This collection of essays offers a multidisciplinary exploration of the intertwined relationships between addiction, culture, and performance, moving beyond single-discipline approaches to generate a more complex, politicised understanding of addiction.
Palestine Membership in the United Nations
Leading scholars explore the legal and political aspects of Palestine’s UN membership as a State. This collection goes beyond statehood to consider prospects for resolving one of history’s longest conflicts as the two-State solution seems to be failing.
Yesterday’s Tomorrows
In 2012, a year of crises and forebodings, the world became a stage for new beginnings and utopian movements. The essays in this book discuss utopia and dystopia in literature and film, using science fiction, gender politics and social sciences to understand the present.
Human Rights from a Third World Perspective
This collection takes up the point of view of the colonized to unsettle the conventional understanding of human rights. Drawing on Decolonial Thinking and Third World approaches, it constructs a new history and theory to decolonize human rights.
This book enhances understanding of approaches to curriculum, instruction, and assessment in early childhood education. It covers holistic development through play, arts, math, and science, and shares diverse research methodologies for researchers and practitioners.
Lemus explores resistance to the change from US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). He argues IFRS should act as a singular accounting language, promoting a better economic position in the world financial market.
Engaged Learners and Digital Citizens
Garner encourages teaching faculty to adopt a proactive stance to technology through engaging digital tools that promote skill acquisition. He delineates a model for digital learning, providing examples of digital tools and their possible applications for teaching and learning.
This book examines the Romanian labour market, where youth face decreased job security and a risk of exclusion. It explains the challenges of the long transition from education to decent employment, a struggle faced by all, regardless of education level.
This volume probes how space and gaze are tied in with social constructions of gender relations. It considers the gendered body, the queer gaze, the relationship between body and memory, the memory of war, monstrosity, and also domestic and hybrid spaces as key concepts.
Saharan Crossroads
The Sahara is not a barrier, but a vibrant crossroads. This book explores millennia of historical, cultural, and artistic linkages between North and West Africa, revealing long histories of peaceful coexistence, interdependence, and cooperation.
This volume brings together contributions on recent developments in dialectology, offering a panorama of case studies from Basque, Romance, Germanic, Celtic, and Slavic languages. Chapters explore quantitative methods and the growing field of dialect syntax.
Left and Right
The “great dichotomy” between left and right has gained renewed visibility in the current economic crisis. Should we think with the dichotomy, or beyond its strictures? This volume provides theoretically sound and empirically informed answers.
The Third Wave of Historical Scholarship on Nigeria
This volume in honor of historian Ayodeji Olukoju ventures into uncharted terrain in Nigerian history. It presents groundbreaking scholarship on underresearched topics like sexuality, youth, and crime, offering historical explanations for Nigeria’s challenges.
Academic Days of Timişoara
Social Sciences Today contains papers from an international symposium covering economics, education, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. This collection will appeal to social science teachers at all levels of instruction.
Multicultural Education
Multicultural education helps all students achieve by providing knowledge about the histories and cultures of diverse groups. This volume presents new research from academics across two continents on theory, classroom practices, and language education.
IDEA
This collection of essays by prominent academicians explores current trends in English Studies. Dealing with issues from Shakespeare to translation and postcolonial studies, it presents a diversity of theoretical, cultural, and linguistic perspectives.
Innovative Business Practices
In an era of turbulence where conventional business strategies fail, agility and innovation are key. This book presents research and paradigms that transcend classical theory, showing how any business can thrive in the new reality.
The Distin Legacy
While the relevance of the Distin Family to the brass band movement is known, extensive new research reveals their true impact. This book examines the Distin projects as the main reason why today’s brass bands are established in their current form.
New Literacies
The notion of change is central. As new technologies accelerate, the traditional definition of literacy as just reading and writing is too simplistic. This calls for a reorientation in how we teach, learn, and view literacy for the 21st century.
This book introduces comparative law to Eastern and Central Europe. It covers the unification of law, private and public law, offering an engaging commentary on the current topics discussed by academics in the region.