This book is a comprehensive guide that explores how everyday choices impact cognitive longevity and provides evidence-based strategies to maintain brain health in an aging world facing rising rates of neurodegenerative disorders.

The book examines the latest research on modifiable lifestyle factors including nutrition, physical activity, sleep optimization, stress management techniques, cognitive engagement exercises, and technology's impact on brain function. It integrates insights from neuroscience, psychology, and integrative medicine to offer practical applications rather than focusing solely on disease pathology, empowering readers with preventive approaches to build neural resilience throughout life.

This essential resource will benefit health-conscious individuals, healthcare professionals, caregivers, and researchers interested in lifestyle interventions.

The book examines the approaches to regulating artificial intelligence through ethical, legal, and policy frameworks. Its primary focus is on critical issues such as algorithmic bias, data privacy, transparency, human rights, and the broader social implications of AI technologies. The scope of the book aligns with the evolving policies and strategies being developed by governments and international organizations to ensure the responsible and accountable use of AI. It presents real-world applications across sectors such as healthcare, education, finance, and public administration, illustrating both the opportunities and challenges associated with AI regulation for organizations and individuals.

In addition, the book explores national and international initiatives aimed at establishing governance models that promote accountability, fairness, and public trust. It emphasizes the need for participatory and adaptive policy frameworks that can respond effectively to the rapid pace of technological change.

This book is intended for students, researchers, policymakers, and professionals, and seeks to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the field of AI governance.

Key Features:

• Explore the ethical, legal and policy aspects of AI governance in a multidisciplinary manner.
• Examines practical application of national and global case studies including real life examples of AI policy.
• Discusses how governments, international institutions and civil society can create responsible AI systems.
• Bridges theory to the practice by linking basic principles with new models of governance.
• Academic learning, policy development that is written in an accessible language, well-structured and references that is current.

In this practical and easy-to-read guide, Jenny Weidner, a leadership coach and experienced Early Years leader, offers valuable advice and best practices for embedding coaching in Early Years settings. Designed for leaders and managers, the book highlights how effective coaching supports a culture of trust and open communication where each person's voice and aspirations can be heard, creating an environment where both staff and children can flourish.

Centred around three foundational pillars - Clarity, Capacity, and Confidence - the book provides a clear roadmap for navigating the challenges of Early Years leadership. Including practical tools and reflective exercises to help readers apply the principles in their specific context, the chapters cover:

• The 'what' and 'why' of coaching in Early Years
• Core coaching skills
• Building strong relationships with families
• Performance management and supervision
• Developing a coaching vision and policy
• Practical coaching models and tools

This guide supports early years leadings in becoming more reflective, empowered, and equipped to thrive in complex, resource-constrained environments. Whether you're an experienced leader or just starting out, this is an essential resource for anyone looking to make a positive impact in the Early Childhood sector.

This book explores blueish geographies: new ways of thinking with 'wet' space through a porous and open conceptualisation. Through critical ocean thinking, more-than-wet ontologies, blue humanities, blue economy and planning, the diverse chapters think the blueish as extension, relation and representation of water, extending the field and questioning its absences.

The book offers an original and interdisciplinary contribution to critical ocean and marine studies by expanding the 'disciplines' vocabularies, debates, possibilities, epistemologies and methodologies. By bringing together diverse critical perspectives on wet spaces, politics and their excess, this book provides new conceptual and methodological tools for understanding temporalities and counter-archives, more-than-human ecologies and possible future plannings. Combining established and early-career scholars from different disciplines and regions, the volume advances current debates in critical geography and ocean studies while remaining accessible for teaching and other applied purposes.

Blueish Entanglements and Transformations is intended for scholars, researchers and students in the field of critical ocean geographies, more-than-human geographies, maritime studies, hydrosocial studies, blue humanities, blue economy, political ecology and related water-related disciplines. It should also appeal to non-research readers working on water related policies, development and planning.

