Publications
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Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas
(2024)
This book offers a comparative analysis of the experiences, responses, and adaptations of people to climate variability and environmental change across the Americas. It foregrounds historical ecology as a structural framework ...
Chapter 2 A brief history of Apis
(2021)
"The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines. It outlines key debates in the field, showcasing novel statistical modeling and machine learning ...
Chapter 1 Towards Designing Meaningful Relationships with Robots
(2023)
Social robots are on the brink of entering our lives. However, little knowledge is available about how best to design them. This introductory chapter discusses the real-life social robots of the present as well as of ...
Chapter Biographies
(2021)
The Hispanic and Anglo worlds are often portrayed as the Cain and Abel of Western culture, antagonistic and alien to each other. This book challenges such view with a new critical conceptual framework – the ‘Hispanic-Anglosphere’ ...
The Constitution of Consciousness
(2005)
Through the work of philosophers like Sellars, Davidson, and McDowell, the question of how the mind is related to the world has gained new importance in contemporary analytic philosophy. This book demonstrates that Husserl's ...
Chapter 5 Introduction to Temple Rituals
(2023)
The Introduction will discuss secondary writings on temples as a place for public worship of the deity which is done through several daily, monthly and annual rituals performed in different spaces in the temple complex. ...
On the Avenue of the Mystery
(2023)
This volume is a study of eight major novels from the postwar period (1945-65) in conjunction with the films made from them during a later period of a little less than three decades straddling the millennium (1985-2012). ...
Chapter B2 Functions of Legal Language
(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 ...
Chapter 2 Is journalism gender e-qual?
(2020)
Chapter 2 explores the gender aspects of digital skills in journalism. There is a discussion of the gendered consequences of the increased value of digital skills in journalism. For example, what happens if media companies ...
Chapter A1 ‘Legal Language’ as a Linguistic Variety
(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 ...
Religion and Secularism in France Today
(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 19 Concentrated solar energy driven multi-generation systems based on the organic Rankine cycle technology
(2020)
The use of renewable energy sources for multi-generation plants (plants with multiple products, e.g., heat, power, cooling, fresh water) is beneficial to mitigating climate change and to achieving sustainable development. ...
Chapter 6 Contextualizing bioethics
(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 ...
Chapter 2 From the Heritage of African American Slavery to Modern Civil Rights Protection
(2016)
Promises of justice and equality made in the U.S. Constitution, numerous Amendments, and decisions of the Supreme Court are hallmarks of American civil rights. Yet the realities of inequality remain facts of modern life ...
Chapter 11 Multilingual teacher identity in the Emirates
(2022)
A growing number of countries are implementing school initiatives aimed at developing students’ knowledge of multiple languages to help them thrive in a globalized world. Research indicates that learning languages can be ...
Chapter 13 Outlook
(2021)
In many countries, early mathematics education rests on normative postulates. Moreover, it tends to be considerably less standardized and, at the same time, more pronouncedly situation-specific than school education. Given ...
Advances in Carbon Management Technologies
(2020)
Advances in carbon Management Technologies comprises 43 chapters, in 2 volumes, contributed by experts from all over the world. Volume 1 of the book, containing 22 chapters, discusses the status of technologies capable of ...
Emerging Practices in Intergovernmental Functional Assignment
(2017)
Attaining the benefits of (especially fiscal) decentralization in government remains an enduring challenge, in part because the re-arrangement of public functions across levels of government has often been carried out ...
Chapter Introduction and Overview
(2023)
Drawing on perspectives from music psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, musicology, clinical psychology, and music education, Music and Mental Imagery provides a critical overview of cutting-edge research on the ...
Decolonising Political Communication in Africa
(2021)
This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using ...
Freedom of Expression and the Law in Russia
(2025)
This book discusses how Russia’s legal system restricts freedom of expression. As the author analyses legal amendments restricting the free flow of information since 2012, she draws upon Akerlof’s framework of “Asymmetrical ...
Chapter 12 The role of mobility and transnationality for local marketplaces
(2023)
Dominant representations depict outdoor markets in Switzerland and beyond as typically local. Not only are they presented and promoted by different actors as being local in terms of the products sold on a market day, but ...
Chapter 8 Peter Rehberg, Christian Fennesz and the Label Mego
(2018)
A large proportion of artists considered in this study at some stage of their career
veered towards ‘serious’ or experimental music. This also refers to Peter Rehberg
and Christian Fennesz. However, they differ from those ...
Latour for Architects
(2022)
Bruno Latour is one of the leading figures in Social Sciences today, but his contributions are also widely recognised in the arts. His theories ‘flourished’ in the 1980s in the aftermath of the structuralism wave and ...
Chapter 5 Audience responses in the light of perception–action theories of empathy
(2017)
In recent years, empathy has received considerable research attention as a means of understanding a range of psychological phenomena, and it is fast drawing attention within the fields of music psychology and music education. ...
Chapter 4 Planetary environing
(2023)
Anthropocene; Environment and sustainability; Environmental humanities; Environmental media; Indigenous; Media studies
Transformative pathways to sustainability
(2022)
Transformations to sustainability are increasingly the focus of research and policy discussions around the Sustainable Development Goals. However, the different roles played by transdisciplinary research in contributing ...
Chapter 3 Behavioural biology, conservation genomics, and population viability (Open Access)
(2022)
This is the first book on captive animal behaviour, applied to welfare. It enables all aspects of zoo husbandry and management (nutrition, enclosure design, handling & training, enrichment, population management) to be ...
Feeling Exclusion
(2019)
Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and communities ...
Challenges in Information, Communication and Computing Technology Volume 1
(2025)
This book explores the critical challenges and emerging trends in Information, Communication, and Computing Technology (ICCT). It provides a comprehensive overview of the key issues facing these rapidly evolving fields, ...
Chapter 12 Archetypal aspects of transference at the end of life
(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 15 Inequality and rising levels of socio-economic segregation: Lessons from a pan-European comparative study
(2015)
The Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: East Meets West project investigates changing levels of socio-economic segregation in 13 major European cities: Amsterdam, Budapest, Vienna, Stockholm, Oslo, London, ...
Chapter 1 The three faces of accountability
(2023)
Accountability is not an event, but a process. The purpose of the present chapter is to discuss the three faces or phases of accountability: taking into account, keeping into account and giving an account. In doing so ...
The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century
(2023)
The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century brings together a wide range of geographical, cultural, historical, and conceptual perspectives in a single volume of new essays that facilitate a ...
Chapter 3 Learning by Design and Second Language Teaching Practices
(2022)
"Learning by Design and Second Language Teaching establishes theoretical, research, and practice connections between the multiliteracies framework Learning by Design and L2 teaching and learning.
A comprehensive ...
Reputation Management and Family Business
(2022)
Corporate reputation is important in gaining long-term competitive advantage and building company value. Thus, the author points out the need to manage reputation, which, due to its complex nature and multidimensional ...
The Practices of Happiness
(2011)
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No ...
Chapter 4 Boundary crossing
(2019)
Child safeguarding has come to the forefront of public debate in the UK in
the aftermath of a series of highly publicised incidents of child sexual
exploitation and abuse. These have exposed the inadequacies and failings
of ...
Global Perspectives on Teaching with Technology
(2024)
Global Perspectives on Teaching with Technology presents a wealth of current research on how teacher education and training programs around the world are preparing teachers to integrate and apply learning technologies ...
Chapter 12 Intersectional politics on domestic workers’ rights
(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 ...