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  • WATER AND LAND IN THE SAHEL
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    WATER AND LAND IN THE SAHEL
    Drawing on over thirty years of research, this book investigates the intermingling of land and water in the Sahel, analysing landscapes defined by the ebb and flow of rainfall, flooding and population movements, as well as environmental, political and social crises. Exploring both the seasonal flooding of rivers around the Nile, Chari-Logone, Niger and Senegal, as well as agric...

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  • INTRODUCTION TO HOUSING
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    INTRODUCTION TO HOUSING
    ANACKER, KATRIN B.
    This foundational text on housing tenure, housing policy, homelessness, and housing in a global context has been thoroughly updated to reflect changes in the United States during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This third edition delves into the complexities of housing and related issues, to provide a deep understanding of housing’s relationship to national economic factors an...

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  • THE LAW AND PRACTICE OF MARITIME LIENS
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    THE LAW AND PRACTICE OF MARITIME LIENS
    DAMIEN J CREMEAN
    This book uniquely offers a single point of reference on the vital legal subject of maritime liens, intrinsic to Admiralty Law and a topic often incompletely understood by shipping firms and other such businesses, to their considerable risk and detriment. Where previously it was necessary to source many different publications, of widely varying age, this book now provides a sin...

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  • CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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    CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
    AMY ELKINGTON
    Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Morals and Policy goes beyond the traditional criminal law textbook and invites students to question why we criminalise certain behaviour and whether the decisions made by the courts can be justified according to legal principle, morals and policy. Providing an overview not only of the legal doctrine of criminal law, but also of the underpinni...

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  • THE POWER OF FEMINIST THEORY
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    THE POWER OF FEMINIST THEORY
    AMY ALLEN
    In this new second edition of The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity, Amy Allen diagnoses the inadequacies of previous feminist conceptions of power, and draws on the work of a diverse group of theorists of power, including Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, bell hooks, and Hannah Arendt, in order to construct a new feminist conception of power. The conce...

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  • ECONOMIC CHALLENGES AND YOUNG ADULTS
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    ECONOMIC CHALLENGES AND YOUNG ADULTS
    OSIŃSKA, MAGDALENA
    In recent years, there has been an unprecedented shift in the attitudes of young individuals towards the key economic issues they encounter as they embark on their adult lives. Sociologists have identified two distinct generations, namely Generation Y and Generation Z, which exhibit behaviours contrary to those of their parents and older generations. The reasons behind these sh...

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  • THE CHIEF ONLINE LEARNING OFFICERS' GUIDEBOOK
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    THE CHIEF ONLINE LEARNING OFFICERS' GUIDEBOOK
    JOCELYN WIDMER / THOMAS B. CAVANAGH
    The Chief Online Learning Officers’ Guidebook explores the essential competencies required of Chief Online Learning Officers (COLOs) using insights from real-world leadership and expert perspectives from higher education. Digital and online learning have become strategic priorities for higher education institutions working toward enrollment growth, learner engagement, revenue g...

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  • CULTURAL ARCHITECTURE AND LATE-COLONIAL SPACE
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    CULTURAL ARCHITECTURE AND LATE-COLONIAL SPACE
    MELODY HOI-LAM YIU
    This book offers the first in-depth study of three major Hong Kong public cultural architecture works, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Shatin Town Hall and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre (HKCC), built in the late-colonial years. Recent developments at the West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) have attracted global attention to Hong Kong's cultural scene with iconic projects designed by wor...

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  • THE LIBERAL MIND IN A CONSERVATIVE PARTY
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    THE LIBERAL MIND IN A CONSERVATIVE PARTY
    GEOFFREY ROBINSON
    Robinson analyses the peculiarly Australian intellectual tradition of liberal conservatism within the mainstream centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. Conservative intellectuals in Australia have forged a pragmatic, sceptical and utilitarian liberal conservatism focused on the tasks of government. It remains distant both from the romantic and organicist ideas of the populist...

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  • GLOBAL HEALTH IN THE GLOBAL NORTH
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    GLOBAL HEALTH IN THE GLOBAL NORTH
    STEVEN P. BLACK
    This book investigates how health interventions are imagined into being in high-income countries, drawing on over seven years of fieldwork in the self-described “global health capital” Atlanta to consider the role of storytelling in the construction of global health futures. The volume highlights the ways in which scientific storytelling is critical to our understanding of how ...

