This book explores the intersection of AI and social work, offering a groundbreaking look at how AI technologies are transforming the field. It analyses AI's role in streamlining administration and supporting decisions, while navigating privacy concerns in this human-centred profession.

Organized in five comprehensive parts, this edited collection brings together diverse international perspectives on the integration of AI in social work. Part One establishes foundational knowledge about AI technologies and their intersection with social work values. Following this, Parts Two and Three explore practical applications and the delicate balance between technological efficiency and human judgment. In Part Four, contributors address critical ethical considerations including privacy, bias, and social justice. Finally, Part Five focuses on social work careers skills through education and training while bridging digital divides across diverse communities. Through case studies and real-world examples, readers gain valuable insights into how AI can be used to complement and strengthen the work of social workers, and see a roadmap for navigating this intersection of technology and human care. This will allow them to implement AI for applications in case management, predictive analytics, mental health support, and resource allocation.

This book is essential reading for social work professionals and students who will soon be moving into the field. Its comprehensive framework for understanding how AI can be ethically and effectively used in social work practice will also benefit mental health counsellors, allied health workers, and clinical psychologists and enable them to navigate the increasing influence and applications of AI.

This book argues that early Vedic poet-priests deployed various forms of hate speech to negotiate interpersonal conflict and social status.
Jarrod L. Whitaker illuminates a lived reality in which ancient Indian ritualists had to contend with serious threats to the staging of their ritual performances from rival ritualists, members of the wider community, cultural outsiders, and even wild animals. Consequently, this book offers an in-depth study of how ancient Indian poet-priests construct and reproduce their identities and sociopolitical expectations in ritual performances through the ubiquitous use of ritualized hate speech. Whitaker provides hitherto unnoticed insights into the complex discursive practices, ethical values, and interpersonal relationships that ritual practitioners had to negotiate some three thousand years ago in north India.

This book explores how family owned businesses live and act across multiple temporal horizons-past, present, and future-and how those horizons shape strategy, identity, and everyday organizing. The book's motivation is to offer a comprehensive, practice-relevant lens on how family firms uniquely experience and manage the tensions of time: honoring historical legacies without becoming captive to them, meeting present operational realities without myopia, and opening credible futures without severing recognizability. Throughout, the authors show how this dynamic interplay is decisive for long-term sustainability and renewal in enterprising families.

Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Celtic World takes readers on a whirlwind journey through over two millennia of sources that provide insight to the lives and lore of remarkable women in the Celtic tradition.

From approximately 500 BCE, when the so-called 'Lady of Vix' was interred in her Hallstatt-era cart burial in what would become Central France, to the twelfth century when the Irish, Welsh, and Scots navigated the changes brought by Anglo-Norman colonization, women's stories trace the rise and fall of the Celtic-speaking world. The chapters provide a broad and varied examination of historically attested women as well as the mythological, literary, and legendary women of the medieval tradition. Finally, women of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century 'Celtic Revival' movement demonstrate the continued significance of the ancient and medieval Celtic past into the modern era.

While the Celtic past is all too often ignored or fetishized, this book provides readers with a concise yet fully contextualized introduction, valuable to anyone seeking to better their understanding of women's history and Celtic history.

Grounded in progressive values, Empowering Young People takes stock of the pressing challenges we face as a society while highlighting how youth activists can help us envision a more collaborative, equitable, and inclusive future. It emboldens young activists and the adults who make key decisions on their behalf to prioritize strategies to help young people engage more actively in public life.

In recent years, young people are sounding the alarm about a wide range of concerns connected to environmental and social injustices. They focus on immigration, reproductive rights, race, school issues including book banning, gun violence, police brutality, LGBTQ+ rights, mental health, and more. By bringing historical and social justice perspectives to his interviews with young activists and their mentors, as well as his observations about community organizations, William Marsiglio chronicles the kind of youth activism and civic engagement that is happening on the ground. The book shows how passionate young people cultivate a sense of belonging inside their activist groups; negotiate conflicting perspectives about time to inform and influence critical decision making about past, present, and future issues; and strive to create places that truly embody civic virtues. Finding inspiration in young people's approaches to empathy, leadership, civic engagement, and social activism, Marsiglio outlines diverse and specific initiatives for building supportive institutions and opportunities that can empower them while fostering the social change they seek.

