Mapping Applied Linguistics: A Guide for Students and Practitioners, Third Edition, provides a newly updated, wide-ranging introduction to the full scope of applied linguistics. This innovative book maps the diverse and constantly expanding range of theories, methods, and issues faced by students and practitioners around the world, integrating both sociocultural and cognitive perspectives. Practically oriented and ideally suited to students new to the discipline, Mapping Appli...

The past decade has witnessed the broad adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) technologies. However, a lack of oversight in their widespread implementation has resulted in some incidents and harmful outcomes that could have been avoided with proper risk management. Before we can realize AI/ML's true benefit, practitioners must understand how to mitigate its risks.This book describes approaches to responsible AI—a holistic framework for improving AI/ML tec...

It was a stupid wish. One that's come to haunt my doorstep fourteen years later.When I made a pact with my best friend to marry each other if we were both still single at thirty, I had no idea it would be magically bound . . . by me.Time and circumstance have separated us, and we're no longer the naïve teenagers we once were. I'm thriving with my coven and Silas is the newly appointed Alpha of the local shifter pack.Which is why this marriage wi...

This anthology honors the life and work of American economist John E. Murray, whose work on the evolution of the standard of living spanned multiple disciplines. Publishing extensively in the areas of the history of healthcare and health insurance, labor markets, religion, and family-related issues from education to orphanages, fertility, and marriage, Murray was much more than an economic historian and his influence can be felt across the wider scholarly community. Written by Murray’s aca...

Here's a polished version of your description, expanded to about 210 words while keeping it powerful and reader-focused:Addicted by Age 10 is not just a memoir-it's a mirror for anyone who has ever felt trapped in patterns they couldn't explain. Patrick Dewayne Hall Sr. pulls back the curtain on the hidden addictions that quietly shape our lives from childhood: chaos, overthinking, emotional performance, and the constant craving for stimulation tha...

The field of intensive care in nephrology is a rapidly evolving one, with research starting to translate into clinical guidelines and standards.Encompassing core subjects in critical care and nephrology, as well as specific related consultative topics, this clearly presented text is organized into three sections focusing on:* up-to-date background

Delulu Dreamz isn't a book you read-it's a system you survive. Built for those tired of performing, collapsing, and waiting for permission, this eight-chapter, twelve-step framework replaces emotional sabotage with structural rhythm. Inside, there's no comfort-only confrontation. You won't be asked to rehearse; you'll be required to repeat. This isn't a motivational arc-it's a behavioral loop engineered to expose your collapse, sharpen your identity, and operationalize you...

Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history, library studies, and communications, Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis rejects the idea that print culture necessarily spreads outwards from capitals and cosmopolitan cities and focuses attention to how the residents of smaller cities, provincial districts, rural settings, and colonial outposts have produced, disseminated, and read print materials.Too often print media has been represented as an engine ...

Two decades have passed since the devolution of social care policy, with key differences emerging between the UK’s four systems, but what impact have these differences had? This book presents for the first time research on the perspectives of social care policy makers on the four systems in which they operate and the ways in which they borrow from one another.Drawing on extensive interviews with national and local policy makers across the UK, the book raises vital questions about t...

Offering a critical examination of the nature of co-produced research, this important new book draws on materials and case studies from the ESRC funded project ‘Imagine – connecting communities through research’. Outlining a community development approach to co-production, which privileges community agency, the editors link with wider debates about the role of universities within communities. With policy makers in mind, contributors discuss in clear and accessible language what co-producti...

Beyond the battlefield: How race and gender redefined war, identity, and memory in Civil War America.Race and Gender at War is a collection of essays that illuminates ways that race and gender have persistently shaped the military history of the United States. Editors Lesley J. Gordon and Andrew J. Huebner showcase historians with varied research agendas in the field of “war and society,” a fertile area of inquiry that shares space (and often over...

It was a stupid mix up. A string of bad decisions tethering me to one of the most powerful vampires in Louisiana.When I agreed to go out on a date with a wolf shifter, I didn't think the night would end with me covered in vampire blood and accused of murder.My options were simple: make a deal to be Warin Auclair's on call witch, or face the vampire council. Warin might be manipulative, scheming, and rude, but he promises me his protection.Va...