This book discusses the manuscript sources for the music of Luigi Boccherini, a foremost 18th-century composer. Experts explore manuscript types, chronology, catalogues, and specific works, making this an indispensable tool for any scholar of his life and work.
Understanding Bollywood
Explore how Bollywood films reveal the cultural politics of India. This book analyses the on-screen evolution of Indian women, charting their journey from subjugation to empowerment and the fight for human rights.
This volume introduces East European linguistic thought, offering unique paradigms that differ significantly from Western traditions. It focuses on understanding in communication and promotes views that may boost new perspectives in linguistic research.
Chinese characters reflect how ancient people understood the universe. This book explores their evolution, revealing the Chinese wisdom of harmony and resiliency from which to draw strength. It uniquely features calligraphy, combining philosophy with traditional art.
This book presents the intertwined relationships between culture, literature, language, and history. More specifically, it investigates the joy of a birth, a funeral ritual, the merriness of a melody, and the taste of a meal as reflected in the texts of Asia.
Death is the limit of life. This book argues that only by living within this limit can we be truly free, loving, and compassionate. It explores death as life’s paradox to test what it means to exist, overcoming the divide between philosophy and theology.
Understanding Digital Labour Platforms
Dive into the future of work as digital platforms reshape the global labour market. This essential guide examines the gig economy through economic, social, and legal perspectives, offering invaluable insights for navigating the new employment landscape.
Understanding Edgar Allan Poe
This book argues that the horrific experiences in Poe’s tales are a blueprint for empathy. To truly understand another person, we must go out of our minds, enter theirs, and confront the terror of being lost in a world that is not our own.
Understanding Hypoxia
This textbook provides a comprehensive exploration of hypoxia, covering its molecular mechanisms and clinical implications. It bridges the gap between basic science and practice, serving as a valuable resource for students, clinicians, and researchers.
Understanding Institutionalized Education
This book opposes defining schools solely by their effectivity. It defends the school as a place that enables young people to become sociable and as a place of self-education, stressing the importance of teachers and curricula for creating social cohesion.
This collection of articles draws attention to the needs of 21st-century learners who require more than textbook information. It represents an important contribution to research on learners and reading, reading acquisition, and information literacy.
Understanding Meaning and Knowledge Representation
This title examines and discusses recent work in meaning and knowledge representation within theoretical linguistics and cognitive linguistics given the current need to develop natural language processing (NLP) systems from deeper linguistic approaches.
Understanding Meaning and World
Chakraborty explores the internalism/externalism debate inherent in ontology and semantics from the viewpoint of phenomenology. His approach is distinctive in the sense that it formulates a reconciliation between both sides by inventing an internalistic-externalism view.
Understanding Media Propaganda in the 21st Century
Is Manufacturing Consent still fit for purpose? This book argues that the 2016 election created a ‘year zero’ for journalism, requiring an overhaul of Herman and Chomsky’s Propaganda Model. It is a radical intervention, offering a new model to understand media propaganda.
Understanding Mīmāṃsā
This text explains the extended meaning known as Vakyartha according to the Prabhakara school of Purva Mimamsa, the ancient Indian theory of meaning. It discusses Expectation, Merit and Juxtaposition, recognised as the causes of deriving the meanings of words and sentences.
Near-death experiences, mystical states, and lucid dreaming have long been dismissed as dysfunctional phenomena. This book presents a transdisciplinary scientific approach, revealing them as meaningful states with potential for healing, Self-knowledge, and spiritual development.
This book helps researchers select the right predictive model. It explains and compares traditional and data-driven models from a statistical viewpoint, with illustrations in R. Learn to handle model assumptions, outliers, and overfitting.
We are surrounded by risks, but the media’s presentation of them is just as important. From causing public worry to legitimizing foreign policy, this book explores how the media covers risk and the profound consequences of its coverage.
Peña-Acuña delves into the work of Steven Spielberg, considering the audiovisual and documentary material in his filmography and the biographical and sociological parameters that influence his cinematographic work and his values.
Understanding the City
This book moves beyond the theoretical discussion of Henri Lefebvre. It presents empirical case studies from different cities, using his key concepts to propose new comprehensions of the contemporary city and empower shared desires for just urban outcomes.
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