Thompson provides a guide to assessing university publication requirements and finding a niche in academia, including practical advice on how to organize material into manageable selections and citations for literature reviews. Chapters examine the writing process, discussing various practices for establishing a consistent schedule and writing for academic audiences. Paying particular attention to the submission process and deciphering reviewer comments, this How To Guide recommends reworking and revising articles for resubmission to increase the likelihood of getting published and gain a deeper understanding of journal feedback structures.

How To Write an Academic Journal Article in the Social Sciences is a crucial resource for graduate students and early career researchers seeking to broaden their understanding of journal writing and the publication process. Experienced academics will also benefit from its actionable advice to refresh their skills.

Classroom management is often framed as control-rules, consequences, and compliance. The Heart and Craft of Classroom Management offers a different, more sustainable approach: one rooted in belonging, nervous-system awareness, and intentional structure. Drawing on decades of experience as a teacher, behavior specialist, and school leader, Joseph S. McQueen reframes behavior as communication and positions relationships as the foundation of effective classroom practice.

Blending research-informed insight with practical, classroom-ready strategies, this book guides educators in creating environments where students feel safe, regulated, and ready to learn. Readers will explore how adult presence, tone, routines, and predictable systems shape behavior before problems escalate. The book balances the emotional labor of teaching (the heart) with concrete tools and systems (the craft) that support both student success and educator sustainability.

Written for teachers, school leaders, and student support professionals across general, alternative, and therapeutic settings, The Heart and Craft of Classroom Management provides a compassionate, realistic framework for leading classrooms with clarity, dignity, and calm-especially in today's increasingly complex educational landscape.

The Embodied Social Justice Workbook explores mindfulness-based practices within a social justice framework, and offers comprehensive guidance to help individuals in marginalized communities deepen their awareness and integrate social justice into their daily lives safely and supportively.

This workbook addresses the critical intersection of mental health, social justice, and mindfulness-based practices, offering valuable insights and tools for practitioners working in these areas. Tailored for individuals and communities navigating marginalization, systemic privilege, and oppression, this book provides a space for readers to engage in mindful practices, document their experiences, and incorporate embodied mindfulness into their daily lives. Chapters explore essential themes such as power and privilege, collective action, creating safe spaces for practice, as well as body mapping and interpreting embodied signals. This hands-on guide is filled with practical exercises and reflection questions as well as lived-experience vignettes to help readers translate practices into their daily lives. It can be used as a companion to Embodied Social Justice Counseling for Indian Communities or as a standalone resource.

This book is intended for mental health professionals of all kinds who have an interest in social justice, mindfulness, and especially those who work with clients in the Indian diaspora. It is also a valuable resource for individuals who are interested in engaging in mindful practices and enhancing their awareness of social justice.

Chapters investigate why and when a national level crisis ascends to European level and analyse the extent to which recent decades are becoming increasingly turbulent. To explore the processes involved in crafting European institutional and policy solutions, Cotta assesses three major events: the financial crash of 2008, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Evaluating the limits and capabilities of the EU, these case studies bring into question the value of its intervention in crisis events. The book advances understanding of not only how the EU provides aid in turbulent times, but also how such crises shape the way in which the EU functions.

EU Politics in a Turbulent Era is a crucial resource for students and scholars of international relations, comparative politics and European politics and public policy. It is also beneficial to political officials and policymakers interested in the operation of the EU during tumultuous eras.

Examining whether democracy properly inscribes conceptions of goodness and justice, Glaser identifies substantivism as a distinctive, but sometimes invisible, enemy of liberal democracy. He proposes a unique theorization of the role of notions of form, procedure and substance in democratic theory, introducing a taxonomy of democratic substances and modes of substantiation. Seeking clarification on the relationship between liberalism and democracy, and between ideological projects and democracy, the book explores how to build a substantive democracy which maintains the baseline democratic requirement of free ideological choice expressed by political equals.

The Substance in Liberal Democracy is an essential resource for scholars and students of public policy, political theory and international relations. Policymakers and campaigners advocating for democratic reform will similarly benefit from its groundbreaking insights and practical recommendations.

