This book provides a new perspective on the history of the United States from the eighteenth to early twenty-first century. It brings together 15 chapters that engage with the changing contour of the United States, its changing political culture, and its internal and international politics, and provides a critique of its democracy. It focuses on marginalized social groups - indigenous tribes, indentured labor, slaves, and immigrants - to understand their role and contributions in the making of the United States. The book examines gender roles, class, race, ethnicity and the movements for rights that heralded the beginning of a new political agenda, viz. the mobilization of African-Americans, the Civil Rights Movement, the Feminist Movement, and New Environmentalism. It also adds to the discussion on major phases of Black history -enslavement, bondage and emancipation, sharecropping and tenancy, and the initiation of the Black Movement, led and influenced by the political ideology of its leaders and institutions like Booker T. Washington, WEB Dubois, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, and the NAACP.

Providing an in-depth study and critique of American capitalism and imperialism and its impact on the global environment, the book will be of interest to academics, university teachers and students seeking new methodologies of teaching-learning and pedagogical strategies, and readers keen to delve into the history of the United States.

Rented Worlds examines the hidden yet ubiquitous world of bedsits, boarding houses, service flats, subdivided terraces, and other forms of private rented housing that continued to dominate post-war London, numerically as well as culturally, well into the 1960s.

While the rise of council housing and suburban homeownership have both been thoroughly documented, it was this other kind of housing - declining yet highly contested - that formed the ideological substrate of many key debates about the post-war politics of welfare, 'race,' class, and gender. Covering from the end of the Second World War to the end of the first post-war Conservative government, and drawing on a range of untapped archival sources, including rent tribunals, valuation lists, exhibitions, and photography, the book traces a sequence of specific 'problems' as they coincided with key moments in post-war British history: from the 1946 squatting movement and the problem of displacement after the Blitz; to the question of social isolation and new policies around mental health; to the chronic issue of overcrowding and a growing fire safety crisis in inner London.

Told through the experience of tenants and proprietors, this new history of post-war London challenges architectural history's ability to account for the unexpected after-lives of built spaces; spaces that were re-made from the inside out through processes of speculation, regulation, and grassroots spatial practices.

This book's central thesis is that notions of monstrosity and geographic marginality were central to the formation of an English identity in the Middle Ages. Medieval Christian theologians believed that geography was divinely ordered, so their perception of Britain as being in the monstrous periphery of the world caused anxiety among its inhabitants that we can see expressed across media and genres.

Medieval cartography, for centuries scorned as crude, is now the subject of numerous careful studies; monsters, likewise long ignored in scholarship, are now of great interest. This book sits at the crossroads of these two discourses (critical cartography and monster studies), treated separately in most scholarship. Nearly twenty years after its initial publication, Maps and Monsters in Medieval England remains the only extended study of the role of monsters on medieval maps and of the ways that ideas about geography shaped the role of monsters in other contexts, where they were marshaled as part of an ongoing effort to define what it meant to be human, English, and Christian.

This volume is intended for professional scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates. Translations are provided for all Latin and Old English texts to render the volume accessible to a wider range of readers.

Embracing Complexity: A Critical Approach to Efficacy and Manualised Practices in Psychotherapy considers the implications for psychotherapeutic practice and research when these are required to demonstrate 'efficacy' through repeatable models and manualised practices. This book discusses how manualised treatments impact the therapist and their practice with clients, challenging the notion that measuring and repeating manualised psychotherapeutic practice always moves toward best practice.

It considers the growth of manualised interventions such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which have undergone rapid expansion and implementation in recent decades and are often regarded as the gold standard of measurable, evidence-based treatment. However, manualised practices may be critiqued as reductive and failing to incorporate the complexities of the self as a whole into the therapeutic relationship, instead over-relying on the reduction of symptoms relating to one diagnosis. This book considers whether standardisation in psychotherapeutic research and practice can sacrifice key therapeutic and relational elements in the name of conformity and how training and standardisation can monopolise the psychotherapeutic space. Adopting a critical psychological approach, this book explores the current situation in psychology, showcases the voice of different practitioners, and explores what is gained and what is lost through the increasing adoption of manualised therapies.

By pointing out alternative paths for therapists that emerge from a fuller and unfiltered understanding of the psychotherapeutic space, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers in the areas of psychotherapy, critical psychology, and phenomenological studies, and to mental health professionals and trainees.

This groundbreaking book explores the understudied phenomenon of victimization recurrence, introducing the clinically robust concept of the recidivist victim and translating it into an innovative diagnostic tool: the Clinical Spectrum of Recidivist Victims, developed from over twenty years of clinical practice.

