Intellectual property

The first in-depth account of the lives and careers of educated slaves and freedmen in ancient RomeSlaves and freedmen played an important yet understudied role in the literary culture of the Roman Republic. Though their work went largely uncredited, they fulfilled vital roles as editors, researc...

Multilingual selves and motivations for learning languages other than english in asian contexts

This book focuses on individuals learning languages other than English in a range of under-researched Asian contexts. The chapters explore learners’ motivational trajectories, multilingual identities and conceptualisations of the 'ideal multilingual self'.

Race and assessment in higher education

Offering the first direct, evidence-based response on the challenges faced by students of colour in higher education assessments in the UK, this pioneering monograph channels discussions on race and education to create an essential practical resource for enacting real change on an everyday studen...

Research in personnel and human resources management

This volume offers several original scholarly contributions written by thought leaders in the field of human resources management.

Abolish rent

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice. Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, ...

Legal intermediation

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society examines a broad range of European case studies to consider the crucial role played by intermediaries, such as companies and lawyers, in the legal system.

The postcolonial sporting body

The Postcolonial Sporting Body considers the future not only of sport, but of global politics and identity in a world striving towards greater equity and decolonisation.

Delving deep

This volume answers questions such as what do researchers want to know more about? What is innovative and emerging that will change research in the future? What techniques are often overlooked that could open the door to new research questions or provide a more robust test of familiar questions?

Angel financing in asia pacific

By examining the current status and recent developments in a number of countries in Asia, this book makes recommendations, provides analysis, and suggests new approaches to startup angel financing in the Asia Pacific region.

Unstoppable entrepreneurs

Discover your own path to entrepreneurship and make your mark in the worldIn a world where entrepreneurship often seems to be driven by tech prodigies and venture-backed unicorns, many aspiring entrepreneurs find themselves wondering: “What if I don’t fit the stereotype of a Silicon Valley wunder...

The need for sustainable tourism in an era of global climate change

This insightful work analyses how the tourism and hospitality industry may lower its carbon footprint and maintain its long-term viability by implementing energy-efficient and waste-reduction technology. The book will discuss how sustainable tourism may achieve its sustainable development objecti...

Research on professional responsibility and ethics in accounting

Volume 20 of Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting brings together a range of articles exploring the professional responsibilities of accountants, codes of conduct which affect them, and securities regulations.

Gender bias and digital financial services in south asia

Gender Bias and Digital Financial Services in South Asia: Obstacles and Opportunities on the Road to Equal Access examines access to financial services to women in general in South Asia and specifically their access to digital financial services.

The metaverse dilemma

The Metaverse Dilemma explores a balanced viewpoint of the metaverse from both a theoretical and practical mindset, examining the challenges and opportunities faced when adopting and implementing the metaverse in business and everyday scenarios.

Laughter in ancient rome

"Superbly acute and unashamedly complex."—The Telegraph "Rich and provocative."—Times Literary Supplement "An engaging exploration."—The New Yorker"The phenomenal Ms. Beard has written another cracking book, one of her best."—The Independent What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival...

Slow and sudden violence

Exposing the roots of racial unrest that consistently harm Black communities   In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ongoing cycle of racial and spatial urban redevelopment repression. By delving into the real estate histories of St. Louis and Baltimore, he shows how...

Super ocean weekend

This nonfiction graphic novel for kids 7+ takes readers on an aquatic expedition into the Earth’s oceans. Get ready for the ultimate underwater adventure into ocean science and marine biology!Friends Castor and Squeak are camping out on a rocky island with Orni and her cousin, Echid, when they be...

Proleptic leadership on the commons

Will capitalism give way to a commons-centric society as many scholars and activists predict? Viewing the commons as a vehicle for a new world order, Randal Joy Thompson proposes ‘proleptic leadership’, which envisions how leaders will continue to be essential as the custodians of responsible age...

Beyond growth hacking

Combining the latest in growth hacking with enduring principles of business strategy, ensuring that businesses can achieve sustainable growth, Gabriele Santoro and Augusto Bargoni provide a timely resource designed to equip businesses with the knowledge and tools to adapt, thrive, and sustain gro...

Frankenstein

Unleash the Monster Within with Mary Shelley’s FrankensteinStep into the world of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a novel that has sparked debates, challenged beliefs, and captivated readers for centuries. Part of the Contested Classics series, this special edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is ...

All our trials

A vital history of organizing within and beyond the walls of women’s prisons in the 1970s, illuminating a crucial chapter in today’s abolition feminist struggles. This new edition of an award-winning book features a foreword from acclaimed scholar-activist Sarah Haley and an afterword by Thuma. ...

Technology and religious tourism

Religious tourism is a phenomenon dating back thousands of years, that engages people from all walks of life, from across the entire globe. It is an inseparable part of many human lives. This book will be suitable for students, the research community, and academics.

Digital parenting burdens in china

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Presenting the first English language book on this topic, authors Sun Sun Lim and Yang Wang offer valuable insights into understanding how family life around is shifting in the face of digitalisation not only in C...

Airlines and the covid-19 pandemic

Airlines and the COVID-19 Pandemic assesses the pandemic’s diverse impacts on the aviation sector, how airlines reacted to the pandemic, worked with governments, and adapted its operations and business models.

