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Chapter 19 Quantification
(2021)
The study of quantificational expressions is one of the central domains in the field of natural language semantics. Probably every language has means of expressing quantification, but quantifiers in natural languages are ...
Pesticides, Organic Contaminants, and Pathogens in Air
(2022)
"The air is an important but largely unrecognized source of contaminant fate in the environment, including transport of pesticides and contaminants to nontarget areas and exposures for people and wildlife. This book ...
Chapter 40 The origins and practice of science on British television
(2018)
The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides a comprehensive exploration of how different media have evolved within social, regional and national contexts. The 50 chapters in this volume, written by an outstanding ...
Chapter 47 The uses of citizenship in the post-Roman West
(2023)
It has been a recurrent shortcoming in the historiography of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages to dismiss the importance of citizenship after Caracalla’s edict, but especially after the fall of Rome. This tendency ...
Chapter 13 Tax compliance assurance
(2024)
The concept of tax compliance is as old as the tax itself, but staying compliant with tax regulations has become increasingly demanding. A changing tax regulatory environment, resulting from regulatory actions of the OECD, ...
Digital Innovations for a Circular Plastic Economy in Africa
(2023)
Plastic pollution is one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century that requires innovative and varied solutions. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, this book brings together interdisciplinary, multi-sectoral and ...
Frontier Thinking and Human-Nature Relations
(2024)
Combining historical, social and regulative analysis, this book builds a compelling critique of ‘frontier thinking’ as it continues to form our assumptions about social and environmental organisation – in ways that impact ...
The Endangered Species Act
(2012)
The complex regulations of the Endangered Species Act established by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can be challenging for environmental professionals who must comply with them or assist clients in compliance. This is ...
Chapter 11 Care in the Cage
(2016)
This chapter adopts a historical perspective to explore how material infrastructures have structured human–animal relationships within the biomedical “animal house,” c.1945 to the present. It argues material infrastructures ...
Learners in Transition
(2019)
As the number of Chinese students learning English increases worldwide, the need for teachers to understand the characteristics and challenges facing this group of learners grows. This is particularly true for those students ...
Chapter 8 Hyaluronan-Based Hydrogels as Functional Vectors for Standardised Therapeutics in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
(2022)
Hyaluronan-based hydrogels are optimal candidates when developing novel combined advanced therapy medicinal products (cATMP), tissue engineering products (TEP), and medical devices. The key physico-chemical properties of ...
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage
(2022)
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonization of European colonial heritage at European and extra-European locations. Assessing the impact of these practices, the book also explores ...
Designing Smart and Resilient Cities for a Post-Pandemic World
(2023)
Are pandemics the end of cities? Or, do they present an opportunity for us to reshape cities in ways making us even more innovative, successful and sustainable? Pandemics such as COVID-19 (and comparable disruptions) have ...
Chapter Introduction
(2025)
This book provides an overview of the diverse multidisciplinary field of more-than-human design, offering a philosophical grounding of more-than-human design in posthumanism while putting practical design examples and ...
Sex and the Second-Best City
(2005)
Sex and the Second-Best City deals with the topics of sex and society in the Laws of Plato with recourse to historical context and modern critical theory. It examines reconstructions of ancient "sexuality" with a view to ...
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
(2022)
This book charts the new phase of global struggles around gender equality and sexual democracy: the ultraconservative mobilization against "gender ideology" and feminist efforts to counteract it. It argues that anti-gender ...
Changing Paradigms and Approaches in Interpreter Training
(2021)
Interpreting studies; community interpreting; community interpreter education; interpreting in Slovenia; Slovenia
Loneliness and Social Isolation in Old Age
(2023)
This book is a seminal guide to loneliness and social isolation in old age, providing a comprehensive overview of the important correlates of socioeconomic, health and lifestyle factors upon loneliness and social isolation ...
Broken Bodies, Places and Objects
(2024)
Broken Bodies, Places and Objects demonstrates the breadth of fragmentation and fragment use in prehistory and history and provides an up-to-date insight into current archaeological thinking around the topic. A seal broken ...
