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Cherishing Each Child: Riley Hospital for Children, 1924–2024
by Candace O'Connor Riley Children's FoundationCherishing Each Child: Riley Hospital for Children, 1924-2024, the first comprehensive history of the hospital, chronicles Riley Hospital's beginnings, growth, and contributions over a century of care for millions of children who came to Riley as inpatients or outpatients from all over the world, including every Indiana county. Each chapter introduces readers by decade to hospital and medical leaders, advancements in growth, patient care, and pediatric research, and to unforgettable Riley patients. The enduring leadership from the hospital's earliest days of the Riley Memorial Association (now the Riley Children's Foundation) to shape and support the hospital's growth and capabilities is recognized as are contributions of long-time supporters of the hospital. Historical newspapers, original historical materials, department and program histories, historical publications, and interviews with former and current hospital patients, families, and staff all help to tell Riley Hospital's one hundred year story. Readers gain an understanding of the unique and distinctly Hoosier treasure that Riley Hospital for Children has been for generations of children and families. The book serves as a resource and celebration of the hospital's centennial, highlighting stories and milestones from its first century.
The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
by Timothy BrookHow climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history&’s mighty empiresIn 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China, exploring how global climate crisis spelled the end of Ming rule.The mid-seventeenth century witnessed the deadliest phase of the Little Ice Age, when temperatures and rainfall plunged and world economies buckled. Timothy Brook draws on the history of grain prices to paint a gripping portrait of the final tumultuous years of a once-great dynasty. He explores how global trade networks that increasingly moved silver into China may have affected prices and describes the daily struggle to survive amid grain shortages and famine. By the early 1640s, as the subjects of the Ming found themselves caught in a deadly combination of cold and drought that defied all attempts to stave off disaster, the Ming price regime collapsed, and with it the Ming political regime.A masterful work of scholarship, The Price of Collapse reconstructs the experience of ordinary people under the immense pressure of unaffordable prices as their country slid from prosperity to calamity and shows how the market mediated the relationship between an empire and the climate that turned against it.
The Palgrave Handbook of Human-Animal Interactions in the Global Context of Climate Change, Disasters, and Other Crises
by Sarah E. DeYoung Haorui Wu Kyle BreenThe increasing frequency, scope, and magnitude of global extreme events affect humans and their animal co-inhabitants on our shared planet. This book features a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive text addressing human-animal interactions (HAIs) in the context of climate change, disasters, and other crises. This book presents international professionals&’ HAI-driven leading ideas, debates, approaches, and promising efforts, providing a range of perspectives across the entire disaster cycle from the Global South and North. Their knowledge, experience, and expertise contribute to a nuanced understanding of disaster-specific HAIs, shedding light on enhancing human-animal welfare, promoting trans-species justice, and building resilience. Students, researchers, educators, practitioners, policymakers, and others can apply this expertise to enhance human-animal welfare and resilience in the global disaster settings. Chapter "Working Equids in Disasters: Local Concerns and Inspirations" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Socio-Ecological Resilience and Sustainable Quality of Life (Sustainability Solutions)
by Shouraseni Sen Roy Avishek Bhunia Suraj Kumar Mallick Ester HiguerasThe purpose of writing of this book is to address the pressing challenges posed by the complicated relationship between human societies and their socio-ecological environments. It explores the interdependencies that define socio-ecological resilience, emphasising the importance of an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to achieving sustainable quality of life. The book will deepen our understanding of the interconnectedness of ethical considerations, community well-being, and environmental stewardship by examining contemporary global issues. The chapters will delve into the human-environment nexus, exploring how natural resources and geopolitical dynamics influence resilience and sustainability. The book will also addresses socio-ecological threats, including climate conflict, habitat destruction, and inequality, highlighting their impact on global quality of life. Furthermore, it presents strategies for creating restorative environments, emphasising sustainable development practices, natural resource management, and the transition to renewable energy systems. Through comprehensive discussions on the role of governance, the impact of global pandemics, and the significance of sustainable economic models, the book will offer a holistic approach to addressing these challenges. Ultimately, it will serve as a guide for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners, providing models and frameworks that foster a sustainable environment and enhance the quality of life for present and future generations.
