Chinese international students contribute billions to U.S. universities but face an "invisible tax" of institutional neglect. This mixed-method study reveals that campus climate, rather than formal support services, shapes student wellbeing, exposing how universities profit while undervaluing students' cultural and social capital.

The internationalization of U.S. higher education has generated significant economic gains, yet these revenue-generating students often encounter institutional climates that marginalize their contributions while exploiting their presence-a phenomenon termed the "invisible tax." Drawing on Bourdieu's relational sociology alongside critical race and organizational theories, this book shifts the focus from deficit-based narratives to institutional accountability. It offers an evidence-based framework for fostering inclusive campus environments that value the capital international students bring.

The book is an essential resource for researchers, academics, and graduate students in international education, higher education studies, and organizational behavior, particularly those examining policy volatility, institutional support systems, and student wellbeing.

India accounts for 20% of the global disease burden despite having only 17% of the world's population, underscoring the critical need for effective health communication. This volume delves into how the world's most populous democracy addresses health communication challenges across its vast linguistic, cultural, and socio-economic diversity, offering vital insights for global health practitioners.

Organized into three parts, the book traces the evolution of health communication in India. The first part establishes theoretical foundations from psychology, sociology, and mass communication that shape Indian practices. The second examines specific diseases-cancer, tuberculosis, leprosy, and COVID-19-through traditional media such as print, broadcast, and film. The third explores cutting-edge digital advancements, including mHealth tools for primary health workers, artificial intelligence, and the growing challenge of health misinformation. Featuring contributions from national and international scholars, practitioners, journalists, NGO workers, and a bureaucrat, the book presents diverse perspectives. Case studies highlight innovative approaches like Positive Deviance for malnutrition, destigmatization campaigns for leprosy, and patient navigation systems that enhance provider-patient communication.

As India confronts persistent health inequities alongside notable achievements, this volume is essential for postgraduate students, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, journalists, and government officials. This will be of interest to those in the fields of health communication, public health, digital health and technology, journalism, media studies, sociology of health and illness, and psychology.

Key Features:

• Provides key information for courts and related parties in facilitating informed choices and reducing litigation risks
• Adopts a practitioner-oriented structure, enabling quick identification of choice-of-court and choice-of-law options
• Presents structured chapters from across 26 European jurisdictions to provide a comparative overview of EU and national PIL
• Systematically integrates EU and national PIL, including Brussels IIter, Rome III, Maintenance Regulation and property regimes
• Addresses pressing issues including divorce, separation, maintenance, property and pension rights for married couples, registered partnerships, same-sex marriages and informal relationships

This Comparative Guide is an essential resource for practitioners of European family law, private international law and cross-border dispute resolution. Policymakers in EU institutions as well as legal scholars will benefit from its comprehensive analysis and actionable approaches.

The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics provides a clear and up-to-date overview of contemporary developments in the field, exploring the current role of Spanish as an international language used across academic, social, and professional activities. Now in a fully revised edition, it highlights new areas of interdisciplinary research as well as the fast-paced worldwide growth of the Spanish language.

Under Lacorte's editorship, this handbook is firmly grounded in a notion of applied linguistics as an autonomous scientific field that addresses language-based issues and problems in real-world contexts. Specifically, the volume:

• covers key areas in Hispanic applied linguistics including teaching and learning Spanish as a second language (L2), Spanish in the professions, discourse analysis, and social and political issues related to the Spanish language;
• provides state-of-the-art knowledge contributed by prominent scholars and researchers from institutions around the world;
• offers a multidisciplinary approach written in English to the analysis and resolution of language-based issues in Spanish-speaking environments;
• addresses the increasingly varied needs of graduates in Hispanic linguistics, noting how they run in parallel to the study of practical applications of Spanish.

Across forty chapters, contributors identify growing opportunities for Spanish graduates in various areas, including teaching, translation and interpretation, language program administration, instructional technology, and content creation.

Wide-encompassing and future-oriented, this handbook is an ideal resource for students and researchers of the Spanish language and applied linguistics as well as teachers and professionals.

The Syntax of Dutch presents a synthesis of current thinking on Dutch syntax. Its principal focus is on describing the Dutch language; technical issues related to linguistic theory are addressed only if new light is shed on the subject.

The work is organized around the four lexical categories verbs (volumes 1-3),nouns (volumes 4-5), adjectives (volume 6), and adpositions (volume 7). It includes a general introduction to the semantic, morphological, and syntactic properties of these categories, their argument structure, their modification possibilities, and issues related to word order. The functional categories (determiners, complementizers, etc.) are discussed in relation to the lexical categories with which they occur. Volume 8 concludes the work by considering a number of issues that extend beyond proper sentence grammar: main-clause external elements, coordination, and ellipsis.

