Reduce, reuse and repurpose

The diverse range of papers in this issue gives a global perspective of the often extraordinary challenges that temporary works can and do involve.

Recommendations for the inspection, maintenance and management of car park structures

Recommendations for the Inspection, Maintenance and Management of Car Park Structures, Second edition provides technical guidance, and establishes a benchmark for good practice for car park owners, operators, and engineering consultants.

Fidic quick reference guide

This book provides commentary on the FIDIC Red Book: FIDIC Conditions of Contracts for Construction for building and engineering works designed by the Employer.

Uk specification for ground investigation

The UK Specification for Ground Investigation provides best practice guidance for designing and executing good-quality ground investigations that will allow clients and land developers to manage the risks and help to reduce project time and costs.

Maurice's strategikon

This military handbook, attributed to the Byzantine emperor Maurice (582–602), is an invaluable source not only for early Byzantine history, but also for the history of the art of war. Intended as a guide for field commanders and campaigners, the Strategikon contains a wealth of information on pr...

Active and engaging classrooms

This book explores active and engaging classrooms from various perspectives, offering tips and recommendations for higher education. It's a practical resource for teachers and educators aiming to enhance teaching and empower learners in college and university settings.

Post-corona capitalism

The COVID-19 pandemic is a Rorschach test for society: everyone sees something different in it, and the range of political and economic responses to the crisis can leave us feeling overwhelmed. This book cuts through the confusion, dissecting the new post-coronavirus capitalism into several polic...

Appropriate/an octoroon: plays (revised edition)

Includes Revised Broadway version of Appropriate Winner of three 2024 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Play A double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative writers. In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a...

The abcs of structured discovery cane travel for children

The ABCs of Structured Discovery Cane Travel for Children teaches essential non-visual concepts, techniques, and mobility skills for blind or visually impaired students. It focuses on independence, problem-solving, and mental mapping using the long, white cane. Parents and instructors will find v...

Too black to be here?

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Employing an interdisciplinary approach that draws from critical race theory, whiteness studies, post-structural, and postcolonial theories, Paul Thomas offers both a scholarly and personal narrative.

Leadership lessons from the kardashians

Brigitte Biehl uses examples from the popular TV series “The Kardashians” and “Keeping up with the Kardashians” to explore leadership concepts that focus on women in business, and the obstacles they face in a male dominated world.

The state's sexuality

The State's Sexuality uncovers how the lives and work of women engaged in prostitution, long considered the most abased members of society, have been strategically intertwined with the lofty purpose of building South Korea's postcolonial nation-state. Through a complicated, contradictory patchwor...

Why not build the mosque?

An ethnography of a long-unbuilt mosque in Greece that explores government operations and contemporary democracyWhy Not Build the Mosque? tells the story of the Greek state’s centuries-long attempt to build a central mosque. After the fall of Ottoman Empire, Greek Orthodoxy entwined with Greek na...

Mapping the deep

Mapping the Deep takes you on an adventure into the depths of Challenger Deep, showcasing one woman's perseverance and innovation needed for ocean exploration.

Seeding empire

In Seeding Empire, Aaron Eddens rewrites an enduring story about the past—and future—of global agriculture. Eddens connects today's efforts to cultivate a "Green Revolution in Africa" to a history of American projects that introduced capitalist agriculture across the Global South. Expansive in sc...

Archipelagic cinemas

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.​Archipelagic Cinemas compares trajectories of cinematic and political development across Southeast Asia from the mid-twentieth c...

Doctoral study and getting published

Doctoral Study and Getting Published features a collection of early career research narratives that focuses on researcher development and education. There is an emphasis on the often pressurised process of publishing during or after a doctorate through an ecological perspective.

Police–community relations in times of crisis

The death of Michael Brown at the hands of a white Ferguson police officer has uncovered an apparent legitimacy crisis at the heart of American policing. Some have claimed that de-policing may have led officers to become less proactive. How exactly has the policing of gangs and violence changed i...

The hidden curriculum

Shred through Social Confusion!The world around us is a complicated place filled with expectations, rules, assumptions, guidelines, regulations, and policies. This “hidden curriculum” exists across environments, places, people, and cultures. Although rules and mandates can be complex, most of us ...

Our history is the future

One Book South Dakota Common Read, South Dakota Humanities Council, 2022 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, PEN America, 2020 One Book One Tribe Book Award, First Nations Development Institute, 2020 Finalist, Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, 2019 Shortlist, Brooklyn Pu...

The national charity company

At the end of 1795 Jeremy Bentham, the English Utilitarian philosopher and reformer, began to compose a far-reaching plan. He proposed to restructure the English Poor Law, a set of laws for the relief of poverty first codified under Queen Elizabeth. Bentham's plan was to dispense poor relief thro...

Research on college stress and coping

This volume explores how college settings can address the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. It examines the increased stress and trauma faced by students, the impact on academic and socio-emotional progress, and provides insights from scholars on supporting student health and well-b...

Witness

A first-hand account of the death penalty's wholly destructive nature.  In Witness, Lyle C. May offers a scathing critique of shifts in sentencing laws, prison policies that ensure recidivism, and classic "tough on crime" views that don't make society safer or prevent crime. These insightful and...

