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.
This book analyzes the life satisfaction of older Germans as the household’s role in providing a better later life diminishes. Using quantitative statistics, it uncovers unexpected findings, making it a worthy read for scholars, students, and older people concerned with ageing.
Intercultural Communication in Post-Pandemic and Dystopian Times
This essay turns intercultural concepts inside out, pointing out their shortcomings and dissecting the real obstacles to communication: identitarianisms, tribal meanings, and exclusionary differences. It is a call for us to become culturally resilient and readjust our mirrors.
From a quarter century of experience, a criminologist explores twenty-five facts about crime, policing, courts, and the death penalty. Written for the layperson with a “tell it like it is” approach, this scholarly book is funny, interesting, timely, and engaging.
Ensuring Sustainable Development Goals do not Become Rhetoric
Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals has stalled, with only 12% of targets on track. To ensure the SDGs are not reduced to mere rhetoric, a new strategy is needed. This book argues for a shift to a common household database, with real examples of progress.
Alcohol and Alcoholism in Russia
Focusing on Russia since 1970, this book argues that alcoholism is used to veil healthcare failures by blaming victims. It exposes the unstable quality of legal beverages causing lethal poisonings, crimes against alcoholics to steal their property, and their overtreatment.
Models of Social Intervention
This book analyzes the challenges and opportunities in the practical training of social workers. Contrasting the perspectives of students, supervisors, and lecturers, it identifies key gaps and proposes foundations for improving the quality of these training processes.
This work argues that third-wave feminine activism has given rise to feminine patriarchy. In their push for equality, women have paradoxically reproduced the patriarchy, seeking integration into the system rather than changing it, reifying their identity as feminine men.
Aged Care in Context and Across Disciplines
Addressing challenges in aged care highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, this collection compares practices in China and the Nordic regions. It uncovers commonalities, disparities, and opportunities for collaboration to develop innovative and effective policies and practices.
Dementia Caregiving East and West
This book pulls together practical and adaptable communicative approaches to dementia care from global researchers. With contributions from fields like gerontology, linguistics, and nursing, it highlights communication as the most helpful non-pharmacological means of assistance.
Health Inequity
This book analyzes the crucial issue of health inequities between and within countries. It uses a multitude of figures to illustrate huge inequalities in maternal mortality, life expectancy, and more. A vital resource for students, researchers, and health decision makers.
Over the past century, Americans transformed from citizens to consumers, their identities defined by how they spent money. This history argues that while unsustainable, consumer culture has consistently served as a principal source of meaning and purpose in people’s lives.
This book addresses people displaced by disasters in Brazil’s Northeast, who lack legal protection. It argues for categorising them as IDPs to receive international legal protection and proposes collaborative policy responses among governments, NGOs, and local people.
Religious Minorities’ Migration from Iran
This book explores the marginalization of non-Muslim religious minorities by state authorities and the mechanisms these groups develop to survive. It examines the dynamics of extremism, its impact, and the responses of these communities in Iran.
Trends and Advances in Sport and Leisure Management
This interdisciplinary volume explores the dynamics reshaping sport and leisure and the responses of key organisations. It brings together contributions that pinpoint advances for theory and practice, ultimately expanding the frontiers of sport and leisure management.
This volume explores how a dialogue between diversity and migration research can deepen understanding. It highlights challenges in host societies, from exclusion to anti-migrant attitudes, and points toward solutions through diversity management and legal reform.
Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society Volume One
This conference proceedings represents the academic work of worldwide experts in food planning and urban agriculture. It is an overview of the latest research in the field, drawing from areas such as spatial planning and governance.
Renewable Energy
The chapters collected here summarise ten years of work on the challenges that renewable energy faces, and represent a selection of the best papers presented at the International Conferences on Renewable Energy and Power Quality (ICREPQ) from 2003 to 2012.
This volume unites research on the resilience and survival of refugees, exploring their complex settlement experiences and advocating for their rights. It is a vital resource for those envisioning a Canada where all newcomers feel rooted and safe.
The struggle of birds for freedom mirrors that of women. This work explores the complex, often contradictory relationship between humans and birds—from inspiration to oppression. Through feminist and animal rights lenses, it inspires a keener sense of environmental care.