An inspirational guide to discussing and fighting climate change for millennial and GenZ voters that cuts through the usual myths and scare tactics to provide practical advice.

Will Hackman is a Millennial, and he is pissed. Two wars, two global economic catastrophes, and a pandemic combined with a ballooning cost-of-living crisis and crushing student loan debt can do that to a person. But there's one thing that compounds these challenges that is unequaled in human history: the ticking time bomb of fossil fuel emissions. Millennials and Gen-Zers will be left to deal with the worst of the climate change fallout well after those responsible have passed away. And we have never been more divided.

In Radically Reframing Climate Change: A Guide to Saving Ourselves, Will Hackman identifies three main obstacles to solving climate change: polarization, paralysis, and stale, ineffective messaging. He empowers readers to turn their anxiety or apathy into passion, and anger into action at the personal, community, and government levels. The climate rallying cries to "Save the Planet" no longer work in our hyper-partisan world, nor do images of polar bears on melting glaciers. The problem isn't scientific, fact-based, or even technological. It's political, emotional, and ideological. Hackman provides a path forward for engagement and voter mobilization that combats apathy, dread, and resentment, and builds greater issue identification.

Hackman reframes the climate crisis as a humanity crisis, arguing that we must change how we think and talk about climate change, both in our conversations with non-believers and among those who care. Assuring humanity's place on a changing planet will require a near universal level of public support we will never reach if we keep making the same mistakes. We know how to do this. But the stakes have never been higher and time is running out.

Institutional Entrepreneurship in African Fintech explores how technology ventures build legitimacy, navigate institutional voids, and sustain growth in Africa's fast-evolving financial landscape.

Blending scholarly insight with practical application, it introduces the Change Readiness Framework, which highlights three essential entrepreneurial capabilities-Customer Orientation, Collectivism, and Commitment to Impact-and seven corresponding pillars of institutional entrepreneurship. Together, these elements offer a grounded model for understanding how African innovators transform fragmented systems into functional markets.

Drawing on original fieldwork and case studies across the continent, the book bridges academic rigor and practical relevance, offering scholars, entrepreneurs, investors and policymakers a blueprint for studying, building and funding trustworthy, scalable, and socially grounded innovation ecosystems.

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For decades, political science has been trapped in a game of labeling, endlessly searching for the next dominant "model" of party organization. This book argues that this fixation on static ideal types is a theoretical dead end, as it obscures the messy, non-linear reality of how parties actually change.

Moving beyond the "teleological trap" of evolutionary models, this book proposes a new dynamic framework to trace party transformation across 11 European democracies over the last half-century. It reveals that parties are not converging into a new stable form, but are suffering a shared process of decay: disintermediation. The traditional bridge between leaders and society has collapsed, leaving behind a "void" filled by consultants and state funds. This book offers a vital roadmap for understanding this crisis, showing that the era of party models is over, and the age of disintermediation has begun.

Designed to align perfectly with the new Edexcel Politics A-Level specification, this new essential textbook offers students everything they need to succeed in their Global Politics exam in component 3 of the A-level course. It covers all of the core topics in global politics, from the impact of globalisation to the different areas of global governance, and shows students how to apply the relevant IR theories and perspectives to these topics.

With a focus on exam success throughout, the book offers:

- Exam-focused pedagogical features - including exam tips, exam-style questions, summaries of key questions and debates, and timelines of key historical events
- Perfect alignment with the Edexcel specification, with a specification checklist at the beginning of each chapter and key specification terms highlighted and defined throughout
- Lots of case studies based on significant recent events, with more available to download from the companion website
- A separate exam skills chapter, offering advice on exam technique, including best practice examples, explaining the new assessment objectives and showing how to incorporate these into essays
- An extensive companion website with essay planning templates, a specification matching chart, downloadable cases and questions, revision planning resources and much more.

Essentials of Global Politics brings this fascinating subject to life, enabling students to engage with the key debates in the area and providing them with the necessary skills, tools and knowledge to perform their best in their exams.

