This Field Guide provides an overview of the basic principles of solid state physics, focusing on the practical aspects and device applications. Topics include crystal structures and dynamics, band structures, quantum structures, semiconductors, superconductors, and magnetism. Essential equations and simple diagrams efficiently convey the concepts that form the core of this field.
This book is intended as a textbook for a one-term undergraduate second linear algebra course, which prepares students for both applied mathematics and pure mathematics, in particular, for Galois Theory.
Group Dynamics in Sport, 5th edition, provides readers with the most current theories and practices of group dynamics in sport teams. In this updated edition, each chapter identifies and discusses key theoretical concepts of group dynamics and offers extensive and relevant examples that reinforce the principles covered.
This book is the result of a biannual working conference of the Canadian Association for Teacher Education. Education researchers from across Canada met to critically analyze and discuss the impact of diversity and globalization on teacher education.
Everything we do involves language. Assuming no prior knowledge, this book offers students a contemporary introduction to the study of language. Each thought-provoking chapter is accessible to readers from a variety of fields, and is helpfully organized across six parts: sound; structure and meaning; language typologies and change; language and social aspects; language acquisition; and language, cognition, and the brain.
The Handbook provides a snapshot of the growing field of medievalism—broadly construed as the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, narratives, and ideologies of the European Middle Ages—in music, bringing together scholars to explore a wide variety of past and present genres in which medievalism is present. Thirty-four essays by international scholars writing on subjects from nineteenth-century opera to contemporary video game music. Co-edited with American, Stephen C. Meyer.
Relationship Completion in Palliative Care Music Therapy provides foundational information on relationships, relationship completion in end-of-life care, locations of care, and the scope of the continuum of music experiences.
Politics and Faith in a Polarized World is a discussion of how Catholicism can make an important contribution to society's healing as well as addressing the deep polarization that is gripping Canada.
The Ethics of Climate Change: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding the greatest threat now facing humanity. Williston addresses questions such as:
Has humanity entered the Anthropocene?
Is climate change primarily an ethical issue?
Does climate change represent a moral wrong?
What are the impacts of climate change?
What are the main causes of political inaction?
What is the argument for climate change denial?
What are intragenerational justice and intergenerational justice?
To what extent is climate change an economic problem?
Is geoengineering an ethically appropriate response to climate change?
