This book proposes a comprehensive legal framework for regulating Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), integrating insights from law, economics, and process management.

Adopting a structured, future-focused, and risk-based approach to address the unique challenges of AGI regulation, this book validates the "singularity scenario" as a legitimate field of scientific inquiry. It critically examines the limitations of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act in governing AGI, and introduces a foundational four-level analytical model rooted in transaction cost theory. Through a detailed exploration of the what, who, and how of regulation, the book maps the risks associated with AGI, discusses the potential role of electronic legal personhood, and develops a practical legal framework aimed at ensuring AGI's trustworthiness and alignment with human values. Ultimately, it argues for proactive, rather than reactive regulatory strategies in anticipation of the technological singularity.

The book will be of interest to researchers in the field of the law of emerging technologies, artificial intelligence and regulation.

Recent efforts to advance conceptualisations of racial hierarchies have led to the emergence of new debates about the 'why' and 'how' of racism and racial domination. The chapters in this book address these questions by identifying both the mechanisms that produce racial hierarchies and the actors that keep these hierarchies operational, thereby anchoring the domination in its material manifestations, rather than subscribing to traditional theorisations.

Featuring contributions from leading scholars and emerging voices in critical race scholarship, this volume offers innovative theoretical frameworks for understanding structural racism. This book examines critical subject areas including family structure as the cause of inequality, the maintenance of intra-group ethnoracial hierarchies as a barrier to group solidarity, geography and histories of racial violence, and whiteness in organisations. Drawing on empirical research from the United States and Australia, the collection provides concrete examples of how racial domination operates across different contexts and scales.

This book is essential reading for scholars, students, researchers, and practitioners of race and racism studies, colonialism studies, critical race studies, family studies, organisational studies, political science, and anthropology. It offers new ways to name and theorise racial structure whilst providing actionable insights for those working towards racial justice. The essays in this volume were first published in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Why do some people seem to effortlessly succeed in college, graduate school, or as faculty-and why do many others struggle? The answer to this can be found in a phenomenon called the "hidden curriculum," the unwritten set of rules of the game in academia that can determine who finds and climbs the ladders, and who falls through the chutes. Familiarity with the "hidden curriculum" and how to navigate it is part of the academic safety net that increases resilience, persistence to matriculation, and success in academia-and afterward-at all levels. If academia is a game, the "hidden curriculum" is the secret map showing where the pitfalls are and how to avoid them. It shows where the opportunities are and how to leverage them to advance to the next level.


Academic Chutes & Ladders: The Hidden Curriculum that Makes or Breaks Academic Careers is both an action plan and a rallying cry; it exposes the academic chutes and ladders, and outlines the systemic changes needed to best serve all scholars and to support institutional missions in a way that makes academic success-whether defined as matriculation and degree attainment, tenure and promotion, or other career achievement milestones-more accessible for everyone.

This book showcases how marine reserves, when implemented and protected effectively, could simultaneously achieve conservation and reef fishery goals.

Marine reserves, permanent spatial closures to fishing, are often viewed as detrimental to fisheries, reducing the area available for fishing and concentrating effort into smaller areas. But what if these reserves could supplement reef fisheries? Drawing on over forty years of research and teaching experience, the author explores the concept of net export-where reserves produce such abundant fish biomass that they spill over into fished areas, partly compensating for the loss of fishing grounds. The book delves into recent advancements in larval tagging and tracking, showcasing studies from the Great Barrier Reef, Papua New Guinea, and beyond, to demonstrate how recruitment subsidy, net export of fish larvae from reserves to fished areas, combined with reductions in fishery effort outside reserves when reserves are implemented, can lead to sustainable reef fisheries alongside conservation. The book argues that with the right balance between conservation and catch, marine reserves can achieve a "win-win" scenario, ensuring both healthy fish populations and sustainable reef fisheries. This book calls for conservation and fisheries to co-ordinate, not confront, in order to simultaneously achieve their objectives.

Written in clear and accessible language, this book is essential reading for marine conservation and fisheries professionals and policymakers, as well as students and scholars of marine science and conservation.

The Essential Guide to Financial Independence blends corporate-level principles with personal finance, distilling decades of market experience into a practical, actionable guide for individuals seeking financial independence-demonstrating how the frameworks used by world's largest firms can be adapted to personal financial planning and work for anyone with disciplined execution.

The book empowers individuals to take control of their financial future through thoughtful planning, smart saving, and disciplined investing. It provides tools to understand income needs, build a sustainable finance portfolio, avoid common investing mistakes, and integrate financial decisions with broader life goals-ultimately helping readers or their clients create a balanced, purposeful life where money supports, rather than dictates, their choices. It enables you to:

* Construct a personalised financial plan tailored to your life goals.