The Syntax of Dutch will be an indispensable resource for researchers and advanced students of languages and linguistics interested in the Dutch language.

Rejecting the view that liberal individualism is to blame for the rise of authoritarian governments, Vibert points instead to the way in which markets and political institutions are challenged by the superabundance of information associated with the information age. Chapters decry neo-liberalism and post-liberal theory as misrepresentations of the liberal tradition and advocate for narrowly defined constitutional processes as opposed to constitutional declarations. Emphasising the importance of liberal values such as tolerance, moderation, accommodation and harmony, the book warns against political forces which encourage a divisional 'them versus us' culture.

The Liberal Tradition and Political Order is an essential resource for scholars and students of politics and public policy, constitutions and political theory. Think tank professionals and NGO workers will similarly benefit from its actionable approach to preempting modern authoritarian movements.

The Syntax of Dutch presents a synthesis of current thinking on Dutch syntax. Its principal focus is on describing the Dutch language; technical issues related to linguistic theory are addressed only if new light is shed on the subject.

The work is organized around the four lexical categories verbs (volumes 1-3),nouns (volumes 4-5), adjectives (volume 6), and adpositions (volume 7). It includes a general introduction to the semantic, morphological, and syntactic properties of these categories, their argument structure, their modification possibilities, and issues related to word order. The functional categories (determiners, complementizers, etc.) are discussed in relation to the lexical categories with which they occur. Volume 8 concludes the work by considering a number of issues that extend beyond proper sentence grammar: main-clause external elements, coordination, and ellipsis.

The Syntax of Dutch will be an indispensable resource for researchers and advanced students of languages and linguistics interested in the Dutch language.

Taking into account sociological, anthropological, and historical considerations, this novel volume offers a history and ethnography of Hare Krishnas in the People's Republic of China (PRC), challenging assumptions about both devotees themselves and the institution to which they belong: the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).

Drawing on a rich compendium of English- and Chinese-language sources, including archived recordings and interviews carried out through multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, chapters explore how Chinese Hare Krishnas maintain their religious practice despite social opposition and describe the role of collective emotions and affective synchronization in strengthening the faith of devotees. The book identifies strategies ISKCON members use to position their tradition and proselytize within China, contextualizing these methods among a broader consideration of how practitioners of unofficial religions in the country conduct outreach differently from those belonging to state-sanctioned ones. The book contributes to a more comprehensive picture of religion in the PRC, broadening the traditional body of knowledge based primarily on ethnographic data collected before the Xi Era from the five religions officially recognized by the Chinese state.

The book will be of value to scholars and researchers in the fields of religious studies, East Asian studies, and anthropology.

Latin American Conservatism and the Rise of the Far Right is a comparative study that focuses on contemporary conservatism in Latin America and its historical development, seeking to identify and analyze dialogues, similarities, and differences between countries in the Global South and North, as well as their interactions with former colonial powers.

Scholars of modern conservatism and right-wing ideologies in Latin America have focused on profound changes since the Second World War, especially the close ideological and material connections between (neo)conservatism and neoliberal ideology, and more recently, the influence on conservatives and conservatism of far-right populist movements. Through contributions from specialists in several Latin American countries, this book shows how conservative ideology has evolved since the nineteenth century in response to challenges from both the political right and the left. This study reveals that contemporary movements, fueled by populism, social media, and transnational influences, represent a new manifestation of a long-standing dilemma for Latin American conservatives, whose primary concerns have always been social, cultural, and political stability in a context where the legacy of the past is itself a potent source of division. To deepen understanding of the historical and ideological context, this book includes chapters on Portugal, Spain, and the United States.

Offering a highly distinctive approach to the study of ideology in historical and contemporary contexts, Latin American Conservatism and the Rise of the Far Right provides valuable insight for students of History, International Relations, Political Science, and Latin American Studies.

In Curved Being, Knowing, and Ethics in Psychoanalysis, Todd Anderson develops a Moebius model of analytic life in which knowing and being fold continuously into one another.

The book explores how ethical orientation arises within the curved structure of analytic perception itself, where epistemology and ontology invert through recursive movement. Drawing on Winnicott, Loewald, Levinas, Derrida, and contemporary relational psychoanalysis, Anderson develops a curved topology of analytic experience in which subject and object emerge as Moebius inflections within a shared field. Clinical vignettes, philosophical reflections, and engagements with music and aesthetic form demonstrate how paradox operates as a generative condition of analytic life rather than a problem to be resolved.

By reframing psychoanalysis through topology and ethical relation, Curved Being, Knowing, and Ethics in Psychoanalysis offers clinicians and theorists a new vocabulary for working with uncertainty and symbolic remainder while remaining grounded in the immediacy of the analytic encounter.

Munshi provides a comprehensive analysis of the inherent dynamics and emerging challenges in Bangladesh's labour market.

