This book provides a framework for recruiting and retaining long-term volunteers, especially in health programs. It details a screening process to improve cost-efficiency by considering the motivations of volunteers, offering a novel way of conceptualizing volunteering.
This book highlights physicochemical parameters and micro-constituents used to determine the botanical and geographical origins of honey, in combination with chemometrics. It is the ultimate research guide for honey uniqueness, appealing to academics and practitioners alike.
A knowledge-rich society cannot sustain itself without wisdom. This book defines wisdom as a science, arguing its application should be as commonplace as arithmetic to transform a chaotic civilization into a wise one.
As modern life creates new health challenges, scientific research reveals the benefits of forests. This collection highlights up-to-date findings on the beneficial effects of forests on human health, providing evidence that can be implemented in practice and policy.
This volume offers new approaches to considering Italy’s traumatic experiences through a wide array of unanalyzed media. It looks at trauma not simply as a national event, but as the force creating subnational and transnational communities.
This original, international work offers new perspectives on leisure studies. For the first time in English, it presents interdisciplinary dialogues from countries like Brazil and Portugal that depart from traditional viewpoints to consider leisure as a political practice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Writing about Latin American Sovereignty
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.