Occupational stress and well-being in military contexts

This volume examines the causes and consequences of stress in the military, focussing on how stress and well-being shape the experiences of military personnel both in and out of the combat zone.

Rural social infrastructure development in india

A compelling call to action for development impact on a global scale, this mission-driven work brings us one step closer to building a more inclusive India.

Ethics and integrity in research with children and young people

This international and multi-disciplinary edited collection unpacks some of the ethical complexities of conducting research with children and young people. The chapters in the volume offer an applied perspective to navigating contemporary and complicated ethical issues that can arise in the field...

Gendered perspectives of restorative justice, violence and resilience

Providing an in-depth, international perspective of women’s resilience, Gendered Perspectives of Restorative Justice, Violence and Resilience: An International Framework shines crucial visibility on a diverse, gendered lens of intervention, empowerment and understanding of violence and resilience.

Marketing in a digital world

Marketing in a Digital World consists of nine essays on how the digital revolution has affected marketing theory and practice. Leading marketing scholars, including several editors of premier academic journals, provide fresh insights for both scholars and managers seeking to enhance their underst...

Feminist cyberlaw

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. This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens brings together emerging and established...

International perspectives on democratization and peace

This book examines the concept of peace and the relevance of historical and contextual factors that contribute to peaceful coexistence of people, and dives into a deep examination of how democracy furthers peace especially in conflict prone countries. Seven case studies illustrate the impact of d...

Work from home

In Work from Home, researchers from around the world answer questions about the impact of working from home on employee motivation, work-life balance and employee engagement, while making a seminal contribution to the field of HRM from a work-from-home perspective.

Environmental anarchy?

What does it mean to be secure in the 21st century? Mark Beeson argues that some of the most influential ideas about national and even global security reflect untenable, anachronistic strategic views that are simply no longer appropriate for contemporary international circumstances. At a time wh...

Innovative approaches in pedagogy for higher education classrooms

This book highlights case studies and innovative teaching methods used by academics across the globe. It talks about how teaching staff should stimulate students’ active engagement in their own learning processes, and discusses the approach of implementing a project-based learning activity that i...

Perceptions of a pandemic

With findings based on rich survey data from 1,500 Americans and 1,500 Finns, this deeply insightful work challenges us to confront the issues and challenges that we need to consider before the next global health crisis emerges.

Theorizing the sharing economy

This volume takes advantage of this opportunity by presenting a collection of empirical and conceptual work that explores the variety and the trajectories of new forms of organizing in the sharing economy, and in doing so builds on, rejuvenates, and refines existing organization theories.

Interdisciplinary dialogues on organizational paradox

Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox is an innovative two-part volume that enriches our understanding about paradox; both deepening the theory and offering greater insight to address grand challenges we face in the world today. Part A: Learning from Belief and Science explores th...

Legal protection for traditional knowledge

Legal Protection for Traditional Knowledge calls attention to the vital contributions that aboriginal knowledge makes to global development and how the legal systems in place, particularly in India, must change to protect this knowledge.This book is a must-read for researchers in economics, devel...

Stealth construction

Stealth Construction explores a strategic amalgamation of diverse construction practices and technologies into resilient construction with the aim of improving construction environmental protection, safety, speed (project delivery), economy, and aesthetics.

Advances in taxation

Eight chapters cover short selling and corporate tax avoidance, Fin48 and earnings management, the U.S. Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, the impact of social identity on reasonable compensation cases, FACTA, corporate tax compliance in Bangladesh, enforced tax compliance beh...

Towards a post-covid global financial system

In Towards a Post-Covid Global Financial System a team of experts explore how COVID-19 has affected the most vulnerable parts of the global economy; how it has been met by Islamic banking and finance; and how the principles of Islamic social finance could be used to have a fairer, more resilient ...

Gender, women's health care concerns and other social factors in health and health care

This book analyses micro-level gender issues and other social factors impacting macro-level health care systems. Examining the health and health care issues of patients and providers of care both in the United States and in other countries, chapters focus on linkages to policy and population conc...

Movies, music and memory

Presenting research findings from recent studies, including pilot projects led by the authors in the UK and Brazil, this book provides an accessible, timely, practically relevant and jargon-free overview of how music and films are currently used in nursing homes, dementia wards and day care centr...

Automation and manufacturing for the built environment

Automation and Manufacturing for the Built Environment is a plain-language guide to the application of automation and manufacturing technologies and processes to the delivery and operation of the built environment. Covering the full asset lifecycle, the book provides a straightforward guide to a ...

New student literacies amid covid-19

New Student Literacies amid COVID-19 explores how institutions needed to defend teaching, learning, research and innovation, and implement transdisciplinary approaches to address such complexities together with wider knowledge sharing to unlock solutions.

Research in personnel and human resources management

Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management is designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management. Volume 36 focuses on key issues such as job search processes, human resource technology systems, pregnancy...

Rethinking young people's lives through space and place

Rethinking Young People's Lives Through Space and Place explores three main themes, how children navigate real and imaginary borders, how space constitutes belonging, meaning-making, and representation, and how space informs learning and identities.

Resisting neoliberalism in education

Neoliberalism has been widely criticised because of its role in prioritising ‘free markets’ as the optimum way of solving problems and organising society. In the field of education, this leads to an emphasis on the knowledge economy that can reduce both persons and education to economic actors an...

