This book offers strategies for developing the online classroom into a deep learning community. Anchored in educational theory, it shows how a strong sense of community ownership enhances students’ ability to master content through shared authority, voice, and peer connection.
Local Traditional Knowledge in Its Urban Context
From the perspective of Bai minorities, this book studies the role of Local Traditional Knowledge (LTK) in the cultural preservation of Dali. It captures the dynamics of integrating LTK during rapid urbanization and explores potential solutions for an inclusive urban governance.
This collection of essays highlights the enduring significance of provenance for historians, authentication, and law. It remains vital to ownership and topical due to ongoing debates over looted art and the illicit trade in antiquities conducted by terrorist groups.
The Social and Solidarity Economy in Latin America
This book explores the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Latin America, highlighting its challenges and possibilities. It analyzes solidarity alternatives in the capital market and the emergencies that occur in order to humanize the capitalist system.
Regulating Decision-Making in Multiple Pregnancy
This book examines fetal reduction in multiple pregnancies, finding legal, ethical, and professional norms offer little explicit guidance for this difficult decision. Using new evidence, it shows doctors are weakly guided and advances recommendations for shared decision-making.
Teaching Business, Technical and Academic Writing Online and Onsite
A must-have handbook for undergraduate and graduate teachers. Drawing on three decades of experience, this guide offers best practices for instructing students in writing proposals, reports, and academic papers, with specific strategies for remote teaching in a post-COVID world.
Voices on the Loss of National Independence in Korea and Vietnam, 1890-1920
This comparative study of anti-colonial movements in Korea and Vietnam examines two protagonists. Molded by shared pasts, they dealt with their countries’ condition and envisioned an alternative world order that has pertinence today.
This collection offers fresh perspectives on Gissing’s place in fin-de-siècle literature. Interdisciplinary readings place him in dialogue with figures from Dickens to Foucault, challenging his status as a simple realist and revealing his complex modernity.
Using Literature for Language Learning
This book offers language teachers an innovative approach to engage and motivate students through guided readings of literary texts. It provides practical tools, like sample lesson plans, to help students develop linguistic, cultural, and motivational competences.
Developmental Dyslexia and Anaphora Resolution in English L1/L2
This book investigates how people with dyslexia resolve ambiguous sentences. Using innovative methods like eye-tracking, it hypothesizes that their known working memory impairment hinders procedural memory, disrupting semantic and syntactic competence in demanding reading tasks.
This book examines literary and cultural representations of old age in Africa. Using ageism as its central theme, it explores the ambiguity associated with the elderly, who are often highly venerated for their wisdom but also stereotyped because of their advanced age.
Regulating Freedom of Religion
International human rights declarations empowered religious communities, making them powerful social and political actors. This book investigates the rulings that shaped these rights, exploring the paradox of religion’s power in a secular, globalizing world.
The rise of China will profoundly change the world. China excels at the peaceful creation of wealth, and the answers to its success lie not in “communism” but in Chinese civilization. This book explains why China is winning and will continue to do so unless we wake up.
Half a century after his death, is E. M. Forster still relevant? Some find his novels old-fashioned; others, inspiring. This book explores Forster’s legacy, offering new interpretations of his work and his place within British and world culture.
Entrepreneurship and Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 unleashes new business models and insights for decision-making. This book explores how entrepreneurs can balance exploration and exploitation in i4.0, using technologies like AI and Big Data to make intelligent decisions and create value with unmatched efficiency.
The Napa Valley Wine Industry
This book tells the story of how Napa became a pre-eminent site for iconic wines in a short space of time. After early struggles, a 1960s re-emergence fostered a collective commitment to quality, building a brand that would be identified as amongst the best in the world.
Venezuela in the Gordian Knot
Once Latin America’s wealthiest country, with the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela is a failed state. How did this happen and how can it get out? This book diagnoses the 40 years of populism that allowed Hugo Chavez to rise and resulted in the nation’s impoverishment.
The Quality of Life
Spanning 40 years, these essays explore the political dimensions of cultural life. They include seminal papers that pioneered the concept of Cultural Democracy and close readings of novels and plays that explore how all forms of self-expression have a political message.
This book explores patterns in Jewish history, diagnosing a national neurosis as the cause for four previous fiascos. It explains what must be done in the twenty-first century to prevent past tragedies from recurring and secure the future of the Jewish nation.
Literature, Theory and the History of Ideas
How do power structures shape our notions of identity, gender, and culture? This collection interrogates these crucial questions across literature, film, and cultural theory, making it a vital resource for scholars and students.