The Autonomous Language Learning Toolkit presents a research-based framework for designing, supporting, and sustaining fully autonomous language learning. In particular, it focuses on less commonly taught languages in higher education, such as heritage languages, research languages, and languages of fieldwork or diplomacy.

Drawing on a decade of data from sixty learners studying thirty-five languages - from Swahili and Yoruba to Hmong and beyond - K.D. Thompson and Adeola Agoke distill what actually works when there is no teacher in the room. Their findings are grounded in a rigorous, multi-year study conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, and organized around six essential questions:

1. How do successful autonomous learners set goals?

2. Which strategies build real proficiency?

3. How do learners find and evaluate materials?

4. What does productive mentorship look like?

5. How should learners assess their own progress?

6. How does creating resources deepen learning?

Each chapter translates research findings into practical, adaptable tools for supporting communities of practice and lifelong language learning. Educators and program directors will find an additional appendix offering a complete blueprint for building a self-instructional language program from the ground up.

By foregrounding equity, flexibility, and sustainability, this timely book is an ideal resource for educators and staff in language centres or programmes. It will also be valuable to graduate students and researchers in applied linguistics and second language acquisition, as well as motivated independent learners.

Vinyl records. Board games. Paperback books. Film. A philosopher dives into the analog world to show what it offers us and what it says about our values.

Packed with first-person anecdotes, hand-drawn illustrations, and extensive scholarship, Darren Hudson Hick takes us through the pleasure of board games and jigsaw puzzles and inside the values of materiality, care, and agency. Hick moves from pinball machines and first editions to meditative cleaning and pottery to introduce us to key ideas in value theory, everyday aesthetics, virtue theory, and care ethics, alongside findings from psychology, anthropology, and sociology.

What accounts for the resurgence of analog media? Why are we buying all this stuff? Hick approaches these questions from a pragmatist perspective - a view that demands drawing on personal experience to better understand the values that pervade our daily lives. The result is a lively and informed exploration of material culture that tells us a surprising amount about ourselves and how we live.

Whenever we set up a board game, dust a record, load a roll of film, or sit down with a coloring book, we get to think about what we value. The Love of Analog is a study in what's important to us. It's a celebration of being human.

Learning Intermediate Japanese through Anime builds Japanese learners' linguistic proficiency while deepening their cultural and historical understanding of anime.

Designed around anime-themed readings, dialogues, and activities, the textbook helps learners develop skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking as they explore anime as a significant artistic and cultural form. The book is structured around eight key topics: the origins of anime, the anime industry, anime as technology, anime as design, anime as genre, anime as language, anime pioneers, and anime fandom. Each lesson focuses on a different language skill such as describing historical events in the passive voice, interpreting and presenting data, explaining processes, describing visual and narrative elements, summarizing information, forming arguments, making comparisons, and expressing opinions. Through this integrated approach, learners gain both practical Japanese language skills and a critical framework for understanding anime as a dynamic and influential part of Japanese culture.

This textbook is intended for students of Japanese language at intermediate high to advanced low level on the ACTFL proficiency scale and CEFR level B1 to B2.

Accompanying online resources include audio recordings of readings from the book and sample grammar worksheets to facilitate classroom planning. These materials can be accessed at www.routledge.com/9781041089636.

This book examines the necessary political-economic conditions for successful state-building in Africa, developing a contractualist framework that redefines the role of the state and reconfigures the relationship between individuals and state institutions.

It bridges the divide between contractarian (liberal) theory and practice by offering case-based insights into the challenges of applying liberal principles in diverse cultural settings in the post-colonial world. Cases on Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Somaliland help illustrate why and how states should prioritize economic freedom and liberal governmentality to enact contractualist transitions. It argues that stable, organic states in Africa can only emerge through institutions that facilitate and codify free, voluntary transactions among autonomous individuals.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of African Studies, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, and Development Studies.

Covering a 25-year period, this book of unpublished keynote speeches calls for a move away from individualistic approaches to therapy and towards socially oriented and socially engaged practices. Retaining the directness of the original speeches, Keith Tudor represents his critical ideas on positive mental health, transactional analysis, person-centred psychology, and psychotherapy and politics, arguing for the psychological and social worlds to be brought together to develop therapies that are as much a part of promoting positive mental health as they are ways of responding to distress and dis-ease. The book takes a critical perspective to challenge both therapists and the psychological professions to make themselves and their therapies more accessible and more relevant to the contemporary world. It provides guidance for how clients can engage actively in therapy, while also providing a framework to critique therapy in an informed way.