This book examines and critiques Steve Fuller's social epistemology on his study of four ways to understand the nature of post-truth: way one's understanding is an epistemic crisis in which emotion has taken over and facts are irrelevant; way two's understanding is a legitimation crisis of cognitive authority of science on the legitimation and delegitimation of knowledge claims; way three's understanding is the Internet and social media have led to the democratization of knowledge; way four's understanding is the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the changing boundaries of the knower.

Though Fuller is known for his early social epistemology on how knowledge should be organized, and for his later social epistemology on a post-human future and the impact of AI on the changing boundaries of the knower, his position on the nature of post-truth brings together his early and later social epistemology into a coherent project. This book situates and carefully addresses the critics of Fuller's work in the context of ongoing crises of authority in science and technology studies, expertise, the university, democracy, and the mass media.

This textbook provides an insightful exploration of the transformative power of lifelong learning in today's digital era-an age characterized by liquid modernity. It serves as both a comprehensive instructional resource and an academic reference for researchers, offering a plethora of novel topics that span various dimensions of learning, including emotional, motivational, cognitive, metacognitive, attitudinal, social and paradigmatic facets. The issues relevant to digital literacy and technological advancements in the lifelong learning journey in liquid times are further discussed. The book also delves into the challenges and barriers individuals may face in their lifelong learning journeys and provide strategies to overcome them. The closing of each chapter encourages deep personal reflection by posing a number of thought-provoking questions and points, fostering a deeper connection to the material and individualized learning experiences. This text is a resource for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, and researchers in various branches of education, including teacher education, educational studies, second and foreign language learning and teaching, and more.

This volume brings together academics and practitioners to discuss the nexus between populism and global politics. While the rise of populist domestic politics has been the subject of significant discussion, the international links and networks of populism receives much less attention. In today's globalised world, however, populism, cannot be fully understood without exploring its international and transational dimensions. First, it is clear populist movements and leaders identify with each other and often support each other in election campaigns. Second, it is evident that many of the demands voiced by populist parties and leaders have a foreign policy or international component. The book seeks to address this anomaly by exploring such themes as the common language and narratives of populism; the recurrent causes and drivers of populism; the use of case studies to illustrate the populist experience in countries like Brazil, USA, Germany and New Zealand; and the uneasy relationship between populism and the international rules-based order.

Technological and scientific innovation does not simply emerge; it is designed. From organizational systems and data infrastructures to platforms, policies, and everyday tools, design choices shape how power operates, whose knowledge counts, and who benefits from innovation. Technology, Management, and Design for Social Justice brings together global scholars and practitioners to critically examine how design, management, and technological systems reproduce inequality, and how they can be intentionally reimagined to advance equity, dignity, and planetary wellbeing.

Moving beyond views of technology as neutral or inevitable, this volume positions design as a moral and political practice embedded in institutions and governance. Through conceptual frameworks and global case studies spanning algorithmic management, climate-oriented innovation, indigenous digital infrastructures, youth innovation ecosystems, and welfare technologies, the chapters show how justice is designed into (or out of) sociotechnical systems.

Written for scholars, advanced students, and practitioners across management, design studies, science and technology studies, and social justice, this book offers critical tools for rethinking how innovation is shaped, and for whom.

This book addresses a growing and urgent educational challenge: equipping students and educators with the knowledge and critical tools needed to understand and navigate the complex world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Drawing on digital literacy education and the ethics of digital media, it adopts an interdisciplinary approach to combine theoretical insights with practical instructional strategies for teaching about AI. Designed with school-age learners in mind, the book includes a wide range of methodologies, such as Philosophy for Children, Inquiry-Based Learning, gamification to offer concrete, adaptable classroom activities suitable for diverse age groups and educational settings.

Responding to the increasing demand from policymakers and educators for clearer guidance on AI education, the book promotes an approach grounded in awareness, inclusion, and responsibility. Structured around the four key dimensions of AI literacy (cognitive, operational, critical, and ethical), it provides a coherent and comprehensive learning pathway that extends beyond technical skills to foster critical thinking, ethical reflection, and democratic participation.

