Sociology

This book offers a first look at transnational education corporations, new firms that operate international schools.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of what it means to be the first in family at university.

This book represents a first attempt to comprehensively discuss and investigate causes and potential implications of changing patterns of spouse pairing in Japan and to consider similarities and differences with patterns observed in the USA and other low-fertility Western societies.

This book explores avenues for organisations to better understand the origins of occupational stress so as to enable their managerial employees to effectively manage stress levels.

This book presents original data on the proximate determinants of fertility in Japan.

The book comprises three chapters, with each chapter assigned various type data such as time series data, cross sectional data and panel data.

This book deliberates on the various aspects of plant-based nutrition.

This book addresses the identification and classification of knowledge acquired through experience that results from engaging in professional activities within the software industry.

This book presents a synopsis, with an innovative approach, of abundance, types and conditions of work performed in the tropical plantation and natural forests.

This book explores the dynamics of the socio-cultural baggage that Indian indentured migrants took with them to the Caribbean island of Trinidad and how they have since become a vibrant diaspora community, namely the Indo-Trinidadians.

This book brings together research on multilingualism, identity and intercultural understanding from a range of locations across the globe to explore the intersection of these key ideas in education.

This book focuses on the transition towards net-zero carbon built environments to deliver on the climate emergency.

This book introduces the educational philosophies of notable African and Asian thinkers who tend to be little recognized in Europe and North America.

This book discusses the historical context, country experience, and best practices that led to eliminating infectious diseases from the WHO's South-East Asia Region, such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis, yaws, trachoma, and mother-to-child HIV in the mid-twentieth and twenty-first century.

This book presents a new step farther into the twenty-first century, for the first time truly combining a comprehensive global data analysis with social policy theory development.

This book on the fisheries sector in India, through primary surveys as well as secondary literature, brings out various nuances of the sector and its trade opportunities, the complexities surrounding the supply chain of fish, as well as the evolution of its marketing channels.

This book explores stakeholders' perspectives, their practices, and engagement with enacting the employability agenda in the context of a rapidly changing world.

This book demonstrates that population structure and dynamics can be reconstructed by stochastic analysis.

This multi-disciplinary book presents the most recent advances in exergy, energy, and environmental issues.

This book deals with the topic on remote sensing monitoring of desert locust in Africa and Asia.

This book explores the Afro-diasporic experiences of African skilled migrants in Australia.

This book brings the tools and ideas of Anglo-American analytic philosophy to bear on how we think about issues of contemporary significance, in a way that is accessible to a broad audience.

This book leaves the template of the inertia of natural human society and traditional ideological thinking, to illustrate the mechanism of the generation of the Sociality Brain and to explore the construction path of the human-computer symbiosis order.

This book provides a highly practical introduction to Bayesian statistical modeling with Stan, which has become the most popular probabilistic programming language.

This book provides a complete practical guide of processing data in public health with R language.

This book provides an alternative agenda to deepen understanding of grassroots governance and interaction in Taiwan.

This book provides an overview of recent trends and developments in the field of English language education.

The book addresses the gaps in the body of knowledge from two grounds.

Tracing the evolution of Chinese Sociology from the late 1970s to the present day, the book aims to record the path of reconstruction, localization, change, and reform of Chinese Sociology through interviews with 40 Chinese top sociologists such as Su Guoxun, Zhou Xiaohong, Bian Yanjie, Zhao Dingxin, Zhou Xueguang et al.

This book discusses the phenomenon of regional integration in Africa and the ensuing discourse on the intercontinental free trade agreement within the continent.

This book is focused exclusively on water problems in the 48 U.

This book is a study of the return migration of overseas Chinese students.

This book proposes a new method for working on the complex and polysemic notion of interculturality, aimed at scholars, students and educators who have an interest in enriching and challenging their own take on this somewhat controversial scientific notion.

This book is focused exclusively on water problems in the 48 U.

This book contains a set of papers which explore the links among climate change, health, and hazards and demonstrate how they interact.

This book focuses on challenges that have arisen because of trash discharges and their potential causes and provides long-term sustainable solutions.

This book discusses the phenomenon of regional integration in Africa and the ensuing discourse on the intercontinental free trade agreement within the continent.

This book is a study of the return migration of overseas Chinese students.

This book explores how cultural, social and political change happens through a unique analysis of the 'ethical turn' in skateboarding today.

This book brings together a diverse group of researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by fluoride contamination of water bodies.

Serving in the military is often a disruptive event in the lives of those who join, precipitating a reassessment of the service member's ethical sensibilities or, tragically, resulting in lasting moral injury and trauma.

This book discusses the cultural importance of spirits, what spirits want, and how humans interact with them, using examples from around the world and through time.

Delving into the past and present of various secessionist movements in Northeast India, political conflict in Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, a political movement for autonomy in Darjeeling hills in Eastern India, and the Rohingya migration crisis affecting India and Bangladesh, this book examines the volatile co-existence of competing population groups in Eastern South Asia.

This book describes the disability rights movement that started in the USA and its influence on the disability rights movement in Lebanon, which has led to the endorsement of the Lebanese Disability Act 220/2000.

This book describes the disability rights movement that started in the USA and its influence on the disability rights movement in Lebanon, which has led to the endorsement of the Lebanese Disability Act 220/2000.

This book examines the digitalization of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia and its challenges in the context of an emerging economy and the Covid-19 crisis.

This book examines the digitalization of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia and its challenges in the context of an emerging economy and the Covid-19 crisis.

This book examines practically useful management and people skills, and looks at competencies from the micro, meso, and macro- lens.

This book addresses increasingly relevant social problems enabled by social media through the lens of system science research and modeling.