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Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture
by Caleb SmithHow nineteenth-century “disciplines of attention” anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being “spiritual but not religious”Today, we’re driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it—most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devices. This may seem like a decidedly twenty-first-century problem, but, as Caleb Smith shows in this elegantly written, meditative work, distraction was also a serious concern in American culture two centuries ago. In Thoreau’s Axe, Smith explores the strange, beautiful archives of the nineteenth-century attention revival—from a Protestant minister’s warning against frivolous thoughts to Thoreau’s reflections on wakefulness at Walden Pond. Smith examines how Americans came to embrace attention, mindfulness, and other ways of being “spiritual but not religious,” and how older Christian ideas about temptation and spiritual devotion endure in our modern ideas about distraction and attention.Smith explains that nineteenth-century worries over attention developed in response to what were seen as the damaging mental effects of new technologies and economic systems. A “wandering mind,” once diagnosed, was in need of therapy or rehabilitation. Modeling his text after nineteenth-century books of devotion, Smith offers close readings of twenty-eight short passages about attention. Considering social reformers who designed moral training for the masses, religious leaders who organized Christian revivals, and spiritual seekers like Thoreau who experimented with regimens of simplified living and transcendental mysticism, Smith shows how disciplines of attention became the spiritual exercises of a distracted age.
Hey, Zoey
by Miss Sarah CrossanA provocative, tender and darkly funny novel that explores the painful truths of modern-day connection, and all the complicated and unexpected forms that love can take in a lifetime.'Inventive astute and funny' Observer 'As rip-roaring as it is thought provoking' i'Highly original, deeply moving, simultaneously delicate yet hard hitting' Claire Kilroy'Funny and dark. Tender and tough. Uncanny and relatable' Erin KellyImagine discovering an animatronic sex doll hidden in the garage. What would you do?Dolores initially does nothing. She assumes the doll belongs to her husband, David, and their relationship is already strained. They're not young, they're not old; they have no children, they keep up with the markers of being middle class and Dolores is well versed in keeping men's secrets.But then, Dolores and Zoey start to talk ...What surfaces runs deeper than Dolores could have ever expected, with consequences for all of the relationships in her life, especially her relationship to herself. Hey, Zoey is a propulsive story of love, family, and trauma in our tech-buffered age of alienation, as strange as it is familiar.'Brilliant, provocative, and darkly funny' Sarah Dunn'Unique, refreshing and revelatory ... Reads the zeitgeist perfectly' Helen Cullen'A singular writer with her own style and conviction' Irish Times 'It makes you think, and it makes you feel' Lesley Glaister'The beauty of its prose keeps ... Keeps the reader gripped' Irish Independent
Digital Entrepreneurship: Exploring Alertness, Orientation, and Innovation in the Digital Economy (Contributions to Management Science)
by Nezameddin FaghihFocusing on emerging features of digital transformation, digital economy, digital innovation, and digital entrepreneurship, this edited volume highlights new aspects of digital transformation and research progress in the field. Chapters cover a wide range of topics such as: promoting the growth of the digital economy through the alertness of entrepreneurs; predicting entrepreneurial performance through the lens of entrepreneurial orientation and digital adoption with a machine learning approach; proposing a guide to emphasize the key aspects of social media analytics; examining the digital pathology ecosystem and key drivers for investment in more efficient disease diagnosis and monitoring; exploring how humane orientation contributes to the intention to use digital entrepreneurship with a gender perspective. Concluding with a review of the extant digital economy literature, the volume proposes a future research agenda which will be useful not only for researchers and academics, but also for entrepreneurs and policymakers.
New Trends in Computational Vision and Bio-inspired Computing: Selected works presented at the ICCVBIC 2018, Coimbatore, India
by S. Smys Robert Bestak Fuqian Shi Abdullah M. IliyasuThis volume gathers selected, peer-reviewed original contributions presented at the International Conference on Computational Vision and Bio-inspired Computing (ICCVBIC) conference which was held in Coimbatore, India, on November 29-30, 2018. The works included here offer a rich and diverse sampling of recent developments in the fields of Computational Vision, Fuzzy, Image Processing and Bio-inspired Computing. The topics covered include computer vision; cryptography and digital privacy; machine learning and artificial neural networks; genetic algorithms and computational intelligence; the Internet of Things; and biometric systems, to name but a few. The applications discussed range from security, healthcare and epidemic control to urban computing, agriculture and robotics.In this book, researchers, graduate students and professionals will find innovative solutions to real-world problems in industry and society as a whole, together with inspirations for further research.
