Nicky Johnston is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator. She has several bestselling titles published in Australia and overseas, and as a primary teacher and acclaimed presenter, Nicky’s aim is to inspire young children to use their imagination and develop their own ideas.

Deb Hudson is an illustrator who is passionate about drawing bright, happy and colourful images that evoke emotion and thought in their viewer. Her first picture book, The Golden Thread, was published in 2019.

Weeding the garden might yield the makings for Dandelion Mead, while an early spring walk reveals the green shoots perfect for brewing Spruce Beer. Danny Childs brings his training as an ethnobotanist to the world of drinks, and with loving regard for even the humblest ingredients, explores each season’s offerings to make sodas, syrups, wines, beers, and amari.

Organized by season, Slow Drinks teaches home cooks, industry pros, homebrewers, and foragers how to transform botanical ingredients—whether gleaned, grown in the garden, or purchased from the store—into singular beverages and cocktails. With transporting photography and gorgeous color illustrations, Slow Drinks is the definitive guide to backyard mixology that can live just as comfortably in your basket on a foraging trip, as it can on the coffee table as a conversation piece.

Equipped with all the basic information needed to ferment, infuse, and pickle, and the reminder to attune your eyes to the bounty of the fields, gardens, and neighborhoods around you, Slow Drinks is your guide to making drinks that tell a story of time and place.

With 100% emphasis on accessible, clear, and applicable advice Professional Perspectives on Banking and Finance provides suggestions to instil best practice in any commercial bank.　

For any business it has become imperative to understand the various factors which influence the customers to purchase through digital modes, and the authors undertake a thorough analysis of these factors in Digital Influence on Consumer Habits. The chapters look at Artificial Intelligence, trend setting and the impact of social media, the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on various sectors, and much more.

Readers will learn service quality, peer pressure, online reviewers’ effect in the digital environment to aid in understanding the various risks and challenges involved in the digital environment, with examples of changing business and consumer scenario case studies as a result of Digital Transformation.　

Pooja Kansra, PhD, is a Professor of Economics at Mittal School of Business, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India. Dr. Kansra has fifteen years of teaching experience. Her areas of research include health economics, labor economics, gender economics, insurance and informal sector.

S. L. Gupta, PhD, is Director at BIT Noida Campus, India.

Demonstrating the breadth and range of feminist writing on women’s work, chapters step away from management-based accounts of public relations towards a space where marginalised voices and the lived experiences of women at all stages in their career are foregrounded. Discussing working lives in Brazil, Spain, Bosnia, Turkey, the UK and beyond, authors consider in rich detail female roles, experiences and paradoxes.

Reconceptualising human experience through a holistic feminist approach, Women’s Work in Public Relations takes us behind the scenes to connect with women navigating the problems and contradictions of everyday working life.　

Sarah Williams is Head of School of Business and Law, Buckinghamshire New University, UK.

1. Policy and management on financial markets and financial institutions;
2. Options, futures, and other derivatives markets;
3. Corporate finance and investment decisions;
4. Insurance and risk management;
5. Accounting, auditing, and taxation;
6. Artificial intelligence and new technology in finance;
7. ESG and sustainability;
8. Income, employment, and education;
9. Monetary and foreign exchange policy;
10. Other economic policies among the Pacific Rim countries.

APBBEF is indexed in ABI/INFORM, EconLit, EBSCO, ProQuest, ResearchGate, and Google Scholar. Manuscript submission: Please use an email attachment in Microsoft Word format or PDF to Dr. Min-Teh Yu (mtyu@nycu.edu.tw) or Dr. Cheng-Few Lee (cflee@business.rutgers.edu).　

Dr. Min-Teh Yu is University Chair Professor at Providence University and National Tsing Hua University. He was President of Providence University and China University of Technology, and Dean of College of Management at Yuan Ze University and National Chiao Tung University. He has been associate editor and guest editor for Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, International Review of Economics and Finance, etc.

Delving into 90 interviews from both before and during the Covid-19 pandemic, authors Sun Sun Lim and Yang Wang provide rich vignettes of family life in urban Chinese households in Beijing and Hangzhou to demonstrate how parents appropriate technology as they raise their children, steer them towards the social aspirations of academic achievement, and navigate the rocky terrains of children’s home-based learning during the pandemic lockdowns. Empirically grounded and theoretically informed, these vivid accounts serve as valuable insights into understanding how family life around is shifting in the face of digitalisation not only in China, but globally.　

