Sociology and anthropology

Wired for Excellence brings together the fascinating world of neuroscience with the practical tools of organizational excellence, giving leaders a fresh, science-backed way to build thriving workplaces.

Volume 2 of this two-volume handbook extends the foundational understanding of emotional well-being through the lens of positive psychology into the realms of cultural diversity, societal impacts, and the influence of technology.

This book invites the reader to follow seemingly unrelated paths towards the same goal: making sense of what it means to be human in a world that casually blends discourses on nature, technology, and biology with ideas of progress, optimization and their capitalization at the centre.

This book presents a duoethnographic exploration and narrative account of what it means to be a teacher educator today.

This treatise delves into the latest advancements in stochastic volatility models, highlighting the utilization of Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations for estimating model parameters and forecasting the volatility and quantiles of financial asset returns.

This book presents the proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Global Trends in Health, Technology and Management (GTHTM-2024), held on March 15-17, 2024, in Dehradun, India.

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This textbook provides an up-to-date guide to theories within psychology and sociology relevant to understanding the major life transitions within adulthood and older age and demonstrates how they can be applied in practice.

This book provides a unique foundation upon which to view how the involvement of the death care sector offers a potential route to take in practice and research in reaching urban communities of color dealing with gun-related deaths.

This book explores the enduring significance of sacred landscapes in an increasingly globalized world, with a particular focus on the Christian sacred landscape and its connection to pilgrimage and rituals.

This book is an introduction to the theory of causal inference in observational studies.

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.

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This book serves as a starting point for pre-service teachers and researchers by providing a concise and thorough summary of key themes within the field of civics and citizenship education.

By pairing a scholar of Islamic law with a scholar of Jewish law, a unique dynamic is created, and new perspectives are made possible.

Martin Bell has stood in war zones as both a soldier and a journalist.

This book is an exploration of one of the world's largest man-made reservoirs, Lake Kariba, created along the Zambezi River in central Africa.

The book embarks on the tasks to systematically analyze the macro background of the spatial patterns of China's urban development, the theoretical foundations and framework, and its changing trajectory.

The book examines the extent to which the sustained population growth of Australia's heartland regional centres has come at the expense of demographic decline in their own hinterlands, and, ultimately, of their entire regions.

This book argues that the ancient allodial principle enables a paradigmatic shift in the way specialist educators in environmental, Indigenous, and legal studies; teacher educators; and teachers think about land and water education.

This book examines the characteristics of sustainable remote health workforces and how management practices influence workforce sustainability in remote regions.

This book highlights the first comparative long-term analysis of the negative impacts of large dams on riverine communities and on free-flowing rivers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

This book underscores the role of belief and knowledge that are outside the canons of science, as they are not often considered within the core functions of a university.

This book discusses the findings of research on the human dimensions of wildlife management conducted in Japan, demonstrating how such research and approaches have contributed to mitigating human-wildlife conflicts.

This book offers a critical review of contemporary literature on the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations.

The book explores the close relationship between media institutions and power elites in Arab societies.

This book explores how a society accepts and utilizes a system of archives to improve the quality of people's lives at each level of community, organization, and government.

This book makes a significant interdisciplinary contribution to existing scholarship on ethnicity, conflict, nation-making, colonial history and religious minorities in the Philippines, which has been confronted with innumerable issues relating to their ethnic and religious minority populations.

This book helps undergraduate and graduate students understand Chester Barnard's organization theory.

This book provides insights into the enormous impact of fetal and newborn loss in the aftermath of the natural disasters that Japanese society constantly has to face.

This book provides a description of advanced multi-agent and artificial intelligence technologies for the modeling and simulation of complex systems, as well as an overview of the latest scientific efforts in this field.

This book is to provide insights into the process of individual unlearning, which is little known in previous studies.

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.

Addressing broad issues of production, distribution, and consumption, the seven essays in this volume introduce readers to anthropological work in food policy.

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 explores Ireland's Marriage Bar, examining its impact on women's lives and the predominantly feminised nursing profession.

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.