Sociology and anthropology

The overarching objective of this book is to summarize, extend, and update previous research on educational differences in family behavior in Japan.

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

This book expounds the principle and related applications of nonlinear principal component analysis (PCA), which is useful method to analyze mixed measurement levels data.

This book integrates the fundamentals of asymptotic theory of statistical inference for time series under nonstandard settings, e.

This book focuses on product design which is evolving conceptually and practically with advances in technology.

This book explores the interplay between African archaeology and geospatial methods from three broad perspectives.

In this book, Juli Gittinger argues that America's fascination (obsession?

This book describes the current environmental changes due to global warming in northern Eurasia, especially focusing on eastern Siberia.

The book examines the Good Lives Model (GLM) of correctional rehabilitation and its dual aims of risk reduction and well-being enhancement for individuals who have committed crimes.

This book uses an Australian case study to shine a much-needed spotlight on discretionary police powers to punish, and their implications for justice and human rights.

This book integrates the fundamentals of asymptotic theory of statistical inference for time series under nonstandard settings, e.

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

The publication of scholarly research is both a major driver of social progress and a significant industry in its own right.

This book offers unparalleled insight into the convergence of sustainability and pharmaceutical product development, with a specific focus on optimization processes.

The Shanghai school system has attracted worldwide attention since its impressive performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2009.

This book is the first to cover the research of whole aspects of international mobility to and from Taiwan of both skilled and unskilled workers.

This is the first book to provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction to a newly developed smoothing technique using asymmetric kernel functions.

This is the first book to articulate how to address interlinkages among sustainable development goals (SDGs), which are keys to implementing those goals by 2030.

In one of the only works drawing on interviews with both Uyghurs and Han in Xinjiang, China, and postcolonial perspectives on ethnicity, nation, and race, this book explores how forms of banal racism underpin ideas of self and other, assimilation and modernisation, in this restive region.

This book comprehensively reviews various feed additives and supplements that are employed for ruminant production and health.

Although the Micro/Small and Medium Enterprises (M/SMEs) in India (as also in other countries) make significant contributions to the economy (with about 30% share in GDP, 50% share in exports, and more than 60% share in employment), their developmental needs are addressed primarily through the facilitation of the external environment.

This book is the first-known contributed volume focused exclusively on physical activity in the school setting.

Everybody wants to know what makes people happy.

This book uniquely operationalizes "e;sustainable ageing"e; as a concept for reimagining ways by which: (1) social and health threats (i.

This book brings together a comprehensive overview of gender and energy to provide an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners.

This book offers an exploration of collective action by bringing together the themes of sovereignty and solidarity in post-colonial societies in Africa and beyond.

This book explores the socio-spatial impacts of China's high-tech repression against Uyghurs both within and beyond its borders.

Drawing insights from intensive empirical investigation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in various Southeast Asian countries, this book assesses and analyzes the continuing impact of China's BRI on Thailand and ASEAN at a critical period of Southeast Asian history.

This edited book explores examples of different ways in which societies and individuals have dealt with the concepts of religious diversity, toleration and peace-making in politics and law, and how these examples can inform educators and learners in (in- and non-)formal education today.

This book explores the advantages of a linear model of planning in reducing regional inequalities.

This book explores G.

This book is the first-known contributed volume focused exclusively on physical activity in the school setting.

This book updates the policy and practice developments affecting youth services since the publication in 2019 of Austerity, Youth Policy and the Deconstruction of the Youth Service in England.

The authors of this book assert that Grid Square statistics, a method of aggregating data within a geographically defined Grid, may be an effective solution to approach geospatial data for big data integration.

This book constitutes the second volume of 'Religion Matters: The Contemporary Relevance of Religion' (Springer, 2020).

This book introduces readers to the astonishing civilisation of the Incas.

This book introduces readers to the astonishing civilisation of the Incas.

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Over the past few years, the area of volunteer work and civic engagement are topics that have received increasing attention from both the public as well as sociological research.