Yang Wang is Research Fellow at Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore.

Some of the many topics discussed in this collection include financial inclusion in under-served markets, financial inclusion products and services, financial inclusion for sustainable and responsible business, micro, small, and medium-sized business practices. The chapter authors consider Artificial Intelligence, Block Chain and Robotics in financial inclusion for businesses, and financial inclusion in the Industrial Revolution (IR) 4.0.

This collection of studies is useful for social scientists, students, academicians, academic institutions, policymakers, and other related stakeholders. It is also appropriate for practitioners or financial sector stakeholders to discover potential business opportunities of financial inclusion products and services, allowing them to strategically incorporate the SDGs.　

Muhammad Ali is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Accounting and Finance, Taylor’s University, Subang Jaya, Malaysia.

Syed Ali Raza a is a Full Professor of Finance at the Iqra University Karachi, Pakistan.

Chin-Hong Puah is a Professor cum Chief Executive Officer at the UNIMAS Business School, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS).

Ibrahim Halil Eksi is a Professor of Finance at the University of Gaziantep, Turkey.

A focus group of ten senior banking finance experts was convened to build consensus on compliance practices that senior bank managers can implement to be effective in reducing losses in banks/bank holding companies. The result is the following consensus:

a) Maintenance of effective and independent compliance, consistent with the organisational objectives

b) Clear definition of data sources for compliance analytics

c) Compliance monitoring

d) Reporting activities to upper management

e) Top leadership must champion their code of ethics

f) Understanding the regulatory compliance activities that are effective

Author Sophia Beckett Velez offers an original contribution to the field of banking that Undergraduates, Master’s, Ph.D. students, academics, and researchers can use to gain a deeper understanding of compliance, and AML risks in banks, and the use of effective management practices.　

In providing accounts of physical/sensorial experiences within sites of surveillance and control, the authors in this edited collection bring elements of research experiences (often absent from existing work) to the fore; the impressions and sensual experiences which remain forever in field notes. In so doing they carve out spaces to consider these places and the ways in which they are theorised anew.

The book aims to explore what sensory aspects of experience mean to those engaged in such research, and how they can shape our criminological thinking. What are the sensory textures of these experiences? What do they tell us? How do we communicate them? Finally, what does consideration of these elements tell us about penality?

This timely volume challenges and remakes assumptions about what criminology is and should be; more accurately reflecting the post-disciplinary nature of the field.　

Bethany E. Schmidt is a Research Associate in the Prisons Research Centre, University of Cambridge. Her work explores the moral quality of prison life, with a particular interest in transitioning contexts.

Jason Warr is a Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at De Montfort University with research interests in emotions in criminology, penology, sociology of power, and the philosophy of science.

Freda Gonot-Schoupinsky, Merv Neal and Jerome Carson demonstrate how laughter and humour differ, and how both can be applied within positive psychology to boost mood and maintain positive outcomes.The Positive Psychology of Laughter and Humour includes case studies and real-world insight as well as providing a methodological and theoretical background to the topic, giving rigorous theoretical and methodological insight for researchers, and including pedagogical sections in each chapter useful for teachers and researchers.　

Merv Neal is “Australia’s Leading Laughter Expert”, and the CEO of Laughter Yoga Australia. He has appeared on numerous television programmes and is a professional speaker and facilitator, researcher, citizen scientist, Laughter Yoga trainer and Laughie practitioner.

Jerome Carson is Professor of Psychology at the University of Bolton. He is interested in the field of alcohol addiction and recovery from a lived experience perspective, with much of his research in positive psychology and mental health recovery.

The authors’ longitudinal research on traditional frameworks and practices on flexible working they had begun long before Covid-19 serious shortcomings in job design and ways of working how organisations utilise their people.

New Approaches to Flexible Working presents a new framework that explores the perspectives of employers and employees in the changing world of work. The authors demonstrate that reconciling the competing demands of employers and employees through flexible working can elicit ways of working that can secure optimum contributions from employees whilst enriching the organisation with increasing job satisfaction of employees’ changing expectations.

Each volume in this series will explore failing established models and propose new conceptual frameworks with practical approaches. International case studies enrich the arguments and findings.

Purchase of this book includes exclusive access to app-based content, enabling readers to explore the application of specific concepts in further detail.　

Peter Woolliams, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of International Management at Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge (UK) and is partner in THT Consulting and its technical subsidiary Culture Factory..