E-book The Republic of Ireland

The Republic of Ireland is in the centre and south part of the beautiful island of Ireland, which is called "the Emerald Isle", one of the British Isles, in the North West of Europe.

E-book Facts about Ireland

Ireland’s young workforce is capable, highly adaptable, educated and committed to achievement. Ireland has the youngest population in Europe with one third of the population under 25 years of age. The population is forecast to increase by almost one million people to 5.75 million by 2040. In 2017/2018 over 220,000 students enrolled in third level courses across Ireland’s universities and co…

E-book Japan and the United Nations

In cooperation with the UN, Japan contributes to international peace and stability through exercising leadership in its areas of expertise, such as agenda-setting and rule-making for the international community. A case in point is human security. Japan has upheld human security as a guiding principle in international cooperation for the 21st century. This principle won the common understanding …

E-book Doing Business : Norway

The web-based filing system allows for electronic signature of the registration form and for the possibility to upload all attachments (i.e., copies of signed versions of the memorandum, auditor statements, and the rest) electronically. It is still possible to file all documents manually by regular mail as well. In some cases registration inquiries cannot be filed online (i.e., mergers, some ca…

E-book The Public and Their Platforms Public Sociology in an Era of Social M…

As social media is increasingly becoming a standard feature of sociological practice, this timely book rethinks the role of these mediums in public sociology and what they can contribute to the discipline in the post-COVID world. It reconsiders the history and current conceptualizations of what sociology is, and analyzes what kinds of social life emerge in and through the interactions between �…

E-book The Child Friendly Cities Initiative

Subnational and local governance programming is an integral part of UNICEF’s support for the realization of children’s rights within countries. Achieving outcomes for children at the subnational and local levels is done through the application of the Subnational and Local Governance Programming Framework2 that adopts a territorial lens as a principle for sustainable local development and t…

E-book Urbanization in Indonesia

Indonesia has recently achieved a key milestone: the percentage of population living in urban areas has now passed 50 per cent. As this percentage is expected to keep increasing, we can safely conclude that never again will the majority of Indonesia’s population live in rural areas. Instead, the majority will be living in a range of urban settlements, such as small towns, larger towns, cities…

E-book Peaceful Maritime Engagement in East Asia and the Pacific Region

Satya Nandan was a close friend of me and my family for over four decades. He and I worked together for many years which included productive months at the Third United Nation’s Convention on the Law of the Sea (unclos) negotiations. Satya was a skilled diplomat who made many substantive contributions to the peaceful order of the oceans.1 His contributions were comparable to just a few oth…

E-book Police Code of Silence in Times of Change

This book explores the contours of the code of silence and provides policy recommendations geared toward creating an environment less conducive for police misconduct. It responds to the recent calls for police reform, in the wake of the perceived illegitimacy of police actions and the protection that the code of silence seems to provide to the police officers who violate the official rules. Usi…

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 Literacy for Digital Futures Proposal review

Contemporary art, entertainment, and architecture cultures offer a growing amount of digitally mediated spatial experiences, situated either in the metaverse (e.g. VR) or location-based in physical realms (e.g. AR), increasingly powered by generative systems (e.g. AI). Are such spatially “immersive experiences” a new phenomenon and dependent on digital innovation? The Art of Spatial Illusio…

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…

E-book The Hipster Economy

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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…