This innovative biography of Luigi Einaudi, an outstanding Italian political personality of the 20th century, highlights his lesser-known contributions. His proposals for a European federation inspired the EU, and his monetary policies prefigured today’s European Central Bank.
This book shares the poignant, captivating, and hard-to-believe true tales of four teachers in Indonesia. Described as modern dervishes, they sowed the seeds of successful education through altruism and teamwork, even rescuing three orphans from the aftermath of a tsunami.
Emergent Bilingual Students and Their Academic Performance
Emergent Bilinguals are a fast-growing but underserved subgroup. Based on multiyear studies of their reading and mathematics performance, this book provides educational leaders, researchers, and policymakers with vital pre-pandemic baselines to inform changes in instruction.
Critical Race Theory and the Struggle at the Heart of Legal Education
As states legislate against teaching critical race theory, law schools are struggling to respond. How should legal education view CRT? This book seeks answers, encouraging a recommittal to the foundational beliefs of free speech, equality, and the due process of law.
Through an Irigarayan lens, this study explores how Carter, Atwood, and Byatt use genre transgression to forge a female subject position. It examines their distinct strategies for challenging a literary tradition that has historically denied women a voice.
This book explores how research practices have profound implications for education. Authors think critically about research design, covering topics from co-design with teachers to system change, in a robust discussion that will inform and shape education systems for the future.
This book explores language research in the digital age. Using authentic data, it investigates L1 syntactic structure, L1-L2 contact, and L2 pedagogy. It provides valuable insights into Romanian and English, highlighting new research avenues for language specialists.
The Marriage between Perfume and the Lyric Stage
The role of scents in opera and its influence on perfumery has long been neglected. In the first book-length study on the topic, Professor Mary May Robertson explores the previously undiscussed connection between the two, revealing their ultimate marriage in Operatic Perfumes.
Staging and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century France
In nineteenth-century France, staging was more than theatre. It was a process of appearing and disappearing that shaped how individuals were seen in the visual arts and culture. This book explores staging’s mechanisms, repercussions, and what it chose not to show.
Explorations of Traditional Chinese Medicine
The first book to use modern scientific principles to explore Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It reveals how quantum mechanics can explain the integration of body, mind, and consciousness, and how TCM can work with Western medicine to shape the future of human health.
This volume assembles John Glucker’s essays on Plato and Cicero for the first time. The articles deal with interpretations of their philosophical works and their influence on Western thought, and will be of interest to both scholars and laymen with a background in the classics.
Technology and Performance during the Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci, known for science and art, was also one of the most famous musicians of the Renaissance. His multifaceted knowledge pushed him beyond performance; his codices contain studies on sound and an extraordinary catalogue of new musical instruments he designed.
The complex security environment requires military leaders to adapt more rapidly than ever. This book is an analytic study of military leadership—a valuable reference for academics, students, and armed forces members. This second edition features two new chapters and updates.
This textbook presents methods of data analysis and uncertainty estimation, combining classical statistics with modern methods like Monte Carlo modelling. With numerous illustrations and examples using real-world data, it will appeal to students, scientists, and engineers.
Using Poetry for Economic Analysis
This book is the first to amalgamate economics with poetry, novels, paintings, and movies. It presents the principles of economics in plain and lyrical English, analysing real-world issues for students, financial practitioners, and lay readers alike.
When does an event become historical experience: at the moment it occurs, or later as it is remembered? This work argues that history is a relationship between the present of the historian and the past, a dynamic where history moves with us. It is for historians and researchers.
This book explores Environmental Ethics from the Nine Schools of Indian philosophy. It argues that external woes like pollution and climate change are merely manifestations of humanity’s internal disharmony, and that the solution requires a profound internal transformation.
The first study from a public international law perspective on recognizing academic qualifications. This book argues recognition depends on the credibility of the awarding institution and explores the first global UNESCO treaty on the subject.
This book tackles the paradox of observing hidden behaviours, such as prohibited drug use. Under what conditions are these secrets revealed to an inquirer? It discusses methods to ensure valid data, serving as a guide for researchers and a source of support for decision-makers.
Geography and the Space of the Sacred
This book explores the geography of religion and sacred space within contemporary Christianity. Through an analysis of Opus Dei, it identifies causes for the decline of Catholicism in Brazil, charting the Church’s loss of believers and territories to growing Protestantism.