La informalización del discurso digital público: Reflexiones sobre el inglés y el español (Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics)
by Carmen Pérez-SabaterLa informalización del discurso digital público is an innovative volume which examines different communicative practices which take place on social media and justifies the shift towards more informal/oral styles of public communication in English and Spanish.The book takes a first step in understanding and analysing how the use of code-switching, language preference, and graphicons contribute to the public image of institutions, politicians and celebrities, as well as how the aforementioned strategies fit into the negotiation of the norms and identities of public communities on social media platforms. Offering an updated approach to studying digital discourse in public contexts, it is the first of its kind written in Spanish. The volume focuses on the characteristic linguistic features associated with digital communication and informal oral writing styles, such as reduplication of vowels, consonants, acronyms, and shortenings, code-switching and language preference, and the insertion of multimodal and graphical elements.A comprehensive and unique volume, La informalización del discurso digital público is ideal for researchers and postgraduate students interested in digital discourse, sociolinguistics, and media studies.Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.La informalización del discurso digital público es un volumen innovador que examina diferentes prácticas comunicativas que tienen lugar en las redes sociales con el fin de justificar el cambio hacia estilos más informales/orales de comunicación pública en inglés y en español.El libro ofrece un punto de vista novedoso sobre la contribución del cambio de código, la elección de lengua y los graficonos a la imagen pública de instituciones, políticos y celebridades; así como la repercusión que las estrategias mencionadas tienen en la negociación de las normas e identidades de las comunidades públicas en redes sociales. Ofrece un enfoque actualizado del estudio del discurso digital en contextos públicos y es el primero de este tipo escrito en español. El volumen se centra en los rasgos lingüísticos característicos de la comunicación digital y de los estilos de escritura oral informal, tales como la reduplicación de vocales, consonantes, acrónimos y abreviaturas, el cambio de código y la preferencia de lengua, así como la inserción de elementos multimodales y gráficos.La informalización del discurso digital público es un volumen completo y único, ideal para investigadores y estudiantes de posgrado interesados en el discurso digital, la sociolingüística y los estudios sobre los medios de comunicación.Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
The Language of Symmetry
by Benedict Rattigan, Denis Noble and Afiq HattaThe Language of Symmetry is a re-assessment of the structure and reach of symmetry, by an interdisciplinary group of specialists from the arts, humanities, and sciences at Oxford University.It explores, amongst other topics: order and chaos in the formation of planetary systems entropy and symmetry in physics group theory, fractals, and self-similarity symmetrical structures in western classical music how biological systems harness disorder to create order This book aims to open up the scope of interdisciplinary work in the study of symmetry and is intended for scholars of any background - whether it be science, arts, or philosophy.
Microplastics and Pollutants: Interactions, Degradations and Mechanisms
by V. Sivasankar T. G. SunithaThis volume discusses the adsorptive profiles of microplastic (MP) pollutants, covering their structural identity, sorption ability and degradation due to photolytic, hydrolytic, mechanical, and other environmental factors. In addition to the quantitation of (MPs) in the environment, the book unveils the deleterious effects on aquatic species and humans due to adsorbed inorganic/organic contaminants on the surface of MPs. The present book finds its uniqueness by presenting in-depth discussions on the interactions and mechanisms of microplastics with organic pollutants, microalgae, and human systems. The interactions and mechanisms between microplastics and microalgae are explored to understand the possible remediation pathways in microplastic contaminated water resources. Students and researchers in the fields of environmental science and engineering, biotechnology, aquaculture, marine technology, and water chemistry can benefit from this book. Furthermore, industries, NGOs and stakeholders dealing with wastewater, solid waste/environmental pollution will find this book useful.
