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.

Interviewing Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: (Volume I: Beginnings) offers a reflective and dialogical exploration of the origins of neuropsychological rehabilitation through the voices of those who helped shape its early development. Compiled and edited by Dr. Christian Salas, this volume brings together a series of in-depth interviews that trace how the field emerged-not as a predefined discipline, but as a set of practices, ideas, and encounters that gradually took form across time and contexts.

Focusing on the formative years of neuropsychological rehabilitation, Beginnings examines the intellectual, clinical, and personal trajectories that contributed to its foundation. Through conversations with leading figures such as George Prigatano, Barbara Wilson, Anne-Lise Christensen, Lance Trexler, Masahiro Nochi, Mark Ylvisaker, Pamela Klonoff, Jill Winegardner, Tedd Judd, Jennie Ponsford and Elena Marquez, the volume highlights how the field was shaped by interdisciplinary influences, institutional developments, and the lived experiences of clinicians and patients alike. Rather than presenting a linear history, the book reveals a field constructed through dialogue, experimentation, and the ongoing negotiation between theory and practice.

Set against the backdrop of Chile-whose name means "the ends of the earth"-the book adopts a decolonial and cross-cultural perspective, situating these stories within a broader global context and foregrounding the relational and situated nature of knowledge production. In doing so, it portrays neuropsychological rehabilitation not as a finished body of knowledge, but as a discipline whose beginnings remain present in its current practices.

This volume will be of interest to clinicians, researchers, and students in clinical neuropsychology, rehabilitation, psychotherapy, and allied health fields seeking to understand how the discipline came into being and how its foundational ideas continue to shape contemporary practice.

In the contexts of the madness of unreason that has gripped the world which has given rise to global diseases, environment disaster and unending wars situated in what this book calls the "Age of the Apocalypse", this book argues for a philosophical rethinking of our contemporary human condition. The leitmotiv of this book is that fundamentalists have taken hold of world governments placing their apocalyptic idea of the "end of the world" at the base of their political ideology, displacing thus peace for violence, democracy for authoritarianism and human reason for mytho-poetics. Scanning the terror of the corona pandemic along with the discontents of liberalism which have given rise to violent right-wing ethno-nationalist movements all over the world, coupled with the failure of 20th century socialism, in the form of Stalinism, which has given rise to Putinism and the old czarist idea of Great Russian Imperialism, the book talks of the necessity of going back to philosophical reasoning to understand this Age of the Apocalypse.

Drawing on popular culture, history and politics the book examines what it is to philosophize in our unhappy times. This accessible volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and philosophy, as well as the general reader.

Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence provides an in-depth exploration of the intersection of business analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI). Tailored for undergraduate, graduate, and professional learners, it equips readers with the knowledge and skills to leverage data-driven insights and AI technologies for strategic decision-making, operational optimization, and innovation in a dynamic global business environment. This book bridges the gap between theory and practice by:

- Introducing the foundational principles of business analytics and AI

- Demonstrating the integration of advanced AI techniques into business analytics processes

- Providing a unified guide to business analytics and machine learning with a focus on real-world applications

- Presenting a clear, practical, and accessible framework to harness AI and machine learning for solving complex business problems, optimizing operations, and driving innovation

- Exploring the ethical, legal, and social implications of AI in business contexts

- Presenting case studies and real-world applications from diverse industries to showcase best practices.

The textbook combines foundational concepts, advanced techniques, and hands-on applications, catering to readers with varying levels of technical expertise. It includes global perspectives of BA and AI, case studies, practical examples, and coding snippets (in Python or R) to help readers implement AI-driven solutions in their organizations. Topics span predictive analytics, machine learning, data visualization, natural language processing, and decision support systems, emphasizing how these tools empower businesses to stay competitive and ensure operational sustainability.

