Publications
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Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology
(2021)
science; technology
Disappearances in Mexico
(2022)
This volume presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the practice of disappearances in Mexico, from the period of the so-called ‘dirty war’ to the current crisis of disappearances associated with the country’s ‘war on ...
Chapter 11 Higher education students as consumers?
(2020)
In this chapter, we draw on an analysis of English policy documents and focus groups with students at three English higher education institutions, to explore some of the complexity in the ways in which the concept of ...
Jews and Muslims in London and Amsterdam
(2023)
This book focuses on the development of bilateral Jewish-Muslim relations in London and Amsterdam since the late-1980s. It offers a comparative analysis that considers both similarities and differences, drawing on historical, ...
Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory
(2004)
Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory focuses on the cosmological implications of the gauge theories of particle physics and of string theory. The book first examines the universe's series of phase transitions ...
The Transformation of Yunnan in Ming China
(2020)
This book examines how the Ming state transformed the multi-ethnic society of Yunnan into a province. Yunnan had remained outside the ambit of central government when ruled by the Dali kingdom, 937-1253, and its foundation ...
Women and the UN
(2022)
This book provides a critical history of influential women in the United Nations and seeks to inspire empowerment with role models from bygone eras. The women whose voices this book presents helped shape UN conventions, ...
Unauthorized Access
(2014)
Going beyond current books on privacy and security, this book proposes specific solutions to public policy issues pertaining to online privacy and security. Requiring no technical or legal expertise, it provides a practical ...
Harold Garfinkel: Studies of Work in the Sciences
(2022)
This volume includes an unpublished manuscript and selected portions of five seminars by Harold Garfinkel – the founder of ethnomethodology – on the topic of practices in the natural sciences and mathematics. The volume ...
Generation and Applications of Extra-Terrestrial Environments on Earth
(2015)
This book has been prepared under the auspice of the European Low Gravity Research Association (ELGRA). The main task of ELGRA is to foster the scientific community in Europe and beyond in conducting gravity and space-related ...
Chapter Twenty-six Syriac Medicine
(2019)
The field of Syriac medicine is perhaps one of the least investigated and explored
domains within Syriac intellectual culture. Yet owing to its decisive role during the
late antique period for the transfer of Greek medical ...
Museums, Identity and Family Practices
(2025)
Museums, Identity and Family Practices locates museum participation and meaning making in the realm of everyday family practices, which are central to understanding the role museums play in family social life. Drawing on ...
Chapter V: Verbs
(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 ...
Chapter 9 Crisis?
(2021)
The issue of (dis)continuity in the pre- and post-1989 situation has been a contentious one in the Czech public debate and intensely discussed particularly in the early 2010s. In the field of theatre, the question of ...
Populist Challenges to Constitutional Interpretation in Europe and Beyond
(2021)
"This book explores the relationship between populism or populist regimes and constitutional interpretation used in those regimes.
The volume discusses the question of whether contemporary populist governments and ...
Chapter 10 Understanding How the Internet and Social Media Accelerate Racial Stereotyping and Social Division: The Socially Mediated Stereotyping Model
(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 Starting with the End in Mind by Developing Diagnostics around User Needs
(2017)
As discussed in this chapter, the commercialization and adoption bottlenecks for these moderately complex diagnostics cannot be overcome by
technological innovation alone, particularly in the highly regulated and
payer-limited ...
Law and Justice in a Globalized World
(2018)
The book consists of a selection of papers presented at the Asia-Pacific Research Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities. It contains essays on current legal issues in law and justice, and their role and transformation ...
Performing Cultures of Equality
(2022)
This book examines the enactment of gendered in/equalities across diverse Cultural forms, turning to the insights produced through the specific modes of onto-epistemological enquiry of embodied performance. It builds on ...
The Transcendent Character of the Good
(2023)
This volume addresses issues of moral pluralism and polarization by drawing attention to the transcendent character of the good. It probes the history of Christian theology and moral philosophy to investigate the value of ...
