Publications
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Groupers of the World
(2012)
This is the sixteenth issue in the FAO series of worldwide annotated and illustrated catalogues of major groups of organisms that enter marine fisheries. It contains the 159 species in 15 genera known from the serranid ...
Chapter 2 Fundamental Database Concepts
(2024)
The third edition of GIS has been revised with extensive new content reflecting the significant progress that has been made in the realm of GIS within the last 20 years. Among the new topics covered are graph databases and ...
Chapter 14 The NFL, Activism, and #BlackLivesMatter
(2018)
"What does it mean when a hit that knocks an American football player unconscious is cheered by spectators? What are the consequences of such violence for the participants of this sport and for the entertainment culture ...
Global Views on Climate Relocation and Social Justice
(2022)
"This edited volume advances our understanding of climate relocation (or planned retreat), an emerging topic in the fields of climate adaptation and hazard risk, and provides a platform for alternative voices and views on ...
Inclusive Innovation
(2022)
"Innovation offers potential: to cure diseases, to better connect people, and to make the way we live and work more efficient and enjoyable. At the same time, innovation can fuel inequality, decimate livelihoods, and harm ...
Unauthorized Access
(2017)
Going beyond current books on privacy and security, Unauthorized Access: The Crisis in Online Privacy and Security proposes specific solutions to public policy issues pertaining to online privacy and security. Requiring ...
The Concept of Genocide in International Criminal Law
(2017)
This book presents a review of historical and emerging legal issues that concern the interpretation of the international crime of genocide. The Polish legal expert Raphael Lemkin formulated the concept of genocide during ...
The Conduct of War in the 21st Century
(2021)
"This book examines the key dimensions of 21st century war, and shows that orthodox thinking about war, particularly what it is and how it is fought, needs to be updated.
Accelerating societal, economic, political and ...
Chapter 6 Centering Practical Ethics in Writing Studies Research
(2021)
This book invites readers to reconsider how writing studies researchers work with Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) on behalf of their communities and argues that engaging with IRBs during the research design process helps ...
Chapter 19 Conclusion
(2021)
"This book examines the key dimensions of 21st century war, and shows that orthodox thinking about war, particularly what it is and how it is fought, needs to be updated.
Accelerating societal, economic, political and ...
Chapter 5 Control from the ground up
(2021)
"This book examines the key dimensions of 21st century war, and shows that orthodox thinking about war, particularly what it is and how it is fought, needs to be updated.
Accelerating societal, economic, political and ...
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 ...
The Principle of Effective Legal Protection in Administrative Law
(2017)
"This collection presents a comparative analysis of the principle of effective legal protection in administrative law in Europe. It examines how European states consider and enforce the related requirements in their domestic ...
Chapter 1 Principles of Mathematical Modeling
(2018)
Mathematical Modeling describes a process and an object by use of the mathematical language. A process or an object is presented in a "pure form" in Mathematical Modeling when external perturbations disturbing the study ...
Introduction to Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulations
(2018)
Mathematical Modeling describes a process and an object by use of the mathematical language. A process or an object is presented in a "pure form" in Mathematical Modeling when external perturbations disturbing the study ...
Chapter 2 Transformations in the governance of urban and regional planning in Korea
(2020)
There is an increasing tendency to use the development experience of Asian countries as a reference point for other countries in the Global South. Korea’s condensed urbanization and industrialization, accompanied by the ...
Chapter 1 Grassroots initiatives in food system transformation
(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 ...
Music and Empathy
(2017)
In recent years, empathy has received considerable research attention as a means of understanding a range of psychological phenomena, and it is fast drawing attention within the fields of music psychology and music education. ...
Structural Dividers in the Qur'an
(2021)
This volume showcases a wide range of contemporary approaches to the identification of literary structures within Qur’anic surahs. Recent academic studies of the Qur’an have taken an increasing interest in the concept of ...
Chapter 2 Constructing Invisibility
(2017)
This chapter analyzes some of the discursive interactions through which a 13-year-old francophone Cameroonian student attempts to construct new social and academic identities. It builds on research on the situated ...
Chapter 11 Pulling the curtain on the national sovereignty myth:
(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 ...
Chapter 3 Benjamin Constant and the limits of popular 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 ...
Preventing HIV Among Young People in Southern and Eastern Africa
(2021)
This book provides an overview of the current epidemiology of the HIV epidemic among young people in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) and examines the efforts to confront and reduce the high level of new HIV infections ...
Dismantling Rape Culture
(2021)
"This book analyses rape culture through the lens of the ‘me too’ era. Drawing feminist theory into conversation with peace studies and improvisation theory, it advocates for peace- building opportunities to transform ...
Trust, Accountability and Capacity in Education System Reform
(2021)
While Finland and Singapore both enjoy the global educational limelight due to their successful school systems, they differ considerably in their approaches to teacher accountability. Finland’s light-touch teacher ...
Chapter 8 Anticipatory nostalgia and nomadic temporality
(2021)
The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which ...
Chapter 4 Cultural Distance and Self-Initiated Expatriates’ Willingness to Relocate
(2020)
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book deals with ‘Cultural Distance and Self-Initiated Expatriates’ Willingness to Relocate: A Research ...
Chapter Mapping Jewish Identities
(2014)
Through a comparion of etnographic research in the UK and Brazil, this chapter has examined now changing scientific and medical understandings regarding the origin, genealogical history and patrimony of the so-called ...
Chapter 5 Belgian-Asian conjugal mixedness in Belgium since 1992
(2025)
Drawing from empirically grounded studies, the volume Situated Mixedness sheds light on the state of migration-related “intimate diversity”, that is, the simultaneous formation and existence of various configurations of ...
Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome
(2006)
Major advances have recently been made in our understanding of Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS). These include improving classification, recognizing primary and secondary risk factors, manipulating and monitoring ...
Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South
(2021)
This book explores how, in the wake of the Anthropocene, the growing call for urgent decarbonisation and accelerated energy transitions might have unintended consequences for energy poverty, justice and democracy, especially ...
Chapter 8 Transnationally situated meanings regarding food consumption among Laotian-Belgian couples in Belgium
(2025)
Drawing from empirically grounded studies, the volume Situated Mixedness sheds light on the state of migration-related “intimate diversity”, that is, the simultaneous formation and existence of various configurations of ...
Gender, Intersectionality and Climate Institutions in Industrialised States
(2021)
This book explores how climate institutions in industrialized countries work to further the recognition of social differences and integrate this understanding in climate policy making. With contributions from a range of ...
Chapter Introduction Poland and Germany in the European Union
(2021)
"This book explores the political and social dynamics of the bilateral relations between Germany and Poland at the at the national and subnational levels, taking into account the supranational dynamics, across different ...
Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance
(2010)
This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The underlying premise of this volume is that the global ...
Discourse in Translation
(2019)
This book explores the discourse in and of translation within and across cultures and languages. From the macro aspects of translation as an inter- cultural project to actual analysis of textual ingredients that contribute ...
Islam and Evolution
(2021)
"This book attempts to equip the reader with a holistic and accessible account of Islam and evolution. It guides the reader through the different variables that have played a part in the ongoing dialogue between Muslim ...
Chapter 9 Rhodes Must Fall
(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 ...
The Making of The Wandering Earth
(2022)
The Wandering Earth, Chinese science fiction, VFX-heavy science fiction films
Death and the Textile Industry in Nigeria
(2021)
burying, cemeteries, chapter, children, city, closure, coalition, colonial, conclusion, consequences, construct, dead, death, deaths, deindustrialization, dilemmas, elisha, experiences, fall, families, hardship, health, ...