What do memories, raincoats, and snakes have in common? They have all been used as metaphors for vaccines by people with vastly different views and communicative goals. This book explores how, why, and with what consequences metaphors shape vaccine communication across diverse voices, including scientists, politicians, parents, and celebrity anti-vaxxers, and contexts, from popular science books and social media to government press conferences and public health campaigns.

Drawing examples from the UK, Italy, Pakistan, Australia, and the USA, each chapter examines specific communication types, revealing how metaphors achieve varied goals. For example, the COVID-19 vaccine development has been described as "safe as a restaurant serving multiple courses simultaneously". In contrast, others have used metaphors to fuel conspiracy theories, portraying vaccines as weapons in a sinister battle against ordinary people. The book demonstrates that metaphors are central and inescapable in vaccine discourse, equally powerful for pro-vaccination explanation and reassurance as for anti-vaccination obfuscation and fearmongering. Overall, the book shows how the use of metaphor constitutes both a challenge and an opportunity for promoting vaccines as a public health intervention.

This text is the first comprehensive account of vaccine metaphors drawing from diverse sources, contexts, and countries, examining both pro- and anti-vaccination perspectives. It is written in an accessible style for anyone interested in understanding how language shapes our perceptions of vaccines and public health. This is vital reading for students and researchers of language and health communication, applied linguistics, medical humanities, discourse analysis and metaphor studies.

This volume explores the poetic and philosophical boundaries between humanity and divinity across the Hebrew Bible, Graeco-Roman literature, and early Christian thought. Inspired by Psalm 8 and the verses of Sappho and Catullus, the title evokes the ancient tension between being human and "almost divine."

Essays by leading scholars examine prophetic transmission, divine legitimization of power, asceticism, animal symbolism, and mystical emptiness-tracing how ancient cultures conceptualized the divine-human interface. From Mesopotamian treaties and biblical naming to Latin hymnody and Indian mysticism, the volume traverses cultural and ontological boundaries.

Dedicated to Sten Hidal, whose pioneering work bridged Hebrew and Classical traditions, this collection honors his legacy by continuing the inquiry into what it means to be "a little less than a god."

Authors highlight how the nexus between institutions and economic performance in CEE11 countries embodies a distinct model of patchwork capitalism in the EU, reinforcing the belief that institutions are a significant differentiating factor. The book systematically compares the economic performance of the patchwork model to four Western European models of capitalism. In doing so, it challenges widespread interpretations of the post-socialist transition and presents a more nuanced explanation of modern capitalist diversity.

Presenting theoretical methods and tools for research on comparative capitalism, especially the emerging topic of post-communist capitalism, this book is a key resource for scholars and students of economics, political science and sociology. It also provides valuable guidance for policy makers and practitioners interested in the evolving patterns of institutional, economic and political development in Central and Eastern Europe.

Educators, and policymakers around the world are increasingly keen that students of all levels (school and university alike) develop 'deep learning'. But, what counts as deep learning and what does it look like in different disciplines?

This book examines the issue of students developing 'deep learning' in different disciplines including mathematics, science, English, geography, history, religious education, and foreign languages. Each chapter of this essential resource focuses on a particular discipline, clearly articulate its own perspective on deep learning, and discuss a concept or approach that is considered important for deep learning in the particular discipline but whose place in typical teaching practice and/or policy debate tends not to reflect that importance.

A commentary chapter draws out and highlights unifying cross-disciplinary aspects of deep learning making this a must read for all researchers, teacher educators and policy makers interested in deep learning across the disciplines.

Global Sport in the Age of Authoritarian Power analyzes how authoritarian and hybrid regimes strategically use global sport to gain domestic legitimacy, international influence and geopolitical advantage, while transforming governance structures, market dynamics and the cultural experience of sport worldwide.

