Social Sciences

Aldo Capitini on Opposition and Liberation

A Life in Nonviolence

Edited By: Jodi L. Sandford, Piergiorgio Giacchè

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Imprisoned as an anti-fascist, philosopher Aldo Capitini developed a civil rights movement between that of Martin Luther King and Gandhi. He championed nonviolence and social change from the bottom-up, proving that “today’s utopia can be tomorrow’s reality”.

Languages of Politics

Edited By: Dragana Božić Lenard

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This interdisciplinary collection presents cutting-edge research on the interplay between language and politics. The papers examine how politicians use language to persuade voters, challenging existing paradigms and placing language as the central medium of politics.

Mutual Linguistic Borrowing between English and Arabic

By: Ahmed Abdullah Alhussami

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This book explores the lexical borrowing between English and Arabic, tracing their historical contact. It describes the role Arabic played in enriching early English and shows how the hegemony of English can be seen in its modern impact on Arabic.

Handbook of Flipping Classrooms for Second and Foreign Language Instruction

By: Fatemeh Nami

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This book guides language teachers and educators through the nuts and bolts of flipping the classroom. It reviews key factors for a successful learning experience, from pedagogical design to the application of digital technologies for creating materials and activities.

Western Buddhist Feminists’ Contribution to Christian Theology

By: Dong Jin Kim

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This book tackles gender injustice in religion. It explores how Buddhist feminists meditate to empty the gender ego—a skill applicable in Christian theology. For women’s spiritual liberation and happiness, inner training and external social action must go together.

São Paulo, a City of Water

By: Saide Kahtouni

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This book deals with the relationship between São Paulo and its water resources, from the city's birth to the present. It discusses the consequences of reconfiguring natural water courses for urban expansion and its impact on the urban environment and landscape.

This book deals with the relationship between São Paulo and its water resources, from the city’s birth to the present. It discusses the consequences of reconfiguring natural water courses for urban expansion and its impact on the urban environment and landscape.

Postcolonial Identities and West African Literature

By: Anwesha Das

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This book introduces “postcolonial soliloquies” as a new way to analyze West African literature. Using the theory of “dialogue” to explore history, culture, and identity, it shows how the novels of T. Obinkaram Echewa redraw the boundaries of colonial history.

The Young Dante

Archetypes of His Early Intellectual Biography

By: Maria Luisa Ardizzone

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This book explores Dante’s formative Florentine years, a crucible of great importance. Focusing on the Vita Nuova and early poems, it shows how the young poet took archetypes from ancient-medieval tradition and reshaped them to pave the way for his own work.

Writing as Performance

Accounts of Autoethnography

Edited By: Georgina Gabor

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This volume finds an outlet in autoethnography, creating authentic relations between scholars and their writing. It explores new relationships forced into being by the pandemic, as authors describe personal experiences that shed light upon wider cultural and social dynamics.

Affinities and Parallel Texts across Two Hundred Years

By: Hugh Ridley

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Affinities—that nagging sense of familiarity in art—offer a key to how artists work. This book shows how affinity can be a hidden influence, a route to creativity, a shared heritage, or the first step in a lawsuit when it is confused with plagiarism.

A Holistic View of Practicing Mathematics in the Israeli Educational System

By: Yousef Methkal Abd Algani, Zehavit Gross

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This book analyzes the Israeli educational system, focusing on the pivotal role of mathematics education in its improvement. It explores innovative teaching methods that promote deep understanding and critical thinking, offering valuable insights for educators and policymakers.

The British Foundation of Indian Entomology

By: Michael Darby

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This is the first book on the amateur British collectors of Indian insects between 1750 and 1947. It documents how early personal collections founded museums, and how interest shifted to the economic impact of insect pests on forestry and horticulture.

Education and Society in the Middle East and North Africa

English, Citizenship and Peace Education

Edited By: Milton George, S. Sergio Saleem Scatolini

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A growing number of thinkers are generating new approaches to the past, present, and future of the Middle East and North Africa. This book reflects on education and society, providing a platform for regional voices to join the global conversation and challenge outdated theories.

Exchanges and Parallels between Italy and East Asia

Edited By: Gaoheng Zhang

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This is the first English-language study on Italy’s cultural relationships with China and Japan across the centuries. This collection explores topics from travel and the creative arts to politics and religion, featuring transcultural research from a global team of scholars.

Waste Research from the Social Sciences and Humanities Perspectives

Reopening the Bin

Edited By: Alison Stowell, Jutta Gutberlet, Francisco Valenzuela, Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos

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Diverse international scholars interrogate waste from the social sciences and humanities. Offering insider perspectives and practical experiences from global South and North communities, they highlight innovative solutions and propose new approaches to our shared waste dilemmas.

Diverse Learning in 2020 and Beyond

Edited By: Pamela R. Cook

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This volume assists educational professionals in disciplines from preschool to higher education, leadership, and multicultural studies. An excellent resource for university coursework, this text is of particular interest to educators, administrators, psychologists, and students.

Quining and Unquining Qualia

An Examination of Daniel Dennett’s Consciousness Debate

By: John Moses A. Chua

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This book challenges the claim that qualia—our subjective sensations—are illusions. It proposes that qualia are essential aspects of consciousness that lie beyond science's reach, and are what distinguish human experience from artificial intelligence.

This book challenges the claim that qualia—our subjective sensations—are illusions. It proposes that qualia are essential aspects of consciousness that lie beyond science’s reach, and are what distinguish human experience from artificial intelligence.

The World of Coronaspeak

Mockdown, PCR and Surgeon's Finger

By: John C. Maher

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This book explores Coronaspeak, the global language born from the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering jokes, slang ('jab'), and new coinages ('elbow bump'), it highlights the capacity of words to adapt to shock and social disorder, arguing they are part of disaster management.

This book explores Coronaspeak, the global language born from the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering jokes, slang (‘jab’), and new coinages (‘elbow bump’), it highlights the capacity of words to adapt to shock and social disorder, arguing they are part of disaster management.

The Theory of Economic Personality

By: Taner Güney

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This book identifies the theory of economic personality, which leads individuals to exhibit predictable behaviors without being rational. It argues that the individual is not rational; what is rational is the systematic repetition of behaviors dictated by economic personality.

The Challenges of Democratic Governance in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic

Edited By: Stanley Naribo Ngoa, Farooq A. Kperogi, Eghosa E. Osaghae

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In this collection, Nigeria’s most notable scholars offer insights into the pitfalls of governance and institutional dysfunctions that threaten the vitality of the Fourth Republic—the nation's longest stretch of democratic rule since the end of military regimes.

In this collection, Nigeria’s most notable scholars offer insights into the pitfalls of governance and institutional dysfunctions that threaten the vitality of the Fourth Republic—the nation’s longest stretch of democratic rule since the end of military regimes.

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