The scientific understanding of energy, matter, and spacetime has advanced rapidly, whereas the study of information—its properties, behavior, and dynamics—remains underdeveloped.
This book examines the sociopolitical lives of gender nonconforming people (GNCP) in India in the context of the transformations wrought by HIV and LGBTQ activism over the past three decades.
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 5th International Workshop on Distributed Computing for Emerging Smart Networks, DiCES-N 2025, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, during April 26-27, 2025.
The Persian Gulf 2024-25, part of the annual Persian Gulf Series published by MEI@ND, offers a comprehensive and systematic analysis of important political, foreign policy, security, economic and societal developments in the nine Gulf countries, namely Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen as well as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and focuses on the developments of 2023 and 2024.
This volume, LNCS 16349, constitutes revised selected papers from the 10th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing, ALGOCLOUD 2025, held in Warsaw, Poland, during September 15–16, 2025.
The three-volume set constitutes revised selected papers of the 21st International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2025, held in Xi'an, China, on October 19, 2025.
This book provides the first history of the Silk Screen Shop (1943-45) at the Granada War Relocation Center (“Amache”) in Colorado, a World War II incarceration site for Japanese Americans.
This book undertakes a critical examination of monuments, heritage, and memory, analysing their intersections with colonial histories, gender dynamics, and class structures.
This book analyses the geopolitical, geostrategic and geoeconomic implications of the expanding BRICS bloc and the extent to which this tridimensional dynamic impacts global security, peace and sustainable development.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management, AAIM 2025, held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, during June 23–25, 2025.
Split across two sections on key theory and key issues, this introductory textbook encourages students to think critically about culture and society by engaging with the main theoretical debates which distinguish sociology’s contribution to cultural studies from the approach of other disciplines.
This book offers a fresh rethinking of Turkish foreign policy under the Justice and Development Party (AKP), drawing on both mainstream and critical approaches within International Relations (IR) theory.
Against the macro backdrop of global digital economic transformation, this book systematically reveals the transformation logic of China's manufacturing industry through the collaborative evolution of technology, institutions, and markets, with "e;how digital trade reconstructs the value creation system of enterprise manufacturing"e; as its core thread.
This book focuses on four key parts of the Blockchain ecosystem, which are the most relevant for financial services executives: Tokenomics and Digital Platforms, Markets, Privacy and the emerging phenomenon of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).
This book offers a fresh rethinking of Turkish foreign policy under the Justice and Development Party (AKP), drawing on both mainstream and critical approaches within International Relations (IR) theory.
This book examines the sociopolitical lives of gender nonconforming people (GNCP) in India in the context of the transformations wrought by HIV and LGBTQ activism over the past three decades.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Ethical Hacking Conference, eHaCON 2025, the 6th international conference of its type held in Kolkata, India, in February 2025.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2025, held in Milan, Italy, during June 3-4, 2025.
This book explores the transformation of Qatar's foreign policy strategies since gaining independence, with a specific focus on its gradual political emancipation from Saudi influence over the past five decades.
This brief discusses how to deal with data visualization and prediction in human society, a context in which big data analysis and artificial intelligence have the potential to transform the world.
This edited book brings together researchers, partners, Ministry staff, disability activists, teachers, and influential commentators to present a constructive dialogue around the opportunities associated with inclusive and equitable education.
This book reviews environmental contaminants in terms of their sources, impacts, and health risk assessment, with a focus on soil pollution, groundwater contamination, and integrated management strategies.
This Handbook showcases representations of parenthood in twenty-first-century popular culture, critically assessing how these representations shape, respond to, and redefine notions of families, as well as popular culture genres.
The two-volume set LNCS 15751 + 15752 constitutes revised selected papers from the 29th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2025, which took place in Miyakojima, Japan, during April 14–18, 2025.
This book focuses on China's regional economic development, particularly of urban clusters such as those around Beijing and Shanghai as well as in the Pearl River Delta.
Taking the contested and contestable meaning of “comics” as its starting point, Comics is… brings together ten comics scholars from different disciplines and with different approaches to what some of us call comics, to debate and discuss the foundations of Comics Studies in a provocative and thought-provoking way.
This book offers a comprehensive and systematic exploration of control design and analysis for interval type-2 fuzzy systems under constrained communication networks.
This book focuses on China's regional economic development, particularly of urban clusters such as those around Beijing and Shanghai as well as in the Pearl River Delta.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Ethical Hacking Conference, eHaCON 2025, the 6th international conference of its type held in Kolkata, India, in February 2025.
This book reports on the latest advancements of non-destructive testing and structural techniques as applied on a wide range of cultural heritage applications.
This book examines the critical intersection of religion, democracy, and political leadership in three prominent Muslim-majority states—Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey.
This book is an ambitious research work that incorporates recent findings on communication and knowledge in organizations and includes contributions from global researchers.
This book covers the period from the approach of Allied and Soviet armies to the Reich frontiers in late summer 1944 right up to the final collapse in May 1945.
This book explores why state violence has proliferated across Latin America despite the adoption of extensive political and legal reforms intended to deter such violence.
In an increasingly interconnected and complex world, businesses face environmental, social, and economic challenges that demand thoughtful reflection and a shift in operational approaches.
This book offers novel insights into how expert fund managers—those who demonstrate superior performance over the long term—make their judgments and decisions.
This book examines urbanization in Haiti as a laboratory of crisis and resilience, where the absence of state capacity collides with the creativity of grassroots actors.
This book examines traditional approaches to conflict resolution in Northern Nigeria, tracing their development from the pre-colonial period through to the present day.
This book collects contributions that discuss the spread of AI, AI-GEN, and XR tools in the fields of cultural heritage and innovative design and their relationships with representation disciplines.
