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The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies
(2022)
This comprehensive companion is a much-needed reference source for the expanding field of radio, audio, and podcast study, taking readers through a diverse range of essays examining the core questions and key debates ...
Routledge Handbook of Sport and the Environment
(2018)
The natural environment is a central issue in both academic and wider societal discourse. The global sport industry is not immune from this discussion and has to confront its responsibility to reduce its impact on the ...
Chapter 3 Representation of children with disabilities and cognitive justice in Haiti
(2023)
It is a well-known fact that the Haitian education system is marked by school segregation as a corollary of social segregation (Joint, 2008; Tardieu 2017; Abraham, 2019). This system of educational apartheid maintains the ...
Chapter 4 Godofredo and Françoise Travel Around the World
(2024)
This chapter focuses on Françoise, a dummy figure of the upper part of the female human body used for calibrating radiation detectors in laboratories around the world. From spring 1962 to the end of 1965, Godofredo Gómez ...
Achieving Global Open Access
(2024)
Achieving Global Open Access explores some of the key conditions that are necessary to deliver global Open Access (OA) that is effective and equitable. Often assumed to be a self-evident good, OA has been subject to growing ...
Chapter 7 Integrating Lifespan Development Theories
(2022)
"Research on age(ing) and work often draws upon lifespan development perspectives to explain how adults “age successfully,” managing developmental gains and losses and maintaining well-being and functioning over time. There ...
Chapter 5 The Communicative Constitution of the World
(2022)
This chapter introduces Niklas Luhmann’s theory of organizations, which he conceived as communicatively constituted social systems that are created through decision-making. Decisions are thereby also understood as communicative ...
News Framing Effects
(2019)
"News Framing Effects is a guide to framing effects theory, one of the most prominent theories in media and communication science. Rooted in both psychology and sociology, framing effects theory describes the ability of ...
International Trade Policy
(1996)
This volume provides an introduction to the basic theory behind international trade policy. The author analyses current policy issues within a theoretical framework. The book adopts a thematic approach, with each chapter ...
Chapter 22 Simulation Modeling as a Policy Tool
(2023)
This chapter describes, justifies, presents the pros and cons of and illustrates the use of simulation
modeling as a handy, cost-effective and agile tool for policymakers. Simulation modeling
is flexible enough to ...
Chapter 2 Implications of text categorisation for corpusbased legal translation research
(2019)
This chapter highlights the relevance of text categorisation for research in legal
translation by focusing on institutional translation settings, namely: the European
Union (EU), the United Nations (UN) and the World ...
Chapter 3 Building local strategies for the adaptation to climate change of farming livelihoods
(2021)
There are growing technical efforts by government organizations, academics and non-government organizations to define policy frameworks to promote the adaptation of agriculture to climate change. Nevertheless, adaptation ...
Chapter Introduction The avant-garde and the art of transculturality
(2023)
An introduction to the overall book
Chapter 6 India’s Ocean
(2022)
Africa, Cape of Good Hope, maritime security, naval history, piracy, Suez Canal
Linkage Power Europe
(2023)
This book looks at the history of the EU’s trade negotiations with China from 1975 to 2019 from a distinctive perspective – the EU as a linkage power. The author explains how the EU through linkage strategies speaks with ...
Chapter 9 Mitochondria Structure and Position in the Local Control of Calcium Signals in Smooth Muscle Cells
(2019)
Features of Ca2+ signals including the amplitude, duration, frequency and location
are encoded by various physiological stimuli. These features of the signals
are decoded by cells to selectively activate smooth muscle ...
Chapter 28 Genomics in emerging and developing economies
(2018)
Low and middle-income countries have become a site of increasing research interest and investment with the transnational expansion and spread of genomic knowledge and technologies
(Kumar 2012, Seguin et al. 2008). This ...
Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health
(2023)
Can school teach us to master life? This book confronts what the author sees as an ongoing trend in many Western democracies where citizens are increasingly being held accountable for their health and happiness.
The ...
Chapter 4 Encoding truths? Diagnosis-Related Groups and the fragility of the marketisation discourse
(2018)
How does the market affect and redefine healthcare? The marketisation of Western healthcare systems has now proceeded well into its fourth decade. But the nature and meaning of the phenomenon has become increasingly opaque ...
