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Chapter 19 Quantification
(2021)
The study of quantificational expressions is one of the central domains in the field of natural language semantics. Probably every language has means of expressing quantification, but quantifiers in natural languages are ...
Pesticides, Organic Contaminants, and Pathogens in Air
(2022)
"The air is an important but largely unrecognized source of contaminant fate in the environment, including transport of pesticides and contaminants to nontarget areas and exposures for people and wildlife. This book ...
Chapter 40 The origins and practice of science on British television
(2018)
The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides a comprehensive exploration of how different media have evolved within social, regional and national contexts. The 50 chapters in this volume, written by an outstanding ...
Chapter 47 The uses of citizenship in the post-Roman West
(2023)
It has been a recurrent shortcoming in the historiography of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages to dismiss the importance of citizenship after Caracalla’s edict, but especially after the fall of Rome. This tendency ...
Chapter 13 Tax compliance assurance
(2024)
The concept of tax compliance is as old as the tax itself, but staying compliant with tax regulations has become increasingly demanding. A changing tax regulatory environment, resulting from regulatory actions of the OECD, ...
Digital Innovations for a Circular Plastic Economy in Africa
(2023)
Plastic pollution is one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century that requires innovative and varied solutions. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, this book brings together interdisciplinary, multi-sectoral and ...
Frontier Thinking and Human-Nature Relations
(2024)
Combining historical, social and regulative analysis, this book builds a compelling critique of ‘frontier thinking’ as it continues to form our assumptions about social and environmental organisation – in ways that impact ...
The Endangered Species Act
(2012)
The complex regulations of the Endangered Species Act established by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can be challenging for environmental professionals who must comply with them or assist clients in compliance. This is ...
Chapter 11 Care in the Cage
(2016)
This chapter adopts a historical perspective to explore how material infrastructures have structured human–animal relationships within the biomedical “animal house,” c.1945 to the present. It argues material infrastructures ...
Learners in Transition
(2019)
As the number of Chinese students learning English increases worldwide, the need for teachers to understand the characteristics and challenges facing this group of learners grows. This is particularly true for those students ...
Chapter 8 Hyaluronan-Based Hydrogels as Functional Vectors for Standardised Therapeutics in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
(2022)
Hyaluronan-based hydrogels are optimal candidates when developing novel combined advanced therapy medicinal products (cATMP), tissue engineering products (TEP), and medical devices. The key physico-chemical properties of ...
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage
(2022)
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonization of European colonial heritage at European and extra-European locations. Assessing the impact of these practices, the book also explores ...
Designing Smart and Resilient Cities for a Post-Pandemic World
(2023)
Are pandemics the end of cities? Or, do they present an opportunity for us to reshape cities in ways making us even more innovative, successful and sustainable? Pandemics such as COVID-19 (and comparable disruptions) have ...
Chapter Introduction
(2025)
This book provides an overview of the diverse multidisciplinary field of more-than-human design, offering a philosophical grounding of more-than-human design in posthumanism while putting practical design examples and ...
Sex and the Second-Best City
(2005)
Sex and the Second-Best City deals with the topics of sex and society in the Laws of Plato with recourse to historical context and modern critical theory. It examines reconstructions of ancient "sexuality" with a view to ...
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
(2022)
This book charts the new phase of global struggles around gender equality and sexual democracy: the ultraconservative mobilization against "gender ideology" and feminist efforts to counteract it. It argues that anti-gender ...
Changing Paradigms and Approaches in Interpreter Training
(2021)
Interpreting studies; community interpreting; community interpreter education; interpreting in Slovenia; Slovenia
Loneliness and Social Isolation in Old Age
(2023)
This book is a seminal guide to loneliness and social isolation in old age, providing a comprehensive overview of the important correlates of socioeconomic, health and lifestyle factors upon loneliness and social isolation ...
Broken Bodies, Places and Objects
(2024)
Broken Bodies, Places and Objects demonstrates the breadth of fragmentation and fragment use in prehistory and history and provides an up-to-date insight into current archaeological thinking around the topic. A seal broken ...
