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The book provides valuable knowledge and information for researchers, students, and practitioners to promote and advance research and applications in the field of life-cycle civil engineering. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Structure and Infrastructure Engineering.

Dalit Women's Education in Modern India is a social and cultural history that challenges the triumphant narrative of modern secular education to analyse the constellation of social, economic, political and historical circumstances that both opened and closed opportunities to many Dalits. By focusing on marginalised Dalit women in modern Maharashtra, who have rarely been at the centre of systematic historical enquiry, Shailaja Paik breathes life into their ideas, expectations, potentials, fears and frustrations. Addressing two major blind spots in the historiography of India and of the women¿s movement, she historicises Dalit women¿s experiences and constructs them as historical agents.

Revisiting the study of South Asians in Britain and beyond, this book looks at the concept of diaspora by probing the ways in which the South Asian diaspora could be re-conceptualised as comprising communities whose identity, on both individual and collective levels, is grounded in a sense of rooted and connected locations that do not necessarily privilege the homeland.

This book offers a detailed examination of the reasons why socialism failed in South Korea, going beyond the generally accepted view that the left failed because of suppression by the state. It proffers that the real reason why socialism failed was its inability to develop beyond revolutionary socialism and build a more pragmatic social democracy.

This book provides an urgent insight into how state authorities are currently interacting with NGOs. It brings together the most recent research covering three broad themes, namely the conceptualizations and subsequent functions of NGOs; state-NGO engagement; and NGOs as a mediator between state and society in contemporary China.

Using Japanese language sources presented for the first time in English and a number of local history case studies, this book offers a fascinating and little-known perspective on WWII. It combines a comprehensive theory of how war memories operate at the local level, explaining Hokkaido's pivotal role in Japanese imperial history.

This book sheds light on historical developments and the current gender equality situation in Japan through the lens of women in science and technology. Drawing on data from interviews with government officials, scientists and educators, it demonstrates how the underrepresentation of women in STEM has been dealt with by national government.

How did exile impact an early modern writer's personal and national identity? This project explores that and other questions in a series of case studies drawn from early modern English texts. It traces the development of a phenomenon called the "mind of exile" and engages in a study of marginalization's impact on English literary consciousness.

Through nine empirically grounded case studies from Latin America, Europe and Australia, this book critically assesses different forms of participation related to resource extraction activities. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Third World Quarterly.

Physicians have little training in examining the credibility of a patient¿s medical presentation directly and are confronted with the possibility of malingering. This books serves as a guide for health practitioners and clinicians to diagnose neurological malingering cases. It covers history, physical exams, types of pain conditions; and electrophysiologic, pyschiatric, and chemosensory information as they relate to malingering. The book emphasizes neurological malingering in several diseases and conditions including aphasia, dementia, epilepsy, Munchausen syndrome, multiple sclerosis, blindness, and deafness.

New Developments in Dementia Prevention Research addresses a dearth of knowledge about dementia prevention and shows the importance of considering the broader social impact of certain risk factors, including the role we each play in our own cognitive health throughout the lifespan.

Ongoing developments in the EU energy market make it necessary to reflect on some of the primary issues related to the public legal impact on the European energy sector, and the proposed book answers this necessity by delving into European energy law. The author offers a brief explanation of the background operation of the electricity sector, as well as of liberalisation within the area, and traces the evolution of the European Union¿s approach towards the issue of public law regulation within the electricity sector. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of EU energy law and policy.

This book addresses the important intersection of ageing, wellbeing and climate change in the Arctic region, making a key interdisciplinary contribution to an area of research on which little has been written, and limited sources of information are currently available. It will be of great interest to scholars of climate change, gerontology and social policy.

Bringing together an international team of contributors from different disciplines, this collection addresses the intersection of religion, gender, corporeality and/or sexuality in various Western and Eastern cultures.

This book analyses the Pakistani judiciary through the important lens of comparative politics. It uses the counter-examples of India and the United States in order to present a justiciability standard and procedure for the Supreme Court of Pakistan to adopt.

The issue of methodology is a fundamental concern for all who engage in educational research. Presenting a series of methodological dialogues between eminent education researchers, this book explores the ways in which they have chosen and developed research methods to style their investigations and frame their arguments.

Collecting the Past brings together the latest research on several significant British collectors from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Considering the aims and motives that led these collectors to assemble such remarkable collections, the book also examines the fate of these collections after the collectors' deaths.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of what constitutes local sustainability and why it matters, focusing closely on local sustainability policy covering everything from environmental initiatives, economic development issues, and social equity concerns.

Guided by the Spirits is a case study of youth suicide in the Sault Sainte Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.

Concentrating on the micro-institutional variables and the role of regional elites, the author investigates the political roots of the divergence of development trajectories among Indiäs subnational states since the liberalization, as an essential aspect of the political economy of development in India.

This book examines contending visions on nomadism in modern Palestine, with a special focus on the British Mandate period. It proves that nomadism was not invented by the British or the Zionists, but is the shared legacy of Ottoman, British, Zionist, Palestinian, and most recently, Israeli attitudes to the Bedouin of Palestine.

This book examines Arab approaches to mediation, negotiation and settlement of political disputes.