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Significance in Language
(2022)
This book offers a unique perspective on meaning in language, broadening the scope of existing understanding of meaning by introducing a comprehensive and cohesive account of meaning that draws on a wide range of linguistic ...
On the Significance of Religion for Human Rights
(2023)
This progressive volume furthers the inter-religious, international, and interdisciplinary understanding of the role of religion in the area of human rights. Building bridges between the often-separated spheres of academics, ...
Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War
(2021)
We thank Ekman & Co AB and Gadelius Holding Ltd for their kind and generous support, making this research available online for free. Lottaz and Ottosson explore the intricate relationship between neutral Sweden and Imperial ...
History of Construction Cultures Volume 2
(2021)
Volume 2 of History of Construction Cultures contains papers presented at the 7ICCH – Seventh International Congress on Construction History, held at the Lisbon School of Architecture, Portugal, from 12 to 16 July, 2021. ...
Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge
(2021)
This volume provides an overview of key themes in Indigenous Environmental Knowledge (IEK) and anchors them with brief but well-grounded empirical case studies of relevance for each of these themes, drawn from bioculturally ...
A Sensory Education
(2021)
A Sensory Education takes a close look at how sensory awareness is learned and taught in expert and everyday settings around the world. Anna Harris shows that our sensing is not innate or acquired, but in fact evolves ...
Education, Skills and Social Justice in a Polarising World
(2022)
education, elites, justice, social skills, polarizing, welfare, world
The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies
(2023)
The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies gathers leading work by critical scholars in this burgeoning field. Redressing the lack of environmental perspectives in the study of media, ecomedia studies asserts that media ...
Chapter 10 The World and Beijing World Park
(2024)
This book examines Chinese film in the twenty-first century. Organized around the themes "movements,"genres," and "intermedia," it reflects on how Chinese cinema has changed, adapted, and evolved over past decades and ...
Care and the City
(2022)
Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people’s everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are ...
Global Resource Scarcity
(2017)
A common perception of global resource scarcity holds that it is inevitably a catalyst for conflict among nations; yet, paradoxically, incidents of such scarcity underlie some of the most important examples of international ...
Conversations and Key Debates on Inclusive and Special Education
(2025)
Based on the second series of the popular <I>Inclusion Dialogue</I> podcasts, Joanne Banks explores the tensions, debates and understandings of inclusive education in context of current policy changes. Featuring in-depth ...
Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy
(2023)
The chapters in this volume explore the relationship between music and art in Italy across the long sixteenth century, considering an era when music-making was both a subject of Italian painting and a central metaphor in ...
Chapter 19 International Students and Neoliberal English-Medium Higher Education
(2025)
The Routledge Handbook of the Sociopolitical Context of Language Learning is a compelling examination of how language education must adapt to our rapidly changing world. This book explores the need for a fresh perspective ...
Inconvenient Heritage
(2025)
The discussion about objects, ancestral remains and archives from former colonial territories is becoming increasingly heated. Over the centuries, a multitude of items – including a cannon of the King of Kandy, power-objects ...
Theoretical Comparative Syntax
(2006)
Collected for the first time in a single volume, these essays and articles by Naoki Fukui form an outline of some of the most significant and formative contributions to syntactic theory. Focusing particularly on the ...
Chapter 7 EU Role Conceptions and Role Expectations towards the V4
(2025)
Applying role theory and Putnam’s two-level game framework to the European migration crisis of 2015, Magdalena Kozub-Karkut expertly shows how the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland used the crisis to contest ...
Chapter 8 “One Woman Started It All”. Gendered Approaches to the Governance of Knowledge in Post-War Greece
(2025)
This innovative volume analyzes the historical entanglement of gender, technosciences, and government/governance. Situated at the crossroad of women and gender studies, science and technology studies, and political sociology, ...
Towards Resilient Societies: The Synergy of Religion, Education, Health, Science, and Technology
(2025)
Resilience and sustainability are essential in navigating today’s global challenges. Towards Resilient Societies: The Synergy of Religion, Education, Health, Science, and Technology presents innovative interdisciplinary ...
