Humanistic Management and Leadership redefines the way we understand management in the 21st century by centering the conversation around the human condition and global challenges. Grounded in a dignity-centered and values-driven humanistic approach, this textbook explores how organizations and leaders can align performance with purpose, motivation with meaning, and strategy with human and societal flourishing.

Drawing from foundational management theories and contemporary research, this book equips students, practitioners, and aspiring leaders with tools for developing humanistic practices and leadership. Topics include emotional intelligence, dignity in leadership, the power of teams, mindful self-leadership, prosocial behavior, and navigating organizational complexity with integrity.

The book is experiential, featuring reflective activities, real-world case studies, and exercises designed to translate abstract theory into practical skillsets. From understanding motivation and psychological safety to thriving in diverse teams and optimizing purpose-driven cultures, students are empowered to both think critically and lead compassionately.

Whether you're a business student, emerging leader, or change agent, this book invites you to lead not just from authority and profit-striving-but from authenticity, insight, and a deep commitment to collective well-being.

Critically analysing Sueleyman Demirel's political career and pragmatic approach, this volume highlights his ability to adapt to Turkey's rapidly changing political landscape.

Combining biographical narrative with rigorous political analysis, the book offers readers an alternative perspective on modern Turkish history, showcasing the complexities, contradictions, and continuities of Turkish democratic processes. Despite his historical significance, Demirel remains relatively understudied, particularly in English-language scholarship. This biography fills that gap by extensively analysing Demirel's political life, focusing on his pragmatic approach as a key explanatory factor for his prolonged political relevance and effectiveness amid Turkey's recurring political upheavals.

Sueleyman Demirel: A Political Biography will be of interest to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in political science, Turkish studies, modern history, and Middle Eastern studies.

This book explores the participatory economy model (parecon) as a democratic alternative to capitalism and central planning. Written from an accounting perspective, it addresses two critical challenges in implementing this theoretical framework: product categorisation and contextualising annual planning.

It outlines a comprehensive product catalogue framework by analysing how consumers and producers influence product categorisation, design, and production processes across nine distinct product types, which collectively shape annual planning proposals, costing, and pricing mechanisms. Further, the book positions the contextualisation of annual planning clearly and concretely within the framework of the ongoing and complex relations existing in an open, fair and democratic modern economy. It identifies the most important coordination tasks and support functions necessary in a participatory economy for the formal annual planning procedure and the implementation of a fair and efficient agreed annual plan. Overall, the author proposes possible and viable ways to bridge the gap between abstract economic theory and the present reality, illuminating complex issues and demonstrating how a participatory economy can function efficiently without markets or private ownership.

The work emphasises democratic decision-making, equitable income distribution, and self-management while providing detailed frameworks for price formation, production coordination, and investment planning in a complex modern economy. As such, it will appeal to researchers, scholars and students of heterodox economics, political economy, and socialist theory, as well as activists and practitioners interested in alternative economic systems.

Bentzen and Johnsen offer key insight into how trust-based leadership plays out across multiple organizational levels - politicians, administrators and frontline leaders - and identify concrete pathways for a complementary interplay between trust and control. The book examines the paradoxes that emerge when trust and control are rebalanced and shows how organizational actors can cope constructively with these persistent tensions.

Trust and Control within Governance is an essential read for students and scholars in governance, public administration, and public management. It is also highly relevant for policy-makers and practitioners specializing in trust reforms, leadership and change management in the public sector.

This book investigates the long-term impact of digital communication networks on civil society organizations, with a particular focus on Taksim Solidarity (TS), the broad-based coalition that emerged during the 2013 Gezi Park protests in Turkey.

Moving beyond the commonly studied short-term mobilization effects of social media, this study centres on what happens after the protests fade-a critical yet under-researched phase in the lifecycle of social movements. Drawing on a decade of empirical material, the author examines how digital platforms have influenced the cohesion, communication practices, and endurance of TS as a civic collective under growing authoritarian constraints. Key themes include digital fragmentation, online-offline disjuncture, the erosion of deliberative culture, and the challenges of maintaining activist infrastructures in the absence of continued mass mobilization. Through a mixed-methods approach - including social network analysis, discourse analysis, an original civil society survey, and in-depth interviews - the study provides a comprehensive account of TS's transformation over the past ten years and leads to an understanding of whether and how digital networks help sustain collective action over time, particularly in hostile political environments.

