Ben Davies

Inside the Endangered Species Trade in Asia

Black Market

Thailand

Christina Lupton

Johanne Gormsen Schmidt

Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history. The ethnographic approach shows what no historical account of books published during the pandemic will be able to capture, namely the movement of readers between new purchases and books long kept in their collections. The book follows readers who have tuned into novels about plague, apocalypse, and racial violence, but also readers whose taste for older novels, and for re-reading novels they knew earlier in their lives, has grown. Alternating between chapters that analyse single texts that were popular (Albert Camus's The Plague, Ali Smith's Summer, Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre) and others that describe clusters of, for example, dystopian fiction and nature writing, this work brings out the diverse quality of the Covid-19 bookshelf. Time is of central importance to this study, both in terms of the time of lockdown and the temporality of reading itself within this wider disrupted sense of time. By exploring these varied experiences, this book investigates the larger question of how the consumption of novels depends on and shapes people's experience of non-work time, providing a specific lens through which to examine the phenomenology of reading more generally. This timely work also negotiates debates in the study of reading that distinguish theoretically between critical reading and reading for pleasure, between professional and lay reading. All sides of the sociological and literary debate must be brought to bear in understanding what readers tell us about what novels have meant to them in this complex historical moment.

Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history - showing what novels people turned to during the pandemic, how people experienced time during this period, and whether they chose to fill it with reading.

AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE CREATOR GUIDE TO EDX ONLINE COURSE PROVIDER edX is an American massive open online course (MOOC) provider created by Harvard and MIT. It hosts online university-level courses in a wide range of disciplines to a worldwide student body, including some courses at no charge. It also conducts research into learning based on how people use its platform. edX runs on the free Open edX open-source software platform. 2U is the parent company, with edX operating as its global online learning platform and primary brand for products and services. STRUCTURING YOUR COURSE Intеllесtuаl Property It іѕ your university's rеѕроnѕіbіlіtу to ensure thаt уоur оnlіnе соurѕе соmрlіеѕ wіth аррlісаblе соруrіght lаwѕ. Cоруrіght laws іn the MOOC соntеxt саn be vеrу dіffеrеnt frоm соруrіght lаwѕ fоr іndіvіduаl сlаѕѕеѕ at a unіvеrѕіtу. For еxаmрlе, some іnѕtruсtоrѕ uѕе pictures or mоvіе сlірѕ tо іlluѕtrаtе a роіnt іn a traditional сlаѕѕrооm. Hоwеvеr, uѕе of thе same рісturеѕ оr clips may nоt bе реrmіttеd in online соurѕеѕ without еxрlісіt permission from thе соруrіght hоldеr. Prеѕеntіng Cоurѕе Mаtеrіаlѕ Thеrе are twо nаturаl рlасеѕ to рrеѕеnt your preliminary соurѕе mаtеrіаlѕ Cuѕtоm раgеѕ Thе Handouts ѕіdеbаr оn the Course Infо раgе Course Schedule In thіѕ unіt, you wіll adapt a trаdіtіоnаl соurѕе schedule to your оnlіnе course. Juѕt lіkе a schedule fоr a trаdіtіоnаl соurѕе, thе ѕсhеdulе for уоur оnlіnе course should cover іmроrtаnt dаtеѕ fоr уоur students. Hоwеvеr, there аrе also ѕоmе аdjuѕtmеntѕ уоu ѕhоuld mаkе fоr your nеw аudіеnсе. Yоur online ѕtudеntѕ аrе dіffеrеnt frоm уоur on-campus ѕtudеntѕ most hаvе full-tіmе jоbѕ аnd/оr fаmіlіеѕ, and thеу lіvе in mаnу different countries (and, therefore, dіffеrеnt tіmе zones). Ready to take your first step into the world of online course teaching on eDX? Read "The EDX Guide for Course Creators" now.

A Comprehensive Guide to Creating In-Demand Skills and Teaching Online Course on EDX

The EDX Guide for Course Creators

IBM Redbooks

Tom Stuart

Whei-Jen Chen

Jan den Hartog

Ben Antin

Kevin Bowe

Daniel Ouimet

Organizations face many challenges in managing ever-increasing documents that they need to conduct their businesses. IBM® content management and imaging solutions can capture, store, manage, integrate, and deliver various forms of content throughout an enterprise. These tools can help reduce costs associated with content management and help organizations deliver improved customer service. The advanced document capture capabilities are provided through IBM Datacap software. This IBM Redbooks® publication focuses on Datacap components, system architecture, functions, and capabilities. It explains how Datacap works, how to design a document image capture solution, and how to implement the solution using Datacap Developer Tools, such as Datacap FastDoc (Admin). FastDoc is the development tool that designers use to create rules and rule sets, configure a document hierarchy and task profiles, and set up a verification panel for image verification. A loan application example explains the advanced technologies of IBM Datacap Version 9. This scenario shows how to develop a versatile capture solution that is able to handle both structured and unstructured documents. Information about high availability, scalability, performance, backup and recovery options, preferable practices, and suggestions for designing and implementing an imaging solution is also included. This book is intended for IT architects and professionals who are responsible for creating, improving, designing, and implementing document imaging solutions for their organizations.

