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Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ABSTRACT -- RÉSUMÉ -- ZUSAMMENFASSUNG -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1 Repeopling La Manche: survey and encounters -- Introduction: encounters on foot in the La Manche palaeo-landscape -- The Cretaceous Channel: raw material abundance and poor preservation -- The Channel Islands: situating a lost landscape in modern and ancient geographies -- Beyond speculation: La Cotte de St Brelade and the landscapes of La Mancheland -- 2 La Cotte de St Brelade: a key early Middle Palaeolithic geoarchaeological sequence in La Manche -- The early Middle Palaeolithic La Cotte sequence -- Re-assessing the age of the La Cotte sequence -- La Cotte and the early Middle Palaeolithic settlement history of La Manche -- La Cotte: legacy and future -- Conclusion -- 3 In pursuit of the mammoths -- The stratigraphic sequence and age of the deposits -- Mammoths warm and cold: the expansion of the Quaternary sequence -- A new look at the La Cotte mammoths -- Mammoths in caves -- 4 The early Middle Palaeolithic 'bone heaps' from La Cotte de St Brelade reconsidered -- The La Cotte 'bone heaps': challenges for analysis and interpretation -- Re-investigating the La Cotte' bone heaps' -- The Lower Bone Heap -- The Upper Bone Heap -- The La Cotte 'bone heaps': comparisons and contrasts -- The La Cotte 'bone heaps': structured deposition in the Middle Pleistocene -- 5 Coming home: reconstructing place and landscape during the early Middle Palaeolithic at La Cotte de St Brelade -- Lithic assemblages, behaviour and landscape use -- Use of place and landscape during the early Middle Palaeolithic at La Cotte -- Conclusions -- 6 Jersey's north facing property: the Neanderthal sequence at La Cotte à la Chèvre Cave -- Excavation history at La Chèvre -- Stratigraphy and chronology -- The site archive.

This book explores total information awareness empowered by social media. At the FBI Citizens Academy in February 2021, I asked the FBI about the January 6 Capitol riot organized on social media that led to the unprecedented ban of a sitting U.S. President by all major social networks. In March 2021, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appeared before Congress to face criticism about their handling of misinformation and online extremism that culminated in the storming of Capitol Hill.With more than three billion monthly active users, Facebook family of apps is by far the world's largest social network. Facebook as a nation is bigger than the top three most populous countries in the world: China, India, and the United States. Social media has enabled its users to inform and misinform the public, to appease and disrupt Wall Street, to mitigate and exacerbate the COVID-19 pandemic, and to unite and divide a country.Mark Zuckerberg once said, "We exist at the intersection of technology and social issues." He should have heeded his own words. In October 2021, former Facebook manager-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen testified at the U.S. Senate that Facebook's products "harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy."This book offers discourse and practical advice on information and misinformation, cybersecurity and privacy issues, cryptocurrency and business intelligence, social media marketing and caveats, e-government and e-activism, as well as the pros and cons of total information awareness including the Edward Snowden leaks."Highly recommended." - T. D. Richardson, Choice Magazine"A great book for social media experts." - Will M., AdWeek"Parents in particular would be well advised to make this book compulsory reading for their teenage children..." - David B. Henderson, ACM Computing Reviews

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the most talked about yet little understood policy initiatives of the People's Republic of China. This book offers a comprehensive, balanced and policy-oriented assessment of the BRI's first ten years and what it has meant for the world's businesses, polities and societies. The authors explore China's role as a globally significant source of development finance and investment capital, and examine the political, economic, normative, environmental and social implications of its increased presence in the world.Aimed at researchers and academics, business professionals and policy analysts, as well as informed readers, the book seeks to answer some of the most pressing questions that China's rising economic presence in global markets poses: how is the BRI organized? Is it China's grand strategy? Is it green, is it corrupt, and what are its social effects? Is there even a future for the BRI in a world beset by new uncertainties? The book offers a sober analysis of the most prevalent narratives that cast China as a 'threat' and as an 'opportunity' and considers the specific challenges that it presents for the liberal international order.

Stadt erneuern: Grundlagen -- Geschichte -- Phasen der Stadterneuerung -- Recht, Verfahren, Förderung -- Behutsame Stadterneuerung -- Soziale Stadt – Quartiersentwicklung -- Stadtumbau -- Lebendige Stadt- und Ortskerne -- Bestandsentwicklung und Wohnungsversorgung -- Dorferneuerung.

1. Monopoly -- 2. Simultaneous quantity competition -- 3. Simultaneous price competition -- 4. Sequential competition -- 5. Regulating imperfectly competitive markets -- 6. R&D incentives -- 7. Mergers and Collusion -- 8. Bundling incentives -- 9. Incomplete information, signaling, and competition -- 10. Networks and switching costs.

This volume provides an analysis of persuasive genres in different domains. It aids in the understanding of genre that accounts for the way we interpret, respond to and create them in different settings whilst shedding light on how genres change and evolve to meet the ever-changing needs of society

Exploring High-risk Offender Treatment and the Role of Music Therapy explores the treatment delivered to high-risk offenders with complex needs, focusing on sex and violent offenders. The book advocates for the further use of less traditional and creative therapies, in particular, music therapy.The higher the risk, the greater the needs. Offenders with complex needs have a range of factors impacting their abilities and well-being including mental health and learning disorders. Importantly, high-risk offenders commonly present with complex needs and, therefore, require treatment that is highly responsive. Guiding this book is the existing literature and qualitative research, conducted by the author, that sought to gain the perspectives and experiences of practitioners in the field. This included 38 interviews with those that deliver treatment to high-risk offenders and music therapy. This book examines the components of high-risk offender treatment, highlighting the effective elements and the limitations found within the literature and from the perspective of interviewed practitioners. Offering insight into less traditional therapies, the book presents literature surrounding mindfulness, psychodrama and art therapy for high-risk offenders. It is argued that there has been a recent shift towards a creative corrections approach, where less traditional therapies are gaining recognition within offender treatment, as they offer unique and supportive benefits to traditional treatment. This book focuses on examining the role of music therapy for high-risk offenders, mainly through a critical discussion on the relevant literature and qualitative practitioner data. Advocating the further implementation of creative corrections approaches, this book will be of great interest to academics and researchers within the fields of offender treatment and penology, as well as forensic psychologists and those studying or practicing music therapy