Equips students to analyze meaning across languages using clear tools and rich examples

Semantics in Action provides an accessible yet rigorous introduction to natural language semantics. Organized around core semantic phenomena such as quantification, relative clauses, modality, events, tense, and aspect, this concise textbook builds skills through detailed, compositional analyses and carefully chosen illustrative examples. Author Toshiyuki Ogihara, a leading voice in cross-linguistic semantic theory and research, anchors the discussion in English and supplements it with Japanese examples.

Balancing clarity with linguistic diversity, each chapter offers lucid explanations, guided analyses, and exercises that help students develop a precise understanding of semantic theory and its application. Ogihara emphasizes the compositional nature of meaning, the syntax-semantics interface, and the utility of semantic reasoning in linguistic research. Providing the foundation to engage deeply with natural language semantics, either as part of formal coursework or as preparation for more advanced research, Semantics in Action:

• Offers a step-by-step approach to compositional semantic analysis with simple, well-chosen examples
• Integrates English as the primary object language with targeted Japanese data to highlight theoretical contrasts
• Supports cross-linguistic analysis, especially for students whose native language differs structurally from English
• Includes exercises as well as charts and figures throughout

Equipping students with both theoretical insight and practical tools for independent research, Semantics in Action is ideal for advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students enrolled in courses such as Formal Semantics and Natural Language Semantics.

Trajectories of Development: Odisha@100 offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and interpretative analysis of Odisha's tryst with the economic, social and governance challenges through policy and parastatal initiatives since the state's formation in 1936 to the present day. Positioned within the global debates on uneven regional growth, the volume examines Odisha's recent economic resurgence while probing its distributional, ecological and social implications.

The book traces the Indian state's historical antecedents-marked by colonial exploitation and disparate functioning of the myriad princely states-and its transformation into a formally unified subnational entity. Sector-specific chapters analyse agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and services, complemented by district-level insights. The volume explores developments in education, health, and demography, and examines possibilities of emerging frontiers of tourism, and tribal economy. Additional chapters assess poverty, unemployment, food security, fiscal management, disaster governance, neglect of natural resources, displacement, distress migration, unfolding of media, and roles of private and civil society actors.

This volume will benefit scholars of development studies, economics, political economy, regional planning, and public policy, as well as practitioners and administrators of development. Readers will gain a nuanced, empirically grounded understanding of Odisha's developmental journey and a forward-looking roadmap as the state approaches its centenary in 2036.

Explores the formation of Islamic institutions and statehood beyond eurocentric models of sovereignty

Islam and Statehood: Instituting the Ecumene offers a groundbreaking reinterpretation of how socioreligious and political institutions took shape across the Islamic ecumene. Leaving behind eurocentric categories of sociopolitical theory in favor of an Italian brand of "Southern" thought, Armando Salvatore advances an alternative framework for understanding state formation in the Islamic ecumene-not as a belated imitation of European models, but as an original instituting process grounded in relational and adaptive modes of authority. Tracing a trajectory from Prophetic narration and Sufi habitus to early modern configurations of saintly power and reflexive governance, this second volume of the Sociology of Islam trilogy provides a conceptual map that connects embodied traditions of civility to self-renewing patterns of political legitimacy culminating in the institution of the Caliphate.

Written with conceptual precision and historical depth, this volume reveals how the Islamic ecumene cultivated forms of "circular" sovereignty that evolved dynamically across time and geography. Islam and Statehood engages critically with eurocentric paradigms of Western political theology and sociology while illuminating the distinctive rationalities that shaped institutional innovation in the ecumene. Situating statehood as part of a wider institutional experiment in balancing divine mediation, habitus formation, and pragmatic governance, the book:

• Develops an original approach to statehood within the Islamic ecumene
• Introduces the concept of "instituting" as a dynamic and adaptive process distinct from European models of corporation and sovereignty
• Builds on and complements The Sociology of Islam in developing a broader theory of formation of the Islamic ecumene by reinterpreting Ibn Khaldun's theory through the lens of "Southern" thought.

Islam and Statehood: Instituting the Ecumene is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, Middle East Studies, and Comparative Politics. It is particularly well-suited for courses exploring state formation, political theology, and non-Western sociological theory.

