Answering questions like “Will I ever use this?,” this book shows why learning is most effective through experience. It provides the tools needed to make better use of experiences to improve teaching and learning.
Death Down Under
This insightful collection of essays challenges the assumption that death is hidden or done badly. It documents the varied and creative multi-cultural ways we respond to one of life’s most challenging aspects, offering new ways to understand our contemporary death practices.
Psychological Realism in 19th Century Fiction
This study applies psychoanalytic theories to nineteenth-century fiction like Anna Karenina and Jane Eyre, illuminating the psyches of their characters. It brings forth a novel view of criticism, arguing that an approach dismissive of the psychological aspect is incomplete.
Fundamentals of Neuroscience and the Law
What can neuroscience tell us about legal concepts like intent? This groundbreaking volume explores the intersection of neuroscience and law, from voluntary movement to scientific evidence in the courtroom. A primer for all those interested in neurolaw.
This is the first complete synthesis of research on the Upper Palaeolithic archaeology of the Caucasus. It discusses the cultural and subsistence changes of modern humans from 40,000 to 10,000 years ago, in the context of environmental change and surrounding Eurasian cultures.
Signs, Codes, Spaces, and Arts
This book delves into general and spatial semiotics, introducing the “sign prism,” an integrative model of sign connection. It focuses on spatial semiotics and its visual codes, applying these concepts to research the structures and historical changes of visual arts.
This volume looks at the future of museums, confronting challenges like funding cuts and a dubious art trade. It also explores exciting prospects, from new possibilities in display and visitor experience to the rising visitor numbers at major museums worldwide.
East vs. West
This book explores international development, contrasting Eastern and Western experiences. It examines China’s economic rise and India’s architectural journey to show how innovation influences our lives, offering clarity on the directions still to be taken.
Intrafamilial child sexual abuse remains shrouded in silence. This book presents ten first-person accounts from adult survivors, exploring the lifelong impact of such trauma. Their stories also demonstrate the remarkable resilience of the human spirit, giving survivors a voice.
A Fractal Epistemology for a Scientific Psychology
Fractal dynamics provide a tool for understanding complexity. This book brings experts together to reconcile dichotomies like mind-brain and subjective-objective, bringing subjective experience into a scientific framework.
This is the first English-language study on Italy’s cultural relationships with China and Japan across the centuries. This collection explores topics from travel and the creative arts to politics and religion, featuring transcultural research from a global team of scholars.
The Art of Women in Contemporary China
This book presents the work of over 75 Chinese female artists in visual art and poetry. Their work explores the experience of being a woman through themes of the body, home, fantasy, and social conscience. This unique volume pairs poetry with art, articulating shared concerns.
Law, Literature and Political Philosophy in the Spanish Golden Age
This analysis of 16th and 17th century Spain discusses the Catholic reason of state, anti-Machiavellianism, and royal power from the view of Golden Age authors. Literature, law, and political philosophy combine to offer an unusual portrait of power in a time of deep change.
Menander’s Characters in Context
To appreciate Menander’s naturalistic characters, we need a guide to his time: Aristotle. This book examines two of Menander’s comedies in this light, comparing the ancient originals to modern adaptations and shedding new light on cultural values, then and now.
This study of Thomas Arne’s cantatas and odes reveals his evolving musical style. Restricted by his Catholic faith, Arne found an outlet in London’s pleasure gardens, setting pastiche texts from Pope and Congreve and challenging critiques of his ability to set Italian.
Hunter-Gatherers’ Tool-Kit
This volume provides a multifaceted overview of the study of stone tools. With case studies from various continents centred on hunter-gatherer communities, it explores tool production and use to address major questions about past human economic and social behaviour.
The Disembodied Mind
Is the mind entirely separate from physics? Relying on empirical science, this book presents a model of an objective mind completely unconnected with anything physical. The mind has no effect on the physical world, but, by free volition, navigates the world we experience.
Assessment is a major driver of the student tertiary experience. This book explores the rubric as the key tool in this experience, examining different models and providing data from students and academics on their efficacy for marking and providing feedback.
Elemental Encounters in the Contemporary Irish Novel
Reading is touching. Words pierce flesh like a knife. Storytelling breathes with air, fire, earth and water. This book explores how novels by Irish authors John Banville and Mary Morrissy revitalise these elements with sensual, social, and tactile textures.
Names are powerful vehicles for human goals. This volume focuses on the intersections of naming, identity and tourism, revealing how names play a role in identity-formation by shaping and promoting tourist attractions, be they topographical or metaphorical locations.
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