Supply or substitute educators play a crucial role in keeping classrooms running and student learning on track. However, stepping into an unfamiliar classroom, with students you've never met and minimal guidance, is far more challenging than it may seem. Drawing on over 20 years of classroom and leadership experience, this practical guide explores how temporary teachers can navigate the complex world of unfamiliar schools, build meaningful connections with students, and develop a strong professional identity.

Each chapter is designed to support you in managing the unique demands of being a temporary teacher. You'll learn how to maintain high expectations, manage behaviour, build credibility, and create meaningful learning opportunities, even under pressure. Throughout there are real-life stories and examples from temporary teachers around the world, and expert insights from current teachers and school leaders to illustrate how the ideas in the book can be applied in different contexts.

More than a handbook for cover work, this book is a toolkit for professional growth, confidence, and belonging. Whether you're aiming for permanent roles or excelling in temporary positions, it will empower you to see yourself as a skilled professional, make a lasting impact on students, and rediscover your sense of purpose in the classroom.

Drawing on global case studies, expert contributors demonstrate AI's capacity to enhance efficiency, reduce resource consumption, minimize bias, and strengthen employee well-being. They also combine environmental HR policy and digital transformations into one holistic framework, going beyond the traditional scholarly approach of treating them as separate entities. Chapters provide a practical guide for AI integration, addressing critical concerns over algorithmic transparency, data privacy, unequal access, and environmental costs. Adhering to specialized ethical guidelines, the contributing authors argue that successful AI integration will come from human-centered designs which prioritize participatory implementation and align with social and environmental values.

This is an essential resource for scholars and students of business, employment relations, knowledge management, and disruptive technologies. HR practitioners and organizational managers will also benefit from its actionable guidance for leveraging AI tools.

This comprehensive guide reveals how to systematically identify and capture cross-selling and up-selling opportunities, whether through internal transformation, organisational consolidation or merger and acquisition scenarios. By understanding the fundamental principles of revenue expansion and cost optimisation at the same time, business leaders can dramatically improve their company's value proposition while strengthening market position.

Every business professional will encounter organisational change - whether through M&A activity during economic booms or internal restructuring during downturns. These pivotal moments present extraordinary opportunities to simultaneously increase sales and reduce costs, yet most organisations fail to maximise their potential. This book provides the strategic framework and practical tools needed to excel during these critical transitions, showing how to plan and implement cross-selling initiatives that deliver substantial revenue growth while streamlining operations for maximum efficiency. Drawing from real-world M&A scenarios and internal transformation case studies, this guide demonstrates how to improve profit from both ends of the equation. You will learn to identify cross-selling opportunities that others miss, develop implementation strategies that minimise disruption and create sustainable revenue streams that outlast the initial organisational change.

Whether you are leading a merger integration, managing a divisional consolidation or simply seeking to optimise your current sales approach, this book provides the insights and methodologies to transform organisational complexity into competitive advantage and measurable profit improvement.

At its core, the book explores whether virtual meetings can enable the creation of common ground. By focusing on practices of coordination, collaboration and coorientation, the book demonstrates the importance of common memories, common matters of concern and common experiences in producing common ground. It does not assume that virtual meetings are deficient compared to co-located meetings, but rather considers meeting virtually to be an interesting phenomenon to study on its own terms. Chapters use empirical evidence to investigate virtual meetings and how they differ from in-person events.

How Virtual Meetings Matter for Community at Work is an essential read for academics and scholars of organisation theory, human resource management, working life studies, sociology, science and technology studies, and communication. Its focus on inclusive working practices will also prove beneficial for managers and HRM practitioners.

Work Automation with R provides a solid framework on how to automate tasks and workflows in the workplace with R. This book introduces the most common components used in R automation, one by one, and then shows how to combine them to tackle real-world tasks.

The reader can jump to any chapter to explore solutions or best practices for specific tasks or read the book in chronological order if they are just starting a new automation project. Each chapter begins with a common data task and explores key concepts and multiple solutions using R packages. The author presents a range of solutions as there are often multiple ways to solve the same problem, with the different options have been compared along with key functions discussed in each, and reproducible examples have also been provided.

