Publications
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Elementary Semiconductor Device Physics
(2025)
This book by two leading experts on integrated circuit design adopts an untraditional approach to introducing semiconductor devices to beginners. The authors use circuit theory to provide a digestible explanation of energy ...
Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics
(2015-07-13)
In a period of increasing geopolitical insecurity and economic instability this title provides an authoritative yet accessible commentary on debates on capitalism and globalization in the wake of the financial crisis.
Wellness in Whiteness
(2019)
"This book analyses the social and ethical implications of the globalization of
emerging skin-whitening and anti-ageing biotechnology. Using an intersectional theoretical framework and a content analysis methodology drawn ...
Annals of Bioethics: Regional Perspectives in Bioethics
(2003)
Regional Perspectives in Bioethics" illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral intuitions, ...
Chapter 21 Legalities and materialities
(2018)
This chapter reflects on what materiality-inflected methodologies1 can bring to
an anthropology of law, and to legal studies more generally. Its starting point is an
increasing attention across the social sciences and ...
Chapter 12 If They Gunned Me Down: Postmodern Media Criticism in a Post-Racial World
(2016)
This volume will feature research examining the consequences, implications, and opportunities associated with issues of diversity in the electronic media. The topics of gender and race in electronic media have been hot ...
Chapter 9 Expanded Interiors
(2020)
"Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces considers the challenges that accompany an assessment of the role of contemporary art in heritage contexts, whilst also examining ways to measure and articulate the impact and value of ...
Distillation Control, Optimization, and Tuning: Fundamentals and Strategies
(2011)
Emphasis on improved quality and performance of distilled products and the demand for reduced operating costs place a heavy burden on both the personnel responsible for profitability and the manufacturing department charged ...
Regional Economic Communities and Peacebuilding in Africa
(2021)
This book outlines challenges to the effective operation of Regional Economic Communities (RECs) with regards to peacebuilding in Africa. Critically examining these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a focus ...
Chapter 5 Priority Species to Support the Functional Integrity of Coral Reefs
(2020)
Ecosystem-based management on coral reefs has historically focused on biodiversity conservation through the establishment of marine reserves, but it is increasingly recognised that a subset of species can be key to the ...
Chapter 3 Organizing Power and Resistance; Ch. 8 Difference, Diversity, and Inclusion
(2019)
Movements in Organizational Communication Research is an essential resource for anyone wishing to become familiar with the current state of organizational communication research and key trends in the field. Seasoned ...
Chapter 10 Goethe’s Exploratory Idealism
(2021)
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 ...
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)
(2014)
This book traces the history and development of a mutual organization in the financial sector called SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
Telecommunication. Over the last 40 years, SWIFT has served the ...
Asian Anthropology
(2005)
Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory ...
Analytical Psychology in a Changing World: The search for self, identity and community
(2015)
How can we make sense of ourselves within a world of change? In Analytical Psychology in a Changing World, an international range of contributors examine some of the common pitfalls, challenges and rewards that we encounter ...
Chapter 14 Responsibility for Fundamentalist Belief
(2020)
There are arguably moral, legal, and prudential constraints on behavior. But are there epistemic constraints on belief? Are there any requirements arising from intellectual considerations alone? This volume includes original ...
Chapter Introduction
(2025)
This book explores how actors practise sovereignty as a force in a multiscalar context. Among the various power structures that perform sovereignty, such as the head of state, a legislative body, or the military, one aspect ...
Re-thinking Mobility Poverty
(2021)
"This book seeks to better conceptualise and define mobility poverty, addressing both its geographies and socio-economic landscapes. It moves beyond the analysis of ‘transport poverty’ and innovatively explores mobility ...
Intersectionality in Feminist and Queer Movements
(2019)
Examining the ways in which feminist and queer activists confront privilege through the use of intersectionality, this edited collection presents empirical case studies from around the world to consider how intersectionality ...
X-Machines for Agent-Based Modeling
(2017)
This book discusses various aspects of agent-based modeling and simulation using FLAME (Flexible Large-scale Agent-Based Modeling Environment) which is a popular agent-based modeling environment that enables automatic ...
