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This book examines how China's emerging middle class uses social media platforms, especially WeChat, to build and maintain social networks that enhance their status in society.

This book explores the nuances of settlement, migration, development, and geopolitics in the region known as the Siliguri Corridor, located in eastern India.

This timely, international volume presents case studies on the current landscape of educational policy and reform across the diverse and dynamic Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

This book presents a transformative vision for musicians seeking meaningful careers while revitalising community wellbeing.

Evolving Journalism Research Methods offers the first comprehensive survey of research methods and their applications in Journalism Studies.

Femicide in Latin America: A Growing Threat to Women's Security explores the persistent and rising rates of femicide across sixteen Central and South American countries as a critical issue of national stability and regional security.

A Guide to Academic Writing: How to Tame Your Essay presents a holistic approach to writing in academia.

This book examines Italy's colonial history from the turn of the twentieth century to the outbreak of the First World War.

This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society.

This book highlights the role of local non-state security actors in the fight against Boko Haram in Nigeria.

This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society.

Framing the Opioid Crisis in Canada empirically examines public debates about the opioid crisis by politicians, journalists, and the general public, focusing on who they blame for the crisis and their proposed solutions.

A wake-up call to motivate and inspire leaders, this book is a proactive approach to crisis planning and management that guides leaders step by step through a field-tested approach that will empower them to be more effective and less defensive when facing a crisis.

This book explores the nuances of settlement, migration, development, and geopolitics in the region known as the Siliguri Corridor, located in eastern India.

In Statistics as Principled Argument, first published in 1995, Robert P.

Never Enough Time discusses the directional and irreversible nature of time, its relationship to information and entropy, the deep time history of communication from the genesis of language to today, and the extent to which we occupy time through our communication.

Practical Bomb Scene Investigation, Fourth Edition details the evidence collection and investigative processes undertaken-at the scene of an explosion-by improvised explosive device (IED) specialists, including bomb scene technicians and post-blast investigators.

This new book looks at the fast-growing field of computational intelligence in a wide range of areas and offers new perspectives for using AI to enhance effectiveness as well as deal with real-life issues and problems.

The phrase "e;post-postmodernism"e; has appeared in Contemporary Literary Studies since the 20th century, but what does it mean?

This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society.

Practical Bomb Scene Investigation, Fourth Edition details the evidence collection and investigative processes undertaken-at the scene of an explosion-by improvised explosive device (IED) specialists, including bomb scene technicians and post-blast investigators.

Offering a critical insight into the production, gatekeeping, and consumption of news in contemporary American society, American Otherness in Journalism lays bare embedded cultural beliefs, via mainstream news media, to ask: who gets to be represented as American, and why?

This book presents international experiences of territorial strategies and urban projects in which universities have played a major role over the past fifteen years, through spatial planning and within a multiscalar approach.

This book studies four cases where competing regional players greatly shaped the ongoing conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Somalia/the Horn of Africa, and Libya.

This handbook provides a comprehensive look into the emerging issues confronting ageing societies across the world.

The volume examines popular sensibilities via textual, visual, performative, spatial, digital frames of inquiry and critical social-political issues in South Asia.

This comprehensive volume provides a conceptual and theoretical understanding of e-governance and public administration in India.

This book discusses US foreign and security policy in contemporary Eastern Mediterranean, against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine and renewed great power competition.

This volume summarizes novel and diverse research methods for both quantitative and qualitative social media journalism-based research.

This book examines how China's emerging middle class uses social media platforms, especially WeChat, to build and maintain social networks that enhance their status in society.

AI and Sustainable Transformations presents cutting-edge research and insights into the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies in driving human-centered innovation and sustainable transformation across various industries.

This book puts forth a "e;decolonial option"e; to C.

The book presents an innovative conceptualization of Western thought, casting the discourse of black and white intellectuals and politicians as a treatise on Occidentalism.

Taking up the unique challenges of mega-crisis events, this book provides a framework for rethinking crisis approaches and designing a world that is better prepared to avoid or minimize these catastrophic events.

This book examines and evaluates the legal protections available to platform workers in China, with a particular focus on labor law.

This volume looks at social work education and its role in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across the globe.

This volume focuses on artists and writers associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, Scottish Symbolism and the Celtic Revival.

This book offers an unprecedented exploration of Greece's immigration detention system, uncovering its hidden histories, systemic violence, and the struggles of those confined within its walls.

Historically, microfinance has emerged as a means to extend financial services to previously excluded populations, serving as a pathway to poverty reduction and aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.

This volume summarizes novel and diverse research methods for both quantitative and qualitative social media journalism-based research.

This book discusses US foreign and security policy in contemporary Eastern Mediterranean, against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine and renewed great power competition.

There is a growing recognition that poorly designed work can degrade employees' mental health.