Social enterprise is a crucial feature of higher education, connecting the public, private and voluntary sectors. This volume provides a joined-up approach, examining theoretical approaches and offering best practice examples for teaching and learning in the social sciences.
Pseudoscience and Hypermedicalization
This book provides a critical analysis of burnout. Citing the inconsistencies and dangers of a general diagnosis with 140 symptoms and the absence of a negative diagnosis, it argues that burnout represents the widest medicalization of human life that we know of.
Liberal Arts Perspectives on Globalism and Transnationalism
As globalization expands, reactionary forces like nationalism and populism have exposed its blind spots. This volume gathers leading scholars to analyze the human cost of immigration, the threats of online technologies, and other pressing challenges of our interconnected world.
This book presents insights into manganese oxides, materials with important technological applications in magnetic refrigeration and sensors. With elegant and didactic mathematical proofs, it will interest both researchers and the general reader interested in the subject.
This book investigates postcolonial identity through two Arab novels. It explores the shifting personas and homesickness of individuals in a changing world, highlighting the themes of romance and feminism to illuminate the characters’ experiences.
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 first dictionary on education and assessment for translator and interpreter training. It offers in-depth knowledge, defining key terms on how to train and assess performance. A valuable resource for researchers, educators, practitioners, and students.
Career Agility
In our complex and uncertain world, working lives are rapidly changing. This book offers career strategies and a practical toolkit of exercises to prepare you for the future, helping you understand your values and strengths to advance or reboot your career.
Building Sustainability with the Arts
This timely book examines various roles of the arts in building ecological sustainability. A wide range of practitioners is represented here, including visual and performing artists, scientists, social researchers, environmental educators and research students.
This book explores two pillars of dynamic systems engineering: modeling, analysis, and control, and model-based fault diagnosis. It equips readers with the tools to detect, isolate, and mitigate defects, providing the skills to identify and remedy potential system failures.
Word and Image in the Long Eighteenth Century
This collection of essays explores the rich verbal-visual interaction in eighteenth-century Europe. Peaceful coexistence, mutual collaboration or striking collision—how do words and images interact? How do they reflect and communicate values, stereotypes and ideologies?
The essays here offer a wide-ranging study of the continuing impact of the ‘English Urban Renaissance’ and investigate the wider impact of the concept beyond England. They reiterate the importance of provincial towns as hubs of economic, cultural and political activity.
Psychology and Indigenous Australians
From a fraught colonial past, a new Australian psychology is emerging. Led by Indigenous voices, this landmark collection showcases a culturally responsive practice for all Australians.
The Minister and his Peace
The eighteenth-century press significantly influenced politics, making or breaking careers. This book examines Lord Shelburne, the enigmatic Prime Minister who recognized US independence, investigating why he was so distrusted and challenging the view of him as an idealist.
Society Building
This volume presents research by non-Chinese scholars on “society building,” an indigenous concept guiding China’s social development. It tackles topics from infrastructure’s social impact to soft power, offering a unique understanding of China today.
Geographies of Memory and Postwar Urban Regeneration in British Literature
This book explores London’s literary representations using geocriticism and memory studies. Analyzing works by authors like Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan, it investigates how gentrification, immigration, and terrorism reshape the urban imaginary, revealing London as a palimpsest.
Özdemir proposes a new theoretical model, Tritonet, that provides a unique approach to music theory by reintroducing the ‘Circle of Fifths’. It offers additional components that turn the circle into a musical calculator, which can be used to construct musical structures visually.
Gender, along with race and class, has long been a vital part of public discourse about social reform. These essays address the overt and subtle ways gender influenced Victorian social movements, from suffrage and marriage law to beauty and religion.
Belief in moral responsibility is a profound commitment, but the common philosophical arguments cannot account for its power. This book is a quest to uncover the deeper sources, showing that our belief is rooted in powerful psychological factors that rarely rise to consciousness.
This collection of articles utilises thematic orientations, methodological approaches and data materials to give an insight into the opportunities and challenges that exist for education in society, in relation to the growing cultural and linguistic complexity prevalent today.
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