Society and Social Sciences

This book focuses on tertiary education for international students and how international students navigate and transition into the labor market and skilled migration in Australia.

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

This edited book brings together researchers, partners, Ministry staff, disability activists, teachers, and influential commentators to present a constructive dialogue around the opportunities associated with inclusive and equitable education.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the historical, cultural, and pedagogical evolution of English language and teacher education in Iran.

This book examines questions surrounding body adornments and its link to identity in archaeology, looking at theoretical and interpretive frameworks that are relevant to the study of different categories of personal ornaments.

Between 1792 and 1815 Europe was plunged into a period of profound turmoil and transformation.

The book "e;Infrastructure Finance and Sustainable Governance"e; aims to explore innovative frameworks, strategies, and case studies in infrastructure financing while addressing the critical role of governance in achieving sustainability goals.

Transitions of the Immutable: Reflections on Public Education in the 21st Century is a compelling and urgent call to rethink the role of the School in our rapidly changing world.

This book focuses on how youth work and music is measured and valued.

This second edition examines the rapidly expanding research base on numerous factors associated with treatments for children, youth, and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Dieses Buch beschreibt Kommunikationsstrategien für Menschen mit schweren Behinderungen, die nicht oder nur in geringem Ausmaß verbal kommunizieren können.

This Handbook showcases representations of parenthood in twenty-first-century popular culture, critically assessing how these representations shape, respond to, and redefine notions of families, as well as popular culture genres.

This book bridges a fundamental aspect of human behavior, empathy, with a critical area of social science, economics.

This book explores how public appointments influence and are shaped by political and administrative factors, and their impact on governance, state capacity, and democratic legitimacy across Latin America.

This book focuses on China's regional economic development, particularly of urban clusters such as those around Beijing and Shanghai as well as in the Pearl River Delta.

This book offers an in-depth exploration of sustainable agriculture and food security across Southeast Asia.

Taking the contested and contestable meaning of “comics” as its starting point, Comics is… brings together ten comics scholars from different disciplines and with different approaches to what some of us call comics, to debate and discuss the foundations of Comics Studies in a provocative and thought-provoking way.

This book examines the emergence of a new normal that has structured the lived experiences of individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic through a close reading of graphic medical texts from both digital and print sources.

This book provides focused and structured knowledge of a defined and limited subject in terms of detailed implementation, a systematic description of theoretical hypotheses and results, constructive and design characteristics for a product/process or experiment, and exemplary applications to real cases.

This book presents an in-depth exploration of trade and development policies in the Central Asian Region (CAR) and South Asia (SA).

What if humanity’s past isn’t really past?

This book sheds light on the mechanisms at the base of formation and consolidation of vacant land in metropolitan regions, an under-debated issue of urban growth, regional science and architecture.

This textbook serves as a comprehensive guide through this complex terrain of research in the discipline of management.

This book challenges the image-centred orthodoxy in photography studies, shifting attention to the tactile, sonic and material interactions that unfold in darkrooms, commercial labs and manufacturing sites through which photographs emerge.

This book examines how algorithms are reshaping security and criminal justice, revealing their profound social and political implications.

Dieses Buch bietet eine aktuelle, umfassende und differenzierte Analyse der offentlichen Verwaltung und der Reformen in Deutschland.

Designing Curricula for Learner Autonomy and Engagement examines how higher education can be reimagined to empower learners as active, self-regulated participants in their own development.

This book provides a dynamic platform for exploring groundbreaking advancements in intelligent systems for sustainable development.

This book focuses on China's regional economic development, particularly of urban clusters such as those around Beijing and Shanghai as well as in the Pearl River Delta.

This edited volume delves into the emotional experiences of language teachers as they navigate the digital landscape in their professional practice.

This book integrates research from behavioral and social sciences to advance the use of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with Black Americans who have experienced structural racism.

This unique handbook provides authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the (constitutional) human rights to a healthy environment in Cameroon and Africa.

This book assesses the significance of Michael Oakeshott’s political philosophy and his relationship to liberalism, both in theory and in practice.

This book reports on the latest advancements of non-destructive testing and structural techniques as applied on a wide range of cultural heritage applications.

This comprehensive volume offers a complete and up-to-date overview of dermatologic therapeutics, including the latest advancements in the field.

This book offers an in-depth exploration of sustainable agriculture and food security across Southeast Asia.

This book presents an in-depth investigation of 12 pandemics that have wreaked devastation across the world over the last 700 years, including the bubonic plague, syphilis, yellow fever, leprosy, smallpox, cholera, polio, measles, tuberculosis, influenza, HIV/AIDS, and Covid-19 and coronaviruses.

This book focuses on the politics of participation in urban communities during the pandemic using the cases of two urban communities in Wuhan, China and Quezon City, Philippines.

This book examines the critical intersection of religion, democracy, and political leadership in three prominent Muslim-majority states—Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey.

This book covers the period from the approach of Allied and Soviet armies to the Reich frontiers in late summer 1944 right up to the final collapse in May 1945.

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

This book focuses on the global goal of inclusivity and sustainability in heritage as defined by the United Nations and UNESCO.

This book, a product of the Financial Integrity Hub (FIH), explores the societal costs of combating financial crime and the balance between security imperatives, individual rights, and the integrity of global financial systems.

This book explores why state violence has proliferated across Latin America despite the adoption of extensive political and legal reforms intended to deter such violence.

Saberes al margen reune herramientas para pensar y analizar instituciones socioeducativas y de salud mental que trabajan con sujetos "e;alterizados"e;, ubicados en el extrarradio de la normalidad: expulsados, inadaptados, cuerpos y vidas problematizadas.

The volume explores the intricate dynamics of learning environments by delving into the psychosocial aspects of classrooms as perceived by both students and teachers.

The Business of Outer Space assesses selected legal issues associated with commercial space activities.

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

This book addresses key spheres of teaching and learning in higher education from the dual vantage points of educators in the UK and China.

This book examines urbanization in Haiti as a laboratory of crisis and resilience, where the absence of state capacity collides with the creativity of grassroots actors.