Publications
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Reforming Senates
(2019)
This new study of senates in small powers across the North Atlantic shows that the establishment and the reform of these upper legislative houses have followed remarkably parallel trajectories. Senate reforms emerged in ...
Extending Educational Reform
(2005)
In an effort to improve student achievement, thousands of US schools have adopted school reform models devised externally by universities and other organizations. Such models have been successful in improving individual ...
Understanding Perspectivism
(2019)
This edited collection is the first of its kind to explore the view called perspectivism in philosophy of science. The book brings together an array of essays that reflect on the methodological promises and scientific ...
Israel and the Creation of a Palestinian State
(2024)
To many outside observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there would appear to be one eminently sensible solution: in exchange for recognition and adequate security guarantees, Israel should return the West Bank and ...
Different Dispatches
(2006)
In "Different Dispatches", David Humphries brings together in a new way a diverse group of well-known American writers of the inter-war period including: Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemmingway, Zora Neale ...
The Happiest Days?
(2005)
This book examines pupils' experience of school from their own perspectives, showing a range of responses involving both pain and pleasure. It brings together a wide range of material to evoke pupil realities, to describe ...
European Union Communities of Practice
(2022)
This book provides a practice-based analysis of European Union (EU) diplomacy and community-building. Unlike studies focusing on how EU community-building proceeds centrally in Brussels, this book turns to EU diplomacy in ...
Changing Transatlantic Security Relations
(2006)
This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere. This concept highlights how the ...
The Ottoman Administration of Iraq, 1890-1908
(2006)
This is a study of the nature of Ottoman administration under Sultan Abdulhamid and the effects of this on the three provinces that were to form the modern state of Iraq. The author provides a general commentary on the ...
Research In Multicultural Education
(2005)
A work specifically written to encourage research into multicultural education and to help researchers work through some of the inherent problems that face schools with mulicultural students.
Global Resource Scarcity
(2017)
A common perception of global resource scarcity holds that it is inevitably a catalyst for conflict among nations; yet, paradoxically, incidents of such scarcity underlie some of the most important examples of international ...
The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and War Crimes
(2024)
This book offers a multidisciplinary examination of the international crimes committed in the Russia-Ukraine War, and the challenges of their prosecution and documentation. As the largest international armed conflict in ...
Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea
(2020)
This book examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and outside institutional politics. It documents the everyday practices that local female actors adopt to deal with the continuous economic, ...
Entrepreneurship Education
(2021)
The discussion around whether entrepreneurship can be taught is becoming obsolete as the number of entrepreneurship courses, specializations and degrees is rising at an unprecedented rate all over the world and the demand ...
Expertise, Policy-making and Democracy
(2022)
This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to debates about expertise, policy-making and democracy. It uniquely combines an overview of recent research on the policy role of experts with discussions in political ...
Keeping up Her Geography
(2006)
Recently, literary critics and some historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to "mistake fiction for reality." However, the tendency in this criticism is to ignore the work of feminist political ...
Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism
(2005)
Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious ...
The British Atlantic Empire Before the American Revolution
(2005)
First Published in 1980. The dynamism within the American colonies in the fifty years or so before the outbreak of the crisis of the 1760s that was to lead to the Revolution has never been in doubt. The articles written ...
Rooted Cosmopolitanism, Heritage and the Question of Belonging
(2024)
This book explores the analytical and practical value of the notion of "rooted cosmopolitanism" for the field of cultural heritage. Many concepts of present-day heritage discourses - such as World Heritage, local heritage ...
On the Significance of Religion in Conflict and Conflict Resolution
(2020)
In this ground-breaking volume, the authors analyze the role of religion in conflict and conflict resolution. They do so from the perspectives of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, while bringing different disciplines into ...
The International Court of Justice and Municipal Courts
(2022)
Recent decades have brought international and municipal courts much closer together and induced meaningful cooperation. This holds true also for the International Court of Justice and domestic judicial institutions as they ...
