This book offers a thought-provoking defence of social science - and particularly the discipline of sociology - and its relevance for 21st-century challenges to democratic societies.
The new edition of this bestselling book provides all the information a specialist 'resident doctor' in obstetrics and gynaecology needs during training or when preparing for the MRCOG examination.
Drawing on chapters from a selection of authors from the fields of education, philosophy, political science, and sociology this book presents provocations on how citizenship might be experienced, conceptualised, expressed, and practiced in a range of settings.
Queer Migration and Drag in Japan: Queering Identity, Participation and Belonging explores how queer migration intersects with drag performance in Japan, illuminating the intricate interplay between gender, embodiment, and identity.
Serving as a foundational guide to the field, this book is an essential resource for professionals involved in the development of mechanical systems and related industries.
This book explores gender, sexualities, labour, migration and coloniality in Africa and India in an attempt towards transnational understanding and ways of rethinking gender.
Handbook of 2D Materials for a Sustainable Future reviews a cutting edge area of materials science with enormous potential for a wide range of applications.
This collection showcases language assessment literacy, understood as the knowledge, skills, and principles necessary to engage in assessment activities, by problematizing different approaches to its development and offering insights for language teachers and other stakeholders.
Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) is a serious and potentially life-threatening complication of ovarian stimulation in women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Events and Politics offers students a cutting-edge, intellectually stimulating, and accessible exploration of the deeply intertwined relationship between events and political power.
Sacred Orientation in Late Antiquity and Early Islam: The Qibla as Ritual, Metaphor, and Identity Marker offers a groundbreaking study of how the qibla-Islam's ritual direction of prayer-served not only as a sacred practice but also as a powerful marker of communal identity in Islam's formative centuries.
Crime Scene Investigator (CSI) Field Guide is a convenient and handy reference guide ideally suited for use in the field by crime scene investigators (CSI), both sworn and civilian.
This book provides the core knowledge that all doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and non-clinical leaders and managers at all levels should have at their fingertips to plan and execute both large-scale and continuous incremental improvement.
From algorithms that draft clinical notes in seconds to autonomous agents that triage emergency room backlogs, artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping every facet of healthcare.
Nanotechnology has been recognized for its transformative potential across various industries for decades, sparking widespread interest among researchers and innovators seeking to explores its capabilities for sustainable solutions.
This book documents and compares the social organization and academic arrangement of instruction in two remaining modern, public one-teacher schools in rural Nebraska.
The New International Economic Order (NIEO) was an attempt, underpinned by the agency of the Global South, to articulate global economic and social rights consequent upon political rights gained through processes of decolonisation.
This book explores the social and political dynamics that shape the impacts of climate change, drawing upon Turkey and Germany to offer a comprehensive comparative analysis.
This book explores the advanced integration of nanotechnology and biomedicine, providing an in-depth analysis of the transformative impact of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on healthcare.
The separation of powers produced by the Enlightenment period reinforced the myth of the "e;perfection of the law"e;, with criminal law being dependent on the principle of legality.
The Routledge Handbook of Translating and Interpreting Conflict offers a comprehensive exploration of the roles translators and interpreters play in conflict settings.
This second edition of The Digital Humanities Coursebook provides critical frameworks for the application of digital humanities tools and platforms, which have become an integral part of work across a wide range of disciplines.
The New International Economic Order (NIEO) was an attempt, underpinned by the agency of the Global South, to articulate global economic and social rights consequent upon political rights gained through processes of decolonisation.
This book explores the social history of the radical religious community of Old Believer-Wanderers during the period of rapid Late Imperial, Early Soviet, and Stalinist modernization.
This book examines a shift in the terrain of energy politics that has given rise to consultant experts as new types of intermediaries capable of orienting crucial decision-making, influencing energy politics, steering governance, and envisioning energy futures.
Reading Faces is the first book to discuss the historical contexts and theoretical underpinnings of the artificial intelligence (AI) systems that identify individuals, or purport to ascribe emotions and characteristics to them based on their facial features.
This groundbreaking study examines courtyard architecture across Paris, Florence, Siena, Granada, and Yazd to reveal how the deliberate creation of emptiness-the "e;bounded void"e;-functions as architecture's primary generative principle.
This book focuses on seeing how inequity and lack of inclusion presently shows in existing spaces, how to retrofit existing spaces to correct inequity and lack of inclusion through green design, as well as design new green spaces with a focus of equity and inclusion.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become part and parcel of many aspects of our lives, impacting how we approach tasks and understand the world around us.
The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion's 'O' pays homage to Wilfred Bion's lifelong love of poetry and his desire to integrate it with his psychoanalytic work as a means of communicating profound levels of emotional experience.
At the cutting edge of the growing field of the history of childhood, this book shows how placing children at the centre of historical analysis enables the past to be viewed in new ways.
The Routledge Handbook of Argumentation Theory offers 43 chapters-written specifically for this volume by a team of leading international scholars-that survey a wide spectrum of research on the nature, purpose, and promise of argument and the associated practice of argumentation.