Digital Networks and the Transformation of Civil Society is aimed at academics, researchers, and graduate-level students in the fields of political communication, digital activism, social movement studies, and Middle Eastern politics.

This book develops a fresh approach to understanding social care, by using feminist social reproduction theory to critically assess the undervaluing of waged and unwaged caring labour in homes and communities.

Part One makes the case for why the feminist social reproduction approach offers a dynamic and compelling intellectual framework for exploring adult social care in theoretical and historical terms. Feminist social reproduction theory analyses the paradox that caregiving, in sustaining human lives, is both essential for and continually subordinated to capitalist accumulation. The book explores how this core contradiction has shaped the history of adult social care in homes and communities in the UK, from the post-World War Two welfare settlement to the present day Part Two comprises a case study of adult social care in a southern English region during the pandemic of 2020-2021focusing on caregiving infrastructures across households, communities and home care occupations. It provides detailed insights into how carers, volunteers and home care workers experienced the contradiction of being simultaneously essential to the sustenance and survival of the older and disabled people they cared for, and yet also poorly compensated, invisibilised and taken for granted.

The book will be of interest to scholars and students working on care, social reproduction and feminist theory, from across sociology, social anthropology, social policy, social work, human geography and history.

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.

This book makes a critical intervention into debates about sport, journalism and the broader media industries in the UK, and reveals new insights into the working practices of sports media professionals.

The author argues for the importance of sports reporting as a central feature both of scrutinising the sports industry and of ensuring journalism is informative, entertaining and commercially viable. Drawing on more than 50 interviews, he also brings together a combination of content analyses, archival research and a field ethnography to explore the history and current practice of sports journalism in the UK across video, audio and written media. Themes include the precarity of being a sports journalist, even as sport has become more important economically to the media; insights into how social and online platforms are used by sports journalists and content creators, such as those working in-house for clubs and leagues; and gender and diversity in sports journalism, including the media prominence of women's sport. It's not just football: the book also features chapters examining media coverage of cricket, boxing, rugby league and swimming.

An original intervention offering new insights into sports reporting in a time of technological change and financial pressure on journalism, this book will interest not only sports journalism students, but also those working in sports business, management and events; journalism studies; media industry studies; media sport and sports studies.

Chapters evaluate the impact of inequalities between individuals, in terms of personal abilities and access to productive positions, on labour-market rewards. Contributors also examine the issue on a global scale, demonstrating how skills, institutions and technological change drive economic growth and cross-national variation in inequality. The book reveals how the subject is deeply rooted in historical growth patterns, connecting work-life inequality to broader societal transformations including political shifts, demographic change and global development.

Understanding Work-Life Inequality is a vital resource for scholars and students of sociology, psychology, economics, political science and philosophy. Policymakers and practitioners in human relations and business management will also benefit from its practical insights.

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

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

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

A Frequency Dictionary of Polish is an invaluable tool for all learners of Polish, providing an index of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language.

This dictionary is based on a 100-million-word corpus of Polish, which includes written texts and spoken material from a wide range of genres and registers, including conversation, fiction, newspapers, and e-language. It provides the user with detailed information for each of the top 5,000 entries, including English equivalents, a sample sentence and its English translation, usage statistics, and an indication of register variation. Users can access the entries either through the main frequency listing or through the alphabetical and part-of-speech indexes. Thematically organised lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports, clothing, and family are presented throughout the frequency listing.

An engaging, accessible, and highly useful resource, A Frequency Dictionary of Polish will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their language study.

Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists, the full text is provided in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work at resourcecentre.routledge.com/books/9781041260639.

This much welcomed new edition examines all recent developments in the field of contractual indemnities.

The first edition of this landmark text provided a coherent theory of the promise of indemnity while also addressing important practical issues, such as the construction of contractual indemnities. This new edition retains its hallmark dual perspective: setting out the foundational general principles and exploring specific forms of indemnity.

This new edition also explores illegality post Patel v Mirza; extends the discussion of implied indemnities; examines the impact of Woods v Capita Insurances Services Ltd; and looks at performance bonds, guarantees and indemnities. The book states English law but it draws upon a considerable amount of material from other common law jurisdictions, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Singapore. It will appeal to readers from those countries.

