Publications
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Islam and the Trajectory of Globalization
(2022)
The book examines the growing tension between social movements that embrace egalitarian and inclusivist views of national and global politics, most notably classical liberalism, and those that advance social hierarchy and ...
Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives
(2022)
Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation traces how and why Jain authors at different points in history rewrote the story of Rāma and situates these texts within larger frameworks of South Asian ...
Innovation in Music
(2019)
Innovation in Music: Performance, Production, Technology and Business is an exciting collection comprising of cutting-edge articles on a range of topics, presented under the main themes of artistry, technology, production ...
Eleventh International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields
(2022)
Innovations in Road, Railway and Airfield Bearing Capacity – Volume 3 comprises the third part of contributions to the 11th International Conference on Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields (2022). In anticipation ...
Controlled Document Authoring in a Machine Translation Age
(2021)
authored support system; contextual machine translation; controlled document authoring; controlled language; document structure; terminology management; translation technology; usability evaluation
Family Business and Regional Development
(2021)
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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 ...
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 ...
Chapter 5 The Recognition Paradigm Between Universalism and Historicism
(2022)
This chapter will, first, reconstructs Axel Honneth’s account of the significance of recognition in his book The Struggle for Recognition and track some of the unresolved tensions in it and their role in Honneth’s subsequent ...
Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture
(2020)
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture covers major theoretical issues as well as critical empirical shifts in gender and agriculture.
Gender relations in agriculture are shifting in most regions of the world ...
Food System Transformations
(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 ...
Chapter 37 The intangible made tangible in Wales
(2017)
This collection provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the issues surrounding its value to society. Critically engaging with the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the ...
Permeable Reactive Barrier
(2014)
Remediation of groundwater is complex and often challenging. But the cost of pump and treat technology, coupled with the dismal results achieved, has paved the way for newer, better technologies to be developed. Among these ...
Chapter 3 Global governance
(2013)
The sequencing of the entire human genome has opened up unprecedented possibilities for healthcare, but also ethical and social dilemmas about how these can be achieved, particularly in developing countries. UNESCO's ...
Information Security Governance Simplified
(2011)
Security practitioners must be able to build cost-effective security programs while also complying with government regulations. Information Security Governance Simplified: From the Boardroom to the Keyboard lays out these ...
Capitalism, Coronavirus and War
(2023)
Capitalism, Coronavirus and War investigates the decay of neoliberal financialised capitalism as revealed in the crisis the novel coronavirus triggered but did not cause, a crisis that has been deepened by the conflict ...
Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy
(2024)
applied ethics, behavioral ethics, criminal responsibility ethics, experimental bioethics, experimental jurisprudence, experimental moral philosophy, experimental philosophy, feminist X-Phi, folk moral judgments, intuitions, ...
Diversity of Patchwork Capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe
(2019)
This book is a comparative study which sheds a new empirical and theoretical light on the nature of post-communist capitalism in 11 EU new member countries of Central and Eastern Europe, or CEE11.
Extending and modifying ...
The Economics of Sustainable Transformation
(2021)
"This book presents the ways in which three key issues of the modern world – transformation, digitalisation and sustainability – may be combined for the greater good and highlights which activities may be designed to ...
The Dialectic of Ressentiment
(2024)
Drawing upon a wide variety of authors, approaches, and ideological contexts, this book offers a comprehensive and detailed critique of the distinct and polemical senses in which the concept of ressentiment (and its cognate ...
Biologically Inspired Robotics
(2012)
Robotic engineering inspired by biology—biomimetics—has many potential applications: robot snakes can be used for rescue operations in disasters, snake-like endoscopes can be used in medical diagnosis, and artificial muscles ...
Oceanography and Marine Biology
(2019)
Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global ...
Lie Algebras In Particle Physics
(2000)
In this book, the author convinces that Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington had things a little bit wrong, as least as far as physics is concerned. He explores the theory of groups and Lie algebras and their representations to ...
The Routledge History of Death since 1800
(2021)
history; death
Horizontal Europeanisation
(2019)
European integration has transformed the social life of European citizens. Daily life and work no longer take place primarily in a local and national context, but increasingly in a European and transnational frame – a ...
Chapter N: Content Words
(2017)
This monograph is a translation of two seminal works on corpus-based studies of Mandarin Chinese words and parts of speech. The original books were published as two pioneering technical reports by Chinese Knowledge and ...
Mapping Urban Spaces
(2021)
"Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesthetic points of view. The chapters illustrate how the characteristics that ...
History as Wonder
(2019)
History and Wonder is a refreshing new take on the idea of history that tracks the entanglement of history and philosophy over time through the key idea of wonder. From Ancient Greek histories and wonder works, to Islamic ...
Emotions in Late Modernity
(2019)
This international collection discusses how the individualised, reflexive, late modern era has changed the way we experience and act on our emotions. Divided into four sections that include studies ranging across multiple ...
Promoting Statistical Practice and Collaboration in Developing Countries
(2022)
"Rarely, but just often enough to rebuild hope, something happens to confound my pessimism about the recent unprecedented happenings in the world. This book is the most recent instance, and I think that all its readers ...
Chapter 4 Macro contextual factors linked to youth civic and political engagement
(2019)
What exactly is civic and political participation? What factors influence young people’s participation? How can we encourage youth to participate actively in their own democracies? Youth Civic and Political Engagement takes ...
The Reception of the Printed Image in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
(2020)
This book examines the early development of the graphic arts from the perspectives of material things, human actors and immaterial representations while broadening the geographic field of inquiry to Central Europe and the ...
Social Enterprise in Latin America
(2019)
In the absence of a widely accepted and common definition of social enterprise (SE), a large research project, the "International Comparative Social Enterprise Models" (ICSEM) Project, was carried out over a five-year ...
Governing Urban Development in China
(2025)
The book investigates urban development and governance in China and introduces China perspectives to the understanding of governing urban development in the 21st century. Building upon a rich and burgeoning literature on ...
Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds
(2015)
Cancer is a transnational condition involving the unprecedented flow of health information, technologies, and people across national borders. Such movement raises questions about the nature of therapeutic citizenship, how ...
Ageing and Covid-19
(2021)
This volume presents a range of research approaches to the exploration of ageing during a pandemic situation. One of the first collections of its kind, it offers an array of studies employing research methodologies that ...
Chapter 11 Contrasting approaches, comparable efficacy?
(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 ...
Understanding Perspectivism
(2020)
This edited collection is the first of its kind to explore the view called
perspectivism in the philosophy of science. The book brings together an
array of essays that reflect on the methodological promises and ...
Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union
(2020)
Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union provides an interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which European cultural heritage is created, communicated, and governed via the European Heritage Label ...
Open Access in Theory and Practice
(2020)
"Open Access in Theory and Practice investigates the theory-practice relationship
in the domain of open access publication and dissemination of research outputs.
Drawing on detailed analysis of the literature and current ...
Epistemic Ambivalence
(2024)
This book delves into the complex relationship between religious imaginaries and the perception of space among followers of Candomblé and Pentecostal churches in Belo Horizonte, Brazil's third-largest urban agglomeration.
It ...