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Par Najma Memon, Saima Q. Memon, Shakeela Abbas. 2025
This monograph aims to examine different types of photothermal materials, such as metallic, organic, and composites, that have been reported…
to generate localized heat at the air–water interface, leading to vapor production on the surface. It focusses on various factors, including photothermal efficiency, evaporation rate, and others, which influence vapor generation. By drawing useful conclusions, this book contributes to the development of cutting-edge interfacial solar vaporization systems for practical applications.Features: Presents exclusive material on interfacial solar evaporators and photothermal materials. Discusses effective photothermal material selection. Helps calculate commercial material usage expenses in the field of photothermal-based evaporation systems. Examines different types of photothermal materials, such as metallic, organic, and composites. Explores photothermal efficiency and evaporation. This book is intended for graduate students and researchers in energy, chemical engineering, and materials science.Par Fernando Pérez-García. 2025
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the literary oeuvre of Wayde Compton, examining the interplay between modes of literary…
production, urban commemoration, the formation of Black racial identity on the margins of the diaspora, and coalitions of solidarity with other communities in Vancouver.Stemming from an interdisciplinary perspective that blends Spatial Literary Studies, Hip hop epistemology, and the transmodern paradigm, this book presents a dynamic model of Black identity formation and belonging, resulting from the remix of Afro-diasporic and transcultural elements and the political commemoration of local Black spaces in an often-understudied node of the Black diaspora. This book also explores Compton’s contribution to recent academic debates on the interaction between the commemoration of Black spaces and the right to the city, as well as the engagement with Indigenous calls for the decolonisation of their ancestral lands. The analysis of Compton’s work allows for the deconstruction of the binaries African/Canadian, Indigenous/settler, Hogan’s Alley/Vancouver and exposes the co-constitutive character of these elements.Par Ishtiaq Jamil, Gedion Onyango. 2025
This important new handbook provides a comprehensive assessment of contemporary public policy and governance in the Global South. It offers…
incisive comparative analyses and presents policy-specific case studies from across Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and Africa. The aim is to inform future governance research, policy, and practice in these regions.This book is timely as it responds to how governments in the Global South are dealing with recent complex series of challenges and crises of the 21st Century. These range from the pressures of a global pandemic to the impacts of climate change, democratic backsliding, deteriorating public services, and the realignments in the international political economy following the rise of China. In doing so, it reflects on the political transformations, global convergences, and underlying regional, as well as national, trajectories that have taken place recently, focusing on among others: Democratic governance and institutional trust Public service delivery, motivation, and governance outcomes Policy crises, disaster management, and climate change Policy successes and failures Policy innovations, digitalisation, and policy research in the Global South Different authors bring together varied and specialised perspectives and experiences, which are important for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers wishing to understand emerging governance models, innovations, and challenges within the Global South.Par Xu Jun. 2025
This book presents a fresh perspective on translation, exploring it as a complex process of cultural exchange involving both language…
and culture.The author examines the core aspects of translation, including its nature and procedures, key factors, text selection and approaches. It also examines the internal tensions and dynamics between authors, translators and readers, and the value system of translation criticism. The book also illustrates the role of culture in translation, discussing the cultural information embedded in language, the relationship between culture and meaning, the cultural interpretation of meaning and texts, the intersection of translation and cultural psychology, and the principles and methods of translation studies from a cultural perspective. By developing a systematic theoretical framework, the book aims to present translation as a complex facet of intercultural communication.This insightful work will appeal to scholars, students, translators and anyone interested in translation theory, translation studies and intercultural communication.This book critically examines the evolution of protection practices in UN peace operations over the past two decades.Protecting civilians has…