* Determine how much you need to save for a secure retirement.

* Avoid the pitfalls of over-saving and missing out on meaningful life experiences.

* Above all, align your purpose in life with achieving financial independence and what you will do with it.

Independent Financial Advisors will find in-depth analysis, holistic frameworks and case studies that can enhance their professional practice and broaden their toolkit for advising clients. It also bridges the gap between professional finance and personal money management and offers actionable insights grounded in real-world financial practice for individual investors.

This timely volume explores the close relationship television has always had with the National Health Service. Taking a chronological approach to examine the multiple ways in which TV has presented the NHS since the 1950s, the chapters delve into key moments in television history and how they reflect and shape our view of public health.

These chapters span the key moments in television history which deal with this subject in many forms, from the 1960s soap opera to the 1970s hospital comedy to the cosy "NHS as heritage" offered by Call the Midwife, via the melodrama of shows like Casualty and the gothic hospital dramas of Jed Mercurio. Beginning with the early dramatisations of the NHS wards, which reflected storylines that combined romance, illness, and sometimes death, the book then shows how, over the years, the depiction of NHS doctors, nurses, and other staff as heroic and romantic has been countered with dramatisations of the impact of austerity cuts, hospital mergers, and competition from the private sector.

This book will interest students and scholars of television and media studies, the history of television, the medical humanities, cultural studies, gender studies, and in the growing area of narrative medicine.

Examining case studies from Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe, this book explores the debates around the past, present and future of public monuments. Through the lens of the protests against controversial statues that peaked in 2020, it brings together scholars from disciplines including history, art history, classics, politics and philosophy to analyse the spatial, physical, and emotional interactions between monuments and people.

Including analysis of examples drawn from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain, India, Ireland, Italy, Libya, the Philippines, the United States, this book uncovers the role of public monuments in shaping national and individual identities, their role in public memory, and how they may be used to preserve or subvert chosen narratives about the past. Acknowledging how memorials may elicit a strong public reaction, the essays in this volume also consider instances of different actions when contesting public monuments - from small alterations to complete destruction. The volume uses contemporary examples to explore not only the pasts and presents of public monuments, but also their futures.

Faced with the widespread and radical forgetting of Christian tradition, this work models a renewed theological practice for teachers in line with Pope Francis' repeated calls for a dialogical theology: recontextualization.

Recontextualization is not about reading into the text what we want to hear. Instead, it is about engaging in a repeated process of meaning-making in order to listen to the way God continues to reveal Godself through the text in new contexts and in new times. Engaging with seven challenging biblical accounts, the book shows how these texts can open onto significant issues in contemporary culture and the Church.

Mason carefully develops a theology of prayer that builds on the dogmatic and moral theology of one of the most significant Reformed theologians of the past 50 years: John Webster.

Ambitious in scope and exacting in analysis, this volume provides a creative and constructive exploration of the theology of prayer that grows out of Webster's theology and ethics when considered as a whole. Mason offers close theological readings of Webster's works against the backdrop of the development of his thought and his major sources in the Christian tradition. In so doing, he roots a dogmatics of prayer in various theological loci that are central to the theology of prayer and Webster's own writings.

This book pays careful attention to the doctrines of God, creation and providence, and sin and salvation, as well as to Webster's sophisticated moral theology of creaturely agency. Central insights from Webster - in conversation with Aquinas, Barth, Calvin and Reformed scholastic sources - are brought to bear on the major components of a theology of prayer. In doing so, Mason develops a rich and detailed account of the central act of the Christian life in a way that displays the resourcefulness of Webster's theology and ethics.

Written in the Jubilee Year 2025, which marks 115 years since Mother Teresa's birth, 75 years since the founding of the Missionaries of Charity, and a decade since the recognition of her second miracle, this book identifies five "revolutions" that define her legacy: prayer, poverty, service, suffering, and conscience.

Drawing on the first Constitutions of the Missionaries of Charity and newly opened archives from Albania's Sigurimi files, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the General Directorate of Archives to Propaganda Fide in Rome, and diocesan collections from Reggio Calabria to Washington, D.C., Dr. Ines Angeli Murzaku uncovers a long-hidden story of sanctity, resistance, and renewal. The book shows how Catholic tradition becomes an engine of transformation when lived with radical fidelity. The final revolution, conscience, moves the story from private holiness to public change, radiating from Skopje and Calcutta to Tirana and Rome. Combining archival discovery, theological insight, and historical drama, this work offers a fresh and theologically rich reading of Mother Teresa's life.

