Books published by IGI Global

Addresses the best practices, laboratory methods, policies, protocols, and practical approaches to managerial education and training. The book covers a wide range of topics, including training programs, teacher education, and online learning.

Compares healthy and fast foods, considers an ecological-hygienic assessment of the impact of fast food on the body in observations of people and in experiments in vivo, and discusses key questions of the interrelation of food and health.

Discusses important issues surrounding human creativity and innovation, as well as how education can develop cognitive abilities and skills and be improved to meet future challenges and demands using creativity and innovation. The book covers a range of topics, including creative leadership and problem-solving skills.

Examines the complex relationship between receipt of microfinance, poverty reduction, economic growth, and microbusiness development, focusing on the provision of small credit facilities as a driver of sustainable development in Africa.

Explores novel methodologies, theories, technologies, and solutions for security and data analytics techniques and energy-aware solutions for the Internet of Things. Covering a wide range of topics such as laser attacks and personal data, it is ideal for academics, industry professionals, researchers, instructors, and students.

Explores how local governments utilize digital democracy and analyses a series of popular initiatives and local referenda to show how successful these initiatives are. The book covers a wide range of topics, including religious rights, street committees, and climate change.

Focuses on preparing pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and higher education faculty to harness technology dependence in an emergency remote teaching era by discussing current and post-pandemic preparedness. The book covers a wide range of topics, including digital reality, teacher preparedness, and technology dependency.

Explores the challenges that arise from student digital distraction along with potential solutions, including how mobile technology can be leveraged to improve student motivation, self-regulation of learning, and achievement.

Proposes a dive into the digital ecosystem through a historical, sociological, political, and economic approach that supplies readers with a foundation they can build their future digital skills on. Covering topics such as cryptocurrency and economic resiliency, the book is for professionals, researchers, practitioners, academics, and students.

Provides relevant theoretical and empirical research findings and innovative and multifaceted perspectives on how digital transformation and other innovative technologies can drive new business models and create valued experiences for consumers and firms.

Extends the conversation on how to engage diverse and complex social identity groups in a system historically designed to be exclusive of their lived experiences. This book elevates the voices of people who have been absent in the academy and considers these experiences across various types of institutions, academic disciplines, and ranks.

Discusses the results of research conducted on the multivariate causes of hunger and poverty and how the pandemic has aggravated this problem, as well as the local development initiatives that have been implemented to mitigate the problem.

Examines successful and groundbreaking research and practices around the world surrounding library service innovation. The book also provides an overview of libraries' experiences, identifies emerging global themes and trends, and offers guidance to library practitioners on how to pursue the recent trends in their own library environment.

Addresses critical issues and challenges in Africa and seeks to examine and understand the future trends in Africa through a deconstructive interrogation of present trends. The book covers a wide range of topics, in cluding sustainability, equality, and democracy.

Highlights best practices of successful companies in the ""new normal"" conditions caused by the pandemic and provides innovative research on diversity and inclusion to help organizations navigate the changing competitive global environment.