As urbanization intensifies, the phenomenon of urban heat islands poses significant challenges to public health, energy consumption, and overall urban livability.
This book is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand and navigate the complex dynamics of manipulative behaviour, whether in the workplace, at home, or in social settings.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Applications of Medical Artificial Intelligence, AMAI 2025, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2025, in Daejeon, South Korea on September 23, 2025.
This book explores the transformation of contemporary social welfare into what the author terms “surveillant care”—a hybrid system that merges protection with control, requiring recipients to surrender privacy and autonomy as prerequisites for assistance.
Taking the 2014 Scottish independence referendum as its case study, this book examines popular participation and elite interventions in democratic, plebiscitary events.
This book explores the transformation of contemporary social welfare into what the author terms “surveillant care”—a hybrid system that merges protection with control, requiring recipients to surrender privacy and autonomy as prerequisites for assistance.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 47th DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition, DAGM-GCPR 2025, held in Freiburg, Germany, during September 23-26, 2025.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Workshop, CDMRI 2025, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2025, the 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention.
Split across two sections on key theory and key issues, this introductory textbook encourages students to think critically about culture and society by engaging with the main theoretical debates which distinguish sociology’s contribution to cultural studies from the approach of other disciplines.
This book unpacks the hidden imperial logic behind Russia’s dominance over its neighbors, revealing how the Kremlin weaponizes "e;familial system"e; myths to justify control, including its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
This book explores the pedagogical choices made by Mauritian English teachers when using government endorsed textbooks conceptualised, designed and written by teacher educators who are also textbook writers.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications, ICTERI 2025, held in Nice, France, during September 2025.
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field of policy transfer in education, with a particular focus on technical and vocational education and training (TVET), adult education, professional and higher education.
These four volumes of proceedings contain 126 papers contributed to the 8th International Meeting on Origami Science, Mathematics and Education (8OSME), held on 16-18 July 2024 at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
This book unpacks the hidden imperial logic behind Russia’s dominance over its neighbors, revealing how the Kremlin weaponizes "e;familial system"e; myths to justify control, including its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The purpose of this book is to help health professionals learn how to enhance resilience in patients with serious health problems such as somatizing disorders and specific physical diseases who are usually resistant to psychosocial approach.
This book examines drone warfare – primarily understood now as an issue of technology, military strategy, and law – through popular cultural forms: fiction, film, drama, theater, art, performance, and dance.
This book examines the feasibility of realising the plurilingual vision of the Barcelona Summit Agreement (mother tongue plus two additional languages) through the second-level education system by employing three strategies: 1) harmonising postprimary modern foreign language (MFL) classes in line with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) through cross-age teaching; 2) replacing the current state second-level MFL exams with CEFR international exams; and 3) implementing Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).
This book is the culmination of both the discussions at Shonan Meeting 214, “The Future of Education with AI” and the output of the Trilateral AI Research Project, “Learnincy Cyclotron (LeCycl)”.
This book examines one of the most important questions in peace research: What leads to enduring peace after civil wars, and what leads to the resurgence of violence?
Erleben Sie das legendäre Leben und die Karriere von Julius Cäsar in diesem aufschlussreichen Buch, das seine kühnen Strategien, Führungsqualitäten und Beweggründe für den Aufstieg zur Macht beleuchtet.
This book explores the pedagogical choices made by Mauritian English teachers when using government endorsed textbooks conceptualised, designed and written by teacher educators who are also textbook writers.
The book provides an empirically rich analysis of Bangladesh’s economic transformation through globalization, with particular focus on the emergence of its globally competitive garment export industry.
This edited volume contains contributions from scholars from all over the world that outline their version of relational sociology, situate it within the relational landscape and indicate how it might contribute to the development of a relational paradigm.
This edited book builds on International Perspectives on Exclusionary Pressures in Education (2023) and Theorising Exclusionary Pressures in Education (2024) to highlight different dimensions of exclusionary practices in schools and other educational settings around the world.
This book explores how literal notions of touching as well as being touched figuratively can be put to work through thinking-with-touch in early childhood and early childhood studies.
Drawing on over twenty years of experience at the Department of Family Medicine at AUBMC, this book presents a unique, globally informed approach to teaching ethics and professionalism through film.
The book Pharmacology of GPCRs Biased Signaling and Agonists explores the intricate world of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), a diverse and crucial family of cell surface receptors that play a pivotal role in mediating the effects of various signaling molecules.
The threat of climate change increases with each passing moment, and it’s time for economists, policymakers, and climate scientists to work together to address this.
This book collects contributions that discuss the spread of AI, AI-GEN, and XR tools in the fields of cultural heritage and innovative design and their relationships with representation disciplines.
This book contributes to metaphor and comics scholarship by bringing together established theories of metaphor and of depiction and applying the result to the analysis of narrative drawing.
This book investigates the internal dynamics and mechanisms that shaped one of the European Union’s most ambitious and far-reaching pieces of digital legislation: the Data Act.