Creating and Maintaining a Home in Science Education Research: Voices Across the African Diaspora, Volume 2 (Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education #66)
by Mary M. Atwater Brittany A. GarvinThis second volume explores the challenges faced by science education researchers of African ancestry in securing an ideal academic home. Highlighting systemic barriers, it advocates for addressing teacher shortages and informs the development of equitable teacher education programs, particularly for Teacher of Color and Indigenous Teachers (TOCIT). Featuring narratives from researchers navigating less-than-ideal environments, transitioning between institutions, or preparing for retirement, it offers invaluable insights into adaptation and resilience. With contributions from diverse institutional backgrounds, including Historically Black institutions, it concludes with policy and practice recommendations to foster inclusive science education and advance equity for African-ancestry professionals.
To be healed or to be hacked: Ethical issues and concerns about the use of VR and AI in mental health care (BestMasters)
by Paula FriedrichThe high prevalence of mental health disorders worldwide has created a big demand on mental health care professionals. To relieve personnel and provide increased access to care, the use of AI and VR has been researched for many decades. As the human-centered implementation of AI remains scarce, we first assessed mental health patients&’ concerns about the use of AI for therapy in an online questionnaire. The pre-study revealed the importance of data autonomy and transparency, which was explored in a subsequent in-person VR study regarding the effect on self-disclosure and trust towards the embodied AI. Results suggest a higher level of self-disclosure with higher data autonomy. Transparency did not influence level of self-disclosure and both autonomy and transparency showed no effect on trust towards the AI. Additionally, an effect of gender on trust was found, showing higher levels of trust for women compared to men. This work contributes to the ethical discussion around AI in mental health care with a human-centered AI perspective and insights into patients&’ concerns on this development.
Handbook of Asian Rosewoods (Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials)
by A. N. Arunkumar Geeta Joshi Rekha R. WarrierThis book explores the different types of rosewoods found in the Asian region, with a particular focus on some of the most exploited Dalbergias. It includes comprehensive information on the taxonomy, species biology, population structure, threat status, and trade and conservation management measures to protect different rosewoods in Asia. This book also provides an in-depth overview of the current information available on the different species of Dalbergia, especially CITES-listed, contributing to the identification of the gaps in our current knowledge, and understanding about the efforts taken to address these gaps. The book can be a beneficial reference for policy makers, tropical tree breeders and researchers, students and scholars.
The Politics of Migration: Urbanization and Life Opportunities in Contemporary China
by Yihan XiongBased on extensive fieldwork and longitudinal studies, this book posits that the household registration (hukou) system is a fundamental institutional arrangement in contemporary China. It employs the theoretical framework of local citizenship to analyze the rights and conditions of the migrant population amidst urbanization. Local citizenship functions as both a governance classification and a qualification for access to public resources, influencing not only migration patterns but also the social mobility of various migrant classes. Importantly, the widely discussed education policies for migrant children are part of a broader framework of national migrant management and local industrial policies.
Community Education and Neoliberalism: Philosophies, Practices and Policies
by Camilla FitzsimonsThis open access book, now in its second edition, offers a powerful analysis of adult and community education at a time of rising inequality and diminishing state support. Grounded in both Irish and international contexts, this edition again challenges the impact of neoliberal agendas on grassroots community education and makes a convincing case for reclaiming community education&’s radical, consciousness-raising agenda. The book is theoretically rooted in critical feminist pedagogy and draws on real-world examples to present key aspects of this approach to adult learning in a clear, accessible, and practical way. Community Education and Neoliberalism exposes the extent to which market-driven forces and managerialist agendas are eroding the transformative nature of adult and community education. The author examines the impact of neoliberal government lifelong learning policies, the potential drawbacks of professionalising community education and the perils of accreditation systems when marketisation becomes the principal focus. But this book does not simply offer a critique — it also presents practical pathways to revitalise community education, ensuring it continues to be a part of the struggle for a better world which, the author argues, can only be achieved through collective action. The book is essential reading and a call to action for students, educators, activists and policymakers alike, or indeed or anyone who is passionate about equality and social justice.
Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision: 8th Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, ACPR 2025, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, November 10–13, 2025, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #16174)
by Ran He Christian Wallraven Brian Lovell Prithwi ChakrabortyThis two-volume set LNCS 16174-16175 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, ACPR 2025, held in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, in November 10–13, 2025. The 60 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 118 submissions. The ACPR 2025 Conference focuses on four important areas of pattern recognition: pattern recognition and machine learning; computer vision and robot vision; signal, speech and video processing; and document, media processing and interaction, covering various technical aspects.
Virtual Turning Points II: Their Interplay with Integral Representations and Non-Hereditary Turning Points (SpringerBriefs in Mathematical Physics #52)
by Naofumi Honda Takahiro Kawai Yoshitsugu Takei Sampei Hirose Shinji SasakiThis book aims to build on the significant results reported since the publication of "Virtual Turning Points" (VTP). This volume seeks to accelerate this trend by presenting these results in a unified manner, utilizing s-VTP and the integral representation of solutions. This includes the introduction of a non-hereditary turning point (NHTP), which naturally appears by considering tangential systems. NHTP initially causes no issues for the original system, but it creates a new class of VTPs and additional periods when perturbing the equation while keeping its principal part intact. Integral representations of solutions provide intriguing examples of Stokes geometry (SG). We have selected some particularly illuminating examples and presented them in Sect. 1.5 to address the effects of NHTP and the crossing phenomenon of three ordinary Stokes curves, which were not dealt with in VTP. The most important example suggests that these new phenomena are related to the location of singularities of Borel transformed WKB solutions. Comparing with the second-order case, we study this relationship from the viewpoint of the theory of growing trees already discussed in VTP. These examples also reveal an impressive fact that NHTP creates a new class of VTPs through the so-called bicharacteristic chain. Another example visualizes a leaf-type and a tadpole-type SG, the connection formulas for which are explicitly computed in this volume. Finally in the Appendix, the activeness of SG related to the crossing of three Stokes curves is examined, which requires employment of the exact steepest descent method, a WKB-theoretical generalization of the traditional steepest descent method, despite its simple appearance.
KI mit Köpfchen: Mit ChatGPT & Co. zum zukunftsfähigen Unternehmen
by Christian Kuß Dominic Von ProeckStellen Sie sich vor, Sie kommen morgen ins Büro und nichts ist mehr, wie es war. Im Marketing entstehen personalisierte Kampagnen auf Knopfdruck, im Vertrieb analysiert eine KI jedes Gespräch und in der Produktentwicklung werden hunderte Ideen über Nacht simuliert und getestet. Willkommen in der Ära der generativen Künstlichen Intelligenz! Dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie als Unternehmer oder Führungskraft die Potenziale von ChatGPT & Co. für sich nutzen können. Renommierte Beitragsautoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis veranschaulichen, wie Sie Strategien für jede Unternehmensabteilung entwickeln, Ihre Prozesse mithilfe von KI automatisieren, rechtliche und ethische Fragen meistern und die Weichen für eine erfolgreiche Transformation stellen können. Christian Kuß und Dominic von Proeck nehmen Sie mit auf einen Gemba-Walk der besonderen Art: durch jedes Unternehmensfeld, von Marketing und Vertrieb bis hin zu Personalwesen und Recht. An jeder Station begegnen Sie Experten, die praxisnahe Einblicke und konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen geben, um generative KI strategisch und gewinnbringend in Ihre Unternehmensprozesse zu integrieren. Die KI-Revolution hat begonnen – sind Sie bereit, Ihr Unternehmen zukunftssicher zu machen? Der Inhalt Zwischen Chance und Risiko: Das KI-Potential – ACTION: Der einzige Prompt, den Sie jemals brauchen werden – Unter der Oberfläche: Technische Grundlagen Generativer AI – KI in der Werbewelt: Marketing neu gedacht – Verkaufen in der KI-Ära: Sales Revolution – KI-Automatisierungen: Prozesse erfolgreich steuern – Innovationstreiber KI: Entwicklung neuer Geschäftsmodelle – Human Resources: AI-gestütztes Personalmanagement – Führung im KI-Zeitalter: Neue Perspektiven – Cypersecurity im Zeitalter generativer KI – Moral im Maschinenzeitalter: Ethische Grundlagen – Recht klar: KI im Rechtsrahmen – Unternehmensstrategie im Zeichen der KI – Die Organisation der Zukunft
The Politics of Human Rights: The Quest for Dignity in the 21st Century
by Sabine C. Carey Mark Gibney Anita R. GohdesAccessible and engaging, The Politics of Human Rights offers a fresh, empirical approach to understanding human dignity and the global responsibility to protect it. Unlike traditional texts, this textbook moves beyond theory, using data-driven insights to explore why human rights violations occur and how they can be prevented. It emphasizes shared responsibility across borders to uphold human rights. Designed for students and educators, this fully updated edition enhances learning with discussion questions, recommended readings, and a unique collection of films, podcasts, and websites that bring human rights issues to life. It provides a well-rounded perspective, grounded in latest social scientific research, for anyone interested in human rights. Whether used for introductory courses or interdisciplinary studies, this book equips readers with the knowledge and tools to critically engage with human rights issues, making it an essential resource for understanding and advocating for human dignity in the twenty-first century.