Drawing from extensive psychotherapeutic experience and doctoral research in forensic psychology, Dr. Rojas presents a relational psychoanalytic framework that maps the range of psychological positions individuals may occupy in relation to repeated harm-from those who remain caught in recurrent victimization without awareness, to those who have moved out of victimization as an organizing position in their lives. Each position within the spectrum is clinically characterized through its subjective, relational, and embodied dimensions. Using embodied language, the book interweaves theoretical foundations with clinical vignettes and personal narratives, offering clear concepts and practical tools for addressing traumatic repetition without reducing it to willpower or individual deficit.

Written with depth, sensitivity, and ethical commitment, this book is intended for clinicians, researchers, and practitioners, as well as for anyone who believes they are-or have been-caught in recurring patterns of victimization and seeks to understand them without judgment.

This book offers a critical and thought-provoking exploration of mental health in education at a time when concern, awareness and intervention have never been higher, yet outcomes often remain uncertain. It moves beyond individualised and crisis-led responses to consider mental wellbeing in educational contexts more holistically.

Grounded in research and real-world practice, the book draws on diverse perspectives from educators, policymakers, researchers and healthcare professionals to examine key debates shaping contemporary understandings of mental health in schools. Chapters explore leadership, policy, staff wellbeing, school-based mental health provision, relationships with external services, and the complexities of safeguarding and equity. Throughout, contributors interrogate prevailing assumptions, examine the reliability of diagnoses, and unpack complex questions, inviting reflective and ethically informed dialogue rather than offering quick fixes. Drawing primarily on UK examples while remaining relevant to international audiences facing similar pressures, the book provides a critical yet constructive framework that prioritises prevention, belonging and sustainability over reactive interventions.

Written in an accessible style, this book will be of value to teachers, school leaders, education studies students at undergraduate and postgraduate level, policymakers, and others interested in how education systems can better support the mental health of students and staff.

Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders provides a thorough description of how to apply cognitive behavioural therapy to patients who are traditionally regarded as being difficult to treat, focusing on those with borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder.

This revised third edition expands substantially on previous editions, incorporating new developments in theory and practice in the field. It provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to applying CBTpd, including clinical vignettes to illustrate how the therapy is applied. CBTpd takes a developmental perspective as childhood trauma and adversity are frequently associated with these disorders. This edition is informed by decades of training clinicians in the UK and internationally, responding to the challenges they commonly encounter in working with patients with personality disorders. The new edition provides clinicians with clear and detailed examples of how to manage complex problems, including how to develop a narrative formulation that takes a developmental perspective, as well as guidance on other challenges such as managing the therapeutic relationship whilst keeping therapy focused and the patient engaged in therapy.

This guide will be essential reading for psychiatrists, clinical and counselling psychologists, therapists, mental health nurses, and trainees in CBT.

An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching provides an engaging, student-friendly, up-to-date guide to the field of foreign language learning and teaching.

Aimed at students with no background in the area and taking a task-based approach, this thoroughly revised fourth edition:

• introduces the theoretical and practical aspects of both learning and teaching, and provides discussion and workshop activities throughout each chapter of the book, along with further reading and reflection tasks;
• deals with classroom- and task-based teaching, including content-based instruction, and content- and language-integrated learning. It also covers lesson planning and testing, making the book suitable for use on practical training courses;
• analyses different learning styles and suggests strategies to improve language acquisition;
• introduces discussions about technology-supported (GenAI) foreign language teaching and learning;
• includes examples from foreign language learning in Russian, French, Danish, and German, as well as English.

Written by experienced teachers and authors, An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching is essential reading for students beginning their study in the area, as well as teachers in training and those already working in the field.

This book is accompanied by online support materials at www.routledge.com/9781032747958, which contain additional information, exercises, and weblinks.

Exploring Perspectives in Group Analytic Psychotherapy in Europe examines the theory, practice, research, and prospective developments of group analytic psychotherapy across European contexts. The volume brings together contributions from authors working in a range of European countries, offering an overview of current approaches within the field.

Individual chapters address the ways in which group analytic psychotherapy is practiced in culturally specific settings, with attention to the adaptation of the approach to local conditions and changing mental health demands. The book also considers the status of research within national clinical communities and outlines possible directions for further development.

The volume is intended for practitioners of group analytic psychotherapy, but also group psychotherapists and for those in training.

African Philosophy and its Association with Psychology and the Social Sciences
is a symposium of leading voices addressing philosophical questions and considerations
that psychological and other forms of social science research and
practice raise.
In doing so, it offers a unique introduction to the philosophical understanding
of the methods of social science research from the perspective of a range of African
philosophers. There are many features of predominantly qualitative research
that will be presented and considered in this book, forming a repository of African
philosophical writings that consider the nature and processes involved in
qualitative, psychological, and social science research. The questions addressed
include, but are not limited to, fundamental metaphysical questions, questions
about the nature of the data or information that will be gathered and how this
is collected, the types of enquiries being engaged and the form those enquiries
may take, the position of the researcher within the research process coupled
with reflexivity. African Philosophy and its Association with Psychology and
the Social Sciences is an up-to-date collection of chapters on the relationship
between philosophy and the social sciences from the perspective of philosophy
that has developed and exists in Africa.
This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students and
researchers in psychology, African studies, philosophy and social science.