This timely book presents undergraduate research as a powerful vehicle for engaging students in addressing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Hensel begins with a comprehensive foundation on the SDGs and higher education's evolving role in advancing them, then examines specific goals through detailed case studies and exemplary programs that showcase cross-disciplinary student research in action. These narratives illuminate the complex challenges and innovative solutions that emerge when students engage directly with pressing global issues: from climate action to poverty reduction to health equity. Both a call to action and playbook for any faculty member involved in undergraduate research, this text also functions as an important resource for administrators and policymakers seeking to support student discovery and innovation.

This book explores how AI systems trained on neurodata are redrawing the boundaries of dignity, autonomy, and legal personhood.

It reveals the emerging reality of NeuroAI: a world where machinelearning models anticipate our thoughts before we have even formed them. As neurotechnologies evolve, AI systems move beyond interpreting brain signals in labs and headsets to harvesting neurodata (whether extracted through direct interfaces, inferred from everyday behaviour, or reverse-engineered via predictive modelling) from users who never consented or even knew they were being monitored, transforming the subconscious into a commodified dataset.

Drawing on case studies from criminal trials, law enforcement, and consumer technologies, the book reveals how Big Tech and platform operators increasingly treat neurodata as a resource for monetisation. Across the EU and the USA, emerging AI and data-protection regimes, including the EU AI Act and GDPR, as well as the US Fourth Amendment and HIPAA frameworks, offer incomplete or inconsistent safeguards against NeuroAI trained on neurodata to model and predict thoughts, emotions, or intentions, leaving cognitive inference primarily in a legal grey zone.

Indispensable for legal scholars, technologists, and regulators, this critical roadmap illuminates the gaps in current law and identifies the safeguards needed to protect our most intimate inner lives. In a future where thoughts can be inferred, monetised, and weaponised without ever accessing the brain directly, this book shows us where the law must catch up before our minds, our rights, and our freedoms are turned into the next frontier of exploitation.

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.

Exploring the fluidity of divine-human boundaries in ancient Judaism, Daniel Lam challenges the assumption of a rigid divide between God and humanity. Drawing on prototype theory and texts from across millennia of Jewish and Christian literature, Lam argues that divinity was conceived as a graded category rather than an absolute state, suggesting that figures such as Adam, Enoch, Moses, Elijah, and Jesus were imagined as crossing the divine threshold through immortality, metamorphosis, and exaltation. By situating these traditions within their wider Mediterranean context, Lam reframes debates on monotheism, deification, and early Christology.

Lam engages deeply with primary sources, including Genesis and Psalms, Wisdom of Solomon, and the Life of Adam and Eve; Enochic writings such as the Book of the Watchers and Book of Parables; and New Testament passages like Philippians 2 and Hebrews 1. In addition, he examines lesser-known materials such as the Testament of Abraham, Qumran fragments, and 2 Enoch, highlighting motifs of angelomorphism, luminous transformation, and enthronement. These case studies illuminate how ancient authors negotiated divine identity and challenge the notion that divinisation was exclusively a "pagan" concept, offering a fresh methodological framework for understanding divinity as a fluid and multivalent phenomenon.

Exploring both large-scale and artisanal and small-scale mining and refining, Mol outlines how extraction network constellations are fundamentally changing and increasingly controlled by state-capital hegemonic powers. Chapters evaluate in-depth existing extraction practices and new extraction frontiers across Antarctica, Asia, Europe, South America and the deep sea, including mineral recycling performance and potential, to illustrate the mutual strengthening and trade-off between sustainability and mineral security in distinct geographies. The book ultimately highlights how extraction is both a cause and consequence of contemporary global volatility.

Extraction and Global Transformation provides valuable insights for scholars and students in environmental studies, geography and political and social sciences, especially those with an interest in geopolitics and resource sovereignty. The book is also beneficial for policymakers and industry practitioners seeking a comprehensive understanding of the topic.

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.