Legacy in the Landscape: How Urbanization Shapes Disaster Risk
by Stephanie E. ChangWith its focus on the city rather than the disaster event, this book situates natural disasters in the context of urban growth and change. It offers an original, interdisciplinary perspective by connecting the technical and socioeconomic dimensions of disaster risk and highlighting the commonalities of hazards such as river flooding, coastal flooding, and earthquakes. The book begins by proposing a novel Urban Risk Dynamics framework that emphasizes the roles of economy, landscape, and technology in influencing hazard, exposure, and vulnerability. This framework is then used to support the examination of six contrasting cities from around the world, offering generalized insights that apply to a wide range of urban risk contexts. The book will be of significant interest to students and researchers working in urban planning, civil engineering, Earth sciences, and environmental science, and to policy makers and practitioners concerned with reducing future disaster risk in cities.
The Political Economy of Augustine Weapons (Elements in Defence Economics)
by Keith HartleyThis Element presents an economic analysis of Augustine's Laws and Weapons Systems. It explores and evaluates their economic content and subjects them to critical analysis. The Element is both theoretical and empirical and the empirical work uses an original UK data set on military aircraft over the period 1934 to 1964. The period embraces major technical changes involving war and peace and the shift to jet powered aircraft.
Léon Walras, Economist and Liberal Socialist: Essays (Springer Studies in the History of Economic Thought)
by Jean-Pierre PotierThis book offers an in-depth exploration of the genesis of Léon Walras's work and its impact on the history of economics. Through a thorough examination of both published and unpublished writings, correspondence, and personal notes, the book reveals new insights into Walras’s intellectual evolution and his overall conception of economics. It traces the formation of his theoretical framework, the elements of his “political and social economy,” and his aspirations for a “liberal and humanitarian scientific socialism.” The book is organized into five parts: Part I investigates the influences shaping Walras’s thought, including his relationship with his father, Auguste Walras, and the intellectual legacy of Jean-Baptiste Say. This section also discusses Walras's views on the stages of historical development, reflecting on the industrial and commercial transformations of his time and his framework for categorizing the social and political sciences. Part II examines the development of Walras’s general equilibrium theory, the role of free competition within a “pure economy,” and the reception of his ideas in Italy and France. It highlights the historical and intellectual context surrounding his theoretical innovations. Part III addresses Walras’s approach to the teaching of economics, with a focus on avoiding intellectual rigidity, particularly in France. It explores his work in social and applied economics at Lausanne and his efforts to shape academic resources, such as library acquisitions, to support this vision. Part IV critiques French liberalism, analyzing Walras’s responses to figures like Louis Blanc and the Saint-Simonians, and discusses his editorial work with Le Travail, which advocated cooperative approaches. Part V highlights Walras’s reformist ideas, including his vision for labor market organization, the state's role in land repurchase to replace taxes, the regulation of public services and natural monopolies, and his ideas on democracy, particularly his campaign for professional representation of interests. This comprehensive analysis appeals to scholars and students of the history of economic thought and anyone interested in understanding the formation and legacy of Walras’s work.
