Society and Social Sciences

This book explores the political ideas, cultural practices and geostrategic actions that gave rise to transatlantic monarchism in Europe and the Americas.

This book is dedicated to explaining changes in Taiwan’s policy toward the Chinese mainland over the past three decades, when the island underwent democratization.

This book is the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Educational Technologies (ICFET) 2025, which was held at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, from June 12 to 14, 2025.

This book is the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Educational Technologies (ICFET) 2025, which was held at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, from June 12 to 14, 2025.

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 book explores the critical role of psychology in enhancing the health, safety, and longevity of fire service professionals.

This book provides the first history of the Silk Screen Shop (1943-45) at the Granada War Relocation Center (“Amache”) in Colorado, a World War II incarceration site for Japanese Americans.

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment (ICSBE 2024).

This book explores how employee green behavior can drive sustainability within organizations.

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 presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment (ICSBE 2024).

This book offers a comprehensive corpus and analysis of all the Formosan ‘Shooting the Sun’ myths.

This book undertakes a critical examination of monuments, heritage, and memory, analysing their intersections with colonial histories, gender dynamics, and class structures.

This groundbreaking textbook offers an accessible, comprehensive guide to conducting clinical interviews and mental health assessments with children and adolescents.

This book analyses the geopolitical, geostrategic and geoeconomic implications of the expanding BRICS bloc and the extent to which this tridimensional dynamic impacts global security, peace and sustainable development.

Der russische Angriff auf die Ukraine am 24.

Focused on urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa, this book deals with current challenges facing Africa's rapidly-growing cities.

This book compiles research and insights gleaned from the proceedings of The 6th International Conference on Education Development and Studies 2025 (ICEDS 2025).

This book presents a scoping review and critical discussion of generative artificial intelligence (AI) literacy within the context of education.

This book aims to provide nuanced understanding of the British Empire with reference to history, literature, and migration studies.

This book offers innovative and integrative psychological theorizing on the meaning of parasocial relationships, drawing on cutting-edge empirical insights and clinical observations.

The space economy is undergoing rapid transformation, presenting unprecedented opportunities and risks.

This book provides a timely and thorough examination of religious minorities in Europe, paying particular attention to the diversity within Christianity.

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.

This book offers a concise history of 25 legendary women who made significant contributions to engineering and were recognized for their work by the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) between 1952 and 1976.

This book offers a novel approach to social change by challenging conventional views of the emancipatory nature of political movements.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the multifaceted factors that contributed to Lithuania's hostile stance towards immigrants, as exemplified by the country's response to the 2021 border crisis with Belarus.

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 offers a fresh rethinking of Turkish foreign policy under the Justice and Development Party (AKP), drawing on both mainstream and critical approaches within International Relations (IR) theory.

This book takes the Shenzhen Shenshan Special Cooperation Zone as a case study to research on the coordinated regional economic development.

This volume addresses the drivers and mechanisms of institutional change in Europe and East Asia during times of international crisis.

This book presents various innovations in teaching and learning.

This book offers a fresh rethinking of Turkish foreign policy under the Justice and Development Party (AKP), drawing on both mainstream and critical approaches within International Relations (IR) theory.

This book examines the sociopolitical lives of gender nonconforming people (GNCP) in India in the context of the transformations wrought by HIV and LGBTQ activism over the past three decades.

Die grundlegende Idee, dass Erziehung ein soziales Tun ist, das individuelle und gesellschaftliche Folgen hat, und dieses Tun ins Zentrum erziehungswissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisproduktion gestellt werden sollte, ist Ausgangspunkt der Operativen Pädagogik, wie sie von Klaus Prange entworfen worden ist.

This book explores the power and potential of rebellious behavior in professional organizations, drawing on several years of empirical research within Dutch institutions.

This book is a practical and deeply personal guide for educators seeking to understand and respond to student trauma.

This book explores collective flourishing—an emerging concept that extends well-being from individuals to communities—through the lens of Indian society.

This book delves into the dynamics between global governance architectures and the interplay of norms within contemporary Africa, shedding light on the continent's agency in shaping its own governance landscape.

This book introduces two significant, yet under-connected issues: emotions and technology-related experiences, that are currently of immense importance in language teachers’ professional work, and fills the gap in scholarship on language teachers’ emotions in digital settings.

This book uses a mixed-methods approach to understand the role of technology in facilitating exploitation in the UK’s off-street sex markets.

Workplace democracy has a long history in scholarship and in practice, taking a wide variety of forms in different settings.

This book delves into the transformation of organizational design and management in India.

The book offers a comprehensive view to understanding the complex and multifaceted world of women's health in South Asia, aligning closely with Sustainable Development Goals-3 (SDGs-3) on “good health and well-being”.

In diesem Dorf wird nichts ubersturzt.

The Age of AgeTech: Essays to Inspire, Change, and Challenge explores technology's role in addressing the challenges and opportunities of aging, one of the most profound demographic shifts of the 21st Century that has shaped economies, healthcare systems, and social structures worldwide.

This book explores the transformation of Qatar's foreign policy strategies since gaining independence, with a specific focus on its gradual political emancipation from Saudi influence over the past five decades.

This volume addresses the drivers and mechanisms of institutional change in Europe and East Asia during times of international crisis.

This book focuses on the co-evolution of contemporary China's environmental governance practices and social transformation.

This brief discusses how to deal with data visualization and prediction in human society, a context in which big data analysis and artificial intelligence have the potential to transform the world.