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Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics
(2020)
"This book situates the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the social, economic,
and political challenges facing contemporary Japan.
Using the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a lens into the city and the country
as a whole, the stellar ...
Reinsurance and the Law of Aggregation
(2021)
In excess of loss reinsurance, the reinsurer covers the amount of a loss exceeding the policy’s deductible but not piercing its cover limit. Accordingly, a policy’s quantitative scope of cover is significantly affected by ...
Mobility in Transition
(2025)
This volume presents new research on post-accession migration from Central and Eastern Europe in the short period since the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007. Explanations of post-accession migration patterns, trends and ...
Chapter 28 Men and masculinities in animal advocacy organizations and organizing
(2024)
This Handbook provides new theoretical and empirical insights into men, men’s practices and masculinities across many kinds of organizations and forms of organizing. Most mainstream studies of organizations, leadership and ...
Nordic Peace in Question
(2025)
This book explores historically and theoretically Nordic peace as a marker of identification, ontological (in)security and regional branding. It emphasizes how conceptions of Nordic peace have been translated into policy ...
Justice, Education, and the World of Today
(2023)
This edited book challenges the limits of current educational philosophical discourse and argues for a restored normativisation of education through a powerful notion of justice. Moving beyond conventional paradigms of how ...
Consumer Culture Theory in Asia
(2022)
Collaborations between entertainment industries and artificial intelligence researchers in Japan have since the mid-1990s produced a growing interest in modeling affect and emotion for use in mass-produced social robots. ...
The Museum Accessibility Spectrum
(2025)
The Museum Accessibility Spectrum engages with discussions around access to museums and argues that what is impairing the progress of museums towards inclusion is the current ableist model of access.
Drawing on ...
Migration and Race
(2025)
Increasing and changing migration trends between Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Western European locations, as well as those from outside of Europe to CEE, pose new challenges for the regional study of race and ...
The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age
(2017)
In this accessible book, Delia Chiaro provides a fresh overview of the language of jokes in a globalized and digitalized world. The book shows how, while on the one hand the lingua-cultural nuts and bolts of jokes have ...
Mining in Latin America
(2016)
The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America. This shift has brought mining more visibly ...
Crime and Fear in Public Places
(2020)
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429352775 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. No city environment ...
Animal Housing and Human-Animal Relations
(2016)
This book provides an in-depth investigation into the practices of animal housing systems with international contributions from across the humanities and social sciences. By attending to a range of different sites such as ...
Time and Causality in Early Modern Drama
(2024)
The opening of the first commercial theatre in London in 1579 initiated a pattern of development that radically reshaped representation. The competition among theatres required the constant production of new works, creating ...
Family Business and Regional Development
(2021)
This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic ...
US Nation-Building in Afghanistan
(2016)
Why has the US so dramatically failed in Afghanistan since 2001? Dominant explanations have ignored the bureaucratic divisions and personality conflicts inside the US state. This book rectifies this weakness in commentary ...
A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism
(2005)
A multi-purpose reference work which should become an indispensable companion for anybody who comes into touch with Hinduism. Includes a dictionary of Sanskrit and vernacular terms; a glossary of terms and concepts; and a ...
Exclusion in Smart Cities
(2025)
Smart Cities are fascinating, but they also have a dark side that little is said or written about. One issue is the possibility of generating various types of exclusion. For this reason, this book will develop principles ...
Fragility, Aid, and State-building
(2017)
Fragile states pose major development and security challenges. Considerable international resources are therefore devoted to state-building and institutional strengthening in fragile states, with generally mixed results. ...
Chapter 13 Conditions and features of party deliberation
(2025)
This book presents a systematic account of the relationship between political parties and deliberative democracy. It shows which parties prefer deliberation, how intra-party deliberation takes place in practice beyond ...
