This book offers an integrated framework to analyze four types of family violence. Drawing from psychology and sociology, it reveals both the shared risk factors common to all and the unique mechanisms specific to particular relationships, based on state-of-the-art research.
Each individual is of the highest value. This book explores how this core belief shapes the laws, customs, and norms that guide society, uncovering the critical connection between our values and the modern economy—a vital read for the future of humanity.
100 Years of the American Dream
This collection offers examinations of the American Dream across a diverse range of works. Each chapter’s innovative insights transcend literary critique to touch upon issues of economics, education, gender, immigration, psychology, race, and religion.
Explorations and Proposals toward Market Socialism and World Government
This book makes a compelling case for misunderstood concepts like market socialism, a Global Marshall Plan, and world government. Blending intellectual and personal history, it is a story of steadfast determination that will resonate with every person with an idealistic vision.
Active sports tourism is a rapidly developing sector. Less expensive, with greater economic impact and more respect for the environment, it includes everything from extreme sports to ‘slow adventure’. This book provides a complete international picture of the phenomenon.
Learning and Long-Term Illness
Nearly 40 years after it was written, Susan Sapsed’s diary was rediscovered. It told a story of personal illness, practitioner misunderstanding, and patient frustration. Using psychoanalytic frameworks, this book invites a mature Susan to reflect on her younger self.
Writing chemical reactions correctly is a key indicator of chemical literacy. This book teaches the fundamentals: predicting products and balancing equations. It contains 93 problems with answers and is useful for high school and university students, teachers, and professionals.
Semiconductors are the driving force behind economic strength and national security, but novel types are needed for today’s scaling demands. This book provides comprehensive coverage of InAs1-xPx solid solutions, from production to their properties and application potential.
Sacred Trees of India
Drawing on 10 years of fieldwork in India, this book documents sacred trees and groves. Featuring hundreds of original photographs, it reveals how a culture’s reverence for trees presents a powerful alternative to the commodification of nature that fuels the ecological crisis.
Journal evaluation and classification are critical for researchers, engineers, and students in Management Science in Engineering (MSE). This book identifies the main research categories of MSE, and evaluates and classifies each journal in the field.
The World as Analogy of Absolute Mind
Can evolved thought grasp evolution itself? This book explores the Augustinian-Thomist heritage through Hegel, considering sacramental theology, original sin, grace, and linguistic representation, culminating in an examination of real presence in unreal nature.
This book explores Henry van de Velde’s German period (1900-1916) through his writings and major works, including his unpublished manuscript on ornament. The study casts light on this major figure’s aesthetic theory, centered on themes of “rational conception” and “empathy”.
This volume analyzes the “seeing-through utterances” in Kafka’s works, suggesting he intentionally used them as a type of rhetoric. As the first study of this technique, this book provides a new perspective for analyzing the rhetoric of Kafka’s works.
At the forefront of linguistic research, this volume investigates generative syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and traductology. Comparing English and Romanian to other languages, it also explores the challenges of translating specialised or literary texts.
A Tri-Dimensional Model of Mental Health
This study explores what constitutes mental health, proposing that holistic health depends on integral wholeness: the synthesis of body, mind, and heart. It argues one is always whole in one’s true Self (essence), which must be distinguished from the ego (personality).
This book introduces a digital literacy beyond social media. It’s not enough to buy technology without understanding the hardware and software logic. Generalized nets marry the soft approximations of humans with the hard precision of the computer.
Ecuadorian Spanish in the 21st Century
As the first edited volume on Ecuadorian Spanish, this book brings together cutting-edge research on language contact. It explores varieties from the Andes to the Amazon, revealing how indigenous languages have profoundly influenced Spanish at all levels of linguistic inquiry.
Restoring Our Humanity
This book discusses paths to restoring our humanity in today’s techno-scientific culture. It shows how talking, observing, doing, and making reconnect us with reality and our critical self-awareness, and provides six maxims on how to ‘be’ human.
Asymmetries in Acquisition of Interrogative Sentences
This book charts the acquisition of wh-questions in child Romanian, investigating developmental asymmetries. Analyzing production and comprehension data, it evaluates the explanatory power of Child Relativized Minimality (CRM) and the AGREE Interference approach (AIA).
Trends and Advances in Sport and Leisure Management
This interdisciplinary volume explores the dynamics reshaping sport and leisure and the responses of key organisations. It brings together contributions that pinpoint advances for theory and practice, ultimately expanding the frontiers of sport and leisure management.