How do working mothers in Japan experience the tension between employment and child-rearing? Drawing on in-depth interviews with 55 working mothers, this book offers a compelling account of women's struggles under "neoliberal motherhood" in contemporary Japan. By comparing university-educated and non-university-educated women, it reveals subtle yet consequential class-based differences in how mothers balance childcare, housework, and paid work.

The book shows how motherhood ideologies, economic constraints, unequal spousal support, workplace norms and practices, intersect to shape women's everyday lives. In particular, it brings into focus the often-overlooked challenges faced by non-university-educated women and by situating these experiences within Japan's strong child-centered ideology, the book examines how mothers navigate pervasive expectations of intensive mothering and develop strategies to cope with them. In doing so, it reframes what are often seen as individual struggles as structurally produced inequalities.

Chapters examine intercultural relations in workplaces globally, as well as exploring educational contexts and power dynamics. Contributors address identity, intersectionality, and migration alongside psychological phenomena across varied circumstances and national settings. Expert authors introduce innovative and pluralistic research methodologies, including embodied storytelling and migration studies. This book implements empirical rigor and theoretical depth to engage with psychology, organizational studies, education, and political science to reflect upon how groups and individuals relate, interact, and adapt to each other.

This insightful book is an essential resource for scholars and students across disciplines seeking to understand intercultural relations. Researchers and policymakers interested in organizational behaviour, social psychology, and occupational psychology will also benefit from the tools provided to effectively navigate an increasingly complex and interconnected world.

In this innovative open-access study, Joerg Schaub demonstrates that the aesthetic is essential to democratic societies' aspiration to realize a life of equal freedom for all.

Revisiting seminal eighteenth-century aesthetic treatises, Schaub advances a new interpretation of modern aesthetics and, in doing so, lays the groundwork for his original account of Hegel's post-ideal conception of aesthetics. He argues that what lies at the core of these accounts-and gives them their cultural significance-is the value they accord to free perceptual, emotional, and imaginative exploration of the world, and he shows how this orientation transforms our understanding of the values of freedom and equality.

Building on this interpretation of modern aesthetics, Schaub develops a novel conception of aesthetic recognition that expands familiar recognition relationships by bringing into view the consideration we owe one another as perceiving, feeling, and imaginative beings. Through a range of case studies, he shows that many conflicts in democratic life are also struggles for aesthetic recognition. This perspective yields a critical theory of aesthetics capable of diagnosing and criticizing forms of aesthetic misrecognition.

Schaub brings aesthetics into dialogue with social and political philosophy and critical theory. His study constitutes a significant intervention in the long-standing debate about aesthetics and politics, reshaping how we think about freedom in democratic life.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Essex.

In this book, David Bell explores Freud's oeuvre starting with some of the earliest papers. He situates this work within the context of culture and the history of ideas. Covering such key topics as narcissism, the nature of truth and illusion, and what constitutes knowledge within and outside analytic settings, the chapters take one of Freuds key works and offers an exegesis of that work. With a deep understanding of Freud's work and its place in contemporary psychoanalytic and cultural spheres, this is key reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, historians of idea and anyone wanting to better understand the continued importance of Freud's enduring significance.

Chapters reframe the narrative of the word 'resistance', treating it as a constructive element of the common good. They dissect the myth of technological determinism to advocate for more socially responsible engagements. Proposing imagination as a pathway of resistance, the book examines themes of leadership, technology, property, and management to redefine resistance. It moves beyond binary choices to place faith in the nurture of complex human connections and solidarity, and stresses the importance of belonging as an essential resource for organizers.

Resistance and the Neoliberal Organization is a valuable resource for students and academics of business management, ethics, and trust. Researchers and policymakers interested in sociology and organizational behaviour will also benefit from the insights provided.

The International Handbook of Research in Digital Literacies offers a timely and multidimensional portrait of priorities shaping digital literacies research and practice today. The volume assembles scholars from around the world who are advancing new lines of inquiry across rapidly evolving, interdisciplinary fields of study to expand digital literacies research, practice, and policy.

