This book brings together contributions from female authors on feminicide and violence against women. Steilneset Memorial in Finnmark, Norway was built by Norwegian Scenic Routes to commemorate the victims of the Finnmark witchcraft trials in the seventeenth century. The memorial was opened in 2011, and is based on three components: art, architecture, and history. The artist is Louise Bourgeois, who created an art installation. The architect is Peter Zumthor, who designed the memorial's two buildings. The historian is Liv Helene Willumsen, who wrote one commemoratory text for each of the victims. The majority were women: of the 91 persons who were executed, 77 were women and only 14 were men. This book therefore uses Steilneset Memorial as a starting point to explore contemporary feminicide and violence against women, as the misogyny which was fundamental to the persecution of alleged witches in the 1600s is still seen today throughout the world.

A rigorous philosophical examination of the ethical dimensions of art

The relationship between art and ethics remains one of the most contested areas in philosophical aesthetics. Art and Morality offers a sustained investigation of how artworks engage moral life-through the emotions they arouse, the beliefs they shape, and the evaluative frameworks we apply to them. Written by a leading philosopher of art, history, and ethics, the book presents arguments for and against the ethical significance of artistic experience with analytical precision.

Three chapters examine the ways art engenders emotions for both good and ill, analyzing competing positions on whether emotional responses carry genuine moral weight. A fourth chapter turns to cognition, investigating art's capacity to influence moral beliefs. The final two chapters engage directly with autonomism-the position that art should be appreciated solely for its own sake, independent of social practices including morality-presenting arguments both supporting and challenging this view.

Art and Morality serves undergraduate and graduate courses on the relation of art to morality and society. Written in an accessible style, it also addresses general readers drawn to philosophical questions raised by the arts, providing a structured framework for debates that have shaped aesthetics over two centuries.

This open access book examines deliberative and anti-deliberative practices in post-conflict contexts marked by democratic backsliding. It compares how deliberative ideals are upheld and violated across different deliberative domains, including parliaments, citizens' assemblies, social media and interactions between local and international actors. The authors identify anti-deliberation as the active violation of deliberative norms through exclusion, manipulation and domination, along with weaponisation of difference. The expansion of anti-deliberation restricts the space for good-quality deliberation and accelerates democratic backsliding.

This edited collection is useful to scholars of democracy, deliberation and communication with its novel comparative perspective on the quality of deliberation, to policy-makers and civil society with its lessons for supporting deliberation, and to international peace-builders working on democratisation and reversing democratic backsliding.

This open access book offers an interdisciplinary examination of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM), presenting a psychologically informed framework for aligning people management with environmental, economic, and social sustainability. Bringing together insights from work and organizational psychology, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and environmental management (EM), it explains how organizations can embed sustainability into everyday work practices by leveraging employee motivation, leadership, culture, and social dynamics.Psychosocial mechanisms make GHRM effective, shaping employees' pro environmental attitudes, voluntary green behaviours, and long-term commitment to organizational sustainability goals.

Drawing on meta-analytic evidence from 57 studies, the book shows the strong impact of GHRM on sustainable performance and financial outcomes and addresses persistent implementation challenges, such as the generalizability gap across sectors, lack of standardized metrics, post-pandemic work transformations, and the risk of greenwashing when cultural alignment is weak. Featuring theoretical insights, empirical evidence, case studies, and a practical diagnostic toolkit, the book provides actionable guidance on green recruitment, training, performance management, and employee engagement. An essential read for scholars and practitioners in HRM, organizational psychology, sustainability, environmental management, and leaders, this book positions GHRM as a critical lever for integrating people, planet, and performance.

This open access book is a biography of Tameyuki Amano (1861-1938), who was the first Japanese economist. He was also an educator, one of the first elected Diet members, and one of the founders of the Tokyo Senmon College (now Waseda University). Moreover, as editor of the Oriental Economist (Toyo Keizai Shimpo), he was at the center of economic information and communication through his work that involved collecting economic and financial data and connecting Japanese economists and businesspeople. Amano wrote notable byline editorials on taxation, international relations and trade, monetary standards, banking, and stock exchange for almost every issue in the period 1895-1907.

Amano spent his boyhood in Karatsu, on the northern shore of Kyushu, where the daimyos (lords) were associated with the Nagasaki surveillance mission. During the period of National Seclusion, Dejima in Nagasaki was uniquely permitted to maintain diplomatic relations with the Dutch; it functioned as a tightly controlled foreign trading post as well as a surveillance and intelligence system for the Tokugawa government. At Tokyo University, Amano attended lectures by Ernest Fenollosa on political economy, based on John Stuart Mill, and on the history of Western philosophy, based on Albert Schwegler. Amano later translated J. Laurence Laughlin's 1884 abridged edition of Mill's Principles of Political Economy and John Neville Keynes's Scope and Method of Political Economy (1891).

Apply evidence-based positive psychology to strengthen organizational performance and well-being

Now in its Second Edition, Positive Organizational Psychology: Evidence-Informed Applications delivers a rigorous examination of how positive psychology principles translate into measurable workplace outcomes. Organizations continue to struggle with sustaining employee engagement, fostering resilience, and aligning human capital strategies with performance objectives. This updated volume addresses those challenges by presenting research-grounded frameworks that connect individual well-being with organizational effectiveness, offering a structured empirical foundation for intervention design and implementation.