Islam and Statehood is a field-defining tour de force. It is deeply reflexive about its own premises and commanding in its long-duree approach to history. The result is a work of extraordinary maturity that is self-aware, theoretically exciting, and punctuated by a reflexivity that is itself a methodological contribution. This is what scholarship should be: courageous enough to reinvent itself, and wise enough to know why.
-Kamaludeen Nasir, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

In this volume, Salvatore continues to enrich the field of sociology of Islam through moving the current debate on the "Islamic state" to a more complex terrain of analyzing statehood in Islam. Long awaited and simply brilliant, this book marks the zenith of over three decades of research in the sociology of Islam and its ecumene, civility, and translocal connections. A must-read across the social sciences and humanities.
-Heba Raouf Ezzat, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul

Salvatore's Islam and Statehood is a work of impressive ambition and erudition that makes a vital contribution to debates at the intersection of Islamic intellectual history and political theory. Salvatore demonstrates that Islamic statehood was not a failed approximation of Western political modernity but an original modernity in its own right-one whose characteristic emphasis on connectedness, civic solidarity, and the distribution rather than monopolization of authority stands in sharp contrast to the Leviathan-like logic of Westphalian sovereignty. In doing so, the book offers a searching challenge to Eurocentric frameworks in the study of political thought and state formation, illuminating dimensions of the Islamic tradition that have too often been obscured by those frameworks.
-Usaama Al-Azami, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha

Armando Salvatore consistently elevates discussions of Islam to a level of sophistication often missing in current debates. Islam and Statehood is analytically rigorous, rethinking key concepts in Islam and situating them within the broader debates of the Islamic ecumene. This book is an outstanding continuation of his earlier works and is essential reading for anyone working on Islam.
-Raihan Ismail, University of Oxford

It is no secret that billions of people across the world lack the freedom and right to access life-saving medicines. For decades, people have fought to put this, though, as the Covid-19 pandemic made sickeningly clear, vast swaths of humanity are still left without. The reason: people are actively denied access to affordable medicines by outdated patent rules and economic policies dominated by neoliberalism. It is no accident, and it is not due to the pharmaceutical industry alone.

Tahir Amin and Rohit Malpani, two leading figures in the access to medicines movement, examine the origins of this system of rules that champions monopolies and the false god of innovation over the public interest and human well-being. They tell the story of how, move by move, governments have ceded control to and then empowered pharmaceutical companies, making it increasingly hard to undo the damage wreaked along the way. From their unique vantage points and experiences, the authors critique global health initiatives and philanthropists for maintaining the status quo and warn of a future dominated by financial markets and artificial intelligence that will reinforce the worst practices of yesterday and portends new injustices for everyone.

Ultimately, Pharma Monopoly questions the foundations of international efforts to improve access to medicines and calls for a new way forward that can rekindle a movement for justice.

Resource and learning tool presenting the synergies of water and food trends, environmental ecosystems, and social and economic dimensions

The Global Nexus Handbook presents the synergies of water and food trends, environmental ecosystems, and social and economic dimensions, focusing on nature-based, clean energy, and global nexus trend solutions in the ecosystem, particularly in urban and coastal areas. This three-volume collection helps readers consider and understand the interrelationships between components of nature to strive towards a secure and sustainable future.

The Global Nexus Handbook includes information on:

• The interaction in ecosystem environment between water, hydroponics, aquaculture, food policy and security, land, biomass, biodiversity, conflict, infrastructure, and socio-ecological dynamics
• Economical aspects including peace, democracy, investment, gender, migration, poverty, and terrorism
• Nexus problems and issues generally applicable to the realm of the biosphere
• How various nexuses examine, assess, and deconstruct the social-economic realities of development

The Global Nexus Handbook is an essential reference for researchers in related fields and students in programs of study focusing on environment science and engineering, ecology, environment science and engineering, and food science. Government policy makers and engineering consultants will also find the text valuable.

Algorithmic Trading via AI/Machine Learning with R aims to demonstrate how algorithmic trading can empower retail traders to compete more effectively in markets long dominated by institutional giants. By translating advanced techniques into practical, systematic strategies, the book shows how automation, disciplined risk management, and data-driven decision making can help individuals filter out market noise, avoid manipulation, and exploit opportunities that once belonged exclusively to large firms.

The book's purpose is to give you a framework where R is not just a statistical environment, but a trading laboratory and execution engine. Every chapter includes reproducible examples you can extend into your own practice and research pipeline. By the end, you will not merely understand algorithmic trading-you will have built, tested, and connected live strategies to market data. At its core, it demonstrates how R-a language renowned for statistical computing-can be transformed into a complete research and execution platform for trading.

This book is aimed at anyone who wants to learn, or use R, for AI/Machine Learning and algorithmic trading. It is also for individuals doing or interested in doing securities research and financial systems development and for retail traders who may wish to use R to gain an algorithmic trading edge.

