A research-based foundational overview of contemporary adult educationFoundations of Adult and Continuing Education distills decades of scholarship in the field to provide students and practitioners with an up-to-date practical resource. Grounded in research and focused on the unique needs of adult learners, this book provides a foundational overview of adult education, and an introduction to the organizations and practices developed to support adult learn...

From early explorers to contemporary scientists, naturalists have examined island flora and fauna of Oceania, discovering new species, carefully documenting the lives of animals, and creating work central to the image of Oceania. These “discoveries” and exploratory moves have had profound local and global impacts. Often, however, local knowledge and communities are silent in the ethologies and histories that naturalists produce. This volume analyzes the ways that Indigenous and non-Indigen...

Creating a Place for Adult Learners in Higher Education offers deep insights into how to attract, teach, support, and retain students over the age of 25 – an important yet often overlooked student group.Comprehensive in scope, this book covers all the main aspects of adult students’ relationships with higher education institutions: recruitment, admissions, and financing; course and program provision and teaching approaches; and student support, retention, and completion. T...

Adopting an international approach and offering a broader context, this second edition of Strategic Social Marketing presents social marketing principles in a strategic, critical and reflexive way, illustrating the value of applying marketing to solve social problems, including:• A brand new chapter on evaluation.• Updated advances in relevant research and theorizing.• New vignettes and short case studies to illustrate theories throughout the text.The...

Do you dream of wiring up a flashing LED, experimenting with infrared detectors, or building a walking-talking robot from scratch? Do you want to understand what capacitors, oscilloscopes and transistors actually do? Then look no further!Electronics For Dummies, UK Editioncovers everything from understanding the technology behind day-to-day gadgets, to reading a schematic, getting to grips with multimeters, and devising projects that are both useful and fun. With UK-specif...

Itchycoo Park, 1964-1970--the second volume of Sixties British Pop, Outside In--explores how London songwriters, musicians, and production crews navigated the era's cultural upheavals by reimagining the pop-music envelope. As the generation born during the postwar years approached adulthood, they gravitated to music that resonated with their lives. Mainstream pop remained true to the basics, but some British artists conjured up sophisticated hybrid forms by recombining el...

Downtown, 1956-1965--the first volume of Sixties British Pop, Outside In--describes the rise of London's music and recording cultures through the stories of those who empowered Britain's youth to be young. As the generations born in the postwar world entered adolescence and demanded a say in their lives, British musicians responded by creating music reflecting youth's quest for love and recognition. With waves of technological innovation sweeping through a world where pol...

In "Argentina and Uruguay," Gordon Ross presents a thorough examination of the historical, political, and cultural landscapes of these two South American nations, framed within a compelling narrative style that intertwines personal anecdotes with scholarly research. Ross navigates the rich tapestry of Argentina's diverse ethnography and Uruguay's progressive politics, delving into the impacts of colonialism and the evolving identities shaped by social movements. His writing is characterize...

This book offers a queer reading of the oeuvre of Sicilian director Emma Dante, winner of the 2026 Theatre Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. It contextualises Dante’s work within the longstanding anti-meridionalist North–South binary that has dogged Italy history and culture, and argues that Dante exemplifies a Southern and queer epistemology that unsettles this divide and revalorises the South. The book examines this alternative understanding of the South in Dante’s work, focus...

This book introduces the state-of-the-art in research in parallel and distributed embedded systems, which have been enabled by developments in silicon technology, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), wireless communications, computer networking, and digital electronics. These systems have diverse applications in domains including military and defense, medical, automotive, and unmanned autonomous vehicles.The emphasis of the book is on the modeling and optimization of emerging p...

BIRDS are only another expression of Gods love, and we are told that not even a sparrow shall fall to the ground without the notice of the Father.Birds are poetry come to life and set to music.If you should stand at the edge of a forest at sundown and hear the birds singing their good-night songs, hear the sleepy little notes grow fainter and fainter until the silence came,then when the dusk had deepened, you should hear the night birds begin their plaintive songs, you would realize what a...

The book presents a fascinating insight into life in Egypt in 1860. Lucie Duff Gordon was a remarkable woman suffering from tuberculosis. For a number of years, she has had to move to a warmer climate for her health, so she chooses Egypt. Those times, the relations between Egypt and the British Empire were becoming tense. And the locals were not loyal to the English tourists, making huge demands. Lucie Duff Gordon managed to become a member of the community. She surrounded herself with som...