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"An introduction to calculus and linear algebra for students of economics and related areas. Motivated throughout by problems from economics and finance, it covers the essential mathematics for a first-year university course in these areas, providing numerous examples and extensive exercises (with full solutions) to consolidate understanding"--

"Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Change discusses how geopolitics affects climate change by highlighting its catastrophic effects. Even though states would prefer to reduce emissions in the abstract, they would always prioritize access to carbon-based fuels necessary for generating economic growth to compete with rival states. Thus, geopolitical competition ramps the difficulty of implementing effective climate change policies. Oceans Rise Empires Fall discusses how the Ukraine and Russia conflict exposed priorities such as territorial control and fossil fuel acquisition over a zero-carbon future. It explains that competitive territorial, resource, and technological dramas obscured the deterioration of the planet's life support systems"--

"This is a book about doing good qualitative research in the social sciences. In weaving together contributions by over forty experts, it presents a comprehensive approach to qualitative research by providing practical advice on carrying out a qualitative research project from start (i.e., finding the research question) to finish (i.e., finding a publishing venue). The chapters are short, accessibly written, and simultaneously engage with theoretical considerations and best practices. As such, each presents comprehensive and implementable information about qualitative methods based on first-person accounts of experiences in the research process. The chapters also include advice about the expected and unexpected challenges associated with doing qualitative work. The central goal of the text is to make qualitative research more "knowable" and accessible for any person-consumer, producer, researcher, reviewer, teacher, and student alike"--

"This book examines international aid in North Korea, in particular the ongoing policy of withholding aid, through the lens of the impact on the general population to present an argument for sustainable development. Focusing on the human rights of North Koreans and presenting a case for the use of aid as a provision for social change, it explores an alternative narrative to the existing long-drawn-out rhetoric of 'denuclearisation-first'. The book's scope includes evaluations of the causes of international sanctions and their impact, the Kim regime's mitigation of sanctions through marketisation and a digital economy as well as barriers to aid monitoring and the reason for the absence of any mass anti-regime movement. It also posits that North Korea is a fragile state but cloaked by the image of a strong regime. The book succinctly demonstrates that the key to unlocking the potential of North Korea's 'cloaked society' does not lie in sanctions, but is to be found in engagement with development aid. As such it will appeal to students of Korean Studies, Development Studies, Asian politics and International Relations"--

"This book examines the representation and misrepresentation of queer people in true crime, addressing their status as both victims and perpetrators in actual crime, as well as how the media portrays them. The chapters apply an intersectional perspective in examining criminal cases involving LGBTQ people, as well as the true crime media content surrounding the cases. The book illuminates how sexual orientation, gender, race, and other social locations impact the treatment of queer people in the criminal legal system as well as the mass media. Each chapter describes one or more high-profile criminal cases involving queer people (e.g., the murders of Brandon Teena and Kitty Genovese; serial killer Aileen Wuornos; the Pulse nightclub mass shooting). The authors examine how the case(s) are portrayed in the media via news, film, podcasts, documentaries, books, social media, and more. Each chapter discusses not only what is visible or emphasized by the media, but also what is invisible in the accounting or societal focus surrounding the case. Lesser known (but similar) cases are used in the book to call attention to how race, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, social class, and/or other features influence the dominant narrative surrounding these cases. Each chapter addresses "teachable moments" from each case and its coverage, leaving readers with several considerations to take with them into the future. The book also provides media resources and supplemental materials, so that curious readers, including scholars, students, content creators, and advocates can examine the cases and media content further. The book will appeal to scholars and students of criminology, psychology, sociology, law, media studies, sexuality studies, and cultural studies and people with an interest in true crime"--

In the late eighteenth century, it was a cliché that the East India Company ruled India 'by the sword.' Christina Welsch shows how Indian and European soldiers shaped and challenged the Company's political expansion and how elite officers turned those dynamics into a bid for 'stratocracy' - a state dominated by its army. Combining colonial records with Mughal Persian sources from Indian states, The Company's Sword offers new insight into India's eighteenth-century military landscape, showing how elite officers positioned themselves as the sole actors who could navigate, understand, and control those networks. Focusing on south India, rather than the Company's better-studied territories in Bengal, the analysis provides a new approach, chronology, and geography through which to understand the Company Raj. It offers a fresh perspective of the Company's collapse after the rebellions of 1857, tracing the deep roots of that conflict to the Company's eighteenth-century development

Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Contents -- Preface -- PHILIPP LÖFFLER, MARGIT PETERFY, NATALIE RAUSCHER, WELF WERNER: Introduction: Participation in Crisis? -- Section I: Politics and Society -- CAROL ANDERSON: One Person, No Vote: Rigging the Rules -- JUDY TZU-CHUN WU: Pacific Feminist Imaginaries: The 1977 US National Women's Conference and the Politics of Territorial Representation -- LAURA KETTEL: Unequal Streets: Homelessness, Public Space, and Exclusion in the American City -- SILKE BRASELMANN: Teaching About Black Lives Matter, Teaching Against Racism: Opportunities for Participation in Antiracist English Language Teacher Education -- HELEN A. GIBSON: Teaching Towards Calvin Warren's Nonmetaphysical Historiography -- Section II: Literary Studies and the Arts -- ANDREW ERICKSON: Refusing American History: Non-participation and Narrative Resistance in Ta-Nehisi Coates's 'The Water Dancer' -- MARCEL HARTWIG: 'Felon', Convict, Attorney: Reginald Dwayne Betts and the Poetics of Re-Entry -- MAGDA MAJEWSKA: The Literary Prestige of Censorship: The Case of 'Naked Lunch' -- TIM LANZENDÖRFER: Participatory Literary Studies and the Question of Public Method -- KIRSTEN TWELBECK: Community Engagement and Participation in Wheatfield. A Confrontation -- Section III: Media Landscapes -- MARTIN BUTLER: The Audience Strikes Back… Or Does It? Formations of Participation and the Figure of the Amateur in New Media Environments -- JULIANN KNAUS: Participatory Platform versus Condemning Community: In/Exclusion in the Black Natural Hair Movement on YouTube -- LENA GOTTESWINTER: Appropriation as Participation: A 21ˢᵗ-Century Reshaping of the Cultural Memory of Hip -- TAMARA HEGER: Who gets to be a Liberator? Participation and Recognition in Robert W. Hacker's 'Flossenbürg Concentration Camp' -- List of Contributors -- Backcover.