Intelligent Reflecting Surface For B5G/6G Wireless Networks: Information and Power Transmission (Wireless Networks)
by Qingqing Wu Xinrong Guan Meng HuaThis book provides comprehensive insights into the theory, models, and unique characteristics of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and its appealing applications in wireless information and power transmission for B5G/6G. It is organized as follows:Chapter 1 gives an overview of the fundamentals of IRS, including the signal and channel models of IRS, its hardware architecture, advantages and practical constraints. Chapter 2, 3 and 4 focus on how to optimize the joint design of active and passive beamforming for three types of IRS-aided wireless information/energy transmission systems, namely IRS-aided power transfer (WPT), IRS-aided simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) and IRS-aided wireless powered communication networks (WPCN). Chapter 2 specifically presents a general framework design for IRS-aided WPT systems from the perspectives of energy beamforming design and channel estimation, while the dynamic IRS beamforming design is also discussed. Chapter 3 thoroughly studies the IRS-aided SWIPT for achieving better R-E trade-off, wherein two different designs based on weighted sum-power maximization at energy users (EUs) and under individual quality-of-service (QoS), requirements at both information users (IUs) and EUs are investigated. Chapter 4 presents three paradigms of IRS-aided WPCN, i.e., IRS-aided half-duplex (HD) WPCN, IRS-aided full-duplex (FD) WCPN and IRS-aided multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) FD WPCN. The authors present some related emerging topics, e.g., active IRS aided wireless communications and IRS-aided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications in chapter 5. This book targets postgraduate students studying electrical engineering and computer science, and can be used as a secondary textbook. Professionals, researchers and engineers working in wireless networks will also find this book useful as a reference.
Jugendliteratur über Genozid lesen: Beitrag zu einer postmigrantischen Erinnerungskultur (Holocaust Education – Historisches Lernen – Menschenrechtsbildung)
by Julian KanningDieses Buch reflektiert die Bedeutung von Jugendliteratur über Holocaust und Genozid für eine im Wandel befindliche Erinnerungskultur. Mit dem Gattungsbegriff der "Holocaust- und Genozid-Jugendliteratur" wird eine Erweiterung des erinnerungskulturellen Rahmens vorgeschlagen. Mit Bezug auf exemplarische Texte zeigt das Buch typologisierend Darstellungsbesonderheiten und didaktische Potenziale der Gattung auf. Auf dieser Grundlage werden didaktisch konzeptionell fünf Erfahrungs- und (Nicht-)Verstehensdimensionen im literaturunterrichtlichen Umgang mit Holocaust- und Genozid-Jugendliteratur in der Postmigrationsgesellschaft herausgearbeitet.
Oberfranken im Klimawandel
by Thomas Foken Johannes LüersDer Klimawandel ist aus politischen und gesellschaftlichen Diskussionen nicht mehr wegzudenken. Zahlreiche Publikationen befassen sich mit seinen globalen Auswirkungen, Belastungsgrenzen, Handlungsstrategien und Maßnahmen zur Anpassung. Im Gegensatz dazu richtet dieses Buch den Blick auf das Klima in Oberfranken – auf die bereits spürbaren Veränderungen ebenso wie auf die Entwicklungen, die in den kommenden Jahren zu erwarten sind. Viele dieser Veränderungen sind der breiten Öffentlichkeit kaum bewusst. Sie werden oft erst erkennbar, wenn wir etwa unsere Eltern oder Großeltern danach fragen, wie sie die Winter ihrer Kindheit erlebt haben. Das Buch beschreibt Lufttemperaturen, Niederschläge, Schneefälle und Extremereignisse wie Hochwasser in den verschiedenen Regionen Oberfrankens äußerst detailliert. Trotz des wissenschaftlichen Fundaments ist der Text allgemeinverständlich geschrieben. Er knüpft an persönliche Erfahrungen und Alltagsbeobachtungen an und möchte damit das Bewusstsein für den regionalen Klimawandel stärken. Zielgruppen sind Schülerinnen und Schüler höherer Jahrgangsstufen sowie interessierte Bürgerinnen und Bürger. Darüber hinaus versteht sich das Buch als fundierte Grundlage für politische Entscheidungen. Es will Parteien, Vereine und Organisationen für die Klimaproblematik sensibilisieren und zu eigenem Handeln anregen.
A Problem-Solving Approach to Electric Circuits: Volume IV
by Farzin AsadiThis book is designed for students taking circuit analysis courses. It includes examples and exercises that help students review and sharpen their knowledge of the subject while enhancing their classroom performance. Offering detailed solutions, multiple methods for solving problems, and clear explanations of concepts, this book aims to improve students' problem-solving skills and deepen their understanding of topics covered in electric circuit analysis courses.