Artificial Intelligence (A) is transforming transportation by enabling intelligent, adaptive, and data-driven mobility systems capable of addressing growing urbanization and sustainability challenges. By leveraging machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and advanced data analytics, AI enhances traffic prediction, autonomous navigation, safety monitoring, and infrastructure management. These technologies allow transportation networks to respond in real time to changing conditions, reduce congestion and emissions, improve road safety, and optimize resource utilization. AI also plays a central role in integrating vehicles, users, and infrastructure into cohesive smart mobility ecosystems. As transportation systems evolve toward automation, connectivity, and sustainability, AI emerges as a foundational enabler for resilient, efficient, and future-ready transportation networks worldwide.

The book offers a comprehensive and forward-looking examination of AI's expanding role in modern transportation. The book spans foundational principles and advanced innovations, beginning with intelligent transportation systems and progressing to specialized areas such as AI-driven driving analytics, smart traffic control, and augmented-reality-based safety navigation. It further explores emerging frontiers including autonomous vehicle intelligence, edge-AI frameworks, 6G-enabled mobility, quantum computing, generative AI for infrastructure design, and robust vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems. By integrating theory, applications, and future trends, the book presents a holistic vision of how AI can build safer, smarter, and more sustainable transportation ecosystems while supporting the broader evolution of smart cities.

This book is designed for researchers, engineers, industry professionals, urban planners, policymakers, and advanced students engaged in transportation, artificial intelligence, and smart city development. It serves as both a practical reference and a visionary guide for those seeking to understand, design, and deploy AI-enabled transportation solutions, while supporting informed decision-making and innovation in global mobility systems.

This book examines piracy not just as a historical and contemporary criminal activity but as a complex phenomenon deeply interwoven with legal constructs and cultural perceptions.

Specifically, it studies the intersection of piracy and law through a focus on three cultural images of pirates: As rulers of the seas, freedom fighters, and treasure seekers. The first part of the book, guided by the first image, takes up the historical definition of piracy, distinguishing between pirates, buccaneers, corsairs, and privateers. It then goes on to examine how the definition of piracy has evolved in international maritime law-taking up present-day issues of piracy, from the early-21st century UN resolutions to more recent Houthi attacks. The second part of the book discusses pirate codes as early forms of legal innovation, moving to the societal structures of pirate havens, and then to an analysis of pirate trials. The third and final part of the book investigates the legal aspects of treasure hunting, including the legal status of found treasures and conflicts over ownership and cultural heritage, both on land and under the seas. The book then concludes with a reflection on the nature of piracy's relationship with law, putting forward several observations and suggestions for its better understanding.

This book will be of interest to scholars of maritime law, legal theory, legal history, and international law.

This insightful Research Agenda sheds light on underexplored theories, methods and topics in green criminology and outlines the ways in which powerful actors avoid responsibility for the destruction of the environment. The key underlying message is that we must dare to be positive and seek radical change, placing the planet at the core of decision making.

Tanya Wyatt provides a green criminology approach to water, mining, climate change and space, significantly expanding the scope of the field. For each of these topics, there is a discussion of how powerful actors cause environmental destruction and how they keep this destruction from being recognized as a crime. She then explores and advocates for restorative justice to repair environmental damage. Looking to the future, Wyatt covers two earth-centred legal systems, Rights of Nature and Wild Law, as potential means of restorative justice and considers what these innovative systems could mean for green harms and crimes moving forward.

Forward-thinking and interdisciplinary, this Research Agenda is an essential resource for researchers and students of sociology, environmental law and criminology. It will also inform policymakers and justice officials of the coming threats posed by conglomerates and states who enact climate destruction.

Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Food System in Latin America illustrates the relationship between climate change politics and food systems through a critical international political economy perspective. Economic globalization has changed our daily habits. Specifically, it has significantly influenced our food and dietary habits. In other words, there is a predominance of economic rationality in our daily activities, including eating. This characteristic contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

This book shows that food is not just about farming or markets. It is also about politics and power. It argues that understanding the political economy of food is key to understanding the relationship between the food system and climate politics. Moreover, the book explains that food policies often look technical, but they reflect choices about who wins and who loses, and they can hide the real complexity of food systems.It considers the political drivers of dietary habits and policies related to the food sector (that contribute to an increase in GHG emissions), and the interrelation between economic growth, capital accumulation, and the cultural meanings of daily practices (e.g. eating and cooking) that connect food production and GHG emissions. By applying the Gramscian concept of hegemony through consent, the book shows how economic rationality contributes to increased GHG emissions in Latin America. The book proposes a new way of conceptualizing world hegemony by moving away from mainstream conceptions that view hegemony as exercised through material power. Furthermore, it discusses climate change politics and shows how it is not only about processes of governance and rule-making, or about power relations, but also about our daily life activities. It argues that power grows not only through relations between states, but also through alliances among social classes, including a transnational capitalist class. Across the chapters, the book shows how economic actors gain consent and expand influence by shaping food policies and food habits. This happens, for example, when policies prioritize certain products and supply chains, promote products linked to market interests, and encourage consumption of new foods in Latin America, including more processed foods.

Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Food System in Latin America will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, international relations, human geography, food studies, and Latin America, as well as to policymakers in the fields of environmental, economic, and food policy.

Contributors assess structural advancements, including a shift in the debate around the replication crisis, as well as new theories on fundamental constructs such as extreme attitudes and judgment under uncertainty. Chapters explore the impact of technological developments, health disparity, consumer beliefs, trust and complaints, analysing consumer agency, behaviour and attitudes in these contexts. This book provides a platform for progressing research and practice, highlighting methods and examples that promote further studies in this field.

Advancing Consumer Psychology is a valuable resource for scholars and students of business and management, psychology, marketing and economics. Practitioners in branding, business and marketing will also benefit from the insights into the changing nature of consumer psychology and projections for its future.

Oh draws on global case studies to underscore how digital transformation and the global economic order are redistributing risks across generations and stakeholders. He poses a critical challenge: Can corporations justify the sole pursuit of profit when society is left to bear the cost of systemic perils? Chapters evaluate the limits of shareholder primacy, the failures of markets and governments, and the ethical tensions embedded in contemporary finance. Moving beyond a purely economic inquiry, this book calls for a structural imperative to redefine prosperity and safeguard the sustainability of our shared future.

Bridging theory and practice, Market Capitalism and Social Responsibility is a valuable resource for scholars and students of business, management, public policy and governance. It is also relevant to business professionals and corporate leaders interested in understanding the purpose, responsibility and power of the corporation.

This Advanced Introduction examines the role of the US Supreme Court throughout American history, and suggests what, if anything, should be done to fix it. Tracing the Court's evolution from a weak tribunal to one of America's most powerful institutions, Kermit Roosevelt III explores its function as an ordinary judiciary body, the final voice in constitutional meaning, and an inconsistent defender of democracy and equality.

Key Features:

• Assesses why public perception of the Court so frequently swings between positive and negative
• Unites history, theory, and reform to present a comprehensive introduction to the US Supreme Court
• Evaluates the institutional roles the Supreme Court plays and the conditions under which those roles succeed or fail
• Proposes a structural reform of how the Court is staffed to better align with national majorities and appease contemporary frustrations
• Adopts an institutional, rather than ideological, approach, assessing what the Court is designed to do and what it actually does

Providing a clear and detailed overview of the US Supreme Court, this Advanced Introduction is an invaluable resource for students seeking to broaden their understanding of US constitutional law. Researchers and practitioners of law will likewise benefit from its insightful, practical solutions for the Court's future.

This forward-thinking Research Agenda provides actionable solutions for maintaining the domestic and worldwide commercial relevance of English contract law. It divides barriers faced by the law into three key areas of concern: risk, sustainability and vulnerability.

Leading experts highlight the crucial role English contract law plays in governing international transactions and emphasise the need for adaptability in order to preserve societal values while enacting commercially efficient strategies. They reframe global challenges to break down traditional categorisations and siloed thinking to establish new ways of finding effective solutions. The chapters examine the links between insurance contracts, responsibilities and risk, digital transformations and the shift from economic efficiency to eco-efficiency, proposing innovative solutions for future-proofing English contract law.

