Africa's creative frontiers

Africa’s Creative Frontiers brings together leading scholars and practitioners to examine how fashion, music, and film are transforming African economies. It explores intersections with tourism, sustainability, and entrepreneurship, highlighting perspectives from across Africa.

Celluloid democracy

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Celluloid Democracy tells the story of the Korean filmmakers, distributors, and exhibitors who reshaped cinema in radically empow...

Advances in management accounting

Volume 38 uses methods from experiments and case studies to surveys to build upon existing knowledge within management accounting. Containing a diverse range of authors from around the world, chapters focus on theoretically sound and practical research which has a cutting-edge and wide-reaching a...

Aspects of kinship in ancient iran

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Originally delivered as the Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lectures, Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran is an exploration of kinship i...

Families

Families: An Essential Component of Special Education focuses on fundamental pedagogies implemented with families of students with disabilities resulting in positive outcomes.  

Human 2.0

Human 2.0: Reimagining HR in the Age of Transhumanism explores the transformative effects of transhumanist technologies, such as AI, biotechnology, and neuro-enhancements, on the field of human resources (HR).

The dignity of native americans and indigenous peoples' experiences at work

The UN estimates that there are approximately 476 million indigenous people around the world, and there are 1.8 million Native Americans in the USA. These individuals face recurring challenges with high rates of unemployment, poverty, unequal access to health care, low educational levels, and hou...

Escolaridad culturalmente sensible para estudiantes indígenas mexicanos

Este libro revela las experiencias sociales y educativas de los estudiantes indígenas en EE.UU. y destaca la diversidad multilingüe y multicultural de los inmigrantes latinoamericanos. Traducido al español, ofrece orientación a educadores, legisladores e investigadores sobre cómo apoyar eficazmen...

Beyond the notes

Beyond the Notes: Teaching and Learning Music at Historically Black Colleges and Universities critically explores the historical, cultural, and pedagogical dimensions of music education at HBCUs.

Ice core concepts

ICE Core Concepts: Geotechnical Engineering is an engaging, practical introduction to the analysis, design, construction, maintenance and renovation of geotechnical structures.

The bera guide to practitioner research

The BERA Guide to Practitioner Research is a companion guide for those who see themselves as practitioner researchers or those who are interested in becoming practitioner researchers within educational settings.

Artificial intelligence for digital talent acquisition and management

Artificial Intelligence for Digital Talent Acquisition and Management: Analytical Approaches, Practices, Models for Digitalization analyses the intersection of AI and workforce strategies, offering readers a thorough exploration of analytical approaches, cutting-edge practices, and innovative mod...

Sexual and reproductive health and rights in sub-saharan africa

Edited by renowned experts, this work explores how digital tools can improve the accessibility, quality, and reach of sexual and reproductive health and rights services, while also addressing legal, ethical, and human rights considerations.

The life and writings of maria teresa de sá nogueira

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira examines the life and journalism of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira, revealing how her fearless writing challenged colonial power and gave voice to the marginalized in Mozambique and Portugal. A vital contribution to Lusophone postcolonial studies.

The research-informed educator

The Research-Informed Educator supports teachers in developing their professional identity and practice through engagement with research and evidence.

Donald thompson in russia

Donald Thompson in Russia is a compilation of letters to his wife Dorothy in Topeka, Kansas, illustrated with photos. First published in 1918, it outlines Thompson’s conspiracy thesis that :German intrigue, working among the unthinking masses, has brought Russia to her present woeful condition.”

A handbook of integration with refugees

This book brings together the voices of academics, practitioners, and people seeking sanctuary to explore the processes of refugee integration. Situated in learnings from Scotland, the book offers theoretical, creative and practical responses for a wide international audience.

Entanglements

This book explores the ways in which language is understood, and how linguistic theories – and the idea of language as an object – fail to represent a reality that is inherently multi- and trans-. It offers a glimpse of a decolonial linguistics that centres entanglement – between the North and So...

The corporation, corporate governance and the sustainable transition

The Corporation, Corporate Governance and the Sustainable Transition is a compelling resource for understanding the pitfalls and potential of corporate power.

Advanced introduction to antitheodicy

This book introduces the concept of antitheodicy and an approach that the author proposes to call antitheodicism as central elements of a critical ethical response to the problem of evil and suffering.

Child labour in the global human rights regime

Child Labour in the Global Human Rights Regime is about children’s rights, labour and slavery in modern and modernizing societies in the context of what has been summarized as a well-established and increasingly sophisticated framework of treaties, institutions, networks and ambitious standards w...

Islamic finance and corporate governance

Islamic Finance and Corporate Governance addresses matters related to technology, Islamic ventures, risk management, compliance with regulations, and societal responsibility, while advocating for inclusive governance methods. It promotes sustainable development in Islamic finance through efficien...

Crafting engineering strategy

Teacher professionalism from the margins

A comparative analysis of educational policy in England and Sweden, this text offers insights into the possibilities of and difficulties facing of teacher unions in combatting the global crisis of teacher recruitment and retention.

