This book considers how European and Asian Christian missionaries communicated religious doctrine through the visual arts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Greater China.

Zooming in on these rich cross-cultural and inter-religious artifacts, Susangeline Patrick reveals how Christian images and visual culture reflected, interacted with, and influenced spiritual and sociopolitical powers during the period. Across eight chapters, Patrick expands the meaning of "liturgical art" within this historical and geographical context, locating religious visual arts within alternative spheres such as Christian charitable institutions, cartography, and bodily behavior, intentionally shedding light on Christian women's initiatives and participation in art, devotion, and power. In essence, this book underscores the interreligious and global aspects of encounters which shaped and impacted the production, circulation, and outcome of devotional art.

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.

Covering a twenty-five-year period, this book of unpublished keynote speeches calls for a move away from individualistic approaches to therapy and towards socially-oriented and socially-engaged practices.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

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

This book examines how BBC Television's embrace of new executive voices, digital technology, and independent production companies in the early 2000s gave rise to a new era of innovation in comedy, aesthetically and culturally.

Drawing on exclusive interviews with key industry figures, this book traces these corporate innovations, with a focus on the shift from traditional analogue pathways to digital platforms. The author explores how BBC Three's launch, alongside iPlayer streaming and YouTube integration, enabled a new generation of creators to develop aesthetically experimental series that expressed diverse British identities for younger audiences. Demonstrating how new corporate thinking and digital platforms democratized comedy creation, moving beyond establishment gatekeepers to showcase working-class, immigrant, and minority voices, this comprehensive analysis reveals how these changes made BBC comedy more inclusive and representative of contemporary British society while maintaining its public service mission.

This book will interest researchers and students in media and cultural studies, including television, digital media, comedy, celebrity, creative industries, and issues of identity and immigration.

This Research Agenda explores the impact of tourism on economies, communities, and places in today's world. It brings together different perspectives to explain how tourism can support economic development, but also why unmanaged growth can create social and environmental pressures.

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and with an eye on contemporary challenges - such as macroeconomic impacts, sustainability, and the development of new tourism typologies - this Research Agenda provides a re-reading of tourism from an economic standpoint. Contributing authors examine how tourism outcomes depend on the way destinations are planned, governed, and managed, combining broad economic analysis and concrete examples. Chapters propose new tools and perspectives for understanding tourism in a changing world. Looking to the future, it emphasizes the need for economic assessment and smarter public policies in tourism for long-term prosperity and quality of life.

A Research Agenda for the Economics of Tourism is an essential resource for students, researchers and practitioners seeking to understand the complexities of tourism from an economic perspective.

Screening Postmillennial Queer Film provides a critical overview of global LGBTQIA+ filmmaking in the twenty-first century, examining queer cinema beyond the New Queer Cinema paradigm, and as part of a progressively re-conceptualised world cinema.

This volume explores how LGBTQIA+ film has evolved globally through diverse case studies spanning art-house, genre, and mainstream productions. Contributors examine key topics including aesthetics, authorship, activism, intersectionality, transnationalism, and geopolitics, contextualizing queer filmmaking within and beyond Anglo-American canons. The collection addresses the growing visibility of non-heteronormative identities in international politics, media, and culture, equipping readers with critical tools to analyse contemporary queer film production worldwide.

Bridging the generational differences in queer film studies and cultural/critical practice, this book is essential for students and scholars in film studies, queer studies, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies. It is particularly valuable for those studying world cinema, postcolonial cinema, and LGBTQIA+ media representation. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses, the volume serves as both a teaching resource and foundation for interdisciplinary research on queer cinema and global film cultures.

Organised into four parts, the Handbook moves from the conceptual and historical foundations of the corporate form through the legal mechanics of core money-raising transactions. These include IPOs, private placements, takeovers, and rescue finance, as well as emerging challenges in sustainable finance, digital innovation, and alternative capital structures such as dual-class stock and sovereign wealth funds. A final comparative section situates these insights across diverse jurisdictions, including Canada, the United States, the European Union, and Latin America.

This Research Handbook will be essential reading for scholars and researchers in corporate and financial law. It will also be invaluable for practitioners, regulators, and policymakers seeking a deeper understanding of the legal architecture underpinning modern capital markets.

The fourth edition of Cybercrime and Digital Forensics provides a concise, cohesive exploration of all forms of cybercrime, including cyberterrorism and cyberwarfare, in an international context.

