E-book Against the Fetishisation of Plural Time

This book raises three interlinked questions: first, how to do a social history of time; second, what are the ways in which it can be done without succumbing to the usual, and at times inevitable, pull of some of the useful binaries in which most of the historical accounts of time have been written; and third, how, as a result of overcoming some of these binaries, do we go beyond simply sta…

E-book Violent Impacts How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis

Concerns regarding brain injury in sport have escalated into what is often termed a “concussion crisis,” fueled by high-profile lawsuits and deaths. Although athletes are central figures in this narrative, they comprise only a small proportion of the people who experience brain injuries, while other high-risk groups—including victims of domestic violence and police brutality—are all too…

E-book Who is prepared for the new digital age? Evidence from the EIB Invest…

In the fight against the Coronavirus, digital technology is playing an unprecedented role in the maintenance of daily life and economic and social activities, as well as the recovery of industries and business activities. The Coronovirus-pandemic could become a tipping point for digitalisation - a dawn of a new era - by accelerating the maturity of digital technology: What was once a ‘nice to…

E-book Digital Ecologies

In an era of mass extinction, climate emergency, and biodiversity collapse, what role do digital media have in securing liveable futures? To what extent are digital media mitigating or intensifying environmental crises? And what theoretical, empirical, and methodological frameworks are needed to make sense of emerging digital ecologies? In a context where digital media are reshaping the futures…

E-book Media Use in Digital Everyday Life

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. As digital technologies have become ever more ingrained in society, Media Use in Digital Everyday Life asks how our relationship with media has changed. After the proliferation of smartphones, social media and ubiquitous connectivity, what has happened to the ways we navigate across social domains and structure …

E-book Beijing : Foreign Investment Guide

Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China, is also the national political center, cultural center, international exchange center, and scientific and technological innovation center. It takes the lead domestically and even globally in multiple strategic emerging industries, and gathers rich resources of technology, finance, culture, talents and international elements. The city is be…

E-book Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan The Development of the Fem…

Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan focuses on women’s activities in the new public spaces of Meiji Japan. With chapters on public, private, and missionary schools for girls, their students, and teachers, on social and political groups women created, on female employment, and on women’s participation in print media, this book offers a new perspective on nineteenth- and early twentiet…

E-book Creativity in Education International Perspectives

Creativity has become a buzzword across all disciplines in education and across all phases, from early years through to tertiary education. Although the meaning of creativity can change vastly depending on the global educational setting, it is impossible to ignore the applicability and relevance of creativity as an educational tool, philosophical framework and pedagogical approach. Through case…

E-book The 21st Century Ladz Continuity and Changes among Marginalised Young…

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. School-to-work transition studies have a rich sociological history that has traditionally focused on marginalised young men, until recently. Returning the focus to the most marginalised working-class young within a contemporary context, The 21st Century Ladz explores changing ideas of manhood, masculinities and …

E-book Peer Relationships at School New Perspectives on Migration and Diversity

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book draws on ethnographic research in two UK secondary schools, considering the shifting roles of migration status, language, ethnicity, religion and precarity in young people’s peer relationships. The book challenges culturalist understandings of social cohesion, highlighting the divisive impacts of neoliberalism, from pervasiv…

E-book Community Development and Schools

This book lays out the promise and potential of schools as community-building institutions. It explores the challenges faced in incorporating schools into broader community development policy, and also recognizes the changing demographics of schools and their need to integrate with economic development policy in order to promote broader community development. The book includes chapters on tax a…

E-book Translating Human Right in Eucation

The 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) is the first human rights treaty to explicitly acknowledge the right to education for persons with disabilities. In order to realize this right, the convention’s Article 24 mandates state parties to ensure inclusive education systems that overcome outright exclusion as well as segregation in special educat…

E-book Queer Compassion in 15 Comics

This unique comic anthology takes its readers on a journey through different art styles and queer perspectives, from first Prides to multi-generational friendships to finding community among chosen families. The comics in Queer Compassion offer kaleidoscopic insight into the colorful, heartbreaking, empowering, funny, and diverse lives of queer people around the world by centering compassion as…