Mother Teresa's Revolutionary Theology is written for scholars and general readers interested in Christian theology, ecumenical and interfaith dialogue, modern sanctity, and Eastern European religious history. It serves those exploring how theological principles translate into lived practice across cultural and religious boundaries.

Drawing on contemporary thinking, practices, and real-world applications, this essential guide offers practical guidance and new frameworks of narrative therapy to help clinicians navigate cultural issues and common challenges.

Illustrating the nuanced and advanced aspects of narrative therapy combined with contemporary systemic, relational, and cultural thinking, this book equips narrative therapy clinicians with the resources they need to foster agency, empowerment, and decentered change in their clients' lives, while re-enlivening narration. Grounded by Lev Vygotsky's concept of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) as a foundational and theoretical teaching tool, Dr. Lindsey Hampson and Dr. Chris Hoff provide structured maps and clear frameworks to progressively lead practitioners to develop their own creative and innovative approaches. The inclusion of scaffolded learning experiences and practical case examples demonstrates how practitioners can navigate this zone, ensuring a deeper understanding and application of contemporary narrative therapy principles in addressing current social and relational challenges. This book offers narrative techniques that address current issues such as social injustice, identity, the possibilities and impact of medicalisation, trauma, neoliberalism, working with and within systems, and the impact of an accelerating culture on our lives. Complete with transcripts and photocopiable appendices, this book includes resources to support easy implementation and accessible pedagogy in therapy practice, teaching, and supervision.

This book is intended for mental health practitioners and counselors of all levels such as marriage and family therapists, psychologists, systemic family practitioners, and clinical social workers.

Against the background of selected themes in contemporary philosophy, this book argues that Richard Shusterman's somaesthetics is not only an aesthetics but, first of all, it is a philosophy.

The book schematically outlines the philosophical background of pragmatism and of Shusterman's views, which are both popular and relevant to contemporary humanist thought. Linking Shusterman's biography with themes from his work, Kremer suggests that Richard Shusterman is first and foremost a philosopher, not merely an aesthete.

With origins in pragmatism, the somaesthetics presented by Shusterman lays the groundwork for everyday aesthetics as a new field of pragmatist aesthetics. Alexander Kremer demonstrates that this somaesthetics--the critical meliorative study of the experience and use of one's body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation (aesthesis) and creative self-fashioning--has a serious philosophical background and is not confined to aesthetics. Kremer specifically explores the relation between Shusterman's somaesthetics and everyday aesthetics, a general theory of understanding and Shusterman's theory of interpretation, and the meaning of life.

Philosophy always tries to understand and interpret the world and man in it by means of the most general concepts. This book takes the reader on a philosophical adventure, exploring the philosophical background of the field of beauty and of the fine arts.

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.

With perspectives from across EU Member States, the book evaluates initiatives implemented at company, sectoral and institutional levels. Chapters examine the energy transition as a systemic transformation affecting employment, skills, work organisation, regional development and socio-environmental sustainability. The authors emphasise that industrial relations and a structured social dialogue are crucial determinants of both the legitimacy and the societal acceptance of ecological transformation processes.

This book will be of great value to scholars of industrial relations and labour studies, sustainability transitions and environmental governance. Policy makers will also benefit from its actionable recommendations for supporting the design of effective just transition strategies.

Dario Gentili analyses the genesis of Italian Thought through the history of the political and theoretical conflicts in Italy from the 1960s to the present, from Gramscianism to operaismo to biopolitics.

Covering well-known thinkers such as Agamben, Negri, and Esposito as well as those less familiar to English speaking audiences, including Tronti, Cacciari and Marramao, this is an essential book for anyone seeking to understand the development of critical thought in Italy.

A Genealogy of Italian Thought elucidates the persistence of fundamental concerns that tie together the Italian left's post-war break with the communist party, the analysis of post-Fordist labour in the 1970s and 1980s, the politics of sexual difference, the postmodernism of 'weak thought', up to the current debate on post-Covid-19 biopolitics. Following decade by decade thinkers central to Italian Thought, the book shows how the development of these theoretical strains is deeply intertwined with Italian history. Understanding conflicts, struggles, polemics, and ruptures as the leading motifs of Italian Thought, Gentili demonstrates how philosophical and political reflection born within a branch of heretical Western Marxism (operaismo) would later see its exponents take different paths: some in the recovery of political theology, others in an original approach to biopolitics.

The chronological approach will help to orient readers new to recent Italian philosophy and history; at the same time, the book will appeal to advanced readers with a fresh critical perspective on the coherence of Italian Thought. An updated final chapter takes the history up to the present day, following the topics and fault-lines that have emerged since the book's 2012 publication in Italian.

