Uncovers the hidden history of conservation, conflict, and resistance on the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border.

Drawing on rich oral testimonies and archival records, this book examines the impact of colonial wildlife conservation policies on African societies and borderlands. Through this exploration, the author shows how colonial "fortress conservation" policies-game reserves, hunting concessions, and land restrictions-disrupted rural life, fueled grievances, and shaped popular participation in the wars of liberation.

By comparing Portuguese and British approaches across a shared cultural and ecological region, this book challenges conventional colonial divides to reveal how conservation became entangled with nationalism, migration, and survival. Extending into the postcolonial era, it also highlights how projects like the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park carried forward legacies of exclusion under new guises.

Engaging and accessible, this book is essential reading for scholars, students, policymakers, and anyone interested in African history, environmental politics, or the complex ties between people, land, and wildlife.

This volume explores the evolving global landscape of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), offering deep insights into how SEL is understood, implemented, and adapted across diverse cultural and educational contexts. Drawing on empirical research, policy analysis, and classroom practices from countries including Hungary, Romania, Finland, Turkey, Chile, and more, the book highlights SEL's transformative role in fostering emotional intelligence, resilience, and inclusive education. With chapters on digital learning environments, culturally responsive interventions, and cross-national assessment tools, the volume bridges theory and practice. It emphasizes the importance of culturally grounded, evidence-based approaches to SEL that promote universal competencies for global citizenship. Ideal for educators, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, this book contributes to the global discourse on SEL by showcasing innovative strategies, regional perspectives, and practical frameworks for implementation. It is an essential resource for advancing emotional well-being, equity, and holistic development in education worldwide.

Despite mantras such as 'evidence-based policy' and 'evidence-for-policy', many working in and with an interest in education remain unconvinced that policies are truly underpinned by, to draw on an oft-used proclamation, 'the best available evidence'. Thus, there have been growing calls for new ways of producing education policy. This book is intended to make headway and add fuel to this movement. A wide range of scholars have been assembled to make contributions to this book that are likely to be of interest to academics, politicians, civil servants, school staff, and other education professionals in the public, private, and voluntary sectors. The book's chapters reflect on opportunities and challenges for policy advice and policy making in education and, significantly, they put forward new possibilities for the future.

The conversations, debates, and further research that this book ignites could prove fruitful over time, ultimately leading to more optimal policies.

Transform yourself from a trusted strategic advisor to a trusted strategic influencer. Become the advisor/influencer leaders rely on for strategic clarity and trusted counsel.

Executives face relentless pressure, ambiguity, and isolation, requiring advisors who deliver actionable counsel. In Influencing Leaders, James E. Lukaszewski and Helio Fred Garcia provide the proven framework for becoming a trusted strategic influencer partner that leaders turn to when facing critical decisions.

The book presents seven essential disciplines: establishing trustworthiness, mastering verbal influence, developing management perspective, thinking strategically, recognizing patterns, structuring constructive advice, and teaching leaders to apply counsel effectively. Practical tools include the Three-Minute Drill, Five Imperatives for Advisors/Influencers, Pattern Recognition techniques, and assessments for developing capabilities.

Readers will also find:

• The five components of trust and ten ways advisors commonly lose it, providing a clear roadmap for building and maintaining credibility with executives
• Frameworks for structuring advice that's clear, actionable, and strategically relevant
• Pattern recognition techniques that enable advisors and influencers to forecast future challenges by identifying recurring organizational and market dynamics
• Methods for developing a management perspective that allows advisors and influencers to see the world through the leader's eyes and understand executive priorities
• Communication strategies for delivering counsel with the clarity, brevity, and impact that time-pressured executives require

Influencing Leaders: The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor is perfect for mid-career professionals, external consultants, and anyone aspiring to influence organizational leaders. Influencing Leaders demonstrates that true influence is about mastering the disciplines of foresight, strategic thinking, and trust that make trusted strategic advisors and influencers essential to leaders making their most challenging decisions.

Becoming a trusted strategic advisor and influencer is a personal journey that requires discipline, self-reflection, and a commitment to serving leaders effectively. By mastering the seven disciplines and adopting a strategic mindset, advisors and influencers can achieve the six aspirations common among all trusted strategic advisors and influencers: acceptance, access, impact, inclusion, influence, and respect, all crucial to the leaders they serve.

Ultimately, the strategic influencer brings integrity based on truth and trust to everything they do.

Jordan-USA Nuclear Relations: Perspective and Prospective (2000-2025) presents a scholarly analysis of nuclear cooperation between Jordan and the United States over the past twenty-five years. It examines political, strategic, and diplomatic drivers shaping Jordan's pursuit of peaceful nuclear energy, focusing on negotiations surrounding a bilateral 123 Agreement and their implications for bilateral ties. Using official documents, policy statements, and regional developments, the study explores links between energy security, nuclear governance, and non-proliferation in the Middle East. It highlights Jordan's ongoing energy challenges and stresses the strategic role of nuclear power in supporting development, enhancing economic resilience, and reducing dependence on imported energy. The book also emphasizes Jordan's adherence to international non-proliferation norms while seeking to diversify its energy mix in a complex regional setting. It situates Jordan's nuclear policy within broader regional and global debates, including U.S. non-proliferation strategies, expanding Middle Eastern nuclear programs, and evolving governance of civilian nuclear technology. By examining Jordan's experience, the study shows how smaller developing states manage diplomatic relationships while balancing domestic priorities with international expectations and geopolitical pressures. Bridging international relations, Middle East studies, and energy policy, this work offers valuable insights into nuclear diplomacy and energy security in a changing geopolitical landscape, appealing to scholars, students, policymakers, and practitioners interested in regional cooperation, nuclear policy, global governance, and sustainable energy development. Overall, it provides a concise yet comprehensive reference for understanding cooperation dynamics and future prospects in Jordan's nuclear sector.