Digital Transformation and the Economics of Banking
(2024)
Banking; digital transformation; digitalization; financial institutions; FinTech; innovation and technology management; Insurance; CBDC, sustainability, privacy, central bank, digital currency, FinTech
The Digital Economy and the Productivity Paradox
(2025)
Despite the billions of dollars invested in digitalization, productivity growth in developed economies remains sluggish and the promised technological revolution has yet to deliver its full potential. This concise book ...
National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010
(2014)
Europe’s national museums have since their creation been at the centre of on-going nation making processes. National museums negotiate conflicts and contradictions and entrain the community sufficiently to obtain the support ...
Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World
(2022)
The rise of authoritarian, nationalist forms of populism and the implications for rural actors and settings is one of the most crucial foci for critical agrarian studies today, with many consequences for political action. ...
Chapter 5 A Motor-Flight through North Africa
(2025)
Edith Wharton was not only the author of novels and short stories but also of drama, poetry, autobiography, interior decoration, and travel writing. This study focuses on Wharton’s symbolic representations of architecture ...
American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers
(2017)
Over the last decade, the United States' position as the world's most powerful state has appeared increasingly unstable. The US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, non-traditional security threats, global economic instability, ...
Chapter 8 Being Franciscans in Mamluk Jerusalem
(2025)
This volume explores the relationship of mendicant men and women to cities and their inhabitants in the Mediterranean world, c.1200–1500. It asks questions including: what was specifically “urban” about the mendicant ...
Exploring Anne Frank and Difficult Life Stories
(2025)
This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank’s story in the twenty‑first century, and potential for new ways of teaching ...
Language Demography
(2023)
Language Demography presents, exemplifies, and develops linguistic concepts involved in demography and the demographic concepts involved in sociolinguistics. The first introductory guide of its kind, it is presented in a ...
Public Innovation and Digital Transformation
(2023)
Public innovation and digitalization are reshaping organizations and society in various ways and within multiple fields, as innovations are essential in transforming our world and addressing global sustainability and ...
Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age
(2022)
Golden Age departures in historiography and theory of history in some ways prepared the ground for modern historical methods and ideas about historical factuality. At the same time, they fed into the period’s own ...
Distillation Control, Optimization, and Tuning
(2016)
With a focus on the fundamentals and strategies of distillation columns, this book covers the process variables for continuous distillation columns, as well as four basic control strategies and the typical cases in which ...
Laws of the Sea
(2023)
Laws of the Sea assembles scholars from law, geography, anthropology, and environmental humanities to consider the possibilities of a critical ocean approach in legal studies. Unlike the United Nations’ monumental Convention ...
Global Perspectives on Teaching with Technology
(2024)
Global Perspectives on Teaching with Technology presents a wealth of current research on how teacher education and training programs around the world are preparing teachers to integrate and apply learning technologies ...
Spatial Conflicts and Conflictual Spaces
(2025)
This volume explores the refiguration of space as a theoretical framework, presenting empirical studies on spatial conflicts and emerging conflictual spaces across different regions and scales. It contains contributions ...
The Western Sahara Question and International Law
(2024)
This book analyses recent developments concerning the application of the international legal doctrines of recognition and self-determination in relation to the Western Sahara Question. It investigates the emergent shift ...
India Migration Report 2023
(2024)
The India Migration Report 2023: Student Migration is one of the first books that attempts to comprehensively explore the various nuances of Indian international student migration factoring in multiple factors that influence ...
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Puberty and Adolescence
(2021)
Puberty is a time of tumultuous transition from childhood to adulthood activated by rapid physical changes, hormonal development and explosive activity of neurons. This book explores puberty through the parent-teenager ...
The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature
(2025)
The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature offers a comprehensive survey of an increasingly important field. It demonstrates the influence of the “age of migration” on literature and showcases the role of literature ...
Cultural Technologies
(2025)
Cultural Technologies: Robots and Artificial Intelligence in the Performing Arts presents a diverse range of perspectives from leading scholars and artists on contemporary performing arts practices that engage with robotic ...