Publications
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Chapter 3 Emerging consumerism and eating out in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
(2016)
Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas. This book brings together scholars from anthropology, sociology, ...
Chapter 8 Black Lives Matter: A Context for Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice
(2018)
Advocating for the use of culturally specific pedagogy to enhance the mathematics instruction of diverse students, this revised second edition offers a wide variety of conceptual and curricular resources for teaching ...
Chapter 18 Specificity and Definiteness
(2021)
While definiteness encodes the information that the sender assumes that the addressee has, specificity encodes the knowledge that the sender has and the anchoring to an item. The chapter focuses on lexical determiners and ...
Chapter 11 Vitamin C and the Brain
(2020)
The brain requires vitamin C to metabolize fuel substrates and synthesize neurotransmitters, regulate their release, and modify their actions. Vitamin C also protects the brain from oxidative damage. Clinical studies do ...
Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground
(2024)
GEOTECHNICAL ASPECTS OF UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION IN SOFT GROUND comprises a collection of 68 contributions, including 55 technical papers, 6 General Reports, 5 Keynotes, 1 Fujita Lecture, and 1 Bright Spark Lecture presented ...
Industrial Clusters in International Value Chains
(2025)
Clusters are considered crucial nodes in the ongoing transformation of international value chains (IVCs). Due to technological advancements and external shocks, such as pandemic and political conflicts, value chains (VCs) ...
Humanitarian Journalists
(2023)
This book documents the unique reporting practices of humanitarian journalists – an influential group of journalists defying conventional approaches to covering humanitarian crises.
Based on a 5-year study, involving ...
Chapter 6 By Any Other Name: White-Supremacist Terrorism in the Trump Era
(2018)
This book examines the disruptive nature of Trump news – both the news his administration makes and the coverage of it – related to dominant paradigms and ideologies of U.S. journalism. By relying on conceptualizations of ...
Chapter 1 Theories of local power and multi-level conflict
(2017)
This book is about why and how central and local governments clash over important national policy decisions. Its empirical focus is on the local politics of Japan which has significantly shaped, and been shaped by, larger ...
Proteostasis and Proteolysis
(2022)
Proteins are the key decision-making workforce for practically all cellular signals. The precise equilibrium between protein translation, folding, function and timely degradation, also known as "proteostasis", determine ...
An Introduction to Digital Signal Processing
(2009)
An Introduction to Digital Signal Processing aims at undergraduate students who have basic knowledge in C programming, Circuit Theory, Systems and Simulations, and Spectral Analysis. The book is focused on basic concepts ...
Mainstreaming Gender in Global Climate Governance
(2023)
This book explores the role of feminist activists in The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and highlights the progress they have made in mainstreaming gender as a key issue in global climate governance. ...
Chapter 2 A Forgotten Fleet
(2022)
Africa, Cape of Good Hope, maritime security, naval history, piracy, Suez Canal
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION The food commons are coming …
(2018)
This book aims to open
that discussion in the belief that we can obtain for food at least some of the (though partial)
successes that we have been able to obtain with water.
Chapter 3 Unspeakable Violence
(2006)
This book examines the recent phenomenon in Latin America of national Truth and Reconciliation commissions. Few studies have examined the role of Churches or religion in political processes that proclaim valued theological ...
Chapter 42 Race, Privilege, and Relatability
(2022)
In this essay, Juliette Wells explores the expectations students bring to Austen’s novels and that help to shape their interpretations as well as her own evolving perspective, informed by nearly two decades of teaching; ...
Chapter 7 Left-handedness attempts at dyslateralization, duress, and performance in reading and writing
(2023)
This chapter deals with the sensorimotor predominance in connection with hindrances to the learning of reading and writing in a group of 120 left-handed pupils, aged 9 to 20, educated in ten schools located in the western ...
Chapter A: Non-Predicative Adjectives
(2017)
This monograph is a translation of two seminal works on corpus-based studies of Mandarin Chinese words and parts of speech. The original books were published as two pioneering technical reports by Chinese Knowledge and ...
Unintended Consequences of EU External Action
(2019)
This book offers a conceptualisation of unintended consequences and addresses a set of common research questions, highlighting the nature (what), the causes (why), and the modes of management (how) of unintended consequences ...
Chapter 3 From Big to Democratic Data
(2022)
Datasets have come to play a significant role in the technical and political realities of our overdeveloped world. This chapter indicates how invisible data processes pose a threat to the health and safety of the global ...