Society and Social Sciences

This book presents the complex intersections of race, gender, and colonialism and their profound impact on the incarceration of First Nations women in Australia.

This book offers a comprehensive review of concepts from general Structuralist Semiotics, and their application to the study of fashion systems and the objects they originate.

This book explores the relationship between climate change, reproductive justice, and the prosperity of families, communities, and economies.

This book explores the changing relations between Chinese secret societies in British Malaya and the British colonial government, examining how and why British attitudes towards Chinese migrants changed over the nineteenth century, from welcoming them at the century’s start, to suppressing them by the end of the century.

This book discusses essential topics on understanding the development and changes in higher educational systems in Asia, and explores governance, quality assurance, stakeholder engagement, and innovation in the post-massified era from an Asian perspective.

This book critically examines the failures and contradictions of UK drug policy, exposing how current laws disproportionately target marginalised communities while overlooking the widespread harms of legal substances like alcohol.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of festival-making activities, their cultural significance, and their impact on tourism and community identity.

This book posits that during Australia’s colonial period (1788–1900), all sport, including the hegemonic football codes (rugby union and Australian rules football), was closely tied to British nationalism.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of institutional elderly care in China, with a special focus on resource allocation, spatial optimization, and the temporal-spatial perspective of elderly care provision.

This book will reflect on the various urban complexities with a thorough demonstration on potential sustainable solution essential for cities with various policy measures.

This book approaches the field of mindfulness research from the perspective of self-determination theory (SDT).

The book underscores the importance of integrating a gender perspective into judicial systems worldwide, revealing how gender sensitivity enhances the legitimacy, equity, and efficacy of the judicial process.

This contributed volume examines the intersection of social work, environmental justice, and disaster risk reduction (DRR).

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

The psychology of awakening is focused on showing ways to improve mental health through the psychological exploration of awakening.

This book addresses the long understudied topic of wage issues in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

This book shows how four feminist mobilizations in the early 2020s in Mexico expressed widespread rejection of harassment, sexual violence, and femicide.

This book examines how multinational agribusiness companies shape the regulation of agricultural value chains in Latin America.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the new developments in China’s energy cooperation with Asian and African countries under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) over the past decade.

Storytelling for Video Games Using Bitsy: A Guide for Aspiring Designers is a guide for teachers and independent learners interested in the expressive potential of video game narratives and the logic of computer programming.

Dieses Buch deckt erhebliche Bedrohungen der Forschungsintegrität auf und identifiziert Richtlinien und Praktiken, die diese Trends umkehren können.

This book explores the interplay between a people, their physical environment, the means of mobility that connect the two, and how these elements combine in the creation of cognitive and cultural landscapes.

This book dives into in depth case studies across Thailand’s low-lying coastal regions and its rapidly changing urban centers.

This book critically examines the failures and contradictions of UK drug policy, exposing how current laws disproportionately target marginalised communities while overlooking the widespread harms of legal substances like alcohol.

This book analyzes the relation between the Churches’ official teachings regarding ‘desired’ and forbidden forms of sexual behaviour on the one hand, and mundane practice on the other hand, focusing on perspectives ‘from below’.

This book  describes the theoretical aspects and practical cases that digital technologies and open science tools provide for the digital transformation of education.

This book explores the popular writing of the New Humourists and their vital engagement with late Victorian conceptions of manliness.

This book fills a void in the existing literature on regime erosion and democratic backsliding by proposing a multidimensional and sequential explanation for the emergence of crisis of democracy using one of the most populous democracies in the world as a case study: Brazil.

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

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of institutional elderly care in China, with a special focus on resource allocation, spatial optimization, and the temporal-spatial perspective of elderly care provision.

Multilevel Inverter Technology for Renewable Energy Systems: Enhancing Efficiency and Sustainability Through Advanced Power Conversion Solutions explores the pivotal role of multilevel inverter technology in advancing renewable energy systems, addressing the increasing demand for efficient and sustainable power conversion solutions.

The outbreak of COVID-19 radically transformed our daily lives, altering not only our habits and social relations, but also our most fundamental mental processes, most notably memory.

This book presents the proceedings of the 22nd Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2024), held on August 25-29, 2024.

The diagnosis of Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) came out in the DSM in 2013, although many professionals would indicate that patients have presented with these symptoms for years.

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

This edited volume delves into the unexpected, intriguing depictions of monstrous mothers in different cultures, literatures, and the arts.

This book provides an exploration of China’s evolving role in global governance and sustainable development, offering unique insights from over thirty leading scholars from most leading universities in China and beyond.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Services Computing – SCC 2025, Held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2025, held in Hong Kong, China during September 27–30, 2025.

Der Sammelband vermittelt unterschiedliche Ansatze und Perspektiven hinsichtlich der Analyse der Prasentation von Sport im Film.

This book offers a first step towards getting machines to understand history in terms of analysing historical narratives.

Welches ist die wichtigste Eigenschaft, die eine Fuhrungskraft heute braucht?

Object Spirituality critically examines the implications of the emerging philosophical movement of Speculative Realism for the study of spirituality and theology.

This book showcases evidence-based accounts of how school systems can tackle the challenges associated with teacher training in integrated STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education.

This edited collection draws together and contextualises research on the Epidemiological Criminology (EpiCrim) approaches to sexual abuse carried out by the University of West England (UWE), Bristol.

This book offers a first step towards getting machines to understand history in terms of analysing historical narratives.

This book examines the social and cultural meanings of mental illness and psychiatric hospitalisation in early twentieth-century Greece.