The Emotional Lives of Young People with Autism
This study questions the American Psychiatric Association’s definition of autism, offering evidence that even non-verbal children have an emotional life. Drawing on interviews with parents from three cultures, it shows children with autism have emotional competence.
Muslim Women Seeking Power, Muslim Youth Seeking Justice
This volume explores employment equity for Muslim women and the identity of Muslim youth in an age of Islamophobia. It offers a worldwide perspective on overcoming discrimination, developing the idea of peaceful resistance and patience in the face of persecution.
This volume explores the descendants of Iberian Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism. Focusing on the 18th-century exodus from Portugal to Brazil, it examines the contemporary search for Jewish roots. After centuries, how authentic is their lost Sefardi heritage?
A Practical Guide to Promoting Social Participation in Seniors
An instruction manual for community workers and researchers on community-based participatory action research. This guide provides principles for working with older communities worldwide, with key contributions for work in lower-to-middle income countries.
Corporate Fraud in Japan
Why did risk management systems at world-famous Japanese companies fail? This book investigates eight incidents of corporate fraud, based on third-party reports, to explore common problems in corporate governance and internal control that let these companies down.
Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song and Dance
An exploration of two fandango dances across the Spanish and Portuguese Empires. While malagueñas are an incarnation of Spanishness caught in a fraught imperial past, zapateados—shaped by Africanist and Native American footwork—cut toward a future born of resistance.
This book deals with emotional intelligence in teacher trainees, showing how it affects their aspiration and self-concept. It demonstrates how teachers should observe and manage students’ emotions to adopt specific strategies for effective learning.
Often overlooked in historical records, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the quarrying industry in Shropshire and across the country. Discover the machinery and processes used to extract the stone that built Britain’s most enduring structures.
Latin American Marxisms in Context
In Latin America, governments and popular mobilizations have challenged neoliberalism, sparking a revival of Marxist perspectives. This book provides an insight into the rich diversity of Latin American Marxism, appealing to all interested in the region’s radicalism.
A Business Health Service
If businesses function like living organisms, can they benefit from a professional healthcare service? This book explores the need for such a service and evaluates whether business advisors can meet the professional standards of medical care.
Ethical Infrastructure
Explore the unique and under-researched area of ethical infrastructures. This book analyzes their impact on the moral behaviour of managers, showing how to institutionalize ethics within organizations and stimulating a deeper understanding of this vital concept.
This guide offers a complete methodology for the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) thesis, blending indispensable theory and practice. It provides clear, applicable standards and testimonies from scholars to help students and supervisors find valuable solutions.
Cheap Print and the People
For 500 years, cheap print was the staple diet of ordinary Europeans, offering news, scandal, folktales, and songs. Neglected for centuries, these materials shine a light on the culture and lives of the people. This is the first pan-European study of the subject.
Democracy and Economy
This history of democracy uses modern economics and political sciences to explain why the system was created and how it evolves. It analyses why democracy requires strong economic structures, with case studies from Ancient Greece to the EU.
The Internationalization of High-Tech Firms
This book presents updated knowledge on the internationalization patterns of high-tech firms, with particular insights into their innovations and research and development. It highlights the internationalization path of firms operating in high-tech sectors.
Road Safety Management in Africa
This book examines Africa’s capacity to reduce road deaths. It evaluates crash data accuracy, causes of death, and institutional weaknesses through detailed case studies, offering policy suggestions. Ideal for students and policy makers, this text encourages reflective practice.
This book discusses track access charging with regard to rail freight competitiveness. It addresses the costs incurred, the impact of traffic volume, market response, and the influence of transport policy, appealing to infrastructure managers seeking to shift freight to railways.
The Truly Infinite Universe
By bringing speculative philosophy into conversation with quantum cosmology, this book develops Hegel’s metaphysics and Hawking’s theory on the origins of spacetime, revealing the universe as a self-generating, self-organizing, self-enclosed whole.
Astrobiology and Humanism
This book reviews the frontiers of humanism as they interact with astrobiology. The existence of life raises deep questions meaningful to both, but disagreements in this dialogue are shown to be due to the delusion that the frontiers of science can be ignored.
Contrary to the belief that Judaism was oblivious to art, this book shows that a sophisticated visual language flourished in Byzantine-era synagogues. This probing language of introspection and scrutiny reveals a hidden culture that could rival the best of modern art movements.