E-book Steamboat Modernity

Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on Moldavia and Wallachia of steam navigation on the Danube. The Danube route integrated the two principalities into a dense network of European roads and waterways. From the 1830s to the 1860s, steamboat transport transformed time and space for the areas that benefited from regular services. River t…

E-book Brian Simon and the Struggle for Education

This is the first full-length study of the life and career of Brian Simon (1915-2002), leading Marxist intellectual and historian of education in twentieth-century Britain. Using documentary sources that have only recently become publicly available, it reveals the remarkably broad range of Simon’s life as student, soldier and school teacher, Communist Party activist, and educational academic,…

E-book Economy Studies A Guide to Rethinking Economics Education

The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the global financial crisis of 2008, the climate crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. It envisions a wide variety of economics graduates and specialists, equipped with a broad toolkit, enabling them to collectively understand and help tackle the issues the world faces today. This is a p…

E-book Higher Education in 2040 A Global Approach

Since the Middle Ages, universities have displayed impressive resourcefulness in their ability to adapt to the changing dynamics and demands of their times. But in the last fifty years, the landscape of higher education - with the emergence of online and mass education, skyrocketing tuition, and a controversial system for ranking institutions - has begun evolving so rapidly and profoundly that …

E-book The Art of Regenerative Educatorship A Developmental Guide

A regenerative current is rising all around us. Stories of the need to reconnect, heal and transform are becoming more urgent, challenging a dominant worldview built on competition, economic growth, extractivism, militarisation and personal gain. Our planet's resources are stretched beyond their limits, causing widespread suffering and injustice for both humans and non-humans. Yet, each of us h…

E-book The Digital Economy and the Productivity Paradox

Despite the billions of dollars invested in digitalization, productivity growth in developed economies remains sluggish and the promised technological revolution has yet to deliver its full potential. This concise book questions why digitalization is not translating into higher productivity and economic expansion, exploring this paradox through the lens of Schumpeter's creative destruction hypo…

E-book The Co-evolution of Technology and Warfare Reshaping the Battlefield

This book explores the relationship between technology and warfare, by examining how recent technological advancements have revolutionized the conduct of war. The work analyses contemporary conflicts, including the Syrian civil war, the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, and the ongoing war in Ukraine, but also by exploring future war scenarios and assessing the military capabilities of major pow…

E-book Designing Instruction with Generative AI

Designing Instruction with Generative AI offers a novel set of tools and strategies for leveraging generative AI to create engaging and personalized learning experiences. While instructional designers are a tremendous asset to higher education, not all colleges or universities have the robust staff needed to support all instructors on staff or large student populations. Drawing on a wealth of r…

E-book Anthropology of Transformation From Europe to Asia and Back

This collection of essays is the result of the joint efforts of colleagues and students of the leading social anthropology and post-socialism theorist, Professor Chris Hann. With the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 2019 as their catalyst, the authors reflect upon Chris Hann’s lifelong fieldwork in the discipline, spanning regions as diverse as East Central Europe, …

E-book Public Law and Economics

This comprehensive textbook applies economic analysis to public law. The economic analysis of law has revolutionized legal scholarship and teaching in the last half-century, but it has focused mostly on private law, business law, and criminal law. This book extends the analysis to fundamental topics in public law, such as the separation of government powers, regulation by agencies, constitution…

E-book Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories

This Open Access book presents the results of an interdisciplinary research program to utilize data from the multicohort German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), which included over 100.000 participants in six nationally representative panel studies. Renowned researchers from the fields of sociology, psychology, educational science, economics, and survey methodology have used the (longit…

E-book Philosophies of Catholic Education

This seminal volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to presenting an authoritative account of contemporary philosophies of Catholic education, intersecting the substantive boundaries of education, religious studies, philosophy, and theology to ultimately re-examine these philosophies and reinvigorate the authentic aspects of the Catholic educational endeavour. Against the backdrop of an inc…

E-book Digital Transformation in Educational Organizations

Technological transformation should lead to enhance people’s potential and the development of their cognitive and social competences, especially those connected with effective communication on different levels. The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified all these processes and, for better resilience and effectiveness at work, it requires now different sets of competences. This book gives direct in…

E-book Women in Leadership

This book is not just about women in leadership; it’s a testament to the power of diversity and inclusion in driving organisational growth and success. It’s a call to action for organisations to recognise, nurture, and empower women leaders, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it’s essential for their own growth and sustainability.

