This edited book provides a comprehensive study of punitive practices in modern-day Lithuania, highlighting its significance as a democratic European state navigating the continuing consequences of its Soviet-era criminal justice system.
This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the foundational elements of lifelong learning within the framework of labour law, addressing the topic from various perspectives, including EU policies and regulations, national labour laws and labour market laws, and the understanding of lifelong learning as a fundamental labour right.
Rapid advancements in Generative Artificial Intelligence (like ChatGPT and LLMs) are fundamentally reshaping the landscape of both criminal activity and law enforcement.
This book examines war-related trauma, the impacts of forced migration, and the importance of emphasising body/brain responses in social work practice.
This book addresses the dire need for mental health professionals, planners, students, and advocates to develop a more comprehensive, whole community approach to reversing the epidemic of suicidality, suicide, substance use, overdoses and other forms of distress and despair.
This book builds upon the self-study of teacher education practices (S-STEP) literature, research in teacher education, and perspectives on criticality and social justice.
The purpose of this book is to address older adults’ musical group activities and their relation to quality of life in Japan, situated on a crossroad between deep Eastern cultural traditions and broad contemporary innovations and Western influences.
This book provides a critical analysis of five central areas in modern policing: crime control, community policing, volunteers in policing, officer safety and wellness, and contemporary issues.
In an age of global competition, where cities, regions, and countries vie for investment, talent, tourism, and influence, this textbook offers a comprehensive roadmap to building strong, credible, and resilient place brands.
This book investigates the groundbreaking diplomatic breakthrough between Saudi Arabia and Iran, mediated by China in March 2023—a striking departure from the traditional Western-dominated diplomatic processes that have long shaped the Middle East.
Storytelling for Video Games Using Bitsy: A Guide for Aspiring Designers is a guide for teachers and independent learners interested in the expressive potential of video game narratives and the logic of computer programming.
This two-volume set LNCS 16169–16170 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2025 Workshops, held in Rome, Italy, during September 15–19, 2025.
The Materiality of Digital Comics asks how we can speak meaningfully about digital comics, and how we can do so in a way that remains meaningful as time passes and technology changes.
As urbanization intensifies, the phenomenon of urban heat islands poses significant challenges to public health, energy consumption, and overall urban livability.
This groundbreaking volume offers a rare scholarly resource: first-person autobiographical accounts from twelve foundational figures in the field of intercultural studies.
Dieses Buch beschreibt Kommunikationsstrategien für Menschen mit schweren Behinderungen, die nicht oder nur in geringem Ausmaß verbal kommunizieren können.
This book analyzes the relation between the Churches’ official teachings regarding ‘desired’ and forbidden forms of sexual behaviour on the one hand, and mundane practice on the other hand, focusing on perspectives ‘from below’.
In an age of global competition, where cities, regions, and countries vie for investment, talent, tourism, and influence, this textbook offers a comprehensive roadmap to building strong, credible, and resilient place brands.
The book discusses the definition of negative and cognitive symptoms and offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of their impact on patients' real-life functioning and quality of life.
This book is a retelling of the history of Liberia’s formation through the lens of settler colonial theory to understand the antagonisms that continue to shape contemporary citizenship debates.
As the first comprehensive book on theorizing indigenous Nigerian knowledge systems in communication, media and culture, this seminal work seeks to excavate, reclaim and recenter indigenous knowledge and perspectives in understanding the complexities of Nigerian communication, media, and cultural practices.
This edited volume brings together scholars, feminist activists, policymakers, civil society and government practitioners to discuss the recurrent challenges and struggles women in Zimbabwe and Africa continue to face, and more importantly, to show how new solidarities (beyond generations and geopolitical spaces) have emerged to try and deal with these multifarious challenges.
This book describes the theoretical aspects and practical cases that digital technologies and open science tools provide for the digital transformation of education.
Archiving the Pastuncoversthe story of the women inFrance who, from the 1920s to the 1970s, played critical roles in the production of global cinemas history: asarchivistscharged with collecting films and other materials, aswitnessestasked with remembering their own film careers, and asactivistscommitted to recovering womens contributions to film history.
Between Dung and Blood investigates the stories of two sixteenth-century saints: the Spanish Christian Teresa de Jess and the Moroccan Sufi Sd Riwn al-Januw, both from families of converts.
Land Cinema in an Age of Extractionconsiders nonfiction filmmakers and film collectives whose work advancesan understanding of land as a locus of social and environmental responsibility.
Medicines That Feed Us examines the relationship between toxicity and remedy in the face of the intertwined health and environmental crises that are shaping life in the twenty-first century.
Ocean, as Much as Rain presents for the first time in the English-language world a collection of masterfully translated literary writings by prominent Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser.
Archiving the Pastuncoversthe story of the women inFrance who, from the 1920s to the 1970s, played critical roles in the production of global cinemas history: asarchivistscharged with collecting films and other materials, aswitnessestasked with remembering their own film careers, and asactivistscommitted to recovering womens contributions to film history.
Land Cinema in an Age of Extractionconsiders nonfiction filmmakers and film collectives whose work advancesan understanding of land as a locus of social and environmental responsibility.
The diagnosis of Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) came out in the DSM in 2013, although many professionals would indicate that patients have presented with these symptoms for years.
A fascinating collection of perspectives on leadership with immediate, practical benefits for all kinds of leaders In Mosaic: Leadership for a Multipolar World, a team of distinguished leadership and coaching expert delivers an insightful discussion on leadership from African, Asian, Middle East, and Indigenous perspectives.
This book offers a comprehensive review of concepts from general Structuralist Semiotics, and their application to the study of fashion systems and the objects they originate.
A practical and contemporary toolkit based on the latest reliable evidence for the parents and professionals helping youth with ADHD navigate the challenges it presents In The Executive Function Playbook, ADHD and Executive Function Specialist Mike McLeod, delivers an evidence-based, effective toolkit for parents, teachers, therapists, counselors, principals, directors, and superintendents who work with and care for youth with ADHD.