Chapter STEM in a changing world
(2024)
Taking a future-oriented approach, this book addresses students’ ways of thinking in STEM-based problem solving. It provides a rich set of chapters that explore how we can advance important thinking skills in STEM education ...
Power to Teach
(2004)
This book illustrates hitherto unexamined connections between the present state of teacher education in the UK and past models of practice. It locates contemporary debates within ongoing historical tensions over what ...
Childhood Abuse, Body Shame, and Addictive Plastic Surgery
(2019)
Childhood Abuse, Body Shame, and Addictive Plastic Surgery explores the psychopathology that plastic surgeons can encounter when seemingly excellent surgical candidates develop body dysmorphic disorder postoperatively. By ...
Communist Perspectives on Atheism in the Twentieth Century
(2025)
This book offers an analysis of the wide range of attitudes that communist movements and regimes adopted towards atheism during the 20th century. Despite the well-known violent fight of the Bolsheviks against believers, ...
The Return of the Buddha
(2014)
The Return of the Buddha traces the development of Buddhist archaeology in colonial India, examines its impact on the reconstruction of India’s Buddhist past, and the making of a public and academic discourse around these ...
Borderland City in New India
(2025)
While India has been a popular subject of scholarly analysis in the past decade, the majority of that attention has been focused on its major cities. This volume instead explores contemporary urban life in a smaller city ...
The Policies and Power of Public Diplomacy
(2025)
This volume examines the higher-level discussions convened at Wilton Park, the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s policy forum, since its inception in 1946.
Originally a ‘re-education’ camp after World ...
Electromagnetic Fields in Biological Systems
(2016)
Spanning static fields to terahertz waves, this volume explores the range of consequences electromagnetic fields have on the human body. Topics discussed include essential interactions and field coupling phenomena; electric ...
Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland
(2025)
Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput led-kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and ...
Chapter 18 Disability in translation
(2021)
The chapter surveys the possible intersections between the fields of translation studies and disability studies. The exploration begins with an overview of the various definitions of disability, which leads to the discussion ...
Chapter 5 Alkylate Gasoline
(2025)
This book serves as the most comprehensive and advanced resource available on catalytic processes to produce automotive gasoline. It discusses enhancers and emerging technologies such as the obtention of gasoline from ...
Criminal Futures
(2021)
This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts and intervene into the future through targeted ...
Educational Mobility of Second-generation Turks
(2025)
This volume investigates educational inequalities among children of Turkish immigrants in Austria, France, and Sweden. One of the largest immigrant groups in these countries, Turks nonetheless face discrimination and limited ...
Data Science for Wind Energy
(2019)
Data Science for Wind Energy provides an in-depth discussion on how data science methods can improve decision making for wind energy applications, near-ground wind field analysis and forecast, turbine power curve fitting ...
Models of Political Economy
(2006)
Models of Political Economy will introduce students to the basic methodology of political economics. It covers all core theories as well as new developments including: decision theory game theory mechanism design games of ...
Chapter 12 Children's perspectives on green space management in Sweden and Denmark
(2020)
Green space managers develop and maintain urban green spaces, where children are often among the most frequent users. In a case study of four urban districts in Sweden and Denmark, focusing on children aged 10-11, the ...
Art, Research, Philosophy
(2017)
Art, Research, Philosophy explores the emergent field of artistic research: art produced as a contribution to knowledge. As a new subject, it raises several questions: What is art-as-research? Don’t the requirements of ...
Digital Twin and Blockchain for Sustainable Healthcare 5.0
(2025)
This book investigates blockchain and digital twin technologies to offer insights into their potential applications in the healthcare industry. It explores how these technologies can work together to build a strong and ...
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Improving Air Quality
(2020)
"The world’s atmosphere is a common resource. Air quality, along with energy, transportation, and climate change have significant impacts on our lives and this book helps readers understand the changes happening at the ...
Chapter A case study of the PhD defence at the University of Trieste, Italy
(2025)
This volume describes, compares, and analyses the experience of ‘defending’ the doctoral dissertation in a final oral examination in universities and traditions in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and beyond. ...
Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education
(2017)
Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education argues that by rethinking the way
we relate to time, we can fundamentally rethink the way we conceive education.
Beyond the contemporary rhetoric of acceleration, speed, ...
Urban Resettlements in the Global South
(2021)
displacement; global south; housing; infrastructure; relocation; urban resettlements; pandemic; COVID-19
A Multidisciplinary Exploration into Flow in Writing
(2024)
Offering a multidisciplinary exploration of “flow” and the often-nebulous ways it is conceptualized and operationalized in writing pedagogy, this book addresses a critical gap in writing studies. Bringing together ...
Financing Climate Action
(2025)
The urgency of mitigating climate change is mounting globally, and developing countries have a key role to play in ensuring a sustainable future. This book provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of climate finance ...
Routledge International Handbook of Critical Policing Studies
(2025)
Critical analyses of policing have accompanied accounts of the police since the early days of modern police organisations. More so than ever, police and policing are subject to close and critical scrutiny from governments ...
Building the Future Internet through FIRE
(2017)
The Internet as we know it today is the result of a continuous activity for improving network communications, end user services, computational processes and also information technology infrastructures. The Internet has ...
The Archaeology of Human Ancestry
(2005)
Human social life is constrained and defined by our cognitive and emotional dispositions, which are the legacy of our foraging ancestors. But how difficult is it to reconstruct the social systems and cultural traditions ...
Chapter 12 Hölderlin’s Higher Enlightenment
(2020)
"This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and ...
The Routledge Handbook of Policy Tools
(2023)
This handbook provides a unique, systematic and comprehensive overview from leading experts in the field of the policy-making tools deployed at all the phases of the policy process. It covers the fundamentals of both new ...
Law, Migration, and Human Mobility
(2024)
This book analyses the multifaceted ways law operates in the context of human mobility, as well as the ways in which human mobility affects law.
Migration law is conventionally understood as a tool to regulate human ...
The New Economy in Transatlantic Perspective
(2005)
What’s left from the new economy? This book takes an unfashionable perspective and shows that despite all the mistaken ideas and exaggerations, the technological changes of the 1990s still have important effects today. ...
Fighting Global Neo-Extractivism
(2023)
Fighting Global Neo-Extractivism: Fossil-Free Social Movements in South Africa analyses social struggles over damaging new fossil-fuel projects in the Global South with a focus on South Africa, Africa’s biggest fossil fuel ...
Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe
(2021)
This book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states, flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization, where many people, who are forced ...
Causation and Laws of Nature
(2006)
This is the first English translation of Causalite´ et Lois de La Nature, and is an important contribution to the theory of causation. Max Kistler reconstructs a unified concept of causation that is general enough to ...
Neutrino Physics
(2020)
When Kai Zuber’s pioneering text on neutrinos was published in 2003, the author correctly predicted that the field would see tremendous growth in the immediate future. In that book, Professor Zuber provided a comprehensive ...
Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
(2022)
brain disease; addiction; model; evaluating
Chapter 12 Peer pressure and heterosexual norms among young black men in Somkhele, South Africa
(2025)
This book examines the complex relationships between young masculinities and sexual health within Southern Africa. It considers how socio-cultural and economic factors shape young men’s experiences of masculinity and the ...
Intermedial Studies
(2022)
Intermedial Studies provides a concise, hands-on introduction to the analysis of a broad array of texts from a variety of media – including literature, film, music, performance, news and videogames, addressing fiction and ...
Scientific Communication
(2018)
This book addresses the roles and challenges of people who communicate science, who work with scientists, and who teach STEM majors how to write. In terms of practice and theory, chapters address themes encountered by ...
How to Be a Learning Developer in Higher Education
(2024)
Learning, Development, Education
The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon
(2004)
David Webster explores the notion of desire as found in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Beginning by addressing the idea of a 'paradox of desire', whereby we must desire to end desire, the varieties of desire that are articulated ...
