Sdg9 - industry, innovation and infrastructure

As one of the few of the 17 SDGs applicable in industrial settings, SDG9 seeks to find new steps towards achieving sustainable industrialization. This book explores the fascinating and cross-cutting aspects that jeopardize achieving SDG9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure.

The language of illness and death on social media

This book investigates the language created in Facebook groups that relate shared experiences of illness, dying and mourning. It develops a theoretical and analytical framework for understanding the use and rhythms of emojis, interjections and other forms of “intensive” writing in social media of...

Power and protest

Examining how marginalized groups use their identities, resources, cultural traditions, violence and non-violence to assert power and exert pressure, this volume shines a light on the interaction of these groups with governments, international organizations, businesses and universities.

New insights on trust in business-to-business relationships

New Insights on Trust in Business-to-Business Relationships provides readers with advanced original insights on trust antecedents, processes and consequences within the B2B marketing context and offers practical tools alongside suggestions for future research.

Advances in taxation

Volume 31 of Advances in Taxation includes studies from expert contributors, exploring topics such as: firms’ domestic and foreign effective tax rates; tax avoidance; and tax compliance. A study reviews prior literature on tax increment financing, an economic development tool frequently used by U...

The reflective leader

The Reflective Leader brings together theory and core concepts through reflective practice, reflexivity, and experiential learning to crystallize current thinking regarding introspection and contextual intelligence in understanding and improving the effectiveness of leaders.

Advancing supervision in clinically based teacher education

Supervision in teacher education is often undervalued despite its crucial role. This book challenges misconceptions, promotes school-university collaboration, and shares research to elevate supervision as a key driver of high-quality teacher preparation.

Justice, equity and emergency management

Justice, Equity and Emergency Management applies a justice and equity lens across all phases of emergency management, focusing on key topics such as hazard mitigation, emerging technologies, long-term recovery, and others.

Teacher preparation in singapore

This book explores the history and philosophy of teacher preparation, training, induction and development in Singapore. It goes beyond the official state celebratory narrative, critically examining social and political influences on Singapore’s teacher education.

Navigating tattooed women’s bodies

This book explores how we understand tattooed women’s bodies in the UK – through the lens of gender and class. Unpacking themes which focus on how femininity is embodied, and how unwritten rules are broken or followed, Charlotte Dann demonstrates how meaning is key to our understanding of female ...

A guide to healthcare facility dress rehearsal simulation planning

A Guide to Healthcare Facility Dress Rehearsal Simulation Planning: Simplifying the Complex provides a step-by-step scalable framework to coordinate an Interdisciplinary Dress Rehearsal event for a project or facility of any size.

Grandmothers' wisdom

Grandmothers’ Wisdom is a vibrant tribute to the lives of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, an unprecedented global alliance of elders who came together in 2004 to protect our planet in crisis and envision a future for the next seven generations. With a foreword by Va...

Entrepreneurship as empowerment

Entrepreneurship empowers individuals to bring ideas to life. Entrepreneurs utilise their creative skills to develop business ventures, making use of knowledge spillovers that occur in entrepreneurial ecosystems, and the connections between businesses, individuals and other entities that allow co...

(il)logical knowledge management

In finding the logical by way of the illogical in Knowledge Management strategy, this book highlights key challenges and opportunities for businesses looking to improving the efficacy and extent of their knowledge management infrastructure.

Instructional collaboration in international inclusive education contexts

Instructional Collaboration in International Inclusive Education Contexts looks at the instructional collaboration between special education and general education in international educational contexts and the role this plays in enabling inclusive education.

Assistive technology to support inclusive education

Assistive technology consists of products and services that are designed to support students to augment, strengthen, or bypass areas of difficulty and that allow them to access the curriculum and social aspects of the classroom where they would not previously have had access.

Global talent retention

Through extensive research Global Talent Retention: Understanding Employee Turnover Around the World addresses the need for turnover theory and research to give more careful consideration to global and cross-cultural perspectives on employee retention, and includes contributions from a global ran...

Gender, criminalization, imprisonment and human rights in southeast asia

This volume contains two Open Access Chapters. This volume features contributions from activist scholars grappling to understand and alleviate the compound sufferings of women and LGBTIQA+ persons as they encounter criminal justice systems in Southeast Asia.

This mouth is mine

A warm, witty, passionate cry for living, vital, indigenous languages and the people who speak them.Despite the more than 200 Indigenous languages spoken in Mexico, including 63 that are officially recognized and celebrated by the Mexican government, linguistic diversity is and has been under att...

Refugee crises and third-world economies

The global political economy is currently in the midst of a refugee crisis, one that is complex and that remains poorly researched and under-theorized within both economics and political science. There is little understanding of the many diverse situations that led to it, and refugees are all too...

Integrating community service into the curriculum

The book contributes to an understanding of an educational shift prevalent in our society toward creating humanizing conditions though pedagogy, that will seek co-existence within the lines of policy while influencing system-wide change.

Radicalization and counter-radicalization

The fifteen chapters in this volume of Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance discuss a number of issues researchers in the fields of sociology, criminology, and criminal justice theorize, conceptualize, and measure racialization and counter-radicalization.

