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Theoretical models of learning and literacy development
Theoretical Models of Literacy Development highlights the latest theoretical advances in reading, writing, and multiliteracy development. New models are discussed to account for the rapidly changing literacy scene, inclusive of the interdisciplinary nature of literacy and content area learning.
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Beyond refuge
Beyond Refuge explores abstractions, practicalities, impediments, and assets proffered by research participants to illustrate what an educational transformation should and could look like via a theoretical framework for emancipatory education of forcibly-displaced youth.
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Special issue
In The Beautiful Prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as something better than a machinery of suffering. From personal testimony to theoretical meditation these writers explore and confront the practical and cultural limits the prison places on its transform...
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Mixed-race in the us and uk
Contributing to the emerging literature on mixed-race people in the United States and United Kingdom, this book draws on racial formation theory and the performativity (i.e., "doing") of race to explore the social construction of mixedness on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Environmental geotechnics in practice
Environmental Geotechnics in Practice is an informative and practical guide to the realities of land-based waste disposal. Drawing together significant case histories from across the world where key lessons have been learned, the book provides an engaging overview of this important field.
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The human factor in social capital management
This book covers the management of social capital processes as they are accomplished-understood, experienced and shaped-by owner-managers. It aims to develop a deeper understanding of management processes, and to contribute to a greater congruence between lived social capital perspectives and exp...
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The mandate of heaven
The essential Marxist history of China under Mao.
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Food and agriculture in urbanized societies
Inspiring innovative and sustainable practices, governance perspectives and informing public policies, Food and Agriculture in Urbanized Societies offers the most current research on urbanized agriculture to truly provide ‘pathways for a better future’ to foster more equitable and fair societies.
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The global private health & fitness business
The Global Private Health & Fitness Business shows the globalization of the health and fitness industry, and its different forms of management according to different countries, the objective being to show the various business models in the fitness industry in seventeen countries around the wo...
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Gender, sex and gossip in ambridge
The Archers Academics are joined by former The Archers editor, Alison Hindell and actor Dr Charlotte Connor (a.k.a. Susan Carter), to examine the power of gossip in Ambridge, portrayals of love, marriage, motherhood, female education and career expectations, women's mental health and the hard-won...
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Beyond confrontation
Beyond Confrontation by Phil Mullan negotiates a third way between the rules-based global order dictated by Western globalists and the mercantilist protectionism of Western nationalists, both of which only fuel resentments between developed and emerging nations.
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Sustainable infrastructure
Fully updated, this new edition of Sustainable Infrastructure: Principles into practice is an essential practical handbook to help engineers deliver sustainable outcomes.
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Corporate social responsibility in the digital age
With social and digital media reshaping the way business is conducted, and the number of companies embracing the new social medium, this book revisits CSR practices from a digital perspective. The volume explores the impact and influence of the new 'social' on responsibility and its feasibility, ...
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Going global
Going Global
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Radical transparency and digital democracy
This book tells the story of radical transparency in a datafied world. The analysis, grounded from past examples of novel forms of mediation, unearths radical change over time, from a trickle of paper-based leaks to the modern digital torrent.
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Radical business
Businesses are major contributors to the global problems we face, but they are also well-placed to effect positive change. John Davis offers examples of companies that are taking action and presents a framework to help C-suite leaders and executive teams develop their own blueprint for putting so...
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Native american bilingual education
For over thirty years, a political and social battle over bilingual education raged in the U.S. This book, a period piece rich in political, historical, and local western context, is the story of language, education, inequality and power clashes between the dominant society and the Crow Indian Re...
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The quirks of digital culture
This book explores the quirks of digital culture. Through a series of short punchy chapters, it uses these quirks as momentary glimpses into the hidden dynamics of our swirling, highly mediated and often unfathomable cultural experiences.
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Covid-19
Special issue on how the COVID pandemic has reshaped the landscape of the construction industry, whilst forcing a resetting of our thinking on how future infrastructure demands will need to be met.
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Studies in law, politics and society
The articles in this volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society cover an exciting and diverse range of topics, from immigration and human rights policies to same-sex marriage and capital punishment debates.
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Strategic marketing in tourism services
Focuses on marketing strategies implemented in tourism services firms and includes a collection of papers related to specific marketing strategies. This title presents the application of specific marketing strategies such as experiential marketing, branding, target marketing, relationship marketi...
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Platforms everywhere
Platforms Everywhere: Transforming Organizations by Integrating Ecosystems in Business Design presents a new comprehensive paradigm for platform businesses and a practical methodology for platforming organizations across sectors and industries.
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Contemporary perspectives on research on coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) in early childhood education
This volume explores the impact of COVID-19 on early childhood education, highlighting the unprecedented challenges faced by ECE centers. It includes comprehensive reviews, program descriptions, and research studies on the current situation for children aged 0-8.
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Getting the most out of your doctorate
Navigating the gap between novice and expert is a process that will continue for years into an early academics’ career. This book will serve as practical tool for PhD candidates and early career researchers (ECRs), providing them with an understanding on how to sustain long-lasting supervisory re...
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Steel-concrete composite bridges
The second edition of the bestselling Steel-concrete Composite Bridges is fully up-to-date with the methods now used for these structures in accordance with Eurocodes introduced since publication of the first edition.