The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems
(2021)
The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems provides a synthetic guide to the range of methods that can be employed in social-ecological systems (SES) research. The book is primarily targeted ...
Theorizing Cultures of Political Violence in Times of Austerity
(2018)
After the multidimensional financial crisis of 2008, the member states of the Eurozone imposed a set of economic policies to save their economies. Socially unpopular cuts contributed to the occurrence of violent movements ...
Race and Migration in the Transpacific
(2023)
Looking at a range of cases from around the Transpacific, the contributors to this book explore the complex formulations of race and racism emerging from transoceanic migrations and encounters in the region. Asia has a ...
The Political Economy of Extreme Poverty in Eastern Europe
(2025)
This book examines the creation of extreme poverty in Eastern Europe, focusing on Romanian Roma, through a comparative historical perspective on its roots and the socio-economic and political mechanisms that have shaped ...
Innovating Healthcare
(2019)
Why is there a need to ‘innovate healthcare’? The basic reason stems from the sheer scale of the challenges now facing healthcare provision in the UK and across many other countries. The aim of this book is to interrogate ...
The Value & Purpose of Management Education
(2022)
Without a doubt, business schools have been a success story in higher education over the last 50 years (the period of EFMD’s existence). Even so, they have come under scrutiny, and attack, over their academic legitimacy ...
Chapter 11 Essential Contextual Knowledge for Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Education in Low-income Countries
(2024)
Agricultural engineering, developed as an engineering discipline underpinned by physics, applies scientific principles, knowledge, and technological innovations in the agricultural and food industries. During the last ...
Crisis and Communitas
(2023)
This book is a critical, transdisciplinary examination of a broad range of philosophical ideas, theoretical concepts, and artistic projects of community in the 20th and 21st century in the context of global/local social ...
Dance in US Popular Culture
(2024)
cultural studies; dance; dance studies; dance history; dance theory; gender; identity; movement analysis; performance; theatre; popular culture; USA
International Perspectives on Science, Culture, and Belief
(2025)
Public understanding of the relationship between science and religion is dominated by US and UK perspectives and research that has been carried out in Western Protestant Anglophone contexts. This has enabled a culturally ...
Securing Women’s Economic Security, Safety, and Freedom
(2025)
Universal basic income (UBI) as a policy measure for supporting economic security has attracted worldwide attention. This book contributes to the discussion by focusing on UBI’s potential impacts for women, including women ...
Borderland Infrastructures
(2025)
Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic ...
Techniques of Social Influence
(2015)
Every day we are asked to fulfil others’ requests, and we make regular requests of others too, seeking compliance with our desires, commands and suggestions. This accessible text provides a uniquely in-depth overview of ...
Contemporary Co-housing in Europe
(2020)
This book investigates co-housing as an alternative housing form in relation to sustainable urban development. Co-housing is often lauded as a more sustainable way of living. The primary aim of this book is to critically ...
Museums for Peace
(2023)
Museums for Peace: In Search of History, Memory and Change highlights the inspiring as well as conflicting representations and purposes of diverse museums for peace around the world. Coming from various cultural and ...
Masculinities and Queer Perspectives in Transitional Justice
(2025)
This book addresses the theory and practice of transitional justice through the lens of masculinities and queer perspectives. What and where are the intersections between masculinities and queer theories and frameworks for ...
Chapter Introduction
(2025)
Figures of Chance II: Chance in Theory and Practice proposes a multidisciplinary analysis of cultural phenomena related to notions of chance and contingency Alongside its transhistorical companion volume (Figures of Chance ...
BioMEMS
(2011)
Written to cover often overlooked areas in the field of bioMEMS, this volume bridges topics related to biomolecules and complex biological entities with those directly related to the design, fabrication, and characterization ...
Rethinking European Social Democracy and Socialism
(2022)
"With a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially broadens our understanding of the transformation of European social democracy from the mid-1970s to the early-1990s.
In doing ...
Circular Economy Realities
(2025)
This book addresses the realities of the circular economy, a resource efficiency concept that has risen to global prominence in academic, policy and business circles over the last decade. Considered an approach to sustainable ...