Aimed at business professionals and data practitioners who want to automate their work, the book assumes a basic working knowledge of R, including writing and running scripts, and performing common data tasks such as importing, transforming, and summarizing data. It also assumes a willingness to write small helper functions to automate repeated steps. Experience with Quarto or R Markdown is helpful but not required. Key tools and patterns are introduced as needed in end-to-end automation examples.

Key Features:

* Offers task-focused resources to smooth automation development.

* Helps identify and minimize common roadblocks that might impact progress.

* Establishes a reproducible workflow of automating tasks with R in a business setting.

Written as an engaging narrative, and presenting a wide range of historical and geographical accounts, the book traces IP from the Biblical era to the Industrial Revolution and from Edinburgh to Baghdad. Each chapter explores a self-contained historical period, highlighting the diversity of people, locations, periods, and circumstances prior to the modern harmonisation of legal IP. The narrative illuminates the motivations for protecting creation and invention, underscoring notable attitudinal differences between then and now. Rather than seeking to uncover historical antecedents to the modern IP system, the book addresses intellectual historical creations and inventions on their own terms and within their own milieu.

IP before IP is an essential resource for scholars and students of intellectual property law, and legal, cultural and literary history. Intellectual property lawyers seeking to broaden their understanding of historical IP will also benefit from its diverse, expansive scope.

Computational Approaches to Emotion in Artificial Psychology provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to how emotions can be processed by AI systems. It offers theoretical and practical guidance on data preprocessing and emotion analysis techniques, explores diverse real-world applications, and bridges the gap between AI and psychology.

Beginning with an introduction to the emerging field of artificial psychology, it explores the study, understanding, and recognition of emotions in various bodily signals, including facial expressions, voice, heart rate, and neural mechanisms. The book delves into data preprocessing for embodied emotion analysis, encompassing multiple data modalities like text, audio, visual, and gaze data, with a focus on Python basics for emotional AI. Additionally, it discusses EEG-based emotion decoding, emotional insights from medical imaging, affective image analysis, text-based emotion recognition, multimodal data integration, unsupervised learning for embodied emotion discovery, reinforcement learning, emotion elicitation, and predicting personality and emotional abilities using machine learning. The book concludes by examining the close relationship between cognition and emotion from the perspective of the universal structure of language and describing the use of deep fuzzy cognitive maps in diagnosing coronary artery disease.

By promoting research and innovation through case studies and experiments, the book addresses the current lack of comprehensive resources in this interdisciplinary field, making it an essential reference for researchers, practitioners, students, and professionals seeking to navigate the intersection of AI and emotions.

Key Features:

• Provides key information for courts and related parties in facilitating informed choices and reducing litigation risks
• Adopts a practitioner-oriented structure, enabling quick identification of choice-of-court and choice-of-law options
• Presents structured chapters from across 26 European jurisdictions to provide a comparative overview of EU and national PIL
• Systematically integrates EU and national PIL, including Brussels IIter, Rome III, Maintenance Regulation and property regimes
• Addresses pressing issues including divorce, separation, maintenance, property and pension rights for married couples, registered partnerships, same-sex marriages and informal relationships

This Comparative Guide is an essential resource for practitioners of European family law, private international law and cross-border dispute resolution. Policymakers in EU institutions as well as legal scholars will benefit from its comprehensive analysis and actionable approaches.

The Endgame Election? European Views on the United States Elections of 2024 examines whether the 2024 U.S. presidential election marks a decisive turning point in American democracy by analyzing the contest and its broader political context from the perspective of European scholars.

Bringing together European scholars of American politics, this volume examines how Donald Trump's return to power unfolded against the backdrop of democratic backsliding, institutional fragility, and shifting electoral coalitions. It analyzes the internal transformations of the Democratic and Republican parties, the extraordinary replacement of Joe Biden by Kamala Harris, the role of media ecosystems and misinformation, the dynamics of voter suppression and the Electoral College, and the growing openness to executive aggrandizement within parts of the Republican Party. The book situates the 2024 election within broader debates about constitutional accountability, partisan polarization, and the erosion of democratic guardrails, asking whether the election narrowed the avenues of democratic self-correction that once defined the American system. The European vantage point offers analytical distance and comparative insight into patterns of democratic erosion familiar from other contexts.