Illuminated by the voices and stories of these young activists and the groups supporting them, Empowering Young People reveals the seeds of hope for readers of all ages and, in acknowledging the serious challenges we face, offers a detailed roadmap to achieve a world defined by environmental sustainability and humane inclusivity

An innovative and groundbreaking study into women's contribution to the development of religious, metaphysical, and political concepts in early modern Europe.

By examining the engagement of women in both the daily practice of religion, and theological and political discussions following the Reformation, this collection expands our understanding of women's position in post-Reformation churches and their participation in theological debates.

What role did women play in these congregations and what social interactions did they have with each other and their male fellows? What literary genres did they choose to convey new ideas and new approaches to religion and society? Did religious authorities use universal strategies when dealing with religious dissent, or was there a gendered bias towards dissenting women?

A team of scholars from philosophy, early modern studies, intellectual history and theology address these questions and more, providing a multidisciplinary exploration of women's active participation in religious communities. Focusing on their contribution to foundational Enlightenment concepts, they shed light on the development of democracy, egalitarianism, freedom of conscience and of expression, and tolerant co-existence.

Covering countries such as Britain, the Netherlands, France, and Italy between 1500 and 1700, this is a much-needed comparative overview. We see how a different approach to the history of European women and their religious engagement can challenge the accepted view of an avowedly secular Enlightenment.

This expertly curated volume offers groundbreaking explorations for treating people who struggle with these issues, reframing problematic sexual conduct - often labelled "sex addiction" - as complex and often harmful human behaviors rather than as a disease.

Mental health practitioners often have limited resources and few expert mentors to consult when treating patients with out-of-control sexual behaviors (OSCB). With contributions from twenty seasoned clinicians, this book provides nonpathologizing approaches to support diverse sexual health needs and client healing. The writers address common clinical challenges such as erotic difference, existential angst, fidelity, pornography, and internalized shame and discusses the impacts of sexism, racism, and ethnic oppression on individual experiences of sexuality and on patient treatment. Filled with rich and engaging clinical examples, including harm reduction, IFS, couple and group therapy approaches, as well as clinical supervision, this collection equips a wide range of mental health professionals with practical tools to expand their practice.

This book is an essential guidebook for both new and experienced clinicians looking to refine their perspectives, enhance their clinical skills, and foster unbiased, effective treatment for a diverse clientele. Individuals and families affected by OCSB will also find hope and guidance within its pages.

This volume presents a wide range of examples using Hegel's 'objective dialectic' as an interpretive key for understanding his philosophical work. It explores the potential of a strictly dialectical approach to central themes in Hegel's logic, philosophy of nature, and philosophy of spirit.

The volume argues for taking contradiction seriously in Hegel's philosophy, understanding it in strictly theoretical terms that defy traditional conceptions of logic and ontology. The contributors demonstrate how Hegel's distinctive logical-metaphysical method, particularly his concept of 'dialectic' and the role of logical contradiction within it, can be applied to logical, epistemological, natural- and social-ontological, psychological, ethical, and political matters. Moving beyond both non-metaphysical readings and earlier ontological interpretations, the volume shows how Hegel's understanding of 'real contradiction' offers a renewed approach to his thematically rich oeuvre and addresses complex post-Kantian philosophical issues.

Reviving Hegel's Dialectic will be of interest to researchers and graduate students specializing in Hegel, German Idealism, post-Kantian philosophy, and the history of logic.

This book examines how states and corporations across the Global South acquire land, identifying distinct patterns of expropriation and resistance. Across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, economic growth in sectors such as mining, agribusiness, energy, infrastructure, and real estate is driving far-reaching land-use change. Yet the processes of dispossession that underpin these transformations vary considerably. It introduces a comparative framework to explain how legal mechanisms, coercion, and state-business alliances combine in different ways to shape land conflicts.

Drawing on detailed case studies-including India's solar parks, Indonesia's palm oil plantations, Cambodia's real estate developments, East Timor's oil and gas projects, and Brazil's land mafias-the contributors highlight three distinct regimes of dispossession: state-led expropriation, curtailed land rights, and decentralised coercion. By comparing these patterns across contexts, the book deepens understanding of how dispossession is organised and resisted, while offering insight into the broader political economy of land-use change.

