Sex, Gender, and Engineering
This timely book examines sexual harassment in engineering in the context of #MeToo. It provides a window into the experiences of individuals, presents effective strategies for practitioners to reduce harassment, and outlines where future research is needed.
As cannabis policies relax, what are the risks for youth? This book summarizes scientific evidence on the impact of cannabis on development from infancy to young adulthood, evaluating the consequences for physical, social, and mental health.
This book tackles the paradox of observing hidden behaviours, such as prohibited drug use. Under what conditions are these secrets revealed to an inquirer? It discusses methods to ensure valid data, serving as a guide for researchers and a source of support for decision-makers.
Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Digital Age
In the Digital Age, suicide rates have soared and depression has become the world’s most debilitating disease. Living in a 24/7 miasma of media bombardment and mental exhaustion, it’s time for a reassessment of mental illness and the possibility of achieving wellness.
Shaped by a history of competition and cooperation, Russia-Turkey relations gained new dimensions with Vladimir Putin. This book discusses this history before analysing the situation of both countries in the first 20 years of the 21st century.
The pandemic revealed more than a virus. This book uncovers the deep connections between emotion, vulnerability, poverty, and power, showing how the crisis exposed the pre-existing social fractures that determined who suffered most.
Approaches to Building a Smart Community
This book offers unique ‘glocal’ approaches to ‘smart communities’, drawing on South African experiences to address this global issue. It blends social and technical aspects, presenting insights from a range of community practitioners, academics, architects, and engineers.
America in Crisis
America is in crisis. A changing climate, financial instability, and political turmoil threaten our future. Using the new science of cliodynamics, this book explains how rising inequality causes such crises and reveals how we can build a stronger, more prosperous America.
This volume of innovative research in Iberian Studies extends beyond Spain and Portugal to explore transnational connections with Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Its scope ranges from the nineteenth century to the effects of the Catalan independence crisis and Brexit.
This book links sustainable development to preserving public goods, creating a corporate responsibility for their maintenance. Successful delivery depends on a positive relationship between the public and private sectors, and this book closes that gap with common methodologies.
Contested Histories and Politics of People
Subaltern Studies unearths subsumed narratives and subjugated knowledges to counter hegemonic domination. It critiques power manipulated by colonialism and elite nationalists, and challenges the neo-colonial politics that continue to alter history.
The Importance of Female Inclusion in Clinical Trials
The COVID-19 vaccine saved lives, but also gave rise to health issues in females, who were deliberately marginalized in clinical trials. This book argues for an end to ‘bikini medicine,’ demanding treatment that considers factors like the menstrual cycle in vaccination timing.
A Literary, Philosophical and Religious Journey into Well-Being
This volume traces the concept of happiness through the history of thought, from early Greek philosophy to contemporary psychology. As the volume shows, happiness appears in many forms, all connected with the human sense of approaching oneness with the world or with the divine.
A History of Livestock and Wildlife
History credits manufacturing for the rise of the West, but the truth is wilder. This book uncovers the essential, overlooked role of animals—how the plunder of wildlife and the harnessing of livestock truly fuelled the economic growth that created the modern world.
Writing about Latin American Sovereignty
The people of a small town absorbed by Mexico City share memories of the games, food, and streets of their past. This book presents a way to build a future that rescues the community’s identity, which still binds them together in spite of the city’s segregating trends.
Breaking the Cycle of Women’s Paid Domestic Work in Brazil
This book portrays the life stories of Brazilian domestic workers and their daughters, who are the first in their families to get a higher education. It explores their social mobility through the mother-daughter bond that transforms trauma into empowerment.
An expert shares 25 more facts learned from a quarter-century in criminal justice. Covering policing, courts, corrections, and race, each point is backed by research. Though scholarly, the book is written for the layperson in a timely, engaging, “tell it like it is” style.
The Sustainable Dead
Ecological sustainability is profoundly challenging long-standing death styles. This collection brings together new scholarship on innovative changes to managing the dead from around the world, arguing for a new perspective on the shift to more sustainable death ways.
Explore new trends in Internationalisation at Home (IaH) and the internationalised curriculum. This volume features insights from academics and practitioners across diverse fields, including curriculum development, language teaching, and academic support.