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Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563
(2025)
Women and Power at the French Court, 1483—1563 explores the ways in which a range of women as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attendants at court, or as objects of courtly patronage wielded power ...
Climate Change Epistemologies in Southern Africa
(2023)
This book investigates the social and cultural dimensions of climate change in Southern Africa, focusing on how knowledge about climate change is conceived and conveyed.
Despite contributing very little to the global ...
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature
(2024)
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature is a provocative meditation on emotion, mood, history, and futurism in the critique of queer texts created for younger audiences. Given critical demands to distance ...
Comparative Federalism and Covid-19
(2022)
This comprehensive scholarly book on comparative federalism and the Covid-19 pandemic is written by some of the world’s leading federal scholars and national experts. The Covid-19 pandemic presented an unprecedented emergency ...
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(2016)
Guiding readers through the basics of these rapidly emerging networks to more advanced concepts and future expectations, this book examines the most pressing research issues in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). Leading ...
Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art
(2024)
This volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely, it clarifies empathy’s role in interpersonal understanding and appreciating works of literature and art. The ...
Irregular Migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands
(2025)
In Irregular Migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands, Masja van Meeteren studies the different ways in which irregular migrants live in Belgium and the Netherlands. The book offers an empirically grounded theoretical ...
Investigating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
(2020)
This book provides an original and comprehensive assessment of the hypotheses concerning the origin of resurrection Christology. It fills a gap in the literature by addressing these issues using a transdisciplinary approach ...
Chapter 2 Attention to What?
(2025)
This volume argues that contemporary narratives evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an ecology of attention based on poetic options that develop an ethics of the particularist type. The contributors draw on ...
Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing
(2007)
Despite recent dramatic advances in computer security regarding the proliferation of services and applications, security threats are still major impediments in the deployment of these services. Paying serious attention to ...
Adaptation of Western Economics by Russian Universities
(2005)
This book examines an intercultural translation of economics as an academic field from Western to post-Soviet university settings.
Virtue Ethics and Education from Late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
(2025)
This book argues that pre-modern societies were characterized by a common quest for human flourishing or excellence, i.e. virtue. The history of virtue is a particularly fruitful approach when studying pre-modern periods. ...
Architecture and Social Sustainability
(2002)
Architecture and Social Sustainability shows how we can better design for stakeholder agency, serve historically marginalized populations, and further our theoretical thinking about sustainability writ large.
With ...
Gauge Theories in Particle Physics: A Practical Introduction, Volume 1
(2012)
Volume 1 of this revised and updated edition provides an accessible and practical introduction to the first gauge theory included in the Standard Model of particle physics: quantum electrodynamics (QED).The book includes ...
The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs
(2023)
This book assesses whether belief in spirits is epistemically justified. It presents two arguments in support of the existence of spirits and arguments that experiences of various sorts (perceptions, mediumship, possession ...
The Biopolitics of Dementia
(2023)
This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia’s growing public profile and corresponding research economy. The book argues that a neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia positions dementia as a syndrome of ...
Seductions of Place
(2004)
The seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the activities of diverse, mobile people, in their desires to experience situated, sensuous ...
Hate Speech Law
(2015)
Hate speech law can be found throughout the world. But it is also the subject of numerous principled arguments, both for and against. These principles invoke a host of morally relevant features (e.g., liberty, health, ...
Chapter Introduction
(2025)
Drawing from empirically grounded studies, the volume Situated Mixedness sheds light on the state of migration-related “intimate diversity”, that is, the simultaneous formation and existence of various configurations of ...
Biodegradable Polymers, Blends and Biocomposites
(2025)
Biobased biodegradable polymers are emerging as an alternative to fossil fuel-based plastics. Biodegradable Polymers, Blends and Biocomposites: Trends and Applications discusses trends in the development of microbial/other ...
Synthetic Sorbent Materials Based on Metal Sulphides and Oxides
(2021)
This monograph focuses on development of inorganic nanomaterials for removal of metallic species from the aqueous environment. General synthetic methods to prepare such materials are lacking. This book investigates problems ...