Positive Organizational Psychology provides updated evidence-informed tools and methodologies for diagnosing organizational strengths, designing targeted interventions, and evaluating their impact. This Second Edition reflects advances in the field since the prior edition, incorporating recent research findings and expanded coverage of applied strategies. Readers gain access to frameworks for building thriving work environments where psychological capital, engagement, and sustained performance reinforce one another through carefully designed, research-supported organizational development practices.

Written for organizational psychologists, human resources professionals, managers, executives, and organizational development practitioners, this volume equips readers with evidence-based tools needed to create workplaces where people and performance thrive together. Advanced graduate students studying organizational behavior and psychology will also find it a valuable scholarly resource grounded in applied research.

Can I be a good scientist and a good mother? This haunting question shapes the lives of many academic women.

This book examines the double-lock linking maternity and academic careers in contemporary Italy: how motherhood-and even its anticipation-shapes recruitment, evaluation and stabilization, and how academic competitiveness and precarity, in turn, reshape fertility choices and timing.

Drawing on narrative interviews with two generations of scholars and engaging with international literature, it shows how institutional cultures and gendered expectations reinforce structural constraints while normalizing unequal trade-offs. It identifies pathways to rethink academic careers so that excellence and parenthood can coexist.

Care work is essential. And yet, Western capitalist societies are organised in a way as to neglect care work and make it invisible.

Building on feminist critiques of labour law, this book analyses how private care work has been socially constituted as the Other in relation to work on labour markets. By bringing labour law, with its collective structures, into conversation with individual anti-discrimination law, it develops a solidaristic form of labour law that includes unpaid care work.

It shows how the law can be used to challenge collective organisations' understandings of work in order to integrate and accommodate the Other of labour law.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This book provides a critical reflection on the relationship between education, conflict, war and peace and the global actors and practitioners that have devised strategies to engage and support education systems in conflict-affected contexts.

Exploring a wide range of issues from development assistance to education, peacebuilding, de-radicalisation programmes and global governance, it evidences the challenges and the promises of education's complex relationship to war and peace. The book highlights the field's entanglements with geopolitics and imperial interventions, which have shaped its actions and undermined and limited its potential to support social transformation towards peace with social justice.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This book reveals how communities protect themselves when external support is absent.

Drawing on participatory research from Cameroon's conflict zones, the authors document the remarkable agency and creativity of conflict-affected civilians employing non-violent methods to protect one another from violence. With international and national NGOs under strict government controls in the Anglophone regions, local communities have developed their own innovative self-protection strategies that offer sustainable pathways through conflict.

This important study shifts unarmed civilian protection discourse away from externally-led interventions towards genuinely civilian-centred approaches, offering crucial insights for practitioners, policy makers and scholars working in conflict-affected contexts worldwide.

This Open Access book explores the concept of the open city, examining its theoretical foundations, normative implications, and real-world practices in contemporary urban planning.

The chapters move from conceptual debates on openness and empirical cases, investigating how cities address key challenges such as democracy, freedom, inclusion, creativity, learning, governance, and urban change. Contributors examine tensions between order and disorder, openness and closure, and ask who benefits from urban transformation and under what conditions. By connecting urban theory with planning practice, the volume offers a critical yet accessible reflection on the future of cities.

Developed through the work of the Thematic Group "Ethics, Values and Planning" of the Association of European Schools of Planning, this book provides an essential resource for scholars, practitioners, and students interested in open cities, urban governance, democratic planning, and institutional design.

A survey of the contemporary intersection between religion and violence

In this second edition, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence assembles an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars to map the complex relationships between religion and violence. This book explains how religious traditions intersect with political conflict, collective violence, and social upheaval in a wide range of contexts that reflect academic, social, and political developments since the publication of the first edition.

New and updated chapters address political theology, White Christian Nationalism in the United States, Hindu nationalism in India, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, religion and mass atrocities, sexual orientation and gender identity, nationalism and political Islam in Turkey, Shia Islam and Hezbollah, and religion, violence, and Latin American drug trafficking. A new introduction frames these developments within broader analytical contexts.

Readers will also find:

• Updated case studies covering Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023 and the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine
• Interdisciplinary perspectives from historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, theologians, and scholars of gender studies and communication
• Focused analysis of Christian nationalism, Hindu nationalism, and political Islam as distinct contemporary phenomena
• Coverage of religion's role in mass atrocities, drug trafficking violence, and politically-motivated conflicts across multiple global regions

Designed for scholars, advanced students, and research libraries in religious studies, political science, and related disciplines, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence delivers a rigorous, up-to-date reference that connects theoretical analysis with pressing contemporary developments at the intersection of religion and violence.

Use generative AI to reduce your workweek from 40 hours to 15

The AI Workweek: How to Cut Hours, Automate the Busywork, and Focus on What's Really Important delivers a practical playbook for implementing generative AI tools like ChatGPT to eliminate repetitive tasks and reclaim productive time. Ashley Gross, an AI consultant who has led workshops for multiple global corporations and industry leaders, provides step-by-step strategies she used to cut her own workweek from 40 hours to 15.