This wide-ranging and engaging book will be of interest to psychotherapists, mental health practitioners, researchers, and students of psychotherapy.

Restitution From A Global Perspective: Memory, Identity and Politics provides a critical, global analysis of the ongoing discussions and debates that promote or hinder restitution. Chapters within the book are authored by a diverse, international group of well-established thinkers in this area and cover a wide range of subjects, including decolonization, democratization, reparation, repatriation, post-colonialism, human rights, migration and globalization.

Taking a truly global approach, the book considers the role of restitution in the production of local and national histories and religious and cultural practices. It will also critically examine the embedded national, regional and geopolitical implications of the debate, arguing that it is no longer only a North-South or African-Europe phenomenon, but an interregional and intercontinental issue. Providing a critical look at the roles of museums and the exhibition of heritage properties, the book also examines the narratives accompanying objects in current use, considering how they influence the discussion on restitution. The various conventions and other international and local instruments that have been put in place will also be under scrutiny, as contributors consider whether they facilitate or hinder the restitution process.

Restitution From A Global Perspective: Memory, Identity and Politics is essential reading for academics and researchers, as well as students, of heritage studies, museology, cultural diplomacy, history and anthropology.

Healthcare has always involved travel, with people journeying to places traditionally known for healing or to seek out specialist medical expertise that may not be available more locally. More recently, medical tourism has grown at an unprecedented pace, often driven by commercial interests. When something goes wrong far from home, however, the consequences can be severe.

This groundbreaking book challenges the status quo of medical tourism, shifting the focus from competition and volume to what truly matters: value, safety and accountability. It explores the realities of cross-border care, from the motivations behind patient travel to the complex web of facilitators, insurers and providers that shape the journey. With a critical eye, it addresses the recurring challenges of incomplete information, unclear responsibilities, poor follow-up and avoidable harm and will educate, inform, guide and inspire stakeholders to integrate sustainable practices in medical tourism.

Key Features:

? Explains why patients travel to gain faster access, cultural comfort and services unavailable at home.

? Uncovers the hidden complexities including coordination gaps, ethical dilemmas and environmental costs of cross-border care.

? Explores the role of technology and how digital tools can enhance safety-or create new risks.

? Provides a roadmap for the future with practical tools and measurable indicators to ensure care is safe, sustainable and trustworthy.

Written for clinicians, managers, facilitators, insurers, policymakers and patients, this book provides actionable insights, emphasizing environmentally friendly practices, ethical considerations and high-quality patient care needed to transform medical tourism into transnational healthcare that prioritizes outcomes over promises.

Analyzing this pervasive aspect of contemporary auditory experience, the book investigates how branding sounds shape the affective contours of consumer culture. Graakjaer utilizes qualitative text analysis to introduce a framework for studying brand sounds, as well as tools for examining sonic distinctiveness and generic sound profiles. Presenting a detailed evaluation of the structure, distribution, and significance of branding sounds for notable global organizations, the book critically assesses one of the most prevalent and significant forms of sound in our sonic environment.

Timely and relevant, The Sounds of Branding is a crucial read for scholars and students of marketing, sound studies, musicology, media, and communications. Graakjaer's assessment of sonic branding in selected case studies will also be valuable for marketing and advertising professionals.

Updated and even more engaging, the fourth edition of Archaeology of the Greater Southwest is a comprehensive and readable summary of the current knowledge of the ancient U.S. Southwest and northwest Mexico.

The book now has a greater coverage of the entire region, including northern Mexico, and focuses more clearly on the human story of the past. Based soundly on scholarly results and collaborations with Indigenous communities, the human experience of the peoples of the Greater Southwest are vividly presented in a way that makes them real. This new edition also highlights some of the new techniques used to scientifically explore these unique lifeways in a way that is clear and concise. The book also provides a more inclusive view of the people involved in excavating and caring for the remains of these lifeways. Evidence from newly excavated sites and reanalysis of previously excavated sites is used throughout the book to provide an up-to-date synthesis that highlights how it has transformed our knowledge of this region.

Archaeology of the Greater Southwest is the ideal textbook for students studying the region and a useful reference guide for professional archaeologists

Organised into four parts, the Handbook moves from the conceptual and historical foundations of the corporate form through the legal mechanics of core money-raising transactions. These include IPOs, private placements, takeovers, and rescue finance, as well as emerging challenges in sustainable finance, digital innovation, and alternative capital structures such as dual-class stock and sovereign wealth funds. A final comparative section situates these insights across diverse jurisdictions, including Canada, the United States, the European Union, and Latin America.

