Social Sciences – Page 412 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Gender and National Development

Issues and Perspectives

Edited By: Nkem Fab-Ukozor, Onyebuchi Chima Alexander

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Women are the unsung heroes driving national development, yet their stories are seldom told. Stereotyped and marginalized, their voices are taken away, leading to gender inequality. This book highlights how to actualize social justice, proving women are vital to social change.

Philosophies of the Future and the Non-Human

From Cyberspace to Human Enhancement

By: Ivana Greguric, Nenad Vertovšek

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This book questions what it means to be human in the face of technological developments like AI, cyborgs, and autonomous robots. It explores the profound ethical and philosophical consequences, asking: How should we think of human existence in this new and emerging world?

Contemporary Arts Across Political Divides

Difficult Conversations

Edited By: Alla Myzelev, Tijen Tunali

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In a world devastated by crisis, what can art do to create democratic spaces? Artists, activists, and curators analyze how to bridge political divides and foster dialogue. Using global case studies, this book pushes for a broader, more conflict-oriented understanding of art.

The Agency of Female Typology in Italian Renaissance Paintings

By: Edward J. Olszewski

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This study challenges paradigms of female representation in enigmatic Renaissance masterpieces. Using female agency as a unifying lens, it interrogates why paintings of figures like Venus and the Madonna were crafted, by whom, and for whom, disrupting long-held assumptions.

Innovation and Sustainable Growth in a Digital Age

Edited By: Rianne Ojo

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This book explores how innovative technology can facilitate a post-COVID transition to a net-zero carbon economy. It examines the roles of central banks, green finance, and digital payments in addressing transition risks and achieving a sustainable future.

The World of Coronaspeak

Mockdown, PCR and Surgeon's Finger

By: John C. Maher

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This book explores Coronaspeak, the global language born from the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering jokes, slang ('jab'), and new coinages ('elbow bump'), it highlights the capacity of words to adapt to shock and social disorder, arguing they are part of disaster management.

This book explores Coronaspeak, the global language born from the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering jokes, slang (‘jab’), and new coinages (‘elbow bump’), it highlights the capacity of words to adapt to shock and social disorder, arguing they are part of disaster management.

Method, Intuition, and Meditation in Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy

By: Stanley Tweyman

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In his Meditations, Descartes sought the first principles of human knowledge, rejecting the senses for intuition and meditation. This book explains his reasoning and provides textual support, while a final critical chapter shows the failures of his approach.

Comparative Reflections on Persons and Selves

Edited By: Pavel Stankov, Michael Dufresne

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What matters in personal survival? If there is no permanent self, should we be altruistic? Seven selected papers explore the self from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, drawing from analytic, historical, and non-Western traditions to argue their points.

What matters in personal survival? If there is no permanent self, should we be altruistic?

Seven selected papers explore the self from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, drawing from analytic, historical, and non-Western traditions to argue their points.

Florentine Festivals from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age and their Relationship with Art

By: Anita Valentini, Maria Giulia Cantuti Castelvetri

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This volume explores the history, art, and culture of Florence through three unique festivities where sacred and secular values intertwine. Discover how these traditions continue to shape the city’s character, revealed through both famous and lesser-known works of art.

Baltic Postcolonial Narratives

Literature and Power

By: Almantas Samalavičius

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This book explores postcolonialism's difficult entry into the Baltic literary domain. It provides timely insights by analyzing Lithuania’s best postcolonial novels from the last decade of the Soviet period and the more recent post-Soviet era.

This book explores postcolonialism’s difficult entry into the Baltic literary domain. It provides timely insights by analyzing Lithuania’s best postcolonial novels from the last decade of the Soviet period and the more recent post-Soviet era.

Selected Studies on Genre in Middle Eastern Literatures

From Epics to Novels

Edited By: Hülya Çelik, Petr Kučera

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These 12 case studies by experts in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature offer new insights into the intellectual universe of the Middle East. Spanning genres from classical poetry and epics to travelogues and novels, this book creates a new comparative framework.

Teaching Peace as a Matter of Justice

Toward a Pedagogy of Moral Reasoning

By: Dale T. Snauwaert

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This book explores peace as a matter of justice. It argues that a just peace requires citizens capable of moral reasoning and judgment. It offers a framework to develop these capacities, empowering us to resist injustice and realize peace on all levels of society.

A Comprehensive Review of Herbalism

By: Huma Ali, Savita Dixit

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This book provides a practical approach to the use of medicinal plants to increase immunity and treat various diseases, including high-risk ones such as cancer. It is a requisite reference for students and professionals of medicinal chemistry courses.

E. A. Robinson’s Narrative Poetry

By: Faisal Al-Doori

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This book explores a critical, often overlooked feature of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poetry: his puzzling method of narration. It argues that a proper understanding of his poems is impossible without analyzing this unique approach, shaped by his New England and Puritan roots.

Civilization at Risk

Seeds of War (Second Edition)

By: Ron D. Petitte

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The evil of sex trafficking will not stop, but it can be discouraged and abated. As this book, Civilization at Risk: Seeds of War, shows, lives can be spared. All of the author’s proceeds go directly to Blazing Hope Ranch to support the rehabilitation of female victims.

Reflections on Ecotextuality from India

Greening Literature Anew

Edited By: Jibu Mathew George, Mathew John Kokkatt

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In response to the current ecological crisis, this collection of critical essays engages with the intricate relationship between literature and ecology. The volume unravels the premises and assumptions that sustain the modern world view and contemporary knowledge systems.

The Rise and Fall of the Library of Alexandria

By: Jean-Arcady Meyer

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Alexandria's Library attracted scholars whose study of its scrolls led to outstanding contributions in science, literature, and philosophy. This book recalls the city's rise and the incredible series of wars and intrigues that brought about its inexorable decline.

Alexandria’s Library attracted scholars whose study of its scrolls led to outstanding contributions in science, literature, and philosophy. This book recalls the city’s rise and the incredible series of wars and intrigues that brought about its inexorable decline.

Memory Curators and Memory Archivists in the Digital Memory Age

By: Andrew McFadzean

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This book details the reinvention of librarians and archivists as memory makers for the digital age. Learn the methods to turn a flood of data into valued information, combining the art of curation with the science of recordkeeping to assume control in the Digital Memory Age.

War in Travel Literature

Edited By: Jeanne Dubino, Orkun Kocabıyık, Elisabetta Marino, Andrew J. Smyth

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This collection shows how war functions as a subject, theme, and backdrop in travel writing, enabling readers to rethink both categories. From cookbooks to military magazines, these chapters reveal how war's reach extends far beyond the battlefield.

The Teaching and Learning Challenges of 21st-Century Higher Education

Prioritising Pedagogy

Edited By: Tina Byrom, Jackie Cawkwell

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This book explores pedagogy in higher education, drawing on expertise from professionals in the UK, China, and Malaysia. It tackles challenges from the Covid-19 pandemic and provides practical insights for practitioners to enhance their teaching and improve student outcomes.