Literature, Multiliteracies, and Digital Texts in the Second Language Classroom provides a comprehensive analysis of how digital transformation is reshaping literature education in the second language classroom.

Moving beyond print-based traditions, the book redefines what a literary text is and reconceptualizes reading and interpretation through the lens of multimodality, multilingualism, and digitality. By integrating multiliteracies pedagogy with contemporary technological and cultural shifts, researchers and educators are equipped to rethink their teaching for increasingly complex and hybrid communicative landscapes. Literature, Multiliteracies, and Digital Texts in the Second Language Classroom develops the "Triad Model of Literature Education" which conceptualizes multimodality, digitality, and multilingualism as interconnected dimensions of contemporary literary learning. The nuanced conceptual approach is complemented by practical considerations and pedagogical approaches that guide readers as they engage with the diversity of texts and literature in the digital age. The book demonstrates how literary learning now involves engaging with images, sounds, interfaces, and multiple languages across media environments and it also addresses the implications of emerging forms such as interactive narratives, AI-generated texts, and immersive experiences in AR and VR for second language education.

This book offers valuable insight to researchers, scholars, and teachers in the field of second language education as well as anyone interested in the intersection of technology and language learning.

This book comprehensively reviews the impact of climate change on livestock production and the innovative technologies for building resilience. The chapters explore emerging concepts and technologies for sustaining animal productivity under climate stress. The volume also examines climate-driven variations in livestock productivity, including effect of heat stress on cattle, sheep, and goats, as well as adaptations in milk yield, meat quality, and reproductive performance. It also highlights the application of omics tools and sensor-based innovations, such as rumen bolus technology, for monitoring animal health under thermal stress. The book also addresses the multidisciplinary approaches, focussing on climate-resilient technologies, feed additives, shelter designs, and precise extension delivery systems for farmers. The book also explores the rising threat of climate-linked livestock diseases, immune system impairments, and one-health perspectives on disease management. The final section outlines future research priorities, including climate indices for resilience assessment, regional vulnerability atlases, and gender considerations in climate-affected livestock systems.

Key Features:

1) Presents emerging concepts and technologies that sustain livestock productivity under thermal and hydric stress.

2) Reviews climate-driven effects on yield, product composition, fertility, and fitness traits

3) Evaluates climate-smart production interventions, feed-based mitigation strategies, and innovative shelter designs

4) Examines climate-linked disease emergence, immune dysregulation, and One-Health mitigation strategies.

5) Highlights OMICS-enabled selection tools and continuous biosensing for precision heat-stress phenotyping.

This book is useful reference for researchers and students of veterinary and animal sciences.

Arguing that altered states of consciousness are not spontaneous ruptures of grace but
intentional, embodied methods, this book explores the question, 'what if ecstasy is not a
loss of control, but instead a form of knowledge?'

Moving between Eleusinian mystery rites, Afro-Brazilian possession ceremonies and
Amazonian shamanism, to Mediterranean tarantism, Anastenaria firewalking and
Santo Daime, the book reveals how ritual, rhythm, movement, and myth operate as
sophisticated pedagogies - ancient technologies of transmission developed across
cultures and centuries.

Written from both observation and participation, and drawing on immersive research
with Indigenous, Afro-Diasporic, and women-led communities, Marianna Kokkinaki
repositions ecstasy as a radical curriculum - one that awakens ecological consciousness
and restores relational ways of being at a moment of urgent global crisis.

The second edition of Nonlinear Contingency Analysis gives professionals a powerful framework for understanding complex behavior, and this companion volume shows clinicians exactly what happens when that framework is applied to children, families, adults, and animals facing challenging circumstances.

Case Studies and Applications in Nonlinear Contingency Analysis provides vivid examples and step-by-step case analyses that you can adapt to your own practice. Every case shows how constructional, non-coercive interventions succeed where eliminative models fail. These aren't abstract theories-they're replicable roadmaps for transforming behavior across clinical, educational, organizational, and animal settings.

