This book offers an integrated framework to analyze four types of family violence. Drawing from psychology and sociology, it reveals both the shared risk factors common to all and the unique mechanisms specific to particular relationships, based on state-of-the-art research.
The first collection to survey great books by African authors across the academic disciplines. Expert contributors select and analyze five landmark texts in their fields, exploring their profound influence on individuals and society.
Open Innovation Dynamics
This book expands open innovation from a static strategic idea to a dynamic principle. It explores underexplored aspects of the concept, including culture, collective intelligence, and its connection to the micro- and macro-dynamics of economics.
Semiotics and Visual Communication IV
Inspired by Roland Barthes, this book explores today’s myths. It examines how daily life and consumer culture—from cinema and sports to online networks and fashion—are socially constructed signs, shaped by global mass communication and visual culture.
Experimental Geographical Ecology
This book on experimental landscape ecology provides statistical models to understand landscape systems. It presents methods for making ecological forecasts, assessing forest sustainability, and estimating carbon cycle regulation according to modern climate change scenarios.
Catholic Schools in a Plural Society
This book collects articles and policy papers on state-maintained Catholic education in England and Wales. It explores the context of these schools, their academic performance, and provides data on pupils’ outcomes, teachers, and leadership.
This study of postwar MLB (1945-51) reveals how new, investment-minded owners slowed integration, until pioneers like Branch Rickey and Bill Veeck defied the status quo, finding success both on the field and at the gate.
This volume assembles John Glucker’s essays on Plato and Cicero for the first time. The articles deal with interpretations of their philosophical works and their influence on Western thought, and will be of interest to both scholars and laymen with a background in the classics.
Strategic Decisions in Directed Networks
Do theoretical models account for the decisions of network users? Drawing on two decades of research in transportation science and behavioral economics, this book uses laboratory experiments to test the validity of these models and finds that, with some qualifications, they do.
This book constructs and critiques syntacticism, a school of thought in the philosophy of logic congenial to analytical philosophy. It examines technical and philosophic issues, addressing anomalies in symbolic expressivity to provide a deeper understanding of this approach.
Drawn from 30 years of research, these essays by Tim Murray range across archaeological theory and history, focusing on Australia. Murray explores the critical intersection of archaeology, philosophy, and cultural context, applying key concepts to Australia’s deep past.
Is democracy in crisis? Amidst a loss of trust in institutions, this volume brings together experts to shed light on the future of our democracies. By focusing on Japan and Germany, it determines transnational tendencies and country-specific consequences.
Botswana Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development
This book explores cultural heritage and sustainable tourism from an African perspective, using Botswana as a case study. It reconciles the demand to commodify heritage with the quest for its preservation, confronting the hard questions about its business, value, and future.
This exploration of constitutionalism and human rights in Latin America is rooted in constitutional pluralism. Drawing on the Inter-American Human Rights System, it examines the impact on local courts, covering civil, social, and emerging digital and environmental rights.
This innovative, transdisciplinary book uses phenomenology to explore complex dwelling relationships. It discusses landscape language case studies with Indigenous peoples in Australia and the USA, showing how different cultures turn terrain into landscape.
This book covers the author’s field experiences as an ethnographer in Central America and an applied anthropologist in the US. It highlights the importance of incorporating ethnography into work tasks across a range of social fields and diverse socio-cultural groups.
This book covers 636 open-air museums in 31 European countries, exploring the evolution of vernacular architecture and reconstructed rural life. Illustrated with 2339 photos, it provides valuable insights for scholars, readers, and museums on attracting visitors.
The Life and Work of Percy Aldridge Grainger
Creative genius Percy Grainger documented his life to explore how music can uplift humankind. This book is the first to detail his life and music using his own words, unpublished documents, and musical examples in a study that is both accessible and detailed.
This book questions the efficiency of propaganda and intelligence in peace operations. Through a comparative analysis of NATO in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Afghanistan, it examines both NATO activities and the communication strategies of opposing elements.
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