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This book focuses on injustices that have taken place to deaf people and the sign language community in Finland from 1900.For decades, memories and stories about past injustices have been passed down from one generation to another among deaf people and...

This pioneering work focuses on positive psychology and wellbeing from a neuropsychological perspective. It bridges social, emotional and psychological principles to explore the burgeoning field of positive neuropsychology.Combining academic theory and...

Originally published in 1992, this Asian-authored book presents a cultural description and interpretation of American high school adolescent life and ethos, based on anthropological fieldwork in a semi-rural school and its surrounding community in Oregon...

Applied Theatre and Gender Justice is a collection of essays highlighting the value and efficacy of using applied theatre to address gender in a broad range of settings, identifying challenges, and offering concrete best practices.This book amplifies and...

This is the first textbook of its kind to amass cases of genocide and other mass atrocities across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries that have largely been pushed to the periphery of Genocide Studies or “forgotten” altogether.Divided...

This book provides an account of how rectificatory justice for climate change loss and damage is possible and provides an extensive response to its challenges.Using the capabilities approach, Laura García-Portela argues that loss and damage occur after...

For sociologists, making, distributing, and using art and cultural products constitute social practices, yet, sociologists disagree on how to investigate these practices. Organized around three main schools of thought - critical sociology, symbolic...

Drawing on the author’s own experiences as a psychiatrist-psychotherapist, this fascinating new book gathers and analyzes folktales from around the world about adults struggling with conflicts and trying to determine truth. These narratives illustrate...

How does sexual consent work? How do we know that another person really wants to have sex with us? Why do people sometimes give in to sex that they are not in the mood for? And how come it is sometimes difficult to draw a sharp line between sex and...

Preterm birth is significant cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity, with a devastating impact on families. This essential guide introduces the knowledge that midwives require for practice, drawing together the most up-to-date research and identifying...

Originally published in 1948, The Adolescent Child provided vital information on adolescence for parents, teachers, club leaders, social and religious workers and welfare supervisors in factories at the time. With research from both the UK and the US the...

A Stitch in Line: Mathematics and One-Stitch Sashiko provides readers with instructions for creating hitomezashi items with minimum outlay. The reader is guided through the practical steps involved in creating each design, and then the mathematics which...

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (AHL), a double-blind peer view journal published annually since 2004, attempts to promote seminal and innovative research outputs pertaining to hospitality, leisure, tourism, and lifestyle. Specifically, this journal...

The condition known as ‘adolescence’ is largely an artefact of advance industrial societies. How, then, do those who are labelled as ‘adolescent’ conduct their everyday lives, and what are their values? Originally published in 1980, this book seeks to...

This book studies data, analytics, and intelligence using Boolean structure. Chapters dive into the theories, foundations, technologies, and methods of data, analytics and intelligence.The primary aim of this book is to convey the theories and...

This book evaluates issues and challenges emerging from the interaction between Intellectual Property (IP) and new technologies, namely artificial intelligence (AI), big data, social media, internet of things (IoT), metaverse, blockchain, video gaming,...

This practical and accessible textbook provides an overview of the key principles for conducting ethnography in healthcare settings. Shedding new light on healthcare delivery and experiences, ethnographic research methods provide a useful set of tools...

Originally published in 1983, this book elucidates the urgent problems of disadvantaged and delinquency-prone post-adolescents at the time by providing a comprehensive theoretical framework and a pragmatic outlook based on recent rehabilitation...

In crystal chemistry and crystal physics, the relations between the symmetry groups (space groups) of crystalline solids are of particular importance. Part I of this book presents the necessary mathematical foundations and tools: the fundamentals of...

This comprehensive resource is designed to equip occupational therapy assistant (OTA) students and new practitioners with the essential knowledge required for effective skills in management, administration and leadership.Using the American Occupational...

Covering both the principles and practice of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), this important new textbook equips students not only with a contextual understanding of the role of ADR in adjudicating civil disputes, but also the different forms of...

This new collection of essays by a range of Jungian analysts and scholars seeks to address the concept of individuation in contemporary times, and reflects on its meaning within the 21st century.The concept of individuation is at the core of Analytical...

Arbitrating Empire offers a new history of the emergence of the United States as a global power–one shaped as much by attempts to insulate the US justice system from international legal accountability as it was by efforts to project influence across...

Originally published in 1932, and therefore inevitably of its time, this book discusses the place of the intellect as a guide to religious truth. The author's work brought principles from Quaker decision-making to bear on wider questions about democracy...

This book presents an innovative method of EEG-based feature extraction and classification of seizures using EEG signals. It describes the methodology required for EEG analysis, seizure detection, seizure prediction and seizure classification. It...

The second edition of Overcoming Objectification: A Carnal Ethics provides a critical analysis of the widely used (particularly in feminist philosophy) concept of objectification, and offers a new concept (derivatization) in its stead.Cahill suggests an...

The increasing importance of local-level planning in developing countries and disillusionment with highly theoretical, sophisticated methodologies have prompted the creation of this simple-to-use manual for planners and administrators seeking to...

This book critically analyzes the state-based regime of international law, eliciting its colonial and decolonial origins and proposing a new sub-regional basis for dealing with contemporary global challenges.Since 1648 public international law has taken...

Early Contractor Involvement: Improving the management of contract risk explains how to structure and administer a process of early contractor involvement within a two-stage tender process. It provides clear practical guidance on the range of factors...

Dieses leicht verständliche Lehr- und Übungsbuch vermittelt die wesentlichen Grundlagen der Strömungsmechanik und verzichtet dabei bewusst auf höhere Mathematik. Stattdessen fokussiert es sich auf eine sehr praxisorientierte Darstellung mit fast 300...

The statistical mechanical theory of liquids and solutions is a fundamental area of physical sciences with important implications in other fields of science and industrial applications. Statistical Mechanics of Liquids and Solutions: Intermolecular...

This valuable book identifies common obstacles in any endeavor that can impact on success and offers highly-accessible exercises to help readers overcome them. Featuring expertise from dozens of high-level performers about their journey to the top of...

As with any digital technology, there are concerns about how new advancements may affect our health, safety, security, privacy, and economy. The metaverse has potential, but as with any other universe, whether it be physical or digital, it also faces...

This supportive and empowering guide helps readers identify and build on their relational values, which the dominant culture tends to minimize, inhibit, or disparage.Written in an engaging, easy to read and use format, this workbook offers clear case...

This best-selling textbook, now in its 6th Edition, provides the essential strategies and tools that occupational therapists need to design and organize client groups for enhanced, theory-based therapeutic interventions for physical, mental health and...

This important book considers what we know about test and exam anxiety, including how it is defined, its characteristics, how it can be identified, why and how it develops, and what can be done to support test-anxious students.Addressing the pressures of...

Elasticity is the ability of a material to be stretched under tensile load and to return to its original starting position on recovery. It is one of the most important properties of textiles and has a direct effect on their functionality. It is...

This book presents a new approach to the study of Religious Zionism. In counter-distinction to the prevalent fundamentalist approach, it argues that mainstream of Religious Zionism is a romantic religious nationalist movement in which the modern idea of...

This book examines the ways that nationalist leaders and extremist groups have used football to advance their often violent ideological narratives and to recruit and radicalise young people.Drawing on applied ethnographic research with the Ultra fan...

This fascinating new book explores the puella as an archetypal, symbolic, and personality figure reaching into the classical foundations of Jungian analytical psychology, focusing on the modern conflicts reverberating personally and culturally to remove...