Experimental Research: Brief Essays on Timeless Concepts offers a unique exploration of the experimental process that transcends disciplinary boundaries and technological trends. Through a series of concise, thought-provoking essays, this book distills enduring principles of scientific inquiry. Addressing foundational topics from measurement and dimensional analysis to cognitive factors in research and technical communication, it cultivates a deep, reflective understanding of experimentation as both an intellectual craft and a scientific discipline.

Organized into seven thematic sections, the essays delve into topics rarely addressed in conventional manuals, including the epistemology of experimentation, creative thinking in research, principles of device design and the thoughtful integration of modern tools into contemporary experimental work. Rather than focusing on discipline-specific techniques, the authors emphasize universal aspects of experimentation that cut across fields, blending conceptual insight with practical relevance and historical perspective. The result is a timeless perspective on experimental methods that balances accessibility with intellectual rigor.

This volume is an essential resource for young scholars learning to design, conduct and interpret experiments independently, such as graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and early-career faculty who, despite solid technical backgrounds, have received little formal guidance in the conceptual and cognitive aspects of experimentation. For educators and established researchers, it offers fresh perspectives on mentoring the next generation of experimentalists in an era of rapid technological change.

Now in its second edition, Applied Spatial Statistics and Econometrics offers a modern and accessible introduction to spatial data analysis using R. Emphasising reproducibility, real-world datasets, and practical workflows, this comprehensive guide introduces spatial thinking from a critical analytical perspective, highlighting the importance of location, distance, and neighbourhood effects in shaping social and economic phenomena.

Readers are guided through foundational concepts, including spatial data structures (areal, point, and grid data), visualisation techniques, and spatial econometric models such as spatial lag, spatial error, and spatial Durbin specifications. Updates reflect the substantial evolution of spatial models and R packages, such as the transition to sf:: and terra:: packages, enhancements to spatstat:: package, new tools for spatial sampling and bootstrap, and fully reproducible analyses with complete R code. Topics include geographically weighted regression, spatial point pattern analysis, DEGURBA classification, and spatial principal component analysis.

Accompanied by datasets and complete R code on GitHub and RPubs, the book enables readers to replicate analyses and adapt methods to their own research. It is an essential resource for advanced students of econometrics, spatial planning, and regional science, as well as researchers and data scientists seeking to harness the power of spatial analysis for evidence-based insights and policy recommendations.

Contributors examine the pedagogical, ethical, and political stakes of teaching terrorism and security from critical perspectives. Through a range of innovative approaches-including visual and creative methods, the use of technology to interrogate power structures, and the incorporation of videogames and playful tools-chapters demonstrate how to actively reframe the study of political violence. Grounded in real-world examples, the book also reflects on the future of teaching in an era of AI and digitalisation, arguing that meaningful transformation depends less on the tools we adopt than on the pedagogical commitments that shape their use.

Teaching Terrorism and Counterterrorism is an essential resource for instructors of terrorism, counter-terrorism, and security studies. It will also appeal to scholars and students in international relations, security studies, and public policy seeking fresh, practical ways to teach complex and sensitive topics.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the established and expanding body of research on promissory representation.

It examines how context shapes what political parties promise during campaigns and whether they deliver once in power. The book focuses on established Western democracies such as the USA, UK, France, Germany, and Australia, as well as emerging and non-Western democracies, namely Ukraine, Indonesia and India. It reveals tactical promises designed to win votes but never meant to be fulfilled, vague promises that avoid accountability, contentious pledges that undermine liberal values when implemented, and long-term commitments that defer responsibility across generations. The book shows how formal and informal institutions shape promise-making and keeping, and how research on election pledges can hold
politicians to account.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political parties and party politics, elections and campaigning, and more broadly democracy and comparative politics.

The Endgame Election? European Views on the United States Elections of 2024 examines whether the 2024 U.S. presidential election marks a decisive turning point in American democracy by analyzing the contest and its broader political context from the perspective of European scholars.

Bringing together European scholars of American politics, this volume examines how Donald Trump's return to power unfolded against the backdrop of democratic backsliding, institutional fragility, and shifting electoral coalitions. It analyzes the internal transformations of the Democratic and Republican parties, the extraordinary replacement of Joe Biden by Kamala Harris, the role of media ecosystems and misinformation, the dynamics of voter suppression and the Electoral College, and the growing openness to executive aggrandizement within parts of the Republican Party. The book situates the 2024 election within broader debates about constitutional accountability, partisan polarization, and the erosion of democratic guardrails, asking whether the election narrowed the avenues of democratic self-correction that once defined the American system. The European vantage point offers analytical distance and comparative insight into patterns of democratic erosion familiar from other contexts.

