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Being a Woman and Being Tatar uses ethnographic research to explore the multifaceted and complex identities - such as gender, ethnicity, religion – of Tatar women in Siberia and Estonia.Focusing on the intersections and interactions of multiple...

Secular Religions: The Key Concepts provides a concise guide to those ideologies, worldviews, and social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that are most often described as the modern counterparts of traditional religions.Although there are...

For readers of Caste and How to Be an Antiracist, a page-turning deep-dive into how bias is learned—plus a strikingly original and highly effective set of tools to un-learn it.Imagine a world without bias. A world where all human beings can truly be just...

This book provides a thorough comparative analysis of copyright protection of spatial data across Australia, the United States of America, and the European Union.With the emergence of terrestrial scanners, drones, robotics, and artificial intelligence...

Today’s generations can affect the future ecosystem more than any previous generations and aggravate the welfare of future people. People who have not yet been born are excluded from political decisions important to their lives. Due to the future...

Edina Harbinja examines the theoretical, technological and doctrinal issues surrounding online death and digital assets. By examining different areas of law, humanities and social science, she proposes the new concept of postmortal privacy (privacy of...

This volume critiques and challenges the use and promotion of the disease model in psychiatry, arguing that its misconceived approach prevents the preferred disablement model from becoming the default method to understand mental health conditions,...

This book analyses and reconstructs the European Convention on Human Rights standard of application and execution of preventive deprivation of liberty. Acts of international law were drafted at a time when guarantees for the protection of the personal...

Civil Society: Ideas, Interpretations, Transgressions is essential to learning about the place and importance of civil society to creating and maintaining a liberal democracy. Edyta B. Pietrzak takes us on a journey of interpretation, addressing the...

This book provides a concise overview of the use of ionic liquids as electrolytes in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) from a theoretical and computational perspective. It focuses on computational studies to understand the behavior of lithium ions in...

Eldridge and Morgan set a new paradigm for East Asian contemporary historiography by viewing the decade of the 1960s as hermeneutically powerful. From street battles over Japan’s security treaty with the United States, to a peace treaty with the former...

This book presents the evolution of electro-discharge machining (EDM) process from conventional EDM to powder mixed EDM with emphases on the biomedical applications. It discusses the theory behind each process and their applications in the field of...

The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan considers the three key phases of Lacan’s interest in literary topics.Santanu Biswas first examines the seminars given between 1955 and 1961, in which Lacan spoke on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story "The...

Ghana’s Foreign Policy: Kwame Nkrumah’s Normative Legacy and Pan-Africanism examines Ghana’s foreign policy in the post-independence era, focusing on the enduring legacy of Kwame Nkrumah. This book also analyzes the complexity of post-independence...

This book provides a practical introductory guide to comparative law. Fernanda G. Nicola and Günter Frankenberg present and examine conventional and critical approaches to legal comparison, exploring its ramifications in the field and political effects...

In this essential primer on the key themes in sports law, Jack Anderson explains how law has become important to all aspects of sport, including participation, administration and the resolution of disputes. Crossing legal jurisdictions and sporting...

The first in a new series on ethics in the counselling professions, Navigating Relational Ethics in Day-to-Day Practice contextualises the series and provides a practical ‘how to’ guide for bringing the theoretical concepts of ethics into practice. Lynne...

Over a decade ago, Tim Houlne wrote The New World of Work, suggesting that many businesses would shift from the cube to the cloud. Work wouldn’t just be conducted in the office, and employees could work remotely. While this declaration was met with much...

A fascinating history of how the unfolding drama of each election from 1900 to 2024 has shaped the Labour Party and modern Britain.Book InformationISBN 9781783968343Author Douglas BeattieFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Elliott & Thompson...

Informed by critical theory, this book employs Social Network Analysis (SNA) to examine the ever-increasing impact that social media has on politics and contemporary civic discourse.In just the past decade social media platforms have been at the...

A scientific career is a long and winding journey. Many factors assemble to determine the trajectory and products of scientific inquiry. This book addresses the scientific career path comprehensively, ranging from how to build a strong foundational...

Vehicle, road, sign, and signal lighting are provided to enable drivers to reach their destinations quickly and safely. However, the attention given to how these forms of lighting function is likely to change as new technology is introduced and...

This book is a critical reading of Turkey's entanglement and struggle with modernity, Islam, diversity, democracy and human rights/liberties slightly less than the last two centuries. Its major argument is that the relationship between religion and state...

Global and Regional Strategies in the Middle East explores hegemony in the Middle East through understanding different dimensions of power politics and the consequences of the hegemonic ambitions of both global and regional powers.The book adds new...

You might think of pyramids as old, but this book is about news! After his successful Netflix documentary Unknown: The Lost Pyramid, Zahi Hawass (the most famous Egyptologist in the world), updates us on the newest discoveries relating to the pyramids!...

This book asks what it takes for people to encounter one another ethically when practices, worldviews and imaginations clash. It engages over 40 contributors across geographies, disciplines, art forms and practices in a conversation that touches on...

Create stunning web-based data visualizations with D3.js. This totally-revised new edition of D3.js in Action guides you from simple charts to powerful interactive graphics. In D3.js in Action, Third Edition you will learn how to: Set up a local...

The Infinite Pickle�is a collection of 14 playful mathematical pickles. Each pickle is a whole family of puzzles -�the baby bear ones have been play-tested in classrooms of seven�and eight-year-olds -�the big mama bear ones are difficult for the most...

Cynicism is making us sick; Stanford psychologist Dr Jamil Zaki has the cure - a 'ray of light for dark days' (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author).For thousands of years, people have argued about whether humanity is selfish or generous,...

This book interrogates the role of gender and class in shaping women’s everyday leisure practices. Drawing on empirical research in urban Turkey, the book explores how leisure is perceived and practised by women within their communities. The book...

This thought-provoking book exposes the values, judgements, and hierarchies that underlie ageism in care settings. Destabilizing the assumption that biases like ageism are always bad, Buetow suggests that ageism is normatively neutral and that truly...

This book examines the various ways in which policymakers and political actors across different governmental levels have responded to the recent European refugee ‘crisis’, and the effects of these responses. Whereas previous studies have often focused on...

What is it that unites the European Union as a polity? Why is it necessary to democratise the EU? Can EU politicisation help democratising the EU? Why do EU citizens in referenda seemingly vote against the EU? And how can a European identity develop? To...

The field of artificial intelligence, data science and analytics is crippling itself. Exaggerated promises of unrealistic technologies, simplifications of complex projects and marketing hype are leading to an erosion of trust in one of our most critical...

We live in the era of big data. However, small data sets are still common for ethical, financial, or practical reasons. Small sample sizes can cause researchers to seek out the most powerful methods to analyse their data, but they may also be wary that...

Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to...

What with consciousness and perception, memory and dementia, altered mental states and Artificial Intelligence, the modern landscape of brain science is an extraordinary place to explore. But how are you expected to navigate the complexities of this...

From bestselling author Will Witt, this thought-provoking exposé shows readers how to break free from the control of America's corrupt ruling class. The America you grew up in is no longer here. Our country is in sharp decline. Yet we often fail to truly...

Actuarial loss models are statistical models used by insurance companies to estimate the frequency and severity of future losses, set premiums, and reserve funds to cover potential claims. Actuarial loss models are a subject in actuarial mathematics that...

This book provides an industry professional's first-hand perspective on narrative design's practical usage, day-to-day roles and responsibilities, and keys to breaking in and succeeding. The book delves into the foundations of compelling storytelling...