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 ...
Chapter Introduction
(2023)
Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology explores the relationship between narra¬tive, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Situated at the intersection of narrative theory and context-oriented ...
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 ...
Generation and Applications of Extra-Terrestrial Environments on Earth
(2015)
This book has been prepared under the auspice of the European Low Gravity Research Association (ELGRA). The main task of ELGRA is to foster the scientific community in Europe and beyond in conducting gravity and space-related ...
Chapter Introduction
(2020)
From the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, jazz was harnessed as America’s "sonic weapon" to promote an image to the world of a free and democratic America. Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and other well-known ...
Industrial Relations in Schools
(1995)
The subject of industrial relations is intimately connected with the nature of schooling - in particular, the teacher trade unions have played and will continue to play a crucial role in shaping the school system - yet ...
Chapter 23 Gods and Temples
(2023)
The Angkorian World explores the history of Southeast Asia’s largest ancient state from the first to mid-second millennium CE. Chapters by leading scholars combine evidence from archaeology, texts, and the natural sciences ...
Auguste Comte
(2006)
Auguste Comte is widely acknowledged as the founder of the science of sociology and the 'Religion of Humanity'. In this fascinating study, the first major reassessment of Comte’s sociology for many years, Mike Gane draws ...
Auguste Comte
(2006)
Auguste Comte is widely acknowledged as the founder of the science of sociology and the 'Religion of Humanity'. In this fascinating study, the first major reassessment of Comte’s sociology for many years, Mike Gane draws ...
International Aid and Sustainable Development in North Korea
(2024)
This book examines international aid in North Korea, in particular the ongoing policy of withholding aid, through the lens of the impact on the general population to present an argument for sustainable development.
...
International Aid and Sustainable Development in North Korea
(2024)
This book examines international aid in North Korea, in particular the ongoing policy of withholding aid, through the lens of the impact on the general population to present an argument for sustainable development.
...
China's Avant-Garde, 1978–2018
(2023)
This book examines how China’s new generation of avant-garde writers and artists are pushing the boundaries of vernacular culture, creatively appropriating artistic and literary languages from global cultures to reflect ...
Chapter 1 The practical accomplishment of living with visual impairment
(2023)
This book is about the everyday life of people with visual impairment or blindness. Using video ethnographic methods and ethnomethodological conversation analysis, it unpacks the practical accomplishments of everyday ...
Chapter 12 From a Story of Disaster to a Story of Victory
(2024)
This volume investigates mediated lives and media narratives during the Covid-19 pandemic, with Asia as a focus point. It shows how the pandemic has created an unprecedented situation in this globalized world marked by ...
Young People as Agents of Sustainable Society
(2023)
This book analyses young people’s societal participation as a central dimension of their well-being and as vitally important to secure the sustainable future of humankind and the whole eco-social system.
It develops a ...
From Waste to Value
(2019)
From Waste to Value investigates how streams of organic waste and residues can be transformed into valuable products, to foster a transition towards a sustainable and circular bioeconomy. The studies are carried out within ...
From Waste to Value
(2019)
From Waste to Value investigates how streams of organic waste and residues can be transformed into valuable products, to foster a transition towards a sustainable and circular bioeconomy. The studies are carried out within ...
Chapter 1 Swiss and (Anglo)-Dutch multinationals and organizational change in the era of Total War
(2019)
This chapter aims to explore organisational change as a result of political and security risks faced by four major European multinationals, Roche (pharmaceuticals), Nestlé (food), Unilever (non-mineral oil, fats, food and ...
Chapter Introduction
(2022)
Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia offers a unique insight into the non-human and spiritual dimensions of environmental management in a changing world.
This volume presents a comparative, place-based exploration of ...
Chapter Introduction
(2022)
Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia offers a unique insight into the non-human and spiritual dimensions of environmental management in a changing world.
This volume presents a comparative, place-based exploration of ...
African Initiated Christianity and the Decolonisation of Development
(2020)
This book investigates the substantial and growing contribution which African Independent and Pentecostal Churches are making to sustainable development in all its manifold forms.