A Research Agenda for Contract Law is an essential resource for scholars and students of commercial law and contract law. Legal practitioners will also benefit from its novel insights and recommendations for future practice.

Breaking new theoretical ground, the study develops the concept of the criminal social contract to describe how authoritarian and populist regimes recode universal moral norms into group-exclusive ideologies. Drawing on normative ethics, political theory, and international criminal jurisprudence, the book expands existing taxonomies of bystanderhood by introducing new categories, such as unethical adversaries and transitional bystanders, that reveal the complex continuum between participation and denial. Through this lens, shared moral responsibility emerges as the most effective model for understanding complicity in modern populist criminal regimes. Ultimately, Transitional Justice and Bystanders argues that transitional justice cannot succeed without confronting the collective moral failures that persist long after the guns fall silent. It envisions a transformative, diachronic moral framework capable of regenerating equality and accountability in post-atrocity societies.

Transitional Justice and Bystanders is an essential resource for scholars and students of law, transitional justice, genocide studies, and political science. Human rights lawyers and peace campaigners will similarly benefit from its innovative approach to post-atrocity environments.

Offering theory and practical insights, this publication brings together top-quality contributions by distinguished authors from research and practice as well as students from around the world to flesh out the role of Student Voice in Lesson Study (SVLS).

The book provides a comprehensive up-to-date compilation of important issues around SVLS. Chapters guide readers to understand the rich contextual nature of student voice in education and Lesson Study. It includes teachers, their learners, and researchers offering practice-oriented insights into their Lesson Study experience. The book explores and discusses theoretical foundations, social functions, roles, aims and purposes, the impact of attending to student voice, an emerging SVLS-methodology including issues of planning, coordinating, conducting, and reporting about student voice, dialogic teaching and learning, as well as democratic citizenship in Lesson Study.

It is a useful guide for practitioners and student educators interested in the benefits of Lesson Study in the classroom.

Building on recent scholarship in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and social practice theories, this book reconceptualizes reading comprehension as intertextual practices.

Rather than view reading comprehension as the interaction of a reader and a text, the book outlines reading comprehension as a set of dynamic social practices enacted by people in and across social events in which they together build and assign meaning to one or more written language texts. The interactive meaning-building process is inherently intertextual as people act and react to each other, propose connections among multiple texts, and reflect and refract social practices, histories, and ideologies. The theorizing in this book is oriented to generating new images and metaphors to imagine 'reading comprehension' differently. The reconceptualization also derives from using jazz as a metaphor for reading comprehension.

This is a key resource for scholars, graduate students, and teachers in reading and literacy education.

This book showcases the experiences and perspectives of instructors and researchers who are pioneering sustainable finance research and education.

Sustainable finance broadly defined refers to the integration of sustainability issues within financial practices. Given the urgency of funding sustainable development, meeting new regulatory agendas, and navigating the increasing politicization of sustainable finance, demands for immediate sustainable finance expertise and training have grown. Yet, the pedagogical implications of increasing scholarly and practitioner interest in sustainable finance have been largely neglected. Filling this gap, Pathways to Teaching Sustainable Finance examines how curriculums can be redesigned to accommodate sustainable finance education. It discusses the specific skills, tools, and theoretical insights that constitute an emerging sustainable finance "corpus" and provides critical perspectives on the field. Each chapter engages with the different strategies, theoretical frameworks, pedagogical tools, and learning objectives informed by the authors' own teaching practice or by their research.

Chapters also include cases, suggestions for assignments, and other resources that can support the design of sustainable finance courses and syllabi. Collating insights from a broad range of experts in the field, this book therefore provides theoretical and critical reflections alongside practical insights for faculty and higher education institutions, as well as market, public, and non-profit actors who have been calling for better expertise in sustainable finance.

Post-Separation Violence and Abuse in the Lives of Women and Children amplifies the voices of women and children to highlight the myriad issues encountered post-separation when perpetrators of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) continue to exert their control.