become central to the work of contemporary UN peace operations, yet the ability of peacekeepers to offer meaningful levels of protection to vulnerable civilians in conflict zones remains highly circumscribed. Focusing on the implementation of protection of civilians (PoC) mandates across three high-profile UN missions – UNMISS in South Sudan, MONUSCO in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and MINUSCA in the Central African Republic – this study asks who precisely UN peacekeepers protect and how they go about protecting them. Drawing on the key distinction between coercive and non-coercive protection strategies, this book examines how peacekeepers have struggled to translate ambitious and far-reaching protection mandates into effective protection practices in some of the world’s most dangerous and difficult conflict contexts. This book will be of much interest to students of peacekeeping, civilian protection, African politics, war studies and security studies.Par Ishita U. Bharadwaj, Pritha Mukhopadhyay, Sharmistha Banerjee. 2026
This book is an exhaustive and evidence-based introduction to the concepts of intuitive cognition. It focuses on the foundations of…
intuitive and other forms of cognition, how it allows the integration of new information with existing knowledge along with their applications in diverse fields like business, teaching, marketing and education. The book examines the co-existence of intuition with deliberate information processing and defines the applicability of intuitive cognition from a multidisciplinary approach. What role does intuition play in driving effort, sensory experience, choices or in taking risks? And how can a greater understanding of intuitive cognition help with decision-making, understanding customers or patients and understanding student needs? It explores the efficacy of the unconscious and other forms of cognition, across multiple domains, such as creative art, education, organization, business and finance, neuro-marketing, artificial intelligence and spirituality.This volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of psychology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, cognitive sciences, education, organizational behaviour, management studies, philosophy, and literature.This book examines the campaign communication of political candidates in parliamentary democracies, set within the broader trends of globalization and…
political personalization.It explores how district candidates balance local voter preferences, national party demands, and personal beliefs in their campaigns. Using Germany as a case study and drawing on a wide range of data sources, the book reveals how situational factors, such as electoral rules, candidate experience, and local party organization, influence campaign strategies. It demonstrates how campaign positions in parliamentary democracies often deviate from national party stances, with implications on party unity and democratic representation. Framed by the pressing challenges of regional divergence and the rise of political personalization, the book shows why studying individual candidate behavior – rather than simply focusing on party leaders – is crucial for understanding modern democratic systems.This book will be a key resource for scholars, students, and practitioners in the fields of political parties and elites, electoral studies, political communication, and, more broadly, comparative politics.Par Mary Zaborskis. 2025
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood brings together scholars, practitioners, and activists to explore the diversity of children’s gender…
identities, expressions, and embodiments across historical, geographical, and cultural contexts.This volume investigates how historical, institutional, and cultural forces have shaped children’s relationship to gender, the pivotal role children have played in the construction of gendered categories, as well as children’s responses to these forces and constructions. The book is divided into six sections: Responding to Gendered Histories and Presents of Policing, Pathologization, and Trauma; Images of and Imaginings for Trans, Non-Binary, and Queer Youth’s Futures; Global Perspectives on Training and Assimilating Future Citizens; Gender Development in Material and Digital Cultures; Shifting and Persisting Gendered Representations in Cultural Landscapes; and Approaching Issues of Gender and Childhood from Adult Perspectives Considering the multiplicity of gendered childhoods alongside the intense preoccupation with children’s relationship to gender across a range of fields that span the globe, The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood will be an essential resource for students of social sciences, humanities, and STEM.Par Gianluca Baio, Howard Thom, Petros Pechlivanoglou. 2025
R for Health Technology Assessment discusses the use of proper statistical software, specifically R, to perform the whole pipeline of…
