A riveting account of higher education advancements in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi. While some nations enjoyed calm, others endured turbulent pasts of civil war and genocide. This book reviews the past, present, and future of their tertiary education.
Exploring Uttarakhand’s Temples and Divine Paths
This unparalleled book is the first comprehensive exploration of the historical and cultural importance of temples in Uttarakhand. It meticulously categorizes sites like Char Dham and Panch Kedar, detailing the region’s divine paths with a dedicated chapter and an intricate map.
Celebrating the Achievements of the Older Generation
This book celebrates the achievements of those in advanced years. It includes a fascinating mix of familiar names and hidden gems who prove that “age is only a number.” Be inspired by the astonishing feats of over 100 people who triumphed in their golden years.
The Future of Post-Human Sports
Is winning the only thing? This book offers an alternative way to understand the future of sports. It presents a new theory to go beyond existing approaches and will fundamentally change the way we think about training and winning, with enormous implications.
Beyond Natural Resources to Post-Human Resources
Are natural resources limited, or does demand create its own supply? This book rejects these opposing views and offers a new theory to fundamentally change the way we think about resources, diversity, discontinuity, and the future of humanity.
Fighting Corruption in African Contexts
Leading African scholars examine how to mobilise citizens towards accountability and transparency. This book advocates that fighting corruption is everyone’s business, in order to strengthen Africa’s integrity, equity, and sustainable development.
A Malaysian Study of Mixed Methods
Roosli and O’Keefe focus on how to combine quantitative with qualitative methods in a research project. This approach, which is detailed here, is called ‘Triangulation’; a plan, structure and investigation strategy used to obtain answers to problems from an earlier stage.
This collection of essays on the Cambridge School of Economics features figures like Keynes and Joan Robinson. It explores Keynesian themes—the fight against unemployment, money, and uncertainty—making Keynes’s legacy relevant today in persuasive essays accessible to the public.
How do we motivate employees and maximize human potential in a competitive global marketplace? What drives job satisfaction, and what are the outcomes for individuals and organizations? This volume discusses these pressing questions facing the organizations of today.
Sport Tourism
This volume provides important theoretical and applied insights into sport tourism. A collective work written by specialists in the field, it provides new insights into this rapidly expanding field, which is in constant change and challenged by globalization.
Master culture-specific vocabulary for intercultural communication between English and Romanian. This unique dictionary is an easy-to-use tool for translators, students, and professionals, with vocabulary organised thematically to cover cuisine, holidays, sports, and more.
Eurocentrism, Art and Art Education
David Gall exposes Eurocentrism in art education, philosophy, and aesthetics. Overcoming this ethnocentrism is not optional if we are to combat resurgent fascism and realize a more comprehensive humanity. This book offers alternative ways of viewing aesthetic experience.
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.
Recent studies show it is necessary to deal with addiction in an interdisciplinary context. This volume responds to this need, discussing addiction within psychology, health sciences, and forensic sciences to help academics and professionals develop a common ground.
This collection offers cutting-edge perspectives on childhood, focusing on the Irish context while exploring universal themes. Balancing theoretical and practical knowledge, it identifies best practices for educators, psychologists, parents, and policymakers.
Children of Incarcerated Parents
In this poignant book, children of the incarcerated share their real-life stories, putting a face to the numbers. With eye-opening accounts from caregivers and professionals, discover programs and best practices that are making a difference in the lives of these children.
This book is a hands-on guide for practitioners and researchers on how to measure workplace diversity using the Index of Qualitative Variation (IQV). With real data examples, it illustrates the use of regression methods to assess how organizational factors influence diversity.
The Sociology of Longevity
For the first time, this book analyzes how socioecological factors influence our probability of becoming a centenarian. It presents global evidence on the factors affecting life expectancy and contributes applicable knowledge on how to become a healthy centenarian.
Psychology and Culture
This book uniquely explores clinical psychology and psychoanalysis from a cross-cultural perspective. It covers topics from personality disorders and suicide to cultural emotions and dream interpretation, offering vital insights for psychologists and culture enthusiasts alike.
Jewish Humor
Explore the evolution of Jewish humor from the Bible to today. Tracing its development across Eastern Europe, the US, and Israel, this book reveals how historical experience, survival, and wisdom created a truly unusual sense of humor.