Wright assesses the relevance of aural in a university music degree and as a preparation for a classical musician’s career. The main areas investigated are the relationship between aural ability and success in a music degree, and views about aural and its career relevance.
Teacher Education in India
A progressive country is built upon the quality and commitment of its teachers. The teacher education system is a powerful vehicle to raise educational standards. This collection of papers analyses this system and its improvement, with special reference to North East India.
Pictorialism in Cinema
Valkola extensively explores the unique phenomenon of pictorialism and its connection with other arts in film and media studies, considering a number of theoretical and practical issues of filmic narration.
Gáldy presents the history, art, and architecture of 25 of the main Florentine churches. She also provides plans and photos of the façades, and introduces important vocabulary and the main textual sources of the 13th to the 17th centuries.
Kant’s Shorter Writings
Spanning the entire intellectual career of Kant, this work highlights the importance of the thinker’s shorter writings. It contrasts with other such studies of his work, which typically focus on a specific part of his career, and on either his theoretical or practical philosophy.
Traditional Counselling
This book narrows the gaps in the under-researched field of traditional counselling. It articulates a theoretical framework rooted in African sociocultural values and community-based practices, underscoring the relevance of this thought-provoking counselling model.
The Caribbean in a Changing World
This two-volume set is a critical reflection of the evolution of Caribbean countries since the demise of the West Indies Federation in 1962. It examines Caribbean societies in comparative and general ways, covering aspects of their ongoing development and challenges.
A Practical Guide to Promoting Social Participation in Seniors
An instruction manual for community workers and researchers on community-based participatory action research. This guide provides principles for working with older communities worldwide, with key contributions for work in lower-to-middle income countries.
Jews in an Illusion of Paradise
Simms looks into a small group of 19th and 20th century European Jewish intellectuals and artists in the light of their dreams, writings, and moments of crisis. His focus is on essential themes, images and generic patterns, beginning with a Talmudic legend about four scholars.
This book is the first detailed description of telematics systems in maritime and inland waterway transport. It covers the massive scope of applications, from simple navigation to fully autonomic vessels, and the current challenges of integrating these complex systems.
This book breaks frontiers. It deals with human beings and their intrinsic relationship with time in the space of a week. In a search for the days’ identities, the book identifies the particular characteristics of each day, revealing that we are literally the days of the week.
Challenges in Global Learning
This volume offers a wide range of approaches for framing and addressing global education issues. It is constructed around four research themes which reflect current strategic research priorities in Australian education, forming a framework for evaluating educational changes.
An exhilarating tour through the mesmerizing world of Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk. This book examines nine novels spanning three decades, detailing the thematics and craft of Turkey’s foremost novelist in a style shorn of dry pedantry and jargon.
TOTalitarian ARTs
This collection represents a tool to broaden our geographical, institutional, and historical understanding of the term totalitarianism. It opens new spaces for debate on the connection between the visual arts and mass-culture in totalitarian societies.
Resulting from a teacher education conference, this collection will stimulate dialogue among such groups as teacher educators, researchers, students, teachers and NGOs. Its papers are written by European teacher educators, presenting their experiences and ideas.
The Root Causes of Terrorism
This publication discusses a range of themes related to terrorism, such as religious violence in scriptural monotheism, interpretations of religious texts, militancy and sacrifice, and religious terrorism.
Examples of social practice in the Central European region from the 19th century to the 1950s are presented here. The volume responds to the current economic and social crisis, including the welfare state crisis, which raises the need to seek solutions from the past and present.
The Land of Fertility II
This volume presents a detailed analysis of cities in the Fertile Crescent, the region where human civilisation began. It covers their formation, development, the urbanisation process, and urban ideology from the beginning of the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest.
Giffin explores how Patrick White and his post-war contemporaries all commented on the consequences of God’s death. He shows how they worked with a shared pattern of tropes to search for the light and dark aspects of western consciousness and the civilization it has produced.
Evolved-God Creationism
This book answers fundamental questions left by science and religion. Using compelling axioms, it proves that God evolved in a wider universe and created our sub-universe, answering logically how even that wider universe came about.
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