Chapter 11 Social Media and Social Justice Movements After the Diminution of Black-owned Media in the United States
(2018)
This volume gathers scholarship from varying disciplinary perspectives to explore media owned or created by members of the African diaspora, examine its relationship with diasporic audiences, and consider its impact on ...
Chapter 3 Curating Enslavement and the Colonial History of Denmark
(2020)
March 31, 2017 marked the centenary of the transfer of the Danish colony—the Danish West Indies (today’s US Virgin Islands)—to the US. During the 100 years that had passed, the history had only occasionally been revisited ...
Physician Wellness and Resilience
(2025)
Physician Wellness and Resilience: Narrative Prompts to Address Burnout explores 26 compelling narratives from practicing doctors and medical students as they share their personal and professional encounters in their own ...
Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship
(2017)
Feminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite ‘proper’ knowledge – it’s too political or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries of ‘proper’ knowledge? Who defines them, and how are they changing? ...
A Cultural History of Waste Disposal
(2025)
This book offers a historical analysis of landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Greater Tel Aviv, and uses them as case studies to emphasize the international and global scale of issues concerning waste ...
Chapter 7 Seeing double
(2021)
This chapter examines the emergence of two competing discursive and visual repertoires on Macedonian national identity in order to analyze and theorize contemporary political polarization as a new form of identity politics. ...
Chapter 15 Innovation (policy) and transformative change in the European Union
(2022)
This book focuses on social transformations as one of the central topics in the social sciences. The study of European social transformations is very valuable in the context of universal discussions within social sciences: ...
Chapter 1 A bank, not a fund
(2022)
Deciphering the European Investment Bank: History, Politics and Economics examines the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union’s financial institution and the largest lender and borrower among the International ...
Human and International Security in India
(2016)
With its common colonial experience, an overarching cultural unity despite apparent diversities, and issues of nation-building cutting across national frontiers, South Asia offers a critical site on which to develop a ...
Environmental Economics in Developing Countries
(2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the vulnerabilities of socio-economic systems globally and exposed the risks that natural capital degradation imposes on human health, economy, and society. This book studies the ...
Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies
(2019)
This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in ...
North American Cornucopia
(2013)
Many North American plants have characteristics that are especially promising for creating varieties needed to expand food production, and there are excellent prospects of generating new economically competitive crops from ...
Chapter 10 Trajectories of Urbanism in the Angkorian World
(2023)
The Angkorian World explores the history of Southeast Asia’s largest ancient state from the first to mid-second millennium CE. Chapters by leading scholars combine evidence from archaeology, texts, and the natural sciences ...
Chapter Introduction
(2022)
This volume examines the perception of the French principle of laïcité or secularism and attempts to demonstrate to English-speaking readers that the configurations of the French model of laïcité are both more flexible and ...
Chapter 2 Barents Sea oil and gas 2025
(2015)
The Arctic region contains large amounts of natural resources considered necessary to sustain global economic growth, so it is unsurprising that it is increasingly susceptible to political, economic, environmental, and ...
Chapter 2 Complications
(2022)
The confusions live on as the neuropsychiatric sciences cannot answer all questions individuals with compulsive sensibilities may have. Chapter 2 outlines that current knowledge of Tourette’s-related compulsions is minimal, ...
Chapter 6 On Top of the Hierarchy
(2023)
This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the reliability of scientific knowledge. The ...
Chapter 10 Rethinking urban resettlement and displacement from the perspective of ‘home’ in the interruption and uncertainty brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic
(2021)
This chapter reflects on contributions in this book, providing an outlook on displacement into a future rendered uncertain by the Covid-19 pandemic. The contemporary urban political economy has implications for housing. ...
Chapter Introduction
(2021)
With a focus on the case of Poland, where an aging population poses a crucial challenge for the state’s social, family, and gerontological policy, this book explores ageing as a personal and social phenomenon, considering ...
Theorizing Cultures of Political Violence in Times of Austerity
(2018)
After the multidimensional financial crisis of 2008, the member states of the Eurozone imposed a set of economic policies to save their economies. Socially unpopular cuts contributed to the occurrence of violent movements ...