Applied Social Sciences
This collection of essays on education covers topics from elementary school to higher education. It will appeal to a wide range of readers, including teachers, researchers, and students, who wish to improve both personally and professionally.
Through interviews with entrepreneurs in post-socialist Europe, this book reveals patterns in business during and after socialism. It challenges the belief that entrepreneurs did not exist under socialism and the idea of post-socialism as its antidote.
This book is relevant to agricultural extension theory and practice. It identifies the background, personal, and environmental factors influencing achievement motivation in the leadership role of extension agents, based on an original study in Iran.
“That’s how we do it…we treat them all the same”
With dementia admissions to hospitals rising, this book describes the real experience from the perspectives of patients, carers, and staff. It proposes a model for improving care that is underpinned by a belief in the personhood of staff and patients alike.
Life Stories and Sociological Imagination
This book examines music artists Faudel (France) and Adam Tensta (Sweden), revealing how they connect personal struggles to public issues. Their work offers a unique window into how national identity is changing in France, Sweden, and beyond.
Discourse in Dialogue
This work considers fundamental theological and philosophical perspectives in Catholic-Christian theology. It covers themes like the interrelationship of philosophy and theology, scripture, and Christology. It serves as an introductory text and a guide for deeper reflection.
Mediterráneos
This book analyzes the political, religious, social, and artistic expressions that have flourished and converged in the Mediterranean and Near East, highlighting the scope of this blend of traditions from its earliest stages to the present.
Place as Material Culture
This book explores the relationships between place, materiality, time, and ritual. It challenges traditional norms that have trivialized landscape archaeology by exploring the symbolic meanings and human emotion bound-up in place.
Idioms of Ontology
Walt Whitman is a philosophical poet, but this aspect of his work is often neglected. This book throws the Whitmanesque self into a phenomenological context, examining the notion of selfhood against the views of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.
Making Up
Research in creative writing is not only about the works it produces, but the explorations a creative writer undertakes. Through creative writing, a writer can explore ideas, concepts, and states of mind. This collection shows what this growing field does and more.
Past and Future Vision of Veterinary Research
Based on extensive data research, this book details a new approach to enhancing racehorse welfare. It introduces an integrated technology for monitoring training and biometrics to assess injury risk, optimizing safety, performance, and racing integrity.
The Threat and Allure of the Magical
This collection of essays explores intersections between the occult and the political, and the entanglement of magic, modernity, media, and aesthetics. Topics range from the witch in print media and the Third Reich’s occult to 19th-century novellas and film.
Terror Truncated
To distinguish fact from myth, this book traces the crimes and leaders of the widely misunderstood Abu Sayyaf Group. It concludes that the group has been in decline since 2002, and by 2012 existed as fragmented cells rather than an organised entity.
The Measure of All Things
This book reviews man’s relationship with the forces of evolution in a biological and spiritual sense. It is an innovative excursion into the arguments between evolutionists and creationists regarding the fate of man.
The United States has played a pivotal, controversial role in China-Japan relations since WWII. This volume provides a multi-faceted overview of America’s interaction in East Asia, highlighting the obstacles to improved bilateral and regional integration.
The Famished Road
This volume offers a journey into Ben Okri’s The Famished Road. Contributors look beyond pre-conceived categories to embrace the otherness of the text, offering new ways of reading Okri’s prose and reliance on myth. Includes an exclusive interview with Ben Okri.
The Moral Psychology of Terrorism
Why do terrorists kill? This volume moves beyond politics to explore the psychology, morality, and beliefs that fuel terrorism. With perspectives from many disciplines, it probes the minds of terrorists to understand this tragic path to violence.
Un-Australian Fictions
Un-Australian Fictions analyses literary works from 1988-2008 that challenge the national ethos and mythology. These texts reflect the destabilisation of once certain borders of Australianness, asking what it means to be Australian in a new millennium.
In the Mirror of the Past
Confronted by overwhelming events, we turn to myth. These essays discuss myth in modern speculative fiction, showing how fantasy becomes a mythic mirror in which we hope to see answers to vexing questions or a reality superior to our own.
Human Rights from a Third World Perspective
This collection takes up the point of view of the colonized to unsettle the conventional understanding of human rights. Drawing on Decolonial Thinking and Third World approaches, it constructs a new history and theory to decolonize human rights.
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