This new edition includes:

• A detailed chapter-by-chapter exploration of specific forms of cybercrime, ranging from hacking and malware to fraud to various sexual and interpersonal crimes and even online illicit markets;
• An updated discussion of criminological theories;
• Up-to-date examinations of the laws pertaining to cybercrime across the world, inclusive of Australia, Canada, the EU, India, the UK, and the US;
• Explanations of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), with examples in each chapter of the ways AI is facilitating cybercrime and transforming the landscape of cybercrime regulation;
• A detailed history of digital forensics, as well as the current processes of evidence collection and analysis;
• Examples of real-life cybercrime, cyberterror, and cyberwarfare incidents from around the world.

This text is essential reading for courses on cybercrime, cyber-deviance, digital forensics, cybercrime investigation, and the sociology of technology.

Introduction to English Across Contexts offers a structured, integrated approach to understanding the English language, combining insights from applied linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, and cultural research.

Organised into three thematic parts, it explores language as a code (focusing on its structural regularities and patterns of use), as interaction (examining the role of context, intention, and social dynamics in meaning exchange), and as representation (exploring the ways in which language constructs and conveys knowledge and reality). The book bridges gaps between these dimensions, enabling users to grasp how grammar, interactional goals, and meaning-making intersect in real-world communication. By combining established models with an emphasis on usability, the volume equips readers with analytical tools to understand, evaluate, and produce texts with greater clarity, appropriateness, and awareness.

Designed for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, the book provides students, researchers, and educators with precise terminology, practical models, and analytical tools. It is an essential resource for understanding English in academic, professional, and cultural settings.

Fleck analyses longitudinal studies across varied industries and ownership regimes, revealing three core requirements for healthy long-term survival: renewal fostering, slack producing and integrity cultivating. Chapters examine the dual role of growth and how it can both constructively and destructively affect the existence of an organization, its members and the relevant environment. The book highlights how responsible leadership is essential to address the entrepreneurial, environmental and organizational trio of growth challenges and to prevent self-destruction. Fleck also demonstrates how fostering a sustainable strategy can result in socially responsible and environmentally conscious behaviors.

This book is a crucial read for scholars and students of business, organization, entrepreneurship and strategic, general and critical management studies. It is also highly relevant to business owners, CEOs and entrepreneurs seeking organizational success.

What Games Mean: Understanding Games as Art relates games to established artforms through painting movements, auteur theory, music albums, and documentary. Each chapter discusses the history of the art movement in question and then reads games through those lenses. By defamiliarizing games by thinking about them with atypical genre and form, What Games Mean helps create a common language between tabletop and video games and other kinds of art.

This book is about enjoying games in different dimensions as well as offering strategies for game makers to think about their own work and process. Professionals and students can look at games from different perspectives and gain new approaches to how they work.

All this is done considering the roles and responsibilities of artists. These ethical questions are considered in relation to 20th century art and how it relates to advertisement and propaganda, labor movements and workers' rights in games industries, and how game makers can best interact with their audiences.

Education and Security is the outcome of a collaboration of renowned experts from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. Cases examined include teacher training for supporting the instruction of large groups of students in Tanzania, changing requirements for teacher training in Tuerkiye, anti-racism instruction in Finland, the changing role of NGOs in efforts to advance the use of SEL practices across several continents, resilience building in Denmark and Europe at large, as well as insights from Ukraine on efforts to support refugees and a continued development of education in a context of war.

Educators, education planners and researchers working with the development of education policy and practices will benefit from the broad range of cases analysed. This volume is also an essential resource for students and scholars of sociology, comparative education and citizenship education looking to further their understanding of the relationship between education and security.

This guide provides practical strategies for international students to overcome language and socio-cultural barriers, improve language proficiency, address cultural adaptation challenges, and strengthen academic and professional communication.

Intended to supplement university-provided orientation materials at English-language universities, the book combines theoretical insights with practical, actionable advice that focuses on international students' unique communication challenges. It treats communication as a learnable skill built through practice across every part of campus life, from a first hello to a job interview. Eight chapters carry the reader from the first weeks abroad (including the "arrival cliff") through relationship-building, classroom participation, social support, and career launch. The book is grounded in current research and anchored in real student stories. Frameworks like the S.P.A.C.E. method for starting conversations give readers tools they can use and return to. It names accent bias directly; engages with xenophobia and the immigration climate; and treats neurodivergence, LGBTQ+ identity, and mental health as layered realities for international students rather than as footnotes. It also shows, with worked examples, how to use generative AI ethically to improve academic and professional communication.

