Shows how ecological models of change can be applied to education.

Higher education needs to change, and it is already changing as a consequence of technology and the implementation of tools from artificial intelligence. There are natural processes of change that have been happening since the beginning of life on Earth, including ecological and evolutionary change. This book explores the value of adapting these processes to education, to show convincingly that educators have much to learn from paying attention to the emergent processes of ecology. Through examples that span a scale from individuals to communities, it provides examples and perspectives that can help change our thinking and enact practices that can enable all students to achieve greatness. Rather than directing education toward specific objectives, ecology shows that we can support students on unique educational journeys through an emphasis on student-centeredness, collaborative interactions, and building communities of people and ideas in the minds of students.

This book presents Herman Hugo's The Siege of Breda (1626) in a modern-spelling edition of Henry Gage's 1627 English translation, introduced and contextualised by Paul Arblaster.

Hugo's text is a classic of Latin Baroque historical writing that comprehensively recounts a nine-month military campaign in the Low Countries (1624-25) which was a showcase of early 17th-century siege warfare and attracted the attention and involvement of almost every country in Europe. His translator was an Englishman who served in the siege as a company captain.

Arblaster shines a light on Hugo's first-hand account of the siege, with its considerations of every aspect of the military operations and their human consequences. Hugo took part in the campaign himself as chaplain to the general who conducted the siege, Ambrogio Spinola, and so had privileged access to the decision-making process, as well as close familiarity with the various events and incidents that he recounts. Hugo also devotes attention to the moral and material state of the soldiery and of the besieged; describes individual actions, lapses, feats of heroism, duels, ambushes and stratagems; and considers the wider propaganda war that surrounded the siege. As a result, his book offers a contemporary commentary on the role of honour, reputation and image in 17th-century warfare, as well as vital insights into the perspective of one of the first and foremost celebrity generals of the time.

This book examines one of the main centres of the European Reformation, the Swiss city of Zurich, to explore the impact of the reformatory processes on all aspects of everyday life. It looks at how, for the early modern (non-)believers, new visions of Christian living were mediated through law, preaching, teaching, singing, reading, rumours, and heated debates in taverns.

Lived Reformation emphasises that the Reformation was for most a longlasting challenge, evident in church worship, pastoral care, policies for the poor, the spreading of literacy and implementing sexual norms.

What did it take to turn from a Catholic to a Protestant? What did it mean for a Catholic priest to become a Protestant pastor and how did they relate to their flock? What did nuns and monks do when evicted from dissolved convents? How was the visual and acoustic culture of the city altered? What
about brothels or the belief in ghosts? What impact did the new theological conception of sexuality have on hetero- and homosexual couples? How much did the population cling to their religious habits or welcome or even ask for religious changes? Was magical healing to be tolerated or did it go against the new faith? Through careful examination of Zurich's rich archival sources, this volume answers these questions and brings to life the diverse experiences of men and women in the time of the Long Reformation.

This accessible, philosophically framed early childhood education text shows how to create and implement a civic-minded, anti-bias curriculum.

This accessible early childhood education text offers an in-depth look at the creation and implementation of a series of civic-minded, anti-bias curriculum maps in contrasting classroom settings: one residing in a state with a "divisive concepts" law and another residing in a state without one. Grounded in philosophically informed conceptualizations of flourishing and personal autonomy, Joy Dangora Erickson argues that anti-bias education is a crucial component of a larger civic education and that schools have a moral obligation to provide it. However, social biases can impede citizens' abilities to make and execute well-informed decisions supportive of their own and others' well-being. Given that the current sociopolitical landscape in the United States actively discourages many educators' efforts to cultivate anti-bias learning spaces, being able to navigate these outside pressures and do right by children at this time is imperative. This book supports preservice and in-service early childhood educators by thoughtfully considering the curriculum maps designed by the research team and how they were employed in classrooms in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Alfred C. Young III's Lee's Army During the Petersburg Campaign is an intensive study of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during the Sieges of Petersburg and Richmond from the outset of the campaign in June 1864 to the end of the year. Young bases his work on years of research gleaned from the National Archives and numerous other primary sources and provides periodic strength figures for the combat elements of Lee's army, as well as casualties on the Confederate side during each of the major battles and during siege operations throughout the campaign. His work is not a comprehensive study of the campaign; rather, it is a study of each command or element comprising Lee's army.

Lee's Army During the Petersburg Campaign is a companion to Young's earlier study, Lee's Army During the Overland Campaign. In addition to a narrative that provides background information on the campaign and a selection of twenty-six maps, the book features ninety-nine detailed tables of casualty data and unit strengths. Until now, accurate information on the strength and casualties in Lee's army during the latter half of 1864 has mostly been speculative. Young's work is the first serious attempt to correct this gap in the history.

