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This book offers a relevant contribution to the studies of streaming media and transmediality with an original approach of cultural sustainability ...

This book is to reflect on the achievements and challenges of current poverty-alleviation practices for children in China, in order to understand a...

This book focuses on how to provide social work services for elderly people living in poverty. Divided into eight chapters, the book first outlines...

In Extravagance and Misery: The Emotional Regime of Market Societies, Alan Thomas, Alfred Archer, and Bart Engelen investigate the extensive and gr...

This book explores the use of street art tourism in eight cities: Barcelona, Paris, Porto, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Montevideo, Bogota and Buenos Air...

This book reports on research findings and practical lessons featuring advances in the areas of digital and interaction design, graphic design and ...

This book comprehensively applies social gender theory, life course theory, and spatiotemporal sociology theory to explore social work actions for ...

This encyclopedia volume comprehensively reflects the basic knowledge and the latest research results in the field of psychology. In this reference...

Cybersecurity incidents are often attributed to human error. The discipline of human factors recognises the importance of identifying organisationa...

When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princesson February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation v...

Chapter 12 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion in science communication are i...

When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princesson February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation v...

As China's economic development continues to improve in overall quality as well as regional integration and coordination, this book gives an overvi...

This book explores the relationship between the human constant (Jen) of the four large-scale civilizational societiesChina, the USA, Japan, and Ind...

The book offers a lively and detailed analysis of the ideological subtext of Hindi Horror cinema. It unearths its codes and conventions, its relati...

This book offers a cross-cultural and inter-religious understanding of the ways social transformation in Asia is related to Asian spiritualities. B...

The goal of this book is to show the role of TikTok as a tool for political purposes. To this end, the authors analyse the messages posted on this ...

This Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to...

Thinking Heritage Through China explores major themes in international heritage through the lens of heritage practice in China.China is a dynamic p...

First published in 1981, Values in Social Policy provides a means towards understanding the conflicts, contradictions and uncertainties involved in...

Academic accommodations have become quite commonplace in universities in the Global North. At their best, accommodations support the rights of all ...

This book explores aspects of creating cities and structures with a focus on sustainability. It provides an analysis of contemporary methodologies,...

«From the violence of growth and the mountains of garbage to migrant lives brutally cast away in the Mediterranean, what constitutes waste? Who def...

This book provides cutting-edge research on networked learning, focusing on issues of sustainability in design for learning, data use, and networke...

This open access book contributes to the increasing trend toward greater public participation in decision-making in many areas of public life, part...

This book explores the efforts of marginalized communities to address the health inequalities that characterize life in many deprived areas of post...

This book delves into the values, attitudes, and behaviours of Koreans over the course of the past twenty years. Compiled by leading Korean scholar...

In our world of constant conflict, environmental destruction, cruelty, and misery for many, is a new direction needed more than ever?In this new se...

Eros and Alienation delves into the underexplored relationship between alienated labour and sexuality. Our deeply human drive to shape the world ar...

This fully updated fourth edition provides students and researchers with the tools they need to perform critically engaged, theoretically informed ...

This fully updated fourth edition provides students and researchers with the tools they need to perform critically engaged, theoretically informed ...

To see Palestine is to see the world. Since October 7th 2023, the forces of racial capitalism, settler colonialism and white supremacy have become ...

An introductory critical internet studies text that builds upon media literacy and digital culture theory to offer a thorough examination of the in...

An introductory critical internet studies text that builds upon media literacy and digital culture theory to offer a thorough examination of the in...

This book presents a collection of research papers and case studies from leading experts in the field. This proceedings book explores innovative ap...

This book is a comprehensive proceedings book that delves into cutting-edge research and insights in the field of communication and information tec...

What does it mean to fight for womens rights in the 21st century? Around the globe, women stand up to repression, violence, and authoritarianism to...

This book offers a self-reflective, critical approach to the study of what is popularly known as polyglossia, charting the gradual but marked proce...