This book gives readers foundational, step-by-step processes to improve journalistic content and help journalists adapt to today's rapidly-changing media landscape, including evolving technologies. The book establishes a writing progression incorporating narrative flow, thinking about interviewing in a multimedia package, understanding how to incorporate media assets into a story, and evaluating the quality of journalistic work. These practices will connect to the more considerable discussion of defining journalism in the world of media and its more critical connection to society as a whole. Journalists and other media professionals can use this book to practice their skills and critically examine the state of journalism.

This handbook offers a timely and unique authoritative contribution to global debates on gender equality and women's empowerment, in alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goal 5. It presents interdisciplinary research on gender, international relations, and civil society across nine Portuguese-speaking countries, with a particular focus on implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325. Combining conceptual frameworks with case studies, the volume addresses politics, economics, history, peace and security, language, sports, entrepreneurship, and education through an international relations lens. Endorsed by the Association of Portuguese Speaking Universities (AULP), this work stands as a prestigious and globally relevant resource for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners committed to advancing gender-responsive governance.

This book offers a groundbreaking analysis of the ancient Ever-Normal Granary system, illuminating its significance in both historical and modern economic discourse. This work systematically explores the theories and practices of buffer stocks within the contexts of Chinese and Western economic histories, creating a dialogue between ancient wisdom and contemporary challenges.

What sets this book apart is its innovative framework, which evolves the concept of Ever-Normal Granary into a dynamic model of "Maintaining Balance through the Mean," culminating in the formulation of the "Ever Normal Law." This theoretical advancement highlights the "Spirit of the Middle Way" intrinsic to Chinese economic thought, revealing the unique insights that shape China's economic strategies.

Designed for scholars, researchers, and students in history, economics, and agricultural policy, as well as policymakers and those interested in food security, this book strikes a balance between academic rigor and accessibility.

This book addresses an urgent need to rethink the future of human settlement in the context of significant economic, social and environmental changes, arguing that we must look beyond our current paradigm of 'sustainability' to envision a continuously evolving framework for human settlements.

The book tackles the role of the service economy in human settlement evolution, filling a major gap in the literature. While service-driven business models are already regularly evaluated and utilized, the social challenges of the service economy - and its positive impacts in exacerbating economic and environmental crises - are poorly understood from the point of view of human settlement evolution. The chapters in this book, based on a new theoretical approach centered around post-industrial and post-anthropocentric perspectives, highlight the need for the innovative design and development of human settlements. The book proposes a framework of six strategies for evolving human settlements that integrates economic, social, and environmental dimensions and explains the logic of the evolutionary path. A set of case studies illustrates practical applications of post-industrial settlements building through the prism of a suggested innovative holistic approach.

With its innovative approach and blend of theory and real-world considerations, this book will be a highly valuable read for an interdisciplinary audience of scholars from economics, business, sociology, urban planning, geography, sustainability studies and more.

This book offers a multidimensional analysis of task engagement in second language (L2) teaching and learning, with a particular focus on task-based language teaching (TBLT). It revisits key task-based theories and critically reviews the literature through the lens of task engagement, before presenting empirical findings on the factors that shape learners' engagement during task performance. The book offers theoretical and methodological insights into researching task engagement and links these insights to pedagogical implications for task design and implementation, as well as suggestions for teacher training and professional development. Bridging theory, research, and practice, this book helps researchers, language teaching practitioners, and postgraduate students develop a nuanced understanding of the nature and dynamics of task engagement in TBLT. It also provides practical guidance on how to design and implement L2 tasks that effectively engage learners in both face-to-face and virtual learning environments.

Bernd Huppertz brings together psychologists in organizational psychology to examine and address the psychology components of organizations.

This book examines systems of psychodynamic institutions at work, the history of organizations, leadership and group relations, and how to promote healthier dynamics.

This edited volume offers a timely and comprehensive exploration of Eastern Europe's evolving role in shaping the global political, economic, and security landscape. It presents a multi-dimensional analysis of the region's strategic importance, positioned as a bridge between East and West, amidst ongoing geopolitical realignments and international uncertainty. Through rigorous research and engaging case studies, contributors examine how the region's integration into global systems, such as the European Union, NATO, and international trade and technology networks, has positioned it as a critical player in the 21st century. From the Russia-Ukraine conflict and NATO expansion to the rise of Eastern Europe's innovation hubs and soft power diplomacy, this book sheds light on both visible and underexplored dimensions of the region's influence. It not only analyzes current developments but also anticipates future trends, offering actionable insights for global governance, economic development, and security planning.

