Publications
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Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age
(2021)
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 ...
Handbook of Mental Performance
(2024)
This extensive overview of mental performance optimization techniques offers both a state-of-the-art reference resource and comprehensive tool for those engaged in the management and implementation of mental performance ...
Teenagers, Literacy and School
(2006)
This unique and timely book follows the experiences of four Arabic teenagers, their families and their community, focusing on the role of literacy in their daily lives and the differences between home and school. The author ...
Democratic Frontiers
(2022)
Democratic Frontiers: Algorithms and Society focuses on digital platforms’ effects in societies with respect to key areas such as subjectivity and self-reflection, data and measurement for the common good, public health ...
Indigenous Statistics
(2025)
This second edition of the groundbreaking Indigenous Statistics opens up a major new approach to research across the disciplines and applied fields. While qualitative methods have been rigorously critiqued and reformulated, ...
Research Journeys to Net Zero
(2024)
This book provides useful insight into how academics from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, such as science, engineering, technology, social science, policy, design, architecture, built environment, business, and management, ...
Identities and Intimacies on Social Media
(2023)
This edited collection illuminates the scope with which identities and intimacies interact on a wide range of social media platforms.
A varied range of international scholars examine the contexts of very different social ...
Small Sample Size Solutions
(2020)
Researchers often have difficulties collecting enough data to test their hypotheses,
either because target groups are small or hard to access, or because data collection
entails prohibitive costs. Such obstacles may ...
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 ...
Game Production Studies
(2025)
Video games have entered the cultural mainstream and now rival established forms of entertainment such as film or television in terms of economic profits. As careers in video game development become more common, so do the ...
Contemporary Governance Challenges in the Horn of Africa
(2023)
This book argues that a leading cause of the political instability in the Horn of Africa is a crisis of governance, caused by extreme centralization of power, weak institutions, and the failure to institutionalise the ...
How the World Hunger Problem Was not Solved
(2024)
The world food crisis (1972–1975) gave rise to new development concepts. To eradicate world hunger, small peasants were supposed to use ‘modern’ inputs like high-yielding seeds, fertilizer, pesticides and irrigation. This ...
Entrepreneurship Education
(2021)
The discussion around whether entrepreneurship can be taught is becoming obsolete as the number of entrepreneurship courses, specializations and degrees is rising at an unprecedented rate all over the world and the demand ...
Education, Parenting, and Mental Health Care in Europe
(2024)
This edited collection investigates, from a sociological perspective, what it means to create an autonomous individual through a novel exploration of three central fields of sociology: education, mental health care, and ...
Entrepreneurship
(2005)
The entrepreneur has been neglected over the years in formal economic theorizing. Previously there has been only eclectic theories such as human capital theory and network dynamics which discuss certain perspectives of ...
Race and Contention in Twenty-First Century U.S. Media
(2016)
This volume explores and clarifies the complex intersection of race and media in the contemporary United States. Due to the changing dynamics of how racial politics are played out in the contemporary US (as seen with debates ...
Chapter 1 Parent-centred partnerships
(2023)
Relationships with Families in Early Childhood Education and Care radically challenges the role assigned to parents in neoliberal discussions of early childhood education and care, and presents new ways of thinking about ...
Linguistic Identities in the Arab Gulf States
(2022)
"Combining empirical and theoretical approaches from a range of disciplines, Linguistic Identities in the Arab Gulf States examines current issues surrounding language and identity in the Arab Gulf states. Organized in ...
The Scale-Up Effect in Early Childhood and Public Policy
(2021)
Combining the theories of conventional economics with social psychology and cognitive decision making, behavioral economics (BE) offers an interdisciplinary framework to support the transition and translation of programs ...
Morrey Spaces
(2020)
Morrey spaces were introduced by Charles Morrey to investigate the local behaviour of solutions to second order elliptic partial differential equations. The technique is very useful in many areas in mathematics, in particular ...