Safety Measures for Hydrogen Fueling Stations: A Multi-disciplinary Risk Management Approach (Risk, Reliability and Safety Engineering)
by Yiliu Liu Nicola Paltrinieri Dimitrios TzioutziosThis book covers various topics of safety and risk management of hydrogen fueling stations. Considering technical, organizational, social, and economic factors, this book proposes a framework with a multidisciplinary approach to bring together technical, organizational, social, and economic factors. It develops a common approach to assessing risks and opportunities associated with hydrogen technology. It addresses system modeling and analysis issues in clean hydrogen production and storage, with a focus on uncertainties. The framework discussed in this book helps prevent and mitigate accidents and build organizational safety culture and procedures while better communicating with the public. This book is useful for researchers and professionals working in the area of hydrogen technologies, especially focusing on the issues of hydrogen in production, storage and fueling phases.
Cambridge Guide to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Cambridge Guides to the Psychological Therapies)
by Kenneth Laidlaw Paul Salkovskis Jessica DaviesThis book provides a concise and up-to-date guide to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), from the history and supporting theory, through to the most recent empirical evidence and practical aspects of delivery. Starting with an overview of the structure of CBT, practitioners can utilise this detailed guide to deliver therapy in clinical practice, whilst its coverage of various adaptations of CBT, such as group therapy and working with older adults, allow therapy to be tailored to different settings with different timeframes attached. Covering all the major CBT protocols necessary to work with a wide range of common mental health conditions. A comprehensive resource for a wide range of practitioners providing practical approaches, goals, and strategies to manage mental health problems using CBT. Part of the Cambridge Guides to the Psychological Therapies series, offering all the latest scientifically rigorous, and practical information on a range of key, evidence-based psychological interventions for clinicians.
Nationalism and the Transformation of the State: Border Change and Political Violence in the Modern World
by Lars-Erik Cederman Luc Girardin Carl Müller-Crepon Yannick I. PenglFollowing Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, the recent conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East signals the return of geopolitics. This book challenges conventional approaches that ignore border change, arguing that geopolitics is driven by nationalism and focusing on how nationalism transforms the state. Using geocoded historical maps covering state borders and ethnic groups in Europe, the authors' spatial approach shows how, since the French Revolution, nationalism has caused increasing congruence between state and national borders and how a lack of congruence increased the risk of armed conflict. This macroprocess is traced from early modern Europe and widens the geographic scope to the entire world in the mid-twentieth century. The analysis shows that the risk of conflict may be increased by how nationalists seeking to revive past golden ages and restore their nations' prestige respond to incongruent borders. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The Cambridge Urban History of Europe: Volume 2, Medieval and Early Modern Europe (The Cambridge Urban History of Europe)
by Maarten Prak Patrick LantschnerVolume II charts European urbanism between 700–1850, the millennium during which Europe became the world's most urbanised region. Featuring thirty-six chapters from leading scholars working on all the major linguistic areas of Europe, the volume offers a state-of-the-art survey that explores and explains this transformation, how similar or different such processes were across Europe, and how far it is possible to discern traits that characterise European urbanism in this period. The first half of the volume offers overviews on the urban history of Mediterranean Europe, Atlantic and North Sea Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, and European urbanisms around the world. The second half explores major themes, from the conceptualisation of cities and their material fabric to continuities and changes in the social, political, economic, religious, and cultural histories of cities and towns.
Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the United States
by José M. CausadiasThis textbook summarizes key issues related to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in the United States. Over 12 chapters, it explores police violence against Black people, xenophobia against Latinx immigrants, and growing hostility against Asian Americans, transgender people, immigrants, and refugees. Each chapter employs interactive and engaging opportunities to learn, making it the ideal introductory resource for undergraduate students. The text is structured around real-world stories, which exemplify the humanity of each topic and highlight the complexity of issues at hand. Dedicated to creating the best learning experience, Causadias presents questions for further discussion or to enhance comprehension, defines key concepts, debunks popular myths, summarizes evidence from trusted sources that challenge misinformation and disinformation, and proposes in-class exercises. Curated reading lists can be found at the end of every chapter for readers to probe deeper into specific sources and expand their understanding of different topics. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.