This volume will be essential reading for scholars, students, and researchers of American politics, comparative politics, and democratic governance, as well as for policymakers and informed readers seeking to understand the implications of the 2024 election for the future of U.S. democracy.

This Advanced Introduction provides a compact overview of US federal income tax, covering foundational topics such as deductions and credits, tax shelters, accounting and attribution. Richard Schmalbeck begins with a definition of gross income based on economic theory and examines the various modifications engrafted onto it under US federal law.

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• Explores how income has been translated into the provisions of US statutes and codified in the Internal Revenue Code
• Examines the structure of American tax returns and their basic constituent elements: gross income, taxable income and deductions and credits
• Discusses the procedural aspects of enacting tax legislation and administering the income tax, including compliance and litigation of disputes

The Advanced Introduction to Federal Income Taxation is an essential resource for scholars and students of tax and fiscal policy. Non-specialist legal practitioners seeking an overview of this complex subject will also benefit from its succinct analysis and accessible style.

At its core, the book explores whether virtual meetings can enable the creation of common ground. By focusing on practices of coordination, collaboration and coorientation, the book demonstrates the importance of common memories, common matters of concern and common experiences in producing common ground. It does not assume that virtual meetings are deficient compared to co-located meetings, but rather considers meeting virtually to be an interesting phenomenon to study on its own terms. Chapters use empirical evidence to investigate virtual meetings and how they differ from in-person events.

How Virtual Meetings Matter for Community at Work is an essential read for academics and scholars of organisation theory, human resource management, working life studies, sociology, science and technology studies, and communication. Its focus on inclusive working practices will also prove beneficial for managers and HRM practitioners.

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.

Examining transdisciplinary research historically, philosophically and contextually, the book evaluates its evolving methodology and quality criteria. Authors demonstrate its practical application in various case studies, such as developing nature-based solutions in education, sustainable farming practices and developmental initiatives in subsistence marketplaces. The synthesis of the case experiences enables researchers to link their concepts, relationships and modes of knowledge production to transformative action, aiding efforts to address complex challenges arising from climate change, biodiversity crises and inclusive growth.

How to Organise Transdisciplinary Research for Transformative Action and Knowledge Co-Production is a key resource for scholars and students of business and management, education, research methods and sociology. It is also prime reading for educators, research funding agencies and management practitioners seeking actionable recommendations on how to implement transdisciplinary research.

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.

This illuminating Research Agenda provides an evidence-based roadmap for scholarship related to academic integrity, plagiarism and research ethics in the age of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and advanced technologies. Moving beyond detection and compliance-oriented approaches, leading experts propose forward-thinking solutions for GenAI and academic probity.

Contributors adopt the award-winning 'postplagiarism' framework, demonstrating how educators can uphold and enact academic principles and promote ethical student conduct in contexts where GenAI is ubiquitous. Chapters draw on perspectives from the Global North and South to explore assessment security, academic misconduct, cheating and student success. Emphasising the necessity of adaptable ethical frameworks and improved AI literacy, the Research Agenda outlines urgent and emerging priorities which have the potential to redefine the nature of authorship and responsible research.

A Research Agenda for Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity is an essential resource for scholars and students of GenAI and education. Educational leaders and curriculum policymakers will similarly benefit from its grounded analysis and actionable recommendations.

This book introduces the study and reform of curricular structures, an often-overlooked dimension of undergraduate student success.

While student success is influenced by a complex array of factors, many of which lie beyond the control of universities, new research underscores that curricular structures (e.g., blocked courses, extended chains of required courses, pre- and corequisites) can be a significant barrier to success - one that unit-level faculty are uniquely positioned to address. By bringing together national research findings, change management experiments, and expert insights into the transformative potential of rethinking curricular structures, this volume opens an exciting new frontier in educational theory and practice, advancing the pursuit of equitable undergraduate success.

Written in an accessible style for faculty, administrators, and higher education scholars, this book will resonate with leaders committed to building truly student-centered universities.

The contributing authors explore the definitions of creativity and how it can be cultivated in school systems: at the level of individual pupils, teachers, the classroom, school leaders and the wider community. Chapters span global contexts, exploring approaches to curriculum design, teaching methods, assessment and professional learning. Evaluating strategic and practical approaches, this Handbook presents cutting-edge research into the implementation and development of creativity in schools.

This Handbook is a crucial resource for scholars and students of education policy, teaching, learning, assessment and educational administration. It will also benefit practitioners in education seeking a toolkit for introducing and improving creativity across all disciplines.

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.

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.