This book examines emerging human rights issues in Taiwan.

It comprehensively covers topics such as the #MeToo movement, the protection of health data, artificial intelligence, parental discipline, and the trans-species politics of gendered human rights and humanized animal welfare. Authored by both well-established scholars and emerging researchers, the book fills a critical gap in the English-language literature on human rights developments in Taiwan.

This book will be of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners in human rights law, East Asian studies, business and human rights, digital ethics, corporate responsibility, gender studies, the welfare stage and more broadly to political science, sociology, and global studies.

Does the upsurge in populism, authoritarianism, and nationalism threaten the future of the rule of law? In this highly topical book, Raymond Wacks explores the philosophical roots of the concept, and its modern, often controversial, interpretation.

He explores numerous ideological, economic, legal, and institutional attacks on the rule of law. They range from the exercise of judicial and administrative discretion, and parliamentary sovereignty to the growth of globalisation, the 'war on terror', and the increasing power of Big Tech and especially artificial intelligence. The author identifies which threats pose genuine risks to the rule of law, and suggests how they might be confronted to ensure that democratic freedom is successfully fortified and conserved.

This open access book studies the history of the island of Crete as a site of ethnic and religious mixing and reveals how this relates to modern day interest in pluralistic community formation.

Louis A Ruprecht Jr. explores the mixture of culture, traditions, languages, and religion in the Greek island of Crete to explore the idea that mixing creates both marvels and monsters. The book considers how all of the bodies living and mixing on Crete were caught up in ritual, ceremony, and contexts which can be identified as religious. Ruprecht explores archeology, literature, myths, and biblical stories, revealing how the history of mixing cultures and ideas in Crete, focusing mostly on Greek mythology and the early spread of Christianity. In essence, Ruprecht uses Crete's history as an example to show how we can live in mixed societies rather than amidst constant culture wars.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Emory University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Revealing how Heidegger's philosophy and the religious beliefs of Islam are fundamentally incompatible, this book challenges previous assumptions about Heidegger's relationship to Islam. This book takes the view that they in fact stand apart. A compelling and innovative comparison, this book explores how the two have been mistakenly woven together through the imaginations of certain scholars and how others continue to utilise Heidegger in that vein.

Exploring this, the book delivers an original study of Islam using Heidegger's philosophy. Starting from the premise that Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology establishes an important point of reference for thinking about society and politics as well as religion. Following this approach, this book analyses the thought of pivotal Muslim figures in relation to Heidegger's position to assess not whether they were "proto-Heideggerian" or "pseudo-Heideggerian" but rather to what extent these thinkers understood the problematics of religion, politics, and society as a hermeneutical problem.

A critical point of discussion for our age in light of the prominence of political Islam narrative, this book speaks to metaphysical blind spots of Islamic thought that have produced dangerous ideologies hostile to the West, which seem to reflect Heidegger's philosophy but are not based on it in reality.

Couple and Relationship Therapy: A Guide to Practice is a foundational guide exploring the actual practice of working with couples and relationships therapeutically distilled from the authors 40 years of experience.

This book addresses the complex, dynamic nature of couples and relationship therapy through case examples and theoretical reflection. It's not about the theory of couple and relationship therapy rather it's about how to think, manage and work with what turns up in the room. The authors original concepts drive the process of embedding learning concepts into practice and present a fresh and accessible approach to relationship therapy. It provides a straightforward, diverse, foundation of understanding to the reader of how to practically work within this field and will be an invaluable asset to existing and training relationship therapists.

A clear and accessible foundational guide aimed at new trainee therapists and counsellors in both individual and relationship work, counsellors and therapists considering extending to couple work and for more experienced counsellors wanting to revisit the basics.

This guide provides practical strategies for international students to overcome language and socio-cultural barriers, improve language proficiency, address cultural adaptation challenges, and strengthen academic and professional communication.

Intended to supplement university-provided orientation materials at English-language universities, the book combines theoretical insights with practical, actionable advice that focuses on international students' unique communication challenges. It treats communication as a learnable skill built through practice across every part of campus life, from a first hello to a job interview. Eight chapters carry the reader from the first weeks abroad (including the "arrival cliff") through relationship-building, classroom participation, social support, and career launch. The book is grounded in current research and anchored in real student stories. Frameworks like the S.P.A.C.E. method for starting conversations give readers tools they can use and return to. It names accent bias directly; engages with xenophobia and the immigration climate; and treats neurodivergence, LGBTQ+ identity, and mental health as layered realities for international students rather than as footnotes. It also shows, with worked examples, how to use generative AI ethically to improve academic and professional communication.