This book deconstructs a century of often biased interpretations of the Russian Revolution in France. The French mainstream media routinely met the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution with statements about a totalitarian nightmare, as dangerous as Nazism albeit more lengthy and murderous. Far from this negative bias, the first historians of the Bolshevik Revolution in France, as Victor Serge and Boris Souvarine, were close but unapologetic witnesses of the young Soviet regime. Moreover, the French Communist Party, whose primary goal was to follow the steps of the Bolsheviks, celebrated the "Great Socialist October Revolution" every year and enjoyed the attachment of millions of supporters for decades. As far as 1968, the Sorbonne was adorned with portraits of Lenin and young rebels would discuss Makhno's merits. In order to understand such a dramatic reversal from enthusiasm and public concern to disparagement and obliteration, one has to study how the Russian Revolution had been analysed in the media, discussed in politics, understood and told by the academia and represented in popular culture all through a century in France.

After several decades of unprecedented growth that turned China into the world's second largest economy, today China is facing major economic challenges, exacerbated by rising tariffs imposed by its most important export market, the United States. How can we explain the extraordinary rise and sudden faltering of China's economic miracle?

Kent Deng takes a long-term view, charting the development of China's economy from the nineteenth century to the present day. He shows that the policies implemented during Mao's rule from the 1950s to the 1970s led to a growth cul-de-sac with major economic disincentives and mass poverty. This forced Mao's successor, Deng Xiaoping, to reform and open up China's economy with a view to unleashing the economic power of the market. The new model developed by Deng Xiaoping combined state-led import dependency with exports in order to catch up with the West, and success in achieving exports depended on a unique combination of cheap labour, cheap land and low environmental protection which, taken together, gave China an absolute advantage in the global market, enabling it to produce goods very cheaply and export them to Western countries where the costs were much higher. But Deng's economic model is now facing increasing resistance from those countries on which China has relied for its export growth. Since 2010, two doors have been closing on China: the door for goods heading for China (vital for China's modernization) and the door for goods coming from China (vital for paying for China's imports). This is likely to end China's hitherto uninterrupted 'import-export combo' loop. The 2025 tariff war between United States and China is only the most recent manifestation of this new state of affairs in the global economy.

Given the headwinds China now faces, and given that many low-income countries have now modelled themselves on China and begun to supply the world market with low-priced goods, China would need an economic miracle to bounce back to its pre-2010 growth trajectory.

Introduces readers to the rationale and risks of using AI and big data in higher education and shares novel applications for improving educational practice.

Colleges and universities collect-and own-more data than ever before. These data can be analyzed with powerful new tools to support student learning and faculty research. Yet, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) also represent unprecedented encroachments on student privacy rights and potential for unparalleled monitoring of employee and faculty work. The Digitized Campus takes a comprehensive view of the origins and ramifications of embracing AI and big data in higher education. It addresses a timely and globally relevant topic and is accessible for readers without data science training. Chapter authors use historical, legal, philosophical, methodological, and practitioner lenses to offer insights for higher education leaders and faculty who will influence the use of artificial intelligence and big data for years to come.

This book, the first of two volumes, offers a comprehensive guide to the blue economy and the economic activity of African coastal communities. It brings together a broad range of topics, from local policymaking to marine conservation activities, that enable sustainable growth within African marine economies. The requirements for sustainable development in Africa are outlined, with a particular focus on economic resilience, climate change mitigation, and practical policymaking. Case studies from Ghana, Namibia, Mauritius, Kenya, Cameroon, Tanzania, Cabo Verde, and other sub-Saharan African countries highlight how the circular economy, the blue economy, and gender equality can be implemented and promoted within Africa, particularly coastal states.

This book presents a practical framework for understanding and maximising the long-term economic development of coastal communities. It will be relevant to students, researchers, academicians, and policymakers interested in development, resources, maritime, and African economics.

This edited volume offers a collection of essays which utilise innovative lines of research and enquiry in the context of cheap/popular print, demonstrating the benefits of a comparative approach, the possibilities offered by the use of new digital tools, and the impact of an intermedial approach on studying the circulation and adaptation of popular images.

Offers a window into the everyday lives of ordinary Africans during the era of Africa's precolonial history.

What did Africans eat in the Kingdom of Kongo? How did tradesmen make a living along Saharan trade routes? What role did cosmologies play in various African groups' religions before the colonial invasion? These questions are answered as well as other insights given in this new addition to the Daily Life through History series.

This book examines the period of African history prior to its colonization, exploring what day-to-day life may have looked like for various groups of people across the continent of Africa throughout this time. Topics such as religious life, domestic life, and recreational life are discussed, exemplifying Africa's rich history and its diverse and vibrant cultures and heritage. Study is aided by the inclusion of a succinct timeline, as well as a glossary.

