Teachers’ Journeys with Refugee Students
Through touching narratives, this book delves into the experiences of teachers educating refugee students. It captures the resilience of both teachers and students, revealing how educators navigate language barriers and trauma to provide vital academic and emotional support.
Reimagining Human Resource Management
In an age of digital disruption, Human Resource Management has become a strategic powerhouse. This essential guide for HR professionals and leaders provides useful frameworks to build a future-ready workforce, develop skills for the digital economy, and shape the future of work.
Events, Issues, and Actions
This collection of contemporary essays mixes personal reflection and analysis to understand our troubled times. Exploring modern politics and recent events, the essays argue that by examining the world around us, we can build a better society—a Democratic Socialist world.
Quality Assurance in Higher Education
This book collects chapters from all over the world on quality assurance in higher education. It highlights successful and challenging models, providing diverse perspectives to bridge gaps in understanding and implementing sturdy quality systems among nations.
This book details the intricate connection between natural polysaccharides and polymers, examining their shared characteristics. It describes how, as renewable resources, biopolymers offer advantages for green technologies. Essential for students, researchers, and manufacturers.
A Culture of Endless Consumption
This provocative book challenges our relationship to possessions, value, and identity. It explores how things have come to define our sense of self and what lies behind our endless consumption, revealing how our material world shapes our well-being and ecological futures.
Conscientious Branding
In today’s values-driven world, brands must go beyond profits. This book unpacks conscientious branding—aligning business with societal values to build trust and success. Through case studies and practical frameworks, it provides a roadmap to create lasting positive impact.
Multilinguality, Vitality, and Endangerment
Languages are not lost; they are displaced. This book challenges conventional narratives by exploring why the Toda language is declining while Kota remains resilient. It demonstrates that language endangerment is a consequence of systemic marginalization, not modernization.
Mastering Remote Pedagogy
This book explores remote education, addressing the shifts prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic and their lasting impact. Reflecting on educators’ experiences, it offers an essential resource for enhancing teaching strategies and navigating the complexities of remote pedagogy.
This interdisciplinary book explores how mountains are represented in art and literature. It reveals the link between the world’s shapes and human imagination, showing how art is a path to awareness and a vital tool for protecting the natural world.
Integrated Gas Sensing and Biomarker Detection
At the forefront of innovation, this book offers a deep dive into gas sensing technology, with a unique emphasis on integrating machine learning to enhance sensor performance. A multidisciplinary guide bridging chemistry, electronics, and AI for researchers and engineers.
This book challenges assumptions about cultural differences between China and the West, questioning ideas like China being collectivist and the West individualist. It explores how technology and culture intersect to shape how consumers think, choose, and behave online.
Postcolonialism and African Women’s Identity
This book explores African women’s identity in Buchi Emecheta’s novel Second-Class Citizen from a feminist viewpoint. It critically analyzes how hybridity, race, and gender roles shape narratives of resistance, internalized oppression, and the struggle for selfhood.
The Sport Economist
Australians are sport-crazy, but what does it mean for our economy? Is hosting the Olympics worth it? Will cricket survive the T20 revolution? How can four codes of football thrive? Join a unique journey through the economics and business of sport.
Trade and Gender
How can Indian law empower female entrepreneurs? This book challenges societal norms and calls for reforms to laws on credit, property, and trade. It offers actionable solutions for an equitable landscape that enables women’s participation in global business and leadership.
This book explores how AI and Machine Learning solve complex flow assurance issues. It consolidates diverse research, methodologies, and case studies, serving as a comprehensive reference for researchers, students, and engineers in the energy industry.
Understanding Wittgenstein’s Authorship
What was Wittgenstein trying to do in his later work? This book argues that most scholarship fails to take his philosophical struggles seriously. His key, if inchoate, insight was that by means of language we seek not primarily to describe reality, but to transform it.
Forensic Explosion Seismology
This book discusses active source seismology, focusing on the technologies and applications for underwater, nuclear, and chemical explosions. It presents seismological investigations for discriminating between earthquakes and man-made explosions for defense sciences.
This anthology focuses on a variety of aspects of foreign language learning and teaching. It explores the multidimensional character of language classes and delineates ways of developing students’ knowledge and skills, according to current educational conceptions and postulates.
Money, Payment Systems and the European Union
This anthology probes money as a means of payment and a reserve of value within the European Union framework, with attention paid to community-based currencies. It describes how the EU, considered a unique economic and political partnership, has not clearly defined money.