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Signal Transduction and Smooth Muscle
(2019)
All hollow organs, such as blood vessels, the gastrointestinal tract, airways, male and female reproductive systems, and the urinary bladder are primarily composed of smooth muscle. Such organs regulate flow, propulsion ...
Chapter 2 Group Psycho-Emotional Dynamics as Central to Effective Institutional Change
(2023)
Diversifying the academic faculty remains an elusive goal marked by slow and uneven progress. This book describes an effective model for institutional transformation which is uniquely grounded in group-level processes.
Efforts ...
Everyday Political Objects
(2021)
Ages, Christopher, Contemporary, Everyday, Fletcher, Middle, Objects, Political, World
Chapter 3 How body size became a disease
(2022)
Taller people tend to weigh more than shorter people. This chapter will interrogate how weight varies with height. The body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight (W) divided by height (H) squared) is one way to express ...
Chapter Introduction
(2021)
The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which ...
Chapter Introduction
(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 Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism
(2024)
The injustice of genocide denial is commonly understood as a violation of the dignity of victims, survivors, and their descendants, and further described as an assault on truth and memory. This book rethinks the normative ...
Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child
(2025)
This book is the first to comprehensively develop the concept of childism to understand, study, and analyze age-based discrimination against children.
It presents a critical theory to help comprehend intersecting prejudice ...
Chapter VI.1.4 The European Union and seabed mining
(2024)
For years, exploration of seabed natural resources has been ongoing while exploitation in deep marine areas remained unrealistic due to land-based mineral availability and costs. However, mounting pressures from the green ...
Network Based High Speed Product Development
(2017)
In the first decade of the 21st century product development in networks was predicted to be of ever-increasing importance to businesses of all sizes because of changes in markets, in technology, in networks, and in the ...
Chapter 13 Reflective Practice
(2023)
A key element in bringing long-term change in teacher practice is engaging teachers in reflection. While being a reflective practitioner is an important part of being an educator, using systematic reflection to help improve ...
Chapter 3 Geopolitics of the Energy Transition
(2023)
The global energy scenario is undergoing an unprecedented transition. In the wake of enormous challenges—such as increased population, higher energy demands, increasing greenhouse gas emissions, depleting fossil fuel ...
Chapter 4 Departures
(2021)
"The book investigates how the United Nations, governments and aid agencies mobilise and instrumentalise migration policies and programmes through a discourse of safe migration. Since the early 2000s, numerous non-governmental ...
Ibn Al-Jazzar On Sexual Diseases
(1997)
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany
(2024)
This book sheds new light on the fascinating – at times dark and at times hopeful – reception of classical Yoga philosophies in Germany during the nineteenth century. When debates over God, religion, and morality were at ...
Covid-19, Older Adults and the Ageing Society
(2022)
COVID-19 has brought unprecedented challenges in the care of older adults. During the first surge of the pandemic, governments all over the world struggled with high disease severity and increased mortality among older ...
Chapter 1 Teaching in the Shadow
(2019)
For preservice candidates and novice teachers facing the challenges of feeling underprepared to teach in urban schools, this book offers a framework for conceptualizing, planning, and engaging in powerful teaching. Veteran ...
Chapter 21 The right to mental health care in mental health legislation
(2024)
There are two increasingly distinct strands of thought regarding rights to mental health and mental health care in mental health legislation. According to one school of thought, reflected by some (but not all) United Nations ...
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts
(2021)
The idea of improvisation, broadly defined, has been integral to our imagination of the medieval musical past. It can be related to many elements of production: to the act of un-notated creation; to the manipulation and ...
Chapter 37 Concealed Strokes
(2024)
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and visual art from classical ekphrasis through to contemporary experimental forms. The collection’s engagement with diverse literary and ...
