The Noble Agent's Guide to Level Funding: How to Build a Good Life Serving American Small Business Health Plans is a thoughtful and comprehensive guide designed for insurance brokers who are committed to making a positive difference in their communities while building a successful and fulfilling career. This book is tailored for brokers, particularly those new to the insurance industry, who seek to serve the backbone of America-small businesses-by providing them with affor...

While grasslands face a number of challenges, such as land-use competition and the impact of climate change, there is a growing recognition of the critical role they play in supporting the transition to more resilient, sustainable and circular agricultural systems.Advances in temperate grassland science and management reviews the wealth of research addressing these challenges and opportunities. The book highlights the potential of grasslands to deliver multiple benefits to...

The culmination of a critical study of neo-pragmatism philosophy and its application to planning, Dialogical Planning in a Fragmented Society begins with philosopher Stanley M. Stein's examination of neo-pragmatism and his thoughts on how it can be useful in the field of environmental design-specifically, how it can be applied to planning procedures and problems. Neo-pragmatism is an approach that has been, in the past, best expressed or implied in the writing of Hilary Putnam, Richard Ror...

What would it look like to place race at the center of international legal scholarship?From its inception in the 70s and 80s, critical race theory's target was the field of law, revealing it to be a repository for racial power. This particular critique of law was explosive because of law's putatively apolitical status, making it a unique site for an intellectual sit-in that has forever changed the way that race and racism are understood in American society....

The present book includes a set of selected revised and extended versions of the best papers presented at the 14th and 15th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2022 and IJCCI 2023) – held respectively in Valletta, Malta, between October 24–26, 2022 and Rome, Italy, between November 13–15. We focus on three outstanding fields of Computational Intelligence through the selected panel, namely: Evolutionary Computation, Fuzzy Computation and Neural Computation. B...

The book is part of a series on Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, which has as its focus anxiety and its treatment. We have brought together a distinguished cadre of authors with the aim of covering a broad array of topics related to anxiety disorders, ranging from clinical diagnosis, epidemiology, preclinical neuroscience, and animal models to established and innovative therapeutic approaches. The book aims at bridging these disciplines to provide an update of literature relevan...