Expert contributors examine crime and perceptions of safety across different transit settings, and cover a comprehensive range of issues including cyber-attacks, theft and violence, as well as precautionary safety measures. The Encyclopedia explores methodologies to document and improve understanding of transit crime and the varied responses to addressing it, including crime mapping, virtual reality and AI-driven surveillance.

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Transit Crime and Safety is a crucial resource for scholars and students of transport studies, criminology, geography, urban planning, sociology, engineering and computer sciences. It is also a vital reference point for practitioners in public transport, transit authorities, NGOs and international organizations committed to safer, inclusive and environmentally responsible transport systems.

Key Features:

• Draws on interdisciplinary perspectives
• Presents over 130 clear and accessible entries
• Adopts a global approach, highlighting intersectional realities of mobility, vulnerability and inclusion

Experimental Research: Brief Essays on Timeless Concepts offers a unique exploration of the experimental process that transcends disciplinary boundaries and technological trends. Through a series of concise, thought-provoking essays, this book distills enduring principles of scientific inquiry. Addressing foundational topics from measurement and dimensional analysis to cognitive factors in research and technical communication, it cultivates a deep, reflective understanding of experimentation as both an intellectual craft and a scientific discipline.

Organized into seven thematic sections, the essays delve into topics rarely addressed in conventional manuals, including the epistemology of experimentation, creative thinking in research, principles of device design and the thoughtful integration of modern tools into contemporary experimental work. Rather than focusing on discipline-specific techniques, the authors emphasize universal aspects of experimentation that cut across fields, blending conceptual insight with practical relevance and historical perspective. The result is a timeless perspective on experimental methods that balances accessibility with intellectual rigor.

This volume is an essential resource for young scholars learning to design, conduct and interpret experiments independently, such as graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and early-career faculty who, despite solid technical backgrounds, have received little formal guidance in the conceptual and cognitive aspects of experimentation. For educators and established researchers, it offers fresh perspectives on mentoring the next generation of experimentalists in an era of rapid technological change.

This fourth edition of Social Work Practice in Mental Health builds on the underpinning principles of the previous editions whilst reflecting how the context for practice has steadily evolved.

Organised into two parts and 11 chapters, the book focuses on recovery theory, the importance of relationships and an examination of the social context and consequences of illness. It explores the perspectives of consumers and family carers in shaping practice, together with a focus on key skills such as risk assessments, working in a multidisciplinary team, working with trauma, working within a legal framework and spirituality in practice. The book maintains the key theme from previous editions of valuing lived experience, with new content on the NDIS program and its extension to cover people with serious mental health illness, further detailed analysis of trauma, working with individuals and targeted mental health interventions in community settings.

Featuring numerous vignettes and illustrations from practice, this book is both essential reading for social work students and an invaluable resource for practitioners in the fields of social work and mental health.

The Art of Coaching is a book to shift thinking and open up new possibilities, stimulate fresh insight and adapt to your needs as a coach, leader or manager and to use creatively in practice. The first edition of this unique and bestselling book quickly became a staple in the coaching world; now the revised edition has been updated to include new models and diagrams that have been developed by the authors in response to changing social and political circumstances.

Written by two experienced, highly qualified international coaches and supervisors, it is packed full of ideas, with dozens of visual images, many original to the authors. Now with an additional chapter on Coaching in Turbulent Times and updated references for further reading, this new edition is a must-have for coaches, supervisors, managers and human resource professionals. Each model in the book is explained with a clear, accessible diagram and a simple guide to what it is, how it works and how to put it into action. The text is full of inspiration for applications of the ideas in scenarios based on real coaching practice.

This book is an invaluable resource for quick reference, instant accessibility and fast learning. Built on a strong theoretical base, it will inspire professional development and individual and team coaching, transform thinking for coaches looking for new ways of developing awareness with clients and stimulate coaching students and trainees, coach supervisors, learning and development professionals and those working in human resource departments.