This volume will be essential reading for scholars, students, and researchers of American politics, comparative politics, and democratic governance, as well as for policymakers and informed readers seeking to understand the implications of the 2024 election for the future of U.S. democracy.

This book offers a critical and thought-provoking exploration of mental health in education at a time when concern, awareness and intervention have never been higher, yet outcomes often remain uncertain. It moves beyond individualised and crisis-led responses to consider mental wellbeing in educational contexts more holistically.

Grounded in research and real-world practice, the book draws on diverse perspectives from educators, policymakers, researchers and healthcare professionals to examine key debates shaping contemporary understandings of mental health in schools. Chapters explore leadership, policy, staff wellbeing, school-based mental health provision, relationships with external services, and the complexities of safeguarding and equity. Throughout, contributors interrogate prevailing assumptions, examine the reliability of diagnoses, and unpack complex questions, inviting reflective and ethically informed dialogue rather than offering quick fixes. Drawing primarily on UK examples while remaining relevant to international audiences facing similar pressures, the book provides a critical yet constructive framework that prioritises prevention, belonging and sustainability over reactive interventions.

Written in an accessible style, this book will be of value to teachers, school leaders, education studies students at undergraduate and postgraduate level, policymakers, and others interested in how education systems can better support the mental health of students and staff.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the established and expanding body of research on promissory representation.

It examines how context shapes what political parties promise during campaigns and whether they deliver once in power. The book focuses on established Western democracies such as the USA, UK, France, Germany, and Australia, as well as emerging and non-Western democracies, namely Ukraine, Indonesia and India. It reveals tactical promises designed to win votes but never meant to be fulfilled, vague promises that avoid accountability, contentious pledges that undermine liberal values when implemented, and long-term commitments that defer responsibility across generations. The book shows how formal and informal institutions shape promise-making and keeping, and how research on election pledges can hold
politicians to account.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political parties and party politics, elections and campaigning, and more broadly democracy and comparative politics.

This Advanced Introduction to Capital Punishment provides a succinct overview of the modern American death penalty, tracing its historical roots in colonialism to contemporary applications within the juridical system. The authors analyse the mechanics of sentencing, the decisive role of jury selection, and the enduring influence of race despite formal safeguards.

Key Features:

• Discusses foundational cases such as the Supreme Court's decisions in Furman v. Georgia and Gregg v. Georgia
• Engages with current issues and controversies related to the administration of the death penalty and the execution process
• Explains how American capital punishment was dismantled and reconstructed in the "modern era" using Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment legal doctrines
• Explores the crucial role of defense counsel and the complex system of appellate review
• Includes insights from three primary experts in the field, with both academic and capital litigation experience

This Advanced Introduction provides an accessible overview of the complex field of capital punishment law, making it a valuable resource for academics, researchers and students of criminal law and justice, and law and society.

Leading experts illustrate that Africa's energy landscape is defined by a paradox of abundant renewable resources alongside severe energy poverty, requiring a transition rooted in justice, inclusivity and strategic industrial policy. They argue that, if the continent adopts context-specific policies, attracts equitable financing and strengthens regional cooperation, it could become a potential leader in global energy transition. Assessing diverse case studies, authors advocate for an integrated approach to enable Africa to build a resilient low-carbon future on its own terms, bridging the gap between high-level policy analysis and on-the-ground technical implementation.

Enlightening and incisive, this Handbook is an invaluable tool for academics and students in energy studies, African studies, development economics and environmental policy. Policymakers and government advisors will likewise benefit from its innovative and pragmatic recommendations for the future.

What does it mean for young children to participate? How do you listen and respond to children in your own practice and within your setting? This text provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to children's participative rights in the context of education and care. It supports early years students and practitioners to understand the implications for practice of the participative rights embedded in the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). It also considers the tensions that exist when trying to realise these rights in practice. Exploring the key concepts, debates, and participation in practice with children at different ages and stages, the chapters cover:

• The policy context for participative rights
• Models of participation
• Voice and being heard
• Participation and the social construction of the child
• Spaces for participation
• Agency and participation
• Measuring participation
• International contexts for child participation

Supported by case studies and examples, this is an essential text for practitioners and students on early childhood studies and early years degree courses, as well as those working in early childhood settings or studying as post-graduates.

