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(2025)This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communication over long time or in Longue Durée Throughout the chapters, contributors ...
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(2024)This collection is a comprehensive resource on conducting research in applied linguistics involving written genres that is distinctive in its coverage of a multiplicity of interdisciplinary perspectives. The volume explores ...
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(2024)Beethoven, the loner – that is the historiographical image that has long dominated biographies and research on Beethoven. It is the social circles Beethoven encountered as he settled in the cultural and political metropolis, ...
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(2024)Examining airborne diseases from the perspectives of literary studies, cultural studies, environmental humanities, and health humanities, among other fields, “Cultures of Airborne Diseases” platforms significant discourse ...
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(2024)"Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to ...
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(2023)Intersectionality and Crisis Management: A Path to Social Equity aims to embed the social equity discourse into crisis management while exploring the potential of a new tool, the Integrative Crisis Management Model. Leaders ...
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(2020)In a complex and interconnected world, work and organisations are rapidly changing. This book addresses key emerging issues by adopting an imaginative and innovative approach. Its comprehensive coverage on work and ...
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(2024)Biosecurity: A Systems Perspective provides an overview of biosecurity as a system of related components, actors, and risks. This book—directed to the biosecurity practitioner, generalist scientist, and student—introduces ...
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(2023)This book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our understandings of what older people say about their lives, needs and wishes in ...
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(2024)Two decades after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, a canon of American literature about the war has begun to emerge. Gregory Brazeal’s The Hero and the Victim situates Iraq War fiction in war literature’s broader history. ...
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(2024)Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights investigates the transformative impacts of global development's sexual rights agenda on queer politics and activism in Ghana. With queer men bearing a disproportionate burden of HIV ...
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(2023)Michael Kaler demonstrates that the Grateful Dead developed a radical new way of playing rock music as a means to unleashing the spiritual and transformative potential of their music.
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(2024)Changes in forestry activity in Chile, especially in recent times, have become an area of growing research and social interest. The incorporation of exotic species into the Chilean forest matrix, accelerated by Decree Law ...
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(2024)The aim of this book is to describe and explain the main characteristics of pisco landscapes and their cultural heritage. It is about identifying and making visible the multiple threads that link this industrial activity ...
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(2024)The University of Alcalá (UAH) in Madrid (Spain) and the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) are organizing the XVII Ibero-American Meeting on Education (EIDE 2023) with the aim of continuing to offer a scientific, ...
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(2024)Pablo Rojas Sahurie offers us a fascinating reading of the religious aspects contained in the political songs that emerged in Chile during the years prior to Salvador Allende's government. To do so, he refers to the ...
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(2024)This book was built with the collective effort of a tremendous history of struggle that precedes us, the struggle for a Dignified Life hand in hand with a Public and Community Education that is at the service of its ...
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(2025)Appeals are a crucial part of Europe’s asylum system but they remain poorly understood. Building on insights and perspectives from legal geography and socio-legal studies, this book shines a light on what takes place during ...
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(2025)This book is a bold and ambitious analysis of the challenges facing global sport in the 21st century and how those challenges can be met through good governance, management and regulation. Connecting the political and ...
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(2024)Written by two of the most prominent leaders in particle physics, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics: An Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Fields provides a classroom-tested introduction to the formal and conceptual foundations ...