Cultural and media studies

This book represents an ambitious effort to bring leading Yijing scholars together to examine the globalisation and localisation of the 'Book of Changes' from cross-cultural and comparative perspectives.

This book is cast in a Singaporean context in which Chinese Language is taught as a second language with an emphasis on communicational skills.

This book presents new and innovative current discoveries in social networking which contribute enough knowledge to the research community.

This edited volume explores core questions on education and transnational mobility in a time characterized by a global pandemic, recasting them through the lenses of regimes, experiences, and aspirations.

"e;Kawaii"e; is a Japanese word that denotes "e;cute,"e; "e;lovable,"e; or "e;charming"e; although it does not have exactly the same meaning as those adjectives.

This book successfully represents the indispensable interdisciplinarity of viewpoints by its authors combining legal perspectives with architectural and anthropological approaches.

This book explores the actual process of mediation operation in the translation process and the interaction between mediation and social structure.

This book presents the outcomes of the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), "e;Towards creating more human-like conversational agent technologies"e;.

This book addresses the key issues, challenges and implications arising out of unauthorised acts of character merchandising.

This book focuses on a single artefact, the Barochan Cross, a ninth century stone sculpture in Renfrewshire, Scotland.

This book is about generating types of societies by the degree of individuals' satisfaction with life domains, aspects, and styles via factor analysis.

The book deals with philosophical issues concerning the understanding of the literary text and its distinctive nature, meaning, and relevance to life.

This proceedings volume contains selected papers from the Fourth International Conference on Big Data Applications and Services (BigDAS 2017), held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on August 15-18, 2017.

This book explores criminal justice responses to Sudanese Australians, crime and victimization.

This book examines how mobile phones and the internet have become a vital part of the everyday lives of people experiencing homelessness.

This methods handbook investigates the multiple sources and interdisciplinary methodologies employed by scholars working on Africa.

This book consists of nine chapters, each an in-depth case study into a specific non-mainstream or marginalized online community in Malaysia.

Instapoetry is one of the most popular literary phenomena of our time.

This book gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of sustainable reuse of built heritage, as presented by international researchers at the conference "e;ReUSO - Documentation, Restoration and Reuse of Heritage"e;, held on November 2-4, 2022, at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Porto, Portugal.

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This book explores the subcultures, cultural trends and regulations of leisure and subcultures among young people in Beijing from 1949 to the 1980s.

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This book constitutes selected papers from the 19th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, EMCIS 2022, which was held virtually during December 7-8, 2022.

This is a book about life during the HIV epidemic in Ethiopia, and seeks to understand how and why the global effort to achieve universal HIV treatment has shifted away from its initial focus on the excessive human suffering precipitated by the epidemic.

This book explores the differential mode of people management in the Chinese context.

This book constitutes selected papers from the 19th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, EMCIS 2022, which was held virtually during December 7-8, 2022.

This is a book about life during the HIV epidemic in Ethiopia, and seeks to understand how and why the global effort to achieve universal HIV treatment has shifted away from its initial focus on the excessive human suffering precipitated by the epidemic.

This book explores the differential mode of people management in the Chinese context.

This book is a socio-philosophical journey across several aspects of our society's focus on individual freedom, taking cues from some of the most prominent thinkers of our time.

This book began as a year-long ethnography of a school in Taiwan in 1991 then evolved more into a historical sociology of national formation and its cultural mindset.

This book began as a year-long ethnography of a school in Taiwan in 1991 then evolved more into a historical sociology of national formation and its cultural mindset.

This book approaches Hobbes's philosophy from a completely new perspective: his creativity.

This book approaches Hobbes's philosophy from a completely new perspective: his creativity.

This book uniquely combines the authors' personal experiences, deep cultural and professional experience of living and working in Russia and the former USSR, and interest and experience with language and computational analysis, to shed light on a highly contemporary question: what is motivating conflict and unrest in Russia and its surrounding countries?

This edited book demonstrates how love both unites and separates academic thinking across the arts and humanities, and beyond: from popular romance studies to border criminology, from sexology to peace studies, and into the fields of health, medicine, and engineering.

This book looks at Margaret Atwood's use of food motifs in speculative fiction.

This book proposes new design and development models for local cultural and creative products, intended to improve the quality of these products and to preserve or enhance their local economic benefits.

This book uniquely combines the authors' personal experiences, deep cultural and professional experience of living and working in Russia and the former USSR, and interest and experience with language and computational analysis, to shed light on a highly contemporary question: what is motivating conflict and unrest in Russia and its surrounding countries?

This book explores translation strategies for films and TV programs.

This book is the first linguistic study that combines CL and CDA to compare the media representations of Macau's gaming industry in English-language newspapers published in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau.

This book includes the proceedings of the fourth workshop on recommender systems in fashion and retail (2022), and it aims to present a state-of-the-art view of the advancements within the field of recommendation systems with focused application to e-commerce, retail, and fashion by presenting readers with chapters covering contributions from academic as well as industrial researchers active within this emerging new field.

Over time, philosophers and historians of science have introduced different notions of 'ways of thinking'.

Professor Drew's latest work makes the case that even great public policy needs to be deliberately and strategically sold in order for it to ultimately be considered a success.

This book presents interdisciplinary studies that analyze how social stigma affects people who use psychoactive substances.

This book focuses on innovative leadership in change management amid digital business transformation.

Our eating decisions are guided by several psychological dimensions: cognitive, emotional, value-based, social, and behavioural.

Our eating decisions are guided by several psychological dimensions: cognitive, emotional, value-based, social, and behavioural.

This book presents a substantive yet accessible introduction to the modern thought of Jainism.

This edited book delves into several aspects of sports and sports management from a vantage of uncertainty and turbulence unleashed initially by COVID-19.