The Literary Reagan
This collection of authentic quotations reveals the inner Ronald Reagan. Based on his own writings and letters—not a speechwriter’s—it gathers over 1,500 quotes on everything from the Cold War and the power of government to personal humor, toasts, and even wine.
This book articulates Christian anthropology as a foundation for psychotherapy. Contributors integrate scientific psychology with Christian theology, viewing spirituality as an intrinsic part of humanity that influences health and the search for meaning.
This text explores ways in which universities in East Africa can better serve the common good. Each essay presents insightful discussions of the role of quality assurance in creating educational systems that are relevant to the global knowledge economy.
Dispatches from the Frontlines of Humanity
Using the disappearing art of reportage to analyse some of the most defining issues of our time – namely the global refugee crisis, the conflicts displacing these masses of humanity and their causes ¬– this text provides the oft forgotten human stories behind the suffering.
Music Performance Anxiety
Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) affects many individuals, regardless of age or experience. This book provides an updated review of the literature on the topic, covering its concept, epidemiology, and interventional studies, along with critiques of published work.
Pābūjī: Rajput warrior, celibate ascetic, and hero of a medieval epic still performed in India. This accessible book explores the history and myths behind his exciting, humorous, and miraculous adventures, analysing the legendary tale.
A 250-year economic history of the Amazon. This pioneering analysis examines the colonial era and the formation of the caboclo-peasantry, the pivotal rubber economy, and the rural and urban dynamics of the post-rubber boom era until the 1960s.
The Age of Unproductive Capital
This book offers a direct analysis of today’s greatest challenges: reducing inequality, protecting the planet, and mobilizing financial resources from tax havens. It reveals how sensible policies are dismantled by global finance and captured political power.
Crisis Communication in the Digital Age
In recent years, in countries with high crisis expectation and risk probabilities, a significant rise in the number of crises has been observed. This study discusses crisis management types and strategies, stressing the vital role of public relations in their resolution.
Managing The Manager
Nine internationally-known critics explore Richard Berengarten’s seminal poem, The Manager. This collection of original essays serves as an introduction to a figure who is arguably one of the most significant poets writing in English today.
Focusing on the digital lives of children aged eight and under, and paying attention to their parents and educators, this collection showcases international research findings from such diverse fields as education, media studies, sociology, cultural studies, and physiotherapy.
Africana Jewish Journeys
Millions of people worldwide are identifying as Jews or converting. In this volume, scholars and practitioners explore this new shaping of modern Jewish identities in Africa, the United States, and India.
Ecology and Literatures in English
Writers hold out a mirror, arguing that hope lies in our connection to the real world. This book explores how literature, from Shakespeare to detective novels, reveals the fundamental idea that everything is connected, and that this awareness is the key to protecting the planet.
Parables and Riddles in Ancient and Modern Teaching
This book explores the difference between parables and riddles. Biblical parables transmit useful life-messages, while Greek riddles are largely unintelligible, leaving one helpless. What do these forms reveal about ancient views of wisdom?
Competition Law in Times of Crisis
This book examines EU competition law, using its response to crisis as a test of its aims. It concludes that competition policy is a forum for debating the European integration project, while the law serves as a tool for implementing broader policy objectives.
Mystery and the Culture of Science
Arguing that all knowledge is provisional, this book tackles the polarisation caused by false certainty. It offers shocking but liberating reflections on science and theology to loosen doctrines that trap the Church and impoverish faith.
Philosophy and Human Revolution
This book offers a philosophical study of Daisaku Ikeda. Not a religious analysis, it examines his intercultural work, which interfaces Japanese tradition with Western rationality. The author adopts an agnostic suspension to leave a place for philosophy and its arguments.
Developments in Management Science in Engineering 2017
This book identifies the main research categories of Management Science in Engineering (MSE), and evaluates and classifies each MSE journal. It is ideal for scientists, researchers, practitioners, engineers, and graduate students in various engineering fields.
On Taste
This innovative collection offers fresh, never-before published approaches to the idea of taste. Scholars explore how aesthetics interpenetrates discussions of food, political conflict, art, and education, representing a key contribution to the latest research in the field.
Venereal Diseases and the Reform Enigma
Many consider misogyny, class conflict and racial paranoia the drivers of venereal disease control policy in the early twentieth century. This book re-examines sources from Edinburgh and Adelaide to reveal a more complex reality of practical disease control.
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