George spencer brown’s “design with the nor”

A polymath and author of Laws of Form, George Spencer Brown, brought together mathematics, electronics, engineering and philosophy to form an unlikely bond. This book investigates Design with NOR, the title of the yet unpublished 1961 typescript by Spencer Brown.

Global education

Bringing together leading education scholars, Kristy Kelly’s Global Education: Linking Theory and Practice illustrates education – whether studied locally, globally or internationally – as shaped by, and with the potential to shape – social, political and economic change on a global scale.

Circular economy supply chains

Circular Economy Supply Chains highlights the need for cross-industry flows and the need for different actors in circular value cycles. This book intends to move beyond a buyer-supplier view, embracing a holistic network or ecosystem view, to consider a cross-industry system perspective.

The $5k startup

Start a Real Business—Even If You’re Broke, Busy, or Burnt OutYou don’t need a trust fund, tech idea, or business degree to become your own boss. You need a plan—and less than $5,000.The $5K Startup is the ultimate playbook for launching a legit business on a shoestring budget. Whether you’re a 9...

Digital theology

Digital theology is an emerging and evolving field of research in academia. It is gaining traction with scholars across a variety of subjects including; Computer Science, Theology, Sociology of Religion and the wider Humanities.

Toxic city

Toxic City presents a novel critique of postindustrial green gentrification through a study of Bayview-Hunters Point, a historically Black neighborhood in San Francisco. As cities across the United States clean up and transform contaminated waterfronts and abandoned factories into inviting spaces...

The guide to lgbtq+ research

A practical and accessible guide that researchers will draw on time and time again, The Guide to LGBTQ+ Research has at its heart, a commitment to inclusivity.

Advances in women’s empowerment

What progress has been made to achieve SDG5? Bridging the academic and policymaking spaces, this edited collection offers a critical insight and evaluation of the public policies targeted at improving the condition of women living in developing countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Harnessing change to develop talent and beat the competition

Harnessing Change to Develop Talent and Beat the Competition explores how organizations can formulate effective corporate level and business level strategies to achieve competitive advantage, earn above average profits, build and retain talent, and sustain financial strength.

Modeling economic growth in contemporary india

This volume focuses on core topics of economic disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic: changes in socio-cultural relationships, behavioural patterns and psychological attitudes governing human interaction, and government policies to stabilize the Indian economy and contribute to sustainable g...

Modern jewish worldmaking through yiddish children's literature

How modern Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identityAs migration carried Yiddish to several continents during the long twentieth century, an increasingly global community of speakers and readers clung to Jewish heritage while striving to help their childre...

Decolonizing and indigenizing visions of educational leadership

This edited collection centres the reclamation of global counter and Indigenous knowledges, epistemologies, ontologies, axiologies, and cosmovisions that have the capacity to create new educational leadership frameworks that chart courses to visions beyond the current oppressive systems of educat...

Obsessive measurement disorder or pragmatic bureaucracy?

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Obsessive Measurement Disorder or Pragmatic Bureaucracy?Coping with Uncertainty in Development Aid Relations examines issues in performance measurement and monitoring in the context of the complex field of develop...

Studies in law, politics, and society

This volume of Studies in Law, Politics and Society brings together an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars to explore issues on the cutting edge of socio-legal research.

Digital transformation in higher education, part a

Digital Transformation in Higher Education is a pivotal reference through the transformative power of emerging technologies in academia. Addressing the dual nature of technology as both a challenge and an opportunity, this book presents a rich overview of strategies for integrating digital techno...

The black antifascist tradition

The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles. At once a history for understanding fascism and a handbook for organizing against, The Black Antifascist Tradition is an essential book for unde...

Intersections of ageing, gender and sexualities

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to expand our understanding of how social divisions intersect to affect outcomes in later life. This edited collection examines ageing, gender, and sexualities from multidisciplinary and geograp...

Developing knowledge communities through partnerships for literacy

Developing Knowledge Communities through Partnerships for Literacy explores the development of knowledge communities - safe spaces on the educational landscape - where research and professional development with literacy teachers and writers can unfurl.

Reluctance in world politics

Why do international actors, including powerful states, often fail to develop clear foreign policies and instead adopt indecisive, ‘muddling-through’ approaches? This book develops a concept and a theory of reluctance in world politics. Applying it to the study of regional crisis management by l...

The mainstream right and family policy agendas in the post-fordist age

Anchored in a new theoretical framework that combines the insights of a variety of sociological and political science approaches, this study offers an understanding of the changes in the Mainstream Right’s family policy preferences and their drivers over time and across countries.

What is international relations?

As International Relations enters its second century as an academic discipline, leading expert Knud Erik Jørgensen provides a provocative assessment of its past, present and future. In this book, Jørgensen traces International Relations scholarship, from its formative interwar years through to ra...

The ’c-suite’ executive leader in sport

The 'C-Suite' Executive Leader in Sport explores the challenges of this role within elite professional sport.Examining the experience of C-Suite executives, contributors analyse how this relates to existing research,informing and challenging those responsible for identification, recruitment and p...

The role of external examining in higher education

This book considers external examination examples in academia across the world. With chapters that cover examples of mitigating disadvantage and creating opportunities without compromising the quality assurance process, the authors examine how universities are engaged in safeguarding procedures a...