This Research Handbook will be essential reading for scholars and researchers in corporate and financial law. It will also be invaluable for practitioners, regulators, and policymakers seeking a deeper understanding of the legal architecture underpinning modern capital markets.

If you've ever wondered why some regions flourish while others are left behind-this book offers a new way to understand the answers.

This book is about how economic processes unfold through space-and why it matters. It explores how the geography of economic activity shapes people's lives and contributes to the inequalities we see around us. From farmland to digital space, from rural-urban flows of people and resources to enclave-like spaces such as Special Economic Zones, Rethinking Economic Geography: Global Theories, Southern Pathways, and Indian Experience examines what globalisation means for the Global South, and for India in particular.

The book introduces key ideas and theories from across the world-on relative location, flows of capital and labour, and what this means for development-but views them through India's own historical and everyday realities. How is India different? How do global theories fall short in explaining Indian realities? Bringing together spatial analysis, grounded evidence, and critical perspectives, it helps readers make sense of India's complex and uneven economic landscape.

This textbook will be foundational reading for postgraduate students and an essential reference for undergraduate courses in geography, especially economic geography, development studies, economics, and Global South studies. It will also appeal to policy practitioners, planners, and engaged readers working on questions of regional inequality and
development.

This timely book problematises growing structural housing unaffordability and the lack of affordable housing across the advanced economic world. It offers both a historically and geographically sensitive critique of why we face these issues and why we struggle to adequately respond. In addition, it offers in the last chapter informed speculation towards addressing this crisis collectively, equitably and longitudinally.

Utilising a 'Critical-Relational Political Economy' approach, the unaffordability dilemma is linked to converging patterns of cumulative neoliberalising and globalising developments during intense capitalist expansion from the 1970s onwards. Housing unaffordability is not explained by regulatory and planning failures but by a growth model transformation under de-industrialisation, away from labour-inclusive capitalism to city-centric, private landed property-directed political economies. Whereas residential accumulation is characterised by inflationary tendencies, households' capacity to pay for housing largely follows deflationary dynamics. The consequence is politically stimulated, institutionally mediated and structurally variegated housing-labour decoupling on now-epic proportions.

This book will be essential reading for informed audiences interested in housing, spatial planning, economic development and political economies, as well as questions of social, spatial and intergenerational justice. Besides researchers, policymakers and advocates, it will be postgraduate and undergraduate students who will benefit the most from compelling crisis (re)framing and original rethinking of affordable futures for people and places.

We live in an algorithmic society. Artificial Intelligence and algorithms have become the main mediators through which power and knowledge are enacted in our society. This book brings together three academic fields - Public Administration, Criminal Justice and Urban Governance - into a single conceptual framework, and offers a broad cultural-political analysis, addressing critical and ethical issues of AI and algorithms.

Governments are increasingly turning towards AI tools to predict criminality, deliver public services, allocate resources, and calculate recidivism rates. Mind-boggling amounts of data regarding our daily actions are analysed to make decisions that manage, control, and nudge our behaviour in everyday life. The contributions in this book offer a broad analysis of the mechanisms and social implications of algorithmic governance. Reporting from the cutting edge of scientific research, the result is illuminating and useful for understanding the relations between AI, power and knowledge.

This new revised and updated edition includes topics such as:

• Algorithmic governmentality
• Transparency and accountability
• Fairness in criminal justice and predictive policing
• Principles of good digital administration
• Digital sovereignty and responsible AI
• AI and the smart city

This book is essential reading for students and scholars of Sociology, Criminology, Public Administration, Political Sciences, and Cultural Theory interested in the integration of AI and algorithms into the governance of society.

Drawing on new research, practice, and, crucially, lived experience of community members, this innovative edited collection explores the higher education experiences of Traveller, Gypsy, and Roma students in the UK.

With carefully collated chapters written by a wide range of academics, researchers and teaching staff, non-government organisations (NGOs), university professional services staff, graduates and students, including those from Gypsy, Roma, Traveller, and Showmen communities, this book is a vital resource. It is a call for discussion and critical reflection on how Traveller, Gypsy, and Roma students access university and have a successful and positive experience whilst studying. Divided into two parts, the first part focuses on critically exploring understandings of Romani history and the Romani-Traveller community, whiteness, racialisation and racism, and primary and secondary education. The second part focuses on higher education in more depth including personal reflections on higher education experiences. It explores topics such as the neoliberal university and aspirations; Roma in higher education in Europe; decolonising the curriculum; widening access, participation and engagement; career guidance and distance learning.