Leading experts reframe sustainable tourism as a transformative, multi-scalar process shaped by governance reform and community empowerment. They critically trace the evolution of the field and interrogate persistent gaps between rhetoric and practice. Chapters introduce novel frameworks to tackle key issues such as global polycrises, climate change, socio-economic instability and long-term behavioural changes. Drawing on conceptual insights and applied case studies, the Modern Guide highlights the interconnected roles of tourists, communities, businesses and policymakers in fostering just and resilient tourism futures.

A Modern Guide to Sustainable Tourism is an essential resource for scholars and students of tourism management, geography, economics and sustainable development. Industry professionals seeking to realign tourism with long-term sustainability will similarly benefit from its actionable recommendations.

This book explores epistemic injustice in various aspects of social work practice, research, and education, and how those in the field can address issues of power, oppression, and institutionalized prejudice.

This edited volume invites social work scholars, educators, practitioners, and students to deeply engage in the conversation about social justice and human rights on epistemic grounds. It begins with a simple but profound question: Whose knowledge counts, and whose voices are silenced? Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book contextualizes epistemic injustice concepts such as testimonial, hermeneutical, and contributory justice across diverse social work settings to help readers better recognize when and how these concepts manifest in the profession and how to address them from an epistemic justice lens. The chapters span a range of issues relevant to the field, including health and mental health, transformative social work, and the inclusion of systemically marginalized voices in practice and research such as LGBTQIA+, disabled communities, and street-involved. Contributors draw on their first-hand experience teaching social work students and practicing and researching with culturally diverse communities across settings. Each chapter invites readers to consider and reimagine ways of resisting epistemic injustice in their work and how social workers can join in collective resistance in the epistemic domains of the profession.

With case studies and practical examples throughout, this book is essential for social work students, educators, researchers, and practitioners of all levels. This guide serves both as a mirror to reflect the challenges within the profession and as a roadmap to chart pathways toward a more just, inclusive, and epistemically responsible field.

Disaster Mental Health Interventions: Core Principles and Practices, Second Edition, is a comprehensive overview of the physical and psychological impacts of disasters, and of current best practices for addressing survivors’ reactions. This revised edition includes updated research and expanded lessons to help advance disaster mental health interventions in response to acute events such as hurricanes and mass shootings, as well as chronic threats like climate change and pandemics. Case studies and anecdotes from experienced professionals add an additional level of depth and interest for readers.

Written in an approachable style, the text combines theory and practice in a practical and engaging field guide for disaster responders. Topics covered include how disaster characteristics tend to influence reactions; how to differentiate expectable post?disaster stress responses from extreme reactions like posttraumatic stress disorder; what makes certain populations more susceptible to more negative outcomes and how to help these high?needs groups; and how to support all survivors through Psychological First Aid and other early interventions. Cultural impacts are addressed throughout this book. Occupational hazards for disaster mental responders and the need for self?care are also addressed.

Disaster response professionals and students across the fields of mental health counseling, social work, school counseling, psychology, health care, spiritual care, and emergency management will appreciate the accessible tone, level of detail, and emphasis on practice.

Whose Water? The Control and Appropriation of Water Resources in Medieval Hungary addresses conflicts surrounding water management, a space where different economic and other socio-political interests meet and sometimes clash. The geographical space that it focuses on is the Kingdom of Hungary, and the time frame is the period from the foundation of the Christian state around the year 1000 to the late medieval period.

Modern politics focuses on who has legitimate claims in water-related disputes, but for historians, it is certainly more relevant to understand how such conflicts were approached and resolved in the past. These questions include what kind of disputes unfolded concerning water use; to what degree water was conceived as a private or common good; and how different interests were aligned with each other. Throughout the book’s chapters, it is argued that the use of water by the societies of the Kingdom of Hungary in the Middle Ages gave rise to complex sets of customs and norms that, until the modern era, were the most important principles for settling water-use disputes.

Whose Water? The Control and Appropriation of Water Resources in Medieval Hungary will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental and landscape history, as well as those studying the legal and urban history of premodern Europe.

