This book is a panorama of the most famous American monuments, highlighting the greatest American experiences from independence to today. Each chapter pays homage to the men and women of the American experience and the events immortalized in granite, stone and edifices.
The Politics of Action Research
This book frames Action Research as an inherently political practice. Through storytelling from international contributors in health, education, and business, it illuminates lived experiences, exploring the interplay of power, ethics, and future directions in the field.
The Enigma of Amleth
This book examines adaptations of the Amleth legend, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Bhardwaj’s Haider. Using adaptation theory, it sheds new light on their interpretations, transformations, and cultural significance.
This book argues that successful alternative farming in Ireland is built not on market logic, but on mutual recognition. It confronts the state-supported push to ‘scale up’, demonstrating how community-based ‘scaling out’ is the fundamental driver of success.
This book examines the dashed promise of the Eritrea-Ethiopia rapprochement. It explores how challenges to Ethiopia’s reforms culminated in the Tigray war and addresses critical questions about the future of peace, security, and development in the Horn of Africa.
Case Studies in Child Psychiatry
This book presents case studies from a therapist’s lifelong career, showing how seriously ill young people and their families shaped their practice. It focuses on suicidal young people and the therapeutic process that led to their successful recovery.
Early Feminist Pioneers, Their Lives, and Their Reform Efforts
This book explores the lives of eight early feminist pioneers of England and America. These reformers, activists, and abolitionists noticed injustices and took brave actions at great personal cost to provide remedies and protect vulnerable populations.
Putting Sleep Problems to Bed
Authored by recognized experts in pediatric sleep medicine, this guide provides parents with up-to-date, evidence-based behavioral strategies to fix sleep problems. Entertaining stories and quizzes help you identify challenges, while user-friendly charts support implementation.
The Death of Childhood
A riveting obituary to childhood, this book offers a sobering look at what it means to grow up today, tracing childhood’s progress to a bitter end. Thanks to technology and a hostile society, its innocence is lost. But there is hope, and this book offers solutions to restore it.
Global Youth
This edited volume explores the challenges that youth experience today, such as poverty and inadequate healthcare, and provides context to better understand the factors related, and contributing, to those issues.
This book provides new scholarly thinking on the convergence of Christianity and Igbo Traditional Religion. Written by Igbo scholars, it offers unique case studies on their intersection, serving as a vital manual for students, researchers, and interfaith dialogue.
This book argues that a religious worldview is only one of many identities immigrants use to assimilate. It finds that generational stage, gender, and religious tradition are more significant than religious orthodoxy in shaping immigrant stances on social and economic issues.
The Future of Post-Human Waste
Waste is neither useless trash nor a hidden treasure. This book offers a radical theory that redefines waste, revealing its profound implications for society, culture, and our collective future.
A Dangerous Report
Dr. Ellens cracks open familiar biblical stories, spilling out fresh, life-changing insights about the radical nature of God’s grace. Ideas that have become cliché flower with refreshing new meanings. Preaching has seldom been this engaging and spiritually empowering.
The Future of Post-Human Transportation
Is transportation a destructive force or a glorious wonder? This book rejects these extremes, offering a new theory to fundamentally change how we think about transportation, with enormous implications for the human future and its “post-human” fate.
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty is a classic of children’s literature and an important text in Victorian and animal studies. This critical edition reproduces the unabridged 1877 first edition and includes a critical introduction, contextual material, and notes.
China
China’s university graduates are its future leaders. A look into their psyche is a window into the future of China, as their thoughts as students will shape their adult attitudes. Here, we present students’ responses on issues of current importance.
Science in the Nursery
For the first time, this collection compares popular science for children in Britain and France from the 18th to the 19th century. It reveals how these texts engaged with debates on gender and religion and reflected contemporary scientific tensions.
Early Childhood Programs as the Doorway to Social Cohesion
The theories of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky have had profound impacts on early childhood education. This volume of papers by leading experts examines his legacy in the East and West, offering ideas to benefit children and societies across the globe.
Political repression sparks resistance, which in turn provokes counter-resistance. This anthology explores this volatile cycle, revealing how the struggle for freedom unexpectedly forges new cultural expressions and democratic possibilities.