This book provides the first in-depth analysis of China's Global Initiatives launched between 2021 and 2023 as elements of a coherent strategy intended to construct a Chinese-led international order.
This book brings together a group of active researchers and leading scholars of international social work with a special interest in contemporary issues and developments in Asian & Pacific Islander nations.
This book brings to light the sustainability dilemma in Southeast Asia, with a sharp focus on Indonesia’s rapid economic growth and its profound impact on natural resources, ecosystems, and society.
The 5-volume set LNCS 16023 - 16027 constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2025, which took place in Wuhan, China, during September 2025.
This book provides the first major transatlantic history of Irish serving women, drawing on four years of archival research in Dublin, Belfast, New York, Boston, London and Liverpool.
This book is the first comprehensive overview of the history of female-presenting AI and robots in US and UK live-action, science fiction films from 1949 to 2023.
Karmazin, Kolmas, and Qiao-Franco deconstruct the concept of the Indo-Pacific and offer a timely, comparative, and multidimensional exploration of the region's international relations.
This monograph explores how Chilean urban workers translated nineteenth-century European political philosophy according to their conditions, locality, and colonial history.
The 5-volume set LNCS 16023 - 16027 constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2025, which took place in Wuhan, China, during September 2025.
Questo libro postula che gli approcci occidentali della psichiatria e del cognitivismo non affrontano la varietà di fattori coinvolti nella sofferenza mentale esistenziale, mostra come le pratiche e i principi Buddhisti potrebbero contribuire al superamento dei limiti meccanicistici della psichiatria e delle terapie cognitivo comportamentali, ed esplora come il Buddhismo abbia svolto un ruolo nei tentativi sia Orientali che Occidentali di alleviare la sofferenza mentale.
Beyond the Notes: Teaching and Learning Music at Historically Black Colleges and Universities examines teaching and learning music at America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) through a quadripartite framework - the context (sociocultural influences and institutional missions); the constituents (demographic and characteristics traits of students, faculty, and surrounding communities); the construct (curricula design and instructional delivery); and the confluence (an explanation of why the context, constituents, and construct all must be considered simultaneously).
This book examines the social, political and economic rationales, which lead to the development of learning cities in diverse settings in Africa, Australia, Asia and Europe.
This book explores the emergence of the religious use of ayahuasca as a subject of public interest and state intervention in Brazil, the United States, and France.
Beyond the Notes: Teaching and Learning Music at Historically Black Colleges and Universities examines teaching and learning music at America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) through a quadripartite framework - the context (sociocultural influences and institutional missions); the constituents (demographic and characteristics traits of students, faculty, and surrounding communities); the construct (curricula design and instructional delivery); and the confluence (an explanation of why the context, constituents, and construct all must be considered simultaneously).
This book offers a state-of-the-art overview of agency-based social work practice, consistent with the values and ethical principles of the profession.
This book explores the emergence of the religious use of ayahuasca as a subject of public interest and state intervention in Brazil, the United States, and France.