Building on recent scholarship in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and social practice theories, this book reconceptualizes reading comprehension as intertextual practices.

Rather than view reading comprehension as the interaction of a reader and a text, the book outlines reading comprehension as a set of dynamic social practices enacted by people in and across social events in which they together build and assign meaning to one or more written language texts. The interactive meaning-building process is inherently intertextual as people act and react to each other, propose connections among multiple texts, and reflect and refract social practices, histories, and ideologies. The theorizing in this book is oriented to generating new images and metaphors to imagine 'reading comprehension' differently. The reconceptualization also derives from using jazz as a metaphor for reading comprehension.

This is a key resource for scholars, graduate students, and teachers in reading and literacy education.

Offering theory and practical insights, this publication brings together top-quality contributions by distinguished authors from research and practice as well as students from around the world to flesh out the role of Student Voice in Lesson Study (SVLS).

The book provides a comprehensive up-to-date compilation of important issues around SVLS. Chapters guide readers to understand the rich contextual nature of student voice in education and Lesson Study. It includes teachers, their learners, and researchers offering practice-oriented insights into their Lesson Study experience. The book explores and discusses theoretical foundations, social functions, roles, aims and purposes, the impact of attending to student voice, an emerging SVLS-methodology including issues of planning, coordinating, conducting, and reporting about student voice, dialogic teaching and learning, as well as democratic citizenship in Lesson Study.

It is a useful guide for practitioners and student educators interested in the benefits of Lesson Study in the classroom.

This book introduces the study and reform of curricular structures, an often-overlooked dimension of undergraduate student success.

While student success is influenced by a complex array of factors, many of which lie beyond the control of universities, new research underscores that curricular structures (e.g., blocked courses, extended chains of required courses, pre- and corequisites) can be a significant barrier to success - one that unit-level faculty are uniquely positioned to address. By bringing together national research findings, change management experiments, and expert insights into the transformative potential of rethinking curricular structures, this volume opens an exciting new frontier in educational theory and practice, advancing the pursuit of equitable undergraduate success.

Written in an accessible style for faculty, administrators, and higher education scholars, this book will resonate with leaders committed to building truly student-centered universities.

This illuminating Research Agenda provides an evidence-based roadmap for scholarship related to academic integrity, plagiarism and research ethics in the age of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and advanced technologies. Moving beyond detection and compliance-oriented approaches, leading experts propose forward-thinking solutions for GenAI and academic probity.

Contributors adopt the award-winning 'postplagiarism' framework, demonstrating how educators can uphold and enact academic principles and promote ethical student conduct in contexts where GenAI is ubiquitous. Chapters draw on perspectives from the Global North and South to explore assessment security, academic misconduct, cheating and student success. Emphasising the necessity of adaptable ethical frameworks and improved AI literacy, the Research Agenda outlines urgent and emerging priorities which have the potential to redefine the nature of authorship and responsible research.

A Research Agenda for Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity is an essential resource for scholars and students of GenAI and education. Educational leaders and curriculum policymakers will similarly benefit from its grounded analysis and actionable recommendations.

This book explores how trauma affects our experience of time, how that experience may not be linear, and how we may experience "counter-time" - a disruption or arrest of time's flow and a perpetual return to the time of trauma.

Counter-Time explores this phenomenon in clinical practice and in examples from literature and history, including mass trauma such as genocide. Survivors of trauma can be helped to move beyond their experience by drawing on their own cultural resources, helping them to use "counter-time" as a means of release instead of a repeated traumatic symptom.

With rich clinical detail and clear, accessible writing, this book is essential reading for all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists working with trauma.

Through a detailed analysis of the example of China and the World Trade Organization, this book considers how developing countries are defined and, more importantly, how developing countries could be better defined in international economic law.

