Waymarking Italy’s Influence on the American Environmental Imagination While on Pilgrimage to Assisi
A 200-kilometre walk from La Verna to Assisi becomes a “deep-travel” journey into Italy’s influence on environmental thought. This study shows how traversing texts and trails reveals the debt owed to the Italian landscape in how we conceive of the natural world.
Classroom Assessment for Language Teaching
This book focuses on classroom assessment in language learning. Each chapter reports on issues teachers face, their choices, and the consequences. This collection of teacher voices and stories provides solutions to promote assessment literacy.
Conceptualizing Semantic Relevance between Word Roots
Uncover the hidden semantic links between word roots. This book reveals how similar core components create shared meanings across diverse language families, offering profound insights into the nature of language and culture.
This book offers an application of Bourdieu’s framework to the under-examined experiences of community-college students seeking a second chance in Hong Kong. It explores how middle and working-class students see themselves and face academic challenges throughout their journey.
What matters in personal survival? If there is no permanent self, should we be altruistic?
Seven selected papers explore the self from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, drawing from analytic, historical, and non-Western traditions to argue their points.
World War I and the Birth of a New World Order
This volume re-evaluates the impact of World War I on Eastern Europe, particularly Romania, revealing lasting effects still felt today. Using case studies and memoirs, it offers fresh perspectives on social changes, women’s emancipation, new boundaries, and national minorities.
This book introduces citizen science approaches to coastal and marine sciences. It goes beyond the narrow definition of citizen science to include contributions from the tourism industry, discussing methods from social media and apps to tour operator sighting logs.
America’s project to privatize the world’s resources via the dollar is igniting a nationalist backlash. As these forces clash, the entire global system faces a greater, existential threat: climate change.
This volume offers diverse perspectives on translation as a bridge to other cultures. It provides studies on literary translation, interpreting, and idiom translation. Written by professional translators, their experience is invaluable for fellow practitioners.
This collection analyzes the Star Wars movies from diverse viewpoints—from history and politics to music and economics. The book will appeal to a wide audience, from students and academics to dedicated fans of the saga.
Analog meters offer an easy-to-read display of electrical parameters. Modern digital meters provide many more features, including measurements of capacitance and frequency. This book describes both analog and digital meters, the two primary modes of electronic indication.
Transforming Computing Education with Problem-Based Learning
This book argues that Problem-Based Learning (PBL) can develop professional computing competencies. It proposes a methodology to implement PBL in a manageable way and reports on teaching and learning experiences, providing a realistic picture of this methodology.
A Psychoanalytic Biography of Ye
This theoretical biography of Ye focuses on 2016-2021, thinking psychoanalytically about his complex subjectivity, his struggle with manic-depression, and his art. Taking him seriously and avoiding stigma, the author attempts to see him from his mother Donda’s point of view.
The Economic Decline of the Family
Families face a declining standard of living, and in a historically unprecedented trend, young adults are likely to be worse off than their parents. This book identifies five key deformations causing this crisis, from liberalism and materialism to the destructive power of debt.
This book presents a combination of Christian faith and scientific knowledge as an answer to human suffering. Addressing individual and collective pain, it offers therapeutic models and deepens understanding of the value of spiritual insight in therapy.
Giuseppina Pizzigoni was a pioneer of Italy’s ‘new school’ movement. In 1911, she created the Rinnovata Pizzigoni school, anticipating the comprehensive model. This book explores the evolution of her experimental method and its creative pedagogical development.
Plautus’ Erudite Comedy
This collection of original essays examines the comedy of Plautus as a creative dialogue with contemporary culture. The studies explore his engagement with Greek literature, science, and philosophy, revealing his foundational influence on Latin literature.
Intuitive Instructional Speech in Sufism
This book demystifies the Sufi practice of the sohbet—an ad hoc discourse. Approaching it like improvised music, it reveals how these talks provoke prolonged states of raised awareness in listeners and condition their sympathetic nervous system.
This insider account shows how working-class students in a conservative region initiated radical changes in the Sixties. Their vivid story of bringing students around to support social justice illustrates how democratic change can reshape a nation, inspiring today’s activists.
This book analyses data from floods, earthquakes, and bio-infections to provide a model of ethnological disaster research. It focuses on communities’ quality of life, offering contributions to policy for disaster prevention, response, and recovery.
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