Sociology

This book analyses dominant discourses of globalisation and leadership in schools.

This two-volume set charts a cross-disciplinary discursive terrain that proffers rich insights about deceit in contemporary postcolonial Sub-Saharan African politics.

This book examines contamination in groundwater.

This book offers new knowledge on the intricate interplay between employment and disability.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of research and concepts related to shame and ageing, in the context of social change, upheavals and paradigm shifts, from transdisciplinary, cultural and transcultural perspectives.

This book includes presentations given at the 88th annual meeting of the Psychometric Society, held in Maryland, USA on July 24-28, 2023.

This book sheds light on the overall description and explanation of the current socio-political, economic and cultural environment concerning the development of China's audio streaming programs industry.

In a society where youthfulness and vitality are highly valued, the quest for anti-aging solutions has become increasingly popularized in bio-medical gerontology.

Entrepreneurship depends on the decisions that people make about how to undertake that process; however, in recent years, entrepreneurship research has focused largely on the environmental characteristics influencing firm founding and the characteristics of entrepreneurial opportunities, ignoring the role of human agency.

This volume uses aerosol optical depth (AOD) analysis through mapping and remote sensing techniques to derive the relationship between aerosols and hazardous precipitation events, primarily in the form of flooding.

This book sheds light on the overall description and explanation of the current socio-political, economic and cultural environment concerning the development of China's audio streaming programs industry.

The rapid pace of economic development and urbanization in Asia have led to several major problems such as greenhouse gas emissions, mass consumption, and depletion of natural resources.

This book serves as a practical guidebook for non-Tibetan beginners who want to learn the Tibetan writing system and conversational Tibetan, but have never studied the language before.

This is the most comprehensive book discussing the impact of renewable energy transition by engaging local narratives, and combining this with the domestication of technology theory.

How should Christians think about law?

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are manifesting in increasingly sophisticated technologies and systems contributing to the digital transformation of organizations.

This book investigates the DeGroot model in social network contexts, and proposes the social network DeGroot (SNDG) model.

This book offers new knowledge on the intricate interplay between employment and disability.

The book is about the role of religious leadership in settling disputes of a legal nature within religious communities and the effects of this process on immigrant integration in Canada and the USA.

* The most comprehensive book available on methods in research interviewing!

This 2-volume book sheds new light on the forefront of ecodesign research, encompassing product and service design, smart manufacturing, and social perspectives.

This book focuses on the individuals who invented specific forms of alternative medicine.

This book explores G.

This book details the psychological theory and research surrounding various aspects of coaching, with a specific focus on American football coaches' work with young people.

The volume explores the intricate relationship between urbanization, population dynamics, and the environment in the western Himalayas from a historical perspective.

Containing a novel compilation of theoretical and methodological approaches, this textbook lays out the most relevant foundations of clinical sociology.

This book represents one of the initial comprehensive studies of TED Talks on Islam.

This book explores the implementation of educational policies aimed at addressing educational inequalities and specifically focuses on Luxembourg's pioneering plurilingual education policy in non-formal early childhood education and care.

This book explores the interwoven nature of place, Catholicism and violence in Caracas' barrios.

This handbook addresses issues around urban growth in early India.

This book includes presentations given at the 88th annual meeting of the Psychometric Society, held in Maryland, USA on July 24-28, 2023.

This book focuses on an emerging group of low income South Asian migrants who are increasingly migrating to four Southern European countries: Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

This book examines contamination in groundwater.

This book centres on religious heritage-making where religion as a rich and diverse manifestation of culture and community empowerment lead to the transformation of place.

This book provides a systematic framework for interpreting the fertility decline in Japan.

This book presents a compilation of chapters relating to the socio-cultural experiences of Malaysian Indian women.

This edited volume explores a range of causes for separation of children and young people from family, the impact of these causes, and methods that both professionals and families may employ to build or rebuild these relations.

This edited volume focuses on the latest developments in classification and data science and covers a wide range of topics in the context of data analysis and related areas, e.

The problem of enforcing a money judgment exists in every legal system in the world, but the methods and orientation vary significantly.

The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

This book provides an insightful sociological study of the shrinking Japanese population through a regional variation perspective as it varies significantly by municipality, even within the same prefecture.

The focus of this handbook is to highlight the key issues in addressing the challenges and opportunities to promote mental health is Sub-Saharan Africa.

The book focuses on the issue of adapting the higher education system to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

This book presents the most up-to-date information on the effects of nutrition and food on cancer prevention and management.

This volume examines how urban stakeholders in China - particularly city governments and social actors - tackle China's urban environmental crisis.

This book is the first attempt to introduce the current status of archival practices in Japan as well as the basic views of the populace on making records accessible to English readers.