Publications
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Chapter Conclusion
(2023)
Soviet republics; Soviet times; borders; borderlands
It All Depends on the Dose
(2018)
This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural ...
Paul and Diversity
(2024)
This book investigates attitudes toward diversity as expressed in Paul’s letter to the Galatians and proposes a renewed understanding of the term σάρξ as used in this letter. Σάρξ (sarx) is usually translated as "flesh" ...
Routledge Handbook of U.S. Counterterrorism and Irregular Warfare Operations
(2022)
This handbook comprises essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the topic of U.S. counterterrorism and irregular warfare campaigns and operations around the globe. Terrorist groups have evolved substantially since ...
Self-Directed Learner - the Three Pillar Model of Self-Directedness
(2005)
Self-directed learning is perhaps the Holy Grail of adult learning and for good reason. Within this seemingly simple phrase lies the battleground for the frustrations of both educator and learner as they work through the ...
Early Childhood Language Education and Literacy Practices in Ethiopia
(2024)
This edited volume explores how indigenous knowledges and practices can be instrumental in improving literacy outcomes and teacher development practices in Ethiopia, aiding children’s long-term reading, and learning outcomes. ...
Chapter Introduction
(2023)
This chapter outlines the historical and historiographical inaccuracy of privileging definitions of martyrdom that center on death, and situates this argument within the current scholarly conversation. It establishes both ...
Photography, Truth and Reconciliation
(2020)
Photography, Truth and Reconciliation charts the connections between photography and a crucial issue in contemporary social history. The book examines the prevalence of photography in cultural responses to processes of ...
Introducing Korean Popular Culture
(2023)
Given the phenomenal popularity of mukbang (a live-streamed eating show) among young people, first in Korea and now globally, it is no longer a secret that they like to watch other people eating and cooking in the digital ...
Early Childhood Teachers‘ Professional Competence in Mathematics
(2021)
This edited volume presents cutting-edge research on the professional competence of early childhood mathematics teachers. It considers professional knowledge, motivational-affective dispositions, skills and performance in ...
Chapter 1 (Why) do Eurosceptics believe in a common European heritage?
(2020)
This chapter reflects on the paradox of Eurosceptic populists critical of the
European Union mobilizing ideas of European values, heritage, and civilization.
We examine the role of the past and especially of a certain ...
China's Architecture in a Globalizing World: Between Socialism and the Market
(2018)
China is currently in the midst of an unprecedented building boom and, indeed, interest in Chinese contemporary architecture has been fuelled by this huge expansion. Through a cutting-edge theoretical discussion of Chinese ...
British Democracy at the Crossroads
(1985)
Those who keep a finger on the pulse of British democracy often announce that the patient is in a critical state. In the 1970s, the diagnosis most often came from the right, with dire warnings of the debilitating effects ...
Strongly Sustainable Societies
(2019)
The response of the international community to the pressing socio-ecological problems has been framed around the concept of ‘sustainable development’. The ecological pressure, however, has continued to rise and mainstream ...
Accounting for Social and Environmental Sustainability
(2025)
For a company, managing its social and environmental performance is no longer just a matter of reducing its impact; it must also be able to assess its contribution to resolving or aggravating social and environmental ...
African Perspectives on Religion and Climate Change
(2022)
This book interrogates the contributions that religious traditions have made to climate change discussions within Africa, whether positive or negative. Drawing on a range of African contexts and religious traditions, the ...
Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840
(2018)
The first applied research volume in Scottish Romanticism, this collection foregrounds the concept of progress as 'improvement' as a constitutive theme of Scottish writing during the long eighteenth century. It explores ...
Chapter 10 Between appropriation and appropriateness
(2020)
This chapter takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject of memorialization
and commemoration, protest and populism in relation to the performative
enacting and official presentation of difficult history. It ...
Chapter 1 Salt, grain and the change of deities in early Ming western Yunnan
(2019)
This book examines how the Ming state transformed the multi-ethnic society of Yunnan into a province. Yunnan had remained outside the ambit of central government when ruled by the Dali kingdom, 937-1253, and its foundation ...