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Reconfiguring the eco-system for sustainable healthcare
Volume 4 considers the configuration of the broader healthcare eco-system. It examines the tight connection between sustainable healthcare, sustainable communities, and sustainable ecologies - and the organizational and inter-organizational approaches being applied to advance overall sustainabi...
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Reproductive governance and bodily materiality
Reproductive Governance and Bodily Materiality explores the growing centrality and power of the medical professional and lay practices within the field of human reproduction as they entangle with political economic processes, providing examples from multiple countries.
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Post-merger management
This book pools the current know-how, and closes important knowledge gaps, to offer hands-on advice and practical answers to the many 'how to' questions relating to merger implementation. It provides a crucially important understanding of how to assess the chances of realising synergy potential a...
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Ice core concepts
Core Principles of Soil Mechanics is a practical guide to the key concepts and latest developments in the field of soil mechanics.
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Maturing leadership
We've known for years now that demands on leaders are only increasing. Yet we have lacked rigorous ways to support development for leaders to meet these demands. In Maturing Leadership, Jonathan Reams brings together a cast of expert contributors to explore the value of a developmental approach t...
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Preference measurement in health
It is fundamental to measure the individual value of different medical interventions in order to prioritise resources. Preference-based approaches can produce measures that allow comparisons of such values. This volume covers altruism within families, differences in risk attitudes, and estimation...
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Sociological studies of children
The volumes in this series illustrate how social organization and private, emotional experience are different phases of the social process. They show the steps by which emotional experience is shaped by social structural, macro-level processes and how these processes are changed by experience.
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The promises and properties of rapidly growing companies
The Promises and Properties of Rapidly Growing Companies contributes to contemporary thought on so-called gazelles – high performing market players that create many jobs and promise strong welfare effects – a valuable resource for academics, managers, policy makers and civil society actors.
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Voices of globalization
Questions whether issues of political and economic globalization and worldwide connectedness of countries symbolizes progress or regress for world's societies. Case studies of pertinent political issues are discussed by authors focusing on modern societies of developed and developing world.
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Shock transmission units in construction
Shock Transmission Units in Construction aims to provide best practice guidance in helping both new and experienced engineers to select the most appropriate STU for construction projects, ensuring that they are used to their full potential.
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Shopper marketing and the role of in-store marketing
As the way shoppers' purchasing habits change due to influences such as mobile devices and the internet there is an increasing need to understand how marketing actions influence how shoppers respond to offers. This volume of RMR dedicates itself to understanding the impact on shoppers from in-sto...
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Topics in identification, limited dependent variables, partial observability, experimentation, and flexible modeling
In honor of Dale J. Poirier, experienced editors Ivan Jeliazkov and Justin Tobias bring together a cast of expert contributors to explore the most up-to-date research on econometrics, including subjects such as panel data models, posterior simulation, and Bayesian models.
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Entrepreneurial and small business stressors, experienced stress, and well being
Volume 18 of Research in Occupational Stress and Well-Being is focused on the stress and well-being related to Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses. This volume focuses on entrepreneurial and small business owners’ stress, health, and well-being as it relates to personal, work, and success outco...
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Childhood
Drawing both on micro and macro, national and comparative studies, this volume traces some of the trends and analyzes in comparative perspective how they affect images and practices of childhood and transforms responsibilities for children.
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Bringing law home
The personal nature of domestic labor, and its location in the privacy of the employer's home, means that domestic workers have long struggled for equitable and consistent labor rights. The dominant discourse regards the home as separate from work, so envisioning what its legal regulation would l...
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Embodying the music and death nexus
This edited collection offers a range of critical, analytic and personal reflections on how music provides a container and a medium for experiencing, processing and integrating embodied encounters with death. It showcases interdisciplinary case studies written by authors from across Australia, Fr...
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Annual review of health care management
This volume will interest healthcare researchers and health system designers alike. It revisits the evolution of health systems organization in light of regulatory and organizational evolution in health care, as well as assessing the latest evidence on physician integration, complexity, and syste...
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Evidence-based innovation leadership
This book offers a holistic model for what it calls "innovation leadership," which includes entrepreneurial action,creative energy fields within organizations, high-tech wealth creation, and innovation as a business process.
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Ice core concepts
Produced by the Institution of Civil Engineers, ICE Textbooks offer clear, concise and practical information on the major principles of civil and structural engineering. They are an indispensable companion to undergraduate audiences
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Contemporary perspectives on research on child care in early childhood education
This volume explores how nonparental child care influences children's development and learning. It highlights the importance of child care quality over type or age of admission. The book reviews research showing that both family and quality of child care significantly impact development.
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Social ecology in holistic leadership
Many managers and consultants have academic backgrounds in business administration and are trained in contemporary management methods that focus on decision making and economic efficiency. The question is: Are these academic methods the best to further the development of society as well as organi...
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Imperial stewards
From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios to possessing some of the world's largest and most sophisticated collections of Chinese art. Imperial Stewards argues that, beyond aesthetic t...
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Facing death
Facing Death
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Mechanisms, roles and consequences of governance
This 2nd volume of the series builds on the themes of volume 1. Established concepts and theoretical issues are presented by established scholars in the governance, management and administration fields. These are set alongside highlighted emerging themes, and they're practicality illustrated thro...
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Disruptive activity in a regulated industry
This book brings together the research on the effects of disruptive activity in a regulated industry, taking as its illustrative industry that of primarily mobile telecommunications. It provides case studies of both individual countries and international operators.
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