What is a developing country? How should developing countries be categorized for the purpose of providing aid or support? Is China still a developing country despite being the world's second-largest economy? There are currently a variety of ways in which developing countries are categorized, none of which are satisfactory. Once a country is designated as 'developing', it then receives significant developmental support and aid. This book aims to contribute to identifying innovative solutions to the question of how developing countries should be designated in the field of international economic law. The book uses the example of China and its controversial continuing status as a developing country by the World Trade Organization in order to provide an in-depth analysis of the wider issue of how developing countries should be defined and categorized in international economic law.

This book will be of interest to scholars in international economic law, law and development, political science, and international relations, as well as policymakers working in relevant areas.

Entries examine diverse topics including how law informs the practice of peace negotiation and peace mediation; the legal status of peace agreements; critical approaches to peacemaking drawn from indigenous, feminist, queer, environmental and TWAIL perspectives; legal protections for negotiators and mediators; the work of legal institutions in resolving disputes including international and regional courts and customary approaches to dispute resolution; and how law can inform the resolution of contested issues such as accountability, detainees, institutional reform, and governance. Covering a wide range of international law regimes, as well as elements of domestic and customary law, the Encyclopedia explores how law can foster or safeguard peace. It highlights gaps in this area of scholarship, as well as emerging approaches and practices.

The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Peace is a vital resource for scholars and students of law, international relations, and peace and conflict studies. It is also beneficial for legal practitioners, policymakers, mediators, negotiators and NGOs.

Key Features:

• Contains over 130 entries
• Provides crucial reference points for further reading
• Evaluates the connections between topics in an accessible short form
• Presents interdisciplinary perspectives from criminology, anthropology, international relations, history and peace and conflict studies

Rather than adding to the noise of quick-fix leadership solutions, Leading from the Inside Out invites you to pause, reflect, and discover the profound impact of self-aware leadership.

Written with the warmth and wisdom of a trusted mentor, this book challenges organizational leaders and managers to look inward before leading outward. Through engaging personal stories, real-world case studies, and moments of unexpected humor, you will explore how reflective leadership becomes your most powerful tool for navigating uncertainty and complexity. Authored by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, this book draws on his decades of groundbreaking work in executive coaching and psychoanalysis and reveals how the most effective leaders aren't those with all the answers, but those who are willing to ask the deeper questions. Here, you'll discover practical insights into understanding your own leadership patterns, recognizing the unconscious dynamics within your organization, and creating space for authentic decision-making in high-pressure environments.

This isn't another leadership manual filled with frameworks and formulas. Instead, it's an honest conversation about the human side of leadership-the doubts, breakthroughs, and the ongoing journey of becoming a more conscious leader. Whether you are a seasoned executive, emerging manager, or someone seeking to lead with greater authenticity and impact, this book offers the reflective tools needed to thrive in our complex world.

In response, the authors reconceptualize DEI management for the SME context and introduce a framework and a set of best practices grounded in the lived realities of SMEs and insights from international surveys, interviews, workshops, and real-world cases from Europe. The book offers teaching cases along with online teaching notes and managerial reflections to equip current and future entrepreneurs and SME managers with the competencies needed to leverage social sustainability, in particular DEI, for a firm’s growth, strategy implementation, regulatory compliance, and conflict resolution. The book deepens understanding of intersectionality in SMEs and demonstrates how DEI contributes to advancing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Small and Medium Enterprises is a vital resource for scholars and students of business and management, entrepreneurship, and sustainability. Business educators and SME managers will also benefit from its actionable recommendations for effectively incorporating DEI best practices.

The AI Strategy Playbook tackles the biggest paradox of our time: while AI grows exponentially more powerful and affordable, most organizations remain stuck in pilots that never scale. The result is frustration, "AI fatigue," and missed opportunities. This book delivers a practical, structured roadmap that has already guided thousands of executives on how to embed AI into strategy, operations, and business models.

Combining academic rigor with hands-on frameworks, global strategy expert Rene Bohnsack introduces four AI Stacks that every leader needs: the Skill Stack, the Transformation Stack, the Strategy Stack, and the Governance and Control Stack. Together, they help executives move step by step from isolated experimentation to full integration of AI into organizations. The playbook is practical and tested.

