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Animal Law is a subject which is growing rapidly. The world faces severe threats in the forms of climate crisis, biodiversity losses, pandemics, and zoonosis, and ethical considerations in relation to law and the protection of sentient beings other than humans, is of pressing importance. Animal law draws on multidisciplinary perspectives. The legal system within the Nordic countries, and the law regarding animals, provides significant and well-developed precedents and ideas which are valuable to researchers and legislators worldwide. This is the first book to closely examine the similarities and differences in the legal thinking and reality in across the Nordic countries, in relation to animals. The book is a unique and valuable a reference textbook for legal scholars, judges, animal protection authorities, lawyers, and others students and researchers interested in the topic. The book also includes a chapter on future prospects about the protection of animals from negative human impact and de lege ferenda (a basis for future law) arguments.
Despite its inherent joys, the challenges of parenting can produce considerable stress. These challenges multiply—and the quality of parenting suffers—when a parent or child has mental health issues, or when parents are in conflict. Even under optimal circumstances, the constant changes as children develop can tax parents' inner resources, often undoing the best intentions and parenting courses. Mindful Parenting: A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners offers an evidence-based, eight week structured mindfulness training program for parents with lasting benefits for parents and their children. Designed for use in mental health contexts, its methods are effective whether parents or childr...
The Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Sociology serves as a repository of insight on the complex interactions, challenges and potential solutions that characterize our shared ecological reality. Presenting innovative thinking on a comprehensive range of topics, expert scholars, researchers, and practitioners illuminate the nuances, complexities and diverse perspectives that define the continually evolving field of environmental sociology.
L'ours polaire est le plus gros carnivore terrestre. Il règne en maître absolu sur les étendues glacées de l'Arctique et fascine par sa beauté ainsi que par son adaptation à l'un des environnements les plus hostiles de notre planète. Après avoir été conduit au bord de l'extinction par une chasse intensive, sa population a pu se rétablir grâce à la mise en place d'outils de protection et de gestion de l'espèce. Aujourd'hui, l'ours polaire fait face à de nouvelles menaces, toutes d'origine humaine. Il est devenu l'animal iconique illustrant les conséquences du dérèglement climatique. L'espèce est fragilisée et son avenir à long terme inspire de vives inquiétudes. Protéger l'ours polaire et son milieu naturel représente aujourd'hui un formidable défi. Ce n'est pas seulement son avenir qui est en jeu mais aussi celui de l'humanité tout entière.
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Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections. All the important ideas are explained using examples and figures, making it perfect for introductory courses in information retrieval for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in computer science. Based on feedback from extensive classroom experience, the book has been carefully structured in order to make teaching more natural and effective. Slides and additional exercises (with solutions for lecturers) are also available through the book's supporting website to help course instructors prepare their lectures.
This handbook presents the current evidence-based psychological treatments for trauma related disorders in childhood and adolescence and in addition provides clearly structured, up-to-date information on the basic principles of traumatic stress research and practice in that age group, covering epidemiology, developmental issues, pathogenetic models, diagnostics, and assessment. Each of the chapters on treatment, which form the core of the book, begins with a summary of the theoretical underpinnings of the approach, followed by a case presentation illustrating the treatment protocol session by session, an analysis of special challenges typically encountered in implementing this treatment, and...
Hans van Manen - door velen beschouwd als 's werelds belangrijkste choreograaf van na de oorlog. Geen levende Nederlandse kunstenaar heeft een grotere internationale reputatie dan hij. In Gelukskind beschrijft Sjeng Scheijen hoe Hans, geboren in 1932, verzwakt en uitgehongerd uit de oorlog kwam. Hoe hij zonder afgeronde lagereschoolopleiding op zijn twaalfde moest gaan werken, om tien jaar later zijn eerste choreografie te maken. Sindsdien heeft hij continu zijn publiek betoverd en steeds weer zijn grote gave herontdekt. Een gelukskind. Scheijen beschrijft Hans als de maker van een even ongrijpbaar als onontkoombaar oeuvre, een avonturier die de wereld veroverde maar lege hotelkamers haatte ...