Publications
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Handbook of Optical and Laser Scanning
(2012)
From its initial publication titled Laser Beam Scanning in 1985 to Handbook of Optical and Laser Scanning, now in its second edition, this reference has kept professionals and students at the forefront of optical scanning ...
Chapter 7 Amazonian Waterway, Amazonian Water-Worlds
(2020)
This interdisciplinary book brings into dialogue research on how different fluids and bodies of water are mobilised as liquid ecologies in the arts in Latin America and the Caribbean. Examining the visual arts, including ...
Care and the City
(2022)
Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people’s everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are ...
Chapter 1 The role of trade credit in corporate activity
(2021)
This chapter describes the role of trade credit in the functioning of enterprises. It presents the essence and the use of this form of finance, as well as placing it in a historical context. The chapter discusses the role ...
From Models to Simulations
(2019)
This book analyses the impact computerization has had on contemporary science and explains the origins, technical nature and epistemological consequences of the current decisive interplay between technology and science: ...
Models and Theories
(2022)
Models and theories are of central importance in science, and scientists spend substantial amounts of time building, testing, comparing and revising models and theories. It is therefore not surprising that the nature of ...
Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television
(2015)
Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalization and associated international trends are
disrupting and causing the radical rethinking of approaches ...
New Paths and Policies towards Conflict Prevention
(2021)
"This book explores the discourse on conflict prevention and peacebuilding by bringing together researchers from China and Switzerland over a series policy dialogues.
The Charter of the United Nations, adopted in the ...
Development and Infrastructure in Developing Countries: A 10–Year Reflection
(2024)
Development and Investment in Infrastructure in Developing Countries. A 10-Year Reflection includes the contributions to the 10th International Conference on Development and Investment In infrastructure (DII-2024, Livingstone, ...
Chapter B5 Linguistic Strategies Used by Lawyers
(2016)
Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this subject, Language and Law:describes the different registers and ...
War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan
(2022)
This book examines the phenomenon of war-related contents tourism throughout Japanese history, from conflicts described in ancient Japanese myth through to contemporary depictions of fantasy and futuristic warfare. It ...
Educational Choices, Transitions and Aspirations in Europe
(2020)
Comparative; EU; Education; Europe; European; School; Union; Choice; Transition; Inequality; Aspiration; International; Justice; Social; Political
Chapter 13 Nordic Literary Translingualism
(2022)
This chapter surveys the diverse landscape of literary translingualism in the Nordic region. A brief overview of contemporary language situations in the Nordic countries is followed by an examination of translingual aspects ...
Chapter 1 One Health
(2023)
The call for a One Health approach that transcends species and disciplinary boundaries assumes that human and veterinary medicine are discrete, distinctive domains whose separation must be overcome to achieve health benefits ...
The Time of Anthropology
(2020)
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 ...
Digital Literacies
(2014)
With our increasing use of digital and online media, the way we interact with these forms of communication is having an enormous impact on our literacy and learning. In Digital Literacies, Julia Gillen argues that to a ...
Extimate Technology
(2021)
"This book investigates how we should form ourselves in a world saturated with technologies that are profoundly intruding in the very fabric of our selfhood.
New and emerging technologies, such as smart technological ...
Chapter 4 Kruder and Dorfmeister
(2018)
When Cruise , the film whose dialogue I used as an epigraph for this chapter, was
released in 1970, these words were seen as capturing Polish inability to move
beyond the safe zone of a well-known repertoire of images, ...
Childhood Abuse, Body Shame, and Addictive Plastic Surgery
(2019)
Childhood Abuse, Body Shame, and Addictive Plastic Surgery explores the psychopathology that plastic surgeons can encounter when seemingly excellent surgical candidates develop body dysmorphic disorder postoperatively. By ...
Chapter 11 Ethnic majority and minority youth in multicultural societies
(2019)
Youth in Superdiverse Societies brings together theoretical, methodological and international approaches to the study of globalization, diversity, and acculturation in adolescence. It examines vital issues including ...
Black Men Teaching in Urban Schools
(2018)
This volume follows eleven Black male teachers from an urban, predominantly Black school district to reveal a complex set of identity politics and power dynamics that complicate these teachers’ relationships with students ...
Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change
(2024)
The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement mechanisms. Today, the Nordic countries top the World Economic Forum’s Gender ...
Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia
(2022)
This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of the processes and actors contributing to autocratization in South Asia. It provides an enhanced understanding of the interconnectedness of the different states in the region, ...
Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture
(2022)
This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, ...
Chapter 0 PROLOGUE
(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 ...
Co-production and Criminal Justice
(2023)
This book explores practical examples of co-production in criminal justice research and practice. Through a series of seven case studies, the authors examine what people do when they co-produce knowledge in criminal justice ...
Prison Masculinities
(2023)
This edited book explores prison masculinities, drawing from a wide range of international researchers to highlight how masculinities may divert from the ""hypermasculine"" or macho typology typically found in the prison ...
Belgian Exceptionalism
(2022)
This book takes stock of Belgium’s exceptional and – for some foreign observers –schizophrenic position in the political world and explains its idiosyncrasy to a non-Belgian audience. Offering a broad and comprehensive ...
Routledge Handbook on the UN and Development
(2020)
Development, Development Challenges, Global Governance, International Relations, Migration, Peace-Building, Sustainable Development Goals, The UN, The World Bank
Chapter Introduction Post-Soviet Border
(2023)
Post-Soviet border regions; borderlands; lands; cold war
Nordic Societal Security
(2021)
"This book compares and contrasts publicly espoused security concepts in the Nordic region, and explores the notion of societal security.
Outside observers often assume that Nordic countries take similar approaches to the ...
Chapter 1.1 Methodology of Synthesis
(2021)
sorption materials
water remediation
materials for environmental remediation
heavy metal
removal sorption of radionuclides
Chapter 2 The LEXIS Platform for Distributed Workflow Execution and Data Management
(2022)
Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Supercomputing
Chapter Introducing Asian Sound Cultures
(2023)
In this brief introduction we highlight the importance of broadening the cartography of sound
studies beyond the West. Over the last decade or so, the geographical range of sound studies has rapidly broadened at the ...
Ageing as a Social Challenge
(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 ...
Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction
(2025)
Romantic fiction has often involved stories of travel. In narratives of the journey towards love, "romance" often involves encounters with "exotic" places and peoples. When history is invoked in such stories, the past ...
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India
(2015)
ndia is the second largest country in the world with regard to population, the world’s largest democracy and by far the largest country in South Asia, and one of the most diverse and pluralistic nations in the world in ...
Anti-fascism in a Global Perspective
(2021)
Democracy; Extreme; Parties; Portugal; Portuguese; Right
Gender Equity in STEM in Higher Education
(2022)
This timely volume brings together a range of international scholars to analyse cultural, political, and individual factors which contribute to the continued global issue of female underrepresentation in STEM study and ...
Chapter 8 1980s and beyond
(2011)
Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of ‘the Other’ through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together ...