Publications
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Chapter Commentary (end of Chapter 8)
(2024)
This book examines authoritarian practices in relation to humanitarian negotiations. Utilising a wide variety of perspectives and examining a range of contexts, the book considers how humanitarians assess and engage with ...
Ethical Codes and Income Distribution
(2006)
In contemporary non-mainstream economic debate, it is widely thought that the functioning of a market economy needs a set of rules (i.e. institutions) which bind agents in their behaviour, allowing efficient outcomes. This ...
The Trillion Dollar Shift
(2018)
Winner of the Gold Axiom Business Book Award 2019 in the Philanthropy / Non Profit / Sustainability category. Over the past 30 years, the world has seen great social improvements. Technology has been developing at ...
Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty
(2006)
In this volume, world-renowned contributors, including Martin Ravallion, Michael Kremer and Robert Townsend, deal with the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of aid, the nature of ...
Chapter 2 Gender and post-election intraparliamentary volatility in East Central Europe
(2022)
Gender, Politics, Elections, Democracy, LGBTQ
Tourism and Travel during the Cold War
(2019)
The Iron Curtain was not an impenetrable divide, and contacts between East and West took place regularly and on various levels throughout the Cold War. This book explores how the European tourist industry transcended the ...
Decoding the Court: Legal Data Insights from the Supreme Court of Canada
(2024)
This edited collection combines state-of-the-art legal data analytics with in-depth doctrinal analysis to study the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), Canada’s top court. A data analytics perspective adds new dimensions to the ...
Debating African Philosophy
(2019)
In African countries there has been a surge of intellectual interest in foregrounding ideas and thinkers of African origin—in philosophy as in other disciplines—that have been unjustly ignored or marginalized. African ...
Chapter 6 Everyday Symphonism
(2023)
Stalin’s political takeover of the cultural theoretical pattern of Bolshevik novyy byt ‘new public life’ created a powerful myth of the total repression of ‘bourgeois’ philosophy in the early 1930s. However, since the 1920s ...
Chapter 4 Against Unconscious Volition
(2024)
This chapter examines the question of whether mental categories come in both conscious and unconscious forms, focusing on the case of volition. Drawing out the implications of the fact that volition is a personal-level ...
Learning Outside the Academy
(2006)
This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community ...
Soil and Drought
(2024)
Drought, a serious global issue, is being aggravated by climate change. Both pedological and agronomic droughts are a major risk factor with adverse effects on agronomic productivity, food and nutritional security, and ...
Wisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy
(2019)
Wisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy focuses on the creation of the therapist as healing presence rather than technique administrator—in other words, how to be rather than what to do. Trauma survivors need wise ...
Defining and Assessing Lexical Proficiency
(2020)
This comprehensive account of performance-based assessment of L2 lexical proficiency analyzes and compares two of the primary methods of evaluation used in the field and unpacks the ways in which they tap into different ...
Residential Segregation Patterns of Latinos in the United States, 1990-2000
(2007)
Historically, residential segregation of Latinos has generally been seen as a result of immigration and the process of self-segregation into ethnic enclaves. The only theoretical exception to ethnic enclave Latino segregation ...
Ahmadiyya Islam and the Muslim Diaspora
(2020)
This book is a study of the UK-based Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the context of the twentieth-century South Asian diaspora. Originating in late nineteenth-century Punjab, the Ahmadis are today a vibrant international ...
African Industrial Design Practice
(2024)
Product design,Industrial design,African studies,Afrika,Africa,Sustainability,Ethical design,3D printing,Ubuntu Philosophy,Decolonial Lens,NPD Process,Micro Enterprises,Industrial Design,Co-creation Process,Business Model ...
Chapter 9 The Brain-Based Argument for Unconscious Sensory Qualities
(2024)
This chapter explores the notion of conscious and unconscious sensory qualities and challenges the traditional view that sensory qualities are exclusively conscious. Two arguments are offered for the existence of unconscious ...
Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England
(2018)
This first in-depth study of women’s politeness examines the complex relationship individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextualising women’s autobiographical writings (journals and letters) ...
Social Media and Law Enforcement Practice in Poland
(2024)
This book explores the role of social media in the daily practice of Polish criminal justice and how social media is, in turn, reshaping this practice. Based on empirical research, it confronts common beliefs about how ...