• The Skill Stack teaches prompting, responsible use, tools use, co-intelligence, and AI mastery.
• The Transformation Stack provides tools and tactics to move from experimentation with AI to acceleration of use cases and full integration.
• The Strategy Stack adapts the Play-to-Win model for the AI era, guiding leaders through aspiration, opportunity mapping, the construction of AI moats, the design of an AI business model, and and the creation of a roadmap that includes data readiness.
• The Governance and Control Stack ensures governance across five dimensions - operational, ethical, legal, environmental, and strategic - and measures progress through the AI Balanced Scorecard.

This book provides the tools, language, and confidence for leaders to act decisively. Readers will not only understand AI's strategic implications but also gain a practical playbook to lead transformation. The AI Strategy Playbook: From Zero to 100 is the essential guide for leaders determined to move past hype, avoid paralysis, and create lasting advantage in the age of AI.

AI Governance: The Executive Handbook for Safe and Responsible AI is a book researched and written by cyber experts Ariel Evans and Ajay Singh with contributions from leading members of Cyber Intelligence 4U advisory board, including top CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, DPOs, and cyber attorneys to help businesses prepare for the safe and intelligent use of AI.

This book is a comprehensive handbook that bridges the gap between the complex world of artificial intelligence and its practical applications for business. Covering regulation requirements, governance, cyber controls, explainability, and privacy in easy-to-understand language, it is an essential resource to navigate and address the opportunities, complex challenges, and responsibilities associated with AI technologies and provides a roadmap for businesses to implement a safe AI program. Each area is explored from a business perspective to allow the reader to understand how this relates to their role in a company and to harness the power of AI in their respective fields and concludes with a section on how to create a step-by-step AI program. In addition, real-life examples of the challenges that any business needs to address as it rolls out AI-based applications are presented throughout.

This book will empower readers, whether they are IT professionals, tech enthusiasts, business leaders, or students, with the necessary knowledge and insights to create a safe and responsible AI program.

Drawing on primary empirical research, this book considers the democratic outcomes of political news avoidance, selective news exposure, and misinformation.

Political information environments across democracies are in flux, fundamentally changing the way citizens gain political information and leading to widespread concerns about consequences for democracy. From selective media use leading to increased attitudinal polarisation, to declining trust in legacy media and journalists compounding political disengagement, the need for a detailed, comparative account of what these changes in the supply of, and demand for, political information mean for democracies is evident. This book focuses on three developments that are seen as particularly concerning for democracies: news avoidance, selective news exposure, and misinformation. Using in-depth interviews, web-tracking, panel surveys, and experiments, it investigates the extent of these threats, their causes, consequences, and remedies. Further, it shines a critical empirical light, for the first time, on these developments across four different types of democracies found in countries around Europe as well as Israel and the US. The results of the study are nuanced and contex- specific, with the authors finding generally that the prevalence of these three developments may be less than previously anticipated.

This is a critical study for researchers and advanced students of journalism and political communication, and bears global implications.

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed media and journalism teaching and practice, introducing efficiencies and innovations that can help streamline content creation and dissemination, albeit with inherent limitations and ethical considerations requiring careful critical examination.

Artificial Intelligence in African Media and Communication investigates AI's impact on media landscapes within Africa, offering a range of practical case studies and strategic recommendations for practice, teaching, governance, and regulation. This book delves into how AI technologies are rapidly being integrated into African journalism, broadcasting, public relations, advertising, and media and communications education. As well as providing real-world case studies of how AI is changing content creation, distribution, and consumption in Africa, this book also critically analyses the ethical challenges posed by AI, such as misinformation, algorithmic bias, and job displacement. It concludes by providing strategic recommendations for how educators, media professionals, and policymakers can effectively harness AI's potential.