Strategic Internal Auditing in the Digital and ESG Era explores the changing role of internal audit in response to digital transformation, ESG accountability, cybersecurity threats, fraud risks, and increasing stakeholder expectations. Covering both foundational concepts and applied practices, the book discusses internal audit in regulated industries, the public sector, continuous auditing, and fraud risk management. It also highlights the growing importance of governance, data reliability, professional judgement, and technology-enabled assurance. By bringing together scholarly perspectives and practical insights, this edited volume offers a timely guide for academics, practitioners, and students seeking to understand and strengthen internal audit in a complex environment.

This open access book examines the rules shaping British political entertainment.

Satire is a powerful tool for exposing political hypocrisy. It can be offensive and provocative, sparking debates about the limits of freedom of expression and the harm in humour. The book focuses on broadcasting restrictions born from the quaintly named rules on taste and decency, and impartiality, assessing the potential damage to democracy when rules are misinterpreted. In examining the historical and legal context, it traces how regulatory frameworks have evolved and impacted on the creative industries.

Through interviews with industry professionals including comedians, writers, and executive producers, the book challenges the idea that regulation dictates editorial choices and creates a cancel culture. It reveals how broadcast practitioners decide the ethical and legal limits of offensive humour, and how the misinterpretation of the impartiality requirement can undermine satire's role. Performers and writers discuss how self-censorship, and social pressures influence what we see and hear in the media.

Much of British political satire has been "smoothed out" due to fears of offending audiences or because of a timid approach to programme making. This has left the audience unchallenged, uninformed, and politically disengaged. The book argues for a policy change to broadcast regulation. The impartiality requirement should be dropped for satire, and broadcasters should be more robust in defending their output.

This book is essential reading for policy makers, lawyers, and both media students and academics keen to understand the editorial process and the effect of 'cancel culture'.

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 UKRI.

In Liberatory Research Teams, Labs, and Collectives, Phelps-Ward, Brown, and Bankole provide guidance for research team leaders and members aspiring to facilitate research teams from a liberatory, human-centered, equitable perspective.

Whether leading a lab in chemistry and engineering, research team in the humanities or fine arts, or research collectives and collaboratives in the social sciences (e.g., psychology, social work, education, etc.), the authors provide rich examples, checklists, and resources facilitators and team members can begin using immediately to guide their everyday work. Through discussions on orienting research lab members and onboarding at the beginning of the text, to conversations about envisioned futures for research teams given the forecasted landscape of postsecondary education at the end of the text, this book contributes to the leadership, research methods, faculty, and graduate student development literature.

This text is a guide for those who desire a path to research team facilitation counter to how they may have been socialized in their terminal degree training, whether formally or informally, and aligned with values that center social justice and collective thriving. When the people on research teams thrive, so does the research, and ultimately, the broader impact of those in society.

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.

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.

This book examines the justification for restitutionary awards for a failure of condition and considers when, given this justification, such awards should be made.

It argues that such awards give effect to, but do not enforce, an agreement between the parties. In recent years, this question has been the focus of more scrutiny and scepticism on the part of private law scholars. Adding to this scepticism, this study promotes a new 'agreement theory' of failure of condition, which offers a much less controversial way of understanding the role of restitution in such failures.

Innovative and thought-provoking, this is a significant new way of considering awards for failure of condition.

Studying Lacan's Seminar IX presents the combined teachings and exegeses of three eminent Lacanian scholars of one of Lacan's notoriously difficult seminars in a set of detailed commentaries on the lessons of the seminar.

Olga Cox Cameron, Dan Collins, and Don Kunze offer chapters that attempt to navigate the twists and turns of Lacan's logic, offering multiple access points to the mystery of identification, transforming an intimidating seminar into a fertile space for critical thought.

The volume will be an indispensable resource for those seeking to understand the structural patterns of the psyche through a rigorous topological lens and will appeal to scholars and students alike, as well as psychoanalytic therapists and analysts interested in Lacan's teachings.

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.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 marked an abrupt end to decades of globalization and international cooperation, threatening the stability of Europe, impacting global food and energy security, and creating shock waves in a world barely recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. This book provides historical context to the current conflict through an exploration of the Red Army's 1920 conquest of Ukraine. The book contributes to readers' understanding of how and why Soviet Russia - like the tsars before them, and Putin afterwards - sought to impose control over Ukraine, and studies the consequences of doing so.

Part of the Wars and Battles of the World series, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of military history, defence and security studies, communism, geopolitics, and international relations. It will also appeal to readers interested in the Russian Revolution, post-First World War studies, and the history of Ukraine.

