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.

In this second volume of Ghazarian, Taflaga and Bonotti's two-part collection, the editors examine the importance of political parties and how they impact local, national, and international contexts by assembling a range of experts to analyse the Liberal Party in Australia, both historically and in contemporary times.

The book explores the public policy, organisational, and electoral challenges confronting parties not only Australia but also other liberal democracies in the 21st Century. It also explores the ways in which the Liberal Party of Australia has sought to address these challenges while trying to maintain electoral support and organisational cohesion. In doing so, it makes a significant contribution to understanding the Liberal Party and right-of-centre parties around the world.

This is an essential volume for scholars, researchers, students, and general readers who are seeking an authoritative analysis of right-of-centre political parties from around the world and how they impact policy in practice.

Leading experts investigate how contemporary forces such as digitalisation, sustainability and innovation are reshaping the dynamics between buyers and suppliers, leading to more strategic, resilient and value-driven partnerships. Chapters assess core concepts including collaboration, governance, performance measurement and risk management in differing global contexts. Through empirical insights, conceptual frameworks and practical recommendations, this book provides an understanding of cultural, regulatory and structural variations in buyer-supplier relationships.

The Research Handbook on Buyer-Supplier Relationships is a valuable resource for scholars and students of business and management, public administration and organisational behaviour. It is also prime reading for practitioners in business, organisation management and sales navigating the strategic challenges of modern purchasing and supply management.

The first collection to address the role of the oceanic in literary texts and traditions from across the Nordic region, this book explores applications of ecocriticism, postcolonial theory, new materialism, and gender studies at a time when interest in marine ecosystems and their vulnerabilities to anthropogenic climate change is generating new theoretical insights and interest across the humanities.

The Nordic countries with their long coastlines and archipelagic geographies have long histories of seafaring and mariculture. This book simultaneously introduces Nordic literatures about the sea to international scholars with an interest in the oceanic and blue humanities to scholars working within Scandinavian/Nordic Studies. Its historical sweep incorporates the work of Nordic writers of particular significance for European and world literature, such as Henrik Ibsen and Tove Jansson; it also explores texts known chiefly within the Northern countries, including contemporary literature engaging with the sea; and historical texts, such as the Icelandic sagas and Early Modern seafaring guides. The book takes an innovative geographical orientation, grouping chapters to correspond to the various pelagic ecosystems that surround the Scandinavian Peninsula and connect it to the rest of the globe.

The combination of canonical and lesser-known texts with key theoretical approaches makes the volume ideal for teaching. With its broad historical and theoretical scope, The Sea in Nordic Literature is a valuable resource for scholars and students in blue humanities, Scandinavian and Nordic studies, and comparative literature.

Richly illustrated with the author's exquisite drawings, this visual manual provides a concise and practical introduction to contemporary urban landscape architecture with trees and forest: Sylvan City Design.

Aimed at student and professional landscape architects and environmental designers, the manual will also appeal to other urban disciplines and to communities engaged with neighbourhood spaces in the context of the potential for trees to transform city living for climate resilience, green health, social equity, biodiversity and - at the same time - enriched urban culture.

A sylvan city is foremost 'made, shaped or formed of woods or trees'. Catherine Dee sets out to demonstrate how and why settlements may be better designed by considering trees as the indispensable 'ground' of a city, forming a life-giving, long-term dwelling matrix into which buildings and built infrastructure are fitted.

The manual is organised in two parts. Part I: Principles, Strategies + Methods introduces the central aims of sylvan city design and establishes key design principles, strategies and ethos: 1 What is a Sylvan City? 2 What is Sylvan Design? 3 Sylvan Space, 4 Sylvan Time, 5 Sylvan Climate and 6 Sylvan Specificity, Diversity + Robustness.

Part II: Forms, Functions + Habitats explores context-specific design, illustrating a wide range of urban situations, scales and types of tree environment from tiny street corners through to city-wide tracts using the patterns: Forest, Locale, Greenway, Grove, Glade, Parkland, Avenue, Hedgerow, Thicket, Garden, Farm, Woodland, and Wilderness. In each section, the design approach is to refresh and re-orient long-practised forms of tree cultivation and ecological management by matching them with urban social, cultural and biodiversity functions to create a contemporary environmental language adaptable to evolving sylvan cities in diverse global regions and changing climates.

Communicated in vivid drawings inspiring new ways to dwell with trees, this is a DIY landscape architecture manual for all.