Key Features:

• Follows a clearly defined, pedagogical structure that builds from foundational R tools to full automation and integration with APIs.
• Argues that while retail traders cannot match Wall Street's scale, they can use algorithms to level the playing field-building consistency, resilience, and an edge in a market designed to favor the powerful.
• All the book's scripts can be accessed on the book's GitHub branch.
• The QuantRoom YouTube channel (@quantroom) provides video tutorials and scripts that complement the book's content showcasing real-time problem-solving.
• Delivers a more engaging and accessible way to master algorithmic trading using R and the Schwab Trader API.
• The Appendix expands the book's scope beyond R by presenting a side-by-side comparison between the C++ TWS API and the IBrokers R interface, illustrating how high-level R commands map directly to their low-level C++ counterparts.

An insider's original take on how global currency markets operate in the real world

In How Currency Markets Work, a veteran currency trader and a geopolitical risk analyst deliver a comprehensive and street-smart guide for understanding currency markets. The authors combine insights from the worlds of trading, economics, and geopolitics to create an eye-opening and original new take on how currency prices are determined.

This book bridges the gap between how currency markets are taught and how they actually trade, using character-driven narratives built on real-world market events and data to explain currency trading successes and failures in intuitive and practical ways.

Inside the book:

• Actionable tools and tested strategies for currency trading you can apply immediately to improve your returns and your portfolio's risk profile
• Clear real-world examples of how geopolitical events, wars, and political shifts impact currency values
• Profiles of the speculators, corporate hedgers, and central banks whose interplay shapes exchange rates
• Advanced strategies for options, volatility trading, and exploiting mathematical relationships in currency markets

A deeply insightful and accessible exploration of a much-discussed topic, How Currency Markets Work is a powerful new resource for academics, researchers, hedge fund managers, bank traders, policymakers, and practicing and aspiring forex traders.

In an era where medical technology advances rapidly yet faces mounting regulatory hurdles, this book explores the critical interplay between patent law and regulatory frameworks that shapes the future of healthcare. It examines a fundamental problem in European medical technology innovation: the disconnect between patent protection periods and increasingly lengthy regulatory approval processes, demonstrating that Europe's current system forces companies to abandon breakthrough innovations in favor of incremental improvements. It compares the European Union's Medical Device Regulation with the United States' integrated patent-regulatory system, revealing how temporal misalignment between approval and protection discourages investment in complex medical devices. The book develops the first quantitative model linking patent-regulatory interaction and innovation effort in medical devices and demonstrates empirically, through Monte Carlo simulations and elasticity analysis, a significant improvement in development effort and increase in innovation value. It provides actionable policy guidance for aligning European patent law with regulatory timelines while maintaining high safety standards and offers cross-sectoral insights from renewable energy and biotechnology as benchmarks for successful regulatory-innovation alignment. Further, it addresses an urgent policy debate in the European Union concerning innovation incentives in the health-technology sector. By combining legal analysis, mathematical modelling, and policy evaluation, the book bridges law, economics, and health-technology governance. It provides a policy blueprint for balancing innovation incentives, regulatory efficiency, and patient safety, addressing a structural weakness at the heart of Europe's medtech competitiveness. With its quantitative rigour and policy relevance, the book targets a multidisciplinary readership of academics in law, economics, and innovation policy, policymakers, regulators at European Union institutions, and industry professionals.

Writing COVID-19 Lives examines how people turned to life writing-often in fragile, makeshift forms-to make sense of the pandemic. Across poetry, memoir, autofiction, photography, sketchbooks, diaries, postcards, and digital storytelling, the collection traces a pandemic aesthetic marked by brevity, fracture, and pause: an autobiographical "I" that is unsettled, doubled, or dispersed. As Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes in Notes on Grief, "You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language." That grasping-the search for a voice that could still speak-threads through these essays.

Spanning case studies from Canada, the United States, China, Latvia, Peru, the United Kingdom, and Spain, the volume situates these works amid uneven conditions of care, precarity, surveillance, and loss. We encounter poetry written into silence; memoirs shaped by Zoom-mediated mourning; autofiction working through trauma; and photographic diaries-such as Marvin Heiferman's Photographic Shiva-that turn domestic objects into charged residues of grief.

Rather than offering a single story of "the pandemic," the volume assembles a textured archive of how lives were written-tenderly, urgently, and sometimes beautifully-under unprecedented constraint.