Master project management with a practice-driven approach built on 50 years of experience. As Volume I of a three-volume compendium, this book presents a holistic, cybernetic perspective that enables adaptive focus on critical events, decisions, and feedback loops shaping project success.

Clear frameworks and practical mnemonics support effective oversight, while insights from third-order cybernetics and neuroscience show how human behaviour influences outcomes. Instead of rigid command-and-control logic, the approach emphasises continuous regulation, learning, and adjustment in dynamic environments. Cultural sensitivity is addressed through tailored methods for managing projects across diverse contexts and legal or procurement systems.

A rigorous yet accessible treatment of Earned Value Management (ISO 21508) and Milestone Trend Analysis enables data-driven forecasting. A systems-based view of quality links project management with ISO/IEC 25010. Problem solving integrates analytical and heuristic "satisficing" approaches, supported by AI-assisted methods. Real-world examples, templates, and tools ensure immediate applicability.

Zion's Last Frontier is a historical ethnography that documents the uniquely Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) ranching community around Capitol Reef National Park in south-central Utah over the last 150 years.

From the arrival of the first LDS pioneers in the 1870s to fifth- and sixth-generation descendants of those pioneers today, anthropologist Thomas E. Sheridan documents their ongoing struggles with the federal and state agencies that control 96 percent of the land they ranch. Changing policies and management philosophies profoundly impact the ranchers' livelihoods and ways of life. Sheridan explains how the ranchers qualify as "Traditionally Associated People," allowing them access to park lands where some ranchers still drive their cattle on horseback along the few canyons that cut through the Waterpocket Fold as they move their herds from their traditional summer grazing lands to their winter grazing lands.

Pushing beyond binary arguments, Sheridan offers an empathetic look at the lived experiences of rural communities often mischaracterized in debates over public lands and environmentalism. Tensions have been aggravated by a massive increase in the number of tourists that swarm the area in the warmer months and a steady increase in the number of seasonal residents who build second homes there.

Zion's Last Frontier provides an in-depth look at the clash of cultures between the agrarian Old West and the New West of tourism and second-homers that is playing itself out across so many parts of the rural West today.

In times of skilled-labor shortages, excellent recruiting alone is no longer enough to attract new employees. To be successful in the long term, companies depend on loyal and engaged employees. This professional book introduces the most important elements of the Employee Journey - from pre-boarding to offboarding - and explains how leaders within organizations can create and firmly anchor a successful employee experience.

Numerous concrete recommendations for action, checklists, practical examples, and metrics/KPIs enable quick implementation in one's own practice. A special focus is also placed on the topics of New Work and hybrid/remote work. The book shows how current insights and trends can be integrated into the Employee Journey, thereby fostering strong employee loyalty and satisfaction. This practice-oriented guide is aimed at HR managers and all leaders who want to actively shape the transformation toward a human-centered organization.

Contents

• Fundamentals of the Employee Journey
• The Pre-Boarding Phase
• Onboarding - The Foundation for Employee Retention
• The Employee Retention Phase
• The Development Phase
• The Exit / Offboarding Phase
• Future Perspectives
• The Impact of New Work / Home Office / Remote Work on the Individual Phases of the Employee Journey

Debbie Danowski examines the use of health halos as misleading marketing in the advertising and branding of ultra-processed foods, demonstrating the impacts of messaging on consumer behavior and the health belief model.

This book traces the history of halos to investigate how elements of advertising such as influencer endorsement, visual symbolism, and key phrases like "all natural" are strategically employed to portray food as being healthier than it is.

Analyzing a wide range of examples from fruit snacks and candy to diet foods and meat alternatives, Danowski divides different halo techniques into three main categories-the natural and real halo, the nutrition halo, and the identity halo. These lenses, she posits, can be applied to the health belief model to achieve a fuller understanding of the social, narrative, and psychological tactics long leveraged by corporations to perpetuate health myths and influence consumer choice.

Explore the deep philosophical questions lurking in the Fallout wasteland

The Fallout franchise welcomes you to the Wasteland through both the post-nuclear role-playing games and the Amazon streaming series. Set against a retro-futuristic world of mutants, warlords, and weird science, the decent and wicked alike eke out survival despite the irradiated dangers surrounding them. But beneath the irreverent humor and constant violence, Fallout forces its players and characters into circumstances with weighty philosophical implications, and it compels fans of all stripes to consider complex, sometimes harrowing moral dilemmas.

Fallout and Philosophy tackles these issues head-on. In the 26 essays included in this volume, philosophers follow the implications of Fallout's dystopian world and the challenging questions it raises to their logical conclusions. Even if war never changes, could wars be waged justly? Is freedom possible in the closed and controlled world of the Vaults? Are "kill everything" playthroughs harmless fun, or are they ethically suspect?

• Are the Institute's synths mere machines, or are they people? How can we tell?
• Is the Brotherhood justified in hoarding pre-War technology?
• Is Lucy's Golden Rule too idealistic for the world outside her Vault?
• Is it defensible to bring children into a postapocalyptic wasteland?
• "Everyone disliked that" ending of Fallout 3, but why?

If you're a fan of the franchise and you want to think more deeply about - and more fully appreciate - all things Fallout, then it's time to climb out of your Vault and strap on your power armor. Let Fallout and Philosophy be your Wasteland Survival Guide.