Diversity Management and Identity in Organisations
Bizjak advances a conceptualisation of gender identity within Diversity Management in organisations that takes into account the linkages between individual and organisational identity, thus moving from liminality to inclusion.
Principles and Practices for Psychodynamic Group Career Counseling
The first manual on psychodynamic group career counseling, this book offers insights into unconscious processes affecting career decisions. It provides a complete intervention with detailed sessions, methodological tools, case illustrations, and scripts for practitioners.
The seven scholarly essays gathered here explore local scenes and identities within heavy metal music from multiple angles, covering a variety of different countries and metal sub-genres from Finland to Indonesia, and from black metal to metalcore.
Conventional theories about alloys are wrong. This book is the first to present exhaustive evidence that processes in alloys are determined by the chemical interaction between nearest atoms, radically changing our ability to consciously design new materials.
Entropy generation minimization is widely used in thermal problems, sometimes as a unified theory. Is this really the case? This book answers this question, showing the theory has limitations and a definite application scope, beyond which it may provide incorrect results.
Das Sarkhel explores how Achebe’s novels articulate his knowledge of his own people and the manner in which he participates in the politics of representation, showing that he critiques the postcolonial methodology, and provides an alternative narrative of such an experience.
This book explores the ghrelin receptor gene (GHSR1a), a key regulator of growth and energy metabolism. It highlights the gene’s unique molecular evolution and how its variations affect growth and fatty acid traits in domestic animals and humans in a sex-dependent fashion.
Fictional Portrayals of Spain’s Transition to Democracy
Walsh looks at a selection of narratives published in Spain during the transition to democracy and compares them with more recent publications. She notes how fiction brings an extra dimension to the recreation of the past, by adding imagination to historical fact.
To Write as a Boxer
In 1907, Andrew Jeptha became the first black boxer to win a British title—a victory that cost him his sight. He responded by writing a book. This is the story of how a fighter learned to see and fight back in a world that refused to see him.
Constructal theory is widely used, but often incorrectly applied, leading to unreasonable results. This book systematically reviews its applications in fields from economics to heat transfer, pointing out significant flaws, mistakes, and limitations. An essential read for anyone.
Tale, Performance, and Culture in EFL Storytelling with Young Learners
This book explores the link between storytelling, language learning, culture, and emotions in the young EFL classroom. Discover how oral retellings of picture books can foster intercultural understanding and enhance foreign language teaching for all young children.
This text offers a concise overview of introductory neuroscience, from molecules to the mind. Focusing on the primary concepts of brain anatomy and physiology without peripheral details, it is an ideal guide for students and a useful reference for a quick refresher.
Psychic River
Using a variety of psychoanalytic and philosophical lenses, and using the Psychic River as a metaphor, Mathew asks the question of what it means “to learn” and “to teach”. He considers the joys and frustrations of lifelong learning, and what drives us to learn as we age.
Affect and the Performative Dimension of Fear in the Indian English Novel
De Riso presents a critical reading of various Indian English novels to provide a literary account of three fundamental moments in India’s history: namely, the Partition of 1947, the Naxalbari movement, and Indira Gandhi’s Emergency.
This collection explores the problem of the preservation of cultural identities in the present-day global context. It highlights that gender equality, ethnicity, religion, tradition, modernity and linguistic affinities are recurrent in many contemporary national literatures.
This book explores adults reclaiming their ancestral language and what it means to be indigenous. It covers identity, belonging, and new methods for recording indigenous voices and experiences, using the Sámi people in Finland as an example of political identity and status.
The Unknowable in Literature and Material Culture
How do we come to know the hidden, unspoken, and “unknowable”? Inspired by this question, the contributors to this volume explore fin de siècle homosexuality, Émile Zola as a seeker of concealed truths, crises of representation, and the dialogue between self and other.
This book highlights the importance of hygiene in the food industry with regard to biofilms. Good hygiene practices can increase product shelf-life and improve food safety. This book provides essential information on biofilm detection methods, prevention, and control strategies.
This book explores the internal structure of personal pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese. It shows that traditional features (person, number, gender, case) are categories made of more elemental components which define the content, shape, and syntactic consequences of a pronoun.
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