This book discusses methods to reduce and prevent environmental problems. It explores land use planning, pollution control, environmental law, and engineering, and is useful to anyone interested in solutions to today’s turbulent environmental situation.
Environmental Psychology
This book contains research papers in environment-behaviour studies that address a recurring debate: how can research findings be put into real-world practice? It outlines current views and suggestions on how to more effectively address this ‘research-practice’ relationship.
This collection of essays analyzes environmental and ecocritical themes in science fiction and fantasy. It investigates how these genres address today’s ecological crises and the detrimental effects of environmental destruction, while also considering solutions.
This book addresses people displaced by disasters in Brazil’s Northeast, who lack legal protection. It argues for categorising them as IDPs to receive international legal protection and proposes collaborative policy responses among governments, NGOs, and local people.
Envisaging Death
This book connects Death Studies to visual culture, arguing death is not universal. Who you are and where you live influences how your death is imaged and imagined, exploring how the distance between the living and the dead is both reinforced and disrupted.
Envisioning Sustainabilities
The essays within consider the relationship between the social sciences and sustainability studies. They present a range of commentaries to interrogate the evolution of ‘sustainability imaginaries’, arguing for the value of the social sciences in considering sustainability.
Rejecting Western definitions of epilepsy, many Africans choose traditional healing. This book explores indigenous health practices in Africa, with case studies from Zimbabwe, to reveal attitudes toward medication and propose a new model for management that combines both worlds.
Episodes from a History of Undoing
This volume illustrates women’s resistance to patriarchal norms. From mythical amazons and Renaissance monarchs to modern activists and academics, these women became trail-blazers by undoing, rewriting, and refashioning political and cultural concepts.
Episodes in Early Modern and Modern Christian-Jewish Relations
Bernardini documents the long history of friendship and diffidence, mutual understanding and dramatic disagreements in the encounters between Christianity and Judaism, which, even today, largely conditions the Western intellectual world.
This book identifies a third problem of evil: epistemic evil. It arises when our judgments, through no corrigible defect, lead to undeserved human suffering. Tierno forcefully defends this problem, a groundbreaking challenge to theodicy.
Epistemological Theory in Classical Chinese Philosophy
This book explores the epistemological frameworks of Chinese intellectual history from ancient times to the Song Dynasty. By examining classical texts, it brings to light unique Chinese approaches to knowledge, setting them against Western thought to bridge East and West.
Many philosophers reduce ordinary knowledge to sensory or, more generally, to perceptual knowledge, which refers to entities belonging to the phenomenic world. The papers collected here analyse different aspects of ordinary knowledge and of its epistemology.
This book is one of the first extensive cross-linguistic investigations on epithets (like “the bastard”). It analyses them from the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface, arguing they are a type of pronoun subject to restrictions in attitude reports.
Equalities and Education in Europe
This timely book analyzes educational inequities in Europe. Rejecting the idea that education simply reproduces social patterns, the authors argue that educational policies have the potential to challenge inequality and transform the lives of disadvantaged groups.
Equestrian Rebels
This collection of essays commemorates the first centenary of Mariano Azuela’s Los de abajo, and traces its impact on twentieth-century autobiographies, memoirs and, more specifically, on the Novel of the Mexican Revolution.
Equine Fictions
This innovative volume explores the powerful human-horse bond in 21st-century fiction and autobiography from the perspectives of affect and politics. It analyzes how narratives of healing, mourning, and identity are shaped by gender and nation in contemporary writing.
This handbook guides educators and caregivers in closing the Achievement Gap. It generates support for teaching diverse learners by constructing a learning environment that ensures equity in the classroom for every child.
Eradicating Differences
These essays offer a new perspective on Nazi mass murder. Drawing on primary sources, they show the Nazis were more flexible than believed, exploiting ethnic rivalries in Eastern Europe to divide, rule, and encourage collaboration in their murderous policies.
This text engages the reader in understanding past and contemporary critical issues in African scholarship, both in the diaspora and on the continent, that have been marginalized, unexamined, and under-researched, and proposes ways to make them visible.
Eric Ball
This book traces the life and work of renowned twentieth-century Brass Band composer Eric Ball, a great figure in the Brass Band Movement. It surveys his music and researches his involvement with the Salvation Army.
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