Routledge Guides to Teaching Translation and Interpreting is a series of practical guides to key areas of translation and interpreting for instructors, lecturers, and course designers. With professional realities now shaped by readily available translation technologies and generative AI, there is an urgent need to focus on the human aspects of literary translation. The research-based approach to teaching and learning in this volume draws on what translators, theorists, and researchers know about the translating mind to foster the next generation of translators. The six modes of translational thinking in this volume-the caring, sensuous, associative, relational, inquisitive, and reflective mind-are foregrounded as ways to take a human-centered approach to translation teaching, regardless of whether translation technologies are involved in professional translation contexts. Literary translation requires humans to take the lead, and this volume lays the foundation for a humanistic translation pedagogy. Designed to support customizing your classroom, 92 ready-to-use activities and commentaries illustrate how to foster a productive learning environment with course- and program-specific content and specific learning outcomes. This is the essential text for all instructors and lecturers teaching literary translation, translation theory, world literature and comparative literature.

The emergence of ChatGPT (a publicly available tool developed by Open AI), along with its underlying technology, generative pretrained transformer (GPT), is leading to a significant expansion of generative AI and is unleashing the possibilities for unimaginable transformations across different business domains. This new volume looks at how AI, and ChatGPT in particular, is revolutionizing the business of business, finance, economics, and marketing, exploring its transformative impact and considering its hands-on practical implications.

The chapters look at the broad implications in the different domains and provide illustrations and hands-on practice examples that help to evaluate the merits and demerits of ChatGPT, its inherent constraints, its distinctive traits, and its potential utility for researchers and scholars.

In finance, the book offers empirical insight into how an investor can employ ChatGPT and make money with AI and ChatGPT-themed equity investments. The authors also look at AI-enabled detection fraud tools that are revolutionizing security and resource protection of financial institutions, contributing to their integrity and overall financial stability. The book also shows how ChatGPT can provide enhanced information analysis for business startup valuation and profitability.

In the economic realm, ChatGPT can offer real-time insights into economic trends, such as forecasting crude oil prices, etc. The volume also looks at the ethical and legal concerns of ChatGPT in marketing communication, how ChatGPT can augment consumer behavior analysis, the use of chatbots and virtual assistants, and more. The book also explores public sentiment of Chat-GPT on platforms such as Twitter, how ChatGPT is changing management education, and more.

In business practices, the volume looks at AI integration for firms seeking to remain competitive in the ever-changing corporate world. It explores the applications of AI in human resources and how it is automating and augmenting workplace practices by streamlining many business aspects, including recruitment processes and employee engagement, to name two areas. Also considered is ChatGPT role in shaping AI policies and the regulatory landscape that underscores the importance of ethical and responsible use.

The applications and value of ChatGPT in marketing is also looked at, such as the ethical and legal concerns of Chat-GPT in marketing communication, using Chat-GPT to analyze customer behavior, using chatbots and virtual assistants for customer service and support services, and more.

Highlighting the excellent performance and summary analysis capabilities of ChatGPT, this book presents a compelling synthesis of theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence along with actual examples of successful integration of ChatGPT in marketing, economics, business, and finance.

This volume provides a timely and authoritative account of how digital innovation, automation, and artificial intelligence are reshaping interpreting. Once considered a peripheral aid, technology now stands at the centre of professional practice, influencing how interpreters prepare, perform, and reflect on their work.

Organised into four thematic sections, the volume explores the integration of language technologies, AI-driven tools, and computer-assisted and remote interpreting systems. Leading international contributors examine how digital resources are transforming interpreter education, performance, and research while redefining professional identity and cognitive practice.

Combining theoretical insight with empirical evidence, the collection offers a concise road map to the profession's rapid technologisation. It is essential reading for researchers, educators, students, and professionals in translation and interpreting studies who wish to understand how human expertise and artificial intelligence interact in shaping the future of multilingual communication.

Bridge the gap between academic theory and industrial reality with this case-driven guide, featuring real-world applications to help master the future of finance and insurance.

Blockchain technology has rapidly evolved from a theoretical innovation underpinning cryptocurrencies to a foundational tool reshaping financial systems, governance models, and digital infrastructure. Its core attributes, decentralization, transparency, immutability, and security, position it as a transformative force across industries, especially in finance and insurance. In recent years, banks and financial institutions have increasingly adopted blockchain to streamline operations, reduce fraud, and enhance transactional trust. This book explores the practical implementation of blockchain technology across finance, insurance, and sustainable development sectors. Unlike theory-heavy texts, this book takes a case-driven approach-presenting real-world applications from leading institutions such as ICICI Bank, Tata Consultancy Services, and Ernst and Young.

Divided into three parts, the book covers the foundations of blockchain in financial systems, innovations in the insurance industry, and emerging uses in sustainability and policy frameworks. It also examines AI-powered tools, privacy-enhancing protocols, and governance transformations. Ideal for students, professionals, and decision-makers, this volume offers a bridge between academic rigor and practical relevance, equipping readers with both knowledge and real-life examples to understand the evolving role of blockchain in the global economy.