Filling a significant gap in the current literature, this project delivers a practical educational toolkit for schools and teachers, supporting students not only in using AI, but also in questioning, critically evaluating, and shaping its development in alignment with human and civic values. In doing so, it contributes to the growth of informed and responsible digital citizenship.

This book presents a new vision of Keynesian macroeconomics for readers seeking a rigorous yet intuitive understanding of economic stability and fluctuation. Moving beyond representative-agent models, it develops a monetary production economy in which firms adjust investment through confidence, coordination, and institutional constraints. The economy evolves through a sequence of short-period equilibria and stabilizes within a "corridor" shaped by real anchors, nominal rigidities, and financial structure.

Combining evolutionary investment dynamics, fairness-based wage setting, and a 100-percent-reserve monetary framework, the book offers a unified analysis of money, capital accumulation, and expectations. Rather than viewing instability as inherent indeterminacy, it highlights boundary proximity-how repeated encounters with institutional limits generate inflationary and deflationary pressures. The framework reconciles long-run monetary neutrality with persistent Keynesian asymmetries and provides new insights into classic debates associated with Keynes, Wicksell, Fisher, and Tobin.

Written for researchers and advanced students in macroeconomics, the book bridges formal analytical methods with economic intuition. It invites readers to rethink macroeconomic policy not as short-term demand management but as the design of institutions that contain fluctuations and sustain stability over time.

This book addresses the issue of climate change in Latin America from an intersectional perspective, making women visible as agents of change. By placing gender at the heart of the ecological debate, the book denounces the multiple layers of vulnerability faced by women and proposes a model of resilience and social transformation led by women. In a time of climate emergency, growing inequality, and the need for systemic solutions, this book calls for rethinking our relationships with the environment, recognising the transformative power of historically marginalised voices, and building coalitions that transcend geographical, cultural, and gender boundaries. It will be of interest to researchers in gender studies, ecofeminism, environmental justice, and Latin American studies.

This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of how complexity emerges, transforms, and accelerates across the entire 13.8-billion-year history of the Universe. It brings together chapters from leading researchers to explore the deep structure of complexity-from cosmic origins and planetary evolution to biological innovation, human development, civilizational dynamics, and possible future trajectories.

Notably, several chapters bridge multiple phases of Big History, providing valuable cross-disciplinary insights-such as comparisons between cosmic and terrestrial evolution and analyses of energy dissipation across physical and complex adaptive systems.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of complexity's manifestations and transformations across time and scale. By exploring these diverse topics, the book contributes to the broader field of Big History, deepening our understanding of complexity's interconnected nature across the cosmos, life, and human civilization.

As marketing scholars, it is important to advocate for a return to the foundational principles of marketing with an approach that emphasizes the relevance and relationship of marketing research with industry while maintaining academic rigor. By doing so, we ensure our research remains impactful and addresses the practical needs of marketers, as well as contributing to the advancement of marketing knowledge. This conference proceedings focuses on re-visiting the foundational principles, history, and core purpose of marketing as a discipline and making marketing more meaningful. Featuring full papers presented at the 2025 Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, this book offers research, theories, methodologies, and case studies that align the foundations of marketing research with pressing societal needs and global challenges to demonstrate marketing research's continued relevance and its societal and social impact. Featuring topics such as human-AI interaction, consumer experience, sensory marketing communications, sustainability, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), influencer marketing, AI in advertising, social and multi media, emerging technologies, among others, this book is a useful reference for marketing researchers, scholars, students, and policymakers.

Founded in 1971, the Academy of Marketing Science is an international organization dedicated to promoting timely explorations of phenomena related to the science of marketing in theory, research, and practice. Among its services to members and the community at large, the Academy offers conferences, congresses, and symposia that attract delegates from around the world. Presentations from these events are published in this Proceedings series, which offers a comprehensive archive of volumes reflecting the evolution of the field. Volumes deliver cutting-edge research and insights, complementing the Academy's flagship journals, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) and AMS Review.