Beginning with an overview of the country's labour market conditions and regulations, it examines the current issues through dedicated chapters on youth unemployment, international migration, female labour force participation, child labour, and the future of work. The analysis is grounded in empirical evidence and data, including figures from Labour Force Surveys and Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS), to offer evidence-based policy recommendations for addressing labour market challenges. A concise chapter also explores the conditions of Bangladesh's garment sector, a key export industry.

Combining empirical analysis with policy recommendations, this book will appeal to policymakers and scholars in development studies, labour economics, and South Asian studies.

The Strategic Manager provides a comprehensive, clear, and applied insight in strategic management. Unlike more theory-heavy texts, this book focuses on how strategy works in everyday practice, taking readers' expectations and understanding beyond that of strategy as a matter of planning only. It enables the reader to learn and reflect upon their practical skills and knowledge and critically evaluate the strategy process and their own strategic decision-making.

The book is based around six different strategy theories, individually presented and supplemented with useful lists of questions that encourage readers to become competent strategic thinkers. This fourth edition has been fully updated throughout, including fresh case studies and examples ranging across a broader range of regions, as well as additional illustrations and fresh material considering the strategic implications and applications of new technologies, particularly AI. Chapters on industrial organization and institutional theory have been significantly expanded upon, with the final chapter including an updated framework on institutional theory perspective.

Essential reading for postgraduate students of strategic management, MBA students, and those in executive education, this text will also be a useful tool for reflective managers trying to develop a better understanding. Online resources include PowerPoint slides.

AI for Marketing: The Consumer Perspective examines the human side of AI adoption at a moment when technology is advancing faster than consumer comfort. While millions use AI to search, plan, create and make decisions, trust remains fragile. This book explains why that gap persists and what it means for marketers trying to reach audiences who are both curious and cautious.

Drawing on proprietary research, global studies and behavioral science, the book maps the key barriers marketers must navigate: concerns about accuracy, authenticity, privacy, loss of control and systemic biases. It also identifies the consumer segments most open to AI-enabled products and messaging, including caregivers, multilinguals, sustainability enthusiasts and personalization seekers.

The book offers marketers practical guidance on designing AI-powered experiences that are credible, equitable and human-led. It shows how trust can be built into every touchpoint - from onboarding and data exchange to content creation and customer service - and why doing so is essential for adoption and long-term loyalty.

This book examines how AI in employment can lead to sex discrimination and sets out a legal response through analysis and reform.

The risk of sex discrimination in employment is being driven by the increasing use of artificial intelligence. While AI promises efficiency and economic value, its application in employment decision-making, from job advertising to recruitment and performance evaluations, can unintentionally perpetuate or even exacerbate existing sex discrimination. This book examines how AI across the employment lifecycle contributes to sex discrimination and assesses whether current UK legal frameworks are sufficient to address this emerging risk. It provides a detailed analysis of the Equality Act 2010 and data protection law. Drawing on comparative insights from EU and US law, the book proposes comprehensive legal reforms to both regulatory frameworks and substantive law, with the aim of ensuring that AI technologies promote fairness, equality, and transparency in employment.

The book will be of interest to researchers in the field of discrimination law, data protection law, employment law, and artificial intelligence.

This book encourages higher education administrators and educators to think in new ways about how to work inclusively with disabled students and examines the way inherent requirements are used in universities to ensure the integrity of their academic courses.

With the aim of influencing change in higher education policy and practice, the authors explain how inherent requirements, as they are currently deployed, lead to marginalisation and discrimination. Moving away from medicalised, deficit-based views, they introduce cutting-edge theories as alternate ways of knowing and engaging with difference in order to advance inclusive higher education policy and practice.

This indispensable resource is a key reference for higher education researchers, administrators and educators.

Work Automation with R provides a solid framework on how to automate tasks and workflows in the workplace with R. This book introduces the most common components used in R automation, one by one, and then shows how to combine them to tackle real-world tasks.

The reader can jump to any chapter to explore solutions or best practices for specific tasks or read the book in chronological order if they are just starting a new automation project. Each chapter begins with a common data task and explores key concepts and multiple solutions using R packages. The author presents a range of solutions as there are often multiple ways to solve the same problem, with the different options have been compared along with key functions discussed in each, and reproducible examples have also been provided.

Aimed at business professionals and data practitioners who want to automate their work, the book assumes a basic working knowledge of R, including writing and running scripts, and performing common data tasks such as importing, transforming, and summarizing data. It also assumes a willingness to write small helper functions to automate repeated steps. Experience with Quarto or R Markdown is helpful but not required. Key tools and patterns are introduced as needed in end-to-end automation examples.

Key Features:

* Offers task-focused resources to smooth automation development.

* Helps identify and minimize common roadblocks that might impact progress.

* Establishes a reproducible workflow of automating tasks with R in a business setting.