Whether you work in mental health, education, behavior analysis, or animal training, Case Studies and Applications in Nonlinear Contingency Analysis shows how constructional, freedom-expanding interventions can transform lives. If you want to see how nonlinear contingency analysis works in practice-and how to use it yourself-this is the book you need by your side.

This accessible book introduces the fundamental principles of social psychology, providing an overview of this fascinating area in a jargon-free guide. The second edition of Social Psychology: The Basics explores some of the most important questions we face to understanding ourselves as individuals and part of a society.

Discussing the theory and science behind our understanding of how people relate to others, this book explores how we understand ourselves and others, how we relate at an individual and group levels, the key processes underpinning social influence, and how the discipline continues to evolve to face modern challenges. Fully revised in this second edition, the book includes greater focus on the application of social psychology in the real world, and new sections on values, extremism, misinformation, and the impact of new technologies.

Highlighting key issues, controversies, and applications, including case studies, questions, and biographies of important international figures in the discipline, this is the essential introduction for undergraduate students of psychology and anyone approaching social psychology for the first time.

Arguing that the economy is the whole as well as the part, the book advocates a broader understanding of economics. From the sovereign individual to the social organism, Reisman demonstrates that economic activities are governed by norms, values, rights and duties, as well as being dependent on habits, heuristics and bounded rationality. He emphasises that without our memories and ideologies there would be no economic processes to meet our needs and wants. He supports his contention with reference to areas such as work and creativity, shared institutions, social capital and the economics of envy.

Interdisciplinary in scope, The Social Economy is an essential resource for scholars and students of economic theory, economic sociology, institutional economics and the history of economic thought. Practitioners and social policymakers will also find value in its comprehensive coverage of current debates.

Building on thirty years accompanying the church's growth, this book is the first to treat the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) as a global organization and the first to balance the devotional and ritual life of the church with its impact on politics and the media.

Based in Brazil, the UCKG claims to have 17,000 bishops and pastors, 12,300 places of worship and 10 million followers in 135 countries. Within a lifetime of fifty years it has become a model for neo-Pentecostalism worldwide epitomized by its mammoth 'Temple of Solomon' in Sao Paulo.

Drawing on ethnographic research in 13 countries from Brazil and Spanish America to Europe, North America and Israel, David Lehmann demonstrates how the church's practices, and those of Pentecostalism in general, are reshaping contemporary concepts of ritual and the supernatural. It further argues that the Church's use of social media to spread its teachings, and its leader Edir Macedo's extensive political, business and mediatic interests, have paved the way to a fusion of religious and secular domains.

The church's bishops, pastors and assistants mobilize their followers by age and gender and channel their commitment into activities ranging from fundraising to seniors' gatherings to prison and hospital visiting. Gender emerges repeatedly as a central theme, expressed in the phenomenon of the childless pastoral couple, gendered self-improvement networks, the church's messaging on relationships, 'love therapy' and even the provision of dating apps for the faithful.

Exceeding previous work in scope and theoretical range, this book opens completely new perspectives on Pentecostalism worldwide.

Moving beyond a narrowly economic perspective, the Handbook conceptualizes the firm as a multi-dimensional institution embedded in complex environments. Contributions address core themes such as economic coordination, organizational design, and legal structure, while also engaging with issues of social and political legitimacy. Rather than advancing a single unified model, the volume positions the 'Theory of the Firm' as a broad and evolving research agenda for understanding contemporary organizational forms. It highlights the analytical value of pluralism and the necessity of interdisciplinary approaches to capturing the complexity of modern firms.

The Handbook on the Theory of the Firm is an essential resource for scholars and students in economics, strategic management, international business, corporate law, and governance. It will also be of interest to policymakers and public-sector researchers concerned with how firms interact with markets and with legal, political, and societal environments.

This book brings together research and critical perspectives from scholars across Sub-Saharan Africa and its diaspora to advance African-centred approaches to communication for development and social change. It challenges Western-dominated frameworks by foregrounding indigenous knowledge systems and positioning communication as a space for decolonial transformation, social justice, and inclusive development.

