Publications
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Chapter 6 In search of effective communication with decision-makers for the post-truth era
(2024)
Evaluation in the Post-Truth World explores the relationship between the nature of evaluative knowledge, the increasing demand in decision-making for evaluation and other forms of research evidence, and the post-truth ...
Modelling and Optimization of Wave Energy Converters
(2022)
Wave energy offers a promising renewable energy source. This guide presents numerical modelling and optimisation methods for the development of wave energy converter technologies, from principles to applications. It covers ...
Globalising Democracy
(2006)
This volume brings together expert contributors to explore the intersection of two major contemporary themes: globalization, and the contribution that both domestic party politics and international party support make to ...
Married Women in Legal Practice
(2020)
This book describes the ways in which married women appeared in legal practice in the medieval Swedish realm 1350-1450, through both the agency of women, and through the norms that surrounded their actions. Since there ...
The Routledge Companion to Free Will
(2017)
Questions concerning free will are intertwined with issues in almost every area of philosophy, from metaphysics to philosophy of mind to moral philosophy, and are also informed by work in different areas of science ...
Wealth and Power
(2023)
Is political equality viable when a capitalist economy unequally distributes private property? This book examines the nexus between wealth and politics and asks how institutions and citizens should respond to it. Theories ...
Powers of the Prosecutor in Criminal Investigation
(2021)
This comparative analysis examines the scope of prosecutorial powers at different phases of criminal investigation in four countries: the United States, Italy, Poland, and Germany. Since in all four the number of criminal ...
The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image
(2024)
The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding history in moving images. It engages this popular and dynamic field that has evolved rapidly from film and ...
Threats of Force and International Law
(2023)
Threats of force are an inherent part of communication between some States. One prominent example is the 2017–2018 crisis in relations between the United States and North Korea, marked by multiple threats issued by both ...
Cities, Autonomy, and Decentralization in Japan
(2006)
Adding a new perspective to the current literature on decentralization in Japan, Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan, approaches the subject from an urban studies and planning approach. The essays in the collection ...
Disclosing Horizons
(2007)
This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the way architects design. Since its ...
Three Nations, One Place
(2004)
An intensive exploration of the changes experienced by the Comanches and Caddoans during Spain's occupation of the Southern Plains (1689-1921), McCollough focuses on the relationship between political and economic conditions ...
Wastewater Treatment with the Fenton Process
(2024)
The presence of refractory organic compounds in wastewater is a global problem. Advanced oxidation processes, in general, and the Fenton oxidation process are alternative technologies for wastewater and water treatment. ...
Inequality Kills Us All
(2023)
The complex answer to why the United States does so poorly in health measures has at its base one pervasive issue: The United States has by far the highest levels of inequality of all the rich countries. Inequality Kills ...
Chapter 25 Rooted in Justice and Joy
(2024)
This book provides targeted advice to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in the mental health professions on how to navigate, resist, and transform institutions and policies that were not designed for them. A ...
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 ...
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
(2019)
"In Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights the combined analytical efforts of the fields of human rights law, conflict studies, anthropology, history, media studies, gender studies, and critical race and postcolonial studies ...
Institutional and Technological Change in Japan's Economy
(2006)
Institutional and technological change is a highly topical subject. At the theoretical level, there is much debate in the field of institutional economics about the role of technological change in endogenous growth theory. ...
Multilingualism across the Lifespan
(2022)
This innovative collection examines key questions on language diversity and multilingualism running through contemporary debates in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. Reinforcing interdisciplinary conversations on ...
Chapter 2 Advancing Afrikan Sustainable Design
(2024)
sustainable development,design for sustainability,Ubuntu,relations,connectedness,decolonisation,Sustainable Product Design,Energy Systems,PSS,Ivan Brown,Urban Farmers,Cradle Products Innovation Institute,Sustainable ...