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This book examines how schooling—the restrictive, oppressive, and disciplinary force in much U.S. education—is protean and has the agency to…
change in response to challenges. Posthumanist theories were engaged with to better understand the intra‑actions between human, nonhuman, and discursive actors.Utilizing participant observations, interviews, cognitive maps, diffraction, and theory, it argues that traditional humanistic approaches to oppression in U.S. education are inadequate to understanding the ongoing power of schooling. In conversation with these paradigms, this book lays out an agential realist (Barad, 2007) view of schooling and argues in favor of examining schooling itself as an agent, sustained and bolstered by a wide range of other agents acting in and around schools—from clipboards and handouts to adultism and racism. This approach offers a new perspective on how oppressive forces like racism, sexism, and adultism adapt and continue to operate in spaces deliberately designed to oppose them, including Ethnic Studies programs and YPAR projects. At the same time, this book rejects totalizing arguments about schooling’s hegemony and shows how a wider recognition of nonhuman agency can help us not only understand but also work to resist such oppressions.It will appeal to scholars, faculty, and upper‑level students with interests in critical youth studies, educational equity, Ethnic Studies, youth participatory action research, and posthumanism.
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Criticism, Psychology
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Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture explores the enduring legacy of mnemonic systems…
across literature, visual arts, pedagogy, and cultural production.Centered on the metaphor of the “mental library,” this collection reveals how memory practices functioned as tools for knowledge storage as well as generative frameworks for creativity and invention. The 13 essays trace the reception, adaptation, and transformation of the ars memoriae from late medieval Europe to early modern Spain, Italy, France, and Latin America. Contributors examine canonical figures like Petrarch, Bruno, and Burton, alongside lesser‑explored thinkers such as Bartolomeo da Mantova, Zorrilla, and Carrara. With insights from renowned scholars such as Lina Bolzoni and Luis Merino Jerez, this volume offers fresh perspectives on the cultural and intellectual impact of mnemonic systems.Rich in visual content and interdisciplinary analysis, Mental Libraries bridges past and present, inviting readers to rethink the role of memory in shaping knowledge, literature, and culture.
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Business and economics, General non-fiction, Science and technology
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Efficiency and productivity improvement are imperative for businesses to remain competitive in an increasingly dynamic marketplace. While business organizations have…
the potential to thrive independently, collaborating with others fosters a collective strength that can lead to greater innovation, expanded reach, and shared success.Decision making optimization models for business partnerships are essential, as businesses seldom have all the resources they need, and thus, they require alliances and partnerships with others to enable them to meet their goals. Decision Making Optimization Models for Business Partnerships extends non-parametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) and parametric econometrics approaches to better understand how economic efficiency and market competitiveness are achieved for different types of partnerships and strategic alliances.Features Global contributions for a wide range of professionals and academics Invaluable resources for businesses, analysts, and academics interested in DEA, optimization, and operations research more widely Introduces readers to novel approaches, models, and decision making techniques on performance evaluation and business partnerships via the medium of parametric and nonparametric optimization.
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Law and crime, General non-fiction
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This book comprises an in-depth and highly inclusive ethnographic study of daily life in two local Danish probation offices. With…
a special emphasis on manual-based rehabilitative interventions, the book explores the interactions between probation officers and citizens on probation, serving conditional sentences, or performing community service, as well as the professionals’ rationales behind their rehabilitative efforts.By presenting ethnographic findings that indicate a divergence between the envisioned trust-based interactions and the reality of manual-based, scripted practices within the Danish probation service, the analyses reveal how rehabilitative interactions may seem choreographed, with roles predetermined by an asymmetric social hierarchy. This framework portrays the client as inherently obstinate, unpredictable, and cast as an irresponsible subject.Despite these challenges, the book underscores probation officers’ genuine belief in the transformative power of motivational programs. More precisely, it assesses the potential for manual-based or ‘scripted’ rehabilitative interventions to genuinely inspire participatory citizenship among disenfranchised clients. Building on these empirically informed discussions, the book ultimately endeavors to provide a positive and instructive conceptualization of the diverse activities in which probation officers, acknowledging the limitations of their scripted interactions with clients, appear to transgress their manual-based mandate and perform 'professional disobedience'.Given the broad applicability of the concept of ‘professional disobedience,’ extending beyond probation to other social service practices navigating the intersection of help and control, this book is intended for a wide array of researchers, students, practitioners, and policymakers with an interest in punishment, disenfranchisement, and rehabilitation. This book is essential reading for those engaged in probation, criminal justice, ethnography, and Nordic criminology.