This volume presents a structured and theoretically grounded analysis of authoritarian engagement with global sport, going beyond popular lenses like sportswashing. The book identifies distinct engagement mechanisms, including hosting, ownership, sponsorship and governance influence, and sets out diverse empirical case studies from the Gulf, China and other emerging powers. By integrating political economy, governance and cultural perspectives, the book elucidates both the motivations behind authoritarian investment in sport and the operational strategies and consequences for global sport systems, institutions and stakeholders.

The book is for scholars, postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students in sport management, international relations and political economy, as well as practitioners, policy analysts and stakeholders concerned with the governance and geopolitics of global sport.

The first volume of this two-volume collection presents a military history of the Levant from the arrival of the First Crusade in Syria at the end of the eleventh century to the Third Crusade and the death of Saladin in the final years of the twelfth century.

Each chapter is written from the viewpoint of a different group. This approach gives voice to the major contingents of visiting crusaders, local Latin princes, neighboring Muslim powers and even certain parties who lived beyond the limits of the Levant. Combining narrative with analysis, the volume allows readers to compare how different groups experienced, understood and responded to events. Bringing together world-leading scholars, the volume's contributors offer distinct expertise and approaches, adding another dynamic to the central theme of perspective.

The volume is ideal for students, scholars, and instructors of medieval history, military history, Middle Eastern history and crusades studies. It is also suitable for general readers interested in the diverse perspectives and military systems of the Levant during the period of the crusades.

A bold and timely exploration of queer joy as both an experience and a method, this book offers a powerful intervention in gender and sexuality studies by theorizing queer joy not as merely pleasure, but as a radical practice shaped by failure, contradiction, grief, risk, and repair.

This book draws its argument from two major research projects: a study on queering sexuality education with over 80 in-service teachers in New Brunswick called SexualityNB and Pride/Swell+, a community-based participatory project involving over 300 2SLGBTQ+ people across Atlantic Canada. It investigates not only how queer joy circulates-through art, intimacy, activism, and chosen families-but also how it fails, revealing heartbreak, exclusion, and exhaustion within queer communities. By examining failure as integral to theorizing queer joy in research and practice, the authors illuminate how breakdowns can become sites of solidarity, transformation, and worldmaking. The book advances queer joy studies, offering new ways to think about pedagogy, research ethics, and queer futurity. Through reflection, analysis, and creative praxis, the book foregrounds queer joy's messiness and entanglement with failure as a methodology for resistance and survival.

This book is intended for students and researchers in gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, education, and critical sociology. It also speaks to activists and artists interested in the intersections of queer joy, failure, and community-building within academic, educational, arts, and community spaces.

A Classicist and long-time member of Alcoholics Anonymous explores how Roman Stoicism can illuminate and strengthen the practices of 12-step recovery. Drawing on years of teaching ancient philosophy and more than a decade of lived sobriety, Michael Mascio offers a deeply informed, accessible account of why Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius speak powerfully to contemporary recovery. Roman Stoicism, he argues, is fundamentally therapeutic-a philosophy explicitly crafted to transform character, regulate emotion, and cultivate a resilient inner life. Its pragmatic emphasis on habit-formation, disciplined self-examination, and psychological reframing aligns strikingly with the spiritual change the 12 steps demand.

For those alienated by the religious language of Alcoholics Anonymous, Stoicism provides an intellectually rigorous yet non-dogmatic conception of a higher power rooted in nature, rationality, and universal order. This perspective enables atheists, agnostics, and spiritual seekers to engage meaningfully with recovery principles without the burden of inherited theology. The book also highlights the digestible, contemplative style of Roman Stoic writings, making them ideal companions to daily recovery meditation practices.

At a moment when Stoicism enjoys renewed cultural visibility-from popular self-help adaptations to serious philosophical revivals-this work offers the first sustained account of Stoicism as a resource for the recovering addict. Each chapter pairs one major Stoic figure with a dimension of recovery life, guiding readers through emotional regulation, higher-power conceptions, daily living, role modeling, and the disciplined reshaping of the self. Combining textual insight, lived experience, and practical guidance, the book invites people in recovery, clinicians, philosophers, and general seekers into a dialogue between two traditions devoted to inner freedom, clarity, and transformation.

