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Janek Musek

Personality Psychology

This book integratively examines theories and models of the most essential findings of personality psychology with the aim of advancing personality knowledge. Since much empirical research is applied to v…

Jennifer M. Mellizo

Re-Imagining Curricula in Global Times

Through this book, the author examines the role of music education within the larger global education movement. Specifically, the author argues music education has unique potential to foster positive glob…

Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective

Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective explores the connections between contemporary populism, populist rhetoric, and a wide range of thinkers and topics in the history of political…

New Wave of Revolutions in the MENA Region

This book offers a comparative perspective on the new wave of revolutions in the MENA region. Recently, a new wave of revolutions has swept the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, comparable in so…

Janice K Gallagher, Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, Whitney K Taylor

Claim-Making in Comparative Perspective

This Element focuses on everyday claim-making by drawing together bodies of research in and with different communities. The authors argue that claim-making is a form of citizenship practice, that is preva…

Janice K Gallagher, Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, Whitney K Taylor

Claim-Making in Comparative Perspective

Claim-making - the everyday strategies through which citizens pursue rights fulfilment - is often overlooked in studies of political behavior, which tend to focus on highly visible, pivotal moments: elect…

Ilia Delio

Humility of God

Religion throughout its history has been used to justify dominance and rightness, a narrative that sadly continues today. St. Francis of Assisi, however, fell in love with a Christ who cultivated humility…

Alessandro Roncaglia

Power and Inequality

Power is a broad and complex concept that cuts across all fields in humanities and social sciences. Written by a leading historian of economic thought, Power and Inequality presents a wide-ranging and mul…

Perspectives of Hydrosilylation Reactions

This volume describes the latest advances and perspectives in hydrosilylation, with a focus on new organometallic catalysts and their mechanistic aspects. Hydrosilylation is the reaction of SiH with carb…

Enrico Pieranunzi (geb. 1949)

Time's Passage

Shireen

Herbivores and Mutualists: A Population Dynamic Perspective

"Herbivores and Mutualists: A Population Dynamic Perspective" explores the fascinating dance between plant-eaters and the organisms they cooperate with. This book goes beyond the classic predator-prey dyn…

Jason S Spicer

Co-Operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective

A rigorous comparative-historical analysis of how co-operative enterprises in different national contexts, this book deploys two different variants of the new institutionalism. Spicer treats the US as a c…

Anthony B. Pinn, Peter Derkx

Meaningful Aging from a Humanist Perspective

Aging is a topic of growing interest. As life expectancy in western societies is increasing, the growing number and proportion of elderly persons raise urgent questions on how to age well . Predominant…

Alessandro Roncaglia

Power and Inequality

"Power is a multi-dimensional notion, involving politico-institutional, social, economic and cultural elements, leading to a multi-dimensional set of inequalities. Analysis of these elements is a prerequi…

The Blue Economy

This volume defines and analyzes the Blue Economy, a system that encompasses all the economic activities which are happening in and around the ocean within a sustainable development framework, with focus …

John Laffey

Imperialism and Ideology

An historical perspective and critical examination of popularly held views on imperialism and ideology by a gifted historian.

Gender Perspectives in Private Law

This book discusses prominent and controversial gender-related issues across the fields of family law, tort law, labour law, civil procedure law, ADR and private international law. An important critical a…

Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective

This volume of essays discusses the European and global expansion of Italian opera and the significance of this process for debates on opera at home in Italy. Covering different parts of Europe, the Ameri…

Critical Perspectives on Cybersecurity

Critical Perspectives on Cybersecurity offers a new approach to understanding cybersecurity in international relations. As a counterpoint to existing work, which focuses largely on the security of states,…