Despite increased scholarship on DVA and its consequences, post-separation violence and abuse remains an under-studied and written about issue. As the first book dedicated to the subject, this work frames post-separation violence and abuse as a continuum of DVA, too often overlooked and negated, and uses lived experiences to highlight the wide-ranging consequences it can have for women and children. Chapters offer detailed insights into the effects of harassment and stalking, femicide-homicide, the experiences of minoritised women and children, and a discussion of child contact as a form of post-separation violence and abuse. This volume also presents perpetrators' accounts, as well as consideration of what is required for rebuilding lives in the aftermath of post-separation violence and abuse.

This essential work will be of interest to a range of professionals and practitioners across the voluntary and statutory sectors, as well as scholars and students of social work, social policy, gender studies, criminology, and psychology.

In response, the authors reconceptualize DEI management for the SME context and introduce a framework and a set of best practices grounded in the lived realities of SMEs and insights from international surveys, interviews, workshops, and real-world cases from Europe. The book offers teaching cases along with online teaching notes and managerial reflections to equip current and future entrepreneurs and SME managers with the competencies needed to leverage social sustainability, in particular DEI, for a firm's growth, strategy implementation, regulatory compliance, and conflict resolution. The book deepens understanding of intersectionality in SMEs and demonstrates how DEI contributes to advancing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Small and Medium Enterprises is a vital resource for scholars and students of business and management, entrepreneurship, and sustainability. Business educators and SME managers will also benefit from its actionable recommendations for effectively incorporating DEI best practices.

This book offers a new way of understanding harm in modern society. Rather than treating violence as the result of breakdown or failure, it argues that many forms of harm are built into the very systems designed to organise and protect social life. Laws, institutions, technologies, and policies can produce damage not by malfunctioning but by working exactly as intended.

Drawing on examples ranging from zones of suspended legality and emergency governance to the theatrical display of political power, the book shows how violence is woven into the normal operation of States and organisations across different regions of the world. It combines theoretical insight with concrete analysis to reveal how systems that promise security and progress often depend on sacrifice, waste, and destruction. The book also proposes a new framework for studying harm that moves beyond traditional approaches in criminology and social science. By rethinking criminology's spatial topography and by attending to how institutions 'feel', it provides readers with tools for analysing contemporary problems such as State violence, border control, technological governance, and systemic inequality.

Written as an exercise in criminological noir, wide-ranging in scope, yet clear in argument, The Architecture of Violence speaks to readers interested in power, society, and the hidden structures that shape everyday life.

This book examines parental educational anxiety in contemporary mainland China, offering a systematic analysis of its cultural roots, conceptual structure, formation mechanisms, and consequences.

Through vivid case studies, the authors delve into three key aspects of educational anxiety: concerns about academic performance, the competitive environment, and parenting self-efficacy. They present a dynamic framework that illustrates how family practices, school expectations, and social competition interact to generate and amplify anxiety. The book also investigates the wide-reaching effects of this phenomenon, demonstrating how it disrupts family relationships and undermines psychological well-being. To address these challenges, the authors propose practical, integrated strategies aimed at reducing parental educational anxiety, offering actionable solutions for families, schools, and policymakers.

Blending empirical evidence with an innovative analytical perspective, this volume is a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners in education, mental health, and family studies.

Chapters discuss teaching methods such as the use of games, integration of theory, global panel data, and student-centered learning, alongside how to teach in different contexts across democratic and autocratic societies. The book further highlights classic works on autocracy and perspectives beyond the canon, such as studies of informal institutions and parastatal organizations, giving teachers the tools required to provide well-rounded and engaging courses on autocracy.

Teaching Autocracy and Autocratic Politics is a key resource for educators looking to produce an effective and ethically sensitive programme on autocracy. Instructors teaching classes on comparative politics and political science more broadly will also find the volume useful.

