This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the socioeconomic determinants of Covid-19. From the end of 2019 until presently, the world has been ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the cause of this is (obviously) a virus, the extent to which this virus spread, and therefore the number of infections and deaths, was largely determined by socio-economic factors. From this, it follows that the course of the pandemic varies greatly from one country to another. This observ...

EU Procedural Law provides a rigorously structured analysis of the system of judicial protection in the European Union and the procedure before the Union Courts (the Court of Justice and the General Court). It examines the various types of proceedings which may be brought before the Union Courts, such as the actions for infringement, annulment, failure to act, and damages, along with special forms of procedure involving, for example, interim relief, appeals, staff cases, and intel...

LGBT rights have become increasingly salient within the EU enlargement process as a litmus test for Europeanness. But the promotion of these norms has provided a basis for political contestation. This book interrogates the normative dimensions of the EU enlargement process, with special reference to LGBT politics. Reconceptualising Europeanisation, it argues that EU enlargement is a process of negotiated transformation in which EU policies and norms are (re)defined, translated and transfor...

WINNER: CMI Management Book of the Year Awards 2015 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship Category (1st edition)Many organizations approach customer-centic marketing and innovating their business strategy in isolation to one another, missing groundbreaking opportunities for advancement. Customer Innovation, second edition, turns this on its head by starting with the customer, innovating around their needs, then building a customer led business...

A woman searching for answers in her own life finds them - and much more - in the wreckage and haunting stories of the Batavia shipwreck.The powerfully moving historical debut from the winner of the Banjo Prize for Fiction. For all fans of Natasha Lester, Lauren Chater and Tea Cooper.Shortlisted for Best Debut Fiction in the Indie Book Awards 2026Two women. One shipwreck. And four centuries of secrets.Shortly before Christm...

One girl discovers what it means to be human in a world ruled by ancient technology in this riveting high tech sci-fi adventure by breakout author Koen MartensYoung Tlana, unaware of the totalitarian convictions of those she admires and emulates, is a promising student of human consciousness and devout scholar of the holy texts governing society.But when she is chosen to be this year’s sacrificial lamb and die for the common good, cracks appear in her convi...

Neither power nor morality but both. Moral power is what Sukuma farmers in Tanzania in times of crisis attribute to an unknown figure they call their witch. A universal process is involved, as much bodily as social, which obstructs the patient’s recovery. Healers turn the table on the witch through rituals showing that the community and the ancestral spirits side with the victim. In contrast to biomedicine, their magic and divination introduce moral values that assess the state of the syst...

A woman searching for answers in her own life finds them - and much more - in the wreckage and haunting stories of the Batavia shipwreck.The powerfully moving historical debut from the winner of the Banjo Prize for Fiction. For all fans of Natasha Lester, Lauren Chater and Tea Cooper.Shortlisted for Best Debut Fiction in the Indie Book Awards 2026Two women. One shipwreck. And four centuries of secrets.Shortly before Christm...

Do you feel overwhelmed by the constant stream of emails that come in every day? Do you sometimes miss important emails? Tired of searching for that one important email among the mass of unread messages? Then this ebook is exactly what you need!In this course I will teach you how to set up a system to transform your Gmail inbox from a chaotic mess to an efficient and well-organized system. Through clear steps and practical examples, you will learn how to organize and manage your em...

In modern societies, full criminal trials are avoided on many occasions. This book is concerned with mechanisms that either divert from or speed up the proceedings.Koen Vriend argues that the fair trial rights as established by the European Court of Human Rights under Article 6 ECHR provide a normative framework that does not only apply in a full criminal trial, but that it can also be used for diverted and shortened proceedings. He shows that the concept of fairness—as derived fro...

In a digital world of fleeting trends and shifting algorithms, traditional marketing no longer suffices. To stay ahead, businesses need authenticity, trust, and scale.Social Reach Optimization (SRO) transforms employee advocacy from a nice-to-have into a mission-critical strategy. It enables companies to activate their greatest assets, employees, franchisees, or partners, by encouraging them to share real stories that spark stronger brands, larger networks, more loyal customers, an...

African gerontology has expanded dramatically as a discipline with population ageing and its consequences for societies and for individual experiences of ageing becoming prominent issues all over the continent. This volume therefore brings together some of the most prolific and skilful researchers working on ageing in Africa today. The book is based on sociolinguistic and anthropological research conducted in different regions of Southern Africa, West and East Africa, and in different type...