https://novapublishers.com Publisher of Books and Journals in Medicine and Health, Science and Technology and Social Sciences Tue, 14 Feb 2023 19:56:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://novapublishers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cropped-nova-favicon-32x32.jpg https://novapublishers.com 32 32 https://novapublishers.com/shop/emerson-the-philosophy-of-obedience/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 19:36:25 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=142124 Shoji Goto - Professor Emeritus, American Literature, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan Series: World Philosophy BISAC: PHI045000 DOI: 10.52305/WVBK3901 This book, Emerson, the Philosophy of Obedience, attempts to trace Emerson who sought to integrate Western and Eastern thoughts to found a new philosophy in the new world. An ardent admirer of Plato, he is at the same time an enthusiast of Eastern philosophy. “Memory,” for example, is one of his last lecture series, “Natural Method of Mental Philosophy,” in which men are all taken as the halves, because men have aftersight, but not aforesight. Memory is, to Emerson, not only to call forth the past knowledge to the present, but also there is something related to the future, because some past things memorized in the mind are changed into “a possession of its law.” This is called “a mutation in quality,” by which past things in the mind come into “a possession of its law,” obeying the law, just as, in Phaedo, “all the apparent equals strive to attain absolute equality.” The Platonic method of Analogy works doubtlessly in Emerson. Men obey this law, because “Nature and [Man] are from one source, and that he, when humble and obedient, is nearer to the source.” The mind is such a movement, as he finds that “The mind yields sympathetically to the tendencies or laws which stream through things.” The idea of “humble and obedient,” or humility and obedience, comes originally from the Chaldæan Oracles and the Heetopades, which have a decisive influence on Emerson, through “the light-armed arrive at the summit,” and “the flower of the mind.” Because of this profound Eastern thought and ideas, he is called “this student of Eastern philosophy.” **Order the printed version and SAVE 50% on the e-book with Print+eBook. 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This can often be linked to the notion of work but lifelong learning, whilst important in the workplace, affects all parts of our existence. It not only aids us to understand our tasks but also how we fit into a wider society. Without lifelong learning our society, and we as individuals, would stagnate. It is not something that we always do purposively but is a part of being human. We acquire skills and knowledge and then apply them sometimes in unrelated scenarios. Lifelong learning has benefits not just in terms of our work but can also help in terms of socialization. It also has potential health benefits, for example, in terms of enhancing neuroplasticity and aiding in the development of emotional intelligence and empathy for others. We become more confident in what we do as we achieve increased knowledge and understanding through lifelong learning, as can be evidenced in many of the contributions in this edited collection. We all benefit from lifelong learning and have a role to play in both in terms of educating ourselves and a duty to help to educate others in order to create a better society. The contributors and editors hope that this collection can play even a miniscule part in that development and we have certainly been through new experiences that have contributed to our own lifelong learning. **Order the printed version and SAVE 50% on the e-book with Print+eBook. 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This book is about the meaning and impact that such apocalyptic visions, ancient and contemporary, have had on human history. It is based on the premise that pandemics have changed the world socially, politically, and culturally. The main claim put forward is that pandemics have always been instrumental in introducing new creative forms of culture, from prose fiction to current-day memetic humor, through which people come to grips with the drastic changes that pandemics bring about. The cultural forms that served this purpose do not disappear but remain intrinsic in the overall cultural-historical paradigm of humanity.]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/applications-of-traditional-equestrian-sports-in-the-world/ Mon, 26 Dec 2022 20:41:31 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=141519 Adem Kaya, PhD - Assistant Professor, Sport Management, Bowie State University, Maryland, USA Mehmet Turkmen, PhD - Director of Traditional Sports and Games Research Institute, Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey; Professor, Mus Alparslan University, Turkey Series: Sports and Athletics Preparation, Performance, and Psychology BISAC: SPO057000; SPO078000; SPO021000 DOI: 10.52305/FWUB5550 "Through 20 chapters and 416 pages, this book, published by Nova Science Publishers Inc., provides a detailed description of traditional equestrian sports from a historical point of view and also shows current applications. History, anthropology, sociology, education, cinematography, and archaeology are some disciplines that dialogue harmoniously in this work....I hope you all enjoy reading this book as much as I have. " To read the full review, CLICK HERE>>>. - Dr. Pere Lavega, President of the European Association of Traditional Games and Sports (AEJeST), Professor at National Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia (INEFC), University of Lleida, Spain; President of the Worldwide Network of Teachers and Researchers in Traditional Sports and Games

