The Introduction presents the themes, scope, and arguments of the book, and it gives an overview of its structure. There is also a note on terminology.

Chapter 1 introduces the book’s structure and emphases, noting what is and is not directly addressed. It links successful science communication to two critical lessons from the language sciences and motivates the need for public engagement by experts in the language sciences. One lesson concerns cooperative conversations in which all parties listen to and learn from each other. Another lesson concerns information structure where familiar (given) information precedes unfamiliar (new) information. This chapter also highlights free choice and diversity of audience while defining and exemplifying informal learning venues, and it asks readers to consider their expectations for working in such venues. Also included are suggestions for the use of each chapter’s opening and closing worksheets: The opening worksheets are designed to encourage individual and personal reflection, and the closing worksheets are designed to help readers develop interactive and engaging demonstrations of their own topic areas. This chapter’s Worked Example introduces the book’s authors, their research and teaching areas, the kinds of public engagement they have done, and their reasons for doing this work.

Provides the background of the book

In this chapter, we look at the key written form through which undergraduate students in the Humanities practise participating in this scholarly dialogue: the academic essay. Even where different disciplines have unique requirements for how information is delivered in an essay, Humanities essays share broad features such as their overall structure, thesis-driven argument and evidence-based argumentation. If you can master these foundational aspects, you can readily adapt your writing to meet different disciplinary contexts. Moreover, these same skills can be used in other types of academic writing that are not essays but which foreground argument just like the essay. This chapter is organised into three parts. It begins by looking at the essay as a distinct genre with recognisable conventions that support participation in scholarly dialogue. Next, it reviews the important steps that precede essay writing: breaking down the question, planning your argument and structure, and project managing your essay. The chapter covers the essentials of essay writing: the introduction, body paragraphs and conclusions.

Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the book. Motivating the book with examples of various regulatory barriers to agricultural trade that have proven particularly contentious, this chapter asks what might explain these barriers and whether we should expect current international solutions to resolve them. The chapter provides a brief overview of the book’s argument regarding how producers leverage private information to acquire the sorts of regulatory barriers that the opening examples describe. In addition, it previews the book’s main contribution and gives a brief chapter outline.

Yuri Corrigan introduces the volume; gives an overview of the book’s structure and the content of each chapter.

This book has been written specifically for nurses training and practising within Australia, to assist and encourage them to develop a strong and well-defined sense of professional and moral identity. It endeavours to provide an integrated, practical framework for understanding the ethical and legal dimensions of nursing practice in Australia by referencing Australian law and reflecting the Australian clinical context and cultural norms.

This book refers to ‘patients’ rather than ‘clients’. The question of which term is most appropriate is not easily resolved – if it can be at all – because there are many ways to interpret both terms. Consequently, we have made the decision to use the term ‘patients’ because it best approximates our use of the concept of vulnerability.

Introduces St Osyth, Essex: its history and landscape, and explains the context and setting of the witchcraft accusations of 1582.

Chapter 1 discusses the problem of finding research projects, introduces the breadth of tools available for solving that problem, and offers a roadmap for the rest of the book.

This chapter introduces the volume, stating the central objective of the book – namely, tracing the rise, consolidation, and fall of Iran’s last two dynasties – and the political, social, and economic changes that each of the two dynasties, the Qajars and the Pahlavis, effected in Iran.

Medical diagnoses and prognoses are often not clear-cut ‘facts’. Conveying these kinds of vague phenomena is a challenge to health professionals, but also a skill that they must master. This study analyses real-life medical data to generate communicative patterns and verified strategies that shape the ways in which professionals communicate uncertainty. The findings may help healthcare professionals to deliver medical information in ways more accessible to the public. Elasticity plays an integral role in imparting medical advice to patients effectively and affirming their choices. This study is the first to explore communication effectiveness in healthcare, paying special attention to the role of elasticity in language use and in an Australia–Taiwan comparison. This research adds a new dimension to the study of health communication and explores better ways to deliver medical information to the public, by challenging linear theories in linguistics and promoting non-linear concepts. Language cannot be totally held to a ‘correct’ standard, nor used just as one wishes. A ‘one size fits all’ rule for language use does not exist, and instead multiple standards guide our use of it.

The Introduction sets out the key claims of the book, and provides an outline of its chapters. These claims are that the French tradition rejects understanding thinking and judging, that this leads to an ambivalent relationship with Hegel and a return to Kant, and that the French tradition develops a novel account of thinking, and a new model of sense.

Chapter 1 opens with a narrative detailing the countless ways in which we interact with others about politics on a daily basis. We illustrate that previous research on the topic has left several assumptions untested, such as that individuals feel “upset” or “anxious” when faced with political disagreement, that social harmony can affect our political discussion behavior, and that the decision to engage in or avoid a discussion is an active choice. The goal of this chapter is to summarize the book’s key contributions, persuade readers of its importance, and preview the remaining chapters.

This chapter introduces the approach taken in the book, which is to focus on the law, not policy. It further clarifies that the book will focus on the legal aspects of the Security Council based on the UN Charter and in the Council’s practice.

In this chapter, I introduce the question that animates the book and preview the argument. Under what conditions does climate change lead to negative security outcomes? I emphasize the combination of weak state capacity, exclusive political institutions, and absent or one-sided delivery of international assistance. I then summarize the contribution of the book and preview the chapters, including the case studies.

This chapter provides a brief overview of the book’s main themes and arguments. IP accidents should be governed by a negligence liability rule for reasons of efficiency, equity, and fairness.