Living, Dying, Death, and Bereavement (Volume One)
This unique book offers in-depth interviews with pioneers in thanatology—the study of dying, death, and grief. Their compelling life stories provide a comprehensive, insightful, and personal review of the field for clinicians, researchers, and interested lay persons.
Developments in Foreign Language Teaching
This book offers foreign language (FL) practitioners and educators practical, research-based ideas to develop their teaching skills and optimize student learning. Topics include vocabulary teaching, intercultural awareness, the use of literature, and reflective practice.
Stem cells hold promise for revolutionary therapies but face scientific and ethical hurdles. The rush for cures has led to clinics offering unproven treatments. This book tells the story of the field’s development and identifies the challenges it raises.
Entanglements of Life with the Law
This book reveals the uncomfortable truth of London’s magistrates’ courts. A legal system undermined by austerity dispenses ‘summary justice’ lacking due process to the city’s most vulnerable, in a process bearing a striking resemblance to ‘justice’ in authoritarian societies.
This valuable contribution to teaching languages to young learners offers new global perspectives on policy, theory, research, and pedagogy. It covers cognitive learning, teacher education, and classroom practices, making it essential for policymakers, researchers, and teachers.
Career Agility
In our complex and uncertain world, working lives are rapidly changing. This book offers career strategies and a practical toolkit of exercises to prepare you for the future, helping you understand your values and strengths to advance or reboot your career.
Does art need to be beautiful? Is the experience of beauty confined to humans? This volume gathers authors from philosophy, neuroscience, anthropology, and more to investigate the most debated aspects of beauty and aesthetic experience.
Charisma and Religious War in America
In 1920s Los Angeles, two figures shaped the city’s spiritual innovation: Sister Aimee Semple McPherson and Reverend Robert Shuler. Both Protestant newcomers reached unparalleled fame, yet despised each other, sparking a “holy” war for the soul of the city.
Servant Leadership in Management Practice
This book reviews servant leadership in the context of foodbanks and their volunteers. Through personal narratives, it explores issues of supportive management and organization, underlining the importance of the unpaid workforce and the future of these vital community services.
This book explores early Christian attitudes toward Jews, pagans, and heretics. Based on the Gospel of John, Jude, and The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, it explains their negative feelings and offers surprising new results for anyone interested in Christian origins.
The Shakespearean Search for Archetypes
Shakespeare’s mythopoetic figures are not transcendental but are batteries of condensed cultural meaning. This book finds in these archetypes the explanation for why his work responds through time to perspectives as different as psychological, feminist, and postcolonial.
This book develops a formal treatment of causation in mathematical models, replacing existing treatments which are often vague and unsatisfactory. Theory is accompanied by extensive examples from economics, and will be extremely useful in economics, biology, and biomedicine.
This book argues the Kiev Leaflets, the oldest Slavic manuscript, do not originate from the Bulgarian-Macedonian area. Instead, linguistic and historical evidence, including a prayer against the Hungarians, points to the Eastern Obodrites in modern Ukraine between 894 and 900.
Why Slavery Endures
Slavery, seemingly abolished in the nineteenth century, was never eradicated. With an estimated 21 to 46 million slaves today, its legacy endures. These essays critically examine the historical roots of slavery, the issue of reparations, and contemporary human trafficking.
Retelling Cinderella
This collection demonstrates how the Cinderella story remains active in societies adapting to modern culture. The volume explores dating apps, prom nights, women’s roles, and gender identity through international perspectives on folklore, film, fashion, and literature.
The Jewish Diaspora after 1945
For millennia, Jews played an integral role in the Arab world, Turkey, Iran, and North Africa. The 1948 establishment of Israel was a transformational event leading to their mass expulsion and emigration, ending the existence of these vital communities.
Trade Union Powers
Following Portugal’s austerity crisis (2011-2015), how did trade unions resist devastating impacts like wage cuts and unemployment? This book explores case studies in the metal, telecom, and transport sectors to reveal how some unions reinvented themselves while others imploded.
Scholars have dismissed Rutherford B. Hayes as an ineffective president. This work demolishes that wisdom, showing how Hayes overcame a hostile Congress to restore presidential prerogatives, laying the foundation for the strong executive branch we know today.
This book explores the molecular mechanism of phototherapy, studying its effects on blood oxygenation, metabolism, coagulation, and glucose. It considers the laws of blood photomodification and methods for controlling individual patient susceptibility to irradiation.
Dissolving the Gettier Problem
This book dissolves the Gettier problem using Hintikka’s Socratic Epistemology. It treats Gettier’s counterexamples as a game of inquiry where agents use questioning and strategy to determine what they know, going beyond analysis to focus on actual problem-solving.