Insight into Disability

This book provides the fundamental aspects of bionanomaterials and bionanotechnology and insight into the synthesis and modification of bionanomaterials in a detailed manner. It includes pertinent top

This book introduces the topological behavior of acoustics. It provides valuable insight into acoustic metamaterials, from multidisciplinary fundamentals to cutting-edge research.

Violent liminalities in Early Modern Culture is a methodologically innovative book combining the twin disciplines of queer theory and disability studies. It investigates the violence feared from, and directed at, inhabitants of the ‘betwixt and between’ spaces of early modern literature and culture.

This timely book explores the concept of truth in the discipline of history and argues that history education must evolve to combat the post-truth crisis. This book is essential reading for history educators, historians and those interested in history and concerned about the slide into a post-truth world.

Countering with Compassion provides educators with the tools needed to weave compassionate practice into their classrooms, schools, and wider communities.

This landmark volume presents maps of 247 species from 42 countries with more than 125,200 unique records, taking into account recent extinctions to give the most up-to-date picture possible. Accounts

This book brings together a group of international scholars to discuss theoretical and comparative considerations of judicial accountability. Accountability of the judiciary is an essential element in a democratic state ruled by law. Its design must take into account the need to ensure both the legitimacy of the judiciary and its independence. The work discusses accountability in the light of recent research, including studies on the crisis of the rule of law in the contemporary world. The book adopts a broad approach to accountability, which has various facets, referring both to the courts, that is the organisational element of the judicial branch of government, and to judges, its individual dimension. Divided into four parts, the first deals with the essence of the concept of accountability of the judiciary; the second discusses the emerging standards relating primarily to the individual accountability of judges, while the third discusses the position of constitutional judges through