This book critically examines the effectiveness of the United Kingdom's child and family social work structures and proposes the integration of a trauma-informed approach to improve current social work practice.

The authors argue that current government policies, theoretical frameworks, and practices contribute to structural inefficiencies leaving vulnerable children and families without the support they so desperately need. Drawing on evidence-based research, this book advocates for a trauma-focused, family-centred approach, focusing on interventions that are framed around national and international guidelines to emphasise prevention and healing over crisis management.

This call-to-action book provides social workers, policymakers, caregivers, and legal professionals with a roadmap towards reform and bridges the gap between public perception and professional practice to foster a trauma-informed approach.

This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first incisive collaborative intervention to ongoing debates about law and politics under capitalism from an explicitly socialist constitutionalist perspective.

Heterodox literature on constitutional studies, to a large extent and with a few notable exceptions, shares a rejection of Marxist analytical principles. Moving beyond the formalism and instrumentalism, this volume will engage with the question: what differentiates a Marxist conception of socialist constitutionalism and the role of institutional forms in building socialism, from republican and post-Marxist conceptions? Drawing inspiration from socialist thinkers and historical attempts to build socialism, the contributors explain the relevance of socialist conceptions of democracy and rights for contemporary struggles for social emancipation. They combine historical and theoretical analyses to review socialist constitutional theory and practice, while thinking about the future of democracy and rights in a communist polity. The contributions deal with a variety of topical issues, including the relationship between state, law, and society; the relationship between constitutional law and revolutionary social change; right as legal superstructure and right as a form of social consciousness; the ethical grounds of communism; socialist conceptions of right; and principles for a socialist constitutionalism.

Consolidating Marxist approaches to public law and constitutional theory, Socialist Constitutionalism and the Communist Polity offers both a rigorous contribution to the elaboration of Marxist theory and a re-examination of foundational constitutional concepts, questions, and debates that will help to orient non-specialist readers

The second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption showcases the most innovative research being conducted globally in the field of political corruption and provides a new point of reference for all interested in the topic.

In presenting current research trends, the handbook addresses the pressing need for more detailed understanding of the intricacies of political corruption, including the need to adapt to emerging challenges and devise more effective strategies to curb its impact on societies. The handbook provides a balance between reviewing the 'state of the art' within different disciplines and subdisciplines and offering in-depth insights into the most recent developments in the field. Alongside some updated chapters, it also covers new topics, including democratic backsliding and populism, media capture and digital journalism, illicit financial flows and money laundering, corruption in contexts of conflict and migration, and the growing use of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies in anti-corruption efforts. Its structure, themes, and direction underscore the interdisciplinary nature of corruption research, bridging disciplines such as economics, psychology, political science, and law.

The Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption is an essential reference for scholars and students within comparative politics, global governance, economics, development studies, criminology and criminal justice, sociology, anthropology, psychology, law, and international relations. More broadly, it will appeal to policymakers, activists, journalists, and practitioners in civil society organisations, focusing on transparency and accountability.

This book examines Australia's strategic attitude towards the Indian Ocean islands below the equator.

Australian strategic theory, policy and practice have to date understandably prioritised China, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The Indian Ocean islands filling Australia's western flank are now changing and growing rapidly, however, with a series of new strategic challenges that pose difficulties unaddressed by Canberra's current strategic settings. The book sees the disconnection as derived from Australia's history and explores how Australia found itself without influence in the Indian Ocean islands and what strategic and security hazards lie in continued indifference. Drawing on an empirical analysis of island historical and anthropological sources, archival and business investment materials, interviews and strategic pieces, the book traces a long continuation of Australian behaviours towards the region and local postcolonial imperatives. It also discusses Indo-Pacific theory and the Indian Ocean gaps peppered within it.

The book will be useful to academics, researchers and advanced students in the fields of security and strategic studies and international relations, especially those with an interest in Australian history and foreign policy, the growing strategic competition in the Indian Ocean, AUKUS and the QUAD.

Connecting historical aspiration with contemporary reality, this book examines post-independence Bangladesh from a sociological perspective, discussing the structural and cultural factors that threaten its achievements, and how it might overcome existing hurdles to ensure continuity and long-term stability in its social transformation.

