This volume provides an in-depth consideration of Africa and how it fares in today’s globalised world. Its varied, but interrelated, perspectives touch on contemporary issues in international relations, especially as they relate to Africa’s development and global impacts.
A valuable resource for specialists of science, history and the media, this book presents, for the first time, the general logic of the development of popular science in Russia in relation to the Western experience, during the periods of the both the Russian Empire and the USSR.
East-West Symbioses
This book explores many facets of the encounters between East and West, including exoticizations and incommensurabilities, creative fusions, and the effect of the West on Asian countries. It will appeal to anyone seeking an understanding of the relationship of the two spheres.
The Fashion Industry and Eating Disorders
Slimness is often seen as a fundamental requirement in the fashion industry. This text investigates the excessive ideal of slimness and its dangers for industry representatives. Ensuring the health of the models, it argues, must be a fundamental aspect of the industry.
The Uprisings in Egypt
By adopting Social Movement Theories (SMT) as a framework to analyse the 2011 uprisings in the Middle East, Acconcia disentangles the role of alternative networks and other forms of political conflict, considering the Egyptian case in forming a potential revolutionary movement.
Design for Visual Communication
Based on ideas discussed within the framework of the 2016 International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC), this anthology investigates both current and future challenges and priorities in the field of design for visual communication.
Exploring gentrification in heterotopic post-industrial urban spaces, these studies illustrate, empirically, the extent to which advertising adsensory technologies have become integral to the gentrification of post-industrial urban spaces.
An insightful study of the Jewish theologian Martin Buber, this volume combines a review of the unconventional Zionism he proposed with a sensitivity to myth as the basis of an inclusive civil religion. It also discusses how his ideas were applied in practice.
Edward Thring’s Theory, Practice and Legacy
Edward Thring’s headmastership at Uppingham School from 1853 to 1887 engendered a balanced physical education within a sane but revolutionary educational framework. Tozer provides a history of Thring’s theory and the course of physical education in Britain since 1800.
Reflections on Persian Grammar Vol. II
This collection is a survey of the historical development of Persian grammar. The contributions from distinguished scholars display their deep knowledge of the Persian language, its literature, and history to illustrate its major structural properties and parametric variations.
Disability in Spanish-speaking and U.S. Chicano Contexts
Covering the period from the seventeenth century to the contemporary era, diverse geographic areas, and multiple artistic genres, this eclectic collection of academic essays, creative writing, and mixed media photo-images focuses on myriad representations of disability.
Essays on Education and Popular Culture
This volume is devoted to simple but deep readings of the subtle and not-so-subtle messages in films, and to the interpretation of the silences that are strategically delivered through the mass media. It will serve to promote mass literacy and mutual understanding.
Exploring gentrification in heterotopic post-industrial urban spaces, these studies illustrate, empirically, the extent to which advertising adsensory technologies have become integral to the gentrification of post-industrial urban spaces.
Research proposals are a ubiquitous part of higher education. This title provides a support framework with step-by-step guidance about what constitutes a good research proposal and what can be done to maximize one’s chances of writing a successful application.
Globally, libraries are the backbones of the institutions in which they exist. This collection of articles promotes the use of libraries in students’ learning and quality of education, and will be of interest to teachers, students, parents, librarians and policy makers.
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.
Exploring Research in Sports Coaching and Pedagogy
These detailed, yet concise, essays on the nature of sports coaching provide a critical ‘snapshot’ of the current literature in coaching pedagogy. They cover a wide array of sports and techniques and their insights are essential for any serious students of the discipline.
Covering a vast range of sex case law, this exhaustive volume will be of particular use in legal research, learning, and argument at any stage of advocacy, politicization, activism, prosecution, defense, and education.
Teaching Students to Become Digital Content Curators
Today’s students are faced with a virtual tsunami of digital information, which means it is necessary to arm them with the skills of digital content curation. To avoid misinformation, this text outlines a process for examining, evaluating and synthesising digital content.
Covering a diverse range of linguistic domains and numerous languages, this book presents cutting-edge research on the nature of grammatical systems developed by bilinguals and second language learners, and considers how these grammatical systems are used in processing language.