analytic modelling in health technology assessment (HTA). It has been designed with the objective of establishing the use of R as the standard tool for HTA amongst academics, industry practitioners and regulators. It covers a lot of ground, starting with the necessary background in HTA, R and statistical inference, followed by various modelling tools, ranging from missing data, survival analysis and decision trees, through to multistate models and discrete event simulation. The methods are all illustrated with many detailed worked examples and case studies using real data, and there are detailed descriptions of the code and processes.Key Features: Introductory chapters on the various topics of the book, including HTA, R and statistical inference A wide range of common analytical tools used in HTA, from modelling for individual-level data, missing data, survival analysis, decision-modelling and network meta-analysis More advanced and increasingly popular tools, such as those for population adjustment, discrete event simulation and the use of web applications as front-end for the overall statistical modelling Many detailed worked examples and case studies using real data to illustrate the methodology Fully integrated R code gives detailed guidance on implementation of the techniques Supplemented by a website with additional resources, including annotated code and data This text is primarily aimed at modellers working in the field of HTA, regulators and reviewers of reimbursement dossiers and cost-effectiveness analyses. It also complements a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programmes in HTA, health and public health economics, as well as academic researchers in the field of statistical modelling for HTA.Par Tarun Parangi, Soyebkhan Pathan. 2025
Increased use of dyes compromises the visual quality of water sources and enhances the biochemical and chemical oxygen demand that…
promote toxicity, mutagenicity, and carcinogenicity of the environments. This book presents a broad-spectrum content of the functionalized materials and well-established methods, and a commercial perspective of various investigations conducted so far on dye degradation as an environmental cleaning application. It confines the emerging areas of advanced materials and efficient methods for the environmental remediation field as accommodating concepts. Describes fundamental as well as advancements in the field related to dye degradation and dye removal Discusses growth in the strategies to mitigate dye-related environmental issues through photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, and nanotechnology Covers photocatalysis micellar catalysis, electrocatalysis ion exchange materials, and nanomaterials Deals with various the synthetic approaches and future perspectives for development of the advanced materials Focuses on pertinent green and sustainability aspects related to the environment. This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in environmental science, nanoscience, dyes, and chemistry.Par Ian McDermott, Patricia Riddell. 2025
Viewing leadership through a neuroscientific lens is transforming the way we understand, interpret, manage, and lead ourselves and others. This…
book provides practical neuroscientific approaches to leadership that promote far greater effectiveness at both a personal and team level.The authors, who are experts in the fields of neuroscience and leadership, distil and combine deep neuroscience knowledge with leadership coaching tools to present clear guidance, based on years of practice, to help develop more effective leadership in organisations. Using a clear structure throughout, each key element in how to improve self-awareness and how to work effectively as a team leader is presented. Topics covered include how to develop an achieving mindset and increase resilience by reducing stress and overwhelm, how to turn rumination into action, and, at a team level, how to promote psychological safety, perceive others’ realities, and create metaphors that keep teams on message.With its clarity and practical applications, this book is the perfect guide for leaders and managers wishing to improve their understanding of their own and others’ behaviour. It offers guidance on how to build the skills needed to create more effective teams in the workplace. It is also a very useful tool for leadership coaches.Par Ana Teixeira de Melo. 2025
This book presents an innovative framework for conceptualising families as complex systems and for understanding and supporting positive change, adaptation…
and resilience. The development of this framework was based on a qualitative and abductive research process targeting change and resilience processes in multi-challenged families.The theoretical novelty of this book is mostly expressed in the notion of Love-Force: a relational force emerging from the coupling processes between individuals with potential transformative effects on them, their interactions and environments. This book introduces a new vocabulary for understanding the complexity of families as complex systems and their change and resilience processes. Love-Force is presented as a supreme expression of the complexity of families and human bonds. It elaborates on the complexity of the family bonds, on the relation of Love-Force to change and resilience and its contributions to the conceptualisation of the Potential for Family Change.Raising important theoretical and methodological challenges and questions, it presents a guide for future interdisciplinary research in the domains of complexity and family sciences and advances in practice. As such, it will be of interest to anyone interested in the complexity of human relations and to complexity scientists as much as family theorists, researchers and practitioners.Par Jesús Bermejo Tirado, Mattia Sanna Montanelli, Antonio Giorri. 2025