The volume develops theoretical and methodological insights that centre African epistemologies within global debates, interrogating entrenched power structures while promoting cultural diversity and social cohesion. Through interdisciplinary approaches, it draws on decolonial and postcolonial frameworks to examine how African knowledge informs communication practices across education, health, digital media, intercultural engagement, and community contexts. The volume explores pedagogical practices, health communication strategies, and media dynamics through a decolonial lens. The book offers practical and conceptual tools for fostering resistance, collective action, and socially grounded transformation, while encouraging critical reflection on dominant knowledge systems.

This book is intended for scholars, researchers, students, and practitioners in communication, development studies, higher education, and the social sciences who are interested in decoloniality, African knowledge systems, and socially just approaches to communication.

This book argues that the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 solved the historic French-German conflict over control of the coal deposits of the Ruhr valley. The product of a political bargain among the United States, France and Germany, the Treaty of Paris introduced radical new rules into the European order. For the first time in European history, cartels and powerful anticompetitive concentrations of economic power were banned.

The volume ties the problem of ensuring secure access to Ruhr coal to the larger security dilemma that long haunted French-German relations. It argues that, in effect, wars and cartels were alternative solutions to the same underlying dilemma in the period from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries, which featured three wars and two armed occupations involving France and Germany. It discusses the importance of the economic complementarity between coal and ore in relation to the economic and security relations between France and Germany. Above all, it highlights the role played by the novel competition law regime in permanently ending the old cycle of wars and cartels that had cursed Europe through the end of World War II.

Beyond Wars and Cartels will be invaluable to those interested in postwar European history seen from a new angle as well as specialists in antitrust and competition law who compare US and American law, historians and political scientists.

This collection proposes the notion of "translation awareness," bringing together insights from different sectors to lend greater awareness to the nature, role, and effects of translation in contemporary societal life.

The book sets out translation awareness as a unifying term around recognition by various agents, from organizations to institutions and individuals, of the importance of translation. The book is organized around three thematic sections showcasing sectors where awareness of translation processes can be critical. The first section looks at public service translation and interpreting, in which translation has a direct impact on social welfare and facilitating access to key services. The second part focuses on technology and the ways in which translation is increasingly mediated by emerging digital tools, while also addressing awareness of translation in research. The final section explores paraprofessional translation, in such areas as corporate and healthcare communication, where translation can be essential but is often overlooked. Taken together, the volume showcases how "translation awareness" can elucidate important insights on the role of translation in society, encouraging future work into its further conceptual development.

This volume will be of interest to scholars in translation and interpreting studies as well as related areas, such as language and communication studies, multilingualism and health literacy.

As societies around the globe undergo rapid change, Benjamin Nelson's theories help explain how and why civilizations evolve.
This book offers a full-length, comprehensive analysis of Benjamin Nelson's ideas and historical studies, exploring his civilization-analytic perspective, its intricate ties to Max Weber's theories, and Nelson's arguments about the major historical phases shaping Western European civilization. Donald A. Nielsen argues that Nelson's work centers on religious and cultural universalism, reconstructing Nelson's thesis that 12th-century Europe experienced an axial shift in consciousness toward more rationalized, universalistic cultural orientations. Rather than focusing on the origins of modernity, Nelson examined revolutionary changes in structures of consciousness and civilizations, including six ongoing "revolutions" he identified. Nielsen unpacks Nelson's view of civilizational crises and demonstrates that his theories are rooted in a vision of human life that values lived experience and expression within changing historical contexts. By highlighting how Nelson's theories illuminate the dynamics of cultural universalism and structural transformations across historical contexts, this book provides readers a conceptual framework for analyzing civilizational change.

This book traces a resistance to public relations (PR) from the postwar period that sought to expose it as a dangerous, but little understood political dynamic. Critically exploring authoritarianism as a key concept, it argues "PR"'s market-friendly but oppressive and concealed language practices have systematically led to many of the divisive and polarised communication styles that we see today, and has had wider damaging effects for society.

