Publications
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Chapter 7 Understanding Empathy Through a Study of Autistic Life Writing
(2020)
Building on work in feminist studies, queer studies and critical race theory, this volume challenges the universality of propositions about human nature, by questioning the boundaries between predominant neurotypes and ...
Chapter 8 Comparative Biogeography of Marine Invaders Across Their Native and Introduced Ranges
(2020)
Biological invasions continue to exert extensive environmental and economic impacts. Understanding why some introduced species become invasive is critical to their management. Determining the mechanisms underpinning ...
Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990–2015
(2018)
Mazierska presents a cultural history of popular Viennese electronic music from 1990 to 2015, from the perspectives of production, scene and national and international reception. To illustrate this history in depth, a ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2013)
The sequencing of the entire human genome has opened up unprecedented possibilities for healthcare, but also ethical and social dilemmas about how these can be achieved, particularly in developing countries. UNESCO's ...
Chapter 2 Towards an Optimal Design for Ecosystem-Level Ocean Observatories
(2020)
Four operational factors, together with high development cost, currently limit the use of ocean observatories in ecological and fisheries applications: 1) limited spatial coverage; 2) limited integration of multiple types ...
Age-Period-Cohort Analysis
(2013)
This book explores the ways in which statistical models, methods, and research designs can be used to open new possibilities for APC analysis. Within a single, consistent HAPC-GLMM statistical modeling framework, the authors ...
Chapter 4 Improving the estate
(2018)
Women like Jane Ashley, Amabel Hume-Campbell,
Anna Maria Agar, Sarah Dawes and Mary Cotterel were all involved in pushing
through parliamentary enclosure awards, while Elizabeth Prowse introduced
wide-ranging agricultural ...
The Practices of Happiness
(2010)
There is growing evidence that rising levels of prosperity in Western economies since 1945 have not been matched by greater incidences of reported well-being and happiness. Indeed, material affluence is often accompanied ...
Chapter 4 Compassion in primary and community healthcare
(2017)
Compassion is an attribute of a person’s affective understanding, which aims to enable, so far as possible, shared experiences of the world’s ills and some alleviation of those ills’ effects.
Such an attribute is thus of ...
Teachers' Work in a Globalizing Economy
(2000)
Extended critical case studies provide a tangible working expression of the labour process of teaching, showing how teachers are simultaneously experiencing significant changes to their work, as well as responding in ways ...
Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar
(2006)
Helen James considers security in Myanmar/Burma. She uses the ideas put forward in the United Nations Development Programme's 1994 report, of human, as opposed to state and security, going on to argue that freedom from ...
Spectral Geometry of Partial Differential Operators
(2020)
Access; Differential; Durvudkhan; Geometry; Makhmud; Michael; OA; Open; Operators; Partial; Ruzhansky; Sadybekov; Spectral; Suragan
Chapter 35 Digital Learning for Developing Asian Countries
(2018)
Education – that is, the development of knowledge, skills, and values – is an important means by which to empower individuals in a society. As both a means towards and an outcome of
gaining the capabilities necessary to ...
Chapter 4 Development and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2019)
This paper puts sub-Saharan Africa’s economic development into perspective. While much did not go as hoped for at independence, much of the region has been on a more promising development trajectory since the mid-1990s, ...
Finance Against Poverty: Volume 2
(1997)
Over the last decade, the theory that poverty in the world's poorest regions could be alleviated by providing small loans to micro-entrepreneurs has become increasingly popular. This volume examines the effectiveness of ...
Film in contemporary Southeast Asia
(2012)
This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural ...
Politics of Quality in Education
(2018)
The question of quality has become one of the most important framing factors in education and has been of growing interest to international organisations
and national policymakers for decades. Politics of Quality in ...
Chapter 9 Medicine and Improvement in the Scots Magazine; and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany (1804–17)
(2018)
In this chapter I examine how Archibald Constable’s Scots Magazine; and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany (1804–17) became a medium for the
promotion of key medical initiatives in early nineteenth-century Edinburgh,
including ...
Renegotiating the Welfare State
(2003)
Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state ...
Partnership at Work
(2006)
The partnership established between the Irish Airports Authority and its trade unions in the mid-1990s was groundbreaking in promoting union and staff involvement in all aspects of company decision-making. This book charts ...