This is an accessible book tailored to international students and the faculty, advisors, and counselors who support them.

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.

Key Features:

• Enables readers to locate and extract core passages from the ECtHR's procedural case-law
• Presents case-law pertaining to cross-cutting matters emerging from the Court's case-law that have implications across the Convention system
• Traces the lines of jurisprudence and the evolution of Strasbourg case-law from its inception in 1961 to the present
• Systematically analyses specific provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights from the perspective of the Court's case-law, cutting through peripheral detail to consolidate the most critical legal information

The European Convention on Human Rights: Volume II, Procedure is an essential resource for legal practitioners and scholars needing to understand the Court's position on procedure, and forms an ideal companion to The European Convention on Human Rights: Volume I, Substantive Rights.

The book will compare and contrast the key problems associated with the planning and implementation of major road investments in selected Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries: Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania.

The CEE countries serve as an excellent research field, as no group of states in history has ever had access to such substantial external funding for infrastructure development within a short time frame. At the same time, investment outcomes have varied significantly across individual countries. Spatial planning systems are often cited as one of the factors determining the scale and pace of transport investments.

This book will provide a synthetic analysis of the planning considerations involved in the implementation and execution of major road investments. This book will be relevant to academics and students interested in spatial planning and major road investments in Europe.

Global in scope, the Research Handbook observes regional challenges, technological developments and key operational issues. Chapters evaluate strategic and operational management perspectives, conduct an in-depth analysis of vertical and horizontal integration strategies in the container shipping industry, and address sustainability and technology development in a shipping and port context, among others. They explore whether the study of maritime logistics is currently undergoing a Kuhnian paradigm shift and conclude by considering future directions for the discipline.

The Research Handbook on Maritime Logistics is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of logistics, supply chain management and operations. Its discussions on ongoing debates and key actors within the sector will also benefit practitioners in business and management and public policy.

One of the few Mexican American women philosophers across the United States and Mexico redefines philosophy and pedagogy through a groundbreaking exploration of identity, culture, and language.

For more than two decades, Manuela Alejandra Gomez has been teaching on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. In the first book of its kind to critically analyze how Mexican Americans connect to philosophy she draws on a five-year study, her experience, ethnographic observations and testimonios to show a constant navigation between two nations, two cultures, and two languages.

Leading us through this complex negotiation of intersecting worlds, Gomez explores how to teach and learn philosophy from a Mexican American perspective. She makes us question what it means to be a philosopher, challenges conventions about what it truly means to philosophize and redefines the boundaries of philosophical thought: her aim is to add a new chapter in the narrative of academic inclusion and diversity that makes more room for Mexican American perspectives.

Reimagining and broadening the parameters of philosophy, she offers invaluable pedagogical insights, providing a rich and practical roadmap to more effective teaching methods, while empowering students through the recognition of their identities.

In the United States, more women and students of color are going to college than ever before, but philosophy as an academic field continues to be one of the least diverse and untouched by their vantage points. This much-needed book marks an important contribution to local and culturally informed ways of teaching and learning.

A Psychoanalytic Quintet of Exile and Trauma is an exploration of trauma, exile, and the transformative power of storytelling through the lens of psychoanalytic theory.

Structured as a triptych, the book follows Adam, a man navigating the emotional landscapes of displacement and inherited grief. Drawing on concepts such as Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok's "crypt" theory, Melanie Klein's "depressive position", and Donald Winnicott's "potential space", the narrative intertwines clinical theory with "fictional authenticity". Adam's journey unfolds through fragmented memories, journal entries, and moments of psychological collapse, ultimately revealing how trauma can be symbolized rather than erased. The act of writing becomes a therapeutic gesture, transforming ancestral silence into a coherent narrative of self-repair and resilience.

This book is an essential resource for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and scholars in trauma studies and the humanities, offering a nuanced perspective on transgenerational trauma and the unconscious. It will also resonate with social scientists, narrative researchers, and students of clinical literature seeking to explore the intersection of storytelling and therapeutic practice. With its international appeal, the work bridges academic discourse and creative testimony, making it a valuable addition to university courses and professional libraries alike.