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Physical culture and sport, as a product of certain historical conditions for the development of society, form the sum of the historically revealed results of human spiritual activity. Equestrian games were especially popular among the Turkic peoples of South Siberia, Altai, the ancestral home of all Turkic peoples. The horse formed the mobile basis of the nomadic economy and was the personification of beauty, purity, and speed. A symbolic expression of "traditional" sovereign tribal authority depended on the current ruling political framework having quality horses and equestrian skills. It is easy to conclude that this event is formulated again with another tribe or lineage and that the leadership passes to the tribe in which it was formulated. It is clear that in the nomadic ancient Turkic peoples, equestrian activities were not simply an opportunity to reveal their "natural" fighting instincts or to express them through symbols. They are also carefully structured public organizations organized around societal values with broad moral and political repercussions. This book contains twenty chapters reviewing the cultural significance of a variety of traditional equestrian sports around the world, deeply examining the social impacts of the game and the cultural traditions that arise from them.]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/bilingualism-and-its-benefits/ Fri, 23 Dec 2022 18:55:03 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=141617 Genevoix Nana, PhD – Pastoral Tutor, St. John’s College, Durham University, Durham, UK; External Postgraduate Research Supervisor, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, UK Series: Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World BISAC: EDU005000; EDU020000; LAN009050 DOI: 10.52305/YLHJ5878 This book is about bilingualism and its benefits. It is a compilation of papers written in English and French that showcase the bilingualism of the contributors. The volume sheds light on bilingualism and bilinguals as harbingers of a close rapport with otherness. Even in uncharted and divisive situations where language use becomes highly indexed, bilinguals can metamorphose into linguistic and cultural turncoats and accommodate to the hostile host environment. This book will be of interest to academics in the fields of language, bilingualism and multilingualism and to language policymakers in general and in Africa in particular. This book will be an invaluable resource for language scholars, professionals and policymakers alike. **Order the printed version and SAVE 50% on the e-book with Print+eBook. Price indicated includes shipping**]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/advances-in-business-and-management-volume-20/ Fri, 23 Dec 2022 17:21:28 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=141239 William D. Nelson (Editor) Series: Advances in Business and Management BISAC: BUS000000 This volume contains eight selected chapters covering recent advances in business and management. The first chapter is a comparative empirical analysis of financial entropy from the perspective of asset management. The second chapter asks how to balance innovation and regulation in regards to SMEs and FinTech in the European Union. The third chapter provides a study of how interest rates effect consumption in the United Kingdom. The fourth chapter utilizes the Simus-Iosa method to perform a sensitivity analysis via lineal programming to support stakeholders in the decision process. The fifth chapter provides a systematic approach to substantiating chain management structures in business. The sixth chapter is a guide to implementing knowledge management in financial institutions which provides a flowchart for practice. The seventh chapter reviews the effects of competitive resources and capabilities as a driver toward sustained competitive advantage among manufacturing MSMEs in emerging markets. The eighth and final chapter displays the application of random walks to Bayesian classification and business decision making.]