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Virtual Learning Communities (Society for Research Into Higher Education). Open University Press, 2004.

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Virtual Learning Communities (Society for Research Into Higher Education). Open University Press, 2004.

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Saha, Amit. Assessing Social Support and Stress in Autism-Focused Virtual Communities: Emerging Research and Opportunities. IGI Global, 2018.

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Handbook of research on methods and techniques for studying virtual communities: Paradigms and phenomena. Information Science Reference, 2011.

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Krause, Neal M. Religion, Virtues, and Health. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197587652.001.0001.

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The literature on the relationship between religion and health is vast, but it is in a state of disarray. One empirical study has been piled upon another, while little effort has been made to integrate them into a more tightly knit theoretical whole. This book was designed to address this problem. It is the product of 40 years of empirical research, hundreds of peer-reviewed publications, and countless hours of deep reflection. This volume contributes to the literature in three ways: (1) a unique approach to theory construction and model development is presented that is designed to produce a c

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Joinson, Adam N., Katelyn Y. A. McKenna, Tom Postmes, and Ulf-Dietrich Reips, eds. Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199561803.001.0001.

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The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology brings together many researchers in what can be termed Internet Psychology. Though a very new area of research, Internet Psychology is a fast-growing one. In addition to well-studied areas of investigation, such as social identity theory, computer-mediated communication, and virtual communities, the book also includes articles on topics as diverse as deception and misrepresentation, attitude change and persuasion online, Internet addiction, online relationships, privacy and trust, health and leisure use of the Internet, and the nature of interactivity

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Liou, Yi-Hwa, and Alan J. Daly, eds. The Relational Leader. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350336452.

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Highlighting leadership from a social and relational perspective, this book has a particular emphasis on the innovative role that social networks play in systems change. The social systems engaged in this volume cut across a wide array of stakeholder groups, ranging from student learners, pre-service/in-service teachers, administrators, community leaders, and out to organizations and communities that reflect well beyond the education sector, showcasing diverse perspectives from multiple areas and international settings. Bringing together 32 distinguished scholars from Australia, Canada, German

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DiVincenzo, Salvatore, and Elizabeth Malafi. Supporting Local Businesses and Entrepreneurs in the Digital Age. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216021506.

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A timely reference for all public librarians who serve the business community in libraries, regardless of size or locationfrom small rural outposts to bustling big-city branches. Serving communities today entails serving businessesin particular, local businesses, entrepreneurs, and those looking to become entrepreneurs. Understandably, many librarians are not prepared for this role, and as a result feel uncomfortable in it. Supporting Local Businesses and Entrepreneurs in the Digital Age: The Public Librarian's Toolkit explains how librarians and libraries can better serve the business communi

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Schrier, Karen. We the Gamers. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190926106.001.0001.

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The world is in crisis. The people of the world are all connected, and rely on one another to make ethical decisions and to solve civic problems together. Ethics and civics have always mattered, but it is becoming more evident how much they matter. Teaching ethics and civics is essential to the future. This book argues that games can encourage the practice of ethics and civics. They can help people to connect, deliberate, reflect, and flourish. They can help people to reimagine systems and solve problems. Games are communities and public spheres. Like all communities, they may encourage care,

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Grant, August E., Amanda F. C. Sturgill, Chiung Hwang Chen, and Daniel A. Stout, eds. Religion Online. Praeger, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216984566.

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Religion Onlineprovides new insights about religiosity in a contemporary context, offering a comprehensive look at the intersection of digital media, faith communities, and practices of all sorts. Recent research on Apple users, video games, virtual worlds, artificial intelligence, digital music, and sports as religion supports the idea that media and religion, once considered separate entities, are in many cases the same thing. New media and religious practice can no longer be detached; this two-volume set discusses how religionists are embracing the Internet amidst cultural shifts of secular

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Grant, August E., Amanda F. C. Sturgill, Chiung Hwang Chen, and Daniel A. Stout, eds. Religion Online. Praeger, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216984559.

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Religion Onlineprovides new insights about religiosity in a contemporary context, offering a comprehensive look at the intersection of digital media, faith communities, and practices of all sorts. Recent research on Apple users, video games, virtual worlds, artificial intelligence, digital music, and sports as religion supports the idea that media and religion, once considered separate entities, are in many cases the same thing. New media and religious practice can no longer be detached; this two-volume set discusses how religionists are embracing the Internet amidst cultural shifts of secular

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Valkyrie, Zek. Game Worlds Get Real. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400655548.