Comprehensive and accessible, Tim Newburn's bestselling Criminology provides an introduction to the fundamental themes, concepts, theories, methods and events that underpin the subject and form the basis for all undergraduate degree courses and modules in Criminology and Criminal Justice.

This fourth edition includes:

• New chapters on 'Southern criminology' reflecting the changing focus on contemporary scholarship and the general trend toward decolonising criminology
• New and updated crime data and analysis of trends, plus new content on recent events such as the changing political landscape, the influence of new social media on events such as the Southport riot and claims of 'two-tier policing', together with scandals such as the Grenfell Tower fire and the Lucy Letby case.
• A fully revised and updated companion website, including exam, review and multiple choice questions.

Fully updated to reflect recent developments in the field and extensively illustrated, this authoritative text, written by a leading criminologist and experienced lecturer, is essential reading for all students of Criminology and related fields.

This textbook is supported by an extensive collection of free digital resources at www.routledgelearning.com/criminology. Students can enhance their learning with interactive quizzes, review questions, flashcards, and curated videos and web resources, while instructors can access a comprehensive instructor manual, test bank and PowerPoint slides designed to streamline course preparation.

What if education could nurture the whole teacher as much as the whole child? In a world of fragmented educational approaches and teacher burnout, Reimagining Wholeness in Teaching and Learning offers a framework that transcends conventional whole child models, encouraging educators to reconnect with what it means to be whole within themselves, their communities, and their relationship to the natural world.

Dr. Virginia Dearani draws from decades of experience as an educator, school founder, and researcher to present a five-part framework of wholeness as both being and becoming: Storying the Body, Wiring the Mind, Threading the Matter, Cycling Through Time, and Aligning the Spirit. Through vivid classroom stories, personal narratives, and ecological metaphors, this book invites educators to:

* Reconnect with their authentic teacher identity beyond standardized expectations

* Integrate healing practices into daily classroom rhythms

* Embrace the power of embodied, intersectional pedagogy

* Foster learning environments where belonging and equity flourish

* Develop a sustainable practice of teaching rooted in ecological awareness

More than a theoretical text, this book provides practical tools for creating classrooms where both teachers and students can thrive in their fullness. Whether you're a classroom teacher, administrator, or teacher educator, Reimagining Wholeness in Teaching and Learning will transform how you understand your role in creating educational ecosystems where authentic learning and healing coexist.

Adopting a combination of value-, principle- and risk-based approaches to due process challenges, chapters introduce a comprehensive checklist and compliance scale. These tools are adaptable, technology-neutral and designed to assist platform operators, coders and regulators in improving their systems. Informed by human rights jurisprudence, the book grounds the compliance framework in risk assessment methodologies already adopted in data protection and AI regulation and analyses the position of consumers as weaker parties.

Built on an interdisciplinary theoretical foundation, Due Process in Blockchain Dispute Resolution is an essential guide for legal scholars and graduate students working at the intersection of law and technology, particularly those interested in digital governance, procedural justice and platform regulation. It is also beneficial for policymakers and regulators seeking to manage BDR platforms and ensure procedural safeguards.

What events and circumstances fuelled America's fixation with the Middle East? In this book, Professor Salim Yaqub covers over 100 years of US involvement in and policy towards the Middle East to explain this vital geopolitical relationship.

Starting with the upheavals of World War I and the first stirrings of US geopolitical interest in the region, the book describes how and why the Middle East's resources, location, conflicts and crises became key concerns for the United States. This includes:

? The growing centrality of Middle Eastern oil to the global economy and to US military strategy
? The region's geographic location and efforts to combat strategic adversaries like the Axis powers during WWII and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
? Israel's cultural and political significance to American society and government
? Anti-Western "rogue" states or terrorist groups using the region as a staging area for attacks and the US response

Taking a chronological approach, the book explains how global upheavals and traumatic ruptures in the region shaped the trajectory of US-Middle East relations over successive eras. Yaqub covers the impact of WWI, WWII and decolonization as well significant events such as the 1956 Suez Crisis, the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, Al-Qa'ida's terrorist attacks of 2001, and the Hamas raid of October 7, 2023. Readers will understand what motivated Washington's foreign policy and how it impacted the Middle East.