Hansen Coefficients in Satellite Orbital Dynamics (Springer Aerospace Technology)
by Mingjiang Zhang Lianda WuThis book highlights the systematic investigation into the calculation of Hansen coefficients and their derivatives in satellite orbital dynamics. Direct, recurrence and other types of calculation methods of Hansen coefficients and their derivatives are comprehensively presented. The calculation in motion theory without singularities is particularly discussed. From the perspective of accuracy and efficiency, the advantages and disadvantages of various calculation methods are compared and analyzed, and some improvements are proposed. This book is intended for graduate students and researchers engaged in astronomy, space science, and geodesy. One can choose from the calculation methods of Hansen coefficients and their derivatives presented in this book to meet their practical needs.
Applying AI-Based Tools and Technologies Towards Revitalization of Indigenous and Endangered Languages (Studies in Computational Intelligence #1148)
by Satya Ranjan Dash Shantipriya Parida Sushree Sangita MohantyThis book emphasises the need for language resource development and its impact on society. It covers latest AI based tools and techniques used to preserve indigenous and endangered languages. The book also highlights latest AI based technologies such as Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) towards endangered language preservation. It discusses morphology analysis, translation support and shallow parsing of various tribal languages of India and abroad. This book tries to answer how digital technologies can make language revitalization accessible to future generations.
Bullying in Schools: Measures for Prevention, Intervention and Aftercare
by Matthias Böhmer Georges SteffgenBullying is a widespread problem in schools. This book provides current explanations for the phenomenon of bullying in schools. It is shown that bullying does not only take place between victims and perpetrators, but that usually all members of a school class can be involved. Accordingly, it is described what consequences bullying can have for all those involved. Secondly, general prevention and intervention approaches are described and eleven anti-bullying programs are presented in detail. A special focus of the book is on bullying aftercare concepts as well as practice-related digressions by proven experts.
A Morphological Interpretation of a Northern Chinese Traditional Village: Case Study of Zhangdaicun Village
by Kun LiThis book challenges the definition of a new approach for integrating protection and enhancing the Chinese heritage category of “Traditional Villages”. By applying a specific case study in the Hancheng context, Shaanxi Province, which lacks sound studies, the book formulates new theoretical prerequisites for future re-searches, an in-depth knowledge path, and sound methodological principles. By working in a multiple scales approach, the object of preservation and enhancement is first of all redefined in its ontology as a unity formed by the courtyard type, the morphology of the village, and the related landscape structures. All these three levels of study have been deeply investigated, put into the relationship and resulting in a new methodology which overcomes the inadequacy and ineffectiveness of the notion of “setting” deriving from conservation Charters, to embrace the structural notion of “context” and a knowledge approach to rural settlements’ form. The innovative and original features of this book are both in the reading villages in their landscape dimension, which in turn is studied as a context made of several interrelated structures. Another original feature of the book is the integration of Italian historic-structural and morphological methodologies with specific Chinese cultural aspects. The author’s work dug deeply and interdisciplinary in all those dimensions to account for the complex issues that are related and embodied in both the physical and intangible meaning of human settlements, opening a novel scientific methodology for Chinese studies as a sound base to define three key integrated project actions: what, why, how to preserve, enhance, develop.
Transformative Sustainability Pedagogy: Designing and Facilitating Eco-Spiritual Learning
by Heather BurnsThis book offers stories and tools for designing and facilitating transformative sustainability pedagogy and explores how educators can intentionally design and facilitate eco-spiritual learning that promotes healing and wholeness. In these times of accelerating climate change and systemic injustice, we need learning spaces that both challenge our unsustainable dominant paradigms and support us in re-learning how to live in relational and regenerative ways. Rooted in the paradigm of interconnection and relationality, this book offers practical ways to design and facilitate learning toward more just, ecological, and spiritual ways of being. The author weaves together a variety of personal stories of teaching and learning, an exploration of how new science can be applied to transformative sustainability pedagogy, and eco-spiritual practices to help educators nurture wholeness and connection in themselves and in learning spaces.
