Irish Music Abroad
This musical ethnography of Birmingham, 1950–2010, traces how Irish music moved from private arenas to the city’s public heart. It shows how the community conquered challenges, like the IRA bombings, to create its massive St Patrick’s Parade.
“Don’t Disturb my Masterpiece!”
This book explores a humanistic philosophy of learning where rational inquiry, emotions, and morality form a continuum. It proposes a holistic model that values learners’ genuine struggle to realize their humane masterpieces.
This book is relevant to agricultural extension theory and practice. It identifies the background, personal, and environmental factors influencing achievement motivation in the leadership role of extension agents, based on an original study in Iran.
This book sheds light on how the welfare-states of Scandinavia struggle with diversity, inclusion and citizenship. In Denmark, Norway and Sweden, migration challenges social citizenship, creating new tensions between rights, obligations, and identity.
Confessing the International Rights of Children
This book brings together all international documents significant to the protection of the rights of children. While children’s rights obviously exist, the implementation of those rights is not so easy.
This book presents linguistic impoliteness as a field of study in its own right, not just “politeness gone wrong.” Researchers offer diverse theoretical approaches and case studies on rudeness in television, literature, philosophy, and modern communication.
Explore 20 interdisciplinary essays on the social factors shaping education from youth to adulthood. A vital tool for professionals and anyone passionate about lifelong learning, this collection offers fresh insights into continuous education.
These essays use social psychology theories to explore new research on vulnerable groups and mental health. This book is a useful tool for professionals in psychology, education, and social work, and accessible to a wider audience.
This book discusses the manuscript sources for the music of Luigi Boccherini, a foremost 18th-century composer. Experts explore manuscript types, chronology, catalogues, and specific works, making this an indispensable tool for any scholar of his life and work.
The world’s deep-seated problems, from environmental crisis to social injustice, arise from technological society and structures of domination. This book offers guidance, providing a plurality of moral and spiritual perspectives to find reasonable responses.
This volume introduces East European linguistic thought, offering unique paradigms that differ significantly from Western traditions. It focuses on understanding in communication and promotes views that may boost new perspectives in linguistic research.
This volume of Meyerbeer’s non-operatic work is devoted to his secular choral writing for male voices, solo songs with chorus, and songs with instrumental obbligato and local colour. These include patriotic anthems, a tribute to Beethoven, and laments.
This collection of articles considers how popular cultures create a global cultural exchange, precipitating new adaptations and connections. The collection demonstrates that the everyday lives of ordinary people are unified through their expressions of shared humanity.
Culture and Power
This collection explores identity and identification in cultural studies. Incorporating theoretical contributions and practical case studies, this monograph adds to contemporary debates on topics such as gender politics, postcolonialism, and the nation.
This volume addresses emerging trends in curriculum and technology at the intersection of national and international challenges. It shows how curriculum influences schooling, society, and global changes, making it vital for scholars and educators in an era of remote teaching.
Catalytic Strategies for Conscious Social Transformation
This collection of essays examines complex global challenges and advocates for fundamental change. It advances new thinking on human security, human-centered economics, and human rights, proposing integrated knowledge to bridge the divide between theory and social reality.
This hands-on guide shows HR practitioners and researchers how to apply partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to assess the statistical relationships between workforce diversity and organizational performance, with practical examples provided throughout.
Peace Journeys
This collection of essays explores the peace-building potential of sacred journeys. Gathering studies and personal reflections from four continents, it highlights how religious tourism and pilgrimage can bridge divides and promote interfaith solidarity, dialogue, and inner peace.
Tumuli and megaliths across Eurasia are rich in mystery. This collection unites 74 authors from 16 countries, offering diverse perspectives. Accessible and illustrated, it’s for anyone in history, archaeology, or heritage, or interested in past cultures and ancient architecture.
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.
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