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Feminist theory of disembodiment
The book explores how disembodiment is relevant and productive for feminist theory. Panayotov asks how and can we face disembodiment literally, as a real praxis, and not as a literary trope, while colliding feminism, non-philosophy, new realisms, and posthumanities, to make the case for literal d...
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Environmental, social and governance in south africa and the uk
This book concerns a unique approach of assessing the high increasing rates of adherence to environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles through the perspective of an interdisciplinary, corporate governance approach.
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Israel–palestine and the case for one state
This scholarly but accessible book exploring the Palestine–Israel conflict balances history, politics and human experience to make the case for a one-state solution, arguing that the conflict has its roots in a toxic mix of European racism and American fundamentalism, forces that have combined to...
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Weaponised pluralism
Drawing on extensive fieldwork within the Hindu far-right and its Muslim wing, Weaponised Pluralism offers a new account of why far-right mobilisations recruit from the very communities they oppose.
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The vaults of buddhas
Explores the magical practices of early medieval Buddhist preachers.In this groundbreaking study of early medieval Mahāyāna Buddhist preachers, Ryan Richard Overbey explores a neglected sixth-century Chinese Buddhist homiletical manual, The Great Lamp of the Dharma Dhāraṇī Scripture. The preacher...
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Regimes of colombianidad
Argues that Colombian media culture has been a central vehicle for manufacturing consent for a patriarchal social order.Regimes of Colombianidad addresses the gender politics of media culture in a country where endless non-symbolic violence has been the primary focus of academic interest. Examini...
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Celluloid babel
Traces the intellectual history of cinema's aspiration to create a universal language, examining how this vision has been articulated in both writings and films.Celluloid Babel offers a transnational intellectual history of cinema's quest for universal language, unfolding through both writings an...
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Imaginary worlds and imperial power
New and ambitious approaches to contemporary China, informed by perspectives taken from civilizational analysis and the specific concept of social imaginaries.This collection of essays by some of today's most prominent scholars on Chinese society, culture, and philosophy offers unusually comprehe...
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Black college men's mental health matters
Looks closely at the mental health concerns of Black men in higher education and offers valuable resources and tools for addressing them.This volume assembles a diverse range of scholars, administrators, counselors, and other mental health professionals to discuss the needs of Black college men w...
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Science and the study of human rights
Shows how to turn real-word human rights practices into comparable numbers, evaluates the barriers to improvement, and ranks countries of the world.Science and the Study of Human Rights provides a clear, teachable framework for comparing human rights practices across countries and over time and f...
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The complete correspondence of friedrich hölderlin
The first English translation of Hölderlin's complete correspondence, with a full introduction and notes.Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most significant European poets and thinkers. His poems fascinate and compel; his role in the development of German Idea...
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Blue between owls
In Blue Between Owls, the poems draw their painterly images from the landscape, wildlife, and people of the rural Midwest, and from the Teays River, the ancient underground tributary that flows beneath them all.In Blue Between Owls, the calls of great-horned owls from the tangled woods become bot...
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Wayward and homebound
Offers an expansion of Desmond's explorations in the philosophy of the between by considering in a fresh way the distinctive features of Irish thought, with reference to religion, culture, and poetry.In Wayward and Homebound, William Desmond explores the philosophy of the between in connection wi...
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Beyond dialogue
Reimagines interfaith engagement by blending diverse religious perspectives and activist insights to foster unity and challenge division in a polarized world.Blending academic rigor with activist passion, Beyond Dialogue redefines interfaith engagement for the twenty-first century, exploring how ...
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The city among cities
An original interpretation of Aristotle's political thought focusing on war and peace.With the post–Cold War international order under stress, Stephen P. Sims reconsiders the relationship between war, peace, and politics by returning to the thought of Aristotle. The City Among Cities offers new w...
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Thinking unrest
Reconsiders major thinkers and works of German Idealism and their legacy for our own restless times.From the longing in which Schelling based human freedom to the "restlessness of the negative" that Jean-Luc Nancy famously traced through Hegel's corpus, unrest centrally preoccupied many thinkers ...