Management Control Systems, Decision-Making, and Innovation Development
(2021)
Management Control Systems, Decision-Making, Innovation Development, CDI model, transactive memory system, decision effectiveness
Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory
(2016)
Transgender studies is a heterogeneous site of debate that is marked by tensions, border wars, and rifts both within the field and among feminist and queer theorists. Intersecting the domains of women’s studies, sexuality, ...
Chapter Insurgent war knowledge? Silences and embodied epistemic agency in insurgent women's postwar militancy in Colombia
(2025)
This edited volume critically investigates women’s knowledge about war and explores the epistemic agency of women in a range of contemporary settings across the globe. Women are deeply affected by war, participate in war ...
A Short Guide to Operational Risk
(2017)
There is a growing awareness across both public and private sectors, that the key to embedding an effective risk culture lies in raising the general education and understanding of risk at every level in the organization. ...
Bacterial NanoCellulose
(2012)
Bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) is an emerging nanomaterial with unique properties produced by several species of ubiquitous fermentation bacteria, most importantly Gluconacetobacter xylinus, previously known as Acetobacter ...
The Self, Civic Virtue, and Public Life
(2024)
This volume showcases new and interesting ways in which the possession of civic virtues can contribute to people’s abilities to engage in public life in meaningful ways. What is the role of civic virtues in public life? ...
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling
(2024)
Models and modeling have played an increasingly important role in philosophy, going back to the nineteenth century. While philosophical interest in models has been remarkably lively over the last two decades, there are ...
Topographies of African Spirituality
(2025)
This book explores African spirituality inside and outside of religion, investigating African traditions and perceptions in the study of spirituality across Africa and the African diaspora. It provides an interdisciplinary ...
Shakespeare’s Exiles
(2025)
Why are human societies hierarchical? How did centralized political authority originate? Anthropologists tell us that foraging societies are egalitarian compared to their agrarian and industrial successors. So what prompted ...
The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials
(2017)
Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. ...
Taboos and Controversial Issues in Foreign Language Education
(2023)
Taboos are not a new phenomenon. Yet, taboos change over time as social customs change, discard old taboos, and create new ones. What does not change, however, is how taboos regulate the way in which we live together in ...
The Cultural Construction of Safety and Security
(2025)
This volume analyses cultural perceptions of safety and security that have shaped modern European societies. The articles present a wide range of topics, from feelings of unsafety generated by early modern fake news to ...
Queer Festivals
(2025)
To what extent is queer anti-identitarian? And how is it experienced by activists at the European level? At queer festivals, activists, artists and participants come together to build new forms of sociability and practice ...
The European Repository Landscape 2008
(2025)
It is widely acknowledged that a common knowledge base for European research is necessary. Research repositories are an important innovation to the scientific information infrastructure. In 2006, digital repositories in ...
Transnational Visual Activism For Women’s Reproductive Rights
(2025)
Focusing on art practices that advocate, raise consciousness, and educate about the human right to reproductive health, this book analyses and compares forms of feminist artivism to interrogate bodily rights while closely ...
Southeast Asia and the Civil Society Gaze
(2014)
As developing countries with recent histories of isolation and extreme poverty, followed by restoration and reform, both Cambodia and Vietnam have seen new opportunities and demands for non-state actors to engage in and ...
Cities in South Asia
(2015)
Globalisation has long historical roots in South Asia, but economic liberalisation has led to uniquely rapid urban growth in South Asia during the past decade. This book brings together a multidisciplinary collection of ...
Moral Teleology
(2023)
This book develops a unified theory of moral progress. The author argues that there are mechanisms in place that consistently drive societies towards moral improvement and that a sophisticated, naturalistically respectable ...
Management Development Through Cultural Diversity
(2005)
This stimulating, clearly written and well-structured text is a comprehensive introduction to the principles of management and organisational behaviour, as well as a corrective to the eurocentric bias of most management ...