This book is essential reading for scholars, researchers, and students in development studies, political economy, agrarian studies, geography, and sociology. It will also appeal to policymakers, civil society organizations, and activists engaged with land rights, resource governance, and social justice issues in the Global South.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Covering a twenty-five-year period, this book of unpublished keynote speeches calls for a move away from individualistic approaches to therapy and towards socially-oriented and socially-engaged practices. Retaining the directness of the original speeches, Keith Tudor represents his critical ideas on positive mental health, transactional analysis, person-centred psychology, and psychotherapy and politics, arguing for the psychological and social worlds to be brought together to develop therapies that are as much a part of promoting positive mental health as they are ways of responding to distress and dis-ease. The book takes a critical perspective to challenge both therapists and the psychological professions to make themselves and their therapies more accessible and more relevant to the contemporary world. It provides guidance for how clients can engage actively in therapy, while also providing a framework to critique therapy in an informed way.

This wide-ranging and engaging book will be of interest to psychotherapists, mental health practitioners, researchers and students of psychotherapy.

Questioning traditional legal concepts in light of AI's transformative influence, contributors assess fields such as intellectual property, privacy and data protection, fundamental rights and international law. They discuss the various facets of AI regulation, copyright and payment models, as well as different legal regimes and their applicability to AI, including unfair competition. The book also confronts under-explored issues like generative AI training, the regulation of rights reservation, author remuneration and perspectives on AI in the Global South.

Artificial Intelligence and Creativity is a key resource for scholars and students of intellectual property law, as well as practicing lawyers specializing in the law of artificial intelligence. Researchers in other disciplines, from economics to the humanities, interested in the impact of AI and its regulation will also benefit from its comprehensive overview of this increasingly complex and controversial field.

Winnicott's Psychoanalysis of Being offers a profound exploration of Donald Winnicott's revolutionary contributions to psychoanalysis, focusing on his unique theory of emotional development as a psychology in conceptual agreement with certain conceptions of phenomenology and modern existentialism.

In this book, Leopoldo Fulgencio examines the philosophical and existential foundations of Winnicott's work, analysing his shift from Freud's naturalistic framework to a hermeneutic science which has as its ontological foundation the need to be and to continue to be. The book provides a detailed account of Winnicott's developmental theory, his conception of health and the ethics of psychotherapeutic care, while offering conceptual clarifications that support deeper understanding. Readers will gain insight into how Winnicott's ideas bridge psychoanalysis, phenomenology and existential thought in the field of psychology, making this an essential resource for both theoretical and clinical work.

This book is ideal for psychoanalysts, psychologists, philosophers and graduate students interested in Winnicott's work, emotional development and the intersection of psychoanalysis and existential thought.

The Blueprint of Leadership promotes a way to move from automatic reaction to conscious leadership in the moments that matter most. While most leadership development focuses on skills, this book works at the level beneath, where patterns are formed and decisions are made.

Drawing on over two decades of leadership coaching and the Biographical Dimensions of Meaning Making (BDMM (c)) framework, this book introduces the author's own Origins Map (TM), a practical model for understanding how early experiences shape how leaders interpret authority, trust, identity, belonging, emotion, and the world itself. Combining research, conceptual insight, and rich case composites; chapters reveal how leaders continue to repeat familiar patterns under pressure, even if they know better. By working with the patterns beneath behaviour, leaders gain the ability to interrupt default responses, expand their range, and lead with greater clarity, adaptability, and impact in a complex world.

This book will be a perfect guide for learning professionals and coaches who are looking to implement a unique and evidence-based leadership model into their practice.

This book proposes an expansion of Bion's theory of transformations to encompass phenomena of the primordial mind - unintegrated phenomena in neurotic patients. Its purpose is to relate unintegrated states to Bion's theory of transformations and to propose the constitution of a new group of transformations - unintegrated transformations, alongside the already established transformations of the neurotic, psychotic, and autistic areas.

Drawing on clinical material, the book offers readers the opportunity to observe manifestations of these primordial states of mind and the analyst's corresponding approach through what the author terms the "language of emotion." This is a form of language in which the analyst's emotion itself enables contact, rather than the content of what is being said.

This book is intended for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and other mental health professionals interested in Bion's theoretical framework and clinical practice. It invites readers to enter these primordial areas of the mind, the obscure regions that are difficult to identify and access, and which are often overlooked in clinical work.

This book is for organizational leaders who recognize the growing impact of stress and trauma on workforce performance and employee capacity. It provides a clear understanding of trauma, the extent of it in the workforce, and how to address it in the context of work, without needing anyone to share stories or past trauma. It enables leaders to confidently approach this topic without worrying about making things worse or taking on the role of therapist. The book explains how to create workplaces where people can perform at their best rather than manage around what they are carrying. Leaders who apply the principles not only lead better but can build more resilient, productive, and high-performing organizations.