Structured around three broad phases of transformation - post-liberation reconstruction (1972-1990), globalization and digitalization (1991-2010), and contemporary transformations (2010-2025) - the book traces continuity, rupture, and reconfiguration across the evolving sociopolitical landscape of Bangladesh. The chapters chart key developments in Bangladesh's history such as July Uprising of 2024, the evolution of religious and cultural politics since 2012, and the rapid expansion of the service and digital sectors in recent years. The book also examines the transformative impact of digitalization, social media, and technology on kinship, marriage, youth culture, and everyday life.

Ultimately developing an integrated analytical framework for understanding Bangladesh's societal dynamics, the book will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of sociology, political science and South Asian studies.

This edited collection of biographical and autobiographical essays chronicles the transformative journeys of Australian planners who, confronting unprecedented urban challenges in the late twentieth century, pioneered new concepts, methodologies, and approaches that fundamentally reshaped the trajectory of urban planning for the twenty-first century.

The essays illuminate the profound social, economic, and technological upheavals of this era, as the established planning paradigm fractured into multiple specialized approaches - environmental planning, social planning, advocacy planning, collaborative planning, and others. These emerging frameworks, directly linked to rapid urbanisation processes, reverberated through urban planning practice and governance structures. The result was a radical reimagining of the planning model itself, driven by critical reassessments of conventional practice, methodological innovations, grassroots demands for meaningful community participation, and heightened attention to previously marginalised concerns: the needs of women and children, Indigenous culture and rights, heritage conservation, environmental sustainability, and social equity.

Reinventing Urban Planning in Australia will appeal to readers interested in the history of urban and social transformation, the evolution of planning theory and policy, Australian urbanism, planning history, and professional biography. It bridges key disciplines including history, geography, urban planning, and environmental studies, offering valuable insights for scholars, practitioners, and students alike.

Drawing on the rank-scale hypothesis of Systemic Functional Linguistics, this book explores the synergetic relationships among syntactic complexities at the sentence, clause, and group levels. It also examines how these relationships vary among academic English writers of different proficiency levels.

Viewing language as a dynamic, self-organizing, and self-regulating system, the book examines how changes in complexity at higher levels affect their constituent units. Linguistic complexity is conceptualized systematically across four dimensions: sentence, clause, group, and word. Dependency grammar is employed as an accessible, quantitative metric for complexity analysis. Through an analysis of academic texts produced by three groups of writers with varying levels of proficiency-Chinese Master's students, Chinese Doctoral students, and native English-speaking Doctoral students-the study identifies features of academic writing related to proficiency and uncovers interrelationships among the four dimensions of linguistic complexity. Based on these findings, the book proposes a synergetic model of linguistic complexity that illustrates how these dimensions interact and achieve dynamic balance in English academic writing across different proficiency levels.

This book offers valuable insights for researchers, educators, and graduate students. It provides theoretical exploration and practical guidance for teaching and assessing academic writing.

This monograph is one of the first scholarly investigations into the literary representations of the lived realities of Ugandan-Indians, often referred to as "Passenger Traders", who were exiled in 1972 under the Idi Amin regime. Employing an innovative interdisciplinary methodology that combines diaspora criticism, human geography, memory studies, and childhood studies, this book provides a nuanced analytical framework and makes a significant
contribution to understanding diasporic narratives in the Indian Ocean region. It delves into the subjective experiences of these exiled traders, exploring their struggle and triumph through the lens of contemporary memoir and fiction by authors such as Shenaaz Nanji, Tasneem Jamal, Neema Shah, and Hafsa Zayyan. Through a blend of historical insight and literary critique, this book unveils the rich yet troubled legacy of the passenger traders amidst the postcolonial reality of multiple dwelling and displacement. The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, both African and Indian, migration and diaspora studies, memory studies, childhood studies, and Indian Ocean studies.

This book provides practical advice for career coaches, executive coaches, and HR professionals who support midlife professionals navigating career transitions.

Midlife career transitions are becoming the norm, not the exception. As the workforce lives longer, works longer, and redefines success, career coaches must adapt to new models that address the unique psychological, financial, and identity challenges of midlife career change. This book bridges this gap, proposing a research-backed framework for coaching midlife clients. It offers psychological insights into the fears, identity shifts, and motivations behind midlife career change, practical coaching tools, strategies, and case studies to guide clients through uncertainty, and a roadmap for portfolio careers, self-employment, and new career pathways. The book ensures coaches have the evidence-based knowledge, tools, and confidence to guide their clients through one of the most significant career transitions of their lives.