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  • THE CULTURAL JOURNEYS OF RURAL, POOR AND WORKING-CLASS COLLEGE STUDENTS
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    THE CULTURAL JOURNEYS OF RURAL, POOR AND WORKING-CLASS COLLEGE STUDENTS
    TY C. MCNAMEE
    With the goal of improving efforts and initiatives to promote college completion, this book offers an engaging, in-depth analysis of the cultural journeys of rural, poor and working-class college students. By examining select student stories through the lens of cultural flexibility, cultural integration, and cultural capital and wealth, the author derives a collective understan...

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  • A LASTING IMPACT IN THE CLASSROOM AND BEYOND
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    A LASTING IMPACT IN THE CLASSROOM AND BEYOND
    LARRY STRAUSS
    Are you sick of classroom management advice that doesn’t match your daily existence or address the realities of the classroom? In this helpful new book, renowned educator Larry Strauss provides an honest examination of the challenges we face as high school teachers, not the least of which are the minds and temperaments of teenagers, the kind of empathy that can meet the most da...

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  • A TEACHING ASSISTANT’S GUIDE TO CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM
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    A TEACHING ASSISTANT’S GUIDE TO CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM
    SUSAN BENTHAM
    How can you help students most effectively in the classroom? As a teaching assistant, you play a vital role in today’s schools. This fully updated third edition will help you get to grips with the main issues to do with psychology and its role in the processes of teaching and learning. This accessible text provides informative, yet down-to-earth commentary with clear examples o...

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  • MAKING COMMUNITY SCHOOLS A REALITY
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    MAKING COMMUNITY SCHOOLS A REALITY
    EMILY L. WOODS
    With public demand for community schools on the rise, this timely book provides an empowering, step-by-step approach for school leaders to cultivate community school practices within their schools while simultaneously engaging in the policy advocacy process. This is an actionable toolkit with practical advice, helpful checklists and inventories, as well as real examples from ru...

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  • UNDERSTANDING YOUR STUDENTS' RELIGIONS
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    UNDERSTANDING YOUR STUDENTS' RELIGIONS
    LIZ WILSON / MICHAEL NICHOLS / PETER W. WILLIAMS
    This concise guide helps educators understand the diverse religious practices that shape students’ school and home lives. Using an encyclopedia-like structure, the authors provide short histories and other essential information on a wide variety of religions as well as atheist practices. Each chapter covers origins, beliefs, practices, and common misunderstandings and stereotyp...

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  • UNDERSTANDING COMPANY LAW
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    UNDERSTANDING COMPANY LAW
    ALASTAIR HUDSON
    Understanding Company Law is a lively introduction to modern company law. It takes a unique approach to the subject, which also encompasses the important and growing fields of securities regulation, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. This textbook covers all of the key topics that a student reader will encounter in any company law course. The discussion p...

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  • FINANCE LAW
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    FINANCE LAW
    STEPHEN CONNELLY
    For the student who wishes to understand law as it is practised in a modern financial context, Finance Law offers the only up-to-date university-level textbook which explains legal principles as they are applied in today’s advanced financial transactions. Essential for any student or researcher seeking an introduction to this complex and fast-moving world, this text: is based o...

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  • RECONCEPTUALISING THE LEARNING CRISIS IN AFRICA
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    RECONCEPTUALISING THE LEARNING CRISIS IN AFRICA
    KWAME AKYEAMPONG / SEAN HIGGINS
    This book offers a powerful, post‑colonial rejection of the so‑called global ‘learning crisis’ that offers deficit models of the experiences, knowledges, identities and relationships of African children, eroding their agency and dignity and undermining their learning opportunities and potential. Three case studies of three accelerated learning programmes (ALPs) for out‑of‑schoo...

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  • MIS/DISINFORMATION AND DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY
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    MIS/DISINFORMATION AND DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY
    Drawing on a variety of perspectives and methodologies, this collection explores the intricate relationship between mis- and disinformation and the functioning of democratic society. This book seeks to show how mis- and disinformation is destabilizing our collective confidence in institutions fundamental to the functioning of democratic society, including our electoral processe...

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  • MUSEUM DESIGN WITH, BY, AND FOR CHILDREN
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    MUSEUM DESIGN WITH, BY, AND FOR CHILDREN
    CLARE MURRAY
    Museum Design with, by, and for Children makes an important contribution to contemporary museum theory and practice by focusing on the role and rights of children in museums from a new angle: design. At a time when museum practitioners are challenged to work within their particular buildings and contexts to help the children in their communities feel welcome, invited, and invol...