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Twenty million people worldwide play Massively Multi-Player Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs). Online role-playing gaming is no longer an activity of a tiny niche community. World of Warcraft—the most popular game within the genre—is more than a decade old. As technology has advanced and MMORPGs became exponentially more popular, gaming culture has evolved dramatically over the last 20 years. Game Worlds Get Real: How Who We Are Online Became Who We Are Offline presents a compelling insider's examination of how adventuring through virtual worlds has transformed the meaning of play for millio

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Curato, Nicole. Democracy in a Time of Misery. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198842484.001.0001.

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Misery rarely features in conversations about democracy. And yet, in the past decades, global audiences are increasingly confronted with spectacles of human pain. The world is more stressed, worried, and sad today than we have ever seen it, a Gallup poll finds. Does democracy stand a chance in a time of widespread suffering? Drawing on three years of field research among communities affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, this book offers ethnographic portraits of how collective suffering, trauma, and dispossession enlivens democratic action. It argues that emotional forms of communicat

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Esler, Karen J., Anna L. Jacobsen, and R. Brandon Pratt. The Biology of Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198739135.001.0001.

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The world’s mediterranean-type climate regions (including areas within the Mediterranean, South Africa, Australia, California, and Chile) have long been of interest to biologists by virtue of their extraordinary biodiversity and the appearance of evolutionary convergence between these disparate regions. Comparisons between mediterranean-type climate regions have provided important insights into questions at the cutting edge of ecological, ecophysiological and evolutionary research. These regions, dominated by evergreen shrubland communities, contain many rare and endemic species. Their mild cl

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Marais, Lochner, Phillippe Burger, Maléne Campbell, Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens, and Deidré van Rooyen, eds. Coal and Energy in South Africa. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474487054.001.0001.

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This book forms part of a larger research project at the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa that is investigating the consequences of mining for local communities and mining towns. The book analyses the current situation in Emalahleni and considers the likelihood of a just transition across a range of fields. The case study of the mining city of Emalahleni (‘place of coal’) in South Africa, formerly Witbank, both exemplifies and illuminates how the energy scenario plays out in one major mining city and in turn casts light on that scenario. The authors did not understand the ine

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Hooper, Daniel, and Natasha Hashimoto, eds. Teacher Narratives From the Eikaiwa Classroom: Moving Beyond "McEnglish". Candlin & Mynard ePublishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47908/13.

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This book includes 16 chapters written by current and former eikaiwa (English conversation school) teachers to illustrate a complexity within the eikaiwa profession that has been thus far largely ignored. Through teacher narratives, the authors explore the unique and often problematic world of eikaiwa to present a counter narrative to what the editors regard as blanket stereotyping of a multifaceted and evolving teaching context. Eikaiwa schools are found in virtually every city and town in Japan. They provide conversation and test-preparation classes for learners of all ages. Those attendin

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Matthews, Joseph. The Evaluation and Measurement of Library Services. 2nd ed. Libraries Unlimited, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400648236.

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This guide provides library directors, managers, and administrators in all types of libraries with complete and up-to-date instructions on how to evaluate library services in order to improve them. It's a fact: today's libraries must evaluate their services in order to find ways to better serve patrons and prove their value to their communities. In this greatly updated and expanded edition of Matthews' seminal text, you'll discover a breadth of tools that can be used to evaluate any library service, including newer tools designed to measure customer and patron outcomes. The book offers practic

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Camper, Martin. Arguing over Texts. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190677121.001.0001.

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Arguing over Texts presents a rhetorical method for analyzing how people disagree over the meaning of texts and how they attempt to reconcile those disagreements through argument. The book recovers and adapts a classification of recurring types of disagreement over textual meaning, invented by ancient Greek and Roman teachers of rhetoric: the interpretive stases. Drawing on the rhetorical works of Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, and Hermogenes, the book devotes a chapter to each of the six interpretive stases, which classify issues concerning ambiguous words and phrases, definitions of terms, c

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D’Alessandro, Roberta, Michael T. Putnam, and Silvia Terenghi, eds. Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191987731.001.0001.

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Abstract This volume explores a wide range of structural phenomena in typologically diverse heritage languages using current Minimalist theoretical approaches. Heritage languages have been the focus of extensive research in the last three decades; by virtue of their inherent diversity stemming from initial learning conditions, they pose significant challenges to traditional methods of linguistic description that rely on uniform conceptions of what “knowledge of language” should be. Despite the existence of inter- and intra-speaker variation in the grammars of heritage languages, there are also

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Poplack, Shana. Borrowing. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190256388.001.0001.

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In virtually every bilingual situation empirically studied, borrowed items make up the overwhelming majority of other-language material, but short shrift has been given to this major manifestation of language contact. As a result, scholars have long been divided over whether borrowing is a process distinct from code-switching, leading to long-standing controversy over how best to theorize language mixing strategies. This volume focuses on lexical borrowing as it actually occurs in the discourse of bilingual speakers, building on more than three decades of original research. Based on vast quant

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