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Inscriptions of wisdom
Two important texts in the Sufi tradition made available together in English for the first time.Inscriptions of Wisdom brings together, for the first time in English, two pivotal Sufi texts that illuminate Ibn al-ʿArabī's (d. 1240) celebrated work Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam. The first, Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ (the In...
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A life of solid principles
A translation of the 1843 novella by Edgar Bauer, a significant if overlooked work of German literary history that casts new light on the Young Hegelian movement and, possibly, Karl Marx.In early 1843, the Young Hegelian philosopher and activist Edgar Bauer published a comic novella titled Es leb...
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Black student support networks
Historical and contemporary perspectives on the role of support networks in creating community and contributing to Black students' success in different postsecondary settings.Black Student Support Networks shows how Black undergraduate and graduate students use formal and informal support network...
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School shootings in american culture
Explores the psychosocial causes of school shootings as a cultural trend and society's strategies to maintain order in their aftermath.The tragedies at Uvalde, Texas, and Parkland, Florida, have shown that our national strategy to end school shootings is failing. School Shootings in American Cult...
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The critical corrington
Collecting sixteen key texts on a broad range of key philosophical topics, enables readers to perceive the scope of Corrington's philosophy.Robert S. Corrington has produced twelve original texts, over eighty journal articles, and at least thirty book reviews over a long and distinguished teachin...
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Democracy through the lens of chinese scholars
The first English-language study of Chinese scholars' perspectives on China's quest for democracy.History teaches us that profound transformations are not shaped by ideas alone but are impossible without great ideas. China is known to have a long history during which scholars played a central rol...
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Seeing god in philo of alexandria
The first in-depth treatment in almost a century of the metaphysics and philosophical mysticism of Philo of Alexandria, one of the most important mystics from the Greco-Roman world.Philo of Alexandria (ca. 15 BCE–50 CE) is one of the most important mystics of the ancient Mediterranean world. Acco...
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Maurice blanchot
Investigates permutations of the terror to examine the complex political and intellectual transformation of literary theorist and novelist Maurice Blanchot between 1933 and 1949.Between 1933 and 1949 Maurice Blanchot's writings underwent a rather infamous political and critical transformation. It...
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Queen of burlesque
The life and times of a legend of the nineteenth-century musical theatre.Lydia Thompson is one of the legends of the musical theatre, but today—150 years after her first appearance on any stage and nearly a century after her death—it has become difficult to separate the facts of her life and care...
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Broken vessels
Undertakes a thorough investigation of early Jewish theogonic and cosmogonic traditions found in the Enochic writings and their formative influence on subsequent Gnostic, Manichaean, and Kabbalistic developments.In Broken Vessels, Andrei A. Orlov offers a comprehensive examination of early Jewish...
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The last of the ellis island jews
A tragicomic memoir of a dysfunctional, working-class Brooklyn Jewish family.The Last of the Ellis Island Jews is a tragicomic memoir of a dysfunctional working-class Brooklyn family that illuminates both the vitality of urban life in the twentieth century and the social turmoil of white flight. ...
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The inequity of caribbean spaces and designed places
Through interconnected perspectives on environment, gender inequality, identity and Caribbean spatial re-colonisation influences on social, cultural and environmental landscapes, The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places: Race, Class and Gender examines socio-spatial (in)justices beyon...
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Advances in sustainable sheep pasture and grazing management
Like other livestock sectors, sheep production faces the challenge of improving sustainability. After considering the various dimensions of sustainability, this chapter reviews different ways this might be achieved. Firstly, it considers the potential for increasing the number of pasture species ...
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Sustainability of sheep production
Sheep production is a long-standing agricultural practice across the world, but the impact of our food production systems on the environment is receiving increasing attention, in particular with regards to climate change. To preserve the industry for future generations, sheep production systems m...
