Teaching with Comics: Empirical, Analytical, and Professional Experiences
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031051939 | 328 Pages | PDF (True) | 14 MB

Charismatic Glossolalia: An Empirical-Theological Study (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies) By Mark J. Cartledge
2002 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0754615960 | PDF | 6 MB

Derya Özkan, "Commoning the City: Empirical Perspectives on Urban Ecology, Economics and Ethics "
English | ISBN: 036707656X | 2020 | 214 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This collection seeks to expand the limits of current debates about urban commoning practices that imply a radical will to establish collaborative and solidarity networks based on anti-capitalist principles of economics, ecology and ethics.

Learner Autonomy in the English Classroom: Empirical Studies and Ideas for Teachers By Paul Lennon (editor)
2012 | 409 Pages | ISBN: 3631624123 | PDF | 3 MB
The volume consists of twelve classroom studies concerned with the implementation of learner autonomy in English classes. The individual studies range from primary school level to university level. They include studies on multi-media dictionary work, reading logs, peer correction, communication strategies, vocabulary learning strategies, oral proficiency, as well as work with literary texts and authentic news texts. Two studies focus specifically on the teaching of other subjects in English (Content and Language Integrated Learning). The authors describe their own empirical studies, record their classroom observations and make practical suggestions for teachers to take up in their own classrooms. All the studies are firmly grounded in second language acquisition theory and established didactic principles. They are prefaced by an introduction and a background chapter on the theory and practice of learner autonomy in language teaching.

Ann P. Kinzig, Stephen Pacala, David Tilman, "The Functional Consequences of Biodiversity: Empirical Progress and Theoretical Extensions."
English | 2001 | pages: 387 | ISBN: 0691088225, 0691088217 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Does biodiversity influence how ecosystems function? Might diversity loss affect the ability of ecosystems to deliver services of benefit to humankind? Ecosystems provide food, fuel, fiber, and drinkable water, regulate local and regional climate, and recycle needed nutrients, among other things. An ecosyste's ability to sustain functioning may depend on the number of species residing in the ecosystem-its biological diversity-but this has been a controversial hypothesis. There are many unanswered questions about how and why changes in biodiversity could alter ecosystem functioning. This volume, written by top researchers, synthesizes empirical studies on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and extends that knowledge using a novel and coordinated set of models and theoretical approaches.

Julie Schaffner, "Development Economics: Theory, Empirical Research, and Policy Analysis"
English | 2013 | pages: 690 | ISBN: 0470599391 | PDF | 7,4 mb
Development Economics: Theory, Empirical Research, and Policy Analysis by Julie Schaffner teaches students to think about development in a way that is disciplined by economic theory, informed by cutting-edge empirical research, and connected in a practical way to contemporary development efforts. It lays out a framework for the study of developing economies that is built on microeconomic foundations and that highlights the importance in development studies of transaction and transportation costs, risk, information problems, institutional rules and norms, and insights from behavioral economics. It then presents a systematic approach to policy analysis and applies the approach to policies from around the world, in the areas of targeted transfers, workfare, agricultural markets, infrastructure, education, agricultural technology, microfinance, and health.

Resilient Smart Cities : Theoretical and Empirical Insights
by Ayyoob Sharifi and Pourya Salehi
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030950360 | 476 Pages | True ePUB | 31.3 MB

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1685076254, 978-1685076252 | 312 pages | True PDF | 41.9 MB
The vision of perfectionism as a multidimensional variable has gained weight in scientific evidence as social functioning sets more rigorous performance standards of an individual or group differentiation in any field (e.g., academic, sports, work, social, religious...). There is a need to establish how we achieve the goals we set ourselves in any field of action, thanks mainly to the creation of valid and reliable instruments to measure it. In today's societies, there is an increasing emphasis on how to respond to the demands of the environment as quickly as possible, being effective and achieving the best results. The demands of the environment make it possible to stimulate contextually (if they are seen as traits) and to construct perfectionist patterns and attitudes (if they are understood as learned cognitions or behaviors), which are usually associated with agonizing feelings of devaluation, incapacity or psychological vulnerability. Perfectionists are characterized by setting their goals too high as they are always on a quest to do things perfectly. In cases where they cannot do something perfectly, they do not even try, or they live with significant suffering that floods their lives, causing feelings of dissatisfaction and affecting their self-esteem, mainly because their attention is reduced to focusing only on the end of the tasks they perform, leaving the development of the task in the background. People who seek to do things perfectly are rigid when it comes to carrying them out, causing difficulty in adapting to changes, and preventing them from enjoying the present moment or taking advantage of their mistakes to improve themselves. It is impossible to make everything perfect, as all people make mistakes, but perfectionists conceive failure as an expression of their maladjustment and for this reason, they generate high levels of anxiety, becoming people who try to control everything around them.

Resilient Smart Cities: Theoretical and Empirical Insights by Ayyoob Sharifi
English | PDF | 2022 | 476 Pages | ISBN : 3030950360 | 10.4 MB

Russian Provincial Society: An Empirical Analysis
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030978281 | 374 Pages | PDF (True) | 7 MB
This book presents a unique analysis of modern Russian provincial society. Based on detailed empirical evidence, it develops a theoretical model of Russian provincial society in the late 20th century and the early 21st century. The book explains how under the conditions of catastrophic changes, Russian provincial societies have undergone a structural transformation. It further sheds light on the transformation of the economic behavior of the population and households with regard to economic practices, crafts, and revived archaic forms of labor behavior.