This book explores how sustainable urban development can drive global progress toward Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 by enhancing cities and communities. Through an integrative focus on public spaces, sustainable transportation, urban resilience, and cultural heritage, it presents actionable strategies and case studies from diverse global regions that address inclusivity, safety, and accessibility in urban environments.

This work examines how visual and sensory documentation of public spaces can improve perception, accessibility, and safety, by presenting insights on AI technologies and 3D simulations, it reveals how sensory design and mental mapping help create environments that feel more welcoming and secure, thereby fostering broader social engagement and utilization of these spaces, emphasizing the role of sustainable transportation and inclusive urban planning in supporting local economies and promoting tourism. Furthermore, the book delves into the critical relationship between urban resilience and the preservation of cultural and natural heritage, underscoring that resilient cities are better able to maintain and protect their historical assets, revealing strategies for safeguarding these treasures, offering examples from Europe, Latin America, and North Asia.

Through scenario analysis and urban risk management, it provides a roadmap for integrating urban resilience with cultural heritage conservation, ensuring these sites remain intact for future generations while boosting their appeal as tourist destinations. Green and public spaces are highlighted as pivotal components for sustainable tourism and social development, with a focus on creating "smart" cities that integrate green spaces designed to promote social interaction and enhance public health.

The book examines how urban spaces can be optimized to foster social cohesion, improve public well-being, and support economic growth. By discussing roles of stakeholders in advancing sustainable tourism creating urban environments that are not only visually appealing but also functionally inclusive and beneficial for communities, it concludes by exploring integrative approaches and future pathways for sustainable urban development, offering recommendations for policymakers, urban planners, and scholars.

This handbook brings together experts by lived experience, educators, practitioners and researchers to present a transformative, neuro-inclusive approach to social work. Emphasizing the importance of developing and implementing neuroaffirmative perspectives in social work education, practice, and research, it advocates for neuro-inclusive and equitable social work practice with neurodivergent people who access social work services and those who provide them.

This groundbreaking volume delves into critical themes, including the role of neurodivergent social workers, the impact of systemic conditions, epistemic injustice, and the importance of culturally sensitive community-informed research. Offering recommendations, reflexive activity and frameworks, this handbook is essential reading and an invaluable resource for students, educators, academics, practitioners and researchers in social work and related professions.

This book presents a rigorous academic investigation into the digital transformation of public hospitals in China, drawing upon four in-depth case studies from leading tertiary hospitals in Shanghai-Ruijin Hospital, Zhongshan Hospital, Huashan Hospital, and the Sixth People's Hospital. The cases, selected into the five major international business case repositories (ChinaCases.Org, Harvard Business School, Ivey, European, and Japanese Business Case Centers), provide rare empirical evidence and analytical frameworks for understanding the strategic, technological, and organizational dimensions of digital transformation in large-scale public healthcare institutions. Notably, three academicians also contributed directly to the writing of this volume, further enhancing its scholarly depth and practical relevance.

Beyond descriptive accounts, the book critically examines the design and deployment of digital platforms, AI-powered diagnostic systems, clinical data integration architectures, and governance models for patient-centric services. Contributions from renowned academicians, experts, and senior hospital administrators complement the case studies with theoretical perspectives and policy-relevant insights into digital infrastructure development, talent-system alignment, and the evolving role of public hospitals in the smart healthcare ecosystem.

Positioned at the intersection of health economics, hospital management, and digital strategy, this book offers high scholarly value to researchers, graduate students (MBA, MHA, EMBA), healthcare policymakers, and practitioners. It serves as both a research-based reference and a pedagogical resource for advancing the theory and practice of healthcare digitalization in emerging economies.

This book serves as a sacred site that empirically attests to the 5,000-year-long history of Chinese civilization. It represents an earthen construction-based civilization, a water conservancy-oriented civilization, and a rice cultivation-centered civilization. Moreover, its highly developed jade system is unparalleled. In addition, it holds a crucial position in the history of the development of China's ancient capitals.