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Computers and internet, Science and technology
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Volumes have been written on the need for high-quality data to support organizational decision-making. Most of those books appear to…
focus on the development and sustainment of data from the standpoint of those directly responsible for the management of data stores and the use of technology necessary to acquire, store, and secure data sets.Navigating the Data Minefields: Management’s Guide to Better Decision-Making provides executives and subject matter experts (SMEs) with a "reasonable" set of useful tools they can adapt to their specific organization and operating environment. While complexity can never be taken out of an integrated system, decision-making can be facilitated by using metrics that take into consideration the quality of the data used to make decisions, i.e., risk mitigation.Professionals who depend on large high-quality data sets, such as senior and mid-level management, engineering SMEs, data scientists, IT, systems engineers, and medical professionals, will want to have this book in their decision-making arsenal.
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Arts and entertainment
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Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage draws upon an original, wide-ranging dataset to show that the dynamics and ethics of participation in…
European national minority cultures’ intangible cultural heritage (ICH) are more nuanced than has previously been articulated.Arguing for an approach to analysing ICH that reflects societal change in regions that are historically those of national minorities, contributions to the volume focus on three regions across four countries. This allows for comparative exploration of exemplar contexts that span a range of circumstances in which European national minority cultures thrive and strive for voice and recognition. It explores how a wide range of people engage with national minorities’ ICH and seeks a better understanding of the ethical and practical dimensions of this participation. It proposes a heritage literate ‘revoicing’ of ICH: to create socially positive pathways to resilient ICH, and in turn ensure ICH is an arena where these positive social relations are shaped as part of an evolving ecosystem into the future.Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage takes an interdisciplinary approach ideally placed to interrogate the interplay of different groups with ICH from multiple perspectives. This makes the book essential reading for academics and students working in heritage studies, sociolinguistics, cultural and event studies, sociology, creative practice, and cultural geography.
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This edited volume takes a comprehensive look at solid waste management across jurisdictions in Canada, including provinces, territories, municipalities, and…
Indigenous communities. It provides the reader with an understanding of various solid waste management approaches, policies, practices, barriers, and innovations that are being pursued and developed by jurisdictions to solve their current challenges and improve current systems in place. Solid waste management remains one of the most challenging environmental concerns in the 21st century. Understanding its complexity by bridging theory and practice is essential for current and future management, and for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Using a multidisciplinary approach, contributors include social scientists, engineers, economists, scientists, urban planners, and practitioners in the solid waste management field, who utilize qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods in examining solid waste management issues in Canada. Topics include solid waste management policy and governance, community- based approaches to waste management, waste management in northern, remote, rural, and Indigenous communities, landfill management and stabilization, and innovative and emergent waste management. This book is an important resource for researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, policymakers, solid waste management professionals, government officials, and members of the public interested in solid waste management.
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Medicine, Animals and wildlife
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This textbook for advanced graduate and postgraduate veterinary students provides a comprehensive overview of clinical physiology with a focus on…
its application in diagnosing and managing various disorders in animals. Fundamentals of Veterinary Pathophysiology is divided into two main sections. The first section introduces the general aspects of clinical physiology, covering intricate mechanisms such as temperature regulation, animal nutrition, and biological oxidation. It delves into topics like enzymatic regulation, metabolism, the physiology of membranes, body water, and ionic regulation. The section concludes by providing essential insights into the fundamentals of important physiological disorders and dysfunctions. The second section delves into the clinical physiology of disorders within various body systems. It covers digestive disorders in both monogastric and ruminant animals, cardiovascular and respiratory disorders, hematological disorders, neurological disorders, endocrinal disorders, urinary disorders, and lymphatic disorders. Finally, the book concludes with an in-depth examination of the clinical physiology of eye, ear, skin, male reproductive and female reproductive disorders.Key Features Introduces fundamental concepts of clinical animal physiology for advanced graduate and postgraduate veterinary students Emphasizes the practical application of clinical physiology in the diagnosis and managing of animal disorders Provides understanding of intricate physiological mechanisms including temperature regulation, enzymatic regulation and metabolic processes Addresses specific physiological disorders, offering insights into clinical aspects related to digestive, cardiovascular, respiratory and neurological systems Discusses clinical physiology associated with disorders of the eye, ear, skin and reproductive system
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Economics, Business and economics
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This book explains the theoretical and empirical foundations for constructing a measure of a country’s Green GDP and how this…
measure relates to the conventional GDP.Opening with an overview of the academic literature on green national accounting, the first chapter sets up an analytical model of the interaction between a small open economy and the environment to derive a theoretically founded measure of the economy’s Green Net National Income (“Green GDP”). The book then illustrates how the theory can be applied in practice to produce a time series for the evolution of Denmark’s Green GDP and its various components (with an emphasis on the environment) over the last thirty years. As far as possible, the data used in the calculations were constructed in accordance with international statistical guidelines. Therefore, the careful explanation of the methodology which is outlined in the book can be applied to other countries using comparable data.This book will be of significant interest to scholars in the field of environmental economics and statisticians and practitioners working on green national accounting.
