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Exploring tailored family planning strategies for marginalized groups, this work delves into comparative insights from Asian contexts, providing actionable approaches to empower and transform...

Fashion and tourism have common structures and similarities on many fronts. Both phenomena and their operations have been through their 'mass' cycles, currently seeking alternative ways of expression...

Author Angelos Bollas sheds light on the complex interplay between gender norms, media influence, and the construction of modern masculinity through his nuanced analysis of Timothée Chalamet and Paul...

The work-life balance of fathers has increasingly come under scrutiny in political and academic debates and this collection brings together qualitative and quantitative analyses to explore their...

'What is CMS for and what might its future be- both inside the domain of academia and outside it? It's a question that has beguiled and frustrated academics within and outside its community. At the...

David R. Maines (1940-2021), one of the most important sociological scholars of the 20th and 21st centuries, constructed a vast area of research to advance the field of symbolic interactionism during...

Finance Analytics in Business brings together specialists around the world working in various disciplines to reflect on finance analytics in business. This crucial field gives different views of a...

The term financial inclusion describes an individual's ability to obtain effective and inexpensive financial products and services that match their demands, whilst extending to include businesses...

Over the past decade there has been growing national and international concern about the impact of systems for the management of research ethics in the social sciences. In particular these...

Flapjacks and Feudalism: Social Mobility and Class in The Archers is an excavation into the family and class politics found in the clans of the residents of Ambridge, in BBC Radio 4's The Archers...

This book is the result of research on major European food retailers and aims to describe and analyze these efforts in order to draw lessons, identify problems and opportunities and share knowledge...

In recent years, the ways in which food is produced, distributed, and consumed have emerged as prominent health and social issues. With rising concern about rates of obesity, food systems have...

Built on a large body of research relating specifically to forensic psychologists and prison life more generally, this book examines how this professional discipline has become central to life within...

Nearly every work of architecture can be characterized by specific approaches to forming and centering. An awareness of these "underpinnings" would facilitate a more informed approach to...

Fostering Sustainable Businesses in Emerging Economies presents a series of case studies and exploratory studies, using quantitative analysis, scientific studies, and qualitative studies showing how...

The world is changing at an unprecedented pace and organizations worldwide are finding it difficult to match their operational efficiency and sustainable development targets with the United Nations...

Every year, thousands of British students enter higher education via a foundation year. Despite their growing popularity, the place of foundation years has become an increasingly contested issue:...

This Special Issue of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change reflects upon global student and youth activism 50 years after the shooting of student activists protesting against the US...

Fractal Leadership investigates leadership construction in social movements afforded (or intensified) by algorithm-based flows of information and viral affectivity. The book illustrates how a...

Against the backdrop of an increasingly unstable and multipolar modern world, this edited collection takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore institutional, political, social and media...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Firmly anchored in contemporary political issues, Freedom and Borders: A Theory of Citizenship for the Age of...

This volume explores the ways in which civil society and governments employ transformative tactics of direct engagement in coordinating efforts toward the common good. The chapters highlight...

This volume brings together some of the world's leading scholars of market categorization. Together, their contributions depict categorization as both a cognitive and a social process, tightly...

Achievement meritorious enough to generate discussion covers considerable territory. This book concentrates on one part of it: that inhabited by scholars and politicians. In their world self-esteem...

Eco-entrepreneurship is a pervasive market-based approach to environmental recovery and sustainability. The aptitudes, motivations, strategies, and overall impact of eco-entrepreneurs are well...

Since the Age of Enlightenment, Black bodies have been sites of trauma. Drawing on anti-colonial theory, From the Enlightenment to Black Lives Matter interrogates how this has shaped understandings...

Creative industries are a growing and globally important area for both economic vitality and cultural expression of industrialized nations. This volume examines their institutional, categorical and...

The notion of Britishness and national identity have rarely been examined with such intensity in education and society as they are today. Although the requirement to promote a sense of nationhood in...

This book is an essential reference resource for policy-makers, practitioners and academics with an interest in any aspect of funerary practice in England and Wales.Author: Julie RuggPublisher:...

Exploring the traditions, customs and contemporary legal framework of Czech funerary practices, this book analyses and interprets the high cremation rate, predominance of secular funerals and...