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This book focuses on the complex and contested nature of transformation in India, from a social and political ecology perspective.

The Craft of the Psychodynamic Case Study: A Practical Guide is the first comprehensive guide to help clinicians transform their therapeutic experiences into compelling, meaningful case narratives that honor both clinical truth and literary craft.

Sacred Orientation in Late Antiquity and Early Islam: The Qibla as Ritual, Metaphor, and Identity Marker offers a groundbreaking study of how the qibla-Islam's ritual direction of prayer-served not only as a sacred practice but also as a powerful marker of communal identity in Islam's formative centuries.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the influence that the papyrus plant has had on African wetlands (with a particular focus on the Nile) in the past, and how this may change with the oncoming threats of climate change.

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.

This book explores the social history of the radical religious community of Old Believer-Wanderers during the period of rapid Late Imperial, Early Soviet, and Stalinist modernization.

Shakespeare in Pakistan offers a comprehensive examination of the appropriation of Shakespearean plays in Pakistan, with a focus on how these works engage with creative, indigenous, cultural, culinary, and religious expressions of identity.

In a world where people are predominantly on the move, mobility has not received as much attention as sedentism.

Circularity is a practice that not only increases efficient industry performance but it focuses on resource management, waste reduction, innovation, stakeholder engagement, and operational excellence, also contribute to sustainable business and enhanced competitiveness.

This critical text proposes new ways of conceptualizing Black womanhood by challenging plantation patriarchal culture and its binary constructions, and methods of Black heterosexual coupling.

This book examines young men's precarious education-to-employment transitions as they navigate educational, occupational and emotional challenges in the shadow of deindustrialisation and austerity.

This book argues that the influence of US-Russian security competition on the energy policies of EU member states and on the development of a unified European energy security policy has been significantly underestimated.

This book examines how moralities of distribution and redistribution operate and intertwine in everyday African economic life, enhancing current understandings of capitalism on the continent.

Cities in the Metaverse offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between urban environments and digital realms.

The massacre of Israelis by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, was the most dreadful slaughter inflicted upon the Jews since the Nazi Holocaust.

This book serves as a comprehensive overview of the principles, tools, and techniques of scientific research methodology.

Doing Academic Research is an accessible guide to research focusing on the social sciences, humanities, and business.

Mythistory and Memory in Kaziranga explores the cultural and ecological heritage of Kaziranga National Park through the oral traditions of the Karbi people, centering on the mythical figure of Kajir Ronghangpi.

Entrepreneurship in the Arab World is a pioneering academic reader and research companion offering an in-depth exploration of entrepreneurship in the Arab world.

This book sheds light on the phenomenon of memes, covering everything from pandemic humour to far-right propaganda, from feminist memes to algorithmic censorship.

Parklets are innovative, dynamic public spaces that are installed onto on-street car-parking spots.

Artificial Intelligence in Smart Cities presents an interdisciplinary and comprehensive analysis of how AI reengineers urban life, governance, and infrastructure.

Performing Stragismo and Counterspectacularisation offers a new theoretical lens on political violence as spectacle, drawing on performance theory to explore how acts of violence - particularly terrorism - are staged, circulated, and remembered.

This book draws on interdisciplinary research deploying 'river rights' and 'water justice' as conceptual frameworks to engage with laws and politics around waterbodies.

This book brings together scholarship and debates on citizenship and democratic innovation, and examines how democratic innovations might change, or even consolidate, the existing contours of citizenship.

The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science investigates and illuminates the growing international interest in the intersections and interactions between theatre, drama, performance and the sciences.

The massacre of Israelis by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, was the most dreadful slaughter inflicted upon the Jews since the Nazi Holocaust.

Learners are always motivated; they just may not be motivated to learn what you want them to.

ICETSIMD 2025 was conceived as a vital platform for academicians, researchers, and industry leaders.

This volume provides a transdisciplinary analysis of the political, social and environmental aspects of governance and its implementation in the mining sector.

The aim of the monograph is to demonstrate different approaches to building business models, where the starting point is the joint examination of social and technical factors.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the influence that the papyrus plant has had on African wetlands (with a particular focus on the Nile) in the past, and how this may change with the oncoming threats of climate change.

Learners are always motivated; they just may not be motivated to learn what you want them to.

How do we convey felt, intimate encounters between people, shared objects, spaces, and atmospheres?

With this book, Bernd Reiter reflects on over three decades of research on race, exclusion, inequality, white supremacy, and the defense of privilege in Brazil to explore how social hierarchies, honor, and dignity perpetuate systemic disparities in Latin America.

Emotional intelligence, often referred to as emotional quotient (EQ), has emerged as a critical soft skill in public relations (PR), proven essential for performance, leadership, and fostering collaborative organizational cultures.

How do we age?

This book analyses infrastructure projects in the Balkan region, examining Chinese penetration in the area, the political and economic dimensions of these projects, and the controversy associated with them.

The world is periodically consumed by violence, in recent years by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hamas' October 7th terrorism in Israel, and by the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza by Israelis in response.

This book presents a critical history of Yugoslav socialist economics, from its inception in the late 1940s to its dissolution in the late 1980s.

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.

This book explores the multispecies triad of cattle ranching, focusing on how humans, horses, and cattle meet, interact, and shape a common multispecies culture.

This book constitutes the proceedings from the 24th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2025, held in Osaka, Japan during November 17–20, 2025.

This book constitutes the proceedings from the 24th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2025, held in Osaka, Japan during November 17–20, 2025.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences, KSS 2025, held in Kitakyushu, Japan, during November 28 – December 1, 2025.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences, KSS 2025, held in Kitakyushu, Japan, during November 28 – December 1, 2025.

Now in a second edition, this book introduces students to the theories of strategic communication and their application to everyday practice.

Focusing on how the history of past conflicts is mediated in the present and recent past in six European countries, this book explores media processes as they intersect with power dynamics and hegemonic narratives of history and historical memory.

The greatest challenge humanity faces in the 21st century is the climate crisis.