This book focuses on community-based health care, with community health workers as a critical workforce. It explores case studies and techniques for successful community engagement, showing why understanding people’s perspectives is vital to health improvement.
This book explores the latest developments in Indonesian MSMEs, including their contributions to GDP, main obstacles, digitalization, and women’s entrepreneurship. It answers a vital question: can they survive amidst globalization, fierce competition, and technological advances?
Being Human Now
In a world of crisis, what does it mean to be human? This volume diagnoses the present by analyzing novels and plays that offer insight into today’s diverse challenges, from the impact of neoliberalism and precarity to environmental catastrophe and the future of humanity.
The brain is a muscle; a growth mindset strengthens it by rewiring neural circuits. This book provides the tools and roadmap required to bring this pedagogy into the classroom and develop a culture where students believe that ‘with practice and hard work, I can do better.’
This book analyses the sociocultural adaptation and integration of temporary migrants and refugees. Based on global research, it explores the interpersonal dimensions of these processes, from the friendships of students to the family dynamics of refugees in camps.
Varieties of Islamisation
For the first time, this book critically examines the Islamisation of knowledge (IOK) movement. It argues that its proponents have failed to integrate theory, practice, and spirituality, and analyzes the problematic relationship between Islamic and Western knowledge.
Despite our analytical intelligence, humans are the most cooperative species on the planet. This book argues that this is due to our consciousness. Using concepts from Schopenhauer, Russell, and information technology, it defines consciousness as a super-compound quale.
This collection of essays explores the under-discussed role of higher education in the professionalization of adult educators. It examines how universities deliver skills, validate competences, and engage in the dialogue shaping the future of adult education policies.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes infections resistant to many antimicrobials. This book studies the β-lactamases that create resistance to critical drugs. It shows that while molecular methods are the gold standard for detection, they are very costly and require expertise.
Performance Trends in Postliberation Zimbabwe
This collection theorises the dynamic ways Zimbabwean and African artists perform. It examines an interactive movement that fuses performer and spectator, while challenging the dominant Anglocentrism in critical performance pedagogies.
Language, Power and Intercultural Communication
This book examines how power imprints on language in intercultural communication. It considers translation as discourse and practice, connected to politics and contemporary media, and broadens translation studies using cultural studies and critical discourse analysis.
Ethnochemistry
This guide to ethnosciences links traditional knowledge with modern scientific inquiry. It examines ethnochemistry, from the medicinal marvels of plants to traditional dyes, envisioning it as a catalyst for innovation, conservation, and cultural preservation.
Charles D’Oyly’s Lost Satire of British India
Suppressed upon its 1828 publication, this lost satiric epic is a wickedly funny critique of British India. Written and illustrated by an insider—an artist serving the empire—it reveals the fault lines of colonial rule through a young cadet’s eyes.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought ethics to the forefront. This book explores less-discussed dilemmas—surveillance, conspiracy theories, the moral distress of healthcare workers—examining issues like rationing and privacy through the lens of various ethical models.
Political Communication in Japan
This book examines political communication in Japan, contrasting the short, disruptive terms of the DPJ (2009-12) with the long rule of Abe Shinzō’s LDP (2012-20). It focuses on campaign strategies, media systems, and new theories of persuasion and social influence.
The key to advancing clean energy lies in developing organic functional materials. This book is a valuable reference for graduate students, researchers, and engineers, providing a fundamental understanding and a global perspective on the current state of this growing field.
This book explores the ponderomotive wave forces of space plasma and their theoretical implications. The theory offers a vital tool for analyzing plasma data from the terrestrial and Martian environments, providing a roadmap for interpreting distant stellar and galactic objects.
This essential resource offers an international perspective on the interplay between education and migration. Featuring contributions from academics, it delves into integration, entrepreneurship, and mediation, offering invaluable insights for researchers and policymakers alike.
Contemporary Neuropsychiatry
This volume explores contributions from cognitive-affective and social neuroscience to mental health and disorders. It integrates translational neuroimaging and molecular neurobiology to explain conditions like anxiety.
The Social Action-Oriented Approach in Language Teaching
First introduced by the CEFR, the social action-oriented approach is a new methodology for language teaching. This book explains its origins, development, and how to implement it in textbooks, classrooms, and curricula. A useful resource for all language professionals.