Indigenous language education in critical times

This book builds a space in which a diversity of voices – Indigenous teachers, activists and committed academics – are foregrounded in the processes of Indigenous education and language reclamation. It decenters state systems of education, thereby emphasizing diverse processes of language reclama...

Forgotten wives

Throughout history, records of women's lives and work have been lost through the pervasive assumption of male dominance. Wives, especially, disappear as supporters of their husbands’ work, as unpaid and often unacknowledged secretaries and research assistants, and as managers of men’s domestic do...

Fighting fascism

Clara Zetkin’s report and resolution on fascism at the June 1923 enlarged plenum of the Communist International’s Executive Committee.

Rehearsals for living

Articulating abolitionist and anti-colonial presents and futures, Rehearsals for Living asks what it means to get free.

Subjectivity and development in rural contexts

Subjectivity and Development in Rural Contexts presents a compilation of chapters that explore different phenomena of ruralness. 

The new cold war

A leading international relations expert uncovers the key stages that led from the end of the Cold War to the War in Ukraine. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, warnings of a new Cold War proliferated. In fact, argues Gilbert Achcar in this timely new account, the New Cold War has bee...

Nowhere to be home

Nowhere to Be Home is an eye-opening collection of oral histories exposing the realities of life under military rule. In their own words, men and women from Burma describe their lives in the country that Human Rights Watch has called “the textbook example of a police state.”

Teacher preparation in france

Imelda Elliott and Ewen Lecuit present a timely overview of how teacher education in France has developed.

Coup

Coup analyzes the conditions that led to the 2019 coup in Bolivia and details its repressive aftermath.

Public value accounting and accountability

The editors present cutting edge and thought-provoking studies on public value accounting and accountability. Chapters explore both the state of the art of the topic as well as the new developments from a theoretical and practical point of view.

Resilience strategies for small business in industry 5.0

The research curated here considers the emergence and application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in developing economies. With a balance of theoretical/methodological and empirical chapters, this book is the first substantial study of artificial intelligence and the future of sustai...

Prince edward county, virginia school closing

The Prince Edward County, Virginia School Closing: A Compilation of Research Studies provides readers with a series of qualitative methodology approaches and topics surrounding the Prince Edward County School closing.

The political economy of banditry in nigeria

The Political Economy of Banditry in Nigeria explores the escalation of new areas of political economy triggered by banditry in Nigeria, where new strategies of bandits have turned crime into a multi-billion Naira business.

After the cataclysm

Dissects the aftermath of the war in Southeast Asia, the refugee problem, the Vietnam/Cambodia conflict andthe Pol Pot regime.

Cricket, fiction and nation

Cricket, Fiction and Nation examines how cricket has been used by fiction writers from the early nineteenth century to the present day to explore matters such as national identity, class, sexuality, murder, suicide, obsession, empire, race, migration and the global post-colonial world.

Beyond pro-life and pro-choice

Examining the changing pluralities of contemporary abortion debate in Britain, this innovative and important book shows why it is necessary to move beyond an understanding of abortion politics as characterised in binary terms by ‘pro-choice’ versus ‘pro-life’. Amery traces the evolution of polit...

Public administration, civic engagement, and spanish-speaking communities

Public Administration, Civic Engagement, and Spanish-Speaking Communities builds on the first bilingual (Spanish–English) special session at the National Academy of Public Administration’s 2022 Social Equity Leadership Conference.

Modi and the reinvention of indian foreign policy

Narendra Modi’s energetic personal diplomacy and promise to make India a ‘leading power’ surprised many analysts. Most had predicted that his government would concentrate on domestic issues, on the growth and development demanded by Indian voters, and that he lacked necessary experience in intern...

To govern the globe

In a sweep through seven centuries from 1350 to 2050, the work explains how catastrophes-- pandemics, wars, and climate crisis--have shaped the destiny of empires and world orders.

Leading with soul

This book aims to challenge what we consider to be static and superficial understandings of servant leadership within PreK-12 school communities. 

Beer and racism

Beer in the United States has always been bound up with race, racism, and the construction of white institutions and identities. Given the very quick rise of craft beer, as well as the myopic scholarly focus on economic and historical trends in the field, there is an urgent need to take stock of...

More than a score

Key participants in the growing movement of teachers, students, and parents organizing against high stakes testing.

Dis.ordering distribution

Dis.Ordering Distribution explores the intricate relationship between distribution and production, drawing on empirical evidence from two vibrant centers of cultural production: Africa and Asia.

A criminology of moral order

Moral order is disturbed by criminal events. However, in a secularized and networked society a common moral ground is increasingly hard to find. People feel confused about the bigger issues of our time such as crime, anti-social behaviour, Islamist radicalism, sexual harassment and populism. Trad...

Cases integrating ethnography and evaluation

This edited collection examines the connections between ethnography and evaluation in educational spaces, wrestling with pressing justice and equity issues in today’s societies within the USA.