Publications
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Geotechnical Engineering Challenges to Meet Current and Emerging Needs of Society
(2024)
‘Geotechnical Engineering Challenges to Meet Current and Emerging Needs of Society’ includes the papers presented at the XVIII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Lisbon, Portugal, August ...
Circular Economy and Sustainable Management
(2025)
This book summarizes both conventional and emerging waste management approaches for fly ash, particularly with a focus on sustainability dimension – including its applicability, scope, methods, and challenges of bio-coal ...
Governance and City Regions
(2022)
City-regions are areas where the daily journeys for work, shopping and leisure frequently cross administrative boundaries. They are seen as engines of the national economy, but are also facing congestion and disparities. ...
Chapter Concluding thoughts
(2025)
Questioning the construction of the ‘native speaker’ as an authority and ideal in language education, this book offers a critical and accessible engagement with research problematising notions of ‘nativeness’ while emphasising ...
The Pandemic in Central Europe
(2023)
This book studies the different models adopted by contemporary states in Central Europe in fighting the SARS-CoV-2 virus. With thorough analysis of different results and impacts of governmental policies, the authors examine ...
Chapter 1 Journalism in between
(2026)
Focusing on an oft-neglected geographical region of study, this book critically analyses the state of journalism in the European South and considers challenges that may indicate a profession under duress. Focusing on three ...
Chapter 2 Indigenous Peoples' Heritage as a Multisensory Experience: A Peruvian Case Study
(2025)
Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective bridges the gap between cultural heritage and mobility studies through the employment of theoretical and methodological multisensory perspectives. An ...
Food System Transformations
(2021)
This book examines the role of local food movements, enterprises and networks in the transformation of the currently unsustainable global food system. It explores a series of innovations designed to re-integrate sustainable ...
The Identity Factor in Chinese Relations with Europe
(2025)
This book offers a sustained, historically grounded analysis of the identity factor in China-Europe relations. The identity of the modern Chinese state was forged in the context of European emissaries, gunboats, and books. ...
Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism
(2025)
For a long time, Europe’s colonizing powers justified their urge for expansion with the conviction that they were ‘bringing civilization to territories where civilization was lacking.’ This doctrine of white superiority ...
Personal Data-Smart Cities: How cities can Utilise their Citizen’s Personal Data to Help them Become Climate Neutral
(2023)
This book sets out to address some of the issues that a smart city needs to overcome to make use of both the data currently available to them and how this can be enhanced by using emerging technology enabling a citizen to ...
Visser 't Hooft, 1900-1985
(2025)
God’s diplomat, the pope of the ecumenical movement, but also an acerbic theologian and a difficult person: this is how journalists characterised Willem Adolf Visser ’t Hooft (1900-1985). He was one of the best-known Dutch ...
Real-Time Systems Development with RTEMS and Multicore Processors
(2020)
The proliferation of multicore processors in the embedded market for Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) makes developing real-time embedded applications increasingly difficult. What is the underlying ...
Behavioural Types
(2017)
Behavioural type systems in programming languages support the specification and verification of properties of programs beyond the traditional use of type systems to describe data processing. A major example of such a ...
Chapter 15 Human Resource Management in Japan and South Korea
(2018)
This chapter examines HRM in Japan and Korea. The two neighboring nations situated in Northeast Asia have a mixed feeling towards each other for historical reasons, despite traditionally sharing much in their HRM systems. ...
Stalin’s Constitution
(2017)
Upon its adoption in December 1936, Soviet leaders hailed the new so-called Stalin Constitution as the most democratic in the world. Scholars have long scoffed at this claim, noting that the mass repression of 1937–1938 ...
Sexualised Masculinity
(2025)
Sexualised Masculinity: Men’s Bodies in 21st Century Media Culture explores evolving portrayals of masculinity in contemporary media, focusing on the increasing eroticisation of the male body. This book examines how ...
Civil Society in China
(2022)
Chinese civil society groups have achieved iconic policy advocacy successes in the areas of environmental protection, women’s rights, poverty alleviation, and public health. This book examines why some groups are successful ...
Religion and Poverty
(2024)
This book offers a timely and compelling look at religion and poverty, focusing primarily on the two largest world religions, Christianity and Islam, and considering religion and poverty in the United States and international ...