The secret to boosting research productivity, managing workloads and responding to changing circumstances is to harness project management tools in the academic environment. With academics increasingly being asked to perform all of these feats at once, this book could not come soon enough. It sets out the basics of project management as a practical, step-by-step process for integrating the demands of research projects into the working life of today's academics.

This book's central premise is that as a research academic you are already a project manager whether or not you identify as such, by virtue of the particular professional demands made of you. It explains how to take a structured approach to delivering research by determining your goals, defining their success and fully embracing the planning process. With a well-planned, well-managed project under your belt, it also explains the best ways of concluding and delivering a project, including how to guide your team through the invaluable review process to make sure that your next project is managed even more successfully.

By understanding that you are a project manager and exactly what tasks and responsibilities this involves, you will be able not only to improve your output, manage your workload and expand your prospects, but use your unique experience and skills to further develop in the role itself.

This practical guide offers clear, actionable steps to repair and strengthen relationships in which one partner experiences ADHD-related patterns, recognised or not, with special attention to the added pressures of the digital age.

At the centre of the book stands the ADHD Plus 1 model, Appreciation, Destination, Holistic Living, Differentiation, and Plus 1 Immediate Action, a practical and effective framework for improving couple dynamics. Through real case scenarios presented in the therapy room itself, the book demonstrates the model in action and provides a rich toolbox of exercises and strategies for building supportive, resilient, and thriving partnerships. It also addresses the challenges of digital overwhelm and offers guidance for cultivating mindful, connected communication.

An accessible and essential resource for psychotherapists, counsellors, couples' therapists, and anyone seeking practical tools to better understand, navigate, and communicate within relationships where one partner has (undiagnosed) ADHD.

Some situations cannot be taught in library school. With a DEI focus, this book helps library leaders, both formal and informal, with those unexpected challenges.

Library and Information Undergraduate and Graduate Programs do an incredible job examining important methodology of librarianship today. However, any library school graduate will at multiple points in their career declare, "Well they didn't teach me this in library school!" Whether it was taught or not, libraries are a multifaceted, constantly changing landscape. Public, academic, school, and special libraries of all sizes each have their own unique needs, but there are certain skills, techniques, and mindsets that benefit all library staff.

Librarianship Beyond the Textbook is different from others on the market in that it addresses topics that aren't automatically or often associated with librarianship - topics that are otherwise overlooked, but are nonetheless inevitable, capturing those "Finally, some help with this!" moments - moments of both recognition and assistance. The goal of the book is to not only allow the reader to feel heard, but to address evergreen and overlooked topics.

Each chapter features leaders in the library field and beyond sharing their knowledge, advice, and lessons learned. Explore topics like library maintenance, career development, self-care, finance and budgeting, safety and security, and more from a friendly and easy-to-digest perspective. Whether you're in a position of formal library management or just looking for tools to improve your confidence in the field, this book will provide support where you need it most!

This important volume focuses on the politics of education reform and the process involved with designing and implementing such reforms in the Gulf region, providing a novel framework for the little-researched K-12 education context in the region.

Chapters demonstrate the involvement, influence and motivation of the ruling establishment in reforming the educational system, and share the experiences of key politicians and policymakers through discussion of the challenges faced in reforming education and perceived outcomes in the region. Using Kuwait as example of teacher policy reform struggle, the chapters then provide a comparative analysis in relation to Qatar and Bahrain to demonstrate regional difference and posit a framework for Arab Gulf states to improve processes and implementation of K-12 educational reforms. Employing political theories to understand education reforms in the Arab Gulf states region from a political perspective, chapters use policy document analysis, international reports, and interviews with policymakers, educators, and faculty to explore solutions and underpin the framework presented.

Contributing much-needed discussion of education reform in the Gulf region from a political perspective, the book will be of use to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of education policy and politics, international and comparative education, and educational change and school reform more broadly. Those with specific interest in how educational policy unfolds in regions that lack robust democratic history will also benefit.

Examining our relationships with architecture beyond human-centric perspectives, Xenoaesthetics challenges conventional views of design and space inhabitation by exploring the architectural project as an autonomous entity.
Drawing together insights from philosophy and architecture, this book delves into the conditions, roles, and implications of architectural encounters, conceptualising the architectural project as a site of unity-multiplicity tension, and introducing the concept of xenoaesthetics as a cognitive mode attuned to this structure. This approach invites readers to reimagine architectural experience as a dual action that reveals the project to us and realizes itself through us.
As well as implying disciplinary consequences for design questions, Vaillo's work holds socio-political significance for our everyday architectural interactions, contributing to the quest for practices and discourses on equality. Methodologically, his argument draws from Object-Oriented Ontology and the architect Enric Miralles, offering an additional retrospective crossover that enriches both references.

