Sociology and anthropology

This book contributes toward the understanding of the human experience at work during the pandemic and its implications on employee well-being in the context of Malaysia, a developing economy with its own set of unique challenges.

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

This book explores the contextual, particularly cultural-related, factors that may impact reading outcomes of young Indigenous learners in their early years, underpinned by the conceptual framework of cultural capital originated by Bourdieu.

This book examines the evolution of schooling from bureaucracy and hierarchy to post-industrial schools, and places teachers' leadership on center stage at the same time.

Aging is a topic that concerns all of us, since none of us can escape it.

This book offers a curated collection of scholarship that significantly contributes to the shaping of Critical Food Studies in Asia.

This book explains the importance of using the probability that the hypothesis is correct (PHC), an intuitive measure that anyone can understand, as an alternative to the p-value.

This book provides a guide to such budding social researchers, who are non-native English speakers drawing examples from literature to show how to conduct a research, present research results, integrate with existing literature to draw conclusions through real-world examples.

This book characterizes the major pollution patterns of emerging contaminants, such as sources, emission effluents, temporal and spatial distributions, multi-media transportation and transformation processes, exposure pathways to ecosystems and humans, and ecological risks.

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

This book traces the history of how evolutionary biology transformed its understanding of females from being coy, reserved and sexually passive, to having active sexual strategies and often mating with multiple males.

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

This book provides a guide to such budding social researchers, who are non-native English speakers drawing examples from literature to show how to conduct a research, present research results, integrate with existing literature to draw conclusions through real-world examples.

This book is strongly recommended for L&D professionals, HR managers, senior managers, and company owners who want to adapt their employees' training and skills development to the changing requirements of digitalization and technological progress, considering the specifics of the sector in which their organizations operate.

This volume in the Epigenetics and Human Health series explores the intersection of diet and epigenetic modifications.

This book problematizes digital divide with critical lens by focusing on education in general and specifically second language education with an emphasis on the context of Turkey based on sound methodologies and robust theories of modernity, postmodernity, post-structuralism and post-method framework.

This books presents a documentation and resulting perspectives regarding James Lovelock's multidisciplinary evolution theory.

This book is a socio-philosophical journey across several aspects of our society's focus on individual freedom, taking cues from some of the most prominent thinkers of our time.

This book argues that American democracy is in crisis.

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 offers a novel examination of the relations, actions, and practices of healthcare workers, analysed in terms of collective mobilisation.

This book aims at China's economic and social development, which has embarked on a new journey.

This book presents a comprehensive guide to traditional immunity-boosting medicinal plants of the Himalayas, their traditional uses, phytochemistry, pharmacology, diversity, conversation, biotechnology, toxicology, as well as future prospective.

This book examines ways in which families' physical environments have implications for their relationships and the health and well-being of their members.

This book deals with the contemporary subject of perception of risk and its influence on accidents and disasters.

Inside you lies a precise scientific instrument - the ability to observe Nature and recall past experiences.

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

Making something measurable means being able to control itSustainability is a term with a wealth of meanings and many possible misinterpretations.

This book uses Pierre Bourdieu's cultural capital model as a theoretical framework for exploring how students in Beijing and Hong Kong perceive parental influences-their parents' cultural capital and support-on their participation in musical activities.

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This book demonstrates the use of dance/movement therapy to directly counteract social injustices and promote healing in international settings.

This book examines the construction of the EU's political identity (or identities), variations in its strength, and the nature of its content.

This book adopts collaborative autoethnography as its methodology, and presents the collective witnessing of experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic within the higher education sector.

This book approaches grassroots governance and democracy from a sociological perspective, focusing on the interaction between the community and the State.

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

The book is about Ubuntu-loosely translated-I am because we are-or, our common humanity in Zulu, about Unity, and global solidarity.

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

This book examines the relevance of global strategic perspective, as international competition continues to intensify & gain momentum, and management of human resource remains  a challenge in contemporary corporate scenario.

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

SOUNDVIEW BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARControl freaks.

This book bridges knowledge gaps by exploring transformative approaches for sustainable development to ensure high-quality and positive education and increase educators' and learners' well-being.

This volume presents a global study of the economic and cultural global systems in which smoking materials, practices and ideas circulate, intertwine, and transform.

This book addresses key issues in the context of the national policy of educating children accused of crimes in Juvenile Courts in Australia.