Contributors weave together theoretical, critical, and methodological threads to address new developments in a rapidly shifting field. Taken together, the five sections of the Handbook constitute a global scholarly conversation that pushes the boundaries of how digital literacies are understood and researched across expansive contexts.

Contributors adopt pluralistic perspectives to illuminate both established lines of inquiry and emerging advancements in digital literacies methods and approaches, offering new directions in teaching and learning. From AI and data literacies to computational and gaming literacies to culturally responsive assessment and global collaborations, authors examine topics with the intellectual depth, analytical rigor, and critical lenses that the complexity of today's digital world demands.

This handbook is a call to action for educators committed to boldly driving digital literacies research forward. It is essential reading for graduate students, researchers, and educators working in areas including literacy studies, digital media, learning sciences, and education.

Key Features:

• Enables readers to locate and extract core passages from the ECtHR's procedural case-law
• Presents case-law pertaining to cross-cutting matters emerging from the Court's case-law that have implications across the Convention system
• Traces the lines of jurisprudence and the evolution of Strasbourg case-law from its inception in 1961 to the present
• Systematically analyses specific provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights from the perspective of the Court's case-law, cutting through peripheral detail to consolidate the most critical legal information

The European Convention on Human Rights: Volume II, Procedure is an essential resource for legal practitioners and scholars needing to understand the Court's position on procedure, and forms an ideal companion to The European Convention on Human Rights: Volume I, Substantive Rights.

Fischer proposes that values are central to the majority of human activities, such as employment choices, health decisions, and whether to recycle or what candidate to vote for. Chapters examine how values can be both personal and cultural, integrating key theories and measures to assess how they differ across cultures and how these cognitive processes work in the brain. Drawing on interdisciplinary value theories, the book argues that the exploration of human values is not merely an intellectual pursuit, but a foundational aspect that informs decision-making, societal structures and the overall well-being of individuals and communities.

Understanding Human Values is a pivotal resource for scholars and students of social and personality psychology, cultural psychology and sociology. Clinical psychologists and practitioners seeking to broaden their understanding of value-based decision-making will also benefit from its novel insights.

Barbara Thiede presents an exploration of Yhwh as a complex character who models biblical masculinity by forming intimate relationships with his people Israel in the service of establishing his power and authority. Divine Masculinity in the Books of Samuel reveals that the Israelite deity's relationships with Israel, the prophet Samuel, King Saul, and King David feature a wide-ranging emotional palette. Yhwh's intense bonds with his men produce shifting and unstable male alliances and networks, which are homoerotic and often triangular. As Israel's ueber-man, his character demonstrates that biblical masculinity is assertive, forceful, jealous, vulnerable, and controlling.

Thiede illustrates how emotion is made to serve divine agenda and divine might is established and maintained through emotions and emotional display in the Books of Samuel. Yhwh is womanless, but the men he chooses to serve him may be brought to the height of ecstasy, emotionally abused, and sexually humiliated. The book demonstrates that Yhwh's emotional and sexual life revolves around his relationships with other male characters, exposing the uncompromising hegemonic masculinity that undergirds the biblical world.

Widely considered two of the most controversial legal scholars, Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt have been the subject of debate for almost a century. This book focuses on a limited but extremely important controversy between Kelsen and Schmitt: the answer to the question regarding the proper guardian of the constitution. This debate goes to the heart of political power and legal thinking. The work presents a detailed examination of the three key documents from 1927 to 1933 regarding this controversy. An understanding of these writings will aid in comprehending the larger controversy between Kelsen and Schmitt with respect to discussion or decisionism, law or power, and democracy or dictatorship.

As much about the conflict between pluralism and unity and between democracy and autocracy as it is about a specific historical controversy, this study will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of jurisprudence and legal philosophy, constitutional law and theory, political philosophy and legal history.

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.