Uncover the hidden challenges of digital transformation and learn from what often goes unsaid.

Change and digital transformation is now a constant in organisations, but how do you do it successfully? Going Digital helps leaders and managers navigate the fast pace of change in today's workplace by focusing on the real day-to-day challenges that organisations are facing.

Organised thematically and covering AI, diversity, crises, and other topics, each chapter covers the story arc of what busi...

The market leading textbook for trainees and practitioners counselling children. It contains lots of short chapters offering practice frameworks, skills and interventions.

The essential guide to teaching and learning in higher education for anyone in teaching and learning support roles at university, including early career academics, postgraduate researchers and graduate teaching assistants.

International Studies aims to understand the global complexities of the world in which we live today. Central in these complexities is the position of the human individual, who is both an actor and reactor in global events. This textbook introduces three I's – interests, identities, ideas – that provide a framework to understand human behaviour in today's world. The role of people is further elaborated in the three spatial dimensions of the local, regional, and global level. This gives In...

In the rapidly evolving world of technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) stand out as two of the most influential and transformative forces. This comprehensive guide explores the application of AI and ML across key sectors such as healthcare, finance, retail, and automotive, providing a deep dive into how these technologies are revolutionizing practices, from enhancing medical diagnostics to driving autonomous vehicles and beyond.

The book not only explores practica...

Little is known about the African women who came to Europe from the 1870s onwards, nor do we dare to imagine them as wealthy, elegantly dressed individuals with refined tastes and fluent in several languages. The Krio Fernandino represented a multisited, multilocal, transnational, transcontinental and Afropolitan community that lived between Africa and Europe from the late 19th century onwards. This book explains how the Krio Fernandino, and particularly their women, transcended the barriers ...

By combining different perspectives and methods of empirical research, this PhD thesis generates multi-disciplinary insights into the rise of the logistics complex and its planning discourse whilst focusing specifically on XXL distribution centres (DCs) in the Netherlands. Since the 1980s, the building footprint of this complex has increased fourfold, to approximately 80 million square metres, generating a new large-scale landscape type: Landscapes of Trade. The research addresses urgent i...

This study seeks to understand the interrelationship between daily mobility and the spatial structure of an emerging metropolitan urban system. It is concerned with the daily mobility of a specific group of inhabitants, higher education students, living in a contemporary metropolis and experiencing urban living. The study’s main aim is to better understand aspects of this complex urban spatial structure through the students’ lives and through their daily mobility to explore specific urban...