Social Science - General

Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, and particularly after the opening brought about by economic reforms roughly thirty years thereafter, China has become an influential player in regional and global affairs. Increasingly, both American and European policymakers examine Chinese...

Bus Transport: Demand, Economics, Contracting, and Policy examines in one source the most critical and current research themes of public transport relevant to regulators, planners, operators, researchers and educators. It highlights the wider economic impacts of public transport and compares energy usage across all...

International Trade and Transportation Infrastructure Development: Experiences in North America and Europe examines the impact of trade agreements, such as the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the European Union Customs Union, and their relationship to transportation systems and infrastructure in member countries. It...

Finance and Risk Management for International Logistics and the Supply Chain presents a detailed overview of financial and risk management tools, activity-based costing, and multi-criteria decision-making, providing comprehensive guidance for those researching and working in logistics and supply chain management. The book breaks new...

Using psychological theory as a basis, Socializing Children through Language examines naturally occurring conversations between mothers and children in the context of achievement, self-regulation, food consumption, and television watching to illustrate how families of different socioeconomic means interact and discuss a variety of topics...

Children Learn by Observing and Contributing to Family and Community Endeavors, the latest in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior Series provides a major step forward in highlighting patterns and variability in the normative development of the everyday lives of children, expanding beyond...

Science Libraries in the Self Service Age: Developing New Services, Targeting New Users suggests ways in which libraries can remain relevant to their institution. This book describes the myriad of new services and user communities which science librarians have recently incorporated into their routines....

Overcoming Information Poverty: Investigating the Role of Public Libraries in The Twenty-First Century considers the role of public libraries in alleviating information poverty and targeting social exclusion, using a three-level information poverty framework. The book proposes a model for understanding the concept of information...

Citation Tracking in Academic Libraries: An Overview presents results from the overarching need for researchers to get relevant advice for their scholarly pursuits. This is even more critical in the fast changing environment, where even those who are established scholars find the new scholarly...

Libraries are burdened with increased demand for resources and services and inflating expectations against shrinking or stagnant budgets. An individual library cannot cope with the situation. Hence, libraries form alliances for cooperation and sharing. Emerging changes in the publishing industry are phenomenal and have...

From Information Literacy to Social Epistemology: Insights from Psychology focuses on information and the ways in which information literacy relates to critical thinking in education, the workplace, and in our social life. The broad context for our interest is the development in internet technologies...

Social Network Sites for Scientists: A Quantitative Survey explores the newest social network sites (for example, ResearchGate and Academia.edu) and web bibliographic platforms (Mendeley, Zotero) that have recently emerged for the scholarly community to use in the interchange of information and documents. Chapters describe...

The Fortuitous Teacher: A Guide to Successful One-Shot Library Instruction discusses how librarians have become accidental teachers in the academic university setting. It covers how (if at all) librarians are prepared by MILS programs to teach, compares typical characteristics of teachers versus librarians, and...

Digital Information Strategies: From Applications and Content to Libraries and People provides a summary and summation of key themes, advances, and trends in all aspects of digital information at the present time. This helpful resource explores the impact of developing technologies on the information...

Selecting and Implementing an Integrated Library System: The Most Important Decision You Will Ever Make focuses on the intersection of technology and management in the library information world. As information professionals, many librarians will be involved in automation projects and the management of technological...

Succession Planning in Canadian Academic Libraries explores the current Canadian academic library environment, and the need for succession planning in that environment. The literature review demonstrates the lack of reported succession planning activities in Canadian academic libraries. Site visits and in-depth interviews with professional...

This volume provides a platform for discussing theoretical and methodological developments in the field of motivation research related to learning and instruction. The combination of socio-cultural, situative and socio-cognitive epistemological traditions underlying the different contributions enables the integration of the motivational, affective and cognitive...

Managing Tourist Health is a seminal study which combines a range of state of the art reviews of the issues facing tourism managers and professionals in the fast growing area of tourist health and safety. An international range of contributors, each a specialist in...

Emerging global markets and rapid technological development make strong demands on the ability of companies to develop and utilize knowledge. In order to handle the knowledge management problem, firms have to search for new collaborative ways of organizing internationalization and technical development. This is...

A Defence of Our Intergalactic Common Interests As the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKER Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries; titanium for...

Author: Shealeigh VoitlISBN-13: 9798999804907Publisher: Censored PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/26/2025Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.58d

Author: Vera ReganISBN-10: 3725853010ISBN-13: 9783725853014Publisher: Mdpi AGLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2025Pages: 284Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.79lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.94d

Author: Angelina Weld GrimkéISBN-10: 1636523471ISBN-13: 9781636523477Publisher: Black Legacy PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/11/2025Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.21d

Author: Crystal ChavisISBN-13: 9798993822709Publisher: Chavis PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2025Pages: 174Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Author: Kamaj TawhidISBN-10: 1735589071ISBN-13: 9781735589077Publisher: Still Waters Prose LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/02/2025Pages: 132Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists (Volume 1, Number 1) was a groundbreaking literary magazine created by Wallace Thurman and other members of the Harlem Renaissance. First published in 1926, this single-issue publication gave voice to a new generation of Black...

