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The book investigates modern architecture as an architectural and cultural heritage, highlighting with a holistic view of sustainability the aspects that have led to epochal changes in the way cities are designed and lived. Currently, many of these buildings spread...
This book privileges Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing in research and serves as a voice in taking on some of the more marginal topics within methodologies. It is significant in that it is written by indigenous scholars themselves. The contributors shed light,...
This book, adopting a systemic transdisciplinary perspective, explores the sociopsychological and the psychosocial interfaces shaping people's lived experiences of liminality. It is about life's outstandingly chaotic and confusing moments regularly recurring in or under...
This book offers an academic analysis of the concept of heritage within the realm of oil-related urban development. It focuses on the term 'heritage', with a specific emphasis on 'oil heritage', exploring its varied implications for urban futures. The book provides a...
This book provides a comprehensive survey of ethical issues raised by advanced medical technologies. The field’s leading authorities explore how artificial intelligence, telehealth, robot caregivers, genetic therapies and enhancement, stem cell...
This book contains a series of research papers that were presented at 7th International Conference on Signal Processing and Information Communications (ICSPIC 2024). The conference was held in Batangas City, Philippines from April 24-26, 2024. The conference aims to...
The book examines the Good Lives Model (GLM) of correctional rehabilitation and its dual aims of risk reduction and well-being enhancement for individuals who have committed crimes. It describes the use of individuals’ prioritized values in intervention plans and to...
This book explores Norwegian police leadership and presents it as a comprehensive model for police leadership in liberal democracies. It responds to the recent calls to develop culture and strengthen leadership capacity, individually and collectively, in the Norwegian...
After a low-threshold introduction, this book offers an orientation on various theories of social conflict and their potential for understanding conflicts in order to be able to deal with them constructively. Classic theories of social conflict are presented briefly...
Phobia and American Literature, 1705-1937: A Therapeutic History tells a neglected, two-century history of phobia's gradual emergence as a variable suffix in medicine, politics, and literature, ready to be appended to an array of objects, situations, and ideas. Across...
This book addresses an international human rights issue: women's economic enfranchisement, specifically, their equal access to property using Akan widows from Ghana as a case study. The insidious effects of European colonialism contribute to the devaluation of Akan...
The introduction of pediatric cochlear implants more than 30 years ago has changed the lives of deaf children and their families and the field of deaf education, early intervention, and research. However, discussions about cochlear implantation have sometimes come with...
This book discusses the fact that applied science is underused in modern societies. The problem is discussed both from external points of view (trust among lay people, attitudes among politicians) and from the inside (recruitment of researchers, research education,...
This book provides a comprehensive manual for researchers, practitioners, policymakers as well as students striving to achieve environmental sustainment. It is exploring advanced developments in smart cities infrastructure and sustainability engineering. In addition,...
This volume celebrates the history of the Philosophy and Medicine series with a retrospective assessment of the impact of the series over 50 years, written by some who were involved from the beginning, and others who have been influenced by the series. The...
This book offers geospatial modelling techniques for the analysis of healthcare in poor urban neighborhoods and of the ways that residents of these neighborhoods make healthcare choices and cope with deprivation. The authors use the case of Midnapore, India to explore...
This book is coordinated by the UNESCO Chair on Modern Urban heritage CREhAR (Creative Research and Education on heritage Assessment and Regeneration), at the School of Architecture, Universidad de Sevilla (USE), institutions and their research groups which constitute a...
The world has staggering levels of inequality. Most people worry about this. Some, however, accept or even approve of those inequalities. Why?The Social Acceptance of Inequality offers the first comprehensive analysis of the logics people use in support of economic...
Religion in India is a constantly evolving and transformative entity that cannot be engaged with in isolation from other dimensions of life. This short introduction moves beyond traditional text- and scripture-based academic approaches to provide an overview of the...
This book delves into the dynamic interplay of popular culture and political theology, examining three key areas of interaction: engagement with liturgy and scripture, film and television, and music. From depictions of Jesus in South Park and Family...
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