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Concepts of culture
An interdisciplinary approach to conceptual history that broadens the scope of this influential theoretical tradition, with a particular focus on cultural concepts found in art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, and German studies, among others. In doing so, it also contributes to...
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Improving ewe management for lifetime production
Good flock management is integral to sheep farming. An important aspect of this is optimising ewe lifetime production by reducing wastage (premature culling and ewe mortality). The consequences of reduced lifetime production include financial and environmental impacts, poor flock welfare, and, da...
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Culturing money
The idea of culture has become a creative framework in Marshall Islanders’ quest to realise a community based on communality, meaningful work, and self-reliance. Culturing Money analyses what sort of conceptual and practical work that the dialectics of culture and economy can do for Marshall Isla...
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Archeogaming as scholarly play
Archaeogaming as Scholarly Play encourages readers to step into the intersection of archaeology and video games in order to critically examine how these games (re)present the past and those associated with exhuming it, be they archaeologists or adventurers.
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Frontiers of appropriation
For more than thirty years, AVE (Alta Velocidad Española, or Spanish HSR) has been an instrument for transforming the public railway company, reshaping labor relations and advancing a model of regional development; yet Spain remains a car-dominated society. Frontiers of Appropriation delves into ...
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The unsettled clock
The history of timekeeping is complex and ever progressing. The Unsettled Clock: The Persistence of Time Pluralism explores time pluralism by documenting historical cases and examining its persistence in present time, offering a political and historical analysis of how timekeeping has been shaped...
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Changing priorities and practices in the management of parasitic gastrointestinal nematodes in small ruminants
This chapter reviews the challenge posed by gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) infections in sheep. It sets out the growing problem of anthelmintic resistance (AR) to anthelmintic (AH) drugs conventionally used for GIN control. After reviewing the use of targeted treatments to slow the development o...
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“one health” issues affecting small ruminant production
"One Health" issues affecting small ruminant production are important in both commercial businesses and smallholder farming communities throughout the world. Human food production from small ruminants needs to be integrated with food production from other livestock and from vegetable and cereal c...
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Developments in feed additive supplements for improved sheep nutrition and health and reduced enteric methane
Since the banning of antibiotic use in animal feeds in 2006 there has been much interest in supplementary feed additives to support animal production, efficiency and health. Furthermore, these supplements may offer the opportunity for reductions in enteric methane production. This chapter reviews...
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Advances in understanding the genetics of production and non-production traits
Sheep production plays an important role in supplying high-quality protein for human consumption and contributes significantly to the global economy. To ensure the sustainability and competitiveness of this sector, animal breeding stands as a vital pillar for continuous and cumulative improvement...
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Advances in understanding and optimising sheep meat eating quality and nutritional value
The quality of the product for consumers is a strong driver for ensuring market share, maintaining sales and guaranteeing sustainability of sheep meat production systems. Meat product quality is driven by eating experience and nutritional benefits. Decisions made on-farm can influence age at slau...
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The use of precision livestock technologies in managing sheep health and welfare
Sheep play an essential role in the rural economy for food production, cultural heritage and landscape. Despite being generally less frequently kept in the types of confinement systems that cause the greatest public concern, sheep are not free from welfare compromise. In recent years, Precision L...
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Improved grazing systems for optimum sheep nutrition and health
This chapter highlights ways of thinking holistically about grass and forage. Getting the system right has huge implications for the sustainability of the sheep sector, in terms of health, production, economics, environmental impact and social cohesion. This chapter focuses on seven elements that...
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Advances in understanding and optimising sheep wool quality
This chapter provides a review of advances in understanding and optimising sheep wool quality. It begins with a review of the microstructure of wool fibres that determine key wool properties and summarises fibre quality criteria and performance characteristics used in the industry. There are then...
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Improving disease surveillance in sheep populations to support preventative flock health management programmes
This chapter reviews key issues in the design and implementation of disease surveillance systems in sheep populations. It assesses different types of surveillance and flock health objectives, data sources, testing and sampling techniques. The chapter also reviews sampling strategies, including ep...
