Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence.This book shares insights from the Healthy Ageing Challenge, bringing research, business, policy and practice together to create age-friendly homes, workplaces and communities.Spanning co-design with older people, business collaboration and innovations in design, work, housing, culture and health, it explores the real-world impact of ageing research and the possibilities for business in developing an ageing market....

La pratique des arts martiaux, comme le judo, le taekwondo, le karaté, séduit dans nos sociétés occidentales en quête de valeurs et de conduite de vie.Michel Puech, philosophe et pratiquant de karaté, et Hélène Wang, passionnée de kung fu, portent un autre regard sur les postures fondamentales des arts martiaux. Car, au-delà du combat, ces postures modifient notre manière d'être au quotidien, dans la vie personnelle et professionnelle. Elles changent notre vision du monde, notre rel...

Les troubles de l'équilibre, d'origine moteurs ou sensoriels, susceptibles d'affecter tous les âges de la vie, sont un défi de santé publique par leur fréquence et leur gravité. Cet ouvrage est spécifiquement centré sur les aspects sensoriels de ces troubles. Qu'il s'agisse de troubles vestibulaires, proprioceptifs ou visuels, chaque chapitre, rédigé par des spécialistes, praticiens et chercheurs des différentes disciplines concernées, traite des concepts physiopathologiques, cliniques et ...

The voluntary sector plays a crucial role in shaping place, and is in turn shaped by that context, yet this ‘place leadership’ role has been underexplored in research. This interdisciplinary book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to examine this intriguing phenomenon in different political and cultural contexts.Using case studies from the UK, the US, China and Europe, the book provides fresh insights into the dynamic relationship between place, leadership and volun...

Gedichtenbundel, in het Nederlands en in het Chinees, per gedicht een kunstwerk ter illustratie83 bladzijdenMet passie en humor voert Lulu Wang u mee naar een wereld van schoonheid in woord en beeld. Samen met kunstenaars Marion Cleyne, Vincent Messelier, Steven Partiman en Sofie Xie* hebben Lulu en haar kunstenaars een feest voor het oog en honing voor het hart gemaakt. Lees en beleef de droom die ze tezamen schetsen en geniet, niet met mate, maar met volle teugen.*...

Lucky Cat is a heartwarming story about an immigrant family in America, and a new friend their daughter June makes as they prepare to open their restaurant.June's family have a new home in America. There’s plenty to do before their restaurant opens, but Mama is excited when she finds the previous owners have left a Lucky Cat! It’s meant to bring good luck to their ventures, and June is even more excited the next evening when she finds that...

The Learn to Cook Authentic Chinese Food recipes is the collection of Helen's 30 years practice for making healthy Shanghai style Chinese food. It includes traditional shanghai home style food recipes, such as vegetable sausage rice, pot stick, Napa with shredded pork over rice.If you are looking for a low-fat, low Carb diet, or a low sodium and low sugar recipes, then this is the right book for you. You will find the recipes are unique and tastes are different from those cooked in ...

earworms MMM (M├®thode Musicale de M├®morisation) vous propose d'apprendre efficacement une langue gr├óce ├á la m├®thode de m├®morisation par la musique. Un r├®pertoire de plus de 200 termes essentiels et phrases-clefs sont ancr├®s profond├®ment dans votre m├®moire par la douce r├®p├®tition de la musique. Le volume 1 est votre kit de survie, soit l'essentiel des mots et expressions n├®cessaires pour votre s├®jour ├á l'├®tranger et pour les situations classiques que vous pouvez rencontrer.

Climate change is a key threat to agriculture. Modelling is fundamental to assessing its potential impacts. This collection summarises the wealth of research on improving climate impact models and their use in assessing impacts on different regions.Modelling climate change impacts on agricultural systems reviews research on developing models in areas such as improving data flows, incorporating genetic information and dealing with uncertainty. This collecti...

Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the futureThe US-China relationship is now defined by “strategic competition.” In Cold Rivals, a distinguished group of scholars from the United States and China examine the reasons for this deterioration and its implications for world politics.The two countries are now competitors locked in a long-term rivalry, but how volatile this rivalry will become is st...

Informative reference on the state of the art in cybersecurity and how to achieve a more secure cyberspaceAI for Cybersecurity presents the state of the art and practice in AI for cybersecurity with a focus on four interrelated defensive capabilities of deter, protect, detect, and respond. The book examines the fundamentals of AI for cybersecurity as a multidisciplinary subject, describes how to design, build, and operate AI technologies and strategies to ...

The Placenta: From Development to Disease examines research into placental function and its clinical implications to provide a springboard for improving clinical practice and enhancing medical research. Influential information is extracted from the compelling narrative by the use of 'take home' features including:Clinical Pearls – point to important issues in clinical practiceResearch Spotlights - highlight key insights into placental understanding