This collection of annotated essays discusses the relevance of evolving science to public discourse about climate change. The essays confront organized denial and disinformation, building support for informed decisions on how to adapt to and abate climate risks.
The origin of the scientific term “the mechanism” is widely misunderstood. This book reveals its true roots are not in mechanical philosophy, but in ideas of social causality from Ancient Greek tragedy, tracing the term’s evolution through history to our current digital era.
Contemporary Debates in Human Rights and Literature
This book offers fresh perspectives on human rights in literature, providing cutting-edge readings of specific works. It engages with current debates about how rights are portrayed across identity, culture, and politics, highlighting human rights as a universal concern.
This unique collection of essays reflects the authors’ lived experiences in interreligious dialogue. This timely book will appeal to anyone seeking to deepen one’s faith or wanting to learn how to live harmoniously with religious others.
Russia-Eurasia Relations
Across the world, there are regions caught between identity and power. This book analyses the great powers’ challenges in Eurasia within the framework of strategic interests, conflict, and cooperation.
War-Khasi and War-Jaiñtia
This book explores the syntactic structures of Khasi through a comparative analysis of its War-Khasi and War-Jaiñtia varieties. It uncovers unique grammatical features, offering insights for linguists and anyone interested in the cultural diversity of Northeast India.
Reading Old English Wisdom
This book translates and comments on a selection of superb Old English wisdom poems. Composed from the ninth to eleventh centuries, they mingle Christian beliefs with pre-Christian sensibilities, exploring how the human psyche responds to life’s challenges.
This book brings together researchers and language teachers on the challenges of teaching second language speaking skills. It advocates for a closer integration of theory and practice, exploring topics from task-authenticity to fluency, social media, and transferable skills.
This book examines eighteenth-century novels, focusing on the skills readers needed to master them. It analyses how these skills were shaped by the cultural and political climate, from debates on education to new philosophical and scientific theories.
Combining “light” verses with theoretical issues, this book studies the children’s poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson and James Reeves through Reader-Oriented Theories. It offers a new perspective to scholars, teachers, critics, and readers of these beloved poets.
Transatlantic Modernism
This book explores transatlantic modernism’s interactions with philosophy, religion, and art. It considers how authors like Woolf, Joyce, Faulkner, and Eliot engaged explorations of literary form, identity, and truth while searching for—or denying—belief.
An Iranian Iran-Iraq War veteran and an American Vietnam War veteran—both mental health professionals—exchange war stories and discuss self-help strategies for PTSD. Each chapter includes their therapy discussions and practical self-help assignments for readers.
The Emotional Lives of Young People with Autism
This study questions the American Psychiatric Association’s definition of autism, offering evidence that even non-verbal children have an emotional life. Drawing on interviews with parents from three cultures, it shows children with autism have emotional competence.
This conference proceedings centres on issues related to the development of meaning-focused materials for language learning. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of these materials and introduces previously unexplored facets of the theory of meaning-focused instruction.
Ancient South Arabia through History
South Arabia’s remoteness means that it remains under-researched, despite its huge significance during pre-Islamic times. Its languages, location as a site for intercontinental trade, and its extensive ancient written history will be of interest to scholars and laypeople alike.
Yuri Vella’s Fight for Survival in Western Siberia
A Siberian indigenous poet, reindeer herder, and activist chose to live in the forest, where he fought an oil giant to save his way of life. These essays explore his native spirituality, his struggle, and a new vision for indigenous leadership in post-Soviet Russia.
An innovative analysis of Diogo Inácio de Pina Manique, Portugal’s controversial Intendant-General of Police from 1780 to 1805. One of his greatest achievements was to understand the link between ill health and poverty, and to regard public health as a key area of governance.
Straddling various genres, this collection offers an investigation of the conflicting relationship between identity and borders in the contemporary globalized world.
Surveillance and Memory
This book contains secret police reports from the 1948-1950 surveillance of sociologist Anton Golopentia. Including transcriptions of phone conversations and personal declarations, it provides a chilling insight into political repression at the dawn of Romania’s communist regime.
Explore the Symbolist movement’s profound, interdisciplinary impact on 20th-century culture. These essays trace its evolution across Europe, highlighting the foundational role of French art and literature.
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