Equipping coaches to support clients who are not starting over but evolving into their next stage of meaningful work, this is the ideal resource for both career coaches and HR professionals, as well as students of coaching.

The author eschews traditional, single-country approaches and adopts a comparative perspective. The Modern Guide explores the economics of happiness, examining why some middle-income economies score higher on the happiness index than recent economic success stories. It also investigates the nature and quality of democratic governance, economic growth, poverty and inequality, and the labour market across Asia. The book assesses Asian economies from the perspective of the Millenium Development Goals and UN Sustainable Development Goals, evaluating how countries across Asia are managing climate change.

A Modern Guide to Developing Asian Economies is a pivotal resource for scholars and students seeking to broaden their understanding of Asian economics and development studies. Economists and NGO workers will also benefit from its comprehensive lens and timely suggestions.

This book explores the 'animal turn' that has reshaped humanities and social science scholarship over recent decades.

The chapters describe the nuanced engagements between humans, animals, plants, and landscapes, challenging conventional anthropocentric perspectives and paving the way for a deeper understanding of multispecies relations. This volume navigates the contested territory of aesthetics, examines the intersections of art and anthropology, and sheds light on cross-cultural and cross-species interpretations. Through insightful chapters and analyses, readers are invited to explore the theoretical and methodological challenges within multispecies worlds while highlighting the influence of Indigenous knowledge on our perceptions and theories of non-human entities. It includes contributions from artists, archaeologists, historians, and environmental humanities scholars.

This volume will be an essential resource for those seeking to expand their understanding of art, performance, and the intricate relationships between humans and non-humans. Whether exploring the complexities of nature/culture dichotomies or reimagining the boundaries of aesthetics, it offers a compelling journey into the vibrant tapestry of multispecies aesthetics.

In this fascinating volume, Meg Harris Williams explores Wilfred Bion's autobiographical works, analysing their theoretical importance and continued relevance to the personal experience of others.

Williams shows how these works are less about Bion's life and more about his way of thinking, in which episodes from his own experience are used to illustrate the mind in action. His model of the mind is vividly evoked through his own presentation of himself and his manner of noting and observing internal conflicts. His example constitutes a unique resource in the process of self-analysis, something which is illustrated here by the experiential responses of four contributing psychoanalysts: Vera Montagna, Vivienne Pasieka, Anne Lise Scappaticci and Alison Vaspe.

This book is a fundamentally enriching tool for the practising psychoanalyst, and an invaluable resource for students of psychoanalysis and psychology, as well as those interested in autobiographical literature.

Welcome to the new era of finance. Welcome to the Intersection.

This straight-talking book from the global team at Money20/20 is your essential guide to the convergence of traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi). It shows how digital assets, programmable money, and new regulatory frameworks are reshaping global financial infrastructure.

Inside, you will explore how regulation is unlocking scale across regions, how stablecoins and CBDCs power real time cross border settlement, how tokenization brings real world assets on chain, how digital identity and zero knowledge protect users, and how AI and real time rails transform the operating model of modern finance. The result is an integrated financial system built for speed, transparency, and resilience.

Whether you are a banking executive making real decisions about blockchain, stablecoins, and tokenization, a fintech founder building on both traditional and emerging rails, a regulator shaping the guardrails of the digital economy, or an investor scanning for the next structural shift, The New Intersection of Money gives you the insights, strategic guidance, and operating frameworks to lead with confidence.

This book highlights the necessary support and collaboration needed to help multilingual learners succeed and how to address opportunity gaps in schools and beyond.

School counselors need to have a working knowledge about the diverse needs of all students to effectively support the academic, career, and social development of those students. Chapters offer recommendations across multiple aspects of school counseling, including integration of multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) concepts and American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model domains. Practical hands-on activity suggestions, case studies, and vignettes are integrated throughout the text that allow readers to envision these concepts in real-world practice.

Focused on humanizing approaches in school counseling for multilingual learners, this book is an essential read for pre-service school counselors and current practitioners in their work to picture the integration of the concepts discussed into their current or future practice.

In our troubled times of global conflict, philosophical reflection on war and peace has never been more urgent. This distinctive contribution to the ethics of war combines pragmatism with Kantian-inspired transcendental philosophy to offer fresh insights into age-old questions of when, if ever, war can be ethically acceptable.