Psychodynamic Foundations of Bioenergetic Analysis: Responses from Body-Psychotherapy to the Uncertainty of Our Times explores how Alexander Lowen's concept of a grounded self can be cultivated despite the increasing uncertainty caused by rapid political and social changes.

The book offers answers to postmodern questions arising from the spread of Bioenergetic Analysis in non-Western societies, changes in the disease spectrum, new insights into the development of gender identities and the revolutionary spread of artificial intelligence. The bioenergetic concept of self is framed within a neurobiological context and linked to innovative psychodynamic theories of defense and drive. The authors show how the postmodern development toward individual self-construction, which has emerged through the increasing virtualization of life or new sociocultural constructions of femininity, can engage in a productive dialogue with the idea of a grounded self. To this end, the bioenergetic framework is expanded to include attachment theory, an intersubjective understanding of therapy, a psychodynamically and psychiatrically informed diagnostic scheme and a competency model that incorporates inter-, multi- and transcultural perspectives. The final chapter discusses the integral role of embodied spirituality in a holistic understanding of body-psychotherapy.

The book is intended for body-psychotherapists and psychodynamically-oriented students or psychotherapists who want to integrate the body more fully into their work. Readers interested in holistic healing approaches will find a comprehensive overview of the diverse European perspectives on Bioenergetic Analysis, supported by case studies, figures, study cards and multiple-choice questions.

This book addresses the urgent issue of nations being 'left behind' in an era defined by AI, advanced manufacturing, and knowledge-intensive industries.

Through incisive analysis, the book examines industrialization dynamics across Africa and Asia, using advanced econometric techniques like the ARIMA model to uncover the determinants of deindustrialization. Key chapters include comparative case studies of leading manufacturing firms in China and India, highlighting their strategies for innovation and global competitiveness. The book also delves into the role of infrastructure, education, R&D, and industrial policy in fostering or hindering economic growth, offering a unique perspective on why some nations succeed while others stagnate.

The Economics of Left Behind Regions is essential reading for scholars, policymakers, investors, and development practitioners seeking to understand and address global inequality. It provides actionable insights and a blueprint for nations striving to rebuild their productive systems and achieve sustainable growth in an increasingly knowledge-driven world.

Combining thematic and regional approaches, the book examines the strengths and weaknesses of HSR and presents impact assessments of its benefits and costs. Contributing authors investigate how the characteristics of places, including political systems, the natural environment, population distribution and urbanisation, shape the growth of HSR. They also consider how places can be affected by HSR construction, taking into account geopolitical, environmental and social equity impacts. The book uncovers the reasons behind HSR's spatial distribution and concludes by debating the international issues influencing its expansion.

Scholars and students of transport geography, transport planning, transport economics and spatial planning will find this book an invaluable resource. Policy makers and practitioners within rail- and HSR-oriented organisations will also benefit from the discussions on the social, economic, environmental and political patterns associated with HSR development.

On the morning after September 11, 2001, Rev. Lyndon Harris pushed through smoke and ash toward St. Paul's Chapel, just blocks from the World Trade Center. He expected ruin. Instead, the historic chapel stood-scarred but intact-and soon became a sanctuary for exhausted, grieving recovery workers at Ground Zero.

For close to a year Harris led an extraordinary, volunteer-driven ministry that provided food, rest, prayer, and human connection to those laboring day and night on "the Pile." St. Paul's became known worldwide as "the little chapel that stood," a symbol of hope amid devastation.

But when the chapel closed in 2002, Harris's own life unraveled. Years of conflict and resistance within his church left him overwhelmed by anger, resentment, and a desire for retribution. He ultimately lost his faith, left New York, and entered a long, private struggle with grief and disillusionment.

This book is not only a firsthand account of one of 9/11's most enduring symbols, but a deeply personal story of what happens after the cameras leave. Harris traces his journey from idealistic small-town priest to Ground Zero leader, through spiritual collapse, and finally toward an unexpected healing grounded in forgiveness.

Drawing on pioneering research developed with Stanford psychologist Dr. Frederic Luskin, cofounder of the Forgiveness Project, Harris explores forgiveness not as "forgive and forget," but as a rigorous, transformative practice essential for recovery after trauma. His story speaks to first responders, faith leaders, and anyone carrying unresolved pain-offering rare insight into the emotional cost of service, the limits of institutional faith, and the resilience required to truly move forward.