This book presents a valuable exploration of the potential for citizen science in archaeology within southern Europe. The examination of…
citizen science in archaeology has been heavily influenced by case studies and theories from Anglophone countries, where a distinctive policy and social framework exists. However, there is currently a notable absence of consideration on the subject in the Mediterranean context. This book, through an examination of the strengths and limitations of citizen science in southern Europe, provides fresh insights and perspectives that inform the development of more effective citizen science projects in southern Europe and beyond. It seeks not only to explore the region in question but also to facilitate cross-cultural and international collaboration and promote a greater understanding of the role of citizen science in diverse contexts. The chapters feature different study approaches: legal conceptions, case studies from Spain, Italy, and Greece, methodological, technical, and critical approaches, and updates of the citizen science literature, providing readers with diverse perspectives. As the first volume about citizen science in archaeological research and practice in Southern Europe, this book is for researchers in and practitioners of citizen science, archaeology, and Mediterranean Studies.The Fool and the Clown in Western Culture and Literature: Homo Insipiens is a fascinating description of these two perennial…
figures in European and North American history, folklore, theater, literature, arts, and popular culture. The first part of the book separates them into ten different subcategories and recounts the most vivid and influential manifestations of different kinds of fools and clowns in cultural history. The second part singles out three European writers who have made a significant contribution to the elucidation of the concept of folly. William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Samuel Beckett have painted an entire gallery of fools, clowns, and buffoons, created not only to entertain but also to explore the meaning of human life. The most important concepts in the book are illustrated by captivating characters and tales that have made people both laugh and arrive at a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them.The Social Contract Rediscovered conducts a critical analysis of the historical evolution of legitimacy, tracing its development from natural law…
to positive law and finally to post-modern critiques. It fills a scholarly gap by addressing the overlooked aspect of the consent process.The book begins with a recap of the historical development of social contract theory. It draws from a broad base of jurisprudential and social theories to think through how social contract’s rise and fall forms an integral part of legitimacy’s modernization process from the Enlightenment-driven Industrial Revolution’s global proliferation to the end of the 20th century. It then integrates discussion of consensus construction at three levels: private contract legitimacy, national development consensus, and global modern exchange mechanism in the late 20th century. Rather than ask how state legitimacy is constructed in social contract theory, the book asks what role an individual plays in the process of consensual legitimacy construction. This individual-oriented perspective calls for a jurisprudential construction of “process legitimacy” and consensual legitimacy’s onto-epistemological integrity.Providing a new perspective on the social contract, this book will interest scholars of private law, international trade, and development law.Par D. Jeya Mala, Anto Cordelia Dhanapal, Saurav Sthapit, Anita Khadka. 2025
Building on the knowledge of risks, vulnerabilities, and safety measures associated with cyber-physical systems, this book focuses on adapting artificial…
intelligence (AI) techniques to smart cyber-physical systems application development. The future is going to see cyber-physical systems in almost every aspect of life, so a book that focuses on shedding light on the design, development, and security aspects of cyber-physical systems in more crucial domains such as defense, healthcare, biomedical, smart city applications, is needed.Integrating AI Techniques into the Design and Development of Smart Cyber-Physical Systems: Defense, Biomedical, Infrastructure, and Transportation offers an introductory exploration of the fundamental theories and concepts of AI and machine learning (ML) that are utilized in the building of dependable cyber-physical systems. It brings the ideas of advanced design and development and empowered security measures to cyber-physical systems. By focusing on the application of AI in cyber-physical systems design as well as security aspects, an improvement in reliability and advancements can be explored. Also included are the latest findings and advancements as well as case studies and illustrative examples on the design and development of smart cyber-physical systems.This resource is highly valuable for those employed in educational institutions, research laboratories, enterprises, and government agencies, as well as for students seeking novel ideas in the realm of smart cyber-physical systems design.Par Rohan Gunaratna. 2025