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Cesare lombroso’s legacy in latin america
Cesare Lombroso in Latin America: The Legacy of a Controversial Criminologist argues that the study of ethnography in Latin America should give more attention to the Lombroso school and the academic exchange between relatively marginal national anthropologies, such as the Italian and the various ...
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Educating otherwise
Anthropological education has both possibilities and limitations in its discourse. Across five key themes and a range of formats from short-form essays to ethnographic fiction, Educating Otherwise brings questions of learning and education, and the role that anthropology plays in these, to the fore.
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In search of worldviews
In Search of Worldviews argues that in-depth anthropological studies are the best data-driven way to provide accurate information from local perspectives on everyday topics such as women’s roles, why Islam is overtaking other major religions, why democracy has difficulty taking hold, how minoriti...
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Advances in understanding and optimizing gastrointestinal microbiome and function in sheep
This chapter describes advances in understanding and optimizing gastrointestinal (GI) microbiome in sheep. The chapter focuses on the assembly and development of the rumen microbiome and modulation at early ages. The rumen microbiome of sheep is shaped in early life by deterministic factors (incl...
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Advances in improving lamb survival and health
The survival of the newborn lamb is a crucial component of successful sheep farming. Lambs are more likely to die on the first few days after birth than at any other time and much research has been directed to addressing why this occurs and how it can be prevented. Lamb deaths can be attributed t...
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Understanding consumer and societal attitudes to sheep production
Sheep farming contributes to the world economy by producing wool, meat and dairy products and is an integral part of the agricultural sector. Sheep provide important ecosystem services, but their methane emissions can contribute to environmental problems. Transformations in social and consumer at...
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Europe’s disappearing waste
Through ethnographic research conducted among landfill workers and waste pickers, Europe’s Disappearing Waste explores the inner workings of the Czech waste management system that is underpinned by the belief that waste should disappear.
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Fan phenomena: the twilight saga
From the moment Stephenie Meyer published Twilight in 2005, the series has captivated readers. Through three subsequent novels and the blockbuster movie series, the Twilight Saga quickly became more than just a hit series – it's now a cultural touchstone. This new entry in the Fan Phenomena seri...
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Fan phenomena: mermaids
Fan Phenomena: Mermaids explores the centuries-old interest in mermaids. Mermaids, and merfolk more generally, are everywhere you look: parades, virtual reality, fiction, art, trends and swimming with a mermaid tail. Transgenerational merfolk fan communities stretch around the world - from sea to...
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Theology after vedanta
Where Advaita Vedānta, sacred text, and comparative theology meet—truth emerges through the act of reading itself.What does it mean to read a sacred text so carefully that it changes the reader? In this ambitious and deeply learned work, Francis X. Clooney, S.J., offers an exploration of Advaita ...
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Butabu remix
Reimagining the architectural landscapes of West Africa, James Morris presents more than 300 photographs revealing the expressive power of earthen architecture across Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Benin, and Togo. The book includes texts by architects and writers on architecture from a new ge...
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Architecture is transformation
This book celebrates the winners of the 2026 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture and their capacity to shape transformation in the built environment. Drawing on interviews with the award winners and in-depth project analyses, it offers insights into how architecture can drive urban renewal ...
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Manual for designing urban imaginaries: colombia
This book examines Colombia’s rapidly urbanizing regions, shaped by legacies of armed conflict and ongoing social and environmental pressures. It presents the “urban imaginary” as a design tool that explores where architecture and design meet the hopes, needs and perceptions of communities, demon...
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Charles correa architect (two volume set)
Celebrated as a visionary of modern architecture, Charles Correa ranks among the 20th century’s most influential architects, shaping India’s postcolonial built environment through a fusion of modernity and tradition. This richly illustrated 2-volume set documents more than 200 projects and includ...
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Centro de arte moderna gulbenkian
This volume presents the Gulbenkian Foundation’s latest architectural landmark in Lisbon: the new Centro de Arte Moderna. Through the lens of photographer Erieta Attali it immerses readers in the architecture and landscape, complemented by interviews and texts that explore the vision, process and...