Reconstructing the global political economy

In an era of post-globalization, the global political economy needs restructuring. This textbook examines the challenges facing the world economy as a result of climate change and social and economic inequality, and provides future-oriented solutions to them. Andersson presents and explains key c...

Supply networks in developing countries

Contributing to research, knowledge, and discourse on humanitarian logistics and supply chains in Africa, Supply Networks in Developing Countries introduces a unique perspective on the developing world, and how their supply networks can be enhanced and optimized.

Sensory penalities

Sensory Penalities reflects an explosion in explorations of the sensory and disrupts conventional expectations of both form and focus by expanding anthropological practices and craft into the field of criminology and criminological research.

Reproduction, health, and medicine

At a moment when reproduction is increasingly politicized, the volume explores the breadth of contemporary research on reproduction from the perspective of medical sociology, illuminating the lived experience of reproduction and offering insights to inform sociology and health policy.

Diverse voices in tort law

This captivating book explores uncharted territory in tort law, shedding light on underexplored viewpoints in the field. The collection brings issues of social class, race, gender, marginalisation, vulnerability and harm into conversation with core tort law topics to encourage a more critical exa...

Young adulthood across digital platforms

Young Adulthood Across Digital Platforms explores how they engage with mobile applications, incorporating them into their everyday lives and embodying them in their daily practices.

Integrative curricula

Recognizing how integrative curricula can provide a framework through which a meaningful benchmark can be applied to student learning, Integrative Curricula: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Pedagogy acts as a fundamental resource to facilitate, advise and support higher education institutions in ...

The politics of land

This volume renews the political sociology of land. Chapters examine dynamics of political control and contention in a range of settings, including land grabs in Asia and Africa, expulsions and territorial control in South America, environmental regulation in Europe, and controversies over fracki...

Knowledge assets and knowledge audits

With the rising importance of knowledge as a primary factor in global industries, it is increasingly necessary for knowledge management professionals to understand, engage with, and speak the language of investments and auditing. This exciting guide helps knowledge management professionals educat...

Communication as social theory

Communication as Social Theory: The Social Side of Knowledge Management develops a social theory at micro level, with communication as the essential social mechanism within the theory. From leadership expert Johannessen, this book examines how we can advance communication as social theory.

Popular music, popular myth and cultural heritage in cleveland

This book presents a case study of popular music heritage to address why, and how, Cleveland, Ohio has claimed to be the "birthplace of rock 'n' roll" and became the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It explores the role of radio DJs, record stores, concerts and myths in shaping the relatio...

Victim, perpetrator, or what else?

This volume maps the ways that children and young people are considered victims or perpetrators by their societies and consequently the ways that their societies react. The chapters analyse a variety of phenomena in different countries of the Global North and South.

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Building community engagement and outreach in libraries

An important addition to the research on how libraries can work with their communities to provide critical services and resources. Providing valuable insights about the diverse ways that outreach can be accomplished within and through communities, this volume serves as a significant resource for ...

How to talk about love

Explore the nature of love in this charming new translation of selections from Plato’s great dramatic work, the SymposiumWhat is love? In poetry, songs, fiction, movies, psychology, and philosophy, love has been described, admired, lamented, and dissected in endless ways. Is love based on physica...

Advances in mergers and acquisitions

The chapters published in this volume provide cutting edge ideas by leading scholars, and help to inform mergers and acquisitions research around the world.

Educating for ethical survival

In this volume experienced educators discuss the task of teaching ethics to professionals, managers and others who are practically-minded; and expert contributors explore the nature of ethical survival in contemporary society and the range of organizations it encompasses.

Holy city

EDGAR AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL OF THE YEAR“Holy City is an amazing piece of work. A Southern novel that examines the pathos and ethos of small-town life and the weight of both grief and hatred. Love it.”—S.A. Cosby No one innocent. No one free. Nothing sacred. Holy City is the captivat...

Social entrepreneurship

Volume Five of Business and Society 360 focuses on research from leading scholars in this discipline contribute to a 360-degree evaluation of theory, including cross-discipline research, empirical explorations, cross-cultural studies, literature critiques, and meta-analysis projects.

Including a symposium on mary morgan

Volume 36B of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium reflecting on the significance of Mary Morgan's contributions to the history and philosophy of economics.

The end of childhood

"These poems achieve the beautiful, uncanny fusing that Miller defines as poetry itself.”—Rick Barot, author of Moving the BonesA tender and provocative collection of poems interrogating the troubles and wonders of both childhood and parenthood against the backdrop of global violence.From accompl...

Auditing practices in local governments

Through a comparative analysis of the development of auditing practices in governments across the globe, Auditing Practices in Local Governments: An International Comparison provides a contemporary overview of public sector auditing practices at both local and state level.

Slow ethics and the art of care

The path to good care-giving can be challenging, particularly where practices are characterised by crisis, moral panic and cultural complexity. How can we respond ethically when there is pressure to meet targets, work faster and implement quick, short-term fixes? This book offers a solution in th...

Organisational roadmap towards teal organisations

This volume explores and presents challenges that “traditional” organisations experience once they take off towards self-managing organisations - what Laloux (2014) called Teal Organisations. It offers a new roadmap for leaders who are responsible for the implementation of self-managing teams in ...