The Market in Babies: Stories of Australian Adoption tells the history of adoption in Australia from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to it...

Recently, there has been a rise in opioid use in the United States involving both the nonmedical use of prescription drugs and more traditional ill...

This book brings forth debates on the production and eradication of poverty from experiences in the global South. It collects a set of innovative a...

In recent years research initiatives in the field of project management have accelerated and are now pursued across many disciplinary fields and a ...

In this collection, researchers analyze rural societies, economies, and governance in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia through the lens of r...

“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies,” Nietzsche declared. Religious or secular, born-again Baptist or the recently woke — funda...

How can we seek justice and redress for the sexual abuse of children and better prevent its occurrence? This work brings together the thoughts on t...

From 1914 to 1920, thousands of men who had immigrated to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire were unjustly im...

Thousands of newcomers are pouring into Alberta from around the globe, bringing unexpected gifts. Many are writers and storytellers. What pulls the...

The Sub-Specialty Care of HIV-Infected Patients is a synthesis of current policies, practices, and recommendations regarding the management of HIV-...

This volume presents a survey of technological innovations that enhance both the learning processes and the living conditions of individuals who li...

Physical inactivity has been recognised as one of the common modifiable risk factors for non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, stroke, c...

The chapters in this book focus on three central themes: Current Challenges in Survey Development for People with Disabilities; Strategies to Promo...

Trade in the Global Economy

Trade policies and agreements are a powerful weapon in the Era of Globalization. Most countries' strategy is to pursue multiple market-opening init...

The purpose of this book is to provide information on the alternative futures of fluctuated global economy by global model simulations as well as a...

Trade liberalisation reforms in Bangladesh have been accompanied by impressive economic growth and substantial reductions in poverty. Nevertheless,...

The Transition to Retirement (TTR) program aims to help older people with long-term disability gradually build an active and socially inclusive ret...

This is an interdisciplinary analysis of the interaction between today's globalisation and Americanisation. Transnationalism involves a loosening o...

Alcoholism is a disorder characterised by the excessive consumption of and dependence on alcoholic beverages, leading to physical and psychological...

The abundance of food in the developed countries of the world has seemingly spawned an epidemic of disorders connected to the food. Extremes such a...

Poverty is a social fact of life for billions of people around the world. The developed countries abhor poverty, or seem to, for several reasons. P...

Substance abuse is one of society's most serious problems. Drugs seem to be readily available even in elementary schools, which attests to the succ...