Igbo muru nze, muo ozo ma mukwaa odogwu, ekenee m unu. Nke onye chiri ya zere. Welcome to the basics comprehensive Igbo language course, a detailed and well-researched Igbo course (a video course existing also in eBook, Paperback, and audiobook formats). This complete, extensive,...

We've all been there-standing in a room full of people, desperately wanting to connect, but instead feeling awkward, overlooked, or unsure of how to keep the conversation flowing. The fear of silence, the pressure to impress, and the struggle to build genuine relationships can...

For a board to bring insight and foresight, what facets of wisdom and experience are needed? How should new members be selected? How will theological and financial integrity be guarded? How does the board best work in partnership with the CEO and senior team?These...

This sociological study explores how Ukrainian political elites think, act, and adapt in moments of profound transformation--from the authoritarian drift of the Yanukovych era to the national redefinition under Zelensky during the full-scale war. Using Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice, the book uncovers in...

Science and technology have become inextricably intertwined with people's daily lives, profoundly influencing social relations, habits, lifestyles and work activities, and exerting a substantial influence on public opinion. In response to these changes, institutions are required to reformulate communication models and knowledge governance strategies....

Combining theoretical reflections with materials from European case studies, the authors offer intriguing new methods for the sociological study of theatre.Author: Joshua Edelman,Louise Ejgod Hansen,Quirijn Lennert Van Den HoogenISBN-10: 1041188900ISBN-13: 9781041188902Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2025Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.48d

This volume focuses on the portant challenge of the less successful educational outcomes of second-generation migrants.Author: Camilla BorgnaISBN-10: 1041182856ISBN-13: 9781041182856Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2025Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d

Dr. Toossi earned his B.S. from the Sharif University of Technology in Iran and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, all in Mechanical Engineering. He continued postdoctoral studies at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, where he focused on atmospheric aerosols, air...

This monograph explores AI applications in education, arguing that ChatGPT-- rooted in language models and machine learning-- must be understood within the practical contexts of AI use. To do so, this analysis draws on social and humanistic theories of language and communication. The opening...

Against highly current debates on multilingual literary production, this original study of the acclaimed contemporary poet-translator Uljana Wolf considers how lyric verse is being creatively revitalised through experimental practices across languages, genres and media. Based in Berlin and New York, Wolf is concerned to...

A spiritual odyssey into the heart of American Family by a pediatrician. Adventures in Pediatrics. True People, True Cases is a work of love and dedication that honors the human spirit at all ages. With kindness and sympathy, the author bring us poignant moments,...

New Humanism and Global Governance is the first in this subject to study how a variety of factors related to globalization will shape the future of the human community. It discusses the major challenges to today's world order and governance, as well as international...

Utility of Quaternions in Physics, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present...

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Vol. I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine,...

This study is centered on women and bicycles. The historical-archival analysis of primary and secondary sources reveals the patterns of discrimination of women, their disqualification from participation in public sphere as well as professional sport. This work displays how the newly invented bicycle was...

This book explores how young people conceptualise addiction to smoking and, the relationship between young people's addiction beliefs and intentions to smoke cigarettes. Addiction to smoking is a major health problem, not just for adults, but also for young smokers, up to 60% of...

Decision-making involves a complex set of variables including cues and barriers to action that can trigger specific patterns of behavior. With respect to health and health care, the influences of gender, culture and trust may affect perceived health status and decision making preferences. In...

The Case of the Negro as to Education in the Southern States is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition,...

The Art of Lithography is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1872. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we...

Nonsense is everywhere: at work, online, and during family dinners.We scroll past it, sit through it, and sometimes dish it out ourselves - yet, half the time, we don't even realize it.In Don't Bullshit a Bullshitter, Jack Hammer presents a laugh-out-loud, no-holds-barred survival guide...

Gearheardt meets Wall Street.This is the third in a series which includes Namarama and Goodbye Mexico.Author Phillip Jennings uses a keen insight and impeccable sarcasm to get us thinking about our country and where it is heading.Author: Phillip JenningsISBN-10: 1961485249ISBN-13: 9781961485242Publisher: Intellect Publishing, LLCLanguage:...

The New South Wales club gaming industry is a multi-billion dollar business with some of the largest registered clubs in the world operating more poker machines than many casinos - but not subject to the same scrutiny. Their status as 'mutuals' allows them to...

Nitrate and nitrite are potentially dangerous substances which can have a detrimental effect on the ecological balance of rivers and lakes, and can cause harm to human health. This book puts into context the magnitude and complexity of the problems caused by nitrate and...

Emerging Technologies for Librarians: A Practical Approach to Innovation focuses on the practical applications of emerging technologies in libraries, defining the technologies in the context of their use in real situations. Each chapter includes an overview of the use of emerging technologies in a...