Feeling with Demons offers a renewed approach to early modern witchcraft through the lens of the history of emotions. It examines the intellectual, judicial, and emotional frameworks that shaped witch-hunting in Old and New England, as well as the personal and communal tensions that fuelled accusations, their connections to demonic possession, and the arguments advanced by those who challenged the trials.

Drawing on demonological treatises, sermons, witchcraft pamphlets, and trial records, this book investigates the emotional worlds of accused witches, victims, witnesses, as well as judicial and religious authorities. It asks which feelings demonologists encouraged or condemned; which emotions contemporaries associated with witchcraft; how alleged victims understood their affective experiences; how the accused were expected to respond before judges and juries; and what it meant, emotionally, to undergo demonic possession. By examining what people feared, hated, envied, despised, or raged against, Feeling with Demons opens revealing windows onto the experiences and lives of early modern men and women in the English Atlantic.

This book speaks to students and researchers of witchcraft, witch-hunting, and demonology, as well as to readers interested in the humanities, the social sciences, and Christian religious thought. Its emotional perspective also fosters dialogue with psychology, anthropology, sociology, literary criticism, gender studies, philosophy, and theology.

A diverse array of leading experts survey the latest research in the area, with original insights into the complex legal facets of European integration through the conceptual, terminological, and theoretical lenses of constitutional law. In both analytical and normative terms chapters discuss core topics such as European democracy, the rule of law, federalism, national identity, fundamental rights, citizenship, competences and governmental architecture, reflecting on the challenges facing European constitutional law and the resilience displayed at both EU and member state levels.

Foundational yet forward thinking, this Research Handbook is an essential resource for students and scholars working in European, constitutional and administrative law. Policymakers will also benefit from its timely recommendations for the future of constitutional development and conflict resolution.

This book explores how trauma affects our experience of time, how that experience may not be linear, and how we may experience "counter-time" - a disruption or arrest of time's flow and a perpetual return to the time of trauma.

Counter-Time explores this phenomenon in clinical practice and in examples from literature and history, including mass trauma such as genocide. Survivors of trauma can be helped to move beyond their experience by drawing on their own cultural resources, helping them to use "counter-time" as a means of release instead of a repeated traumatic symptom.

With rich clinical detail and clear, accessible writing, this book is essential reading for all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists working with trauma.

Exploring how wide-ranging debates have supported, extended, repositioned, or conflicted with the original notion of Communities of Practice (CoPs) as sites of situated learning, this book argues that they can be cultivated and managed in higher education settings to create and support an inclusive culture for teaching and research, and career development.

Against the backdrop of more traditionally orientated volumes that focus on CoPs as a tool for supporting teaching and learning in the classroom, this scholarly work tackles university culture related to curriculum development, knowledge exchange activities, research, and academic careers to offer a critical appraisal of often disparate themes and epistemological perspectives in which CoPs have been applied. Critical in approach and theoretical in nature, chapters explore how CoPs can support an inclusive university research culture, offering insights on their management, cultivation and legacies. Contributions also look at their ability to help build external relationships between academics, practitioners and businesses, as well as discussions on individual identity construction and participation.

Ultimately examining the potential for CoPs to shape the future of academic institutions, this book will appeal to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in higher education, inclusive education and educational policy.

Whose Water? The Control and Appropriation of Water Resources in Medieval Hungary addresses conflicts surrounding water management, a space where different economic and other socio-political interests meet and sometimes clash. The geographical space that it focuses on is the Kingdom of Hungary, and the time frame is the period from the foundation of the Christian state around the year 1000 to the late medieval period.

Modern politics focuses on who has legitimate claims in water-related disputes, but for historians, it is certainly more relevant to understand how such conflicts were approached and resolved in the past. These questions include what kind of disputes unfolded concerning water use; to what degree water was conceived as a private or common good; and how different interests were aligned with each other. Throughout the book's chapters, it is argued that the use of water by the societies of the Kingdom of Hungary in the Middle Ages gave rise to complex sets of customs and norms that, until the modern era, were the most important principles for settling water-use disputes.

Whose Water? The Control and Appropriation of Water Resources in Medieval Hungary will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental and landscape history, as well as those studying the legal and urban history of premodern Europe.