This book explores what is required to adopt an inclusive approach to emergency communications in multilingual and multicultural societies. The increased frequency and severity of emergencies such as floods, fires and heatwaves is occurring at the same time that complex migration patterns are producing diverse multilingual and multicultural populations. This convergence raises two crucial questions: What does best practice now look like in emergency communications? And what are the barriers to doing this well?

Drawing on multidisciplinary expertise and reflecting on interviews with people from migrant and refugee backgrounds, the arguments engage with the role and limitations of new technologies in emergency communication, as well as the challenges of social inclusion of vulnerable populations during emergency situations. This research offers important conceptual insights as well as practical guidance for leaders involved in emergency planning and disaster risk reduction.

Public debt has become a defining issue shaping Africa's development trajectory. In recent years, rising borrowing levels, changing creditor structures, global financial tightening, climate financing pressures, and commodity price volatility have reshaped the continent's fiscal landscape. Yet borrowing remains essential for infrastructure, social investment, and structural transformation. The key question is not whether Africa should borrow, but how it can do so sustainably while strengthening economic resilience.

This book provides a rigorous, policy-oriented analysis of debt dynamics across Africa. It examines the drivers of debt accumulation, debt sustainability frameworks, restructuring mechanisms, and concessional financing. It also explores emerging innovations such as Islamic sovereign bonds, ESG integration in debt management, and climate finance instruments.

By offering comparative insights into the interaction between debt, exchange rates, institutional quality, private investment, and macroeconomic stability, the book presents practical strategies for responsible borrowing and long-term fiscal resilience.

The first translation of a major work of political philosophy by J. G. Fichte, as well several additional works that help contextualize some of his other widely misunderstood translated work.

After moving from Jena to Berlin, J. G. Fichte continued to develop and revise his political philosophy. The 1812 Doctrine of Right and Other Political Writings contains most of the major works by Fichte in this period. It includes several pieces, unpublished in Fichte's lifetime, that help contextualize his most well-known work, The Addresses to the German Nation (1807-1808). In addition, this volume contains two lecture series from Fichte's return to teaching at the University of Berlin. The first, Lectures on the Vocation of the Scholar (1811), revisits the topic of the purpose of the philosophical life that Fichte had discussed several times prior in his career. The second, The Doctrine of Right (1812), amplifies and revises his theory of justice, law, and contract that he had originally published in his Foundations of Natural Right (1797-1798).

The mixed economies of advanced democracies have undergone a substantial transformation since the 1980s, resulting in a large reduction of government intervention. This book is the first to comprehensively analyze this development.

Comparing five policy instruments - corporate taxation, total public expenditure, product market regulation, industrial subsidies, state-ownership of enterprises, and an aggregate index - in 21 countries, the book examines how far the liberalization of mixed economies in established democracies has gone, and what caused it. It finds that globalization and the diffusion of policies were most relevant for the transformation of economic intervention, whilst European integration and socio-economic changes played less important roles. Despite the overall trend toward liberalization, domestic politics in the form of partisan control of the government also remains important.

The book is of interest to scholars and students of comparative and international political economy, comparative public policy, and comparative politics, as well as economists and journalists who want to better understand the politics of economic liberalization over the last four decades.

Build a seven-figure business without sacrificing motherhood or your ambition

Entrepreneur Like a Mother: How Female Founders Find Financial Freedom and the Magic in the (Mom)ents is the roadmap from two serial entrepreneurs who built and sold consulting firms worth $35 million while raising nine children between them. Beth Mazza and Victoria Sivrais deliver battle-tested frameworks for women ready to launch or scale profitable businesses on their own terms.

Entrepreneur Like a Mother introduces the Power Moves framework alongside tactical training on choosing the right business idea, building Kitchen Cabinets, financial decision-making, MVP methodology, strategic pivoting, and scaling. Drawing from their combined experience counseling Fortune 1,000 CEOs and participating in major M&A deals, Mazza and Sivrais challenge conventional wisdom about pricing, planning, and building businesses around caregiving realities.

Readers will also find:

• Strategies for designing business models around family life, creating flexibility without sacrificing profitability or long-term growth
• Frameworks for breaking through revenue ceilings that trap small businesses between $50K and $500K annually
• Practical guidance on financial decision-making that combines rigorous business planning with the realities of raising children
• Behind-the-scenes insights from building two seven-figure companies, including lessons from real M&A transactions and client engagements
• A clear path from first business idea to scalable venture, designed specifically for entrepreneurs managing caregiving responsibilities

Written for the estimated 15 to 20 million women in the US aged 45 to 50 sitting on unlaunched business ideas, and for current small business owners hitting revenue ceilings, Entrepreneur Like a Mother provides the strategic playbook for building wealth through entrepreneurship without choosing between career and family.