Bringers of order

Wearable technology, including smartwatches, biometric trackers, and body cameras, are often touted as helpful tools that record, produce, and analyze data about daily life to improve our individual habits and health or to solve serious public issues. In this book, James N. Gilmore argues that th...

Innovative curricular and pedagogical designs in bilingual teacher education

This volume highlights innovative 21st-century curricular designs and pedagogical practices for preparing future bilingual teachers. It provides an overview of practices aimed at developing bilingual teacher professionals to effect curricular and pedagogical changes.

Designing a safer built environment

Designing a Safer Built Environment places the statutory obligations on designers into the real world of commercial projects.

Mi maría: surviving the storm

Puerto Rican voices share their stories of surviving Hurricane María and its aftermath.

Plotting the reading experience

Essays from international contributors on the experiences of reading: what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read, under what kinds of conditions, what drives people to read, and conversely, what gets individual and groups of readers stopped in their pursuit of the rewards ...

Innovative approaches to teaching multilingual students

This book guides teachers in applying theory to practice for teaching multilingual students. It covers language, literacy, and culture theories, with chapters by practicing teachers sharing innovative methods. It's aimed at TESOL/ESL, bilingual, language immersion, and mainstream teachers, and is...

The myth of the lokamanya

Lokamanya (revered leader) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856 - 1920), the extremist politician of Maharashtra, a region of western India, was one of the first Congress Party leaders to adopt the strategy of mass politics. Interpretations of his role and his achievement differen greatly. Some historians d...

Reproducing, rethinking, resisting national narratives

This volume explores "schematic narrative templates," a concept by James V. Wertsch, examining how these templates shape national narratives and collective memory. It includes contributions from various disciplines, focusing on nationalism and memory in different cultural contexts.

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Patriot acts

In their own words, the narrators of Patriot Acts recount their lives before the 9/11 attacks and their experiences of the backlash that have deeply altered their lives and communities.

Humanities perspectives in peace education

This book explores the role of humanities in peace education, highlighting unique contributions from philosophy, literature, language, rhetoric, religion, history, and music. It addresses the gap in peace studies by emphasizing empathy, creativity, justice, and nonviolence. Each chapter offers pe...

The mystery of ovid's exile

Toward the end of the year A.D. 8, the emperor Augustus publicly sentenced the poet Ovid to exile in remote and barbaric Tomis on the Black Sea. The action presumably followed a secret hearing before the emperor, and the official reason given for the sentence was Ovid's authorship of a licentious...

Lgbtq+ leadership in education

Grounded in the realities of the UK education sector, LGBTQ+ Leadership in Education highlights the vital role of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in leadership, recognising the advocacy work of LGBTQ+ leaders and the transformative power of queer networks in shaping institutional cultures.

Managing team centricity in modern organizations

This volume addresses the challenges of leading teams, especially with the shift to remote work due to COVID-19. It includes literature reviews, conceptual development, and research on team management, performance, flexible work arrangements, and virtual teams, offering insights for HR and organi...

Boycott, divestment, sanctions

As international awareness of the apartheid nature of Israel grows, Omar Barghouti offers a manifesto for winning Palestinian civil rights.

Beyond vibe coding

Empire of labor

Empire of Labor tells the story of how hired workers experienced and responded to the rise to power over the long eighteenth century of the English East India Company (EIC), which perennially hired thousands of people in and around its settlements in Bengal. Focusing on boatmen and silk reelers a...

Human flourishing and higher education

This book explores "human flourishing" in society and higher education, focusing on both individual attributes and external factors. It uses critical pedagogy, social theory, philosophical analysis, and qualitative research to examine how these elements contribute to a more inclusive and ethical ...

Managing interpartner cooperation in strategic alliances

This book explores new scholarship in strategic alliances, covering interdisciplinary frameworks, practical problems, and empirical studies. The 12 chapters address issues like legitimation, coopetition, trust, innovation, R&D collaboration, knowledge flows, and partner diversity.

Kuleshov on film

Lev Kuleshov (1899–1970) was the first aesthetic theorist of the cinema. An outstanding figure in the “montage” school, he was a key influence on Eisenstein and Pudovkin. Kuleshov was the first to see clearly that montage—the assemblage and alternation of shots—was the very essence and structure ...

Nova scotia house

Winner of the 2026 Lambda Literary Award in Gay FictionShortlisted for the 2025 Goldsmiths PrizeNamed a 2025 Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Guardian Nova Scotia House takes us to the heart of a relationship, a community and an era, both a love story and a lament.In this prof...

Born-digital texts in the english language classroom

This book is the first to focus specifically on born-digital texts in EFL teaching, uniting innovative scholarship with practical classroom applications. The book develops a theoretically sound framework for curriculum, materials and methods design that takes into account the growing ubiquity of ...

Elements of leadership

Leadership literature is dominated by Western paradigms, but what about the lessons of leadership from a cross-cultural perspective? In this highly readable volume, Sy Islam and Gordon B. Schmidt utilise examples from Avatar: The Last Airbender to bring this unique lens of perspective to a range ...

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...

Managerial practice issues in strategy and organization

This volume explores diverse issues in strategy science, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches and hybrid organizations. It covers topics like Big Science collaborations, open innovations, business modeling, management of uncertainty, and institutional logics in alliances, providing a comprehe...