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  • POLES, POLONIA, AND THE QUEST FOR LIBERTY
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    POLES, POLONIA, AND THE QUEST FOR LIBERTY
    MICGIEL, JOHN S.
    Poles, Polonia, and the Quest for Liberty provides a scholarly analysis of how Poles and Polish-Americans have cherished liberty and democracy in Poland and struggled to achieve those ideals across the centuries. Experts in the field tackle a series of topics that illuminate major themes in the history of a nation and a state that once again is playing an increasingly important...

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  • THE REGULATION OF SEX ROBOTS
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    THE REGULATION OF SEX ROBOTS
    CARLOTTA RIGOTTI
    This book proposes a framework for regulating sex robots – human-like machines designed to engage emotionally and sexually with users through customisable, often AI-powered features. Although they occupy a niche in the adult entertainment and technology industries, sex robots raise complex issues that extend beyond current debates. To date, sex robots are frequently portrayed e...

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  • LAW, NARRATIVE AND MASTERPLOT
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    LAW, NARRATIVE AND MASTERPLOT
    CHRIS BEVAN
    The book brings together a range of socio-legal and law and humanities scholars to elaborate and explore the idea of the legal ‘masterplot’. There is a class of narrative, sometimes referred to as ‘masterplot’ or ‘metanarrative’, that stands above the plethora of other stories, plots, and myths that may be found in law. This book focuses on the masterplot concept as providing a...

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  • DISABILITY AND DIGITAL MARKETING
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    DISABILITY AND DIGITAL MARKETING
    This book explores how digital marketing can drive disability inclusion in consumer culture by addressing accessibility, representation, and research methodologies. It offers practical and theoretical insights for academics, practitioners, and policymakers interested in marketing, communication, sociology, and public policy. The first part, Digital Marketplace Accessibility, ex...

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  • LATIN AMERICAN ART AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
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    LATIN AMERICAN ART AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    MIRIAM M. BASILIO GAZTAMBIDE
    This book sheds light on an as-yet unstudied aspect of The Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) preeminent role in establishing the definition of the problematic term “Latin American art” in the United States from the 1930s to the present through its collection displays. In examining the shifting categorization of Latin American works according to stylistic and geographic taxonomies, ...

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  • THE POLITICS OF CONFORMITY IN JAPAN
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    THE POLITICS OF CONFORMITY IN JAPAN
    YUKIKO NISHIKAWA
    This book explores the concept of conformity pressure or dōchō atsuryoku (同調圧力) in Japanese society and unveil its effects on law, politics and business, and vice versa. Conformity pressure is explored from a unique perspective, expanding on traditional psychological analyses by highlighting how conformity pressure acts as a force which interacts not only with psychological dyn...

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  • SECONDARY ENGLISH FOR GENERATION ALPHA
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    SECONDARY ENGLISH FOR GENERATION ALPHA
    LORNA SMITH
    Secondary English for Generation Alpha seeks to promote a humane, responsive and creative pedagogy for English that will develop and enrich understanding and enjoyment of language in all its forms (speaking, listening, reading and writing) and help students develop into successful members of their home and wider communities. Generation Alpha (children born between 2010 and 2025...

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  • PARENTAL GATEKEEPING
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    PARENTAL GATEKEEPING
    SCHOPPE-SULLIVAN, SARAH J
    This pioneering volume reviews theory and research on parental gatekeeping—the extent to which parents support or thwart each other’s involvement in parenting. Chapter authors review theories, conceptual models, and measures of gatekeeping, and evaluate its consequences for parent-child relationships. Offering a holistic perspective, this book not only explores mothers’ gatekee...

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  • FREE SPEECH IN INDONESIA
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    FREE SPEECH IN INDONESIA
    EKA NUGRAHA PUTRA
    This book discusses the practice of free speech and its limitations – defamation and hate speech – in the context of Indonesia. Focusing on several legislations, mainly in the Indonesian Criminal Code (KUHP) and the Information and Electronic Transaction Law (The ITE Law), the analysis centers on defamation and hate speech and how public interest defense is implemented in such ...

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  • AGENTIAL SCHOOLING
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    AGENTIAL SCHOOLING
    THOMAS ALBRIGHT
    This book examines how schooling—the restrictive, oppressive, and disciplinary force in much U.S. education—is protean and has the agency to change in response to challenges. Posthumanist theories were engaged with to better understand the intra‑actions between human, nonhuman, and discursive actors. Utilizing participant observations, interviews, cognitive maps, diffraction, a...

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