Reclaims the theology of Christian conversion by integrating Karl Barth's doctrine of conversion within a constructive theological framework.

This book delivers a doctrinally rich account of Christian conversion that challenges reductive, experience-based approaches. Drawing from Scripture and Barth's Church Dogmatics, Tom Dove introduces a fourfold framework that defines conversion as inseparably connected to Christ's person and work, purposive, a divine event, and integrated with the Christian life.

He develops this framework through engaging with Barth's doctrines of election, reconciliation, calling, baptism with the Holy Spirit, and creation. Subsequently, Dove constructively extends Barth's theology to show how the Holy Spirit's activity across Christ's history provides the basis for connecting conversion and the Christian life.

By magnifying the work of Christ and the Spirit, this study offers a holistic theological vision that integrates conversion with the reality of Christian existence.

Chan Sin-wai and contributors explore the latest advancements in culture and language within the realm of techno-humanities.

Featuring contributions from renowned scholars and emerging specialists across diverse regions, the book spans a wide range of disciplines, including archaeology, drama, education, fine arts, gender studies, history, language, language learning, literature, machine translation, medicine, and robotics. Each chapter showcases cutting-edge research findings that highlight the dynamic interplay between technology, culture, and language. The book offers insightful and inspiring perspectives in the application of technology to cultural and linguistic studies. By presenting innovative approaches and groundbreaking research, it provides a deeper understanding of how technology is transforming these fields and shaping new possibilities for exploration and development.

An essential book for scholars and researchers in the humanities, digital humanities, technology, and computing as well as those interested to explore the intersection of technology, culture, and language

This book examines how cutting-edge technologies are transforming the way we live, work, and address some of the world's most critical challenges. In an era marked by climate change, healthcare disparities, educational inequities, and rapid urbanization, emerging tools such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning (ML), and Blockchain are unlocking new possibilities for innovation and progress.

Bringing together global perspectives and practical insights, the book explores the application of these technologies across diverse sectors, including healthcare, agriculture, business, education, and smart cities. From AI-powered diagnostic tools revolutionizing medicine to IoT-driven systems enabling sustainable farming, and digital platforms reshaping learning and customer engagement, each chapter highlights how responsible innovation can empower individuals, organizations, and communities to thrive in a rapidly evolving world. The book balances technical knowledge with real-world examples and ethical considerations, addressing the social, cultural, and governance challenges necessary for fostering equitable and inclusive growth.

As part of the Advances in Emerging Markets and Business Operations series, this book will appeal to students, academics, policymakers, and readers interested in data science, AI and machine learning, sustainability, technology and innovation management, business studies, operations and supply chain management, healthcare management, and health informatics.

Pulling together a range of responses to local and global challenges across different community settings, this book makes the case for community psychology as a responsive tool for social justice and liberation.

Using insights from both academia and professional practice, this book articulates key community psychology principles, practices and values and their role across 'psy' and related professions. It draws on case studies from both the global north and south to show innovative ways in which communities have collectively taken action to demonstrate resistance and resilience and describes creative psychological research methods that can be used to better understand and respond to the needs of communities. In so doing, it demonstrates the value of psychology which is both embedded within and reflective of its local community and challenges and extends our understanding of what psychology is, how it is produced and to whom it belongs. Each chapter is supported by teaching and learning activities, including reflective exercises, discussion questions, embodied activities, stakeholder assessments, case study formulations and presentations.

Demonstrating how community psychology can support activities with local community members through meaningful examples of community action embedded in research, this is the ideal resource for psychology students. It may also interest professionals working in related fields, including clinical psychology, counselling psychology, health psychology, social psychology, social work and youth work.

The Caribbean World provides a comprehensive introduction to the region. Drawing principally on anthropology and the humanistic social sciences, this volume aims to highlight the diversity of the region--its peoples, institutions, and histories-while gesturing to the common heritage and unsung unity of a region birthed out of violence and dispossession. The contributors to this volume provide intimate case studies of a range of topics, including:

• The Greater Antilles
• The Caribbean Coast
• The Interior
• The smallest islands of the archipelago
• Indigeneity, Genocide
• Plantation Slavery, Indenture Colonial Violence, and Anti-colonial Revolt Sovereignty
• Citizenship, Law, and Politics
• Religion and Ritual
• Gender and Kinship
• The Environment.