This is an accessible book tailored to international students and the faculty, advisors, and counselors who support them.

Strategic Risk Management represents an organizational capacity to adapt business activities to match the evolving competitive environment.

This updated edition reflects the increasingly disruptive global competitive landscape. Incorporating the latest scholarly developments, the authors advance the risk leadership model to introduce a strategic drift warning system that accounts for behavioral trends across organizational hierarchies. Across five concise chapters, the book traces the evolution from enterprise risk management (ERM) toward a dynamic multidisciplinary approach to strategic risk management (SRM) with more sophisticated perspectives on strategy-making. It demonstrates how conventional models, grounded in probabilistic forecasts, compliance routines, and auditable processes, fail to capture and address emergent threats and systemic shocks. Drawing on decades of research in behavioral science, organizational theory, and dynamic capabilities, it reveals the hidden cognitive biases, social pressures, and structural frictions that distort judgment and undermine even well-designed strategies. The book contends that risk is not merely a technical challenge but a fundamentally human endeavor. Strategy execution falters not from lack of intent or motivation, but because real-world conditions, such as time pressure, cognitive overload, misaligned incentives, and flawed routines, shape behavior in predictable yet overlooked ways. To bridge the gap between strategic intent and frontline action, organizations must cultivate new forms of sensing, learning, and cross-functional collaboration. Central to the book is the emergence of strategic risk leadership (SRL), a forward-looking leadership orientation blending analytical rigor with moral purpose, psychological safety, and adaptive decision-making. SRL reframes risk governance as a sociotechnical practice enabling organizations to navigate sudden environmental shifts, systemic poly-crisis conditions, and AI-driven ambiguity.

A concise yet comprehensive guide to the field, this book distills research that has stood the test of time with emerging trends to present a resource that is valuable reading for researchers, advanced students and reflective business practitioners.

This book critically examines the role of evidence-informed decision-making in tourism planning, destination management, and policymaking, emphasizing its importance for sustainable tourism development. Through a blend of conceptual reflections and innovative empirical case studies from diverse international contexts, it highlights good practices such as participatory approaches, actionable simulations, and local systems thinking. This book also identifies gaps and challenges in enhancing evidence use, offering valuable insights for improving theory and practice in sustainable tourism.

Covering broad subject areas such as sustainable tourism, destination management, policymaking, and evidence-based planning, this book is ideal for academics, policymakers, tourism professionals, and students seeking to deepen their understanding of evidence-informed approaches in tourism development.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

This timely book explores how social stress is reshaping higher education today. By placing the polarizing MAGA-DEI conflict in historical and contemporary perspective, Higher Education and Social Stress encourages discussion and social action within campus organizations amid dismantled social and public health programs. Drawing on higher education, political science, sociology, and mental health, this interdisciplinary work examines cultural conflicts across social classes and faith traditions to unpack political and social tensions within families, communities, and campuses. Written for scholars, educators, and researchers, it provides opportunities for reflection and dialogue in universities and communities affected by the loss of federal funding for social support, medical services, and educational opportunities.

Exploring decision making and strategy in turbulent contexts, expert scholars emphasize the need for leaders to find ways to adapt to unexpected changes, risks and crises. The book also outlines how to design resilient and sustainable organizations, and gives best practice on managing knowledge workers in a virtual, multicultural and interconnected world.

Scholars and students of international business will find this book an essential resource, especially those seeking insights on how the field is impacted by geopolitically unstable conditions. Contributing authors also provide creative solutions for practitioners and business leaders amid ongoing crises within international relations and business.

This innovative book, written by an author with borderline experiences of her own, explores the lived experience known as "borderline personality disorder". It draws on neuroqueer approaches and feminist new materialist philosophy to highlight the potential of the unstable knowledges produced in the borderland.

Resisting either embracing the clinical definition of borderline personality disorder or rejecting the diagnosis as a misogynistic construct, this book focuses on the ontological aspects of borderline experience, exploring unstable and indeterminate thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and selves. It illuminates how paying attention to these unique ways of seeing and knowing can provide alternatives to the 'cruel optimism' of medicalised ways of knowing BPD and challenge the harmful dualistic thinking that reinforces them. Demonstrating how we might understand borderline experience as a diagnostic, philosophical, or mystical mode for knowing self and world through unique orientations in time, space, and reality, this book is an important contribution to the medical and health humanities and critical mental health. It simultaneously provides a fresh new way of thinking about the borderline and offers new critical perspectives and interventions for the wider landscapes of disability studies, medical humanities, and justice-oriented disciplines.