Building the Future Internet through FIRE
(2017)
The Internet as we know it today is the result of a continuous activity for improving network communications, end user services, computational processes and also information technology infrastructures. The Internet has ...
Internet of Things Applications - From Research and Innovation to Market Deployment
(2014)
The book aims to provide a broad overview of various topics of Internet of Things from the research, innovation and development priorities to enabling technologies, nanoelectronics, cyber physical systems, architecture, ...
Industrial Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Applications
(2023)
The advances in industrial edge artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming the way industrial equipment and machines interact with the real world, with other machines and humans during manufacturing processes. These ...
Artificial Intelligence for Digitising Industry – Applications
(2021)
This book provides in-depth insights into use cases implementing artificial intelligence (AI) applications at the edge. It covers new ideas, concepts, research, and innovation to enable the development and deployment of ...
Regulating Interracialized Intimacies
(2025)
This book explores the role of the law in the social construction of ‘race’ and ‘mixture’ within and beyond the borders of Europe. It focuses on ‘interracialized’ intimacies, that is, the intimate relations of subjects ...
The Global Third Nuclear Age
(2025)
This book provides an in-depth examination of the technological, geopolitical and normative pressures driving the world into a new, more complex and potentially more dangerous Third Nuclear Age.
By adopting an innovative ...
Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913–1991
(2022)
This book examines the political parties which emerged on the territories of the former Ottoman, Qing, Russian, and Habsburg empires and not only took over government power but merged with government itself. It discusses ...
Chapter 18 Disability in translation
(2021)
The chapter surveys the possible intersections between the fields of translation studies and disability studies. The exploration begins with an overview of the various definitions of disability, which leads to the discussion ...
Digitising the Industry Internet of Things Connecting the Physical, Digital and VirtualWorlds
(2016)
This book provides an overview of the current Internet of Things (IoT) landscape, ranging from the research, innovation and development priorities to enabling technologies in a global context. A successful deployment of ...
Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: East Meets West
(2015)
Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities. While the levels of socio-economic segregation in European cities are still ...
Chapter 34 Affective Witnessing of the Hijab
(2023)
The hijab has triggered affects for centuries. It has sparked narratives of “saving” Muslim women from the shackles of Muslim men and Islam. In recent years, we have seen several examples of individuals and collectives who ...
Challenges in Cybersecurity and Privacy - the European Research Landscape
(2019)
Cybersecurity and Privacy issues are becoming an important barrier for a trusted and dependable global digital society development. Cyber-criminals are continuously shifting their cyber-attacks specially against cyber-physical ...
The Digital Shopfloor- Industrial Automation in the Industry 4.0 Era
(2018)
In today’s competitive global environment, manufacturers are offered with unprecedented opportunities to build hyper-efficient and highly flexible plants, towards meeting variable market demand, while at the same time ...
Chapter 6 Virtual Energy Storage Systems for Virtual Power Plants
(2023)
This book provides a general overview of virtual power plants (VPP) as a key technology in future energy communities and active distribution and transmission networks for managing distributed energy resources, providing ...
Chapter 15 Poor in this world but not in the next?
(2025)
Utilising new methodological approaches to understanding not only the poor as a social and economic group but also of the internal means of stratification which informed social organisation within local communities, this ...
Hybrid Labour
(2025)
This book advances the debate on the hybrid areas of labour by taking the case of work arrangements that destabilise the dichotomies between standard and non‑standard work and between self‑employment and dependent employment. ...
Moral Teleology
(2023)
This book develops a unified theory of moral progress. The author argues that there are mechanisms in place that consistently drive societies towards moral improvement and that a sophisticated, naturalistically respectable ...
Towards a Common Software/Hardware Methodology for Future Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
(2017)
The European research project DESERVE (DEvelopment platform for Safe and Efficient dRiVE, 2012-2015) had the aim of designing and developing a platform tool to cope with the continuously increasing complexity and the ...
How People Compare
(2023)
This book focuses on comparison in anthropology, turning an ethnographic lens onto the diversity of comparative practice. It seeks to understand how, why and with what consequences diversely situated groups of people – ...