Research, References and Encyclopedias Books

Whether you are looking to invest in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies or understand why it will have a massive impact on your life in the near future, this book will clear out everything you need to know about what makes this technology what it...

If you are retired, or going to be, make a list of tasks that need doing, equipment you need, materials required, and its importance, then get on and do it so you have the satisfaction of knowing you did it and congratulate yourself on a job well...

Bears can be scary beasts...or do dumb things like getting stuck in garbage cans. In this charmingly illustrated collection of humorous poems and stories, author/illustrator Leonard Brett celebrates all things bears, particularly human/bear interactions...

Every fly fisher wants bragging rights about landing a 32-inch behemoth of a carp. Even better? Adding extra colour to your tale by hooking the monstrous fish with a fly tied from a tuft of your golden retriever's fur. These are just some of the tips,...

How many times have you heard someone say: "My wedding was so stressful!" "If I could do it all over again, I'd do it differently." "I never had a chance to enjoy myself." Some believe that it's normal to host an elaborately orchestrated event that will...

Race and ethnicity are central to our lived experiences of politics, yet they are often absent from studies of urgent questions in contemporary political communication. This volume responds to this crucial issue, illuminating the ways in which identity...

This book brings together experts engaging in empirical studies on how emotion influences learning and processing for varying text types in different contexts. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Discourse Processes.

This book focuses on assessing L2 student digital multimodal composing (DMC) competence. It explores key themes, including the conceptualization of the L2 student DMC competence, and the development, validation, and utilization of the L2 student DMC...

Using sources from classical to modern that broach the phenomenon of uncertainty and its relation to risk, this book creates a novel approach to the recognized but theoretically often unattended issue of uncertainty.

This book explains how facilitative mediators, those without material leverage, contribute to progress in peace negotiations.

This book explores the nature of evaluative knowledge, the increasing demand in decision-making for evaluation, the post-truth phenomena of anti-science sentiments and illiberal tendencies. The authors within wish to raise awareness and reflection...

This book is an international history of the foundation of modern arms control, highlighting the fact that the instrument is varied, resilient, successful, and enduring.

This book provides practical tools, models, and frameworks for thinking about how story is structured to help us think about conflict, using a wide range of examples.

The story of Blockchain is not just a tale of mathematical experiments. It's primarily a story of the age-old attempt to record human activities and the value that flows from them. This time, however, the goal is to make it accessible to everyone on...

The book answers the question of why the performance of the hyper-globalisation period has not continued during the post-GFC (Global Financial Crisis) period after 2010, and what might be expected going forward. It analyses recent global events to gather...

This text explores how art education can address the needs of older adults as learners, makers, and teachers of art in formal and informal settings. It combines perspectives of educators, professors, therapists, and artists on what is meant by creative...

The book highlights INSTC and Chabahar and will be of interest to studies on economic corridors, transnational, trans-regional economic relationships, security, regional, area studies, international and Indo-Iran-Russia relations.

This book delves into the history of subjective rights within the context of 19th-century Iran, specifically during the eventful Qajar era. The crux of its research lies in the emergence and evolution of the concept of subjective rights as opposed to the...

This edited volume explores Global International Relations in terms of teaching and research in Southeast Asia and China with the purpose of revealing existing and "hidden" pre-theories, conceptual frameworks, and theoretical contributions rooted in...

This book introduces a comprehensive conceptual framework which examines the impact of ecological modernization on city branding, using Chinese megacity regions as examples.

Drawing on evidence from eight Asian cases across three subregions, this volume highlights the distinctive features of Asian populism in comparison with Western experiences, shedding light on the cultural dimension of populism. A valuable resource for...

Using the concept of "civility" as the major theme, this fully updated second edition offers a unique and alternative way to teach and learn about communication.

This book begins by explaining why Japan spent roughly fifty years building its own colonial system and declaring war on China and the Western Allies, only to decide after military defeats to surrender before being invaded.

This book explores the relationship between social mentality, public opinion, media, and other factors through mixed methods in China, especially since the 21st century.The book deploys qualitative and quantitative research and adopts a...

Yang examines the political process of the Occupy Movement and adopts an actor-centered approach in the study of democratization, placing civil society as the focus of the analysis. A valuable resource for scholars of Hong Kong's Politics and a relevant...

This book examines the diffusion of digitalization and Industry 4.0 technologies in Malaysia by focusing on the ecosystem critical for its expansion. The chapters examine the digital proliferation in major sectors of agriculture, manufacturing,...

This book reconceptualises the idea of 'post-truth'. It does not limit the domain of post-truth to the production factories of fake news.

The working hypothesis of the book is that, since the 1990s, an increasing number of Anglophone fictions are responding to the new ethical and political demands arising out of the facts of war, exclusion, climate change, contagion, posthumanism and other...

Providing a comprehensive survey of the empirical research, theory, and history of public speaking, this handbook fills a crucial gap in public speaking pedagogy resources and provides a foundation for future research and pedagogical development.

This book analyses the complexity of South and Southeast Asia in international health, taking into account the impact of the geopolitics of the Cold War on the development of public health and development in the regions. 　In light of the recent health...

Like its bestselling predecessor, Multilevel Modeling Using R, Third Edition provides the reader with a helpful guide to conducting multilevel data modeling using the R software environment.

This book explores the experiential and affective dimensions of structural transformation in South Asia through contemporary and historical accounts of life, ageing, illness, and death. 　The contributions to this book include analyses from various...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...