Unresolved trauma can present as reduced voice, absenteeism, disengagement, conflict avoidance, overwork and over-accommodation, underperformance, and other observable workplace behaviors that most leaders currently misattribute to motivation or character. Grounded in the latest organizational research and evidence-based trauma-informed practice, the book is actionable, practical, and encouraging. It incorporates real-world examples, practical exercises, and case studies specific to leadership contexts. It guides leaders through a reflective and sometimes challenging process, helping them apply the framework's principles to support their teams without clinical training or therapeutic expertise. Mini-cases, tips, steps, and examples are part of each chapter. The book also addresses the connection between values-driven leadership, organizational culture, and the conditions that allow people to do their best work.

This book is written for business leaders and a management audience and is also highly relevant to those from executive coaching, leadership development, and the therapy and counseling fields.

A comprehensive analysis of Netflix, the prominent global and transnational subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) company.

By delving into the company's corporate divisions and international business relationships, this book highlights Netflix's pivotal role in shaping the landscape of audiovisual distribution and production on a worldwide scale. Designed to engage a diverse readership interested in topics ranging from ownership and financial performance to strategic alliances, audiovisual library development, and policy advocacy, this book explores how cultural diversity, audiovisual dynamics, and corporate influence intersect with broader realms such as politics, consulting, technological innovation, and financial transactions. Through its insightful examination, this book unveils the intricate connections between cultural and non-cultural factors, shedding light on the multifaceted impact of Netflix on our global media landscape.

This book is ideal for students and scholars of global media industries, critical political economy of media and communication, and international media, globalization and culture.

In their day the French Impressionists were met with criticism and even disbelief, yet today their paintings are admired and collected worldwide. The leading members of the group included Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley, who dedicated themselves to working in oil paints out of doors, to capturing the transient effects of light and weather and depicting the society in which they lived. These artists challenged the traditions of the French Academy, bringing about a revolution in art during a period of enormous political and social change.


Historical Dictionary of Impressionism contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography, as well as practical information on the eight Impressionist exhibitions. The dictionary section comprises cross-referenced entries on the French Impressionists, the locations they worked in (both in France and further afield), their predecessors and followers, and their models, critics and dealers. It also contains useful entries on key political events and figures, as well as the places of entertainment that sprang up all over Paris in the 'belle epoque'. This book is designed to appeal to students, researchers and the general reader.

This collection, including chapters by an outstanding roster of contributors, creates a dialogue among two philosophers rarely discussed together - Benedict Spinoza and David Hume - and one who until recently was hardly discussed at all - Mary Shepherd.

Naturalisms in Spinoza, Hume, and Shepherd confronts the traditional history of Modern philosophy that pitches "Continental Rationalists" against "British Empiricists", with Benedict Spinoza on one side, David Hume on the other, and women philosophers - including Mary Shepherd - nowhere to be seen. This volume explores an alternative approach to the period, through the lens of "naturalisms", which brings into focus the commonalities among these three philosophers. The contributors examine various naturalistic themes in their philosophies - particularly, in their methodologies, their ontologies, and their views about the human being and God. The specific topics explored include minds and bodies; mathematics and natural science; human beings and other animals; miracles; the passions and motivation; and the artificial virtues. A helpful introduction by the editors distinguishes the various naturalisms explored in the volume and explains the appeal of this approach to the history of Modern philosophy.

Naturalisms in Spinoza, Hume, and Shepherd will be of great interest to students and researchers of seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth-century philosophy, and to those interested in the history of metaphysics, philosophy of religion and the history and philosophy of science.

This book examines how economic knowledge shapes policy and society, challenging readers to consider not whether economics influences the real world, but how-through which models, experts, and institutions, and with what underlying assumptions and power dynamics. Drawing on the history and philosophy of economics, it moves beyond simplistic assessments of success or failure to explore the epistemic, political, ethical, and institutional conditions that grant economic expertise its authority.

The chapters trace economic ideas from theory to practice, investigating how models are constructed, negotiated, and deployed across central banks, international organizations, technology firms, and government agencies. Contributors examine the conceptual and institutional assumptions behind economists' interventions and reveal how they can constrain or expand democratic possibilities and human autonomy. The volume asks critical questions: for whom does economics work, and what consequences follow? By attending to historical trajectories and philosophical foundations, this collection offers a nuanced understanding of economics as a deeply embedded social science whose practices, assumptions, and power structures often remain hidden. It illuminates how economic ideas travel, transform, and quietly govern the societies they explain, making visible the complex processes through which technical knowledge becomes political action.