It will be of use to a range of disciplines and professions with an interest in mental health, including healthcare, psychology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology and disability studies.

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.

The illusion is gone, now the real test begins.

The crisis inside the hive exposed more than a spreading illness. It revealed years of silent compromise, fragile leadership, and systems that could no longer carry the weight placed on them. The hive survived the awakening. But survival and recovery are not the same thing.

As Blair and others step into unfamiliar roles, they face a new challenge: rebuilding trust in a system where confidence has been broken and old behaviors refuse to disappear quietly. Decisions now carry consequences beyond productivity. The future of the hive depends on whether leadership can evolve before fear pulls everything backward again.

The Hive: Volume 2 continues the psychological-thriller journey while shifting from discovery to accountability, execution, and sustainable transformation. Expanding on the leadership, governance, risk, and cultural themes introduced in Volume 1, this installment explores what it truly takes to rebuild organizations under pressure without repeating the mistakes that created the crisis in the first place.

Blending compelling storytelling with practical insight, The Hive: Volume 2 speaks directly to leaders navigating modernization, digital transformation, organizational trust, and the growing complexity of today's connected world.

Because identifying the problem is only the beginning.

What happens next determines whether the hive survives.

Using a combination of short case scenes and role-play opportunities, the authors allow readers to experience building an HR department. They demonstrate how role-play and simulations can be used to create effective, experiential learning environments for complex business topics, incorporating a variety of workplace contexts from startups to multinational corporations. Advocating for simulation-based approaches which align with modern executive education methods and support applied learning, the book imparts practical knowledge on how HR departments are established while developing applied skills in hiring, employee relations and workforce management.

Allowing readers to move beyond theory to practice real-world decision-making, Building Practical Skills in Human Resource Management is an essential resource for faculty members, aspiring HR professionals and instructional educators focused on simulation-based learning. Scholars and students of HR and business administration will similarly benefit from its novel conceptual approach.

The Play Advantage: Global and Indigenous Perspectives in Higher Education is a multidisciplinary scholarly volume that brings together educators, researchers, and practitioners from around the world to explore how play functions as a transformative pedagogical and epistemological approach in education.

Rooted in Indigenous knowledge systems and enriched by diverse international perspectives, this work challenges conventional ideas of learning and knowledge development by positioning play as a serious, justice-oriented method for educational innovation. Organized into thematic sections, the book examines key theories, cultural practices, interdisciplinary applications, and the connections between story, justice, and belonging. Contributors draw on decolonial approaches, social constructivist theories, and critical pedagogy to frame play as a means of inquiry, resistance, and relational accountability. Case studies from a range of contexts-including Indigenous storytelling, community arts, and AI-supported learning-demonstrate the potential of play to foster creativity, inclusion, and ethical engagement.

Designed for scholars, educators, and policymakers committed to equity, cultural awareness, and pedagogical development, this volume offers both conceptual frameworks and practical insights. It encourages readers to view higher education not simply as knowledge transfer, but as a dynamic, co-creative process grounded in imagination, reciprocity, and systemic change, and it contributes to ongoing academic conversations on decolonizing education, interdisciplinary learning, and relational pedagogies as a resource for advancing research and practice in contemporary higher education.

In today's rapidly evolving industrial landscape, professionals face unprecedented challenges at the intersection of scientific advancement and organizational leadership. This comprehensive volume explores the fundamental principles that drive progress across sectors, examining how interdisciplinary approaches foster breakthrough applications and sustainable development. The authors provide a detailed exploration of the theoretical frameworks and practical methodologies that underpin successful project implementation in complex environments.

Engineering Innovation Nexus: Technology and R&D Management offers several distinctive features that set it apart from conventional texts in the field. Analyzing real-world case studies, it demonstrates how research applications transform industries through systematic approaches to problem-solving. The chapters examine leadership practices that cultivate team dynamics conducive to innovation, while providing actionable strategies for risk assessment and mitigation. Additionally, readers will discover frameworks for evaluating development initiatives, implementing interdisciplinary methodologies, and fostering environments where creative solutions can thrive in response to emerging global challenges.

This resource serves diverse professionals such as academics, researchers, industry practitioners, and policymakers, providing critical insights and practical tools for both established experts and emerging leaders navigating today's complex interdisciplinary landscape.