Rich with illustrative examples, the chapters set out the limits of "PR" in relation to "truth" and show how literature and websites opened an important but under-recognised space in which neoliberal dogma was challenged. Offering a major new theory, it introduces a radical way to think about public relations and its relationship to democracy and society, and to understand its legacies like climate change denial.

This accessible book renews critique and is a valuable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying and researching media and communication, politics, sociology, cultural sociology, cultural studies and history, and for those working in the communication industries.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the key concepts of agricultural and agribusiness law in the United States, offering an accessible guide for students and professionals alike.

The fully revised and updated edition addresses significant legal developments, including changes in trade, taxation, water law, intellectual property, and animal law. Reflecting a growing number of farms in financial distress, new materials on workouts and debt relief, including Chapter 12 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, have been added. A new chapter explores the emerging legal landscape surrounding industrial hemp and marijuana production. The text also reflects the absence of a comprehensive farm bill since the 2018 Farm Bill and examines the legal and policy impacts of the Trump and Biden administrations. In an era where legal information is increasingly accessible online, the book delves into the challenges posed by cybercrime and misinformation, equipping readers to discern reliable sources from unreliable ones. Designed for students with little or no legal background, the text helps readers identify legal issues that may require professional consultation. Each concise chapter focuses on a specific legal topic relevant to agriculture and agribusiness, covering both federal law and illustrative examples of state law. In addition to foundational topics such as contracts, property law, and estate planning, the book addresses contemporary issues like organic certification, genetically engineered crops, and food safety. It highlights the broad scope of agricultural law, extending beyond farming to include agribusiness professionals who provide services, inputs, and act as intermediaries between farmers and consumers. Additional online resources are provided, including quiz questions for each chapter and PowerPoint slides.

This textbook is essential for students of agriculture and land-based services with little or no legal background, as well as those studying agribusiness. The book also serves as a useful reference for agricultural professionals.

As businesses face growing pressure to accurately disclose environmental and social impacts, AI and Sustainability Reporting: Advancing Sustainability, Accountability, and Corporate Governance explores how artificial intelligence (AI) addresses core challenges of sustainability reporting. This book uniquely examines AI's specific role in improving data quality, enhancing comparability, supporting predictive analysis, and strengthening corporate transparency to meet rising regulatory and stakeholder demands. Uniquely bridging sustainability reporting, corporate governance, regulations, and digital transformation, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the opportunities and risks of AI-enabled reporting. It distinguishes itself by tackling pressing concerns, including greenwashing, algorithmic bias, explainability, data governance, and the institutional challenges of building accountable reporting systems. Written for academic and professional audiences, this book provides a rigorous and accessible resource that uniquely contributes to current debates on ESG (environmental, social, and governance) reporting, responsible business, and AI-driven corporate accountability. Designed to serve advanced students, researchers, practitioners, regulators, and policymakers at the intersection of sustainability and emerging technologies, it delivers practical knowledge and original analysis unavailable elsewhere.

This book is a comprehensive guide that explores how everyday choices impact cognitive longevity and provides evidence-based strategies to maintain brain health in an aging world facing rising rates of neurodegenerative disorders.

The book examines the latest research on modifiable lifestyle factors including nutrition, physical activity, sleep optimization, stress management techniques, cognitive engagement exercises, and technology's impact on brain function. It integrates insights from neuroscience, psychology, and integrative medicine to offer practical applications rather than focusing solely on disease pathology, empowering readers with preventive approaches to build neural resilience throughout life.

This essential resource will benefit health-conscious individuals, healthcare professionals, caregivers, and researchers interested in lifestyle interventions.

Offering a sweeping examination of how racial meaning, criminality, and social mobility are produced and contested across contemporary media systems, this book traces the criminalization of Blackness through print journalism, television broadcasting, digital and social media platforms, and AI-driven infrastructures.