Nanoparticle Engineering for Chemical-Mechanical Planarization
(2009)
Increasing reliance on electronic devices demands products with high performance and efficiency. Such devices can be realized through the advent of nanoparticle technology. This book explains the physicochemical properties ...
The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
(2024)
Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important ...
An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption
(2023)
An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical ...
Chapter 4 Norms and Norm Contestation
(2023)
There are growing connections between the IR constructivist focus on norms and norm contestation and Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). FPA has long had a focus on agency within the state, particularly individual and group-based ...
Chapter 40 The origins and practice of science on British television
(2018)
The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides a comprehensive exploration of how different media have evolved within social, regional and national contexts. The 50 chapters in this volume, written by an outstanding ...
A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books
(2022)
A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in
Children’s Picture Books is a collection of research papers in the fields
of multimodality and picture books. 1 The chapters broaden the previous
analyses of ...
A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books
(2022)
A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in
Children’s Picture Books is a collection of research papers in the fields
of multimodality and picture books. 1 The chapters broaden the previous
analyses of ...
Strengthening Professional and Spiritual Education through 21st Century Skill Empowerment in a Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Era
(2024)
Discover a treasure trove of knowledge in the proceedings of the First International Confer-ence on Education (ICEdu). This meticulously curated collection of research papers delves into the transformative landscape of ...
The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design
(2022)
The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design explores the multifaceted nature of infrastructure through the global lens of architectural history. Infrastructure holds the world together. Yet even as it connects some ...
Gauge Fields and Strings
(1987)
Based on his own work, the author synthesizes the most promising approaches and ideals in field theory today. He presents such subjects as statistical mechanics, quantum field theory and their interrelation, continuous ...
Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies
(2015)
Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance today has become a highly influential topic in its own right, commanding growing attention across the natural and social sciences where a wide range of scholars have begun ...
Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa
(2017)
This book provides a synthesis of the key issues and challenges facing agriculture and food production in Southern Africa. Southern Africa is facing numerous challenges from diverse issues such as agricultural transformations, ...
Christian Orthodox Migrants in Western Europe
(2023)
Christian Orthodox Migrants in Western Europe: Secularization and Modernity through the Lens of the Gift Paradigm explores a religious community that has been getting increasing scholarly attention. While most of the ...
Thermal Evaluation of Indoor Climate and Energy Storage in Buildings
(2025)
There is a need to reduce energy consumption for space cooling and heating via energy efficient solutions/technologies for implementation in the buildings. Thermal energy storage regulates indoor temperature, shifting the ...
The Politics of Evidence
(2017)
There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how this ...
Getting Schools to Work Better
(2024)
Yifei Yan’s ambitious multi-method case study of government middle schools in Beijing and Delhi provides fresh insights into how educational accountability can be designed to work, in part and as a whole.
Getting schools ...
Chapter Gesture shape and gesture–speech alignment predict simultaneous L2 sound production accuracy
(2024)
This collection highlights diverse epistemological perspectives in original research on the important role of multimodality in second language contexts. The volume explores a wide range of theoretical and methodological ...
The Muses of Truth and Transformation
(2025)
Drawing on the author’s own experiences as a psychiatrist-psychotherapist, this fascinating new book gathers and analyzes folktales from around the world about adults struggling with conflicts and trying to determine truth. ...
Renewable Energy Systems for Building Designers
(2024)
Building; Design; Designers; Dorothy; Energy; for; Fundamentals; Gerring; High; Net; of; Performance; Renewable; Systems; Zero
Sex and the Second-Best City
(2005)
Sex and the Second-Best City deals with the topics of sex and society in the Laws of Plato with recourse to historical context and modern critical theory. It examines reconstructions of ancient "sexuality" with a view to ...
Transformations in Social Science Research Methods during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2024)
This volume explores how researchers made innovative use of online technologies to innovate, define, and transform research methodologies in light of the varying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those related ...