Publications
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Black Citizenship and Authenticity in the Civil Rights Movement
(2013)
This book explains the emergence of two competing forms of black political representation that transformed the objectives and meanings of local action, created boundaries between national and local struggles for racial ...
Studies in Science Education in the Asia-Pacific Region
(2018)
Consistent with international trends, there is an active pursuit of more engaging science education in the Asia-Pacific region. The aim of this book is to bring together some examples of research being undertaken at a range ...
Didaktik and Curriculum in Ongoing Dialogue
(2021)
Didaktik and Curriculum in Ongoing Dialogue revives the dialogue between the continental European Didaktik tradition and the Anglo-Saxon tradition of curriculum. It highlights important research findings that bridge cultural ...
Podcasting as an Intimate Medium
(2023)
This book delves into the notion of intimacy as a defining feature of podcasting, examining the concept of intimacy itself and how the public sphere explores the relationships created and maintained through podcasts.
The ...
Universities, Stakeholders and Social Mission
(2023)
Today's universities are confronted with questions about the increasing scale of corporatisation and commercialisation, as well as their decreasing activity in the field of the social mission, i.e., engagement in the real ...
Industry 4.0 and Regional Transformations
(2020)
This volume brings together expert contributors to explore opportunities and challenges that Industry 4.0 is likely to pose for regions, firms and jobs in Europe. Drawing on theory and empirical cases, it considers emerging ...
Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture
(2021)
This book explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism, skepticism, and naturalism in the social sciences. Kevin ...
Making Sense of World History
(2021)
"Making Sense of World History is a comprehensive and accessible textbook that helps students understand the key themes of world history within a chronological framework stretching from ancient times to the present day.
To ...
Young Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2017)
rs, Professor Ernest Aryeetey, Professor Craig Jeffrey, and Professor Peter Rosa, along
with all the other participants, provided useful feedback and encouraged us to
proceed with presenting the key project findings in ...
Latin America in Times of Turbulence
(2023)
This book accounts for and analyses the latest developments in Latin American presidential democracies, with a special focus on political institutions.
The stellar line-up of renowned scholars of Latin American politics ...
The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials
(2017)
Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. ...
Chapter 11 Vitamin C and the Brain
(2020)
The brain requires vitamin C to metabolize fuel substrates and synthesize neurotransmitters, regulate their release, and modify their actions. Vitamin C also protects the brain from oxidative damage. Clinical studies do ...
World Literature and Dissent
(2019)
World Literature and Dissent reconsiders the role of dissent in contemporary global literature. Bringing together scholars of world and postcolonial literatures, the contributors explore the aesthetics of resistance through ...
Soil Erosion and Carbon Dynamics
(2006)
The most complete, nonpartisan source of information on this hot agronomic topic available today, this book brings together a diverse group of papers and data to resolve the debate between sedimentologists and soil scientists ...
Bodily Fluids in Antiquity
(2021)
Medical and philosophical theories of generation from the classical world are often classified according to whether the female as well as the male produces ‘seed’, the fluid substance which does the most important work in ...
Chapter 6 By Any Other Name: White-Supremacist Terrorism in the Trump Era
(2018)
This book examines the disruptive nature of Trump news – both the news his administration makes and the coverage of it – related to dominant paradigms and ideologies of U.S. journalism. By relying on conceptualizations of ...
Tracing the Atom
(2022)
This book is about nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia, focusing on selected sites of the Soviet atomic program, many of which have remained understudied. Nuclear operations, for energy or military purposes, demanded ...
Handbook of Genetic Diagnostic Technologies in Reproductive Medicine
(2022)
Image-based and sequencing-based spatial technologies can currently be used to locate cells anatomically within a tissue; the Human Vell Atlas allows its users to navigate the human body at various levels of resolution to ...
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics
(2014)
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields ...
The Mediterranean Way of Eating
(2014)
Scientific evidence accumulated over decades validates the idea that a plant-based dietary pattern, such as the traditional Mediterranean way of eating, promotes health and plays an important role in risk reduction and ...