Transitions in Energy Efficiency and Demand
(2019)
Meeting the goals enshrined in the Paris Agreement and limiting global temperature increases to less than two degrees above pre-industrial levels demands rapid reductions in global carbon dioxide emissions. Reducing energy ...
Chapter 15 Patterns and Drivers of Plant Biodiversity in Urban and Urbanizing Landscapes
(2024)
This handbook provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the expanding field of urban biodiversity. The field of urban biodiversity has emerged from within the broad discipline of urban ecology in the past two ...
Chapter 3 Nothing as practical as an analytical strategy in realist evaluation
(2025)
Realist Evaluation: Principles and Practice offers a comprehensive exploration of contemporary realist evaluation, showcasing how skilled practitioners navigate diverse fieldwork contexts. Authored by experts spanning ...
Dynamic Resource Allocation in Embedded, High-Performance and Cloud Computing
(2016)
The availability of many-core computing platforms enables a wide variety of technical solutions for systems across the embedded, high-performance and cloud computing domains. However, large scale manycore systems are ...
Neuroscience and Critique
(2016)
Recent years have seen a rapid growth in neuroscientific research, and an expansion beyond basic research to incorporate elements of the arts, humanities and social sciences. It has been suggested that the neurosciences ...
Chapter 1 Demographic Transitions in Europe and the World
(2015)
Current demographic trends raise new questions, challenges and controversies. Comparing demographic trends in Europe and the NAME-region (North Africa and the Middle East), this book demonstrates how population change ...
Renewable Economies in the Arctic
(2022)
"This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on renewable economies in the Arctic and how these are being supported scientifically, economically, socially, and politically by Arctic states.
The economic development ...
Chapter 2 Animal sacrifice on trial
(2024)
Animal sacrifices are commonly practised in Himachal Pradesh on various occasions, including public festivals at the district level. Over recent years criticism of the practice has increased and some cases have been brought ...
Chapter 5 Alchemy, potency, imagination
(2018)
A case in point is Paracelsus’s view of poisons, which have a richness that
has not been captured in previous scholarship. Most scholars only touched
on the subject of poison and did not fully reflect on the complexity ...
Chapter 3 Digital Approaches to Analyzing and Translating Emotion
(2023)
This chapter discusses the use of digital tools—in particular, language technology—to study the history of emotions. There are a growing number of annotated text corpora for ancient languages large enough to benefit from ...
Artificial Intelligence and Systems of the Earth
(2025)
Artificial Intelligence and Systems of the Earth is a book about the potential and capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for studying the Earth. It aims to serve as an eye-opener on new ...
Designing Quality Authentic Assessments
(2018)
This book examines the principles and practice of authentic assessment. It seeks to answer the following questions. What is authentic assessment? How is authentic assessment different from 'performance assessment' or ...
Halal Development: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges
(2021)
The increasing demand for halal products, including goods and services, every year, especially for food and beverages, has resulted in a growing need for products with halal guarantees. Along with the increasing trend of ...
Sovereignty, Civic Participation and Constitutional Law
(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 ...
Memories of Utopia
(2020)
These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, ...
Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and Germany Aesthetics
(2020)
"This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and ...
Chapter B8 Disputing ‘Ordinary Language’
(2016)
Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this subject, Language and Law:describes the different registers and ...
Charged Particle Optics Theory
(2014)
Charged Particle Optics Theory: An Introduction identifies the most important concepts of charged particle optics theory, and derives each mathematically from the first principles of physics. Assuming an advanced ...
Making Moral Judgments
(2020)
This fascinating new book examines diversity in moral judgements, drawing on recent work in social, personality, and evolutionary psychology, reviewing the factors that influence the moral judgments people make.
Why do ...
Geographical Indication and Global Agri-Food
(2020)
This book addresses the relevance of geographical indication (GI) as a tool for local and socio-economic development and democratization of agri-food, with case studies from Asia, Europe and the Americas. A geographical ...