Offering an in-depth exploration of the security challenges posed by COVID-19, Gunaratna, Aslam, and their contributors present a comprehensive collection…
of thematic and country-specific analyses on post-pandemic planetary health strategies. This book critically evaluates the global challenges and responses to COVID-19, examining its impact across key sectors such as security, defense, trade, health, economy, and religion. Through empirical evidence and diverse case studies, it analyzes the strengths and shortcomings of international efforts and offers thoughtful approaches and solutions to fostering a balanced and resilient planet for future generations. Essential for students and scholars of planetary health, international relations, humanitarian affairs, strategic and defense management, policy studies, and global health, this book also serves as a valuable resource for policymakers, government ministries, and agencies seeking insights into effective global practices.This book discusses the mechanism of shareholder distribution restriction for creditor protection through an interdisciplinary lens.Identifying an optimal model of…
shareholder distribution regimes through a comparative study of the UK and China, the book explores how these regimes can function as a creditor protection mechanism by which distributions to shareholders are regulated to safeguard creditor interest. Calls for regulatory reforms in China have sprung from a high volume of shareholder-distribution-related litigations with inconsistent court decisions. Meanwhile, the UK adopts two models concurrently: capital maintenance rules for public companies and solvency tests for private companies. This book critically evaluates the efficacy of these two models in addressing the fundamental interest of company creditors, namely, the solvency of the company following distribution. Guided by legal transplant theories, this book examines the fit and feasibility of transplanting the UK’s distribution models to China.The book will be of interest to researchers, students and practitioners in the field of company law, finance law, accounting and banking law.Par Oriel Prizeman. 2025
This timely volume provides the latest research, guidance, examples, and methods for understanding, calculating, leveraging, and reducing embodied carbon in…
building conservation. In the context of climate change and increasing energy costs, imperatives to replace or substantially modify older and historic buildings are rapidly accelerating. The idea that a new or replacement building will perform better overlooks the embodied carbon of that which it replaces. In effect, the pressures of one conservation agenda, that of energy efficiency, threaten to eclipse another, that of heritage. The embodied carbon of existing buildings must be addressed if calculations of operational energy use are to be properly balanced.In this book, an international and multi-disciplinary group of authors offer perspectives on the influence and implementation of strategies to account for embodied carbon for the conservation of the historic environment. Examples are deliberately diverse and extend beyond buildings to the valorisation of a heritage grassland landscape specifically because of its capacity to store carbon, to the fundamental attributes of historic concrete and our responsibility to consider replacement with critical care.This book inspires confidence in developing arguments by spreading examples globally and delivering plausible, actual narratives alongside clear up-to-date guidance. It brings together international standard-setters with practitioners, academics and advocates, all clearly explained. It also illustrates how embodied carbon played a pivotal role in seeking to determine the case of saving Marks and Spencer, Oxford Street, London, from replacement. This will be an essential resource for all building conservation and heritage practitioners including building surveyors, architects, conservators, engineers, conservation officers, building archaeologists and consultants.Par Colin Marshall, Stefanie Grüne. 2025
Béatrice Longuenesse is one of the most important scholars of German philosophy in the past 50 years. This volume features…
original essays written by Longuenesse’s long-time interlocutors and former students that reflect on the breadth and influence of her work.In Longuenesse’s earlier work, she shed light on the importance of subtle features of Kant’s and Hegel’s philosophical systems. Her more recent work has built on doctrines concerning the self and self-consciousness from Kant and other philosophers, demonstrating the continued relevance of history of philosophy to contemporary philosophy. The chapters are divided into two thematic sections that (1) read Kant and Hegel and (2) reflect on the state of Kantianism today. The volume concludes with an autobiographical essay written by Longuenesse that reflects on her philosophical journey. Many of the essays engage directly with Longuenesse’s work, while others are written on closely related themes in a similar spirit. Altogether, the chapters express the ongoing importance of Longuenesse’s accomplishments and the vibrant state of the field.Kant’s Lasting Legacy will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in Kant, the history of German philosophy, and philosophy of mind.