. Learning reflects inter-individual dynamics that are shaped by biology and culture. Against prevailing orthodoxies that view learning in higher education in terms of information transmission and content delivery the contributors articulate leading developments in distributed cognition distributed language ecological psychology enactivist and embodied-embedded cognitive science interactivity and multimodal event analysis. They also extend several earlier traditions such as American pragmatism embodied curriculum theory and Vygotsky's latter day anti-dualist Spinozan turn. Through detailed empirical analysis of in vivo episodes of learning using multimodal event analysis cognitive event analysis and cutting-edge theory the authors show how and why learning is not adequately explainable as internal mental processes per se. Instead sophisticated empirical analysis and innovative theory are put to work to reveal the emergence of learning in the interactivity of learners and teachers with the affordances of a distributed brain-body-environment learning system. Volume 1 is an edited collection of seven chapters written by internationally renowned researchers together with an Introduction and an Afterword written by King and Thibault. Volume 1 (and its successor Volume 2) will serve as valuable reading for educationalists and researchers in the cognitive communication learning and language sciences who are looking for new multidimensional tools for thinking about and new empirical tools for analysing learning and teaching as multi-scalar interactive processes in radical embodied ecologies of learning and teaching. | Learning as Interactivity Movement Growth and Becoming Volume 1 Ecologies of Learning in Higher Education

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