Contemporary Practices in Bio-art
This book explores Dendro-art, a new subdivision of Bio-art focused on the human-plant relationship and recreating vanished species. The author, an artist with academic training, offers a unique perspective, examining the works of bio-artists from both the inside and out.
The Art of Anthonie Palamedes (1602-1673)
This is the first complete study of 17th-century Dutch painter Anthonie Palamedes. Unlike his Delft contemporary Vermeer, Palamedes was a success—the embodiment of the thriving artist in the Dutch Golden Age. The book includes a biography, a study of his work, and a catalogue.
This distinctive dictionary of Persian grammar features entries with a thorough linguistic analysis and literary usage. A valuable three-tiered compilation, it meets the needs of both instructors and students of Persian language and linguistics.
This book highlights the immense contribution of traditional medicine to the discovery of modern drugs. It inspires experts to explore traditional flora and younger investigators to find novel molecules, making it invaluable to scientists, researchers, and students alike.
Jackson offers historical data regarding the convent complexes, as well as extensive photographs of the surviving buildings, murals, and design elements, and documents the Franciscan doctrinas. He also reproduces ancient descriptions of the Franciscan missions.
The history of spices and plantation crops is deeply entwined with colonialism, trade disputes, and revolution. This comprehensive work explores their antiquity, cultural significance, and global spread, revealing how these plants have historically shaped the world order.
Mechanism Design for Public Goods and Environmental Externalities
This book discusses crucial environmental problems, like global warming and nuclear disasters, by applying the unique Gorman-Lancaster-Sen’s approach. It provides a new way of thinking about the environment as a public good for students, professors, and policy makers alike.
Management Footsteps and Foundations
For the first time, the foundations of management are brought to life through historical analysis. This daringly innovative book takes the reader on a journey through human history from a management perspective, utterly transforming our understanding of the subject.
Facilitating with Stories
This book connects theory and practice for professionals working with stories. It offers a unique inquiry into the ethics and philosophies of facilitation, supporting educators, facilitators, and consultants towards more effective and considered practice.
The integrated musical emerged not in the 20th century, but in the 18th with Charles Dibdin. He wrote, composed, and performed in innovative musicals, blending Italian opera and English ballads to create an organic musical theatre that paved the way for the art form today.
The Christian Cross in American Public Life
From towering monuments to roadside memorials, the cross is a vital symbol in American life. It marks identity, grief, and sacrifice, while sparking legal debates over church and state. This volume explores the cross in art, politics, and culture in an accessible A-to-Z format.
In 1767, the Jesuits were expelled from Spanish America. This book provides an overview of their urban colegios and frontier missions at the time of the expulsion, focusing on the Guaraní missions. This volume contains a visual catalog of historic maps and images.
This book explores the roles Nigerian women have played since pre-colonial times in shaping their culture and society. It highlights the effects of patriarchy, colonialism, and industry on women in Africa’s most populous country, making a major contribution to women’s history.
This study examines François-Adrien Boieldieu, composer of the masterpiece La Dame blanche. Collaborating with dramatist Eugène Scribe, he stimulated the flowering of the Romantic opéra-comique. Based on Sir Walter Scott, his work influenced composers across Europe, even Wagner.
This book departs from western prescripts to shed light on tested Afrocentric methods for community development. It draws lessons from African models of communal unity to show how governments can enhance their development models to reduce poverty and unemployment.
This volume explores the historical background of contemporary social and economic issues. It argues that globalisation is not new, and that deep history offers essential lessons about wealth, the nature of money, and the understanding of justice.
Space, Identity and Discourse in Anglophone Studies
This book explores the intersections where cultures, languages, and spaces converge to shape identities. Examining literary works, political narratives, and language use, this collection contributes to scholarly dialogues on identity construction through border crossings.
This first overview of Romanian political discourse analyzes genres from parliamentary debates to protest memes. The analysis reveals the specifics of the lesser-known Romanian style of political communication, fostering cultural awareness for an international readership.
Demystifying the Legal Art of Order, Power and Fun
Law has a reputation for being an incomprehensible art, leaving many feeling helpless. This book introduces readers to the past, present, and future of Law in an accessible and exciting way, using literary and artistic works to demystify it and prove that Law can be fun.
The Progress of Philosophy
This book offers selections from seven philosophers, with commentary connecting their ideas to their social and scientific milieu—Plato to geometry, Hobbes to the English civil war, Peirce to Darwin. See how they organized their beliefs into a coherent picture of the world.