By convening an internationally renowned cohort of authors from the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe, this volume is intended to remain a touchstone for future generations of scholars and a mainstay on undergraduate and graduate curricula as an introduction to the field.

This book critically examines the notion of female sexual agency in advertising, exposing how postfeminist discourses co-opt feminist language to sell products while reinforcing patriarchal norms. Combining feminist theory, poststructuralism, and interviews with feminist consumers, it dissects the illusion of agency and the panoptic systems of surveillance that discipline women into self-policing their bodies and desires, as well as each other.

Through original frameworks (the Agency Spiral and Postfeminist Panopticon), the book reveals how ads reduce women's agency to consumerist performances of sexuality that are perpetually negotiated and shaped by norms, perceptions of choice, the gaze, and spatiality. The author integrates key theoretical insights within relevant discussions to reveal how advertising both reflects and shapes cultural understandings of gender, power, and sexuality.

This unique, insightful book is a valuable read for scholars and students in gender studies, media/cultural studies, and marketing; feminist activists and educators; media professionals, and general readers frustrated by the gap between feminist ideals and commercial realities. A provocative and accessible critique, it arms readers with the tools to see and start dismantling "the prison of empowerment" that is postfeminist advertising.

This book explores energy poverty through a social science lens, drawing on the author's research experience at the Universities of Trieste and Milan and his work as an energy poverty project manager for the City of Milan.

Energy poverty is no longer a localized issue related to warmth and energy affordability. It has turned into a global concern shaped by multifaceted economic, environmental, socio-demographic, spatial, and geographical factors. This groundbreaking book provides an updated perspective from the social sciences, exploring how evolving forms of energy deprivation challenge traditional understandings of the phenomenon and demand new analytical frameworks that consider the full complexities of energy vulnerabilities. It considers the drivers of energy vulnerability globally and explores how decision-makers can be equipped to craft targeted local actions for vulnerable households amid urban energy transition agendas. These insights integrate lived experiences into measurements and form the basis for policy recommendations designed to foster energy justice and security for vulnerable households.

Bridging academic theory and empirical research, this volume equips the reader to address one of today's most pressing global challenges. It is a deal for researchers, policymakers, and social scientists with a focus on energy transitions, energy policy, and energy inequality.

The Actual Lenin is a fresh and accessible reinterpretation of Lenin by placing his ideas alongside the political realities of the Global South. Ranabir Samaddar, a leading intellectual of the Global South, demonstrates how Lenin broke with conventional ways of thinking about social transformation, and why that break still helps us understand today's struggles with inequality, conflict, and collective power. Instead of treating Lenin as a fixed ideological figure, Samaddar presents him as a thinker responding to real moments of upheaval, constantly adjusting theory and practice to the demands of his time.

Drawing on clear readings of What Is to Be Done?, The State and Revolution, and key episodes in Southern political history, the book explores how Lenin understood crisis, organisation, and political timing. It demonstrates how his method (thinking and acting within conjuncture) offers practical tools for analysing contemporary conflicts across the South. By connecting long-standing debates in Marxism with current Global South scholarship, Samaddar provides an innovative alternative to traditional Lenin studies and expands a field still dominated by Eurocentric perspectives. He also traces Lenin's global legacy, showing why his analyses of imperialism and uneven development remain vital for understanding sovereignty, democracy, and development today.

Written for students and researchers across political theory, international relations, sociology, and postcolonial studies, The Actual Lenin offers an accessible, authoritative guide for anyone seeking to understand crisis, imperialism, and the possibilities of radical politics in the twenty-first century.

This book charts the evolution of animal history from 1800 to the present day, and is an essential companion for students navigating the methodological practices of the field.

Organised by theme, Writing Animal History takes readers through a variety of approaches to animal-human interactions, against the backdrop of key historiographical questions: such as agency, acculturation, and power hierarchies. With chapters on wilderness and civilisation, industrialised animals, and animals in science and technology - discussion moves from the origins of the field, to the evolving place of animals in society, and then to the future of animal history.

Schoenfelder analyses a wealth of case studies in each chapter, highlighting to students how a variety of sources, theories, and methods can be employed when writing and reflecting on animal histories. The author's use of practical examples not only demonstrates the dynamic nature of the field, and its wide geographical applications, but encourages students to approach and develop their own research questions and ideas.