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Business and economics, Canadian politics and government
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This book examines the resurgence of debt crises in Africa following the Covid-19 pandemic. It deciphers the debt crisis phenomenon…
through the discourse of sovereign risk, which has been paid insufficient attention within the African context. It seeks to appreciate facets that continue to lead African states to a debt-default position.The book focuses on the pre-stages of default and debt default risks. It explores and investigates whether South Africa was and continues to be financially capable of servicing its International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan, granted in 2020 for the COVID-19 pandemic. While investigating how and why Ethiopia and Ghana have already defaulted on their post-pandemic loans from the IMF. It examines the idea of sovereign risk in Africa through a qualitative methodology and a case study research design, analyzing three countries borrowed from the IMF in 2020 or later, mainly prompted by the pandemic. The book distinguishes between African states that have not yet defaulted and those that have already defaulted on their debt servicing. Namely, South Africa, Ethiopia, and Ghana, two of which have already defaulted on their loan. The book also notes the resurgence of the IMF within the African continent while assessing the past narrative and impact of the international monetary system and how it has changed in the post-pandemic era. However, economic diversification has been noted as a prominent remedy that holds the potential of strengthening African economies and aiding their eradication of the debt crisis.The book is designed to appeal to numerous reading communities, namely scholars, researchers, advanced students and policymakers.
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Family and relationships, Parenting, Psychology
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This pioneering volume reviews theory and research on parental gatekeeping—the extent to which parents support or thwart each other’s involvement…
in parenting.Chapter authors review theories, conceptual models, and measures of gatekeeping, and evaluate its consequences for parent-child relationships. Offering a holistic perspective, this book not only explores mothers’ gatekeeping of fathers but also considers the potential roles of others, including fathers, as gatekeepers. Chapter authors also explore parental gatekeeping processes in at-risk families, including separated and divorced families and those with adolescent and nonresident fathers. This book summarizes the key findings and critical gaps in the gatekeeping literature and suggests important directions for future research.This landmark text will be of interest to all students and scholars who study parenting, child development, and families. It will also serve as a valuable guide to future scholars in the burgeoning field of parenting research.
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Laws and statutes, Politics and government
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This book discusses the practice of free speech and its limitations – defamation and hate speech – in the context…
of Indonesia.Focusing on several legislations, mainly in the Indonesian Criminal Code (KUHP) and the Information and Electronic Transaction Law (The ITE Law), the analysis centers on defamation and hate speech and how public interest defense is implemented in such limitations. The book discusses free speech in Indonesia through historical context and legal framework, both national and international. Detailed analyses of laws and case studies are provided, and the author examines key judicial decisions in defamation and hate speech cases that occurred in offline and online realms. The book demonstrates that Indonesia has ratified international human rights frameworks but that democracy in Indonesia has been declining in recent years, particularly due to the restrictions on free speech imposed by laws, which has resulted in a significant increase in cases involving free speech limitations.Offering a much-needed analysis of free speech and its implementation in Indonesia, this book will be of interest to academics studying Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Human Rights, Media Law, and Law in Asia.