Chapter Introduction
(2023)
Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology explores the relationship between narra¬tive, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Situated at the intersection of narrative theory and context-oriented ...
Decolonising Schools in South Africa
(2020)
"This book explores the challenge of dismantling colonial schooling and how entangled power relations of the past have lingered in post-apartheid South Africa.
It examines ‘on the ground’ history of colonialism from ...
Gender Equity in STEM in Higher Education
(2021)
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 3 The Polyglot Industry
(2025)
This book offers a self-reflective, critical approach to the study of what is popularly known as polyglossia, charting the gradual but marked process of its commoditization over the last 20 years and offering a counterpoint ...
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Planetary Well-Being
(2024)
This book proposes a paradigm shift in how human and nonhuman well-being are perceived and approached. In response to years of accelerated decline in the health of ecosystems and their inhabitants, this edited collection ...
Chapter 1 Animal sacrifice, politics and the law in Tamil Nadu, South India
(2024)
After describing and explaining the significance of animal sacrifice in a typical Tamil village goddess festival, this chapter considers the debates surrounding the passing of the Madras Animals and Birds Sacrifices ...
Plurilingual Classroom Practices and Participation
(2022)
Plurilingual Classroom Practices and Participation contributes to a better understanding of plurilingual education in Catalonia by providing a description of the interactional resources mobilised by learners as social ...
The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism
(2022)
Though it might seem as modern as Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, and Vladimir Nabokov, translingual writing - texts by authors using more than one language or a language other than their primary one - has an ancient pedigree. ...
Rural Governance in the UK
(2023)
This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of rural society in a post-Brexit UK by examining the emergence of new environmental and rural policies and the implications of this transition for rural communities.
Through ...
Chapter 16 Scaling Up, Down, and Across
(2023)
This volume presents contributions made by Daniel Druckman on the topics of negotiation, national identity, and justice. Containing research conducted and published over a half century, the volume is divided into seven ...
Chapter 5 Technological accretion in diagnostics
(2016)
This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation. While there is no unique pathway to successful medical innovation, recurring and distinctive features can ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2022)
Digital technologies shape our embodied lives and affect our knowledge of the self and the world. The introductory chapter of the book presents the state of the art in the research on digitalisation of health and social ...
Chapter 3 On the threshold (Stage A of conscious development during transition)
(2022)
Fear and Primordial Trust explores fear as an existential phenomenon and how it can be overcome. Illustrated by clinical examples from the author’s practice as a psychotherapist and spiritual caregiver working with the ...
The Transgender Exigency
(2022)
At no other point in human history have the definitions of "woman" and "man," "male" and "female," "masculine" and "feminine," been more contentious than now. This book advances a pragmatic approach to the act of defining ...
Handbook of Primary Care Ethics
(2017)
This enterprising collection spans the breadth of primary care in multiple ways. Contributions from general practitioners, philosophers, nurses, physiotherapists, dentists, health economists, educationalists, patients and ...
Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa
(2022)
Women judges are playing increasingly prominent roles in many African judiciaries, yet there remains very little comparative research on the subject. Drawing on extensive cross-national data and theoretical and empirical ...
Chapter 1 After the Rebellion
(2023)
An extensive introductory chapter presents a critical history of the major conceptual and aesthetic influences that shaped the postwar counterculture in the strong form of their earliest statements. Although these are ...
The Spanish Habsburgs and Dynastic Rule, 1500–1700
(2023)
Providing a novel research methodology for students and scholars with an interest in dynasties, at all levels, this book explores the Spanish Habsburg dynasty that ruled the Spanish monarchy between c. 1515 and 1700. ...
Handbook of Manufacturing Systems and Design
(2024)
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of manufacturing systems, their role in product/process design, and their interconnection with Industry 4.0 perspective, especially related to design, manufacturing, and ...
Chapter 1 Byzantine Identity and Dress
(2025)
This book offers approaches to the study of Byzantine dress of elites and non-elites, in sacred and secular modes, from the beginning of the Empire in the fourth century until the fifteenth century. Byzantine dress is ...