Writing Animal History is a key touchstone for students learning about the practice of animal history, and is an essential tool for analysing and developing historiographical writing.

Leading experts in the field evaluate the transformative potential of festivals in promoting sustainable development by discussing real-world examples from across the world. They argue that festivals, when planned with community involvement and innovative tools, can create lasting economic and social benefits while conserving cultural heritage. The Handbook calls for collaboration to ensure festivals remain authentic and sustainable for both locals and visitors.

Academic rigour and practical cases makes this Handbook an essential resource for researchers in tourism and hospitality and cultural heritage. As the book deeply engages with community empowerment, it will also be of interest to community development practitioners and policy planners.

Key Features:

• Brand new chapter on the Foreign Subsidies Regulation in relation to Mergers
• Substantial coverage of State Aid procedure
• Demonstrates how public enforcement and private enforcement work in tandem
• Commentary on current enforcement trends and where the rules provide flexibility in uncertain times

Presenting authoritative guidance on competition procedure and enforcement rules in the EU, and facilitating navigation of this complex field, the third edition of EU Competition Law Volume I: Procedure is an essential resource for all practitioners handling competition or state aid cases, as well as judges and competition authorities.

Drawing directly on primary documentary evidence of the Holocaust, this book returns to the raw archival foundations of genocide understanding to interrogate the systems, logistics, and procedural mechanisms that transformed ideological hatred into industrialized murder.

Rather than focusing on daily camp life, it examines death itself as an organized, bureaucratic, and technological process. With unflinching clarity, it reexamines overlooked elements of the killing process-most strikingly the trains themselves, reconceived not as transports but as integral components of the machinery of death, as death chambers. Emotionally intense and methodologically rigorous, this work challenges readers to confront the Holocaust as moral catastrophe and as a meticulously engineered process whose details reshape how we understand destruction itself.

Written for undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars of genocide and Holocaust studies, and informed non-specialist readers, The Mechanics of Death exposes the chilling logic embedded within modern administrative systems and provides an epistemological reconstruction of how that logic can lead to mass violence in modern states. It is essential reading for students, researchers, librarians, and educators alike.

Drawing on multijurisdictional insights from both legal and economic perspectives, this book provides a structured framework for understanding how competition law and policy can meaningfully contribute to sustainability while safeguarding legal certainty and coherence. The authors explore how competition law not only prevents harmful conduct but also accommodates arrangements that promote sustainability goals. Across the chapters a range of key topics are analysed, including constitutional foundations in EU law, guidance development at EU level and a wide range of the other leading jurisdictions in and outside the EU, as well as emerging anticompetitive enforcement practices, the abuse of dominance and mergers.

This book is an invaluable resource for academics and students in competition and antitrust law, sustainable development and environmental law. Sauter and Nowag's comparative approach is also beneficial to political scientists, policy analysts and practitioners working towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

Global experts pair practical examples with theoretical analysis to reflect on contemporary challenges and social issues such as the rise of the gig economy, algorithmic management, climate-related disruptions, poverty and inequality. Chapters engage with diverse case studies from across Africa, Asia and Europe to highlight both universal and regional challenges in achieving sustainable careers and decent work. Contributors also draw from various disciplines to align with broader sustainable development goals and social justice objectives.

The Research Handbook on Decent Work is an essential read for students and academics in sociology, psychology, economics and labour studies. International organisations, NGOs and policymakers in employment relations will equally benefit from the pairing of theoretical frameworks and actionable recommendations.

Presenting an international range of case studies, contributing authors examine the barriers to educational access faced by children in rural areas across continents and grapple with ongoing gender-based discrimination. They tackle the difficulties in providing responsive education to migrant students, investigate tensions surrounding the education of children with disabilities and consider ongoing obstacles to pursuing higher education. As well as evaluating the implementation of education as a human right, the book also looks to the future by addressing the possibilities of aspirational commitments.

Realizing Education as a Human Right is highly relevant for scholars and students of law and education with an interest in sustainable development, education policy, human rights and quality education, particularly in an international context. It also provides useful guidance to advocates and policymakers interested in advancing education as a human right, as well as policymakers enacting educational reforms.

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!