Understanding Signed Languages provides a broad and accessible introduction to the science of language with evidence drawn from signed languages around the world.

This insightful volume is designed as a series of invitations towards living attentiveness, examining how we all make the ‘other’, through ‘projection’ (blaming and shaming the other outside ourselves), our enemy with whom we prefer not to dialogue.

This updated fourth edition presents a wide-scale, interdisciplinary guide to social media communication. Examining platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube, the book analyzes social media's use in journalism, public relations, advertising, and marketing.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to strategic foresight. It explains the theoretical foundations and practical applications of strategic foresight in different contexts, and is essential reading for managers and leaders of organizations who want to establish strategic foresight practices.

This book is not about debits, credits, or accounting theory. Instead, it describes how a chief financial officer (CFO) becomes a Lean CFO by leading a company in developing and deploying a Lean management system. The finance team, business executives, and Lean leaders will all benefit from its forward-thinking improvement approach.

Drawing on research into how dogs naturally rear their young, and how dogs have evolved to behave and spend their time, How to Raise a Puppy supports a new way of sharing our lives with our dogs.

Jann Freed introduces her Breadcrumb Legacy™ framework, a radical but pragmatic approach, made up of small actions you consciously take over time that accumulate into the trail, or legacy, you’ll leave behind.

This core textbook introduces the key concepts, theories, models and frameworks used in implementation science, and supports readers applying them in research projects.

This illuminating book offers an up-to-date introduction to the psychology of language, exploring aspects of language processing that have previously not been given centre stage such as the role of body and brain, social aspects of language use, and mental models.

What if our previous teachings and beliefs regarding processing stimuli, reading emotions, and understanding human behavior is all untrue? In this book, Peter Vermeulen investigates new findings on the predictive brain and what these insights mean for autism and current interventions.