A resource for students, architects, scholars, and enthusiasts interested in exploring architecture beyond assumptions and prescribed value systems, Xenoaesthetics encourages a deeper understanding of the intricate relationship between humans and the architectural project.

Research, detailed strategies, and case studies encourage inclusivity in digital citizenship and the ethical and responsible use of technology in libraries.

Inclusive digital citizenship goes beyond mere access to technology-it requires a nuanced understanding of how technology can either empower or hinder various communities. Divided into two parts, this book offers both ideas and implementation. The first half contains frameworks and an overview of systems, research, and theories. The second half offers specific, practical case studies and actionable steps.

Rogers and Wilson provide tools to support students, families, and community members in becoming responsible digital citizens. Their groundbreaking framework addresses inclusivity across digital access, literacy, design, and community engagement. It equips librarians and educators with actionable tools like gap analyses, professional learning strategies, and collaborative models to bridge the digital divide. Foundational concepts are balanced with practical implementation, metacognitive activities, and visual aids. This book will empower you to foster equity-driven systems and digital citizenship in diverse contexts.

Contemporary Catholic environmentalism is at a crossroads, both theologically and politically. While the first half of the 20th century saw only fleeting references to environmental concerns in papal encyclicals, Pope John Paul II's 1990 New Year's Day address, later titled The Ecological Crisis, marked a pivotal shift. His stark warnings about the planet's mounting ecological challenges galvanized the Catholic theological community, prompting numerous regional bishops' statements that highlighted pressing local environmental issues. By the mid-1990s, Catholic environmentalism had evolved into a distinct theological discourse and a burgeoning political movement, attracting support from both church hierarchy and lay Catholics worldwide.

Despite Pope John Paul II's efforts to root Catholic environmental thought in the stewardship paradigm, his success in securing theological consensus was limited. While Pope Benedict XVI endorsed this model, many Catholic theologians and scholars voiced significant reservations. Some critiqued its vague theological underpinnings, others lamented its inherent anthropocentrism, and still others sought a broader scriptural foundation for environmental ethics. These critiques signaled a growing desire for an alternative framework.

With the publication of Laudato Si in 2015, Pope Francis ushered in a new era of Catholic environmentalism. His encyclical reaffirmed the theological and moral urgency of ecological issues while challenging humanity's unchecked technological optimism and deep-seated anthropocentrism. At the heart of his vision is the idea that all creation manifests divine love, calling Catholics to embrace a theocentric environmental ethic. This book builds upon Laudato Si, offering a fresh theological framework that moves beyond stewardship toward a more expansive, love-centered approach to creation care.

Expert contributors examine enduring topics and metatheoretical approaches, including relational developmental systems perspectives, developmental evolution and the emergence of moral capacities in early life. They highlight moral self-identity and developmental processes in emerging and early adulthood. Expanding on lifespan considerations of generativity, purpose and self-transcendence, the Research Handbook presents questions on the development of social justice as well as cultivating character and virtue.

The Research Handbook on Lifespan Moral Development is a vital resource for academics and researchers of moral psychology. Scholars and practitioners of developmental psychology and philosophy will also greatly benefit from its theoretical and practical recommendations.

The Routledge Companion to Urban Planning challenges the conventional boundaries of urban planning, urging the field to embrace the complexities and ambiguities of the urban experience. It contends that urban planning must move beyond binary classifications-such as city/country or society/nature-and instead renew itself through language, theory, policy, and practices that engage with mixed forms, overlapping functions, and ethical concerns that lie in the in-between.

Urban planning, as a discipline, is inherently dialectical, simultaneously producing and undermining classifications that shape how we understand, navigate, and transform the world. Yet, within this tension lies a latent spectrum of alternatives. This volume takes this spectrum as its starting point, assembling 32 contributions from scholars and practitioners across the global North and South to critically interrogate and rework the epistemological foundations of planning. Through diverse empirical and theoretical contexts, the chapters explore how mixed forms, overlapping functions, and substantive questions unsettle conventional approaches to governance and intervention. Contributors examine the origins, contestations, and exclusions embedded in urban planning's classifications, probing their limits and omissions. In doing so, the volume repositions planning as a field that must engage ambiguity, rethink its classificatory logics, and cultivate more adaptive, inclusive, and context-sensitive practices for the worlds between.

This companion will interest scholars and professionals in the areas of Urban Studies, Urban Planning, Governance, Policy Studies, Social Theory, Territorial Management, and Sustainable Development.