How did India's states confront the challenge of COVID-19? And what insights does this experience offer for future crisis response?

This book explores the varied impacts of the pandemic and the policy responses undertaken across India's states and union territories, bringing together nationwide quantitative analysis with five in-depth case studies of Bihar, Kerala, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. Moving beyond the numbers, the case studies examine how differences in state capacity, legitimacy, and authority shaped policy responses and pandemic outcomes. Focusing on the first two waves of the pandemic, the volume shows how this early period provides a valuable snapshot of state functioning under crisis conditions-marked by profound uncertainty and limited information.

This volume offers new insight into one of the most consequential global crises of our time. It is important reading for students and scholars of public policy, political science, economics, and South Asian studies. It will also engage policymakers, journalists, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the factors that influence how states respond when it matters most.

Leadership in Global Health outlines the essential leadership principles that transform promising health interventions into global movements, offering a timely and compelling blueprint for leaders seeking to drive lasting, scalable change.

Grounded in decades of lessons from global health successes and failures, and illustrated through deeply analyzed, real-world case studies, the book reveals what happens when leadership meets coordinated action. These stories- from the eradication of smallpox and the large-scale delivery of malaria bed nets to the community-based innovations of Ethiopia's Health Extension Program and the lightning-fast COVID-19 vaccine rollout-show how leadership in global health is not one-size-fits-all, but rather dynamic, responsive, and deeply human. In an era where complex health challenges range from emerging pandemics to enduring inequities, the book centers the role of leadership-strategic, adaptive, and collaborative-as the critical engine for scaling health interventions, offering readers not only compelling narratives from the field, but also practical tools and reflections which give the book a forward-looking focus.

Building to offer a roadmap for developing the next generation of global health leaders equipped to thrive in multi-sectoral, rapidly evolving environments, it will be essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners across Global Health, Public Health, Leadership and Development Studies.

This book explores epistemic injustice in various aspects of social work practice, research, and education, and how those in the field can address issues of power, oppression, and institutionalized prejudice.

This edited volume invites social work scholars, educators, practitioners, and students to deeply engage in the conversation about social justice and human rights on epistemic grounds. It begins with a simple but profound question: Whose knowledge counts, and whose voices are silenced? Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book contextualizes epistemic injustice concepts such as testimonial, hermeneutical, and contributory justice across diverse social work settings to help readers better recognize when and how these concepts manifest in the profession and how to address them from an epistemic justice lens. The chapters span a range of issues relevant to the field, including health and mental health, transformative social work, and the inclusion of systemically marginalized voices in practice and research such as LGBTQIA+, disabled communities, and street-involved. Contributors draw on their first-hand experience teaching social work students and practicing and researching with culturally diverse communities across settings. Each chapter invites readers to consider and reimagine ways of resisting epistemic injustice in their work and how social workers can join in collective resistance in the epistemic domains of the profession.

With case studies and practical examples throughout, this book is essential for social work students, educators, researchers, and practitioners of all levels. This guide serves both as a mirror to reflect the challenges within the profession and as a roadmap to chart pathways toward a more just, inclusive, and epistemically responsible field.

This timely Advanced Introduction analyses the European Union's innovation policy on smart specialisation strategies (S3). Dominique Foray and Jan-Philipp Kramer clarify the S3 theory, outlining its core concepts and assessing policy progress at regional and national levels.

Key Features:

• Explains how S3 concepts challenge traditional innovation policy theory
• Connects academic theory with practical insights, providing a foundation of evidence regarding the history of S3 strategies
• Proposes suggestions for effective smart specialisation policymaking based on novel quantitative and qualitative assessments

The Advanced Introduction to Smart Specialisation Strategies is a key resource for scholars and students of economics, finance, innovation and technology. S3 policymakers and development professionals will similarly benefit from its astute perspective and actionable recommendations.

The Embodied Social Justice Workbook explores mindfulness-based practices within a social justice framework, and offers comprehensive guidance to help individuals in marginalized communities deepen their awareness and integrate social justice into their daily lives safely and supportively.

