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1. The Nation State, Normative Assumptions and Rival Nationalisms -- 2. Federations: Main Features -- 3. Federations and Second Chambers -- 4. Federalism, Devolution and Territorially Based Cleavages in Africa: Does Institutional Design Matter? -- 5. Devolution and Transition in Sudan -- 6. Constitutional adjudication and Constitutional Governance -- 7. Conclusion.

Chapter 1. introduction -- Chapter 2. The German Hyperinflation of 1923 -- Chapter 3. Macroeconomic Developments from the End of theof the 1960s to the early 1980s -- Chapter 4. The Inflation Wave from the Late 1960s onward -- Chapter 5. Comparison of developments in the various countries -- Chapter 6. The economic situation in the four countries after the price level shock 2021.-Chapter 7. Conclusions and Recommendations -- Chapter 8. Theoretical Explanations of Price Level Changes.

Chapter 1. (Introduction) Election discourse in Africa: Some critical considerations -- Chapter 2. Digital rhetoric of pandemic elections: Toward multilingual multimodal information design -- Chapter 3. Metaphors and metonymies in Akosua cartoons in the Daily Guide on Ghana's electoral politics: A cognitive linguistic approach -- Chapter 4. An examination of the communicative functions of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's inaugural addresses -- Chapter 5. Political economy of vigilantism in Ghana's 2020 general election -- Chapter 6. Social media, and electoral disagreements in Ghana's election 2020 -- Chapter 7. Dialogic communication on digital platforms as public relations technique: A case of two political parties in Ghana -- Chapter 8. Direct address and ethical performance of political discourse: An analysis of Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang's inauguration speech -- Chapter 9. (Afterword) Democracy, education, and public scholarship.

1. Men and Their Health -- 2. The Cultural History of the Prostate -- 3. Narratives of Prostate Cancer: The Social Triad -- 4. Leaking Bodies, Sexual Health, and Masculinity -- 5. Coping Strategies and the Emotionology of Masculinity -- 6. Partners Care, Couplehood, and Intimate Life -- 7. The Care Apparatus and Healthcare Professionals at Work -- 8. Conclusion: Sexual Health and Ageing Prostate Cancer Masculinities -- 9. Methodology and Method.

Social Support, Online Self-help Groups and Anxiety/Depression -- Discourse Analysis: Theoretical backgrounds and methodological approaches -- Data of online self-help groups for anxiety and depression (OSGADs) and research ethics -- Structure and content of the online communication of social support -- Giving support through multifunctional self-disclosure messages -- Contextualizing politeness of direct advice messages -- Therapeutic potential: Unique outcomes in narratives -- Conclusions and implications.

Chapter 1: Introduction: 'Black' Clergy Voices and the Church of England -- Chapter 2: Sociology of the Church of England -- Chapter 3: How Critical Race Theory Can Help Us Understand the Church of England Much Better -- Chapter 4: The 'Palaver' in Black Clergy's Ontology -- Chapter 5: Cognitive Dissonance in Belonging for Black Clergy -- Chapter 6: The Model for Fostering a Sense of Belonging -- Chapter 7: Conclusion and Recommendations.

PART 1. PURPOSE AND PROLOGUE -- Chapter 1. Owning and Owing -- Chapter 2. From Warfare to Welfare in Three Generations -- PART 2. ACCOUNTING FOR GOVERNMENT -- Chapter 3. Why Government Accounting Matters -- Chapter 4. What Does the Government Balance Sheet Look Like? -- Chapter 5. Why Accrual Accounting Matters -- Chapter 6. Accrual Accounting – How it Works in Practice -- Chapter 7. Central Banks and the Public Sector Balance Sheet -- Chapter 8. Looking to the Future: The Comprehensive Balance Sheet -- Chapter 9. Comparison of Public Sector Balance Sheets -- Chapter 10. Comparison of Comprehensive Balance Sheets -- Chapter 11. Review of Fiscal Rules -- PART 3. MANAGING PUBLIC COMMERCIAL ASSETS AND LIABILITIES -- Chapter 12. Finding, Understanding and Valuing Public Commercial Assets -- Chapter 13. The Asset Map: A Shortcut to Understanding Property Holdings Better -- Chapter 14. Institutionalising Asset Management -- Chapter 15. What Should Governments Do with Public Commercial Assets? -- Chapter 16. Managing Assets Better: The Role of Public Wealth Funds -- Chapter 17. Pensions and Other Liabilities: The Benefits of Disclosure and Management -- PART 4. PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE -- Chapter 18. Balance Sheets, Culture and National Achievement in Europe 1560 - 1834 -- Chapter 19. How Accounting Can Save Democracy -- Chapter 20. Implementing Change.