Race, Crime, and Media in the Digital Age: Belonging and Exclusion shows how race, crime, and media have long been intertwined in shaping how societies imagine danger, belonging, and the limits of citizenship. In the United States, this entanglement is especially stark: media institutions have repeatedly amplified racialized narratives that link Blackness to criminality while reinforcing White innocence and social mobility. This book demonstrates how media storytelling influences public opinion, policy, and everyday experiences of belonging and exclusion. Drawing on cultural studies, sociology, Black studies, and global comparative research, Brian Chama exposes the feedback loops connecting media, structural inequality, and racialized fear, while foregrounding counter-narratives, community media, and emerging movements for ethical, inclusive media futures.

Moving from historical news framing to algorithmic amplification, this work will resonate with scholars, students, and practitioners across media studies, criminology, sociology, and race and ethnic studies. It will also appeal to government and non-government institutions, and policymakers seeking to understand and dismantle systemic bias in media culture.

In an era of increasingly adversarial geopolitical tensions, how can the United States restore its economic standing on the world stage?

The United States and its liberal democratic allies have experienced a steady decline in global economic influence since the end of the Cold War. With the rise of China and other developing economies and against the backdrop of Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine, the United States has found itself less able to leverage trade relationships and forge broad coalitions to combat autocratic adversaries. Fiscal pressures have constrained military deterrence initiatives and development assistance budgets, diminishing US hard and soft power alike.

This book outlines a strategy to reverse these trends, arguing for a renewed commitment to ambitious economic dynamism and deeper economic integration with like-minded countries. By tackling a range of international trade policies and domestic barriers to healthy economic growth, the United States can restore the competitive advantage it needs to counter the world's emerging authoritarian powers.

Employing a wealth of British newspaper articles this book explores the ways in which British attitudes to Rhodesia/Zimbabwe developed from the post-war period through to the early years of independence by reconstructing how the print media portrayed the colony. Using articles from a range of different sources it traces the narratives that were presented to the public from the creation of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland to the early years of Robert Mugabe's regime.

Exploring the cultural, political, moral and ideological relationship between metropole, white settler colonialism and African nationalism at the end of Britain's empire in Africa, it maps out the public debates, representations and perceptions of decolonization and Britain's role in it. It lays open ideological fracture lines that existed in the political mind-set in Britain, explores how attitudes towards Empire were shaped through the media, and the extent to which the various crises of southern Africa permeated the British consciousness during this period.

Interviewing Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: Volume II Becomings, in the Stories from the Ends of the Earth series, offers a reflective and dialogical exploration of neuropsychological rehabilitation through the voices of those who have shaped-and continue to shape-the field. Compiled and edited by Dr. Christian Salas, this volume brings together a series of in-depth interviews that illuminate how the discipline has evolved not as a finished body of knowledge, but as an ongoing process of construction, adaptation, and expansion.

While the first volume traced the origins and foundational developments of neuropsychological rehabilitation, Becomings focuses on what the field is becoming. It captures a moment in which the discipline is widening its scope-moving beyond its traditional cognitive and functional focus to engage more explicitly with dimensions that were historically present but often underemphasized. Through conversations with leading figures such as Jon Evans, Rudi Coetzer, Urvashi Shah, Ann Watts, Sofia Braga, Barbara Wilson, Ann Norup, Giles Yeates, Fergus Gracey and Skye McDonald, this volume highlights the growing relevance of themes such as identity reconstruction, emotional life, interpersonal relationships, and the role of family and community in recovery.

Set against the backdrop of Chile-whose name means "the ends of the earth"-the book maintains a decolonial and cross-cultural perspective, foregrounding voices and practices that extend beyond traditional centers of knowledge production. In doing so, it portrays neuropsychological rehabilitation as a dynamic, evolving, and deeply human practice.

This volume will be of interest to clinicians, researchers, and students in clinical neuropsychology, rehabilitation, psychotherapy, and allied health fields seeking to understand not only where the discipline comes from, but where it is going.

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

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

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