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This book examines ancient Buddhist traditions centered around water. It studies the sustainability and conservation practices of Buddhist monastics and examines how these early practices and ethos are applicable in the contemporary world.

This edited collection explores the scholarly and pedagogical implementations of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) in world language education. The book aims to provide a comprehensive exploration of CMT's role in world language education, offering guidance and inspiration for both researchers and practitioners in the field.

This edited collection explores the scholarly and pedagogical implementations of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) in world language education. The book aims to provide a comprehensive exploration of CMT's role in world language education, offering guidance and inspiration for both researchers and practitioners in the field.

This is the first book to present a critical analysis of the concept of the European Model of Sport (EMS). The EMS concept is widely used by policy makers at national and EU level, and by some sports organisations, yet it has never been comprehensively defined in official documents.

As perceptions of menopause have evolved, this new text examines what clinical problems can arise in treatment of patients experiencing the menopause after cancer treatment. It will be an invaluable reference for both gynaecologists and oncologists internationally.

By the end of the nineteenth century, there were already some countries in southern Europe whose economies benefitted from the arrival of tourists. But it was during the twentieth century, and particularly after the Second World War, that the phenomenon of mass tourism arrived and dramatically impacted the economies of southern Europe.

Everything in our world can be interpreted as a sign. This opens up the question: How do we proceed from semantics to pragmatics, from theory to practice and vice versa? What is the nature of the relation between interpretation, action and reality? And, what can we learn by viewing economics and the economy through this lens?

Children's Literature & Culture: An Introduction guides readers in the study of culture in, around, and through children's literature.

This book contributes to the debate about the impact of business and management schools.

Immigrant Englishes Around the World is a collection that explores the varieties of English that emerge when speakers whose native languages are not English immigrate to an English-speaking country.

Immigrant Englishes Around the World is a collection that explores the varieties of English that emerge when speakers whose native languages are not English immigrate to an English-speaking country.

From ice puppets to robots, from intricate marionettes to abstract forms, Making Meaning in Puppetry investigates the elusive and multifaceted how of how puppets make meaning in performance. It develops a vocabulary for understanding and articulating how the puppet's meaning-making systems work across its three distinct parts.

From ice puppets to robots, from intricate marionettes to abstract forms, Making Meaning in Puppetry investigates the elusive and multifaceted how of how puppets make meaning in performance. It develops a vocabulary for understanding and articulating how the puppet's meaning-making systems work across its three distinct parts.

The digitalisation of courtrooms brings both opportunities and challenges to the judicial process, shaping our understandings of trials and their participants in a myriad of, at times, unexpected ways, and transforming how we participate in, attend, engage with, and consume trials.

This book examines the French revolution from an anthropological perspective, eschewing an analysis in terms of 'good' and 'bad' actors, or progressive and non-progressive forces, and adopting instead the frame of liminality.

Building European Defence Capacity: An Assessment evaluates areas important for the re-building of defence capabilities in Europe, including the transatlantic defence ecosystem, defence spending, defence-industrial production, and considerations for building more resilient forces and supply chains.

Advancements in AI have revolutionized medical, biological, and agricultural sciences, enabling faster disease detection, personalized precision medicine, and predictive epidemiology with minimal errors. AI optimizes agriculture through tailored fertilizer use, water management, and yield prediction.

Romani People in Italy offers an in-depth, updated, and detailed analysis of the segregated condition of Romani people in Italy. The different shades of segregation take the form of housing, educational and social isolation.

Theatres of Compost places ecology at the center of performance scholarship and criticism, and it positions performance as a key cultural process for bringing about a more just and sustainable future.

This book investigates African philosophical contributions to the concept of deep ecology. This book is an important read for researchers, advocates and other stakeholders working in the fields of environmental philosophy, climate change, indigenous studies, and African Studies.

This comprehensive volume explore the role that nutraceuticals can play in addressing obesity, shedding light on their potential as tools to promote sustainable weight management strategies as well as addressing associated health risks.