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This book proposes a novel transformational humanistic leadership approach applied to cultural heritage tourism, based on humanistic values of human…
dignity, creativity, and autonomy and supported by a distinctive leadership ethos, purpose, and guiding principles that promote the betterment of society.By reimagining how cultural heritage tourism leadership upholds human dignity through tour experiences that generate moments of grounding, reflection, understanding, and healing, humanistic leadership provides an ethical framework and strategic alignment to encourage human flourishing. In proposing a pluralistic leadership ethic that unites social, ecological, and technological influences, the impact of cultural heritage tourism on visitors’ human dignity is considered, culminating in transformational humanistic leadership that promotes tourism sustainability, authenticity, and adaptability. Practical leadership challenges are explored through case studies and leadership inquiries that reflect the cultural complexity of international heritage tourism, including Avebury Neolithic stone henge in the United Kingdom, Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths in Wales, the Museum of the Cherokee People in the United States, and the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory in Germany.Cultural heritage tourism leaders, public history and anthropology scholars, those interested in applied humanism in heritage contexts, and leadership ethicists will benefit from reflecting on human dignity as a central tenant of transformational humanistic leadership.
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Laws and statutes, Law and crime
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This book proposes using a ‘jury-centric approach’ for improving laws, practices, and procedures in jury trials. Courts assume that jurors…
in a criminal trial understand and apply the judge’s directions about the law. This assumption is based on jury verdicts and the courts’ observations of jurors and inferences about juror comprehension. Research reveals that the courts’ assumption about juror comprehension is fundamentally flawed. Addressing this problem is essential for fair trials. A jury-centric approach is evidence-informed and works within a fair trial framework. It asks what jurors need to understand the issues that they must determine. It also examines juror comprehension research and why judges and lawyers have often been sceptical about this research. The book illustrates and evaluates a jury-centric approach through three case studies involving structured decision-making aids, homicide laws, and misconceptions in sexual offence cases. The book proposes establishing an interdisciplinary Juries Advisory Council, drawing on judicial and legal expertise as well as expertise in jury research. The jury’s task is increasingly complicated. Reform is essential to help jurors understand their task and determine the issues on their legal and factual merits. The book will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers, policymakers, and students in the areas of Criminal Law, Courts, Human Rights Law, Psycholinguistics, and Organisational Psychology, and to judges and lawyers.
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Politics and government, General non-fiction
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This book explores the concept of conformity pressure or dōchō atsuryoku (同調圧力) in Japanese society and unveil its effects on…
law, politics and business, and vice versa.Conformity pressure is explored from a unique perspective, expanding on traditional psychological analyses by highlighting how conformity pressure acts as a force which interacts not only with psychological dynamics but also with formal and informal economic, legal and political influences. This book also demonstrates how conformity pressure can be comprehended as a societal force identifiable through socio‑political analysis, in addition to traditional psychological analyses. Through such examinations, it reveals conformity pressure as not merely a by‑product of Japanese cultural uniqueness but also as an integral component of socio‑political dynamics crucial to understanding the essence of Japanese politics, law and society.Employing an interdisciplinary approach and incorporating aspects of economic, political, sociological and psychological analysis, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of politics and sociology, particularly Japanese, as well as social and political psychology.
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Secondary English for Generation Alpha seeks to promote a humane, responsive and creative pedagogy for English that will develop and…
enrich understanding and enjoyment of language in all its forms (speaking, listening, reading and writing) and help students develop into successful members of their home and wider communities.Generation Alpha (children born between 2010 and 2025) are growing up amid unprecedented challenges – local, national and global – that threaten social justice. The authors of this book see subject English as one means of supporting Generation Alpha to meet these challenges and provide them with the necessary skills and knowledge to fit them for a changing world. Responding to tendencies to standardise and centralise curriculum, pedagogy and teacher education, the book explores the ways in which subject English can draw on local contexts and expertise in schools, universities and communities to address local needs and interests, demonstrating how what we learn locally can be relevant beyond.The chapters in this volume represent work being done, individually and collectively, in settings across England, by teacher educators in universities and other centres, alongside their partnership schools. By describing their own practice in English classrooms, the authors hope to empower others – in England, but also beyond – simultaneously producing both a broad and an in-depth exploration of the subject. Secondary English for Generation Alpha emerges from the world of initial teacher education, yet takes ideas from current research and makes them relevant to teachers and those interested in English teaching in schools in any context.