This workbook addresses the critical intersection of mental health, social justice, and mindfulness-based practices, offering valuable insights and tools for practitioners working in these areas. Tailored for individuals and communities navigating marginalization, systemic privilege, and oppression, this book provides a space for readers to engage in mindful practices, document their experiences, and incorporate embodied mindfulness into their daily lives. Chapters explore essential themes such as power and privilege, collective action, creating safe spaces for practice, as well as body mapping and interpreting embodied signals. This hands-on guide is filled with practical exercises and reflection questions as well as lived-experience vignettes to help readers translate practices into their daily lives. It can be used as a companion to Embodied Social Justice Counseling for Indian Communities or as a standalone resource.

This book is intended for mental health professionals of all kinds who have an interest in social justice, mindfulness, and especially those who work with clients in the Indian diaspora. It is also a valuable resource for individuals who are interested in engaging in mindful practices and enhancing their awareness of social justice.

Bringing CBT Supervision to Life provides supervisors of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) with an invaluable resource for reflecting on their current supervisory style and methods and developing their repertoire of skills in this area.

Research suggests that routine supervision practices over-rely on verbal case discussion, and this can limit opportunities for more active and experiential methods such as role-play, chair work or self-practice of CBT methods that deepen therapist understanding of theory and practice. This book explains why supervision needs to be a more active experience as well as how to do this. It provides readers with specific chapters dedicated to different experiential methods and explains the rationale and benefits of utilising each. Case studies are used throughout to help illustrate the challenges for CBT supervisors, and each chapter contains handouts and worksheets to use with supervisees. The author draws upon their experience of researching supervision and providing extensive supervision and supervisor training to create a resource that supervisors of any level of expertise can dip into when looking to freshen up their skills.

The book is primarily aimed at practitioners who provide supervision or supervision of supervision for CBT therapists and trainees. It will be an accessible resource for both new and experienced supervisors in healthcare, education and
private practice.

Taking into account sociological, anthropological, and historical considerations, this novel volume offers a history and ethnography of Hare Krishnas in the People's Republic of China (PRC), challenging assumptions about both devotees themselves and the institution to which they belong: the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).

Drawing on a rich compendium of English- and Chinese-language sources, including archived recordings and interviews carried out through multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, chapters explore how Chinese Hare Krishnas maintain their religious practice despite social opposition and describe the role of collective emotions and affective synchronization in strengthening the faith of devotees. The book identifies strategies ISKCON members use to position their tradition and proselytize within China, contextualizing these methods among a broader consideration of how practitioners of unofficial religions in the country conduct outreach differently from those belonging to state-sanctioned ones. The book contributes to a more comprehensive picture of religion in the PRC, broadening the traditional body of knowledge based primarily on ethnographic data collected before the Xi Era from the five religions officially recognized by the Chinese state.

The book will be of value to scholars and researchers in the fields of religious studies, East Asian studies, and anthropology.

Presenting case studies from across the lifespan, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the causes and complications of complex trauma, as well as a framework for trauma-informed care. Complex trauma significantly impacts upon survivors' sense of identity, emotional self-regulation and relationships.

The author presents four new theoretical underpinnings to address CPTSD's disturbances in a child and non-offending parents' identity, self-regulation, self-compassion, and posttraumatic cognitions. Case studies and trauma survivor testimonies are introduced at the beginning of each chapter and interwoven throughout the theory and research. The chapter narratives support the reader with decision points and reflections to embed learning by practically linking theories, concepts, and practices to real-world examples to embody learning outcomes. Collectively the chapters build a relational model of trauma-informed care grounded in interdisciplinary collaboration across education, psychology, law, policy, medicine, and trauma-informed ethics.

A much-needed contribution to the knowledge and treatment of complex PTSD, this is an essential resource for professionals and educators working in childhood trauma and mental health.

This groundbreaking book gives counselors, psychologists, social workers, clergy, and other helping professionals the tools they need to ethically and compassionately support clients who report paranormal or anomalous experiences. Without debating the reality of ghosts, visions, or unexplained encounters, Dr. Steve F. Bain and Dr. Kristopher K. Garza focus on what truly matters-the emotional and psychological impact such experiences can have on a person's life. This book offers strategies for bracketing personal beliefs, fostering empathy, and guiding clients toward meaning and peace. For the first time, mental health professionals are provided with a concise, accessible resource that bridges the gap between clinical training and the lived realities of those who face the mysterious. This readable, practical book is the definitive resource for introducing compassionate skills that you as a professional can implement in your sessions.

