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Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science

This book offers practical insights into implementing Industry 4.0 technologies and exploring the evolving paradigm of Industry 5.0. It presents real-world applications, innovative engineering solutions, and strategies for integrating digital tools into production and management practices. Based on contributions from ISIEA 2025 and EPIEM 2025, the book spans topics from supply chain optimization to advanced human-centric manufacturing and engineering design. It introduces novel perspective...

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Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science

This book offers practical insights into implementing Industry 4.0 technologies and exploring the evolving paradigm of Industry 5.0. It presents real-world applications, innovative engineering solutions, and strategies for integrating digital tools into production and management practices. Based on contributions from ISIEA 2025 and EPIEM 2025, the book spans topics from supply chain optimization to advanced human-centric manufacturing and engineering design. It introduces novel perspective...

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Patrick Lee Lucas

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Material Worlds

In 1811, architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe spurred American builders into action when he called for them to reject "the corrupt Age of Dioclesian, or the still more absurd and debased taste of Louis the XIV," and to emulate instead the ancient temples of Greece.In response, people in the antebellum trans-Appalachian region embraced the clean lines, intricate details, and stately symmetry of the Grecian style. On newly built public buildings, private homes, and religious structures, ...

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Alan Dean Foster, Maurice Broaddus, Jane Yolen, Rich Larson, Karin Lowachee, Patrick Swenson, Susan Forest, Lucas K. Law, Candas Jane Dorsey, C.J. Cheung, Heather Osborne, Y.M. Pang, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Hayden Trenholm, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Bev Geddes, S.B. Divya, Vanessa Cardui, Tyler Keevil, Karina Sumner-Smith, Joyce Chng, Eric Choi, Amanda Sun, Bogi Takács, Brent Nichols, Maria Haskins

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Laksa Anthology Series: Speculative Fiction

A child redefines identity and belonging in post-Soviet Hungary. A girl blossoming to adult awareness exchanges life for death in rural Canada. A college student chooses between the magic of ancient spirits and the magic of daily happiness in modern Japan. In futuristic India, a mother finds joy in the balance between family and career. Under the Andalusian sun, a mathematician consults his older self in affairs of love. In alternate Tanzania, a husband and wife discover wisdom in memory l...

A paradigm shift is underway in education, challenging traditional teaching methods and calling for a more engaging and purposeful approach. It is necessary to explore how service learning empowers students to address real-world issues, fostering critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication skills essential for the 21st century. Effective and Meaningful Student Engagement Through Service Learning is a comprehensive exploration of the transformative power of service learn...

In today's digital age, technological advancements permeate every sector, especially higher education. However, higher education must go beyond merely integrating AI into the curriculum. Additionally, it needs to prioritize educating students about societal issues. Integrating service learning into higher education curriculums, however, is a significant challenge facing schools today. There is a need for comprehensive research on its effectiveness and guidance on institutionalizing it effe...

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Gurjinder Basran, T. M. Baldwin, Lis Jakobsen, S. L. Shields, Tatiana Lee, Thomas Onstott, Michael Zibauer, Stephanie Gray, Robyn Drage, Cynthia C. Huijgens, Samantha Balliet, Elecia Chrunik, Shilpa Raju, Leslee Silverman, Michelle Stack, Neda Tanha, Tanya Boteju, Neha Puntambekar, Adriana Louis, Lorna Carley, Maureen Butler, Kathryn Lee, Scott Lear, Patrick Lucas, Christy Dunsmore, Leslie West, Megan Abele, Chelene Knight, Josh Keefer, Sharon Miki, Alyssa Hanada, Reese Kim Carrozzini, Urith Hayley, Gina-Lily D’Attilio, Carlie Blume, Fatima Amarshi, Sarah Amormino, Leslie Jenneson, Kurt Trzcinski, Cara Waterfall, Natasha Sanders-Kay, Stephen T. Berg, Viola Prinz, Graham McGarva, Junie Désil, Mak Berry, Paolo Marcazzan, Christine Leviczky Riek, Kimberley Phillips Boehm, Daniela Cohen

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emerge

Drag kings and sea monsters, switchblade travellers and teacup ghosts—these stories and poems are a mixture of the mundane and the bizarre. Here you’ll find true tales of a son’s death and a girl’s first heartbreak, stories that range from the minutely personal to the transcendently universal.Words are only words until the writer, like an alchemist, blends them with sweat and self-reckoning to create something out of the ordinary. A community of 62 writers combine their words in em...

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Prof Ashley E. Lucas, Patrick Lonergan, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

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Critical Companions

Obscured behind concrete and razor wire, the lives of the incarcerated remain hidden from public view. Inside the walls, imprisoned people all over the world stage theatrical productions that enable them to assert their humanity and capabilities. Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration offers a uniquely international account and exploration of prison theatre. By discussing a range of performance practices tied to incarceration, this book examines the ways in which arts practi...

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Education (R0)

This open access volume critically reviews a diverse body of scholarship and practice that informs the conceptualization, curriculum, teaching and measurement of life skills in education settings around the world. It discusses life skills as they are implemented in schools and non-formal education, providing both qualitative and quantitative evidence of when, with whom, and how life skills do or do not impact young women’s and men’s lives in various contexts. Specifically, it examines the ...

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Education (R0)

This book presents the most comprehensive discussion of emerging trends in higher education in the Asia Pacific, ranging from graduate attributes to integrated workplace learning, with an in-depth focus on work readiness, employability and career development.It draws on the relationship between graduate attributes and employability, as well as vocational training or internship programs. It offers theoretical and empirical analyses that institutions, decision-makers or academics can...

With the introduction of policies to combat COVID-19, far greater numbers of employees across the globe—including those with limited job autonomy—have moved to undertake their entire job at home. Although challenging in the current climate, embracing these flexible modes of work such as working at home, including relevant investment in technology to enable this, will not only deliver potential organizational benefits but also increase the adaptability of the labor market in the short and l...

Education in the 21st century has been tasked with preparing students to begin the journey towards a place in their communities in which they feel fulfilled and autonomous. Service learning is one way to introduce students to careers and knowledge that will prepare them for a successful life. Community Engagement Program Implementation and Teacher Preparation for 21st Century Education examines the many ways in which community engagement is carried out in all educational settings, from K-1...