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/qualitative-research-for-organizational-scholars-reflections-on-current-developments/ Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:03:18 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=141089 Lakshmi Balachandran Nair, PhD - Department of Business and Management, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy Series: Organization, Business and Management BISAC: BUS085000; BUS000000; SOC019000 DOI: 10.52305/RBPT9001 "This book explores the large domain of qualitative research in social sciences in a modern way, with a specific focus on organization studies. It has the merit to remind organization studies scholars that there is more to qualitative research than just case studies or interviews. Through an examination of older and newer ways of conducting qualitative data collection, data analysis, and reporting within and outside the discipline, this book provides organizational researchers with a plethora of approaches to choose from. An insightful, yet compact book which points to new (methodological) directions in research pursuits" - Luca Giustiniano, Professor, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy "As a scholar who does mixed methods research and with a great passion for rich and thick data, I find this book a very useful guide that will give organizational scholars a clear picture of what qualitative researchers do and what can be done more (better). This is a very useful book for researchers who prefer an evidence-based approach over normative guidelines. It shows that qualitative templates can be transformative and flexible rather than as a strict formula. A must have for new researchers and anyone interested in research without numbers." - Yanto Chandra, Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, (Incoming professor in City University of Hong Kong), Hong Kong "This book goes beyond the “how to do” recipes for conducting qualitative research which are available aplenty in the market. Instead, it holds a mirror to organization studies and discusses how published authors have actually conducted and reported qualitative research in the disciplinary area. Furthermore, the book acknowledges how organization studies can still adopt and adapt new methodologies and data collection techniques from other, related disciplines. Subsequently, the book facilitates methodological advancement in organization studies through roadmaps and suitable examples." - Michael Gibbert, Professor, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

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This book discusses qualitative research in the context of organization studies, in an evidence-based manner. From using innovative research methods to including online spaces in their investigation, organizational researchers are experimenting and exploring the methodological possibilities offered by qualitative approaches. This book deliberates on ongoing trends as well as new qualitative methods which can be adopted by organizational scholars. The first chapter of the book discusses the motivation for the book and introduces the subsequent chapters. In the second chapter, the innovativeness of qualitative research methods in published articles is discussed. This chapter points out several innovative qualitative methods that organizational researchers can utilize– use cases, participatory inquiry research, narrative research, thematic analysis, thematic network analysis, critical interaction technique, Delphi technique, and domain analysis. The third chapter uses a theoretically developed coding scheme to deliberate on the involved research actions and key components in published grounded theory studies. The purpose of the chapter is to discuss which actions/key components are underutilized and under referenced in organization studies. The fourth chapter discusses a categorization of online spaces, focusing mainly on the roles played by these spaces in qualitative data collection. A four-step road map for guiding organizational scholars who are interested in using online spaces in their data collection is also provided thereafter. The fifth chapter concludes the discussion on the trends in qualitative research, discusses the takeaways of the book, and provides some directions for further exploration. This book thus aims to demonstrate the potential of the discussed qualitative methods as well as data collection and analysis techniques, by presenting examples from published research in organization studies and other closely related disciplines where methodological plurality is more prominent.]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/the-psychology-of-self-regulation/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:35:41 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=140911 Jorja Dutton (Editor) Series: Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions BISAC: PSY008000 This book contains eight selected chapters discussing the psychology of self-regulation. Chapter One reviews the lessons learned from a literature review on the role of canine-assisted interventions in the promotion of self-regulation. Chapter Two asks how the concept of self-regulation has been implemented in research on children and adolescent’s eating behavior. Chapter Three examines the impacts of a school-based mentoring support program on self-regulation in students who are experiencing school failure. Chapter Four examines the role of self-regulation and the perspective of agency in the management of Celiac disease. Chapter Five reviews the “hope avenue” for the school success of students with Roma background. Chapter Six discusses the role of parents in children’s self-regulation development by reviewing at-distance and online intervention programs. Chapter Seven provides a guide to enhancing students’ self-regulation. Chapter Eight examines the internal and external typologies of regulation in education and health contexts, focusing on regulation, de-regulation, and dys-regulation behaviors. **Order the printed version and SAVE 50% on the e-book with