Implementing Document Imaging and Capture Solutions with IBM Datacap

Wei-Dong Zhu

Isuru Fernando

Blair Groff

Sven Hapke

Abraruddin Khan

Johnson Liu

Josemina Magdalen

Yuki Makino

Mike Prentice

IBM® Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions provide efficient and effective ways to capture content, manage the content and business processes, discover insights from the content, and derive actions to improve business processes, products, and services. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces and highlights some of the IBM ECM products that can be implemented and integrated together to create end-to-end ECM solutions: IBM Case Manager IBM Datacap IBM Content Manager OnDemand IBM Enterprise Records IBM WatsonTM Content Analytics IBM Content Classification For each product involved in the ECM solution, this IBM Redbooks publication briefly describes what it is, its functions and capabilities, and provides step-by-step procedures for installing, configuring, and implementing it. In addition, we provide procedures for integrating these products together to create an end-to-end ECM solution to achieve the overall solution objectives. Not all of the products are required to be integrated into an ECM solution. Depending on your business requirements, you can choose a subset of these products to be built into your ECM solutions. This book serves as a hands-on learning guide for information technology (IT) specialists who plan to build ECM solutions from end-to-end, for a proof of concept (PoC) environment, or for a proof of technology environment. For implementing a production-strength ECM solution, also refer to IBM Knowledge Center, IBM Redbooks publications, and IBM Software Services.

Building IBM Enterprise Content Management Solutions From End to End

Celebrated as a poet, novelist and non-fiction writer, and the winner of numerous major literary prizes including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, John Burnside is one of Britain's leading contemporary writers. John Burnside: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of contemporary literature to guide readers through the full range of the author's writings, from his fiction and poetry to his autobiographical and nature writing, exploring texts such as The Dumb House, The Light Trap, A Lie about My Father, Glister and Black Cat Bone. The book examines the major themes of Burnside's work, including the environment and the natural world, hauntings and dwelling, and his intertextual engagement with philosophy, music and the visual arts. Featuring a timeline of Burnside's life, an interview with the writer himself and a detailed list of further reading, this is the first authoritative guide to this major contemporary writer.

Contemporary Critical Perspectives

John Burnside

Tailandia

Gareth Edwards-Jones

Salman S. Hussain

Ecological economics is an exciting interdisciplinary field of study that combines insights from the natural sciences, economics, philosophy and other fields to develop innovative approaches to environmental problems. It draws on a wide range of analytical perspectives, some radical others more conventional, to build a more complete understanding of human-ecosystem interactions. Current research in the field includes work on nature conservation, land use planning, pollution control, natural resource management, and environmental impact assessment/evaluation. Ecological Economics provides a comprehensive introduction to the core themes, presented in a clearly structured style, with chapters tailored specifically to readers without any economic or philosophical training. There is an emphasis throughout on the complementary roles of economics, ethics and ecology in environmental decision-making processes. The book reviews the evolution of important ideas in the field, explores the fundamental philosophies underlying different approaches to environmental problems, explains in detail the specific tools and techniques used in these approaches, and gives numerous examples of how they can be applied. Special importance is attached to understanding both the advantages and limitations of different analyses, in order to provide a balanced and coherent view of how these different approaches interrelate and how their roles vary in different contexts. Written by three authors specializing in ecology, economics and philosophy, this textbook provides an excellent introduction to the field of ecological economics for students in the natural sciences and other environmental disciplines. It will also be of interest to a wide range of professionals and researchers involved in environmental management and policy, and thers including economists seeking to broaden their knowledge of new methodologies and approaches. Further reading suggestions and extensive references are provided for those interested in pursuing particular themes beyond the introductory level. The first introductory ecological economics text written specifically for natural scientists. Assumes no prior knowledge of economics or philosophy. Emphasises the complementary roles of ecology, economics and ethics in environmental decision-making processes. An emphasis on clarity and accessibility throughout.

An Introduction

Ecological Economics

Ben Davies

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