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Digital Libraries Across Continents illustrates how digital librarianship practitioners and scholars digitize, exhibit, and preserve their cultural heritage, and how…
these practices may be influenced by the policy, economic, and sociocultural environments in which they are developed.Including scholarly articles, case studies, examples of best practice, and conceptual essays solicited from different continents, this book provides an overview of the status quo of digital libraries around the globe. The case studies examine how macro-level policy, funding, and social priorities influence the development of digital libraries. The volume offers a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences between libraries in different countries and the ways in which they view, foster, develop, and sustain digital librarianship. Chapters within the book examine systems, standards, workflows, content, protocol, social and policy environments, culture, metadata, and more, through a series of case studies provided by practitioners working in these settings. Taking a comparative international approach, the book promotes the development of inclusive, accessible, and sustainable digital libraries that serve a global human knowledge endeavor.Digital Libraries Across Continents provides a wide-ranging examination of issues in cross-border digital library contexts. It will be essential reading for library practitioners, as well as information scientists and educators.
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Laws and statutes, Politics and government
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This book examines the judicial review systems in the four areas of Greater China – China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and…
Macau – and uncovers judicial review activities of the apex courts of each region. It provides a comparative assessment of judicial activism and deference. The development of modern judicial review is one of the key elements of the twentieth century’s legal heritage. By enforcing the principles of constitutionalism, the rule of law, and human rights protection, many courts have been vested with unprecedented powers and have played an essential role in supervising the exercise of government power through constitutional and administrative review. This work investigates the most up-to-date aspects of judicial review in Greater China and reflects on the modern theory regarding the judicialization of politics in different political regimes: democratic, authoritarian, and hybrid. The volume collects all substantive judicial review decisions delivered in the past twenty years by the four apex courts: the China’s Supreme People’s Court, the Taiwan Constitutional Court, the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, and the Court of Final Appeal of Macau. This comprehensive dataset includes some 800 judicial review decisions, presenting a comprehensive resource of fundamental baseline data for evaluating judicial review in Greater China. The book will be an invaluable companion for scholars and researchers working in the areas of Comparative Public Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Politics, and Asian Studies.
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Politics and government
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International Political Economy and the Global South provides students from both the Global South and the Global North a textbook…
that speaks to distinct concepts, categories and issues of International Political Economy (IPE) from a Southern and Northern perspective, while identifying how they differ.The primary goal is to provide an alternative or complementary reading of IPE derived from the experiences of the periphery. The textbook asks: how has the Global South responded to the demands of a global economy? What is the meaning of sovereignty to those who have experienced colonialism and imperialism? How can the Global South claim the “international” when the Global North sets its norms, institutions and practices? It opens with a standard introduction, offering an intellectual history of key IPE concepts, including state, firm, capital, power, labor, globalization and finance. Each subsequent chapter follows a similar structure: exploration of the problem; discussion of what may be missing from dominant understandings of the problem and/or how orthodox IPE may tell us something different about the problem compared to what is experienced in the Global South; and identification of alternative frameworks and perspectives.Aiming to de-Westernize and decentralize the production of knowledge, the textbook introduces students to the discipline and phenomenon of IPE with a genuinely global perspective.
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Business and economics
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The book explores how diverse stakeholder groups—particularly community and regulatory stakeholders—shape corporate environmental practices. Focusing on one of the world’s…
largest economies, this book provides an in-depth analysis of stakeholder dynamics and their impact on corporate environmental performance and disclosure.Environmental governance has become a global imperative as environmental crises intensify and stakeholder expectations grow. The book examines the interplay between community advocacy and regulatory actions and particularly focuses on how community stakeholders drive corporate accountability by pressuring regulatory authorities to enforce stricter measures or provide financial incentives. The chapters include discussions on the role of public environmental awareness and concern in shaping corporate performance and disclosure practices. The book also highlights how regulatory influence mediates the relationship between community influence and corporate environmental outcomes, offering new insights into the interactive dynamics of stakeholder influence.This book will be of interest to policymakers, corporate managers, and academics seeking to understand the nuanced relationships between businesses, governments, and communities. It offers actionable recommendations for fostering effective environmental governance and sustainable corporate practices.