This book delves into the discovery history, layout and functional zoning, construction techniques and engineering, archaeological progress, and the relationship between Liangzhu civilization and Chinese civilization at large. By doing so, it unveils the profound connotations and far-reaching impacts of Liangzhu civilization.

This book offers a timely and original exploration of how queer humour shapes cultural identity within Taiwan's digital media landscape. Focusing on language, sexuality and performance, it examines humour as a form of resistance, connection and creativity across online queer spaces. Drawing on data from YouTube, Grindr and X/Twitter, it investigates how gay Taiwanese men use humour to negotiate visibility, articulate desire and respond to exclusion. Through drag queens' mediatised interactions, YouTubers' everyday expertise in sex and sexuality, dating app profiles and X/Twitter posts by erotic content creators, humour emerges not merely as entertainment but as a vital sociolinguistic strategy. These playful performances are deeply rooted in local language varieties and actively challenge dominant gender norms and heteronormative expectations. While humour serves as the book's central analytical lens, it also engages a wide range of sociolinguistic phenomena, including narrative construction, indexicality, register variation, metaphor, indirectness, punning, code-mixing, self-deprecation, ironic politeness and stylised registers such as wulitou "nonsense." These strategies are analysed to show how gay Taiwanese men craft voice, negotiate authenticity and build digital intimacy across genres and platforms. In doing so, the book draws on insights from fields including queer linguistics, humour studies, digital discourse analysis and East Asian cultural studies.

This edited book explores recent developments in community translation and interpreting, offering fresh insights into research, practice, and teaching around linguistic access and inclusion. Bringing together international perspectives, it examines how these fields evolve across diverse social, cultural, and ethical contexts.

Drawing on discussions from the 3rd International Conference on Community Translation (Warsaw, 2023) and new global contributions, the chapters address translation technology in non-profit organizations, inclusive language projects, health communication, and the use of artificial and machine translation in public services. Case studies from Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia highlight how community translation and interpreting promote equity, access to information, and social integration for multilingual and vulnerable populations.

This volume will appeal to students, researchers, practitioners, educators, language service providers, and professionals in healthcare, law and social services seeking to advance inclusion through language access.

This book offers a comprehensive study of the ways Wales and Welsh people have historically engaged with-and imagined-Jews, Judaism, and Israel-Palestine. This volume argues that Wales is allosemitic, a term that encompasses both positive and negative attitudes towards Jews, but which views Jews as fundamentally different from the non-Jewish mainstream.

Jews and Judaism have long-albeit hidden-histories in Wales, but traditionally, little has been written about non-Christian religions in Wales. Jews often served as allegorical figures in medieval poetry and chronicles; in the early modern period, Welsh Christian evangelists expressed missionary zeal toward Jews. In the twentieth century, policy driven by Welshmen like David Lloyd George and T.E. Lawrence changed the Middle East's political landscape forever. In the modern era, many Welsh intellectuals have become deeply involved in discussions around colonialism and conquest through the lens of the Israel-Palestine conflict: the latest iteration of a centuries-old conversation about self-determination, nationhood, identity, and more.

This edited volume brings together scholars from diverse theoretical traditions to present and discuss their perspective on theory-building in psychology. Amid ongoing discussions about a potential (theory) crisis in the discipline, this collection offers a timely and comprehensive overview of key debates. It serves as a foundation for further reflection and future research.

The book consists of three parts. The chapters in the first part analyse conceptual and philosophical issues underlying theory- and model-building in psychology. By contextualizing the debate with historical and interdisciplinary arguments, these chapters provide a framework for further discussion. The second part is dedicated to the challenges that emerge when inquiring into the nature of theory- and model-building in psychology. Psychology faces a unique set of meta-scientific concerns that any attempt at solution needs to recognize. Such attempts are discussed in the third part of the book. The book concludes with a final chapter, in which the individual contributions are situated within the current debate on theory- and model-building in psychology.

Chapter 4 and Chapter 21 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book is Volume 2 of The Linguistic Landscape of Higher Education Internationalisation, a project examining the implementation of English as a Language of Globalization and Internationalization (ELGI), a term introduced here to describe countries in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East where English is neither a heritage nor official language. The volumes explore Englishisation through the lenses of identity, local languages, and culture, while also highlighting stakeholder resistance and grassroots experiences of students and teachers. Attention is given to language policy, emphasizing legal and ethical dimensions, alongside the impact of digitalization, online learning, and technology on language use.