Print+eBook**]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/regulation-of-the-professions-in-east-asia/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 14:21:32 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=128165 Gary I. Lilienthal, PhD - Professor of Law, President of Carrington Rand, Goulburn, Australia Muhamad Hassan bin Ahmad, PhD - Assistant Professor of Law, IIUM Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Series: Social Issues, Justice and Status BISAC: LAW036000 DOI: 10.52305/KNYO9191 This book delves into the “mechanics” of the “fit and proper test”, as it functions around the world as de facto Imperial legislation, emanating from Western Europe, and followed without further analysis by systems of governance in East Asia. The meaning of the term “fit and proper”, for assessing people as professionals, in contrast to a well-structured good character test, is insufficiently specific to be used as a set of criteria for admission to a profession. The parties to a “fit and proper” assessment are actually the court and members of the public, with the court making a judgment in its own cause, and without the public ever participating in the assessment. A “fit and proper” assessment suggests a systemic inquiry against the applicant, inferring both bias and inherent public denunciation. Thus, the book contains in-depth research into these topics: The Fit and Proper Person Test: The Theory; The ‘Fit and Proper Person’ in Malaysia and Singapore; The Origin of the Professions; The Fitness and Propriety of Subaltern Groups; Délation of Character; The Stasis of Disrepute; Child Labor and the Subaltern Working Class; Coercive Moral Hazard. As such, this book is a frank and fearless exegesis on the realities of British Imperial regulation of the Professions in East Asia.]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/domestic-violence-in-the-military/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 21:49:20 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=142690 Michel Chesnay (Editor) Series: Domestic Violence and Abuse BISAC: SOC051000 In the United States, domestic violence, including intimate partner violence and child abuse, are significant problems that cause immense harm in our society. While the military’s domestic violence and child abuse incidence rates are lower than comparable rates in civilian communities, both intimate partners and children die every year at the hands of military servicemembers. The Department of Defense must not rest until they eliminate violence and abuse of intimate partners and children within their ranks.]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/theories-of-geopolitics/ Sat, 05 Nov 2022 15:00:11 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=128008 James Biser Whisker - Emeritus/Retired, West Virginia University, PA, USA Kevin R. Spiker, PhD - Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio University, St. Clairsville, OH, USA Series: Political Science and History BISAC: POL062000; POL011000; POL040020 DOI: 10.52305/QZGT1698 Using insights from critical geopolitics and cultural history, this book focuses on how the academic discipline of geopolitics was created, negotiated, and contested by a wide variety of intellectuals, practitioners, and academics. Many geopoliticians wish to begin by requiring that geopolitics take responsibility for its misuse in the past. Many also agree that this science must reconceptualize geopolitics to account for the many changes which have occurred in the late 20th, and early 21st, centuries. This book considers how geopolitical writings have been influenced by religion, iconography, and doctrine. It also considers how geopolitics has been reformulated in the post-World War II period. **Order the printed version and SAVE 50% on the e-book with Print+eBook**]]> https://novapublishers.com/shop/southeast-asia-redefined-strategic-order-challenges-and-impacts-to-regional-and-global-security/ Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:00:36 +0000 https://novapublishers.com/?post_type=product&p=127775 Antonio Marquina, PhD - Chair in International Security, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain María Isabel Nieto Fernández, PhD - Lecturer, International Relations, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Xira Ruiz Campillo, PhD - Lecturer, International Relations, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Soledad Segoviano Monterrubio, PhD - Professor, International Relations, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Raquel Barras Tejudo, PhD - Advisor & Lecturer, International Relations, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Series: South Asian Political, Economic and Social Issues BISAC: POL012000 DOI: 10.52305/UWPJ5359 This book encompasses a wide range of security aspects and their transformation that will shape ASEAN in a period of great power competition: the blurring of ASEAN centrality, the growing importance of climate change, energy security, terrorism/ organized crime transformation as well as digital economy and cybersecurity, considered as major regional risks and threats. The book shows how ASEAN is trying to be on the forefront on the in-depth global and regional discussions and policies on these issues. **Order the printed version and SAVE 50% on the e-book with Print+eBook**]]>