The Routledge Handbook of Media and Technology Domestication
(2023)
Domestication, Media Studies, Technology
Disability, Diversity and Inclusive Education in Haiti
(2023)
Context, Crises, Disability, Diversity, Education, Educational, Exclusion, Haiti, Inclusive, Lainy, Rochambeau, Learning, Relationships
Hegemony and World Order
(2021)
Hegemony and World Order explores a key question for our tumultuous times of multiple global crises. Does hegemony – that is, legitimated rule by dominant power – have a role in ordering world politics of the twenty-first ...
Exploring New Horizons and Challenges for Social Studies in a New Normal
(2022)
The new standards and changes exist in social science studies. Covid 19, especially in Indonesia, at the end of 2019, has an impact on changes in every sector of life. This change is a form of community adaptation. Therefore, ...
Globalization's Contradictions
(2006)
Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a comprehensive restructuring of everyone’s lives. People are being ‘disciplined’ by neoliberal economic agendas, ‘transformed’ by communication and ...
Chapter 5 Special Topic Rants
(2021)
Since 1980, when neoliberal and neoconservative forces began their hostile takeover of western culture, a new type of political satire has emerged that works to unmask and deter those toxic doctrines. Literary and cultural ...
The Insectile and the Deconstruction of the Non/Human
(2023)
The Insectile and the Deconstruction of the Non/Human defines, conceptualizes, and evaluates the insectile—pertaining to an entomological fascination—in relation to subject formation. The book is driven by a central dynamic ...
The Politics of Trauma and Integrity
(2022)
"The Politics of Trauma and Integrity uses the lenses of gender and trauma to tell the stories of narratives testified by two contrasting Japanese “comfort women” survivors.
Through an innovative interdisciplinary study ...
Chapter 4 How Memory Comes to Matter
(2017)
Memory matters. It matters because memory brings the past into the present, and opens it up to the future. But it also matters literally, because memory is mediated materially. Materiality is the stuff of memory. Meaningful ...
Religion and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Southern Africa
(2022)
This book investigates the role of religion in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern Africa. Building on a diverse range of methodologies and disciplinary approaches, the book reflects on how religion, politics ...
Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development
(1992)
The world has seen a shift in socio-economic relations, in the patterns and processes of industrialization and regional development. The social regulation of the economic order, flexible production organization and industrial ...
Chapter 4 Age-friendly environments in the stories of older people in the Finnish Arctic
(2023)
This book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our understandings of what older people say about their lives, needs and wishes in ...
Russia-EU relations and the common neighborhood
(2017)
Examining Russia–EU relations in terms of the forms and types of power tools they use, this book argues that the deteriorating relations between Russia and the EU lie in the deep differences in their preferences for the ...
Comics and Migration
(2023)
comics, migration, comics studies, representation, applied uses of comics
Human-Centred Autonomous Shipping
(2024)
Tracing the development of autonomous and automated shipping from a hype of unmanned ships to a more realistic use of automation to augment humans in maritime operations, this book shows why human factors and human-centred ...
Africa in International Politics
(2004)
Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa. The contributors ...
The Kinesin Superfamily Handbook
(2020)
This book brings together current information on the families that make up the kinesin superfamily of molecular motors in one comprehensive text. It is an ideal reference for researchers looking to make comparisons between ...
Chapter Capturing urban scaling laws via spatio-temporal correlated clusters 1
(2024)
Urban allometry empirically describes how “things”, for example crime, GDP, emissions, energy use, area, street length, housing prices, etc. change in cities when their size, in terms of population, increases. Urban scaling ...
Social Media for Progressive Public Relations
(2023)
This edited book presents a comprehensive, research-led coverage of the progressive ways public relations (PR) and social media is utilised today. It offers innovative research approaches to explore PR and social media ...
Routledge Handbook of High-Performance Workplaces
(2024)
This timely book focuses on an overview of the fundamentals behind high-performance workplaces underpinning occupants’ satisfaction, health, and productivity. To this end, it covers human, environmental, and organisational ...