Scham 4.0: Exploration einer Emotion in digitalen Welten und der Vierten Industriellen Revolution
by Elisabeth Vanderheiden Claude-Hélène Mayer Paul T. P. WongDieser Sammelband bietet neue Perspektiven darauf, wie das Gefühl Scham in digitalen Welten und in der Industrie 4.0 erlebt und verändert wird. Die Herausgeber*innen und Autor*innen diskutieren, wie Individuen und Organisationen Scham am Arbeitsplatz, in beruflichen und privaten Kontexten und im Hinblick auf soziokulturelle Lebensstilveränderungen konstruktiv transformieren können. Die Beiträge in diesem Band ermöglichen es Forscher*innen und Praktiker*innen gleichermaßen, das Thema Scham und seine Spezifika in einer hochdynamischen und sich schnell verändernden Zeit zu erschließen. Das Verständnis für diese Emotion im Zusammenhang mit Home Office, automatisierten Realitäten und smarten Systemen oder digitalisierten Lebens- und Arbeitsstilen wird vertieft. Durch den Einsatz transdisziplinärer und transkultureller Perspektiven erörtert der Band darüber hinaus Scham im Kontext neuer Lebensstile, Religion, Geschlecht, sexueller Unterdrückung und psychischer Erkrankungen. Forscher*innen, Praktiker*innen und Studierende aus den Bereichen Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie, Positive Psychologie, Organisationsforschung, Zukunftsforschung, Gesundheits- und Arbeitswissenschaft, Therapie und Beratung, Emotionswissenschaften, Management, Führung und Personalwesen werden die Beiträge als hochaktuell, aufschlussreich und praxisrelevant empfinden.
Key Thinkers on Space and Place
by Mary Gilmartin Phil Hubbard Rob Kitchin Susan M. RobertsSpace and place are at the heart of how geographers and sociologists think. This updated edition of the essential undergraduate text will introduce you to the most influential thinkers in the tradition of social theory, with a new focus on the past fifty years. This book is designed to engage with theoretical debates in human geography through the individuals who have made the most significant contributions to this field. This will show you how ideas are shaped by contexts, and how those ideas in turn effect change. This book shows how theoretical understandings evolve, shift and change. It also highlights the connections between different thinkers, whose ideas are developed in collaboration with or in reaction to others. Spatial thought is never developed in a vacuum, but is always constructed by individuals and groups of people located in particular institutional and social structures, with their own sets of personal and political beliefs. The biographical approach of this book reveals how individual thinkers draw on a rich legacy of ideas from past and contemporary generations. With increased coverage of international and female thinkers, as well as those who work against Eurocentric notions of space and place, this book reveals the exciting reorientation of Geography towards new ideas and methods in the last decade. Each entry contextualises its subject within on-going (inter)disciplinary debates and important political moments, as well as highlighting connections between different thinkers. Together the chapters uncover the rich and diverse evolution of social theory, equipping you with the foundational ideas of geographical thought. Each entry offers the following components: i) a short biography ii) an explanation of ideas iii) an exploration of how their ideas have been used and critiqued iv) a selective bibliography of key publications (and key publications which review or critique)
Key Thinkers on Space and Place
by Mary Gilmartin Phil Hubbard Rob Kitchin Susan M. RobertsSpace and place are at the heart of how geographers and sociologists think. This updated edition of the essential undergraduate text will introduce you to the most influential thinkers in the tradition of social theory, with a new focus on the past fifty years. This book is designed to engage with theoretical debates in human geography through the individuals who have made the most significant contributions to this field. This will show you how ideas are shaped by contexts, and how those ideas in turn effect change. This book shows how theoretical understandings evolve, shift and change. It also highlights the connections between different thinkers, whose ideas are developed in collaboration with or in reaction to others. Spatial thought is never developed in a vacuum, but is always constructed by individuals and groups of people located in particular institutional and social structures, with their own sets of personal and political beliefs. The biographical approach of this book reveals how individual thinkers draw on a rich legacy of ideas from past and contemporary generations. With increased coverage of international and female thinkers, as well as those who work against Eurocentric notions of space and place, this book reveals the exciting reorientation of Geography towards new ideas and methods in the last decade. Each entry contextualises its subject within on-going (inter)disciplinary debates and important political moments, as well as highlighting connections between different thinkers. Together the chapters uncover the rich and diverse evolution of social theory, equipping you with the foundational ideas of geographical thought. Each entry offers the following components: i) a short biography ii) an explanation of ideas iii) an exploration of how their ideas have been used and critiqued iv) a selective bibliography of key publications (and key publications which review or critique)
