Mechanism Design for Public Goods and Environmental Externalities
This book discusses crucial environmental problems, like global warming and nuclear disasters, by applying the unique Gorman-Lancaster-Sen’s approach. It provides a new way of thinking about the environment as a public good for students, professors, and policy makers alike.
Child Obesity
This book investigates the complex facets of childhood obesity, analyzing evidence on epigenetics, ultra-processed foods, and food marketing. It concludes with recommendations for health professionals, parents, and policy makers to create change for our society’s future health.
Frontiers of Gerontology and Geriatrics
As the 21st century witnesses a retirement boom, ‘Elderly Care’ has become a global priority. This compilation of published research is a training manual to groom professionals to care for older persons, featuring Indian and Arabian scenarios, exercises, and question-answers.
Drawing on experiences from practitioners across the globe, this book re-visualizes language assessment. It provides effective, inventive concepts for teachers and developers to create assessment tools that reflect authentic, needs-based language use.
Globalized Injustice
This volume unearths the pervasive injustices shaping our world. It highlights the lived experiences and resistance of marginalized groups while challenging readers to recognize oppression, foster solidarity, and embrace the possibility of transformation.
This collection offers thought-provoking studies on monolingual, bilingual, and heritage language acquisition, as well as L2/L3 learning. It provides fresh insights into how heritage languages differ from their homeland counterparts and how cross-linguistic influence operates.
In an era of chaos and uncertainty generated by disinformation, social networks and artificial intelligence enhance post-truth. This book analyzes the evolution of the media system, how AI changes the communicative paradigm, and how it can be challenged by human intelligence.
This study of rock paintings and engraved art throws light on the lives of prehistoric people. It analyses painted animal and human figures to reveal their society, beliefs, rituals, material culture, and economy, from subsistence strategies to celebrations.
The Paradoxical India
This collection of essays captures the vast dimensions of Indian cultural and literary traditions. Explore myths, tribal literature, and philosophies to understand India’s rich, multicultural society through its ancient landscape, contradictions, and contemporary advancements.
Empowering Autism Education with AI
This book shows how AI can personalize learning, enhance communication, and support social development for children on the autism spectrum. A guide for educators and parents, it provides a roadmap to AI tools that foster inclusion and independence.
Nikos Kazantzakis and the Sound of Silence, a Jungian and Esoteric View
Kazantzakis turned inward to hear the silent cry of the inner Divinity. He declared humanity’s independence from a false creator, offering an initiatory path to overcome today’s spiritual crises, transcend the opposites within the psyche, and achieve true spiritual freedom.
This book reviews art throughout the ages to find the origin of religion in the relationship between art and ritual. A psychoanalytic perspective identifies the creative process as the prototype for the concept of death and resurrection that underpins religious belief.
Moorings and Disembeddedness
This book follows Chinese international students in Norway who convert to evangelical Christianity. It explores the social isolation they find abroad and how religion helps them overcome it, empowering them to become the modern, globetrotting cosmopolites they aspire to be.
European Film Co-Productions
This volume analyzes the growing phenomenon of film-induced tourism. It examines the positive and negative impacts of film production in regions of environmental and cultural importance, and presents a quantitative evaluation of the economic benefits.
For teachers of Japanese, this collection offers practical ways to boost student engagement. It explains how to use cultural products—from anime and manga to the tea ceremony—to increase interest and tackle the problem of low enrollment in foreign language courses.
Arab writers must deal with a harsh reality shaped by non-stop wars. This book uses a semiotic approach, arguing the whole truth is not in a text, but in how reality is re-presented. By connecting form and content, it asks: How does Arabic literature represent its agenda?
Orator, lawyer, and actor, Dudley Field Malone defended John Scopes in the “Monkey Trial” and suffragist Alice Paul. But his life was also a tragedy of scandal and financial ruin, ending in bankruptcy with only a claim for $114 to his name. A fascinating, tragic figure.
This book critiques the regressive and colonial character of global capitalism. It argues that coloniality permeates the contemporary architecture of power, and that commitment to a Eurocentric notion of “progress” leads to the next iteration of the capitalist/colonial order.
As gay men lead lives increasingly similar to their straight counterparts, what is the basis for gay culture? This book argues that theatricality, not identity, is what defines it. Gay culture is a practice, accessible to anyone with a flair for the theatrical.
This coursebook helps computer science students develop the English skills for academic and professional success. It covers essential topics with practical exercises in listening, reading, speaking, and writing, placing special emphasis on expanding technical vocabulary.