Both theoretical and narrative, the book draws on the author's long experience as a mediator and counselor to examine the ways in which members of society are dehumanized by institutional oppression and contribute to that system.

At the place where personal identity and institutional oppression meet there lie reasons beyond morality for all people, especially those with apparent privilege, to resist inequities based in race, gender, class or generation. Reclaiming Humanity explores the psychological and political ways modern individuals become dehumanized, even as we are recruited into systems that dehumanize others. Through stories of personal exploration and learning, the book delves into dynamics by which we consent to systems that deprive us of well-being. Reclaiming Humanity then moves beyond understanding how profoundly we've lost the art of community connection to open up creative visions of a truly humane social order. Through these narratives and explorations, the work discusses practical directions for mediators, activists, and other seekers after justice.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Identity and Portrayal explores the complex relationship between humans and environment through diverse disciplinary perspectives. It examines how we construct environmental identities and represent our surroundings across multiple domains.
The book begins with food production narratives and animal welfare implications before exploring the military's unexpected role in climate change mitigation. Linguistic analyses reveal how language frames landscapes as sentient entities, while technological chapters investigate digital innovation in conservation.
Legal examinations cover hazardous waste regulations, sustainable development, and water rights, with Morocco serving as a case study. Historical analyses of forest management in India provide context alongside studies of hunted animal portrayals on social media.
Psychological dimensions explore how nature shapes identity and social structures, while critical chapters address environmental crises in relation to postcolonialism and gender inequality in the Global South. Feminist perspectives on conservation and literary representations of environmental issues are examined, concluding with nature's therapeutic potential through ecotherapy practices.
This resource offers insights for scholars, policymakers, and anyone seeking to understand our environmental relationships.

This book asks how democratic values and civic culture can take shape without equal rights, and even without a state. Focusing on the Kurdish experience across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, it draws on fieldwork, survey research, and historical analysis to explore how people respond to authoritarian rule and long-term statelessness. The first part offers a data-driven look at Kurdish attitudes toward democracy, autonomy, and authority. The second situates these patterns in a broader history of political resistance. Rather than turning to authoritarian or religious extremes, many Kurdish movements have embraced more egalitarian, inclusive models of resistance. The Kurdish Case for Democracy makes the case for bottom-up democratization in the Middle East and challenges the idea that universal values must follow Eurocentric templates. It contributes to wider debates on nationalism, resistance, and the political cultures shaping the region.

By offering an integrated and human-centred perspective on contemporary social, cultural, and ethical challenges, this book provides readers with practical insight into how humanities scholarship can illuminate real-world problems and foster critical, reflective thinking across societies. Its greatest strength lies in translating complex ideas into accessible discussions that connect theory with lived experience and contemporary realities.

The book approaches its subject matter through an interdisciplinary lens, drawing together diverse viewpoints from literature, philosophy, history, culture, and social analysis. What is new about this approach is its emphasis on relevance and applicability: contributors do not treat humanities knowledge as abstract, but as a living tool for understanding identity, power, values, and social change in a rapidly evolving world. Case studies, contextual examples, and reflective analysis allow readers to see how humanities perspectives inform ethical decision-making and social responsibility.

The scope of the book is broad yet coherent, covering key debates and emerging themes while maintaining a clear focus on human experience and societal development. It is intended for academics, postgraduate and undergraduate students, researchers, educators, and policy-oriented readers with an interest in social understanding and critical inquiry. The book is used as a core or supplementary text in humanities and social science programmes, a reference for interdisciplinary research, and a resource for professionals seeking deeper cultural and ethical insight into contemporary issues.

Women's healthcare is facing a crisis. On the publication of this book, there are increasing efforts to restrict or limit funding for research and to limit public funding for healthcare services. These restrictions are most obviously recognizable by the executive order suggesting that federal grants should not use the word "women" in funding proposals. Meanwhile, the 2025 federal budget restricts and contracts Medicaid funding, 75% of which is used by women and children.