Key Thinkers on Space and Place
Space and place are at the heart of how geographers and sociologists think. This updated edition of the essential undergraduate text will introduce you to the most influential thinkers in the tradition of social theory, with a new focus on the past fifty years. This book is designed to engage with theoretical debates in human geography through the individuals who have made the most significant contributions to this field. This will show you how ideas are shaped by contexts, and how those ideas in turn effect change. This book shows how theoretical understandings evolve, shift and change. It also highlights the connections between different thinkers, whose ideas are developed in collaboration with or in reaction to others. Spatial thought is never developed in a vacuum, but is always constructed by individuals and groups of people located in particular institutional and social structures, with their own sets of personal and political beliefs. The biographical approach of this book reveals how individual thinkers draw on a rich legacy of ideas from past and contemporary generations. With increased coverage of international and female thinkers, as well as those who work against Eurocentric notions of space and place, this book reveals the exciting reorientation of Geography towards new ideas and methods in the last decade. Each entry contextualises its subject within on-going (inter)disciplinary debates and important political moments, as well as highlighting connections between different thinkers. Together the chapters uncover the rich and diverse evolution of social theory, equipping you with the foundational ideas of geographical thought. Each entry offers the following components: i) a short biography ii) an explanation of ideas iii) an exploration of how their ideas have been used and critiqued iv) a selective bibliography of key publications (and key publications which review or critique)
Adaptive Teaching in Primary Schools: A toolkit for trainee teachers (Primary Teaching Now)
by Charlotte Mosey Jack StothardA guide for trainee and beginning teachers on Adaptive Teaching. This book explores what we mean by ′Adaptive Teaching′ and considers this in the current context of schools and teaching in the UK. It includes key theory to support trainee teachers′ foundation knowledge. Importantly, the text focuses on practical support for classroom teaching and includes suggested approaches and examples of good practice to learn from and adapt. ′How to′ guidance supporting trainees on placements and in their first years of teaching.
Adaptive Teaching in Primary Schools: A toolkit for trainee teachers (Primary Teaching Now)
by Charlotte Mosey Jack StothardA guide for trainee and beginning teachers on Adaptive Teaching. This book explores what we mean by ′Adaptive Teaching′ and considers this in the current context of schools and teaching in the UK. It includes key theory to support trainee teachers′ foundation knowledge. Importantly, the text focuses on practical support for classroom teaching and includes suggested approaches and examples of good practice to learn from and adapt. ′How to′ guidance supporting trainees on placements and in their first years of teaching.
Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)
by Stuart J. TaylorThis book delivers an innovative critical approach to better understand U.S. fiction of the information age, and argues that in the last eighty years, fiction has become increasingly concerned with its representations of mathematical ideas, images, and practices. In so doing, this book provides a fuller, transnational account of the place of mathematics in understanding mathematically informed novels. Literature and science studies have acknowledged and situated historical points of cultural crossover; by emphasising mathematics within this larger intellectual context – and not as an unlikely and alien adjunct to post-war culture – this monograph clarifies how mathematically informed postmodern fictions work in a cognate fashion to other fields undergoing structuralist revolutions. This is especially evident in fiction by the key, mathematically-literate Postmodern authors upon whom this study focuses, namely, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and David Foster Wallace, through which recent the technological revolutions, facilitated by mathematics, manifest in cultural discourse.
Modernes IT-Management: Methodische Kombination von IT-Strategie und IT-Reifegradmodell
by Markus Mangiapane Roman P. BüchlerStrategie und Reifegradmodelle sind zeit- und ressourcenintensiv. Die Autoren legen einen Ansatz vor, der bekannte Modelle umsetzbar macht. Im Zentrum steht der IT-Leistungserbringer, der auf Basis der vier strategischen IT-Perspektiven Geschäftsprozessorientierung, Kundenorientierung, Operationelle Qualität und Zukunftsorientierung bewertet wird. Daraus wird die strategische IT-Ausrichtung abgeleitet.Um den konkreten Handlungsbedarf zu ermitteln, wird der IT-Leistungserbringer mit einem Reifegradmodell beurteilt und der neuen strategischen Ausrichtung gegenübergestellt. Das Vorgehen kombiniert bekannte Schritte zur nachhaltig organisierter Informatik mit hoher Verwertbarkeit in der Praxis.