Global Cooperation and the Human Factor in International Relations
(2016)
This book aims to pave the way for a new interdisciplinary approach to global cooperation research. It does so by bringing in disciplines whose insights about human behaviour might provide a crucial yet hitherto neglected ...
Chapter 1 What is "authenticity" in AA?
(2018)
This book examines the principles and practice of authentic assessment. It seeks to answer the following questions. What is authentic assessment? How is authentic assessment different from 'performance assessment' or ...
Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing
(2007)
Despite recent dramatic advances in computer security regarding the proliferation of services and applications, security threats are still major impediments in the deployment of these services. Paying serious attention to ...
Governing Delinquency Through Freedom
(2020)
"This book analyses the non-custodial government of young offenders in two major cities in Brazil. In doing so, it delves into the paradox of an institution exerting control over youths while at the same time promoting ...
Chapter 18 USA
(2018)
Few issues have engaged sports scholars more than those of race and ethnicity. Today, globalization and migration mean all major sports leagues include players from around the globe, bringing into play a complex mix of ...
Window Functions and Their Applications in Signal Processing
(2013)
Window functions—otherwise known as weighting functions, tapering functions, or apodization functions—are mathematical functions that are zero-valued outside the chosen interval. They are well established as a vital part ...
Science
(2005)
In recognizing that new teachers often feel disempowered by the subject expertise they bring into teaching, this book not only covers the training standards for NQTs and the Induction Standards, but takes the reader beyond ...
Population Change in Europe, the Middle-East and North Africa
(2015)
Current demographic trends raise new questions, challenges and controversies. Comparing demographic trends in Europe and the NAME-region (North Africa and the Middle East), this book demonstrates how population change ...
Chapter 9 Race as a Cultural Construction
(2019)
Race and Human Diversity is an introduction to the study of human diversity in both its biological and cultural dimensions. Robert L. Anemone examines the biological basis of human difference and how humans have biologically ...
Oceanography and Marine Biology
(2020)
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 ...
Network-on-Chip
(2014)
Addresses the Challenges Associated with System-on-Chip Integration Network-on-Chip: The Next Generation of System-on-Chip Integration examines the current issues restricting chip-on-chip communication efficiency, and ...
Chapter Introduction
(2020)
"Boundary disputes in the South China Sea have been a long- standing threat to peace and security in East and Southeast Asia. Without agreed defi nition of boundaries, provisional arrangements to develop resources in the ...
Crime and Fear in Public Places
(2020)
No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place does. A public place, whatever its nature – a park, a mall, a train platform or a street corner – is where people pass by, meet each other ...
The Changing Landscape of the Academic Profession
(2006)
The rapid success of for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) only recently has caught the attention of scholars in academe. The continuing expansion of the proprietary higher education sector has lead to fundamental ...
Reciprocal Relationships and Well-being
(2017)
This book provides a robust empirical and theoretical analysis of reciprocity and its implications for social work and social policy practices by discussing how ideas of reciprocity can be understood and applied to welfare ...
Toxic Chemicals
(2011)
Catastrophic events such as the Bhopal, India tragedy and rising incidences of cancer in areas neighboring industrial facilities have heightened concern over the use of toxic chemicals in manufacturing and industry, ...
Assessment of Responsible Innovation
(2021)
Responsible Innovation encourages innovators to work together with stakeholders during the research and innovation process, to better align the outcomes of innovation with the values, needs and expectations of society. ...
Chapter 7 Cellular Control of Time, Size, and Shape in Development and Evolution
(2018)
The rules by which anatomical size and shape are generated have intrigued scientists
for centuries. In 1638, Galileo suggested a mathematical relationship between proportional
changes in the shape of bones as animals ...
Chapter 3 Promoting Yokosuka through videogame tourism
(2021)
Regional and local governments have long recognised the potential for films, television shows, novels and other media texts that are set in their city or country to attract tourists. Although there is a wealth of scholarship ...
Everyday Automation
(2022)
This Open Access book brings the experiences of automation as part of quotidian life into focus. It asks how, where and when automated technologies and systems are emerging in everyday life across different global regions? ...