Society and Social Sciences

This book examines traditional approaches to conflict resolution in Northern Nigeria, tracing their development from the pre-colonial period through to the present day.

This book presents the results of a Hong Kong study that focused on refugees’ contributions, and potential, to support green urban development.

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 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.

This book explores Kierkegaardian concepts within pop culture.

This book focuses on its developments and variations of performances of manaschï, the epic poet of Manas.

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 book provides an in-depth analysis of the development of China-Bangladesh relations over the past fifty years.

This book explores how China's heavy investment in mass education since the late 1970s has propelled its technological competence to rival that of leading industrial nations, particularly in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

This book traces the history, sociolinguistics and structure of world Englishes and examines the complexities of English(es) and the transmedia narratives of their users in modern-day international universities and workplaces.

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

South Asia is the most densely populated region in Asia, while Asia is the most populous region globally.

This book explores the merging of technological clinical care and research as part of the changing paradigm in global healthcare delivery.

Cuando Fernando Gonzalez empezo a observar como las personas reaccionan, negocian, aman o se bloquean, comprendio que no somos tan racionales como creemos.

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

This book comprises 12 chapters that aim to provide critical insights into educational policy and practice in various Global South (GS) countries, with a focus on basic education.

This book is about wearable sleep technology.

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

This volume aims to present a critical and interdisciplinary reflection on diversity and migration mainly grouped into three axes of work: research methodologies applied to these topics; discourse analysis in intersectional narratives; and, knowledge transference into plural societies.

This book explores Kierkegaardian concepts within pop culture.

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 provides a technical and critical examination of the cultural system within a shifting social and economic landscape.

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 presents selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Educational and Information Technology (ICEIT) 2025.

Im Saarland leben etwa 20 % der Bewohner in der Landeshauptstadt und eine sehr große Anzahl von Menschen kommen dazu noch täglich nach Saarbrücken, um hier zu arbeiten, einzukaufen oder ihre Freizeit zu verbringen.

This book assembles accomplished scholars and fresh new contributors to provide expert analysis on congressional campaigns and elections.

This book features selected proceedings of the Ninth Research & Industrial Conclave (RIC 2024), held from August 9 to 11, 2024, under the theme “Integration’24.

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

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 provides an in-depth analysis of the development of China-Bangladesh relations over the past fifty years.

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

This book documents, via oral history, experiences of the emotions of parenthood during the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on testimonies collected during a time of crisis and exploring how parents' feelings and reflections shifted and changed with the passage of time at an important and unique juncture in history.

This book aims to explore the multiple ways in which Portuguese colonialism in former “Portuguese Asia” has been imagined.

The shift toward sustainable finance is a defining trend in the global financial system, driven by the urgent need to address climate change and other environmental and social challenges.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 54th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association, SACLA 2025, held in Bloemfontein, South Africa, during July 30 – August 1, 2025.

This book offers an updated version of Garbology (Archaeology of Garbage), a subfield of archaeology that critically examines modern waste and consumerism.

This book presents DIGICOMPASS Junior, a workable framework for global language education in the upper primary years (grades 4–6).

Anticipatory Biographies is a collection of future scenarios written in the form of individual biographies that span the breadth of human experience: from the privileged to the marginalized and across diverse cultures.

This book confronts one of the most pressing moral challenges of our technological age: should autonomous, intelligent, human-like machines be recognized as bearers of moral and socio-political rights?

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 explores globalisation, cultural diversity and social justice, and the implications for democracy and equality.

This is the first book to cover the evolution and scope of Aldous Huxley’s socio-political ideas in a concise and highly accessible manner, both for political theorists and interested students from various disciplines.

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

This book considers Higher Education institutional change as a layered process, where change is interconnected across institutional arrangements.

This book offers an original and innovative study of how the intersection of the Doppelganger and the Gothic reveals repressed aspects of our singular and collective past, while also serving as a lens to investigate ourselves and our historical moment.

This book examines traditional approaches to conflict resolution in Northern Nigeria, tracing their development from the pre-colonial period through to the present day.

This book explores the shifts in global power from a single dominant superpower to a world with many influential players.