Readers will find the volume:

• Uses in-depth case studies of blockchain implementations for finance, healthcare, supply chain, and more, showcasing tangible outcomes and lessons learned;
• Provides insights from industry leaders and innovators, including strategies, challenges, and best practices for leveraging blockchain technology in diverse sectors;
• Introduces predictions, emerging trends, and expert perspectives on the evolving landscape of blockchain and digital finance;
• Explores the potential of blockchain with inspirational stories of transformative projects, empowering entrepreneurs, investors, and technologists to drive positive change.

Audience

Finance professionals, blockchain developers, fintech entrepreneurs, academic researchers, policy analysts, and graduate students in business, law, and technology, particularly those involved in digital finance, banking innovation, insurance technology, and sustainable development initiatives.

'At a time when global macro has rarely been more relevant, this book captures what drives macro trading: the interaction of policy, markets, and human behavior. It combines analytical depth with real world insight, making it essential reading for traders, investors and anyone with an interest in global markets.'

Andrew Morton, Global Head of Markets, Citi

'History remains our most reliable guide to markets. Dirk and Alex examine the most durable macro relationships with empirical rigor-a must-read for any macro investor.'

Paul Tudor Jones II, CIO and Founder, Tudor Investment Corp

'Even seasoned professionals will find this book valuable. A rigorous, well researched work from one of the industry's thought leaders. An excellent and practical contribution, firmly grounded in data.'

Ben Melkman, Managing Deputy CIO at Bridgewater Associates

Discover opportunities in macro trading as global market volatility increases

In Trading Global Macro Markets, accomplished global macro veterans Dirk Willer and Alex Saunders deliver a complete and incisive guide to navigating global macroeconomic trends as the low volatility world of quantitative easing gives way to the post-pandemic world of increased interest rates and macro volatility. The authors offer coverage of every major asset class, from government debt and credit to equity, commodity, and foreign exchange markets, along with back-tested frameworks going back over two decades and more that illustrate how to trade each class and how to make cross-asset trading decisions.

This fully validated roadmap to global macro trading is a thoroughly researched handbook filled with use-cases, charts, examples, and tools. It avoids overly complex mathematics in favor of concise explanations and case studies wherever possible, ensuring it remains accessible to practitioners and traders from a wide variety of backgrounds.

You'll also find:

• Strategies for trading the business cycle and macroeconomic events, like economic data releases, monetary policy meetings, elections, and geopolitical flashpoints
• Techniques for tactical asset allocation
• Ways to choose between asset classes and discussions of trades that illustrate the concepts explored in the book

Ideal for global macro buy-side and sell-side professionals, asset allocators, market researchers, academics, regulators, and policymakers, Trading Global Macro Markets will prove invaluable to all finance practitioners interested in the interplay between macroeconomics and the markets.

A comprehensive and practical collection of tools and frameworks for risk governance at banks, insurance firms, asset managers, and other financial organizations

In Risk Framework Design in Practice: Getting Risk Governance and Limits Right for Financial Institutions, veteran portfolio and risk manager, Michelle Beck, delivers a robust and functional approach to risk governance that's perfect for financial institution managers and executives. Beck skips the high-level bromides, avoids narrowly considering only one type of asset class or financial institution, and instead offers practical guidance for leaders across the full scope of the industry seeking to answer critical risk management questions:

What types of risk limits are necessary? How many of them does my organization need? How should they be set? Are minimum regulatory standards sufficient to safeguard my company's interests?

Risk Framework Design in Practice provides an effective structure for enterprise risk limits in different types of firms, including banks, asset managers, insurers, and corporate pensions. It explains how these types of firms should establish risk appetites, the essential pieces of their governance structures, and how to ensure the right information is in the right hands at the right times. It also includes:

• Deep dives into the relevant limits for market, credit, and operational risks, including the implications of using alternative methods
• Detailed discussions of contemporary approaches to limiting economic capital, value at risk, stress tests, exposures, liquidity, concentrations, stop-losses, and drawdown limits
• Approaches to operational risk that avoid the expensive trap of attempting to police business efficiency, and instead focus on control strength for truly dangerous risks

Risk Framework Design in Practice is an effective resource for chief risk officers and professionals working in enterprise risk departments at banks, broker dealers, insurance companies, asset managers, and hedge funds. Also perfect for board members at banks and insurance companies, in-house counsel at financial firms, and bank and securities regulators.