Structural design of buildings

Structural Design of Buildings: Holistic Design is the essential reference for structural engineers involved in the design of buildings and other structures. It forms part of the Structural Design of Buildings series and introduces the concepts and principles involved in holistic structural desig...

Gendered domestic violence and abuse in popular culture

As binge-watching and streaming lead to increasing amounts of content and screen time, understanding how domestic violence and abuse is portrayed in popular culture and its impact on DVA in our society is more important than ever. This collection demonstrates how networked communication is influe...

The role of land and natural resources in conflict and peacemaking

Aiming to contribute to the literature of what works to make peace, this volume examines the roles of land, water and mineral resources in conflict and peacemaking. The analysis focuses on six cases of prolonged, ethno-national, asymmetric conflict and six cases of special interest.

Advances in management accounting

Volume 27 of Advances in Management Accounting examines a broad spectrum of current topics in management accounting.

Distance learning vol 18 issue 1

Distance Learning is a professional journal for leaders and practitioners in distance learning, e-learning, and telecommunications. It provides practical information for teaching with telecommunications technologies. Published quarterly, it features articles and columns by practitioners.

Montezuma's tantrum

Emperor Montezuma’s court tries everything to cure his bad mood in this delightful and hilarious story that sheds light on life in the Aztec empire—and the origins of hot chocolate.Montezuma is in a bad mood today. He doesn’t want to see anyone or do anything! The people in the palace are very wo...

Father time

A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn’t it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venera...

An ethos of transdisciplinarity

Toyin Falola is one of modern Africa’s most prolific public intellectuals. This project seeks to illuminate the mind of this modern master in an age of transnationalisation.

Gender equality in the professional workplace

Gender Equality in the Professional Workplace: Pioneering Radical Action for Women's Empowerment delves into the ongoing gender equality struggle by examining women's challenges in powerful roles, addressing issues like workplace harassment, institutional misogyny, and executive role disparities.

Responsible software engineering

The future of dark tourism

This book offers critical scenarios of dark tourism futures and how our significant dead will be remembered in future visitor economies. It outlines key features of difficult heritage and future cultural trauma and highlights the role of technology, immersive visitor experiences and the than...

Ecosystems as models for restoring our economies, 2nd edition

Ecosystems as Models to Restoring Our Economies appeals to a broad range of people across ages, values and political beliefs, and will change the way we pursue a resilient and sustainable economy. Just when you think there are no good paths forward, the knowledge of ecosystems guides the way.

I hear you, mountains

This joyful book about nature sounds for kids 3-7 will transport readers up a magnificent mountain.The mountains have lots to say… if you listen.It’s time for a hike in the mountains! A group of friends sets off, ready for adventure, with their ears open and their hearts too. From the rush of a w...

The shield of achilles

Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award–winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readersThe Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W. H. Auden’s most important, intricately desig...

Advances in accounting education

Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations publishes both non-empirical and empirical articles dealing with accounting pedagogy. All articles explain how teaching methods or curricula/programs can be improved.

Databricks certified data engineer associate study guide

The last plantation

A revealing look at the covert and institutionalized racism lurking in the congressional workplaceRacism continues to infuse Congress’s daily practice of lawmaking and shape who obtains congressional employment. In this timely and provocative book, James Jones reveals how and why many who work in...

Songs to make the dust dance

Breaking through the long-established image of Heian Japan (794–1185) as a culture dominated by ritualized aristocratic values, Yung-Hee Kim presents a picture of a country in transition, filled with a wide variety of common people responding to very ordinary situations. The court does not disapp...

Professional perspectives on banking and finance

With 100% emphasis on accessible, clear, and applicable advice Professional Perspectives on Banking and Finance provides suggestions to instil best practice in any commercial bank.

Research on professional responsibility and ethics in accounting

This is a continuing of a long series focusing on professional responsibility and ethics in accounting.

Conspiracy and contingency

What do conspiracy theories, algorithms and meritocracy have in common? All three avoid contingency and frantically look for necessities. ‘Contingency phobia’ is not only manifest in conspiratorial thinking. It is the cause of a variety of other phenomena that have become emblematic for liberal d...

Care and compassion in capitalism

Addressing a gap in the examination of market-centric and individual-focused aspects of care, this volume brings together interdisciplinary insights from across the social sciences to enrich the debate in the field of business and management around the treatment of care, compassion and capitalism.

Organization theory

Understanding of the history and development of organization theory has recently made advances through work emerging on the history of management thought as well as through the institutionalization of critical approaches to organizations and organizational knowledge. This book provides a new read...

Distance learning vol 17 issue 4

Distance Learning is a professional journal for leaders and practitioners in distance learning, e-learning, and telecommunications. It provides practical information for teaching with telecommunications technologies. This special issue features Ends and Means articles organized by the community o...

Integrating e-portfolios into l2 classrooms

This book explains both the theory and practice of e-Portfolio pedagogy and assessment in second and foreign language classroom contexts. In addition to providing new insights for scholars of language pedagogy, the book equips language teachers with the practical knowledge and skills they need to...