Exploring trends across age and gender, Signorella goes beyond simply assessing stereotype flexibility to address sexism and judgments of gender norm violations. The book examines methods employed when asking children about stereotypes and thoughtfully considers the ethical ramifications of exposing them to these ideas in research. Incorporating recent insights from across the globe to highlight findings and omissions in reporting, Signorella presents crucial new avenues for future progress in gender development scholarship.

Rethinking Children's Gender-Related Attitudes is an essential read for developmental and social psychologists researching gender development and norm development more broadly. Through its comprehensive critical analysis and meta-analysis, this book will also benefit scholars and students of psychology interested in gender studies, women's studies, and children's studies.

Tuori investigates the role of the Commission in assisting with constitution-making in post-socialist countries, before assessing diplomacy and rule-of-law regression constitutional auditing following the break-up of Yugoslavia. Chapters examine the Commission's activities and doctrine through a political lens, illustrated by timely case studies focusing on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Tuerkiye and Ukraine. The book dissects the relationship between the Commission's success and its inclusion in CoE and EU conditionality and monitoring, blurring the boundary between soft and hard law.

The Venice Commission is a crucial resource for students and scholars of constitutional and administrative law and human rights. The insights are also invaluable to legal practitioners, especially those with an interest in consulting and rule-of-law monitoring.

This book uses Edouard Glissant's concept of the transfer and the transplant to examine Jacques Derrida and Albert Memmi's distinctive relationships to French colonialism.

Both the transfer and the transplant undertake the work of reconciling oneself with the place of first habitation, the process of dislocation, and the new place of habitation. In Glissant's definition, the transplant makes an effort to maintain the culture of first place of habitation, while the transfer attempts to form a relationship with the new place of habitation. The essays featured in this volume designate Memmi, the Tunisian, as the transplant while Derrida, the Algerian, struggles with the difficulties of the transfer. By engaging with the work of these three figures, this book presents a triangulation of Mediterranean-Atlantic-metropolitan French philosophical thought.

This book offers valuable insights into the evolving landscape of human communication shaped by AI and persuasive technologies, and their use in facilitating and enhancing communication processes.

Highlighting the central role of communication in utilizing persuasive technologies to analyze human behaviors, interpersonal communication, and cognitive processes, the book sheds light on the profound impact of AI communication on individuals and their society. First critically presenting and examining the foundational theories and principles that form the bedrock of persuasive technology, the book then moves to explore AI equality and other ethical considerations - including privacy concerns, data security, manipulation, and trustworthiness in AI systems - as well as the broader societal impacts of AI communication in areas such as health care, politics, marketing, and social media, shedding light on its implications for our digital society.

This book will be an interdisciplinary resource for researchers and students in communication studies, information sciences and business, specifically those working on human-computer interaction, social media communication, social media for social change, and digital media and society.

American Freedom: The Basics explores ideals of freedom as they have been conceived, debated, practiced, and struggled for in the United States from the Revolutionary War to the present day.

Across ten chapters, the book addresses these core concepts: the nation's revolutionary ideals and actualities; slavery and emancipation; and territorial expansion and demographic change. It goes on to discuss economic liberty, Native American survivance, women's liberty and other modern freedom movements, finally addressing the issues around guns and freedom, American incarceration, and freedom across the Information Age. Taken together, these chapters offer an introduction to the subject of American freedom that charts - and reveals intersections between - critical ideas, events, figures, and cultural phenomena. The book provides an orienting view useful in guiding future explorations, along with a compelling sense of why such explorations matter. Examining ideals of freedom brings us to the center of debates about what being an American has meant - and might yet mean. Those debates are, this book argues, intensely vital and relevant today.

Readable and concise, featuring chapter summaries and discussion questions, this book will be useful for undergraduate students of American History, American Politics, American Cultural Studies, and American Literature.

While scholarship on the Armenian Genocide has expanded significantly in recent years, the history of the concentration camps in present-day Syria, where Ottoman authorities deported Armenians during the death marches, remains largely understudied.


This is the first book to offer an in-depth and multifaceted examination of these camps. The chapters trace the origins and development of the camp system and document the atrocities committed at infamous sites such as Deir ez-Zor, Ras al-Ain, Meskene and others. Contributors explore the brutal realities of daily life in the camps, the interactions between deportees and local populations, as well as the ways in which some Armenians managed to resist and survive against overwhelming odds. Combining a comparative perspective that situates the camps within a global context with detailed analyses of specific locations, this volume provides critical new insights into the operation and function of concentration camps during the Armenian Genocide.