Nanoparticle Engineering for Chemical-Mechanical Planarization
(2009)
Increasing reliance on electronic devices demands products with high performance and efficiency. Such devices can be realized through the advent of nanoparticle technology. This book explains the physicochemical properties ...
The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
(2024)
Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important ...
An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption
(2023)
An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical ...
Chapter 4 Norms and Norm Contestation
(2023)
There are growing connections between the IR constructivist focus on norms and norm contestation and Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). FPA has long had a focus on agency within the state, particularly individual and group-based ...
Chapter 40 The origins and practice of science on British television
(2018)
The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides a comprehensive exploration of how different media have evolved within social, regional and national contexts. The 50 chapters in this volume, written by an outstanding ...
A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books
(2022)
A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in
Children’s Picture Books is a collection of research papers in the fields
of multimodality and picture books. 1 The chapters broaden the previous
analyses of ...
A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books
(2022)
A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in
Children’s Picture Books is a collection of research papers in the fields
of multimodality and picture books. 1 The chapters broaden the previous
analyses of ...
Strengthening Professional and Spiritual Education through 21st Century Skill Empowerment in a Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Era
(2024)
Discover a treasure trove of knowledge in the proceedings of the First International Confer-ence on Education (ICEdu). This meticulously curated collection of research papers delves into the transformative landscape of ...
The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design
(2022)
The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design explores the multifaceted nature of infrastructure through the global lens of architectural history. Infrastructure holds the world together. Yet even as it connects some ...
Gauge Fields and Strings
(1987)
Based on his own work, the author synthesizes the most promising approaches and ideals in field theory today. He presents such subjects as statistical mechanics, quantum field theory and their interrelation, continuous ...
Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies
(2015)
Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance today has become a highly influential topic in its own right, commanding growing attention across the natural and social sciences where a wide range of scholars have begun ...
Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa
(2017)
This book provides a synthesis of the key issues and challenges facing agriculture and food production in Southern Africa. Southern Africa is facing numerous challenges from diverse issues such as agricultural transformations, ...
Christian Orthodox Migrants in Western Europe
(2023)
Christian Orthodox Migrants in Western Europe: Secularization and Modernity through the Lens of the Gift Paradigm explores a religious community that has been getting increasing scholarly attention. While most of the ...
Thermal Evaluation of Indoor Climate and Energy Storage in Buildings
(2025)
There is a need to reduce energy consumption for space cooling and heating via energy efficient solutions/technologies for implementation in the buildings. Thermal energy storage regulates indoor temperature, shifting the ...
The Politics of Evidence
(2017)
There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how this ...
Getting Schools to Work Better
(2024)
Yifei Yan’s ambitious multi-method case study of government middle schools in Beijing and Delhi provides fresh insights into how educational accountability can be designed to work, in part and as a whole.
Getting schools ...
Chapter Gesture shape and gesture–speech alignment predict simultaneous L2 sound production accuracy
(2024)
This collection highlights diverse epistemological perspectives in original research on the important role of multimodality in second language contexts. The volume explores a wide range of theoretical and methodological ...
The Muses of Truth and Transformation
(2025)
Drawing on the author’s own experiences as a psychiatrist-psychotherapist, this fascinating new book gathers and analyzes folktales from around the world about adults struggling with conflicts and trying to determine truth. ...
Renewable Energy Systems for Building Designers
(2024)
Building; Design; Designers; Dorothy; Energy; for; Fundamentals; Gerring; High; Net; of; Performance; Renewable; Systems; Zero
Sex and the Second-Best City
(2005)
Sex and the Second-Best City deals with the topics of sex and society in the Laws of Plato with recourse to historical context and modern critical theory. It examines reconstructions of ancient "sexuality" with a view to ...
Transformations in Social Science Research Methods during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2024)
This volume explores how researchers made innovative use of online technologies to innovate, define, and transform research methodologies in light of the varying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those related ...
Chapter 5 ‘Make Scandinavia a bulwark against fascism!’
