Mobility in Context

Mobility in Context
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Publisher : F.A. Davis
Total Pages : 561
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ISBN-10 : 9780803658295
ISBN-13 : 080365829X
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Mobility in Context by : Charity Johansson

Rely on this resource to help you navigate confidently in both common and complex clinical situations. Mastering patient care skills will ground you in fundamental rehabilitation principles; help you establish a culture of patient-centered care; and teach you to foster habits of clinical problem solving and critical thinking. YouÕll also learn how to help your patients progress toward greater mobility and independence. Over 750 full-color photographs and illustrations make every concept crystal clear.

The Contexts of Social Mobility

The Contexts of Social Mobility
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Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9780202365121
ISBN-13 : 0202365123
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis The Contexts of Social Mobility by : Anselm L. Strauss

Foundations of Orientation and Mobility

Foundations of Orientation and Mobility
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Publisher : American Foundation for the Blind
Total Pages : 722
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ISBN-10 : 9780891284482
ISBN-13 : 0891284486
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Foundations of Orientation and Mobility by : William R. Wiener

Foundations of Orientation and Mobility, the classic professional reference and textbook has been completely revised and expanded to two volumes by the most knowledgeable experts in the field. The new third edition includes both the latest research in O&M and expanded information on practice and teaching strategies. Volume 1, History and Theory, includes the bases of O&M knowledge, including perception, orientation, low vision, audition, kinesiology, psychosocial issues, and learning theories, as well as chapters on technology, dog guides, orientation aids, and environmental accessibility. A section on the profession of O&M includes its international history; administration, assessment and program planning; and a chapter on research in O&M. No O&M student or professional can afford to be without this essential resource.

Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency

Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9780472129782
ISBN-13 : 0472129783
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency by : Daniel E Agbiboa

In Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency, Daniel Agbiboa takes African insurgencies back to their routes by providing a transdisciplinary perspective on the centrality of mobility to the strategies of insurgents, state security forces, and civilian populations caught in conflict. Drawing on one of the world’s deadliest insurgencies, the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region, this well-crafted and richly nuanced intervention offers fresh insights into how violent extremist organizations exploit forms of local immobility and border porosity to mobilize new recruits, how the state’s “war on terror” mobilizes against so-called subversive mobilities, and how civilian populations in transit are treated as could-be terrorists and subjected to extortion and state-sanctioned violence en route. The multiple and intersecting flows analyzed here upend Eurocentric representations of movement in Africa as one-sided, anarchic, and dangerous. Instead, this book underscores the contradictions of mobility in conflict zones as simultaneously a resource and a burden. Intellectually rigorous yet clear, engaging, and accessible, Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency is a seminal contribution that lays bare the neglected linkages between conflict and mobility.

Mobility, Meaning and Transformations of Things

Mobility, Meaning and Transformations of Things
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Publisher : Oxbow Books
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9781782970842
ISBN-13 : 1782970843
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Mobility, Meaning and Transformations of Things by : Hans Peter Hahn

Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are infinite ways for things to be mobile, not only in the era of globalisation but since the beginning of time, as the earliest traces of long distance trading show. This book investigates the mobility of things from archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Material Objects are characterised by temporal continuity, embodying a prior existence with lingering effects. Yet the material continuity disguises the transformations they may undergo, which only become evident upon closer examination. Objects are in perpetual flux, leaving visible traces of their age, usage, and previous life. While travelling through time, objects also circulate through space, and their spatial mobility alters their meaning and use with respect to new cultural horizons. As objects transform through time and space, so does the value attributed to them. Mapping out itineraries of value in the realm of the material, allows us to grasp the nature of a given social formation through the shape and meaning taken on by its valued 'stuff'. It also provides insights into the nature of materiality, through the value ascribed to objects at a given point in time and space. This edited volume brings together studies of material culture, materiality and value, with regard to the mobility of objects, with the aim of tracing the ways in which societies constitute their valued objects and how the realm of the material reflects upon society.

New Mobilities

New Mobilities
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Publisher : Island Press
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 9781642831450
ISBN-13 : 164283145X
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis New Mobilities by : Todd Litman

In New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies, transportation expert Todd Litman examines 12 emerging transportation modes and services that are likely to significantly affect our lives: bike- and carsharing, micro-mobilities, ridehailing and micro-transit, public transit innovations, telework, autonomous and electric vehicles, air taxis, mobility prioritization, and logistics management. Public policies around New Mobilities can either help create heaven, a well-planned transportation system that uses new technologies intelligently, or hell, a poorly planned transportation system that is overwhelmed by conflicting and costly, unhealthy, and inequitable modes. His expert analysis will help planners, local policymakers, and concerned citizens to make informed choices about the New Mobility revolution.

Moving Up Without Losing Your Way

Moving Up Without Losing Your Way
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : 9780691216935
ISBN-13 : 0691216932
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Moving Up Without Losing Your Way by : Jennifer M. Morton

"Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, Moving Up without Losing Your Way looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility--the broken ties with family and friends, the severed connections with former communities, and the loss of identity--faced by students as they strive to earn a successful place in society"--Dust jacket.

Safe Mobility

Safe Mobility
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Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages : 511
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ISBN-10 : 9781787148925
ISBN-13 : 1787148920
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Safe Mobility by : Dominique Lord

This book increases the level of knowledge on road safety contexts, issues and challenges; shares what can currently be done to address the variety of issues; and points to what needs to be done to make further gains in road safety.

Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750)

Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750)
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9789004467637
ISBN-13 : 9004467637
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750) by : Mohamad El-Merheb

The present edited volume offers a collection of new concepts and approaches to the study of mobility in pre-modern Islamic societies. It includes nine remarkable case studies from different parts of the Islamic world that examine the professional mobility within the literati and, especially, the social-cum-cultural group of Muslim scholars (ʿulamāʾ) between the eighth and the eighteenth centuries. Based on individual case studies and quantitative mining of biographical dictionaries and other primary sources from Islamic Iberia, North and West Africa, Umayyad Damascus and the Hejaz, Abbasid Baghdad, Ayyubid and Mamluk Syria and Egypt, various parts of the Seljuq Empire, and Hotakid Iran, this edited volume presents professional mobility as a defining characteristic of pre-modern Islamic societies. Contributors Mehmetcan Akpinar, Amal Belkamel, Mehdi Berriah, Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Adday Hernández López, Konrad Hirschler, Mohamad El-Merheb, Marta G. Novo, M. A. H. Parsa, M. Syifa A. Widigdo.

Kinship in the Age of Mobility and Technology

Kinship in the Age of Mobility and Technology
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 9783030698898
ISBN-13 : 3030698890
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Kinship in the Age of Mobility and Technology by : Lamia Tayeb

This volume aims to address kinship in the context of global mobility, while studying the effects of technological developments throughout the 20th century on how individuals and communities engage in real or imagined relationships. Using literary representations as a spectrum to examine kinship practices, Lamia Tayeb explores how transnational mobility, bi-culturalism and cosmopolitanism honed, to some extent, the relevant authors’ concerns with the family and wider kinship relations: in these literatures, kinship and the family lose their familiar, taken-for-granted aspect, and yet are still conceived as ‘essential’ spheres of relatedness for uprooted individuals and communities. Tayeb here studies writings by Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith, Monica Ali, Jhumpa Lahiri, Khaled Housseini and Nadia Hashimi, working to understand how transnational kinship dynamics operate when moved beyond the traditional notions of the blood relationship, relationship to place and identification with community.