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Convivium
This book explores how food production shapes landscapes, cities and everyday life. It uncovers the architecture of global food systems; from greenhouses and fishing ports to agricultural enterprises and feed-crop fields, it traces how architecture and territory respond to the pressures of indus...
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Urban repair
Urban Repair addresses a growing imperative in architectural practice: how to rehabilitate, reintegrate and remake built environments in ways that honour heritage while supporting contemporary life. Drawing on the Pearling Path cultural heritage site in Muharraq, Bahrain, it contributes to curren...
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Patent subject matter eligibility
With succinct discussions of case law, patent office practices, and practical prosecution strategies, this guide is intended to help patent practitioners determine where to consider filing applications, the risks and benefits of certain claim types and language, and how to increase the strength o...
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Sufficiency of disclosure in patent applications
Designed for patent practitioners who deal with software, electrical, biological, pharmaceutical, mechanical or chemical patent work, this book is an essential reference to anyone seeking international patent protection.
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Why data culture matters
This book explains why strong data culture - not technology - is the key to successful data strategies. It offers practical frameworks, cultural components, and team-building tools to embed data-driven thinking. Read it to unlock innovation, trust, and organisational resilience through data.
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The risks of artificial intelligence in law
AI is reshaping the legal industry, transforming practices, and influencing behaviours of legal tech buyers and vendors alike. However, AI adoption introduces complex risks that require careful consideration. The Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Law is devoted exclusively to AI risks in law. D...
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The radical right and demographic populism
This book introduces the concept of radical right demographic populism to examine how demographic fears are weaponised to redefine identity and justify exclusion, framing change as an existential threat to a perceived native, heteronormative, and Christian population.
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Walking
The sociologists and writers in this collection put on their boots and take to the streets to craft their work in lively, mobile and sensuous ways. Together, their work explores the significance of studying social life on foot, and shows what can be gained from thinking on the move.
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Streaming privilege
Streaming privilege shows how contemporary serial television helps to legitimate our ‘new Gilded Age’ of extreme inequality. The book exposes television’s obsession with privilege, analysing blockbuster series, which grapple with inherited wealth and power. It urges us to consider the political m...
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From data collection to decision support tools for the sustainable management of grasslands
This chapter describes the diversity of data available about grasslands, and how such data may be analysed and fuel a variety of tools in order to support grassland management decisions at farm and territory scales, with a focus on EU countries. Specific attention is then drawn to the case of sem...
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The use of precision technologies in grassland management
In this chapter the authors review the use of precision technologies in pasture-based systems as a mean to achieve these sustainability goals. There is a particular focus on Ireland, given that it has a predominantly grassland-based production system. The chapter reviews traditional measurement s...
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The effects of pasture grazing on milk quality
How does grazing affect milk quality and fatty acid (FA) composition? Grazing animals can select, prefer green leaves and have fresh herbage diets rich in poly-unsaturated fatty acids (PUFA). The environment and farm management affect herbage allowance and grazing time. Milk from grazing-based pr...
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The long path from data collection to sustainable grassland management
Many different techniques are available to observe and quantify ecosystem functions and services provided by grasslands. Measurements need to be analysed and integrated to translate data into management recommendations for adoption in sustainable grassland management. Here, we provide an overview...
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Grasslands in new zealand: challenges and solutions
Grassland farming has continued to support the lifestyle and growth of New Zealand since the first shipments of frozen products to Britain in 1882. Its importance remains relevant to the wealth of New Zealand, as a major trading nation in high quality dairy, sheep meat and deer products, with a r...
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The societal role of grasslands: the case of northwest europe
The call for downsizing livestock production to reduce negative environmental impacts will result in a further reduction in (permanent) grasslands in NW-Europe. This might hamper the provision of important ecosystem services (ES) by grasslands. In this study, ecosystem services of different types...
