A Philosopher Looks at the Natural World
Weaving personal story with science and philosophy, this book chronicles a three-decade labor to restore ruined land. It advances the case for the intelligence and kinship of all living things, an ethic of respect, and the need to rethink how human societies live on Earth.
Kindergarten Readiness for All
This book provides a framework for kindergarten teachers to support young children in their transition to school. It offers strategies to involve families, use assessment information, and teach social skills, providing concrete supports for children with a wide range of needs.
Rescuing Women from American Mythology
This book explores the historical origins of sexism and misogyny in American mythology through the lens of comic books. It argues that misogyny is not the product of nefarious individuals, but is perpetuated by a male-dominated mythological and social structure in our media.
Explaining and Resisting Trumpism Post-2020
Why did 74 million people vote for Donald Trump in 2020? Authored by scholars and activists, this book addresses why certain voters found Trump appealing, how his campaign used fear and conspiracy, and the role activism plays in the future of Trumpism.
This collection of essays tackles classic questions: What is life? What is consciousness? It explores whether evolution is predetermined, if science and spirituality can harmonize, and if AI is at odds with the human spirit. Each chapter includes science fiction stories on AI.
The digital age promised connection but delivered chaos, fake news, and manipulation. How must the Church respond? Drawing on timeless wisdom, these vital essays forge a path through the digital wilderness.
Concussion Competencies from a British Perspective
This book presents essential information for people working with concussion recovery and for those currently experiencing one, especially if it is sports-related. It fills a critical knowledge gap by focusing on behavioural treatment and “active rehabilitation” strategies.
Reception Studies and Adaptation
This volume explores the Italian adaptation of English literary, multimedia, and audiovisual texts. It investigates how translation choices, by imprinting “Italianness” on the original, can alter a work’s meaning and success, directing or even undermining audience reception.
Texts can be a remedy for forgetting or a vivid testimony to trauma. This volume focuses on Paul Ricœur’s work on memory, history, and forgetting, with special emphasis on the dissension between individual and collective memory.
This book explores metaphor in legal discourse. Linguists and law professionals from six countries investigate metaphor as a conceptual phenomenon through actual linguistic contexts, from court proceedings to judges’ argumentation.
This book analyzes the rise of political violence and terrorism through an in-depth analysis of recent global events. It establishes crucial links between radicalism, terrorism, and international security, serving as an up-to-date resource for researchers in this critical field.
On Personal Space, the Traversable Self, and the Happily Ever Experience
This book explores the symbolic relationship between personal space and the Cinderella fairy-tale. It characterizes personal space as a deeply individual realm of memory and self, where such nuanced associations are the essence of the happily ever after personal experience.
With dementia growing much faster in Asia than in Europe and America, the region faces a crisis. Cerebrovascular disease is a leading cause of death. This book brings together 11 experts in vascular cognitive impairment to present the most urgent problems in the region.
Landscape Representations
This volume offers essential insights into emerging perspectives in landscape studies. Instead of focusing only on nature, this book places humans and physical aspects at its centre, combining ecological and geographical information, nature conservation, and the study of society.
How do readers make sense of Hemingway’s stories? With reserved narrators and laconic dialogs, his texts seem to say little, yet they capture our emotions. This book proposes a cognitively informed model of reading to discover what lies beneath the surface of his iceberg.
This book explores the figure of the female performer in 19th-century fiction, analyzing the clashing attitudes of Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Emile Zola. It examines women’s public roles as either a commitment to the feminist project or a mere exhibitionist demeanour.
Developmental Dyslexia and Anaphora Resolution in English L1/L2
This book investigates how people with dyslexia resolve ambiguous sentences. Using innovative methods like eye-tracking, it hypothesizes that their known working memory impairment hinders procedural memory, disrupting semantic and syntactic competence in demanding reading tasks.
This volume offers insights into warfare, diplomacy, and peacemaking on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. The essays emphasize both violent conflict and the brokering of allegiances, from Muslim warlords serving Christian rulers to merchants coping with pirates.
This volume explores how the interplay of “exile” and “return” in Anglo-Caribbean literature shapes identity. Against a history of colonialism, diaspora, and slavery, it raises questions about literature’s function in an increasingly hybrid and transcultural world.
This book presents a complex approach to material composition determination using joint X-ray spectra of fluorescence, scattering, and diffraction. These methods widen the application of X-ray analysis for specialists in solid state physics and students.