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By studying the history and sources of the Thomas Christians of India, a community of pre-colonial Christian heritage, the book revisits the assumption that Christianity is Western and colonial and that Christians in the non-West are products of colonial and post-colonial missionaries.

This book discusses many issues related to both acquiring and teaching Cantonese. Useful for learners of Cantonese, teachers of Cantonese, and for applied linguists; the unique aspects related to the acquisition of Cantonese offer a fascinating contribution to the literature.

This book focuses on the connections between reinterpreting Descartes and Spinoza.

Drawing on expertise in art history, exhibition studies and cultural studies as well as politics and international relations, China in Australasia presents significant new perspectives on the role of art in the cultural diplomacy of the People's Republic of China.

This volume presents cutting edge research from junior iHPS scholars, and in doing so provides a snapshot of current developments within the field.

Across the world, violence inflicted in the name of family honor is attracting increasing attention. Family honor violence is physical force inflicted primarily on women for conduct defined as dishonorable. This book explores these conflicts of honor, how they are triggered, how they are handled and why some lead to death.

This book responds to a growing interest among early childhood professionals and scholars for more nature and sustainability focused programs. Doing so rewards the reader with opportunities to critically reflect on their own practice and explore new pedagogical pathways. It will be essential reading for practitioners and scholars alike.

This book considers the opposition between pregnancy and parenthood on the one hand, and education on the other, using the specific case of in-school pregnancy in Mozambique.

This book presents insight into the design and practical results of obligations in different countries and their effects on municipal financial health, demonstrating the increasing importance of efficient bargaining processes and the institutional design of developer obligations in urban planning.

Index for Social Emotional Technologies explores how technology can strengthen access and foster the acquisition of transversal skills useful for inclusive educational processes.

The human rights issues in Japan are multifaceted. Over decades, domestic and international human rights organisations have raised concerns, but government obstinacy has meant there has been little progress.

This book explores the attitudes, anxieties and aspirations of India's burgeoning young population in a globalised world. Drawing upon time-series survey data of the Indian youth aged between 15 and 34 years across 19 Indian states, it provides key insights along with an overview of the changing trends and patterns of their behaviour.

This accessible book presents a novel and accessible way to learn about designing and conducting social research. Unlike traditional social research methods books, it provides a `real world¿ account of social researchers¿ experiences and learning achieved through conducting research in a variety of fields.

Gender, Age and Inequality in the Professions explores men¿s and women¿s experiences of professional work and careers through an intersectional lens by focusing on the intersection of gender and age.

This book draws together cutting-edge perspectives on factors and processes that contribute to strong, thriving, and resilient close relationships. Covering everything from important factors and processes to data analytic techniques and future directions, it is essential for students and academics interested in the psychology

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future. This book is particularly interested in peri-urbanization in China, the process by which fringe areas of cities develop. Chapters in this book explore how rural industrialization has changed the landscape and rules about land use in peri-urban areas.

This book encompasses various uses of magnesium in a clinical setting ranging from its role in maintaining homeostasis, to its uses in the fields of dermatology, cardiology, neurology, and in obstetrics. It is a comprehensive collaboration of this ubiquitous dietary supplement's applications in clinical medicine.

Time and Performer Training addresses the importance and centrality of time and temporality to the practices, processes, and conceptual thinking of performer training. Through focusing on time and the temporal in performer training, this book offers innovative ways of integrating research into studio practices.

Time and Performer Training addresses the importance and centrality of time and temporality to the practices, processes, and conceptual thinking of performer training. Through focusing on time and the temporal in performer training, this book offers innovative ways of integrating research into studio practices.

Examining five states engaged in territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea, this book explores what factors have influenced state decisions to form security relationships with the United States and how the evolution of these factors might affect future security relationships in the South China Sea.

This book examines the interstices among statutory enactment, constitutional convention and formal constitution in which quasi-constitutionality exists.

This book highlights how terpenoids act as biological messengers and can be used as medicine against liver disease, neurodegenerative disease, cancer, infectious disease, cardiovascular disease, and inflammatory diseases. It emphasizes the metabolic engineering approach of terpenoids production and their toxicity.

By taking an ethnographic approach to medical travel, this important book uses critical perspectives to understand inequalities in healthcare access and delivery, including gender, class and ethnicity, and explore how these are negotiated.

This book interrogates the meanings of the established ontology and subjectivity embedded in the discourse of `Western¿ and `non-Western¿ IR. The contributors reveal the extent to which contemporary IR discourses are a part of the culture of linear progress and pre-given autonomous sovereign individuals.

Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics argues that as much as the `Congo crisis¿ (1960-1965) was a Cold War battleground, so too was it a battleground for Southern Africäs decolonisation.

Reflecting the importance of drawing on children¿s perspectives to shape professional practice, this book offers a nuanced approach to understanding the aims, implications and practicalities of accessing and incorporating children¿s perspectives in pedagogial practices relating to transitions.

Narratives of Architectural Education provides an overview of life as an architecture student, detailing how a layperson may develop an architectural identity. This book proposes becoming an architect as a personal narrative of professional development structured around various stages and challenges associated with identity transformation.

In the Handbook of Research Methods in Consumer Psychology, leading consumer psychologists summarize key aspects of the research process and explain how different methods enrich understanding of how consumers process information to form judgments and opinions and to make consumption related decisions.

In the Handbook of Research Methods in Consumer Psychology, leading consumer psychologists summarize key aspects of the research process and explain how different methods enrich understanding of how consumers process information to form judgments and opinions and to make consumption related decisions.

This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation between nature and culture, embodying different levels of human control over wilderness, defining specific rules for this confrontation and staging different forms of human dominance.