Regulating Competition
(2018)
Cartels, trusts and agreements to reduce competition between firms have existed for centuries, but became particularly prevalent toward the end of the 19th century. In the mid-20th century governments began to use so called ...
Chapter 6 Competition in Education from the Perspective of Liberalism and Liberal Education
(2024)
Centred around a philosophical argument for contemporary education as a fundamental good, this edited volume demonstrates the benefits that education brings in a civil and flourishing societal context while also critiquing ...
The Foreign Policy of Irregular Migration Governance
(2025)
Irregular migration is one of the most momentous phenomena of the 21st century. While it is a life‑changing process for migrants themselves, it also entails a number of significant challenges for destination countries and ...
Religious Architecture
(2025)
Borrowing from a range of theories on spacemaking and material religion, and with contributions from anthropologists working in the United Kingdom, Mali, Brazil, Spain, and Italy, this fascinating and comprehensive study ...
Sewing Machines and Processes
(2025)
Sewing Machines and Processes presents modern engineering fundamentals of sewing processes and machines for the complete spectrum of sewing stitches. The book covers the construction, working principles, and the mechanics ...
Educational Reception in Rotterdam and Barcelona
(2025)
The reception of newcomer youngsters by schools constitutes a policy issue in Europe already for decades. This book deals with how practitioners in Rotterdam and Barcelona apply existing policies for the reception of ...
On the Significance of Religion for Global Diplomacy
(2021)
"What could it mean, in terms of strengthening multilateral diplomacy, if the UN, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the European Union, and other regional diplomatic frameworks engaged more ...
21st Century Cooperation
(2017)
This edited volume explains the importance of regional public goods (RPGs) for sustainable development and shows why they are particularly important in the context of 21st-century international relations. By presenting a ...
Reimagining the Silk Roads
(2024)
This book brings together scholars from many disciplines to shed light on the long history of the silk roads, to redefine it, and to demonstrate its vitality and importance. Reimagining the Silk Roads illuminates economic, ...
Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization
(2018)
Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize, interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism. The imperial denial of common humanity to ...
Luther
(2006)
Luther provides a clear exposition of the state of German politics on the eve of the Reformation. Dr Mullett concentrates particularly on the evolution of Luther's thought and its central preoccupation with re-aligning the ...
In Silico Bees
(2014)
Bees are critically important for ecosystem function and biodiversity maintenance through their pollinating activity. This book provides a collection of computational methods to those primarily interested in the study of ...
Chapter 15 Sovereignty without sovereignty
(2021)
"This book brings recent insights about sovereignty and citizen participation in the Belgian Constitution to scholars in the fields of public law, history, and political theory.
Throughout the Western world, there are ...
Sustainable Energy for All
(2017)
Despite decades of effort and billions of dollars spent, two thirds of people in sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to electricity, a vital pre-cursor to economic development and poverty reduction. Ambitious international ...
Dance, Ageing and Collaborative Arts-Based Research
(2023)
Dance, Ageing and Collaborative Arts-Based Research contributes a critical and comprehensive perspective on the role of the arts –specifically dance – in enhancing the lives of older people.
The book focuses on the ...
Technology Transfer to Latin American Countries
(2025)
Hannig Núñez analyzes the processes behind technology transfers at a state-decision-making level in Latin America. She challenges the conventional notion that the United States and China hold a dominant technological ...
Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945–85
(2016)
In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war ...
Indian Traces in Korean Culture
(2025)
Indian traces in Korean Culture examines the enduring cross-cultural discourse between India and Korea over the centuries, emphasizing the transformative power of cultural exchange beyond geographical and temporal ...
Broken Bodies, Places and Objects
(2023)
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 ...
Sexually and Gender Diverse Adolescents
(2025)
Drawing on psychology, sociology, pedagogy, and prevention sciences, this book offers a comprehensive perspective on the contemporary and complex experiences of sexually and gender diverse (SGD) adolescents worldwide.
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Family Reunification in Europe
(2025)
This book provides a multi-disciplinary investigation of family reunification laws, policies and practices across the European Union.
Family reunification – the possibility for family members to (re)unite in a country ...