Advances in accounting behavioral research

The theme of Volume 28 is emerging theory, methods, and applications towards behavioral research in accounting and audit. Chapters collected here examine topics ranging from CFO ethnicity and impact on financial reporting to career imprinting to safeguards in crowdfunding and more.

The retreat from marriage and parenthood

The Retreat from Marriage and Parenthood seeks a broad examination of the retreat from marriage and parenthood. Featuring diverse theoretical and methodological chapters exploring the many issues pertaining to these seismic changes, the authors chronicle the many dramatic impacts from shifts in a...

Sustainable and resilient global practices

The chapters presented here by global scholars fill the void in current knowledge of how to generate effective strategic adaptation in times of abrupt environmental changes, generating important leads for forthcoming scholarship efforts for the benefit of business and society.

A brief history of credit in uk higher education

This timely book is the first to address the role of credit in UK higher education. It provides an overview and history of the development of credit in the UK HE sector and highlights how credit can be a vehicle for widening access and student choice, for curricular flexibility and mobility of le...

Lean analytics

Graphic law and drawn justice

The book explores how comics, manga, animated series and pop music influenced by comic books represent law, reflecting and shaping public perception. It uses a comparative international law approach, including diverse scholars, and extends beyond Anglo-American culture to enrich the legal debate....

Social media, mobile and cloud technology use in accounting

The rapidly evolving nature of emerging technologies, and the transformative and disruptive tendencies offered by these are reshaping professional activities, operations and functions as well as value creation.

Corridors of contagion

Tracing the narratives of five incarcerated individuals, Corridors of Contagion speaks to the devastating impact of surviving the pandemic inside prison walls.  Corridors of Contagion brings to light the experiences of five people incarcerated across the United States as they navigate the onset ...

Effective police leadership in the 21st century

Effective Police Leadership in the 21st Century: New Paradigms for a Novel Context provides a platform and pathway to equip existing and emerging Police leaders with a range of leadership mindsets and skillsets.

Defund the police

The police are viewed as guardians of public safety and enforcers of the law. How accurate is this? Given endemic police violence which is often aimed at racialised and minoritised groups and the failure of many attempts at reform, attention has turned to community-generated models of support. Th...

The business of choice

In this 2nd edition of The Business of Choice, expert author and consultant Matthew Willcox explores the science of influencing choice, bringing together the work of thousands of behavioral scientists and practitioners. Cutting to the heart of the science, Willcox helps you apply this to your ow...

Fester

Winner of the American Society of Criminology's Michael J. Hindelang Book Award The mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic in California’s prisons stands out as the state’s worst-ever medical catastrophe in a carceral setting. Fester offers a cultural history of this correctional disaster through...

Education and the family

Chapters cover topics such as: family economic and cultural resources and school performance and attainment of students, family multilingualism and academic success, family stressors and education, valuation of higher education versus employment and family contestations of public schooling and it...

The machine age of customer insight

The Machine Age of Customer Insight demonstrates the impact of machine learning and data analytics, combining an academic state-of-the-art overview of machine learning with cases from well-known companies. These cases show the opportunities and challenges of the transformation process for busines...

Insights on financial services regulation

The debates around financial services regulation are fierce and unending, and with every new development or law, rigid positions seem to grow. In this insightful new book, expert author John A. Consiglio discusses developments in this vital part of the wide world of finance.

Certified ethical hacker (ceh) study guide

Beyond banks

How new technology is rapidly changing the nature of money and the way we payA diverse and growing range of financial institutions and platforms—from PayPal and Venmo to WeChat, Alipay, and the brave new world of stablecoins—has harnessed new technology to disrupt the system of money and payments...

A catalog of benevolent items

Distills ten volumes, four dictionaries, and 1,800 years of knowledge into an authoritative introduction to the Ben cao gang mu.   The Ben cao gang mu was the world’s most comprehensive encyclopedia of natural history and medicine when it was published in China in 1593. In fifty-two chapters, the...

Nurturing modalities of inquiry in entrepreneurship research

This edited collection stimulates discussion, shares practice and explores challenges around current and new approaches to inquiry - encompassing all aspects of entrepreneurship research, from its conception through to its execution and related issues such as education, training and learning.

Language teacher recognition

This book presents the career narratives of an under-researched group of teachers: immigrant Filipino teachers of English working mainly with young and very young learners in Japan. It provides a nuanced and revealing critique of poststructuralist views of identity and proposes recognition theori...

Understanding global social policy

With a contemporary overview of global social policy formation, the third edition of this leading textbook identifies key issues, debates and priorities for action in social policy across the Global South and North. Accessible and lively, it incorporates seven new chapters covering theory, soci...

Social democracy in the 21st century

Social democracy is in a process of change as a number of developments challenge its organizational, ideational and electoral basis. This book elaborates on how social democracy should be understood under these changing circumstances, how social democratic parties have responded and what future t...

Their end is our beginning

A deeply reported analysis of the connections between policing and capitalism, centering global lessons of revolt and resistance Where do cops come from and what do they do? How did “modern policing” as we know it today come to be? What about the capitalist state necessitates policing? In this c...