Publications
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Housing and Social Transition in Japan
(2007)
Bringing together a number of perspectives on the Japanese housing system, Housing and Social Transition in Japan provides a comprehensive, challenging and theoretically developed account of the dynamic role of the housing ...
Disability, Happiness and the Welfare State
(2024)
This book looks at disability as an evolving social phenomenon. Disability is created through the interaction between persons with impairments and their environment.
Exploring these experiences of persons with ...
Sheela-na-gigs
(2004)
Here Barbara Freitag examines all the literature on the subject since their discovery 160 years ago, highlighting the inconsistencies of the various interpretations in regard to origin, function and name. By considering ...
Chapter 6 Textures of urban fears
(2020)
We will discuss in detail the two exhibitions and their vicissitudes in the paragraphs
to come, focusing on the emotional public reactions they both evoked,
albeit to different degrees.
Causation and Laws of Nature
(2007)
This is the first Eng translation of Causalite´ et Lois de La Nature, and is an important contribution to the theory of causation. Max Kistler reconstructs a unified concept of causation that is general enough to adequately ...
Evaluating Sustainable Food System Innovations
(2024)
This book presents Urbal, an approach that applies impact pathway mapping to understand how food system innovations in cities, and their territories, change and impact food system sustainability. Around the world, people ...
Chapter 10 The Anti-Fascist Cultural Theory of Nikolai Bukharin and the Concept of Socialist Humanism
(2023)
Nikolai Bukharin’s (1888–1938) anti-fascist activity in the mid-1930s and his status as a cultural theoretician have been a neglected topic thus far. After losing his position as General Secretary of the Comintern’s executive ...
Critica
(2021)
Gathering together over 60 new and revised discussions of textual issues, this volume represents notorious problems in well-known texts from the classical era by authors including Horace, Ennius, and Vergil.
A follow-up ...
On the Theory of Content Transformation in Education
(2024)
This volume presents a novel, theoretical, micro-analytical model – the 3A Methodology – for assessing the quality of school education.
Drawing on philosophers as well as theoretical and pedagogical traditions from European ...
Remanufacturing and Advanced Machining Processes for New Materials and Components
(2022)
Remanufacturing and Advanced Machining Processes for Materials and Components presents current and emerging techniques for machining of new materials and restoration of components, as well as surface engineering methods ...
Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War
(2024)
This is the first scholarly volume to offer an insight into the less known stories of women, children, and international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.
Special attention is given to volunteers of different ...
Chapter Introduction
(2024)
In this extended introduction, Noyale Colin offers a rationale for the need to re-evaluate the concept of ‘technique’ and associated systems of training in contemporary dance. Colin proposes the concept of ethical agility ...
A History of Scottish Economic Thought
(2006)
Modern economics has, at its foundation, scholarly contributions from many prominent Scottish thinkers. This revealing work examines the roots of this great tradition, places in perspective a selection of authors, and ...
New Directions in Development Economics
(2003)
New Directions in Development Economics is divided into two parts. The first half considers the dilemna of growth with special reference to its environmental cost. The second half focuses on the role of the state in the ...
Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea
(2023)
Korean Literature, Periodical Authorship, Twentieth Century Literature
Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology
(2023)
This book unpacks and interrogates dominant constructions of mothering, making use of interdisciplinary, ideological and theoretical perspectives to investigate how new rhetorics of mothering can expand the realm of maternal ...
Employment, Poverty and Rights in India
(2018)
In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians ...
Institutional Change in Southeast Asia
(2005)
This book examines the institutional changes taking place in, and challenges facing, the region since 1997. It also describes various differences in the reform process between countries in the region. Sjöholm and Tongzon ...
How and Why We Teach Shakespeare
(2019)
In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences and share their methods and the reasons why they teach Shakespeare. The collection is divided into ...
Expatriates and Managing Global Mobility
(2023)
There has been several decades of research on why women are under-represented in the expatriate population, but it is only in the past few years that research has begun to focus on issues with members from other diverse ...