Sami Pihlstroem argues that both traditional just war theory and pacifism function as forms of "secular theodicy", which justify innocent suffering for supposed greater goods. Moving beyond these approaches, he develops a meliorist framework that refuses both naive optimism and fatalistic pessimism about human conflict. The book examines three critical areas: the problem of sacrificing innocents in war, the ethics of nuclear deterrence in our post-World War II world, and the philosophy of history that shapes how we understand ourselves as a political community. Central to this analysis is the concept of defending the "transcendental 'us'"-not merely a contingent nation-state, but the very conditions that make ethical and political community possible. Drawing on thinkers from William James to Raimond Gaita, this work offers a philosophically rigorous yet accessible exploration of what it means to defend civilization itself against existential threats, ensuring that those who die in such defense "shall not have died in vain."

War, Pacifism, and Deterrence will appeal to researchers and graduate students interested in the philosophy of war and peace, pragmatism, and transcendental philosophy.

This book examines Kazakhstan's political, economic, social, ideological, and security response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, exploring its impact on international relations and Kazakhstan's resulting precarious position.

Economically, strategically, and culturally linked to the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, in the aftermath of the invasion, has sought to balance containing Russia's threats and potential invasion, strengthening regional stability, and defending its national interests. This book expands readers' knowledge of Kazakhstan's internal and foreign politics, exploring how the country navigates its reintegration and strategic partnership with Russia while maintaining its obligations to international law and fostering goodwill with European and American partners.

Kazakhstan as a Middle Power in Wartime is essential reading for scholars and students of international relations, political science, and contemporary conflict, particularly those with an interest in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.

Teaching Second Languages through Dialogue and Interaction: Action, Turns, and Sequences advances an interaction-focused approach to second language teaching by placing social actions, turns, and sequences as central objects of instruction. Drawing on interactional linguistics, conversation analysis, and second language acquisition research, the book demonstrates how dialogue and social interaction can be taught systematically rather than left to incidental exposure or communicative practice alone.

While learning to say "what's next" in interaction is a critical competence for language learners, such interactional abilities are rarely addressed explicitly or coherently in instructional materials. This book shows how teachers can design and integrate materials that target the organization of talk itself, linking words, grammar, and multimodal resources to the social actions they accomplish. Presenting foundational research alongside empirically grounded teaching units across several languages, Huth illustrates how learners can be guided to recognize, produce, and respond to actions such as openings and closings, requests, complaints, stance-taking through so-called "little words," and other recurrent interactional practices. Additional teaching resources freely available to download complement this volume, encouraging practical applications and flexible personalization.

Research-based and classroom-tested, this book offers practical resources for designing lessons, developing assessments, and supporting curricular change. It will be of interest to current and future language teachers, as well as to students and researchers in second language teaching, second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and related fields focusing on language use as social action.

Drawing on original empirical research, chapters discuss governance structures, processes and the need to integrate diverse perspectives and knowledge in collaborative settings. Central to the book is the CATI Transition Momentum Framework, which is designed to help identify leverage points for accelerating change. Pangbourne combines theory-building with practical applications to foster collaboration, equity and resilience in an era of polycrisis.

Transport Governance for a Future is an essential resource for students and academics in transport studies and human geography, and has important insights for those in economics, politics and public policy, public administration and management and environmental studies. It is also a useful guide for practitioners and policymakers involved in global transport governance.

This book examines the Russian Federation's military interventions in the post-Cold War era.

The work connects key events - the Chechen and Georgian Wars, the annexation of Crimea, the Syrian intervention, and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine - in a coherent narrative, showing how these conflicts grew out of Russia's authoritarian turn, aggressive nationalism, imperial ambitions, and willingness to challenge the Western-led international order. The book not only describes Russia's post-Cold War military operations but also analyzes them to understand how Russia makes war. As such, the book consists of two distinctive but interlinked parts. The first part comprises case studies of the major armed conflicts Russia has been involved in since 1994. The second offers "macro-scale" analyses of various aspects of Russian policies and practices concerning the use of force during the post-Cold War period, including the evolution of Russian military strategies and tactics, their impact on the international legal order, and Russian attitudes toward humanitarian principles and human rights norms during armed conflicts. By focusing not only on battlefield outcomes but also on legality, human suffering, state propaganda, and changes in international norms, this volume offers a diverse and comprehensive view of Russian military practices in the post-Cold War period.

This book will be of much interest to students of Russian foreign policy, military studies, law, security studies, and International Relations.

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