Pitched to university students and educated general readers, each chapter includes a timeline of relevant historical events, photographs, political cartoons, maps, and other graphics.

This is the first book to critically examine England football fans' attitudes towards Muslims and Islam through the lens of a sports mega-event, drawing on fan experiences at the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup, the first staged in an Islamic society.

Drawing on pre-event interviews, audio-visual diaries, field observations, and post-event reflections with England fans, the book examines whether short-term sporting events can produce transformational shifts in fans' attitudes towards Muslims and Islam, or whether they reinforce existing prejudices despite unprecedented opportunities for intergroup contact. To do so, it develops a novel theoretical framework by integrating Gordon Allport's contact theory with Edward Said's Orientalism, offering a unique lens for understanding intergroup encounters in a sporting context. Arriving at a critical juncture between the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia, as Arabian Peninsula states will likely assume a greater role in global sport, the book makes an important and timely contribution to our understanding of football fandom, anti-Muslim prejudice, and the potential for sport to address wider social and cultural issues.

This book is fascinating reading for researchers and postgraduate students in the sociology of sport, social psychology, postcolonial studies, and tourism and events, and will appeal to anybody with a broader interest in football fandom, intergroup relations, Orientalism, or the cultural politics of sports mega-events.

This collection of incisive essays is a nuanced interrogation of the suitability of literature as a vehicle for moral philosophy - a complex debate at the intersection of ethics and aesthetics.

What connects these different perspectives is a central question: is literature is an appropriate medium for approaching and unpicking moral, ethical and philosophical questions? And what insights does its form allow? Whilst some thinkers have charged literature as the source of feelings of resentment and alienation, others have argued that it is the most fertile ground for the development a moral imagination. Indeed, numerous philosophers have shown a great deal of interest in the possibility of reading literature as a philosophical exercise, with proponents such as Martha Nussbaum and Iris Murdoch leading the quest for a philosophical style which is more representative of human experience than abstract, analytic texts.

This volume brings together 12 exciting new contributions to this debate, contextualised by a comprehensive and in-depth editorial introduction that delves into its conceptual lineage. Grouped into three thematic sections, chapters explore literature's ability to be argumentative, its potential to bring about moral growth, and the rich diversity of philosophical thought across different literary genres.

Motivated by personal experience, A Wider Spectrum of Neurodivergence delves into the rapidly developing world of neurodivergence, examining how it is understood. It critiques the prevailing view of neurodivergence as a disability and the resulting power imbalance, and advocates for a shift toward recognising it as a natural variance, explaining how neurotype can be seen as a demographic, with broader implications for intersectionality.

The author explores the idea that neurodivergent traits are predominantly controlled by our genes and sets out evidence that different neurotypes have been the norm throughout human history and are likely far more prevalent than we have ever considered. Looking at language, historical context and the domination of the medical model in diagnosing neurodevelopmental "disorders", the author seeks to present alternative ways of thinking, incorporating the Neurodiversity Paradigm, the Social Model of Disability, and her own model of neurovariance which demonstrates that neurodiversity does not only exist beyond the point at which a formal diagnosis is deemed appropriate.

It is valuable reading for mental health professionals whose clients' symptoms may be better understood through the lens of neurodivergence, as well as anyone interested in the broader scope of neurodiversity.

Environmental politics is clearly at an impasse, increasingly foreclosed by a fragmenting elite consensus on climate change, an escalating populist backlash on the right, and a pervasive sense of climate doom on the left. This book considers what new openings might be offered by a labor-centered transition focused on our creative agency and our collective capacities to design new worlds.

