Sociology

Understanding the African Diaspora offers a clear and engaging introduction to the global movements, histories, and cultural experiences of African and African-descended peoples, from ancient times to the present.

This book presents a new way of examining cities to reveal the many and varied meanings which are written into urban landscapes.

This book provides empirical evidence on youth engagement with peace, justice, and strong institutions (SDG 16).

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, banks are not only financial institutions but also technology-driven enterprises.

This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice, building on and extending the pioneering work of Michael Gunder.

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?

AI-Driven Sustainability: The Future of Human Resources Management is an interdisciplinary publication that demonstrates the artificial intelligence phenomenon or AI in the sustainable shaping of human resources management.

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.

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.

Alison Prentice's 1977 groundbreaking monograph The School Promoters is a revisionist account of public education's emergence.

AI in Business Management: Bridging the Gap Between Technology and Strategy discusses how artificial intelligence might be used as a strategic enabler throughout contemporary organizations.

This thought-provoking and ground-breaking book offers a way for us all to consider our experience of being at work, and of the nature of working life.

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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.

Establishing a culture of trust in organizations and strengthening the middle line are both critical for implementing innovation, especially during major disruptions.

Emerging technologies in the transport sector have had, and will have, profound implications for the betterment of our daily lives and economic prosperity.

Psychoanalytic Liberation Psychology challenges conventional psychological paradigms by developing a radical approach where psychoanalysis meets liberation psychology.

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?

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Over the last decade the changing healthcare environment has driven hospitals to critically evaluate and optimize their operations to enhance patient treatment and care prompting the emergence of the intelligent health system.

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

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

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

In a time when digital technology is changing every part of our lives, The Digital Shift in Organizations explores the big effects of this technological change on businesses, employees, consumers, and society as a whole.

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 examines language and communication in a novel area of digital health.

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.

Examining contemporary antiracism and its contributions to progressive politics, The Decline of Antiracism and the Future of Progressive Politics argues that contemporary antiracism has ignored the role of class and reduced social justice to symbolism and right-thinking.

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

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.

In this book, Stefan Borg reconstructs and engages a contemporary strand of thought known as postliberalism.

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

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

This book examines the critical connections between criminal justice and public health perspectives on violence and crime.

Making Words Dance: Perspectives on Red Smith, Journalism, and Writing is a timely and timeless collection of lectures examining both the writer's art and the role of journalism in American culture.

Liu, Yow, Zhang and the contributors examine Singapore's significance as an Asian Regional Corridor and provide a new perspective on interpreting Singapore's important position in the Asian region and its role as a bridge connecting Asia to the world and within the Asian region.

AI in Business Management: Bridging the Gap Between Technology and Strategy discusses how artificial intelligence might be used as a strategic enabler throughout contemporary organizations.

Loss is experienced in many forms-from the death of a loved one, illness, and job loss, to the emotional turmoil surrounding retirement, divorce, separation, or even the quiet ache of boredom and loneliness.

This book challenges conventional wisdom about labor migration during the Cold War era, revealing a complex landscape of mobility that transcended the supposed rigid boundaries between socialist and capitalist worlds.

The Gendering of Hope reveals how hope and gender are relational and mediated in power in Australian rural and farming women's lives.