E-book The Business of Higher Institutional Education Integrating Academic Fr…

Higher education is facing increasing challenges. Economic and financial pressures have heightened the strain on the sustainability of higher education institutions (HEIs). These pressures have prompted a shift toward adopting business models and commercial practices to maintain institutional operations. While these changes have enabled some innovations, they have also placed traditional academ…

E-book Access to Social Justice Effective Remedies for Social Rights

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book proposes a conception of social justice according to international human rights law. Social rights include everyday rights such as housing, food, fuel and social security. Drawing on extensive research with frontline practitioners, the book frames access to social justice as a journey that should end with the realisation of an…

E-book Chamber of Shipping : Monaco

The shipping sector supports and enables more than 90 % of the world’s international trade. This complex and dynamic industry underpins passengers' transportation on ferries and cruise ships as well as moving all kinds of cargo on container, bulk and tanker vessels. In the Principality of Monaco, the shipping industry represents in excess of 4% of the country‘s GDP and employs more than 1.0…

E-book Public Information Act Handbook 2024 : Texas

The Texas Public Information Act (the “Public Information Act” or the “Act”) gives the public the right to request access to government information. Below is a description of the basic procedures, rights and responsibilities under the Act. The Act is triggered when a person submits a written request to a governmental body. The request must ask for records or information already in exist…

E-book Health Care in America : Trends in Utilization

People use health care services for many reasons: to cure illnesses and health conditions, to mend breaks and tears, to prevent or delay future health care problems, to reduce pain and increase quality of life, and sometimes merely to obtain information about their health status and prognosis. Health care utilization can be appropriate or inappropriate, of high or low quality, expensive or inex…

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E-book Evil Twins and the Ultimate Insight : Ayn Rand, Vladimir Nabokov, and …

The twinship phenomenon might be a mere curiosity, a quirk of fate and fortune, were the two writers’ legacies less politically fraught and consequential. Both get blamed for a lot of dam-age in the world. Nabokov is sometimes charged, from the right flank, with condoning or committing or making light of pedo-philia (a recent scholarly book promises guidance on Teaching Na…

E-book Co-Creation for Sustainability The UN SDGs and the Power of Local Par…

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious agenda for global problem-solving and create a framework to achieve it through the power of partnerships. Goal 17 points to the central importance of partnerships, networks, and multi-stakeholder collaborations for bringing together a broad range o…

E-book Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality

“It’s just different here,” is a common way in the Nordic countries for relativizing—that is, eschewing responsibility—for racism. “It’s not our fault we are so white, it’s just the way it is.” These commonly held justifications were presented by the anthropologist Kristín Loftsdóttir during her keynote speech at “The ‘Great White North’? Critical…

E-book Research in Global Learning

Young people around the world are calling ever more urgently on policymakers to address today’s global challenges of sustainability, structural inequality and social justice. So it is little surprise that learning in a global society, understanding sustainable development and being active global citizens are increasingly popular themes for education at all levels. Educational research makes a…

E-book New Horizons for the Alps

We started our respective field research in 2018 and we were somehow surprised not to find an international anthropological community in which researchers exchange and debate ideas in specific journals, meet at conferenc-es and hold working groups on Alpine matters. At the same time, the term “Alpine anthropology” is widely used (Kezich, 2022; Zanini and Viazzo, 2022) and there ex…

E-book Bring on the Books for Everybody

Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah’s Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore book…

