This book compares Hegel’s and Aquinas’s Trinitarian studies, renouncing the separation of philosophy and theology. Beneath their very different idioms, a near-perfect harmony is found, offering enriched participation in thought’s self-understanding.
This book details the conservation, care, and management of Indian manuscripts. It covers their materials, writing techniques, and dating methods, as well as preventive measures for preservation, including ancient indigenous practices and the hazards of using chemicals.
From Autocracy to Democracy to Technocracy
Is political evolution a rational design, a random process, or an inevitable march from autocracy to democracy to technocracy? This book examines the social forces that shape governments and offers a compelling new framework for understanding our political future.
This volume reports on bilingual practices in contemporary societies worldwide. Researchers discuss topics including language learning, education, media, and social change, with a special focus on Malta as an excellent laboratory for the scientific study of bilingualism.
This collection of research papers consists of three parts. The first is devoted to language teaching and teacher education. The second section explores literary and cultural issues, while the third part encompasses linguistic and media discourse studies.
Weaving Theology in Oceania
Woven like an ocean-going canoe, this book offers creative solutions to global needs from an Oceanic perspective. Hearing the cries of the suffering, it draws on Christian academic endeavor anchored in faith, hope and love for a continuing voyage towards a new consciousness.
The Mahābhārata and Dharma Discourse
This engaging text provides unique insights into ‘dharma’ in the Mahābhārata. Often mistaken for religion, dharma is revealed as an umbrella term for all the deeds in one’s life. Each chapter uses the epic’s own tales and parables as evidence to explore this complex concept.
Beyond Hope
This book argues for hope as a path beyond facile optimism and weary pessimism. Drawing on Western philosophy and Advaita Vedanta, it suggests that living from the Self, distinct from the ego, reveals a peace and bliss beyond both hope and happiness. A timely and wise book.
How did the West see Russia, the empire caught between Europe and Asia? This book explores representations of Russian identity and culture from 1792 to 1912, drawing on the accounts of British and American travellers as they attempted to understand this imperial “Other.”
Mapping Primary School Leadership in a Post-Conflict Context
This book focuses on primary school leadership in the post-conflict country of Timor-Leste. It conveys the ‘lived experience’ of school leaders, describing the realities of their work and the strategies they adopt to overcome daily challenges.
A Special Model of Classical Reception
This volume traces the influence of epics like the Odyssey across a vast geographical and cultural space. It analyzes modern and contemporary tales from around the globe, focusing on how major political phenomena can have on universal creativity.
Genetics, the study of inheritance, is a powerful science. We can now unravel the human genome, understand cancer, solve serious crimes, and intervene with our crops, animals, and even ourselves. This book explains how this science emerged.
Exoticism in English Tag Questions
Tag questions have fascinated users and scholars for centuries. As English spread globally, they evolved in form and function. The essays gathered here focus on this evolutionary trend, with special attention on the exoticisms that characterize current usage around the world.
This collection of qualitative studies explores current educational issues concerning teachers, students, and parents. Using scientific yet comprehensible methods, it investigates attitudes and behaviours on topics of international relevance, making research accessible to all.
This volume of innovative research in Iberian Studies extends beyond Spain and Portugal to explore transnational connections with Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Its scope ranges from the nineteenth century to the effects of the Catalan independence crisis and Brexit.
Contributions to Communicational, Cultural, Media, and Digital Studies
How does communication shape our world? This book explores the powerful dialectic between society and media in the digital age. A key text for cultural and media studies, it offers tools to understand a social force as inevitable as it is influential.
Shaped by a history of competition and cooperation, Russia-Turkey relations gained new dimensions with Vladimir Putin. This book discusses this history before analysing the situation of both countries in the first 20 years of the 21st century.
Living, Dying, Death, and Bereavement (Volume Two)
This unique book offers extensive interviews with pioneers in thanatology—the study of dying, death, loss, and grief. These in-depth conversations provide compelling life stories and a comprehensive, insightful review of the field for clinicians, researchers, and lay persons.
Despite a secular culture, spiritual life persists. When manifested through the Christian faith, it has the power to surprise, transform and renew. This volume’s case studies describe the spiritual life as a transformative point of contact between God, world, society and self.
This book studies how myths construct community identity, focusing on the fiction of Chinua Achebe and Amitav Ghosh. A comparative postcolonial analysis, it delves into how these major authors from Nigeria and India use myth to represent the cultural mores of their societies.