(2021)
Hitler’s seizure of power on 30 January 1933 provided an urgent impetus to stage transnational anti-fascist conferences and rallies on a global scale. One of the first, but almost completely overlooked major conferences ...
Tracing the Atom
(2022)
This book is about nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia, focusing on selected sites of the Soviet atomic program, many of which have remained understudied. Nuclear operations, for energy or military purposes, demanded ...
How Modern Science Came into the World
(2025)
Once upon a time 'The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century' was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as 'the ...
Translating Great Russian Literature
(2021)
Launched in 1950, Penguin’s Russian Classics quickly progressed to include translations of many great works of Russian literature and the series came to be regarded by readers, both academic and general, as the de facto ...
Chapter Agonistic Spaces
(2024)
This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field of Irish studies to explore the significance of twenty-first-century Irish writing and its flourishing popularity worldwide. Focusing on Irish writing published ...
Social Networks as the New Frontier of Terrorism
(2017)
Terrorism. Why does this word grab our attention so? Propaganda machines have adopted modern technology as a means to always have their content available. Regardless of the hour or time zone, information is being shared ...
Management and Visualisation
(2023)
As organisations of all sizes become increasingly digitalised, a core management challenge remains unresolved. The ability to successfully and sustainably connect the stated vision of an organisation with its strategic ...
Master Mathematics Teachers
(2024)
This practical guide invites teachers to take a journey towards masterly mathematics teaching using the experiences and lessons learnt across five Chinese provinces, Anhui, Beijing, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Tianjin.
On ...
Chapter 13 Language ideologies at play in early childhood teacher education
(2024)
Recognising the urgent need for further progress in teacher education and preparation for the success of early language learning, this volume presents research on the education and professional development of teachers, ...
Biologically Inspired Robotics
(2012)
Robotic engineering inspired by biology—biomimetics—has many potential applications: robot snakes can be used for rescue operations in disasters, snake-like endoscopes can be used in medical diagnosis, and artificial muscles ...
The Dialectic of Ressentiment
(2024)
Drawing upon a wide variety of authors, approaches, and ideological contexts, this book offers a comprehensive and detailed critique of the distinct and polemical senses in which the concept of ressentiment (and its cognate ...
The Limits of Criminological Positivism
(2022)
The reform agenda promoted by the late-nineteenth-century penal reformers variously described as advocates of ‘positivism’, ‘social defense’ or as members of the ‘modern’ or ‘sociological’ school of criminal law threatened ...
Chapter 10 Digital data-led reflections on language classroom interaction
(2025)
The Routledge Handbook of Language Teacher Action Research is an authoritative and innovative treatment of language teacher action research (LTAR) as a growing research field. Edited by two global thought leaders in LTAR, ...
Ageing and Urban Planning
(2025)
Ageing and Urban Planning provides a critical analysis of urban planning in the face of demographic change. It emphasises the importance of international approaches and practices to address age-friendly planning. This ...
Critical Polyglot Studies
(2025)
This book offers a self-reflective, critical approach to the study of what is popularly known as polyglossia, charting the gradual but marked process of its commoditization over the last 20 years and offering a counterpoint ...
Chapter An Endangered Population of Harbour Porpoise Phocoena phocoena Hidden in Plain Sight: Biology, Ecology and Conservation of the Iberian Porpoise
(2024)
Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global ...
Sustainable Energy Pathways to Net Zero
(2025)
Sustainable Energy Pathways to Net Zero addresses realistic pathways between now and 2050 to reach net zero: a steady state concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. It discusses solar and wind energy, hydrogen, ...
On the Significance of Religion in Climate Change
(2025)
This book explores the role of religion in discussions about climate change and, particularly, the development of responses to climate change on global, state, institutional, and local levels. It considers examples of the ...
Transnational Social Work and Social Welfare
(2016)
The underlying frame of social work is the nation state, and it is from within the state that welfare strategies and social policies are devised and implemented. However, post-colonialism, globalisation, migration and the ...
Consuming Cities
(2005)
This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's environment, and the spread of policies to reduce their impact. It looks at these issues by examining the impact of the Rio Declaration and assesses the ...