As a result, Elizabeth Palley, Howard Palley and Marian Lief Palley reexamine the politics of women's healthcare and what advocates have done to further enhance policies that promote women's health and wellbeing. They also consider where women's health care advocates have been successful, where they have been stymied and where advances have been reversed. Examining topics such as women's healthcare during pregnancy in the aftermath of the Dobbs decision, as well as political and cultural obstacles women currently face regarding healthcare access and equity, the authors assess the current state of women's healthcare and highlight where women are most vulnerable.

This book provides a brief history of web-based virtual reality and shows readers how to build three-dimensional web content for businesses using the A-Frame framework. Topics include building a basic scene with A-Frame primitives, applying textures and models, implementing navigation and collision detection, adding multiuser support, and integrating WebRTC for audio, video, and screen sharing. Features are illustrated using real-world business examples, including scenes for real estate, travel, retail, education, and enterprise. This book is intended for students and business practitioners with minimal programming experience who are interested in creating business-oriented virtual reality experiences on the web. It may also be used by educators looking to introduce web-based virtual reality concepts in a classroom setting.

This book contains the latest cutting-edge research, compiling the most interesting contents of reports by researchers from 42 countries around the world at the International Studies Association Asia Pacific international conference held in Tokyo in 2023. Topics such as the Anthropocene, Covid-19, security, regional collaboration, democracy and autocracy, gender, and the Global South are included. Researchers from the United States, Europe, and Japan, along with emerging powers, China, India, and ASEAN nations, have conducted multifaceted analyses of topics involving climate change, Covid-19, the achievements and challenges of the growth of Asia, China and India, regional cooperation such as the Belt and Road Initiative, SAARC, BIMSTEC, ASEAN, RCEP, IPEF, and ASEAN, security issues, democracy and autocracy, and the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and Israel and Gaza. The book also includes lectures by leading figures in international politics such as Joseph Nye, Amitav Acharya, and T.V. Paul; a panel of distinguished professors, with Mike Mochizuki, Mikel Swaine, Steven Rosefielde, Sang Chul Park, and Hundah Su among them; as well as papers by young, up-and-coming researchers, making it a collection of trailblazing research on the world order in the twenty-first century, conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and changing democracy. It is a must-read book on raising issues and solving problems from Asia, a world leader.

This edited volume is a collation of evidence-based test provider and institutional accounts of the remote online delivery and administration of tests originally developed for in-centre delivery. Until recently empirical investigations of remote online language testing were limited and the various types of validation evidence had not been specified. This led to a degree of opacity regarding remote online test administration and delivery. The first-hand accounts of remote testing solutions presented here span a diverse range of languages, countries, contexts and intended purposes. The editors have drawn on these experiences to propose a framework (the Process Framework for Online Test Validation) to support remote online testing as an established mode of delivery. They argue that test providers should be accountable to test users, supporting their choices and assertions with empirical evidence and communicating transparently. Suggestions are based on empirical validation research involving key stakeholders and conducted by language testers delivering remote online tests in various high-stakes contexts. This book will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners in the language assessment field, including but not limited to language testing for admissions purposes, second language assessment and academic literacy.

Many sociologists enter their discipline motivated to make a living doing intellectual labor in a way that also will make the world a more just place, only to find that academic institutional constraints routinely impede their pursuit of that original goal.
Sociologists Making Change gathers more than a dozen examples of the real-world activism of US sociologists, who confront those constraints and get involved in political and social change efforts in addition to their conventional teaching and academic research.
This volume provides a resource for sociologists aiming to enter, stay on, or get back onto a path of public engagement. Without imposing a singular vision of how to follow that path, the editors and contributors illuminate a variety of ways to pursue change-oriented sociology. While such publicly engaged sociology is not a requisite role for every sociologist, it is consistent with a long sociological tradition. In this time and in the foreseeable future, the book argues, both the public and sociology as a discipline could benefit from research, teaching, and activism that aims to make a difference. Sociologists Making Change offers a path for sociologists collectively to build better public visibility in ways that make the discipline better understood and more valued in the public mind.