Society and Social Sciences

This book explores disembodiment, the experience of feeling alienated from one’s own body, and shows how it emerges across clinical and social domains.

This student-focused handbook aims to guide forensic psychology students in using theory in an applied settings and developing specialized research methods to tackle contemporary issues in forensic psychology.

This book offers a data-driven analysis of aging, exploring demographic trends and their impact on decision-making in healthcare.

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 examines the development, characteristics, and challenges of public policy research in Latin America from the perspective of leading experts within the region and beyond.

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 encounters the figure of the royal woman in the early modern period and explores how she enables and complicates the key moment at which England was emerging as an ideology, a nation, and an empire.

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.

This book provides an in-depth examination of China’s diplomatic endeavors in the Middle East, tracing the evolution of its approach since the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

In an era of complex global challenges, traditional state-to-state negotiations often fall short.

For three decades the philanthropist and billionaire investor George Soros has played a prominent role in promoting a vision of ‘Open Society’ in Central Eastern Europe (CEE), promoting the transition from communist statism to liberal democracy through his philanthropic measures, most notably his support for the Open Society Foundations.

Literaturkritik hat heute zwischen feuilletonistischer Debatte, YouTube-Kanal und universitärem Seminar viele neue Formen angenommen und in der digitalen Form ihre Reichweite enorm ausgedehnt.

Rapid advancements in Generative Artificial Intelligence (like ChatGPT and LLMs) are fundamentally reshaping the landscape of both criminal activity and law enforcement.

This book explores how transitional justice mechanisms can address sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and femicide in South Africa.

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 offers a comprehensive and transformative journey for researchers, aimed at fostering inclusive, ethical, and impactful research practices in collaboration with Indian transgender communities.

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.

One in four Canadians will experience a mental health problem or mental illness in their lifetime.

This volume examines relevant mental health issues for international students.

Irony is a pervasive quality of human life, though its creative, comic potential is often overlooked.

This book examines how Chinese thinkers and writers drew on foreign literature between 1918 and 1958 in order to construct China's independent cultural identity.

This brief provides readers with a broad, but detailed framework to understand, evaluate, and apply trauma-informed techniques suitable for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated populations using movement, breath practices, and other embodied, mindfulness-based exercises.

This book provides real-world, relevant examples of work completed by women electrical engineers, who still make up only 15% of the field, and the importance of that work to improving lives around the globe.

This book brings together an exceptional group of renowned scholars in philosophy and sociology, offering deep and insightful engagements with Jürgen Habermas’s thought.

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 is a timely and transformative contribution to the fields of educational evaluation, policy, and innovation.

This book argues that the formation of noise music as a distinctive musical genre (and noise music scenes as distinct musical subcultures) relies on the production of unique learning ecologies and vice versa.

This book considers the ramifications of the term 'cultural democracy' from a variety of perspectives.

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

This book covers various topics and trends regarding educational robots, social robots, artificial intelligence (AI) and their use in K-12 and higher education.

This book places print media at the centre of studying queer German history.

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 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.

This book addresses the connections between food provisioning, natural resource extraction and the exploitation of human labor.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of police governance in England and Wales.

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

This book features selected papers from the International Conference on Communication and Applied Technologies (ICOMTA 2025), Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, during 2–4 September 2025.

Dieses umfassende Handbuch "e;Digital Sicher Fuhren"e; richtet sich an den deutschen Mittelstand und beleuchtet die Chancen und Risiken der Digitalisierung im Kontext des Datenschutzes.

This edited volume attempts to reimagine South Asia through narratives proffered by Indian scholars.

This edited volume is a comprehensive and extensive analysis of key legal developments of the EU and its Member States during the two-decade period of the largest EU enlargement spanning 2004-2024, with insights on the EU’s future.

This book examines metropolitan governance and interjurisdictional collaboration in Latin America, focusing on the “metropolitan problem” created by fragmented jurisdictions that produce inefficiency, inequity, and weak coordination.

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 book examines the occurrence and repercussions of insecurity on Africa’s oceans and seas, their impact on state sovereignty, national security, and the economy, and looks at how it could be moderated, eradicated, or combated.

This book examines truthfulness in transmedia practices, particularly in relation to scientific knowledge and the mediation of our perception of the world.

Dieses praktisch ausgelegte Buch bringt aktuelle Kindheitsforschung und zeitgenössische ethische Theorie zusammen.

Whether in major world powers or smaller economies, constitutions around the globe are facing increasing challenges.

This book provides an insightful examination of various health challenges affecting rural communities in the Southeast United States (e.