Nutrition, Chemistry, and Health Effects of Sugar, Salt, and Milkfat

Salvatore Parisi

This book covers sugar, salt and milk fat from a chemical perspective, and presents an overview of the role of these ingredients in our food, focusing on their flavors, satiety-inducing properties, nutritional impact, and health effects. The book begins with a chapter...

Global Challenges

Katarzyna Podhorodecka , Tomasz Wites

This book addresses some of the most urgent global problems in today's world from a geographical perspective and highlights contemporary environmental, political, economic, social and geoethical aspects. The authors discuss causes, developments and challenges faced on a...

British Newspaper Strips

Adam Twycross

This book explores the history and development of the British daily newspaper strip. It considers such strips within their political, commercial and societal contexts and fills in a crucial section of publishing history that has been largely overlooked by both comics...

Governing Social Virtual Reality

Marcus Carter , Ben Egliston , Joanne E. Gray

In this ground-breaking book, we navigate the uncharted terrain of social virtual reality (VR), a technology that, while offering unprecedented immersive experiences, brings forth significant governance challenges. By merging theoretical insights with practical...

The Making of a Makbul Father

Mürüvet Esra Yildirim

This book draws upon qualitative interviews with lower-middle class men with adult children. It provides important insight into a region of the world that has not been sufficiently studied in the field of Masculinity Studies and analyzes manhood/fatherhood from a novel...

Linguistic Discrimination of LGBTQ+ People as a Deterrent to Economic Performance

Massimiliano Agovino , Michele Bevilacqua , Massimiliano Cerciello

This book explores the adverse economic effects of discriminatory language against LGBTQ+ people. The case studies under investigation are represented by the French and the Italian language, both boasting vast arrays of slurs employed to denote negatively the members of...

Driving Decisions

Sam Hind

Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World examines the phenomenon of autonomous driving, and the ongoing, complex, costly, and contentious quest to automate driving. Principally organized around the concept of algorithmic decision-making,...

Values and Indigenous Psychology in the Age of the Machine and Market

Alvin Dueck , Louise Sundararajan

This interdisciplinary edited collection addresses issues at the intersection of indigenous psychology, market ideology, values, and technology. The aims of this book arise from the recognition that whereas the unfolding of the agricultural revolution over thousands of...

Handbook on Cyber Hate

Sarah Marusek , Anne Wagner

Cyberhate is defined as racist, discriminatory, negationist and violent statements made on social network platforms, text platforms, comment pages, and more. The Handbook on Cyber Hate, the Modern Cyber Evil, includes twenty-seven chapters from scholars representing...

Carnival Caricatures

Fabiana Lopes Da Cunha

?This work analyzes carnival in Rio de Janeiro through the irreverent view disclosed by the illustrated Brazilian magazines Fon-Fon! and Careta. For such purpose, texts and illustrations elaborated by great names in caricature and literature were used, as well as by...

Circle of Hope: A National Book Award Finalist

Eliza Griswold

Accessibility, Gender, and Social Safety Net Program

Faraha Nawaz , Dabjani Saha

This book offers an extensive research work to explore the accessibility of women with disabilities and financial insolvency to social safety net program in rural Bangladesh. The book examines the impact of intersectional identities in accessibility to the human rights...

Excluding Diversity Through Intersectional Borderings

Laura Merla , Sarah Murru , Giacomo Orsini , Tanja Vuckovic Juros

This open access book critically examines how discourses and policies target and exclude migrants and their families in Europe and North America along racial, gender and sexuality lines, and how these exclusions are experienced and resisted. Building on the influential...

Knowledge and practical knowledge

Silvia Carbone

How is the work of social workers shaped in terms of individuals and the internal organization of the structure? And how does the relationship between knowledge and practical knowledge affect professional vision, performance and choices of action? This book helps to...

No Name in the Street

James Baldwin

'Candid, insightful, moving . . . a memoir, a chronicle of and commentary on America's abortive civil-rights movement' -The New York TimesIn this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a writer and activist: from his childhood in...

Proceedings of 5th Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities and Social Science (BISHSS 2023)

Collectif

This is an open access book. In our rapidly evolving modern era, the intersection of green technology and digital society has shifted paradigm shifts across various facets of human life. The fusion of these two domains holds the potential to profoundly impact society’s...

Chinese Sociologists in the First Half of the 20th Century

Peilin Li , Jingdong Qu , Simin Tan , Yabin Yang

This book offers a biographical, intellectual and academic history of sociology in the late Qing and Republic of China period. The 46 sociologists featured in this volume are chosen from the pantheon of notable scholars who labored in this burgeoning field. Each of the...

Political Scandal and American Pop Culture

Jim Twombly

?This book provides a newer definition of political scandal and applies it in a way to remove “ordinary corruption” from the discussion.  It then defines pop culture and examines how scandal and pop culture interact. The discussion addresses the question:...

Compliance, Defiance, and ‘Dirty' Luxury

Tereza Østbø Kuldova , Jardar Østbø , Cris Shore

This book interrogates the transnational field of (anti-)corruption and elite crime. Using the lens of luxury, art, and antiquities, the contributors reconceptualize the driving dialectics of corruption and anti-corruption. Compliance, Defiance  and...

Raising the Acceptance of Rank Reversing Redistributions

Patricia F. Zauchner

Redistribution is a major objective of welfare states. In certain cases, redistribution not only reduces the financial differences between some individuals or groups but also changes their positions in a financial ranking. Prior studies have indicated that such rank...