Using and Abusing Science
This title explores how, and to what extent, science has been used by politicians to add legitimacy to their discourse over the past three centuries, and provides an illuminating illustration of the relationship between science and the political.
Yea, Alabama! A Peek into the Past of One of the Most Storied Universities in the Nation
Battles relates the narrative of the storied University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, in the United States, bringing to the fore many new facts, new stories, new characters, new revelations, and new photos that offer the fullest picture of the University provided to date.
This volume revisits the concepts of reality and realism with regard to their relation to religion and the religious real, presenting ten essays that offer methodologically diverse and intellectually challenging analyses.
Constructing Legal Discourses and Social Practices
This title looks descriptively and interpretatively at the various existing forms of legal discourse and how these are framed and organised by social practices within distinctive sites of legal communication.
Edmund Burke, the Imperatives of Empire and the American Revolution
Edmund Burke advocated for America’s rights yet fiercely criticized the French Revolution. This volume presents his writings on the American Crisis, exploring the core paradox: Was this defender of colonial liberty a friend or a foe of revolution?
Current Research on Language Learning and Teaching
This first collection of essays by scholars from Bosnia and Herzegovina provides state-of-the-art overviews of current issues in the language sciences, uniting interdisciplinary perspectives on language acquisition and its applications for foreign language education.
The Dan Brown Craze
Zhang and Zhu investigate why the work of Dan Brown has attained such global appeal, from a Chinese perspective, and provide a detailed exploration of his plots, characterisation, themes, and techniques.
Managing Globalization
This essential reference provides scientific evidence and direction to businesses competing in the contemporary environment. It presents research on globalization, strategic management, and innovation that transcends classical theory for practical implementation.
International Conference on Political Economy of Water
Access to water is a fundamental human right affecting quality of life and dignity. The social work profession must address the challenges of water scarcity. This book examines the issue and develops viable social work intervention strategies based on successful models.
The Social Economy
The Internet of Things creates immense challenges in digital systems. This book tackles the exponential complexity of Boolean problems, presenting powerful new solutions using GPUs, exploring security applications, and discussing the scientific basis of future quantum computers.
Establishing a Culture of Intercultural Education
This edited volume brings together experienced educators and researchers who focus on problematic aspects of intercultural education, as well as crucial issues related to different regional contexts.
Competition Policy and Resource Utilization
This book examines how competition law can promote efficient resource allocation in resource-dependent developing economies. It offers insights into problems like the ‘resource curse,’ corruption, and abusive business practices, and their implications for competition.
The Representations of Elderly People in the Scenes of Jesus’ Childhood in Tuscan Paintings, 14th-16th Centuries
Adopting an innovative approach, this book leads the reader through early modern Tuscan paintings to discover a new vision of intergenerational relationships. It reveals how old age was perceived at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance in Tuscany.
The Importance of Place
How do we value historic urban landscape in order to intervene within it as designers? This is the central question of this volume, and is tackled by its 16 essays investigating different facets of value as bases of building and design practices on a range of spatial scales.
Restoring the Balance
Morrow presents a penetrating reflection upon the reality of Islam in the modern world, addressing a myriad of pressing issues that impact Muslims in the East, West, North, and South, topics that are both difficult and troubling.
Our Sacred Dimension
This monograph represents an important contribution to the anthropological, philosophical and psychological consideration of mankind in our era, exploring the role of the Sacred in our lives today.
In a time of stagnating markets, resolving economic crises requires new solutions. This volume shows how stability is related to clustering, exploring the formation of modern economic clusters, their advantages and negative aspects, and the contradictions of the phenomenon.
The Age of Asian Migration
These publications revisit different forms and histories of migration in Asia and the varied diasporas formed by Asian migrants, and provide both updated data on Asian migration and suggest new ways of looking at global migration overall.
Kermer links Cognitive Grammar explanations to the area of second-language learning, providing both theoretical and practical perspectives on the process of teaching and learning about English language structures.
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