Sdg17 - partnerships for the goals

This book will address partnership challenges and opportunities to influence and develop the capacity of the private and public sectors, and political representatives, to fully implement the goal within local, regional, national, global, and transnational levels.

Entrepreneurial opportunities

Focusing on sustainable innovation in emerging economies, this book characterises and responds to contemporary market pressures felt by business leaders worldwide. The book offers new ways of looking at entrepreneurial opportunities in a range of contexts, including emerging markets, franchise re...

International financial reporting standards implementation

Contributions to International Accounting aims to address a vital gap in research by focusing on providing relevant and timely studies on International Financial Reporting Standards implementation for local and international policymakers.

Think python

Safe intrusive activities on land potentially impacted by contamination

Safe Intrusive Activities on Land Potentially Impacted by Contamination provides health, safety and environmental information and good practice recommendations for professionals engaged with intrusive activities on land impacted by contamination, including individuals/organisations involved in sp...

Entrepreneurship and development in the 21st century

The 21st century has brought about new trends in entrepreneurship and development. In this insightful volume, a cast of expert contributors explore how these new trends, along with a variety of political, cultural and social influences, have affected entrepreneurship, in all of its manifestations.

Inequality, redistribution and mobility

Research on Economic Inequality's 28th volume provides original research on how inequality is affected by redistribution, growth, mobility and educational opportunities. Additional papers discuss poverty, welfare and wage discrimination.

Europe's malaise

Europe is struggling. Its challenges include weak economic growth, demographic trends that undermine the sustainability of social and other programs, migration, Brexit, the unfinished euro architecture and much more. This volume of Research in Political Sociology seeks to adopt a 'longer' view to...

Digital nomads living on the margins

In this increasingly neoliberal gig economy, exponentially expanding with technological advances, the ability to work online remotely has led some western millennials to travel the world to work and play, while making a subsistence living as digital platform workers.

Prompt engineering for generative ai

Innovation for sustainability

Family farms represent important components of food systems and rural areas. The aim of the book is to develop a conceptual framework guiding further research and policy design to enhance food systems' capability to sustainably meet societal expectations, with a valorisation of the role of family...

What was neoliberalism?

Eminent scholar-activist Neil Davidson’s brilliance is on full display in this posthumous work, a timely and prescient introduction to the neoliberal era. While it is widely agreed that neoliberalism arose in the wake of the global economic crisis of the 1970s, there remains much debate about how...

Role of leaders in managing higher education

Role of Leaders in Managing Higher Education highlights the importance of leaders in educational institutions. Showcasing a richly diverse authorship, the collection discusses the autonomy of faculty members based on bonds created through ethics, the style of leadership, and the concept of democr...

A history of the assessment of sex offenders

There are many varieties of procedures to assess criminal and sex offenders that have emerged throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. This book is an attempt to bridge that gap, to provide some historical background of sex offender assessment from 1830 to the present.

Real food, real facts

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. In recent decades, many members of the public have come to see processed food as a problem that needs to be solved by eating "re...

Intellectual disability nursing

This unique monograph, based on empirical research, used the oral history approach to explore the careers of 31 intellectual disability nurses from England and the Republic of Ireland; each with at least 30 years' experience.

Protest technologies and media revolutions

Contains an Open Access chapter. With chapters spanning from the Russian Revolution to the present day, this book considers how art, media and communication technologies have been operationalised to connect, mobilise, organize and inspire the masses in particular national, political, and economic...

Theory and method in higher education research

This volume of Theory and Method in Higher Education Research contains analyses and discussions of, amongst others, disability frameworks, rhythms research, loose coupling, mixed methods, internet-mediated research, critical whiteness and selection bias

Internet oligopoly

Drawing on a historical and political economy analysis, this book provides insight on how, under neoliberal hegemony, the internet was transformed from an emancipatory project for humanity to the final frontier of unrestrained capitalism.

Pragmatic engineering and lifestyle

Pragmatic Engineering and Lifestyle draws together international experts from engineering and architecture to disclose the latest insights into forging viable means to sustain tomorrow’s needs.

Time remaining

An exuberant collection celebrating the body and the soul of language, wringing delights and amazements out of the latter years of life.In his seventh decade and seventh full length collection, poet James P. Lenfestey dazzles with a suite of odes to parts of the body—heart, belly, ankle, teeth, e...

Customer development of effective performance indicators in local and state level public administration

This book is the first to offer a structured process which enables public organisations and their communities to jointly develop performance indicators for the public organisation's operations, enabling communities to determine performance indicators that are highly relevant and contextually useful.

Sustainable real estate in the developing world

Sustainable Real Estate in the Developing World offers a perfect and ideal synthesis of works that examine sustainability within various facets of real estate and urban development in the developing world. A must-read for academics, researchers, policy-makers and students in all the built environ...

Advances in hospitality and leisure

This fourteenth annual volume includes eight full papers and three research notes. As for data collection, most articles deploy either a quantitative or qualitative approach while two present conceptual models.

Understanding interactive network branding in sme firms

Introducing the innovative concept of Interactive Network Branding (INB), this book offers academics and professionals a theoretical framework, alongside practical examples, to develop INB in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

The emerald guide to c. wright mills

This book offers a comprehensive guide to reading and understanding the development of Mills's sociological ideas, placing them in the context of his life and his position in American sociology.