Spanning the history and philosophy of economics, political economy, economic methodology, science and technology studies, and critical policy analysis, this volume is essential reading for students, academics, and policymakers in government agencies, central banks, and international organizations.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Economic Methodology.

In Networked Business, Paul Grefen returns with the third edition of his tried and tested BOAT framework for advanced e-business, covering the spectrum from business models via organization structures and digital system architectures to information technology.

Today's successful organizations are complex; they are part of dynamic business networks built on digital channels, going far beyond traditional e-commerce. This book provides invaluable insights of modern digitally enabled networked business, going much further than the usual analysis of traditional e-business texts. It is heavily expanded and updated with the latest developments of digitally connected business, including new topics like value-oriented business, business optimization loops, (generative) artificial intelligence, and technology hype cycles.

This essential text provides a compact roadmap to networked business for engineering, information systems or business students as well as professionals in the field.

In the aftermath of the First World War, the Armenian Genocide, and the Turkish War of Independence, Syria became host to thousands of Armenian refugees. In this comprehensive history covering the period from 1920 to 1948, Victoria Abrahamyan foregrounds the experience of the Armenian refugees in the Syrian Jazira as they navigated competing state-building efforts led by the French mandatory power, Syrian nationalists, and Soviet Armenia.

The book reveals the refugees' agency amid internal conflicts and diverse loyalties. It sheds light on the intricate power struggles over their status and belonging- particularly through competing French and Soviet post-war refugee settlement schemes-in a critical frontier between Western imperialist powers, the Soviet bloc, and Turkey. Using Armenian, Arabic, Russian, and French language sources, the book explores how the Armenian refugee community responded to the rise of Arab nationalism in Syria, complicating simplistic sectarian interpretations of their place and reception in interwar Syria.
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By situating this history within the broader context of Armenian experiences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the role of refugees and displaced populations in state building in the post-war Middle East in general, this study offers essential reading for students and scholars of Armenian and Middle Eastern history alike.

What if the life you want is not waiting on the other side of your problems but available to you right now, exactly as you are? Values-Flow combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Flow Theory into a practical, scientifically grounded approach to living the life well-lived, despite the ups and downs that life inevitably brings. It integrates values-based action, mindfulness, and emotional regulation to empower readers to experience meaningful engagement and thriving in life within ordinary everyday contexts.

Each chapter introduces actionable "Flow Nudges" and measurable practices, making it easy to apply these concepts in everyday life. A four-step loop (Attend, Reflect, Inform, Act) explains how to overcome self-doubt, accept difficult emotions, and choose challenges that matter. From managing work stress to finding joy in parenting or study to simply enjoying life more, this book provides science-based strategies to cultivate resilience, achieve optimal performance, and live life well.

This is a vital resource for both individuals looking to enhance their personal growth and those who help others thrive. With its accessible language, cultural sensitivity, and progressive skill-building, this book offers a roadmap to living a life of vitality, connection, and purpose.

Selling Spirituality offers a critical analysis of the rise of spirituality as a powerful commodity in the global marketplace. It shows how spirituality is big business, examining how spiritual discourses, practices, and institutions have been reshaped by neoliberal forces.

This expanded second edition provides significant updates to the book in light of developments from the previous decades, particularly the consolidation of neoliberalism through digital technologies, emerging AI and platform capitalism. Building on the original analysis of the privatisation of religion and the privatisation of welfare, the authors introduce a third privatisation: the outsourcing of attention, affect, and mental resilience to spiritualised techniques of self-regulation amid conditions of precarity, algorithmic governance, and informational overload. Four new chapters examine neoliberalism as a quasi-religious orthodoxy; the commodification of Christian prayer and interiority; mindfulness as a technology of attention within the attention economy; and the dangers of individualised green spirituality in responding to climate crisis. Substantially revised chapters address psychology, Asian philosophies, and spiritual consumer industries. Across these contexts, the book argues that contemporary spirituality increasingly manages distress and anxiety while obscuring the structural sources of social and mental suffering.

This insightful book will be of great interest to students and scholars in religious studies, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, political theory, and environmental humanities. It will also be of interest to readers concerned with neoliberalism, mental health, digital capitalism, mindfulness, and the contemporary politics of wellbeing.