Key features include:

Multicultural Approach: Understand how culture affects work with clients dealing with unexplained phenomena.

Theoretical Foundations: Learn from time-honored theoretical perspectives that provide a basis for assisting clients with perception, awareness, acceptance, and personal growth.

Ethical Considerations: Examine ethical obligations to practice and model non-maleficence, beneficence, and veracity when working with clients reporting unexplained phenomena.

G.H.O.S.T. Method: Explore and integrate basic counseling skills while applying the G.H.O.S.T. method when addressing paranormal experiences.

God and Ghosts: Discover how to reconcile paranormal experiences with the spirituality and beliefs of your clients-as well as your own.

Evidence-Based Strategies: Review proven treatment approaches designed to strengthen your therapeutic toolbox.

Case Studies, Examples, and Exercises: Field-based stories and exercises designed to help you read, reflect, analyze, and integrate key concepts.

Accepting the Paranormal as Normal: Develop a genuine, empathetic approach toward clients that does not compromise your own beliefs.

What are executive functions and why are they important? How can they be developed effectively in children and adults? Many children, adolescents, and adults experience difficulties and disorders that stem from poor executive functioning, such as ADHD, dyslexia, or behavioral problems. Concentration, working memory, planning, and impulse control are executive functions of the brain that must be trained and put into practice in order to perform well and function effectively in different contexts (educational/work, emotional, and social).

This book brings together the concepts necessary to understand the basic functioning of the brain, as well as the relationship between its different parts.

• It describes the main executive functions, such as concentration, impulse control, emotional self-regulation, and processing speed, among others.
• It contains 100 exercises to stimulate the brain in a simple and fun way. Enhancing your executive functions is within your reach.

Take advantage of the opportunity this book offers you: achieve a satisfactory adaptation to your environment and those around you.

In Psychoanalysis and the Struggle for Love, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Mark Kinet brings together decades of clinical experience, theoretical insight, and cultural curiosity to explore love in all its forms: tender and erotic, destructive and restorative, ancient and digital.

Moving effortlessly between the works of Freud, Lacan, Klein, Winnicott, Balint, Bion, and contemporary neuropsychoanalysis, Kinet reveals how love shapes the psyche from infancy to adulthood, from the consulting room to the wider culture. Across a series of vivid chapters, ranging from early trauma to desire, perversion, seduction, idealisation, digital intimacy, and the healing potential of the analytic setting, this book offers a panoramic portrait of the human need for connection. Kinet combines rigorous clinical thinking with literary and philosophical depth, while offering a clear and compassionate account of why love matters and why it so often goes awry. A compelling exploration of the human heart and the forces that bind us to one another, this is psychoanalysis written with depth, clarity and warmth.

Written in Kinet's signature engaging and accessible style, this is a vital book for clinicians, readers of mind and culture, and anyone fascinated by the fragile and untidy beauty of love.

If you want to discover the key elements for building a secure attachment with a child, you have come to the right book. Psychologist and psychotherapist Milena Gonzalez presents the importance of learning to educate from a place of love that sustains, as well as limits that protect. In parenting, love and limits go hand in hand; they do not conflict with each other. Both are as necessary for a child's emotional health as food and sleep are for their physical health.

The book takes a comprehensive look at childhood and a compassionate view of those adults who, while not perfect, want to learn to see and treat the children in their lives with respect. All of this is done by deconstructing parenting models and patterns that affect not only the bond between parents and children, but also the mental health of the little ones.

Children construct an idea of themselves and the world around them based on the way they are viewed and treated by those who matter to them. To define themselves as capable or incapable, strong or weak, a failure or the opposite, they will draw on their emotional memory and remain faithful to the words, looks and treatment they received mainly from those who defined them in their early years. It is never too late to learn to do things differently. By reading this book, you will discover how to improve relationships with children by building a secure attachment.