The book translates enterprise-level AI implementation tactics into actionable guidance for individual professionals and business leaders. Drawing from years of experience leading enterprise-level consulting engagements, Gross shows how to identify automation opportunities, build effective AI workflows, and measure time savings. Each technique addresses specific workplace scenarios where AI can replace manual processes without sacrificing quality or requiring technical expertise.

You'll also discover:

• Specific prompting strategies and workflow templates for automating email, reporting, scheduling, and administrative tasks that consume hours weekly
• Methods for identifying which tasks in your role are candidates for AI automation and which require human judgment
• Real-world case studies from enterprise implementations showing measurable time and revenue gains from AI adoption
• Techniques for scaling personal AI productivity wins into team-wide and department-level automation strategies
• Frameworks for evaluating AI tools and building sustainable workflows that adapt as generative AI capabilities evolve

Whether you're a C-suite executive evaluating AI adoption strategies, a department head seeking efficiency gains, or an individual contributor looking to reclaim hours from busywork, this book provides tested methods for implementing generative AI in ways that deliver measurable time savings and productivity improvements.

An essential resource for women navigating their own reproductive healthcare and making decisions as active participants with fully informed consent

Women are staging a reproductive rebellion. For decades, public health has organised reproduction around a simple premise: women should prevent pregnancy with effective contraception unless deemed "fit" for motherhood - and treat abortion as exceptional failure. That settlement is now unravelling. Pill use is declining sharply; abortion rates are at record highs. TikTok misinformation, inadequate sex-ed and overstretched contraceptive services are widely blamed.

This book argues that diagnosis is wrong.

As sexual norms and relationships shift and technology transforms reproductive timelines - allowing pregnancy to be detected days before a missed period and ended safely at home - women's tolerance for the Pill's side effects, and for being the default managers of sexual risk is diminishing. This book explores why the revolt began - and what a revolution might look like

Becoming Sarah Forbes Bonetta tells the extraordinary life story of a girl born Aina in Oke-Odan, captured during a Dahomey raid, and presented to a British naval officer in 1850. Renamed Sarah Forbes Bonetta, she apprenticed with Queen Victoria, educated by missionaries, and later married into Lagos's elite Saro community.

Drawing on an unusually rich body of evidence, including letters, a travel diary, portraits, newspapers, missionary reports, and royal archives, this book reconstructs a transatlantic life across West Africa and Britain. It reveals how her image as an "African Princess" was fashioned by the press and embedded in imperial mythologies, even as her own writings show her balancing duty, family, and faith. Thematically organized, the book explores her shifting identities through the lenses of race, gender, and empire. It situates her within broader histories of slavery, abolition, missionary education, and colonialism, while also confronting archival silences that obscured her voice.

Ultimately, Becoming Sarah Forbes Bonetta offers both a vivid study and a critical intervention in Atlantic history. It restores this Yoruba woman as an active historical subject who navigated profound cultural dislocation and constraint, while leaving behind an archive that made her one of the most visible African women of the Victorian world.

Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps is a seminal study of the often-stigmatised topic of homophobia among prisoners in Nazi camps. This book reinterprets how prisoner memory and historical historiography reported on same-sex relations and challenges the silence surrounding queerness in the Holocaust, a frequently overlooked aspect of Holocaust history.

Utilising the lens of prisoner perception, the book explores the paths of victims and survivors, who were persecuted by the Nazis and had same-sex relations in the camp. It traces the hierarchies and societal norms in the camp, providing a momentous glimpse into the workings of the prisoner society. Through the captivating analysis of early testimonies, oral histories, memoirs and extensive archival materials, the book empathetically reconstructs the experiences and lives of victims and survivors, who had previously been silenced, developing a new and important perspective on camp society.

Historian Uta Rautenberg takes a victim- and survivor-centered approach and provides an analysis of queer experiences and accusations. The book explores both female and male experiences and thus contributes to gender history, women's history, and the history of sexuality. It offers explanations for gender differences in homophobia and queer experiences and reminds us of the indispensable need for an inclusive approach to history.

The richest insights in qualitative projects often emerge not from established or formulaic analytic approaches but from everyday, improvised ways of working with data. Everyday Qualitative Analysis reveals these often-unseen creative practices, showing how researchers think, feel and make meaning in the analytic process.

This practical book introduces a distinctive approach that opens up pathways through data, the shapes data can take and the affective textures of analysis. It rejects rigid, pre-determined approaches and instead supports readers in developing styles of analysis that feel purposeful, personal and genuinely responsive to their data.

The book features:

* Case studies from a range of fields, including gerontology, science and technology studies, cultural studies, LGBTQ+ research, fashion and material culture;

* Practical prompts, suggestions and questions that help with data analysis; and

* Strategies for navigating complex or unruly datasets.

Offering real-world examples and helpful prompts, this vital book frees researchers from rule-bound expectations, encouraging them to experiment, trust their instincts and discover new routes through their data.