Historic Racial Exclusion and Subnational Socio-economic Outcomes in Colombia: Equal but Different (Latin American Political Economy)
by Irina España-EljaiekThis book examines the geo-racialized order of the Colombian state and its consequences for Afro-descendant territories. To do so, it employs a historical institutional approach tracing racial exclusion and subnational socioeconomic outcomes in Colombia during the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. It uses a mixed-methods and interdisciplinary qualitative and quantitative analytical approach to identify the quantitative effects of informal racial exclusion on subnational collective outcomes, as well as to show more precisely how these effects were generated. Through its exploration of Colombia’s geo-racialized project, implicit exclusion of Afro-descendant territories and spatialized nature of racial diversity, this book contributes to literatures of Latin American political economy, institutional theory, racial politics and economic history.
Proceedings of the 2023 5th International Conference on Hydraulic, Civil and Construction Engineering (Atlantis Highlights in Engineering #26)
This is an open access book.2023 5th International Conference on Hydraulic, Civil and Construction Engineering (HCCE 2023) will be hosted by Central South University and AEIC Academic Exchange Information Center, will be held on December 15–17, 2023 in Changsha, Hunan, China.HCCE 2023 will mainly focus on the development of hydraulic, civil and construction engineering etc. Aims to provide an exchange platform for experts and scholars, engineers and research personnel of related fields. By discussing scientific research achievements and advanced technology, we can understand the trend of academic development, broaden our horizon in research, strengthen the level of academic research and discussion, and promote the intelligent level of hydraulic, civil and construction engineering and the industrialization of academic achievements.
High Pressure Physics: A Treatise
by Surinder M. Sharma Rajagopala ChidambaramThis advanced textbook provides an exhaustive review of topics of immense importance to the fundamental understanding of physics of materials at high pressures. The book presents the current status of experimental and theoretical techniques used to understand the behaviour of materials under high compression. Various topics covered in this book are high pressure studies of materials, equation of state of materials, phase transitions under high pressures, behaviour of hydrogen and hydrides under pressure, and hydrogen bond in solids under high pressure. This book is highly useful reference for the scientists working in the field of condensed matter in general and its behaviour under static and dynamic compression, in particular.
Digitalisierung in der Immobilienbranche: Smart Home, Künstliche Intelligenz und virtuelle Besichtigungen
by Timotheus KünzelDieses Buch vermittelt Fach- und Führungskräften aus der Immobilienbranche praxisnah die Potenziale moderner digitaler Tools und Applikationen für ihr tägliches Geschäft. Dazu beschreibt der Autor zunächst kurz die letzten Jahre des digitalen Wandels. Gleichzeitig präsentiert er bereits einige konkrete Beispiele (zu Verhaltensweisen, Kundenbedürfnissen und Marktverhältnissen), die den Wandel im Laufe der letzten Jahre verdeutlichen. Anschließend erklärt Timotheus Künzel zunächst die verschiedenen Funktionalitäten von Immobilien (selbstgenutzte Immobilie, Immobilie als Kapitalanlage) sowie die Geschäftspraktiken mit Immobilien (Immobilienmakler, Projektentwickler, Fix & Flip, Buy & Hold), bevor er sich dann eingehend dem Thema Digitalisierung in der Immobilienbranche widmet. Kenntnisreich und mit vielen Veranschaulichungen macht er deutlich, welche Technologien in welchen Stufen des Geschäfts vielsprechend sind (Blockchain, KI, Tokenisierung etc.). Auf diese Weise lernt der Leser die Digitalisierung Schritt für Schritt zu verstehen und zu nutzen.
Ischemic Stroke Therapeutics: A Comprehensive Guide
by Bruce Ovbiagele Anthony S. KimThis second edition updates established evidence for contemporary management of ischemic stroke. Therapeutics for acute management, secondary prevention, recovery, rehabilitation, asymptomatic cerebral ischemia, special populations, and implementation of stroke systems of care are all discussed. Chapters are authored by leading academicians from around the world with real-world clinical practice experience, and comprise the scientific rationale and expert consensus recommendations, which underlie prevailing (and possibly future) therapeutic strategies for managing ischemic cerebrovascular disease. New chapter topics include neuroprotectants, treatment of the oldest old, brain-computer interfaces, disparities, and the global burden. The specialist or general practitioner will gain critical knowledge in stroke management, current clinical challenges and promising new therapies under investigation.