Bringing together leading researchers and practitioners, Artificial Intelligence in African Media and Communication provides a platform for informed discussions, knowledge-sharing, and innovation in African media and communication studies.

A concise, accessible, and engaging introduction to the complex interplay between climate change and human migration, this book provides key analysis of the scientific, social, political, and economic factors of climate migration.

Keeping away from dense theories and jargon, Climate Change, Migration, and the Global Search for Home details the primary causes and consequences of human-driven climate disruption, the evolution of climate science, from early observations to today's advanced data collection methods, to the real-world impacts, including extreme weather events and shifts in ecosystems. Informed by the voices of scientists in the Global South, who provide a much-needed perspective on this important topic, this book presents key concepts in a clear, relatable way, providing the foundational knowledge needed to engage with one of the most pressing issues of our time.

This book offers a fresh approach that connects complex ideas to real-world relevance, fostering a deeper engagement with this critical topic, by speaking directly to students and newcomers seeking deeper insight into climate migration by meeting them where they are in a way that resonates with them.

This book is a multi-stage learning resource that takes readers from basic data handling and software orientation to statistical analysis and financial applications using MS Excel and R. Through a gradual, step-by-step approach, it equips readers with the essential skills needed to understand, analyse, and interpret data in today's data-driven world.

Using clear illustrations, the book enables readers to organise and manage data, perform analytical computations, create meaningful visualisations, and draw conclusions. It introduces core concepts in research, data analysis, and economic and financial decision-making, demonstrating their relevance in academic, professional, and everyday contexts. This book enables readers to:

• Work confidently with MS Excel and R for efficient data handling and analysis
• Present and visualise data using charts, tables, and Pivot Tables
• Apply statistical techniques such as descriptive statistics, correlation, regression, and hypothesis testing
• Perform financial analysis using concepts such as time value of money, compounding, NPV, IRR, and EMI calculations

By combining concepts with practical implementation, the book provides a strong foundation in computational techniques essential for modern data analysis.

This revised third edition introduces two new chapters on R for data analysis, complementing the book's Excel-based approach, making it an invaluable resource for beginners and students of economics, commerce, management, and the social sciences. This book will be useful for courses in econometrics, financial technology, and applied economics, as it equips readers with the analytical and computational skills required for academic excellence and professional success.

This second edition of The Philanthropy Reader features a revised collection of carefully selected readings, sharing cutting-edge research, historically informed perspectives, and key current issues in philanthropy today including contentious topics and influential writings that have arisen since the first edition.

Both global and interdisciplinary in its approach, this edition builds on the book's established reputation as an essential resource for navigating the complex and varied dimensions of philanthropic practice. With over 100 extracts from key texts and major thinkers, this reader accurately and comprehensively covers a field that is growing in significance and expanding in scope. Readers will be well-equipped for thoughtful and nuanced engagement in philanthropic theory and practice through this book's diverse material on core concepts, persistent challenges, incisive critiques and counter-critiques, and major debates and contemporary trends. In addition to the extracts curated into six sections, the editors provide both a general overview and individual section introductions that set the scene for studying and thinking about philanthropy, making this text invaluable for those teaching the subject.

Essential reading for students in philanthropy courses worldwide, this text will also be of interest to reflective practitioners across the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors: donors and grantmakers, advisers, fundraisers, and others.

Examining transdisciplinary research historically, philosophically and contextually, the book evaluates its evolving methodology and quality criteria. Authors demonstrate its practical application in various case studies, such as developing nature-based solutions in education, sustainable farming practices and developmental initiatives in subsistence marketplaces. The synthesis of the case experiences enables researchers to link their concepts, relationships and modes of knowledge production to transformative action, aiding efforts to address complex challenges arising from climate change, biodiversity crises and inclusive growth.

How to Organise Transdisciplinary Research for Transformative Action and Knowledge Co-Production is a key resource for scholars and students of business and management, education, research methods and sociology. It is also prime reading for educators, research funding agencies and management practitioners seeking actionable recommendations on how to implement transdisciplinary research.

