Despite our analytical intelligence, humans are the most cooperative species on the planet. This book argues that this is due to our consciousness. Using concepts from Schopenhauer, Russell, and information technology, it defines consciousness as a super-compound quale.
2020 showed that the international system is always open to global crises. The COVID-19 pandemic initiated a transition whose effects still carry on. This book explores the pandemic’s significant effect on migration management, climate change, diplomacy, and globalisation.
Barbara Longhi of Ravenna
This book provides new impetus to the study of female art. Through an analysis of Barbara Longhi’s paintings, it expands research beyond women’s lives and careers to look at the spiritual aspects of their work, revealing the importance of devotional art and female creativity.
How does international justice combat sexual violence in armed conflict? This book explores how justice can bridge legal and societal domains to aid in social reconstruction and protect victims, examining both its advancements and its enduring flaws.
In 18th-century China, Jesuits defied a papal ban on Chinese Rites. Teodorico Pedrini was sent to enforce orthodoxy. To silence him, they imprisoned him, bringing him near death. His writings reveal their plot and cast a new perspective on the proscription of Christianity.
In an age of innovation, we must question past educational approaches. This book outlines a learning-focused tactic, explaining how it differs from education and its value for individual growth. It shows how higher education institutions can adapt to a new learning environment.
Scanning and Sizing the Universe and Everything in It
Philosophy often ignores the vast scale of the natural continuum for a human-centered view. This book puts our world in the context of all atomic matter, revealing the discrepancy between our ‘yardsticks’ and the reality of cosmic ‘light years’.
Induced Affect in Psychotherapy and Stress Management Training
For mental health practitioners, this book describes induced affect, a clinical procedure to counter emotional avoidance and build regulation skills. It provides step-by-step instructions, transcripts, and a stress management program to enhance emotional resilience.
This book presents 13 biographies of women in the Transcendentalist movement. While names like Emerson and Thoreau are familiar, figures like Elizabeth Peabody, Sarah Freeman Clark, and others in this volume deserve to be known for their vital contributions to the movement.
Rethinking the Theoretical Concepts of Sociology
This book discusses key problems in contemporary social-scientific theory, focusing on fundamental contradictions in concepts like social action, institutions, and systems. Despite dealing with abstract problems, the book’s argument is clear, accessible, and understandable.
Becoming an Effective Teacher in America
Should you become a teacher? This book helps you decide and shows you how to become an effective resource for your students. Learn how to build a teaching philosophy, motivate learners, manage your classroom, and navigate the challenges facing today’s teachers.
This book examines the dashed promise of the Eritrea-Ethiopia rapprochement. It explores how challenges to Ethiopia’s reforms culminated in the Tigray war and addresses critical questions about the future of peace, security, and development in the Horn of Africa.
Africa continues to face harsh challenges as a result of colonialism. This volume addresses diverse social-political, moral, and developmental problems, arguing that while they arose from Africa’s encounter with the West, the solutions must be home-grown.
Recent studies show it is necessary to deal with addiction in an interdisciplinary context. This volume responds to this need, discussing addiction within psychology, health sciences, and forensic sciences to help academics and professionals develop a common ground.
Coaching and Teaching Soccer
This book introduces an innovative, evidence-based model to coach soccer. It provides practical examples and useful resources for physical education teachers and coaches to systematically develop players’ technical ability, tactical knowledge, and overall game competence.
Black Women Activists in Nineteenth Century New Orleans
In nineteenth-century New Orleans, free women of color Marie Laveaux and Henriette Delille rejected a life of privilege. This book explores how they chose service instead, using their faith-based practices to address the needs of the city’s poor, enslaved, and disenfranchised.
This timely book on economic security confronts challenges like inflation and recession. It explores multifaceted perspectives on sustainability, labour, economic diplomacy, and global development, serving as a useful guide for learners, researchers, and practitioners worldwide.
The Contribution of Cornelio Fabro to Fundamental Theology
Explore faith’s metaphysical and existential roots through the dynamic Thomism of Cornelio Fabro. This dialogue with Kierkegaard and modern thought affirms the human being’s essential openness to the Absolute.
Born a slave, C.H.J. Taylor became an influential, controversial figure in African American conservatism. He argued poverty, not racism, was the principal barrier to Black advancement, recruiting Blacks to vote Democratic and clashing with figures like Douglass and Ida B. Wells.
How can we build a better society? This book applies insights from philosophy, religion, and social science to offer practical reforms for our core institutions, from government to the economy. A call to action for every big-picture thinker.