This important resource will be of interest to researchers and academics in higher education and for those who are interested in social justice, anti-racism and equality more generally. Moreover, this book will generate discussion and reflection on how Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students can best be supported to access higher education and to have successful and positive experiences whilst at university.

This book offers a crucial and much-needed bridge between thematic analysis and mixed methods research. While both approaches are widely used and well served by existing methodological texts, no book-length work has yet examined how they are most effectively combined, despite thematic analysis frequently forming a core component of mixed methods studies.

Addressing this gap, this book provides a clear, accessible, conceptually rigorous and practically grounded account of thematic analysis as it is variously designed, conducted, and integrated within mixed methods research.

Written for advanced postgraduate and doctoral students as well as more experienced researchers, this book has strong interdisciplinary appeal and is intended to support readers in critically and confidently applying thematic analysis within mixed methods design.

Educational Leadership in a Turbulent Era brings together perspectives from a range of countries and across multiple education levels. Contributing authors examine how educational organisations and their leadership are increasingly being reshaped by rapidly changing social, political and organisational contexts. With a focus on educational leadership and futures frameworks, the evidence-based chapters consider leading through crises and political turbulence, leading for sustainability, technology and innovation, leader wellbeing and ethical, compassion-driven collaborative leadership approaches. Looking ahead, the book concludes by discussing the leadership domains and capabilities that will be required in the future, assessing implications for policy, research and practice.

This book is a highly relevant resource for scholars,students and practitioners of education, sociology and management. Its strategies for effective, adaptive management and leadership will also be invaluable for educational leaders in all settings from early childhood to tertiary education.

Exploring both large-scale and artisanal and small-scale mining and refining, Mol outlines how extraction network constellations are fundamentally changing and increasingly controlled by state-capital hegemonic powers. Chapters evaluate in-depth existing extraction practices and new extraction frontiers across Antarctica, Asia, Europe, South America and the deep sea, including mineral recycling performance and potential, to illustrate the mutual strengthening and trade-off between sustainability and mineral security in distinct geographies. The book ultimately highlights how extraction is both a cause and consequence of contemporary global volatility.

Extraction and Global Transformation provides valuable insights for scholars and students in environmental studies, geography and political and social sciences, especially those with an interest in geopolitics and resource sovereignty. The book is also beneficial for policymakers and industry practitioners seeking a comprehensive understanding of the topic.

Chapters integrate theory with practical frameworks and position reverse logistics as a strategic driver of value creation. These frameworks combine systems thinking with real world applications and engage with future avenues for responsible implementation. Chapters also highlight emerging technologies, including AI, humanoid robotics, as well as the managerial and policy implications of these tools. Ultimately, the book presents actionable insights for those seeking to embed sustainability into digital supply chain ecosystems.

Students and scholars of economics, business, and management, particularly those focusing on sustainable practices and seeking to further their understanding of smart technologies within supply chains, will greatly benefit from the book's detailed and conceptual approach. The book is equally valuable for practitioners and policymakers in digital transformation and management due to its practical insights.

The Essential Guide to Financial Independence blends corporate-level principles with personal finance, distilling decades of market experience into a practical, actionable guide for individuals seeking financial independence-demonstrating how the frameworks used by world's largest firms can be adapted to personal financial planning and work for anyone with disciplined execution.

The book empowers individuals to take control of their financial future through thoughtful planning, smart saving, and disciplined investing. It provides tools to understand income needs, build a sustainable finance portfolio, avoid common investing mistakes, and integrate financial decisions with broader life goals-ultimately helping readers or their clients create a balanced, purposeful life where money supports, rather than dictates, their choices. It enables you to:

* Construct a personalised financial plan tailored to your life goals.

* Determine how much you need to save for a secure retirement.

* Avoid the pitfalls of over-saving and missing out on meaningful life experiences.

* Above all, align your purpose in life with achieving financial independence and what you will do with it.

Independent Financial Advisors will find in-depth analysis, holistic frameworks and case studies that can enhance their professional practice and broaden their toolkit for advising clients. It also bridges the gap between professional finance and personal money management and offers actionable insights grounded in real-world financial practice for individual investors.

This accessible book introduces the fundamental principles of social psychology, providing an overview of this fascinating area in a jargon-free guide. The second edition of Social Psychology: The Basics explores some of the most important questions we face to understanding ourselves as individuals and part of a society.