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99% offConclusion: pathways to resilient temperate grasslands
The aim of this book has been to bring together the best available knowledge on temperate grasslands and to frame this knowledge in such a way that is useful to those who manage, advise on, study and make policy for these systems. The individual chapters of the book describe different scales goin...
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Quantifying forage quality to improve nutrient use efficiency in ruminant feeding
The objective of this chapter is to integrate the knowledge of feed quality assessment with that of grassland science to optimize nutrient fluxes in the plant-animal system. Although animal performance is the most accurate answer to define appropriate feed quality, in vitro laboratory methods are...
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Advances in grazing management
This chapter explores advances in grazing management. First, grassland dry matter production is described, followed by a section on grass measurement adoption. Grazing infrastructure is then discussed. Next, grass growth prediction is highlighted, as well as grass swards and alternative sward spe...
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Advances in managing grassland weeds
The term "weed" is both relative and subjective, defined contextually and in relation to human activities. In this chapter, we discuss weeds in different grassland types, ranging from cultivated feed crops in arable land (leys) to natural multispecies grasslands. As agricultural systems transitio...
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Plantain (plantago lanceolata): from weed to multi-functional component in sustainable dairy-farm systems
This chapter explores the potential of narrow-leaved plantain (ribgrass, Plantago lanceolata L.) to perform a range of roles in promoting more sustainable pasture-based livestock systems. The chapter begins by looking more broadly at the challenge of nitrogen losses from grazed pastures. This pro...
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Grasslands and climate change
Grassland ecosystems are vital in global carbon cycling, biodiversity conservation, and agricultural productivity. As ecosystems typically bordering arid or semiarid zones, they are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, which will alter key environmental drivers such as temper...
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Designing and developing multispecies swards for future grassland systems
The use of MSS, also known as herbal leys, has increasingly been recognised as a viable alternative in temperate grass-based agricultural systems to enhance forage yield, quality, and ecosystem health. By integrating complementary grass, legume, and herb species into the sward mix, these systems ...
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Masculinity in chinese digital culture
This book explores how masculinities are represented and transformed from Chinese digital games to their fanfiction.
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The scientific legacy of har gobind khorana
This book is the only scientific biography of the Nobel Prize–winning Indian American chemist, Har Gobind Khorana.
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Contemporary china
This book offers readers an opportunity to explore the fascination and complexities of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to 2020. The content covers a wide range of topics and aspects in contemporary China, including politics, foreign relations, ethnic issues, law, social policy, and acade...
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Reproductive racism
The book analyses how demographic knowledge production and states’ grip to the variable of population intertwine. It introduces the concept of the Malthusian matrix in order to understand how class-selective and racist hierarchies within population narratives are combined with gendered policies o...
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Colombian gothic in cinema and literature
The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature postulates defining aesthetic features and political functions of the genre in Colombia—from the nineteenth century to the present, and from Bogotá to Cali.
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Phd thesis by publication in social science research
Focusing on education and library research, this book aims to be a practical guide on how to create PhD theses effectively, incorporating scholarly publications written during candidature.
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Activities for evidence-based practice in healthcare
This essential resource provides numerous tried-and-tested practical activities to empower healthcare professionals to enable evidence-based practice in healthcare settings.
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The kindness toolkit
This practical 'how to' guide provides tips, advice and actionable strategies for managers and leaders on incorporating kindness into their workplace. The toolkit focuses on workplace challenges and is designed to foster empathy, resilience, and effective communication for healthier, more compass...
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The local studies toolkit
The Local Studies Toolkit is the ultimate practical resource to help support and inspire local studies professionals to provide an excellent local studies service within their community.
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Radical school librarianship
When facing a rapidly changing, frequently reactionary, and unknown future, school librarian leaders from around the globe are taking radical approaches to protecting and teaching the foundational core values of librarianship: equity, diversity, inclusion, and intellectual freedom.
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Public libraries and homelessness
As homelessness increases yearly, libraries have become a safe space for individuals as one of the only places in society where one can exist without the expectation of paying for the privilege. This has, however, led to growing tensions between library users and staff. This book explores how pub...
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