Gregory demonstrates how neoliberalism and the current polycrisis intensify temporal inequalities and narrow the horizons of welfare, obscuring diverse lived experiences necessary for flourishing. Using time theory, concepts of alterity, equality and citizenship, and policy design, he proposes new conceptual tools, such as time sovereignty and temporal impact assessment, to rethink welfare for a world of uncertainty and urgent social need. The book argues that modern welfare systems ignore the lived rhythms of care, waiting, ageing, uncertainty and generational futures, and instead are built around speed and short-term politics. It outlines and argues for imaginative, rigorous and future-oriented welfare systems that create time for dignity, autonomy, care and collective well-being in uncertain times.

Time, Welfare and Society is an essential resource for scholars and students of sociology, social work and social policy. Social workers and policymakers will likewise benefit from its radical lens.

Contributing authors investigate how MLM schemes create legitimacy by merging commerce, community and belief, while consumer protection is undermined through opaque business practices, weak regulations and industry lobbying. Chapters outline how MLM has created its own ecosystem of self-employment, masquerading as entrepreneurial freedom while advertising false autonomy and ensuring that few participants ever achieve meaningful economic reward. By emphasising participant experiences and tracing the entanglements of ideology, regulation and organisational strategy, this book advances Critical MLM Studies as a framework for understanding MLM as a global industry.

Presenting MLMs as frequently destructive and harmful, Critical Perspectives on Multilevel Marketing is an essential resource for scholars and students of business, economics and finance, management studies, marketing and consumer law. Consumer protection agencies and MLM activists will also benefit from its evidence-based approach.

This Advanced Introduction provides a concise overview of nonprofit law in the United States, with reference to international approaches, examining how legal frameworks regulate nonprofit entities and the ongoing challenges they face. Dana Brakman Reiser explores how nonprofit law structures the way charities are organized and the activities in which charities engage, while also empowering and restricting the leaders who govern them.

Key Features

• Evaluates the key intersections of corporate, trust, tax and constitutional law for US nonprofits
• Examines the fiduciary obligations of leaders under nonprofit corporate and charitable trust law
• Analyses the symbiotic relationship between the substantial tax incentives provided to nonprofits and the deeply entrenched American reliance on them
• Incorporates international case studies that highlight alternative approaches to nonprofit regulation

Informed and succinct, this Advanced Introduction is an essential resource for students studying nonprofit law, regulation, governance, fiscal policy and comparative law. It also acts as a practical reference for professionals and policymakers working with nonprofits and NGOs on when to engage with lawyers and how to make the best use of their services.

Spiritual Direction and the Other offers the first interdisciplinary exploration of how ancient traditions of spiritual accompaniment can restore openness to mystery and cultural sensitivity in our psychotherapeutic helping professions.

As therapeutic culture has grown to dominate the landscape of helping professions in recent decades, humanistic caregivers have increasingly struggled to identify methods and traditions that remain open to the Other. Though often neglected by mainstream psychology, spiritual direction not only provides an alternative mode of accompanying others in a world of growing instability, but also draws from an intellectual history that predates the earliest Western medical and psychological theories by centuries. This edited collection is the first to explore the history of spiritual direction as a resource for both accompanying others with cultural sensitivity and resisting the hegemony of reductionism in psychotherapy. Its authors invite readers into sacred, and sometimes unsettling, conversations about how we accompany others through crises of meaning-making, trauma, and pluralistic longing. Whether engaging Desert Fathers and Mothers, Spanish mystics, Afro-Caribbean humanism, Buddhist pedagogy, contemporary psychoanalysis, or Italian literary arts, its contributors offer distinct encounters with what it means to listen for the sacred in the strange, the suffering, and the soul.

Bringing together interdisciplinary contributors from clinical psychology, theology, philosophy, chaplaincy and history, this volume provides not only a rich analysis of the identity of spiritual direction in the 21st century, but models of how spiritual direction can inform caregiving, advocacy and education in countless contexts.