Volume 2 focuses on pedagogical and professional applications of English in higher education, with emphasis on EMI, CLIL, and skills development for teachers and students. Volume 1 addresses linguistic landscapes, language policy, and English's interaction with local languages. This book will be relevant to researchers, academics, students, and educators in international education, language policy, Englishisation, and applied linguistics.

This edited book is a rich and diverse collection of chapters examining the educational transitions of marginalized and multilingual migrant youth across six countries in Northern Europe. Contributions analyze and discuss the transitions from intersectional perspectives such as religion, nationality, socio-economic condition, gender, and language. This intersection of background, personal, societal, cultural, and educational variables emphasize the need to remove barriers and adapt educational spaces to be more inclusive and socially just. The book will be of interest to students and academics in education, child and youth studies, migration studies, sociology and sociolinguistics.

This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of how false information is strategically produced, circulated, and legitimized within contemporary digital communication environments. Focusing on the role of new media in shaping public perception and psychological response, the book analyzes how disinformation operates through platform logics, algorithmic systems, and emotionally resonant narratives. By integrating communication psychology with media theory, it reveals the cognitive and affective vulnerabilities-such as bias, emotional engagement, and perception management-that render users susceptible to manipulative content in digital spaces. Structured in two main parts, the first section explores the theoretical and psychological foundations of disinformation. It examines media and communication psychology, the historical evolution and structural anatomy of disinformation, and the mechanisms through which perception is strategically managed in digital contexts. Drawing on key communication theories and psychological models, this section demonstrates how new media technologies intersect with human cognition and social behavior to facilitate the spread of deceptive narratives. The second part turns to applied perspectives, presenting analytically grounded strategies and selected case-based insights into countering disinformation across political and public health domains. Topics include media literacy initiatives, institutional and policy responses, algorithmic accountability, and AI-supported fact-checking practices. Case discussions-such as election interference and public health misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic-highlight the broader societal implications of unchecked disinformation. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book is essential reading for scholars, students, policymakers, media professionals, and educators seeking to critically understand the psychological and structural dynamics of disinformation in the digital age.

This book captures Zimbabwe's economic and social history with a focus on the various colonial categories as they interacted and unfolded. It analyses the complex histories of colonialism by illustrating the points of intersection in and interaction of the various aspects of colonialism. Chapters within the book demonstrate how various aspects of colonial society - environmental, ideological, and economic - related to each other.

This book departs from earlier similar publications in how various themes or elements in society were interwoven. Existing titles in this area tend to isolate a single theme, such as environmental or women's history, from other categories. In reality, colonial spaces, however, did not exist in isolation. The social, economic, political, ideological and environmental factors, for instance, were intricately interconnected. The book includes topics such as health infrastructure and urbanization in Southern Rhodesia, encounters between plastic manufacturing industries and the Customs Union, the development and maintenance of Rhodesia's road infrastructure, livestock diseases, the conversion of indigenous lands into wildlife sanctuaries, and the brutalization of workers.

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

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

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

Marketing is undergoing a radical transformation: companies face the challenge of strategically leveraging a flood of technologies, data, and automation opportunities. But how can MarTech and Artificial Intelligence be used effectively to secure competitive advantages?

This book combines scientifically grounded insights with practical best practices and helps bring clarity to the often-overwhelming MarTech landscape. Andreas Fuchs demonstrates how companies can make optimal use of their data foundation, create personalized customer experiences, and intelligently orchestrate marketing processes.

The Marketing Technology Framework serves as the structured foundation-from data strategy and smart segmentation to seamless cross-channel customer interaction. Numerous real-world examples and concrete recommendations make this book an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to leverage MarTech as a true engine of growth.

Contents

• Why MarTech is the future of marketing
• Know Phase: Building a solid data foundation
• Analyze Phase: Understanding and predicting customer behavior
• Orchestrate Phase: Creating a unified experience across all channels
• Engage & Measure Phase: Measuring and optimizing marketing activities
• Artificial Intelligence and automation in marketing