Discussing the theory and science behind our understanding of how people relate to others, this book explores how we understand ourselves and others, how we relate at an individual and group levels, the key processes underpinning social influence, and how the discipline continues to evolve to face modern challenges. Fully revised in this second edition, the book includes greater focus on the application of social psychology in the real world, and new sections on values, extremism, misinformation, and the impact of new technologies.

Highlighting key issues, controversies, and applications, including case studies, questions, and biographies of important international figures in the discipline, this is the essential introduction for undergraduate students of psychology and anyone approaching social psychology for the first time.

This accessible and thought-provoking book offers a critical exploration of global health philanthropy, blending personal narrative with a rigorous examination of the field's challenges and opportunities. Grounded in the authors' decades of experience, Crossroads in Global Health reflects on the transformative power of medicine, the complexities of global health engagement, and the enduring human impulse to alleviate suffering. The authors examine the tension between short-term relief and durable system change, and show how reframing global health as a marketplace, powered by data, analytics, and AI, can better match resources to need and turn goodwill into measurable impact.

Key Features:

? Explores the history, evolution, and critiques of global health, with a focus on discrete philanthropic medical missions.

? Examines the landscape of global health needs and resources, shaped by logistics, incentives, and institutional structures.

? Reflects on the authors' personal journeys in global health, offering insights into the challenges and lessons learned from decades of experience.

? Proposes innovative approaches to harnessing data and technology to create a more efficient and accountable marketplace for global health philanthropy.

? Balances the importance of systemic solutions with the moral imperative of immediate care, emphasizing the enduring value of direct human connection in medicine.

Building on the authors' previous works, including the World Compendium of Healthcare Facilities and Nonprofit Organizations, this book is an essential resource for medical practitioners, academics, and professionals in the non-profit, public, and private sectors. It offers a compelling call to action for those seeking to make a meaningful impact in global health, while honoring the profound responsibility and transformative potential of the medical profession.

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the philosophy of translation and its concern with the problem of truth across the work of nine authors.

The volume is grounded in the idea of the philosophy of translation as the philosophical discourse about translation written within the European and Anglo-American traditions in the last two centuries. Each chapter presents the central tenets of one author on translation and the concepts of language and society underlying those tenets within the wider body of the author's work. The book examines the discipline's origins with Friedrich Schleiermacher. Subsequent sections explore the truth of art and hermeneutics as discussed by Walter Benjamin and Hans-Georg Gadamer, the problem of meaning and truth as conceived by W.V.O. Quine and Donald Davidson, and the political and ethical dimensions of translation as seen by Jacques Derrida and Barbara Cassin - with a brief consideration of translation theorists Antoine Berman and Henri Meschonnic. While translation theory focuses on the how of translation, the philosophy of translation explores the what of translation and, in turn, provides tools for future challenges.

This book will be of interest to scholars in translation studies and philosophy of language as well as to those working in the history of ideas, and the political theory of language.

Pulling together a range of responses to local and global challenges across different community settings, this book makes the case for community psychology as a responsive tool for social justice and liberation.

Using insights from both academia and professional practice, this book articulates key community psychology principles, practices and values and their role across 'psy' and related professions. It draws on case studies from both the global north and south to show innovative ways in which communities have collectively taken action to demonstrate resistance and resilience and describes creative psychological research methods that can be used to better understand and respond to the needs of communities. In so doing, it demonstrates the value of psychology which is both embedded within and reflective of its local community and challenges and extends our understanding of what psychology is, how it is produced and to whom it belongs. Each chapter is supported by teaching and learning activities, including reflective exercises, discussion questions, embodied activities, stakeholder assessments, case study formulations and presentations.

Demonstrating how community psychology can support activities with local community members through meaningful examples of community action embedded in research, this is the ideal resource for psychology students. It may also interest professionals working in related fields, including clinical psychology, counselling psychology, health psychology, social psychology, social work and youth work.

Leading scholars look beyond the artificial separation of macro and micro levels of enquiry ('society' and 'individual') to exemplify the methodologically plural approach that is characteristic of classical and contemporary biographical research. Chapters provide an interdisciplinary perspective, building bridges to other branches of sociology and different theoretical conceptions in order to broaden the horizon of biographical research.

The Handbook of Biographical Research in the Social Sciences is an essential resource for scholars and students of social policy, sociology, regional studies and qualitative research methods. Biographers and historical researchers will similarly benefit from its comprehensive overview of best practice approaches.