Whilst political mobilizations and smart policy are vital for making progress on decarbonization, Designing the Just Transition suggests that a more environmentally and socially just future will also have to be materialized and built, coded and created, imagined, desired, and enacted by many hands, many skills and many forms of visible and invisible design labor. The mainstream design industry is not to be trusted. Nevertheless, this book brings political ecology and environmental-labor studies into dialogue with critical design praxis, activism, and scholarship. It critically appraises traditions of worker-centered design, ecological and regional planning, sustainable and climate-smart architecture, and 'design when everyone designs.'

Rather than embracing a scolding green politics of limits or techno-utopian propaganda, Designing the Just Transition points to a wealth of resources for thinking about how we still might engage in democratic world-making on a warmer, more restless, and more turbulent planet.

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.

Post Qualitative Inquiry: Texts and Lectures by Elizabeth A. St.Pierre brings together a curated selection of writings and public lectures by Elizabeth Adams St.Pierre, whose work has shaped and energised the international conversation on post qualitative inquiry.

Developed alongside the landmark Post Qualitative Inquiry Lecture Series featuring St.Pierre at the University of Georgia (2024-2025), this collection offers an archival record of a rare scholarly event that convened more than 400 participants from over 30 countries, alongside leading international guests whose work intersects with poststructural, feminist, posthumanist, and new materialist approaches to inquiry. Organised around six key publications chosen by St.Pierre as representative touchstones of the field, the book pairs each text with its corresponding lecture, and with introductions by Stephanie Jones that situate the ideas historically, philosophically, and politically. Together, the materials trace evolving engagements with ontological inquiry, difference, immanence, new empiricisms, refusal of method, and the conditions under which "the new" in research can emerge. Rather than prescribing a way to "do" post qualitative inquiry, the collection documents a generative discursive space in which concepts, problems, and philosophical inheritances are re-opened and re-read.

For scholars, graduate students, and teachers of qualitative and post qualitative research, the book provides access to a significant moment in the development of PQI, along with multimodal media that preserve the lectures' dialogic and affective force.

AI-Enabled Learning for Climate Action brings together scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and innovators to examine how digital learning systems, data platforms, and emerging technologies-including artificial intelligence, digital twins, and immersive tools-can accelerate climate literacy, support green skills and jobs, strengthen institutional decision-making, and enable collective action. Rather than treating digital learning as a delivery mechanism alone, the contributors demonstrate how learning systems function as critical climate infrastructure by building the human and institutional capacities needed for adaptation, mitigation, and long-term resilience.

The chapters span global, regional, and local contexts, with examples from low-, middle-, and high-income countries. They explore how AI-enabled and digital learning approaches can enhance climate awareness and behavior change; equip youth and professionals with future-ready and green skills; support evidence-based policymaking; and enable experiential, problem-based learning grounded in real-world data. Contributors also examine how technology-enabled learning can advance climate justice, strengthen governance, and promote transparency, public participation, and accountability.

Blending conceptual frameworks with applied case studies, this volume offers both the what and the how of designing inclusive, scalable, and action-oriented climate learning ecosystems. It is intended for educators, policymakers, development practitioners, and institutions seeking practical guidance on how AI-enabled learning can help bridge the gap between climate knowledge, skills for the future of work, and meaningful action.

A Coursebook on English-Chinese Translation provides practical strategies to ensure natural Chinese translation whilst highlighting how integral language learning strategies are to translation teaching.

After setting the stage of what translating is as a linguistic activity, the book explains and identifies the intrinsic features of the Chinese language in order to strengthen students' translation competence. It demonstrates how the characteristics are interlinked, and in what ways they are intertwined with Chinese culture. Activities are provided within each chapter for students to consolidate their understanding. Students will enhance their written Chinese and gain a solid foundation for further development of the skills required to become a professional translator.

This book offers a novel and much-needed approach to teaching and learning Chinese translation and is also suitable for advanced students of Chinese language.