Identity theft is a growing concern in mobile ad-hoc networks. This book presents an innovative framework for identity management that puts users back in control. Using context-awareness and user-centricity, it protects identity and balances privacy with convenience.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Auber, one of the 19th century’s most successful French composers, collaborated with librettist Scribe on *Le Serment*. In this tale of love and honor, an oath protects a secret brigand, set to refined music with a brilliant soprano showpiece.
Environmental Psychology
This book contains research papers in environment-behaviour studies that address a recurring debate: how can research findings be put into real-world practice? It outlines current views and suggestions on how to more effectively address this ‘research-practice’ relationship.
This book explores the personal and environmental factors affecting university students’ entrepreneurial intentions. It provides insights for policymakers, educators, and students on developing entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, and career choices.
Women’s Movements and Countermovements
This volume explores women’s movements and their countermovements in Southeast Asia and North Africa. Covering case studies from Egypt, Indonesia, Morocco and Tunisia, it reveals the dominant pattern of Islamist movements countering the goals of women’s movements.
This volume discusses the critical views of Polish and Russian women writers from the 19th to 21st centuries. The articles explore constructions of femininity, trauma, body, and sexuality, tracing the parallels and differences in their work.
An [Un]Likely Alliance
This study explores ‘environment’ and ‘ecology’ in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. It is a call to think complexity, evading dualisms like nature vs. culture to conceptualize a radical, non-anthropocentric ecoscience.
Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things
These essays draw on a variety of critical approaches for a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-offs. This volume is accessible to everyone, from interested academics to the general public.
The Permanence of the Transient
Precariousness in art may be transient, yet it instigates permanent changes. These interdisciplinary essays examine the traces of precariousness in contemporary art, locating it as an undercurrent and connective tissue across diverse areas of knowledge and life.
Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel
This is the first book to combine scholarship on the picaresque novel with microhistory. This innovative volume brings together expert scholars to reveal how microhistory can shed new light on classic novels and their marginal protagonists.
Past and Future Vision of Veterinary Research
Based on extensive data research, this book details a new approach to enhancing racehorse welfare. It introduces an integrated technology for monitoring training and biometrics to assess injury risk, optimizing safety, performance, and racing integrity.
Canterbury
Since becoming the religious heart of the country in AD 597, Canterbury’s fame has endured. This book explores its history, from illustrious figures like Thomas Becket and Chaucer to the lesser-known people and events that shaped its identity.
“How we’re going about it”
This book connects research and practice by outlining innovative language teaching approaches from real teachers in real classrooms. It synthesizes theory and practice in an accessible way, providing authentic, grass-roots experiences from across the globe.
This pioneering study explores the new female Muslim identity. Through interdisciplinary essays, it examines the daily struggles, challenges, choices, and rights of Muslim women globally, both within and outside the Muslim world, in the twenty-first century.
Women Moving Forward Volume Two
A weaving of stories about hope, fortitude, and resilience. This collection shares narratives of the global movement of women towards empowerment, exploring the challenges they face as they move forward. This profound volume both inspires and challenges.
Second Language Acquisition Research
This book reports on experimental SLA research across different languages, focusing on Processability Theory. Chapters outline key theoretical claims and methodologies, shedding light on the nexus between bilingualism and theory-driven SLA research.
This collection of papers examines circus history, life, the relationship of circus to society, and its impact on the arts. “This fascinating collection showcases the cultural depth of the circus in historical and contemporary settings.” —Janet M. Davis
This volume joins authors from academia and practice to offer a multiplicity of issues and methodology in finance. It presents applied and theoretical work on banking, market microstructure, risk, and portfolio selection, useful for both practice and research.
Gender and Trauma
These interdisciplinary essays explore the intersection of gender and trauma. Contributors analyze the links between the effects of trauma and the performance of gender, examining the roles of sex and sexual identity within this complex relationship.
Michael Foot’s leadership is often seen as a cataclysmic failure. This book argues that far from being a disaster, it contributed to the survival of the Labour Party as he emerged as a unity candidate against the divisive potential of radicals.
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