Introduction -- Behavioral Characteristics of Mid-High Net Worth Families -- Financial Asset Management for Mid-High Net Worth Families -- Non-Financial Asset Management for Mid-High Net Worth Families -- Commercial Insurance Allocation for Mid-High Net Worth Families -- Allocation of Children's Commercial Health Insurance for Mid-High Net Worth Families -- Retirement and Insurance for Mid-high net worth Families -- Typical Family Analysis.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The socio-technical development of digital maps -- Chapter 3: The missing user in cartographic thought -- Chapter 4: Towards a practice-orientated digital sociology -- Chapter 5: Applying practice-orientated digital sociology -- Chapter 6: Knowledgeable deferral and digital maps as anchors -- Chapter 7: Centring anchors and the affordances of digital maps -- Chapter 8: Rough guides that anchor and the affordances of digital maps -- Chapter 9: Conclusion.

1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Homeland Conditions: "Speaking Kurdish was Equal to a Crime." -- Chapter 3: Escape: "I had seen the deaths of my children with my own eyes." -- Chapter 4: Asylum Processes and Challenges: "We neither die nor live but receive some breath." -- Chapter 5: Towards Integration: "We cannot achieve integration without struggle." -- Chapter 6: Self-Governance from below: "Self-help Services are Necessary to Mitigate our Suffering -- Chapter 7: Exile: Exile: "I have not dreamed of being here since I still live there" -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

1. Overview of Business Environment in 2018/2019 -- 2. Walking into One-stop Shops -- 3. Using Digital Government -- 4. Measuring Economic Performance -- 5. Doing Business in Zhejiang -- 6. Doing Business in Zhejiang -- 7. Doing Business in Gansu -- 8. Doing Business in Guangdong -- 9. Theory and Indicators -- 10. Chinese Business Environment Survey -- 11. Data Tables.

Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Challenges and opportunities for Australian society -- Part II: Identities and Imaginaries: Values, place and power in 'mainstream' Australia -- Chapter 2: Australian identity: Multiculturalism, 'mainstream Australia' and white fragility -- Chapter 3: The beach and the Australian imaginary -- Chapter 4: 'The Australian way of life': Neoliberal hegemony, colonisation and territory -- Part III: Constructing a business-friendly society: Capital, labour and the welfare state -- Chapter 5: Economic inequality and the 'cost of living' crisis -- Chapter 6: The evolution of precarious work in Australia: Flexibility, fragmentation and insecurity -- Chapter 7: Poverty and punishment in Australian welfare policy: From the Cashless Debit Card to ParentsNext -- Part IV: From public goods to private assets: Marketising education, health care and housing -- Chapter 8: Uneven playing fields: Australian education and the commodification of opportunity -- Chapter 9: Healthy markets or health equity?: Neoliberalism and the rationing of health care in Australia -- Chapter 10: Capitalising on the housing crisis: Territorial stigmatisation, urban renewal and displacement -- Part V: Capital, place, age and race: Challenging neoliberal hegemony -- Chapter 11: The promise and peril of Digital Agriculture: 'Unleashing' the value of natural capital? -- Chapter 12: Rebellion, civil disobedience and repression: Young people, place and protest in Australia -- Chapter 13: Racism and resistance: African Australian challenges to spatial management practices in Australian institutions -- Part VI: Conclusion -- Chapter 14: Conclusion: What has happened, what can happen?.

Foreword: The Peculiar Meanings of Data -- Chapter 1: Considering Data: Critique and Method -- Chapter 2: Data Arithmetic, Ratios and Mechanical Reasoning in the 17th Century -- Chapter 3: Analytical Probability, Averages and Data Distributions in the 19th Century -- Chapter 4: Idols, Paradigms and Specters in Data Sciences -- List of illustations.-List of references.-General index.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The demographic future of Western Balkans: between depopulation and immigration -- Chapter 3. Population ageing process and depopulation context in Western Balkans -- Chapter 4. Temporary migration and policy challenges in the Western Balkan countries - Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and North Macedonia perspectives -- Chapter 5. The evolution of family related behaviours in the Western Balkans and their impact on present and future family and population structures: an analysis concerning the period 1945-2050 -- Chapter 6. Mortality and health developments in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro -- Chapter 7. Serbia: Policy response to demographic challenges -- Chapter 8. Spatial distribution of human capital in Serbia: empirical analysis with special reference to education -- Chapter 9. Challenges in getting old in Croatia -- Chapter 10. Albanian return migration in times of economic hardship -- Chapter 11. A spatial approach of migration and poverty in Albania: an inevitable correlation? -- Chapter 12. Nationals and foreigners fertility in a crisis environment, the case of Greece (2009-2020) -- Chapter 13. Is a Future Upward Trend in Births a Realistic Policy Goal? -- Chapter 14. The impact of highly skilled returning emigrants on the origin country's innovation performance: Evidence from Greece -- Chapter 15. Culture versus political and ecclesiastic legislation. A study on how Eastern Orthodox Easter customs and individual agency affect people's health in Greece -- Chapter 16. Attitudes towards reproduction and creating a family among Albanian women – the case of Arachinovo municipality, North Macedonia.