History, Space and Place
(2019)
Spaces, too, have a history. And history always takes place in spaces. But what do historians mean when they use the word ""spaces""? And how can spaces be historically investigated?
Susanne Rau provides a survey of ...
Chapter 5 Social impact of respecting employee interests in the process of modelling employment relationships in a company
(2024)
Social Impact, Organizations and Society represents endeavors to comprehensively explore the essence of social impact. The editors aim to elucidate its definition, scope, measurement and implementation. Delving into how ...
The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing
(2024)
Ageing populations pose some of the foremost global challenges of this century. Drawing on an international pool of scholars, this cutting-edge Handbook surveys the micro, macro and institutional aspects of the economics ...
Mobilising the Racialised 'Others'
(2022)
This book provides an original approach to the connections of race, racism and neoliberalisation through a focus on ‘postethnic activism,’ in which mobilisation is based on racialisation as non-white or ‘other’ instead of ...
The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe
(2021)
This book addresses the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation of the religious underground in communist-era Eastern Europe. It discusses how religious groups were perceived as dangerous to the ...
The Politics of Climate Change Knowledge
(2022)
This book addresses political knowledge of climate change and its relation to labelling people affected by climate change, either as ‘climate refugees’ or as ‘climate change-induced displaced people or migrants’. By ...
Chapter 6 Intelligence Oversight as an Institutional Battlefield
(2025)
This book examines the dynamics of intelligence practices in the Scandinavian culture of high social cohesion and high trust. Situated within the new body of scholarly literature, the book emphasizes critical empirical ...
The Marion Milner Method
(2023)
This book traces the development of British psychoanalyst Marion Milner’s (1900–98) autobiographical acts throughout her lifetime, proposing that Milner is a thinker to whom we can turn to explore the therapeutic potentialities ...
Handbook of Genetic Diagnostic Technologies in Reproductive Medicine
(2022)
Image-based and sequencing-based spatial technologies can currently be used to locate cells anatomically within a tissue; the Human Vell Atlas allows its users to navigate the human body at various levels of resolution to ...
Evidence Contestation
(2023)
This book examines the practices of contesting evidence in democratically constituted knowledge societies. It provides a multifaceted view of the processes and conditions of evidence criticism and how they determine the ...
Making Sense of World History
(2021)
"Making Sense of World History is a comprehensive and accessible textbook that helps students understand the key themes of world history within a chronological framework stretching from ancient times to the present day.
To ...
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics
(2014)
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields ...
The Digital Shopfloor- Industrial Automation in the Industry 4.0 Era
(2018)
In today’s competitive global environment, manufacturers are offered with unprecedented opportunities to build hyper-efficient and highly flexible plants, towards meeting variable market demand, while at the same time ...
Picturing Fiction through Embodied Cognition
(2022)
This concise volume addresses the question of whether or not language, and its structure in literary discourses, determines individuals’ mental "vision," employing an innovative cross-disciplinary approach using readers’ ...
A Holter for Parkinson’s Disease Motor Symptoms: STAT-On™
(2024)
A new information and communication technology (ICT) has been deployed in the battle against Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that is both progressive and disabling with significant impact on quality of ...
Bodily Fluids in Antiquity
(2021)
Medical and philosophical theories of generation from the classical world are often classified according to whether the female as well as the male produces ‘seed’, the fluid substance which does the most important work in ...
Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health
(2022)
Approaching global health through a social justice lens, this text explores both established and emerging issues for contemporary health and wellbeing. Divided into two parts, the book introduces key concepts in relation ...
Climate Change and Natural Disasters
(2017)
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351527927, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license The start of the ...
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia
(2022)
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia offers the first comprehensive, cross-disciplinary overview of key issues in Central Asian Studies. The 30 chapters by leading and emerging scholars summarise major ...
The Right-Wing Critique of Europe
(2022)
The Right-Wing Critique of Europe analyses the opposition to the European Union from a variety of right-wing organisations in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. In recent years, opposition to the processes of globalisation ...