This book meticulously examines the profound and multifaceted impact of high-speed rail(HSR) on China's regional economic development, adopting a distinctive spatio-temporal perspective.
This book offers a rigorous examination of Russia's state capability through the critical lens of food security, revealing profound implications for domestic stability and international relations.
Amidst rising global inequality, intensifying geopolitical frictions, and the renewed force of colonial logics, this volume offers a critical interrogation of coloniality, decolonial practices, global capitalism, and the technologies of governance that entrench social and environmental injustice.
This book examines the ways in which Nigeria's borders are used as instruments of soft and hard power in the country's relations with other African states.
Chapter 1 explores how unions prioritize political agendas over individual protections, with a specific focus on the prevalence of antisemitism within organized labor.
Now in its fourth edition, The Global Positioning System and GIS arrives at a critical moment of transition- a time when new methods for collecting position and attribute data are reshaping how information is integrated into Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
This book uncovers the controversies around the suspended prison sentence, its main aims and features, and the role that it occupies within the wider criminal justice context.
Zoo Animal Welfare unpacks the different concepts of welfare in the zoo and aquarium, considering how enclosure design, nutrition, conservation activities, visitor engagement and daily husbandry all need to have a welfare focus to be relevant to the species being housed.
In this compelling narrative, discover how Christianity-particularly through Puritanism-shaped the foundations of modern Western democracy, only to see its influence dramatically transformed by the forces of secularization.
This book explores the architectural history of Christian universities in China, revealing how quasi colonial power interaction and cross cultural communication of meaning were channelled through religious and educational architecture in modern China.
Covering Sadat, Mubarak, and the post revolution periods, this book presents a contemporary intellectual history of the Egyptian secular left in politics since 1970.
Designed to help journalists keep pace with the rapid evolution of deepfakes as well as integrate 'fake-checking' methods into their routine reporting practices, this book offers a concise and accessible guide for reporters navigating this evolving challenge.
This book examines the UK's enduring 'permacrisis'-austerity policies, Brexit, climate change, inflation, and the rising cost of living-through the lens of the policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic as part of a policy continuum.
Providing a foundational look at corporate advocacy from the perspective of strategic communications, this book develops strategies for authentic and meaningful ways companies can engage in advocating for social issues in order to have the strongest and most positive impact on society and their business.
The Non-Post-Socialist City examines contemporary urban policies through case studies of six cities in four states across Central and Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union (CEE/FSU) region.
Focusing on masks and faces as figures and objects that carry ethical and political meanings, this volume examines the scientific, cultural, visual, and philosophical histories and traditions in which they are imbricated and which allow them to gather force and to become central to how human relationships are made.
Focusing on masks and faces as figures and objects that carry ethical and political meanings, this volume examines the scientific, cultural, visual, and philosophical histories and traditions in which they are imbricated and which allow them to gather force and to become central to how human relationships are made.
China in Later Enlightenment Political Thought examines the ideas of China in the works of mid- to late-eighteenth century European Enlightenment political thinkers.
In this compelling narrative, discover how Christianity-particularly through Puritanism-shaped the foundations of modern Western democracy, only to see its influence dramatically transformed by the forces of secularization.
Since the peak of school desegregation in the late 1980s, schools across the nation have been resegregating such that schools are now as segregated as they were during the late 1960s.
Covering Sadat, Mubarak, and the post revolution periods, this book presents a contemporary intellectual history of the Egyptian secular left in politics since 1970.
Teaching and learning through Hollywood, or commercial, film and television productions is anything but a new approach and has been something of a mainstay in the classroom for nearly a century.
Este libro analiza las interconexiones cronologicas y enfatiza acerca de la continuidad entre los anos veinte, los treinta, los anos de la propia guerra y el periodo de posguerra, extendiendose hasta sucesos como la reunificacion de Alemania.
This third volume of LMX Leadership: The Series addresses the question of how leaders prepare their teams for required loosely directed, highly coordinated, and above all, flexible operations.
The volume 3 of this series is designed to present educators with current research and emerging issues in teaching, learning and motivation in a multicultural context.
Fourteen American and Canadian academics contribute 13 chapters placing race at the center of an understanding of social studies practices in education.
Diese Publikation ist seit 36 Jahren uberfallig, denn es ist kein Geheimnis, dass in der Aufarbeitung der Punk-Geschichte der DDR die Frauen der DDR-Punkszene unterreprasentiert sind, obwohl sie existent und sichtbar waren, obwohl sie genauso aktiv waren, denselben Repressionen ausgesetzt waren und denselben Widerstand leisteten wie ihre mannlichen Wegbegleiter.
This volume covers topics including: translation issues in cross-cultural research; African American teachers for African American students; the social mediation of metacognition; and cross-cultural similarities and differences in affective meaning of achievement.
Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Authors Going Deeper with Holistic Education is a collection of essays and poems offering testimony to the holism of original traditional Indigenous ways of knowing, teaching and learning.
Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Authors Going Deeper with Holistic Education is a collection of essays and poems offering testimony to the holism of original traditional Indigenous ways of knowing, teaching and learning.
Diese Publikation ist seit 36 Jahren uberfallig, denn es ist kein Geheimnis, dass in der Aufarbeitung der Punk-Geschichte der DDR die Frauen der DDR-Punkszene unterreprasentiert sind, obwohl sie existent und sichtbar waren, obwohl sie genauso aktiv waren, denselben Repressionen ausgesetzt waren und denselben Widerstand leisteten wie ihre mannlichen Wegbegleiter.
The aim of this book is to present some recent research findings on dif-ferent aspects of multicultural education, thus informing educators of issues, policies and new approaches to multicultural education being used around the world.
The title of our volume on interdisciplinary semiotics is situated in a geographical metaphor and points to the possibility of uncovering meanings through shifting perspectives as well as to the possibility of understanding how these various modes of meaning are articulated and framed in particular cultural instances.