E-book Indian Agriculture Towards 2030

The historical experience of almost all economies shows that the share of the agricul-ture and allied sectors in total employment as well as in their national income fallswith progress in economic development. This decline does not, however, diminish theneed to address various challenges confronting the agriculture sector, which is a coreconcern in both developed and developing countries. Agric…

E-book Mapping Water in Dominica : Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism

?e probate that accompanied the suit included a detailed descrip-tion of the property, documenting enslaved laborers, buildings, furniture, ani-mals, equipment, and the disposition of the land. ?e estate in question was in the southwestern quarter of the island of Dominica (maps I. and I.?). For those acquainted with Caribbean estates, this is a familiar story. In their descrip-tion, the docum…

E-book Peri Urban Life Worlds Contested

The opening paragraph of this dissertation originates from Mozambican writer Mia C outo’s1 famous novel The Last Flight of the Flamingo (O Último Voo do Flamingo in Portuguese original). It plays at the end of Mozambique’s civil war, when the Italian United Nations officer Massimo R isi is sent to the village of Tizangara to investigate the mysterious deaths of local United Nations …

E-book Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance

Fifteen years to the day after making this statement, on 2 April 2011, MelesZenawi laid the foundation stone for what would become the Grand EthiopianRenaissance Dam (GERD), domestically funded and, at 5,150 megawatts (MW)of installed capacity and 74 billion cubic metres of water storage, one of the largestdams in the world. As Turkey had unilaterally built a series of dams upstream onthe trans…

E-book Gaza on Screen

In early May 2021, demonstrations by Palestinians protesting planned evic-tions from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem spread quickly to al-Aqsa Mosque and other parts of East Jerusalem where Israeli authorities had engaged in several provocative actions throughout the month of Rama-dan, including disabling the loudspeakers that broadcast the call to prayer, preventing worshippers fro…

E-book Invited to Witness : Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine

“They called me a tourist, which I found insulting.” So began a reflection by a delegate I interviewed who had gone on solidarity tours to Palestine during the first intifada. She grappled with her discomfort in occupying this term: tourist. She outlined her rationale, explaining that the designation tourism, attached to what she did in Palestine, felt derisive of her work, as though it was…

E-book The Case of Mexico

In this chapter, I employ a model of the consolidated government budget constraint to study the monetary and fiscal history of Mexico. I study the period 1960–2017, dividing it into three subperiods: rapid growth and monetary expansion, 1960–1982; crisis and reform, 1982–1995; and slow growth and macroeconomic stability, 1995–2017. The crisis and reform period includes the major economi…

E-book Contract Farming in Developing Countries

Contract farming—described broadly as an institutional arrangement between farmers and businesses to produce and transact agricul-tural commodities against predetermined conditions—is not a recent phenomenon. Yet, a recent wave of agricultural industrialization and the emergence of large-scale food retailing in developing countries may have precipitate…

E-book Unsettling Responsibility in Science Education

As critical science studies scholar Karen Barad (2010) reminds us, “thepresent is not simplyhere-now” (p. 244, emphasis mine). Rather, it isalso a dis/continuous enfolding of heterogenousthere-thens.1This isto say that the central process of this book—accounting for and beingaccountable to the uneven and unequal relation between Indigenousmetaphysics and classical Western metaphysics by w…

E-book Children in Custody Disputes : Matching Legal Proceedings to Problems

he aim of this anthology is to explore how such legal proceedings in, and out-of-court, can be matched with the complex problems that are both caused by, and underlie such disputes. The anthology draws specif-ically on Nordic experiences of resolving custody disputes. However, the challenges are not unique to the Nordic legal systems: they exis…

E-book State of Empowerment : Low-Income Families and the New Welfare State

At around 3:00 on weekday afternoons, dismissal bells ring at thousands of schools across the country. For millions of students, these bells signal not just the end of the school day but also the beginning of another important educa-tional activity: federally funded after-school programs offering tutoring, homework help, and basic supervision.At Jackson Elementary1 in Chicago, the end o…